WEBVTT - Jason Biggs Meets World 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:00.320 Yeah. 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:20.880 So I woke up this morning to a message from 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:25.080 Danielle which was Instagram. Did you get this? 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:28.440 Well, she's not going all of us, So I got sense. 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:32.440 This Instagram which is a guy doing an impression of 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.640 the ensemble in a musical, which. 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:41.519 Is just him like clapping and do it like I 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:47.560 wassing one line and he's and it's basically all theater 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:48.320 kid energy. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:53.000 This is Danielle's least favorite thing. The essence of theater 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.240 kid energy distilled. So I'm laughing. I'm literally in bed. 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:57.720 This is the first thing I do this morning. I 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.760 pulled this and I'm laughing at that. I put the 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:04.800 down and my son bursts into the room, wrapped in 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.440 a blanket like a cloak, and just comes at me 0:01:08.480 --> 0:01:11.800 with theater kid energy and what he's immediately riffing on. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.559 He's so excited to wake me up and riff on. 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.800 We've got our new version of some friend you turned 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.080 out to be Sebastian. Do you remember this some friend? 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:33.240 What's that in the road? So the next is there's 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:35.600 a sushi restaurant that we've gone to that's like a 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:38.560 hand roll place. It's delicious and it's called you know me? 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:43.560 Why oh n o am I. So maybe it's pronounced 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.919 you know me, you know me, And we are now 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:51.800 trying to just constantly come up with more riffs on 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:57.400 different intonations interpretations of these three syllables. Would you would 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:58.640 you like to take a stad either one of you. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.440 I already know mine, as you've forgotten. This was started 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:06.440 by Yolanda Omi. So it's why Omi is what it is. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:07.880 That's that's the name. 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.000 What the why is just an initial. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.440 What we're trying to do is just take the existing 0:02:14.480 --> 0:02:18.000 syllables you know me right, and that's the different variations 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.960 on how to. So you could say, you know my, 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:28.520 you know my me, you no me me right, So 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.480 you just keep going, uh, you. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.400 Know me, you know me. 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.799 Yes, that's a good one. Nice. Nice. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:41.280 So Andy's most brilliant one is you know. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:45.519 That's a good one. 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:50.320 That's a good one. Anyway, theater kid energy, morning, guys. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.079 Well this is I don't know if you remember what 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.760 I sent to everybody was I found Danielle's Ultimate Retreat 0:02:56.160 --> 0:02:58.600 and I sent it which was the you can go 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:02.880 to an adult theater camp. And so it's everybody like 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.680 you saw all these people in their thirties and forties, Dan, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:07.399 we're all in this. 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.639 I would yeah so bad, and yet I would care 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:15.120 so much. You will would think it's hysterical, but commit 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:19.680 and actually like kill the actually win the camp whatever that. 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:27.960 Is over stimulated whole time, and I would be like, 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.720 oh my god, a. 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:35.160 Great little documentary of us going on theater camp. 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.080 It really would. It would be good. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:37.640 It would. 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.920 Oh man, what I'm looking forward to is the drama, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:44.720 the theater kid camp drama. 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.520 Oh god, I love it. Did you see how Becky 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.440 looked at me. She doesn't deserve that part. Oh my god. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:56.360 It would be oh so so del among. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:00.320 Forty year olds. Yes, yes, it's way worse, absolutely because 0:04:00.320 --> 0:04:00.840 it's real. 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:02.160 Rider It's real. 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:02.920 Oh my god. 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.560 Another thing that would just make me want to kill 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:08.000 everyone and be like, are you kidding me? 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:08.320 What? 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.080 You You're over your talking, get your life together, your. 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:17.000 Forty I would have no patience, But until day two 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:22.159 when Danielle walks over and just starts talking about. 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.200 Or when she doesn't get the lead part, She'll just 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:24.760 be like, wait, hold on, hold on. I was on 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:25.640 Dancing with the Stars. 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:26.800 Yeah, I don't know this. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:27.840 But I came in eight. 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:30.640 I came in eighth. 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:31.640 Place on dancing. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.920 There was dancing component, which there probably would be at 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:34.560 a theater camp. 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.320 You kill it in that they give the role to 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:42.600 Bonnie Morgan though unfortunately so but that would be amazing. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.080 That would be so funny. 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:48.120 Oh my gosh, Yeah, we're going We're okay, okay, you 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:50.240 know what. I God, I don't know why I like 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.720 to do things that torture me, but with you guys, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:54.279 it somehow ends up being fun. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.880 If it was like a like a two day experience. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.799 But if we're talking like multiple weeks, I'm not committing 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:00.640 to Yeah. 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.680 No, we're not putting on it a go anywhere for 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:03.440 a couple of weeks. 0:05:03.480 --> 0:05:07.159 No, not going on the road. But here's what we'll do. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.479 Well, we'll go a few days a weekend to the 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:14.200 adult theater camp, and then to do something fun. For Danielle, 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:16.640 we'll do a weekend at the Porsche racing school. 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:18.559 Great, I like that. That's that would be fun. 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:20.960 And then for me we'll do a weekend where we 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:22.760 just smoke weed and watch movies. 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.080 Honestly, I'm down for all of this. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:26.840 So there you go. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:28.559 Maybe not all in the same month. 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.280 No, No, we'll break it up. We'll break it up. 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:34.520 And the great part about my plan is I'm just 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:36.640 going to keep pushing it off until eventually it's canceled. 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:44.000 So that's the joy. Can't get on my couch this weekend, guys. Sorry, 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:44.760 Oh my god. 0:05:44.880 --> 0:05:46.919 The three of us being super high would be a 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:47.760 pretty good episode. 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.320 That would be a pretty funny episode. 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:53.279 I mean, that's somebody somebody's dream, blunt rotation or nightmare. 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:56.359 Well, I just keep passing to myself. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.560 Welcome to pod meets World. I'm Daniel Official, I'm rather strong, 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:02.560 and I'm Wilfred Dell. 0:06:14.920 --> 0:06:17.240 At the turn of the twenty first century, the end 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.800 of human existence loomed. In the near future. The threat 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.240 of a computer virus called Y two K would allegedly 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.760 not only shut down all of our computers, but in 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.760 turn erase your identity, crash every plane in the air 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:33.400 at midnight, and turn your vacuum against you. An aura 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:36.040 of paranoia and fear clouded what was meant to be 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.920 a momentous occasion, But thankfully we did have one moment. 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.080 In nineteen ninety nine, pop culture that America agreed to 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:48.320 unanimously celebrate for its optimism, artistic merit, and promise for 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:52.400 the future. That moment was Jason Biggs having sex with 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:56.440 a Pie. The New Jersey Natives started acting at just 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.000 five years old, a veteran of national commercials by. 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.320 The time he booked his first TV gig at thirteen 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.680 Fox's Drexels Class, a. 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.160 Sitcom that received the common doomed fate of just one season. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:10.160 For the next few years, he'd jump around TV shows 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.600 like As the World Turns and Total Security until he 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.760 was given the script that changed everything. In the era 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:21.520 of eminem shock Jocks and Celebrity Deathmatch, came the cinematic equivalent, 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:25.880 the teen sex comedy to rule them all, American Pie. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.040 He'd quickly turned into an international superstar, not only for 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.320 the multi movie franchise that American Pie would become, but 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:36.880 for movies like Loser, Saving Silverman, and anything else he'd 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.960 long outlive the success of hard R comedies, popping up 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:43.320 on the Netflix, defining Orange is the New Black, voicing 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.400 Leonardo on the animated teenage mutant Ninja Turtles TV show, 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:51.080 and living within the Kevin Smith view Askewniverse. But now 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.120 with rumors of a new American Pie movie swirling, he 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:57.080 moved behind the camera to direct himself in the film 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:01.680 untitled Home Invasion Romance, taking into his own hands and 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.920 helming the projects he wants to make. And today he 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:07.200 will sit down with us to talk about what the 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.240 eye of the American pie Storm was like for him 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.200 and what forty years in the business looks like In 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:16.960 twenty twenty six, Welcome to Pod Meets World the legendary 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.480 Jason biggs Hell. 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.440 Hello, well, hello, hey everybody. How are you guys? 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.200 We are great, Thank you so much for coming on. 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.520 We are excited to talk to you about your new movie. 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:32.800 But first I want to jump into some late nineties 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.119 early aughts stardom because when in Rome. 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.640 Right, sure, you know one does, yeah, of course. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:42.840 Now, growing up in New Jersey, how does a five 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.680 year old start in the entertainment industry? I imagine you 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:49.360 with like a little cigar looking for representation. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:50.400 How far off am I? 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:51.959 Yeah? In a little suit. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.200 I my older sister, who's seven years my senior, he 0:08:58.360 --> 0:09:01.640 was in this little dance group in Jersey. We grew 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.240 up about eight miles from Manhattan, so really close yet 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.920 so far away. And and a lot of the girls though, 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.120 they were really talented, and they would kind of travel 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:13.920 around and they had some measure of success by you know, 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:16.160 New Jersey dance group standards, I suppose. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:18.360 But because of. 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.120 You know, New York being right there, a lot of 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.240 these little precocious girls, their moms started taking them into 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.640 the city to get agents and managers and try to 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.120 you know, do Broadway or whatever it was, commercials, what 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:33.959 have you, et cetera. And so my sister started doing that. 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:37.800 She she had, you know, got an agent and manager 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.800 and stuff, and my parents thought, you know, okay, this 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.640 would be a good way to save money for college 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:45.680 kind of thing, and so she started. And then I 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:47.920 was five and got a call from the same manager, 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.200 and you know, just started going out. And then at 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.200 one point my younger sister was doing it as well, 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.080 so it was the three of us, but but they 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.800 kind of stopped as they got a little older, and 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:00.400 and yeah, I just kept doing it. 0:10:00.440 --> 0:10:02.640 And you guys are all kid actors, right, you all are. 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:03.240 Yeah. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:06.400 I mean obviously you guys were at at minimum you 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:07.960 guys even started before the show. 0:10:08.080 --> 0:10:09.880 I know you guys were doing it. Yeah, but actually 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:10.560 we were, were you guys? 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.520 I was in New York, So I'm guessing there were 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:16.200 times were you and because you and I think are 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:19.240 similar in age. So I'm guessing that you and I 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.800 were probably at a whole bunch of the same places 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:22.400 at the same time. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.600 I'm gonna throw a couple of names at you. Oh God, 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:26.920 three of us studios. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.120 Oh God, of course, three of us. 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.920 And Chelsea twelve floor oldest elevators wouldn't work, slowest elevators. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:34.120 They were great. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:35.720 Oh that was always the best when you booked something 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.120 in New York and you had to go get a 0:10:37.600 --> 0:10:40.560 wardrobe fitting down at the docks at the time. 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:41.360 Those were fun. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.840 And then shooting something at Unitel and Unitel Video at 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:48.120 units six and nine. Yeah, so that's where I started too, 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:49.840 was because I was from Connecticut, so it was that 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.640 same yeah, that same Tri State area energy. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.559 Yep, exactly exactly. 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.120 And you were similar to me too, because I knew 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.559 there was all these city kids right at the city 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.520 kid actors that were like going to professional children's school, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.040 and they would take the subway with their buddies to 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.880 the audition, and then you and me would come in 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.160 on our parents minivan and we'd get dropped off and 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.760 we'd go upstairs an audition, and then we get back down. 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:16.200 And we wait on the curb for our mom to 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.040 circle the block. Does this sound familiar? 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:20.120 Well, I wish, I wish that's what it was. Both 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:21.320 my parents worked so much. 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.600 I was dropped off at the bus station in Connecticut 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:26.640 and driven to Poort Authority on a three hour bus 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:30.160 ride down and three hour bus ride back twice a week. Yeah, damn, 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:43.040 yeah he was. You might have been in a limo, Jason, God. 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:41.800 Love must have been. 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.760 Must be nice, must be nice to be an outlier. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:47.839 It's a young age. 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.400 Wait eight miles from Manhattan? Were you Hoboken? 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:52.520 Oh gosh, drop, I can't believe. I mean, we were 0:11:52.520 --> 0:11:53.480 going to get out of dropping. 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:58.319 I need to know where you were, so so Bergen County. 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.080 So Hoboken is like one mile I mean that is 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:04.079 right there. So just a little further in, like the 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:09.480 town is called Hasbrook Heights. Okay, Giant Stadium, Giant Stadium 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:10.600 in the shadows. 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:15.360 Does this mean when you did Drexel's class, were you 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:17.000 that the New York kid who came out for the 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:22.280 network test because one one one one of flown out 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.680 And you're like, oh, they flew him out from New York. 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.040 He's going to get it. Yeah, guy, weren't you. 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.160 Yep, I was that guy. Actually I was the guy 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:32.080 and Britney Murphy was that girl. 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.880 Ye I know. Yeah, so it was me and Britney. 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.880 Brittany was from Edison, New Jersey, a couple of miles 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:42.280 further south, and she and I that was both of 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:46.079 our like first big l a job and we both 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.080 came out. But yeah, I was the one New York 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.800 guy and she was the one New York you know 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:52.480 girl in the cast. 0:12:52.520 --> 0:12:53.319 And yeah, I. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:56.679 Remember Crexels Class was the show that like everybody our 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:57.680 age wanted to audition for. 0:12:57.720 --> 0:12:59.520 It was that Matthew Lawrence that show. 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:04.000 Yeah, and matt and Matthew Lawrence and and A. J. 0:13:04.240 --> 0:13:06.120 Langer who oh my god. 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.959 Aj you know she's royalty now literally royalty. She married 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.640 a prince, she did, she married like a prei or something. 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.840 Yeah, account account. 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.319 Yeah yeah yeah, yeah, that has. 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:18.120 Like a title and all this kind of stuff. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:22.319 Yeah, yeah, crazy, Yes, that's so funny. And actually Drexel's Class. 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:26.760 So Drexel's Class was in ninety one and it shot 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.319 on what was at the time, as you guys know, 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.640 very well, Mary Tyler Moore CBS Mary Tyler Moore, because 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:34.600 that's where you guys. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.200 Shot correct for two years? 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.440 Yeah, only for two years? 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.800 What was when I was doing Direct We did one 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:43.200 season of that and it was canned. But but I 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:49.120 remember Rider my parking space, not that I was driving, 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:54.480 but me and my mom are van, our limo, minivan. 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:00.319 It was either near you or I remember my park spot. 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:01.280 You blocked it one day. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:02.719 Sure I blocked it. 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.160 I'm sure I blocked it. But I remember walking past, 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.600 and at this point, you guys were big hit and 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.720 I remember like walking past and seeing you know how 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.560 they used to have the the they used to slide 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:17.160 the name plates in. I hit the black and white 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:21.720 typing and I saw Ryder Strong and I was like, whoa, and. 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:23.560 You must be are you maybe a couple of years 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:24.080 older than me? 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:25.239 How? 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:27.000 Oh? No? 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:29.360 Also, were you saying it was ninety one? 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.200 So it couldn't have been because you guys, were you 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:32.320 guys on in ninety one? No? 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:33.120 Ninety three? 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.800 Okay, okay, who was the celebrity I'm dying down there? 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.440 Else it was Rider, so hold on, hold on, hold on. 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:43.360 So let me think about what else I did on CBS, 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.440 Mary Tyler Moore. It must have been a pilot that 0:14:46.520 --> 0:14:50.240 I did, Okay, so it wasn't Drexel's class, but it 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:51.480 was in the later nineties. 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.320 I would have been ninety five or ninety six. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:54.720 Okay, thank you. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.680 So I did a pilot and I came out and 0:14:57.760 --> 0:14:59.360 I walked past Riders parking space. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.200 Did you have a BMW Z four? 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.160 Sure it was an M Roadster. It was an M 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.800 roaster Z the M version of the Z three. 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.240 Uh huh did you get into an accident? 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.760 Perhaps, Oh no, you're talking about my M three. 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:18.160 No, no, no, my did you show the car? 0:15:18.480 --> 0:15:21.280 It was a Z It was a cars. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:25.840 Some I remember walking past Dans parking space with the 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.720 Z three Roadster were in in the parking space and 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.840 seeing I believe on the front of the hood there 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.600 being a big dent, and I remember thinking, God, drive. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:43.960 My car to a friend who totaled it, like, oh no, no, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:45.680 my buddy Sean wrecked my car. 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.680 That is so it was. It was obvious it was you. 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.600 So it wasn't one. It wasn't when I was in. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:53.840 It was another time I was on Mary telling. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.240 Moore whenever, whenever, I am a pretty driver. Though I'm 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:57.120 not gonna lie. 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:01.280 But copn just a cop magnet. It's so weird. They 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:03.840 never carried drugs while driving with riders strong. 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:05.160 It's a good, a good rule of thumb. 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.120 Unless I'm with you, then you're fine to mag it gets. 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:09.880 You out of all tickets. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.360 You're so funny. Yes, yeah, I remember it. I'm not 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:16.720 clearly never forgotten son. 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:18.480 Yeah, And I always. 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:19.800 Wanted to tell you that story. And I thought I 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:22.440 remember we went to a wedding together. We had a 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:24.000 mutual friend Sasha. Yep. 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.440 And maybe I didn't tell you then, but I've always 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.120 been I've been carrying this nugget. 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.960 It's so long, so exciting. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.480 I feel like I really just witnessed something good, Like 0:16:33.560 --> 0:16:36.120 I can tell you your your soul feels better cleansed 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:37.120 having gotten that story. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.320 When Jensen asked me to do the show, I was like, oh, 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:39.960 will I ever? 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:41.880 I got a. 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:44.040 Three story. 0:16:44.120 --> 0:16:46.240 For a while, I've been. 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:49.200 Wondering when I was going to unleash this on the world. 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.440 So you're twelve when you book Drexel's class. How big 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:56.080 of a deal is this in the BIG's household? 0:16:57.400 --> 0:16:58.720 It was. It was a pretty big deal. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.280 I mean it was our first, it was my so 0:17:00.280 --> 0:17:04.240 so before that, you know, I had always. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:05.320 All the new York. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:08.000 Will you can relate all the New York act kid 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:11.520 actors were always like, please take me out for pilot season. Mom, dad, 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.760 please take me out. And my parents were like no, Like, 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:17.200 if you're supposed to be on a show that shoots 0:17:17.240 --> 0:17:19.320 in LA, you'll audition for it here. 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.200 And book it. And I was like, no, we got 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:21.719 to be out there. 0:17:21.760 --> 0:17:23.240 We got to be out there, please, just you know, 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:25.240 She's like, I'm not We're not taking a month off 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:28.439 of work in school for you to go live in 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:32.399 the oak Wood and we're not happening. Yeah, and and 0:17:32.480 --> 0:17:34.199 so I did book it out of New York. But 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:35.520 it was like the biggest deal. So it was my 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.680 first time coming to LA. That was my first time 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:40.119 in LA and it was like the greatest thing. So 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.800 my mom and I came out and and yeah, it. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:45.320 Was a it was a it was a big It 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:46.840 was a big deal and it was super fun and 0:17:46.920 --> 0:17:48.439 it was you know, we we. 0:17:48.359 --> 0:17:52.840 Shot remember those three back the box studios in the 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:53.760 back by the river. 0:17:53.880 --> 0:17:55.399 It was Seinfeld was in the middle. 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.600 I believe we're on the on the wherever one Seinfeld 0:17:58.720 --> 0:18:02.080 was in Yep, we were next to Seinfeld for that 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:07.040 one season and I wasn't yet a big Seinfeld fan. 0:18:07.080 --> 0:18:09.280 It was like their third season, early. 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.159 Ear early days, the second or third season in ninety. 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.000 One, and I was twelve. I didn't quite understand it, 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:17.720 but I went in. Me and Matthew and Joey Lawrence 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.200 went in. We like kind of walked in next door 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:23.840 one day when they were filming and they kind of 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.640 let us in, and it was it was the coolest things. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:28.520 I was like, Wow, this set is so cool. It's 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:33.639 a giant parking garage. And years later, you know, I 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.360 was like, oh my god, I saw the parking garage 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:39.359 episode ye being filmed like, which is like one of 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:41.440 the all time classics on It's actually. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.920 The one that they credit for becoming The first episode 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:45.840 that really felt like Seinfeld to the whole cast was 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.359 the part they all back to the parking garage. 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.800 Yeah, Me, Joey and Matthew. 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:52.880 Such a sneaking out of the Seinfeld set. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.919 It's such a young Hollywood story from the nineties, just 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:56.479 the best. 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:57.760 Oh god. 0:18:57.960 --> 0:19:00.480 Yeah. But anyway, yeah, Daniel, it was it was a 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:01.200 big It was a. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:01.800 Big deal for you. 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:02.680 Yeah. 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:06.120 Well, and then unfortunately it's ends up on the receiving 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:09.560 end of a first season cancelation. Do you remember feeling 0:19:09.880 --> 0:19:13.160 devastated or did you have some sort of understanding that 0:19:13.520 --> 0:19:15.000 this is just the business. 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:17.320 Both. 0:19:17.560 --> 0:19:20.840 That's a really good question because I I my I 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.160