He was in films like “Father of the Bride” and “Adventures in Babysitting” and the voice of Superman in “Justice League” But at the end of the day, he was in two DCOMs that we must talk about!
George Newbern joins Will and Sabrina to talk about “Dadnapped” and “Buffalo Dreams”.
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thank you everybody for joining us on this park Hopper
episode of Magical Rewind. And I've never said this before,
but we've got a really special one today. You've never
heard me say that this is actually, this is not hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
We're really excited to have today's guest.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
He is I dare I say a friend with a
small lef because I've gotten a chance to work with
him several times and we talk to each other at
conventions and he's the greatest guy in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Help us bring in George Newbern to see How are
you doing great? How are you guys?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'm good. Thank you for joining us on this wonderful
podcast where we talk all things d coms.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yes, you know, it's so funny. I went back to
your I was looking on your your latest podcast and
you were reviewing Buffalo Dreams.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes, we were.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
We were.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Why that's what we do.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
We're watching them all And we just had a wonderful
talk yesterday with mister Simon Baker. Yes, is this the
first time anybody specifically wanted to sit down and talk
to you about just your Disney Channel original movies?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yes, yes it is.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Can you so I know you do have a famous memory.
We've talked about this at some convention, So can you
walk us through the entire plot of Dad napped?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I wouldn't do that to you. I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I know that my daughter Emily Osmond and if I'mily
sing this, please reach out to me. I can't even
get a hold. I don't know where she is. We
we did a I think we, uh, she's my daughter,
and then I can't remember she. I got kidnapped for
some reason. Dad app yes, tied me up in floss, yes,
(02:05):
And I don't know why. I can't remember why.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You So here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
We've seen the movie and we still don't know why
they can't.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So, in all fairness, that was a weird one for us.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It was just all the Disney Channel stars in one movie. Correct, Yes,
Phil Lewis and Moys's and David Henry. Who else was
in that?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Emily Ozma, Jason Jason who we had a nice talk
with Jason who said the same thing. Nobody really knows.
Everyone even in the movie, isn't really sure what the
movie's about.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
No, No, I've had a great time.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
But everyone says that it was a blasted.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
But it was a blast and my My biggest memory
of that other than the floss and then the a
lot of goo and stuff at the end, like yogurt
with guns. Uh was my kids were much younger that point.
They came out to Utah to watch this film and
(03:02):
we played the Laser Tag one night, and it was
they were right at the age of like they were
into all those the Disney Channel stars at the time,
and we all got to play laser Tag with the
cool Disney Channel stars and my kids and they.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
They Oh, yes, I believe they got to It was
like me getting to play laser Tag with the Partridge Family.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So you got great dad cred for that day.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Huge.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Did your kids have a part of why you would
sign on for your Disney Channel movies?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Was that like a part of your Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
No, no, I just wanted work.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
There's plenty that they couldn't say that.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I said, yes.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Okay, wait, let's let's go back. So we know, you
grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and you have a
dad who was a doctor and a mom who was
a teacher. So how does somebody with that growing up
with that lifestyle decide, you know what I want to
do I want to be an actor.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You know, A grip a little rock.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And there was a really great children's theater at the time,
and I was about twelve or thirteen, and I remember
going to go see a play there and I don't know,
I really was struck by the kind of magic of that,
like sort of a black box, and everyone got really quiet,
and this young kid in this production I was watching
(04:18):
walked on stage and all the people screamed because he
was like, I don't know, like the character they were
waiting to see. And I was like, how do I
be part of that there? And it was initially the
magic and the attention, of course, and I was terrible
at sports, so I just kind of found a home
doing productions of this children's theater. And I didn't know
(04:41):
I could do it or had any talent at all whatsoever.
But I was sort of a ham third, you know,
three or four kids, and I was always trying to
get attention, I think, just to have somebody notice I
was there. And as I got older, I kind of
realized I could do it. I could dance. I was
a singer. I did tons of musical theater. I was
a ballet answer for seven eight years, and then when
(05:05):
I went to Northwestern to study theater, I said, Okay,
let's see if I can actually do this. And then
when I got there, but I could do it, and
I got lots of roles and shows, and I was like, okay,
now can I make a living doing it? You know,
it's just is a of it. And but to answer
your question, I was entranced by the magic of that
(05:26):
dark sort of place and out of Little Rock, Arkansas.
It is a very odd thing that I ended up doing.
I played the flute, I was I was in theater
and ballet and straight I couldn't. Everyone must have thought
I was completely you know, not all. You know, growing
up at the South that was a very odd thing
(05:46):
for someone to do. But ended up going to school
in Chicago and then ended up in la and she
you know, just kept going from there. Just I just
would take it one job at a time, and and
now I found olives because my industry is decimated.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It is I know, oh god, I know.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That's It's amazing how many times we hear a version
of that story, especially when you're the second or third
child where you're trying to go I mean, I was
a third kid too, so just you're trying to get
attention and then it just somehow turns into a career.
I was.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I think I was the most annoying child on the
planet up until like fifth grade. Between like kindergarten fifth grade,
I did anything I could do to annoy the hell
out of my my siblings, my parents. I just I
would literally go, I would I would like run through
(06:38):
and not stuff down, just to make they hated me
and I and I knew what I was doing. It
was awful. And then, like literally in fifth grade, my
teacher who was also my older brother's teacher, came in
one day and then I was doing something in the
class and she said, well, George, you know I met
your brother at open house and he was such a
(06:58):
lovely I mean, I saw your brother and I remember
what a lovely guy he is. You know, you should
you should take after your older brother. Your behavior is
pretty much intolerable. And I remember, in front of everyone,
everyone looked at.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Me, oh man, that's no good.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I kind of got the I got the memo, and
from that minute I kind of cut it out behavior.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
But then I kept doing play.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well, of course, well so wait when it comes to
then your relationship with Disney was the first kind of
lead role you ever did Double Switch the Wonderful World
of Disney movie.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was my first big hop when
I got to LA And by the way, that was
it was a freaking dream job because I got to sing,
I got to you know, to like move around like
a rock star and then play the I played two
different parts and they switched places and they did the
whole split screen thing.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Oh cool.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Elizabeth Schue was my girlfriend and she had just an
a karate kid. And and what's cool is the writer,
John magnamara ended up winning tons of stuff for Trombone
Academy Award, and he's prolific writer. You know, if you
look up John mcnamary has done anything. And then Mark
Gordon that Mark Gordon produced, that was his first producing thing.
And then Dave greenwal Greenwalt was the director and I
(08:11):
guess co writer with with mcnamuir, but you know, great
Greenwalt went on to do Buffy.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And yeah, sure, I think so.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
It was everyone's kind of first big job and my
first week job and was like whoa uh, it was spectacular.
It was really really fun, really.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well we also review Wonderful World of Disney's here.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So we will go back and watch Doubles will Oh no,
we're going, Oh, it's a really Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You also got to work with like nineteen eighty six
Elizabeth Shoe, which is like, come on, Elizabeth Shoes.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I hadn't seen honestly. And then I did Adventures in
Babysitting with Elizabeth.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah. After that, I called her Lisa, not Elizabeth.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And I just saw her at a I hadn't seen
her since Adventures in Babysitting and I just saw her
con a month ago.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And we're like, wait, you really hadn't seen her.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I saw her on the streets of Beverly Hills, my
wife and I and that she was like with we
just were passing, like hey, what was like, yeah, yeah,
eleven and very odd.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But but I hadn't.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Seen him foreverever.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Great to see her and she was the same. Honestly,
it's great.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Did you ever check out the d com that stars
Sabrina Carpenter that those remake of it?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Did you guys?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Did you ever check they did adventures? They did a
new Adventures in Babysitting as a d.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Com on the Disney Channel.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Wait a minute, with yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Yeah, and and so uh oh gosh, there was another
big actress in it.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Is that the same one.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
With Sophia Carson. Yeah, with Espresso, Well, Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I noticed Sabrina. Sabrina is sister. Is Sarah Sabrina has
been to our house?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
She didn't, she didn't.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Bring up Hey, by the way, I did remain one
of the most e.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
She was the star of it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Her sister's dating George Smith, who's in uh was in
this band with my my middle daughter, my middle daughter
May's boyfriend Reese. They're in this thing, New Hope Club.
They just broke up, honestly.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But anyway, for.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
The less, your social circle is.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Poppin many times right before she became like you know, Espresso,
very talented girl. But yeah, no, I didn't know that
they that she did Adventures of Baby.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
It was it was big.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
It was a It was a big movie for them too,
because I feel like it was like their hundredth.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It was their one hundredth d com. It wasn't seen
you saw it, I haven't seen.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I was at the premiere.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
I got a chance to actually go to the They
had a big premiere for it, and it was it
was great.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
That's gonna be tough for me because the original Adventures.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Baby, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
No, it can't anything.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Ever as good as the original.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That's just the way that it is.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
But you have to set that expectation knowing that it's
not going to fill all your nostalgic dreams. However, it
was amazing to watch this new generation of amazing young
actors take it on and they did a great job.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
They really did. But we'll, we'll, we'll tear it apart.
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Again, I watch all these with no nostalgia, so I'm like,
wait a minute, yeah, I have.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I have no connection to these whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So you're you're now out in Los Angeles, you get
your first big job, You're you're playing multiple characters. Did
you at that point where you're like, I got this clocked,
this is this is going to be easy.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
At this point, So living in an apartment in Brentwood,
and I got this job, and my girlfriend at the time,
Marietta now my wife, we've been married forever. She had
come she uh, we went to school together in Northwestern
she came out to LA and then she got to
play in New York, so she went to New York
for a minute. But but I remember thinking, wow, I
(11:46):
just and I signed it with CIA. Got this, Yes,
I think this. I can't believe it. I made two
thousand dollars a week doing that TV movie. I was
a star of it, and I said, I got at
this thing. I cannot believe I just made it. I
made it little did I know. I mean I worked
(12:06):
a little bit for three four and then after the
inventure baby say, I didn't work for eight months. Oh,
and I had an agent at CIA. So I slowly
started to figure out, oh, that's not how this is
going to work.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And this is back when there was I was young
and there.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Was a ton of you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
The business was still the business.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It was still there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
So anyway, I've been humbled by that that cycle about
ten times. Ah, but you know, it is what it is.
And I'm still grateful. I mean, she's an't believe all
the work I've actually gotten.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
And we've got it all right here.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
I mean, you went on, you've got your movie with
Steve Martin.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well that's what I wanted. So where were you? I
have to ask?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So in the dips of your career.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Where does Father the Bride fall?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
It's interesting, you said, because that was one of the
deepest deepest dips. Right before Father the Bride, I hadn't
worked in six months, and I started doing commercials again.
You know how you think I do commercials and then
when I leave commercials and then I.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Go on to do other things.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yep, I had gone on to do other things, and
I would then I came back around down to a
commercial because I was like, God, dang it, I don't
have any money. I can't believe I'm having to do this.
I gotta And I did these Chevron commercials where a
series of three or four and I was like, hey, Dad,
I do want to mix the old gas with the
new gas. And I mean, I'd started movies, started in
(13:35):
a series, and then I was doing commercials again. I
was like, I can't believe that anyway. That's fine, it's
no I'm gonna show you know, most personal commercial. But
you just think your career is gonna kind of go.
So I do the commercial and it's it's very cute.
It works, it's really a good commercial. And Nancy Myers,
who did Father Bride, saw it and Chuck and said, hey,
bring this guy in for this audition. So and then
(13:57):
I auditioned and then I got a movie.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So you never know.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Oh and you just never know, man, you never freaking know.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Wow, what was that like working with I think his
name is Scott Martin. I'm not familiar with his work,
the star of Father of the Bride, is that right, Martin?
Steve Steve Martin. Sorry, not familiar with him.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Or anything he's ever done. What is that like?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You come, so, you're you, you finish your Chevron commercials,
you walk on the set and now you're, you know,
one of the kind of Steve Martin movie.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I just it was pretty. It wasn't just it. It
was the combination of Diane Diane Keaton yea and then
Martin short and yes, it's everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Everybody together. And then.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
The first thing we did shot was a shot coming
in the scene, coming in the door and meeting the
parents for the first time. And the girl Kim Williams
he got it was also from Northwestern about eight nine
years younger than me. But wow, so we had a
lot to talk about. But anyway, I remember before the
door open, I was just like, God, this is absolutely.
I'm just surreal and and weirdly enough, i'd gotten something
(15:03):
in my eye and my I was like, they're rolling
and I've got some of my hold I hold second
and I was like I brought some eye drops over whatever,
and I and uh, rolling, rolling, rolling, and I was like, okay, sorry,
I'm sorry, It's it's still my eyes.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Story.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So so anyway, the third take, right before we come out,
I'm like, I knock on the door, and behind the door,
Steve Martin says, whatever you do, don't think about your
eye before I come.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I was like, oh my god, so a pretty spot
on Steve Martin impression.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
If I'm honest, Oh man, when you're in a film
with those kind of comedic legends, are you just trying
not to break every take? Or are they so professional
that it's.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I'm just trying to stop thinking that Steve Martin, Right,
they're talking to me and what do I Am I
a character?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Or am I me?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's like but then you know, you get past that
after a certain point. But but yeah, no, Martin short
was the hardest one to sort of not not laugh
every three seconds.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, that character was just his character.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I just saw a snipped it on Saturday Night Live
when Martin Short was Katherine Heppern's like third cousins selling
hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You remember that.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I know he's wearing like a crop mid drift and
he's and he's serving hot dogs and it's like nineteen
eighty two.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And I any dog, Like, I don't know. Oh my god,
that guy has done.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I swear, I'm so in awe of him.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, he's a genius.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Are you able to watch those movies? Are they great
for you if you do? Or are they too hard
for you to watch? Or how is that I've done?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I think I've probably don't. I've never counted, but I
think it's in the forty thirty or forty movies in
my life, and I think maybe six of them I
can watch. The rest of them are.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Like, really, do you know what? The six are? Just
curious which ones they are?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That TheRide Adventures and Babysitting Evening Star of the sequel
to Terms of Endearment, Although that's not that great, but
I can watch it.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Terms on Deer Them, by the way, hugely funny movie.
I laughed through that entire film. Terms of Dearman, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And what else.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
A movie called It Takes Two that I did actually
right before I had to start doing commercials for you
known artists, which was quite a good movie.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I think who was in that one?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
It was myself, a girl named Leslie Hope, who's a
director now, Stephen Geary.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh wow, Anthony G.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Cazel lives. It took place in the South. It was
about me getting married. I get married in almost everything
I do.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, you're a good groom.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
You're like the perfect group.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I've gotten movies.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
You're legally married in like eleven states. Okay, so we
got it. We got to talk a little bit about
now your your d coom run since this is what
we do here. So you've you've finished the entire cup
of ayahuasca. When for for when you're reading the Dad
Nap script, because that's what I felt had happened. Well,
(18:33):
I mean, so first of all, you got Paul Hoan,
who's the king of all d coms.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Uh doing more? Is he's still doing? Yeah, he's now
in charge of the Zombies franchise.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Have you seen zombies at all or heard about the
Giant Zombies franchise?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
That is Paul from start to finish, Like what.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Is It Is?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
It?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
On Disney Zombies is their new tent pole kind of thing.
It is a musical about zombies that takes place into
high school. It is a Disney Channel original movie. In
the last film had a forty million dollar budget.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Wait, i'd sam so out of it. When did they
start airing these?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The first one was what two thy seventeen twenty eighteen?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, eighteen.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
And they're so good you would? I mean, if you
like musicals, I love them.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I love them. I can't believe that copies don't.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
They are so so good. Paul does an incredible job.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Stars Milo Manheim, who's Katherine Manheim's son, and he's phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The cast is great.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
They're really really good musicals, very interesting way of doing it.
High school musical plus okay is kind of what they've done.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So it's really cool.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
We'll going to get some heat for that.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
What saying high school musical plus it is it is?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I'm sorry they're new. I could feel it already.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, they're new. Because they're new, it's kind of more upscale.
It also makes a little more sense. Zombie singing makes
more sense to me than high school kids singing. Love
It's one of those shockingly good Disney movies where you're like,
I can't believe I enjoyed this.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
As much as I did.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Will was not into the musical, like this movie actually
made him a fan of musicals, which I've been trying
since we started this damp podcast to game.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I don't understand people getting together and all of a
sudden breaking into song, like they've rehearsed it forever and
now they're dancing down the hallway, Like when did you
get together and rehearse this?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You know, we were just my kids were way into
Zach Effron during high school musical all that stuff, and
I remember watching over their shoulder, going the kid's real handsome,
and look at him dancing. Look at this guy's great
until the scene in the second high School musical, I
think when.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
He was a golfing the golf course off course and
he was.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Doing fou it was O's and then he's he's singing
to his own reflection in the.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
In the Uh, that was tough. That was That's kind
of when they lost me as well.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
So yeah, we had a hard time with that. And
I was a big high school musical fan. It was
around those kids the whole time they were coming up,
and I don't remember. And I was at that premiere
and I told Will, I'm.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Like, I don't remember that scene.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
If I remember that scene, that's the only scene I
would have remembered.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Your brain blocked it out, I think blocked it out.
So Dad napped.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
We admit, we have to say is one of the
stranger films that we've seen, But we really we just
rewatched and really liked Buffalo Dreams. Yes, do you remember
shooting the film.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I remember being in a trailer and we went up
to this island where they I want to say Buffalo
Island it might have been, but there's like a preserve.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yes, we talked about.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
It around Great Salt the Great Salt Lake or something
where they had some They had bison out there, buffalo
running around, so I think they got some shots out there,
and I remember that's about it. I remember hanging out
with Jane sibbatt and laughing and eating good food and Utah.
But god, honestly, I don't remember much more than that.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Had you both been on friends by this point, she.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Had been, I don't know if I had had.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I maybe, Yeah, you were in the later you were
in the later episodes.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
So seasons seven or something like six or.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Two thousand and five was the air date of Buffalo Dreams,
so she probably shot two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah, so it was right around Oh wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Uh, it's so crazy.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
You never shot together on Friends though, right while you
guys were on it together that you're seeing, your episodes
were completely different.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yes, yes, yes, I took over for Jason Lee. I
guess it did. Something happened didn't work out, but I
took over him, and.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Then that did. I was supposed to test.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I was supposed to test for Friends for Swimmer's part,
who I went to school with at Northwestern. Really yeah,
that year, James Burrows was directing three pilots Friends, one
with halland and Suzann Plichett, and another one another one
that my friend Craig did. So here's the story. So
I was supposed to test the Swimmer's part, and I went,
(22:50):
I read the pilot. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I better go.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I better go for the one with Suzanne and Hall
Linden because that's gonna go. And then my friend Craig
Bierco was was actually offered Matt Perry's part on the pilot.
Of Friends, but he turned it down because it's not
that good. Maybe I'll do I should do the one
where I'm the lead with the little girl, all directed
by James Burrows. Well those are all going to get
(23:13):
picked up, but you know, we've died friends with Jewel.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm just thinking of because Craig Bercos he's great. I'm
thinking of him as as Chandler is such a straight.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Great He's just a totally different But you know, look
on it, there was nobody that was better than either
one of those actors, and now nobody.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
So Craig Bierco is one of those guys where he
seems like the nice guy and the awesome guy and
then they make him the bad guy in the Long
Kiss good Night and it.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Works, it does. He was we were roommates for a while,
a Northwestern guy, and he just freaking is one of
the brightest bulbs.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
He's so oh man, Okay, so you're you've done again.
We can list all this kind of all these movies.
You've worked for Disney for years, You've done a ton
of stuff with Disney, a ton of stuff on TV.
How do you then get into where I got a
chance to work with you and meet you. How do
you find the joy that is voiceover?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
You know what it's it's I haven't even done that
much voiceover, but the ones that I've done sort of
kind of lasted a long time. The first one I
did was Pirates of Dark Water with for a Hand
of Barbara with Gordon Hunt who directed it. And that
was spectacular because I had really cool actors, like, you know,
Jonathan Winters was there, Roddy McDowell, Jody Benson, Tim Curry,
(24:33):
Frank Welker, crazy talented people.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And then then I didn't do any.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Other voiceover for another I don't know, ten years, and
then I got to this Superman thing. I thought it
was a one off. I thought it was a one off.
I didn't and I didn't know I was taken over
them daily and I went into I read the speech
and walked out and I got it. I was like, wait,
is this just like for a week or what it?
And then it turns out it had the series which
(24:59):
you did? You did a Justice League Unlimited, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You were?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I did well because we had just come off of
Batman Beyond, So I was Kevin, was was was Bruce,
and I was Terry and Batman Beyond and then so
we spun off and would do random episodes of Unlimited.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah right, right, Well we were in the room together.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yes, no, we did one in the room together. But
then we started to get to talk more at the
conventions more than anything else.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
So after Justice League, then I did a voice for
a whatever video game Final Fantasy. So basically those two
things from twenty years ago still live on in the
con world, and that's what.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
They're absolutely huge.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
My seventh act of being an actors cons these hilarious
and I have a great time.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Well let's go back to your sixth act then, because
I think our audience is going to be very interested
to know what it was like to work with Kerry
Washington in Scandal a Man, where you played Charlie for
sixty nine episodes.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Again, it's one of my many show business stories where
I think it my career is over. And I hadn't
worked for literally a year before Scandal. We picked up
sold everything in LA We moved to Princeton, New Jersey
to work out in New York. And so I've got
a voiceover agent.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Maybe I'll just do that.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I'll live in New York and La I got so,
you know, so we could. We changed our whole life,
moved over there, hated it. Came back in nine months
and a week later I had a guest spot audition
for Scandal, so and I thought it was going to
be one episode, and it was just one episode, and
they kept calling me back. He wanted to do one more,
two more, or whatever. And I kept thinking, this guy's
(26:33):
going to get killed. This guy's going to get killed
because he's killing everyone, so he's going to die. But
they kept having me do one, two, three, three and
two and just guest stars. And I would sit at
the table read and my armpits. I would be sweating
because I think, okay, is this one I'm going to die?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And I needed to do it.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I needed this work so badly. We'd come back. I
needed the job, and so it kept going. Then the
show got picked up and then it was popular and
they kept using my character. But I had done like
thirty episodes at this point I was like, Okay, what's
gonna happen? Am I a regular?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Am I not a regular?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
They kept me a guest star for sixty.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Episodes sixty nine sixty, and then I became.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
A regular for the last fifteen episodes or something.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Oh man, But that whole time, it seemed like you
weren't kind of a regular. There wasn't like you were
like it was like many, like like half a season in.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Between the times we would see you on each episode.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
So they wouldn't commit. They just I was dying.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
I mean, I'm telling you, and you didn't even know
until you were in there reading the script, like, oh,
coold script.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Oh my god, my wife was I mean? And during
this time, this is an I just tell me if
I'm boring you. But no, I have an eighth act.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Of my career.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I do.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I do a lot of audiobooks. I've narrated over six
hundred audiobooks. Oh my god, that is it kills my voice, mother,
But but I enjoy it and it's a sort of
a great side thing. But during Scandal, every week I
thought I was going to die, and I thought, I
got it, this is not going to work. I got
to keep making my insurance. I got I've got three
kids in private school, so all this stuff. So I said,
(28:14):
I figured out this audiobook thing on the side. So
I started doing that while I was doing Scandal, which
was a top ten show, and I would go talk
to these people, and I think, you want to read audiobooks?
Aren't you want to?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Are you going to?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Looks like I'm on a hit show, but I don't
think I'm on it. I don't know if I'm on it.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Tomorrow could be a totally.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I need to get this audiobook job that paid twelve
hundred dollars and then so, but here's the goodness. After
scandal is over, after seven seasons, I still do these audiobooks.
So I was at the time, I think, God, I'm
really glad I had something that I kept that continues on.
Sure you kind of do on my own that I
(28:56):
don't need an agent, and all I have been I
have held on by that freaking my fingernails.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
You have years.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
It's so, then how do you end up from there
making all of.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Them, making all of what I was like, like, where
are we going to ask this?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
We have a twenty acre that's wow, my gosh.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
So twenty years ago, before I moved to Princeton, we
bought twenty acres up here in Santa Barbara County and
we built a house and my wife and I were
both on shows, and we thought, let's just let's do
something with the money and build something. Had the kids
to come and get out of LA. And so we
built it, and we know what are we doing? We
have two houses, two more, no job. So we managed
(29:40):
to hold on to it throughout all of this and
blah blah blah blah blah. But so what's lovely now
Our kids are out of you know, empty nesters. And
we had we had some olive trees, and I started
planting more trees and and now I think I'm the
happiest when I'm digging in the dirt and making oil
and it's beautiful oil. And we have four hundred trees.
We just planted one hundred trees two days ago.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
More So, I just I love it. And I have
a boot.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I have my booth set up over here in the back,
and I have a booth in LA so I can
go back and forth and do my voice over work.
And if I get it on job, you know that
that can be anywhere, but mostly my day to day's
voiceover stuff. And I just I toggle back and forth
and I make olive oil.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
And you know during the daytime, are you are you
sourcing it to voss or are you bottling it and
doing it yourself.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's called ten Hands olive oil. It's my three kids
and I so ten Hands, and it's on Instagram ten
Hands Ali.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Will everyone follow it?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
So we have five hundred bottles this year.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
And I'm buying some right when we're done. I'm buying
some right when we're done.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I will absolutely.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
You don't even have a way for you to get it,
but we'll care you some pop ups at like the
Brentwood Brentwood Farmers Market. Then we'll get it on the
website so people could order it. But it's just I'm
figuring this out as I go. My wife has done
all of the beautiful labeling and we've all I prune
and freaking weed and pick with my friend. We do
(31:10):
all of that and it's organic and beautiful and the
quality is insane.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
How how long have you been in this world?
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Now?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
How long have you?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Three years? Three years?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
But you know, the trees are just growing. So I
have a show business career and I have a farmer career,
so I just kind.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Of that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
And I was in the garden all day yesterday. There's
nothing like putting your head in the dirt. There's nothing better.
There is nothing better. Yes, it's the greatest.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
And when you cook with it, it's like a totally
different situation. Like I had herbs and things and tomatoes
and peppers at one point and it was just it.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I felt like your chef. I really wasn't It just
was like so good though. Everyone needed to.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Try tomato and eat your own tomato. You feel like
that's really that's the that's what.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah, that's insane. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I planted six big mac trees and so far nothing's happened,
and it's very annoying.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Yeah, but we're getting there.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Well, thank you so much for joining us. I have
one special favored ass Yes, when we do double switch, Yes,
will you come back?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yes, get Lisa she to come back and we'll chat. Okay,
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I'm sure she's gonna she's gonna jump.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Kidding.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I would. I would kill to have you both on.
This would be so much fun, be really fun. You're
gonna love it. It's a it's a blast. It's really so.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
When's the last time you've seen that one?
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Then?
Speaker 4 (32:38):
How like, when's the last time do you think you've
watched that?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Actually? I don't.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
The only copy I abason is in Italian. It's called
Dopio Scambio, so I'm dubbed an Italian. That's the only
copy I can find that. You can find it online,
actually in English.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Our producers will find it.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I guarantee you you'll find it. But I have the
Italian version and it's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Okay. I absolutely can't wait.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
So double Switch you're coming back, and for everybody out
there ten hands olive oil, go follow them.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
And check it out, because that's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
George Newburn, thank you so much for joining us, and
we cannot wait to see you again.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Bye man. He's been in, by the way, that's him.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
He doesn't put on airs, he doesn't do anything. That's him.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
You see him everywhere, and he's got these great stories
about everybody in Hollywood and he knows everybody, and he's
been in everything.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Career is unreal, like those guys.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
And I didn't want to say anything, but him saying like,
oh yeah, it was like, you know, six months. I'm like, homie,
Like people go for like years without looking and but
I understand a lots on the line, especially at certain
points of your life. When you've got kids and things
like that and you've you know, I totally understand it.
But when he was like, yeah, man, eight months had
(33:55):
gone by. I'm like eight months people would be like
I've hit it big time when they get a job
on month one and then month eight, Like.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
You know, he's one of those guys.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I'm saying, he's one of those guys.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
He came out and he's I mean, his first like
five or six movies are on like the top twenty
list of all the best movies all time. When you've
got Adventures at Babysitting, Father the Bride, all those things
on the.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
It's ugh movies, movies that generations know about.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Like that's the kind of actor he is. There's it's
not just the people that were young during his time.
It was family movies that generations knew about and still
know about it even I'm sure maybe not this exact
generation that's grown up right now. They might know The
Babysitters Club because of the screen of Carpenter, but like, regardless,
(34:45):
those movies are just Father of the Bride everyone knows about.
I swear, I don't. I feel like I would just
have to stop talking to a person who told me, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
He's also he's one of those people who's killed it
in every medium. So he's television, film voiceover.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
This audiobook.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Voiceover.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I didn't know he was a supermans over.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
He superman had no idea.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
That is crazy, and he was.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
A great Superman too.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
He was a really it was like audio books like
that is, so he's.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I gotta go read an audiobook for twelve hundred dollars
because this hit show I might not actually be on.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
People talk about how how like hardcore and just savage
the industry is. That's a savage story, like we're going
to keep you on for sixty plus episodes and never
make you a rest guest star as a guest you're thinking,
but I mean, it's probably because they were thinking, oh,
there's only a limit. And then he with his amazing
acting and where his character just they didn't want to
(35:44):
let him go.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
That's one of those shows where it's it's the type
of thing you kept hearing stories about people who did
either like The Sopranos or Game of Thrones, where they'd
get a script delivered and they'd open the script shaking
with their hands, going, I wonder if I'm going to
die like, I wonder if this is my last episode.
The producers aren't going to tell me. I'm just gonna read, Oh,
I take a knife in the belly this episode.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Okay, I guess that's it.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
I guess I'll just never get scandal like that. Right
while watching, I guess I just never.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
You didn't open a Cheetah Girl script and wonder, I
wonder if this is the one where they killed Dough.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Later she just dances her right off the mountain.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Well, thank you everybody for joining us, and thank you
George for taking the time.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
That was so cool.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Seriously, everybody, go out and follow ten hands olive oil.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I know I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I want to get some of that because who doesn't
love a good olive oil, especially one made by Superman
and the father of the bride. So cool, So thank you, Yes,
and join us over on our other feed where we're
gonna review awesome movies, which is, well, some awesome, some
not so awesome. We keep doing that back and forth,
but I would say we're probably seventy percent awesome. Yeah,
right in that seventieth percentile, so than not the best.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Dad napped, Sorry.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
George, not sorry.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Not on our list.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
It seems sold on it either though, but Buffalo Dreams
is on the good list certainly, if only he remember exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
He remembered what it was like again, that's just him.
Thank you everybody for joining us, and we'll see you
next time.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Bye.
Thank you everybody for joining us on this park Hopper
episode of Magical Rewind. And I've never said this before,
but we've got a really special one today. You've never
heard me say that this is actually, this is not hyperbole.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
We're really excited to have today's guest.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
He is I dare I say a friend with a
small lef because I've gotten a chance to work with
him several times and we talk to each other at
conventions and he's the greatest guy in the world.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Help us bring in George Newbern to see How are
you doing great? How are you guys?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
I'm good. Thank you for joining us on this wonderful
podcast where we talk all things d coms.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Yes, you know, it's so funny. I went back to
your I was looking on your your latest podcast and
you were reviewing Buffalo Dreams.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yes, we were.
Speaker 4 (01:05):
We were.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Why that's what we do.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
We're watching them all And we just had a wonderful
talk yesterday with mister Simon Baker. Yes, is this the
first time anybody specifically wanted to sit down and talk
to you about just your Disney Channel original movies?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Yes, yes it is.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
Can you so I know you do have a famous memory.
We've talked about this at some convention, So can you
walk us through the entire plot of Dad napped?
Speaker 2 (01:39):
I wouldn't do that to you. I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I know that my daughter Emily Osmond and if I'mily
sing this, please reach out to me. I can't even
get a hold. I don't know where she is. We
we did a I think we, uh, she's my daughter,
and then I can't remember she. I got kidnapped for
some reason. Dad app yes, tied me up in floss, yes,
(02:05):
And I don't know why. I can't remember why.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
You So here's the thing.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
We've seen the movie and we still don't know why
they can't.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
So, in all fairness, that was a weird one for us.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
It was just all the Disney Channel stars in one movie. Correct, Yes,
Phil Lewis and Moys's and David Henry. Who else was
in that?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Emily Ozma, Jason Jason who we had a nice talk
with Jason who said the same thing. Nobody really knows.
Everyone even in the movie, isn't really sure what the
movie's about.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
No, No, I've had a great time.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
But everyone says that it was a blasted.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
But it was a blast and my My biggest memory
of that other than the floss and then the a
lot of goo and stuff at the end, like yogurt
with guns. Uh was my kids were much younger that point.
They came out to Utah to watch this film and
(03:02):
we played the Laser Tag one night, and it was
they were right at the age of like they were
into all those the Disney Channel stars at the time,
and we all got to play laser Tag with the
cool Disney Channel stars and my kids and they.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Couldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
They Oh, yes, I believe they got to It was
like me getting to play laser Tag with the Partridge Family.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
So you got great dad cred for that day.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Huge.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Did your kids have a part of why you would
sign on for your Disney Channel movies?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Was that like a part of your Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
No, no, I just wanted work.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Okay, that's fair.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
There's plenty that they couldn't say that.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I said, yes.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Okay, wait, let's let's go back. So we know, you
grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and you have a
dad who was a doctor and a mom who was
a teacher. So how does somebody with that growing up
with that lifestyle decide, you know what I want to
do I want to be an actor.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
You know, A grip a little rock.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
And there was a really great children's theater at the time,
and I was about twelve or thirteen, and I remember
going to go see a play there and I don't know,
I really was struck by the kind of magic of that,
like sort of a black box, and everyone got really quiet,
and this young kid in this production I was watching
(04:18):
walked on stage and all the people screamed because he
was like, I don't know, like the character they were
waiting to see. And I was like, how do I
be part of that there? And it was initially the
magic and the attention, of course, and I was terrible
at sports, so I just kind of found a home
doing productions of this children's theater. And I didn't know
(04:41):
I could do it or had any talent at all whatsoever.
But I was sort of a ham third, you know,
three or four kids, and I was always trying to
get attention, I think, just to have somebody notice I
was there. And as I got older, I kind of
realized I could do it. I could dance. I was
a singer. I did tons of musical theater. I was
a ballet answer for seven eight years, and then when
(05:05):
I went to Northwestern to study theater, I said, Okay,
let's see if I can actually do this. And then
when I got there, but I could do it, and
I got lots of roles and shows, and I was like, okay,
now can I make a living doing it? You know,
it's just is a of it. And but to answer
your question, I was entranced by the magic of that
(05:26):
dark sort of place and out of Little Rock, Arkansas.
It is a very odd thing that I ended up doing.
I played the flute, I was I was in theater
and ballet and straight I couldn't. Everyone must have thought
I was completely you know, not all. You know, growing
up at the South that was a very odd thing
(05:46):
for someone to do. But ended up going to school
in Chicago and then ended up in la and she
you know, just kept going from there. Just I just
would take it one job at a time, and and
now I found olives because my industry is decimated.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
It is I know, oh god, I know.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
That's It's amazing how many times we hear a version
of that story, especially when you're the second or third
child where you're trying to go I mean, I was
a third kid too, so just you're trying to get
attention and then it just somehow turns into a career.
I was.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I think I was the most annoying child on the
planet up until like fifth grade. Between like kindergarten fifth grade,
I did anything I could do to annoy the hell
out of my my siblings, my parents. I just I
would literally go, I would I would like run through
(06:38):
and not stuff down, just to make they hated me
and I and I knew what I was doing. It
was awful. And then, like literally in fifth grade, my
teacher who was also my older brother's teacher, came in
one day and then I was doing something in the
class and she said, well, George, you know I met
your brother at open house and he was such a
(06:58):
lovely I mean, I saw your brother and I remember
what a lovely guy he is. You know, you should
you should take after your older brother. Your behavior is
pretty much intolerable. And I remember, in front of everyone,
everyone looked at.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
Me, oh man, that's no good.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
I kind of got the I got the memo, and
from that minute I kind of cut it out behavior.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
But then I kept doing play.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Well, of course, well so wait when it comes to
then your relationship with Disney was the first kind of
lead role you ever did Double Switch the Wonderful World
of Disney movie.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was my first big hop when
I got to LA And by the way, that was
it was a freaking dream job because I got to sing,
I got to you know, to like move around like
a rock star and then play the I played two
different parts and they switched places and they did the
whole split screen thing.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
Oh cool.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
Elizabeth Schue was my girlfriend and she had just an
a karate kid. And and what's cool is the writer,
John magnamara ended up winning tons of stuff for Trombone
Academy Award, and he's prolific writer. You know, if you
look up John mcnamary has done anything. And then Mark
Gordon that Mark Gordon produced, that was his first producing thing.
And then Dave greenwal Greenwalt was the director and I
(08:11):
guess co writer with with mcnamuir, but you know, great
Greenwalt went on to do Buffy.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
And yeah, sure, I think so.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
It was everyone's kind of first big job and my
first week job and was like whoa uh, it was spectacular.
It was really really fun, really.
Speaker 2 (08:26):
Well we also review Wonderful World of Disney's here.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So we will go back and watch Doubles will Oh no,
we're going, Oh, it's a really Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You also got to work with like nineteen eighty six
Elizabeth Shoe, which is like, come on, Elizabeth Shoes.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I hadn't seen honestly. And then I did Adventures in
Babysitting with Elizabeth.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Yeah. After that, I called her Lisa, not Elizabeth.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
And I just saw her at a I hadn't seen
her since Adventures in Babysitting and I just saw her
con a month ago.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
And we're like, wait, you really hadn't seen her.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I saw her on the streets of Beverly Hills, my
wife and I and that she was like with we
just were passing, like hey, what was like, yeah, yeah,
eleven and very odd.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
But but I hadn't.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Seen him foreverever.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
It was great.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Great to see her and she was the same. Honestly,
it's great.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Did you ever check out the d com that stars
Sabrina Carpenter that those remake of it?
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Did you guys?
Speaker 1 (09:23):
Did you ever check they did adventures? They did a
new Adventures in Babysitting as a d.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Com on the Disney Channel.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Wait a minute, with yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Yeah, and and so uh oh gosh, there was another
big actress in it.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Is that the same one.
Speaker 6 (09:40):
With Sophia Carson. Yeah, with Espresso, Well, Sabrina Carpenter.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
I noticed Sabrina. Sabrina is sister. Is Sarah Sabrina has
been to our house?
Speaker 2 (09:54):
She didn't, she didn't.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Bring up Hey, by the way, I did remain one
of the most e.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
She was the star of it.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Her sister's dating George Smith, who's in uh was in
this band with my my middle daughter, my middle daughter
May's boyfriend Reese. They're in this thing, New Hope Club.
They just broke up, honestly.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
But anyway, for.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
The less, your social circle is.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Poppin many times right before she became like you know, Espresso,
very talented girl. But yeah, no, I didn't know that
they that she did Adventures of Baby.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
It was it was big.
Speaker 6 (10:30):
It was a It was a big movie for them too,
because I feel like it was like their hundredth.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
It was their one hundredth d com. It wasn't seen
you saw it, I haven't seen.
Speaker 4 (10:39):
I was at the premiere.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
I got a chance to actually go to the They
had a big premiere for it, and it was it
was great.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
That's gonna be tough for me because the original Adventures.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
Baby, I can't imagine.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
No, it can't anything.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Ever as good as the original.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
That's just the way that it is.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
But you have to set that expectation knowing that it's
not going to fill all your nostalgic dreams. However, it
was amazing to watch this new generation of amazing young
actors take it on and they did a great job.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
They really did. But we'll, we'll, we'll tear it apart.
I'm sure.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Again, I watch all these with no nostalgia, so I'm like,
wait a minute, yeah, I have.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I have no connection to these whatsoever.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
So you're you're now out in Los Angeles, you get
your first big job, You're you're playing multiple characters. Did
you at that point where you're like, I got this clocked,
this is this is going to be easy.
Speaker 3 (11:25):
At this point, So living in an apartment in Brentwood,
and I got this job, and my girlfriend at the time,
Marietta now my wife, we've been married forever. She had
come she uh, we went to school together in Northwestern
she came out to LA and then she got to
play in New York, so she went to New York
for a minute. But but I remember thinking, wow, I
(11:46):
just and I signed it with CIA. Got this, Yes,
I think this. I can't believe it. I made two
thousand dollars a week doing that TV movie. I was
a star of it, and I said, I got at
this thing. I cannot believe I just made it. I
made it little did I know. I mean I worked
(12:06):
a little bit for three four and then after the
inventure baby say, I didn't work for eight months. Oh,
and I had an agent at CIA. So I slowly
started to figure out, oh, that's not how this is
going to work.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
And this is back when there was I was young
and there.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Was a ton of you know, yeah.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
The business was still the business.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
It was still there. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
So anyway, I've been humbled by that that cycle about
ten times. Ah, but you know, it is what it is.
And I'm still grateful. I mean, she's an't believe all
the work I've actually gotten.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
And we've got it all right here.
Speaker 6 (12:45):
I mean, you went on, you've got your movie with
Steve Martin.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Well that's what I wanted. So where were you? I
have to ask?
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So in the dips of your career.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Where does Father the Bride fall?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
It's interesting, you said, because that was one of the
deepest deepest dips. Right before Father the Bride, I hadn't
worked in six months, and I started doing commercials again.
You know how you think I do commercials and then
when I leave commercials and then I.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Go on to do other things.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Yep, I had gone on to do other things, and
I would then I came back around down to a
commercial because I was like, God, dang it, I don't
have any money. I can't believe I'm having to do this.
I gotta And I did these Chevron commercials where a
series of three or four and I was like, hey, Dad,
I do want to mix the old gas with the
new gas. And I mean, I'd started movies, started in
(13:35):
a series, and then I was doing commercials again. I
was like, I can't believe that anyway. That's fine, it's
no I'm gonna show you know, most personal commercial. But
you just think your career is gonna kind of go.
So I do the commercial and it's it's very cute.
It works, it's really a good commercial. And Nancy Myers,
who did Father Bride, saw it and Chuck and said, hey,
bring this guy in for this audition. So and then
(13:57):
I auditioned and then I got a movie.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
So you never know.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Oh and you just never know, man, you never freaking know.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
Wow, what was that like working with I think his
name is Scott Martin. I'm not familiar with his work,
the star of Father of the Bride, is that right, Martin?
Steve Steve Martin. Sorry, not familiar with him.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Or anything he's ever done. What is that like?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
You come, so, you're you, you finish your Chevron commercials,
you walk on the set and now you're, you know,
one of the kind of Steve Martin movie.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
I just it was pretty. It wasn't just it. It
was the combination of Diane Diane Keaton yea and then
Martin short and yes, it's everybody.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Everybody together. And then.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
The first thing we did shot was a shot coming
in the scene, coming in the door and meeting the
parents for the first time. And the girl Kim Williams
he got it was also from Northwestern about eight nine
years younger than me. But wow, so we had a
lot to talk about. But anyway, I remember before the
door open, I was just like, God, this is absolutely.
I'm just surreal and and weirdly enough, i'd gotten something
(15:03):
in my eye and my I was like, they're rolling
and I've got some of my hold I hold second
and I was like I brought some eye drops over whatever,
and I and uh, rolling, rolling, rolling, and I was like, okay, sorry,
I'm sorry, It's it's still my eyes.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Story.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
So so anyway, the third take, right before we come out,
I'm like, I knock on the door, and behind the door,
Steve Martin says, whatever you do, don't think about your
eye before I come.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
I was like, oh my god, so a pretty spot
on Steve Martin impression.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
If I'm honest, Oh man, when you're in a film
with those kind of comedic legends, are you just trying
not to break every take? Or are they so professional
that it's.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
I'm just trying to stop thinking that Steve Martin, Right,
they're talking to me and what do I Am I
a character?
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Or am I me?
Speaker 3 (16:06):
It's like but then you know, you get past that
after a certain point. But but yeah, no, Martin short
was the hardest one to sort of not not laugh
every three seconds.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Yeah, that character was just his character.
Speaker 3 (16:21):
I just saw a snipped it on Saturday Night Live
when Martin Short was Katherine Heppern's like third cousins selling
hot dogs.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
You remember that.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I know he's wearing like a crop mid drift and
he's and he's serving hot dogs and it's like nineteen
eighty two.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
And I any dog, Like, I don't know. Oh my god,
that guy has done.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
I swear, I'm so in awe of him.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yeah, he's a genius.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Are you able to watch those movies? Are they great
for you if you do? Or are they too hard
for you to watch? Or how is that I've done?
Speaker 1 (16:56):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I think I've probably don't. I've never counted, but I
think it's in the forty thirty or forty movies in
my life, and I think maybe six of them I
can watch. The rest of them are.
Speaker 1 (17:08):
Like, really, do you know what? The six are? Just
curious which ones they are?
Speaker 3 (17:12):
That TheRide Adventures and Babysitting Evening Star of the sequel
to Terms of Endearment, Although that's not that great, but
I can watch it.
Speaker 1 (17:24):
Terms on Deer Them, by the way, hugely funny movie.
I laughed through that entire film. Terms of Dearman, Yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
And what else.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
A movie called It Takes Two that I did actually
right before I had to start doing commercials for you
known artists, which was quite a good movie.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I think who was in that one?
Speaker 3 (17:45):
It was myself, a girl named Leslie Hope, who's a
director now, Stephen Geary.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
Oh wow, Anthony G.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Cazel lives. It took place in the South. It was
about me getting married. I get married in almost everything
I do.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
Yeah, you're a good groom.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
You're like the perfect group.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
I've gotten movies.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
You're legally married in like eleven states. Okay, so we
got it. We got to talk a little bit about
now your your d coom run since this is what
we do here. So you've you've finished the entire cup
of ayahuasca. When for for when you're reading the Dad
Nap script, because that's what I felt had happened. Well,
(18:33):
I mean, so first of all, you got Paul Hoan,
who's the king of all d coms.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Uh doing more? Is he's still doing? Yeah, he's now
in charge of the Zombies franchise.
Speaker 6 (18:42):
Have you seen zombies at all or heard about the
Giant Zombies franchise?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
That is Paul from start to finish, Like what.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
Is It Is?
Speaker 6 (18:49):
It?
Speaker 1 (18:49):
On Disney Zombies is their new tent pole kind of thing.
It is a musical about zombies that takes place into
high school. It is a Disney Channel original movie. In
the last film had a forty million dollar budget.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Wait, i'd sam so out of it. When did they
start airing these?
Speaker 1 (19:06):
The first one was what two thy seventeen twenty eighteen?
Speaker 2 (19:10):
Yeah, eighteen.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
And they're so good you would? I mean, if you
like musicals, I love them.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
I love them. I can't believe that copies don't.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
They are so so good. Paul does an incredible job.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Stars Milo Manheim, who's Katherine Manheim's son, and he's phenomenal.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
The cast is great.
Speaker 1 (19:30):
They're really really good musicals, very interesting way of doing it.
High school musical plus okay is kind of what they've done.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So it's really cool.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
We'll going to get some heat for that.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
What saying high school musical plus it is it is?
Speaker 4 (19:44):
I'm sorry they're new. I could feel it already.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Well, they're new. Because they're new, it's kind of more upscale.
It also makes a little more sense. Zombie singing makes
more sense to me than high school kids singing. Love
It's one of those shockingly good Disney movies where you're like,
I can't believe I enjoyed this.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
As much as I did.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Will was not into the musical, like this movie actually
made him a fan of musicals, which I've been trying
since we started this damp podcast to game.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I don't understand people getting together and all of a
sudden breaking into song, like they've rehearsed it forever and
now they're dancing down the hallway, Like when did you
get together and rehearse this?
Speaker 3 (20:16):
You know, we were just my kids were way into
Zach Effron during high school musical all that stuff, and
I remember watching over their shoulder, going the kid's real handsome,
and look at him dancing. Look at this guy's great
until the scene in the second high School musical, I
think when.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
He was a golfing the golf course off course and
he was.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Doing fou it was O's and then he's he's singing
to his own reflection in the.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
In the Uh, that was tough. That was That's kind
of when they lost me as well.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
So yeah, we had a hard time with that. And
I was a big high school musical fan. It was
around those kids the whole time they were coming up,
and I don't remember. And I was at that premiere
and I told Will, I'm.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Like, I don't remember that scene.
Speaker 6 (20:59):
If I remember that scene, that's the only scene I
would have remembered.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Your brain blocked it out, I think blocked it out.
So Dad napped.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
We admit, we have to say is one of the
stranger films that we've seen, But we really we just
rewatched and really liked Buffalo Dreams. Yes, do you remember
shooting the film.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
I remember being in a trailer and we went up
to this island where they I want to say Buffalo
Island it might have been, but there's like a preserve.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Yes, we talked about.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
It around Great Salt the Great Salt Lake or something
where they had some They had bison out there, buffalo
running around, so I think they got some shots out there,
and I remember that's about it. I remember hanging out
with Jane sibbatt and laughing and eating good food and Utah.
But god, honestly, I don't remember much more than that.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
Had you both been on friends by this point, she.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Had been, I don't know if I had had.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
I maybe, Yeah, you were in the later you were
in the later episodes.
Speaker 2 (21:58):
So seasons seven or something like six or.
Speaker 1 (22:01):
Two thousand and five was the air date of Buffalo Dreams,
so she probably shot two thousand and four.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
Yeah, so it was right around Oh wow. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (22:10):
Uh, it's so crazy.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
You never shot together on Friends though, right while you
guys were on it together that you're seeing, your episodes
were completely different.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Yes, yes, yes, I took over for Jason Lee. I
guess it did. Something happened didn't work out, but I
took over him, and.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Then that did. I was supposed to test.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
I was supposed to test for Friends for Swimmer's part,
who I went to school with at Northwestern. Really yeah,
that year, James Burrows was directing three pilots Friends, one
with halland and Suzann Plichett, and another one another one
that my friend Craig did. So here's the story. So
I was supposed to test the Swimmer's part, and I went,
(22:50):
I read the pilot. It's pretty funny.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
I better go.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I better go for the one with Suzanne and Hall
Linden because that's gonna go. And then my friend Craig
Bierco was was actually offered Matt Perry's part on the pilot.
Of Friends, but he turned it down because it's not
that good. Maybe I'll do I should do the one
where I'm the lead with the little girl, all directed
by James Burrows. Well those are all going to get
(23:13):
picked up, but you know, we've died friends with Jewel.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
I'm just thinking of because Craig Bercos he's great. I'm
thinking of him as as Chandler is such a straight.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Great He's just a totally different But you know, look
on it, there was nobody that was better than either
one of those actors, and now nobody.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
You know.
Speaker 1 (23:33):
So Craig Bierco is one of those guys where he
seems like the nice guy and the awesome guy and
then they make him the bad guy in the Long
Kiss good Night and it.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
Works, it does. He was we were roommates for a while,
a Northwestern guy, and he just freaking is one of
the brightest bulbs.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
He's so oh man, Okay, so you're you've done again.
We can list all this kind of all these movies.
You've worked for Disney for years, You've done a ton
of stuff with Disney, a ton of stuff on TV.
How do you then get into where I got a
chance to work with you and meet you. How do
you find the joy that is voiceover?
Speaker 3 (24:07):
You know what it's it's I haven't even done that
much voiceover, but the ones that I've done sort of
kind of lasted a long time. The first one I
did was Pirates of Dark Water with for a Hand
of Barbara with Gordon Hunt who directed it. And that
was spectacular because I had really cool actors, like, you know,
Jonathan Winters was there, Roddy McDowell, Jody Benson, Tim Curry,
(24:33):
Frank Welker, crazy talented people.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
And then then I didn't do any.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Other voiceover for another I don't know, ten years, and
then I got to this Superman thing. I thought it
was a one off. I thought it was a one off.
I didn't and I didn't know I was taken over
them daily and I went into I read the speech
and walked out and I got it. I was like, wait,
is this just like for a week or what it?
And then it turns out it had the series which
(24:59):
you did? You did a Justice League Unlimited, didn't you?
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You were?
Speaker 1 (25:02):
I did well because we had just come off of
Batman Beyond, So I was Kevin, was was was Bruce,
and I was Terry and Batman Beyond and then so
we spun off and would do random episodes of Unlimited.
Speaker 3 (25:12):
Yeah right, right, Well we were in the room together.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Yes, no, we did one in the room together. But
then we started to get to talk more at the
conventions more than anything else.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:20):
So after Justice League, then I did a voice for
a whatever video game Final Fantasy. So basically those two
things from twenty years ago still live on in the
con world, and that's what.
Speaker 1 (25:32):
They're absolutely huge.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
My seventh act of being an actors cons these hilarious
and I have a great time.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Well let's go back to your sixth act then, because
I think our audience is going to be very interested
to know what it was like to work with Kerry
Washington in Scandal a Man, where you played Charlie for
sixty nine episodes.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
Again, it's one of my many show business stories where
I think it my career is over. And I hadn't
worked for literally a year before Scandal. We picked up
sold everything in LA We moved to Princeton, New Jersey
to work out in New York. And so I've got
a voiceover agent.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Maybe I'll just do that.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
I'll live in New York and La I got so,
you know, so we could. We changed our whole life,
moved over there, hated it. Came back in nine months
and a week later I had a guest spot audition
for Scandal, so and I thought it was going to
be one episode, and it was just one episode, and
they kept calling me back. He wanted to do one more,
two more, or whatever. And I kept thinking, this guy's
(26:33):
going to get killed. This guy's going to get killed
because he's killing everyone, so he's going to die. But
they kept having me do one, two, three, three and
two and just guest stars. And I would sit at
the table read and my armpits. I would be sweating
because I think, okay, is this one I'm going to die?
Speaker 2 (26:48):
And I needed to do it.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I needed this work so badly. We'd come back. I
needed the job, and so it kept going. Then the
show got picked up and then it was popular and
they kept using my character. But I had done like
thirty episodes at this point I was like, Okay, what's
gonna happen? Am I a regular?
Speaker 2 (27:04):
Am I not a regular?
Speaker 3 (27:05):
They kept me a guest star for sixty.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Episodes sixty nine sixty, and then I became.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
A regular for the last fifteen episodes or something.
Speaker 6 (27:17):
Oh man, But that whole time, it seemed like you
weren't kind of a regular. There wasn't like you were
like it was like many, like like half a season in.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Between the times we would see you on each episode.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
So they wouldn't commit. They just I was dying.
Speaker 6 (27:35):
I mean, I'm telling you, and you didn't even know
until you were in there reading the script, like, oh,
coold script.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Oh my god, my wife was I mean? And during
this time, this is an I just tell me if
I'm boring you. But no, I have an eighth act.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Of my career.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
I do.
Speaker 3 (27:51):
I do a lot of audiobooks. I've narrated over six
hundred audiobooks. Oh my god, that is it kills my voice, mother,
But but I enjoy it and it's a sort of
a great side thing. But during Scandal, every week I
thought I was going to die, and I thought, I
got it, this is not going to work. I got
to keep making my insurance. I got I've got three
kids in private school, so all this stuff. So I said,
(28:14):
I figured out this audiobook thing on the side. So
I started doing that while I was doing Scandal, which
was a top ten show, and I would go talk
to these people, and I think, you want to read audiobooks?
Aren't you want to?
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Are you going to?
Speaker 1 (28:27):
It?
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Looks like I'm on a hit show, but I don't
think I'm on it. I don't know if I'm on it.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (28:33):
Tomorrow could be a totally.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
I need to get this audiobook job that paid twelve
hundred dollars and then so, but here's the goodness. After
scandal is over, after seven seasons, I still do these audiobooks.
So I was at the time, I think, God, I'm
really glad I had something that I kept that continues on.
Sure you kind of do on my own that I
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don't need an agent, and all I have been I
have held on by that freaking my fingernails.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
You have years.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
It's so, then how do you end up from there
making all of.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Them, making all of what I was like, like, where
are we going to ask this?
Speaker 2 (29:15):
We have a twenty acre that's wow, my gosh.
Speaker 3 (29:19):
So twenty years ago, before I moved to Princeton, we
bought twenty acres up here in Santa Barbara County and
we built a house and my wife and I were
both on shows, and we thought, let's just let's do
something with the money and build something. Had the kids
to come and get out of LA. And so we
built it, and we know what are we doing? We
have two houses, two more, no job. So we managed
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to hold on to it throughout all of this and
blah blah blah blah blah. But so what's lovely now
Our kids are out of you know, empty nesters. And
we had we had some olive trees, and I started
planting more trees and and now I think I'm the
happiest when I'm digging in the dirt and making oil
and it's beautiful oil. And we have four hundred trees.
We just planted one hundred trees two days ago.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
More So, I just I love it. And I have
a boot.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I have my booth set up over here in the back,
and I have a booth in LA so I can
go back and forth and do my voice over work.
And if I get it on job, you know that
that can be anywhere, but mostly my day to day's
voiceover stuff. And I just I toggle back and forth
and I make olive oil.
Speaker 6 (30:23):
And you know during the daytime, are you are you
sourcing it to voss or are you bottling it and
doing it yourself.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
It's called ten Hands olive oil. It's my three kids
and I so ten Hands, and it's on Instagram ten
Hands Ali.
Speaker 2 (30:37):
Will everyone follow it?
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (30:40):
So we have five hundred bottles this year.
Speaker 2 (30:43):
And I'm buying some right when we're done. I'm buying
some right when we're done.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
I will absolutely.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
You don't even have a way for you to get it,
but we'll care you some pop ups at like the
Brentwood Brentwood Farmers Market. Then we'll get it on the
website so people could order it. But it's just I'm
figuring this out as I go. My wife has done
all of the beautiful labeling and we've all I prune
and freaking weed and pick with my friend. We do
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all of that and it's organic and beautiful and the
quality is insane.
Speaker 4 (31:14):
How how long have you been in this world?
Speaker 6 (31:16):
Now?
Speaker 1 (31:16):
How long have you?
Speaker 2 (31:17):
Three years? Three years?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
But you know, the trees are just growing. So I
have a show business career and I have a farmer career,
so I just kind.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
Of that's amazing.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
And I was in the garden all day yesterday. There's
nothing like putting your head in the dirt. There's nothing better.
There is nothing better. Yes, it's the greatest.
Speaker 6 (31:34):
And when you cook with it, it's like a totally
different situation. Like I had herbs and things and tomatoes
and peppers at one point and it was just it.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I felt like your chef. I really wasn't It just
was like so good though. Everyone needed to.
Speaker 3 (31:50):
Try tomato and eat your own tomato. You feel like
that's really that's the that's what.
Speaker 5 (31:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
Yeah, that's insane. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
I planted six big mac trees and so far nothing's happened,
and it's very annoying.
Speaker 2 (32:07):
Yeah, but we're getting there.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Well, thank you so much for joining us. I have
one special favored ass Yes, when we do double switch, Yes,
will you come back?
Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yes, get Lisa she to come back and we'll chat. Okay,
I'm sure.
Speaker 1 (32:24):
I'm sure she's gonna she's gonna jump.
Speaker 6 (32:28):
Kidding.
Speaker 2 (32:28):
I would. I would kill to have you both on.
This would be so much fun, be really fun. You're
gonna love it. It's a it's a blast. It's really so.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
When's the last time you've seen that one?
Speaker 5 (32:38):
Then?
Speaker 4 (32:38):
How like, when's the last time do you think you've
watched that?
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Actually? I don't.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
The only copy I abason is in Italian. It's called
Dopio Scambio, so I'm dubbed an Italian. That's the only
copy I can find that. You can find it online,
actually in English.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
Our producers will find it.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I guarantee you you'll find it. But I have the
Italian version and it's hilarious.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
Okay. I absolutely can't wait.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
So double Switch you're coming back, and for everybody out
there ten hands olive oil, go follow them.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
And check it out, because that's gonna be great.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
George Newburn, thank you so much for joining us, and
we cannot wait to see you again.
Speaker 2 (33:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Bye man. He's been in, by the way, that's him.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
He doesn't put on airs, he doesn't do anything. That's him.
Speaker 1 (33:24):
You see him everywhere, and he's got these great stories
about everybody in Hollywood and he knows everybody, and he's
been in everything.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
Career is unreal, like those guys.
Speaker 6 (33:34):
And I didn't want to say anything, but him saying like,
oh yeah, it was like, you know, six months. I'm like, homie,
Like people go for like years without looking and but
I understand a lots on the line, especially at certain
points of your life. When you've got kids and things
like that and you've you know, I totally understand it.
But when he was like, yeah, man, eight months had
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gone by. I'm like eight months people would be like
I've hit it big time when they get a job
on month one and then month eight, Like.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
You know, he's one of those guys.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
I'm saying, he's one of those guys.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
He came out and he's I mean, his first like
five or six movies are on like the top twenty
list of all the best movies all time. When you've
got Adventures at Babysitting, Father the Bride, all those things
on the.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
It's ugh movies, movies that generations know about.
Speaker 6 (34:24):
Like that's the kind of actor he is. There's it's
not just the people that were young during his time.
It was family movies that generations knew about and still
know about it even I'm sure maybe not this exact
generation that's grown up right now. They might know The
Babysitters Club because of the screen of Carpenter, but like, regardless,
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those movies are just Father of the Bride everyone knows about.
I swear, I don't. I feel like I would just
have to stop talking to a person who told me, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
He's also he's one of those people who's killed it
in every medium. So he's television, film voiceover.
Speaker 2 (35:00):
This audiobook.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
Voiceover.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
I didn't know he was a supermans over.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
He superman had no idea.
Speaker 4 (35:07):
That is crazy, and he was.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
A great Superman too.
Speaker 4 (35:10):
He was a really it was like audio books like
that is, so he's.
Speaker 1 (35:17):
I gotta go read an audiobook for twelve hundred dollars
because this hit show I might not actually be on.
Speaker 6 (35:22):
People talk about how how like hardcore and just savage
the industry is. That's a savage story, like we're going
to keep you on for sixty plus episodes and never
make you a rest guest star as a guest you're thinking,
but I mean, it's probably because they were thinking, oh,
there's only a limit. And then he with his amazing
acting and where his character just they didn't want to
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let him go.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
That's one of those shows where it's it's the type
of thing you kept hearing stories about people who did
either like The Sopranos or Game of Thrones, where they'd
get a script delivered and they'd open the script shaking
with their hands, going, I wonder if I'm going to
die like, I wonder if this is my last episode.
The producers aren't going to tell me. I'm just gonna read, Oh,
I take a knife in the belly this episode.
Speaker 2 (36:02):
Okay, I guess that's it.
Speaker 6 (36:04):
I guess I'll just never get scandal like that. Right
while watching, I guess I just never.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
You didn't open a Cheetah Girl script and wonder, I
wonder if this is the one where they killed Dough.
Speaker 4 (36:15):
Later she just dances her right off the mountain.
Speaker 1 (36:20):
Well, thank you everybody for joining us, and thank you
George for taking the time.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
That was so cool.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Seriously, everybody, go out and follow ten hands olive oil.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
I know I'm going to.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
I want to get some of that because who doesn't
love a good olive oil, especially one made by Superman
and the father of the bride. So cool, So thank you, Yes,
and join us over on our other feed where we're
gonna review awesome movies, which is, well, some awesome, some
not so awesome. We keep doing that back and forth,
but I would say we're probably seventy percent awesome. Yeah,
right in that seventieth percentile, so than not the best.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Dad napped, Sorry.
Speaker 1 (36:51):
George, not sorry.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Not on our list.
Speaker 4 (36:54):
It seems sold on it either though, but Buffalo Dreams
is on the good list certainly, if only he remember exactly.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
He remembered what it was like again, that's just him.
Thank you everybody for joining us, and we'll see you
next time.
Speaker 2 (37:08):
Bye.
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