November 30, 2022 • 33 mins
On this episode of Off the Record, Dannie sits down to chat with Lisa Foiles who made her way onto the Hollywood scene as a cast member of All That—a kid’s version of Saturday Night Live. Now, she’s recreated her teenage days on set by singing the vocals to a Detroit Lions’ original—Jamaal That – a monologue series that debuted last season with RB Jamaal Williams. Lisa recounts her favorite memories as an actor, singer, and author.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back to another episode of Off the Record with
Danny Rogers. I have someone so special joining me because
she can't be here in studio because she is currently
living working in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is Lisa Foils people.
If she is at all familiar looking, it's because you
might know her from all that and maybe an episode
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of Malcolm in the Middle. And if you know her voice,
it is because she sang the iconic Jamal That song
for the team. So let me play it for the
people real quick. It's the best. How many times have
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you listened to that? Lisa? Every night before I go
to bed. I just like to play it on a loop.
It helps me sleep, you know, just man and I
just like, wow, you're so talentedly so listen to your voice.
You're so good. It is so good. Though, we have
to we have to draw the connection here of Okay,
Lisa from who's living in Las Vegas now originally from
the Pacific Northwest, so she is a Seahawks fan. I'm sorry,
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family to drop that on you. Real quick, what is
the connection? I'll go, what's the connectionally, Lisa? How did
you get your voice on the Jamal That theme song?
That pays homage to Jamal Williams, Detroit lines running back
and currently the league leader in rushing touchdowns. Yeah, the
man's amazing. So Neil Larson, who is one of your
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lovely co workers. I don't even know his title just
runs camera Senior video Producer and social Media extraordinary fancy title. Anyway,
So I've been friends with Neil Larson since when he
lived in Las Vegas. So we met here when he
was in a band. We became friends. He moved to
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Detroit and we wanted to disown him. We're like, I
can't believe you're moving away. We're friends. You're just gonna
ruin our friendship like that, how dare you pick a
job over us? Like what kind of friend are you?
So he moved to Detroit, and then fast forward and
he obviously when we met in Las Vegas, he knew
I was on all that, and you know, he we
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got to know each other, so we knew that I
was on the show, and so yeah, he just we've
stayed friends over the years. It wasn't a random call
of nowhere, but but yeah, so we called me up
one day and he's like, hey, so we want to
give this guy, Jamal Williams his own show because he's
this amazing personality. You know, he loves pop culture. It
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would totally vibe with his fans, and we want to
call it Jamal That And I'm like already just cracking up, laughing.
This is genius. And he's like, we gotta do a
theme song for it, and can you please sing it?
And I said not for any less than ten thousand dollars,
so he quickly we wired that over to me. You know,
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I'm just kidding, get your money, girl, Like, absolutely yes.
So we teamed up with the lead singer from his
Las Vegas band, Jared Jones, and Jared played all the
music and he produced it and then I sent over
my vocals and he you know, mastered it and made
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it all sound pretty and then send it over to Neil.
And then the next thing, you know, we were just
seeing it everywhere. People are sending me videos being played
in the stadium and I'm just like, this is so amazing.
So that's kind of how that came to be. Oh,
but it's funny. I actually sang the theme song for
the seasons. I believe it was season's nine and ten
with Little Bow Wow. Was little yeah with little bow Wow.
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So way back in the day, I was in the
recording studio doing the same thing, uh huh, Like I
vivid memories of doing that, and then fast forward now
I'm in my studio doing the nuh oh like. So
we changed it enough that it's different but still sounds
the same. Yeah, it was a total flash from the
past for me. So now I've technically recorded two versions
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of the all that theme song. So I have a
feeling you might have a favorite one, especially if it's
like connected to Jamal Williams, who is one of the
best humans ever. Oh my gosh, Like yes, So I
love just funny, crazy sports personalities. You know that Jamal Williams.
Like there's so many of them in UFC. I hosted
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a show called The UFC Minute for years and years
and years, and that was a job where I knew
nothing about UFC Before I hosted the show. I'm like this, like,
who would watch this sport? This is barbaric? Like these
are just men in their underwear just try and kill
each other, Like who would who would watch this? And
then like two months into it, I like knew all
the fighters. I'm just like, oh yeah, you know, I'm
like so into it, but you learn the personalities. It
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was right when Connor McGregor was coming up, so obviously,
I like loved Connor. He was so funny and silly
as little like billionaire walk Like every time he was
on the microphone, I wanted to hear what he had
to say because I knew whatever it was, I was
going to feature it in the show. And I feel
like Jamal is similar. Just you know, obviously takes the
game and the sport incredibly seriously, but I don't think
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he takes himself or life very seriously. And that's the
way you gotta be. You know. I watched all the
Hard Knocks episodes and was so sucked in to that
show and just you know, he was so so fun
to watch. I mean, they all have great personalities, but
there's just there's some about that guy. You know. I agree,
I think you hit the nail on the head with
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very serious about the game off the field, He's just
he's a character and everyone loves them for that. When
you were recording this song, you said it was in
your studio, Neil our favorite Neil, he might did you
record it in the bathroom at all? Or the closet.
So I do have a walk in closet upstairs that
I have that I do all my voice of her
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jobs in which people don't realize. Yeah, but sometimes show
business can be very glamorous. But a closet is like
the best place to record because it just muffles everything.
So yeah, every once in a while, I'll record right here.
So this is my This is my like filming studio.
If I'm filming a job like this is where I
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hosted the UFC Minute. This was a green screen and
I had like an hour turnaround. They would send me
the script. I would get hair and makeup ready, jump
in front of this screen, film myself, get the footage
onto my computer, edit it, and send it over to
them in like an hour. And I did that Monday
through Friday for about four years. So that was a
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really good like boot camp in memorization and editing like quickly. Yeah,
So I do mostly video production here in the studio,
and then I do voiceover or singing up in upstairs
in my walking closet, surrounded by my tank tops and
my bras and like oh, sort of like dirty laundry everywhere.
Very very glamorous, but yeah, so that's where I sang
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the vocals for that. And I'm sure you're wondering what
this sign is back here? Can I tell you about it?
Please tell us about it? It all just fits so well,
jamal that all that after the og. Please tell us
about it. It does. It does fits a lot. And
it's funny. I didn't hang this here just for this,
Like this is always here, and my husband usually works
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right here, so it's always in the background of of
his interviews and you know, all stuff like that, so
people are always asking him about it. But this is
actually a cutout from the stage of all of all that.
So if you remember the show, it's it's Saturday Night
Live for kids. It's sketch comedy. And for the first
you know, twenty five minutes of the show, it was
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sketches and silliness and costumes and doing all sorts of characters.
But the last five minutes or so, our musical guest,
you know, we have Britney spears and in sync and
usher and like anyone you can think of, like any
huge artist was on our show. And this was right
in the center of the stage and there were neon
letters inside each one, so every single celebrity guest and
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musical guest that we've had has stood on that black
circle with the logo on it. And it was years
later that I went to go visit my old friends
at Nickelodeon and the prop department and they were like, hey,
we have a we have a surprise for you. And
they walked out with this big thing and they're like,
do you want this? And I'm like, yes, I want.
I don't know where I'm gonna put it. I'm gonna
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fit it in my car. It's pretty big, but I'm
like I must have it. So now it lives here
on my wall. I just just throwing it back to
the all of that memories. I was first off going
to say, like, who'd you have to fight to get that?
All that? So I'm glad they just graced it, graced
you with it. How did you get on the show?
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And here we are going into like the storyline of
I like to know interesting things about the people that
we have on this on the show. It's off the record.
So how did you get onto all that and jump start?
You're acting, singing, you're even an author? Now, how did
that career jump start? Really? With all that you know,
I'm going to even relate it back to football a
little bit, especially again watching the Hard Knocks episodes and
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how they had so many players and they had to
narrow it down and just watching that crazy process and
the you know, the emotions that coach Campbell went through,
just all of it. You know, it's actually kind of similar.
So for my not with every show, but for my
show in particular, when they were getting a whole new cast,
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they did a nationwide search for seven new kids. So
there were thousands of kids that auditioned for this show,
and we had I think seven callbacks or something like that,
which is insane. You usually have one or two and
that's it. And this was very intense. For the auditions.
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We had to do three different characters. They had like
make up a monologue that involved three different characters and
then read a script and then kind of answer questions
about your person nality for the producers and the cast directors.
And so yeah, I mean every time I showed up,
I showed up for a callback, got narrower, narrower and
narrow there less kids. You know, you start to recognize
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a few, You're like, Okay, you made it, you made
it all right, and this took weeks and weeks and
then finally there were twelve of us sitting in the lobby.
We had all auditioned, and you know, tension like you've
cut the tension with the Knight. If somebody comes down
and they're like, okay, um, we'll let you know in
like one month whether you made it or not. And
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we're like okay, They're like we can only pick seven
and there's twelve of you, so good luck of rely.
And it was my favorite show growing up, Like I
was obsessed with all that before I ever became an actor.
I was living in um Spokene, Washington. Born in Portland,
moved to Spokane, and there are cassette tapes somewhere of
me and my best friend performing characters from the original seasons,
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you know, like Lorie Betts, like Big Quiet, this is
a library and Repairmann like so throw back to those
you know, original cast characters. But I mean this, like
my heart was so in this. This wasn't just another job.
This was like you know, I'm sure any of those
those players who were, you know, trying out for the Lions,
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like if the Lions were their all time favorite team
from childhood, like it met a little bit more than people.
You know, I had a different favor How old were
you at the time. I was fourteen? Okay, I was
thirteen when I auditioned, fourteen when I booked the show.
And yeah, so a month came and went, didn't hear anything.
So I'm like, I guess I didn't get it. And
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then it was like another month after that that they
called my mom and they were like, they got it.
Why do they Why do you think they took so long?
I don't know. Must have been a hard decision. I
don't know. I mean, I don't know how they narrow
it down. I don't know what went on behind the scenes,
but it took them a while. But I have to
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say that Jamal would have fit perfectly with our cast
of kids. We were all incredibly hyper and just telling
jokes all the time, bouncing off the walls. Love pop culture.
I mean, we were playing Pokemon cards. I know, Jamal's
a Pokemon fan, like he really does. Seem like if
football hadn't worked out for him, he could have just
been in all that cast member one million percent. Okay,
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So you were living in Spokane when you auditioned for this,
did you just have to jet down to La Is
that where the show was based. I'd actually just moved
to La So. I was a competitive dancer in in Spokane.
There was even a time when I wanted to be
a professional cheerleader, Like I kind of went through that
like I'm a dancer, what do I do next? I
want to be a you know, professional cheerleader. I did
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not go that path with the acting path. My parents
moved me down to the LA area, and my first
show that I got was a show called Even Stevens.
I don't know if anybody knows I was on the
Oh we do? Yeah? So I was a recurring character
on that show, and then shortly after was the big
casting call for All That. So it's one of my
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first jobs after moving to California. Did you did you
have an agent in place? Was mom? The agent? How
does that work? I did have an agent, but like
a very small agent, you know what I mean? Like
I had no credits to my name, so obviously, you know,
I couldn't walk into you know, one of the huge
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you know, the huge like William Morris agencies and the
like sign me. They would have been like out the door.
So just a tiny little like boutique acting agency who
a lot of kids didn't actually who auditioned for the show.
I think most of the cast members on the show
didn't have agents. So yeah, so I had one, but
I really didn't know the ropes. I didn't know etiquette,
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like set etiquette anything when I thought the show it
was and I was a kid, you know, but it
was one of the best experiences of my whole life.
And I love talking about it. I know there's so
many child actors who when they get older, so like,
you know, don't talk to me about when I've played whatever,
you know, don't talk to me about my younger kid characters.
I love talking about it. It's so much fun. Oh
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my gosh. Okay, so what is the number one rule
for set etiquette. Well, now it's don't have your phone
at all, like leave your phone in your dressing room.
But thankfully, we were on the show before cell phones
were even really a thing and social media was not
a thing, which I'm so thankful for because we just
kind of got to got to live in the moment
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and enjoy every little, you know, every little minute of
the show. We weren't constantly like checking our Instagram or
our Twitter or like competing for followers or anything like
that that I know kids on TV shows now have
to do. We were just like enjoying it. But yeah,
I'd say just set etiquette. Be absolutely kind to every
single person around you, because you don't know who knows
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who and who's in charge and who's not. And you know,
you tick off an editor and they might take you
out of that scene for that week. You just you know,
it's the entertainment business. It's a business. You know, it's
it's a crazy business. We're kind of like in the
entertainment but not but in it. So we we have
our set etiquette as well. I love all Yeah, you
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got it for sure. I love all those rules. M
Who is I mean, so you're on even Stevens So
you were with like Shylott Labuff, Like I would love
to know who the most famous person in your cellular
device is in my cell phone? Let's see, um like
that you have their number two? Maybe Forrest Griffin, He's
a Hall of Fame UFC fighter. Who else? I'm sure
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I think I still have Jamie Spears um Brittany's little sister.
Oh yeah, yeah, so she was on the I'm sure,
I have Jamie. Yeah, I think I have Jamie in there. Um.
So she was on season's eight and nine. So I
was on seven, eight, nine, and ten, and she was
on eight and nine, And of course that was like
the big you know, media push is like, oh my gosh,
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like Britney Spears little Sister joins all that. So you know,
our show was everywhere, was you know, on every news station,
everybody was featuring it. So I was really thankful that
Jamie brought so much publicity to our show. And she
was great, and she and I totally hit it off.
And I have a great story of the time I
got to spend the night at Britney Spears house because
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Jamie was living in her Beverly Hills home with her
and Jamie was like, Hey, you want to come spending
out of my house. I'm like, yes, I do. So
Brittany and her mom picked up me and Jamie from
set one day and their beautiful pearly white Lexus and
drove us to their you know, triple gated community, to
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this giant mansion. I think even a Britney Spears song
came on the radio while I was in the car
with Brittany it was so funny. I didn't even know
what to do. I'm like, do I acknowledge that this
is happening? Or do I What did they do? Station?
But did Britney sing along? What did they do? No?
I think she just like, I think she could tell
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that I was like kind of cracking up again. I
was like, I think I was fifteen years old at
this point. I think she could tell that I was
kind of just like, oh my gosh, what was happening.
So I remember she kind of like chuckled a little bit,
and then they just kind of went on with their conversation.
But in my mind, I'm just like, what is happening
right now? I'm where the Britney Spears in a car,
We're listening to Britney Spears on the radio. This is
how is this happening? How is this real life? And
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so we get to her giant mansion and there's like
crazy guard dogs everywhere. I'm like tip tiptoeing like past
the guard dogs. I'm like, I'm nice, I was invited here.
Just leave me alone. I'm cool. And we go back
to Jamie's room and we're just hanging out there and
we got in, we went swimming and my hair was
wet and I was like, hey, Jamie, give a blow dryer,
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and she's like no, but my sister has one. She's
right down the hall, like just go ask her. And
I'm like, um, you want me to go ask Britney
Spears to use your hair dryer. She's like yeah, I'm
like okay, here we go. It's happening. So I just
like mustered the courage and like it was one of
those like shining hallways, like it was so long. With
every step it just got longer and longer, horror movie style.
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And I got to her door and I'm just like
excuse me, and she's so nice. She was like, oh, sweetheart,
come on it. What do you need? Like, do you
have a Jamie said that I do you hair dryer?
She's like absolutely, come on it. So she took me
into her bathroom. She got in her drawers and she's
like here you going. I'm sure it was like an
eight hundred dollar hair dryer or something, but I'm just
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like thinking, thank you so much. I just scartried back
to the room. Looks we got just hyper ventilate a
little bit. But yeah, so that's an odd experience. That
I got to did you happen to listen in on
Brittany recording a very famous song at one point? No,
but so not recording, but when we at one point,
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while I was staying there, somebody's playing the piano like beautiful,
and like I looked around the corner and it was
Brittany and she was playing the I want to say
it was the hebitumche ffa with them. That's lucky, right,
It's called every time? Right, I was every time? Which
one is it every time? It's every time? Yeah, it's
called every time. I mean, this is the first word
of the chorus, so it must be um. And she
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was playing She wasn't singing it, but she was playing it.
And I don't think at that time that song was
released yet, So I was just like, this is beautiful.
I didn't even know Brittany could play piano. Yeah, So
I was just like mesmerized by it. And then later
when I heard it on the radio, I'm like, that's
the song she was playing. I saw her, I heard
her play that song just again, just totally blew my mind.
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But yeah, I'm not sure I've ever told these stories, uh,
like on camera before. Thank you for telling them. I
just us normal like people. Humans just don't we. I mean,
we have cool jobs, we're around like people we think
are cool normal. You hosted awesome live podcasts. What are
you talking? See right? And thank you for joining it? Um. Yeah, No,
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we're around all these football guys all the time. They're
pretty cool to other humans, but for us are kind
of like normal. So we're like, bro Brittany Is, she's
up there for us. I love how you were doing
Jamie Lynd's southern accent while you were doing while you
were saying most of that stuff. Oh yeah, she had
that thick accent. She would like poor ranch dressing on
her pizza, which was totally foreign to me. I remember
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when I when we first got to Jamie's house. Oh
my gosh, I have another story. So this was the
second time I went to stay with Jamie and they
were in like a different place. They were in like
a like a condo or something like obviously super nice,
like a condo bigger than my house. And I remember
her mom served me sweet tea, which is the first
time I ever had sweet tea, because again they're from
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camp with Louisiana and they drink sweet tea, and I'm
as far I lived, grew up as far from the
South as you can get up in Washington, and I
remember her handing me that sweet tea and me take
a sip and being like, oh, it's it's really good. Really,
it's great. And I forced myself to drink the whole thing,
even though it was like the most horribly sweet drink
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I've ever experienced my life. But when you're at a
Spear's house and you're offered a drink, you drink that drink.
Oh yeah, so what I thought in my sixteen year
old mind. I mean, Lynne was so sweet that I'm
sure if I would have said, like, I don't like this,
she would have been like, don't worry about it. But
I was in my own head, and that was the night,
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Oh my gosh, I don't think i've ever told this story.
I was there the night that so Brittany wasn't there
because she was performing at an award show, is just
what I remember hearing. And so I was there with
Lynn and Jamie and we and we were all sitting
on the couch and I just remember saying, or Lynne saying, oh,
I think it's coming up, and she turned on the
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Award Show and it was when Britney kissed Madonna. Do
you remember that moment? Oh yeah, sitting there next to
Lynn watching, watching it happen. And at the time that
was pretty scandalous. I don't know if you remember that. No,
that was very scandalous. Yes, nowadays is I mean, nobody
would even blink twice at that. But it was at
the time when Britney was still kind of seen as
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you know, more the innocent blonde pop star, mean not
that innocent, but like, you know, she was tran transitioning
from like the hit me Baby one more Time to
like the more adult pop star. And I just remember
Lynn watching and just like and I got done, and
I remember lind saying it wasn't that bad. It wasn't
it was fine, It was fine. And then she started
getting phone calls and then Jamie and I just kind
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of went back to her room. But I remember she
started getting phone calls and I'm like, that's kind of crazy.
Did we know that was planned? I mean, she she
had to have known because she was obviously she did it.
I didn't know it was having. Nobody else knew what
was happening, but Lynn you know, Britney's mom was sitting
next to me, and she, like I said, she was
like prepared for it. She was watching the song and
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I remember her saying like, oh, here it comes. So
she knew the kiss was coming. But you know, then
she saw and you know, she wouldn't matter. She was
just kind of like like, oh, it happened, and then
she looked so bad, you know, And that's that's like
all I remember from it. But like, what a crazy
what a crazy moment to experience crazy And no, it
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truly is. Um Okay, we have to very recently, and
I know you're a part of the Nickelodeon family. One
of our players were slimed. I don't know if you
saw that, Derek Barnes. So I don't like a lot
of people, I feel like don't get to actually see
the slime. But like, here's a slime. And I heard
you've been slimmed before as well, how like, how how
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long did it take you to get slim out of
your hair? Well? One time I couldn't get it out
of my hair. So there were there was one season
of the show where I was blonde. I was a
redhead for three seasons and then I was like, I'm
going blonde, and oh, hey, did you decide that or
did the show? I decided I was gonna go bright blonde,
and then the show like was fine with it because
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we weren't. We weren't like, it wasn't a narrative show.
We didn't have to like play the same character. We
were always wearing wigs and doing whatever. So I'm just like,
I'm going blonde. It's happening. Yeah, actually that's not how
it happened. I'm sure. I was like, is it okay
if I go blush? I was like, that's what I'm saying,
like people play their child, and they were like, yeah,
it's fine. So I got slimed as I usually did
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being part of Nickelodeon, and it stained my hair green
and we couldn't get the green out of the blonde
hair at all no matter what shampoo we tried. So
I literally had to go get it redone at a salon,
like recompletely redone because it was this like dirty dishwater
blonde green mess on my head. I was like trying
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to look for like the ingredients in this. So there's
different types of slime. There's different types of slime. Some
read better on different cameras and different situations. I know
the one. So when I was on a show called
Slimetime Live, which was in Florida. It flies to Florida
every once in a while, and it was like a
show that kind of happened in between shows. You know.
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It would come out and be like, you've been watching
all that, and now we're gonna slim some people in
this audience here at Universal Studios. And I would come
up here on that show every once in a while.
That one, I want to say, was mostly vanilla pudding
and tapioca pudding to give it texture. Obviously, tons of
food coloring. Gosh, I remember they used to like I've
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asked them a couple of times to rattle off the ingredients,
but those are the two that I remember. Wait, that's crazy.
So you could eat that slime? Yeah, they needed it
to be edible because it would just go everywhere in
all of crevices. Oh my gosh. Lord. Okay, So I
don't know how much you're allowed to tell us about
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all that, but will be seeing more all that? So
new all that? I don't know. So they rebooted the
show in twenty nineteen with a brand new cast of kids,
and they're all great, super talented, super funny, and they
went into twenty twenties. So I'm not sure if it
was technically two seasons or one really big long season,
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but they asked me to come guest star on the show.
So I got to do two episodes of the new
rebooted all that, and I didn't know how it was
going to go because you know, obviously I used to
be on the show, but this is a new cast
of kids. Are they even gonna know me? Like, it's
just gonna be different. And I walk on the set
and these kids could not be more excited to meet me,
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Like they were so respectful, like they were so excited
to hear my stories. It's kind of like what we
all hope our grandchildren are going to be. Like we
hope that they like Granny tell us stories of the
of the old country. You know, we all kind of
hope that they want to know about our lives. But
I'm like, you know, in this world of iPhones and stuff, like,
are they even gonna care about a show that aired
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in the early two thousands? They weren't even born yet,
Like do they even care? Maybe they were born I
don't know. I don't know. They probably weren't, but but
they weren't. They all like knew my characters, and you know,
they were so sweet, like in particular, like Reese was
Reese Cadell was like, the is like the new redhead
on the show. So she and I got connected. I'm like,
I'm the Reddit. She's like, I'm the new redd Ede
of my eye. So totally connected there. But yeah, So
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I actually got to do two episodes with another character
from the original seasons of all that actor named Mark Stall,
So he and I both got to do two episodes,
and then that's when it was shut down by COVID.
So we did the two episodes right before it was
shut down, and then it hasn't come back since, so
I don't know. I mean that the reboot was produced
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by Keen and Cal like they were. They had a
huge hand in executive producing that show and bringing it
back to life. So I don't know if they have
plans to bring it back. I'm still friends with the
with the cast on Instagram. We talked every once in
a while, and crazy enough, most of the crew that
worked on My Seasons was still working on the show.
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Oh my gosh. Michael Johnson, who did my makeup when
I was fourteen years old, was doing my makeup, you know.
Now being on the New Show, it was just like,
I mean, I was tearing up constantly. That is so wholesome. So,
you know, they play the song over the loudspeakers and
there's all that logos everywhere. I'm like, this is like
a weird, trippy high school reunion happening. But now I
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don't even that is beautiful. Okay, Yeah, I mentioned you
are singer author. What can you plug that you have
going on? Because I know you have so sinking much
going on. And next time the draft is in Las Vegas,
we will come see you didn't know you know, like, yes,
I was just there. So first of all, please you
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gotta go listen to the jamal that theme song. I
do vocals and Jared Jones does all the music. He's amazing.
Look up Jared Jones on Instagram. He has this amazing
yoga business with his wife where his wife Brittany, like
teaches yoga and he like plays music while you're doing yoga.
It's like the coolest thing ever. So yeah, I look
up Jared Jones. He's incredible. And then for anybody curious
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about Vegas. So I live in Las Vegas, and everybody
asked me what's it like to live there? Like, and
you know, everybody visits here and they all ask me
what should I do? Well? Now, I host a show
called Vegas On, and the whole point of the show
is that every episode we feature different amazing spots in Vegas,
cool restaurants, just cool experiences. You know, I hosted an
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episode from on top of the Pirate Ship at Treasure Island.
We go, we were at Allegiance Stadium on the field
while they were painting the numbers for the upcoming Raiders games. Like,
you know, we feature all these really cool places in Vegas.
So if you want to know what restaurant you go
to a show to see an experience to have, go
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watch a show called Vegas On. And I am the
host of that, so I will guide you on a beautiful,
wonderful tourist tour of Las Vegas. So hopefully he'll enjoy that.
Oh my gosh, it's lovely. I heard during a Metallica band,
well Metallica inspired band, now not metallicans, but it's just
a metal band. Okay. Neil was trying to break this
(30:07):
down for me. He's like, just like a Metallica. I'm like, okay, yes,
I do. Sing in a band called Bond Bolt, and
we perform around town at some great rock venues, Like
there's a great place here called Vamped which has a
lot of great live music local bands. And yeah, we're
sort of a like horror movie metal Halloween inspired metal band.
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So that's almost my my alter ego, like my altern personality.
I get to put on like Viking makeup and like
put the Viking braids in my hair and like go
headbang and scream into a microphone, which is a lot
of fun until you have the sore neck muscles for
four days afterwards. So you know, it's a very odd life.
I live where during the day I'm taking care of
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two beautiful children and making sure that they have peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches and that they've done their homework.
And then at night I go headbang on stage at
a goth bar. So do the babies know that their
mom is very cool? Oh? Totally yeah. They like to
rock out to our bands music, and they really want
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to come to a show. Like my daughter's six and
she's like obsessed with the band, but she can't get
into any of these venues because they're all, you know,
not family friendly at all. But it's so funny when
our lead singer jameson but the band's called Von bolt
and our lead singer James will come over to our
house every once in a while, you know, just in
his leather and his combat boots and his mohawk and Chloe,
(31:36):
my daughter's like mister James, and he's so Chloe Like.
It's just such a funny, you know, clash of totally
different worlds. But yeah, I mean, I have so much
fun singing in Von Bolts. Yeah, I look it up.
It's v O N b O l DT on Instagram
and Spotify, and we got some music out. But yeah,
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I mean, former child actor on a sketch comedy show
Mom by Day Rocker by Night. I also have a
book out. I'm an author. It's called Ashwardley in the Phoenix.
It's on Amazon. It's very Harry Potter, so like middle
grade fiction if you have a kid who's into Harry Potter. Um.
And then yeah, and then hosting the Vegas On Show.
But I think that's it. I think that's it. Right, Yes,
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life of Oh my gosh, life in the entertainment industry.
It's amazing. I feel like the only proper way to
go out of this podcast is you're just giving us.
You know some of the Jamal that vocals. Oh oh
oh oh, it's Jamal that. Here's jamm oh, oh oh oh,
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it's Jamal. Here's Jamal. Oh my god, it's beautiful, boom
god that I had this next record, just one a
Nickelodeon blimp for that oh my gosh favorite TV show
two thousand and four. I know that you guys just
recently won one as well, So congratulations. Yours as much
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fancier than mine. Yours is one like a trophy stand.
It's not necessary. That's that's efficient and simple. Is your's
a kaleidoscope? Yes? It is? Okay, I did look through
a kaleidoscope? Can I like even like? Can I do that?
Can you see this a kaleidoscope? It's good, it's it works. Okay,
that's hilarious. You just listen to another episode of Off
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the Record with the Danny Rogers. A new episode drops
every Tuesday.
Welcome back to another episode of Off the Record with
Danny Rogers. I have someone so special joining me because
she can't be here in studio because she is currently
living working in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is Lisa Foils people.
If she is at all familiar looking, it's because you
might know her from all that and maybe an episode
(00:21):
of Malcolm in the Middle. And if you know her voice,
it is because she sang the iconic Jamal That song
for the team. So let me play it for the
people real quick. It's the best. How many times have
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you listened to that? Lisa? Every night before I go
to bed. I just like to play it on a loop.
It helps me sleep, you know, just man and I
just like, wow, you're so talentedly so listen to your voice.
You're so good. It is so good. Though, we have
to we have to draw the connection here of Okay,
Lisa from who's living in Las Vegas now originally from
the Pacific Northwest, so she is a Seahawks fan. I'm sorry,
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family to drop that on you. Real quick, what is
the connection? I'll go, what's the connectionally, Lisa? How did
you get your voice on the Jamal That theme song?
That pays homage to Jamal Williams, Detroit lines running back
and currently the league leader in rushing touchdowns. Yeah, the
man's amazing. So Neil Larson, who is one of your
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lovely co workers. I don't even know his title just
runs camera Senior video Producer and social Media extraordinary fancy title. Anyway,
So I've been friends with Neil Larson since when he
lived in Las Vegas. So we met here when he
was in a band. We became friends. He moved to
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Detroit and we wanted to disown him. We're like, I
can't believe you're moving away. We're friends. You're just gonna
ruin our friendship like that, how dare you pick a
job over us? Like what kind of friend are you?
So he moved to Detroit, and then fast forward and
he obviously when we met in Las Vegas, he knew
I was on all that, and you know, he we
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got to know each other, so we knew that I
was on the show, and so yeah, he just we've
stayed friends over the years. It wasn't a random call
of nowhere, but but yeah, so we called me up
one day and he's like, hey, so we want to
give this guy, Jamal Williams his own show because he's
this amazing personality. You know, he loves pop culture. It
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would totally vibe with his fans, and we want to
call it Jamal That And I'm like already just cracking up, laughing.
This is genius. And he's like, we gotta do a
theme song for it, and can you please sing it?
And I said not for any less than ten thousand dollars,
so he quickly we wired that over to me. You know,
(02:59):
I'm just kidding, get your money, girl, Like, absolutely yes.
So we teamed up with the lead singer from his
Las Vegas band, Jared Jones, and Jared played all the
music and he produced it and then I sent over
my vocals and he you know, mastered it and made
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it all sound pretty and then send it over to Neil.
And then the next thing, you know, we were just
seeing it everywhere. People are sending me videos being played
in the stadium and I'm just like, this is so amazing.
So that's kind of how that came to be. Oh,
but it's funny. I actually sang the theme song for
the seasons. I believe it was season's nine and ten
with Little Bow Wow. Was little yeah with little bow Wow.
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So way back in the day, I was in the
recording studio doing the same thing, uh huh, Like I
vivid memories of doing that, and then fast forward now
I'm in my studio doing the nuh oh like. So
we changed it enough that it's different but still sounds
the same. Yeah, it was a total flash from the
past for me. So now I've technically recorded two versions
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of the all that theme song. So I have a
feeling you might have a favorite one, especially if it's
like connected to Jamal Williams, who is one of the
best humans ever. Oh my gosh, Like yes, So I
love just funny, crazy sports personalities. You know that Jamal Williams.
Like there's so many of them in UFC. I hosted
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a show called The UFC Minute for years and years
and years, and that was a job where I knew
nothing about UFC Before I hosted the show. I'm like this, like,
who would watch this sport? This is barbaric? Like these
are just men in their underwear just try and kill
each other, Like who would who would watch this? And
then like two months into it, I like knew all
the fighters. I'm just like, oh yeah, you know, I'm
like so into it, but you learn the personalities. It
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was right when Connor McGregor was coming up, so obviously,
I like loved Connor. He was so funny and silly
as little like billionaire walk Like every time he was
on the microphone, I wanted to hear what he had
to say because I knew whatever it was, I was
going to feature it in the show. And I feel
like Jamal is similar. Just you know, obviously takes the
game and the sport incredibly seriously, but I don't think
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he takes himself or life very seriously. And that's the
way you gotta be. You know. I watched all the
Hard Knocks episodes and was so sucked in to that
show and just you know, he was so so fun
to watch. I mean, they all have great personalities, but
there's just there's some about that guy. You know. I agree,
I think you hit the nail on the head with
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very serious about the game off the field, He's just
he's a character and everyone loves them for that. When
you were recording this song, you said it was in
your studio, Neil our favorite Neil, he might did you
record it in the bathroom at all? Or the closet.
So I do have a walk in closet upstairs that
I have that I do all my voice of her
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jobs in which people don't realize. Yeah, but sometimes show
business can be very glamorous. But a closet is like
the best place to record because it just muffles everything.
So yeah, every once in a while, I'll record right here.
So this is my This is my like filming studio.
If I'm filming a job like this is where I
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hosted the UFC Minute. This was a green screen and
I had like an hour turnaround. They would send me
the script. I would get hair and makeup ready, jump
in front of this screen, film myself, get the footage
onto my computer, edit it, and send it over to
them in like an hour. And I did that Monday
through Friday for about four years. So that was a
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really good like boot camp in memorization and editing like quickly. Yeah,
So I do mostly video production here in the studio,
and then I do voiceover or singing up in upstairs
in my walking closet, surrounded by my tank tops and
my bras and like oh, sort of like dirty laundry everywhere.
Very very glamorous, but yeah, so that's where I sang
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the vocals for that. And I'm sure you're wondering what
this sign is back here? Can I tell you about it?
Please tell us about it? It all just fits so well,
jamal that all that after the og. Please tell us
about it. It does. It does fits a lot. And
it's funny. I didn't hang this here just for this,
Like this is always here, and my husband usually works
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right here, so it's always in the background of of
his interviews and you know, all stuff like that, so
people are always asking him about it. But this is
actually a cutout from the stage of all of all that.
So if you remember the show, it's it's Saturday Night
Live for kids. It's sketch comedy. And for the first
you know, twenty five minutes of the show, it was
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sketches and silliness and costumes and doing all sorts of characters.
But the last five minutes or so, our musical guest,
you know, we have Britney spears and in sync and
usher and like anyone you can think of, like any
huge artist was on our show. And this was right
in the center of the stage and there were neon
letters inside each one, so every single celebrity guest and
(08:04):
musical guest that we've had has stood on that black
circle with the logo on it. And it was years
later that I went to go visit my old friends
at Nickelodeon and the prop department and they were like, hey,
we have a we have a surprise for you. And
they walked out with this big thing and they're like,
do you want this? And I'm like, yes, I want.
I don't know where I'm gonna put it. I'm gonna
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fit it in my car. It's pretty big, but I'm
like I must have it. So now it lives here
on my wall. I just just throwing it back to
the all of that memories. I was first off going
to say, like, who'd you have to fight to get that?
All that? So I'm glad they just graced it, graced
you with it. How did you get on the show?
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And here we are going into like the storyline of
I like to know interesting things about the people that
we have on this on the show. It's off the record.
So how did you get onto all that and jump start?
You're acting, singing, you're even an author? Now, how did
that career jump start? Really? With all that you know,
I'm going to even relate it back to football a
little bit, especially again watching the Hard Knocks episodes and
(09:10):
how they had so many players and they had to
narrow it down and just watching that crazy process and
the you know, the emotions that coach Campbell went through,
just all of it. You know, it's actually kind of similar.
So for my not with every show, but for my
show in particular, when they were getting a whole new cast,
(09:30):
they did a nationwide search for seven new kids. So
there were thousands of kids that auditioned for this show,
and we had I think seven callbacks or something like that,
which is insane. You usually have one or two and
that's it. And this was very intense. For the auditions.
(09:50):
We had to do three different characters. They had like
make up a monologue that involved three different characters and
then read a script and then kind of answer questions
about your person nality for the producers and the cast directors.
And so yeah, I mean every time I showed up,
I showed up for a callback, got narrower, narrower and
narrow there less kids. You know, you start to recognize
(10:11):
a few, You're like, Okay, you made it, you made
it all right, and this took weeks and weeks and
then finally there were twelve of us sitting in the lobby.
We had all auditioned, and you know, tension like you've
cut the tension with the Knight. If somebody comes down
and they're like, okay, um, we'll let you know in
like one month whether you made it or not. And
(10:33):
we're like okay, They're like we can only pick seven
and there's twelve of you, so good luck of rely.
And it was my favorite show growing up, Like I
was obsessed with all that before I ever became an actor.
I was living in um Spokene, Washington. Born in Portland,
moved to Spokane, and there are cassette tapes somewhere of
me and my best friend performing characters from the original seasons,
(10:54):
you know, like Lorie Betts, like Big Quiet, this is
a library and Repairmann like so throw back to those
you know, original cast characters. But I mean this, like
my heart was so in this. This wasn't just another job.
This was like you know, I'm sure any of those
those players who were, you know, trying out for the Lions,
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like if the Lions were their all time favorite team
from childhood, like it met a little bit more than people.
You know, I had a different favor How old were
you at the time. I was fourteen? Okay, I was
thirteen when I auditioned, fourteen when I booked the show.
And yeah, so a month came and went, didn't hear anything.
So I'm like, I guess I didn't get it. And
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then it was like another month after that that they
called my mom and they were like, they got it.
Why do they Why do you think they took so long?
I don't know. Must have been a hard decision. I
don't know. I mean, I don't know how they narrow
it down. I don't know what went on behind the scenes,
but it took them a while. But I have to
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say that Jamal would have fit perfectly with our cast
of kids. We were all incredibly hyper and just telling
jokes all the time, bouncing off the walls. Love pop culture.
I mean, we were playing Pokemon cards. I know, Jamal's
a Pokemon fan, like he really does. Seem like if
football hadn't worked out for him, he could have just
been in all that cast member one million percent. Okay,
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So you were living in Spokane when you auditioned for this,
did you just have to jet down to La Is
that where the show was based. I'd actually just moved
to La So. I was a competitive dancer in in Spokane.
There was even a time when I wanted to be
a professional cheerleader, Like I kind of went through that
like I'm a dancer, what do I do next? I
want to be a you know, professional cheerleader. I did
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not go that path with the acting path. My parents
moved me down to the LA area, and my first
show that I got was a show called Even Stevens.
I don't know if anybody knows I was on the
Oh we do? Yeah? So I was a recurring character
on that show, and then shortly after was the big
casting call for All That. So it's one of my
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first jobs after moving to California. Did you did you
have an agent in place? Was mom? The agent? How
does that work? I did have an agent, but like
a very small agent, you know what I mean? Like
I had no credits to my name, so obviously, you know,
I couldn't walk into you know, one of the huge
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you know, the huge like William Morris agencies and the
like sign me. They would have been like out the door.
So just a tiny little like boutique acting agency who
a lot of kids didn't actually who auditioned for the show.
I think most of the cast members on the show
didn't have agents. So yeah, so I had one, but
I really didn't know the ropes. I didn't know etiquette,
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like set etiquette anything when I thought the show it
was and I was a kid, you know, but it
was one of the best experiences of my whole life.
And I love talking about it. I know there's so
many child actors who when they get older, so like,
you know, don't talk to me about when I've played whatever,
you know, don't talk to me about my younger kid characters.
I love talking about it. It's so much fun. Oh
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my gosh. Okay, so what is the number one rule
for set etiquette. Well, now it's don't have your phone
at all, like leave your phone in your dressing room.
But thankfully, we were on the show before cell phones
were even really a thing and social media was not
a thing, which I'm so thankful for because we just
kind of got to got to live in the moment
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and enjoy every little, you know, every little minute of
the show. We weren't constantly like checking our Instagram or
our Twitter or like competing for followers or anything like
that that I know kids on TV shows now have
to do. We were just like enjoying it. But yeah,
I'd say just set etiquette. Be absolutely kind to every
single person around you, because you don't know who knows
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who and who's in charge and who's not. And you know,
you tick off an editor and they might take you
out of that scene for that week. You just you know,
it's the entertainment business. It's a business. You know, it's
it's a crazy business. We're kind of like in the
entertainment but not but in it. So we we have
our set etiquette as well. I love all Yeah, you
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got it for sure. I love all those rules. M
Who is I mean, so you're on even Stevens So
you were with like Shylott Labuff, Like I would love
to know who the most famous person in your cellular
device is in my cell phone? Let's see, um like
that you have their number two? Maybe Forrest Griffin, He's
a Hall of Fame UFC fighter. Who else? I'm sure
(15:39):
I think I still have Jamie Spears um Brittany's little sister.
Oh yeah, yeah, so she was on the I'm sure,
I have Jamie. Yeah, I think I have Jamie in there. Um.
So she was on season's eight and nine. So I
was on seven, eight, nine, and ten, and she was
on eight and nine, And of course that was like
the big you know, media push is like, oh my gosh,
(16:01):
like Britney Spears little Sister joins all that. So you know,
our show was everywhere, was you know, on every news station,
everybody was featuring it. So I was really thankful that
Jamie brought so much publicity to our show. And she
was great, and she and I totally hit it off.
And I have a great story of the time I
got to spend the night at Britney Spears house because
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Jamie was living in her Beverly Hills home with her
and Jamie was like, Hey, you want to come spending
out of my house. I'm like, yes, I do. So
Brittany and her mom picked up me and Jamie from
set one day and their beautiful pearly white Lexus and
drove us to their you know, triple gated community, to
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this giant mansion. I think even a Britney Spears song
came on the radio while I was in the car
with Brittany it was so funny. I didn't even know
what to do. I'm like, do I acknowledge that this
is happening? Or do I What did they do? Station?
But did Britney sing along? What did they do? No?
I think she just like, I think she could tell
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that I was like kind of cracking up again. I
was like, I think I was fifteen years old at
this point. I think she could tell that I was
kind of just like, oh my gosh, what was happening.
So I remember she kind of like chuckled a little bit,
and then they just kind of went on with their conversation.
But in my mind, I'm just like, what is happening
right now? I'm where the Britney Spears in a car,
We're listening to Britney Spears on the radio. This is
how is this happening? How is this real life? And
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so we get to her giant mansion and there's like
crazy guard dogs everywhere. I'm like tip tiptoeing like past
the guard dogs. I'm like, I'm nice, I was invited here.
Just leave me alone. I'm cool. And we go back
to Jamie's room and we're just hanging out there and
we got in, we went swimming and my hair was
wet and I was like, hey, Jamie, give a blow dryer,
(17:48):
and she's like no, but my sister has one. She's
right down the hall, like just go ask her. And
I'm like, um, you want me to go ask Britney
Spears to use your hair dryer. She's like yeah, I'm
like okay, here we go. It's happening. So I just
like mustered the courage and like it was one of
those like shining hallways, like it was so long. With
every step it just got longer and longer, horror movie style.
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And I got to her door and I'm just like
excuse me, and she's so nice. She was like, oh, sweetheart,
come on it. What do you need? Like, do you
have a Jamie said that I do you hair dryer?
She's like absolutely, come on it. So she took me
into her bathroom. She got in her drawers and she's
like here you going. I'm sure it was like an
eight hundred dollar hair dryer or something, but I'm just
(18:31):
like thinking, thank you so much. I just scartried back
to the room. Looks we got just hyper ventilate a
little bit. But yeah, so that's an odd experience. That
I got to did you happen to listen in on
Brittany recording a very famous song at one point? No,
but so not recording, but when we at one point,
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while I was staying there, somebody's playing the piano like beautiful,
and like I looked around the corner and it was
Brittany and she was playing the I want to say
it was the hebitumche ffa with them. That's lucky, right,
It's called every time? Right, I was every time? Which
one is it every time? It's every time? Yeah, it's
called every time. I mean, this is the first word
of the chorus, so it must be um. And she
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was playing She wasn't singing it, but she was playing it.
And I don't think at that time that song was
released yet, So I was just like, this is beautiful.
I didn't even know Brittany could play piano. Yeah, So
I was just like mesmerized by it. And then later
when I heard it on the radio, I'm like, that's
the song she was playing. I saw her, I heard
her play that song just again, just totally blew my mind.
(19:37):
But yeah, I'm not sure I've ever told these stories, uh,
like on camera before. Thank you for telling them. I
just us normal like people. Humans just don't we. I mean,
we have cool jobs, we're around like people we think
are cool normal. You hosted awesome live podcasts. What are
you talking? See right? And thank you for joining it? Um. Yeah, No,
(19:58):
we're around all these football guys all the time. They're
pretty cool to other humans, but for us are kind
of like normal. So we're like, bro Brittany Is, she's
up there for us. I love how you were doing
Jamie Lynd's southern accent while you were doing while you
were saying most of that stuff. Oh yeah, she had
that thick accent. She would like poor ranch dressing on
her pizza, which was totally foreign to me. I remember
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when I when we first got to Jamie's house. Oh
my gosh, I have another story. So this was the
second time I went to stay with Jamie and they
were in like a different place. They were in like
a like a condo or something like obviously super nice,
like a condo bigger than my house. And I remember
her mom served me sweet tea, which is the first
time I ever had sweet tea, because again they're from
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camp with Louisiana and they drink sweet tea, and I'm
as far I lived, grew up as far from the
South as you can get up in Washington, and I
remember her handing me that sweet tea and me take
a sip and being like, oh, it's it's really good. Really,
it's great. And I forced myself to drink the whole thing,
even though it was like the most horribly sweet drink
(21:02):
I've ever experienced my life. But when you're at a
Spear's house and you're offered a drink, you drink that drink.
Oh yeah, so what I thought in my sixteen year
old mind. I mean, Lynne was so sweet that I'm
sure if I would have said, like, I don't like this,
she would have been like, don't worry about it. But
I was in my own head, and that was the night,
(21:23):
Oh my gosh, I don't think i've ever told this story.
I was there the night that so Brittany wasn't there
because she was performing at an award show, is just
what I remember hearing. And so I was there with
Lynn and Jamie and we and we were all sitting
on the couch and I just remember saying, or Lynne saying, oh,
I think it's coming up, and she turned on the
(21:43):
Award Show and it was when Britney kissed Madonna. Do
you remember that moment? Oh yeah, sitting there next to
Lynn watching, watching it happen. And at the time that
was pretty scandalous. I don't know if you remember that. No,
that was very scandalous. Yes, nowadays is I mean, nobody
would even blink twice at that. But it was at
the time when Britney was still kind of seen as
(22:05):
you know, more the innocent blonde pop star, mean not
that innocent, but like, you know, she was tran transitioning
from like the hit me Baby one more Time to
like the more adult pop star. And I just remember
Lynn watching and just like and I got done, and
I remember lind saying it wasn't that bad. It wasn't
it was fine, It was fine. And then she started
getting phone calls and then Jamie and I just kind
(22:27):
of went back to her room. But I remember she
started getting phone calls and I'm like, that's kind of crazy.
Did we know that was planned? I mean, she she
had to have known because she was obviously she did it.
I didn't know it was having. Nobody else knew what
was happening, but Lynn you know, Britney's mom was sitting
next to me, and she, like I said, she was
like prepared for it. She was watching the song and
(22:47):
I remember her saying like, oh, here it comes. So
she knew the kiss was coming. But you know, then
she saw and you know, she wouldn't matter. She was
just kind of like like, oh, it happened, and then
she looked so bad, you know, And that's that's like
all I remember from it. But like, what a crazy
what a crazy moment to experience crazy And no, it
(23:08):
truly is. Um Okay, we have to very recently, and
I know you're a part of the Nickelodeon family. One
of our players were slimed. I don't know if you
saw that, Derek Barnes. So I don't like a lot
of people, I feel like don't get to actually see
the slime. But like, here's a slime. And I heard
you've been slimmed before as well, how like, how how
(23:30):
long did it take you to get slim out of
your hair? Well? One time I couldn't get it out
of my hair. So there were there was one season
of the show where I was blonde. I was a
redhead for three seasons and then I was like, I'm
going blonde, and oh, hey, did you decide that or
did the show? I decided I was gonna go bright blonde,
and then the show like was fine with it because
(23:51):
we weren't. We weren't like, it wasn't a narrative show.
We didn't have to like play the same character. We
were always wearing wigs and doing whatever. So I'm just like,
I'm going blonde. It's happening. Yeah, actually that's not how
it happened. I'm sure. I was like, is it okay
if I go blush? I was like, that's what I'm saying,
like people play their child, and they were like, yeah,
it's fine. So I got slimed as I usually did
(24:13):
being part of Nickelodeon, and it stained my hair green
and we couldn't get the green out of the blonde
hair at all no matter what shampoo we tried. So
I literally had to go get it redone at a salon,
like recompletely redone because it was this like dirty dishwater
blonde green mess on my head. I was like trying
(24:37):
to look for like the ingredients in this. So there's
different types of slime. There's different types of slime. Some
read better on different cameras and different situations. I know
the one. So when I was on a show called
Slimetime Live, which was in Florida. It flies to Florida
every once in a while, and it was like a
show that kind of happened in between shows. You know.
(24:58):
It would come out and be like, you've been watching
all that, and now we're gonna slim some people in
this audience here at Universal Studios. And I would come
up here on that show every once in a while.
That one, I want to say, was mostly vanilla pudding
and tapioca pudding to give it texture. Obviously, tons of
food coloring. Gosh, I remember they used to like I've
(25:20):
asked them a couple of times to rattle off the ingredients,
but those are the two that I remember. Wait, that's crazy.
So you could eat that slime? Yeah, they needed it
to be edible because it would just go everywhere in
all of crevices. Oh my gosh. Lord. Okay, So I
don't know how much you're allowed to tell us about
(25:41):
all that, but will be seeing more all that? So
new all that? I don't know. So they rebooted the
show in twenty nineteen with a brand new cast of kids,
and they're all great, super talented, super funny, and they
went into twenty twenties. So I'm not sure if it
was technically two seasons or one really big long season,
(26:05):
but they asked me to come guest star on the show.
So I got to do two episodes of the new
rebooted all that, and I didn't know how it was
going to go because you know, obviously I used to
be on the show, but this is a new cast
of kids. Are they even gonna know me? Like, it's
just gonna be different. And I walk on the set
and these kids could not be more excited to meet me,
(26:28):
Like they were so respectful, like they were so excited
to hear my stories. It's kind of like what we
all hope our grandchildren are going to be. Like we
hope that they like Granny tell us stories of the
of the old country. You know, we all kind of
hope that they want to know about our lives. But
I'm like, you know, in this world of iPhones and stuff, like,
are they even gonna care about a show that aired
(26:49):
in the early two thousands? They weren't even born yet,
Like do they even care? Maybe they were born I
don't know. I don't know. They probably weren't, but but
they weren't. They all like knew my characters, and you know,
they were so sweet, like in particular, like Reese was
Reese Cadell was like, the is like the new redhead
on the show. So she and I got connected. I'm like,
I'm the Reddit. She's like, I'm the new redd Ede
of my eye. So totally connected there. But yeah, So
(27:13):
I actually got to do two episodes with another character
from the original seasons of all that actor named Mark Stall,
So he and I both got to do two episodes,
and then that's when it was shut down by COVID.
So we did the two episodes right before it was
shut down, and then it hasn't come back since, so
I don't know. I mean that the reboot was produced
(27:35):
by Keen and Cal like they were. They had a
huge hand in executive producing that show and bringing it
back to life. So I don't know if they have
plans to bring it back. I'm still friends with the
with the cast on Instagram. We talked every once in
a while, and crazy enough, most of the crew that
worked on My Seasons was still working on the show.
(27:56):
Oh my gosh. Michael Johnson, who did my makeup when
I was fourteen years old, was doing my makeup, you know.
Now being on the New Show, it was just like,
I mean, I was tearing up constantly. That is so wholesome. So,
you know, they play the song over the loudspeakers and
there's all that logos everywhere. I'm like, this is like
a weird, trippy high school reunion happening. But now I
(28:19):
don't even that is beautiful. Okay, Yeah, I mentioned you
are singer author. What can you plug that you have
going on? Because I know you have so sinking much
going on. And next time the draft is in Las Vegas,
we will come see you didn't know you know, like, yes,
I was just there. So first of all, please you
(28:42):
gotta go listen to the jamal that theme song. I
do vocals and Jared Jones does all the music. He's amazing.
Look up Jared Jones on Instagram. He has this amazing
yoga business with his wife where his wife Brittany, like
teaches yoga and he like plays music while you're doing yoga.
It's like the coolest thing ever. So yeah, I look
up Jared Jones. He's incredible. And then for anybody curious
(29:04):
about Vegas. So I live in Las Vegas, and everybody
asked me what's it like to live there? Like, and
you know, everybody visits here and they all ask me
what should I do? Well? Now, I host a show
called Vegas On, and the whole point of the show
is that every episode we feature different amazing spots in Vegas,
cool restaurants, just cool experiences. You know, I hosted an
(29:26):
episode from on top of the Pirate Ship at Treasure Island.
We go, we were at Allegiance Stadium on the field
while they were painting the numbers for the upcoming Raiders games. Like,
you know, we feature all these really cool places in Vegas.
So if you want to know what restaurant you go
to a show to see an experience to have, go
(29:47):
watch a show called Vegas On. And I am the
host of that, so I will guide you on a beautiful,
wonderful tourist tour of Las Vegas. So hopefully he'll enjoy that.
Oh my gosh, it's lovely. I heard during a Metallica band,
well Metallica inspired band, now not metallicans, but it's just
a metal band. Okay. Neil was trying to break this
(30:07):
down for me. He's like, just like a Metallica. I'm like, okay, yes,
I do. Sing in a band called Bond Bolt, and
we perform around town at some great rock venues, Like
there's a great place here called Vamped which has a
lot of great live music local bands. And yeah, we're
sort of a like horror movie metal Halloween inspired metal band.
(30:31):
So that's almost my my alter ego, like my altern personality.
I get to put on like Viking makeup and like
put the Viking braids in my hair and like go
headbang and scream into a microphone, which is a lot
of fun until you have the sore neck muscles for
four days afterwards. So you know, it's a very odd life.
I live where during the day I'm taking care of
(30:51):
two beautiful children and making sure that they have peanut
butter and jelly sandwiches and that they've done their homework.
And then at night I go headbang on stage at
a goth bar. So do the babies know that their
mom is very cool? Oh? Totally yeah. They like to
rock out to our bands music, and they really want
(31:13):
to come to a show. Like my daughter's six and
she's like obsessed with the band, but she can't get
into any of these venues because they're all, you know,
not family friendly at all. But it's so funny when
our lead singer jameson but the band's called Von bolt
and our lead singer James will come over to our
house every once in a while, you know, just in
his leather and his combat boots and his mohawk and Chloe,
(31:36):
my daughter's like mister James, and he's so Chloe Like.
It's just such a funny, you know, clash of totally
different worlds. But yeah, I mean, I have so much
fun singing in Von Bolts. Yeah, I look it up.
It's v O N b O l DT on Instagram
and Spotify, and we got some music out. But yeah,
(31:57):
I mean, former child actor on a sketch comedy show
Mom by Day Rocker by Night. I also have a
book out. I'm an author. It's called Ashwardley in the Phoenix.
It's on Amazon. It's very Harry Potter, so like middle
grade fiction if you have a kid who's into Harry Potter. Um.
And then yeah, and then hosting the Vegas On Show.
But I think that's it. I think that's it. Right, Yes,
(32:20):
life of Oh my gosh, life in the entertainment industry.
It's amazing. I feel like the only proper way to
go out of this podcast is you're just giving us.
You know some of the Jamal that vocals. Oh oh
oh oh, it's Jamal that. Here's jamm oh, oh oh oh,
(32:45):
it's Jamal. Here's Jamal. Oh my god, it's beautiful, boom
god that I had this next record, just one a
Nickelodeon blimp for that oh my gosh favorite TV show
two thousand and four. I know that you guys just
recently won one as well, So congratulations. Yours as much
(33:08):
fancier than mine. Yours is one like a trophy stand.
It's not necessary. That's that's efficient and simple. Is your's
a kaleidoscope? Yes? It is? Okay, I did look through
a kaleidoscope? Can I like even like? Can I do that?
Can you see this a kaleidoscope? It's good, it's it works. Okay,
that's hilarious. You just listen to another episode of Off
(33:31):
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