Speaker 1: Welcome to this Park Hopper episode of Magical Rewind.
Speaker 2: We are so excited to welcome True decom Royalty to
Speaker 2: our little podcast today. We cannot wait. We've we've not well,
Speaker 2: we're gonna. We're gonna get into how special this guy
Speaker 2: is to us, because we do have a a connection
Speaker 2: which we have to talk about.
Speaker 1: So please help us. Welcome Jason Donny.
Speaker 3: Hello, Hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 1: Gay guess I'm excited to have you here.
Speaker 4: Happy to be here.
Speaker 1: The goat that Tom Brady and d Comms is here
Speaker 1: with us.
Speaker 3: It's me and Brenda Song. I think we're because we're
Speaker 3: I think we're both we're tied for I think we
Speaker 3: with a four. Okay, yeah, and I think that's the most.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there's a few of you because we just interviewed
Speaker 5: from a Halloween town.
Speaker 1: Oh, Kimberly Brown, of course, Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Now, were any of those sequels though.
Speaker 6: Yes, they were?
Speaker 1: Oh, all yours are standalone.
Speaker 4: The none of mine were sequels.
Speaker 6: You're all that.
Speaker 4: Which rendous songs I believe are also all originals.
Speaker 1: Oh that's that would be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a good point, Jason.
Speaker 4: That's a big whole thing about it.
Speaker 5: But you know, we might have to call Kim and
Speaker 5: say we need her to return that crown we gave her.
Speaker 6: That's awkward.
Speaker 4: Well there tied you know.
Speaker 2: Oh oh the okay, No, that's good. That does much
Speaker 2: even more rarefied form here. So okay, first of all,
Speaker 2: I have to tell you this, we are going to
Speaker 2: get into minute men because that's what we we just
Speaker 2: watched and reviewed. But so when I came up with
Speaker 2: the idea originally of doing this podcast, everyone at iHeart
Speaker 2: were saying, okay, well you need to coh is like,
Speaker 2: of course, and they're like, what about Sabrina from the
Speaker 2: Cheetah Girls. Was like, oh my god, that'll be amazing.
Speaker 2: But we'd never met, we didn't know each other. It's like,
Speaker 2: we've got to at least do some sort of a.
Speaker 7: Test run, yes, to see if we're if this is
Speaker 7: gonna So the very first thing we've never aired it
Speaker 7: it's just for us that we watched was Hatching Pete.
Speaker 1: Really, and it was the first one we'd ever done.
Speaker 1: We'd never done the podcast.
Speaker 6: Before, seen it, we ne movie.
Speaker 2: So the unaired episode of Magical Rewind, the first time
Speaker 2: she and I ever worked together was Thats Me, So
Speaker 2: happy so bringing you here for a minute, man, We
Speaker 2: are so happy to have you here because you are
Speaker 2: very special.
Speaker 1: You are the first reviewed movie we ever did.
Speaker 4: I feel so, I feel so honored. That's wonderful.
Speaker 5: You are absorable and hatching Pete by the way.
Speaker 2: Okay, but we got we gotta talk minute men. Yes,
Speaker 2: so can you tell this was your second d com?
Speaker 4: Yes, number two?
Speaker 6: Which one was the first?
Speaker 4: First was read It and weep? Oh, which was actually
Speaker 4: before Corey in the house. It was before I was
Speaker 4: like a regular on the channel.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I was like fourteen for that and I
Speaker 3: was sixteen I think for minute it was.
Speaker 5: Julia, the writer of the book on set ever with
Speaker 5: you guys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she was for a reading. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah. She's awesome.
Speaker 5: Ye A co write a book with her and really incredible.
Speaker 6: Yeah, she's a great writer.
Speaker 1: You wrote a book, Sabrina.
Speaker 6: Yes, it's called Princess of Gossip.
Speaker 4: Research this person, Oh my god.
Speaker 1: It worked together, no idea find out things about her
Speaker 1: every day.
Speaker 6: Oh man.
Speaker 2: But okay, say well we'll talk about minute men, but
Speaker 2: let's talk a bit about your journey to the Channel.
Speaker 2: Was it just a straight up regular audition, for a
Speaker 2: d com or how did you get involved with Disney Channel?
Speaker 3: For Yeah, well, for Reading and Weep, it was Reading
Speaker 3: Weep was just a regular audition, and then bizarrely so
Speaker 3: Reading Weep. I actually didn't book it initially, and then
Speaker 3: I was. It was a Friday night and I was
Speaker 3: ready the next week to go on like a week
Speaker 3: long trip with my eighth grade class to Washington, d C.
Speaker 6: Oh, the eighth grade trip. Yeah, that's awesome, right, I
Speaker 6: mean I.
Speaker 3: See that every now and then people go, oh, I
Speaker 3: know exactly what you're talking about, and not everybody does.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the eighth grade.
Speaker 3: My brother had done it before. It was a whole thing.
Speaker 3: And so that was the next week. And I got
Speaker 3: a call Friday night and it's from Judy Taylor, uh,
Speaker 3: former recupe of casting it at a Disney Channel, and
Speaker 3: she says, we want.
Speaker 6: To get her on event.
Speaker 4: Got it?
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, she's amazing.
Speaker 3: She goes, look the guy we cast came down with
Speaker 3: acute appendicitis and literally can't do it. Can you be
Speaker 3: on a plane tomorrow morning? Literally then next morning like
Speaker 3: fly to Utah and do this movie? And I had
Speaker 3: a brief moment of hesitation, but I was like, dude,
Speaker 3: I can't.
Speaker 1: I can't not have to.
Speaker 6: The dream of being on the channel.
Speaker 3: You got it real and it was like I could
Speaker 3: do this. I could go on this trip that I
Speaker 3: know will be a lot of fun. But who knows
Speaker 3: where this will take me in you know, here we
Speaker 3: are and we saw where it took you.
Speaker 6: Kennis Washington's going to be there. It would be there
Speaker 6: after Utah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there was no There was no going back
Speaker 3: after that.
Speaker 1: So were you on the East coast or were you
Speaker 1: on the West coast?
Speaker 4: No, I'm from the Semi Valley and oh okay l
Speaker 4: A area.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, but you had to go, you had to.
Speaker 1: Go up to you.
Speaker 4: It was a big it was a big trip.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well they always say if you want to get that
Speaker 2: audition that you don't think you can have, or you
Speaker 2: want to get the trip, yeah, book non refundable plane
Speaker 2: tickets such.
Speaker 4: I've tried to do it a lot since then. It
Speaker 4: has doesn't always work on a lot of trips. At
Speaker 4: trip not a sure thing.
Speaker 1: Not always only.
Speaker 3: Book the trip if you actually really want to go
Speaker 3: on the trip. That's my only piece of advice.
Speaker 5: Okay, So then wait, I'm now I've got to talk
Speaker 5: because we talk about how so many of the d
Speaker 5: coms are in fact filmed in Utah, right, that is
Speaker 5: the DCOM Central.
Speaker 1: Utah or Vancouver.
Speaker 6: Sure, Hatching Pete was definitely shot in Utah.
Speaker 5: Oh, I was gonna say, Okay, that's two out of four,
Speaker 5: all right, all four of them got it?
Speaker 6: Okay?
Speaker 2: Were any of them shot at the same high school?
Speaker 2: Like did you go back to the same high school
Speaker 2: as a different character?
Speaker 4: And I don't think so.
Speaker 1: Well, that would be funny, that would be funny in
Speaker 1: the same hallways.
Speaker 3: It's possible that Minutemen and Hatching Pete used the same one.
Speaker 4: That's possible. I don't remember for sure.
Speaker 6: I didn't recognize.
Speaker 3: That, probably not because that the Minimen one is very
Speaker 3: it's very iconic, at least to me. It looks as
Speaker 3: a very sort of specific, like big broad like it
Speaker 3: felt like a mall being inside.
Speaker 6: Of it was.
Speaker 3: It was massive, very distinct. So I was surprised if
Speaker 3: they if they went back there. But I'm I'm having
Speaker 3: trouble remembering, to be honest with you, I don't know.
Speaker 5: And we we've heard from somebody about a hotel America
Speaker 5: or something.
Speaker 1: All of America.
Speaker 3: There's no there's Grand America, and then there's the Little America.
Speaker 5: That's a hotel where you stay when you're okay, so
Speaker 5: you did stay there.
Speaker 4: Both of them.
Speaker 3: The first time you go, you're at the Little America.
Speaker 3: They're literally across the street from each other. So you're
Speaker 3: like at the Grand America or you're at.
Speaker 4: The Little America.
Speaker 6: Budget is America total?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: How many decoms would you have to do before they
Speaker 2: put you at the Grand America?
Speaker 3: As the cross, I think it was three, remembering correctly,
Speaker 3: I think it was only the Good Like Charlie movie
Speaker 3: that we stayed at Grand America, Okay, because most of
Speaker 3: the time you stayed at Little America.
Speaker 4: To be to be fair, I think that's usually where
Speaker 4: they put you up.
Speaker 6: Got it. We're exposing d coms now.
Speaker 5: Now everyone in Utah is going to just camp out
Speaker 5: looking for Jason Dolly.
Speaker 4: Yeah boy.
Speaker 2: All right, So you said you're having trouble remembering the
Speaker 2: high school. It leads to a good question, when's the
Speaker 2: last time you watched Minimen?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 3: It was actually not that long ago. I rewatched it.
Speaker 3: I want to say twenty twenty, twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: One, Okay, okay, just for just for kicks.
Speaker 1: So you do your first d com.
Speaker 2: You're now part of the channel, you know, the first
Speaker 2: d com which we haven't watched yet, but we will do.
Speaker 2: You When you get a call for Minutemen, is it hey,
Speaker 2: come do this movie or do you have to read again?
Speaker 4: So no, so so the next read was Corey Mouse.
Speaker 4: So that was it.
Speaker 3: That was an audition, But that was also one where
Speaker 3: I was like, they know me. It's it's a little
Speaker 3: not a normality completely, but I did have to go
Speaker 3: in and and sort of earn that. But then no,
Speaker 3: Minutemen was like, hey, between season two and three or
Speaker 3: one and two, I think you're you're doing this movie.
Speaker 6: Wow, that's really great.
Speaker 3: Hey that was that was also it was just like
Speaker 3: here's your next movie, like, okay, great, and then of
Speaker 3: course the god like Charlie.
Speaker 6: How do you feel about there?
Speaker 4: You're right, is there a fear at all?
Speaker 6: Because you're gonna be.
Speaker 4: You're go work through that some some issues. No, it was,
Speaker 4: it was great.
Speaker 3: It was a dream scenario as an accurate You're like
Speaker 3: do this okay.
Speaker 2: Great, thank you, and you said you were what sixteen
Speaker 2: by the time you did about sixteen yeah, okay. And
Speaker 2: did you know any of the cast you were working with?
Speaker 2: Did you know Nicholas Brawn or Luke Benwoerd anybody?
Speaker 3: No, No, we all met, you know, I you know,
Speaker 3: in preparation at some point for that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no way, not even okay.
Speaker 6: Do you remember when the d Con games where the
Speaker 6: Disney Channel games. Weren't we on the yellow team? Were
Speaker 6: you yellow?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I was yellow?
Speaker 6: Okay, yes, yes, we were all on the yellow That was.
Speaker 4: The good Year team. It was not a great team,
Speaker 4: but that was the Good Year right.
Speaker 6: I don't think we won one obstacles on anything.
Speaker 3: I I still am pretty sure that we should have won,
Speaker 3: or at least we shouldn't have lost the way we did.
Speaker 4: Simon says, do you remember that?
Speaker 6: Yes? That was garbage.
Speaker 1: We were like, this is please walked me through.
Speaker 3: There was It was a really intense game of Simon says,
Speaker 3: led by the great, wonderful Brian's to panic.
Speaker 5: And by this time we had had enough of losing,
Speaker 5: were like.
Speaker 7: We can do this.
Speaker 6: Simon says.
Speaker 5: You know, Kevin Jonas was about to throw in the
Speaker 5: towel completely.
Speaker 6: We were so upset about these games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was it was rough, but it was me
Speaker 3: and Jason Earls, and we must have gone for I
Speaker 3: don't know, like five minutes straight of just the two
Speaker 3: of us, and then I don't remember exactly what happened.
Speaker 3: I think Brian called me out for doing like moving
Speaker 3: in some way that I wasn't really sure I did,
Speaker 3: and we all kind of talked about it after, was like,
Speaker 3: did you.
Speaker 4: See anything happen? It was like, I don't know, I
Speaker 4: don't know. I don't know what he saw. I don't
Speaker 4: know what happened, but he got raw.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he just called it or if
Speaker 3: he saw something none of us saw. I don't remember
Speaker 3: the full thing, but it was really intense and very
Speaker 3: disappointing results to be like, I don't know how I right.
Speaker 5: And it's the It's at this point too, where now
Speaker 5: you've got a bunch of Disney you know, quote unquote
Speaker 5: stars that are all miked now cursing.
Speaker 6: Bell like.
Speaker 4: Garbage.
Speaker 5: We were so upset, Simon says, And you couldn't take it, but.
Speaker 6: Like the only team just really screwed over every time.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm not.
Speaker 6: Upset about it obviously.
Speaker 5: We've really gotten over, completely over it, but gone with
Speaker 5: our lives.
Speaker 1: That's so funny. Oh man, I'm kind of wish.
Speaker 2: I told Sabrina I'd never seen it, but if it
Speaker 2: was more like the Hunger Games.
Speaker 1: I would have watched all the time, it would be
Speaker 1: would have been kind of cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they tried to do it.
Speaker 3: They tried to make it more reality show kind of
Speaker 3: in the second the second year we went to uh
Speaker 3: Disney World, which was my second year doing it. Do
Speaker 3: you remember that they like made us Did you go
Speaker 3: the second year or the third year?
Speaker 5: The year I was on the Yellow team was when
Speaker 5: we were at Walt Disney World.
Speaker 6: That's the one I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: That was our That was the first year we went
Speaker 3: to Disney. So I didn't do the very very first time.
Speaker 3: First time they did it in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6: I yeah, I only didn't.
Speaker 4: Do that one. I went to the second one, which
Speaker 4: was in Disney World.
Speaker 3: They did a third one in disney World also, god
Speaker 3: it that was one where I think I was Green team.
Speaker 3: And do you remember how we just would play games
Speaker 3: all day, Like you'd stop up at like nine thirty,
Speaker 3: You'd play games all day. You'd be done at like four,
Speaker 3: and you go in the park in the evenings. So
Speaker 3: year two in Disney World, you played one game per day, yeah,
Speaker 3: and you spend the rest of the time shooting, like
Speaker 3: you know, oh, what's what's the drama behind the scenes
Speaker 3: of the Green team? Who's your biggest rival? Like you guys,
Speaker 3: guys took the wrong thing. The games were the fun thing.
Speaker 3: That is no inter team drama. We're just a good time.
Speaker 4: Like what do you have? So you were shooting till
Speaker 4: like six or seven at least sometimes, and you were.
Speaker 3: Like tired from a full day of work, and I
Speaker 3: don't want to go to the park, but I gotta
Speaker 3: go to the park. I say this like it's a
Speaker 3: horrible thing. It just was disappointing. Year one was great
Speaker 3: and your two was like.
Speaker 5: Ah, yeah, I only did that first year. That first
Speaker 5: year then you.
Speaker 6: That was the middle one, the second one.
Speaker 4: I guess in and out.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean after your disappointment, you wouldn't go back.
Speaker 1: I mean that's yikes. Yeah, thats with you.
Speaker 2: Don't even talk to her about family feud. Her time
Speaker 2: on family feud did not go well. No oh no,
Speaker 2: we'll send you the clip.
Speaker 1: I had it.
Speaker 2: Hear it. It's phenomenal. I can't wait to watch it myself.
Speaker 2: But Jensen tells me it is. It is marvelous.
Speaker 6: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: So how long was the shoot for Minute Men? Is
Speaker 1: it your standard month kind of thing?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think it was five weeks maybe six?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And did you have any rehearsal time or is
Speaker 2: it just jump in, let's go make a movie, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't, I bet not.
Speaker 4: Maybe a little bit.
Speaker 3: You know, in pre production you kind of do the
Speaker 3: table read and you maybe work a couple of scenes.
Speaker 3: But I don't think there was a lot of I
Speaker 3: should really remember we had rehearsal for patching Pete. I
Speaker 3: remember specifically because we had like.
Speaker 6: Dance off that.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But also like we trained with the guy who was
Speaker 3: the San Diego Chicken.
Speaker 4: Do you know who the Sandego Chicken is? I didn't
Speaker 4: know who this guy was at all.
Speaker 6: But he's like a professional mascot.
Speaker 1: Wait, like is he a Podre or something?
Speaker 3: He was the mascot for the Padres, but he I
Speaker 3: think the Potters, and he was known.
Speaker 4: As the San Diego Chicken and that's sort of what
Speaker 4: he what he did. And so he came to Utah,
Speaker 4: I believe, to Utah.
Speaker 3: I don't think we did that in La before we
Speaker 3: left and came all there, and we like learned how
Speaker 3: to like walk in a chicken suit and like you
Speaker 3: had to like make the tail bob up and down,
Speaker 3: you know, things like that where you might not know how.
Speaker 6: To do that form of mascoti.
Speaker 3: Yeah, how to sort of communicate body language to mascot costume.
Speaker 3: You certain things are limited, so you have to kind
Speaker 3: of overdo it certain ways. So I remember that. And
Speaker 3: then there was a tons of stunt work for a minute. Man,
Speaker 3: I don't think we didn't even rehearsal for any of that.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, that's a good question about because one of
Speaker 2: the things we wanted to talk to about is the stunts.
Speaker 4: You guys are.
Speaker 2: First of all, you're in basically every scene in the film.
Speaker 2: It's like you didn't get a day we were looking going.
Speaker 2: It's like you didn't get any time off whatsoever. And yeah,
Speaker 2: very physical the stuff that you're doing. Yea, was there
Speaker 2: people getting hurt? Was their training? Was their safety?
Speaker 1: I mean you're hanging from stuff, You're jumping into things.
Speaker 1: I mean, what was that like?
Speaker 4: I mean it was really fun.
Speaker 3: I think it would yeah, I mean I was I
Speaker 3: was a kid, I was a teenager, and a part
Speaker 3: of my job is running around jumping off this trampoline,
Speaker 3: landed on this crash pad, and but it was it
Speaker 3: was really really fun.
Speaker 4: So we were shooting this, I believe in.
Speaker 3: Like July sometime in the summer, and Utah summers are
Speaker 3: pretty hot, and so we're covered in you know, the
Speaker 3: snowsuits for a lot of the sequences, especially when we're
Speaker 3: running and doing all this stuff. So we got crazy hot,
Speaker 3: you know, drinking tons of water and whatever. And at
Speaker 3: one point they got these like ice pack vest things
Speaker 3: like cooling packs for us to work, Like great, awesome,
Speaker 3: put those on. In ten minutes, all the cooling stuff
Speaker 3: had just melted and was just at that point just
Speaker 3: dead weight.
Speaker 4: Okay, there's no solving this. This is just you just
Speaker 4: have to kind of just hot. Yeah, we're just hot,
Speaker 4: all right?
Speaker 6: What Oh man.
Speaker 4: We tried.
Speaker 3: We tried to make the best of it, and you
Speaker 3: know it was that man, it was really fun.
Speaker 1: How did they hang you from the ram?
Speaker 4: Oh? That they so they built the ram for that shot.
Speaker 3: Of course that ram was like steel reinforcing wires and
Speaker 3: like it was a really talked They talked us through
Speaker 3: that hole. You know, how they built it and how
Speaker 3: it was really really sturdy and all the stuff, and
Speaker 3: then yeah, like we just had harnesses on and they
Speaker 3: had little you know, hooks and caribanears and just screwed
Speaker 3: us in and we're literally actually dangling from that ram
Speaker 3: as far as I remember, I mean, maybe I'm maybe
Speaker 3: I'm wrong, but that's that's my memory in my brain,
Speaker 3: is that we lowered us up on a on a
Speaker 3: crane or whatever, and we got on there and we
Speaker 3: were there just big.
Speaker 4: There's big shots. It's big, like establishing shots.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm pretty sure we were really there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I have I have memories of looking out and
Speaker 3: seeing people down below.
Speaker 2: And it's funny because it kind of one of the
Speaker 2: things that led us to talking about was the fact
Speaker 2: that this school represented the worst adults that we've.
Speaker 1: Ever seen on a d com when there were adults around.
Speaker 2: So the good question is, I mean, we couldn't think
Speaker 2: of another movie, at least that we've watched so far
Speaker 2: in the dcom world where there are no parents.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's the guys, Yeah you have parents, none of you.
Speaker 2: So was it just like the Summer Camp shooting because
Speaker 2: there were no there were no adults anywhere it's.
Speaker 3: Really weird, right, what's what are what are Virgil's parents doing?
Speaker 4: What are they where?
Speaker 1: We never know?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you never actually in his house for at least
Speaker 3: like a few scenes.
Speaker 2: There's like yeah, yeah, when you're studying, when you're studying,
Speaker 2: or when the little the wonderfully it's a it's a
Speaker 2: Disney trope. We keep seeing all the time now, the
Speaker 2: horribly annoying little sister.
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, you're in your basement, and you're in the
Speaker 7: basement and the little sister, he's for some reason dressed
Speaker 7: like a stripper from the fifties, comes down.
Speaker 1: And is hitting on your friends.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that completely.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but no parents anywhere to be found.
Speaker 5: Oh man, you know what, We've seen so many of
Speaker 5: these movies that you know, shoot in in Utah. We've
Speaker 5: never asked anyone do they have a specific agency out there?
Speaker 6: Where do they get their extras?
Speaker 5: Because they're always in high school, so there's obviously always
Speaker 5: a lot of high school age kids or middle school
Speaker 5: age kids. Do you know were they were they just
Speaker 5: kids that went to that high school or I remember,
Speaker 5: I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I mean, I know the it was like the same
Speaker 3: production company every time. I mean by the time I
Speaker 3: was going for even for reading, they'd been there for
Speaker 3: a while.
Speaker 4: So it was kind of like, you know, sort of
Speaker 4: like a mini.
Speaker 3: Atlanta where a certain handful of projects are going to
Speaker 3: come through every year.
Speaker 4: If your local talent, you'll get some opportunities.
Speaker 3: And I think by that point people just sort of
Speaker 3: knew that, yeah, Disney Channel comes through.
Speaker 4: Here every now and then.
Speaker 3: Is that there were some plenty of repeat cast members
Speaker 3: that I had seen they were either extras previously then
Speaker 3: had a speaking role in the next one or that
Speaker 3: kind of thing. Yeah, Yeah, so it was people people
Speaker 3: knew the word was out for sure.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's got to be a machine by that point,
Speaker 2: because they're pumping out so many decoms that they're either
Speaker 2: in Toronto, Vancouver, or Utah.
Speaker 4: That's it.
Speaker 1: Ye, unless they need an ocean.
Speaker 2: We've noticed that they need an ocean, like Johnny tsunami,
Speaker 2: they'll shoot somewhere else.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they that for sure isn't Vancouver or somewhere nearby
Speaker 3: there because they have ocean.
Speaker 1: No, we talked to him, where did they shoot? Why
Speaker 1: didn't they And.
Speaker 6: Then they they shot there? No, they didn't.
Speaker 1: They were I can't remember that was the.
Speaker 6: Second movie he told us was shot in New Zealand.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they went to New Zealand.
Speaker 5: Oh yes, oh yeah, but super cool stuff that was
Speaker 5: by the ocean for brink that was in l A.
Speaker 4: In l A, Yeah, okay, in l A.
Speaker 1: And then and then the one we just saw was
Speaker 1: also in LA with the ocean.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but that was wasn't it.
Speaker 4: They went, Oh yeah, they.
Speaker 1: Did some in LA, but they did the rest in
Speaker 1: Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2: Yes, So it was nice to be back in our
Speaker 2: comfortable Utah.
Speaker 1: One of the things we.
Speaker 2: Also noticed is that for a d com, it had
Speaker 2: a decent budget. Your budget was five million dollars, which
Speaker 2: is which is good for a d com. And the
Speaker 2: special effects looked pretty good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, they they kind of I don't I
Speaker 3: don't know the ones said they had to, but you know,
Speaker 3: I really appreciate that they that they took the time
Speaker 3: to make those look good, because you know, it's the
Speaker 3: kind of thing where, yes, the movie can be good,
Speaker 3: and I'm just I'm happy that they put the right
Speaker 3: amount of the appropriate amount of budget to that because
Speaker 3: it doesn't look You watch it back and you go, yeah,
Speaker 3: it's clearly from a few years ago, but doesn't look terrible.
Speaker 4: No, and it looked a lot worse.
Speaker 5: And it would like the rocket that's behind his his
Speaker 5: that didn't look that great. The rest of it, did.
Speaker 1: The Vortex and the black hole? I mean for a
Speaker 1: d com in mid two thousand, Yeah, not bad.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's such an integral part of the story and
Speaker 3: you have to see that thing, and that thing needs
Speaker 3: to look like a really big problem and they really
Speaker 3: did what was necessary to make that come across.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Well, we got a chance to interview Michael Healy and
Speaker 5: oh yeah, from what he had to say about this
Speaker 5: movie specifically, they had high hopes for the movie and
Speaker 5: thought the movie was great, so you know they did.
Speaker 5: I feel like they really did make sure that they
Speaker 5: put a lot of effort, and they bumped up the
Speaker 5: release date right.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, they moved your release date.
Speaker 2: You were gonna be I think in March or wherever,
Speaker 2: but they moved you up to January to a better time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because they had high hopes for this.
Speaker 2: And when we asked Michael, when you look back on
Speaker 2: your career at Disney Channel, what's a movie that did
Speaker 2: well but deserved more.
Speaker 1: Than it got.
Speaker 2: And he instantly went to Minimum. He said no, he said,
Speaker 2: I thought that movie was gonna be and again you
Speaker 2: still did. It was like almost seven million viewers. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: which is great, really great for the channel. But this
Speaker 2: is the one that he looks back on, like, this
Speaker 2: is the one I thought it was going to blow up, right,
Speaker 2: and thought was going to be you know that, you know,
Speaker 2: you always thinking sequels and because again you can always
Speaker 2: gower stuff.
Speaker 3: And yeah, we were we were waiting for a couple
Speaker 3: of years there for that that Minimen two call.
Speaker 6: Did they talk about it, Well, we.
Speaker 4: Talked about it.
Speaker 3: I mean we would talk about it too, whenever we
Speaker 3: got a chance, you know, Gary marsh is there. Hey, Minimum,
Speaker 3: You know, as far as I know, there was no.
Speaker 4: Like real talk that I have heard.
Speaker 2: Right to get watching Pete too, because I want to
Speaker 2: see more in the dancing.
Speaker 4: That one I think is better story that wraps up
Speaker 4: really nicely. In that one, I think we can.
Speaker 7: Yeah, do you do it?
Speaker 4: They'll get me wrong.
Speaker 1: Do you keep in touch with any of your Disney
Speaker 1: Channel peeps?
Speaker 4: And nobody did movies with Yeah? I mean I still
Speaker 4: see Dexter Darden every now and then.
Speaker 3: Luke, it's been a few years. Saying with Nick and uh,
Speaker 3: but I mean obviously people from Charlie. I still see Bradley,
Speaker 3: I still see Eric the brother and dad and.
Speaker 4: But uh, but no everybody.
Speaker 3: There's lots of people that I still will, you know,
Speaker 3: text every now and then, are send a message here?
Speaker 1: Well, it's a rarefied club.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, it's also so one of the things we
Speaker 2: like to ask is have you felt the surgeons because
Speaker 2: everything is coming back with Disney Plus and everybody watching it,
Speaker 2: have you?
Speaker 1: I mean, since you again are in four Originals.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's interesting.
Speaker 3: So I went to Disney World over Christmas and it
Speaker 3: was the first time I was recognized by more cast
Speaker 3: members than by park goers. Okay, well, I don't know
Speaker 3: if that really lines up with with this, with what
Speaker 3: you're saying, but it was just interesting though.
Speaker 1: I mean I think it does.
Speaker 3: The age group that is now trying to sort of
Speaker 3: know that my my time is has kind of shifted
Speaker 3: from from that to that. So and look, I mean,
Speaker 3: I you know, you say have you felt it? I
Speaker 3: mean I would feel a little bit more if I
Speaker 3: got some reboot calls. To be quite honest, exactly, I'm
Speaker 3: not sure what's keeping them rebooting. Good love Charlie at
Speaker 3: this point, but hey, you know.
Speaker 2: From your lips, but you just wait to get your
Speaker 2: first My grandmother used to have her your picture on
Speaker 2: her wall.
Speaker 4: I had that.
Speaker 1: Hey thanks to Nana, right right?
Speaker 8: Awesome?
Speaker 1: But yeah, they do. They grew up with you, They
Speaker 1: grow up with you.
Speaker 6: Yeah that's cool. Well, speaking of you just mentioned Disney World.
Speaker 5: I'm we've heard and found out a little bit that
Speaker 5: you are a huge disney Land fans with your family.
Speaker 6: Do you go off? I'm as well. I was there
Speaker 6: last night.
Speaker 1: I mean really, you were there last night?
Speaker 6: Yeah, or yesterday?
Speaker 5: You lived in County, I've lived about twenty minutes away
Speaker 5: from the park.
Speaker 6: I went as far to take my daughter for the day.
Speaker 5: Text my husband and said, hey, after work, do you
Speaker 5: want me to grab Ledger our son and we'll come
Speaker 5: back and do nighttime Disney.
Speaker 6: And he's like sure, So we went.
Speaker 5: I came back, got the kids, got the husband, and
Speaker 5: then we went back to Disneyland.
Speaker 6: So are you are you there often?
Speaker 4: Should we?
Speaker 6: Should we do a Disney day.
Speaker 4: Less that I used to go.
Speaker 3: I still I'm probably there at most once a year,
Speaker 3: although I mean I was in Disney World last year,
Speaker 3: so you then you know, you know, but it was like.
Speaker 4: A whole trip, that's a whole thing. Yeah that's a
Speaker 4: big that's a big trip. But this Disneyland's not that far.
Speaker 3: It's the hour or so, so you yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean, I I I grew up going
Speaker 3: to Disneyland.
Speaker 4: Yes, And then it was like, so I knew, you know,
Speaker 4: I knew the I knew the layout, I knew the rides.
Speaker 3: And then you know, when you start working with Disney
Speaker 3: Channel and they send you there or you go there
Speaker 3: and you get the guy and it was like, oh, man.
Speaker 6: Is it?
Speaker 4: And then I was worried. I was like I didn't
Speaker 4: want to go back, you know, without the plaid.
Speaker 3: But I gotta tell you, it's still it's still a
Speaker 3: great experience. I don't mind waiting the lines as much
Speaker 3: as I thought I would. It's like it's nice.
Speaker 4: You just sort of you get to experience the atmosphere
Speaker 4: of the thing.
Speaker 3: It's like there's definitely there's pros and cons to both,
Speaker 3: because like some of the rides I've been on in
Speaker 3: Disney World, I was going through the lines and I
Speaker 3: was like, this is really cool.
Speaker 4: I never got to see like the front of this ride.
Speaker 6: Okay, yes, that's very true.
Speaker 5: You don't get a lot of it has so much
Speaker 5: of the story, there's very cool. All the detail that's
Speaker 5: at Disneyland and disney World.
Speaker 2: It's worth the trade off to miss that to go
Speaker 2: to the bed in front of it.
Speaker 3: I'm not trying to sound like it's bad the other way,
Speaker 3: but it's nice to.
Speaker 5: Go in the line after and see all the stuff,
Speaker 5: you know, I mean, a ride like Indiana Jones just
Speaker 5: has so much detail and cool stuff that, of course
Speaker 5: it's nice to miss the seventy five minute.
Speaker 6: Wait and you go right on.
Speaker 3: However, they have done that if you haven't gone through
Speaker 3: like you should because it's it is cool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so strange as an East Coast kid, like
Speaker 2: growing up in the East Coast hearing like, well, I
Speaker 2: grew up going to Disneyland because it was you might
Speaker 2: as well have said to me as a kid, Oh,
Speaker 2: I grew up going to the Moon like it was
Speaker 2: such a Disneyland was such a thing that the idea
Speaker 2: that you got.
Speaker 1: To grow up near the park is so cool to me.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I hate to do this to you, do.
Speaker 4: You really no?
Speaker 1: I actually love it. I've been looking forward to it
Speaker 1: since I knew you were coming on here. What's your
Speaker 1: favorite one that you've done?
Speaker 6: And why is it hatching p.
Speaker 1: And why is it hatching Pete? Exactly?
Speaker 4: It's hard to choose.
Speaker 3: I think I think the if I was gonna watch one,
Speaker 3: I would watch Minutemen one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: That's the one that I think I would enjoy watching
Speaker 4: the most.
Speaker 3: And as far as like, as far as the experience
Speaker 3: filming it, it's it's hard to pick between frankly, probably
Speaker 3: Minutemen and the Good Luck Charlie Christmas movie just because
Speaker 3: you know, too vastly different experiences. Mintmen, I was the lead,
Speaker 3: I was on set every day. It was a group
Speaker 3: of brand new people that all happen to be, you know,
Speaker 3: just awesome people that were out all the time. Was like,
Speaker 3: it's like when it's a good group, especially, it's really
Speaker 3: extra fun because it feels like camp, you know, yeah, or.
Speaker 4: They're the hotel. It's like a really really special bonding time,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 3: Whereas with Good Look Charlie, I knew everybody already and
Speaker 3: it was lovely to go on basically a vacation with
Speaker 3: because it was like it kind of they split the
Speaker 3: genders for that one, so like the Bridget and Lee
Speaker 3: had their own story and then the guys had their
Speaker 3: own story. So we were kind of shooting working together,
Speaker 3: and then when they were working, we were kind of
Speaker 3: at the hotel hanging out.
Speaker 4: So that was more like a family vacation, you know, feel.
Speaker 6: And to take it off of a studio a lot too,
Speaker 6: I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, you know, take it off a.
Speaker 5: Studio a lot, go to a new venue location and
Speaker 5: that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: There was a whole big sequence in that film with
Speaker 3: paintball guns, and so we there was aholl like a
Speaker 3: paintball fight scene, so we went to the paintball arena
Speaker 3: and we played paintball all the time together during.
Speaker 4: That shit, you know.
Speaker 3: So it's like experience why It's really hard to pick,
Speaker 3: but I think if it was, it was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: watch one of your d COM's right now.
Speaker 4: It's it's minimum.
Speaker 1: Okay, see minimm is your favorite, and you hated the
Speaker 1: other three?
Speaker 4: Got it? You heard it from my from my mouth.
Speaker 5: You got to go back to the paintball scene because
Speaker 5: we haven't seen that one. I'm sure we'll get to.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I just thought it we're definitely going to be.
Speaker 5: Doing lots of like Halloween ish, you know, with zombies
Speaker 5: and Halloween through and stuff like that.
Speaker 6: Well, obviously I didn't know there was a Christmas type.
Speaker 1: Christmas d com category in.
Speaker 6: The d COM's. I did not know that, So we'll
Speaker 6: have to do that.
Speaker 5: I love a Christmas movie, so we'll eventually see it.
Speaker 6: So there's a paintball scene.
Speaker 5: How did they do paintballs in the Disney Channel filming situation?
Speaker 6: Because they can't be real paintballs, right, those things?
Speaker 3: No, but they were real paintball guns. You just didn't
Speaker 3: have anything in the in the hopper, so you shoot
Speaker 3: and nothing comes out, you know.
Speaker 2: And then they just put it in digitally at the
Speaker 2: at the AA or they you know, you rip.
Speaker 3: Pan over and then it's like you've already sort of dressed,
Speaker 3: you know, got it Okay.
Speaker 4: It was like a whole action.
Speaker 3: Sequence like we had, you know, a whole area like
Speaker 3: you know, it was very fun.
Speaker 4: It was very you know that bonds kind of ask
Speaker 4: were fun.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's something I've never done.
Speaker 5: It looks so fun, But I am too much of
Speaker 5: a chicken to get somebody.
Speaker 2: They took us one time. All the teams, either Tiger
Speaker 2: Beat or Team Beat. One of the Beats took all
Speaker 2: of like young Hollywood at the time when we were
Speaker 2: doing Boy Mets World and just handed us all guns
Speaker 2: and it was just, you know, shooting each other when
Speaker 2: you're hitting the kids from you know, full or I mean,
Speaker 2: it was like we're just nailing each other with It
Speaker 2: was a ridiculous amount of you only.
Speaker 5: Wear a chest thing, right, you're not fully probably in
Speaker 5: a mask, but like if.
Speaker 6: Your legs are your arms kid, right, those brutes.
Speaker 2: At one point, Jenavanoi from Blossom got up to run
Speaker 2: away and Ryder Strong's brother Shiloh stood up from five
Speaker 2: feet behind her and just tagged her in the back
Speaker 2: and yeah, I think I was dating her at the time,
Speaker 2: and I just heard her go like oh and like faulled.
Speaker 2: I mean, it was like my kids in Hollywood just
Speaker 2: shooting each other with paintballs from five feet away.
Speaker 6: That sounds like a nightmare.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a lot of fun when you were shooting
Speaker 2: minute men. Did you play with the time machine? And
Speaker 2: when you did horfor back, did you go?
Speaker 3: It was uh, I don't even remember how to what
Speaker 3: it even looked like to be honest with it was
Speaker 3: like a what was it?
Speaker 4: What it looked like? You just watched it? What it
Speaker 4: looked like?
Speaker 2: It was a it was a projector it was the
Speaker 2: uh projector that. Then you're in the abandoned pool and
Speaker 2: you've got to go jump off the diving board. Oh yeah,
Speaker 2: okay into the swrolling vortex, where the first thing you
Speaker 2: do is grab a poor, defenseless cat and throw it
Speaker 2: to that.
Speaker 4: Poor Did you ever see where that cat?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 4: Does that cat come back out?
Speaker 2: It does, just comes back frozen, It comes back here.
Speaker 5: And I didn't understand did they ever explain why it's
Speaker 5: so cold to time travel?
Speaker 6: Why you guys are freezing?
Speaker 3: Oh promise you're going to the vacuum of space? They
Speaker 3: probably said they didn't. I'm sure they didn't.
Speaker 4: Did they not know?
Speaker 1: They didn't?
Speaker 6: I did not understand why.
Speaker 2: We rate every movie, And in all fairness because you
Speaker 2: I'll probably go back and listen to us and listen
Speaker 2: to the mini man. It lost some points based on
Speaker 2: awfulness of adults because they were like, the principal is
Speaker 2: the I just wanted to actually kill it.
Speaker 4: What was the principal's whole deal?
Speaker 2: So he wouldn't help any of the kids that were
Speaker 2: like getting bullied, He's like, no.
Speaker 5: The nerds that were getting bullied. He was like, this
Speaker 5: is the he called the social climate.
Speaker 4: That was JP Panu, Right, yeah, I believe so.
Speaker 1: Is that his name? Yeah yeah, yeah, just.
Speaker 4: Sort of like totally passive evolutionary laws or whatever.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah yeah, And he kind of wouldn't help anybody.
Speaker 2: And then the FBI deciding to send children into the
Speaker 2: spinning vortex of death.
Speaker 5: Just as bad as you guys thrown that cat in there.
Speaker 5: I mean, they didn't care about you at all.
Speaker 1: They didn't care about the kid, like, just go.
Speaker 6: We'll see if you guys can figure it out.
Speaker 3: If not, I could see some argument in favor of
Speaker 3: doing it rather than somebody else because we've done it before.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're chill.
Speaker 3: Were the only ones with experience your children. But at
Speaker 3: the same time, yeah, if we die, then the FBI
Speaker 3: has child of blood on their hands, which they were
Speaker 3: okay with.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing that we did love, and I
Speaker 2: mean loved the cast. You guys were all great, I
Speaker 2: mean really really good.
Speaker 3: I was just thinking about that actually in preparation for this.
Speaker 3: Was like, first of all, yes, we all were great, cast,
Speaker 3: and you also like it's undeniable looking at the careers
Speaker 3: of some of the people.
Speaker 4: A lot of the people that were in it.
Speaker 3: You know, Nick Brown doing Succession, I mean, Benor did
Speaker 3: a ton of comedies with it, like most of McCarthy
Speaker 3: is like it was the Dexter Darden tons of works.
Speaker 3: Like it was really a special collection of people. If
Speaker 3: you look at the sort of the timeline and everything
Speaker 3: is not really Tesla Kane of course doing all her
Speaker 3: baby daddy stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, and you all at the chemistry
Speaker 2: that you know, That's why one of the questions we
Speaker 2: asked was like, well, I'm sure they knew each other
Speaker 2: before they went in, because the chemistry.
Speaker 1: Was you are so good. Yeah, yeah, that man.
Speaker 2: It was definitely an incredible group of young actors, really
Speaker 2: strong casting.
Speaker 1: You should be proud of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go Judy again. Judy is She's an
Speaker 5: all star. She's an all star. And that's that's what
Speaker 5: we've really seen with so many i mean, got to
Speaker 5: kick it up, America Ferrera. I mean, it's like just
Speaker 5: these all these Disney d coms are filled with so
Speaker 5: much talent and so and to where as an actor,
Speaker 5: why you want it. You were hopeful to get on
Speaker 5: the channel because that was such a huge stepping stone
Speaker 5: into taking your career to that next level, you know,
Speaker 5: and and also having fun.
Speaker 6: These movies are made of, you know, we.
Speaker 5: Hated every every adult who cares because we've got just
Speaker 5: a great cast.
Speaker 1: Of kids, you know, amazing, amazing, so.
Speaker 6: Fun to work on. And yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2: Okay, So for our last question here, and we would
Speaker 2: be remiss if we did not ask this. You have
Speaker 2: a time machine. What do you go back in your
Speaker 2: own life and change?
Speaker 6: And change? Not relive? I tried to relive. Will told
Speaker 6: me I.
Speaker 1: Was she was playing the game wrong.
Speaker 6: I couldn't do that. I played the game wrong.
Speaker 4: You have to change? Can change?
Speaker 6: Was it on family?
Speaker 4: I think I know Sabrina's answer.
Speaker 1: It was a great answer.
Speaker 3: To well, I would you know what I would do
Speaker 3: to bring this whole conversation full circle? I would go
Speaker 3: back and I would I would not stop going back
Speaker 3: to the Simon says, game okay, until we want, we.
Speaker 4: Want, I love.
Speaker 6: Until yellow got a freaking wind.
Speaker 4: That's that's like genuinely what I would.
Speaker 3: I don't really, I don't have a thankfully out of
Speaker 3: a ton of regrets in my life. I mean, that's
Speaker 3: probably that's wonderful. That's really hanging over me the more
Speaker 3: I think about it. So that's that's what I would great.
Speaker 6: I love it. That's perfect.
Speaker 5: Oh I do have to ask this catching people were
Speaker 5: you dancing? Was that you dancing in there?
Speaker 3: So there were at least four chickens, myself and Mitchell included.
Speaker 3: So there was a dance chicken, and there was a
Speaker 3: stunt chicken, but then there was also a dance chicken.
Speaker 3: I think there was a separate one from Mitchell. And
Speaker 3: the reason was because my legs were so skinny and
Speaker 3: his word like his word not I always had like
Speaker 3: I had like genuine chicken legs, So they had to
Speaker 3: have a dancer that that wouldn't look like his legs
Speaker 3: in the thing when it was me.
Speaker 4: So so there were there were at least.
Speaker 3: Four chickens, maybe more, which was great because I don't
Speaker 3: want to I don't want to spoil this podcast.
Speaker 2: If we were just this exact conversation made we have
Speaker 2: to do HATCHI Pete with you.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, it was great because when I had
Speaker 3: the head on an info costume, no one was ever
Speaker 3: really sure who I was. You're like, you couldn't for
Speaker 3: sure tell, so I could like go and there was
Speaker 3: a certain level of anonymity that I could have and
Speaker 3: just walk around on set and just screw around with
Speaker 3: people like do like do mascot stuff, you know, take
Speaker 3: their drink.
Speaker 1: Or whatever, and then like that kind of they don't
Speaker 1: know if it was.
Speaker 4: It was so much fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you so much for joining us, Jason.
Speaker 1: Thanks for having We've been wanting to talk to you
Speaker 1: for so long now. So this is great.
Speaker 8: Good.
Speaker 4: I bet it, I bet it worked out.
Speaker 1: Hopefully this is the first of the times you're going
Speaker 1: to be coming here because I love it.
Speaker 2: We got four movies, Like we said, you're royal, you
Speaker 2: are royalty, four movies.
Speaker 6: We gotta go and look for your crown in the mail.
Speaker 4: Perfect.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much by Jason.
Speaker 6: Thank you.
Speaker 5: That was so fun. It was such a dull face.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: What a sweet guy.
Speaker 2: The idea that he's had so much fun in his
Speaker 2: career that he's like, if I had a time machine,
Speaker 2: the thing I would change would be to go win
Speaker 2: the time and he's like, I don't have many regrets.
Speaker 1: In my life. That's awesome.
Speaker 6: That's amazing. Love that amazing so much.
Speaker 1: And I'm so happy that he came up.
Speaker 6: Clearly has not embarrassed himself on anything.
Speaker 1: We've got to do hatching Pete. Okay, thank you everybody
Speaker 1: for joining us in this park Opper episode. Thank you
Speaker 1: Jason Dolly for coming out.
Speaker 2: It was so cool to talk to him, and I
Speaker 2: can't wait to do it again for another show. And everybody, Yeah,
Speaker 2: just go watch Minute Men and get some wonderwear and
Speaker 2: shake the leg.
Speaker 6: That's all.
Speaker 1: That's all I gotta do.
Speaker 5: Oh gosh, let this nightmare be done.
Speaker 6: Shake the leg.
Speaker 1: Thanks everybody, and we will see you next time.
Speaker 8: Bye bye
Speaker 6: Every