[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't think I've said this on any other podcast.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was funny because it was like big and I never forget it had everybody like all my characters were in it Coach Creaton Maybe the claim is like every character from all that I played was in this and I was like Oh, this is like and I got excited because I was like nutty professor keen in the kill how that happened was
[SPEAKER_02]: There was a nationwide search for all that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember the popcorn one?
[SPEAKER_02]: I sort of remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: See what I see.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you need my hand?
[SPEAKER_00]: Thirty years in film TV.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: You brought so much joy to so many people over the years.
[SPEAKER_00]: At what point do you realize the impact of what you're doing and what it's doing for people?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I was just in, I just told you I got back from a family vacation in Riviera, Maya, at Nickelodeon Resort.
[SPEAKER_02]: and so we were out there and seeing you know two year olds and five rows and no good burger and just super excited and screaming and you know what I mean it's awesome bro it's awesome too to have done something that people still enjoy you know for all these years has been great man
[SPEAKER_00]: put into words that because you brought the Ed character in your original Nickelodeon audition.
[SPEAKER_00]: I did.
[SPEAKER_00]: So how do you even fathom like what you did twenty five years ago is still living today in just an audition?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think I look at it like it's a blessing, bro.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's definitely a blessing and that's something that is really cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know that everybody just continues to love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: It continues to say the line.
[SPEAKER_02]: They love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and I feel like
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, the energy that, you know, I brought the character, the talent that God gave me to be able to continue to do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you know, because you got some actors that they don't like, you know, doing their characters from over and over again.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's been like the gift that keeps on going.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it is super, super fun to continue to do.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I love making people laugh and I love hearing the stories like there's so many stories of like people telling me where they were when they saw it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was an engagement that happened at the movie theater that happened first dates that happened people that were in the hospital and I made them laugh by watching good burger like that's that's what matters
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean is not about like the, you know, the show, the network.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's really about how you made people feel when they watched it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I popped into San Diego Comic Con, and I saw it to Ed's just walking around.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was there for like five minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's a dude.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, shout out to Cal.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, he's just like he's cosplayed it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like he's everywhere all over the place.
[SPEAKER_02]: So shout out to
[SPEAKER_02]: for the original audition when you did and did you envision him as working at a burger place was that where he lived well this is how it started it was in a sketch of course on all that but it was a sketch called dream remote that I did with john server
[SPEAKER_02]: And in that sketch, he had a remote where he can, you know, make time fast, make it slow, whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so he had a piece of guy come over and I was like, oh, I got to get this piece of guy voice.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me do the voice that I did in the audition.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I did the ad voice and it was just a piece of guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was just like, here's your piece as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then the writers went with that and created the Good Burger World.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is his, you know, he's an employee at a fast food restaurant, messes up things.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I love, and you know, I, that voice that I do not addition also doing that in the sketch.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then for it to still be so iconic right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, there's a Good Burger restaurant in Mexico at the resort.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it's just, it's crazy.
[SPEAKER_00]: when you got brought good burger, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was that a surprise to you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you hear inner workings or rumblings that, hey, we might want to do a sequel?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm, I'm, I've been in all this.
[SPEAKER_02]: You ought to be so it was like, Keenan and I, uh, we had met with Brian Robbins over and over again, trying to figure out like how to bring part two back because, you know, to your statement, people love it so much and they've been wanting us to do two cents.
[SPEAKER_02]: One came out and also a keen in and I both you know what I mean and so it was a situation where we had to come up with the story So we kept sitting down with the writer shout to Kevin Heath and we kept thinking of like okay, how are we gonna take this story?
[SPEAKER_02]: Do we want to what world do we want to take it to?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah kidding and I in the writers getting together because we produced this as well So we were like just trying to figure out like okay, how do we do it and my main thing was I want it to be true to
[SPEAKER_02]: to Ed, y'all that man and who he is and let's see him with kids and let's see him married and all these are things.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so and I feel like we did that man and it was just it's so fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I have my actual kids in the film playing Ed's kids that that was just such a surreal moment at that point and then just fun to just be, you know, working with my brother again on this project, walking around an actual
[SPEAKER_02]: good burger in Rhode Island.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was a dairy queen or twin one flavors that we turned into like good burger.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dude, I mean, it's all the people in Rhode Island that just came out to help us film this.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was great, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you ever have any training doing fry cooking or anything?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do they throw you on there so you know what you're doing?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'm from Chicago.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, you know, of course, I know the barbecue shout out to my family.
[SPEAKER_02]: We always had, you know, family barbecue is over at the house and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I know how to do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: and was never, he was never the, uh, the fry guy or the cook.
[SPEAKER_02]: You don't want him in the kitchen back there.
[SPEAKER_02]: He knows how to make a burger, but sure what a back there.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's always in the front.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, being, uh, greeting the people and messing up their order.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can we, let's go back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very beginning.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So back in nineteen ninety four.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you see an open call edition for Nickelodeon?
[SPEAKER_00]: Did they say they were putting out casting for a sketch show?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I started out in theater, and so I was a theater kid in Chicago.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I was doing ETA Creative Arts Foundation is where I started, because I was a bit of a ran-buck just kid, just getting a lot of trouble with stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I did a summer program at a theater where me and my family used to go see plays at this community theater, and that was ETA.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I just fell in love with it, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: What was your favorite part?
[SPEAKER_02]: of theater.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man, bro, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Actually, this gift, because I'll say that from God that he just gave, it was like trying to find the purpose within that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Whereas like, I'm doing it in the wrong places.
[SPEAKER_02]: And sometimes, when you do it in the wrong places, you can get in trouble, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I was in class and I was just trying to perform.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was just like, oh, man, I keep getting in trouble.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then when I got to theater, it was just like, oh,
[SPEAKER_02]: do this in the right spot like on stage and perform and I wasn't getting in trouble with schooling more as much because I was like, you know, part of these plays and I started doing plays tonight, Matt Nays, all these different things and then I went to a victim of Garnt Theatre in downtown, Goodman Theatre.
[SPEAKER_02]: and just became fair to kid and it wasn't a thing of like trying to get on TV at that point.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just more of like, this is a beautiful outlet.
[SPEAKER_00]: What was your favorite part of the process?
[SPEAKER_00]: Was it that crowd cheer?
[SPEAKER_00]: Was it just performing the art?
[SPEAKER_02]: Performing the art and I really like the teamwork of everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: I, in theater, there's no ego, really, in theater because we're all an ensemble to put on an amazing show every night.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I recently did Broadway, off Broadway play, called Anything Goes, recently.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was just that the heart of it all, you know, to fall in love with acting again.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: In that way, you know, how young Kale was just like, oh my goodness, this is amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: I love theater.
[SPEAKER_02]: Theater is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: And there's no take one take two.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you know, you're literally have to go from, you know, page one all the way down.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Every night, you know, and then on the weekends, two shows a day, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: So, and I love that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, the backstage of it all, of everybody back there.
[SPEAKER_02]: excited and the things that you know the crowd doesn't see the love of the cast you know what I mean did that feel like that was your calling yeah I mean I feel that within that of How can I say it?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a piece of it you know what I mean there's it's a piece of my my journey um within this business
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Which I did, man, because it's an awesome journey.
[SPEAKER_02]: Life is a journey.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's so many things that, I mean, as you know, or people who find out of their listeners' podcasts, that I'm a part of, a lot of different things.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I feel like, I just like, God got me, guide me, guide me, wherever you want to take me, that's what faith is all about, man, just, you know, you going out there and saying, okay, I'm gonna just see what happens, but I trust you, Lord.
[SPEAKER_02]: It might feel wild, but I'm gonna trust you, and just, you know, and when you do that, amazing things happen, bro, like, yeah, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: So when you see, do you see a Nickelodeon audition, or what were they auditioning for?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, well, so I had an agent.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I got an agent.
[SPEAKER_02]: After I was doing, I did a play at Victory Gardens in Chicago, and I was getting critical acclaim.
[SPEAKER_02]: We ran the paper and everything like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I ended up getting the agent.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so agents shout out to Ariah talent.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they were modeling agency as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was a model as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they just started, you know, sitting on our dishes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so there was a nationwide search for all that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And of course, it was an audition through Ariah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I went and did it, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I remember the audition because I was in high school at that time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I had finals.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was, you know, late me in there because I had finals.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we can find place and all these different things.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I remember I was the last one to go in and they were like, hey, why don't you do impersonations?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so usually a kid would do impersonations of actors that they sing on TV or all this cartoon characters and all this stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I did like my uncles and people that I saw on the L, you know, and go through the city, my teachers, you know, all these different things and all those teachers and all those impersonations of all the people that were in my life in Chicago.
[SPEAKER_02]: It ended up on on screen in these characters in Coach Creaton and in Mavis and Klavis and Ed, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Coach Creaton a real person?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so I had a coach at my high school at CVS high school that was very like mean and screaming and yelling at people.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I did that voice in the audition as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so it was, it's just really cool to, you know, shout out to the producers of all that, that they were very open to us working with them at that time.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because everybody was, you know, just like, this is something new for Nickelodeon.
[SPEAKER_02]: They had never tried anything like this before, like a sign of life for kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: I like to say in living color for kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because we were a diverse cast, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: So, but yeah, man, it was great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did they do any like group meetings amongst all the kids to make sure everyone matched well?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or are you just sign on and thrown into day one filming?
[SPEAKER_02]: Not day one filming so we had a not we did have a initial audition that first one and then I didn't hear anything for a while and usually when you don't hear anything you think like oh I didn't get I didn't get it and I remember it was one night the phone ring no cell phones back then so it was like it's the phone ring what they were just coming up and the phone ring and my mom was like hey what up?
[SPEAKER_01]: LA.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I decided to Los Angeles and I recently taught my parents about this because then my dad had to fly to Los Angeles to the second audition because my mom was pregnant at that time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so, uh, my dad went to second audition and we went to LA and it was every kid you could possibly think of that thing, did the search with, you know, from New York to LA all over the place.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, um, it was like the Avengers of every funny kid.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just remember this huge line of just all these kids giving their best funny jokes, all these different things.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, uh, but ultimately made it through.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you feel like you had a place in there?
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I did.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I feel like I was prepared because of theater.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was the type of kid where even with the theater, it just gave me this, um, I'm gonna say like, uh, courage and confidence and training.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you were ready for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I really worked for it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it wasn't like a thing like this was given to you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you had to really work for it within that room.
[SPEAKER_02]: You knew there was other kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was like, okay, let me switch this joke around.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me go do this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they didn't really mix a match.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like how some shows don't mix a match in the auditions with they didn't do that with us.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just like we didn't meet anybody until we got to the pilot of the first show.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I remember all at the hotel, everybody came in and night.
[SPEAKER_00]: All the cast members.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody came in and night.
[SPEAKER_02]: No one saw who got through.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I remember it was they were like, we're picking everybody up in the morning at this time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And at this point, my mom was out there with me.
[SPEAKER_02]: And everybody's mom.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, and I remember everyone was coming off the elevator of the Peabody Hotel in Orlando, Florida.
[SPEAKER_02]: And every kid like boom, they staggered us at different times to come to the lobby.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's when we met everybody.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the only person I knew was Josh, because Josh was from Chicago.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so like I saw him in like different auditions and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was he in that same circuit as you as you?
[SPEAKER_02]: I didn't, yes, yes, in the same circuit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so he was going on different auditions and things like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're from different parts of Chicago, though.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you hit it off with anyone else in that cast immediately?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well knowing Josh so that was cool hit it off and then we came in we just we hit it off like you know Keenan had already out of all of us he was like he had done mighty ducks so he was in there mighty ducks.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, so yeah, so it was all it was already like
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, we know this kid and he came in because the movie hadn't came out yet, but he came in with the skates like he rode in with the skates of course.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was just like, okay, yeah, I got to hang out with that kid.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then my mom and his mom still friends to this day and King and I both just, you know, we hit it off.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, he's from Atlanta.
[SPEAKER_02]: Our lives are very similar.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: So cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was there a good gut feeling that the show was going to become something?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it really became like the show of the nineties.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was so pivotal for that generation.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think any of us knew like even the producers, the execs, the cast, it was a pilot like it was literally like
[SPEAKER_02]: They want to do it as a presentation.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so they put it out as a special on one night to see like what the ratings would be to see how it would go.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so when we did that, we all went home.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like everybody was first episode to come out.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody went home.
[SPEAKER_02]: We knew we had like TLC and, you know, amazing, you know, funny sketches.
[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, who knew if it would work or if, you know, if I would say cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, uh, chorus arrangements went through the roof and then they brought us back.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think the only thing that happened, uh, I don't know if Josh remembers this conversation, but I remember we were behind, we were behind stage like right where the musical guests come out, uh, like with the garage and all that stuff like.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we both looked at each other and I was like, oh, we were like, man, I got a feeling we're going to be doing this.
[SPEAKER_02]: for a little bit.
[SPEAKER_02]: We just looked at your like, yeah, I think this is it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the one conversation I do remember having on the pilot of like, it, you know, happening.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'll talk to everybody and, and when we came back, we laughed about it like, yeah, man, let's rock it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we rocked it, man, to this day.
[SPEAKER_02]: People are still loving all that, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember watching the pilot?
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you watch it live on TV?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: At home, uh, tire family, everybody, you know, screaming laugh and it's like, man, I got a TV show.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is crazy, but then us all thinking like we knew it was a special.
[SPEAKER_02]: So wasn't a thing of like, okay, you know, back to everything is usual.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like we did this day for Nick Loady.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, you know, I was, uh, you know, in a rap group at the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was, you know,
[SPEAKER_02]: high school you know do all these different things you know what I mean so it was just like hey this is one of the things that I was a part of cool you know what I mean we'll see what happens with it you know and that was the mentality you know as a as a young actor you go you know additions do things you know movies things like that and you know hey go to the next day uh but then we got to call that
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, we're picking the they're picking to show up and you guys are got to have to come to Florida and so now it was it was us Shack who was on there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know magic and the Disney kids because you know Justin and then we're still like kind of wrapping up, you know, they're stuff making me keep up.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so yeah, we were out there in Florida tearing it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: How soon after the pilot came out today pick up first season one?
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm trying with him like the math of that because it gets cloudy after that because then it was just like, no.
[SPEAKER_02]: Go time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was not stopped after that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it was a few months and then we were just like, let's rock it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What was your favorite part of the whole process?
[SPEAKER_00]: Was it like reading the scripts and figuring out the characters?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, playing these, you know, fun, amazing characters, you know, that was great and an awesome cast.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you know, as an actor, you hope to have a great cast.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean and a cast that you gel with and that was what it was like we had seven kids that were just great to work with and fun to work with and for all of us this was like we were at Universal Studios and so we're filming there so it was like in between time you could go ride the back to the future ride
[SPEAKER_02]: All these different things.
[SPEAKER_01]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then like navigating, you know, this celebrity.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then also being a teenager at the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just, you know, it was a lot of like, and then meeting musical guests that like, I mean, I was
[SPEAKER_02]: have listening to them on my walk-in, you know, walk-in through Chicago, you know what I've been on the bus, and then now they're in front of me, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you're talking to, you know, TLC, LLQJ, you know, usher, destiny shout.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you got to think about it like a lot of these artists, they were coming to our show to drop their first single.
[SPEAKER_02]: So a lot of these, you know, amazing artists, at that time, they were just starting, like we were starting.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like we saw Desert Child when they were first starting.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: I sure when he was in his first single was on all that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was like, you know, all of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: That was crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that was just fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Were you were you like thrust into the limelight of almost going to different premieres here and there and trying to get your photos and magazines?
[SPEAKER_00]: Was that a thing then for you?
[SPEAKER_02]: It was a little different than how it is now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, in in in timelines are different, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you had to kind of wait like you shot a show.
[SPEAKER_02]: You had to wait a few months for it to come out.
[SPEAKER_02]: These are the things that they should not like now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's like instant and everybody has Instagram and I was to wait that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But back then it was like, you know, you had to magazine.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you had team pop in.
[SPEAKER_00]: were you trying to get in there?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it was like they approached us like you had a minute at this point.
[SPEAKER_02]: We were the hot show and they were putting us in all the magazines and all that stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got to be in all the magazines and all the cool stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like that was what was happening and it was even like
[SPEAKER_02]: It was moving so fast that they were like, okay, we gotta get them, you know, press etiquette and how to do this.
[SPEAKER_02]: How to do that, you know, because it was it was moving fast for us, you know, the show took off even for Nickelodeon.
[SPEAKER_02]: They had it just because it was moving so fast.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was gaining popularity and it was just great, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did it launch the network into a new category?
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel it did.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean, I feel it did because before then they didn't have that powerhouse show.
[SPEAKER_02]: How can I explain it?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, I don't want to take away from, you know, clearer six lanes at all.
[SPEAKER_02]: And all those other shows that you had great shows like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: But this was it had a hip hop appeal to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: It had a great feeling to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it was just it was different than anything else that they ever had on there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, for them,
[SPEAKER_02]: I know that they know that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: They were like, this is way different, but it just resonated with so many, so many people.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a really light thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will point to you, find out what you're doing, Keenan and Cal show.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, okay, so we're doing all that for a couple of seasons.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then, um, for those couple of seasons in the downtime, what are you doing?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you auditioning?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you allowed to audition for other things?
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, so we were doing so much as far as like, I mean, our schedules are crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: As far as like all that is concerned.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then when we would have hiatuses, we would go back home.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so I just have a little break and then go back.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so on those hiatuses, Keenan and we wanted to stay enrolled in our high schools.
[SPEAKER_02]: because we wanted to like still have the experience of, you know, a prom and, you know, a little bit of like the same experience because it was, you know, getting a little out.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so it was cool because at that time, we were juniors, like some are juniors.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so like high school students weren't really into Nickelodeon like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was still like junior high elementary.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we were still able to navigate a little bit until we could do it got too crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: And our teachers would send work back and forth because we had our tutors on set too on location education and stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, man, I was doing music in between.
[SPEAKER_02]: My group performed on all that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that was going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then going back home and going to school and trying to finish school and then back to doing all that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was just like, it was literally all that school, all that school, all that school, all that school.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your first husband going crazy driving everywhere.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, man, it was wild.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, and then, you know, getting my driver's license at that time, like everything was a part of that same time, like getting the driver's license in Chicago and then driving around and just didn't Florida, getting whatever car we wanted, all that different stuff because they were just like, what rent cars for us are like, what do you want?
[SPEAKER_02]: So that was fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, but yeah, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, Keenan the kill.
[SPEAKER_02]: How that happened was they had watch Keenan and I almost set and, um, you know, on and off set and how, you know, hilarious we were together.
[SPEAKER_02]: and have a fun like brothers, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we got approached by the producers.
[SPEAKER_02]: They were like, yo, we were, we want you all to do your own show.
[SPEAKER_02]: But when everybody else goes on high, it is, you all are going to stay here and you're going to shoot the pilot for the killing the kill show.
[SPEAKER_02]: And at the time, it was a call the killing the kill show.
[SPEAKER_02]: They were just like, we're giving you your own show.
[SPEAKER_02]: and they were like, but you can't tell the other kids yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so that was a whole thing too.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're just like, okay, what is this gonna be?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh my goodness, and are you even keen and freaking out?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, we're freaking out.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're freaking out.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're like, oh, this is amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we knew that it was going to be something different than all that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was gonna be those shows that we watched, like, you know, a fresh person below there, Martin, you know, always there shows.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was just like, okay, family matters like it's gonna be that type of show.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and that was cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember we had a meeting and we all got together and they're trying to think of the name of what it was going to be a shout to Kim Bass, uh, who created the show.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, and because he doesn't get a lot of credit for that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So shout to Kim Bass, he created it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Y'all, so I created sister sister as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so when you watch this, this is the watch came in the kill.
[SPEAKER_02]: You kind of see parallels.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean, which is pretty cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: So shout out to T and Tamera.
[SPEAKER_02]: What are you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, but yeah, when we did that was the same thing, um, shot a pilot, but we went straight to
[SPEAKER_02]: season with that like they were ready and then it was a thing where that we're keen and I both we were basically doing it felt like simultaneously like we were doing keen to kill all that keen to kill all that and it was just back and forth keen to kill all that which was was great the schedule was crazy but I loved it I love that are you thankful the TV show got named after your name
[SPEAKER_02]: I am.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that's cool because that happening made both of our names, household names.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, everybody knows who we actually are.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're not like calling us the character.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like whatever show we're on, they're like calling me my actual name, which is, which is fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, wow.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it ended up just working in the favor of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I remember it was a dinner that we had.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kim Bass was there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Our head writers, all the producers, and Keenan, of course.
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you guys eighteen at this point?
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I think we're a little younger than that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I might have been seventeen something like that, but it's really like, but uh, we're all together.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody's there and I remember they were like, uh, they've had a paper of different names of the show.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was like all these of me, my homie, all these all these different things.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're just like, okay, and then someone, I don't know who it was at the time, but someone said, just name it up to them, like the King of the Kills show.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it took off, which was amazing because it was like, it started the comedy duo aspect of, you know, Abbott and Costello.
[SPEAKER_02]: you know, magic room, all these different things, you know, it, it, it put that out there, you know, Martin and Lewis.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it put us in the comedy duo era, which was cool for that generation.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I remember Kimfields, because you know, Kimfields, Mark is my one or they were our directors for like all that and the came in the kale show and Kimfields actually showed us, uh, Martin and Lewis, um, and all of their shows.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we, because we didn't know like why the curtain was behind us, you know, all this stuff like that and we were just like,
[SPEAKER_02]: That's an homage to them.
[SPEAKER_02]: All that's so cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: You were paying tribute to them for that?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: With the curtain, you know, with them coming up front, you know, all the stuff that they used to do, I thought that was amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so, they showed us that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And our minds were just like blown, like, to be like, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're a part of this history of comedy duels.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're making, you know, a new generation getting to that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's been cool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was the first thing you filmed the intro of the show with Kulio?
[SPEAKER_02]: No, so we did the show and there was the curtain and all that stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was, you know, because the curtain is always after the theme song.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we didn't have the theme song yet.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I remember Culeo had already done on that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so he was, you know, in much a good burger sketches.
[SPEAKER_02]: He would come to say super cool man and we had fun with Culeo obviously.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I was already doing music because I did the we did the all that soundtrack like around ninety four ninety five and it was just all the musical guests on one album and now I love that because I was doing music and so it had been just you know take it off right and so then it was like oh yeah, let's
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get somebody on the theme song.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's have them do the theme song, and then Culeo was just perfect.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he was, I mean, the music was crazy around that time, guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's paradise.
[SPEAKER_02]: All that stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so to already have one theme song that had mega stars on it, which was TLC, and then you get another mega star in music, Culeo, to the King of the Kailwin.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was cool because we shot that at Universal here in LA at Citywalk.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we had them, Paula, All Orange, and Paula.
[SPEAKER_02]: bouncing up and down, uh, Julio announced it on the radio with big boy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I mean, it was crowds there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bro, there's an immature came there because me and a mature had a song that was on the Billboard charts already from the all that soundtrack before.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, uh, yeah, man, it was just, it was just, it was crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was crazy and I mean he killed it with the lyrics.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they play it in the club now.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and I do live events and things like that and they did the DJs mix in all that and it's just all that inking in the kill.
[SPEAKER_02]: If people go crazy and all the lyrics like, it's funny.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's your mindset throughout all of this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you focused on like this in my acting career?
[SPEAKER_00]: I have to take it seriously, or you kind of like bouncing around going to Hollywood parties?
[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like it's one of those things where you're never getting it all, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're just like, you know, you have made my main objective.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know about all the other kids, but my main thing was to be the funniest I can beat, that I know I could beat.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I was like, I want to give a hundred and twenty percent with every character.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everything I'm doing because I was, you know, blessed with the opportunity to do this and my parents reminded me of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like, hey, this is also still, this is work.
[SPEAKER_02]: you know what I mean so you know you want to do it in and it's work you know what I mean and so uh as you're a kid though as being a teen you kind of uh get the the blurred lines of oh this could be always you know what I mean like this and then but then also oh but I know it's work you know what I mean at the same time but there's this blurred line and so you got to just kind of like not get to the point where it's like
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm filming myself.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because there's people who tell you anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, with working in this business, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, right.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you don't want to get lost.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so my main thing was when we bought all that back, like back in, uh, I want to say it was two thousand, seventeen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Two thousand, seventeen, seventeen.
[SPEAKER_02]: uh... we brought uh... no two thousand nineteen and we brought all that back with a whole new cast i'm and i'm producing it i remember i told the kids i was just like remember this is a it's a job you know what i mean this is just one of me and so that way they wouldn't get to competition and going at each other all these different things i wanted them to understand that yo this is uh... a gift that you've been given by god and you can take this to other places
[SPEAKER_02]: and other things.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you might not even want to act anymore.
[SPEAKER_02]: You ought to mean there might be other things that you want to do, or you want to continue to act, but this is just one part of your journey.
[SPEAKER_02]: So be excited and love and then be in the moment.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Be in the moment, do your job, be excited about it, but know that no one can take anything away from what God has given you.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so, and look at it as a job.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I even flew my parents out because this wasn't something that happened with a lot of us.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I wanted my parents who have experienced this to talk to the parents of those kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they talked to the parents of those kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was mom's crime and all this stuff like that because they had questions.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, the producers of our talking to them is like, oh, that's just the mom.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: It was cool that the parents got to talk to their parents.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I still keep a contact with a lot of the kids from the reboot of all that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And they're doing great.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Shout to Gabby, she's doing strangest things on them.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know Broadway and Lex is a director now.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's just like, it's awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's the thing about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I had to look at to have this entire journey.
[SPEAKER_02]: And now I'm part of their story.
[SPEAKER_02]: you see them saying like I'm part of this story like even you know Brian Robbins I'm part of his story you know watching him on head of the class and then him having this great idea with his cast members to say I want to do a sketch comedy show do you what I mean and then he found these kids and our part of his story and then now my story I'm helping some other kids like it's just it's really about
[SPEAKER_02]: Who are you helping through this process and how can you be a gift to them by sharing your knowledge and your wisdom?
[SPEAKER_02]: Never look at this as a competition.
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't look at this as anger.
[SPEAKER_02]: Why is this person doing this?
[SPEAKER_02]: Why is this because what is for you is for you?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And doors will open for you because everybody's journey is different.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: So you have to enjoy it in that way.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's really special.
[SPEAKER_00]: You were a guide the next generation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was there anything key for you that you wanted to bring on to that new version for those kids so that they can follow in those good footsteps that you had.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so the one definitely speaking to them and telling them that, look, you know, any advice that I can give.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm there for you, you know, to do that, to give advice and even to this day, like, you know, Gabby ended up joining my church because I'm also youth passing through as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: So she ended up joining the church and hanging out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what town is that?
[SPEAKER_02]: That's in Wineca, Wineca, California.
[SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, bro, it's just like, and then I jumped in there too, because I remember the producers were like, okay, we're doing the reboot, but can you do the characters like your characters with these kids, so like, code screen.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, man, I'm so happy I've been in the gym because I was like, I was very physical.
[SPEAKER_02]: My comedy is very physical.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love Jim Carrey and Martin Lawrence and you know, I would follow all over the place and the writers would do stuff like in the action they would say and then kill does it because they know that I was going to do something physical.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I was like, I remember, I told you, twenty to twenty percent.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was like, I got to bring that same to the, and so they can see it as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because that was the thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I was even when we were doing it, because nowadays, to get stuff done fast, a lot of studios, they don't use an audience.
[SPEAKER_02]: anymore.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, they just pump the sound.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they just, yeah, they just pump the sound.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, but we can't do that with all that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You cannot do that with all that.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So y'all, if you're watching and you heard the audience, thank you, boy, because I was just like, oh, man, y'all got to have an audience in there because that's how kids, like, you know, actors, they, if you're doing comedy on stage or whatever, that's how you find if you're funny or not.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're, I mean, you know, because I'm even with doing stand up.
[SPEAKER_02]: If it's a laugh track,
[SPEAKER_02]: It might not have been funny or if it's just the producers and the writers that are going in the back.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right, right, okay, all right, but if it's an audience there and they didn't laugh at something, they know immediately.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, we need to rewrite that or let me improv.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me do something else and so to have an audience there, it makes them a like a beast like
[SPEAKER_02]: And then there's audience night and I think that that came from theater for me because it's like it's it's show time it's tonight you hear the audience coming in you getting ready for it and I wanted them all to have that same feeling like okay yeah we've done rehearsals you've done run throughs you did all this but now it's show time
[SPEAKER_02]: And you gotta do this on stage.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And front of this audience, let's rock.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And seeing their eyes light up and seeing the audience, I wanted them to have that same feeling as we did as cast members.
[SPEAKER_02]: And to be able to interact with the audience and the audience interact with them.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what was beautiful about that audience was that it was filled with parents that watched us on the nineties.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then the kids that have discovered this show in are excited about the new cast of the new show.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that was great to see.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then from me to play it because, you know, everyone thinks like, good work.
[SPEAKER_02]: Two was it coming back.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was actually that because I had to, you know, I was on there for two seasons doing that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then playing those characters.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I had already kind of got rekindled with it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And all my characters, not the sound crazy, but
[SPEAKER_02]: Because I'm very creative present so all my characters I kind of look at it as like
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I said, like a gift.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so you go like, like, when I saw him in the mirror, I was like, hey, hey, oh, friend.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, what's up?
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, let's get back to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And then when I get out of the suit, I'm like, thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go to the next thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because it's, it's a part of me, but it's not me.
[SPEAKER_02]: You see what I'm saying?
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, Ed got good burger.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Did you ever want any of your other characters to get a movie?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because that first good burger had a three-picture deal of caramel, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it never amount to anything.
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, we did do TV movies and so that was kind of way of doing it, but we were supposed to do it was a three-pitch of doing so we're supposed to have three pictures.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah theatrical.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so it was funny because I remember Goodberg won the first draft.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was about all about this big group and I don't think I've said this on any other podcast was funny because it was like big and I I never forget I was at my apartment of Florida and I was reading it and in the bathroom everybody I was reading the bathroom and it had everybody
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, all my characters were in it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Coach Creaton, uh, maybe it's a claim is like every character from all that I played was in this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, oh, this is like, and I got excited because I was like, I was like, nanny professor.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is going to, you know, I love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Eddie Murphy, I was like, oh, this is great.
[SPEAKER_02]: I could play all these different characters.
[SPEAKER_02]: But then, I don't know, one of the exes of Paramount was like, this is too crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, it's everybody.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's very ambitious, you know, with all these different characters.
[SPEAKER_02]: But they kept a lot of stuff like, Laurie Beth got to play.
[SPEAKER_02]: Instead of Miss Fingley, she kind of mode on.
[SPEAKER_02]: And all that's that, you know, and Josh playing fizz.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I didn't play many different other characters, but I think it would have been cool if that would have happened.
[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, got to play it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think, Keenan, I both, we talked about this all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Coach Creed, Coach Creed movie would be hysterical.
[SPEAKER_02]: Have you thought of that storyline?
[SPEAKER_00]: Definitely.
[SPEAKER_02]: Definitely.
[SPEAKER_02]: We definitely have, you know, and you see it all the time, like how many sports movies have you ever seen, you know, and, you know, shout out to Adam Sandler, we're bringing happy Gilmore back, and all these different things.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I think it would be funny, like Coach Creed and have them to, you know, help some kids win the game.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean, but you know, with him being so upset all the time, it would be just a crazy film.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: I've never put the pen to the paper, right now.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just ideas.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, with Coach Creaton, you know, we shall see.
[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, that would happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: Probably something in a different character or something else, but people want they love Coach Creaton and they love her parent.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's another one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I had a, cause you know, I work with a lot of like influencers that are amazing directors, shout out to Urban Lambert.
[SPEAKER_02]: We did a mystery man to like trailer, which would, everybody wants that too as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we did that as a visible boy.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I had an idea of doing like a super dude and repair man, but make it like kind of like Marvel
[SPEAKER_02]: I think we'll be hilarious.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because when you see these people cosplay, like people cosplay as repairman, as super-do, as an audience of the characters, and then of course with mystery men, invisible boy, you know, people come in with a blonde hair, they have the full outfits.
[SPEAKER_02]: Ben knows this, Ben's still there, and we've talked about it about doing a mystery man too.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because it's funny, it's like, and shots all my superhero people,
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean they know what's happening so I love Marvel and I love all all of that stuff and but if you look back Marvel was only they were only doing like one superhero this is before the Avengers you know how they've been just like that mystery man was like the first superhero team up where it's a bunch of like superheroes
[SPEAKER_02]: And so people have done like, you know, podcasts on this and they've done all this and stuff on it and storylines on it and it was like one of the movies where you could see that it could work where it's like multiple superheroes and one movie.
[SPEAKER_00]: How close was that conversation for mystery then, too?
[SPEAKER_02]: for, oh, having everybody together possible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: No, it's close.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's close.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just about, of course, being super busy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone's busy.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's from the cast.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: So I said.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, why don't I just, I want to show you guys, you know, like what we do, you know what I mean, you know, and some of the fun stuff and where it could go, because I was looking at the amazing job that Michael B. Jordan did with Rocky, the Rocky franchise, and it's something, you know, with, you know, the nostalgia and the fan base of it all, people love Rocky, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: And people love mystery men.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everybody's been talking about a two or two and I said, well, who's the youngest one?
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was my character.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was the youngest one.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was like, well, let's see where he's at now in this world who he's saving all these different things.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we wrote up a whole thing and we did the we put out on Instagram and everywhere and it took off like
[SPEAKER_02]: We did the video shot it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got snuck man in it all the cool stuff and we made it like really really cool like to see you out of me.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it has like a dead pool flare to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean and Ben and his wife know about it there.
[SPEAKER_02]: They thought I it was amazing job and yeah, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you possibly see a mystery man too soon.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it would be, um, you know, based on invisible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: You ought to be like, create like, create.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you have any memory of mystery men on set when you were filming with Ben?
[SPEAKER_00]: Was there anything?
[SPEAKER_00]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_02]: Come on, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I was a big budget movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: Big budget movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, big budget.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's a bigger burger at the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: So this was just like,
[SPEAKER_02]: Whoa, okay, and I'm with all of these like heavy hitters who I've watched on screen and that I admire.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so that was huge for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And for me to be amongst them, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like when Ben said, I want everybody on the poster.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And then to see myself very big across the street from a man's Chinese theater with Mitch and with Ben Stiller's name, and I've watched him for years.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it was just like, whoa, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And then to have my Facebook right next to his on there.
[SPEAKER_02]: And once said, given advice, you know, telling jokes to one another, you know, rapping, all this fun stuff, improving, because that was a big thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're talking about, you've got what five comedians.
[SPEAKER_02]: that are playing superheroes.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this was before like, because you know, super movies were very serious.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, it's funny because like, what was the movie?
[SPEAKER_02]: Kick ass and what's the, the boys?
[SPEAKER_02]: All these different shows, they're very similar to mystery men.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you think about now, and Deadpool was like this comedy with superhero, we were on to something like very early on.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was just fun to work with all of them and then Paul Rubens, you know, P. We, I was watching P. We, and it was like now he had this like cart and he would like drive up to our trailers and like, well, it was like, and you know, as a young kid, I'm like trying to play it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, but I was like,
[SPEAKER_02]: Yo, you're like, this is, you're not gonna be the speedway.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cause you mentioned like Jim Care, you got to work with Ben Stiller.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Any other comedians that maybe they were very physical comedians that you really wanted to work with that you haven't gotten the chance yet?
[SPEAKER_02]: I've been like really blessed to kind of work with a lot of like the legends that I looked up to and they were cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cause you know, you hear stories where it's like,
[SPEAKER_02]: You met someone you look up to and then they were bogus or weren't very nice.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: That has happened.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we were going to talk about those things.
[SPEAKER_02]: But I've been blessed to have like really cool people that I've met that have been great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you know, Paul was amazing, wrestling, wrestling piece.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then also, John Ritter.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I was a huge, I woulda friend, like, you know, if you see a lot of Martin as well within my work, because I love like Martin's physical comedy and his characters and the, it's just amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so shout out to Martin Lawrence, Eddie Murphy, same way, I put a same way, Richard Prior, like, I didn't get a chance to meet Richard, but it was just like cool to see all these different characters.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I mean, amazing comedians.
[SPEAKER_02]: that could act as well on stage.
[SPEAKER_02]: She wrote, I mean, and Jim Carrey to be able to do drama, Jamie Fox.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I remember John Ritter.
[SPEAKER_02]: I got Cliff for the big red dog.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was just, I was at the gym earlier today.
[SPEAKER_02]: And my boy, Melvin, he was just like, wait, are you T-bone?
[SPEAKER_02]: Good for the red dog.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, yeah, he was like, I was watching with my kid.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm just like this crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Another classic show to be a part of, you know, with Clifford the big red dog and you know on PBS and kids still watch it to this day, but John Ritter was Clifford and so this is someone that I watch like at night when I was supposed to be, you know, in bed because I had school the next day and I'm just watching three's company like I study three's company
[SPEAKER_02]: company because his physical comedy was amazing and I feel like people don't talk about his physical comedy is much but his physical comedy was on point and I remember the one episode that kind of changed everything for me that made me like all I want to do this is when he played his cousin
[SPEAKER_02]: from Texas right and he had to be Jack in his cousin at the same time in the same room and no one else could like figure it out so he's rolling behind the couch he's on each side of the room he's running through the kitchen and putting on a hat taking all that put on the shirt
[SPEAKER_02]: it was just like amazing and I got to tell him all of that like I mean where we were shooting Clifford and I got to talk to him about that and just a great guy man.
[SPEAKER_02]: You just great got to work.
[SPEAKER_00]: Were you doing group recordings of Clifford?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Same time.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we did group recordings and that was what was so cool and then you know love different world right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So now I'm working with the amazing Chris summers.
[SPEAKER_02]: You and I mean who's I mean
[SPEAKER_02]: every voice you could possibly think of, Cree Summer has done, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so to get advice from Cree on Voice Overwork was amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: She was like a big sister to me every time I see her, you know, it's like big hugs and for her to like say like, hey man, do it this way, do it that way.
[SPEAKER_02]: And to get all that advice from all the cartoons that I've watched as a kid, I'm working with, you know,
[SPEAKER_02]: The championship player, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, she's like amazing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's that like for you being such a physical actor to now doing voice acting to where it's strictly just on how you pronounce things?
[SPEAKER_00]: Was that difficult transition?
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: For what was cool about a Cree and the other other other voice actors that were part of it, them telling me like we're playing dogs.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's not just the voice like when a dog burrows, you don't want to be like,
[SPEAKER_02]: And I said, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you want to really get in there.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, so my physical comedy actually helped with me playing T-bone because I actually would get on, you know, do it right there.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And it helped with all my like other cartoons that I was part of, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I love animation and you know, I get up like I'm not sitting down like this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I stand up and, you know, really get into the character.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have a favorite animated role that you took on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: I did, I mean, I've done so many proud family.
[SPEAKER_02]: We did Freakingick the Musical, which was a great one with tea pain.
[SPEAKER_02]: That one was that was super fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: I made a course Clifford has a special place in my heart, but Freakingick the Musical was hysterical.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a great one while grinders which went on for a for a while which was this is a great show to be part of a rob deer dick You know just being skateboard kids and stuff like that was a great show to as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I got a I don't know there are like people always like which one can you pick from with animation and I'm just like I
[SPEAKER_02]: I had so much fun with each one.
[SPEAKER_02]: And everyone's so different.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I feel the same way with acting.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's the same thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you know, you you step it through the shoes of a character and then that's that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: You just they all have a special place.
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does it feel like for you because I feel like
[SPEAKER_00]: When you stepped into the industry it was like a very certain type of machine and right when you stepped in is when everything started to change the internet came out streamer started coming Yeah, what does it feel like for you to see all these things change in the past twenty-five years?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you always do you feel like you have to stay ahead of it to be in it?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it was I think it's cool that we were involved in like the beginning of it up
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember like going to the Nickelodeon offices and they're like, okay, we're gonna have a chat with all your fans on the computer.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just like signing with everybody and signing posters and everybody comes in the line.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're like, no, they're gonna talk to you and it was very, you had five other people typing, you know, this is what JJ said from blah, blah, and then you had to wait for it to like, it was slowly going,
[SPEAKER_02]: you know the loud clicks and then we would tell them what we wanted to say and then they would write it it was funny but it was it's like super fun to see all of that happen you know for me and I've always been the type of guy right like you have actors that go like oh well the rappers back when the rappers were like getting the gigs and stuff like that the rappers are getting all the gigs and they're getting all the movies and you know all that stuff
[SPEAKER_02]: And I've always been like, I've always loved the rat pack, you know, Sam Davis Jr., you know, we talked about Jerry Lewis and all these guys, man, and you know, coming from theater, it's like you gotta be able to do it all.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like the music, the singing, dancing, producing, writing, I was doing my own makeup like in theater before that's why I was like,
[SPEAKER_02]: When I got on, you know, stage, it was like, oh, I know how to do a bruise and all of these different things.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was like, I understood that it took a teamwork and so like within this business, it's like, it's every evolving.
[SPEAKER_02]: Everything is changing and especially right now, because now instead of the rappers, everybody's like,
[SPEAKER_02]: The influencers are taking it away.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're getting all the movies.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what is going on?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm the type of person where I'm just like, I'm a competitive person.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, but it doesn't get crazy, but I am a competitive person.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, I kind of enjoy learning and gaining wisdom for the ones that are doing these things.
[SPEAKER_02]: So, it's like, you know, Tang out with a Kaisenot and to work with an Irvin Lambert and all these different
[SPEAKER_02]: guys are just like, that know what they, you know, this new industry of what is going on to work with them and to, you know, we all could work together.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I think that's cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think that's a, I think that we should all like do like, you know, understand that like I said, it's a journey and what's for you is for you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm excited about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, you know, I went to a premiere recently and I was on, they called me an influencer.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they go in.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's like, that's been.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and I was like, okay, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because they see like what I do like on my social media, you know, because I understand it and I get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I'm saying?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I get it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you know, you know, things are changing now.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they want to see the actor who the person is back then it used to be a mistake.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like you could just kind of do your own thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: These are my characters you see it when it comes on TV at APM on Thursday or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: Or you catch me out and you might get a picture.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now it's like, you know, fans want to know.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they want to know about your life.
[SPEAKER_02]: They want to know about this.
[SPEAKER_02]: They want to know about that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, things are a little different.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that weird for you to adapt to to open up those doors that in the past had to be kind of closed?
[SPEAKER_02]: Um,
[SPEAKER_02]: Not for me, because I mean, they're still like, you still have your personal life, but then also, too, you have to understand, like, if you have, let's say, one point five million followers on your Instagram or on your TikTok, or whatever.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then you're auditioning for something, but you're a creative person.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you know how to write.
[SPEAKER_02]: know how to be creative you have you know produces you know cameraman you know all these kids that teens that do this work or adults or your friends that work with to I always tell the actors man don't get frustrated at it bro because it's kind of like whoever wrote that film this is their story and they're auditioning and they're looking for a certain thing and if you just not what they're looking for don't take it personal like they know what they're going in casting for right
[SPEAKER_02]: So you, you say, hey, I have all these creative ideas or I might my buddy can write.
[SPEAKER_02]: My buddy has a camera created and your audience is there.
[SPEAKER_02]: Right there, that's the cool thing about it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Where it's like, now you know who your audience is.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know who likes my stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know who resonates with the stories that I tell or the things that I talk about.
[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, play to that audience because that's who's going to keep, you know, following you.
[SPEAKER_02]: These are those, these are the people that are watching your stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: So do that and create, create, continue to create.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, don't, don't get dormant.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, when you get dormant and mundane and that's when frustration can happen, the enemy can come in your head and make you feel like, ah, that person has the distance and it's like, no, bro, like,
[SPEAKER_02]: I could do this.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll do it this way.
[SPEAKER_02]: I could do this.
[SPEAKER_02]: Do it this way.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, even with good burger like Keenan to tell you, man, like when they were moving slow with part two and I could see what was going on.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, I'm going to come and go on these places and people are like, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: If we see it and I'll just like, okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have all these farmers on here.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, let's take this script and I'm gonna put it on my kitchen table and I'm gonna put plates and forks with it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And let's play just play some music and they went crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: We had actors going in like I want to be in it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to be in it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to do this.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I want to be a part of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to be a part of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was crazy in the net date.
[SPEAKER_02]: They were like, yo, let's get this done.
[SPEAKER_01]: Right.
[SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Get this done.
[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: But you got to know, you know, the power of your audience, you know, and understand your audience.
[SPEAKER_02]: Some people don't know their audience.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's like really like know your audience.
[SPEAKER_00]: See you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Was that your first time reuniting with Carmen Electra?
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh-huh.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it was and it was so cool because it's seen her in the red dress again, you know, walking in and she and you know, and then my kids were in that seat.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you know, as a dad, it was already like I was a super excited.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm being in like, well, like in the hate kids, you know, and
[SPEAKER_02]: But then I'm also like, oh, baby, they're acting, you know, and then Carmen and we just have fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: We're doing TikToks because you know, that's the age now.
[SPEAKER_02]: So everybody's doing TikToks and all this stuff to promote the movie.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just, you know, it was such a like a cool moment and Carmen, you know,
[SPEAKER_02]: still looks the same still you know got her dressed all these different things and yeah and I remember like all the stories like on good burger one like she was telling me stories about prints and you know we were just hanging out because it was all these hours of us together hanging out and it was just like the same thing like I could never left like it was a big family really yeah yeah yeah was there when kids choice awards would come around yeah was that a
[SPEAKER_00]: almost like Christmas time for you where you got to see all your friends come together all these celebrities was this like a huge thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I would say the like maybe the first two and stuff like that like first two or three because the cool thing about all that was that if you were the hardest music act you came on the show, which was cool because then you know, the promoter's music.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we got to see a lot of the guests that were in the kids stress awards they had already been on our show.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they knew you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, so it was fun to like go there and they get to see us.
[SPEAKER_02]: But what was cool was the kids from other shows like you know that were like on ABC or NBC like all these different shows and you get to see them that was fun.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, are you watching them?
[SPEAKER_02]: Family matters.
[SPEAKER_02]: Definitely watch your family matters.
[SPEAKER_02]: Jaleo, shout out to Jaleo, what I mean.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, of course, the Lawrence Brothers, my boys, that's my homies.
[SPEAKER_02]: I just talked to Andrew last week.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, all of those guys like Joey, Joey Lawrence, like all of them, you know, make it dad.
[SPEAKER_02]: We were watching everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: Full house, like all the different shows.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so it was like really, really cool to everyone be.
[SPEAKER_02]: there at this show, you know, and my greatest memory, like from Kids Choice Awards, was Whitney Houston, like, you know, Meg Star, but then her hosting, the Kids Choice Awards, and then us being a part of that, that was super fun, you know, and I got a picture at my house of me and Keenan, uh, working with Whitney, you know, in the audience.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was just so cool.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many Kids Choice Awards do you have?
[SPEAKER_00]: I have.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you need my hand?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think I have.
[SPEAKER_02]: four, I think I'm four, but they're all like best actor, then it was what was crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was, yeah, best actor best show.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then there's another one.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, for all that Kennedy Kelly and then, you know, and then we got, we also recently got one for Good Burger, too, as a fan favorite.
[SPEAKER_02]: And that's in my house and I just, that was fun because I had a, my daughter's birthday in a friend's
[SPEAKER_02]: and it was it's cool because like my daughter's eight you're debating so it was like to have her friends they went to my office and ran into my office and they saw the blimp
[SPEAKER_02]: and they're just like, yeah, what can we play with the blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip blip
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you can't talk about slime.
[SPEAKER_00]: At the case choice award.
[SPEAKER_00]: But do you know in advance if you're going to get slimmed?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I won't get in trouble.
[SPEAKER_02]: In some cases, some cases.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are instances where you know, but others where you don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: So in some cases, you know, I'll just say that.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we'll keep this
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it hard to get it off of you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's slime.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's slime is hard.
[SPEAKER_02]: The slime of the kids' dress awards.
[SPEAKER_02]: I have no it's very different.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean when they were making it before it was like some full coloring and applesauce and some other stuff that was part of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now it's like some scientific like that just drips off.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know where there's someone said we want to see it just stay on your face.
[SPEAKER_02]: When you just got progressively worse.
[SPEAKER_02]: Dude like when I I did a whole thing with a instacart and and a whole thing at the last kid's choice was this year.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was super funny where like they I mean it was like dude it looked like a bazooka like he was over there.
[SPEAKER_02]: I guess a bazooka and then it was all these different cannons on each side I mean I don't know if you see the video we're gonna take you see it, but but yeah, it's they took they told me up and I had to go to the after party like right afterwards and then be back out there to take pictures and it was so funny how to wash it up and it takes like I always tell people it's three washes you gotta do three in the shower with a lupa
[SPEAKER_02]: You know three times and you're good and you're good.
[SPEAKER_02]: We did it at our family vacation last week and in Mexico and I was wondering because I was like okay, so we have some other things that we have planned to do you know at the park and I were gonna do here in Mexico from vacation So because we were wondering because me and my wife we know like how the slime is
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know what I mean, so we're like, but out there at the Nickelodeon resort, if you get to take your kids, all parents take your kids out there to Nickelodeon resort, it's super fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, it was water-based.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was more water-based.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I think they should just do that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's just words.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, we jumped in a pool, came right off.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: They should do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thinking back, like, all the sketches, because there were times you were in, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: a pool of popcorn.
[SPEAKER_00]: What was the messiest one that you did that you it just was a nightmare to get off.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, like the messy things that we did on the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the messiest sketch that you did.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, man, it was so many crazy messy stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you remember the popcorn one?
[SPEAKER_02]: I sort of remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember that.
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: At this point, at that point,
[SPEAKER_02]: I was just so used to just the treatment.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, what food are you going to throw this on?
[SPEAKER_02]: What fish, what thing are you?
[SPEAKER_02]: Burger meat, you know, because you got imagine I was smelling burger meats and fish and uh, donuts like anything you guys would think of.
[SPEAKER_02]: They would they would do with us as far as like food is concerned.
[SPEAKER_02]: Um, so nothing was too crazy for me.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I think on when I did Game Shakers, I'll talk my Game Shakers fans.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, you know, WG, you know, all that stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: We did a lot of crazy stuff on there, too.
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember we had a llama that I came on this show and they were like the other kids like, oh, he's so cute.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he just started spitting on everybody.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a little wild.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was a little like, okay, I'll take all that stuff, but the llama spit.
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: You didn't know what he was gonna do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was that was that was a little wild.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was wild.
[SPEAKER_00]: Were you being showered with like whatever people wanted you to wear just the different products?
[SPEAKER_00]: The thing that a normal celebrity would be getting at that time.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like, like, you, like, addressed some of the things we were doing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, where our clothes get our new shoes, kind of thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think with shout out to our wardrobe team, that was out there, because I was very, you know, I was in the, you know, a ninety-sip pop, was crazy, back then.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who are you listening to?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so, oh, everybody, dude, all the timble and stuff, you know, the whole crew, Missie Elliott, genuine, shout out to my boy tank.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did you like the exhibit?
[SPEAKER_02]: Of course.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Love it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah, shout out to exhibit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's been great.
[SPEAKER_02]: We met exhibit.
[SPEAKER_02]: Exhibits is a great guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So many amazing like artists around our time.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, of course, to pop a nighty by nature.
[SPEAKER_02]: We read, I'm in the nighty by nature music video.
[SPEAKER_02]: I remember around that time.
[SPEAKER_02]: And here we go now, Holly, if you hear me flows, yeah, we were in that one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Just a bunch of like artists big pun all these guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: You ought to be, you know, and I was a big, heavy, like hip-hop fan.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that was cool to me.
[SPEAKER_02]: I forgot what the question was.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was looking forward with all these different things.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's why I said hip-hop.
[SPEAKER_02]: So Russell Simmons was friends with Brian Robbins.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so, like, fat farm, we got all the new stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: early.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And a lot of the artists that were on the show, if they were endorsed by something, they would want us to wear a tooth.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I had like all the crazy snapback shots to Fubu, Fubu, uh, would lay us up, uh, especially on the kid in the kid, because we got, we were regular.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like kids on that show, like so the gear that we would wear was cool stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I remember, um, our, uh, wardrobe guy, he had his own clothing line.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's when you saw like the Mutacho Milo,
[SPEAKER_02]: shirt of us dancing in the beginning and stuff like that and then I'm like the king of snapbacks like that's what they tell me and the reason I did this snapbacks was I remember one of the barbers out there you know because you know you gotta get your fade right right he did like a bokeh type of situation and I didn't really big it's always like let me wear
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a rocker hat and I'm so that's the glory for being real cool with me like you know being able to pick out like certain things as far as my wardrobe and we had so I started wearing snap backs and but it just kind of stuck they were just like oh yeah, we want you to do the snap back and that's why you see it in the logo and all that stuff
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and we had all the dope shoes like the the pennies and all the oh man.
[SPEAKER_02]: We had all the crazy Air Force different like shoes like we had all the shoes Michael Jordan I did I'm like a Jordan a few times and his kids I made his kids first That was the Cooper amazing amazing dude and then we also got to do all the All-Star games
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean, like the NBA All-Star games back in the day that you still have the kids.
[SPEAKER_02]: I've got what it was called, but it was like it was like in earlier in the day when it was all start weekend and all the kids would get together and it was kind of like all that where you have performances and actors would it was with a mob or shot.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I remember we had already worked with Kobe multiple times.
[SPEAKER_02]: Kobe had been on all that and been on the show and Kobe was just dropping his album right on time.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we got to introduce him on stage with Tyra Bakes.
[SPEAKER_02]: Tyra Bakes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Did the hook on there.
[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, shout out to all the athletes that
[SPEAKER_02]: Love, you know, love on that and that we met.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've had through some fan questions.
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: What's your favorite dance you did on dance with the stars?
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: My finale dance was pretty pretty awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: Shout out to Whitney.
[SPEAKER_02]: Shout out to the full workings, creation.
[SPEAKER_02]: I was running up, so that was great, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the finale dance.
[SPEAKER_02]: I love the salsa was awesome because we did it too.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is how we do it by my tells you.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so that was fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what you said, the favorite.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I did like the was with the boys to man saw that we did.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Because we just like flutter kick and I know when he's going to get me because I forgot the name of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that was like the one.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was this kick.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's how we won that night, which was crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: Was that a task to take on?
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_02]: So shout out to the dancing with the stars fans.
[SPEAKER_02]: They are serious.
[SPEAKER_02]: I see you got it over there, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Dance with Star fans.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's a whole new like fan base that happened for me with that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like to this day people will stop me in the street.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I'm sure I'm walk out here.
[SPEAKER_02]: They're gonna go, you should have won that season for dance with the stars.
[SPEAKER_02]: and they come up, take pictures, just the same way, you know, and they love it, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: But that whole experience, like we rehearsed, I want to say eight hours a day.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like, eight hours a day?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And with me and Whitney, sometimes we would go even more.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because we were just like, we're both competitive.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like if the judges said something that we need, we're like, oh, yeah, we'll show you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're like backstage like, yeah, let's come and free.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, we're coming.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, everybody like we had like this like kind of stare, we was like, okay, everybody knew.
[SPEAKER_02]: But it's so much fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: She's family.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it was just great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I'm a dancer, but not borrow.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: So to learn all these, you know, the walls and all these different dances.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was serious, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and then you got a point, you know, a point in the fingers, a certain way.
[SPEAKER_02]: And the foot is certain when like one little thing, you know, would make you look like, you know, you didn't know what you were doing.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it was like, I really wanted to learn.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's great because now it's like, because we did so much rehearsals.
[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, the show time where my told you like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: the night, even the night of dance with the stars.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we're like, when it's show time, that was like a big thing, because you hear the music.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then the audience is going crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was always great.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like heart was just like pounding.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: But even today's day, any song that was on my list of songs, like if I'm at the grocery store, I instantly go into the steps.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like I instantly don't turn on it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I hear Whitney.
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, point your feet, point your toes like that instantly, bro.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like it's like, I know all of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, is there going to be a good burger three movie possibly in the future?
[SPEAKER_02]: So everybody there is a story that came in I
[SPEAKER_02]: have talked about that I think it's it's insane but it's amazing and it's very funny and shout out to Johnny Ryan who's also producer of Good Burger to and we talked about this idea I can't tell you all what the idea is but it's wow
[SPEAKER_02]: We make this happen.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to change everything about good.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because the thing about it is that we're, you know, these are characters we've done.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're, we're a delts now.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so like we want to like take it to different levels.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so this would, this would be fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: This would be fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: But we'll see.
[SPEAKER_02]: We'll see what happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think.
[SPEAKER_02]: Because we both got some fun stuff, um, career wise, you know, individually and together that we have coming out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Coming up at the end of this month.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're New York City.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have Cells Burger Fest.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, bro.
[SPEAKER_00]: What made you want to do a burger fest?
[SPEAKER_02]: Dude, so my wife and I, what's up baby?
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, what we would do.
[SPEAKER_02]: We were, you know, I love hanging out with my kids and my family and my wife and we would go to fest.
[SPEAKER_02]: That was like our thing.
[SPEAKER_02]: You're right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we go strawberry festival.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we go to the chili festival out of Malibu.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And we love to eat, you know, I love to cook, you know, shots of Gordon Ramsay, great guy.
[SPEAKER_02]: So like, I love to cook, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I remember we went to the chili fest.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I saw like, everyone's like, Joey, yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's all these celebs there and like kids there and all this cool stuff.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then I go to chain fest too as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's another great one.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was going, wait, wait, wait, wait.
[SPEAKER_02]: I see these piece of fest.
[SPEAKER_00]: I see these.
[SPEAKER_02]: All these fest needs to be a burger fest.
[SPEAKER_02]: Now they have burger fest.
[SPEAKER_02]: But when you mention my name, like when people see me, they instantly think burgers.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, and so I said, let's, I need to lean into that.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it'll be something fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And my thing is like, I love creating experiences.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I've done a lot of like live shows and events and hosting a lot of different events.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I hit my boy Derek Barry, shout out to Derek.
[SPEAKER_02]: What on me?
[SPEAKER_02]: And I was like, we got a collab, bro.
[SPEAKER_02]: This is the idea.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to do a burger fest.
[SPEAKER_02]: And he's like, I'm all over it.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm all over it.
[SPEAKER_02]: Cause, you know, he's his genius.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's out here.
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you just say about a bail, say about a max, where he took for the people to don't know.
[SPEAKER_02]: He create amazing experiences from some of your favorite shows and create and experience where you can go to it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So say about a max was the max from say about a belt that was a full-out restaurant that was here in LA.
[SPEAKER_02]: And what some people might know is that I'm a huge say about a bell fan, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I had like a personal mission to meet all of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Met a mom.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: Cool with all of them.
[SPEAKER_02]: Me and Tiffany had our own show together called Deliciousness.
[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, within that, I went to my wife surprised me for, say, about a max.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so I went there and I said, who is, who's the owner who did this?
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is, it's a Derek's there.
[SPEAKER_02]: He's running around.
[SPEAKER_02]: If you don't dare, he's right around doing this thing and he came over to the table and instantly we hit it off.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, bro, you from Chicago, I'm from Chicago.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yo, what's up?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's like, now our kids are all, you know, hang out and everything.
[SPEAKER_02]: So our first collab was, I said, hey, I want to do a good burger.
[SPEAKER_02]: Live good burger restaurant.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, let's take this to Nickelodeon and let's do a good burger.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, they, everybody could go and see.
[SPEAKER_02]: And all that reboot had been going on this time.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we did that and it was awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was amazing.
[SPEAKER_02]: We had fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it was up for a few months, you know, because it was pop up.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, everybody wants to back, but then the pandemic hit.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I got it right.
[SPEAKER_02]: So now I'm still going to different festions stuff like that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like, you know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: You do my own fest.
[SPEAKER_02]: My own burger fest and so we're doing it.
[SPEAKER_02]: The burger fest is a whole another level where I love mom and pop shops and I love like different restaurants and hearing the stories of people that decided to open up restaurants.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: After the pandemic, I did a thing where I went around to Los Angeles and me and my crew, we went around
[SPEAKER_02]: and we wanted to celebrate them because we knew like, you know, after the pandemic it was hard to like, you know, come back from all of that.
[SPEAKER_02]: And so we wanted to celebrate them.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I went to a lot of different burger spots in Los Angeles and I would give them like a gift and then also taste their burgers.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And then tell people about them and promote them, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: And it took off.
[SPEAKER_02]: We went all over Los Angeles because everybody wants to know what's your favorite burger all the time.
[SPEAKER_02]: So then I was just like, okay, so we got the first.
[SPEAKER_02]: I know a thing about burgers everywhere I go.
[SPEAKER_02]: I get free burgers and I'm like, let's do it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're doing our first one.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, and Brooklyn.
[SPEAKER_02]: What's up, Brad Glad?
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going down August, thirty-eight.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, I, you know, across me and Derek bucket listers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, bucket list is awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Every time they, we go to a bucket list event, it's always top tier.
[SPEAKER_02]: The blockbuster.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, insane.
[SPEAKER_02]: And come on, bro, blah blah.
[SPEAKER_02]: It was crazy, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: And so their experiences are awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: And I love that.
[SPEAKER_02]: Like they really think about, uh, but Galicia's really thinks about the fans, you know, and, uh, and every little part of it.
[SPEAKER_02]: So you're going to see that at Burger Fest, you know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: And it's has everything that I love from each fest that I've been through.
[SPEAKER_02]: so you know you're going to have rights and there's going to be carnival games and there's going to be music and there's a vintage shop and DJs you know like all this cool stuff man and I'm of course going to get on stage like I'm
[SPEAKER_02]: It's Kill's Burger Fest, but I'm also part of me.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's just not the name, so it's part of it like we're, we had a creative meeting right before I came here.
[SPEAKER_02]: And this is going to be in his experience like, no, you guys are going to have a lot of fun.
[SPEAKER_02]: And of course, eat a bunch of like great burgers.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, of course, in Brooklyn, we got some great burger plots spot.
[SPEAKER_02]: So it's going to be awesome.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's in Williamsburg, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll tell you.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's what everybody said everybody's like come that way coming to Miami.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean, but yeah, there's so many great ones in that lane.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's so many great ones in New York as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we did our rollout for New York of the burger places are going to be there.
[SPEAKER_02]: There will be vegan burgers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Hello everybody was hitting me up like it's gonna be vegan burgers.
[SPEAKER_02]: there will be vegan burgers but I like this man because it's like it's taking you know ownership of what it is and then also part of the journey because I realize like okay I know my audience I know they like it and it's like and I have a connection with burgers but I do like enjoy eating burgers as well and different burgers I mean different ones I mean
[SPEAKER_02]: I know a lot about burgers bro, so I was just like, you know what?
[SPEAKER_02]: Let me do a burger fess man and have a lot of fun and have all my fans there and shut out to the fans as soon as we announced I mean, they went crazy.
[SPEAKER_02]: buying tickets.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm super excited about this and this is something that we want to keep continuing to do for you guys to have like a greatest series.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the first wave of what vendors is out.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's going to be a second wave coming up soon.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be a second wave of vendors.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll shout out to the vendors right now, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_02]: I want to shout them out.
[SPEAKER_02]: So this is the first wave.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what is going up.
[SPEAKER_02]: So I have to do the first wave.
[SPEAKER_02]: We got fat cells this out here.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know what I mean?
[SPEAKER_02]: They said we're coming out there, right?
[SPEAKER_02]: So and then we got bear burger in Brooklyn.
[SPEAKER_02]: Bear burger shot to the amazing burgers.
[SPEAKER_02]: Next stop vegan.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's the vegan lacy burger lacy street burger in old boy burger.
[SPEAKER_02]: That's just the rappers burger spikers.
[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I'm from Chicago.
[SPEAKER_02]: We've got to represent.
[SPEAKER_02]: But they have a spot in Brooklyn.
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's the first wave.
[SPEAKER_02]: Then we're going to do the next five.
[SPEAKER_02]: And then there's not only that.
[SPEAKER_02]: We also have vendors there too as well.
[SPEAKER_02]: So we're going to be vendors and it's just it's going to be awesome.
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, thank you, man.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much for coming by opening up this bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's really awesome If you're on the East Coast New York or go to Cal's Burger Fest, it's gonna be incredible I'll get started.
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll get started.
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go.
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, thanks guys.
[SPEAKER_02]: Thank you, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: See ya