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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joinning us.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Now is acting legend Steven Baldwin to talk about this
year super fun event, Washington State Summer Con.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Hi, Stephen, welcome, Hey.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
How are you today? Thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, you know this is it's great to talk with
you because we're all really big fans of Summer Con
and so many people from the Seattle area go.
Speaker 1 (00:17):
But do I understand correctly this is your first time.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
This will be my first time at summer Con. Super
fired up just because I mean, Seattle's gnarly, it's awesome.
You know, I come from skate culture and as a kid,
and you know, Washington's just big in skate culture, so
I just love it.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, right over by the Space Needle, there's a big
park that you could go to. I don't know if
you you know, if you're still doing it, but you
could if you wanted to.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Well, I roll around a little bit, but you know
my crazy days, you know, I got a chill now.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, it's like Tony Hawk, who's doing like TV commercials
for vitamins to help your bones now.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Exactly, Sarah's the point I'm trying to make.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Well, so what prompts I'm not on.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
The bone vitamins. Yeah, I'm not on the bone vitamins
that I'm getting there.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So what prompted you to make the decision to do
Summer Con. Was it that your buddy and co star
poly Shore is going to be there? Or is this
just a fun opportunity to meet fans and stuff.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
I mean, Stera, I don't know if you realize you're
getting quite a scooped here today. This is almost literally
technically the first Biodome reunion, so to speak, because it'll
be the first time Paulie and I ever sat down
together for Biodome purposes professionally, like since the movie. Like
we literally there's been nothing we've ever had to do together.
(01:36):
We not so long, well, kind of kind of like
a year and a half ago, we had a pretty
cool conference call with some you know, the folks that
kind of control the movie itself and blah blah blah
about a sequel, and I have on my eyeballs, I
have no idea what they're going to do with it
or when or if at all, if at all, if
(01:57):
at all. So the kind of really cool thing is
we had that conversation in paul and I thought kind of,
you know, regularly checking up on one another. He's nuts
and I'm trying not to be nuts. Yeah, and you know,
he committed to coming up to Washington Summer Con and
and to doing like a joint kind of Biodome signing.
(02:18):
We're gonna be taking pictures, signing stuff, saying hi to people,
and it's just gonna be fun because the Biodome fans
are really the coolest. It's just a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So I read this interview with Jackie Chan who thought
Rush Hour was going to ruin his career and he
was terrified, and obviously he was glad to be wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And you say, like.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Biodome, it's a classic, hilarious movie. So when you guys
were making it, did you know or was it a
pleasant surprise at how successful it was and still is?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Well, yeah, I.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Think box office wise it was rather mediocre, but you know,
Paully's so legendary. I'm so unafraid to say that the
Biodome success. Yes, it's a it's a dumb and kind
of buddy comedy, you know, stoner, you know, whatever, call
it what you want. But it really was kind of
coming off the heels of of of Polly's brand of
(03:11):
comedy you know that that I was a huge fan of.
I mean, it's it's it's a I digress for a moment,
just because it's a hilarious story. Where I did Usual Suspects, uh,
and then I did a Biodome And then after Biodome,
with the same group of producers over at MGM, I
did a movie with Laurence Fishburn called Fled, which was
(03:31):
a really cool kind of escape movie from prison, you know,
and it was an action film. But literally after Usual Suspects,
I get a phone calling, Hey, you know, I can't
explain it. It's just one of these things. You know
this sometimes the studios like make decisions, you know, to
activate certain brands. And they said, they have this thing,
(03:51):
it's called Biodome. They want to you know, they want
Polly Shore. He's already kind of relatively bankable, and you know,
they'd like to know if you're interested in playing this
part and not going to be too shy about it.
They paid me a ton of money to do such
a silly film. But I called my big brother. I
called my brother Alec. I said, hey, man, look, you
know I met these guys. I met some other producers,
you know, by you know, usual suspects. You know, it's
(04:14):
really kind of ratcheted some stuff up here for me,
some opportunities. But I got to tell you, man, I'm
a big bang I'm Paullie sure, and you know this,
I really think together the character I could come up
with like a dumb and dumber kind of me, and
I think it could really be something cool and it
could work. My brother's response was exactly this, if you
can hear me, okay, he said, let me understand this correctly.
(04:36):
I said, yes, he goes, it's you and Paulie. I said, right,
he goes trapped in a biosphere. I said, yes, correct, right,
it's a comedy, and he goes. I think that could
be perhaps the most career ending decision you could possibly make.
And boy was here on because that's kind of landing
(04:56):
the plane here is you know, By is really kind
of one of the coolest, most unique coat classic classics.
You know, it's just lived on digitally, and we love
those fans. These comic cons are great. Washington's going to
be great. Some Macon's gonna be awesome. I'm not blowing
smoke right now, just because it's going to be some
of the die hard fans. I've done a couple of
(05:18):
these already in the last few months. I did them
thirty years ago, and it wasn't fun for me back then,
but now it is because it's so retro yeah, you know,
and I get to talk about like you know, I
just love when fans come up and you know, they're
talking about some really kind of unique, bizarre whatever title.
You know that would probably be on my podcast. If
(05:39):
you know about the One Bad Movie podcast. You know,
some of my titles are kind of fun and unique
and weren't so successful, so to speak. But it's great
to meet all the different fans from all the different
the films and projects. It's fun.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
So June twentieth through the twenty second, so it's coming
up at the Washington State Fair and Events Center. Tickets
around sale now, while Summercon dot com and Steven Baldwin
is going to be there with just a both ton
of people. But you just mentioned your podcast, which you
can find on our free iHeartRadio app. So the focus
is movies, but not super successful movies, is that right?
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Kinda sorta. It's called One Bad Movie and it's basically
me interviewing actors and at some point in the interview,
usually towards the front end, I just simply ask, what's
your one bad movie, which can be, you know, for
any actor, something that was a bad experience, a movie
that didn't turn out the way they expected, they got
(06:42):
food poisoning, you know, like there's a great Denise Richards
tells a story. She goes, well, it has to my
one bad movie is the first movie ever did because
these guys made me act to like cardboard and stuff
and said that later they were laying in the special effects.
She goes, and it's my character who's like in love
with like a flying dragon dinosaur. So they had this
(07:04):
like puppet on my shoulder and I had to kiss
it and hug it, and she goes, Stephen. The movie
came out, it was just awful. Oh and then of
course we were playing clips of it on the YouTube
channel from the YouTube show and Michael Madsen gave us
a mind boggling interview. My brother Alex told some very
fun stories. We did a one episode with my brother
(07:26):
Alec and my sister Elizabeth, who's the eldest sibling in
my family, who we did an episode to kind of
attribute to her about how well she knew my movies
and Alex movies. If you watch an episode, it's really
a hoot.
Speaker 1 (07:39):
Oh nice.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well, I mean you bring up your brothers and your
sister not as well known as your brothers. One of
your brothers was here in the studio with us a
couple of years ago, and you're really cool, which wool Daniel.
He was super fun to hang out with. I mean,
you've got this huge family of famous brothers.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
Are they part of the podcast?
Speaker 2 (07:59):
And are is it hard that all of you are
in the business or easier?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
I think now, you know, we're so far down the
road individually with our own kind of names, so to speak.
We've all done enough of our own stuff that you know,
it's kind of carved out a niche individually, so to speak.
So early on, yeah, years ago kind of sort of,
but it's never really been weird in that way.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Sounds good with age comes wisdom.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Well for me hopefully. Yeah, I'm just a podcaster now.
I'm not trying to do try some kind of Hollywood
fancy pants. I'm just a podcaster on one bead movie.
But it's but the colol part is it's so much fun.
I did twenty episodes quick, and I just want to
read off some of the names of the folks that
(08:48):
I hope to see that summer con in Seattle. Okay,
you got William Daniels, the voice of night Rider. How
cool is that? Dude? Right? Sweet Ulrich need to you
need to remind yourself of whoskeet Hello Jericho.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Jericho was like one of my favorite joes.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Okay, get out there and get an autograph from Steed
Ulrich on Hsie, Josie Dissitt, mal Spelling, who I Tory Spelling,
who I saw at the last one. She's so fabulous,
I think stories Gnarly Brian Austin Green and last but
not least, somebody who I'm developing a project with you.
(09:28):
Getting two scoops today, Belle Elizabeth Berkeley. Elizabeth Berkeley nice,
who's like one of the queens of these.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
Cons saved by the Bell show girls, bunch of I mean,
obviously a bunch of different.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I don't want to start any rumors, but her lines
are always the longest at all the cons, the biggest.
And Elizabeth Berkley baby.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Well and of course Stephen Baldwin and Polly Shore. Again,
if you don't have the info. It is the Washington
State Fair and Events Center in p Wallup and it's
June twenty through the twenty second while summercan dot com
a few more questions.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
If you've got time, please go for it.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
I love it. I'm having funky cool.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Well, your daughter, Haley Baldwin is married to Justin Bieber,
which I would imagine a lot of people know about
because it feels like the paparazzi are constantly all over
them and it's like all this speculation. You have been
married for like forever, So do you have a lot
of tips for the young people because you have been
married and I should say, to the same person for
(10:34):
a really long time.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
Yeah, listen, I'm married thirty five years. That happened while
working in Hollywood. You know, super blessed, just because my
wife and I kind of figured out, like, you know,
if we're not going to like go to the mat
for each other, so to speak, if we're not going
to figure out that, like you know, we're only human
and you know we're gonna make mistakes. And then the
(11:00):
key is young people ask me all the said, Wow, hey, Steven,
you the youngest Baldwin. Wow, whoa how did you figure
this out? What's your secret? My secret is what's the
magic word in long term marriage? Forgiveness? Just be prepared
for yourself to make a mistake. It's in that little way.
It's right when nobody's around and you're whoever your significant
(11:23):
other is, and you know, like you turn a corner
and you're like, oh, I pulled them one hundred. What
the key is there? Right, it's all that's stilly. It's
that silly stuff. So just I'm blessed to be madly
in love with you know, my little Rageqe Bardeaux so
to speak. Yeah, she's smoking and we've you know, we've
(11:45):
done it together and you know we're we're just blessed.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yeah, I mean because you think about especially like you said,
in Hollywood, you know, the number of marriages and end
in divorce is still having around fifty, But I got
to think in Hollywood it's more like eighty.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So I'm good for you.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
I really congratulations to you and your wife from making
it work for so long. It's an inspiration.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
I so appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
So Steven Baldwin has a podcast, as I said, found
on our free iHeartRadio app all about movies, all sorts
of people joining.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Now you say you're just a humble podcaster.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Now is that really the case, like any acting on
the horizon, or you're just a happy grandpa, father husband podcaster.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Well, no, actually it's a great question. Thank you. I'm
driving my family crazy because I'm doing the podcast. But
One Bad Movie is kind of the first creative concept
that kind of my transition game. I'm kind of coming
out of actor guy as a brand and moving into
now producer, writer, director, And even though I host One
(12:45):
Bad Movie, it's my intellectual property and blah blah blah
blah blah. So we're going to develop that. It's kind
of going very well, and we have some interesting organizations
that are looking at what our numbers are doing right now,
which is kind of cool. So mean, yeah, that's fun.
If it could be monetized in a way that you know,
that makes sense and it's cool and it doesn't change
(13:06):
how unique and cool One Bad Movie is, then I'm down.
But right now I'm also writing some stuff. I got
a Western I'm developing right now. I have a Patsy
Cline biopic I'm developing right now that I'm going to
write and direct yeah, and and and and then another.
You know, I was in a very famous rodeo picture
called eight Seconds many years ago with Luke Perry and
(13:29):
it was very well received. John Advildson was the director
of that, who directed Karate Kid, which is making a
big comeback now. And uh So I'm developing a project
called Riding Destiny, which is kind of a rodeo picture,
but it's the start of it as a gal. So,
uh I got three or two or three or four
(13:49):
projects that to write and direct I'm developing now, but
I'm raising the money first so that I'm just able
to go and do it on my own.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
That's awesome and I love that because you know, like
you said, you're keeping busy, and you may be transitioning
through different parts of your career, you know, podcasting and
then writing and directing, but you're still staying true to
your passion, which is movies in Hollywood.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Well loving movies for sure. Yeah, one bad movie is
fun because again one bad movie is and who the
genesis of one band movies. I was in my car
a little over a year ago and I heard a
great actor like given this interview and like, oh yeah,
and the director was great and oh and she was
great and the actresses, oh, and the wardrobe was great
and everything's great, you know. And I sat there and going, man,
(14:32):
this poor guy. Man, I remember when I had to
do that, you know, I remember I had to do
those radio roundtables and hundreds of interviews, and da da
da da. I said, wouldn't it be funny to just
hear this guy talk about is one bad movie?
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And I literally, as a joke, I said, one bad movie.
The word stuck in my head. I said, is there
a platform there for a discussion where you talk to
somebody in Hollywood and say, hey, can you tell me
about what your bad experience was? Let's laugh about it
and then do a trade interview. And it's just it's
the pausaliity of it. If that's a word. The react
(15:06):
and you get in the interview now becomes quite different
because it's not that thing, you know, it's not that normal, Hey,
everything great. It's more like, oh, wow, yeah, you're right.
I did get food poisoning on Batman. Yeah, it was
really it was horrible.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Well, and it makes Peo feel real too. Oh I can't,
I can't think of you.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
Oh I think it was Naomi Watts. She was saying
how she got food poisoning. She's like, don't go to
the craft table when the Manna's tuna salad's been sitting
out there for twelve hours, Like it makes people like
a little bit more real.
Speaker 3 (15:36):
And Naomi called me, called me.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That is the podcast One Bad Movie. Find it on
the free iHeartRadio app. And Steven Baldwin the first time
ever come into Washington for Summer Con tickets and info
while SUMMERCN dot com. Remember it's June twentieth and twenty second.
This was so much fun. Stephen Baldwin, love that you
were able to join the show and just as a
pleasure to talk with you.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Thanks Sarah, and I hope we see you out there.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
Yeah, I'll see you there. I'm the one with the
broken foot. I'm going to be on a scooter, so
you'll be able to spot me.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Listen. If you show up on the scooter, then I'll
transition you to a wheelchair and we can roll up
to Skeet Ulrich. And you know what I'm saying, I
love it.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
We can make this work. We can make this work,
all right.
Speaker 1 (16:22):
I'll see you soon.
Speaker 2 (16:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (16:25):
Take care, Thanks to you, invite b