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Speaker 5: Welcome to Vaudmeet's world.

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Speaker 3: I'm Daniel Vishel, I'm rather strong, and I'm Wilfrede.

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Speaker 6: Hello, high pals. So great to see you, us grow,

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Speaker 9: Us grown kid actors who now analyze our experience through

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Speaker 6: Yes we do.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, it's so great to see you.

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Speaker 6: I analyzing our trauma together. Yes, just a simple unpacking,

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Speaker 7: He also worked with your sister at some point.

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Speaker 6: I believe she played your girlfriend writer on an episode. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 3: You pilotas, and it would be winting down.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it was just it was crazy. It was such

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Speaker 9: Also, I will say, like we've talked about it a

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Speaker 9: This should be fun, we should be enjoying it. We

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Speaker 9: Those conversations are happening among the adults, not involving the kids.

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Speaker 9: just want to make you happy, and so what do

446
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Speaker 9: I need to do? And then when it's put on

447
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Speaker 9: me and it's like, well, you have to make a decision,

448
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Speaker 9: It's like what do you mean I don't know what

449
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Speaker 9: my personal style is.

450
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Speaker 5: I don't know what I I don't know what I

451
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Speaker 5: don't I don't know a thing about.

452
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Speaker 4: Myself because against Danielle with more passion one more time, please.

453
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Speaker 2: You're giving me.

454
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Speaker 4: Okay, we have another question for you, something we've talked about.

455
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Speaker 4: As we've been going through this, we found one of

456
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Speaker 4: the weird kind of things we deal with. Do you

457
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Speaker 4: have a weird kind of issue with how fast you

458
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Speaker 4: get dressed?

459
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Speaker 5: Do you have any issues around picking out clothes from.

460
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Speaker 6: The self fascinating changing clothes, stressed changing clothes one hundred

461
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Speaker 6: percent and ice, Yeah, but we.

462
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Speaker 9: Just don't have to hear it out because it's on

463
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Speaker 9: tape nights and you have to do it so fast

464
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Speaker 9: that everyone for you and I do it as fast

465
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Speaker 9: as humanly possible.

466
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Speaker 1: Before we started this podcast, I was changing and I

467
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Speaker 1: was like, my heart was racing.

468
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Speaker 2: I was like, I got to do it.

469
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Speaker 7: And I ran into my wife and I was like,

470
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Speaker 7: do you get stressed.

471
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Speaker 2: Out when you change? It's like, what are you talking about?

472
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Speaker 1: Like I hate changing my clothes more than anything.

473
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Speaker 9: Like I go into my closet and I'm like, all right,

474
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Speaker 9: I go over to where the tops are and I go,

475
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Speaker 9: because something fast, you've got it. And if whatever I

476
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Speaker 9: take off, even if I put it on and don't

477
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Speaker 9: like it, or for whatever reason, I'm like, I don't

478
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Speaker 9: have time, even if I have all the time in

479
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Speaker 9: the world, this.

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Speaker 5: Is what I have to wear now I picked it.

481
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Speaker 5: It's on.

482
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Speaker 3: I'm realize.

483
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Speaker 4: This is why I kept sweaters and shirts from B fifty, right,

484
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Speaker 4: I knew that, And people saying me like why, like,

485
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Speaker 4: because it was picked.

486
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Speaker 6: Up you guys, I think you just unlocked something for me.

487
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Speaker 8: Dude.

488
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Speaker 4: It happens when we'll be talking about something, I will go,

489
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Speaker 4: oh my god, that's I think.

490
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Speaker 6: Those are the weird things that you can't quite place.

491
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Speaker 6: And later and then when you talk about it with

492
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Speaker 6: other people who have had the experience and you're like, oh, yeah,

493
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Speaker 6: that's totally a problem I have. But I still have,

494
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Speaker 6: Like I think I probably have clothed still from when

495
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Speaker 6: I was on growing paints or like where I just

496
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Speaker 6: like can't get rid of them.

497
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Speaker 4: Ye.

498
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Speaker 6: But the same thing is like it's it's been approved,

499
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Speaker 6: so you can wear that, and.

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Speaker 5: You know the color looks good on you. It's like

501
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Speaker 5: it was for you.

502
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Speaker 6: How could I be yes, they gave it to me.

503
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Speaker 6: I have to keep it.

504
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Speaker 4: The memories childhood trauma here on podets where thanks for jo.

505
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Speaker 12: Love talking about Traumpa.

506
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Speaker 5: So let's jump into Growing Pains.

507
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Speaker 9: You booked the role of Chrissy sever in what appears

508
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Speaker 9: to be your first TV job ever?

509
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Speaker 5: Right? Do you remember that audition?

510
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Speaker 6: Vaguely? Vaguely? I remember, So this is going really far back.

511
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Speaker 6: I had so am when I still lived in Michigan.

512
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Speaker 6: There was a talent scout that had come to our school,

513
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Speaker 6: which is so weird to me. I'm thinking about that now.

514
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Speaker 6: And they, Yeah.

515
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Speaker 5: I come to your school and look at your children.

516
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Speaker 9: Thanks, I'm just gonna look around see if I see

517
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Speaker 9: any of your children are special.

518
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,280
Speaker 5: Yes, just give me permission to look at your kids.

519
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:06,120
Speaker 6: They like, how did that conversation go to the principle? Like, Hi,

520
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 6: I'm a I'm a man, I work for you know whatever.

521
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 7: But it was.

522
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Speaker 5: I'm a man.

523
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Speaker 6: So I had They had come for a talent search

524
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Speaker 6: for Star Search, and I guess at the school I

525
00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 6: told this person that I sang and they were like,

526
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Speaker 6: oh great, we'll have you on Star Search. And so

527
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Speaker 6: my parents were like, wait, what do you what do

528
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Speaker 6: you mean like you you sang for this person? Like

529
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Speaker 6: what's going on? So anyway, so I ended up getting

530
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Speaker 6: on star Search.

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Speaker 3: Search.

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Speaker 6: Yes, not to brag. I was on Star Wow.

533
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Speaker 3: How many stars did you get?

534
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Speaker 6: I don't remember, well, I don't. I did not win.

535
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Speaker 6: I did not win.

536
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Speaker 5: Did you Which song did you sing? I?

537
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Speaker 6: This is so embarrassing because it's so like child? After

538
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:10,159
Speaker 6: I sang, Oh god, what's it called? Broadway baby?

539
00:26:10,920 --> 00:26:11,600
Speaker 7: Oh my god?

540
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Speaker 6: And so I went on and I remember there was

541
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Speaker 6: like another another kid that was the other contestant. His

542
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Speaker 6: name was Bud McGregor.

543
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was.

544
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Speaker 6: He was like a country singer. He was amazing. I wonder,

545
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Speaker 6: did you wear like.

546
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Speaker 7: A sequin tuxedo? Did you have like a top?

547
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Speaker 6: I did wear a sequin dress that was gorgeous, you know,

548
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Speaker 6: taffata and whatever.

549
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Speaker 4: All the other.

550
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Speaker 9: Materials were our little actor girl dreams were made of amazing.

551
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Speaker 6: Absolutely. So I don't think I I didn't win, but

552
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Speaker 6: I think because of Star Search they had me come

553
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Speaker 6: in for for growing paints. So I went in.

554
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, you can't, you can't. You can't jump off

555
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Speaker 3: of Star Search that quickly. I apologize.

556
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Speaker 4: Did you so you met Ed McMahon. Yes, and they

557
00:27:05,560 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 4: bring and I can't. But we have to find out

558
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Speaker 4: how many starts you got because I want to.

559
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Speaker 3: Is this beautiful stars.

560
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Speaker 6: We got to be, got to be somewhere. It's got

561
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Speaker 6: to be, I believe thinking about it, I think we

562
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Speaker 6: I think we had gotten a tie, and then at

563
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Speaker 6: the end they do like a re do something. Yeah, man,

564
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 6: so and then I ended up losing, which was great

565
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Speaker 6: because I think I only had one song that I say.

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Speaker 6: I think I only sang that song and you needed

567
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Speaker 6: to prepare all of these other songs. But yes, I guys,

568
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 6: meet Ed McMahon. I don't I remember my mom said

569
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Speaker 6: I had one hundred and three fever.

570
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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, guys, the show must go on the clip.

571
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Speaker 5: We found the clip.

572
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Speaker 6: No, you did not.

573
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Speaker 3: So much.

574
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Speaker 6: Spoke, Oh my god, eighty nine, y'all.

575
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Speaker 4: What are you like?

576
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Speaker 6: Six? Probably wait, hold on, I was born in eighty three. Yeah,

577
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 6: it was six. But what's hilarious about this to me

578
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,479
Speaker 6: is how everyone was like, let's make a tiny Shirley temple,

579
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Speaker 6: let's sleep again. But I mean that was my hair.

580
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Speaker 6: Oh my god, I look.

581
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Speaker 3: Bigger than your head.

582
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Speaker 8: How Ashley, do you have a sister. What's your name, Haley?

583
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Speaker 8: Do you have a brother, Yes? What's his name, Chris?

584
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 8: Do you have a dog? Yes? What's its name?

585
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Speaker 6: Wonderful Waite stars three.

586
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:05,120
Speaker 8: And three quarter stars. The Challenger Ashley Johnson receives three

587
00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 8: and three quarter star.

588
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Speaker 1: It was a time.

589
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Speaker 6: I know what was going on clearly, look at my face.

590
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Speaker 3: That's the best.

591
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:16,320
Speaker 4: In all fairness, Bud had the belt buckle of a

592
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Speaker 4: full grown man.

593
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Speaker 6: He had the hat with the it set his name

594
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,920
Speaker 6: on it. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if he want.

595
00:29:24,000 --> 00:29:25,720
Speaker 6: He actually had a really great voice, so I'm sure

596
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Speaker 6: he went on to hopefully bigger and better things.

597
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Speaker 3: He's one of the star searching Yeah, he's one of

598
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Speaker 3: the blowfish. Now it was enough to be true.

599
00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 6: It totally was. I was like, that could be totally true.

600
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 9: That incredible star search performance leads you to pains, and

601
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 9: this is clearly a part that kid actors dream about.

602
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 9: It's still a classic show that has survived the test

603
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Speaker 9: of time. As an adult now having been on hundreds

604
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Speaker 9: of sets since, what are your overall feelings about that

605
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 9: experience on Growing Pains?

606
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 6: God, I every memory that I have from that is

607
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 6: so good. It really really is like I feel like

608
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:19,959
Speaker 6: that show. They were such a family on that show

609
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 6: already because I came in and on the sixth season,

610
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Speaker 6: I think I was on it for the last two seasons, okay,

611
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Speaker 6: and I just everyone was so wonderful to me. I

612
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Speaker 6: mean not that they're going to be, you know, a

613
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Speaker 6: bunch of to a little kid, but it could have been.

614
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Speaker 6: They could have been. They could have been, yeah, and

615
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Speaker 6: they were just so they just took me in like

616
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Speaker 6: I had been there and were so nice to my family.

617
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 6: And I remember shooting on it was it shot on

618
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Speaker 6: Warner Brothers Ranch and at the time the lot there

619
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Speaker 6: was like the old little house on the prairie set

620
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 6: was still there, and it was there was the old

621
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Speaker 6: Jason Barn from Halloween, and I just remember just going

622
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 6: out and just playing every day, and it was it

623
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,719
Speaker 6: was such a It was a great start to this career.

624
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 6: I think, you know, some some weird jobs came later

625
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 6: or weird people, but Growing Pains, for the most part

626
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 6: was I still have such incredible memories from it. It

627
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 6: really was just so it was so good. It was

628
00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:30,720
Speaker 6: so good.

629
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Speaker 9: Infamously, another child actor made a stop on Growing Pains,

630
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Speaker 9: mister Leonardo DiCaprio.

631
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Speaker 6: Oh, yes, the Leo decaps.

632
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 5: What do you remember about young Leo?

633
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 6: Oh my god, I do remember. He was so he

634
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 6: was so good, like you could tell so early on.

635
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,800
Speaker 6: And I think at that time he had just finished

636
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 6: filming This Boy's Life, I think, yeah, and then that

637
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 6: hadn't come out yet, so he was on sort of

638
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 6: the last bit of the season for Growing Pains, and

639
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 6: I just remember everyone was like, this kid is so good,

640
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 6: like he just had he just he had it. He

641
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 6: had it, you know, we felt it, and it was. Yeah,

642
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 6: he was great. I just remember. But he was like

643
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 6: a teenager, you know, he was a kid, so it

644
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,280
Speaker 6: was but I remember he was so sweet to me,

645
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:30,160
Speaker 6: and you know, we just stayed. We stayed lifelong friends

646
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 6: of course.

647
00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 8: You know.

648
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:34,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, I get it, I get it.

649
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:42,680
Speaker 6: And my Palio. Yeah, I did actually see him. Well,

650
00:32:43,400 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 6: I got to see a lot of the last time

651
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 6: I saw everybody. Not the greatest, but I went to

652
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 6: Allan Thick's funeral, and which he was the greatest. He

653
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 6: was the greatest, and like I just I mean as

654
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:06,920
Speaker 6: like a first TV dad, like just I just remember

655
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:09,959
Speaker 6: I loved hugging him and just being around him. And

656
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,160
Speaker 6: he was just so he was. He was wonderful. But

657
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 6: I saw a lot of you know, Joanna Kerns and

658
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,480
Speaker 6: Jeremy Miller, and getting to see all these people as

659
00:33:20,480 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 6: an adult, I mean not at a very good time

660
00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 6: at cour celebration, bad circumstances, bad circumstances, but I hadn't

661
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 6: seen a lot of them in a while, and it

662
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 6: was really it was sad, but it was really cool

663
00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 6: to see them as an adult and get to sort

664
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Speaker 6: of have a different conversation with them that I that

665
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 6: I had had I've never had.

666
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Speaker 9: But yeah, did you ever return to like real normal

667
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 9: school because you genuinely have never stopped working?

668
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 6: Yeah? I did. I did, so I only I only

669
00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:56,800
Speaker 6: went to school. I didn't go to high school. I

670
00:33:56,880 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 6: homeschool through high school. But I went to elementary and

671
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 6: middle school and they weren't fun. Yeah, they weren't fun.

672
00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 6: I mean, elementary school was fine, but middle school is

673
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,200
Speaker 6: where it kind of just like took another.

674
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,560
Speaker 5: No matter who you are, middle school so.

675
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 6: School, yes, it does. So it's a it's yeah.

676
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:20,600
Speaker 4: I've also said, even when even when it's something good

677
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 4: or cool, like being an actor, anything that makes you different.

678
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 3: As a kid is bad.

679
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,239
Speaker 6: Yeah, they're like, oh, you think you're super into yourself

680
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 6: for you know, it's it's yes, anything that is different

681
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 6: is bad. And so I was very and I still

682
00:34:38,280 --> 00:34:42,760
Speaker 6: land like I'm a very introverted I'm not a social creature,

683
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:47,120
Speaker 6: Like I love spending time alone, Like I could totally

684
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 6: just be out on an island and be fine. Like

685
00:34:50,120 --> 00:34:52,279
Speaker 6: you send me to Mars, I'll be fine. Let me

686
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 6: find out there. So a lot of it I was.

687
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 6: It was hard, but I had my core group of

688
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 6: friends that I have still have since elementary school. My

689
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 6: best friend I met an elementary school still she's my

690
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 6: best friend. Will has met her before Meila, Oh, of course,

691
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 6: of course.

692
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:13,759
Speaker 4: Yeah.

693
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 6: So we yeah, so we've we've rolled dice together.

694
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:20,200
Speaker 3: We have we have we've formed a shield wall together, Yes,

695
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 3: we have.

696
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:22,919
Speaker 13: Yeah.

697
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,000
Speaker 6: I I mean I kind of kept to myself for

698
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 6: the most part when I was in school. But yeah,

699
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 6: there is that sort of otherness that when you have that,

700
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 6: you're sort of pushed out of the inner circle, which

701
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 6: I was fine with because I've always kind of been

702
00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 6: a little weird.

703
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 9: Lone Wolf, you starred in eight different TV shows by

704
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 9: the time you were twenty one.

705
00:35:42,520 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 4: How oh, yeah, yeah, your career.

706
00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:48,280
Speaker 3: I don't.

707
00:35:51,320 --> 00:35:54,840
Speaker 9: How did you avoid burnout or did you ever think

708
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 9: about walking away?

709
00:35:57,680 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 6: I guess there was a very brief time when I

710
00:36:00,920 --> 00:36:05,719
Speaker 6: was thinking about going to college. There was a very

711
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 6: sort of brief amount of you know, seventeen eighteen where

712
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 6: I'm like, is this is this what I want to do?

713
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 6: Do I want to go to school for something else?

714
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 6: Learn and learn something else at least? And I just

715
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 6: kept doing it.

716
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 5: Yeah.

717
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,439
Speaker 6: I mean, the thing is like it's it's I do

718
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 6: love it, like I love part you love parts of it.

719
00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,000
Speaker 6: Sometimes like there's and of course it's it's like that

720
00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:36,239
Speaker 6: I'm sure with any job, but I there's I think

721
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:39,800
Speaker 6: there's also that thing that we have as actors where

722
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 6: you don't know when the next job is coming, so

723
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 6: you're always just like ready to go and just want

724
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 6: to keep working because you know at some point it

725
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 6: probably will stop. Yeah, So I think I think I

726
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 6: just kept doing it because of that reason, because I'm

727
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 6: just I'm like, at some point and it's just going

728
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 6: to stop, so I might as well keep doing it.

729
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 4: We've also talked about how there's the people that keep going.

730
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 3: There's a certain group of people.

731
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 4: It's like a stand up comedian where you know that

732
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 4: you're supposed to be a stand up comedian or an

733
00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 4: actor if you.

734
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 3: Can't not do it.

735
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, And I think there's a point where you're

736
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:21,080
Speaker 4: just like, I don't picture my life without doing something

737
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:21,800
Speaker 4: in this industry.

738
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 3: I just it's I couldn't imagine not doing it.

739
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 6: Yeah.

740
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's almost a call. You hate to use

741
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 3: the word calling, but it seems to kind of be

742
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 3: like a calling.

743
00:37:30,440 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 6: It does kind of. Yeah, it kind of feels that way.

744
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,759
Speaker 6: And I mean, I don't know. I guess there's a

745
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 6: part of me that I'm like, I don't know if

746
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 6: it's a calling for me as opposed to just it's

747
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:47,120
Speaker 6: what I do. It's kind of like because I've been

748
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 6: doing it since I've been a little wee baby, it's

749
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 6: the alternative. What is the alternative? But I do love it.

750
00:37:57,719 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 6: I love each aspect of it, and like even now

751
00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 6: with working with you know, critical role stuff and we

752
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 6: do you know, a writer's room or comic books and

753
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 6: sort of getting to sort of do this another way.

754
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:13,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, it stuff.

755
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,040
Speaker 4: So you're you're one of the few people that can

756
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 4: really give us an insight. And I know this is

757
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:19,879
Speaker 4: it's for a lot of actors, it's like asking which

758
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 4: of your children do you like better? You've done You've

759
00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 4: done sitcom for a long time, but you've also done

760
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 4: a lot of really good single camera work. So for television,

761
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 4: do you prefer multiicam or do you prefer single cam?

762
00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 6: Geez? I haven't done a multiicam in so long, and

763
00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 6: I feel like I don't remember what my last multi

764
00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 6: caamer sitcom was. I mean I think I was probably

765
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 6: probably early twenties. Okay, so you know, a couple of

766
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 6: decades ago. But there is I mean, it's like the

767
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 6: same as theater. There is an energy there that you

768
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:05,440
Speaker 6: don't get from just a single camera, right, yeah, but

769
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 6: there there's there's They each have their like pros and

770
00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 6: cons yeah, you know, but there is something like the

771
00:39:12,120 --> 00:39:16,640
Speaker 6: sitcom multicam schedule is the best, you know, because it's

772
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 6: like it's consistent, you have, your you have, It's it's

773
00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:22,479
Speaker 6: the closest thing that we have to a nine to five,

774
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:27,480
Speaker 6: I think exactly, and it's it's I haven't done it

775
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:28,880
Speaker 6: in so long, and I feel like it would be

776
00:39:28,880 --> 00:39:29,919
Speaker 6: so fun to do it again.

777
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 9: But well, let's remind you of some multiicam with talking

778
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 9: about a very odd moment in your child acting career

779
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:42,240
Speaker 9: which ties directly into Boy Meets World. Oh, we talked

780
00:39:42,280 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 9: about it the show called Maybe This Time, which is

781
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 9: created and executive produced by one mister Michael Jacobs.

782
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,240
Speaker 6: Oh my god, that's right, yes, co.

783
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 5: Starring Betty White and Marie Osmond.

784
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 9: And there is a very meta scene in the show

785
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:04,439
Speaker 9: where your character is watching Boy Meets World and then

786
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 9: Corey and Sean start talking directly to you your character

787
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 9: through the screen.

788
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 6: Wait what Yeah, we do not remember that?

789
00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:20,760
Speaker 1: Maybe on IMDb for being in Maybe This Time as Sean,

790
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,560
Speaker 1: which is Yeah, it's so weird.

791
00:40:23,360 --> 00:40:23,799
Speaker 6: Remember this.

792
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 9: I have to play it for you because I want

793
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 9: to say it. It's like, I think you have to

794
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,359
Speaker 9: remember it once you see it, because especially you said,

795
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,080
Speaker 9: but you remember you had a crush on writer, so

796
00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:34,560
Speaker 9: I would imagine wonder.

797
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, so it maybe it was just like that. Oh

798
00:40:37,680 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 6: my god, I can't wait to see this. This is

799
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 6: so crazy. I haven't seen any of Maybe This Time

800
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 6: since it aired, so I don't remember it at all.

801
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:45,960
Speaker 5: Was it a great experience for you?

802
00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:52,760
Speaker 6: Do you remember the best? Come on, Betty White, Marie Osmond?

803
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 6: It was just it was I was I was surrounded

804
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:57,680
Speaker 6: by incredible women. Yeah, it was great.

805
00:40:58,080 --> 00:40:59,840
Speaker 7: Well, I don't give up on you. She sees that

806
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,360
Speaker 7: she doesn't give up on Nicky. Who's Nicky? You know,

807
00:41:02,440 --> 00:41:03,280
Speaker 7: the little boyfriend?

808
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 6: Wow?

809
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 5: Have never seen this episode before?

810
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,600
Speaker 14: Okay, if I still got one question? Is she dreaming

811
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 14: or is this actually on TV?

812
00:41:13,840 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 15: Well, essentially, she's experiencing what we call a waking dream.

813
00:41:17,200 --> 00:41:19,720
Speaker 15: It's the momentary blurring of the line between the conscious

814
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 15: and the unconscious.

815
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 14: I lived my entire life like that. Hey, what's going on?

816
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 14: What's with all the slime?

817
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,319
Speaker 15: A relax, it's just the special effects. It means our

818
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:33,359
Speaker 15: work here is done. So long, Gracie, good luck.

819
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 6: Oh oh my god, I have a vague memory of that. Now,

820
00:41:40,560 --> 00:41:43,720
Speaker 6: thanks for that. But how great are you guys?

821
00:41:44,040 --> 00:41:45,719
Speaker 5: They're so great, They're so great.

822
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 8: Good.

823
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: It's weird because it's actually like a boy meets World

824
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: storyline scene.

825
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, accurately to our care.

826
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 2: It's weird.

827
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 6: I wonder what prompted them to write that in.

828
00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:02,359
Speaker 9: Michael jacobsabel Yeah, yeah, he's just trying to like, you know,

829
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 9: put together right.

830
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,959
Speaker 1: But it's also so funny because it explains his philosophy

831
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 1: with boy meets world, Like he literally did believe that

832
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: he was teaching children how to behave yes with art,

833
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: you know, like that moralizing quality is what he thought,

834
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: you know, he went he looked at it as like

835
00:42:19,480 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 1: his mission to inspire kids to do the right thing,

836
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: and like he's literally expelling out like the writing philosophy

837
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 1: behind the Corey Shawn dynamic.

838
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:28,880
Speaker 2: It's really interesting.

839
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:41,280
Speaker 13: Yeah, oh my god, that is so wild to see.

840
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 9: What was your experience with Michael, Like, I know he

841
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 9: co created the show with Boy Meets World writer Susan

842
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 9: Estelle Janssen.

843
00:42:52,440 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: Yes, and the Trainer was directing it right, Yes.

844
00:42:57,840 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 5: Very tall, skinny David Trainer.

845
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 6: Yes, oh my god. Yes, yeah. You guys are giving

846
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 6: me so many flat there's like every you know, like

847
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,160
Speaker 6: there's that part of time and your brain of being

848
00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 6: a kid where it's all just a little fuzzy and blurry.

849
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 6: But you guys for.

850
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 5: Me most of my life.

851
00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, but you guys are making it a little

852
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:22,439
Speaker 6: more sharper around the ches. Yes, David Traynor, Oh my god,

853
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 6: he was such a fun director.

854
00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:24,520
Speaker 9: Yeah.

855
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:29,240
Speaker 6: I just remember with Michael, I remember he was really fun.

856
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 6: I mean maybe this time only was I think we

857
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:38,840
Speaker 6: only did one season, and I remember, I just remember

858
00:43:38,880 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 6: it was a great I mean, any I feel like

859
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 6: because of the age that I was any sort of

860
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:49,600
Speaker 6: problems that were happening on set, and I think there

861
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 6: were some. I was shielded from them. Sure, you know,

862
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 6: it was like, Okay, the kid is on set now,

863
00:43:56,200 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 6: so everybody's you know, we put our differences side at

864
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:04,399
Speaker 6: the moment. But I remember he was he was really

865
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:10,280
Speaker 6: nice to me good and I think I don't remember

866
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:11,760
Speaker 6: him being there a lot.

867
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,440
Speaker 9: Okay, yep, that could make sense. Maybe, so maybe Susan

868
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:16,000
Speaker 9: was there more.

869
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 6: I feel like Susan was there more, but I just yeah,

870
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 6: a lot of a lot of Maybe this time is

871
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 6: a very vague memory. I just remember that there was

872
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:31,439
Speaker 6: a basketball court on the Disney lot and there would

873
00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 6: be like lunchtime. Yeah, it's gotta be. Yeah, that's where

874
00:44:38,239 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 6: he did Jim the Home Improvement Kids, you guys and

875
00:44:48,000 --> 00:44:50,959
Speaker 6: thunder Ally Zach Tarn And.

876
00:44:52,920 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 3: Yes, it was a strange gym class if we're honest.

877
00:44:57,800 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 6: It was because I don't feel like we did Jim

878
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:01,959
Speaker 6: just probably do.

879
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 5: You remember Angel and VICKI.

880
00:45:05,880 --> 00:45:06,319
Speaker 6: Were they?

881
00:45:06,360 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 5: You're Jim trainers by any chance?

882
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 6: Wait, those names sound very familiar to me.

883
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:15,959
Speaker 9: They were like a married couple who did personal edge

884
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 9: personal edge training.

885
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 2: You would come and like hang out with us on set,

886
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 2: like yeah.

887
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 9: Maybe get your sponsorships, like take you to like Rebok.

888
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:28,200
Speaker 3: Brought snowboards.

889
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 6: Wait, this is so crazy. This is so you guys

890
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 6: are bringing up stuff that I haven't. I don't think

891
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:35,040
Speaker 6: I've ever thought about it.

892
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: And so you were younger than us, So you were

893
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: you were probably only like eight, right, or she's.

894
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,000
Speaker 9: Not that much younger than me. You're two years younger

895
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 9: than me. So if I was twelve, I'm forty one.

896
00:45:44,520 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm forty one.

897
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 6: So I mean, like, wait, this is so crazy, so

898
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 6: much stuff that I've thought on so long. Oh my god.

899
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,240
Speaker 5: Well get used to this feeling.

900
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 9: Because you have recently started a podcasts and with a

901
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 9: friend tell us in Jaffie.

902
00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 5: Am I saying the name right?

903
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 3: A love former child actor?

904
00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 9: Yes, from movies like Mister Mom and TV shows like

905
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 9: Facts of Life, And you guys.

906
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 5: Have decided to dig deep into the vault.

907
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 9: That contains the very complicated memories of our preteen jobs.

908
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 9: It's called weird Kids. How has that treated you so far?

909
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:29,000
Speaker 9: And has it thrown you into therapy like the rest

910
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:29,399
Speaker 9: of us.

911
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 6: Yes, absolutely, I mean we we sort of We had

912
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 6: talked for a long time about wanting to start a podcast,

913
00:46:39,360 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 6: and with our group of friends, they're like, you guys

914
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 6: have a perspective of being child actors that a lot

915
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,400
Speaker 6: of us don't have, and you know that that's not

916
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 6: our main in general. Talison and I are very weird

917
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 6: that so we're like a little a little off center.

918
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:09,400
Speaker 6: So I think the the a lot of it is

919
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:14,240
Speaker 6: not just about, you know, the experience we had on sets,

920
00:47:14,280 --> 00:47:16,520
Speaker 6: but also just the two of us just being very

921
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 6: weird kids. So we've had a really good time. But

922
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:24,239
Speaker 6: it is funny how when you start talking about from

923
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 6: when you were a kid and then you're like like, oh,

924
00:47:27,080 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 6: this is this is bringing up some really interesting, interesting

925
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 6: things that now we are dealing with. But it's been great.

926
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 6: I mean, I I love podcasts. I listen to podcasts

927
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:43,400
Speaker 6: all day long when I'm not working or doing something

928
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:47,240
Speaker 6: I'm I'm mostly political podcasts. That is what I listened

929
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 6: to one hundred percent of the day.

930
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 5: But do you talk about Ed de Bevic's on your podcast?

931
00:47:56,719 --> 00:48:02,319
Speaker 6: WHOA I was just talking about with somebody like a

932
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:06,479
Speaker 6: week ago because BJ's and Burbank used to be ans

933
00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 6: as well, but not the O G One. No, but

934
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 6: I loved, didn't we all we went.

935
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 3: There was one left in Chicago and they had us

936
00:48:14,880 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 3: there at.

937
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 4: The podcast to go and we were actually at the

938
00:48:20,920 --> 00:48:21,960
Speaker 4: EDS in Chicago.

939
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 6: Dancing on the Chicago was nationwide.

940
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, well it was just Chicago in l A.

941
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 6: Oh my god, wait I didn't Is it still there? Yeah,

942
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 6: we just went, my god, you guys have fun. Take

943
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 6: weird kid, it will take weird kids Eds and and

944
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:46,240
Speaker 6: just oh my god.

945
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:47,440
Speaker 2: Yeah.

946
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:50,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's the best when you're not looking and dance

947
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:52,720
Speaker 4: on the table. It's amazing kind of stuff.

948
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:53,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, they stand character.

949
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 6: They're like, yeah, yes, we need to bring it back

950
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 6: here to l A. What is happening. I don't know,

951
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 6: I mean I don't. We just got a.

952
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:05,640
Speaker 5: Group of us together, a group of us kid actors.

953
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 6: And reopened it and reopened I'm all for it.

954
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:11,560
Speaker 3: It's the restaurant industry is very safe.

955
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 9: It's very it is not a stressful career.

956
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 6: No, I mean, podcasting definitely probably helps prepare you for

957
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 6: a restaurant touring exactly.

958
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,520
Speaker 9: It's a it's it's the new straight shot. You go

959
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:34,720
Speaker 9: from hostcat in directly into opening your own restaurant, stop

960
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 9: on your way to stop on the way, then.

961
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 6: Boin, and then you know we're there.

962
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, well anything is possible because you did become

963
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:52,839
Speaker 4: hugely successful playing Dungeons and Dragon. Yes, so again you've

964
00:49:52,880 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 4: proven that even just a childhood fun craziness can then

965
00:49:56,719 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 4: turn into a business. Now I know a little bit

966
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 4: about how it started, but can you tell us how

967
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:05,920
Speaker 4: this incredible foray into the world of beautiful nerdom started?

968
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,439
Speaker 9: Yes, you are a founding member of the Revolutionary Critical Role,

969
00:50:10,960 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 9: So tell us how did that start?

970
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 6: Yeah? We it started. So there's eight of us and

971
00:50:18,680 --> 00:50:23,120
Speaker 6: one of the members, Leom O'Brien, had wanted to play

972
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:27,400
Speaker 6: D and D for his birthday, and some mutual friends

973
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:32,160
Speaker 6: of ours Matthew Mercer, he was a dungeon master and

974
00:50:32,280 --> 00:50:35,840
Speaker 6: was like, I can run the game. And I actually

975
00:50:35,920 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 6: was not at the first game, but I went to

976
00:50:38,360 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 6: the second game that we played, and we just once

977
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 6: we started, we couldn't stop. Yeah, because we were like,

978
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 6: oh this is I mean, it's it's long form improv

979
00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 6: in a fantasy setting, which you know, I love fantasy,

980
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 6: I love sci fi. So I was I and it

981
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 6: was something I had always wanted to play as a kid,

982
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:02,280
Speaker 6: but I couldn't because I was working and I couldn't.

983
00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 6: You know. It's it's you got to get in with

984
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 6: that group as a kid in school, and they're not

985
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 6: gonna let me play in their group when I was

986
00:51:08,520 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 6: in school. Yeah, but yeah, So we started playing, and

987
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 6: we played for a little over two years just at home.

988
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 6: And then another friend of ours, Felicia Day, who had

989
00:51:25,040 --> 00:51:28,080
Speaker 6: uh a streaming channel Geek and Sundry at the time,

990
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,239
Speaker 6: and we uh she was like, would you want to

991
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 6: try streaming it? And we were like, I don't know

992
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:37,239
Speaker 6: who's gonna be. That's so long. He was gonna watch this,

993
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 6: you know, it's because it's hours and hours. One game

994
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:45,000
Speaker 6: of over it's over like four hours long. So we're like, well,

995
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 6: we'll try it. It's something that we all love so much.

996
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:52,719
Speaker 6: So if it takes away from our love for it

997
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,520
Speaker 6: and the love, yeah, you know, we'll stop.

998
00:51:55,680 --> 00:51:56,280
Speaker 5: We'll just stop.

999
00:51:56,840 --> 00:51:59,200
Speaker 6: And we didn't. And then it just kept working and

1000
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 6: we just kept going, and we just decided to build

1001
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 6: whatever it is that we've built, you know, And we

1002
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 6: just released our first RPG, Dagger Heart, which is crazy,

1003
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:20,399
Speaker 6: which we've been like building it over the past five

1004
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:22,600
Speaker 6: years or whatever, and it's finally going to be out

1005
00:52:22,600 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 6: there in the world. And it's it's so it's just

1006
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:30,279
Speaker 6: so fun, like we're just i mean, at work every

1007
00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:34,480
Speaker 6: day we just sort of play make believe and you know,

1008
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 6: I've just continued to sort of do that my whole life,

1009
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 6: and I love it.

1010
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 9: You also run the Critical Role Foundation the cheerity of

1011
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:47,719
Speaker 9: the company, which is awesome. Tell us about what you

1012
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,080
Speaker 9: guys do there and what your goals.

1013
00:52:49,719 --> 00:52:50,680
Speaker 5: Are for the initiative.

1014
00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh. So we started the foundation in twenty twenty,

1015
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 6: which was we had wanted to start it earlier, but

1016
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:01,840
Speaker 6: then when COVID hit, which is I would not suggest

1017
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:05,080
Speaker 6: trying to start a nonprofit in the midding that time,

1018
00:53:05,640 --> 00:53:11,520
Speaker 6: but it really, it's it's it's been so incredible. Like

1019
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 6: we just ran a charity one shot. The last sort

1020
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,760
Speaker 6: of big initiative that we did. We tried something where

1021
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 6: we played a live game and we wanted to raise

1022
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 6: money for the La Wildflyers and we raised about four

1023
00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 6: hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

1024
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 14: Wow.

1025
00:53:31,440 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 6: And so we raised money for LAFD, the Latino Community Fund.

1026
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:43,239
Speaker 6: I'm forgetting what the third one is right now, But

1027
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:55,320
Speaker 6: it's our community is so incredibly I guess giving that generous.

1028
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 6: And so when we had started the foundation, it was

1029
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 6: a lot of like, well, we love what we do,

1030
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 6: we love doing this, there's got to be a way

1031
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 6: that we can give back, and we did so we

1032
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,799
Speaker 6: started the foundation and it's been incredible. I mean, we've

1033
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 6: worked with amazing nonprofits from First Nations Development Institute, A

1034
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 6: two six l a Red Nose Day, Pablove Foundation. It's

1035
00:54:23,520 --> 00:54:29,640
Speaker 6: it's it's really been kind of the highlight of what

1036
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 6: we do. And I think Matt, Matt and I are

1037
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,440
Speaker 6: the ones who are are most closely related to it, Matthew,

1038
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 6: Mercer and me, and we can't always talk about We're

1039
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:44,919
Speaker 6: like that's this is going to be our what we

1040
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 6: leave for the world. Like later as we get older

1041
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 6: and we keep going and we can still work on

1042
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:52,960
Speaker 6: the foundation. It's our our legacy.

1043
00:54:53,080 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 5: We will have to tell you about Ashes to Films

1044
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 5: as well.

1045
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 6: What is this? Please tell me?

1046
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:03,799
Speaker 1: Started nonprofit? Yeah, to support filmmakers after the fires. Uh

1047
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:09,440
Speaker 1: So it's he's basically raising funds to allow filmmakers to

1048
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: make ten short films and you know, filmmakers that were

1049
00:55:13,239 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 1: and then higher crew and.

1050
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 9: Multimakers that were directly impacted by the fires, and then the.

1051
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:22,160
Speaker 2: Festival to Yeah, yeah it's great.

1052
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, how cool is this just to film?

1053
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:27,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta joint, you gotta, you gotta help out. Yeah,

1054
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 2: I'll put you in touch with them.

1055
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, definitely incredible. Yeah, you're incredible.

1056
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 9: Great well, Ashley, you are an absolute joy and it

1057
00:55:39,960 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 9: has been so wonderful reconnecting with you.

1058
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:44,000
Speaker 14: Uh.

1059
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,800
Speaker 9: You guys can all watch or listen to Weird Kids

1060
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 9: right now on Beacon dot TV through Critical Role or

1061
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 9: learn more about it on Instagram at the Weird Kids

1062
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 9: pod or check them out at the Chicago Eddubevic's right.

1063
00:55:58,680 --> 00:56:00,760
Speaker 5: I mean you're going to be there.

1064
00:56:02,680 --> 00:56:04,560
Speaker 6: Or you know, you'll see us at the opening of

1065
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:06,480
Speaker 6: the news exactly.

1066
00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,040
Speaker 9: We're going to be we get we should get together

1067
00:56:09,160 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 9: to talk about ashes to films and then as a

1068
00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 9: side project, work on how do we open.

1069
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:16,920
Speaker 4: LA Okay, I want to throw something out there. All right,

1070
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna be crazy. I'm gonna be crazy

1071
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:19,319
Speaker 4: right now.

1072
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:25,879
Speaker 3: Okay, Charity Edbvick's nineties kid food fight.

1073
00:56:31,200 --> 00:56:34,879
Speaker 6: Can we also get some slime like like a double like.

1074
00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 2: A something dropped on us.

1075
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:37,880
Speaker 6: Yeah, something dropped on us screens.

1076
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:40,799
Speaker 9: We get dropped into a vat of something like It's

1077
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 9: like how Will was dropped into the butter as a lobster.

1078
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,040
Speaker 9: Something needs to get dropped on us. We need to

1079
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:46,120
Speaker 9: get dropped into something.

1080
00:56:46,880 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 3: I think it'd be good. We can.

1081
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:49,960
Speaker 4: People can come and join the food Fight for charity

1082
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:51,919
Speaker 4: and we raise a whole bunch of money. We'll pick

1083
00:56:51,960 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 4: some great uh charities out there, and I bet you

1084
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 4: we'd raise a ton of money to come giant.

1085
00:56:57,320 --> 00:56:58,399
Speaker 6: That sounds so fun.

1086
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:01,240
Speaker 9: We do actually have the connection to the edbics in Chicago.

1087
00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:03,320
Speaker 9: We could reach out to them. We could get edbe

1088
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 9: Chicago to come out to LA for an event uh

1089
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,640
Speaker 9: and and do something really fun.

1090
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:14,200
Speaker 6: I am in and I will destroy.

1091
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 3: Yes.

1092
00:57:16,440 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 4: I should also mention Ashley can be a little bit competitive.

1093
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 5: I love it.

1094
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:22,920
Speaker 3: I have seen this happen.

1095
00:57:25,160 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 6: I loves that.

1096
00:57:28,600 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 5: So fun.

1097
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 6: Well, you guys so much. This was so fun.

1098
00:57:32,680 --> 00:57:35,280
Speaker 9: Thank you, Thank you so much for coming and joining us.

1099
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:38,440
Speaker 9: We appreciate you so much. Let's seriously get together. I mean,

1100
00:57:38,440 --> 00:57:40,760
Speaker 9: I feel like we've got so many more stories to share.

1101
00:57:41,080 --> 00:57:41,440
Speaker 6: I'm in.

1102
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 5: Thank you Ashley.

1103
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 2: Great to see you.

1104
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 6: Bye guys, Bye.

1105
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:47,280
Speaker 7: Writer.

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Speaker 9: We figured out Haley played Linda in the Beard episode

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Speaker 9: you were she was your love interest in the Beard episode.

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Speaker 1: There were two they're too because the other was the

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Speaker 1: original Topanga's sister. There are two roles in that episode, right.

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Speaker 5: Right, right, so two sisters.

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Speaker 1: Which is the Beard That's the one where I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to date two different girls and I don't remember it's

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Speaker 1: where it's where everyone at Chubby's calls me scum, calls

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Speaker 1: me and Ben scum like we're because we're Ben ends

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Speaker 1: up taking one of them out, and he takes Haley

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Speaker 1: out and then.

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Speaker 2: She falls for him.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. It's like holding on to her in

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Speaker 3: case you want to date her too or something.

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Speaker 5: Right, she was supposed to be the safe one, right.

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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, right, it's yeah, Oh that's so funny.

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Speaker 6: She's great.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and she's a ton of fun to play games with.

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Speaker 4: She really it's that energy for five hours and as

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Speaker 4: you're rolling into a town with your crew and you're

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Speaker 4: trying to destroy everything in the town.

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Speaker 3: It's yeah.

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Speaker 1: She was always such a solid actor too, Like you know,

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Speaker 1: she's one of those like, oh, there's a reason you worked.

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Speaker 1: She never stopped working, just immediately arrived with like a

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Speaker 1: complete ability to act like it's just yeah, yeah, she's phenomenal.

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