WEBVTT - Starring Leigh-Allyn Baker as Liz in “Bad Hair Day” 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:17.320 Thank you so much for joining us on our park 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:21.599 Hopper episode of Magical rewind. We are delighted today to 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:24.880 be joined by Officer mcstuffens herself, what is it, Officer 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:31.600 Ravensburger Mix Mick, and we are of course talking about 0:00:31.880 --> 0:00:36.760 Officer Liz herself, not only the star of the film 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.040 that we just covered, which is Bad hair Day, but 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.560 also the executive producer of Bad hair Day. We cannot 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:43.560 wait to get into all of the cool stories, so 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:45.920 we're not gonna wait any longer. Please help us. Welcome 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:51.879 Lee Allen Baker. Hello, Hello, how are you? 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:53.519 I'm good, how are you? 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.600 Thank you so much for joining us. We just finished 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.560 talking about Bad hair Day, which is why we were 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:02.200 a little late. I apologized, because we had a lot 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:06.040 to talk about. Oh right, okay, and we're so glad 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:07.840 that you're joining us here today. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.480 Thank you so much. So nice to see you guys. 0:01:11.040 --> 0:01:14.040 Yes, so okay. Well, one of the things we of 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.200 course noticed about the film is not only are you 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.520 the star of the movie, but you're also the executive producer. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:19.560 I love that. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.080 So how did the whole project come about? Can you 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.480 walk us through how Bad hair Day came to be? 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:27.840 Gosh, it was a while ago, kids, But let me 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:29.639 go back in the way back machine and my memory 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.240 and see if I can remember. So Disney had approached 0:01:33.280 --> 0:01:36.200 me after Good Luck. Charlie had ended about continuing forward 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:40.640 with a dcom a movie, and I loved Bad hair Day, 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.120 and so we kind of pitched this idea with each other, 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:47.000 found some writers and then you know, I did rewrites 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:50.080 in the room with them, wrote the dialogue, helped craft 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:52.400 the story, and when we got it to a place 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.840 where we were happy with it, that's when we started casting, 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.600 hiring the director who unfortunately just recently passed away. Yeah, 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.920 Eric Henwell, he was really I wanted him to be 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.480 the director so badly because he had Have you ever 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:06.480 seen bull Coop a Good Cop, Bad. 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:07.160 Cop in French? 0:02:07.520 --> 0:02:10.040 It was a it was a French film anyway, It's 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.320 a great action film. It was like an indie hit. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:16.880 And I had a way of racking focus constantly and 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.000 using the camera and single shots, and I thought, okay, 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.919 a that would be a budget and a time saver. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:25.840 It looks really cool and it's nothing like Disney Channel 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:28.800 has ever really seen before. And being a mom of 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:32.720 two boys, I wanted to have a movie that could 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:33.959 that the boys would want. 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:34.400 To watch too. 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.240 Yeah, so that is why I was so invested in 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.760 Bad hair Day. And I have, weirdly enough, become very 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.120 much like my character on that show. 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:46.919 You are you? Are you just going around pretending to 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:48.800 be an FBI agent? Because that would be awesome. 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:51.040 I'm more like they're listening to me. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.120 Hey, I know you're listening to me, but you know 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:55.640 I'm switching to a flip phone. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:01.440 That got That's so wait, you said that you really 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.760 liked Bad hair Day? Was this an existing ip No, Well. 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.200 We discussed different pitching different ideas, and this was the 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.880 idea that we had come up with for Bad hair Day, 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.080 me playing some totally different than a mom on a 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.880 show and a nurse being completely different and looking and 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:19.680 appearing different. 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:21.200 I know that they had wanted. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.840 Me the the kind of a gimmick was Disney knew 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.480 me and my abilities and kind of where my strength 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.639 slide and different. You know, I do voiceovers or a 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.640 lot of different accents, and they've seen other things that 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:35.480 you you know that you know the drill, and they've 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:38.160 seen other things that I've done where I look very different, 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:42.000 and so they thought, how can we capitalize on you 0:03:42.120 --> 0:03:43.600 coming up looking At one point, it was like a 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.520 girl that walked around with like costumes. You know how 0:03:46.600 --> 0:03:48.880 when you pitch stories, you're like, oh, that's a lot 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.920 of people were like having like with with with costumes 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:53.960 in the in the trunk, and I would like put 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.880 on different disguises and and be different. Eventually, that didn't 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.680 make for a good story. As much as it was 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:03.680 a good gimmick to show my accent and my range, 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:06.839 it wasn't a good story to tell. So that's when 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.240 we kind of really crafted this kind of buddy cop 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.560 film with the teenager and this older, out of shape 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:15.280 kind of cop who's thrown in the towel. 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:18.960 Yeah, because it was a pretty big deal for it 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:21.800 to have the main actor be an adult and it 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:26.320 not be you know, a cast of just all younger actors, 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:29.719 so that I felt like it definitely brought a different 0:04:29.920 --> 0:04:33.159 vibe and a different tone to this decom versus what 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.640 a lot of the ones that we've seen. You guys 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.280 were probably on set every day together. 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:39.320 Every single day. 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.680 Because if I there were only I think two scenes 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:43.480 that I wasn't actually in. 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:48.920 Yeah, the intro scene, right, yeah, and then yeah and. 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.560 Still I was there as an executive producer behind the camera. 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.120 That's why when it came to editing this film, I 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:56.960 would say, no, no, no, there's a take where she 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:58.400 sneezed in the middle of this, and I want to 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.120 cut off the sneeze, but use that tape because than 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.880 hers it. Because I was actually in the scene in 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:04.719 front of the camera with her on all of these, 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:05.400 so I. 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.880 Already knew in my head what takes we would use. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:09.240 Yeah, but. 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.440 It was interesting to be the only adult but in 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.680 one of these. But we kind of did a little 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:18.640 bit of that. And good luck, Charlie, it's Christmas, you know. 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:21.080 I think that was their first testing ground to see 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.840 how that would go because it even though it was 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:28.320 still about the Duncan family, the a storyline that was 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.840 pretty much the heaviest storyline was Bridget and myself getting 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:33.400 lost and doing this road trip. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:35.600 That movie did really, really well. 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.200 So yeah, that was the question. I mean, is it 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.640 was there ever any pushback from Disney kind of saying, hey, 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.720 you know, you get it has to be a little 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.279 more kid heavy than this one is. I'm just I'm 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:50.040 hearing the executives that we've all heard from Disney kind 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.880 of like, yeah, no, you need to do this, you 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:53.520 need to do that. I mean, did you hit up 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.120 against those walls or was it kind of like, hey, 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:56.040 go make your movie. 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:57.919 No, it was a lot of hay, go make your movie. 0:05:58.000 --> 0:05:59.960 I think that what they had learned and Good Luck 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.800 Charlie is that Amy Duncan became kind of one of 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:04.160 the most beloved characters on. 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:05.839 The show, even though she was an adult. 0:06:06.279 --> 0:06:09.200 And I think that the format that got that character 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.360 there is that Teddy was the character that really acted 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:15.000 like the mom, that was the responsible one making the good, 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:17.400 smart choices, and I was the one that was pretty 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.600 naughty and was more like the kid trying to get 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:21.279 away with murder. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:21.560 You know. 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.880 So I think that when they saw that that format worked, 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:28.120 and you know, humor does a lot, and I was funny, 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:30.640 and so people responded well to me, and so they 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.960 felt pretty confident. Then after Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.400 was really successful. I think they were pretty confident with 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:38.960 the movie going the direction that it went nice. 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.560 Well, yeah, I mean it was strange for us tonally 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.800 because it's one of those things where we are watching 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.239 a d coom sometimes two a week and we're going 0:06:50.279 --> 0:06:53.080 at different times in the dcom. Like, for instance, the 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.760 one we did last week was called The Ghosts of 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:00.760 Bucksley Hall from nineteen eighty, which is You've got I 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:04.440 mean essentially the mister Roper Furley character going like, there's 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:09.160 ghosts in the house. That's what adults do and run around, 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:11.000 and then the little kids have their romance and do 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:14.320 their story. And then as we're creeping up in time, 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.679 it's now your movie is twenty fifteen, and we're getting 0:07:17.680 --> 0:07:22.120 into more of the prom packed kind of more real. 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.679 The adults are real, more real, the kids are more real. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:30.680 There's drinking sometimes in the movies. I mean it's it's 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:33.440 at a time in dcom where we're kind of going, oh, okay, 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:38.080 we have to switch how we're watching the dcom exactly 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.440 as they're switching how they're making the dcom. 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:46.760 Yeah, you went literally my generation that watched it, yeah, 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:47.720 I mean it. 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.640 Was we are kind of watching these stories where we're 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.040 then going, oh, yeah, this makes sense that they're kind 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:56.840 of going a more adult route with it so that 0:07:57.000 --> 0:08:00.640 the adults can sit and watch with the kids, right. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:04.520 And I think that was what they learned in the model, 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:06.680 the business model of Good Luck Charlie is that they 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.840 would take some network veteran writers and a couple of 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.080 network veteran actors myself and Eric Alan Kramer, and then 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.280 put us with some kids in an ensemble cast and 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.400 see how it went. I know that they were very 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.360 surprised and didn't expect it to go as well as 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:19.640 it did. 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.680 At one point, Good Look Charlie was the number one 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:22.040 show in. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.720 The world, and so I think that they built some 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.400 confidence with that because the show really did hit so 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.240 many demographics. It hit little kids wanting to watch the baby, 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:37.000 all the way through preteen, teen parents and grandparents. You know, 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.319 like you'd be surprised. I don't know of a demographic 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.040 that doesn't recognize me from that show. 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:44.680 When I'm out. 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:47.640 Yeah, yeah, it's like full House or boy Me Thrill. 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.240 You have that same kind of there's somebody for everybody 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:51.960 to watch. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.880 Yes, And so I think that they were pretty confident 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.800 in doing the movie, And you know, they knew I 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.200 directed a few episodes, and so I think they trusted 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:02.400 me in that position. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.640 It was really awesome. Did you have any part in 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.960 getting Laura for the movie or was this was she 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:13.079 just brought to the casting call or you know how 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:16.719 how did you guys end up having Laura become involved. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:17.800 That they had talked to me about. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:19.280 You know how they always have one that they pick, 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:20.800 or one that they owe something to, or one that 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:26.000 they're thinking about and all the time. But there were 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.640 a couple prospects, but one girl was they felt would 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.560 be better for another one, and they felt Laura would 0:09:31.600 --> 0:09:34.960 be better on this one. And you know, look, both 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.679 of the actors that they entertained for the part were fantastic. 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:39.960 So it was a win win situation no matter what. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.560 Had you met before, because you obviously had chemistry, the 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.000 two of you. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:46.360 So much chemistry. You guys look like you were having 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.439 a last the whole time. 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.120 Here was one point. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.959 It was summer, and let me tell you, Montreal gets 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:56.720 really hot in the summer. Huggy and I've got this 0:09:56.840 --> 0:10:00.920 wig on and this sweat shirt and sweatpants and these 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:05.080 baggy clothes and boots leather boots. Yes, And I'm sitting 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.240 in the front seat and I'm like, I am of 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:08.880 the car because you know, they won't put the air 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:13.360 conditioning on because it's noisy, and then they want to 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.120 put the windows up because it's too noisy. I literally 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.640 remember saying to someone, you know, it's illegal to do 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:23.640 this to dogs. Laura and I are sitting in the 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.520 front seat and I'm like, oh my gosh, I don't 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:28.240 think I've ever been so hot. And she looked over 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:32.679 at me and she has got o wig and a 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.200 sock bog and a leather jacket on. 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:38.800 Yeah, gave me this look and I was like, oh, sorry, 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:42.239 you short. 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:47.040 Your legs are cool at least. 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.559 To kill your Branda was absolutely trying to kill you. 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:51.840 That was the most That was so fun. 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:54.120 She was so fun, and I did my own stunts 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:55.960 in that car, like when we were driving around. I 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.120 was driving around and there were literally there was a 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.640 radio that she would help operate in the car, and 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:02.240 there would be a guy in this corner being like 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:05.240 god like like goldop, like it's gonna stay green screen 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:06.240 or it's turned yellow. 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:08.600 Pushy, pushy, push it. I'm literally driving around. 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:10.400 The cudy, Oh my good. 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:16.079 Cameras on different corners. No way if even knows that. 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:17.800 But like, we wanted to get the show, we wanted 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:18.280 to look good. 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.000 So it was one of the best chase scenes we've 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:22.440 seen in any Disney Channel movie. 0:11:22.440 --> 0:11:22.840 By far. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.640 I mean it's like an actual chase scene. 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:28.880 That was a legit, super good chasing her whole entire 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:33.240 d m V experience was so amazing. It just sounds 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:34.920 great fun to. 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.280 Write that scene. It was. That was It's a fun movie, 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.040 you guys, No it is. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.120 I loved I said, one of my favorite parts of 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:43.840 it is when your slow motion like. 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.040 Yeah, so good. 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:48.240 It is so good. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:49.680 I loved it. 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.640 Your guys' chemistry, the way you bounced off of each 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.400 other top to bottom was just so fun to watch, 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:59.079 and it was awesome to see the relationship develop. Were 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:01.280 you anything like like Monica in high school? 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:01.880 Was that? Like? 0:12:01.960 --> 0:12:02.360 Were you? 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.520 Were you pulling from experiences at all? 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.240 Or yeah, of course, of course. 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.680 You know. I had a little bit of that, wondering 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.360 what other people think of me in high school. 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:18.520 I feel so hurt by. 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.400 What people would think of me or say of me, 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:23.520 or how is misrepresented cuts to you today? I'm misrepresented 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.040 all over the media and everywhere else, and I like, 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.120 my skin is so think I could care less, right, 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:30.600 I'm like, oh, tell me another story, come up with 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.800 something new, please. It's getting high school's rough though, It's 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.200 high school is rough, So with this. It was kind 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.840 of like a way for me to stand up for 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:42.920 and teach that lesson to my younger self that I 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:47.960 wish someone would have have taught me, right, And I 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.200 love how it brought up like the beginning of like 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:52.120 social media, and like I. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.720 Was just gonna say that, I was telling Will right 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.640 at the beginning of it, I go, when is this 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:02.520 movie twenty fifteen? So no longer just the MySpace. We've 0:13:02.520 --> 0:13:08.679 got Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, all these social medias. I loved 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.360 how it brought in the location. Will didn't know that, 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.400 Like you can go on your media where at all, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.760 but you can go see where all your friends are 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:19.679 and all that. I mean, it's kind of creepy. You 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.520 open yourself up to so much on the web with 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:24.440 all these apps. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:25.240 You really do. 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.360 I even tell my children that, I'm like, you don't 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:32.520 have social media because not because I don't trust you, 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.600 but because I don't trust the world. It's literally not 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.000 giving it's not just giving you access to the world, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:39.760 it's given the world access to you. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.120 And that is a really scary proposition. 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:47.400 So I love how it delved into that, because you know, 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.360 I do I so desperately like when I speak to 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:53.960 kids at college campuses or to teenagers. What I'm always 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.320 telling them too is is, gosh, it's a real skill 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:01.160 set that is so advantageous to learn. It's not what 0:14:01.240 --> 0:14:04.040 others think about you that matters. They're not your source 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:07.960 for happiness. You know, likes, it's just likes and follow 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:08.520 you know. 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:11.480 They've done actual studies. They mapped the brain as it 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:13.559 was getting likes, and it was the same endorphin Russia 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:14.280 as doing drugs. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.080 It's the same as wow. 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:20.240 Yeah. You literally get addicted to the likes and the 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.720 well why did I get this many likes on this picture? 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:24.160 And I'm not get to it and it's it's a 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:25.640 drug soug. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:29.280 I can honestly tell you unless I needed social media 0:14:29.480 --> 0:14:31.840 for work purposes. 0:14:31.560 --> 0:14:34.440 And things that I do, I wouldn't have it. In fact, the. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.600 Only reason I got social media is because when Bridget 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:39.800 and I got the Got Milk campaign, one of the 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.160 things in the contract was that I had to have 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.720 social media platforms, yeah, and sign up for I think 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:49.600 two or three of them. I think it was Facebook, Twitter, 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.480 and Instagram at the time. And I so didn't want 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:55.880 to be recognized on Instagram that I made my handle 0:14:56.400 --> 0:15:00.880 l Underscore a Underscore Baker Underscore thirty team like that, 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.400 I'm going to hide because I didn't think at the time, 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:06.760 this is something that you'll ever want people to see, 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:08.400 you want people to I thought, oh, you don't want 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:09.360 them to find you, you know. 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.200 Right at the time, to me. 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.280 It was like a way for me to share pictures 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.560 of my children with my parents who didn't live nearby. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:18.880 Like yeah, yeah, no, I've I've actually given up jobs 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:20.360 because they'll say you have to have social media and 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.160 I say don't. It's like, sorry, you can join. I said, well, 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.040 I'm not going to. Well you won't get the job. 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:27.920 I'm like, okay, nice seeing it. Yeah, because it's just yeah, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.320 I won't do it. But anyway, we'll get to we'll 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.520 get to we'll get to more fun stuff. For instance, 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:35.000 are you still in touch with Laura or anybody from 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:35.400 the cast? 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:38.080 I know I could call her right now and be like, hey, 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.600 Laura and her mom, but we haven't like spoken in 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.480 a while other than a Christmas card or we haven't 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:46.280 really spoken much. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:47.240 Right. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:48.240 Oh, it's so sad. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:49.680 As a mom, I feel the same way about the 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:51.640 kids on my show. It's like I was at mom. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.040 That's like, oh, why am I not hearing from you anymore? 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.400 And now I'm learning from my own kids who are 0:15:56.480 --> 0:15:57.960 becoming teens and pre teens. 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.360 Oh, they're busy living their life. They don't want to 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:01.120 hear from their mother. 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:06.160 Yeah. Personal, it's that they don't want mom constantly contacting them, 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.880 and I would be so hurt by it. 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:19.920 You you just mentioned your fellow cast members you had 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:23.360 the unfortunate job of working with. Well, we don't like 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:25.720 him at all, Jason Dolly, who's just he's a terrible, 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:29.800 terrible human being. Yeah, he came on our show and 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:35.320 just unlikable, not funny, not personal. Disney didn't like him. 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.240 They didn't put him in forty two different things. 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:39.000 That's why they kept using him there. 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.600 So Good Luck Charlie you talked about it a little bit. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.280 But one of the things that amazes us when we 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.680 have so many people from different shows or different movies 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:52.840 on is how, first of all and everybody who comes 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.800 on says you could have asked us, we never would 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:57.320 have known, So we always ask kind of knowing the answer. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:01.640 When Good Luck Charlie started, did you think there was 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.880 any chance it was going to become what it did. Yeah. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:09.240 I thought that Disney Channel was the place where adults' 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:10.640 careers go to die. 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:12.280 Oh wow. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:13.119 Yeah. 0:17:14.359 --> 0:17:16.480 I did not want to do it, but they caught 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.240 me at a moment of weakness where I was nine 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:18.960 months pregnant. 0:17:19.000 --> 0:17:20.040 What else was I going to do? 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.040 In fact, they had hired someone else to be the 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:29.480 mom in the pilot because I just never went into labor. Yes, 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.720 And then they picked the show up and said, well, 0:17:32.800 --> 0:17:34.640 if they had actually said to me, if you will 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:36.560 be Amy Duncan, well we're going to pick the show 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:38.760 up and we're going to run with and see what happens. 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:42.080 And I thought, well, okay, let's just give it a 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:43.320 run and see what happens. 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:46.159 And it was like the best work experience. It was 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:47.920 just so great. Yeah. 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.520 Yeah, I know we heard that so but the other 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.439 podcast I do, Danielle Fischel is one of the co 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:55.240 hosts on that, and she said, being a parent on 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.600 a Disney Channel show is one of the greatest jobs 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:58.760 you will ever have in your life. 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.040 Yeah, it was great. I had both my babies on 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:01.440 that show. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:06.480 So when they had called me Griffin, my oldest was 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:10.040 about five months old, and he and Mia around the 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:11.200 same age. 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:14.800 And then they were friends growing up throughout that whole show. 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.040 And then Baker I was pregnant with on all of 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:21.040 season three because we had done the Good Luck Charlie, 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.679 It's Christmas movie and they had We were shocked that 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:25.560 they were given Amy Duncan another baby. I mean you 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:27.760 should have seen the response from the cast. We were like, 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:32.960 that is irresponsible. We have too many babies. We get 0:18:33.000 --> 0:18:35.119 a dog, why do we have to have another baby. 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:36.560 We got a good thing here with just does. 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:40.920