Starring John DeLuca as Butchy in “Teen Beach Movie”

Surf’s Up! John DeLuca joins Will and Sabrina to talk about “Teen Beach Movie”!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Thank you everybody so much for joining us over here
on our park Hopper episode. We just watched the movie
Teen Beach Movie. It was more fun than I thought
it was going to be. You know, I don't like musicals,
but it was fun. We had a good time. Did
you like it, SCREENA, you liked it?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
I loved it, and I loved it because this cast
committed one hundred and seventy percent very true characters what
they were there to do.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
They came, they delivered, and it was amazing.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
And you had to or it wouldn't have worked.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
The movie would have fallen flat if they did not commit,
and they did. But let's talk to one of the
stars of the movie. He played Butchy, the lead biker.
That's right, the lead rodent. So if you could help us,
please welcome John de Luca.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
What's up, guys?

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Hi, how are you?

Speaker 5 (01:08):
How are you?

Speaker 4 (01:09):
We're great. Thank you so much for joining us.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
We just watched and did our entire deep dive into
Teen Beach Movie.

Speaker 6 (01:16):
Oh my goodness, gracious, that's fun.

Speaker 4 (01:19):
It was fun. It was seriously a ton of fun.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Can you tell us a little bit about, you know,
how you first heard about the project, what the audition
process was.

Speaker 6 (01:28):
Like, yeah, for sure. First of all, I want to say,
what a cool idea for a show. I think it's
there's so much like like cool material in the Disney
cannon and for you guys to kind of go through
and really really cool idea.

Speaker 4 (01:42):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (01:42):
You guys questions about how it came up with it,
but I will answer you. So when it first canced me,
So it was actually in the process of shooting a
Disney pilot at the time. You know that the movie
Zombies that have come out, and yeah, of course, so
fun fact that was originally a TV show. Why Yeah,
it was called Zombies and Cheerleaders, and I was the

(02:05):
head cheerleader guy. His name was a Bucky Buchanan. And
also in Maya Mitchell, who also ended up in the
in the two movies with me. She was the female
lead in it. Oh she goes to this new high school. Anyway,
So we were the process of shooting at that show,
the pilot, and Maya had already been cast and she
was like, Hey, I'm kind of shooting this this uh,

(02:28):
we're about to shoot this movie and I you know,
we just met. It's like I think you you might
be you know, you should definitely audition for this part.
And I asked my reps and they were like, yeah,
they had actually reached out about it anyway. So that's
how it came to me and the audition process, and
it ended up working out so fun.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
Yeah, I'll say, because I'm going to be totally honest
with you, I do not like musicals. It's one of
the things I'm known for is not liking when people
just break into song.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
That's your thing.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
That for for for Disney movies, when Sabrina knows where
it's like if they just break into songs, this.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
Is where we're like the yay and the yang. I
am here for all musical world.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
But then this movie leans into the fact that it's like,
why are we breaking into song?

Speaker 4 (03:18):
Did you guys say?

Speaker 2 (03:18):
It does?

Speaker 4 (03:19):
And it was great. I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 5 (03:23):
I appreciate it. We had a lot of fun doing it.

Speaker 4 (03:25):
I I you could tell the music is.

Speaker 5 (03:27):
Like catchy, you know, it's like catchy and poppy and fun,
and I liked I always liked musicals.

Speaker 6 (03:34):
I never thought I would be in one, especially in
Movie one, just because I'm not that's not my thing,
but uh, it was.

Speaker 4 (03:41):
It was so fun.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Sorry, hold on, but you would have had to have
danced at some point.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
No, you had no dance background.

Speaker 5 (03:49):
No no, no, no, no, no, you.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
Stop it right now.

Speaker 5 (03:53):
So yes, so another fun You didn't even go.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
To like a line dancing class. I mean, there's just
no way you had no.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
No. Yeah, so I had comfort dancing.

Speaker 6 (04:05):
Like when I was in high school, I was the
kid who was like, hey, I'll like jump into the
center and like do a moon walk and do a
backflip and then I'm.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
Out, Okay that backflip was you?

Speaker 1 (04:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (04:14):
Yeah, yeah, okay.

Speaker 6 (04:15):
Like I grew up in sports. I did gymnastics as
a kid. I was a high school wrestler, Like I'm
comfortable in my own body. But for dancing, like, I'd
never learned choreography ever. My my father was a ballroom dancer.
I never I never did any of it. My last
part of my my audition was like last step would

(04:38):
show up to a dance rehearsal. Okay, so and all
my agents told me was just they want to make
sure you can move, and I was like perfect, sure.

Speaker 5 (04:48):
I was like I can move. Yeah, I was like
that sounds fine.

Speaker 6 (04:52):
Didn't prep anything naturally, I show up in the middle
of a full on dance rehearsal and in before obviously
we had we had left for Puerto Rico, but showed
up at this studio and most of the dancers had
all been on Dancing with the Stars, and at that point,
like I was a fan of Dancing with the Stars,
So I was like seeing all these people who who

(05:13):
I knew. I knew one kid who was also a
dancer with us on the pilot we were shooting, so
I like, I was.

Speaker 5 (05:18):
Like, hey, man, what's up?

Speaker 3 (05:19):
Remember me?

Speaker 5 (05:19):
Hey, And I didn't have to just show. I had
to move.

Speaker 6 (05:23):
They literally perfect, welcome, We're gonna put you in this room.
We're gonna teach you all of cruiser for a Bruisan.
Remember it and let us know when you're ready, because
then we're gonna put it on camera and we're gonna
send it to Disney Channel.

Speaker 5 (05:36):
This is your final part of your audition. I was
like perfect. In my head, I'm like, thanks.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
Agent, it's been great guy, see you later.

Speaker 6 (05:43):
Yeah you. While I was like moving and then like
actually learning choreography, I came two pretty different things.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
That's like being able to sort of understand football and
learning an actual play and.

Speaker 5 (05:55):
They're putting it on a field. Yeah, They're like, here's
the play, here's for me.

Speaker 6 (06:02):
This is like a super Bowl thing, right, Like I
had worked a bit, but like this is a you know,
it was a cool thing. So literally they brought me
into the the separate studio, which by the way, had
an open like glass window where the other dude would
like come up and watch and like, just like I
was an animal on display.

Speaker 5 (06:21):
I was doing that's so cute.

Speaker 6 (06:23):
Oh my god, he's almost doing it. But the assistant
choreographer was in there with me. Her name was Jessica Keller,
who ended up in the movie as well as Struts.
But she was like trying to like teach me, like, hey,
this is kind of what it is.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
I don't know. And I'm like, I like, I don't
know if I was on like cargo shorts or something.
Who knows what I was wearing. I got like baggy
sweatpants on. I was not.

Speaker 6 (06:47):
Finally, Chris Scott, who is like an absolute legend. Yeah,
he just he just did Wicked. He just choreographed Wicked.
He did in the Heights movie. Yeah as a beast.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Yeah, we read his his I mean and your director,
who was also a choreographer at the time, I mean
just dancing the stone. He did the core line, Yeah, yeah,
flash dance and all the I mean amazing stuff down
the line.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Epic epic.

Speaker 6 (07:11):
Yeah. The stakes are high, guys, the states, Yes, high.
But finally I was like, yeah, this is probably the
best I'm going to be able to do it. So
they brought the camera in and Chris, who's like very
like cinematically minded, and he's like, all right, this is
going to Disney, like are you ready?

Speaker 5 (07:26):
And I was like no, but let's do it.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
So, like, not even close by here we shot it.

Speaker 6 (07:30):
I like couldn't like quite pick it up, you know,
like when it's in your body you can do it.

Speaker 5 (07:35):
But it just wasn't there. We did whatever.

Speaker 6 (07:38):
Ended up being the take, and he was like all right,
And in my head I was like I need I
was like, look, I think I I'm supposed to do
this part. It was between me and one other guy.
By the way, at this point he came before me.
I had no idea who he was, knew nothing about him.
I was like what, I was like, what else can
I show you? I was like, I can I can tumble,

(07:59):
I can do some flips stuff like what else, what's
gonna set me apart?

Speaker 5 (08:02):
Yeah, I think I think I'm supposed to do this part.

Speaker 6 (08:05):
And he was like, he was like respect Yeah, I
mean like if you can like tumble or whatever, like yeah,
He's like, screw it, let's put it on camera.

Speaker 5 (08:12):
So I was like cool. So I had no idea
what I was gonna do. No, this was not I
had no clue.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
So I like did like a round off backhand spring
back up, and I was just.

Speaker 5 (08:23):
In the zone. There was like a like a post
in there. I like went to the post and did
like a stuff like I held myself up the post.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (08:30):
Then and I would ever this is I'm remembered, uh
for this by the cast. In my head, I'm like,
I have a good idea. There's a ballet bar in
the studio, because we're in a dance studio. I run,
we have the song on camera by the way.

Speaker 5 (08:43):
I run up.

Speaker 6 (08:44):
I test, I test the ballet bar very close to
one of the things holding it up.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
Then I back up.

Speaker 6 (08:53):
I run to jump and do a backflip off the
ballet bar. I thought that would be cool. I go,
I jump and put two feet on it. I go
back the battle guar snaps in half.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
Oh yeah, they're not dirty. My back.

Speaker 5 (09:09):
Snaps backwards in half.

Speaker 6 (09:11):
I land in a pile on the floor in pain,
and I get up and Crystal has the camera on me,
and then you know, we've all watched this together many times,
and he put He's like are you okay?

Speaker 5 (09:24):
And it cuts and then he comes up to me
and he's like, yo, are you okay?

Speaker 6 (09:28):
And I got up and I was like, again, my back,
it's not feeling great.

Speaker 5 (09:33):
But I was like, dude, I'm so sorry. I'll pay
for it. And that was the end of my audition,
and I was like, well, that is a great audiation show.
I was like, this has been so much fun. Thank
you for everything. Sorry about your ballet.

Speaker 1 (09:49):
Bar, thank you.

Speaker 4 (09:51):
Seeing me today.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
And it's all on film and we have it on camera,
and I have a video somewhere of on our last
day of shooting, all of us were in a hotel
room together in port Rico watching the video. We have
a video of us watching and us time. I'm going
to release it on the internet.

Speaker 5 (10:10):
Yeah I haven't done it.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Yeah, oh this is so good. How long after that
did you find out you got it?

Speaker 6 (10:16):
So I it was. It wasn't that long after. It
was a couple of days.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
Oh, that's great, And I think I was one of
the last people to get cast.

Speaker 4 (10:24):
So I was.

Speaker 5 (10:25):
I remember I was. I was living in her most
of beach at the time. Do you guys both live
in La Yeah? Okay cool. So it's like, yeah, I
was at the gym. My agent called me. I walked outside.
I was like, remember, I was like looking at the beach.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
I was like, you got it. He's like, you leave
for Puerto Rico two days. I was like, awesome, what
my gosh.

Speaker 5 (10:43):
So yeah, and then we did it.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
She got that's like Mac having to leave her school
the next day and not telling her boyfriend about.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
It at all.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
See there nice callack see there you go. It's okay.

Speaker 1 (10:55):
So was this was this your first work for the
channel for disne me at all? Or had you done
because I know you've done a bunch of stuff for them,
but other than zombies. Yeah, pilot was this kind of
the first cr So I.

Speaker 6 (11:06):
Was still we had maybe just wrapped that pilot. So
we wrapped the pilot. I did this and they like
were one after another and maybe I lied maybe I
wasn't two days because we had a couple of days
of dance rehearsal in Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
Yeah, I was gonna ask what the prep was because
they clearly were already working with the dancing cast.

Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yes, and they were having the leads jump in.

Speaker 6 (11:27):
They were already so far ahead, and I immediately felt
so far behind.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah, that's hard.

Speaker 6 (11:31):
I felt like it was like late to the party,
for sure. Answer your question. My first job in LA. Actually,
I moved here go, went to college New York, studied
theater there. I got my first couple of jobs. Moved
to LA in twenty ten. Okay, which I'm dating myself.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
But please please.

Speaker 5 (11:49):
So yeah, my first.

Speaker 6 (11:50):
Job out here, I was like waiting tables at the time,
was on Wizards of Waveley Place.

Speaker 4 (11:55):
Okay, so Wizards was first.

Speaker 6 (11:57):
Yeah, and it was funny somehow this tied end because
the part of play on Wizards was they in this
episode they go back in time to a nineteen sixties
high school, and I played a like the cool kid
in high school talk like this. Well, yeah, and somebody
remembered me in the in the audition projects.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
It was probably Judy Taylor.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
So now Jude is way too cool to know who
I was at that point.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
Now, Judy Taylor saw you, she was like, yes, joh boom, she.

Speaker 6 (12:24):
Knew who I was from she was on our Zombie
set and she liked me, but made the connection. They're like, oh,
I've seen him do that thing, and we do like
a little we do like a sock cop in that episode.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
So I danced like okay anyway, So that was my.

Speaker 6 (12:37):
First and only Disney experience prior to Zombies, prior to
teen Beach Got It. Then, to answer your other question
about prep, yeah, so it was I had a couple
I don't want to say, maybe two like immediate days
or three media days of dance rehearsal and then we
left and so I did.

Speaker 5 (12:56):
That was the prep.

Speaker 6 (12:57):
It was just like learning the music, starting to try
and in the dances. That was like the most intimidating
part to me.

Speaker 5 (13:03):
Jesus sure, I mean it.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
It's tough in general when you go, like you mentioned
Dancing with the Stars, you go on a set with
professionals who do this didn't day in day I'll get
that's how they earn a living and you are not.
And you already know there's you know, there's a there's
a difference, and you try to try to blend. You
just want to blend.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
I was already so I already had so much respect
for dancers, but like my my respect for them skyrocketed
tenfold in for the choreography because their ability to just learn.
They're like, wait, what's that change? Okay, bop got it? Okay, yeah,
we can keep going. Sorry, and I'm like, I need.

Speaker 3 (13:43):
And will will that's the actual language.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Bob ba ba boom ba boom bah hit it, that's
the change.

Speaker 4 (13:51):
Obviously you're a dancer, answer Sabrina. Yes, Sabrina is very
much a dancer.

Speaker 6 (13:58):
Yes, God okay, because because Chee Girls was after my time, Yes,
that was after my time.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
I apologize. Boy Meets World was not.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
It was always okay, oh thank you, okay, good and
you saw my amazing dancing.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
I'm sure on Boy.

Speaker 6 (14:11):
Metrol really really enthralling. But it matched, it matched his
essence stuff like that.

Speaker 3 (14:21):
I love that I know exactly what he's done.

Speaker 5 (14:25):
That will.

Speaker 4 (14:27):
Oh by okay.

Speaker 1 (14:36):
So one of the things we talk about with all
these dcoms is we joke every week that Disney flips
a coin.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
They either shoot in Vancouver or they shoot in Utah.

Speaker 1 (14:45):
So when we find out that you're shooting in Puerto Rico,
what is that like? You get to Puerto Rico, you're
with the whole cast.

Speaker 3 (14:51):
I mean, how old were you again during shooting?

Speaker 5 (14:54):
Stop trying to do the mass Sabrina.

Speaker 2 (14:57):
Well, I'm saying, uh, did you have to have a guardian?

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Or were you in Puerto Rico?

Speaker 6 (15:03):
I was I was probably twenty five there you got
twenty five, so no, yeah, so it was I had
never been in Puerto Rico and we were there. We
shot the first one in February, I think we got there,
so it was it was beautiful out there.

Speaker 5 (15:21):
And it was like it's like summer camp.

Speaker 6 (15:22):
We also had maybe two or three weeks of prep
where all we we just had it was like dance camp. Yeah,
we would like show up to this kind of like
small hot like dance studio in San Juan, Puerto Rico,
and we met all and we had a whole troop
of Porto Rico dancers as well, so we met all
of them and it's just like just rehearsal, rehearsal. I

(15:44):
felt like a you know, like a professional dancer. I
was showing up so we weren't even seeing.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
The material yet, but it was.

Speaker 6 (15:51):
It was amazing because we had we had weekends off,
so like you know, we had friends and family coming
to visit. My two little brothers who came one week
for like a week, my parents its came for a week.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
How long were you there?

Speaker 5 (16:02):
Were there for? Two months?

Speaker 4 (16:03):
Oh geez? Yeah, a long shoot?

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Well that would be what six weeks shooting, two weeks
of rehearsal there probably.

Speaker 6 (16:12):
Yeah, yeah, probably some of us were maybe there before.
I was a little bit later as well, but yeah, it.

Speaker 5 (16:18):
Was, it was.

Speaker 6 (16:19):
It was pretty It was a long She was very
all the all the dance numbers there, they're pretty involved,
and we had like cranes on the beach.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
It was a giant production. It looked like it. It
was a giant production. First of all, there were seventeen
million musical numbers, so you had a lot of choreography
to learn.

Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, they but they don't spend money. I mean Disney,
notoriously back in the day did not spend money. And
now what do you mean, Well, you guys got it though.
You had eight You had an eight million dollar budget,
which is normally like fourteen Disney Channel movies.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
Was that our budget?

Speaker 4 (16:53):
You had an eight million dollar budget.

Speaker 2 (16:55):
You got to go back and watch some of these
other d coms in real life. The budget that they
had compared to what you guys.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Had pretty pretty amazy.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
Huge Yeah, huge, friends, We're all the like.

Speaker 5 (17:08):
Were they just amassing? Like?

Speaker 6 (17:10):
Were the subsequent ones after us? Did they get even
more money?

Speaker 4 (17:14):
They didn't know what happened.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
Yeah, what happened was that they Disney changed their model
to where they would pump out one a month back
in like the Cheetah Girl days. And then by twenty thirteen,
when you did Teen Beach Movie, it was the only
dcom that year, right, Okay, so they started to do bigger,
tent pole kind of movies because the raids. I don't
know if you're also aware, but your your ratings were
monstrous massive. Teen Beach Movies the second highest rated movie

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in the history not of the channel but of cable movies.

Speaker 5 (17:44):
I think at that I don't know if it's still hold.
I think at that time.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
One did well with DVR. It have almost fourteen million views.

Speaker 6 (17:51):
Yeah, we were second behind me. Yeah, one of the
the high School musical two. Yeah, yeah, crazy, you're.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
Right up there. Because those ratings have on away.

Speaker 6 (18:00):
Right, because everybody's streaming everything now, it's harder to qualify
to keep track of.

Speaker 1 (18:06):
Yeah, twenty thirteen, you're right around the end there, so
you probably are holding on to one of those records,
which is great.

Speaker 6 (18:11):
I will, but I didn't know that about the about
the what it cost to make, I didn't know.

Speaker 3 (18:16):
Yeah, oh yeah, for sure.

Speaker 4 (18:18):
So you're there in.

Speaker 1 (18:19):
Puerto Rico, you're twenty five years old. It looked like
you were all having a blast. Who did you hang
out with the on the cast? Were people grouping up
becoming becoming friends.

Speaker 6 (18:28):
Yeah, it's funny, like it seems like it was a
big like a big it was a big production, but
our actual like cast wasn't enormous. You know, we had
a smallish cast, I being one of the older people
in the cast, right, There's a lot of kids were,
you know, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and twenty years old, but
like I had been to college already. I think I

(18:51):
was already like you know, I know what that's like. Yeah,
so I was just like the older one, right, So yeah, yeah,
so we all were hanging out together for the most part,
like a couple of the dancers who were closer a
little bit close to my age, got any casey money.

Speaker 5 (19:06):
Marco Jamar.

Speaker 6 (19:07):
I mean still friends with most of these people, a
bunch of the dancers I ended up hanging out with
a lot, but really all of us, we would like
we all have our own hotel rooms and these beautiful
hotels in San Juan, and you know, we would like
bring our guitars and have like little jam sessions, or
you know, we take our per diem and we just
head out into old San Juan and go get dinner
and need these like big steaks. And we had local

(19:29):
some of the local dancers, uh who also lived in
La But so we had like boots in the ground
and be like, I know all the spots and would
take us from we were a little deep into these
like like you know these restaurant bars in old San Juan,
it's like Cotone streets, and then us and all of
our dancers would just take over this like this dance

(19:51):
floor and people would be like what is going on?

Speaker 5 (19:53):
And it was like a like a scene from Havana Knights.
You know. So I was a roundabout way of answering
your question.

Speaker 6 (20:02):
But like there's you know, there's always like people who
are who are like closer and stuff, but it there
weren't any real factions.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
Right, Well, that's great. That makes it. That makes it better.
It's just kind of a team which.

Speaker 5 (20:12):
Yeah, which like a crazy summer camp.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Yeah, that's great, that's incredible.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah, can you tell us?

Speaker 1 (20:18):
So we heard a a rumor story about ross lynch okay,
that he actually stepped on a pool filter and lost
a bunch of his toe nails and then had to
do the cruising for a Bruisin dance number despite being
in a ton of pain?

Speaker 4 (20:35):
Is that true?

Speaker 5 (20:36):
So that you're you're there.

Speaker 6 (20:39):
Is a story like that, It's to my knowledge that
didn't nothing happened to ross during that oh okay, but
so that that could be true, I'm not saying it's not.
But the what I think he might be have heard
is I I got like pretty badly hurt.

Speaker 4 (20:55):
Oh was it you? What what happened?

Speaker 6 (20:57):
Two or three weeks prior to shooting Cruisin for Bruce
in So, my my two little brothers were visiting Puerto Rico.
It was my middle brother Day's birthday.

Speaker 5 (21:09):
It was a Saturday.

Speaker 6 (21:09):
We had the day off, and so we were all
like out by the pool and a bunch of the
dancers were teaching us like tricks.

Speaker 5 (21:17):
And I was like, teach me things. I was like,
I can do it. I was like, look at me,
I'm gonna dance movie.

Speaker 4 (21:24):
I'll Could you learn nothing from the ballet.

Speaker 6 (21:26):
Bar answered that question, No, well I did not. My
back in my back is like still bothering me. Not today,
Like at that point, it's still.

Speaker 3 (21:37):
So horrific injury that you had from just going a
little too far.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
I'm painting myself as a just really competent.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
Now you're throwing yourself into it.

Speaker 5 (21:48):
Yeah, commitment. So so it's Saturday.

Speaker 6 (21:52):
We're still a couple of weeks out from shooting cruising,
but you know, we're like out in the sun. Anyway,
my buddy Marco, who was dancer in the movie and
also he you know, worked a little bit on Zombies,
try to teach me this move where I take off
of one foot and do like a backflip off of
one foot with a twist. The grass was wet and

(22:13):
I went to take off from one foot and my
plant foot slipped and my whole all my feet went
forward and I took off of that foot. Anyway, I
my foot blew up times five, black and blue. I
didn't tell anybody because I didn't What I didn't want

(22:36):
to happen is there was there was a version of
this dance where Ross like I didn't have my beginning portion,
and Ross was going to do the whole thing, and
I was like, God, I was like, kind of fought
my way.

Speaker 3 (22:48):
To show totally. Yeah, you earned it.

Speaker 6 (22:52):
By that point, I had shown that I could do
it enough for them to give me that beginning part,
but I didn't want them to take it away.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Which you were great by the way you were. You
were in that far. It was awesome, very very good.

Speaker 5 (23:04):
It was. It was terrifying, but thank you.

Speaker 3 (23:07):
But then you tried to ruin it all well.

Speaker 6 (23:10):
So I couldn't I couldn't walk, so I iced my ankle,
and so I did not tell Chris Scott. I told
a couple of the dancers, and then my brothers knew.
But I was like icing, icing, icing, trying to take
you know, ibuprofen stuff, limping around on it, and you know,
Chris was like asking me, what was Oh, no, no, nothing.
I just stepped on the thing and and just iced

(23:33):
the heck out of it until until shoot. But like
with the day that we shot I I taking I
took someone had like a something to numb myself.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Sure, yeah, so and.

Speaker 5 (23:46):
Then I just I had a shoe and I just
tie that.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, you just like a brace.

Speaker 6 (23:53):
And then I was just running off pure adrenaline because
there was a part of it I was supposed to
do a back flip off the stage.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
I was gonna say, that's not the the same routine,
was it.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
Oh yeah, it's all the same thing. So we shot
that whole thing.

Speaker 6 (24:05):
So that was a couple of weeks later, so my
brothers were gone, my parents were there then, so they
were on set for the shooting of Cruisin for Bruson.
We start super early in the morning and we shoot
it all day and you do it over and over
and over from yes, from this angle, and but by
the time we did it, I was just on pure adrenaline.

Speaker 1 (24:26):
And that was almost the next day, like I mean,
my god, yeah, I mean terrible.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
But sucked, absolutely most horrific day.

Speaker 5 (24:34):
I was so happy showing us dailies and I was like, oh,
thank God.

Speaker 2 (24:37):
Like sure, and your family's there, they're getting to see Yeah,
like yeah, totally.

Speaker 1 (24:41):
Never know I would never have guessed, never, never in
a million years have guessed that you were doing that
with an injury.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
But I do remember in the film because we you know,
obviously even with this film, looking at the surfers, who's
who's getting stunt doubles, who's who's thrown out stuff whatever?

Speaker 3 (24:57):
And I remember you doing your backflip, and I instant
rewound and was.

Speaker 2 (25:00):
Like, okay, John, all right, get that bag clip. Yes
that is for sure, because you get down and you're like,
dude again, take fifty seven, Oh you want fifty eight?

Speaker 3 (25:14):
Got it? It was so good you got that, like,
no problem.

Speaker 6 (25:19):
I appreciate it, and I'm glad it worked out, and yeah,
it could have gone different way for sure.

Speaker 1 (25:25):
Well can I ask you something because you mentioned you
grab your guitar and that you guys would have jam sessions.
You sing, I mean you can tell by the second one.

Speaker 5 (25:33):
Now I'm saying, not let me.

Speaker 6 (25:35):
I want to I want to set the record straight here,
all right, first movie, not me, right, But but you
sung in the second one. I sang in the second one,
but I carried so much shame from the first one,
so they get My agent asked me this because I
was the last one. He's like, hey, do you care
if you don't sing that song? CHRISTMP for a bruising

(25:55):
And I was like, absolutely not, I don't care.

Speaker 5 (25:58):
I was always the job. I was like.

Speaker 6 (26:00):
I was like, I'm happy to be doing the job.
They're like, they record the music already, do you care?
Like do you want to push to sing? And I
could have done something. I couldn't have sang it that well.
The guy who sings it kills it like I. It
would not have been that I can carry a tune,
like you know, the Zombies was a musical. I auditioned
a guitar like, yeah, you're obviously a musical and like
carry a tune a little bit, right, But I would

(26:22):
never ever call myself a singer or a dancer. I'm
an actor who has tried to do both. But so yeah,
But after the first.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
One came out, kids would come up to me like,
oh my god, you have a great boys, and like,
I never like in that eight second interaction.

Speaker 6 (26:35):
I didn't want to like yeah, kid, and then also
destroy them in the same sec and be like, yeah,
that wasn't me and have them leave that feeling confused.

Speaker 5 (26:43):
Right, So when the second one came around.

Speaker 6 (26:45):
I was like, guys, I want to sing, so so
they came had me come in and just make sure
that I wasn't gonna run the movie.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
I think that's another aspect of it too, is that,
I mean they set the first one up for obviously
a sequel, right.

Speaker 6 (27:00):
I don't think so, John, No, no, John. They had
to like rack their brains to figure out a way
to make that work. The only reason they did it.
And I remember where I was and I found out
they're like, we're gonna get a sequel. We don't know
how or why or what it's going to be about,
but the ratings were enough to just yeah, so they're like,
we're gonna make it happen.

Speaker 5 (27:19):
We don't know who it's gonna be.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
But the little like bonus scene that we get as
viewers like obviously sets up as like a sequel.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
Yeah, there's like an after credit scene where they come
out of the water.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Now keep in mind, neither one of us has seen
the sequel, so don't you dare ruin it. But I'm kidding,
but it looks like it's an obvious setup of what
the next movie.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Is gonna be.

Speaker 5 (27:43):
So I think they do.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
I need to know is that what the no no
do not tell her anything.

Speaker 5 (27:49):
They do have to leave the door open for it.

Speaker 6 (27:51):
And I think you always hope that right they had
they had had High School Musical. I think they really
they loved the project a lot, and they believed in it.
And I'm sure at Disney there's always some some degree
of belief in what they're doing. But if they when
they make something and they're like, Okay, the music is great,
like we like the story, we think this has legs
to maybe be something, I think they they just tucked.

Speaker 5 (28:13):
That in at the end.

Speaker 6 (28:13):
I don't even think that was in the original script.
I think they're like, let's put this little teaser in,
and it's.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
Kind of great. It's also they were so hot with
High School Musical at this point.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
You know.

Speaker 4 (28:22):
The original title of this was teen Beach Musical.

Speaker 6 (28:25):
Yes, which but we're we all were so impressed that
we were like, we like that as a movie. Also,
the working title was making Waves, so like that. My
first script that I got said mate, okay, and we
were all kind of like the.

Speaker 5 (28:38):
Dean Beach movie. We're like, could you how on the
nose could you be?

Speaker 3 (28:43):
What was the name of the magical movie. In the
first script, Will needs to know was it, Oh what
side story?

Speaker 4 (28:51):
Yes, it was.

Speaker 5 (28:52):
It was wet sides.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Because during during our our rewatch, I, if you made
a drinking game, over the number of times I had
to say wet, you'd be dead by the first commercial break.

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Yeah, it just segues into a whole lot of other horrible.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Title of movies that.

Speaker 5 (29:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (29:11):
Yeah, Disney should have no part.

Speaker 1 (29:13):
Of It's true. So the movie comes out, it is
a smash success. Yes, how does your life change after that?

Speaker 5 (29:29):
So?

Speaker 6 (29:30):
So, yeah, this is the first thing I did that
I had ever been like recognized for, so I really
had no frame of reference for what that was. This
is also social media was kind of just like I
had to Disney required me to get Instagram for this.
Really yeah, so like I didn't have Instagram at that point.

(29:51):
I got it because Disney was like, hey, you should
have Instagram, and they're like, here are the rules, like
you can and can't post.

Speaker 5 (29:57):
This and all of that stuff. Wait, star, they were
very specific rules.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
This is new new Yeah, so they told you you
need to get Instagram and then they gave you rules
on what you can and cannot do on your own
Instagram account.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
Yeah, because so as far as I knew.

Speaker 3 (30:14):
It, I understand I know why they did.

Speaker 6 (30:16):
It was it was a tool, right, so like it's
your own name, yes kind of. It was more so
when I say they give you rules, I think it
was we met with like their pr and they're like.

Speaker 3 (30:26):
Standards insist of.

Speaker 6 (30:28):
What you're posting. Keep in mind who the fans of
these things are. And they were speaking you know, more
specifically to like a person who had been to college and.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Like, yeah, the younger kids, you know, like on.

Speaker 6 (30:39):
My Facebook probably had pictures of like knee drinking and stuff, right, yeah, yeah,
So I think it was more so that it wasn't
like an Iron Fists sort of thing.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
No, they're just protective of the brand totally.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah, of course, and I totally understand that.

Speaker 6 (30:51):
Like I guess, but but so there's no I know, again,
no frame of reference for like what happens when when
people you are and I really started my first time,
I really noticed it. Actually, So a bunch of the
dancers after the movie or maybe during the movie came out,
they were on tour with Taylor Swift on the Red
Tour with who the Taylor Swift She's a new artist.

Speaker 1 (31:15):
Okay, yeah, okay, interesting, I'm kidding even I know Taylor's Swift,
t Money.

Speaker 5 (31:24):
Money, She's great. Yeah, she's an Indian artist. So uh.

Speaker 6 (31:28):
They were on tour with Taylor Swift and I was
home in Massachusetts visiting my family.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
We're in Massachusetts.

Speaker 5 (31:34):
I'm from western mass like Springfield area.

Speaker 4 (31:37):
You're kidding?

Speaker 5 (31:38):
No?

Speaker 4 (31:39):
Really?

Speaker 5 (31:39):
You know, master do you can't?

Speaker 4 (31:41):
I spent all my time at Riverside. Naguwam are you
kidding me?

Speaker 6 (31:45):
So that one of my first jobs I was Robin
at the Batman and Robin in that Riverside park.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Really one of my first kiss at Riverside. I'm my
whole family's from Connecticut and Massachusetts, so we.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Were Was it with Robin? Will you tell me right now?

Speaker 1 (31:58):
I would not be embarrassed if it was. Robin never
got the credit he deserved, Thank you very.

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Much, I thought.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (32:06):
So I was back in mass at my parents' house
and my friends hit me up. They're like, hey, are
tours coming through Massachusetts right? They're playing Gillette Stadium?

Speaker 5 (32:15):
And I was like, for sure.

Speaker 6 (32:17):
So me and my brother Dave, we drove out there
and I remember we parked. We parked in the parking lot,
you know, massive sea of cars, little girls everywhere. And
we got out, we like we took a shot obviously.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Yeah, you're about to go into a T Swift concert,
you kind of need to like prep yourself.

Speaker 6 (32:36):
Yeah, we were like treating it like and I remember
my brother looked at me and goes, I wonder if
anybody's gonna recognize you. And it's a hilarious sentence because
the second I got out of the it took us.
It took us an hour and a half to get
just through the stadium to our seats. Ed Sheeran was
opening for her at that point. Missed all of Ed
Sheeran because you could not have put me in a

(32:57):
more isolated or more concentrated like area of people.

Speaker 3 (33:02):
Yeah, you should add security.

Speaker 5 (33:04):
So it was it was bananas and my brother was
eating it up. He's like, this is ridiculous. We're all
two giant beers.

Speaker 6 (33:12):
Because that was the first thing we did. We went
to the sort of like wark hair away through. I
have to keep putting my beers down because I like
can't take the beersh Yeah, oh my god. Oh it
was it was bonkers because the movie had just come
out and like so you know, we're having like sleepover
parties watching it and that and it was bananas. So
like that was my first like introduction to like Oh, okay, like,

(33:33):
I guess a lot of kids are watching Disney these days.

Speaker 1 (33:36):
Like, yeah, you met some of the fourteen million that
watched your movie the first week.

Speaker 5 (33:42):
Yeah, I feel like I've met a million of them.

Speaker 4 (33:44):
Oh is hysteria?

Speaker 2 (33:46):
What was the time span between your Guys' first movie
and the sequel?

Speaker 3 (33:51):
Do you remember? Was it quick?

Speaker 5 (33:53):
It took kind of a while for the first one
to come out.

Speaker 6 (33:55):
Remember we shot it in like February, and it didn't
come out until not that summer, but like the next summers.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Okay, on of a while.

Speaker 6 (34:02):
Yeah, it was like a full year, actually a full year,
and then I think another year and a half I believe,
until next because then it was twenty fifteen by the
time it came out, which means we probably we shot
it in twelve and fourteen. They came out in thirteen
and fifteen.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Okay, all right, wow, all right, So we've talked a
lot about Disney, but as we're wrapping it up here,
we want to know I got to know a little
bit about Staten Island Summer.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
Yes, we have to talk about Stanton Island Summer. Please.

Speaker 4 (34:32):
It's written by Colin Jost.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
You're working with people like Fred Arminson, Cecily Strong, Bobby
Moorenihan Will Forte, Jim Gaffkin, method Man, I mean, on
and on and on.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
What was this project like?

Speaker 6 (34:44):
So it was it was crazy. What's funny about it
is I shot that as I was going into shoot
Team Beach two or vice versa.

Speaker 5 (34:53):
So it was just like odd thing where I was like, mild.

Speaker 6 (34:57):
Isn't what this is because it's not Disney for I
think I had just shot it. So I had just
gotten back and I had auditioned for it like a
while before, and it was like they came back around. Okay,
someone more famous than me probably couldn't do it. I
don't know that to be true, but that's what I'm
messaying because it was literally just me and then all

(35:20):
SNL people.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
That's amazing.

Speaker 5 (35:21):
And I remember I I auditioned. It was all la.

Speaker 6 (35:24):
It was the first job I had gotten, whereas all
my auditions were on tape in zoom, so my final
like audition was uh, just a zoom call with.

Speaker 5 (35:33):
Colin Josh man and.

Speaker 6 (35:36):
The director Reese Thomas, who Reese does like all of
their like video packages, so he's like an SNL guy.
But Colin wrote this movie about his childhood, so him
and his brother and his brother, Casey's also in the movie,
grew up in Staten Island and were lifeguards at this
at this place in Staten Island they'll be shot at.
So yeah, I was coming from this. So I basically

(35:58):
played like this lifeguard that island, and you know, I
had the hair and I wore my own gold chain
and it was It was honestly so much fun. Like
Lauren Michaels was like coming to set and like Method Man,
who is a Staten Island guy, is there and he
came out to me.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
He's like, man, my daughter, like daughters a fan. I
was like, my god, Like not now, method Man.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
Yeah, hey, I'm busy. I'm trying to character.

Speaker 6 (36:31):
But it was it was so as a person who
like loves comedy and loves SNL, it was so much
fun and a comedy workshop and just trying so hard
not to break because I know, like those comics they like,
I just don't want to break. Like Kate McKinnon is there,
like I remember, I would think, Kate cab rides home

(36:52):
with Kate McKinnon back.

Speaker 1 (36:53):
To me, she's a genius, She's a gene Honestly, they
all aren't.

Speaker 5 (36:57):
They're all so and so funny.

Speaker 6 (37:00):
So I was really worried about not like fitting in
because I literally was the odd man out. But they
were all so kind and so funny and so welcoming
to me, and it made it really easy to to
like just have fun and like kind of them.

Speaker 5 (37:14):
But yeah, like it was. It was so much fun.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
I will say though, Disney, especially for young actors, does
give a great platform to this movie.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Team Beach was a perfect example of going there.

Speaker 2 (37:30):
This movie would not have done well if you guys
as actors as a cast did not commit the way
you committed to going and doing these characters that you
guys did. You did it with the voice, the accents,
the movement. You guys committed, and I think that translates.
I totally feel like that makes it very easy to

(37:53):
see how you did so well in this project because
you I just feel like it translates very well well.

Speaker 3 (38:00):
And Disney is.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
So great about opening opportunities for young actors to live
in that right.

Speaker 5 (38:06):
They're a juggernaut of a company.

Speaker 6 (38:08):
And I'm people say lots of things about Disney, but
like I've always just grateful to them as a as
a company and need to you a platform.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
They definitely gave us a safe environment, great a great
place to explore our creativity show.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
And and and the opportunity to do it right.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Even the shows on the channel, whether it d cooms
or the shows, these characters that kids are doing are
so sometimes so over the top that where would you
get an opportunity to do that? No, for sure, you
know and so, and and for kids to fall in
love with that character, you know, so, I love it.
It was amazing And I just loved that this opportunity

(38:49):
got after or I guess in between.

Speaker 6 (38:51):
I thought it was after Yol that happened in between
I finished both. Now that I'm like actually thinking about it,
I just remember I was doing press for them at
the same time at one point, doing press for both movies.

Speaker 5 (39:02):
And you couldn't do.

Speaker 6 (39:02):
Press for like two like different genres like yeah, the
ones an R rated comedy, where like uh, things that
like don't belong on Disney Channel. Yeah, So it was
like switching back and forth between like this type of
press and then this type of press.

Speaker 4 (39:16):
Yeah, oh that's amazing.

Speaker 5 (39:18):
But it was so much fun.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
Yeah, so cool.

Speaker 2 (39:20):
So looking back now on the Team Beach franchise that
you're a part of, what are your thoughts, like, how
do you look back on that part of your career
because you've done so much since.

Speaker 6 (39:32):
Yeah, really grateful for it, I think would be the
first for that comes to mind. Very very grateful for
for for a lot of things. We talked about it
being a platform for other things, but just being able
to like flex a certain type of creativity and like
even prove to myself I can do X, Y and
Z you you you kind of develop maybe some belief

(39:53):
in yourself as a as a performer and then have
that be a springboard to maybe other things that you do.
Grateful for the relationships that I that I made, Like
I've I've had those friends for for a really long
time to the point where, like not not to make
it a sad thing, but like what one of my
best friends and that Marco right who's teaching me the tricks,

(40:14):
he he got his dog during being between the two movies,
and I was like, babysit this dog, and I just
I was at his house within a week ago when
we put the you know, it's the the worst.

Speaker 1 (40:27):
And again but no, I know, but it's anybody who's
done it knows it's the worst.

Speaker 3 (40:31):
That's the whole cycle of life.

Speaker 6 (40:33):
That's how long i've And no, deeply, it's not like hey, yeah,
I know you from that thing. It's like I'm gonna
have three people at my house when we when we
put my dog down. You've baby sat him from the
time he was a puppy and watched them all the
way through the past fourteen fourteen years, whatever it's been.
I really want you to be there. So like we
were there and there was a couple of us went
over from teen Beach and like said by to him

(40:55):
and everything.

Speaker 5 (40:55):
So again I say that it's wonderful.

Speaker 6 (41:00):
They sort of represent right, And I had that like
Chrissy fit who is in the movie, like we're all
just there at a surprise birthday party, like two weeks ago.
I was just at Chris Scott's birthday party, you know,
about two months ago. Like these are people who are
meaningful outside of just this this one or two jobs.
They can be meaningful and like inspirational people and I'm

(41:22):
like watching them do their thing, and so I think
to take things away from it artistically, relationship wise, and
just like as like a person in general, Like there's
there was so much good that came from.

Speaker 3 (41:34):
It, and those Puerto Rican memories.

Speaker 6 (41:36):
And a lot of memories in Puerto Rico, and I
haven't been back since, but I've always I've wanted to
do a trip back.

Speaker 3 (41:43):
But it's almost like I should do like a ten
year reunion.

Speaker 5 (41:46):
I'm gonna pitch that to Disney.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
You should.

Speaker 6 (41:49):
You guys have this experience that like like I don't
think I can ever go to Disneyland again. It's just
like a like a regular person because right, they bring
you and you're like you get to do everything, you
skip every line.

Speaker 5 (41:58):
You're like, oh you want to go on this, I
have more times, no problem, and you go.

Speaker 6 (42:02):
You do it and have your time when you go
as a person, not with Disney and all it, I've
been spoiled. So I feel like Puerto Rico similarly. Right,
they're like caravaning, you were around and you're doing you're
doing that less. So for pert Rico, I hun back.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
I'd like to see it myself. Now, what what are
you working on now.

Speaker 5 (42:24):
Working on now. I have one movie that I did recently.

Speaker 6 (42:27):
It's like in the horror genre, hasn't come out yet.
It's called Skillhouse. Uh the Josh Stolberg who did like
a bunch of the Saw movies. Ryan Cavanaugh produced it.
He produced like The Fighter and yeah, so influencers who
basically get like abducted and they wake up in this

(42:47):
house and are competing for likes at the risk of
their life.

Speaker 5 (42:52):
Oh cool.

Speaker 6 (42:54):
Yeah, there's a bunch of like, you know, fund interesting
people in it. So did that that hasn't come out,
but but yeah, like I've done some voiceover stuff, some
video games and voiceovers.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
The best job in the world. It's the best job
in the world.

Speaker 5 (43:06):
It's pretty great. It's pretty good. You've ever done mocap.

Speaker 4 (43:10):
I have not done mocap I do. I do just
animation stuff.

Speaker 6 (43:13):
Okay, cool, Yeah, it's it's really it's really fun to do.
I don't do an enormous amount of it. My friends
are big mocap people. They all they they do that
and they play dunch so my favorite nerds.

Speaker 5 (43:24):
I made it to like the final two for a
Call of Duty once.

Speaker 6 (43:27):
Oh cool, and like, you know, I was on the
sound stage and I was like, I probably booked this.

Speaker 5 (43:30):
I didn't book it.

Speaker 6 (43:33):
To another person, but I just thought it was cool.
But yeah, voiceover stuff. Otherwise, like I you know, in
the past, like post COVID entertainment industry strike stuff has
been an interesting thing to get.

Speaker 4 (43:45):
Navigate for everybody.

Speaker 6 (43:47):
I'm able to stay busy and kind of live life
doing other things outside of entertainment, which is which is
really great.

Speaker 4 (43:53):
Oh good, But yeah.

Speaker 6 (43:54):
I'm I'm still in LA have been here for a
long time and no no plans hanging it up yet.

Speaker 4 (43:59):
So that's great. You should get back to Massachusetts.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
Though, whenever you can. I was just home in Connecticut
a couple of weeks ago. You got to go back
an apparently it's very hot there right now. I've heard
the same thing, like eighty degrees. Yeah, it's crazy, but god,
I love it.

Speaker 4 (44:13):
I love it so much. And I wouldn't understand Sabrina,
you wouldn't understand it, though.

Speaker 5 (44:17):
You are that.

Speaker 3 (44:20):
I haven't been there. It just didn't grow up there will.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
Not the same, not the same. She's from Orange County.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
Jamie classic.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
He thinks, I don't know what that's like, except I
married someone from Orange County, so I know exactly what
it's like.

Speaker 3 (44:34):
He's getting his jabs at me.

Speaker 4 (44:37):
Because if my wife was here, she just smacked me
in the back of the head.

Speaker 3 (44:40):
What you doing over there?

Speaker 2 (44:41):
And he has not allowed us to hang out because
he knows he'd be on. Fuck.

Speaker 1 (44:46):
It's true, you and you and my wife will get
along when we get that, when we all get the
chance to meet.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
No but John in all, honestly, though, like your performance
in this movie. I haven't seen the second one. This
one was amazing very much.

Speaker 4 (44:59):
Will you come back?

Speaker 3 (45:00):
I will.

Speaker 4 (45:01):
Okay, great, maybe we'll.

Speaker 2 (45:02):
Do an in person one on that. Knowing that you're
in l A. But you were phenomenal like your character.
I honestly still am kind of calling bs that you
don't have any background of dancing, especially now that you
told me that.

Speaker 3 (45:19):
Your dad's a ballroom dancer.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
Homie, you were dancing somewhere on some living room floor
of some sort.

Speaker 5 (45:26):
Don't tell you. I was with me Michael Jackson in
like usher videos from like.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Yes, and he was probably sitting there the way I
give my kid daughter like points, like she's three, and
I'm like, point your toes, turn your legs, out.

Speaker 5 (45:38):
No nothing, nothing, nothing.

Speaker 3 (45:45):
We'll have to bring your dad to set back.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Thank you so much for joining us, and we're I'm
already calling it.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
We're going to see you for Team Beach too.

Speaker 5 (45:58):
Therefore I would be on all right. Thank you guys,
have a great weekend. OK.

Speaker 1 (46:01):
I'll talk to you soon. Thanks John, Hi, guys, thank
you by well, thank you everybody for joining us.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
He was great.

Speaker 1 (46:10):
God, the story is the doing doing that dance number
with a broken foot. I can't even believe, like it's
messed up. Go back and watch it again and see
how that's even possible.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
Don't you one hundred percent believe it at that age
when you are just.

Speaker 4 (46:23):
Oh, of course I believe it. But it's just amazing.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
It's amazing, I know what I mean, Like that just
for me, like I felt for him so hard because
it's like, yes, that's exactly what I would have done.
Like if this was the first Cheetah Girls and I
busted my leg, I would have told no one, No
one would have known.

Speaker 3 (46:40):
I would have somehow I'd.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
Have got duct tape and wrap it under my legging,
my three pairs of leggings I had to wear, you know, uh,
and no one would have known because this was your
shot on the channel.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
This was gonna be hopefully the jump start of your career.

Speaker 2 (46:55):
That's such a total normal story for like not normal,
but I can totally believe it.

Speaker 4 (47:02):
Oh I do too.

Speaker 5 (47:03):
He was just a guy.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Well, thank you everybody for joining us for this park
Hopper episode. Go back and watch teen Beach again just
to now imagine him doing that whole dance scene with
a broken foot or don't. It's up to you again,
as we always say, you can do what you want.

Speaker 4 (47:18):
This is America.

Speaker 1 (47:19):
Thanks everybody for joining us, and we will join you
next time. Go watch the thirteenth Year.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Bye.