Speaker 1: It's nine oh Gene onegin with Jenny Garth and Tory spelling. Okay,
Speaker 1: Today on another installment of nine O two one on one,
Speaker 1: we have another amazing guest star with us. We have
Speaker 1: Jason Carter. We have Jason Carter.
Speaker 2: You guys who played the one and only Roy Randolph.
Speaker 1: Yes, he was in season four of Beverly Hill ZENA
Speaker 1: two and oh and uh he was a controversial character.
Speaker 1: So let's find out all about Roy Randolph.
Speaker 2: Jason, are you there?
Speaker 3: Hello?
Speaker 1: Hello, silver Fox.
Speaker 3: Silver Fox. That's right, that's me Hello that hi.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, it's been a minute.
Speaker 3: Yes it does.
Speaker 1: We have just thirteen reveriting the Roy Randolph episodes on
Speaker 1: our podcast Season four. You made quite a splash, quite
Speaker 1: an impression on all the ladies in the show. But now,
Speaker 1: as Tory and I are watching the show back for
Speaker 1: the first time and seeing what really happened, you know,
Speaker 1: from a from a viewer's fans perspective, we have to
Speaker 1: tell you Roy Randolph's given us kind of creepy vibes.
Speaker 2: What do you think I mean, I think he's sexy,
Speaker 2: but she means in like how it plays out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a little close for comfort with the with
Speaker 1: the co eds there.
Speaker 3: I think I think I was. I think I was
Speaker 3: playing the theatrical camp so it's not quite bad guy,
Speaker 3: but in charge. I don't know it was. It's been
Speaker 3: a long time. I'm supposed to remember this stuff.
Speaker 1: Well back then it was a different day.
Speaker 3: I mean, right, yeah, yeah, I'm wearing this shirt because
Speaker 3: this actually is a nineties shirt, as you can tell
Speaker 3: from the collar. I've had the thirty years and not worn.
Speaker 1: Oh you dressed for the show. I love that.
Speaker 2: That's amazing. Well, everything that's nine days back in so
Speaker 2: you looked on trends, you looked very current.
Speaker 1: Look at you.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 2: Making an effort, you know what. And we appreciate that.
Speaker 1: You had such your your character on the show. Did
Speaker 1: you have you been able to rewatch any of the
Speaker 1: episodes that you were in?
Speaker 3: No, did you.
Speaker 1: Ever see them?
Speaker 3: Yes? I did? Yes, I did. I know I'm a
Speaker 3: terrible man.
Speaker 2: No, good, don't watch. Let us tell you what you did?
Speaker 2: And then no comment.
Speaker 1: So obviously you were the director.
Speaker 2: It started with a chat on a hot tin roof
Speaker 2: that the girls were all auditioning for and.
Speaker 1: Met who was it? Kelly was auditioning Brenda was auditioning
Speaker 1: and Laura.
Speaker 3: It was funny because when I got the notification for
Speaker 3: the casting to go to go and auditioned.
Speaker 1: For it, Oh yeah, tell us.
Speaker 3: It was being a r S director who was directing
Speaker 3: on Broadway and was taking some time off and everything
Speaker 3: like that, and the horror director and then at the
Speaker 3: time with Peter Hall and Trevor Nan and all of
Speaker 3: that lot, they all had goate's and long hair, which
Speaker 3: is what I had, so.
Speaker 1: Perfect, absolutely perfect for that part.
Speaker 2: We walked in and They're like, nailed it for we
Speaker 2: even hear the scene. Did you so you came in audition?
Speaker 2: Did you audition for my Dad? Do you?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yes? I did, Yes, I did, And it was
Speaker 3: it was a straight I had just happened to be
Speaker 3: one of my first roles in America because I just
Speaker 3: moved to America and my Asian already had an agent
Speaker 3: here from History. But and I was being sent up
Speaker 3: for auditions and I got sent up for this one.
Speaker 3: And I turned out and I'm wearing I've just come
Speaker 3: from London, and I'm in London kind of actor style,
Speaker 3: and I've got this huge military black coat on in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles and I'm wearing this thing. I don't know
Speaker 3: why I'm wearing this thing, and uh. And I was
Speaker 3: staring out the window because the view from the office
Speaker 3: was so great, and I think your dad walked in
Speaker 3: and I said, oh, a great view, and then turned
Speaker 3: back to the view. I was so kind of like
Speaker 3: this was a whole new world as a consequence of
Speaker 3: which I don't know. I think I I just accidentally
Speaker 3: nailed it.
Speaker 1: I don't think it was an accident.
Speaker 3: Would you like to read for us, because I'm still
Speaker 3: looking out of the window. I took my coat off,
Speaker 3: put my coat on the couch, sat down on the couch,
Speaker 3: picked up the pages. It was just it was, it was.
Speaker 3: It worked very well. For some strange reason, I kind.
Speaker 1: Of wish you had watched the episode back because I
Speaker 1: want to ask you who you thought should have played
Speaker 1: the role of Maggie if it was cast properly with Brenda,
Speaker 1: or was it or.
Speaker 2: It was Jenny who kind of came into the mix
Speaker 2: because she was just you kind of got talked into it.
Speaker 2: You were just going to read for another role, not
Speaker 2: the main role in then Laura Kingman, the other one
Speaker 2: who goes cuckoo, who literally this rule was everything to her.
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right. Now I recalled who do I
Speaker 3: think should have played it right?
Speaker 1: And I think you can't really answer that it was
Speaker 1: exactly the person. We do think that Shannon did an
Speaker 1: amazing job.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, because the whole point about it
Speaker 3: is is that, I mean, even from Roy Randolphstanity, seeing
Speaker 3: what could be expressed by this person given the given
Speaker 3: the right coaxing.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious. So Kelly kind of came in just
Speaker 2: was Ernest did it and nailed it right, right, and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden, Brenda goes to his place.
Speaker 1: Yes, Brenda knock knock knocks on on Roy Randolph's door
Speaker 1: at night.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's right.
Speaker 1: How did she get.
Speaker 3: Er not to do that?
Speaker 1: Yes? I think that's frowned upon these days. But I wonder,
Speaker 1: we wonder what happened? What happened when she went into
Speaker 1: Roy Randolph's house, right, because she got the role right
Speaker 1: after that she did she did what?
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, So you're asking me to speculate on
Speaker 3: what may or may not have happened.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine Roy Randolph doing anything terror like terror.
Speaker 2: I feel like she gave another audition and just knocked
Speaker 2: his socks off.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I will just just the sheer audacity to even
Speaker 3: come round to his house.
Speaker 1: It's scary. Expressly expressed, you were terrified.
Speaker 2: Every then you didn't know where this was going. How
Speaker 2: did she?
Speaker 1: Did you know? Did you know at that point? I don't,
Speaker 1: None of us knew. But did you know that your
Speaker 1: character was kind of being used to have Shannon's Brenda's
Speaker 1: storyline separate from everybody else's And did you know that?
Speaker 3: What? I was completely unacquainted with the show. I just
Speaker 3: arrived in America. I'm going for an audition for show.
Speaker 3: I don't know whatever, I'm going for it, and then
Speaker 3: I get the part, and then I'm thrust into the
Speaker 3: middle of it with you guys on a sound stage
Speaker 3: similar to the sound stage that we had in Babylon five.
Speaker 3: As it wasn't a sound stage, you have to stop.
Speaker 1: At that time, it was not soundproof, no from LA
Speaker 1: so you probably didn't know, but you were working in
Speaker 1: at a time.
Speaker 2: It's nice now, but thirty three years ago, a very
Speaker 2: seedy area that was on It wasn't a sound stage,
Speaker 2: it was an abandoned warehouse they turned into one, and
Speaker 2: right next door they filmed porn.
Speaker 3: Oh really, yeah, I missed that. I mean, you guys
Speaker 3: check that out. I didn't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Well, the boys were all over that, but we weren't.
Speaker 3: We were like, that's fun.
Speaker 1: I love it that you didn't. You didn't know about
Speaker 1: the show because the show was not popular overseas at
Speaker 1: that time. Before it was.
Speaker 3: It was the nineties. It was the most creative decade
Speaker 3: I think occurred. It was a brilliant time to be
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles. I mean I consequently went on It's
Speaker 3: funny you stay, I was creepy and everything like that.
Speaker 3: I consequently went on to play a bunch of bad
Speaker 3: guys in Guests Evil.
Speaker 1: You're so damn good at it.
Speaker 3: Well, it's I think it's the trick is that maybe
Speaker 3: it's the European thing to be able to get Hello Darling.
Speaker 2: Right and then I mean, you're so iconic and known
Speaker 2: for Babylon five obviously, but did you ever get recognized? Yes,
Speaker 2: Roy Randolph, you did, Okay, like people were in public.
Speaker 3: Okay, a very popular show, and it would come out
Speaker 3: of left field. I wouldn't be expecting it. Oh you know,
Speaker 3: they get you. You're you were on nine o two
Speaker 3: or no, and for some reason the character had such
Speaker 3: an impact on the world because it was the end
Speaker 3: of episodes, at the end of the season, and Nike
Speaker 3: I thought I was a new regular. Did you an invitation?
Speaker 3: I was. I don't know. I got an invitation to
Speaker 3: go to Nike and pick out some clothes nice promise
Speaker 3: to wear them in interviews?
Speaker 2: Remember that those days, Jen, Oh yeah, we got the
Speaker 2: same back then with a good old day Nike.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right, that's right. No, it was.
Speaker 2: Do people ever come up and say, if it wasn't
Speaker 2: for you, Brenda wouldn't be off the show because she
Speaker 2: chose this acting off.
Speaker 3: London mobody seems to know that I didn't sleep with her,
Speaker 3: even after all the shows played.
Speaker 2: Fans think it, Yeah, that's interesting.
Speaker 3: So because because it's not clear, it's unresolved, it's it's
Speaker 3: it's and then oh, please go to London to my
Speaker 3: my my drama school. Did I run her?
Speaker 1: Where in the we never see her again? So what
Speaker 1: have you done with Brenda?
Speaker 3: Ah?
Speaker 2: What if they ended up getting married and had what
Speaker 2: beautiful Brandon marriage, that's what you think happened?
Speaker 3: Well, I was looking up because just before I do
Speaker 3: the podcast I think I was on the German side
Speaker 3: or whatever. But there's kind of fan fiction about that.
Speaker 2: There is tell us, tell us, tell us this is
Speaker 2: so cool.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, it was five minutes. I just not
Speaker 3: noticed that while you're checking it out.
Speaker 1: So there is fan fiction. Sorry, we actually do not
Speaker 1: know about this.
Speaker 3: I didn't read it. I didn't read it, but it
Speaker 3: was intimated that there was fiction, so I didn't click
Speaker 3: on the link because I was busy. Oh what am
Speaker 3: I doing? And I'll tell you something. It's if only
Speaker 3: having been an acceor all my life here. Sorry, more
Speaker 3: nervous about this than anything else.
Speaker 2: Guys, Well it was everything you've done. You're nervous about this.
Speaker 2: We're just low hanging fruit. No, what do you mean nervous?
Speaker 2: What do you mean nervous?
Speaker 3: No, I don't know it.
Speaker 1: Just blushing? Are you blushing? Jason Carter?
Speaker 3: No, I don't think so. I might be. I might
Speaker 3: be hot, but flushed. That's right when I'm talking to babes.
Speaker 3: What can I do remaining professional?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Please? Please? So you moved just before this to America,
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles, and you've stayed here ever since.
Speaker 3: Yes, funny, isn't people? In fact? I think that happened
Speaker 3: at the beginning, which is why we've got America point
Speaker 3: out to people. You do realize that America was founded
Speaker 3: by a bunch of Brits saying no to George, that's
Speaker 3: Americans suddenly magically appeared.
Speaker 1: You just came a little late.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's right. Fine, I came there, so I'm
Speaker 3: a late immigrant.
Speaker 1: And you've had such a crazy, like just fulfilling career.
Speaker 1: You've done so much, many different projects, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been well, it's it's yes, I think I
Speaker 3: think I did all my theater in London and then
Speaker 3: I came to America and didn't do theater ever again.
Speaker 2: Really is that sad in you?
Speaker 1: You can't really compare the theater here to the here
Speaker 1: in London.
Speaker 3: Well, I was in Los Angeles so at the time
Speaker 3: during the nineties. I don't know what it's like now,
Speaker 3: but it was basically a bunch of actors doing shows
Speaker 3: for casting directors to see them and cast them in television. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like Showcase, and half the audience would leave in the interval.
Speaker 1: Once you moved here, you never did anymore. Once you
Speaker 1: moved to America, you never did any more work In Britain.
Speaker 3: That's correct.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, so you walked quite a lot before you came.
Speaker 3: Oh well, I was lucky enough to do the West
Speaker 3: End four times National Theater.
Speaker 2: Do you miss being on stage? Though?
Speaker 3: There's a time of life thing. Do I miss anything?
Speaker 3: Do I? What I do is I Actually, I'm very
Speaker 3: grateful to having had experienced it. I know what it's
Speaker 3: like to walk out in front of two thousand people
Speaker 3: in a character. The hardest thing, the hardest thing, no
Speaker 3: stage right there. The hardest thing was when you know
Speaker 3: the science fiction thing, Babylon five, whatever that you know
Speaker 3: from your fan base, When you have to step out
Speaker 3: on a stage as yourself, it's a very strange experience.
Speaker 3: Worst the first time I did it, I had no
Speaker 3: idea what to do. And I don't know whether you
Speaker 3: know him, great actor Peter Jurassica was in Babylon five
Speaker 3: on my first audition, on my first convention, I followed
Speaker 3: him out on stage. Well, he spoke for forty minutes
Speaker 3: without fielding a question. He just talked me. I just
Speaker 3: stood there like animal gon any questions.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's like our Jason Priestley. I remember the first
Speaker 2: time we were at the Emmy's and Jen and I
Speaker 2: were going to present. Jason was doing something before and
Speaker 2: we were so nervous because you know, talking as yourself
Speaker 2: in front of and people are like, what do you mean?
Speaker 2: You're an actor?
Speaker 1: You can do it.
Speaker 2: I said to Jason, are you nervous? And He's like, Nah,
Speaker 2: this doesn't bother me at all. And I was like,
Speaker 2: this is the hardest part.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, he's a special case. I think it was.
Speaker 3: It was a weird because it was a weird experience
Speaker 3: because we're on for an out. We had an hour
Speaker 3: to talk to the crowd. This was in London, and.
Speaker 1: He took forty five minutes of it.
Speaker 3: Well he did forty five minutes without fielding a question,
Speaker 3: and then and then it was my hour and I
Speaker 3: was on next after was all the cars were there.
Speaker 3: I went on an accent and I got to about
Speaker 3: thirty minutes in and said, anybody got.
Speaker 1: Any more questions, that would be me too.
Speaker 3: Do you want to hear a poem?
Speaker 2: I want to hear a poem, I.
Speaker 3: Said some of my I started saying to myself of
Speaker 3: my parents, I write a drama school.
Speaker 2: Wow, you could say anything to me right now. I
Speaker 2: could listen to you.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: Oh well, thank you, thank you?
Speaker 1: Okay, So did you have kids?
Speaker 3: Did I have kids? This does a question that we
Speaker 3: have after we've crossed the threshold and with death. So
Speaker 3: how was your life?
Speaker 1: Did you have kids? I've just told you live with
Speaker 1: your family, but.
Speaker 3: A bit of romantic rock and roll historically, but.
Speaker 1: I have How old is.
Speaker 3: Ever? So? I mean nearly forty thirty five and oh
Speaker 3: I have to do the numbers on that one. But
Speaker 3: you starting, I had two. I had two sons in London,
Speaker 3: and I had a daughter in Los Angeles.
Speaker 2: Okay, so very young okay.
Speaker 3: And unfortunately divorces followed eventually. I'm not one a bad, bad, bad,
Speaker 3: bad bad man, but I am happily married and with
Speaker 3: an Albuquerque.
Speaker 1: Oh wonderful, just at the foot of.
Speaker 3: The San Dia Mountains, so I can.
Speaker 2: Go from there. When'd you move to Albuquerque?
Speaker 3: Uh? You about a year ago? Still getting used to
Speaker 3: the lack of oxygen here because of course you're a
Speaker 3: mile high. So the air is very thin. Wow much,
Speaker 3: it's sunny from most of the year, and it's not d.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not one And then wait, so uh why where?
Speaker 1: Why there? Though?
Speaker 3: Why there? That's it's a weird one. It's interestingly enough,
Speaker 3: a friend of mine from thirty years ago in Los
Speaker 3: Angeles had moved to Albuquerque, and he s, hey, you
Speaker 3: ferenty moving to Albuquerque so we can hang out and
Speaker 3: everything like that. I thought about it living louis the
Speaker 3: end of the time and moved and we moved. I
Speaker 3: told my wife about it, and she she was looking
Speaker 3: at the idea and thinking about it and didn't tell me.
Speaker 3: She applied for a job, got a job in Albuquerque.
Speaker 3: Can she moved four months before I did.
Speaker 1: It's wild, so we're just ready for a change.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it had come to the point. Yeah, this is interesting.
Speaker 3: So it's a weird story of me in America. I've
Speaker 3: lived in the low desert Los Angeles, I've lived, then
Speaker 3: I moved to Michigan so serious winters, then Louisiana and
Speaker 3: so that's the swamp. And now I'm in the high desert,
Speaker 3: so low desert whatever you call Michigan lake country.
Speaker 1: And I feel like you need to move to the
Speaker 1: Pacific Northwest next.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good idea, just certainly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you can play.
Speaker 3: If there's time.
Speaker 2: Well, we keep talking about your past, what are you
Speaker 2: going on now?
Speaker 1: Tell us about it.
Speaker 3: Tell us, no, I'm actually I'm happily contemplatively looking back
Speaker 3: and not particularly worried about the future. And yes, I
Speaker 3: did the outrageous thing. I'm sixty two. I retired. Doesn't
Speaker 3: mean I can't work as an actress.
Speaker 1: Enough, Wait, we can do that at sixty two, Can
Speaker 1: we do it?
Speaker 3: You can technically do it? Yeah, I mean I didn't
Speaker 3: reize I could get a discount on the bus when
Speaker 3: I was fifty.
Speaker 1: But hey, the other day I wanted the movies with
Speaker 1: my daughter and she bought me a senior citizen ticket.
Speaker 3: Oh but that's the weird thing. And I get so
Speaker 3: upset now when I'm in the supermarket and no one
Speaker 3: wants to ide me that happened.
Speaker 1: You're just there, living in the now.
Speaker 3: I suppose. So I suppose. I suppose that. I suppose
Speaker 3: that's the thing I've always done, which is why I've
Speaker 3: just been responsive to life rather than having any plans.
Speaker 3: Just like what doors appear, and then I go through
Speaker 3: them if they appear, but they might not appear for
Speaker 3: a very long time, and then they appear it or not,
Speaker 3: what we'll see.
Speaker 2: You giving her anxiety.
Speaker 1: She's a planner I'm a planner, but I'm the same
Speaker 1: way as you. I've never I've never had goals or
Speaker 1: plan as far as like what I want to do
Speaker 1: next with my life. So I love that that.
Speaker 3: Don't promise yourself. It's like Christ thinks something. But don't
Speaker 3: promise yourself anything, and you won't disappoint yourself. If you
Speaker 3: set goals, you can fail your goals. Now says they
Speaker 3: never promise anybody anything, and then you'll never disappoint anybody.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as a parent, that's a good one to practice.
Speaker 1: Whatever I mean, that's it sounds like you have beautiful
Speaker 1: life though.
Speaker 3: Well I do know, yeah, like most Well, I mean happiness,
Speaker 3: this is for everybody. Happiness is a choice, no small print,
Speaker 3: no read this book, no do this. It's a choice.
Speaker 3: It's a choice. What did you just say happiness is
Speaker 3: a choice.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I am so embarrassed, Jason Carter. I
Speaker 2: did not hear happiness for whatever reason, it came out
Speaker 2: pens and but Jen usually would react and she didn't,
Speaker 2: And I was like, guys, I don't know what's happening
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: Is just a quote. People, he said happiness is a choice.
Speaker 1: I thought he.
Speaker 2: Said, my penis is a choice, and then he wanted.
Speaker 3: It's my awful accent? Or is when I got to
Speaker 3: Los Angeles and I'm meeting casting directors. Yeah he's great,
Speaker 3: but can he lose the accent?
Speaker 1: Can you? Can you lose your accent?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: Do let me do it?
Speaker 3: Do it?
Speaker 1: Talking like American? We just put him on a spot.
Speaker 3: That's all I was about. Southerner. If I okay, just.
Speaker 1: Say I'm living in Albuquerque with my wife, say that
Speaker 1: in like American.
Speaker 3: I'm living in Albuquerque with my wife.
Speaker 2: No, pretty good. No, I heard it.
Speaker 1: I heard the wife she did. I I love that.
Speaker 2: You admit you can't though.
Speaker 3: But the thing is, people say I've lived there for
Speaker 3: thirty two years or whatever it is or more, and
Speaker 3: people said, you haven't lost your accent.
Speaker 1: Why would you?
Speaker 3: Because yeah, why would I? Because here's it's different. It's
Speaker 3: very common where I come from and where I come
Speaker 3: from people that go, oh, I love your accent. They
Speaker 3: don't do that, No, but they do here, so so
Speaker 3: why would they change it? Also, Also, the nineties was
Speaker 3: great because I did your show playing a very nice man,
Speaker 3: but I did play a lot of villains and at
Speaker 3: the time during the nineties, British villains were in in
Speaker 3: a big way, you know, like the bad guys speaking
Speaker 3: charmingly and not taking your gun out but just going
Speaker 3: hello down everywhere else. Yeah, yeah, yeah, sinister, but in
Speaker 3: a charming way, you know, darling villainry, which is what
Speaker 3: you know, the Alan Rickman territory of life and camp villainry.
Speaker 1: You're so sexy. Sorry, tell your wife, I apologize.
Speaker 3: We thank you. Goodness me ah.
Speaker 1: You can I ask you one question?
Speaker 2: Please do so you did do a lot of comedy,
Speaker 2: but you were on and tell us about your experience
Speaker 2: on Third Rock from the Sun.
Speaker 3: That was actually a marvelous experience. And I was very
Speaker 3: lucky to have gone for that audition at that time
Speaker 3: because they had had they cast it three times before me.
Speaker 3: I didn't know this and hadn't got the right person.
Speaker 3: Because they're the comedians. They're looking for something to launch from,
Speaker 3: some spring from. So I had the chain smoking, roll
Speaker 3: up poet London guy, which I can easily do. But
Speaker 3: I got cast. I got cast pretty much on the
Speaker 3: set because they were doing all the auditions at the
Speaker 3: studio Columbia. Figures. Can't remember, no, but I'm there and
Speaker 3: I'm on the phone outside in a British phone box,
Speaker 3: of course, because they decorate sometimes and I'm on the
Speaker 3: phone just calling my wife and suddenly there's an assistant
Speaker 3: tapping in the window. You've got the job. What you've
Speaker 3: got the job? Can you go to wardrobe and makeup? Whoa?
Speaker 1: Literally go right there.
Speaker 3: It was all Hollywood. It was like you were doing it.
Speaker 3: We were in rehears because they rehearsed it, and it
Speaker 3: is shot in front of a live audience. And John Lithgow,
Speaker 3: the massive, massive John Lifga is the nicest man on
Speaker 3: the planet. And it was directed by David Hughes who
Speaker 3: was also massive as indeed was what's the name that
Speaker 3: the daughter. I can't remember their names now, but they're
Speaker 3: all massive, and I was her boyfriend. There's the point
Speaker 3: that was the gag, and then they're all chained smoking
Speaker 3: and doing poetry. But every single take that John Lithgu
Speaker 3: did was different. And the director, John Hughes, I found out,
Speaker 3: directed the original Monty Python.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: That hence the relationship with John Clees being on the
Speaker 3: shore and stuff like that. But he would just let
Speaker 3: John Lift do his stuff. Just Ris.
Speaker 2: Kristin Johnston, she's yeah, very tall, oh.
Speaker 3: But they were all super lovely and and being their comedians,
Speaker 3: they needed something to launch from. So having this chained smoke,
Speaker 3: self indulgent of writing the poem about myself to myself,
Speaker 3: by writing my poem of myself, it was already just
Speaker 3: like all intents and yeah, and they're all chained smoking
Speaker 3: and they're all wearing black.
Speaker 2: I didn't realize John Lithgow was that tall.
Speaker 3: Oh, he's massively tall, and so is that so so
Speaker 3: is David Houston, the British director there was Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I love him so much.
Speaker 3: Brilliant, so sweet and so in charge, just different, different
Speaker 3: stuff coming out of their mouths each time. Great people,
Speaker 3: we love that. Yeah, and very welcoming, very gracious, very hello,
Speaker 3: Thank you, Ry, you know, very nice. Well, that's good
Speaker 3: your show is having like that, But it's very often
Speaker 3: regulars can be total guests.
Speaker 1: Which wasn't your experience on the show.
Speaker 3: Wasn't your show?
Speaker 2: That never happened on our show?
Speaker 1: No, no, no no.
Speaker 2: How did everyone treat you on our set when you
Speaker 2: first came on?
Speaker 3: Oh? Very well, it was it was you.
Speaker 2: Can't transition after seeing these like a less megastars were
Speaker 2: amazing and then now be like you guys were okay, no, no.
Speaker 3: It was it was. It was fair enough, it was.
Speaker 3: It was a weird one because initially I was a
Speaker 3: bit of fish at water because everyone had relationships and
Speaker 3: it's all going on, and most of my scenes were
Speaker 3: with Shannon, and initially, first couple of episodes, Shandon didn't
Speaker 3: talk to me. That's fine because I was in my
Speaker 3: own world as well, and I was more interested in
Speaker 3: how the camera worked and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Hey, I was young, But why didn't she talk to you?
Speaker 3: I don't know who she talked to, but she didn't
Speaker 3: talk to me at the time, but then then the
Speaker 3: subsequent episode because I didn't bother Maybe because it didn't
Speaker 3: bother me. I was invited to a birthday party, which
Speaker 3: was her twenty third birthday party.
Speaker 1: I think where was it.
Speaker 3: It was in a in a nightclub thing in Hollywood,
Speaker 3: down by the Grime and Chinese I think theater, and
Speaker 3: there was a lot. There was a bunch of fights
Speaker 3: there and bouncers. It was a wild one.
Speaker 2: I was just a Thursday night out. But okay, are
Speaker 2: we talking bar one? Are we talking China Club? Are
Speaker 2: we talking Rosy?
Speaker 3: No? I believe me even if i'd gone to those places.
Speaker 3: I probably couldn't remember now.
Speaker 1: Was I there?
Speaker 2: You don't have to remember this, did you?
Speaker 1: Did you g I'm serious? Was I there?
Speaker 3: I went to the party?
Speaker 1: Yes, went Jason, but toured. Do you don't you.
Speaker 2: Remember was being there?
Speaker 1: I goeh? Were we there? We just came about it.
Speaker 3: Remember now, it's all overwhelmed by the fact there was
Speaker 3: a big fight. I suddenly broke out from our primaries
Speaker 3: and don't know what it was. But of course the
Speaker 3: tabloids decided there was a reason.
Speaker 2: How did you remember, specifically twenty third birthday? I have
Speaker 2: a good memory. I would never remember that.
Speaker 1: Maybe because you were so shocked to get the invitation.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but well it was it was I wonder what was?
Speaker 3: It was a weird one, and it was also an
Speaker 3: interesting lesson that I had in life because the big
Speaker 3: fight was happening. One of the guys who was fing
Speaker 3: I actually was. I was. I don't know what it was.
Speaker 3: It was the time of my life. I was in
Speaker 3: Jesus mode. I don't know, but I grabbed this big, hulking,
Speaker 3: massive guy and just I'm holding him a whole him
Speaker 3: like this, Like the big man walks away the big
Speaker 3: man walks away. You b calmed him down, and he's
Speaker 3: trying to the door, and then the bouncers grab him
Speaker 3: and the fight starts again because they're violent too.
Speaker 1: There. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I think you would remember a big fight again.
Speaker 2: You'd be typical Thursday night out. No, every time.
Speaker 3: Because I got it involved, because I decided to pretend
Speaker 3: that I could solve the problem.
Speaker 1: And I feel like you did. You made a difference.
Speaker 3: First second, more than the lost of people went crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I was looking for a fight. Don't calm him down.
Speaker 3: I didn't say that, but that's it.
Speaker 1: Gosh, we wish we could.
Speaker 3: It's lovely when she's thinking.
Speaker 2: You're talking about me yourself into trouble right now? Wow,
Speaker 2: it's just fun to catch up with our producers find it.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I have to know where that birthday
Speaker 2: party was. I wonder if we'll look it up. Wheat
Speaker 2: Was it at the Hollywood Athletic Club?
Speaker 3: It might have been. I was very I was very
Speaker 3: new to Los Angeles, so I couldn't have pinned anything down,
Speaker 3: but I knew we were down in Hollywood.
Speaker 2: I think it's coming back to me, But you know,
Speaker 2: I don't know this is how her process works about
Speaker 2: thirty minutes.
Speaker 1: So I hope you have some time. Yeah, what are
Speaker 1: you doing?
Speaker 2: I'll get there and then I'll be whoa amazing Okay, anyway,
Speaker 2: we'll find out at some point. Okay, I'll slide into
Speaker 2: your DMS and not to talk about that, but just kidding.
Speaker 2: Jason Carter, do you have Instagram?
Speaker 3: I am very bad on all those social things. Yes
Speaker 3: I do. I think I do, but I don't use
Speaker 3: it in the same way as I don't use Twitter,
Speaker 3: which I also have. Yeah, what's going on? Because she
Speaker 3: scrolls down and goes gives me the news. But but
Speaker 3: I use WhatsApp. That's it. What'sapp with my family? Very
Speaker 3: cool WhatsApp.
Speaker 1: It is what's up? What's upp what'spp what's up? Well,
Speaker 1: what's happy you? Then? Yeah, you can what's happened? When
Speaker 1: you remember where the bird? I remember the party?
Speaker 3: Okay, okay? Or email me. I have my email addresse,
Speaker 3: which hasn't changed in thirty years.
Speaker 1: A speeler.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, don't tell us.
Speaker 1: Are you Are you AOL dot com?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Oh, don't react that way. We're proud we are AOL
Speaker 1: dot com and it makes us pretty proud it is, even.
Speaker 2: Though every time we give it to someone I.
Speaker 3: Know historically America online, way back, way back, way back,
Speaker 3: way back. Yes, but they're still running, are they there?
Speaker 3: You go just now.
Speaker 2: But we can't let it go. It's literally just the
Speaker 2: two of us, the habit. I'll never let it go,
Speaker 2: will you, Jen?
Speaker 1: Nope?
Speaker 2: Nope?
Speaker 1: Hold on, what are you looking at, Jason?
Speaker 3: I'm looking at Tory Spelling's twenty third birthday and I
Speaker 3: can't find it either.
Speaker 2: You mean Shannon's Tory Spelling on the brain? Nor?
Speaker 3: Sorry? Sorry, I'm old? All right? You young people don't understand.
Speaker 1: We are not that much younger than you. Just know
Speaker 1: I want you to We're not.
Speaker 3: It's the great leveling out as you get older. Like
Speaker 3: my my younger brother, My youngest brother is seven years
Speaker 3: younger than me. Well, when I'm eighteen and he's eleven,
Speaker 3: that's a big difference, no relationship whatsoever. But I'm sixty
Speaker 3: two he's fifty five. Were the same age.
Speaker 2: It happens.
Speaker 1: And don't you like what age do you feel even
Speaker 1: though you're sixty five? How old do you feel?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 2: We all have that number.
Speaker 3: Are you prepared for some Jason kind of thought wisdom
Speaker 3: things is that some people get old. Bear with this one.
Speaker 3: Some people get old and turn into old men. Other
Speaker 3: people just become decrepit. That I'm that model. I will
Speaker 3: always be Jason, but the vehicle will fall apart.
Speaker 1: But some people, Wait, you just called yourself decrepit.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yah, yeah yeah, but but but I'm not decrepit.
Speaker 3: But I'm just saying my vehicle will fall apart, right,
Speaker 3: but I will still be driving it. Some people turn
Speaker 3: into something else. Some people become old people. I don't
Speaker 3: know what it is. I've met loads of old people
Speaker 3: who didn't you get a point. Yes, you remain You're
Speaker 3: the same driver. You're the you guys have been driving
Speaker 3: for the years you have. I can see you're the
Speaker 3: same drivers.
Speaker 1: I don't think Tori and I will ever become old
Speaker 1: people in.
Speaker 3: My no, but that that's the point.
Speaker 2: And emotionally.
Speaker 3: The weird lesson for this was during COVID. Yes, I've
Speaker 3: done some strange jobs. I was a working for a
Speaker 3: wine liquor store and as a delivery driver in Louisiana
Speaker 3: during COVID. Okay, and I had to go.
Speaker 1: That was that was a necessity for people.
Speaker 3: Nobody was on the road, so the police weren't stopping anybody,
Speaker 3: because who was going to stop anybody? You'd have to
Speaker 3: talk to them. So we were the heroes of the
Speaker 3: road in the medical profession, delivering liquor in Louisiana, in
Speaker 3: loss in New Orleans, of course, but because of the law,
Speaker 3: I would have to ask them for their birthday and
Speaker 3: the holding their license up to their window, like how
Speaker 3: dare you come to my door? You ordered the liquor?
Speaker 3: But old people. I see old men, and I know
Speaker 3: I'm twenty years older than them. They're in the forties.
Speaker 3: But they had they appeared to be old. They had set,
Speaker 3: they had set, they had become, they had stopped. Unfortunate.
Speaker 3: So I'm My father died when he was seventy one,
Speaker 3: ten years ago. But my mother said at his funeral,
Speaker 3: isn't as Brian, Brian has his name Brian? Or is it?
Speaker 3: Because I always used to say to Brian, growing up
Speaker 3: is optional? Growing up is optional?
Speaker 1: Yeah, very wise words, Jason.
Speaker 3: I stole him. I stole them.
Speaker 2: One last thing though, to Jen's point, because there is
Speaker 2: I feel like we all have that one number stuck
Speaker 2: in our head, like you remember yourself at and for
Speaker 2: some reason is there an age.
Speaker 3: Well, I suppose it's going to actually be the most
Speaker 3: consequential period of your life as well as that sound.
Speaker 3: And that would have probably been when I went to
Speaker 3: Grammar School when I was twenty. I mean I was
Speaker 3: there when I was eighteen to twenty one, but I
Speaker 3: was at Lambda, not the Royal had Me Acting school,
Speaker 3: which of course was invented by Peter Frere. He sent
Speaker 3: me the shirt.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I wondered why you had that shirt.
Speaker 1: Of course, Peter is okay, amazing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was playing Roy Randolph now and I did
Speaker 3: it totally camp and I wore wore top hat. Really,
Speaker 3: I was directing epic productions and I'd married somebody who
Speaker 3: had a stately home.
Speaker 2: I just had an epiphany.
Speaker 3: Wait, I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 1: What if this had.
Speaker 2: Happened to you, guys, because I keep bringing up Brenda
Speaker 2: went there and married you or whatever and had babies.
Speaker 2: But in the final episode that we ever see Brenda Walsh,
Speaker 2: she says to Dylan, give me something to come back to,
Speaker 2: and we allude to the fact that they make love
Speaker 2: one last time. But if we were to allude to
Speaker 2: the fact that when she went to get the part
Speaker 2: for Maggie the cat. She made love with Roy Randolph,
Speaker 2: then technically she could go away and she could have
Speaker 2: come baby and be pregnant or have a baby. But
Speaker 2: we don't know who the father is. It could be
Speaker 2: Dylan or it could be Roy Randolph. Oh, my dad
Speaker 2: would be so proud, right now.
Speaker 3: That's right. I don't know. Wow, this is obviously an
Speaker 3: adventure that could have happened.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, these things that will never know. This
Speaker 1: is sad, but it's so great to catch up with you,
Speaker 1: so much to see you and you will forever be
Speaker 1: Roy Randolph.
Speaker 3: You're wonderfully nice. Thank you, and you're looking great.
Speaker 2: Guys, thank you. I apologize to your wife that I
Speaker 2: seem to have hit on you. I wasn't. I just
Speaker 2: appreciate you.
Speaker 3: Hey, you can hit tell me anytime.
Speaker 1: Sorry, all right, Thank you so much. Jon, Bye, Jason.
Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Bye bye bye bye.
Speaker 3: Two