1 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:21,560 Speaker 1: I want to talk about the charity event. I missed 2 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:24,040 Speaker 1: the charity event due to looking like I had a 3 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:27,480 Speaker 1: flesh eating virus. You did, please tell me about it. 4 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:28,360 Speaker 2: What was it like? 5 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:31,160 Speaker 3: First of all, we raised eighty thousand. 6 00:00:30,840 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 2: Dollars, oh my gosh for charity. 7 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:33,880 Speaker 3: Which is great. 8 00:00:33,920 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 4: And one of the trapper keepers, Matt's trapper keeper, went 9 00:00:36,440 --> 00:00:37,680 Speaker 4: for nine grand. 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 3: Just because he. 11 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 5: Included all his notes like on the game, like his 12 00:00:42,000 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 5: whole story notes and everything people, so I kind of 13 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 5: wanted to keep it nine grand. 14 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, So we had so much fun and 15 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 4: it was funny because one of the things we talked 16 00:00:54,080 --> 00:00:58,760 Speaker 4: about during the so we all, you know, we're playing 17 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:02,319 Speaker 4: dagger Heart, which is critical roles like the game they 18 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:05,280 Speaker 4: invented that they've been working on for years years, their 19 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,319 Speaker 4: role playing game system, and Matt gmmed for us, Matt Mercer, 20 00:01:08,360 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 4: and we had so much fun. But one of the 21 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 4: things you get you're allowed to pick your different like 22 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:15,120 Speaker 4: the things you have in your pockets, all the equipment 23 00:01:15,160 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 4: that you have with you. 24 00:01:15,920 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 3: And one of the things that I think was it Stacey. 25 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,160 Speaker 4: Did Stacy have a Youth in Film Award? Who had 26 00:01:23,200 --> 00:01:26,280 Speaker 4: the youth that was Ashley Johnson. Ashley had a Youth 27 00:01:26,280 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 4: in Film Award. 28 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 5: No, it was that that wasn't her object, that was 29 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:30,480 Speaker 5: her background experience. 30 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:32,200 Speaker 6: We were trying to think, like because we were trying 31 00:01:32,240 --> 00:01:33,400 Speaker 6: to think what skills do we have? 32 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:34,880 Speaker 5: And it was like, well it should be linked to 33 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:37,720 Speaker 5: something you've done, and your character is done in their life. 34 00:01:37,760 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 5: So if you were come from a sailing family, you 35 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:41,800 Speaker 5: would know how to tie knots and. 36 00:01:41,760 --> 00:01:43,080 Speaker 6: You know that would be your experience. 37 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:44,720 Speaker 3: So like I picked up my guy. 38 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 5: It was like good with card tricks and could do 39 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,960 Speaker 5: like poker, and she's just like, I have a Youth 40 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,600 Speaker 5: in Film Award and we're all like, what is that? Well, 41 00:01:53,000 --> 00:01:57,040 Speaker 5: actually that's okay, and we kept playing with it, and 42 00:01:57,920 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 5: how did she use it? She used it in the 43 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:00,040 Speaker 5: game I think. 44 00:02:00,080 --> 00:02:02,640 Speaker 4: Because she remember she turned into the guy. She she 45 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 4: was actually able to morph into another character. And her 46 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:08,280 Speaker 4: experience as an actor when she won a Youth and 47 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 4: Film Award allowed her advantage on her role to today. 48 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,240 Speaker 5: Worked and she got like a critical role so that 49 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:18,240 Speaker 5: he was like, okay, I guess you just convinced you know, 50 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:21,640 Speaker 5: you as this fifteen year old girl just convinced the 51 00:02:21,760 --> 00:02:23,760 Speaker 5: security guards that you're the head of the studio. 52 00:02:23,919 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 3: Oh my god. 53 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:31,400 Speaker 4: And it made me go through my stuff and find awards. 54 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 2: You were nominated. 55 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 4: My nomination for my Youth and Film Award, Yes for 56 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:41,280 Speaker 4: outstanding contribution to the Entertainment industry recognition of acknowledging. My 57 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 4: nomination is outstanding Hope for a youth magazine, news or 58 00:02:44,200 --> 00:02:47,519 Speaker 4: Game show for totally Kids Sports in nineteen ninety two. 59 00:02:47,639 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 2: Look at that. Thank you very much, SOE for philm Freedom. 60 00:02:50,840 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 3: So you missed, you missed a fun night. 61 00:02:54,080 --> 00:02:56,119 Speaker 6: One of the funnest times I've had in a long time. 62 00:02:56,280 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 5: It was really. 63 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:58,920 Speaker 3: Everybody got into it. 64 00:02:58,919 --> 00:03:02,639 Speaker 5: It was surprising how much joy it brought me. It 65 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:04,880 Speaker 5: was like I came home and I was like buzzing. 66 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 5: I couldn't go to sleep, and I just wanted to 67 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 5: play again the next day. And then Christine Laken, who 68 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 5: had never played before, and Jodie Sweeten, who had never play. 69 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,320 Speaker 3: I started getting texts the next day like can you 70 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 3: do this again? Yeah, we should get a home we 71 00:03:18,720 --> 00:03:19,040 Speaker 3: have to. 72 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 6: Now I'm so into it. 73 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:21,600 Speaker 3: I realized it. 74 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:23,600 Speaker 5: Like I was trying to explain it to Alex because 75 00:03:23,639 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 5: she's never done role playing, and you know, she's always 76 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:26,880 Speaker 5: kind of been like what D and D. 77 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:27,880 Speaker 6: I don't quite get this. 78 00:03:27,919 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 5: And you know, I think a lot of actors think 79 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:32,360 Speaker 5: of it as like kind of a waste of time 80 00:03:32,520 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 5: or like a waste of their creative energy, you know, 81 00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:37,520 Speaker 5: because it's like, oh, I'm an actor. I pretend to 82 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:39,520 Speaker 5: be people all the time. So the idea of like 83 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 5: doing that for fun, but this it specifically tapped into 84 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,640 Speaker 5: playing on the playground with friends when you're a kid 85 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,880 Speaker 5: and you're like just telling a story together and you're like. 86 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 6: Now you're a pirate and now we're running over here. 87 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:56,680 Speaker 5: It brings that feeling back, which is a very specific 88 00:03:56,760 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 5: type of play, and I just couldn't get over. I 89 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 5: was like, I just want to do this again and again. 90 00:04:01,800 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 5: It was really fun and really funny. 91 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 6: Oh my god. 92 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 5: I mean there was one like we're the best, the best, 93 00:04:08,760 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 5: my favorite moment. At one point, Christine Laken as her 94 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 5: objects in her backpack or whatever she decided, and she 95 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:17,640 Speaker 5: hadn't told us this, but in the middle of the game, 96 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:20,479 Speaker 5: we needed to like sneak across an area and she 97 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:24,560 Speaker 5: was like, guys, I have ten backwards baseball hats and 98 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 5: we could, and Jody Sweeten. 99 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:31,000 Speaker 3: Just goes wouldn't those just be hats lost it and 100 00:04:31,200 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 3: we all just lost it for like. 101 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:35,960 Speaker 5: Two minutes of not of not being able to tre laughing. 102 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 3: So I were like, yes, you would just have hats 103 00:04:39,839 --> 00:04:43,719 Speaker 3: and you put them on back. No, no, no, there's 104 00:04:43,760 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 3: there's no bills. You can't say this. 105 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 7: It was. 106 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 4: It was really really fun. And their system, their dagger 107 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:56,000 Speaker 4: Heart system, it's very fast. You don't for anybody who 108 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:57,839 Speaker 4: knows D and D. There's a lot more to D 109 00:04:57,920 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 4: and D meaning there's like you have to roll for initiative, 110 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:01,680 Speaker 4: you have to do it, and they kind of cut 111 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:03,839 Speaker 4: through all that with dagger Heart, so you're just kind 112 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,000 Speaker 4: of playing. It's a great system. It's really fun. Yeah, 113 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 4: we had and Matt Mercer is just clearly the best. Yes, 114 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 4: he's the best game master I've ever seen anybody like 115 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 4: sEH because he's. 116 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 5: So committed, he's so responsive, he never hesitates, he just goes, 117 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:22,359 Speaker 5: and he's so giving but also harsh. Like it was 118 00:05:22,360 --> 00:05:25,280 Speaker 5: hard at times. Yeah, I mean we didn't make our Yeah, 119 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 5: Will didn't. I didn't make it his character sacrifice to 120 00:05:27,920 --> 00:05:31,400 Speaker 5: save us. I sacrificed myself or three of us also 121 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:33,799 Speaker 5: got unconscious and new death at times. 122 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 4: It was I went out in a blazing glory, Joey 123 00:05:36,720 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 4: Squawk Powers went out in a blazing glory and blaze 124 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:39,279 Speaker 4: of glory. 125 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 3: He really did. 126 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 2: Yeah, it also sounds like a blaze of gory. 127 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 8: It was. 128 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:45,200 Speaker 2: It was glory glory. 129 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:47,080 Speaker 6: Yeah, we were battling aliens. 130 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 3: Uh yeah, studio executives. 131 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:51,120 Speaker 2: I was sad to miss it. 132 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 1: I did see one person comment in the live stream 133 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 1: I think Danielle tore her him string just to avoid. 134 00:05:56,520 --> 00:06:00,559 Speaker 3: This, You're just trying to do first split. 135 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:04,600 Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I'm actually I'm really sad I missed it. 136 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 1: It looked really fun and it was probably less painful 137 00:06:08,480 --> 00:06:10,440 Speaker 1: than the thing I was. 138 00:06:10,480 --> 00:06:13,719 Speaker 2: I would say, it's going there, Welcome to vad meets World. 139 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:16,600 Speaker 2: I'm Danielle Offishal, I'm right or Strong, and I'm wil Fredell. 140 00:06:29,080 --> 00:06:31,200 Speaker 1: The side quest of looking to talk to everyone who 141 00:06:31,200 --> 00:06:33,680 Speaker 1: appeared on a Boy Meets World episode has been an 142 00:06:33,800 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 1: arduous one. It's a difficult task, but we committed to 143 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 1: it years ago and were sticking to it. So this 144 00:06:39,640 --> 00:06:42,479 Speaker 1: week we are talking to a busy child actor who 145 00:06:42,480 --> 00:06:45,520 Speaker 1: made not one but two stops on our set that 146 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: without this podcast we would have never seen again, and 147 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:51,640 Speaker 1: we'd be so bummed because he has quite a story 148 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:54,479 Speaker 1: to tell. He was the definition of a character actor 149 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:57,560 Speaker 1: even before he hit his teen years. When people think 150 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 1: of our industry, it often gets lost that actors can 151 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,880 Speaker 1: make a living and pursue their art without ever needing 152 00:07:02,920 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: to be a leading man. And today we have an 153 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:08,680 Speaker 1: example of someone who's been perfecting the drive by for 154 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: over thirty years and he has never had a pause 155 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,440 Speaker 1: on his resume. He's been on TV shows like Family Matters, 156 00:07:15,480 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 1: Party of Five, The West Wing, Zoe, One oh One, 157 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,560 Speaker 1: thunder Alley, Patriot, and Workaholics. 158 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 2: That's it, Yeah, I know right. 159 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:25,320 Speaker 1: And he's been in movies like Jingle All the Way, 160 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: Karna Corinna, Dear God, and Max Keeble's Big Move. But 161 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,920 Speaker 1: you'll know him best from Little Giants, a Bad News 162 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,480 Speaker 1: Bears inspired Pop Warner football movie from nineteen ninety one 163 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: where he was coached by Rick Moranis and surrounded by 164 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: other adorable young actors spending a few months putting on 165 00:07:42,840 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: the pads and making a movie together. And we were 166 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,760 Speaker 1: lucky enough to have him in two season four episodes 167 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,200 Speaker 1: Janitor Dad and Quiz Show, and Yes, in. 168 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 2: Perfect Boy, Meets World fashion He played. 169 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:58,680 Speaker 1: Kid Number one and Einstein Kid two, completely different yet 170 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,240 Speaker 1: unnamed character. Now we are thrilled to welcome to the 171 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:08,640 Speaker 1: podcast to mark off another guest star. It's Marcus Toji. 172 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 9: Hello, how are you. 173 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:13,640 Speaker 8: I'm good, Good to see you all. 174 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 2: Nice to see you. 175 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:19,360 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here with us. You 176 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:24,440 Speaker 1: are a two timer on Boy Meets World. Two episodes, 177 00:08:24,920 --> 00:08:28,960 Speaker 1: two different characters, which Boy Meets World did often with 178 00:08:29,080 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 1: actors we loved, but yours is especially rare because you 179 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:36,160 Speaker 1: did them in the same season. So I want to 180 00:08:36,160 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: talk to you about that. Where did What is your 181 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:40,480 Speaker 1: origin story to Hollywood, because by the time you made 182 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:42,680 Speaker 1: it to us on Boy Meets World, you were already 183 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:43,440 Speaker 1: a seasoned VET. 184 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:47,480 Speaker 8: Yeah. I mean I started acting. I'm born and raised 185 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 8: in La. I'm sure a lot of people are, but 186 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,479 Speaker 8: I started acting when I was like three, doing like commercials, 187 00:08:55,720 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 8: oh wow. And and then you know, just doing you know, 188 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,480 Speaker 8: guest spot co star stuff on lots of kids TV shows. 189 00:09:05,840 --> 00:09:09,800 Speaker 8: Uh And then I mean I think was it the 190 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:13,840 Speaker 8: the year before, I like, I just recently listened to 191 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:19,080 Speaker 8: your podcast with Maddie and uh so he did the 192 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:23,320 Speaker 8: Sandlot And then the year later they started casting for 193 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 8: Little Giants, which is a football movie, and but that 194 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:31,320 Speaker 8: was what everyone was. You know, everyone's eyes were on 195 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:35,320 Speaker 8: the sandlot because it was so good. Yeah, and so 196 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 8: we you know, auditioned for that, got it, and then 197 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:40,080 Speaker 8: you know that's over, and then you go back to 198 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:42,800 Speaker 8: the grind, you know, just auditioning, and then and then 199 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,280 Speaker 8: I you know, I get onto Boy Meant's World, which 200 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 8: was like, I mean, there was season four. You guys 201 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,079 Speaker 8: all knew what you were doing. You were you were 202 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 8: in the thick of it, and so you know, I'm 203 00:09:52,679 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 8: just coming on and I'm I'm a younger kid that 204 00:09:56,520 --> 00:10:01,320 Speaker 8: that that Sean is is picking on and uh yeah, 205 00:10:01,360 --> 00:10:03,559 Speaker 8: I mean it was. It was. It was a great 206 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:05,480 Speaker 8: experience because we all knew the show. 207 00:10:06,040 --> 00:10:10,400 Speaker 1: You know, so you started at three? What was it 208 00:10:10,440 --> 00:10:12,599 Speaker 1: about you? I'm assuming your parents. 209 00:10:12,840 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 2: Who was it who said this kid has what it takes? Who? 210 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 2: And what was it about you they saw? 211 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 8: So the story is like a little a little fuzzy 212 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 8: on the details because I just hear it. 213 00:10:25,200 --> 00:10:26,400 Speaker 6: From my mom. 214 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 8: So my oldest brother. I think it was one of 215 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:37,640 Speaker 8: those like mall things like some person, yeah pictures. 216 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:40,840 Speaker 3: And my mom was like a cigar of course. 217 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 2: Pictures kid, Hey, exactly do you mind if I take 218 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:44,560 Speaker 2: your picture? 219 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:45,960 Speaker 5: Yeah? 220 00:10:45,960 --> 00:10:47,880 Speaker 8: Now, yeah, you can't do that now. 221 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,360 Speaker 1: It used to happen to me at the park, real. 222 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 8: Crazy your kids and you thing. Yeah so we uh 223 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,360 Speaker 8: so he he didn't do anything. I have two older brothers. 224 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 8: He he like, I think they took head shots and 225 00:11:03,160 --> 00:11:04,480 Speaker 8: he was like, this is dumb. I don't want to 226 00:11:04,480 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 8: do this. And then my middle brother, he actually went 227 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:12,360 Speaker 8: on some auditions, did some commercials, but my mom always 228 00:11:12,360 --> 00:11:15,400 Speaker 8: had to like drag me along, uh to take him 229 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 8: to auditions anyways, and I always wanted to go in 230 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:20,240 Speaker 8: the room because for commercials, like they take all the 231 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 8: kids in the room and they always come out. 232 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 2: Laughing yeah you know, oh yeah, and so you know, 233 00:11:25,640 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 2: I mean yeah. 234 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:31,640 Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, depending on how depends on there, how how 235 00:11:31,720 --> 00:11:35,240 Speaker 8: much pressure your parents put on it and uh. And 236 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 8: so eventually they're like, yeah, bring him, you know, bring 237 00:11:37,800 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 8: him in. And then I had a great time, and 238 00:11:41,520 --> 00:11:43,040 Speaker 8: and then they were like okay, you know, my mom's 239 00:11:43,120 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 8: like sure, let's let's sign them up. And my agent, 240 00:11:45,280 --> 00:11:48,599 Speaker 8: you know that agent, uh, sign me up. And and 241 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:49,640 Speaker 8: then I've been doing it ever since. 242 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:54,320 Speaker 3: So you don't ever remember not acting exactly. 243 00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:58,160 Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean did you ever take classes or like 244 00:11:58,240 --> 00:12:00,599 Speaker 5: get into acting as a craft or did it just 245 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:01,640 Speaker 5: keep coming naturally? 246 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 8: No? No, I uh, I mean, you know, like being 247 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,440 Speaker 8: a kid actor. I mean I feel like everyone you 248 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,560 Speaker 8: all experience this is that your skill, your your like 249 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 8: natural talent as a kid only takes you to a 250 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 8: certain point. Yeah, exactly, and then you have to like go, oh, 251 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 8: I can't be the precocious, you know, six year old anymore. 252 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:24,000 Speaker 8: I need to be a little I need to deliver 253 00:12:24,080 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 8: the line a little bit better. Or now it's I 254 00:12:25,920 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 8: can't just do one line, I've got to do five 255 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:30,680 Speaker 8: lines and then wait, you know, and then do the 256 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:34,440 Speaker 8: next one. So yeah, so like constantly kind of taking 257 00:12:34,480 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 8: class throughout my life. And then I think it was 258 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 8: in like you take little classes here that you're as 259 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 8: a kid there you can't be in like. 260 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:47,319 Speaker 3: A four hour you know, uh workshop script works. 261 00:12:47,720 --> 00:12:48,320 Speaker 6: Yeah. 262 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:52,199 Speaker 8: So uh yeah, so I took classes. I mean I 263 00:12:52,679 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 8: like school, like even just like elementary school or like 264 00:12:55,800 --> 00:12:59,000 Speaker 8: middle school, high school. I got more. That was the 265 00:12:59,040 --> 00:13:00,679 Speaker 8: time for me, whereas like, well do I want to 266 00:13:00,760 --> 00:13:02,640 Speaker 8: keep doing this or do I not? Because that's the 267 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,520 Speaker 8: perfect time to go I'm out, and I wanted to 268 00:13:05,559 --> 00:13:08,080 Speaker 8: keep doing it, so I got more into you know, 269 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:11,719 Speaker 8: like theater in high school and then and then from 270 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 8: there I took classes like the well known classes in 271 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 8: LA and you know, I learned a lot from them. 272 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:22,360 Speaker 8: I'm actually like, I should probably go back because because 273 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:27,120 Speaker 8: acting changes, like you know, just like what's funny right now, 274 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:29,679 Speaker 8: in five years is gonna be like well, you kind 275 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 8: of have to follow the trends of what's on TV 276 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 8: or you know, or film. Yeah. 277 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,680 Speaker 4: Well, growing up in Los Angeles at your school, were 278 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 4: you the only actor because we're we're you know, we're 279 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 4: not from around here where it's like born and raised 280 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:45,720 Speaker 4: in Los Angeles. So did you have other child actors 281 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 4: that you were actually going to school with. I mean, 282 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:49,000 Speaker 4: your school must have been kind of used to the 283 00:13:49,040 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 4: idea of, oh, they have to leave for auditions. 284 00:13:51,720 --> 00:13:55,240 Speaker 8: I think no one's like used to it, like like 285 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,680 Speaker 8: like you know, teachers and stuff. But in California, like 286 00:13:58,760 --> 00:14:01,680 Speaker 8: Los Angeles, it is a legit reason to leave school. 287 00:14:02,040 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 8: Like it's the same as like sick or breathement. And 288 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:10,320 Speaker 8: so there was always like, oh, he's gonna be just 289 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:16,559 Speaker 8: gone for a week for like for something Okay, let's 290 00:14:16,600 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 8: see elementary school. I mean, I'm sure there were people 291 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 8: that were, like there might have been kids who were actors, 292 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:24,840 Speaker 8: like as like a hobby like where they did it 293 00:14:24,880 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 8: for maybe like a year and then quit. And then 294 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:33,000 Speaker 8: like middle school, I don't think anyone. Uh, but at 295 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:35,360 Speaker 8: that point, like I had done a few things. I'd argued. 296 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:37,040 Speaker 8: By the time I was in middle school, I already 297 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:39,320 Speaker 8: done Boy Meets World and I had done some other things, 298 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:42,520 Speaker 8: so people kind of like recognize me, so they're like, oh, okay, 299 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 8: he's that he's that kid. But then that was the 300 00:14:45,760 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 8: first place I had like any kind of like theater stuff. 301 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:51,880 Speaker 8: So like the teacher she was also my English teacher, 302 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 8: but she was also also the drama teacher, and uh, 303 00:14:55,120 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 8: I think she kind of was like seriously, like you're 304 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 8: going on, like you get to work right by uh. 305 00:15:05,400 --> 00:15:06,720 Speaker 8: And then high school, I think there was quite a 306 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 8: few people who was like parents were like producers, right, 307 00:15:09,480 --> 00:15:12,200 Speaker 8: and so none of the kids haired like I had 308 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:15,160 Speaker 8: friends that did homeschool because they would get like bullied 309 00:15:15,560 --> 00:15:18,320 Speaker 8: in in their school, like, oh, kids would just give 310 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:20,360 Speaker 8: them a hard time and stuff. And I mean I 311 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 8: was very lucky that it didn't happen because I wasn't special. 312 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 8: You know, it wasn't like, oh he thinks he's hot, 313 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 8: but you know, it was like, yeah, well my dad, 314 00:15:34,800 --> 00:15:37,280 Speaker 8: you know, produced blah blah blah. Or I think I 315 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 8: think a girl I knew his father directed a Break 316 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:41,680 Speaker 8: into Electric Boogaloo. 317 00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 3: So great movie. 318 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,760 Speaker 4: God, that's when they danced to save the Youth Center. 319 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 4: So great movie. Great movie. 320 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:53,240 Speaker 1: One of your first jobs was a guest spot on 321 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: a show called Drexel's Class Right. It was starring a 322 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,600 Speaker 1: big name that Will worked with too. 323 00:15:59,640 --> 00:16:03,320 Speaker 2: Dad Coleman. Yes, what do you remember from that job? 324 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:05,400 Speaker 8: So that one. I think that was one of my 325 00:16:05,440 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 8: first jobs where I was there like the whole week. 326 00:16:09,680 --> 00:16:11,800 Speaker 8: I was like, I was like looking at it, I 327 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 8: was like, I didn't need to be there the whole week. 328 00:16:13,920 --> 00:16:19,800 Speaker 8: It's the Dabney Coleman is like he's a teacher at 329 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 8: this like inner city school, and for some reason he 330 00:16:23,040 --> 00:16:26,800 Speaker 8: has to go around being Santa Claus at like malls, 331 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:29,600 Speaker 8: and so I'm like a kid that you know, like 332 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:31,640 Speaker 8: comes to the mall like we take a picture, and 333 00:16:31,680 --> 00:16:33,960 Speaker 8: I'm like asking for all these things and he's like, yeah, yeah, whatever, 334 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 8: just write it down and you know, and then he 335 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,080 Speaker 8: moves on to the to the next kid. But I 336 00:16:38,080 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 8: remember it was it was kind of amazing. It was 337 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 8: that like it was the to be on a multiicam set, 338 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,160 Speaker 8: like you know, you guys, you guys lived it. But 339 00:16:48,200 --> 00:16:51,040 Speaker 8: it's like it's very strange for everybody else to be like, oh, 340 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:54,160 Speaker 8: that's the school, and right on the other side of 341 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,560 Speaker 8: this wall it's his apartment, you know, and right on 342 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 8: the other side of that wall is a restaurant, you know, 343 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 8: and and so it is kind of you know, you know, 344 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 8: mind boggling to be like I'm gonna walk through one 345 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 8: door and just end up in a completely different space. 346 00:17:10,119 --> 00:17:12,359 Speaker 8: And then I think one kid had like he it 347 00:17:12,400 --> 00:17:14,560 Speaker 8: was it wasn't a musical, but like he does a 348 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 8: rap in the middle of this thing. So just watching 349 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 8: a kid who's not much older than me do something 350 00:17:20,880 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 8: like that in front of all these people was was 351 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,080 Speaker 8: pretty cool. Wow. 352 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was pretty inspiring. You were like, look 353 00:17:27,600 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 2: what he can do. 354 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:29,400 Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly. 355 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:32,600 Speaker 1: And then in nineteen ninety four you end up in 356 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:36,680 Speaker 1: two huge movies. First is Karina Krina with Whoopi Goldberg 357 00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:41,760 Speaker 1: and Rayleiota. That is a big first movie were you. 358 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,159 Speaker 2: Nervous to try something outside of TV. 359 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,680 Speaker 8: Not nervous to get out of TV. It's like it 360 00:17:47,960 --> 00:17:50,919 Speaker 8: was an audition like any other. Yeah, you know, you 361 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 8: go into a office and you know this person, They're like, hi, okay, 362 00:17:55,440 --> 00:17:55,919 Speaker 8: let's do it. 363 00:17:56,080 --> 00:17:56,440 Speaker 2: Mm hmm. 364 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,880 Speaker 8: It was it was a one liner, you know, and 365 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,200 Speaker 8: and uh, it was supposed to be like my mom. Oh, 366 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:05,439 Speaker 8: the woman who plays my mom is supposed to be 367 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:09,520 Speaker 8: interviewing for the job that will be Goldberg gets okay, 368 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 8: and so but she's like I think she yeah, she's 369 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:17,760 Speaker 8: she is Japanese because in the sixties, like there's plenty 370 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 8: of like Japanese school, but she only spoke Japanese and 371 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 8: so she's so Rayleiota is like interviewing her, and she's 372 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:27,920 Speaker 8: I'm the translator and uh uh as as I as 373 00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:30,879 Speaker 8: I learned a lot of kids were for their you know, uh, 374 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:32,600 Speaker 8: non English speaking parents. 375 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:33,800 Speaker 9: Uh uh. 376 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:35,480 Speaker 8: And you know, she says like, you know, I don't 377 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 8: do windows, and so I'm like, and no windows, and 378 00:18:37,119 --> 00:18:39,720 Speaker 8: I had to do like an accent and I do 379 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 8: not speak Japanese. Uh, and I don't have an accent, 380 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,920 Speaker 8: and so it was kind of like, oh, okay, and 381 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,320 Speaker 8: like it didn't have to be good, you know, it's 382 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:49,800 Speaker 8: like one of those things like his kids like didn't 383 00:18:49,840 --> 00:18:51,560 Speaker 8: have to be good, just had to be good enough. 384 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 8: But I did get to meet Rayleiota and he was 385 00:18:55,000 --> 00:18:58,159 Speaker 8: very nice, you know, like it's I guess might be 386 00:18:58,359 --> 00:19:02,560 Speaker 8: you would think that big celebrities like don't have time 387 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:06,760 Speaker 8: for kids, but but in my experience, they were just 388 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:10,720 Speaker 8: very nice. They're just cordial. They they they realize like 389 00:19:10,800 --> 00:19:14,879 Speaker 8: you aren't unless they learn very quickly that you're a 390 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,639 Speaker 8: piece of boot where they're gonna be nice to. 391 00:19:17,720 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's good. 392 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:21,560 Speaker 4: I think big actors actually take more time to be 393 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:24,560 Speaker 4: nice to kids sometimes than other big actors like the 394 00:19:24,720 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 4: you know, they're they're nice to the kids, and the 395 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:28,520 Speaker 4: adults on the side did. 396 00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:32,679 Speaker 3: Not always have really yeah, I never had a bad 397 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 3: I never had a problem with the adults. 398 00:19:34,320 --> 00:19:37,400 Speaker 5: I've talked about my Bert Reynolds time, and I hear 399 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:40,480 Speaker 5: Burt Reynolds had a problem with basically everyone in the world. 400 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,760 Speaker 3: It starts exactly yeah. 401 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 6: Yeah. 402 00:19:44,800 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: Well, coincidentally, we have talked to a lot of Asian 403 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 1: actors from the eighties and nineties on this podcast. Stephen 404 00:19:49,920 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 1: park Ernie, ray Is Junior Keon Young and everyone has 405 00:19:53,840 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: such unique journeys with such little representation back during that time. 406 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: Who did you look up to on TV or in movies? 407 00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:08,880 Speaker 8: Well, you know, let's see coming up. I mean Ernie 408 00:20:08,920 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 8: Race Junior. I'm like, I'm glad you mentioned him because 409 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:15,560 Speaker 8: like he was teenage. He was Keynoteles and that was 410 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 8: one of those things like I didn't do martial arts, 411 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,439 Speaker 8: but just seeing him, you're just like, oh cool, like 412 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,720 Speaker 8: it was. It was funny just growing up in that 413 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:27,520 Speaker 8: time for us, it was like you saw one kid, 414 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:29,680 Speaker 8: one Asian kid, You're like, oh, hey, it's an Asian 415 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:31,560 Speaker 8: kid or your my mom would be like, oh there's 416 00:20:31,560 --> 00:20:37,400 Speaker 8: an Asian guy, right, and like uh l A newscasters 417 00:20:37,440 --> 00:20:40,679 Speaker 8: that were like celebrities. You know. It was like it 418 00:20:40,760 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 8: was like Rob Fuguzaki or or was it Susan here Asuna. 419 00:20:48,320 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 8: You know those are the names. You're just like, oh wow, 420 00:20:51,440 --> 00:20:55,119 Speaker 8: they they're on They're they're on TV. I mean I 421 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 8: knew some of them, you know, like it all. Although 422 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 8: he probably doesn't. He doesn't get a lot of uh 423 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:04,520 Speaker 8: good press because of what he did, but it was 424 00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:08,560 Speaker 8: Getty Watanabe was in he was long duck Dong. 425 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:10,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, in sixteen Candles. 426 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,119 Speaker 8: Yes, you know, great guy. He played my dad uh 427 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 8: in like a PBS thing and you know, great guy 428 00:21:19,000 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 8: and you know you I look and it's even to judge, 429 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:23,960 Speaker 8: but you're like, he wanted to be an actor. 430 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:27,800 Speaker 7: That was the part that came along, and he was 431 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:31,359 Speaker 7: in the whole movie. Yeah, you know Volunteers too. I 432 00:21:31,359 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 7: don't know if you ever saw Tom him in Volunteers 433 00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,680 Speaker 7: with Tom Hanks. Oh, no, great movie, Tom Hanks, John 434 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:39,480 Speaker 7: Candy Getty, wata nab amazing well and then. 435 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 8: Well, and then you know that that wasn't that was 436 00:21:41,119 --> 00:21:42,720 Speaker 8: like his first big one. But like, yeah, he said 437 00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:46,239 Speaker 8: Volunteers and then he did that. Uh oh it was 438 00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:51,359 Speaker 8: Michael Keaton and it was the Japanese Gun. He's great 439 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:51,600 Speaker 8: in that. 440 00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:52,200 Speaker 3: Yeah. 441 00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 8: Uh and then uhf with weird Al Yankovic. Like Okay, 442 00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 8: here's what I can name all. 443 00:21:57,119 --> 00:22:00,960 Speaker 4: The movies, and and most of them are that's the thing. 444 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:03,800 Speaker 4: Most of them have hit that icon status. So yes, yeah, 445 00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 4: problematic when you look back at them, some of them 446 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 4: through the lens of now. 447 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:09,399 Speaker 3: But you can't do that. 448 00:22:09,440 --> 00:22:11,879 Speaker 4: You're right, he's an actor who's getting an audition and 449 00:22:11,920 --> 00:22:15,760 Speaker 4: you go in and you you do your best to nail. 450 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 3: That role, and he did. He nailed every role he played. 451 00:22:19,359 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 4: So you know, you have to look at it like that, 452 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:23,040 Speaker 4: like an actor where you just go in and you're like, 453 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:24,600 Speaker 4: this is the material I'm given and I'm going to 454 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 4: take the material off the page and make it even better. 455 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,280 Speaker 3: And he was great at. 456 00:22:28,119 --> 00:22:33,919 Speaker 8: That, and you know it's he the fact that you know, 457 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 8: the past allows me to be who I like want 458 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:40,119 Speaker 8: to authentically be. And so like I've turned down an 459 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:44,639 Speaker 8: audition here there because I'm like, I don't feel like 460 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:48,200 Speaker 8: this is right. Don't first I don't think it's good. 461 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,080 Speaker 8: And if it was good and not right, then you're like, okay, 462 00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,359 Speaker 8: then that it it. You can make it something. Yeah, 463 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:58,440 Speaker 8: this is like bad and it's not right. What's even 464 00:22:58,520 --> 00:22:58,840 Speaker 8: the point? 465 00:22:58,960 --> 00:22:59,200 Speaker 3: Yeah? 466 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 8: And there was some there was some movie that I 467 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:06,400 Speaker 8: had an audition for that I turned down the audition, Uh, 468 00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:08,159 Speaker 8: and then I saw the movie. They just cut the 469 00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 8: whole part out. And I wouldn't be surprised if it 470 00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:15,320 Speaker 8: was they either A had enough actors that said I'm 471 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,879 Speaker 8: gonna pass, and then maybe it's like, well why are 472 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:20,879 Speaker 8: all these actors passing all this part? But probably because 473 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:22,600 Speaker 8: it's not you know good. 474 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,040 Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, interesting. 475 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:32,600 Speaker 8: But then who else, well, Dante Bosco, Yeah who uh? 476 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:35,160 Speaker 8: He and my my older brother, they were about they're 477 00:23:35,160 --> 00:23:37,600 Speaker 8: about the same agent, so they would audition against each other. 478 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:43,960 Speaker 8: Dante would always get the part. Yeah exactly. Uh. But 479 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:49,679 Speaker 8: I ran into him. I think it was auditioning for 480 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:55,080 Speaker 8: the Jake Long like Dragon Hunter. It was an animated show, 481 00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 8: and so I interviewed. I said probably Dante like I'm 482 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,159 Speaker 8: I'm Kirk's younger brother, and he goes, oh, yeah. So 483 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,200 Speaker 8: we talked a little bit and then maybe like at 484 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,199 Speaker 8: Comic Con years ago, he's just walking the floor like 485 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 8: no one saw him, and they walked and was like, hey, Dante, 486 00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:12,960 Speaker 8: good to see you. I'm cursals. He's like, yeah, I. 487 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:17,240 Speaker 3: Know, it's good to see you. 488 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 8: Like my brother's friend knows who I am. 489 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:25,439 Speaker 3: That was one of those movies, Rufio, that was one 490 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:25,880 Speaker 3: of those movies. 491 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 4: There was not a kid actor who did not see 492 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:32,119 Speaker 4: that movie and just was like salivating, Yeah, one of 493 00:24:32,160 --> 00:24:32,919 Speaker 4: the Lost Boys. 494 00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:35,680 Speaker 8: I was, And I think I was just just too 495 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 8: young to audition for it, like just like just a 496 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,560 Speaker 8: little bit, you know, like and they had they had 497 00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:43,920 Speaker 8: the Little Last Boy and I think it was like, no, no, 498 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:46,600 Speaker 8: we got a we gotta everyone's older. 499 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh man. 500 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: Was your family always super supportive of you following this path? 501 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,480 Speaker 2: Were they just thrilled that you were successful from such 502 00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:55,159 Speaker 2: a young age. 503 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:58,680 Speaker 8: I yes, you know, I think it's one of those 504 00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:03,160 Speaker 8: like getting work helps, you know, helps them feel a way. 505 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:07,359 Speaker 8: Neither of them are my my my mom is not 506 00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 8: in the industry and my dad wasn't in the industry 507 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,200 Speaker 8: at all, and so, you know, I think they obviously 508 00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,959 Speaker 8: they were like cautious, you know, starting, but I think, uh, 509 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:20,960 Speaker 8: you know, they they might. They would take me to 510 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:23,160 Speaker 8: the auditions, they would be on set, you know, as 511 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,760 Speaker 8: they're required to. And I think by seeing me work, 512 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:31,600 Speaker 8: and you know, I think earning money, you know, helped, 513 00:25:31,640 --> 00:25:33,720 Speaker 8: And so they were like, well, we don't you know, 514 00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:36,240 Speaker 8: they're dealing with three kids. They're like, well, the third 515 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 8: one doesn't need to pay for college, you know, like 516 00:25:38,800 --> 00:25:40,639 Speaker 8: we don't have to pay for him, so let's just 517 00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,000 Speaker 8: let's let him keep doing it as long as he 518 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:48,880 Speaker 8: wants to. And I think that was always I think 519 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 8: what made them feel better was that they were like 520 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,600 Speaker 8: school requirements, like you had to get good enough grades 521 00:25:54,640 --> 00:25:56,959 Speaker 8: and I was in public school, so you know, like 522 00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 8: they were like the teachers weren't going to go easy 523 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:04,359 Speaker 8: on you know, mor so there they were gonna So 524 00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,000 Speaker 8: they were like, Okay, he has to get good enough 525 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,400 Speaker 8: grades to keep his work permit. If he doesn't do well, 526 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:11,879 Speaker 8: then he can't audition. And so I had this like 527 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 8: I had this bar I had to meet, and so, yeah, 528 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,560 Speaker 8: they were always supportive, and but there was always the 529 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,280 Speaker 8: idea that look, if this isn't what you want to do, 530 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,720 Speaker 8: you just get out, you know, if you find something 531 00:26:24,720 --> 00:26:29,400 Speaker 8: else interesting, quit because this is not something you do 532 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 8: because oh man, the money and the fame. 533 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,399 Speaker 4: You know. Yes, I'm constantly amazed at the number of 534 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,600 Speaker 4: people that not only are the youngest in their families 535 00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 4: that become actors because I'm the same. I'm the youngest 536 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 4: of three boys and I'm the same. And it was 537 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:47,240 Speaker 4: that same kind of thing where it's like the youngest. 538 00:26:47,280 --> 00:26:49,320 Speaker 4: I think for some reason, I don't know if we 539 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,960 Speaker 4: we feel the need to perform more to be noticed 540 00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,280 Speaker 4: in our family or whatever it is, but it's amazing. 541 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:00,320 Speaker 8: Well, I've heard two things. One that the young guest, 542 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,560 Speaker 8: you know, because they have the two older siblings and 543 00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:07,840 Speaker 8: the parents. They're better at like reading people. So it's 544 00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,439 Speaker 8: like whether they're you know, making jokes to keep the 545 00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:12,959 Speaker 8: peace or just like, oh I better, you know, my 546 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 8: brother's got to had a bad day. Either stay at 547 00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:17,199 Speaker 8: us away or poke the bear, you know, like you 548 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,000 Speaker 8: can do one or the other. I heard this other 549 00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:22,480 Speaker 8: I don't know if it's true, but I heard that 550 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:28,480 Speaker 8: all of all the NASA astronauts they've all been first 551 00:27:28,760 --> 00:27:29,800 Speaker 8: or only children. 552 00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 3: Oh's like, fuse to me. 553 00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:55,880 Speaker 8: I want to achieve this amazing well you act well. 554 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,160 Speaker 2: I want to get into the movie. 555 00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 1: Most of our listeners will recognize you from Little Giants, 556 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 1: an absolute classic. 557 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:03,199 Speaker 2: Do you remember the audition? 558 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,800 Speaker 8: So it was with Janet Herschinson, who did I think 559 00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 8: quite a few of the Spielberg movies at that time 560 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:15,239 Speaker 8: legend and uh so she I don't remember the like 561 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 8: audition and callback. I do remember the the like big call. Yeah, yeah, 562 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:25,440 Speaker 8: I mean it was It wasn't even a screen test. 563 00:28:25,480 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 8: It was like they got all the kids they liked 564 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 8: from across the country because it was a it was 565 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,240 Speaker 8: a nationwide search for the kids. And we went to 566 00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 8: Amblin at Universal Studios and first they they like walk 567 00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:43,520 Speaker 8: us through the office and then you see, I mean, 568 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,120 Speaker 8: they didn't set it up for us, but he's not 569 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:49,840 Speaker 8: poster for Schindler's List winning all these Academy Awards list. 570 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:54,520 Speaker 8: And then they they put us in the theater to wait, 571 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 8: and they're just playing hook just kind of on on 572 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:03,040 Speaker 8: because they're like, it's gonna be a while. And then they, 573 00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:04,680 Speaker 8: you know, they they take us like you know, row 574 00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:08,320 Speaker 8: by row out and we wait along this this like wall, 575 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,680 Speaker 8: and at the end of the line is Steven Spielberg 576 00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 8: with I think one of the other executive producers. But 577 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:16,680 Speaker 8: now all the kids are just waiting, and so me 578 00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 8: and the kid who played Zoltec Michael's winer, we're just 579 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 8: screwing around because we're just bored, you know, waiting on line. 580 00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,880 Speaker 8: We know who Steven Spielberg is, it's not it's not like, 581 00:29:30,040 --> 00:29:31,680 Speaker 8: you know, who's this old guy we have to talk to. 582 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,000 Speaker 8: We know who he is, but we're still kids, and 583 00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 8: so I think we were doing like the crane kick 584 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 8: from Karate Kid then and and then we eventually gets 585 00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 8: to me and Michael, and Stephen goes, what were you 586 00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:47,520 Speaker 8: guys doing over there? You know, what were you guys doing? 587 00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 8: And we just tell you know, like, oh, we were 588 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,320 Speaker 8: just messing around. We're doing the crane kick from Karate Kid. 589 00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:55,240 Speaker 8: And he goes, oh, huh right, And I think you 590 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:57,320 Speaker 8: know that he said that they said this about other 591 00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,280 Speaker 8: kids movies. They just wanted to see kids being kids. 592 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,440 Speaker 8: Ye and if they you know, if it's like everyone's 593 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 8: like polite and sitting there and being comm it's like cool. 594 00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 8: And then when they get there they like turn it on, 595 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 8: you know. And I think they just wanted to see 596 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,960 Speaker 8: kids who were just gonna mess around. And maybe, you know, 597 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,120 Speaker 8: the script was not done. The script went through so 598 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:19,320 Speaker 8: many revisions. I think maybe they also were like, well, 599 00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 8: maybe the kids will inspire us to you know, a 600 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:26,840 Speaker 8: little bit we can can put in there and then 601 00:30:27,440 --> 00:30:30,880 Speaker 8: get the part actually I just get. I just get 602 00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 8: that I have been cast. And then we go to 603 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 8: football camp. 604 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:36,800 Speaker 2: Were you athletic? 605 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 8: No? So I think that they made a mistake is 606 00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,640 Speaker 8: that they put us in football camp so that we 607 00:30:45,720 --> 00:30:48,200 Speaker 8: learned like how to line up and how to play football. 608 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:52,040 Speaker 8: But I think they forgot that we're supposed to be 609 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:55,480 Speaker 8: bad at football, and so they trained us and so 610 00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 8: and so I think they like the said when we 611 00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:02,440 Speaker 8: first started filming the too organized. They look like they 612 00:31:02,520 --> 00:31:04,600 Speaker 8: know what they're they're doing. They can't. They're supposed to 613 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 8: be a bad team, and so they had to kind 614 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:08,800 Speaker 8: of like just be like, guys, forget whether what we 615 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:16,920 Speaker 8: taught you. Yeah, yeah, uh yeah, And I think so 616 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 8: that yeah, I didn't know what part I got. And 617 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:21,600 Speaker 8: then we're just we're we're at the football camp and 618 00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,720 Speaker 8: every day, you know, we do we do school and 619 00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:25,800 Speaker 8: then we do football camp, and then we read through 620 00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:28,640 Speaker 8: the latest revision of the script and they're giving us 621 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:31,600 Speaker 8: each part like one day I'm Zoltech and one day 622 00:31:31,600 --> 00:31:33,760 Speaker 8: I'm Timmy, and then you know, they just know they 623 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 8: like these kids. And then at some point it all 624 00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,040 Speaker 8: kind of settles in to like, okay, here's here are 625 00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 8: the people who are going to be what I mean. 626 00:31:43,880 --> 00:31:46,120 Speaker 8: They they knew that Seana was going to be ice 627 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:53,600 Speaker 8: Box and uh, Devin Sawah wasn't originally casts as junior, 628 00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:57,320 Speaker 8: but he came Uh, he came in after football camp, 629 00:31:57,400 --> 00:31:59,080 Speaker 8: so we didn't do football camp with him at all. 630 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 8: We just had heard the original kid. I don't know 631 00:32:02,680 --> 00:32:05,880 Speaker 8: the story behind it. I was on the younger side. Joshana, 632 00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:10,200 Speaker 8: she knows everything. But they so he wasn't there, and 633 00:32:10,240 --> 00:32:12,880 Speaker 8: then Devin came in like after we started filming, so 634 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,880 Speaker 8: we had no idea who he was. 635 00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:17,400 Speaker 2: Right, she got grown in a little after the Factor. 636 00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:20,760 Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's so smart, Like the way that Spielberg 637 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,320 Speaker 5: casts is because I mean his movies always have the 638 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,160 Speaker 5: best kid actors, you know, Yeah, if he's involved with 639 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,560 Speaker 5: the project, yep. And it's like it's such a skill 640 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,840 Speaker 5: because there are so many great directors who cannot cast 641 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 5: good kid actors, Like they might be able to cast 642 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,720 Speaker 5: great adults, but they don't do that thing where they're like, 643 00:32:37,040 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 5: just be a kid, Like it's okay, I just want 644 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:39,680 Speaker 5: to watch you be you. 645 00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,240 Speaker 6: And it's so cool to hear that he did that. 646 00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,840 Speaker 1: Yeah, was shooting this movie like being a part of 647 00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 1: an amazing summer camp. I mean there are tons of 648 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,880 Speaker 1: kids your age. You're hanging out with Rick Moranis and 649 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,440 Speaker 1: Ed O'Neill. I'm sure you've talked about this experience ad nauseum, 650 00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,560 Speaker 1: but we want to hear it all. 651 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 8: No, It amazing summer camp is kind of the exact 652 00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,440 Speaker 8: explanation for that, you know, like it was I mean 653 00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,560 Speaker 8: it was oversummer. Yeah, and uh, but you're all doing 654 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:13,560 Speaker 8: you're all part of this like shared experience. And you know, 655 00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:17,080 Speaker 8: the the first part of the film in the town 656 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 8: we filmed in San Luis Obispo in taco A Royal Grande, 657 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 8: and uh, so we're we're all out of towners, you know, 658 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 8: stay in a hotel. Some some kids, you know, like 659 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,160 Speaker 8: they're I think somewhere like from Ohio and you know 660 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,959 Speaker 8: other other places. Actually they might have been from Ohio 661 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,880 Speaker 8: and they're pretending to be in Ohio, but they're in California, yeah, 662 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,960 Speaker 8: and and like North Carolina. And so we're all we're 663 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,840 Speaker 8: all out of towners now. And so we're all sharing 664 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,080 Speaker 8: this hotel. So we're going to the pool and they're 665 00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:53,080 Speaker 8: the productions taking us on field trips and uh and 666 00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,200 Speaker 8: then we know the rest of the time we're filming 667 00:33:55,840 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 8: and uh and uh, you know it, it's long days. 668 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,920 Speaker 8: And the director great guy. I think this might have 669 00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,960 Speaker 8: been his second film. The first one he did was 670 00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 8: Homeward Bound Dwayne Dunham, and he wanted to do lots 671 00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,480 Speaker 8: of cover. He was originally an editor for Star Wars. 672 00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:19,520 Speaker 8: He wanted lots of coverage, oh, lots of takes, lots 673 00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,880 Speaker 8: of setups and it was just it was. It was dragging. 674 00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:26,759 Speaker 8: And it's funny because I was listening to you guys 675 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,720 Speaker 8: talked to Maddie about Maddie. Someone was mouthing the lines, 676 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,040 Speaker 8: and we would do so many takes that if there 677 00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,360 Speaker 8: was the shot of the actor, you would see all 678 00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:41,120 Speaker 8: the kids back there, all of us the line, and 679 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:43,520 Speaker 8: like every day they would have to come just some 680 00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,840 Speaker 8: and be like, guys, stop, just keep your mouth shut. 681 00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,080 Speaker 8: You're all saying the words. 682 00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,880 Speaker 4: So if you're shooting during the summer, like the prep, 683 00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,359 Speaker 4: I can see you had to do school, but by 684 00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:55,960 Speaker 4: the time you were shooting, you didn't have to do 685 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,360 Speaker 4: school during the summer, right, Yeah, during the summer. 686 00:34:58,640 --> 00:35:01,160 Speaker 8: Yeah, so it was like it overlapped with the end 687 00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,560 Speaker 8: of school and the and it went long, so it 688 00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,239 Speaker 8: went over the beginning of the next school year. So like, yeah, 689 00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 8: at both ends, yeah, both ends we had to do 690 00:35:09,280 --> 00:35:11,719 Speaker 8: some school. But yeah, in the middle, you know, it 691 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:14,880 Speaker 8: was a school less And then sometimes you're just like 692 00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:20,440 Speaker 8: I think they would always take us two set, whether 693 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,080 Speaker 8: we're working or not, just to kind of like you know, 694 00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 8: otherwise you're just staying in your hotel room, right, and 695 00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,000 Speaker 8: then you know the kids are just gonna go crazy. 696 00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,040 Speaker 8: So yeah, they would always you know, like bring the set, 697 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,000 Speaker 8: you guys, go you can go hang out in the 698 00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:36,480 Speaker 8: big trailer, the school room trailer and just hang out. 699 00:35:36,520 --> 00:35:38,319 Speaker 8: But they always kind of had something going on. 700 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:39,920 Speaker 3: That's great. 701 00:35:40,040 --> 00:35:42,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, what did you do in your downtime? Did you guys? 702 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,279 Speaker 1: Did all of you kids still hang out together and 703 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:46,359 Speaker 1: go eat? 704 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:48,040 Speaker 2: Like what did you get to do in the downtime? 705 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 8: You know, it's like the downtime I don't remember. I 706 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:54,440 Speaker 8: remember the date, I remember the working and I remember 707 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:56,880 Speaker 8: being on set, and it was it was the routine, 708 00:35:56,960 --> 00:35:58,520 Speaker 8: I think, you know, that's what it was like. You 709 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,319 Speaker 8: get the set, you put on your like you had 710 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,440 Speaker 8: like two outfits in the whole movie. There's like the 711 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:05,760 Speaker 8: game at the end, so you got the football pads 712 00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,160 Speaker 8: or the the practicing in which case you have football 713 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,319 Speaker 8: pads on, right, So it was like that was the day. 714 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,000 Speaker 8: So you get you'd get to set, you'd get in 715 00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,719 Speaker 8: the van, you'd get to set. You know, you'd go 716 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:18,359 Speaker 8: to your trailer. They're like, okay, get dressed. You'd get 717 00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,439 Speaker 8: your outfit on and then you know, you joke around 718 00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:23,520 Speaker 8: with the kids and then you'd sit in the school 719 00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:26,360 Speaker 8: room and wait and then you know, I think the 720 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,760 Speaker 8: parents would all hang out. Yeah, parent all hang out 721 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,759 Speaker 8: and talk and chat and have a great time with 722 00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,480 Speaker 8: the kids. You know, we had a great time too, 723 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 8: But but we did, like I said, we went on 724 00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,719 Speaker 8: field trips. So okay, now the memories are flooding in. 725 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 8: We went to Hurst Castle and took a tour up there, 726 00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:47,960 Speaker 8: so the whole all the kids went up there. Yeah, 727 00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,360 Speaker 8: we took a tour of Hurst Castle and then the 728 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:54,640 Speaker 8: nearby was one of the It was like a go 729 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,680 Speaker 8: kart video game, mini. 730 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:00,279 Speaker 4: Golf like golf and stuff like golf and stuff. Kid, 731 00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:00,879 Speaker 4: thank you very much. 732 00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:05,279 Speaker 8: We'd go there. We'd go there a lot until I 733 00:37:05,320 --> 00:37:08,600 Speaker 8: guess we got kicked out and then got kicked out. 734 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:10,160 Speaker 6: The kids are too. 735 00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:15,120 Speaker 8: I had heard was that I think some some crew 736 00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,960 Speaker 8: member might have done something like like like on the 737 00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:22,000 Speaker 8: go karts or something. But I'm worried it was us. 738 00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:27,440 Speaker 8: Me specifically, me and my late great friend J. P. Stowyer. 739 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,440 Speaker 8: We were I was too short to drive it, so 740 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,359 Speaker 8: I was in the car with him he could drive it, 741 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:37,160 Speaker 8: and his hat flew off and we both turned We're like, oh, 742 00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,880 Speaker 8: your hat went away, and then he crashed into like 743 00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:44,520 Speaker 8: a Bush like went up onto the like embankment where 744 00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,600 Speaker 8: everyone was fine, but we're like, oh no, And then 745 00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:52,800 Speaker 8: it wasn't that long after that then we weren't stuff. 746 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, oh my god, that's hysterical. 747 00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:57,759 Speaker 1: Well, and then you had been on a lot of 748 00:37:57,800 --> 00:37:59,640 Speaker 1: TV shows by the time you got to us. You 749 00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:03,160 Speaker 1: had been on Our Neighbors, on the Disney Lot, thunder Alley, 750 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,879 Speaker 1: Family Matters, Er, and then you stepped foot on our 751 00:38:06,960 --> 00:38:11,080 Speaker 1: set first as kid Number one in season four's Janitor Dad. 752 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 2: Had you watched Boy Meets World at all when you 753 00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:14,680 Speaker 2: before you got cast? 754 00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,799 Speaker 8: Yes, I mean because you guys were on the TGIF 755 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:23,040 Speaker 8: block or yeah, yeah, so I did watch it. I 756 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,560 Speaker 8: I am. I think I'm like anti kid sports because 757 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:32,200 Speaker 8: because we always had practice on Friday nights and I 758 00:38:32,239 --> 00:38:36,840 Speaker 8: would have to, like, I would have to VHS record, 759 00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 8: but you know, Boy Meets World and Family Matters really, 760 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 8: you know, and then I had to like and then 761 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,240 Speaker 8: I get home and I can finally watch it unless 762 00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:47,520 Speaker 8: my brother like stopped it because he wanted to watch 763 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,719 Speaker 8: something else and you know, be a whole blow up man. 764 00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,160 Speaker 2: There were some we had such struggles in the nineties. 765 00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:56,280 Speaker 1: If you weren't home to watch something live, the effort 766 00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:57,960 Speaker 1: you had to put into it, and the amount of 767 00:38:58,000 --> 00:38:59,000 Speaker 1: things that could go wrong. 768 00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,720 Speaker 2: Somebody take this over your VHS. 769 00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:07,600 Speaker 4: That channel, but you're halfway through, like you've recorded something 770 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:09,759 Speaker 4: and you're halfway through, and then it switches to something 771 00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:13,719 Speaker 4: else or just fuzzes out and you're like what John, Yeah, and. 772 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,160 Speaker 2: Then there's no way to see it again, like it's gone. 773 00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,279 Speaker 3: It's gone forever, It's gone forever. Yeah. Yeah. 774 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,920 Speaker 8: Couldn't they just have aired like, hey, here's a repeat 775 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:22,919 Speaker 8: on Saturdays. 776 00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:25,200 Speaker 1: Maybe they did, But I even feel like it was 777 00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:26,799 Speaker 1: hard to know when the re There wasn't a way 778 00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:27,960 Speaker 1: to know when when. 779 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:31,160 Speaker 3: Yep, TV guide there you were. 780 00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:36,839 Speaker 8: Yeah, and then later that scrolling channel, Yes, that was helpful. Yeah, 781 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:40,640 Speaker 8: and then you'd be like, I missed it. I gotta 782 00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:41,680 Speaker 8: wait ten minutes. 783 00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:45,480 Speaker 2: So you watched Boy Meets World before you audition? Do 784 00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:46,920 Speaker 2: you remember your Boy Meets World audition? 785 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:48,520 Speaker 3: I don't. 786 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:53,120 Speaker 9: I you know, you you you know what I was 787 00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:57,880 Speaker 9: doing so many auditions that I think as superpower is 788 00:39:57,960 --> 00:39:59,760 Speaker 9: like being able to just let it go. 789 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,759 Speaker 8: You know, and you go on enough like you know, 790 00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,839 Speaker 8: co star parts and guest spots that you never get 791 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:11,640 Speaker 8: and you know, like I just kind of like, all right, yeah, 792 00:40:11,640 --> 00:40:13,840 Speaker 8: I'll just you gotta let it go and if you 793 00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:15,640 Speaker 8: dwell on it, you know, and then your mom and 794 00:40:15,960 --> 00:40:19,040 Speaker 8: then like the debrief after the audition, your mom's like, 795 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:22,399 Speaker 8: what did you do? What? You know? I remember, Yeah, 796 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:23,560 Speaker 8: how did it go? 797 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:25,000 Speaker 2: What did they say? What did you say? 798 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,239 Speaker 8: What did they say? And ask any question? Did they 799 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,359 Speaker 8: ask any questions? Did you ask any questions? And I'm like, what, No, 800 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,319 Speaker 8: what am I supposed to ask questions? I had no 801 00:40:33,440 --> 00:40:38,200 Speaker 8: questions with a question? Yeah, alert, I have to remember 802 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:44,000 Speaker 8: my lines and a question and so yeah, So I 803 00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,640 Speaker 8: don't remember it. I remember being I remember remember being 804 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:51,360 Speaker 8: on set. I remember being in the green room because 805 00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:56,040 Speaker 8: I I I I rewatched it, and I vividly remember 806 00:40:56,120 --> 00:41:01,800 Speaker 8: watching the scene in the trailer where Sean and Corey 807 00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,400 Speaker 8: and the parents are all there and they're arguing, and 808 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:08,080 Speaker 8: I just remember cracking up so much in the green room, 809 00:41:08,560 --> 00:41:12,360 Speaker 8: and I remember the audience loving it and I and 810 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,120 Speaker 8: I remember the cast laughing. I think that was one 811 00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,680 Speaker 8: of those like first times that I remember it being electric, 812 00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:25,560 Speaker 8: where like everyone was on and you can't stop enjoying it, 813 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,640 Speaker 8: you know that that was one of those gifts where 814 00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,680 Speaker 8: it's like, oh, this is this is live television. You know, 815 00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:35,160 Speaker 8: this is what it's like, Oh this is this is 816 00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:38,120 Speaker 8: the theater, you know, where your audience was right there 817 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:40,680 Speaker 8: and they let you know whether they like it or not. 818 00:41:43,320 --> 00:41:47,000 Speaker 8: And then was it. I do remember. I think it 819 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:52,520 Speaker 8: was like later being like oh yeah, Sean, like in TV, 820 00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:55,360 Speaker 8: in television, Shawn's the first time I remember someone like, 821 00:41:55,600 --> 00:42:00,520 Speaker 8: oh they are of a different economic status. You know, 822 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:06,200 Speaker 8: he's he he's got his problems and he's got his 823 00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:11,160 Speaker 8: family issues. That doesn't make him, but he's he's the core. 824 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,920 Speaker 8: He's not just the one episode the very special of 825 00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:17,640 Speaker 8: some show. You know. He was like, oh no that 826 00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:22,640 Speaker 8: he his family is not the same as Corey's family, right, Yeah. 827 00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,879 Speaker 5: That was a pretty big episode for that actually, Janitor Dad, 828 00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,320 Speaker 5: that was the one where I think it was Chet's 829 00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:29,360 Speaker 5: only chests second or third episode. 830 00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:30,799 Speaker 6: Oh no, I guess season four would have been. 831 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:33,879 Speaker 3: Yeah, he'd have been there on the show. But yeah, 832 00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:35,280 Speaker 3: somebody would. 833 00:42:35,080 --> 00:42:39,520 Speaker 4: Show adults that were in a different economic status, but 834 00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:40,200 Speaker 4: never kids. 835 00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:40,560 Speaker 3: You're right. 836 00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,520 Speaker 4: I was just trying to think and it doesn't if anything, 837 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:46,879 Speaker 4: it was they would do this the savior model, where 838 00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,080 Speaker 4: if the kid was poor, then somebody rich would come 839 00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:53,239 Speaker 4: in and you know, different strokes or something. But the 840 00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:56,640 Speaker 4: idea that he was a poor kid. You're right, Sean 841 00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,520 Speaker 4: might have been one of the first for a while 842 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:00,719 Speaker 4: that was ever ever really seen him. Trevor really put 843 00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:01,400 Speaker 4: that together. 844 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,399 Speaker 8: Like, yeah, the lesson for the main kid for Beaver, like, hey, 845 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,080 Speaker 8: don't don't make fun of your friend who doesn't have 846 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,080 Speaker 8: the same thing, right, and then we never see that 847 00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:09,640 Speaker 8: friend ever. 848 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:10,240 Speaker 3: Again, right exactly. 849 00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:10,719 Speaker 8: Yeah. 850 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, so much of kids TV was just entirely 851 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,880 Speaker 1: centered around wish fulfillment. How do we how do we 852 00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:19,160 Speaker 1: just make kids want to watch this because they want 853 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:20,480 Speaker 1: to envision what it would be like. 854 00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:21,600 Speaker 2: To have this life? 855 00:43:21,719 --> 00:43:25,239 Speaker 1: And so yeah, for Sean, yeah, for Sean to be 856 00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,560 Speaker 1: a star of the show and for us to see 857 00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:31,320 Speaker 1: regularly how his life differed. 858 00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,879 Speaker 2: Yeah, was really Yeah, I mean it is. I think 859 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:34,600 Speaker 2: he was one of the first. 860 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:37,680 Speaker 1: It's really special, and you know, we have felt that 861 00:43:37,840 --> 00:43:40,000 Speaker 1: impact when people come to life. 862 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,279 Speaker 5: People come up to me and Oftener like I was 863 00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:46,360 Speaker 5: the Shawn in my group and they start crying immediately. 864 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:49,480 Speaker 5: You know, it's like it's very much a like I 865 00:43:49,520 --> 00:43:52,280 Speaker 5: needed you on TV to understand that there was space 866 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:54,360 Speaker 5: for people like, you know, my family or me. 867 00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:56,480 Speaker 6: It's really touching. 868 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,000 Speaker 2: And then well, just a handful of episodes later, you return. 869 00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:02,279 Speaker 1: Now is I'm Stein Kid competing against us in the 870 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:05,840 Speaker 1: quiz show episode which had a lot going on with. 871 00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:06,920 Speaker 3: Blon craz episode. 872 00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:09,000 Speaker 2: We would love. 873 00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:12,360 Speaker 1: To hear your memories from this week since, to be honest, 874 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,120 Speaker 1: we did not have a ton of memories. 875 00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,319 Speaker 8: So I every time I think about it, like I 876 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,880 Speaker 8: was looking, I was looking for the episodes and I 877 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:23,960 Speaker 8: was like, okay, yeah, see I think I I briefly 878 00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:28,320 Speaker 8: watched my episode on season four of the first episode, 879 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,000 Speaker 8: and I was like okay, and then I must be 880 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:32,680 Speaker 8: on like the next season or something, because I know, 881 00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:37,480 Speaker 8: I yeah, I felt like a different kid, like I 882 00:44:37,520 --> 00:44:41,640 Speaker 8: was like no one I was obviously I was smaller, 883 00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,480 Speaker 8: you know, I was smaller, I was littler. And then 884 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,440 Speaker 8: I was like yeah, and then when I'm Einstein Kid, 885 00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:51,320 Speaker 8: I'm still a kid, but I have to be like older. 886 00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:52,640 Speaker 8: And then I look at it was like it's the 887 00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:53,400 Speaker 8: same season. 888 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:58,399 Speaker 2: Yeah, just a few episodes later, right, So my. 889 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,360 Speaker 8: In my internally, I'm like, oh okay, I uh I 890 00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:06,799 Speaker 8: got bullied so bad. John Adams left so I went 891 00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:09,799 Speaker 8: to Einstein and then I get there and I'm once 892 00:45:09,840 --> 00:45:16,920 Speaker 8: again foiled, uh by those John Adams guys. No, it 893 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:20,200 Speaker 8: was it was cool. Uh. I feel like I spent 894 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:24,919 Speaker 8: uh in that one. I'm not like sitting next to you, 895 00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:26,640 Speaker 8: like I'm not I'm not like you know, I'm not 896 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:30,280 Speaker 8: with you guys. I'm like sitting on a couch, separate 897 00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:33,040 Speaker 8: in a different area so like we can I can 898 00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:36,960 Speaker 8: see you guys across the way, and uh, I'm with 899 00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:41,080 Speaker 8: two uh, the two other people at Einstein Academy. To 900 00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,120 Speaker 8: me at the time, I was like, this, so we're adults. 901 00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:46,319 Speaker 8: Like they didn't they didn't have lines. I was one 902 00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:48,840 Speaker 8: of the lines that these two are adults. They were probably 903 00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,399 Speaker 8: like seventeen eighteen briners. 904 00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:52,399 Speaker 2: The grown ups. 905 00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:55,680 Speaker 8: Yeah. And so I'm hanging out with them, you know, 906 00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:57,839 Speaker 8: in between takes or you know, in the green room 907 00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,279 Speaker 8: while you guys because there's multiple setups on this one 908 00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:02,799 Speaker 8: set and you guys are in all of them, and 909 00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:04,880 Speaker 8: we just came up for one. I think the it 910 00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:09,719 Speaker 8: was like yeah, coming out, you know, we're just so 911 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,000 Speaker 8: it was just kind of like a weird shock because 912 00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:13,200 Speaker 8: you know, I was like, oh, I'm supposed to be 913 00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:14,880 Speaker 8: on a quiz show. I'm like, oh, this is not 914 00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:18,560 Speaker 8: how I Oh I imagined it, which I'm sure worked 915 00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:24,759 Speaker 8: for the character. But yeah, I mean, you know, they 916 00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:28,920 Speaker 8: come out and I'm also like I was like pre 917 00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:31,160 Speaker 8: pre pewbascent. So then like the host, I'm like, oh, 918 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:39,239 Speaker 8: she's very pretty, and I'm like, no lines. Yeah. 919 00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:40,800 Speaker 2: We always wonder when this happens. 920 00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,680 Speaker 1: When actors came back, did like anybody say to you, Hey, 921 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:46,200 Speaker 1: so good to see you again. You were just here 922 00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:48,520 Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago. Did you have to audition again? 923 00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:50,040 Speaker 1: Did they just offer this one to you? 924 00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:54,319 Speaker 8: Do you remember? I'm sure I had to audition again? Yeah, 925 00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:58,160 Speaker 8: I I you remember the I remember the offers. Okay, 926 00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,839 Speaker 8: but I think you know, and I felt this way 927 00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:05,640 Speaker 8: other times, is that your agent doesn't say anything, you know, 928 00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,920 Speaker 8: like they submit you, and if casting said, yeah, send 929 00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,319 Speaker 8: them in and they don't remember you, that's fine. Yeah 930 00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,799 Speaker 8: if they do remember you. If they do remember you 931 00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,880 Speaker 8: and they still want you, but it's like, don't let them. 932 00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:21,640 Speaker 3: Know that you Yeah. 933 00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:26,000 Speaker 8: Yeah, and so I didn't say anything. Uh uh. You 934 00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,600 Speaker 8: guys weren't right next to me to be like you 935 00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:32,920 Speaker 8: look familiar, but also like I said, I felt like 936 00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,920 Speaker 8: I was maybe I had a tiny growth spurt, lost 937 00:47:36,960 --> 00:47:39,560 Speaker 8: a little bit of weight, you know, to where it 938 00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:45,239 Speaker 8: was just different enough. But yeah, and then you know, 939 00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,360 Speaker 8: I'm done. I think that that might have been that 940 00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,160 Speaker 8: might have been pre taped. I don't even know if 941 00:47:49,160 --> 00:47:51,560 Speaker 8: that was like on the night of That. 942 00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,319 Speaker 5: Makes Show, because we couldn't have the audience there because 943 00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,560 Speaker 5: we were shooting Will your character in the audience like 944 00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:00,200 Speaker 5: you and the family were at Wow. 945 00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:02,959 Speaker 6: Yeah, so we use the audience space. 946 00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,319 Speaker 8: And then that set went through so many changes. I 947 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,480 Speaker 8: think it just wasn't so so I may not. I 948 00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:13,720 Speaker 8: may have been there at taping, uh, just to like watch, 949 00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:17,799 Speaker 8: but I was not like performing, you know, in front 950 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:18,160 Speaker 8: of people. 951 00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,520 Speaker 2: Do you remember any interactions with any of us? 952 00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:27,280 Speaker 8: I do, you know. I was younger than you guys, 953 00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,000 Speaker 8: you know, and so and I was used to being 954 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:32,960 Speaker 8: like post our guest, you know, coming. I was a 955 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:35,080 Speaker 8: day player, so like you guys would hang out with 956 00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:38,200 Speaker 8: each other and you know, you said hello and all that, 957 00:48:38,239 --> 00:48:42,920 Speaker 8: but it wasn't we weren't yeah, yeah, yeah. And I 958 00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,640 Speaker 8: don't even think I ever I met Will on uh 959 00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:47,000 Speaker 8: any game because. 960 00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:49,480 Speaker 4: Yeah, no, because we would never have been working together, 961 00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,160 Speaker 4: so probably, yeah, we we didn't even cross paths at 962 00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:52,560 Speaker 4: that time. 963 00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:53,080 Speaker 3: How old? 964 00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,040 Speaker 8: Yeah I am forty I will be forty one in 965 00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:56,439 Speaker 8: a month. 966 00:48:56,680 --> 00:48:59,279 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so you're you're four years younger than me, 967 00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,279 Speaker 1: and I would the youngest person on set. So season four, 968 00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:05,959 Speaker 1: you were like twelve and I was sixteen, so we were. 969 00:49:05,920 --> 00:49:09,560 Speaker 8: Really close, exactly, Like I don't imagine a sixteen year 970 00:49:09,600 --> 00:49:11,440 Speaker 8: old being like, hey, let's get this twelve year old 971 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,600 Speaker 8: to come, you know, hang out with us. You know, right, 972 00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:19,120 Speaker 8: we're gonna say, we're gonna tell dirty jokes, and you know, 973 00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:22,480 Speaker 8: around a twelve year old kid, that's funny. 974 00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:26,120 Speaker 2: People get in trouble for that, Yeah, exactly as we should. 975 00:49:37,239 --> 00:49:37,319 Speaker 8: Do. 976 00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,359 Speaker 2: People ever come up and recognize you from Boy Meets 977 00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:39,959 Speaker 2: World with all. 978 00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:42,200 Speaker 1: The things you've done, does anybody specifically mention Boy Meets 979 00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:42,800 Speaker 1: World to you? 980 00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:47,719 Speaker 8: Well? Occasionally someone will be like, I'm on a rewatch 981 00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:51,000 Speaker 8: you know that watched it, And then the reason I 982 00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,520 Speaker 8: heard about that you guys were asking for, you know, like, hey, 983 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,000 Speaker 8: you've been on the show coming is my my friends 984 00:49:57,120 --> 00:50:01,280 Speaker 8: Ron and Aaron are are avid listeners. 985 00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:03,440 Speaker 2: They're they're they're they're r. 986 00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:07,439 Speaker 8: And they were like they were like, hey, we heard 987 00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:10,000 Speaker 8: you should you should email them, and they like gave 988 00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:16,920 Speaker 8: me the email address. Yes, yes, you were on an episode, right, 989 00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:18,719 Speaker 8: And I said I was on too, and they're like, 990 00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:29,160 Speaker 8: definitely for this. Uh but yeah, I mean it's it 991 00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:31,600 Speaker 8: feels like such a lifetime ago. 992 00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:37,600 Speaker 2: But you have literally never stopped working. I mean truly. 993 00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:39,480 Speaker 1: We went over some of your credits and your intro 994 00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:41,600 Speaker 1: and I know that you joke that you're a former 995 00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,160 Speaker 1: child actor, current adult actor. How do you think you've 996 00:50:45,239 --> 00:50:47,560 Speaker 1: never managed to have like burnout? 997 00:50:48,960 --> 00:50:55,360 Speaker 8: I think I think it's hitting me now almost got kids, 998 00:50:55,440 --> 00:51:00,680 Speaker 8: I've got okay, you know, it's well also the industry, 999 00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,080 Speaker 8: you know, we just had the strikes and COVID and everything, 1000 00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:08,960 Speaker 8: and uh, you know I never had burnout. 1001 00:51:09,320 --> 00:51:09,799 Speaker 3: You know why. 1002 00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:14,600 Speaker 8: I never was the series regular, you know, and so 1003 00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:19,280 Speaker 8: there was lots of time to be a kid in between, 1004 00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:22,040 Speaker 8: and a lot of time to be, you know, just 1005 00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:26,759 Speaker 8: a person. You were always auditioning, which has its own 1006 00:51:26,800 --> 00:51:28,959 Speaker 8: set of stress, like, oh, now I have an audition. 1007 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,240 Speaker 8: I'm a stress about that. Why haven't I had an audition? 1008 00:51:31,239 --> 00:51:36,200 Speaker 8: I'm gonna stress about that, But you know it's uh, 1009 00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:40,960 Speaker 8: I didn't. I didn't have the luxury really of being 1010 00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,279 Speaker 8: a series regular. So I didn't. It wasn't like every day, 1011 00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,360 Speaker 8: come to set, work, here's a new script. You know, 1012 00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,960 Speaker 8: do this, you have these you know, these things you 1013 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:51,560 Speaker 8: have to take care of. You know. It was just 1014 00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:53,759 Speaker 8: me and then I can be a twenty year old 1015 00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:59,560 Speaker 8: and go drinking and carry Yeah. No, twenty one year 1016 00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:05,480 Speaker 8: old karaoke every night, and uh so you know that 1017 00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:07,960 Speaker 8: that has that benefit. But you know, like I think 1018 00:52:08,080 --> 00:52:11,080 Speaker 8: right now, yeah, like I said, the burnout might be 1019 00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:16,240 Speaker 8: hitting me now. The February of twenty twenty, I booked 1020 00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:22,480 Speaker 8: my first series regular for ABC. Yeah, for ABC, did 1021 00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:25,440 Speaker 8: a did a network test. I cost you you know, 1022 00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:27,840 Speaker 8: I was cast. They're like, you're gonna be in. You know, 1023 00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:30,680 Speaker 8: if it goes, you'll be like six out of thirteen episodes. 1024 00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:34,160 Speaker 8: They built a it was gonna be a Western comedy. 1025 00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:36,680 Speaker 8: So who it had gone a series? Who knows? But 1026 00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:39,680 Speaker 8: and you know I got to visit the set and stuff, 1027 00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:43,000 Speaker 8: and then you know we're gonna fill April. 1028 00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,640 Speaker 2: And then you know what happened in March of twenty twenty. 1029 00:52:46,719 --> 00:52:49,279 Speaker 8: Happens and they just never picked it up. And it's 1030 00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:51,680 Speaker 8: like and I was my wife was pregnant with our 1031 00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:55,040 Speaker 8: first I'm like, wow, I got a series regular, You're 1032 00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:58,279 Speaker 8: gonna have a kid. It's gonna be great. And then 1033 00:52:58,440 --> 00:53:04,040 Speaker 8: it's like, oh, the world, the world. Yeah, and you know, 1034 00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:08,520 Speaker 8: and it like that really hits. That hits pretty hard 1035 00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:12,920 Speaker 8: and uh and then you know, like since then, I've worked, 1036 00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:16,120 Speaker 8: you know, I commercials have always been my thing, So 1037 00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:21,239 Speaker 8: I work commercially. I you know, I've done voiceover and 1038 00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:25,040 Speaker 8: dubbing and so I keep you know, I'm I'm busy. Uh. 1039 00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:28,360 Speaker 8: But it all it's like you always like, oh that 1040 00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,799 Speaker 8: was I owmote, I saw, I saw the brass ring 1041 00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:35,040 Speaker 8: right there, and I almost had it. And and I 1042 00:53:35,080 --> 00:53:37,680 Speaker 8: feel like that's you know, the way that I was 1043 00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:39,920 Speaker 8: saying that the kid kid actors. As you grow, you 1044 00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:42,840 Speaker 8: kind of always constantly have to be you have to 1045 00:53:42,880 --> 00:53:45,839 Speaker 8: be training on the next level because what you had 1046 00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:50,239 Speaker 8: before will not serve you on the next level. And 1047 00:53:50,280 --> 00:53:52,040 Speaker 8: I always kind of feel like I would hit these 1048 00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:55,080 Speaker 8: I would hit these pieces and I'd be like almost there, 1049 00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,400 Speaker 8: like I get a really great you know, you'd get 1050 00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:01,000 Speaker 8: a great you know, a couple arc episode, an episodic 1051 00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:03,040 Speaker 8: and you're like, okay, cool, like this maybe this will 1052 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,759 Speaker 8: lead to something else, and then it it doesn't lead 1053 00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:07,439 Speaker 8: to something else, and then you're back to the grind. 1054 00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,799 Speaker 8: You're like, cool that this is you know, ye I wasn't. 1055 00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,600 Speaker 8: I'm not delusional, right, So keep going and then you 1056 00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:15,839 Speaker 8: get something else. You're like, oh, I got a you know, 1057 00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:18,440 Speaker 8: a mini series and I'm gonna do this. And they're like, oh, 1058 00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:20,839 Speaker 8: maybe I'll be on next season and you're like, oh, no, 1059 00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:23,800 Speaker 8: you're not gonna be on next season. And then they're like, ah, 1060 00:54:23,920 --> 00:54:27,440 Speaker 8: you know, it gets it gets uh frustrating. 1061 00:54:27,719 --> 00:54:30,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, absolutely, well you did. 1062 00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:35,560 Speaker 5: You did ten episodes of one of my favorite shows, Patriot. Yeah, 1063 00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:38,320 Speaker 5: and I don't think Will and Danielle know this show. 1064 00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:40,280 Speaker 6: It is genius. 1065 00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:43,399 Speaker 5: It was I think it only lasted two seasons, right, Yeah, yeah, 1066 00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:46,520 Speaker 5: you guys have to find this. It was like one 1067 00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:48,840 Speaker 5: of those gems my wife and I stumbled upon for 1068 00:54:48,880 --> 00:54:52,240 Speaker 5: whatever reason. It was in twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen, Yeah, 1069 00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:55,240 Speaker 5: and just could not stop laughing. 1070 00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:56,560 Speaker 6: And it's brilliant. 1071 00:54:56,680 --> 00:55:01,360 Speaker 5: It's like it's an action comedy show about a spy, 1072 00:55:01,600 --> 00:55:04,640 Speaker 5: like an international spy who's also a folk singer because 1073 00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:05,839 Speaker 5: he's so traumatized by all. 1074 00:55:05,719 --> 00:55:09,200 Speaker 3: The people he's killed. Yes, it's you have to watch it, 1075 00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:11,520 Speaker 3: will you will love? Who's the patriot? Who plays the patriot? 1076 00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:13,320 Speaker 6: I'm blanking on his name. Who was the main guy? 1077 00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:19,120 Speaker 8: Michael Dorman Mike, Yeah, but Marks the guy he has 1078 00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:21,040 Speaker 8: to go under cover. Uh. 1079 00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:23,239 Speaker 5: His dad has like trained him since he and his 1080 00:55:23,280 --> 00:55:26,640 Speaker 5: brother since they were kids, to be killers basically, and 1081 00:55:26,680 --> 00:55:28,799 Speaker 5: it's just about how that's messed him up. And he 1082 00:55:28,840 --> 00:55:31,240 Speaker 5: has to go undercover at this company, and so. 1083 00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:33,120 Speaker 3: He kills Marcus. 1084 00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:36,960 Speaker 5: To be a piping engineer so he can get contracts 1085 00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:40,200 Speaker 5: in Iran or whatever. But he tries to kill Marcus 1086 00:55:40,200 --> 00:55:43,759 Speaker 5: to get them and doesn't do the job. So you 1087 00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,719 Speaker 5: play the character. You're still alive and he's working with you, 1088 00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:48,960 Speaker 5: and you don't remember that he tried to bring you. 1089 00:55:50,200 --> 00:55:54,560 Speaker 8: I am a piping engineer And no, no spoilers because 1090 00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:57,600 Speaker 8: this is literally the first scene of the show. Is 1091 00:55:57,640 --> 00:56:00,640 Speaker 8: he pushes me in front of a truck. Yes, after 1092 00:56:01,160 --> 00:56:03,960 Speaker 8: his interview doesn't go great. It doesn't go bad, but 1093 00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:05,719 Speaker 8: it doesn't go great. But I'm the other guy, and 1094 00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:06,520 Speaker 8: I'm like, it went great. 1095 00:56:09,040 --> 00:56:10,560 Speaker 3: Amazon, It's on Amazon Prime. So I. 1096 00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:13,799 Speaker 6: Was working on that show for you. 1097 00:56:14,280 --> 00:56:17,200 Speaker 8: That was one of the honestly the one of the 1098 00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:20,239 Speaker 8: biggest highlights of my entire career. It was such a 1099 00:56:20,280 --> 00:56:24,520 Speaker 8: great cast, such a great crew, Like it felt like 1100 00:56:24,560 --> 00:56:28,480 Speaker 8: a family, you know. It was it seemed like everyone 1101 00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:30,400 Speaker 8: was happy to be there. Whether they were, I don't know, 1102 00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:32,600 Speaker 8: but it was, you know, I was in. I was 1103 00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:36,080 Speaker 8: back and forth from Chicago that that year. All I 1104 00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:37,560 Speaker 8: knew was I was gonna be in three episodes that 1105 00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,960 Speaker 8: I ended up being in nine, and so back and 1106 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:44,680 Speaker 8: forth from Chicago in the summer, which everyone's like, oh, 1107 00:56:45,440 --> 00:56:47,719 Speaker 8: so great, you're here during the summer, and I was like, 1108 00:56:47,719 --> 00:56:49,920 Speaker 8: what do you talk about I've never been to Chicago, 1109 00:56:49,960 --> 00:56:51,680 Speaker 8: And they're like, winters are terrible, and then I just 1110 00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:55,200 Speaker 8: hear about it now. But no, it was it was 1111 00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:58,319 Speaker 8: so great, the town is great cast. And then I 1112 00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:03,560 Speaker 8: was I was always excited to read the next script. Yeah, 1113 00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:07,000 Speaker 8: you know, and and that's you know, it's not like 1114 00:57:07,000 --> 00:57:10,000 Speaker 8: the show always ends on a cliffhanger, but there it's 1115 00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:12,880 Speaker 8: the story just has to continue, and so I'm like, 1116 00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:14,799 Speaker 8: I need to know what happens next. And there's one 1117 00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:18,080 Speaker 8: episode like in the middle that I wasn't in, and 1118 00:57:18,680 --> 00:57:20,800 Speaker 8: I was like, you know, emailing all the rest of 1119 00:57:20,800 --> 00:57:22,240 Speaker 8: the cast, like, can you send me the script? I 1120 00:57:23,000 --> 00:57:27,360 Speaker 8: want to read the script. But yeah, it was. And 1121 00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:30,960 Speaker 8: then you know, it's when you filming that like a 1122 00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:33,080 Speaker 8: second episode, because we did it. Amazon did a thing 1123 00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,360 Speaker 8: where like you did the pilot. I mean it's very 1124 00:57:35,440 --> 00:57:38,080 Speaker 8: much like networked out. You did the pilot and then 1125 00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:39,640 Speaker 8: they would kind of like test it and see and 1126 00:57:39,640 --> 00:57:44,240 Speaker 8: then you do the the rest of the series. And 1127 00:57:45,200 --> 00:57:48,520 Speaker 8: the first scene I'm doing is after I've been hit 1128 00:57:48,560 --> 00:57:51,480 Speaker 8: by a truck, but I'm like back at work and 1129 00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:54,600 Speaker 8: and I have like a I have brain damage, but 1130 00:57:54,840 --> 00:57:58,840 Speaker 8: I have a nurse with me and Charlotte Arnold and 1131 00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:00,440 Speaker 8: she was on the Grassy. I didn't I did. I 1132 00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:05,880 Speaker 8: didn't watch The Grassy. But for those Canadians out there, uh, 1133 00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:10,880 Speaker 8: she has this. She she was in the first episode. 1134 00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:12,720 Speaker 8: I don't think she She got a call like a 1135 00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:15,600 Speaker 8: week before filming the second episode and she got the 1136 00:58:15,600 --> 00:58:18,520 Speaker 8: screwed the day before. She had like a page and 1137 00:58:18,520 --> 00:58:23,960 Speaker 8: a half monologue whoa, and she just killed it. Everyone 1138 00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,520 Speaker 8: on set was like that was amazing. And I'm just 1139 00:58:26,520 --> 00:58:29,880 Speaker 8: sitting there likes to be kind of like nothing's happening, 1140 00:58:30,520 --> 00:58:32,400 Speaker 8: and I'm just like listening to her and then I 1141 00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:40,320 Speaker 8: have kurtwood Smith, so so great, so wonderful guy and 1142 00:58:40,360 --> 00:58:45,440 Speaker 8: so intimidating in his like silence yep. And he just 1143 00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:52,160 Speaker 8: walks up to me, quietly, towering over me, and and 1144 00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:54,840 Speaker 8: just was like, so, you know, he just he just 1145 00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,440 Speaker 8: has that look of like he doesn't know how to 1146 00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:01,800 Speaker 8: read me. And it was just I couldn't help but laugh, 1147 00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:06,400 Speaker 8: just because it's so it's so surreal that all this 1148 00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:11,760 Speaker 8: is happening and great time, great so now I have 1149 00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:14,760 Speaker 8: nothing but great things. 1150 00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:15,800 Speaker 6: Good to hear. The show is really wonderful, you guys. 1151 00:59:17,200 --> 00:59:19,400 Speaker 5: It's one of those shames that it just to me 1152 00:59:19,520 --> 00:59:22,720 Speaker 5: it should have won everything and just gone for ten years. 1153 00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:23,760 Speaker 6: I thought it was brilliant. 1154 00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:26,920 Speaker 2: Yes, check it out well Marcus. 1155 00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:29,760 Speaker 1: My final question for you is you have been doing 1156 00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:35,240 Speaker 1: this for thirty eight years, when or can you? Did 1157 00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:38,480 Speaker 1: you ever when did you imagine you would be still 1158 00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:41,560 Speaker 1: doing the same thing, still having a career this long lasting, 1159 00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:44,439 Speaker 1: that you picked your lifelong career at three years old. 1160 00:59:44,480 --> 00:59:47,160 Speaker 1: If you were ever going to do something else, what 1161 00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:47,840 Speaker 1: would you do? 1162 00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:52,400 Speaker 8: Oh? God, well, I mean I have a fan, my 1163 00:59:52,440 --> 00:59:54,880 Speaker 8: family has a restaurant. 1164 00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:56,919 Speaker 2: There tell us more. 1165 00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:00,960 Speaker 8: Well I do I? I do remote work. I do 1166 01:00:01,360 --> 01:00:03,840 Speaker 8: back office. I used to be, you know, like there 1167 01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:06,240 Speaker 8: every day through COVID, you know, just trying to keep 1168 01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:12,520 Speaker 8: everyone alive and you know, going and uh, I mean 1169 01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:13,640 Speaker 8: there's that option. 1170 01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:18,840 Speaker 2: The rest. 1171 01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,960 Speaker 8: It's called Feast from the East and it's in West 1172 01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:24,840 Speaker 8: Los Angeles kind of like a mile and a half, 1173 01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:28,640 Speaker 8: like south of U c l A, like Westwood. We've 1174 01:00:28,680 --> 01:00:33,440 Speaker 8: been there, they've been there since eighty one. So you know, 1175 01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:37,919 Speaker 8: we love our customers because they kept us alive through 1176 01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:42,040 Speaker 8: a recession and a pandemic, and. 1177 01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:44,440 Speaker 3: You know, we it looks really good. 1178 01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:48,040 Speaker 8: Yeah. The Chinese chicken salad is the main main thing. 1179 01:00:48,800 --> 01:00:54,600 Speaker 3: Chicken chicken wings look really Goodeah. Yeah. 1180 01:00:54,640 --> 01:00:56,480 Speaker 8: We have had some celebrities come through. 1181 01:00:57,600 --> 01:00:58,280 Speaker 2: You're about. 1182 01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:05,200 Speaker 8: A couple of times. Yeah. Louise Fletcher was a regular. 1183 01:01:05,360 --> 01:01:07,840 Speaker 8: I didn't realize still later I was like, oh, was 1184 01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:10,480 Speaker 8: their names? Louise and then I like, you know, I 1185 01:01:10,520 --> 01:01:12,360 Speaker 8: was swiping her crumbs like Fletcher and I was like, 1186 01:01:12,560 --> 01:01:13,400 Speaker 8: oh my god. Kind of. 1187 01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:17,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, Danielle's right, you're about to have another celebrity and 1188 01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:19,120 Speaker 4: Rider and I come through as well. 1189 01:01:19,240 --> 01:01:20,960 Speaker 3: So that's gonna be awesome. 1190 01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:24,760 Speaker 8: I love it. Our customers will be very happy. 1191 01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:26,480 Speaker 6: Yeah. 1192 01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:29,560 Speaker 8: And then Jack Black has been going there since he 1193 01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:32,959 Speaker 8: was in like high school. That's cool, and so yeah, 1194 01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:36,919 Speaker 8: we we we've I'm not like forends with him, but yeah, we've. 1195 01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:39,600 Speaker 8: Like my mom's like that, isn't that the guy from 1196 01:01:39,640 --> 01:01:41,840 Speaker 8: High Fidelity? And like at that point that was his 1197 01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:44,840 Speaker 8: big big thing. I was like, yeah, it's him. Awesome, 1198 01:01:45,040 --> 01:01:46,840 Speaker 8: you know, Oh that's cool. Cool. 1199 01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:50,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Marcus, you have had such an incredible career. 1200 01:01:50,320 --> 01:01:53,360 Speaker 1: Thank you for coming and joining us and spending your 1201 01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:55,160 Speaker 1: time with us today. It was so nice to catch 1202 01:01:55,200 --> 01:01:57,919 Speaker 1: up with you and to hear your experiences, and we're 1203 01:01:57,960 --> 01:01:59,600 Speaker 1: just so appreciative that you came and spent your time 1204 01:01:59,600 --> 01:01:59,920 Speaker 1: with us. 1205 01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:02,720 Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you guys so much. It was it was great, 1206 01:02:02,960 --> 01:02:05,360 Speaker 8: great remembering all these things with you. 1207 01:02:05,480 --> 01:02:07,720 Speaker 2: Yes, and thanks to Ron and Aaron for making an 1208 01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:10,560 Speaker 2: appen Thank you, Mark, it's. 1209 01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:13,520 Speaker 8: Great to see you. Bye bye. 1210 01:02:14,040 --> 01:02:17,520 Speaker 1: He has I mean, he's never stopped working and like 1211 01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:20,360 Speaker 1: he said, he's never had a series regular role. 1212 01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:22,200 Speaker 3: Which is unbelievable. I know. 1213 01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:26,040 Speaker 1: I mean talk about like that journeyman actor thing we've 1214 01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:28,000 Speaker 1: talked about Will where you said that just like it's 1215 01:02:28,000 --> 01:02:29,680 Speaker 1: so hard for that to exist anymore. 1216 01:02:29,800 --> 01:02:30,880 Speaker 3: Yeah, it almost doesn't. 1217 01:02:30,920 --> 01:02:33,160 Speaker 4: I mean, so the idea that he's still doing it 1218 01:02:33,240 --> 01:02:36,760 Speaker 4: is he's one of the few because it doesn't exist 1219 01:02:36,760 --> 01:02:39,800 Speaker 4: anymore that kind of you can make a good living 1220 01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:41,120 Speaker 4: just being on every show. 1221 01:02:41,120 --> 01:02:42,960 Speaker 3: I mean, we've we all saw those people growing up. 1222 01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:44,880 Speaker 4: We knew those people where it's like, oh, they've been 1223 01:02:44,960 --> 01:02:48,360 Speaker 4: on everything, but they've never starred in anything, and that 1224 01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:50,040 Speaker 4: just kind of doesn't exist anymore. 1225 01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:52,800 Speaker 6: So those movie stars are now doing. 1226 01:02:52,600 --> 01:02:55,320 Speaker 2: TV smercials and hosting shows. 1227 01:02:55,280 --> 01:03:00,240 Speaker 5: Doing the secondary hosting Gabe shows. It's like yeah, it's yeah, yep. 1228 01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:02,920 Speaker 1: Well, thank you all for joining us for this episode 1229 01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:04,920 Speaker 1: of Pod Meets World. As always, you can follow us 1230 01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:07,360 Speaker 1: on Instagram pod meets World Show. You can send us 1231 01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:10,320 Speaker 1: your emails at pod meets World Show at gmail dot com. 1232 01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:11,840 Speaker 1: And we've got merch. 1233 01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:16,400 Speaker 4: I really want to thank uh, my family, my friends 1234 01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:18,160 Speaker 4: for my youth and fillmore nomination. 1235 01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:22,240 Speaker 3: I couldn't have done it without you. It's really amazing. 1236 01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:23,640 Speaker 6: You give a thank you speech for a nomination. 1237 01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:26,040 Speaker 3: That's the This is the best I got right, I'm 1238 01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:26,400 Speaker 3: playing it. 1239 01:03:26,320 --> 01:03:35,000 Speaker 4: It actually wins, So this is what I've got. 1240 01:03:35,320 --> 01:03:41,200 Speaker 1: Mike, Podmetsworldshow dot com writer send us out. 1241 01:03:41,480 --> 01:03:43,200 Speaker 6: We love You All pod dismissed. 1242 01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:47,680 Speaker 5: Pod Meets World is an iHeart podcast producer hosted by 1243 01:03:47,760 --> 01:03:51,760 Speaker 5: Danielle Fischel, Wilfredell and Ryder Strong Executive producers, Jensen Karp 1244 01:03:51,760 --> 01:03:54,960 Speaker 5: and Amy Sugarman Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo, 1245 01:03:55,160 --> 01:03:58,840 Speaker 5: producer and editor, TaRaSu Bosch producer, Maddie Moore engineer and 1246 01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:00,640 Speaker 5: Boy meets World, Superman East and Out. 1247 01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:03,480 Speaker 6: Our theme song is by Kyle Morton of Typhoon. 1248 01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,680 Speaker 5: Follow us on Instagram at Podmets World Show or email 1249 01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:12,880 Speaker 5: us at podmetsworldshowat gmail dot com