WEBVTT - Shaun Weiss Meets World 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:21.360 H I don't see you guys for a week now, 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.080 and there's a there's a a Danielle and Ryder's eye 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:24.920 hole in my I. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:27.760 Know right, I've missed you. Howf you goes been? What 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:28.160 did you? 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:28.360 Did? 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:34.320 You cry every day without me? Okay? No, no, no, okay? 0:00:34.320 --> 0:00:39.040 But what have you been up to? H? Sweet? Sweet? 0:00:39.720 --> 0:00:44.720 Yeah, I've been podcast walk his dog, my dog. 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.560 He's had conversations with his wife where the asked me 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:48.280 to do I talk my wife a lot? 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:52.159 No, We're we're currently taking multiple bids for some serious 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:55.320 construction at our house, so we're getting ready for craziness. 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:57.440 How'd the closet reno go? 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:58.880 It's awesome? 0:00:59.160 --> 0:00:59.400 Yeah. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.000 So it's like, you know, we've got this big, big, huge, 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:03.960 walking kind of kind of situation. 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.800 You get to go shopping for what? 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.600 Oh god, No, it's just the clothes that I do 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:12.479 have now aren't in a giant pile on the floor. 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:18.000 It's the same clothes from Boybys World, like something for me. 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:19.240 I stick with them. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.520 The I got rid of them when they literally no 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.080 no longer hold the shape of clothing. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:24.319 That's when I get rid of them. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.680 All right, that's when it's too much? Yeah, right, or 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:28.480 what have you been up to? 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:33.600 Oh my god, I don't know. We went to nineties cons. 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:37.039 It was really good. It was really it was actually 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.480 like a different crew. There was like the Scream people 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.479 and some nine o two one oho folks. Uh yeah, 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.360 I'd never met I mean I'd met Brian Austin Green, 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:47.039 but I never really talked to him, and he's like 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:50.560 a great guy, and so Leigh Moonfry, who I hadn't 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:51.520 seen for years. 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:53.080 It was great. 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:54.840 It was such a good time, Like it was actually 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:57.800 not not expected. I was like, oh, we're doing nineties 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.440 con again, it's gonna at this at the point it's 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:02.280 going to be winding down and not a big deal. 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:03.000 And instead the. 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:04.160 Crowd was huge. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:05.360 It was great. 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.040 It's like, wow, people really want time travel. 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.120 Yeah, we ave the nineties. It's so weird, Like it 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:12.440 was a lot of fun. It was. It was a 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:14.560 lot of fun, huge crowds. Like yeah, writer said. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.000 The thing that was weird about this year was we 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.400 were on the floor so much that I almost didn't 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:21.480 see anybody else, Like it was never in the green room. 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.400 With everybody where we normally hang out and kind of talk. 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.160 So yeah, my dad was there and oh, Okay, first 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:31.920 of all because of the podcast, so tons of people 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.639 coming up talking about the podcast like how much they 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.960 loved it. And my dad was there and people were going, 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:40.920 is that the captain? Can I take a picture with 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.079 the captain? So my dad was taking pictures with people. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:51.040 But he was so happy sitting there taking pictures and 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:52.200 people were calling the captain. 0:02:52.280 --> 0:02:56.240 He loved it. So my flight home I was a 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:58.000 complete disaster, wasn't. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.799 We got on one plane, had to get off and 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.480 you know, get on another plane, change whatever, Like I 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.360 did all the things wrong. Will, like I know you 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:08.400 always go like to work flight and that's why you 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.320 were flying out a box, right, Okay, So I didn't 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:11.680 get home till like four in the morning. 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:14.280 It was a nightmare, except it was me and the 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:19.200 Lawrence brothers. Yeah, the best time. It was somebody like 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:19.799 I haven't. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.240 Talked to Joe like forever, like since we were teenagers basically, 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:26.760 and for whatever reason, the three of us just bonded 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.320 and were laughing and telling stories and I. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.320 Was like, oh, I'm the fourth Lawrence brother I felt. 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:35.880 So it was like, it's okay, it's at an airport 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.720 where like having a tran and yet every and what 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.280 the best part is like people would recognize one of 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.840 us and not the others, so they'd be like they'd 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.480 come up to me and be like hey, in the 0:03:45.480 --> 0:03:46.800 hand of the camera to Matt and be like take 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.440 a picture, or they just recognized Joe and hand camera 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:50.480 to me, but like can you take a bit? 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:55.280 And we're like what that was? Like, yeah, so was 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:57.280 this in force? It was this in Bradley. Were you 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.800 at the airport in Hartford? Is this week? Then we 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.240 got stuck in Dallas, So we were stuck in Dallas 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:03.080 for it worth for like you. 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:04.120 Know, three hours or whatever. 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.360 But I'm telling you, like, I you know, I've obviously 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.120 seen Matt a bunch, but I haven't hung out with 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.720 Andy and Joey and like they're great, you know. And 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.080 also just like talking to Joey about being a dad, 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:15.120 like it's a very different like we just haven't caught 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:17.320 up and it was so fun and I yeah, I 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.160 just I love those guys and like, yeah, they're genuinely 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:23.760 friendly to everybody around them, Like they don't stop, like 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:26.640 they just are like and it's so fun to be 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:28.920 part of that bubble as you're like going through airports 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:31.479 and like running into people because everybody loves them and 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:31.880 they're so. 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.760 Kind to everybody. Yes, it was really fun. It was 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:35.360 really good time. 0:04:35.680 --> 0:04:37.159 I'm glad you guys had a good time. I'm sad 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.640 that I missed it. I was directing. I was doing 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.279 the other thing that I love. I was directing a 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.400 TV show for Disney Channel called How We Became the 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.440 Biggest Band. It was so much fun. But I did 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:48.800 miss you guys. I had a little bit of fomo. 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.320 You guys did a fun panel. 0:04:51.080 --> 0:04:57.160 At nineties Cone, right, it was like a ninetyggh was. 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.360 That it was good. It was good. 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:00.960 It was one of those things so where it was 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.520 you know, I prefer personally panels where you just kind 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:05.920 of you talk for five minutes and you open it 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:06.640 up to questions. 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:08.200 Yeah, and we did the opposite. 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.400 We spoke for forty minutes and then we had five 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:11.239 minutes left for questions. 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:13.359 We got two questions in and we went. But you know, 0:05:13.360 --> 0:05:13.719 it's fun. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.239 You're we're on the panel and it's myself and Rider 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.000 and Solet and Juliel. 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:19.400 Fun. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.479 But it was it was just kind of fun to 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:25.040 be with everybody and talk about different experiences, and it 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.039 was it was a really fun weekend and it's you know, 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.320 I get to go home that Mike exactly claim in Hartford, 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:30.279 So it's a great place. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:32.600 Nice, Danielle. Did you get to do like, are there 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:34.160 musical insequences in the I. 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:35.400 Got to shoot a whole music video? 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:35.920 Yeah? 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:36.440 Cool? 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:37.000 Was it? 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:41.120 It was so much fun. It was truly so incredible. 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:44.640 So the first week I was there, I was a 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:48.280 little like gobsmacked by how fast it moves, because it 0:05:48.400 --> 0:05:50.240 moves real. 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.880 Fast, as in so fast. 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.560 You only have two hours of rehearsal on the first day, 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:57.240 and you do a producer's run through on the first 0:05:57.279 --> 0:06:00.960 day with two hours as wow, because they for three days, 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:03.000 so they shoot Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.080 So Monday morning, no audience. 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.760 Monday morning you do a production meeting, a table read, 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.080 then the kids go to school and then you start 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:14.200 rehearsal at noon and you do rehearsal until two and 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:16.279 then you do a two thirty pm. 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:17.880 Run through and ea, oh my god. 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.400 And then on day two you do a network run 0:06:22.480 --> 0:06:25.160 through and that day you only have three hours of rehearsal. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:29.520 So if the script doesn't change much between Monday and Tuesday, 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:32.039 three hours on Tuesday you're like, what are we gonna 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:33.360 do with all this time? 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:34.360 Because does it changed? 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:35.799 There's a script kind of lockdown. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.480 Well, my first week it didn't, So I came in 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.520 like Rare and I saw my first day, I was 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.839 like everyone had warm me, like the show moves really fast. 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:44.359 And then on my first day I was like I 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:47.000 was not prepared. So then the next day I came 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.239 in like Rare in Togo and we ended up feeling 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.120 like we had so much time because the script didn't 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.480 change much. But then my second week, the script changed 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.400 a lot, so much so that we didn't do. 0:06:57.279 --> 0:06:58.680 A producer run through on Monday. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.160 So we did a combo producer network run through on 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.400 Tuesday with a brand new script with only three hours 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:03.760 of rehearse. 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.000 God, you're shooting the next day, no. 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:07.919 Closers run through because the table read, they were like, 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.200 we're just going to be working on We're just. 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:10.520 Going to be working all day and there's no point 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.720 in putting something on its feet that that we know 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.760 is probably going to change. So we had you know 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.720 so so and then you're shooting the next day. It's like, okay, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:19.440 you're shooting. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:22.160 I'm getting adjutve you just explaining what's happening, like I'm 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:26.840 imagining the change, so I get oh geez. 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.000 And so there are they new songs, like they have 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:30.240 original songs. 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:31.520 All the originals, and. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.360 They've recorded them ahead of the week, and then. 0:07:33.280 --> 0:07:38.840 You like, shoot yes, And they also have to learn choreography, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:40.760 like that's how much time I have for rehearsal and 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.480 they're learning choreography in that time. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.320 Like, can we give the girls twenty minutes to go 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.360 learn for full dance? Numbord's like yes, I think we 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.280 can do that. We have no we have no other choice. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.120 These kids are working so hardly. 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.040 They are working their butts off. 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.440 But let me tell you the only reason that schedule 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.640 is at all able to work is because they are 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:06.400 so gosh darn talented and they are on their lines 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.880 and they are taking risks and having fun and it's 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:14.640 just beautiful. Like on my third week, because then you know, 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:16.240 my third week, I'm like, I'm in it. I know 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.640 exactly what we're doing. Everybody's in a nice groove. And 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.120 one of the girls put on a performance for us. 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:27.160 She had to play this totally different character and she 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:31.440 just came out and she had so much confidence. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.400 And just nailed it, nailed everything. 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:38.160 It's a big set, lots of crazy blocking where she's 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.640 really vamping it up as this totally out of the 0:08:40.679 --> 0:08:41.440 box character. 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:46.800 And I literally cried. I literally I cried. I cried 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:47.240 watching it. 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.680 I was like, I'm so proud of them. I'm so 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:53.840 proud of them, Like what they are doing is amazing, 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.600 and it was just incredible. 0:08:56.600 --> 0:09:00.839 Weeks is the show about like a girl group? Are they? 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.160 Is it one of those things where it's almost like 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.120 The Monkeys, where it's like they do it's a show, 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.080 but then they also are a band that's together. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:06.800 Is that thing? 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.480 It's a show called How We Became the Biggest Band, 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:13.280 and it takes place in two time settings, a current 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.560 day which is the future, where they're already the biggest 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:19.160 band and they're eighteen years old and they're telling you 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.640 how we got here. Most of the show then takes 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:26.079 place in flashbacks showing you how they met correct, okay, 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:27.000 how I met your mother? 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.000 With a with a with a band? 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.839 All the same cast or are there an adult version 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:32.760 and a younger. 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.000 The same cast, which is one of the reasons why 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:35.840 it moves so fast. 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:39.920 There is no B storyline. The B storyline is them in. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:40.439 The future show. 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.400 Yeah, yeah, there's no as of right now, there's no 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.080 adults on the show. It's just four core cast members 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:51.840 that are all miners, and so you're dealing with school schedules, 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:53.920 and you know, all of the they also are playing 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.600 instruments and like, you know, one of them is like 0:09:57.040 --> 0:10:00.240 learning guitar, so she's in music class. Diane or In 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.040 is writing like half the songs. The music is incredible. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:05.880 It gets stuck in your head. We had to listen 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.080 to it dozens of times. I wasn't sick of any 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:11.240 of it, which is really saying something. It was just 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:11.760 really great. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:12.760 It was really hardly it. 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.000 Works because Disney does not is not really known for 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.439 their musicals, especially if that take place in high school. 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.240 Yeah, it's usually they don't do well. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:24.640 The old flops with Disney and musical those never work. 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:29.040 I mean, come on, Welcome to Pond Meets World. I'm 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:30.680 Daniel Fishal, I'm righter strong. 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:39.160 Ah oh if it, I'm sorry, audition, We're officially done. 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:54.360 Damn it. 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.880 It's been quite some time since the days of the 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.800 Death Chair, the rotating season one child guest star who 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.600 changed week to week but mostly pulled from the movie 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.320 The Sandlot, and though we became used to seeing a 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.679 familiar young face thrown into the mix, whether it's Marty 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.400 Yorke as a best friend, Arianna Richards in a very 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.199 special episode, or Andrew Keegan in Orlando, the show has 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:18.839 since left the young stunt casting behind. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.240 To focus on us, the core cast of the show. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.160 So when we did have a new guest star firmly 0:11:24.200 --> 0:11:26.960 set in our age bracket, especially one from a ton 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:29.720 of hit movies and TV shows, it was a big deal, 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:32.880 and this week's guest is a prime example. He rose 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.240 to fame as the comedic goalie in The Mighty Ducks, 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:39.479 Greg Goldberg, an iconic role he'd revisit for an entire franchise, 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:43.680 but it was another Disney movie he'd star in, Heavyweights. 0:11:43.120 --> 0:11:45.040 That many of us hold nearest and. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.960 Dearest to our hearts. A bit of a child prodigy 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.280 when it came to making people laugh, he began his 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:53.920 career in one of the coolest places ever, Pee Wee's Playhouse, 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:56.559 and he went on to appear on shows like Sabrina, 0:11:56.640 --> 0:11:59.320 Freaks and Geeks, The King of Queen's and Yes, Boy 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.640 Meets World, where he played Louis a new college friend 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.959 that appeared in two season six episodes, and beyond the 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.680 hilarious work he's done on screen, he has also become 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.120 an inspiration for those dealing with addiction, honest and open 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.160 about his own struggles, still using humor to cope and 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:19.000 connect with those online looking for motivation. So this week 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.280 on Podmets World, let's get into the flying V for 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:23.360 Sean Weiss. 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.560 Look at your beautiful background. 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:29.000 Wow? 0:12:29.760 --> 0:12:31.080 Is that gonna be okay? For the thing? 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:31.600 Yeah? 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:32.920 You look great? Where are you? 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.160 Thank you? I'm in Georgia. I got to Georgia like 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.640 two months ago. I moved here. Wow. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:44.200 Yeah, there are trees in Georgia. 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:47.400 Breathing fresh air is like I didn't even know. 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:50.560 I wasn't right I'm doing it. 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.400 Started, Yeah, it's you know, I was. 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:59.240 I was really kind of emotional, somebody. 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:01.600 I was kind of emotional leaving la you know. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.160 I just always pictured myself living there, and from the 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.199 moment I got there, I was in love with that place. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.520 So it was a little hard to go. But I 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:15.680 love it here. I's I like that. 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.280 Good for you. Thank you so much for doing this. 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.360 It's so good to see you. Thank you so much 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:26.240 for doing this. We want to start with where it 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.559 all began for you. I know that you were an 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:31.040 East Coast kid. You were out of New Jersey. So 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.840 how did you convince your parents to start driving you 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:35.119 to the city for auditions. 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.840 Well, honestly, it was my it was my mom's idea, Okay, 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.720 but it wasn't like my mom got me into it 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:43.160 and forced me to do it. 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.040 She got me into it, and then once I started, 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:46.640 I mean I. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.479 Was hooked with the whole process of going on auditions 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.400 and I got to skip school and stuff. Yeah, I 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:57.440 was a very precocious kid, and I had older step 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:01.240 brothers and stepsisters. They were in like years older, and 0:14:01.280 --> 0:14:04.200 they would get me to do crazy things like walk 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.960 up to adults and give them the middle finger, you know, 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:12.400 ask adults how their sex life is. When I was yeah, 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.680 I was walking around saying these things that adults had 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.280 made me say. And I guess I looked like I 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.480 was sharp, right, and they could in show business, So 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:24.360 it was you know, my mom took me to see 0:14:24.560 --> 0:14:28.080 a manager at one of these cattle calls and she 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:31.800 just liked me, and very instantly I started doing commercials 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:32.640 and stuff like that. 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:35.120 Wow, and I remember that. 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:36.880 I just remember that circuit because we were on the 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.000 same circuit back in the day. He was always seeing 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:42.480 each other at auditions and you're just you're always with 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:44.920 the same twenty five kids everywhere you go. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:46.920 Yeah, you were one of the guys I used to 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:50.200 see all the time. And then we did that show together. 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:51.840 Yeah, True Blue. 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.960 Well True Blue. I had to explain it to my fiance. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.040 I was like, it was kind of like a er 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:57.840 but there was. 0:14:57.800 --> 0:14:59.000 A truck invall. 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.160 Yes, let's talk about that because we'll mentioned that you 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.240 guys worked together. He actually said you were like his 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.400 very first actor friend. 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.320 My onset buddy, my first onset buddy. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.960 Yeah, yeah, well you were. I think that was one 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:13.200 of my first like TV jobs me too. 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.080 It was my first ever TV show. 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.520 Dude. You were so nice. And here was the thing 0:15:17.720 --> 0:15:18.080 we were. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.280 We shot this thing out on top of a cliff, yep, 0:15:22.680 --> 0:15:26.080 and it was very dangerous, right and not freezing. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.200 It was cold. Yeah, it was ice cold. 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.960 You couldn't feel your toes and if we moved in 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:33.760 the wrong direction, it was like. 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:43.400 Exactly, hey, kids, you're fine, just walk up to the 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:46.400 edge of this cliff and it don't But we're going 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:47.160 to pay you to do it. 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:50.840 So I remember that day. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.760 Oddly enough, I remember that day better than I do 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.640 stuff that happened two weeks ago. But I remember you 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:01.560 were like very protective of me and very like really 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:06.560 helping me not fall off that cliff, and so I 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.640 got I found out kind of the guy you were 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.280 very early, and meeting up with you years later, you 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:20.640 really never changed and I appreciated that well. 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:23.640 I you were my first onset friend. We had a blast. 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.400 I remember it being freezing cold, and then one scene 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.520 we have to cross a river and I hear splash 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.200 and I look behind me and you had fallen into 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:37.640 the river like all like up to your neck, and 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.240 they pulled pulled you out, and we're like trying. Everyone's 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.080 warming you up, and the putting in front of heaters, 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.200 and then after that like all right, great, get on 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.960 the edge of the cliff, and it was just it 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.040 was and then they remember we shot. They they brought 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:52.320 us to that stage and they built the cave and 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:54.880 it was all this smoke they were pumping in and 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:55.600 all this peat. 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:57.720 I was just I would be blowing my nose for 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:00.720 weeks with just all this black coming out like it 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:01.240 was bad. 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:02.920 This is New York in the eighties where they were like, 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.000 just do it, kid, just doing fine. They handed me 0:17:06.080 --> 0:17:09.119 at one point, with no prep whatsoever, they handed me 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:11.000 a fully loaded AK forty seven. 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:14.439 Who were you guys playing? 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:19.560 Were you criminals this story? Did you remember? 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:19.880 Yeah? 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.840 It was like the drug dealer that was after us 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:26.040 because we found his stash and stash so we found 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:27.760 was like an AK forty seven. 0:17:27.960 --> 0:17:31.119 Oh so that's the thing is we find that. 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:34.919 We leave our school field trip at the Cloisters and 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.159 we go down. Robert Mitcham's son Chris Mitcham plays the 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:41.800 bad guy, and we find this cave and I find 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.399 an AK forty seven and I go hey, and I 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:45.960 spray the cave and there's a. 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.520 Huge cave in which blocks him off. 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:49.400 Oh my god. 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.240 I then get beaten up and thrown off the cliff 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:55.960 by the drug dealer and still no, I'm like, I 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:57.520 fall like thirty feet down. 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:58.760 They put makeup on me. 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.040 My head's broken open all stuff, and so truck one, 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:05.280 which is what the show used to be called, shows up, 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:08.240