June 24, 2024 • 40 mins
Jason Dolley joins Will and Sabrina to chat about “Minutemen”, which he only had 24 hours to decide if he wanted to do the movie!
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Speaker 1 (00:15):
Welcome to this Park Hopper episode of Magical Rewind.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We are so excited to welcome True decom Royalty to
our little podcast today. We cannot wait. We've we've not well,
we're gonna. We're gonna get into how special this guy
is to us, because we do have a a connection
which we have to talk about.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So please help us. Welcome Jason Donny.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hello, Hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Gay guess I'm excited to have you here.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The goat that Tom Brady and d Comms is here
with us.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It's me and Brenda Song. I think we're because we're
I think we're both we're tied for I think we
with a four. Okay, yeah, and I think that's the most.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Yeah, there's a few of you because we just interviewed
from a Halloween town.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Oh, Kimberly Brown, of course, Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Yeah. Now, were any of those sequels though.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Yes, they were?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh, all yours are standalone.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
The none of mine were sequels.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
You're all that.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Which rendous songs I believe are also all originals.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh that's that would be.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Yeah, that's a good point, Jason.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's a big whole thing about it.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
But you know, we might have to call Kim and
say we need her to return that crown we gave her.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
That's awkward.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Well there tied you know.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh oh the okay, No, that's good. That does much
even more rarefied form here. So okay, first of all,
I have to tell you this, we are going to
get into minute men because that's what we we just
watched and reviewed. But so when I came up with
the idea originally of doing this podcast, everyone at iHeart
were saying, okay, well you need to coh is like,
(02:00):
of course, and they're like, what about Sabrina from the
Cheetah Girls. Was like, oh my god, that'll be amazing.
But we'd never met, we didn't know each other. It's like,
we've got to at least do some sort of a.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
Test run, yes, to see if we're if this is
gonna So the very first thing we've never aired it
it's just for us that we watched was Hatching Pete.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Really, and it was the first one we'd ever done.
We'd never done the podcast.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Before, seen it, we ne movie.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So the unaired episode of Magical Rewind, the first time
she and I ever worked together was Thats Me, So
happy so bringing you here for a minute, man, We
are so happy to have you here because you are
very special.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You are the first reviewed movie we ever did.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I feel so, I feel so honored. That's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
You are absorable and hatching Pete by the way.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Okay, but we got we gotta talk minute men. Yes,
so can you tell this was your second d com?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yes, number two?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Which one was the first?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
First was read It and weep? Oh, which was actually
before Corey in the house. It was before I was
like a regular on the channel.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Okay, okay, I was like fourteen for that and I
was sixteen I think for minute it was.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Julia, the writer of the book on set ever with
you guys.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, she was for a reading. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Yeah. She's awesome.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Ye A co write a book with her and really incredible.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Yeah, she's a great writer.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You wrote a book, Sabrina.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Yes, it's called Princess of Gossip.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Research this person, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It worked together, no idea find out things about her
every day.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But okay, say well we'll talk about minute men, but
let's talk a bit about your journey to the Channel.
Was it just a straight up regular audition, for a
d com or how did you get involved with Disney Channel?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
For Yeah, well, for Reading and Weep, it was Reading
Weep was just a regular audition, and then bizarrely so
Reading Weep. I actually didn't book it initially, and then
I was. It was a Friday night and I was
ready the next week to go on like a week
long trip with my eighth grade class to Washington, d C.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Oh, the eighth grade trip. Yeah, that's awesome, right, I
mean I.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
See that every now and then people go, oh, I
know exactly what you're talking about, and not everybody does.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, the eighth grade.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
My brother had done it before. It was a whole thing.
And so that was the next week. And I got
a call Friday night and it's from Judy Taylor, uh,
former recupe of casting it at a Disney Channel, and
she says, we want.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
To get her on event.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Got it?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, yeah, she's amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
She goes, look the guy we cast came down with
acute appendicitis and literally can't do it. Can you be
on a plane tomorrow morning? Literally then next morning like
fly to Utah and do this movie? And I had
a brief moment of hesitation, but I was like, dude,
(05:07):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I can't not have to.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
The dream of being on the channel.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You got it real and it was like I could
do this. I could go on this trip that I
know will be a lot of fun. But who knows
where this will take me in you know, here we
are and we saw where it took you.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Kennis Washington's going to be there. It would be there
after Utah.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, yeah, there was no There was no going back
after that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So were you on the East coast or were you
on the West coast?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
No, I'm from the Semi Valley and oh okay l
A area.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yeah, okay, but you had to go, you had to.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Go up to you.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
It was a big it was a big trip.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Well they always say if you want to get that
audition that you don't think you can have, or you
want to get the trip, yeah, book non refundable plane
tickets such.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I've tried to do it a lot since then. It
has doesn't always work on a lot of trips. At
trip not a sure thing.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Not always only.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Book the trip if you actually really want to go
on the trip. That's my only piece of advice.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Okay, So then wait, I'm now I've got to talk
because we talk about how so many of the d
coms are in fact filmed in Utah, right, that is
the DCOM Central.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Utah or Vancouver.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Sure, Hatching Pete was definitely shot in Utah.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Oh, I was gonna say, Okay, that's two out of four,
all right, all four of them got it?
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Were any of them shot at the same high school?
Like did you go back to the same high school
as a different character?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
And I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Well, that would be funny, that would be funny in
the same hallways.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
It's possible that Minutemen and Hatching Pete used the same one.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
That's possible. I don't remember for sure.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
I didn't recognize.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That, probably not because that the Minimen one is very
it's very iconic, at least to me. It looks as
a very sort of specific, like big broad like it
felt like a mall being inside.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Of it was.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It was massive, very distinct. So I was surprised if
they if they went back there. But I'm I'm having
trouble remembering, to be honest with you, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
And we we've heard from somebody about a hotel America
or something.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
All of America.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
There's no there's Grand America, and then there's the Little America.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
That's a hotel where you stay when you're okay, so
you did stay there.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Both of them.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
The first time you go, you're at the Little America.
They're literally across the street from each other. So you're
like at the Grand America or you're at.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
The Little America.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Budget is America total?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
How many decoms would you have to do before they
put you at the Grand America?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
As the cross, I think it was three, remembering correctly,
I think it was only the Good Like Charlie movie
that we stayed at Grand America, Okay, because most of
the time you stayed at Little America.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
To be to be fair, I think that's usually where
they put you up.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Got it. We're exposing d coms now.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Now everyone in Utah is going to just camp out
looking for Jason Dolly.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah boy.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
All right, So you said you're having trouble remembering the
high school. It leads to a good question, when's the
last time you watched Minimen?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It was actually not that long ago. I rewatched it.
I want to say twenty twenty, twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
One, Okay, okay, just for just for kicks.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So you do your first d com.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You're now part of the channel, you know, the first
d com which we haven't watched yet, but we will do.
You When you get a call for Minutemen, is it hey,
come do this movie or do you have to read again?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
So no, so so the next read was Corey Mouse.
So that was it.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
That was an audition, But that was also one where
I was like, they know me. It's it's a little
not a normality completely, but I did have to go
in and and sort of earn that. But then no,
Minutemen was like, hey, between season two and three or
one and two, I think you're you're doing this movie.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Wow, that's really great.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Hey that was that was also it was just like
here's your next movie, like, okay, great, and then of
course the god like Charlie.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
How do you feel about there?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
You're right, is there a fear at all?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Because you're gonna be.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
You're go work through that some some issues. No, it was,
it was great.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It was a dream scenario as an accurate You're like
do this okay.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Great, thank you, and you said you were what sixteen
by the time you did about sixteen yeah, okay. And
did you know any of the cast you were working with?
Did you know Nicholas Brawn or Luke Benwoerd anybody?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
No, No, we all met, you know, I you know,
in preparation at some point for that.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah, no way, not even okay.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Do you remember when the d Con games where the
Disney Channel games. Weren't we on the yellow team? Were
you yellow?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yeah? I was yellow?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Okay, yes, yes, we were all on the yellow That was.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
The good Year team. It was not a great team,
but that was the Good Year right.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
I don't think we won one obstacles on anything.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I I still am pretty sure that we should have won,
or at least we shouldn't have lost the way we did.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Simon says, do you remember that?
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Yes? That was garbage.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
We were like, this is please walked me through.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
There was It was a really intense game of Simon says,
led by the great, wonderful Brian's to panic.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
And by this time we had had enough of losing,
were like.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
We can do this.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Simon says.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
You know, Kevin Jonas was about to throw in the
towel completely.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
We were so upset about these games.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, it was it was rough, but it was me
and Jason Earls, and we must have gone for I
don't know, like five minutes straight of just the two
of us, and then I don't remember exactly what happened.
I think Brian called me out for doing like moving
in some way that I wasn't really sure I did,
(10:43):
and we all kind of talked about it after, was like,
did you.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
See anything happen? It was like, I don't know, I
don't know. I don't know what he saw. I don't
know what happened, but he got raw.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I don't know if he just called it or if
he saw something none of us saw. I don't remember
the full thing, but it was really intense and very
disappointing results to be like, I don't know how I right.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
And it's the It's at this point too, where now
you've got a bunch of Disney you know, quote unquote
stars that are all miked now cursing.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Bell like.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Garbage.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
We were so upset, Simon says, And you couldn't take it, but.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Like the only team just really screwed over every time.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, and I'm not.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Upset about it obviously.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
We've really gotten over, completely over it, but gone with
our lives.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That's so funny. Oh man, I'm kind of wish.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I told Sabrina I'd never seen it, but if it
was more like the Hunger Games.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I would have watched all the time, it would be
would have been kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, they tried to do it.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
They tried to make it more reality show kind of
in the second the second year we went to uh
Disney World, which was my second year doing it. Do
you remember that they like made us Did you go
the second year or the third year?
Speaker 5 (11:59):
The year I was on the Yellow team was when
we were at Walt Disney World.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
That's the one I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That was our That was the first year we went
to Disney. So I didn't do the very very first time.
First time they did it in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
I yeah, I only didn't.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Do that one. I went to the second one, which
was in Disney World.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
They did a third one in disney World also, god
it that was one where I think I was Green team.
And do you remember how we just would play games
all day, Like you'd stop up at like nine thirty,
You'd play games all day. You'd be done at like four,
and you go in the park in the evenings. So
year two in Disney World, you played one game per day, yeah,
and you spend the rest of the time shooting, like
(12:37):
you know, oh, what's what's the drama behind the scenes
of the Green team? Who's your biggest rival? Like you guys,
guys took the wrong thing. The games were the fun thing.
That is no inter team drama. We're just a good time.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Like what do you have? So you were shooting till
like six or seven at least sometimes, and you were.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Like tired from a full day of work, and I
don't want to go to the park, but I gotta
go to the park. I say this like it's a
horrible thing. It just was disappointing. Year one was great
and your two was like.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Ah, yeah, I only did that first year. That first
year then you.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
That was the middle one, the second one.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I guess in and out.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, I mean after your disappointment, you wouldn't go back.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I mean that's yikes. Yeah, thats with you.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Don't even talk to her about family feud. Her time
on family feud did not go well. No oh no,
we'll send you the clip.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I had it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Hear it. It's phenomenal. I can't wait to watch it myself.
But Jensen tells me it is. It is marvelous.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So how long was the shoot for Minute Men? Is
it your standard month kind of thing?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I think it was five weeks maybe six?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, And did you have any rehearsal time or is
it just jump in, let's go make a movie, you know,
I don't, I bet not.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Maybe a little bit.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
You know, in pre production you kind of do the
table read and you maybe work a couple of scenes.
But I don't think there was a lot of I
should really remember we had rehearsal for patching Pete. I
remember specifically because we had like.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Dance off that.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
But also like we trained with the guy who was
the San Diego Chicken.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Do you know who the Sandego Chicken is? I didn't
know who this guy was at all.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
But he's like a professional mascot.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Wait, like is he a Podre or something?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
He was the mascot for the Padres, but he I
think the Potters, and he was known.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
As the San Diego Chicken and that's sort of what
he what he did. And so he came to Utah,
I believe, to Utah.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I don't think we did that in La before we
left and came all there, and we like learned how
to like walk in a chicken suit and like you
had to like make the tail bob up and down,
you know, things like that where you might not know how.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
To do that form of mascoti.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, how to sort of communicate body language to mascot costume.
You certain things are limited, so you have to kind
of overdo it certain ways. So I remember that. And
then there was a tons of stunt work for a minute. Man,
I don't think we didn't even rehearsal for any of that.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Okay, Yeah, that's a good question about because one of
the things we wanted to talk to about is the stunts.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
You guys are.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
First of all, you're in basically every scene in the film.
It's like you didn't get a day we were looking going.
It's like you didn't get any time off whatsoever. And yeah,
very physical the stuff that you're doing. Yea, was there
people getting hurt? Was their training? Was their safety?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I mean you're hanging from stuff, You're jumping into things.
I mean, what was that like?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I mean it was really fun.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I think it would yeah, I mean I was I
was a kid, I was a teenager, and a part
of my job is running around jumping off this trampoline,
landed on this crash pad, and but it was it
was really really fun.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
So we were shooting this, I believe in.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Like July sometime in the summer, and Utah summers are
pretty hot, and so we're covered in you know, the
snowsuits for a lot of the sequences, especially when we're
running and doing all this stuff. So we got crazy hot,
you know, drinking tons of water and whatever. And at
one point they got these like ice pack vest things
(16:12):
like cooling packs for us to work, Like great, awesome,
put those on. In ten minutes, all the cooling stuff
had just melted and was just at that point just
dead weight.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Okay, there's no solving this. This is just you just
have to kind of just hot. Yeah, we're just hot,
all right?
Speaker 6 (16:31):
What Oh man.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
We tried.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
We tried to make the best of it, and you
know it was that man, it was really fun.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
How did they hang you from the ram?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Oh? That they so they built the ram for that shot.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Of course that ram was like steel reinforcing wires and
like it was a really talked They talked us through
that hole. You know, how they built it and how
it was really really sturdy and all the stuff, and
then yeah, like we just had harnesses on and they
had little you know, hooks and caribanears and just screwed
us in and we're literally actually dangling from that ram
(17:05):
as far as I remember, I mean, maybe I'm maybe
I'm wrong, but that's that's my memory in my brain,
is that we lowered us up on a on a
crane or whatever, and we got on there and we
were there just big.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
There's big shots. It's big, like establishing shots.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we were really there.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, I have I have memories of looking out and
seeing people down below.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And it's funny because it kind of one of the
things that led us to talking about was the fact
that this school represented the worst adults that we've.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Ever seen on a d com when there were adults around.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
So the good question is, I mean, we couldn't think
of another movie, at least that we've watched so far
in the dcom world where there are no parents.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Yeah, there's the guys, Yeah you have parents, none of you.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
So was it just like the Summer Camp shooting because
there were no there were no adults anywhere it's.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Really weird, right, what's what are what are Virgil's parents doing?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
What are they where?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
We never know?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, you never actually in his house for at least
like a few scenes.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
There's like yeah, yeah, when you're studying, when you're studying,
or when the little the wonderfully it's a it's a
Disney trope. We keep seeing all the time now, the
horribly annoying little sister.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Oh yeah, you're in your basement, and you're in the
basement and the little sister, he's for some reason dressed
like a stripper from the fifties, comes down.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And is hitting on your friends.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that completely.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, but no parents anywhere to be found.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Oh man, you know what, We've seen so many of
these movies that you know, shoot in in Utah. We've
never asked anyone do they have a specific agency out there?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Where do they get their extras?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Because they're always in high school, so there's obviously always
a lot of high school age kids or middle school
age kids. Do you know were they were they just
kids that went to that high school or I remember,
I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I mean, I know the it was like the same
production company every time. I mean by the time I
was going for even for reading, they'd been there for
a while.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
So it was kind of like, you know, sort of
like a mini.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Atlanta where a certain handful of projects are going to
come through every year.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
If your local talent, you'll get some opportunities.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
And I think by that point people just sort of
knew that, yeah, Disney Channel comes through.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Here every now and then.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Is that there were some plenty of repeat cast members
that I had seen they were either extras previously then
had a speaking role in the next one or that
kind of thing. Yeah, Yeah, so it was people people
knew the word was out for sure.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, there's got to be a machine by that point,
because they're pumping out so many decoms that they're either
in Toronto, Vancouver, or Utah.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Ye, unless they need an ocean.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We've noticed that they need an ocean, like Johnny tsunami,
they'll shoot somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, they that for sure isn't Vancouver or somewhere nearby
there because they have ocean.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
No, we talked to him, where did they shoot? Why
didn't they And.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Then they they shot there? No, they didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
They were I can't remember that was the.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Second movie he told us was shot in New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh yeah, they went to New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Oh yes, oh yeah, but super cool stuff that was
by the ocean for brink that was in l A.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
In l A, Yeah, okay, in l A.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And then and then the one we just saw was
also in LA with the ocean.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yeah, but that was wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
They went, Oh yeah, they.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Did some in LA, but they did the rest in
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yes, So it was nice to be back in our
comfortable Utah.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
One of the things we.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Also noticed is that for a d com, it had
a decent budget. Your budget was five million dollars, which
is which is good for a d com. And the
special effects looked pretty good.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, you know, they they kind of I don't I
don't know the ones said they had to, but you know,
I really appreciate that they that they took the time
to make those look good, because you know, it's the
kind of thing where, yes, the movie can be good,
and I'm just I'm happy that they put the right
amount of the appropriate amount of budget to that because
(21:15):
it doesn't look You watch it back and you go, yeah,
it's clearly from a few years ago, but doesn't look terrible.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
No, and it looked a lot worse.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
And it would like the rocket that's behind his his
that didn't look that great. The rest of it, did.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
The Vortex and the black hole? I mean for a
d com in mid two thousand, Yeah, not bad.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, it's such an integral part of the story and
you have to see that thing, and that thing needs
to look like a really big problem and they really
did what was necessary to make that come across.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Well, we got a chance to interview Michael Healy and
oh yeah, from what he had to say about this
movie specifically, they had high hopes for the movie and
thought the movie was great, so you know they did.
I feel like they really did make sure that they
put a lot of effort, and they bumped up the
release date right.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Oh yeah, they moved your release date.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You were gonna be I think in March or wherever,
but they moved you up to January to a better time.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, because they had high hopes for this.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And when we asked Michael, when you look back on
your career at Disney Channel, what's a movie that did
well but deserved more.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Than it got.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And he instantly went to Minimum. He said no, he said,
I thought that movie was gonna be and again you
still did. It was like almost seven million viewers. Yeah, yeah,
which is great, really great for the channel. But this
is the one that he looks back on, like, this
is the one I thought it was going to blow up, right,
and thought was going to be you know that, you know,
you always thinking sequels and because again you can always
gower stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
And yeah, we were we were waiting for a couple
of years there for that that Minimen two call.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Did they talk about it, Well, we.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Talked about it.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I mean we would talk about it too, whenever we
got a chance, you know, Gary marsh is there. Hey, Minimum,
You know, as far as I know, there was no.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Like real talk that I have heard.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Right to get watching Pete too, because I want to
see more in the dancing.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
That one I think is better story that wraps up
really nicely. In that one, I think we can.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Yeah, do you do it?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
They'll get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Do you keep in touch with any of your Disney
Channel peeps?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
And nobody did movies with Yeah? I mean I still
see Dexter Darden every now and then.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Luke, it's been a few years. Saying with Nick and uh,
but I mean obviously people from Charlie. I still see Bradley,
I still see Eric the brother and dad and.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
But uh, but no everybody.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
There's lots of people that I still will, you know,
text every now and then, are send a message here?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Well, it's a rarefied club.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, sure, it's also so one of the things we
like to ask is have you felt the surgeons because
everything is coming back with Disney Plus and everybody watching it,
have you?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I mean, since you again are in four Originals.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, I mean it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
So I went to Disney World over Christmas and it
was the first time I was recognized by more cast
members than by park goers. Okay, well, I don't know
if that really lines up with with this, with what
you're saying, but it was just interesting though.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I mean I think it does.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
The age group that is now trying to sort of
know that my my time is has kind of shifted
from from that to that. So and look, I mean,
I you know, you say have you felt it? I
mean I would feel a little bit more if I
got some reboot calls. To be quite honest, exactly, I'm
not sure what's keeping them rebooting. Good love Charlie at
(24:44):
this point, but hey, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
From your lips, but you just wait to get your
first My grandmother used to have her your picture on
her wall.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I had that.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Hey thanks to Nana, right right?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Awesome?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
But yeah, they do. They grew up with you, They
grow up with you.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Yeah that's cool. Well, speaking of you just mentioned Disney World.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
I'm we've heard and found out a little bit that
you are a huge disney Land fans with your family.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Do you go off? I'm as well. I was there
last night.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I mean really, you were there last night?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Yeah, or yesterday?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
You lived in County, I've lived about twenty minutes away
from the park.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
I went as far to take my daughter for the day.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Text my husband and said, hey, after work, do you
want me to grab Ledger our son and we'll come
back and do nighttime Disney.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
And he's like sure, So we went.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
I came back, got the kids, got the husband, and
then we went back to Disneyland.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
So are you are you there often?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Should we?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Should we do a Disney day.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Less that I used to go.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I still I'm probably there at most once a year,
although I mean I was in Disney World last year,
so you then you know, you know, but it was like.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
A whole trip, that's a whole thing. Yeah that's a
big that's a big trip. But this Disneyland's not that far.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
It's the hour or so, so you yeah, yeah, but
but yeah, I mean, I I I grew up going
to Disneyland.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Yes, And then it was like, so I knew, you know,
I knew the I knew the layout, I knew the rides.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
And then you know, when you start working with Disney
Channel and they send you there or you go there
and you get the guy and it was like, oh, man.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
And then I was worried. I was like I didn't
want to go back, you know, without the plaid.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
But I gotta tell you, it's still it's still a
great experience. I don't mind waiting the lines as much
as I thought I would. It's like it's nice.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
You just sort of you get to experience the atmosphere
of the thing.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
It's like there's definitely there's pros and cons to both,
because like some of the rides I've been on in
Disney World, I was going through the lines and I
was like, this is really cool.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
I never got to see like the front of this ride.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Okay, yes, that's very true.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
You don't get a lot of it has so much
of the story, there's very cool. All the detail that's
at Disneyland and disney World.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
It's worth the trade off to miss that to go
to the bed in front of it.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I'm not trying to sound like it's bad the other way,
but it's nice to.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Go in the line after and see all the stuff,
you know, I mean, a ride like Indiana Jones just
has so much detail and cool stuff that, of course
it's nice to miss the seventy five minute.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Wait and you go right on.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
However, they have done that if you haven't gone through
like you should because it's it is cool.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah, it's so strange as an East Coast kid, like
growing up in the East Coast hearing like, well, I
grew up going to Disneyland because it was you might
as well have said to me as a kid, Oh,
I grew up going to the Moon like it was
such a Disneyland was such a thing that the idea
that you got.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
To grow up near the park is so cool to me.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Okay, so I hate to do this to you, do.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
You really no?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I actually love it. I've been looking forward to it
since I knew you were coming on here. What's your
favorite one that you've done?
Speaker 6 (28:12):
And why is it hatching p.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
And why is it hatching Pete? Exactly?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
It's hard to choose.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I think I think the if I was gonna watch one,
I would watch Minutemen one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
That's the one that I think I would enjoy watching
the most.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
And as far as like, as far as the experience
filming it, it's it's hard to pick between frankly, probably
Minutemen and the Good Luck Charlie Christmas movie just because
you know, too vastly different experiences. Mintmen, I was the lead,
I was on set every day. It was a group
of brand new people that all happen to be, you know,
just awesome people that were out all the time. Was like,
(28:54):
it's like when it's a good group, especially, it's really
extra fun because it feels like camp, you know, yeah, or.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
They're the hotel. It's like a really really special bonding time,
you know.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Whereas with Good Look Charlie, I knew everybody already and
it was lovely to go on basically a vacation with
because it was like it kind of they split the
genders for that one, so like the Bridget and Lee
had their own story and then the guys had their
own story. So we were kind of shooting working together,
and then when they were working, we were kind of
at the hotel hanging out.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
So that was more like a family vacation, you know, feel.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
And to take it off of a studio a lot too,
I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, you know, take it off a.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Studio a lot, go to a new venue location and
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
There was a whole big sequence in that film with
paintball guns, and so we there was aholl like a
paintball fight scene, so we went to the paintball arena
and we played paintball all the time together during.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
That shit, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
So it's like experience why It's really hard to pick,
but I think if it was, it was like, Okay,
watch one of your d COM's right now.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
It's it's minimum.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Okay, see minimm is your favorite, and you hated the
other three?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Got it? You heard it from my from my mouth.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
You got to go back to the paintball scene because
we haven't seen that one. I'm sure we'll get to.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Oh yeah, I just thought it we're definitely going to be.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Doing lots of like Halloween ish, you know, with zombies
and Halloween through and stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Well, obviously I didn't know there was a Christmas type.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Christmas d com category in.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
The d COM's. I did not know that, So we'll
have to do that.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
I love a Christmas movie, so we'll eventually see it.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
So there's a paintball scene.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
How did they do paintballs in the Disney Channel filming situation?
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Because they can't be real paintballs, right, those things?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
No, but they were real paintball guns. You just didn't
have anything in the in the hopper, so you shoot
and nothing comes out, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
And then they just put it in digitally at the
at the AA or they you know, you rip.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Pan over and then it's like you've already sort of dressed,
you know, got it Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
It was like a whole action.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Sequence like we had, you know, a whole area like
you know, it was very fun.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
It was very you know that bonds kind of ask
were fun.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Yeah, that's something I've never done.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
It looks so fun, But I am too much of
a chicken to get somebody.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
They took us one time. All the teams, either Tiger
Beat or Team Beat. One of the Beats took all
of like young Hollywood at the time when we were
doing Boy Mets World and just handed us all guns
and it was just, you know, shooting each other when
you're hitting the kids from you know, full or I mean,
it was like we're just nailing each other with It
(31:30):
was a ridiculous amount of you only.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Wear a chest thing, right, you're not fully probably in
a mask, but like if.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Your legs are your arms kid, right, those brutes.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
At one point, Jenavanoi from Blossom got up to run
away and Ryder Strong's brother Shiloh stood up from five
feet behind her and just tagged her in the back
and yeah, I think I was dating her at the time,
and I just heard her go like oh and like faulled.
I mean, it was like my kids in Hollywood just
shooting each other with paintballs from five feet away.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
That sounds like a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
It was.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
It was a lot of fun when you were shooting
minute men. Did you play with the time machine? And
when you did horfor back, did you go?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It was uh, I don't even remember how to what
it even looked like to be honest with it was
like a what was it?
Speaker 4 (32:22):
What it looked like? You just watched it? What it
looked like?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
It was a it was a projector it was the
uh projector that. Then you're in the abandoned pool and
you've got to go jump off the diving board. Oh yeah,
okay into the swrolling vortex, where the first thing you
do is grab a poor, defenseless cat and throw it
to that.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Poor Did you ever see where that cat?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
No?
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Does that cat come back out?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It does, just comes back frozen, It comes back here.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
And I didn't understand did they ever explain why it's
so cold to time travel?
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Why you guys are freezing?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Oh promise you're going to the vacuum of space? They
probably said they didn't. I'm sure they didn't.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Did they not know?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
They didn't?
Speaker 6 (33:00):
I did not understand why.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
We rate every movie, And in all fairness because you
I'll probably go back and listen to us and listen
to the mini man. It lost some points based on
awfulness of adults because they were like, the principal is
the I just wanted to actually kill it.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
What was the principal's whole deal?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
So he wouldn't help any of the kids that were
like getting bullied, He's like, no.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
The nerds that were getting bullied. He was like, this
is the he called the social climate.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
That was JP Panu, Right, yeah, I believe so.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Is that his name? Yeah yeah, yeah, just.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Sort of like totally passive evolutionary laws or whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah yeah yeah, And he kind of wouldn't help anybody.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
And then the FBI deciding to send children into the
spinning vortex of death.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Just as bad as you guys thrown that cat in there.
I mean, they didn't care about you at all.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
They didn't care about the kid, like, just go.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
We'll see if you guys can figure it out.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
If not, I could see some argument in favor of
doing it rather than somebody else because we've done it before.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah, but you're chill.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Were the only ones with experience your children. But at
the same time, yeah, if we die, then the FBI
has child of blood on their hands, which they were
okay with.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
But here's the thing that we did love, and I
mean loved the cast. You guys were all great, I
mean really really good.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I was just thinking about that actually in preparation for this.
Was like, first of all, yes, we all were great, cast,
and you also like it's undeniable looking at the careers
of some of the people.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
A lot of the people that were in it.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
You know, Nick Brown doing Succession, I mean, Benor did
a ton of comedies with it, like most of McCarthy
is like it was the Dexter Darden tons of works.
Like it was really a special collection of people. If
you look at the sort of the timeline and everything
is not really Tesla Kane of course doing all her
baby daddy stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I mean, you know, and you all at the chemistry
that you know, That's why one of the questions we
asked was like, well, I'm sure they knew each other
before they went in, because the chemistry.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Was you are so good. Yeah, yeah, that man.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
It was definitely an incredible group of young actors, really
strong casting.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
You should be proud of that.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Yeah, there you go Judy again. Judy is She's an
all star. She's an all star. And that's that's what
we've really seen with so many i mean, got to
kick it up, America Ferrera. I mean, it's like just
these all these Disney d coms are filled with so
much talent and so and to where as an actor,
(35:27):
why you want it. You were hopeful to get on
the channel because that was such a huge stepping stone
into taking your career to that next level, you know,
and and also having fun.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
These movies are made of, you know, we.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
Hated every every adult who cares because we've got just
a great cast.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Of kids, you know, amazing, amazing, so.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
Fun to work on. And yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Okay, So for our last question here, and we would
be remiss if we did not ask this. You have
a time machine. What do you go back in your
own life and change?
Speaker 6 (36:06):
And change? Not relive? I tried to relive. Will told
me I.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Was she was playing the game wrong.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
I couldn't do that. I played the game wrong.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
You have to change? Can change?
Speaker 6 (36:17):
Was it on family?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
I think I know Sabrina's answer.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
It was a great answer.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
To well, I would you know what I would do
to bring this whole conversation full circle? I would go
back and I would I would not stop going back
to the Simon says, game okay, until we want, we.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Want, I love.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Until yellow got a freaking wind.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
That's that's like genuinely what I would.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I don't really, I don't have a thankfully out of
a ton of regrets in my life. I mean, that's
probably that's wonderful. That's really hanging over me the more
I think about it. So that's that's what I would great.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
I love it. That's perfect.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Oh I do have to ask this catching people were
you dancing? Was that you dancing in there?
Speaker 3 (37:15):
So there were at least four chickens, myself and Mitchell included.
So there was a dance chicken, and there was a
stunt chicken, but then there was also a dance chicken.
I think there was a separate one from Mitchell. And
the reason was because my legs were so skinny and
his word like his word not I always had like
I had like genuine chicken legs, So they had to
(37:36):
have a dancer that that wouldn't look like his legs
in the thing when it was me.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
So so there were there were at least.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Four chickens, maybe more, which was great because I don't
want to I don't want to spoil this podcast.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
If we were just this exact conversation made we have
to do HATCHI Pete with you.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
So yeah, yeah, it was great because when I had
the head on an info costume, no one was ever
really sure who I was. You're like, you couldn't for
sure tell, so I could like go and there was
a certain level of anonymity that I could have and
just walk around on set and just screw around with
people like do like do mascot stuff, you know, take
(38:12):
their drink.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Or whatever, and then like that kind of they don't
know if it was.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
It was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Yeah, thank you so much for joining us, Jason.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Thanks for having We've been wanting to talk to you
for so long now. So this is great.
Speaker 8 (38:29):
Good.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
I bet it, I bet it worked out.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Hopefully this is the first of the times you're going
to be coming here because I love it.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
We got four movies, Like we said, you're royal, you
are royalty, four movies.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
We gotta go and look for your crown in the mail.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Thank you so much by Jason.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
That was so fun. It was such a dull face.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
What a sweet guy.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
The idea that he's had so much fun in his
career that he's like, if I had a time machine,
the thing I would change would be to go win
the time and he's like, I don't have many regrets.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
In my life. That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
That's amazing. Love that amazing so much.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
And I'm so happy that he came up.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
Clearly has not embarrassed himself on anything.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
We've got to do hatching Pete. Okay, thank you everybody
for joining us in this park Opper episode. Thank you
Jason Dolly for coming out.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
It was so cool to talk to him, and I
can't wait to do it again for another show. And everybody, Yeah,
just go watch Minute Men and get some wonderwear and
shake the leg.
Speaker 6 (39:31):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
That's all I gotta do.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Oh gosh, let this nightmare be done.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
Shake the leg.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Thanks everybody, and we will see you next time.
Speaker 8 (39:45):
Bye bye
Speaker 6 (40:00):
Every
Welcome to this Park Hopper episode of Magical Rewind.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
We are so excited to welcome True decom Royalty to
our little podcast today. We cannot wait. We've we've not well,
we're gonna. We're gonna get into how special this guy
is to us, because we do have a a connection
which we have to talk about.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So please help us. Welcome Jason Donny.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Hello, Hey, how are you doing?
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Gay guess I'm excited to have you here.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
Happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
The goat that Tom Brady and d Comms is here
with us.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
It's me and Brenda Song. I think we're because we're
I think we're both we're tied for I think we
with a four. Okay, yeah, and I think that's the most.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
Yeah, there's a few of you because we just interviewed
from a Halloween town.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Oh, Kimberly Brown, of course, Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
Yeah. Now, were any of those sequels though.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Yes, they were?
Speaker 1 (01:15):
Oh, all yours are standalone.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
The none of mine were sequels.
Speaker 6 (01:19):
You're all that.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Which rendous songs I believe are also all originals.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh that's that would be.
Speaker 6 (01:26):
Yeah, that's a good point, Jason.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
That's a big whole thing about it.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
But you know, we might have to call Kim and
say we need her to return that crown we gave her.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
That's awkward.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
Well there tied you know.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Oh oh the okay, No, that's good. That does much
even more rarefied form here. So okay, first of all,
I have to tell you this, we are going to
get into minute men because that's what we we just
watched and reviewed. But so when I came up with
the idea originally of doing this podcast, everyone at iHeart
were saying, okay, well you need to coh is like,
(02:00):
of course, and they're like, what about Sabrina from the
Cheetah Girls. Was like, oh my god, that'll be amazing.
But we'd never met, we didn't know each other. It's like,
we've got to at least do some sort of a.
Speaker 7 (02:12):
Test run, yes, to see if we're if this is
gonna So the very first thing we've never aired it
it's just for us that we watched was Hatching Pete.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Really, and it was the first one we'd ever done.
We'd never done the podcast.
Speaker 6 (02:29):
Before, seen it, we ne movie.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
So the unaired episode of Magical Rewind, the first time
she and I ever worked together was Thats Me, So
happy so bringing you here for a minute, man, We
are so happy to have you here because you are
very special.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
You are the first reviewed movie we ever did.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
I feel so, I feel so honored. That's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
You are absorable and hatching Pete by the way.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Okay, but we got we gotta talk minute men. Yes,
so can you tell this was your second d com?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Yes, number two?
Speaker 6 (03:09):
Which one was the first?
Speaker 4 (03:10):
First was read It and weep? Oh, which was actually
before Corey in the house. It was before I was
like a regular on the channel.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Okay, okay, I was like fourteen for that and I
was sixteen I think for minute it was.
Speaker 5 (03:22):
Julia, the writer of the book on set ever with
you guys.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yeah, she was for a reading. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (03:28):
Yeah. She's awesome.
Speaker 5 (03:30):
Ye A co write a book with her and really incredible.
Speaker 6 (03:35):
Yeah, she's a great writer.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
You wrote a book, Sabrina.
Speaker 6 (03:38):
Yes, it's called Princess of Gossip.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Research this person, Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It worked together, no idea find out things about her
every day.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Oh man.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
But okay, say well we'll talk about minute men, but
let's talk a bit about your journey to the Channel.
Was it just a straight up regular audition, for a
d com or how did you get involved with Disney Channel?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
For Yeah, well, for Reading and Weep, it was Reading
Weep was just a regular audition, and then bizarrely so
Reading Weep. I actually didn't book it initially, and then
I was. It was a Friday night and I was
ready the next week to go on like a week
long trip with my eighth grade class to Washington, d C.
Speaker 6 (04:21):
Oh, the eighth grade trip. Yeah, that's awesome, right, I
mean I.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
See that every now and then people go, oh, I
know exactly what you're talking about, and not everybody does.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yeah, the eighth grade.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
My brother had done it before. It was a whole thing.
And so that was the next week. And I got
a call Friday night and it's from Judy Taylor, uh,
former recupe of casting it at a Disney Channel, and
she says, we want.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
To get her on event.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Got it?
Speaker 6 (04:44):
Yeah, yeah, she's amazing.
Speaker 3 (04:45):
She goes, look the guy we cast came down with
acute appendicitis and literally can't do it. Can you be
on a plane tomorrow morning? Literally then next morning like
fly to Utah and do this movie? And I had
a brief moment of hesitation, but I was like, dude,
(05:07):
I can't.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
I can't not have to.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
The dream of being on the channel.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
You got it real and it was like I could
do this. I could go on this trip that I
know will be a lot of fun. But who knows
where this will take me in you know, here we
are and we saw where it took you.
Speaker 6 (05:23):
Kennis Washington's going to be there. It would be there
after Utah.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Yeah, yeah, there was no There was no going back
after that.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So were you on the East coast or were you
on the West coast?
Speaker 4 (05:33):
No, I'm from the Semi Valley and oh okay l
A area.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yeah, okay, but you had to go, you had to.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Go up to you.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
It was a big it was a big trip.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Well they always say if you want to get that
audition that you don't think you can have, or you
want to get the trip, yeah, book non refundable plane
tickets such.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I've tried to do it a lot since then. It
has doesn't always work on a lot of trips. At
trip not a sure thing.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Not always only.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Book the trip if you actually really want to go
on the trip. That's my only piece of advice.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Okay, So then wait, I'm now I've got to talk
because we talk about how so many of the d
coms are in fact filmed in Utah, right, that is
the DCOM Central.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Utah or Vancouver.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Sure, Hatching Pete was definitely shot in Utah.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Oh, I was gonna say, Okay, that's two out of four,
all right, all four of them got it?
Speaker 6 (06:21):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Were any of them shot at the same high school?
Like did you go back to the same high school
as a different character?
Speaker 4 (06:26):
And I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Well, that would be funny, that would be funny in
the same hallways.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
It's possible that Minutemen and Hatching Pete used the same one.
Speaker 4 (06:35):
That's possible. I don't remember for sure.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
I didn't recognize.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That, probably not because that the Minimen one is very
it's very iconic, at least to me. It looks as
a very sort of specific, like big broad like it
felt like a mall being inside.
Speaker 6 (06:53):
Of it was.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
It was massive, very distinct. So I was surprised if
they if they went back there. But I'm I'm having
trouble remembering, to be honest with you, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
And we we've heard from somebody about a hotel America
or something.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
All of America.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
There's no there's Grand America, and then there's the Little America.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
That's a hotel where you stay when you're okay, so
you did stay there.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Both of them.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
The first time you go, you're at the Little America.
They're literally across the street from each other. So you're
like at the Grand America or you're at.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
The Little America.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Budget is America total?
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (07:31):
How many decoms would you have to do before they
put you at the Grand America?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
As the cross, I think it was three, remembering correctly,
I think it was only the Good Like Charlie movie
that we stayed at Grand America, Okay, because most of
the time you stayed at Little America.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
To be to be fair, I think that's usually where
they put you up.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Got it. We're exposing d coms now.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
Now everyone in Utah is going to just camp out
looking for Jason Dolly.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah boy.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
All right, So you said you're having trouble remembering the
high school. It leads to a good question, when's the
last time you watched Minimen?
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (08:03):
It was actually not that long ago. I rewatched it.
I want to say twenty twenty, twenty twenty.
Speaker 4 (08:10):
One, Okay, okay, just for just for kicks.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
So you do your first d com.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
You're now part of the channel, you know, the first
d com which we haven't watched yet, but we will do.
You When you get a call for Minutemen, is it hey,
come do this movie or do you have to read again?
Speaker 4 (08:27):
So no, so so the next read was Corey Mouse.
So that was it.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
That was an audition, But that was also one where
I was like, they know me. It's it's a little
not a normality completely, but I did have to go
in and and sort of earn that. But then no,
Minutemen was like, hey, between season two and three or
one and two, I think you're you're doing this movie.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
Wow, that's really great.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Hey that was that was also it was just like
here's your next movie, like, okay, great, and then of
course the god like Charlie.
Speaker 6 (08:56):
How do you feel about there?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
You're right, is there a fear at all?
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Because you're gonna be.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
You're go work through that some some issues. No, it was,
it was great.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
It was a dream scenario as an accurate You're like
do this okay.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Great, thank you, and you said you were what sixteen
by the time you did about sixteen yeah, okay. And
did you know any of the cast you were working with?
Did you know Nicholas Brawn or Luke Benwoerd anybody?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
No, No, we all met, you know, I you know,
in preparation at some point for that.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
Yeah, no way, not even okay.
Speaker 6 (09:31):
Do you remember when the d Con games where the
Disney Channel games. Weren't we on the yellow team? Were
you yellow?
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Yeah? I was yellow?
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Okay, yes, yes, we were all on the yellow That was.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
The good Year team. It was not a great team,
but that was the Good Year right.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
I don't think we won one obstacles on anything.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
I I still am pretty sure that we should have won,
or at least we shouldn't have lost the way we did.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Simon says, do you remember that?
Speaker 6 (09:59):
Yes? That was garbage.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
We were like, this is please walked me through.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
There was It was a really intense game of Simon says,
led by the great, wonderful Brian's to panic.
Speaker 5 (10:09):
And by this time we had had enough of losing,
were like.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
We can do this.
Speaker 6 (10:16):
Simon says.
Speaker 5 (10:17):
You know, Kevin Jonas was about to throw in the
towel completely.
Speaker 6 (10:20):
We were so upset about these games.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Yeah, it was it was rough, but it was me
and Jason Earls, and we must have gone for I
don't know, like five minutes straight of just the two
of us, and then I don't remember exactly what happened.
I think Brian called me out for doing like moving
in some way that I wasn't really sure I did,
(10:43):
and we all kind of talked about it after, was like,
did you.
Speaker 4 (10:45):
See anything happen? It was like, I don't know, I
don't know. I don't know what he saw. I don't
know what happened, but he got raw.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
I don't know if he just called it or if
he saw something none of us saw. I don't remember
the full thing, but it was really intense and very
disappointing results to be like, I don't know how I right.
Speaker 5 (11:00):
And it's the It's at this point too, where now
you've got a bunch of Disney you know, quote unquote
stars that are all miked now cursing.
Speaker 6 (11:09):
Bell like.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
Garbage.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
We were so upset, Simon says, And you couldn't take it, but.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Like the only team just really screwed over every time.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah, and I'm not.
Speaker 6 (11:25):
Upset about it obviously.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
We've really gotten over, completely over it, but gone with
our lives.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
That's so funny. Oh man, I'm kind of wish.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I told Sabrina I'd never seen it, but if it
was more like the Hunger Games.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I would have watched all the time, it would be
would have been kind of cool.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, they tried to do it.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
They tried to make it more reality show kind of
in the second the second year we went to uh
Disney World, which was my second year doing it. Do
you remember that they like made us Did you go
the second year or the third year?
Speaker 5 (11:59):
The year I was on the Yellow team was when
we were at Walt Disney World.
Speaker 6 (12:02):
That's the one I'm talking about.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
That was our That was the first year we went
to Disney. So I didn't do the very very first time.
First time they did it in Los Angeles.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
I yeah, I only didn't.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Do that one. I went to the second one, which
was in Disney World.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
They did a third one in disney World also, god
it that was one where I think I was Green team.
And do you remember how we just would play games
all day, Like you'd stop up at like nine thirty,
You'd play games all day. You'd be done at like four,
and you go in the park in the evenings. So
year two in Disney World, you played one game per day, yeah,
and you spend the rest of the time shooting, like
(12:37):
you know, oh, what's what's the drama behind the scenes
of the Green team? Who's your biggest rival? Like you guys,
guys took the wrong thing. The games were the fun thing.
That is no inter team drama. We're just a good time.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Like what do you have? So you were shooting till
like six or seven at least sometimes, and you were.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
Like tired from a full day of work, and I
don't want to go to the park, but I gotta
go to the park. I say this like it's a
horrible thing. It just was disappointing. Year one was great
and your two was like.
Speaker 5 (13:06):
Ah, yeah, I only did that first year. That first
year then you.
Speaker 6 (13:12):
That was the middle one, the second one.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
I guess in and out.
Speaker 2 (13:16):
Well, I mean after your disappointment, you wouldn't go back.
Speaker 1 (13:19):
I mean that's yikes. Yeah, thats with you.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Don't even talk to her about family feud. Her time
on family feud did not go well. No oh no,
we'll send you the clip.
Speaker 1 (13:31):
I had it.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Hear it. It's phenomenal. I can't wait to watch it myself.
But Jensen tells me it is. It is marvelous.
Speaker 6 (13:38):
Oh my god.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
So how long was the shoot for Minute Men? Is
it your standard month kind of thing?
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:52):
I think it was five weeks maybe six?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Yeah, And did you have any rehearsal time or is
it just jump in, let's go make a movie, you know,
I don't, I bet not.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Maybe a little bit.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
You know, in pre production you kind of do the
table read and you maybe work a couple of scenes.
But I don't think there was a lot of I
should really remember we had rehearsal for patching Pete. I
remember specifically because we had like.
Speaker 6 (14:14):
Dance off that.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
But also like we trained with the guy who was
the San Diego Chicken.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
Do you know who the Sandego Chicken is? I didn't
know who this guy was at all.
Speaker 6 (14:23):
But he's like a professional mascot.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
Wait, like is he a Podre or something?
Speaker 3 (14:27):
He was the mascot for the Padres, but he I
think the Potters, and he was known.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
As the San Diego Chicken and that's sort of what
he what he did. And so he came to Utah,
I believe, to Utah.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
I don't think we did that in La before we
left and came all there, and we like learned how
to like walk in a chicken suit and like you
had to like make the tail bob up and down,
you know, things like that where you might not know how.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
To do that form of mascoti.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Yeah, how to sort of communicate body language to mascot costume.
You certain things are limited, so you have to kind
of overdo it certain ways. So I remember that. And
then there was a tons of stunt work for a minute. Man,
I don't think we didn't even rehearsal for any of that.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Okay, Yeah, that's a good question about because one of
the things we wanted to talk to about is the stunts.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
You guys are.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
First of all, you're in basically every scene in the film.
It's like you didn't get a day we were looking going.
It's like you didn't get any time off whatsoever. And yeah,
very physical the stuff that you're doing. Yea, was there
people getting hurt? Was their training? Was their safety?
Speaker 1 (15:30):
I mean you're hanging from stuff, You're jumping into things.
I mean, what was that like?
Speaker 4 (15:35):
I mean it was really fun.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
I think it would yeah, I mean I was I
was a kid, I was a teenager, and a part
of my job is running around jumping off this trampoline,
landed on this crash pad, and but it was it
was really really fun.
Speaker 4 (15:48):
So we were shooting this, I believe in.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Like July sometime in the summer, and Utah summers are
pretty hot, and so we're covered in you know, the
snowsuits for a lot of the sequences, especially when we're
running and doing all this stuff. So we got crazy hot,
you know, drinking tons of water and whatever. And at
one point they got these like ice pack vest things
(16:12):
like cooling packs for us to work, Like great, awesome,
put those on. In ten minutes, all the cooling stuff
had just melted and was just at that point just
dead weight.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
Okay, there's no solving this. This is just you just
have to kind of just hot. Yeah, we're just hot,
all right?
Speaker 6 (16:31):
What Oh man.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
We tried.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
We tried to make the best of it, and you
know it was that man, it was really fun.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
How did they hang you from the ram?
Speaker 4 (16:40):
Oh? That they so they built the ram for that shot.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
Of course that ram was like steel reinforcing wires and
like it was a really talked They talked us through
that hole. You know, how they built it and how
it was really really sturdy and all the stuff, and
then yeah, like we just had harnesses on and they
had little you know, hooks and caribanears and just screwed
us in and we're literally actually dangling from that ram
(17:05):
as far as I remember, I mean, maybe I'm maybe
I'm wrong, but that's that's my memory in my brain,
is that we lowered us up on a on a
crane or whatever, and we got on there and we
were there just big.
Speaker 4 (17:14):
There's big shots. It's big, like establishing shots.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Yeah, I'm pretty sure we were really there.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, I have I have memories of looking out and
seeing people down below.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
And it's funny because it kind of one of the
things that led us to talking about was the fact
that this school represented the worst adults that we've.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
Ever seen on a d com when there were adults around.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
So the good question is, I mean, we couldn't think
of another movie, at least that we've watched so far
in the dcom world where there are no parents.
Speaker 6 (17:44):
Yeah, there's the guys, Yeah you have parents, none of you.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
So was it just like the Summer Camp shooting because
there were no there were no adults anywhere it's.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Really weird, right, what's what are what are Virgil's parents doing?
Speaker 4 (17:57):
What are they where?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
We never know?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Yeah, you never actually in his house for at least
like a few scenes.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
There's like yeah, yeah, when you're studying, when you're studying,
or when the little the wonderfully it's a it's a
Disney trope. We keep seeing all the time now, the
horribly annoying little sister.
Speaker 7 (18:17):
Oh yeah, you're in your basement, and you're in the
basement and the little sister, he's for some reason dressed
like a stripper from the fifties, comes down.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
And is hitting on your friends.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that completely.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Yeah, but no parents anywhere to be found.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
Oh man, you know what, We've seen so many of
these movies that you know, shoot in in Utah. We've
never asked anyone do they have a specific agency out there?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
Where do they get their extras?
Speaker 5 (18:52):
Because they're always in high school, so there's obviously always
a lot of high school age kids or middle school
age kids. Do you know were they were they just
kids that went to that high school or I remember,
I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
I mean, I know the it was like the same
production company every time. I mean by the time I
was going for even for reading, they'd been there for
a while.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
So it was kind of like, you know, sort of
like a mini.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Atlanta where a certain handful of projects are going to
come through every year.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
If your local talent, you'll get some opportunities.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
And I think by that point people just sort of
knew that, yeah, Disney Channel comes through.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
Here every now and then.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Is that there were some plenty of repeat cast members
that I had seen they were either extras previously then
had a speaking role in the next one or that
kind of thing. Yeah, Yeah, so it was people people
knew the word was out for sure.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah, there's got to be a machine by that point,
because they're pumping out so many decoms that they're either
in Toronto, Vancouver, or Utah.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
Ye, unless they need an ocean.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
We've noticed that they need an ocean, like Johnny tsunami,
they'll shoot somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, they that for sure isn't Vancouver or somewhere nearby
there because they have ocean.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
No, we talked to him, where did they shoot? Why
didn't they And.
Speaker 6 (19:59):
Then they they shot there? No, they didn't.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
They were I can't remember that was the.
Speaker 6 (20:04):
Second movie he told us was shot in New Zealand.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Oh yeah, they went to New Zealand.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
Oh yes, oh yeah, but super cool stuff that was
by the ocean for brink that was in l A.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
In l A, Yeah, okay, in l A.
Speaker 1 (20:18):
And then and then the one we just saw was
also in LA with the ocean.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Yeah, but that was wasn't it.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
They went, Oh yeah, they.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Did some in LA, but they did the rest in
Puerto Rico.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
Yes, So it was nice to be back in our
comfortable Utah.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
One of the things we.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Also noticed is that for a d com, it had
a decent budget. Your budget was five million dollars, which
is which is good for a d com. And the
special effects looked pretty good.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, you know, they they kind of I don't I
don't know the ones said they had to, but you know,
I really appreciate that they that they took the time
to make those look good, because you know, it's the
kind of thing where, yes, the movie can be good,
and I'm just I'm happy that they put the right
amount of the appropriate amount of budget to that because
(21:15):
it doesn't look You watch it back and you go, yeah,
it's clearly from a few years ago, but doesn't look terrible.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
No, and it looked a lot worse.
Speaker 5 (21:23):
And it would like the rocket that's behind his his
that didn't look that great. The rest of it, did.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
The Vortex and the black hole? I mean for a
d com in mid two thousand, Yeah, not bad.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Yeah, it's such an integral part of the story and
you have to see that thing, and that thing needs
to look like a really big problem and they really
did what was necessary to make that come across.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
Well, we got a chance to interview Michael Healy and
oh yeah, from what he had to say about this
movie specifically, they had high hopes for the movie and
thought the movie was great, so you know they did.
I feel like they really did make sure that they
put a lot of effort, and they bumped up the
release date right.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Oh yeah, they moved your release date.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
You were gonna be I think in March or wherever,
but they moved you up to January to a better time.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, because they had high hopes for this.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
And when we asked Michael, when you look back on
your career at Disney Channel, what's a movie that did
well but deserved more.
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Than it got.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
And he instantly went to Minimum. He said no, he said,
I thought that movie was gonna be and again you
still did. It was like almost seven million viewers. Yeah, yeah,
which is great, really great for the channel. But this
is the one that he looks back on, like, this
is the one I thought it was going to blow up, right,
and thought was going to be you know that, you know,
you always thinking sequels and because again you can always
gower stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
And yeah, we were we were waiting for a couple
of years there for that that Minimen two call.
Speaker 6 (22:52):
Did they talk about it, Well, we.
Speaker 4 (22:54):
Talked about it.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
I mean we would talk about it too, whenever we
got a chance, you know, Gary marsh is there. Hey, Minimum,
You know, as far as I know, there was no.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Like real talk that I have heard.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Right to get watching Pete too, because I want to
see more in the dancing.
Speaker 4 (23:14):
That one I think is better story that wraps up
really nicely. In that one, I think we can.
Speaker 7 (23:22):
Yeah, do you do it?
Speaker 4 (23:25):
They'll get me wrong.
Speaker 1 (23:25):
Do you keep in touch with any of your Disney
Channel peeps?
Speaker 4 (23:28):
And nobody did movies with Yeah? I mean I still
see Dexter Darden every now and then.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Luke, it's been a few years. Saying with Nick and uh,
but I mean obviously people from Charlie. I still see Bradley,
I still see Eric the brother and dad and.
Speaker 4 (23:45):
But uh, but no everybody.
Speaker 3 (23:47):
There's lots of people that I still will, you know,
text every now and then, are send a message here?
Speaker 1 (23:51):
Well, it's a rarefied club.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
Yeah, sure, it's also so one of the things we
like to ask is have you felt the surgeons because
everything is coming back with Disney Plus and everybody watching it,
have you?
Speaker 1 (24:02):
I mean, since you again are in four Originals.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Yeah, I mean it's interesting.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
So I went to Disney World over Christmas and it
was the first time I was recognized by more cast
members than by park goers. Okay, well, I don't know
if that really lines up with with this, with what
you're saying, but it was just interesting though.
Speaker 1 (24:23):
I mean I think it does.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
The age group that is now trying to sort of
know that my my time is has kind of shifted
from from that to that. So and look, I mean,
I you know, you say have you felt it? I
mean I would feel a little bit more if I
got some reboot calls. To be quite honest, exactly, I'm
not sure what's keeping them rebooting. Good love Charlie at
(24:44):
this point, but hey, you know.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
From your lips, but you just wait to get your
first My grandmother used to have her your picture on
her wall.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I had that.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Hey thanks to Nana, right right?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Awesome?
Speaker 1 (25:00):
But yeah, they do. They grew up with you, They
grow up with you.
Speaker 6 (25:03):
Yeah that's cool. Well, speaking of you just mentioned Disney World.
Speaker 5 (25:08):
I'm we've heard and found out a little bit that
you are a huge disney Land fans with your family.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
Do you go off? I'm as well. I was there
last night.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
I mean really, you were there last night?
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Yeah, or yesterday?
Speaker 5 (25:23):
You lived in County, I've lived about twenty minutes away
from the park.
Speaker 6 (25:26):
I went as far to take my daughter for the day.
Speaker 5 (25:30):
Text my husband and said, hey, after work, do you
want me to grab Ledger our son and we'll come
back and do nighttime Disney.
Speaker 6 (25:37):
And he's like sure, So we went.
Speaker 5 (25:39):
I came back, got the kids, got the husband, and
then we went back to Disneyland.
Speaker 6 (25:43):
So are you are you there often?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Should we?
Speaker 6 (25:47):
Should we do a Disney day.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
Less that I used to go.
Speaker 3 (25:52):
I still I'm probably there at most once a year,
although I mean I was in Disney World last year,
so you then you know, you know, but it was like.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
A whole trip, that's a whole thing. Yeah that's a
big that's a big trip. But this Disneyland's not that far.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
It's the hour or so, so you yeah, yeah, but
but yeah, I mean, I I I grew up going
to Disneyland.
Speaker 4 (26:13):
Yes, And then it was like, so I knew, you know,
I knew the I knew the layout, I knew the rides.
Speaker 3 (26:17):
And then you know, when you start working with Disney
Channel and they send you there or you go there
and you get the guy and it was like, oh, man.
Speaker 6 (26:28):
Is it?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
And then I was worried. I was like I didn't
want to go back, you know, without the plaid.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
But I gotta tell you, it's still it's still a
great experience. I don't mind waiting the lines as much
as I thought I would. It's like it's nice.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
You just sort of you get to experience the atmosphere
of the thing.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
It's like there's definitely there's pros and cons to both,
because like some of the rides I've been on in
Disney World, I was going through the lines and I
was like, this is really cool.
Speaker 4 (26:52):
I never got to see like the front of this ride.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Okay, yes, that's very true.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
You don't get a lot of it has so much
of the story, there's very cool. All the detail that's
at Disneyland and disney World.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
It's worth the trade off to miss that to go
to the bed in front of it.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
I'm not trying to sound like it's bad the other way,
but it's nice to.
Speaker 5 (27:11):
Go in the line after and see all the stuff,
you know, I mean, a ride like Indiana Jones just
has so much detail and cool stuff that, of course
it's nice to miss the seventy five minute.
Speaker 6 (27:25):
Wait and you go right on.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
However, they have done that if you haven't gone through
like you should because it's it is cool.
Speaker 2 (27:33):
Yeah, it's so strange as an East Coast kid, like
growing up in the East Coast hearing like, well, I
grew up going to Disneyland because it was you might
as well have said to me as a kid, Oh,
I grew up going to the Moon like it was
such a Disneyland was such a thing that the idea
that you got.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
To grow up near the park is so cool to me.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Okay, so I hate to do this to you, do.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
You really no?
Speaker 1 (28:03):
I actually love it. I've been looking forward to it
since I knew you were coming on here. What's your
favorite one that you've done?
Speaker 6 (28:12):
And why is it hatching p.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
And why is it hatching Pete? Exactly?
Speaker 4 (28:20):
It's hard to choose.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
I think I think the if I was gonna watch one,
I would watch Minutemen one hundred percent.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
That's the one that I think I would enjoy watching
the most.
Speaker 3 (28:32):
And as far as like, as far as the experience
filming it, it's it's hard to pick between frankly, probably
Minutemen and the Good Luck Charlie Christmas movie just because
you know, too vastly different experiences. Mintmen, I was the lead,
I was on set every day. It was a group
of brand new people that all happen to be, you know,
just awesome people that were out all the time. Was like,
(28:54):
it's like when it's a good group, especially, it's really
extra fun because it feels like camp, you know, yeah, or.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
They're the hotel. It's like a really really special bonding time,
you know.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Whereas with Good Look Charlie, I knew everybody already and
it was lovely to go on basically a vacation with
because it was like it kind of they split the
genders for that one, so like the Bridget and Lee
had their own story and then the guys had their
own story. So we were kind of shooting working together,
and then when they were working, we were kind of
at the hotel hanging out.
Speaker 4 (29:22):
So that was more like a family vacation, you know, feel.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
And to take it off of a studio a lot too,
I'm sure. Yeah, yeah, you know, take it off a.
Speaker 5 (29:31):
Studio a lot, go to a new venue location and
that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
There was a whole big sequence in that film with
paintball guns, and so we there was aholl like a
paintball fight scene, so we went to the paintball arena
and we played paintball all the time together during.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
That shit, you know.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
So it's like experience why It's really hard to pick,
but I think if it was, it was like, Okay,
watch one of your d COM's right now.
Speaker 4 (29:54):
It's it's minimum.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Okay, see minimm is your favorite, and you hated the
other three?
Speaker 4 (29:58):
Got it? You heard it from my from my mouth.
Speaker 5 (30:02):
You got to go back to the paintball scene because
we haven't seen that one. I'm sure we'll get to.
Speaker 6 (30:06):
Oh yeah, I just thought it we're definitely going to be.
Speaker 5 (30:09):
Doing lots of like Halloween ish, you know, with zombies
and Halloween through and stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (30:14):
Well, obviously I didn't know there was a Christmas type.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
Christmas d com category in.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
The d COM's. I did not know that, So we'll
have to do that.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
I love a Christmas movie, so we'll eventually see it.
Speaker 6 (30:26):
So there's a paintball scene.
Speaker 5 (30:27):
How did they do paintballs in the Disney Channel filming situation?
Speaker 6 (30:32):
Because they can't be real paintballs, right, those things?
Speaker 3 (30:35):
No, but they were real paintball guns. You just didn't
have anything in the in the hopper, so you shoot
and nothing comes out, you know.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
And then they just put it in digitally at the
at the AA or they you know, you rip.
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Pan over and then it's like you've already sort of dressed,
you know, got it Okay.
Speaker 4 (30:50):
It was like a whole action.
Speaker 3 (30:51):
Sequence like we had, you know, a whole area like
you know, it was very fun.
Speaker 4 (30:56):
It was very you know that bonds kind of ask
were fun.
Speaker 6 (31:00):
Yeah, that's something I've never done.
Speaker 5 (31:02):
It looks so fun, But I am too much of
a chicken to get somebody.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
They took us one time. All the teams, either Tiger
Beat or Team Beat. One of the Beats took all
of like young Hollywood at the time when we were
doing Boy Mets World and just handed us all guns
and it was just, you know, shooting each other when
you're hitting the kids from you know, full or I mean,
it was like we're just nailing each other with It
(31:30):
was a ridiculous amount of you only.
Speaker 5 (31:33):
Wear a chest thing, right, you're not fully probably in
a mask, but like if.
Speaker 6 (31:38):
Your legs are your arms kid, right, those brutes.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
At one point, Jenavanoi from Blossom got up to run
away and Ryder Strong's brother Shiloh stood up from five
feet behind her and just tagged her in the back
and yeah, I think I was dating her at the time,
and I just heard her go like oh and like faulled.
I mean, it was like my kids in Hollywood just
shooting each other with paintballs from five feet away.
Speaker 6 (32:01):
That sounds like a nightmare.
Speaker 1 (32:05):
It was.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
It was a lot of fun when you were shooting
minute men. Did you play with the time machine? And
when you did horfor back, did you go?
Speaker 3 (32:16):
It was uh, I don't even remember how to what
it even looked like to be honest with it was
like a what was it?
Speaker 4 (32:22):
What it looked like? You just watched it? What it
looked like?
Speaker 2 (32:24):
It was a it was a projector it was the
uh projector that. Then you're in the abandoned pool and
you've got to go jump off the diving board. Oh yeah,
okay into the swrolling vortex, where the first thing you
do is grab a poor, defenseless cat and throw it
to that.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Poor Did you ever see where that cat?
Speaker 2 (32:42):
No?
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Does that cat come back out?
Speaker 2 (32:43):
It does, just comes back frozen, It comes back here.
Speaker 5 (32:46):
And I didn't understand did they ever explain why it's
so cold to time travel?
Speaker 6 (32:51):
Why you guys are freezing?
Speaker 3 (32:53):
Oh promise you're going to the vacuum of space? They
probably said they didn't. I'm sure they didn't.
Speaker 4 (32:59):
Did they not know?
Speaker 1 (32:59):
They didn't?
Speaker 6 (33:00):
I did not understand why.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
We rate every movie, And in all fairness because you
I'll probably go back and listen to us and listen
to the mini man. It lost some points based on
awfulness of adults because they were like, the principal is
the I just wanted to actually kill it.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
What was the principal's whole deal?
Speaker 2 (33:20):
So he wouldn't help any of the kids that were
like getting bullied, He's like, no.
Speaker 5 (33:25):
The nerds that were getting bullied. He was like, this
is the he called the social climate.
Speaker 4 (33:31):
That was JP Panu, Right, yeah, I believe so.
Speaker 1 (33:33):
Is that his name? Yeah yeah, yeah, just.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Sort of like totally passive evolutionary laws or whatever.
Speaker 1 (33:39):
Yeah yeah yeah, And he kind of wouldn't help anybody.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
And then the FBI deciding to send children into the
spinning vortex of death.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
Just as bad as you guys thrown that cat in there.
I mean, they didn't care about you at all.
Speaker 1 (33:53):
They didn't care about the kid, like, just go.
Speaker 6 (33:55):
We'll see if you guys can figure it out.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
If not, I could see some argument in favor of
doing it rather than somebody else because we've done it before.
Speaker 1 (34:03):
Yeah, but you're chill.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
Were the only ones with experience your children. But at
the same time, yeah, if we die, then the FBI
has child of blood on their hands, which they were
okay with.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
But here's the thing that we did love, and I
mean loved the cast. You guys were all great, I
mean really really good.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
I was just thinking about that actually in preparation for this.
Was like, first of all, yes, we all were great, cast,
and you also like it's undeniable looking at the careers
of some of the people.
Speaker 4 (34:33):
A lot of the people that were in it.
Speaker 3 (34:35):
You know, Nick Brown doing Succession, I mean, Benor did
a ton of comedies with it, like most of McCarthy
is like it was the Dexter Darden tons of works.
Like it was really a special collection of people. If
you look at the sort of the timeline and everything
is not really Tesla Kane of course doing all her
baby daddy stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I mean, you know, and you all at the chemistry
that you know, That's why one of the questions we
asked was like, well, I'm sure they knew each other
before they went in, because the chemistry.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
Was you are so good. Yeah, yeah, that man.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
It was definitely an incredible group of young actors, really
strong casting.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
You should be proud of that.
Speaker 5 (35:06):
Yeah, there you go Judy again. Judy is She's an
all star. She's an all star. And that's that's what
we've really seen with so many i mean, got to
kick it up, America Ferrera. I mean, it's like just
these all these Disney d coms are filled with so
much talent and so and to where as an actor,
(35:27):
why you want it. You were hopeful to get on
the channel because that was such a huge stepping stone
into taking your career to that next level, you know,
and and also having fun.
Speaker 6 (35:39):
These movies are made of, you know, we.
Speaker 5 (35:42):
Hated every every adult who cares because we've got just
a great cast.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
Of kids, you know, amazing, amazing, so.
Speaker 6 (35:50):
Fun to work on. And yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Okay, So for our last question here, and we would
be remiss if we did not ask this. You have
a time machine. What do you go back in your
own life and change?
Speaker 6 (36:06):
And change? Not relive? I tried to relive. Will told
me I.
Speaker 1 (36:09):
Was she was playing the game wrong.
Speaker 6 (36:11):
I couldn't do that. I played the game wrong.
Speaker 4 (36:13):
You have to change? Can change?
Speaker 6 (36:17):
Was it on family?
Speaker 4 (36:20):
I think I know Sabrina's answer.
Speaker 1 (36:23):
It was a great answer.
Speaker 3 (36:25):
To well, I would you know what I would do
to bring this whole conversation full circle? I would go
back and I would I would not stop going back
to the Simon says, game okay, until we want, we.
Speaker 4 (36:44):
Want, I love.
Speaker 6 (36:48):
Until yellow got a freaking wind.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
That's that's like genuinely what I would.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I don't really, I don't have a thankfully out of
a ton of regrets in my life. I mean, that's
probably that's wonderful. That's really hanging over me the more
I think about it. So that's that's what I would great.
Speaker 6 (37:08):
I love it. That's perfect.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Oh I do have to ask this catching people were
you dancing? Was that you dancing in there?
Speaker 3 (37:15):
So there were at least four chickens, myself and Mitchell included.
So there was a dance chicken, and there was a
stunt chicken, but then there was also a dance chicken.
I think there was a separate one from Mitchell. And
the reason was because my legs were so skinny and
his word like his word not I always had like
I had like genuine chicken legs, So they had to
(37:36):
have a dancer that that wouldn't look like his legs
in the thing when it was me.
Speaker 4 (37:41):
So so there were there were at least.
Speaker 3 (37:43):
Four chickens, maybe more, which was great because I don't
want to I don't want to spoil this podcast.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
If we were just this exact conversation made we have
to do HATCHI Pete with you.
Speaker 3 (37:52):
So yeah, yeah, it was great because when I had
the head on an info costume, no one was ever
really sure who I was. You're like, you couldn't for
sure tell, so I could like go and there was
a certain level of anonymity that I could have and
just walk around on set and just screw around with
people like do like do mascot stuff, you know, take
(38:12):
their drink.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
Or whatever, and then like that kind of they don't
know if it was.
Speaker 4 (38:16):
It was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Yeah, thank you so much for joining us, Jason.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Thanks for having We've been wanting to talk to you
for so long now. So this is great.
Speaker 8 (38:29):
Good.
Speaker 4 (38:29):
I bet it, I bet it worked out.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
Hopefully this is the first of the times you're going
to be coming here because I love it.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
We got four movies, Like we said, you're royal, you
are royalty, four movies.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
We gotta go and look for your crown in the mail.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
Perfect.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
Thank you so much by Jason.
Speaker 6 (38:45):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (38:49):
That was so fun. It was such a dull face.
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
What a sweet guy.
Speaker 2 (38:56):
The idea that he's had so much fun in his
career that he's like, if I had a time machine,
the thing I would change would be to go win
the time and he's like, I don't have many regrets.
Speaker 1 (39:05):
In my life. That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (39:06):
That's amazing. Love that amazing so much.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
And I'm so happy that he came up.
Speaker 6 (39:11):
Clearly has not embarrassed himself on anything.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
We've got to do hatching Pete. Okay, thank you everybody
for joining us in this park Opper episode. Thank you
Jason Dolly for coming out.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
It was so cool to talk to him, and I
can't wait to do it again for another show. And everybody, Yeah,
just go watch Minute Men and get some wonderwear and
shake the leg.
Speaker 6 (39:31):
That's all.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
That's all I gotta do.
Speaker 5 (39:35):
Oh gosh, let this nightmare be done.
Speaker 6 (39:41):
Shake the leg.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
Thanks everybody, and we will see you next time.
Speaker 8 (39:45):
Bye bye
Speaker 6 (40:00):
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