Becca and Tanya are backstage at Epic Con Chicago, and after they moderated some panels on stage, it’s time for a MANel with some of our favorite guys at the con!
Bart Johnson shares some Coach Bolton level advice and drops a secret bigger that will raise the pulse of any High School Musical fan.
Shawn Ashmore accepts his title as the original “internet boyfriend” and lets us in on how he keeps things from freezing over in his marriage.
Plus, Colin Donnell from “Chicago Med” and David Lim from “S.W.A.T.” answer the call and bring the male perspective to the O.R.!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scrubbing in with Becca Tilly and Tanya rap An iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello everybody, we are scrubbing it scrub.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Dub dub with the mananal. Oh that was pretty thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, we've got this. It's been a minute since we've
done a Mantle.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It has been because you know why, can I tell
you why? Why?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
From my perspective, why, Because I'm dating a woman, and
now that it's public, I'm like, do we need the
men's advice? But you know, there are a lot of
people out there still in the dating world with men,
in the in the thick of.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It, in the thick of it with men, and such
as myself. Well, I'm not in the thick of it,
but I am dating a man.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You were engaged to me.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yes, I'm going to marry a man. I'm going to
marry a man. That's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, we were like, it's time to remake the Mantle
and where where better to do it than at Epicon.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yes, and we had. Let me tell you, we have
some stacked Mantle participants today.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And all these guys are married men in like long
term relationship.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, so we got to get to the root of
how it all began, how it all.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Began, And on this list, we're gonna, we're gonna talk
to Sean Ashmore, Bar Johnson, whom we absolutely adore. H
you know what that movie is?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh it takes two?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh yeah, I've seen that movie.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
David Limb, yes, and Colin Donnell, who you have a.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Okay, so, no joke. I literally this was over ten
years ago. We look at if he's gonna remember.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Me, that is all I want. All I want is
for him to not remember. Oh my gosh, just for
like the discomfort of this moment, not for anyone, like
I think you're so memorable. I think it'd be crazy
for like the entertainment factor. It'd be so good if
he doesn't. So we're gonna we're gonna just hit them
with all the questions.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's right, and further ado, without further ado, here we go,
let's go Mantle.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
All right, everybody, welcome Sean Ashmore. Thanks for having me,
Thank you for being here. Of course you're our first
guest of the whole epicn.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Okay, all right, warm up is what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No? No, no, jump right in? Yeah? All right? All right?
Do you do these often? These con fan conventions I.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Do a few year. I actually personally really enjoy it.
I think it's a good way to kind of find
out what stuff is working on whatever current project you're in,
and I feel like it's yeah, I feel like you
get a lot of comments on like well, I'm really
loving the storyline or like this scene really worked for me.
So I think it's kind of interesting to sort of
hear what the audience that you're making the show, film,
(02:49):
whatever you're working on is enjoying. Especially on a long
running TV show, you can be like, oh, this stuff
is really kind of working. It's also like a yearbook
on your career, Like I've gotten all these bracelets that
are just different characters over the years, and it's just
kind of fun. Like it's just a really enjoyable kind
of experience to hear about like what what people watched
over the years, what really sticks with them?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And I'm always kind of surprised.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Do you remember your first one, like first event like
this that you came to where there was fans? Yeah,
were you like totally overwhelmed and shocked or did it
feel that it.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, it felt good. Again, Like the.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I look at being an actor as kind of a
I mean, it's sort of a gift. And so the
fact that there you have a following, that's the only
reason you can continue to do it. That there's people
and a fan base or or people that are interested
in the stuff that you do. So to me, that's
kind of what I enjoy about it. Also, the first
con I did was in Philadelphia, and it was years
(03:44):
after I'd been a part of all the X Men stuff,
so I'd kind of been used to interacting with fans
over the years, whether it be on the street or
at premieres or whatever, So it wasn't that overwhelming.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah wait, any way, you got these bracelets at each one,
so that's like.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
No, no, this is this is today. That's just yeah, just
out there. Yeah, as like, and I'm sure I'll have
it just as a thing.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
It's become a thing the last couple of years at
cons where people like make bracelets and like when they.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Come to meet you, they leave you a little things.
So these are all from the first hour they.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Get Okay, so they give you that, and what do they.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Say, just like, hey, I loved you okay.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
So Wesley is from The Rookie, which is the TV
show that I'm doing right now. There's a show called
In a Heartbeat? Was it a Disney Channel show that
I did as a kid?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So I got it.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
In a heart Beat one I got that's another rookie
one Iceman from X Men brad Rigby, which was a
Disney Channel movie I did with Hillary Duff like years ago,
and then this one was Iceman. So just it's just
all the stuff, like.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
A like for people that are listening. These are basically
like Taylor Swift friendship that you get like at the
Aras tour.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know. I always throw them
on like a put on and it's kind of like
a little badge at the end of the con all
these things.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, it's like going to a festival and you have
all your like wristbands. Yeah, that's your wristband. Yeah, what
do you have like one project where people come up
to you and they like freak out, like is it
consistent with one or is it so spread out?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
So I've been I'm forty five for about to be
forty five, but I'm been acting since I was ten,
and so I've done a lot of projects and things shift, right.
It's like when during the X Men years, it was
all about the X Men. I did a show with
Kevin Bacon called The Following that was on Fox. It
was all about the Following. It's about the Rookie right now.
So I feel like it's kind of whatever is most current. Yeah,
(05:22):
but because I sort of have a library of work,
there's there's always that recognition, and I think people really
get excited about the first thing they saw you in.
So I did a Nickelodeon show called Animorphs, so you know,
I get a lot of animals. Love like Kelly is
still a thing. So it's kind of cumulative in a way.
But mostly it's usually about whatever you're kind of doing
in the moment where people kind of like recognize you
(05:43):
from that. But it's really kind of fun to have
that like library of stuff and people be like, yeah,
I'm watching the rookie, but I know you from whenever
the thing is, you know, and I'm like, Oh, you're
an old school fan.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
That's it's so true though. You do fall in love
with people from the first project you see them in. Yeah,
like you kind of that's when you decide, like, I'm
going to be a fan of.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
This person, and that's what con sort of remind me
of is like because people are like, oh, I love
the Rookie and watching it, but I've been watching you
since in a heartbeat animalphs Kelly and again it feels
really awesome, and I sort of feel like I owe
my career to an extent to the people that have
like stuck around with you and continue to support you
over the years.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Well, let me tell you. Two of those people work
on our podcast, one of them and then another one
is listening. Her name is Crystal. They have Crystal with
you from the beginning. Are tried and true?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, yeah, but we do feel like you were like
before internet boyfriend was a thing. We feel like you
were the Internet boyfriend.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Wait, I don't really know what internet boyfriend is.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Explain, explain, Okay, it's just everyone everyone loves they like
dubbed the Internet's boyfriend. So I was just like the
Internet moment. Yeah, the moment is the Internet boyfriend right now,
like Timothy shallon course, Yeah, the original?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
All right, right, the.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Original, the original.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I'll take that, man, I'll take that, and I'll move
forward to the day feeling good about being the original.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Internet boyfriend as you're like, bio.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
That doesn't seem like.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Scrubbing in has Originally, Oh, I.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Wish we would have had. We should have given you
some sort of like.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Trophy already we got another day next time.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Actually, you know that does it's because you've been married
for how many years now?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Twelve years?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Twelve years and being that you are like the original
internet boyfriend, is that like so weird for your wife
to kind of just be like, my husband is this
like boyfriend to all these.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
She's like, I don't give I don't care about any
of that. She doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So we met.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
She was an assistant director for years and a producer
for years, so she doesn't care.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
We met on a movie.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
She gets it, she's in it, and she's just like,
I mean, she's the best, she loves me, all that stuff.
But whenever this kind of stuff happens, she just it's
like an eye roll.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
She's like, you know, you're taking the trash out when
you get home, and I'm like, I know, so that's just.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, mess up your bracelets, but the trash does need
to be taken up exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, the dishes need to be done, the trash. He's
taken out time to make lunch for your son.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
You know, yeah, I am curious of what because at
the time that you met her, was there anything about
her I'm assuming being like a heart throb in people
coming up to you and loving you and getting attention
from women. What was it about your wife that set
out that you were like, Cho's it.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I just sort of knew.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
We met on a film and it was kind of
like forbidden romance on the set because she was an
assistant director like part of the crew, and it's like,
you're not supposed to like mingle. So I think that
was part of the initial attraction where it was like
it's kind of like forbidden.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Yeah, Like we would hang out after work and then
I would go to work and she wouldn't look at me,
she wouldn't talk to me and try to sit next
for her lunch and she would just be like uh uh.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So I like, it's like Meredith Gray and uh and
uh Meredith and Derek in the beginning the forbidden line,
oh like the boss.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well yeah, yeah, just like.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
OK, yeah, So it just was like, well, we're not
really supposed to be doing this, so that was kind
of fun.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
But when I left.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
We shot in Utah and she lived in Atlanta and
I was in Los Angeles. I when we the day
that we left, I was on my plane. I got
off my plane to say goodbye or because I was
like I didn't know, like we'd kind of been dating,
but I wasn't sure if I was going to see
her again.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
But I had like a movie moment where.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I like got off the plane and I was like,
I need to go like Huger and say goodbye and whatever.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
So I just knew. I don't know what it was.
I just knew.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
And then she ended up and I'm not She'll tell
you I'm not the most romantic guy, so it probably
the most romantic thing I've ever done. But literally I
was like, the plane's not taking off, I'm getting off
the plane. I just want to go find her in
the airport and like say goodbye, because I was like,
I just didn't know when I was going to see
her again, So I yeah, I just knew.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Wow, Yeah, Ross and Rachel I got off the plane.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah, Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Do you know her love languages or do you know
your love languages?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Her love language is physical affection and and.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Like acts of.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Service and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know, we love a man that knows that just
even knows that term honestly.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, she loves like a like a foot massage for
her is like the you know has her like you
know if that if I if I'm ever in the doghouse,
I'm like, let me give you a foot rub, honey.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
She wow. Service and I mean that's acts of service
and physical touch. Yeah, so you just knock out.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
To right there.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, I'm efficient.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
What what are you working on right now? What's coming
up for you?
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
So we're shooting season seven of The Rookie. We're right
in the middle. I think we're about to start shooting
episode nine. Uh and it airs in January. I don't
know the exact date. Also have at least two films
that are done. A film called The Huntsman that's like
a thriller based on a novel of the same title
that I shot in Oklahoma City this summer and I'm
(10:53):
really excited about that. And then also a horror film
with an actor named Ashley Green who've actually worked.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, Yeah, she's great.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
We did a movie called Aftermath on Netflix Film and
we had the opportunity to work together again on another
kind of similar genre movie and yeah, it's called It
Feeds and I'm not sure when that's coming out, but
those are both done and ready to come out.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh that's so cool. Do you have a preference of
movies or network television.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I think my love is always film. I just love
the idea of popping into a character, living in it,
and then being done, like moving on. And I also
like reading a script from start to finishing, knowing exactly
what the character is, what the story is, like I
can fully prepare. But that's also what's interesting about network
TV is like you don't know where it's going to go. Yeah,
(11:40):
so there's that unpredictability. And if the writing is good
and the character is good, to get to develop and
spend a lot of time with a character is really
enjoyable too, So it's not like one's better than the other.
I kind of like to do both. Whenever we have
a hiatus, I try to go make films because I
like to mix things up with different characters.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
He's a busy man. Wait, I didn't want to throw
it to eat because he was raising his hand and
I'm assuming that there's an X men question.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Close close, I wanted to. It was the movie You
Met your Wife on Frozen.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yes, it was Frozen.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
I love Frozen. I went through this thing where I
was watching movies about people trapped places. Oh yeah, yeah,
and Frozen they're trapped on a chair lift. Yeahs it's
so good. And if you haven't seen Frozen, everyone listening to.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Breaking Wait, that's like one of my biggest fears.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, it's crazy. So it happened.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
It's happened in real life, not quite to the extent,
but the crazy thing is. So we made that movie
in Utah. We got into sun Dance and so we
had this movie about being stuck on a ski lift
at the Sundance Film Festival. It was like, this is
the perfect audience for this movie.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Was like skiing. They're like, our skiing has been lower
than the.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Lower Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Yeah, the attendants on the lift steve been low this season.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Wow, we're getting the finger to wrap it up. So
thank you for coming in and taking bank to you.
That was really, really fine, a wonderful time here, and
collect all the bracelets and.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Hopefully next time I see you both arms will be covered.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
We'll get you an internet boyfriend bracelets. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We have Bart Johnson in the house.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
What a nice more welcome, that's so nice. Thank you,
so good to be here.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I was so excited to see you on our rundown
people to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yes, I was breaking up. I was like, came out
of nowhere today we have a podcast. I said who,
and they said you guys. I was like, come, let's go.
My old friends ever get to see I know.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
What is it? Do you love coming to events like
this where you get to interact with the fans?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Love it? I'm kind of new, Like I started doing
this one for Disney with a Keny Ortega and all
the high school musical and different kind of Disney musicals
in Paris every year.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Oh my god, like a deal.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
And like the fans are so great, like they're so
gracious and they're so glad you there, and it's really, uh,
it's pretty awesome. Ye's great. I like to party with
my people, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, you are.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
You and your wife Robin, who's one of my favorite
people in the world, are party people. Like your party energy.
It's so fun to be around y'all.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Well, same same with you, of course. I think that's
why we hit it off right away. But yeah, we
do like our family. I just went to a family event.
There's like seventy five cousins there. So I think it's
like it's in our DNA. It's just it just is.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's so fun. But when you took the how long? When?
What year was it when you got the role for
coach Bolton?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Oh my gosh, that was like nineteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Wow, could you ever imagine that?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
No, it is No, it was wild like as it
because it came out of nowhere too. I got a
call from I knew I met. This is a long story,
but I met Kenny Ortega on the set of Newsies
if you know that movie like way back with Christian
Bale and Dave Moscow's like Keiths anyway, and he just
kind of was involved in my career, like he's just
been like really supportive. And my mom did his hair
(15:03):
the hair for the movies. So he's just like a
family friend for all these years. But he watched every
time I was on a TV series or did a movie.
He called it I loved you on that roll. So
this kind of came out of nowhere. I got the
phone call that said, hey, Listen, we're doing this movie.
It's small, it doesn't have a title yet. We're calling
it high school Musical until we come up with something.
No one's going to see it and there's no money,
(15:24):
but like we'll hang out, we'll have a great time.
I was, man, I'm totally in.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Wow, that's a really great lesson in life.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Actually this man say yes, yeah, say yes to those
opportunities for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, and it may look like a like a like
a dull penny, but that it could be a shining
diamond at the day.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Here's here's another crazy thing. I couldn't get a job
after this, Like for like the first ten years, high
school Musical was out because I was like I was
the dad in high school musical. Like I wasn't like
like the new Like who's that all. That's Zach g Frond,
that's Vanessa Hudgens. Okay, yeah they're cool, but like the dad,
like that doesn't really give you the heat you want. Really,
like they're call going, hey, get us the dad from
(16:01):
the high school. No, I'm not saying that, you know.
So like I was, I didn't get I didn't have
like cool opportunities, not for like cool edgy like interesting
Netflix shows or anything like that. It was like I
tell you I was too and I get an unemployment.
(16:22):
But it all changed probably like ten years ago, all
of a sudden. Like what was interesting is I did I
did a TV series, a big network show, and when
I was like halfway through the show, then the show
runner came up to me and said, hey, by the way,
I'm a big Wildcat. So yeah, my wildcats now were
like then now they're running things.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
So it's like it's all come back around.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
And now it's like, I don't know, it's it's interesting
because I used to only be famous for little kids,
and like as time goes on, it's like, oh, I
see now they're now every vis in junior high. Oh
now was in high school? Oh now everybos in college.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
So it's like I've got this like this big long
fan base of a Wildcats are looking out for their
coach now. So yeah, I got a nice audience.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
So we have you and I have a thing where
you go to different countries and you'll tag me in
videos of McDonald's and so I'll repose the comments is
so sick, yes, and the idea literally my d are
like how do you know, Coach Bulton, Like this is
(17:22):
my favorite collab ever, Like people love it so like
we need to pitch ourselves to McDonald's to do like
a tour tour.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
McDonald's has been the best so far.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Man.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
That's that's a tough question.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Tough one because they all got different stuff everywhere, you know,
Like the one that Japan I just went to, they
had like a shrimp in their chicken sandwich.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I can try.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh my god, that sounds actually interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, that's pretty interesting. Yeah, I don't know that. You know,
that's a question I'm going to work on and get
back to me.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
You get back to Hamm. Yeah, you're really good at TikTok,
really good at TikTok.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
What do your kids say about your TikTok?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Oh, my gosh, they hate it. They hate it so much.
They just wish I never got that assay actually loves
you things well, Robin has known, like I actually came
from like musical theater, and so when I got high
school musical I was supposed to have a song and
a dance in that movie, and the first one there
was a song and a dance like a competition one
like anything you could do, I could do better. I
(18:23):
love competition in a darbus and they cut the sucker.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I never want to use moment.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, So I think I'm finally getting into a musical.
And I was pretty young when I did that high
school music like I've never played a dad before. They're like,
you're gonna play a dad. I'm like a dad, Like,
I've never done that before. So I think I'm gonna
be doing all the singing and dancing. And I get
there to the movie and they're like you stand over
there on the sideline or we're gonna do all the
dancing you hear without you. I'm like, oh this sucks, man,
And a lot of those kids like they don't they
(18:49):
don't have a singing dancing background. I do singing dance.
So and then the sequel comes out. I'm almost certainly
now I danced pretty good at that rap party on
high school is going on there, no, no, not out,
and I'm like number three, like this is my moment
to shine, man, I'm gonna do some singing and dancing nothing.
So then TikTok comes out and I have a lot
of people you're messaging me like you got you gotta
(19:11):
jump on okay, all right, I'll try. Yeah, now it's
my time. Yeah, because you could do whatever you want
on TikTok, so let it be.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Another lesson in life. Yeah that's right, yeah right, yeah,
go do don't get what you want to do it yourself.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I haven't debuted my singing yet though, that's that's in.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
The work coming. Instruments.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, play a little, I play a little piano, little guitar.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
What about the first track? What about the first track?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, well yeah, I guess you know, whatever the kids
want you, whatever the kids.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Want from.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
It's zaddi.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, kids love that.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
There was there was one first trap and then you
got you deleted it, so.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I didn't know about that.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
As soon as it went not.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I s.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You're not quick enough for.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Online I love yeah, No, you know, I like the
the trends are fun and I like to try to
find anytime a trend comes out, I always think like, okay,
I don't want to just do the tremble, like how
can I do like the coach version of this trend,
you know, or the and I get the best response
from you know, from that for my like little spin
on it I love you.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Like they go creepy, Like I'm like, when we need
a Coach Bolton musical.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
We do. I've written one, actually I have. I have
so you know, I'll.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
See what that like live high school.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
You've done it, You've written one.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You're so surprised. I guess I never mentioned.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It to anybody when you essence, you now have it.
You did it. Why don't you get these people that
are the Coach Bolton fans that are now like the
people behind the scenes to make it.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That's true, that's good.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Can your taga?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah? You know, Kenny's like so good with like the
young kids, and like, you know, he's always like on
the cutting edge of this. Yea, you know, I don't.
I don't know if you wants to look for maybe
he does. Maybe I love Kendy so much, Like he's
so sweet. I've known him like my whole entire life,
so I'm nothing bad to say back ever, like he
(21:11):
has like made such a good impression on me and
take care of my family and he's just been awesome.
He's great.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I love that. What what's your dream role to play?
Like if you could, if someone was like you have
the choice to play any role on TV movie whatever,
What would it look like?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Boy? You know, I guess I probably like jeez. I
don't know if i'd want like Jason Bateman's crip. Maybe
because people always thought I looked like Jason. You ever
since I was a kid, people thought I looked like
Jason Bayman. It's a crazy not so much now and
I'm getting like John Cena and like it's kind of
some weird stuff like I don't know, I think they're
talking about the bike.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Yeah that's something like that.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
But yeah, I don't know. I really like those roles,
but I don't know if that's a fun thing about them.
That's crazy. It's crazy. I didn't see it at all.
It's like, what are people talking about? And then I
saw his picture was one particular picture John Cena was like,
whole crap, man, I look like that dude. Yeah, I'll
take his career. I mean he's doing he's doing comedies, like.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, he has gone into like oh yeah, well acting now,
oh yeah, he's doing like.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Cool action movie. I would love that. Kidding me, I
think a square in a second. But I really like Jase.
But you know, Jase Bailey directs and he acts and
I'm really interested in that too. I've done some directing
and I love it so much. And writing. I love
writing too, So I don't working here, man, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Going to do a quick little gearship Robin have been
married for how many years?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
For I think this September is twenty five years? Can
you believe that September twenty f twenty five years? I
wish she was here, man, she was loving.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
She's one of my favorite I just am obsessed with her.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I want to know, because twenty five years, that's that's
like what people strive for, you know what I mean?
Like that's like that's like the hope, the dream. How
how do you keep the twenty five years?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
What do you do? Like?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Give me all the seat us we got?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
How we have to come back from a much longer podcast.
But no, I have a lot to say about that, honestly,
like because we talk about it and we we uh
uh we work on it, and it's kind of I
don't know. I kind of think it's like.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
It's like peaks and valleys.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Well it is, but it's also like what you put
in is what you get. I'm kind of like every
time I've given a talk because I give talks sometimes
because I like it, you know, like speeches or not speeches.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
But like a talk ted talk.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Yeah, look kind of like that. Yeah, I always too
often I use the analogy of like the gym, you know,
like you go into the gym, Like if you go
ahead visit the gym every once in a while, you're
not gonna see any results, you know. But if you
go in there and consistently work, and you work really hard,
you're going to get some results. What you put in
is what you're going to get out. And I kind
of feel like a lot of people go to relationships
to receive, like oh I want this, I want this,
you know, and really your growth comes from you giving.
(23:48):
So I think there's a lot to be said about that,
Like show up to your relationship to give and light
that person up and don't think about yourself, you know,
think about what can I give to this relationship? And
the more you give, you're going to get back. And
because you're in in that relationship. And then there's all
the all the things, all the work things. You know,
what do they want? What lights them up? And what's healthy? What?
What are good healthy decisions do you make in your
(24:08):
life for your relationship. So I think it's I mean,
you put it in the center of your life and
it blesses your life. I think. You know. So we've
done that. We've like we've put our our kids and
our family and our relationship like at the center of
our world. And our career has suffered because of it. No,
not really, but but but it is it is, right, Yeah,
you know I joke about but that's like you have
(24:29):
to do that. You have to You can't put your
career first because it's like that's not really fulfilling. People
think that's what where you give filment. That's not where
you give fulfillment from giving and sacrificing and contributing and sacrifice,
you know. That kind of stuff is like there's your
fulfillment and then all the fun stuff and the career
and the acting and the movies, and that's icing on
the cake. That's the that's the fun stuff. But yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Also feel like y'all just genuinely like each other, like
being in love with each other, y'all like it, like
y'all just enjoy y'all have fun together.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
That's true. That's true. No, that's and and I don't
know if I just kind of got lucky, because I
don't think when I was in my twenties, I was like,
that girl has really a lot of wonderful qualities as
a mother. You know, she'd be an amazing homemaker. Like
when you're in your twenties, you're so stupid, You're like,
she's hot. It's a bid body, like I don't want
that ship you make any stupid and based on stupid decisions.
(25:16):
But I will say when I met Robin, I was
teaching acting class for her dad. Another long story, but
I'll tell it here. But she walked in the door
one day and I was like already friends with her
sister Blake, like in acting classes for Ernie Lively's acting studios.
And she walked in the door and I was like,
that's the one. I'm going to marry that girl. And
I was probably twenty five at the time, but the
(25:38):
way she lit up the room and her personality and
everything I saw, I was like, that's it. That's like
I saw her like genuine like I don't know, just
like that energy she is she is oh so drawn
to that. And then it was like three years of
stocking until I got to date her. Yeah, but maybe
two and a half three years of like she was like, nah,
(25:59):
she had a boyfriend of the.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Time, sneaky.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, I was working from the inside.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yea was very helpful in life.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Persistence persistence, Well, you know, I had this mindset of like, oh,
these kind of girls, like they're never single, They're never like,
oh cool, I'm single. I'm gonna go hang out at
a bar, like they're not like that's you're not gonna
you gotta do.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You know what's wrong with the single girl at the bar?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Nothing's wrong with her. She just doesn't go to a
bar ever, Like she just doesn't go.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
At the bar.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
She's just not there. She doesn't go there. Yeah, I'm
in more specifically for her, I should clear fat but well,
plenty of amazing people I was single Attle bar of course,
but but her, she didn't go to bar. She's literally
never been to a bar, never went to parties, never
went out, she never went outside. So she like, you
know she so so I knew, like the only way
(26:48):
what I noticed about the about is this is Robin Specifically,
she's an actress, right, She's been actresses she was three.
So every single boyfriend she had for the last like
fifteen years or all guys that she was on a
TV series with like those were her Yeah, and that was.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
And it's really easy.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
That's just because you don't ever go out ever, you
don't ever socialize, So then the only time you socialize,
you're on set and you have a scene where you're
just you're together. You know, when you shoot a movie,
you guys know, it's like you spend twelve hours a
day with like one person. So that's who she dated.
I'm like, well, how am I going to get on
TV Seria? I got how I did this girl? She
never goes out, So I was like, I gotta just
be I got to hang out and like like develop
(27:24):
the friendship and do that thing where it's like, oh,
the best kind of people dated when people you had
a friendship first, Like okay, never done that before, but yes,
I gotta do. So started laying the groundwork, working from
the inside, hanging out with the family, and uh just
kind of like waited for the opportunity. And then she
finally got single, someone else swooped in. Yeah, and I
(27:45):
had to do it again. It was terrible, so painful,
Oh my gosh, it's so hard. I mean there was
a lot of humility, a lot of broken heart, a
lot of just one, just one one broken heart, right, Yeah, yeah,
it's pretty brutal. It was, it was. It was tough.
(28:05):
It was tough, but I've worked through it.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It worked out.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, it's a great story, like how the whole thing
like went down. But some of the black people have
encouraged to write a movie about you don't have to
embellish a thing.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
It is so heartbreaking, but you don't hate. Twenty five
years later and uh, you got the girl.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yeah, I got the girl.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, I got the redhead with the three redheaded kids.
And it's uh, it's it's a good it's a great life.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I love that. I love our family. I know, I know,
before we go, what's your toxic trade, toxic trait. It's
like the lighthearted toxic truit.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Oh oh gosh, you're always late. Oh okay, oh I eat
too much? Oh yeah, yeah for sure. I literally like
I last night I got here to Chicago and I
was like, okay, they have a gym. Let me go
check out the gym. And the gym like sucked. It's
terrible here. And I was like, okay, Giordano's is like
five minutes away, so I was like, let's go to
your daughter's. I got a whole big pizza of myself
(29:02):
and ate every single I did not leave a bite
on the table.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
And then you're just like, yeah, yeah, I feel like
I would have a better career, more money, and a
better life if I would just less.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
So yeah, I can't do it too. And then we'll
just go to McDonald's world tour.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
We love you so much, thank you for taking have
so much fun this today.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
And this is a great start. I just arrived and
this is amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, you're the best. Thank you. All right, you guys,
we have David Limb here.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
What a warm welcome thing.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's how we do it in the
O R.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
What's so R?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
That's that's our podcast?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Oh okay, cool, where's the stand for operating room?
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Our podcast name comes from we We just celebrated our
seven years yesterday, so thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (30:14):
Amazing, but we we got you by one year eld
season eight.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah, but y'all have had some complicated journey. Yeah but yeah,
our podcast is called Scrubbing In because of our love
for Grady's anatomy, so we reference ourselves.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
As wed Yeah. Yeah cool.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
So, speaking of the bumps in the road on SWAT
were you has it been an emotional roller coaster?
Speaker 9 (30:38):
Yes, no doubt for sure. I mean we we've been dealing,
uh with the emotions when you since the pilot. When
you get a show, you know, you're like, great, I'm
part of this really cool pilot. More swatch Sean Ryan
from the Shield, Justin lenn Is directing. So it's like
you're overwhelmed with so much shoy that you're a part
(30:59):
of something. Okay, then you got to go make it,
and then you got to see if you get picked up, right,
So you're you're constantly wondering, are we even going to
be able to make a season of this?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (31:11):
Then you get picked up season one? Congratulations?
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Great?
Speaker 9 (31:15):
Now are we going to get a back nine of
the first season. So we've been going through this for
and at the end of each season, you you know,
are we going to get canceled? Are we going to
get picked up? And then obviously the last couple of
years we've been canceled. After season six uncanceled, Well.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
How does that happen?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
How do you get uncanceled.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, sounds like the dream.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
Shamar Schamar had a lot to do with it, our
fans had had a lot to do with it. And
there's a lot of things that go on behind the
scenes of getting the show made, all the political the
economics of doing a show, and in today's world of
five hundred different scripted shows, all sorts of streaming platforms,
(31:55):
it's no longer that, you know, you get good ratings
and you get great viewership, which we've always had, and
you automatically come back, that's no longer you know how
it works.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
There's so many other factors that come into play.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
So we were just super fortunate and a little bit
we had some luck on our side too, to canceled. Uncanceled.
Here's season seven, it's gonna be your final season. Wrap
up the storylines, and then we always knew in the
back of our mind that that if we just delivered
a really good season that there might be a chance
that we can come back and do season eight, because
(32:29):
we all wanted toeah and now here we are.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
That's so cool. I don't think I've ever I don't
know if I've heard of that happening.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
It's happened it feels like an emotional journey.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (32:40):
I was just telling a couple of the fans who
I met signing autographs. We thought season seven was our last.
I was getting ready to say my goodbyes to a
show that I've been part of for seven years. So
you know that I was getting stealing myself. I'm not
gonna be emotional. My god, I'm not gonna cry. And
on the last day, I was getting ready to say
Mike goodbyes, and I thought we were done. Samar gets
(33:04):
up in our boxing ring at our HQ at Swat HQ,
and he says, we're coming back, and we're coming back
for twenty two more episodes. And I looked around and
people were in tears. You know.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
I looked at Jay.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
We're like, I'm like, dude, I've never seen crying before.
You know, we're like crying. We're hugging all of our
crew who love making the show. It meant that they
had jobs for another another year in a time where
it's where it's really tough. As you know, we've dealt
with strikes, pandemics, So it just meant a lot to
a lot of people to come back and that we overcame.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, you know, that's amazing. So now I have a
question going on to a show like SWAT where it's
like physically demanding, yes, how many how much of the
action are you doing? And then I'm assuming they're sun coordinators.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Right, we have stunt coordinators.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
We all have stunt double but we do a lot
of our own stunts, and we do a lot of
action in Chamar Jay and myself, the whole cast, we
joke all the time. The acting part is not hard
on SWAT. It's the physicality of the show that's the
most challenging. Because you're in the gear for ten twelve
(34:19):
hours a day. We're doing our own stunts when they allow.
Some stunts are a little dangerous, like when people are
hanging off the side of helicopters and exploding through semis.
They don't let us do that stuff. We leave that
to the stunt doubles and the pros, but we do
a lot. Of us are former athletes, so we're capable
of doing our own action and chase sequences and tackles
(34:42):
and takedowns and fight scenes, and as actors, you can
always tell, like when you're stunt double on the final
cut I'm like, that's clearly my stunt double, you know,
so none of us want that, you know. But then
ten to fifteen takes into the fight sequence when you're like,
you hurt you, you banged up your knee, you accidentally
(35:03):
got hit in one of the takes. You know, the
gear is super heavy. Then you're like, Okay, maybe I
should have left this one to the to the double.
But we're just all we all love doing it. And
so but to answer your question, yes, we do a
lot of our own action.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
So you have to stay physically in shape.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, do you train all the time?
Speaker 9 (35:23):
We do on our own time. Like we all just
keep in shape and work out. And we know when
we're coming back for a season that it's a grind.
It's twenty two episodes, it's it's out of the year
of filming and there. Once that train starts, it doesn't stop.
So once you start episode one, you're not getting a
break until maybe Christmas, and then you're finishing out the season.
(35:46):
So it's it's really taxing on the body. You got
to make sure you get your sleep, you got to
make sure you're in great physical shape, and then it's
constantly like maintenance throughout the season, you're always nursing some.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
Sort of bump or b.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Always.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
I mean, if you talk to samar if you get
him in here, ask.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
Him what his h his maintenance routine is outside of work,
and you'll get a laundry.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
List of It's like a job on top of the job. Yeah,
how do you handle that? Because you're you're married, correct,
how do you handle the balance of relationship in such
a strenuous schedule.
Speaker 9 (36:25):
Well, thankfully we get weekends off, so you know, but
usually weekends we're catching up on like the next script
or studying preparing for the next the next week. But
my wife knows that when we're in season, it's just
she's going to get a very tired version of me.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
But we always you know, you do what you you you.
Speaker 9 (36:48):
You work hard during the week and then you leave
that and then when you have a day off or
you have your weekends, then you you know, you go
do have your personal family time and you know, hang
with the dog and the wife, go on little trips
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Our listeners are they're either dating, looking looking for love.
What is something that when you met your wife that
like made her stand out? You were like, I have
to marry her.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Oh, I don't know if I knew that right away.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I wanted to monogamously.
Speaker 9 (37:17):
You know what it was. I wasn't looking for to
date and I and I was. I was kind of
newly single at the time. This was gosh uh a
ten years ago now as we've been married for five.
But I wasn't looking for to date or for love
at the time, and I think that's how it how
(37:37):
it happened.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
It just kind of organically, you know.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
I met somebody and she happened to be amazing, and
we connected and we started hanging out.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
And even though I wasn't necessarily looking for a relationship,
I would have.
Speaker 9 (37:51):
Been a fool to let her go exactly. And that's
how I knew I wanted to marry her too. I
was like, if I don't want to marry this girl,
like what am I?
Speaker 6 (37:59):
What am I looking for?
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
So it's so interesting because I feel like that's the
that's the thing. Like I feel like everybody when you're dating,
you're like, oh, is this it? Or is there something better?
Like that's always like that question, you know what I mean.
And I feel like when you know, you just know,
you're like that's it.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Yeah, yeah, applies to everything in life. Great. You always
think the grass is green?
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Yeah, so true.
Speaker 6 (38:19):
And sometimes you don't know how good you have until
you you don't have it anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
So y'all met on a modeling shoot correct.
Speaker 9 (38:26):
Yeah, yeah, not too far from here in Minneapolis, and
we were joking because it was a modeling job for
Macy's that traveled to different cities and the second stop
was Chicago.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
So we met in Minneapolis.
Speaker 9 (38:39):
Then this show went to Chicago and ended up in
San Francisco in La so we kind of like.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Hung out and we were hanging out.
Speaker 9 (38:46):
Yeah, we were at the checking out the Bean downtown,
we were on the bridges, we were you know, hanging
out in all these different cities.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
And that's how it started.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Like remember our first date when I took you to
the Bean and she's like that was work.
Speaker 9 (38:59):
Yeah, yeah, no, but we still reminisce. Even when I
was coming out to Chicago this weekend. I was like, oh,
remember when.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
We, you know, Chicago, two years ago.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
So were you acting before I mean sorry, were you
modeling before you got into acting? Was it all cohesively together?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Kind of kind of cohesively together?
Speaker 9 (39:15):
I always knew I wanted to be an actor acting,
it just was harder to get jobs.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
At the beginning.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
I was like, oh, you got to study and actually
this will you have to skill. You have to get
good at this thing before you can get some jobs.
And so in while I was training to become an
actor and in class I was, I was getting some
modeling jobs and doing some commercials. And I feel like
that's kind of how a lot of works. Because a
lot of the guys I was coming up with who
(39:42):
were modeling, we all wanted.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
To be actors.
Speaker 9 (39:46):
It just it's it's a long I think it's a
longer journey, yeah, to find steady work as an actor, right.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Well, I also feel like there's so many people that
are in the modeling industry and you act, like you said,
acting you have to study and stuff. But I actually
think modeling seems very complicated too, Like not everyone can
just model, you know.
Speaker 9 (40:05):
Yeah, no, my wife has done it since she was
fifteen years old, and she's traveled the world and she's
very experienced. And yes, modeling is it's a superficial industry.
It's a lot of it's how you look nowadays, it's
a little different I think they're more open.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
Yeah, but it is. It is a skill.
Speaker 9 (40:25):
It is a business, and you have to you know,
get experience, and you have to you know, you have
to to learn how to It's not easy to just
she makes it look easy to do all these like poses.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
And walk the runway. That's a skill.
Speaker 9 (40:41):
So I tell her all the time, I'm like, your
name you you crush it. You have experience, like you've
done it all.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
So how does she handle it? So? Is she an
actress or she strictly modeling?
Speaker 4 (40:52):
She just models? Okay, except when she runs my lines
with me?
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Okay, which is important.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
You need it very important.
Speaker 9 (40:59):
You, me and Runner need somebody to run those lines,
you know, because when you look at it yourself, for like,
nothing nothing sinks in But when you read it with somebody,
all of a sudden everything makes sense.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah. So does she when you come to things like
this and people are like or just being an actor
in general, and people falling in love with your character
and girls, you know, commenting on your Instagram and DM
and you does she how does has that been weird
for her at all?
Speaker 4 (41:23):
Or is she just like not gig?
Speaker 9 (41:25):
No, she understands it, you know, She's modeled for years,
so she understands the industry.
Speaker 6 (41:35):
She's a pro.
Speaker 9 (41:36):
You know. She's also European, so she's not as like uptight,
I feel like, as as as some Americans might be.
She's like, oh yeah, cool, all right, you know whatever. Yeah,
you gotta kiss a girl on set today.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Okay, Yeah, I'm just gonna take your credit card.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
I'm just gonna take your credit card. I'll go to rodeo.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
You know, nice little trade off back you get to
kiss another girl. We're both happy.
Speaker 9 (41:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but we know she knows like we're
I'm a pro, been doing it for a long time.
And like she and I, we got so much love
for each other, and we trust each other and love
each other so much that it's like, yeah, go go
do your thing and then you know, and then come home.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Yeah, the special special lady.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yeah, it is yeah, very confident and also Yalla, the
way you speak about her, it seems like Yelberry. There's
a lot of trust and love and just respect for
each other.
Speaker 9 (42:26):
Yeah, trust, love and respect. If you have that, everything
else is easy.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Okay, before we go, what is your toxic trait? Not traumatic?
This is not chirpy, but more like like I'm always late,
Tanya doesn't have I won't have a.
Speaker 9 (42:40):
Job if I Yeah, toxic, Uh trade, that is a
good one.
Speaker 6 (42:46):
That's a that's a tough.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Tough What does your wife nag you about? Not nag,
but what does she say, like you do this?
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Like do you pile the trash up before every any
last crime?
Speaker 6 (42:58):
A clean dude, I and help her clean around.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
This is a tough one. I need some more examples.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Someone said they get they turn into a monster when
they're hungry. They eat too much, to the point where
you know, there's they're like, I eat too much.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I had a lot of heart spatial awareness. I like
to be really close to people.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
No, that's something I know. There's some stuff.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
You're perfect. No toxic trade.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
No, I know toxic.
Speaker 6 (43:27):
Maybe toxic is extreme.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
You know an annoying trade?
Speaker 6 (43:32):
Annoying trade?
Speaker 7 (43:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Do you leave your shaving clippings and the toenail clippings
in the same buy.
Speaker 6 (43:39):
My nails there it is. Yeah, I've been doing it
for years. Yeah, by them all the time.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
We got it.
Speaker 7 (43:49):
Knew it.
Speaker 9 (43:50):
I knew it, and my wife will catch me just
like stop that stopping. Since I was a kid, I
don't know how to stop.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Well, thank you so much for taking time.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Really appreciate fun today.
Speaker 6 (44:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
All Right, everybody, we have Colin Donald. Yeah, welcome. I
love it. Okay, So you and Tanya actually go back
a little bit.
Speaker 7 (44:31):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
It was a long time ago at iHeart Festival.
Speaker 7 (44:36):
Oh oh boy.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
So I had just gone through like a really bad breakup,
like like heartbroken, like devastated, and I was like at
this point where I was like I'm never gonna have
fun again. Like I just was like you know that
phase when you go through a breakup and you're like
I don't want to look at a guy, I hate
them all, like that type of thing. And then I
went to the festival and I met you, and you
were like my gateway and to be like I can.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
Do this again.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
This is all I wanted from this. This was all
I want.
Speaker 10 (45:07):
Oh I'm so glad there's not video on this podcast.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
Well that is uh, it's good to see you.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
It got me back into the like I can do
this again.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
I know she's engaged.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (45:23):
Yeah, that was an unexpected start to this interview.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
To get out of the way because I saw the
photo and I was like, wow, we have to talk
about this is so fun, and I go.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
I told Beck, I was like, I guarantee you he's
not gonna remember because this was so long ago. It
was my gateway. It was like, that was my that
was my my launch pad into like back into life.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
You're the reason she's engaged.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
Basically, I have you to think.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
All right, hero, all right, anyway, work stuff.
Speaker 10 (46:03):
I'm sure that I am bright red, calmly.
Speaker 7 (46:12):
It's like a sneak attack. It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
It was so I mean, it's just I can't explain
to you kind of the season of life that I
was in, you know what I mean, Like it was
I get it. Yeah, I'm sure everybody gets it.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Yeah. I also like my first time ever being blacked
out on the ground was at iHeart Festival, so I
understand the experience of that.
Speaker 10 (46:32):
I remember doing an interview there where I I think
I crashed Steven Emmel's interview and said something inane about
wanting to get out and see Pitbull.
Speaker 8 (46:45):
It was uh.
Speaker 7 (46:47):
Something yeah.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, Anyhowuck has been on.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
The bathroom floor multiple years.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah, I heard festival brings out either the best, best,
or worse.
Speaker 10 (46:58):
You just I don't know if it's fine lines, it's
Vegas and apparently this thing that happened in Vegas didn't
stay in Vegas anyhow.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Okay, going into work stuff, Yes, when you're learning a script,
what is harder? What is harder in the in your world?
Is it singing and dancing or learning medical? Because yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
No, I was.
Speaker 10 (47:25):
It's it's all like learning a language, right, So you know,
once you get into the rhythm of learning those learning
steps and songs, then you get more and more practice
at it, and you like, you flex the muscle a
little bit more, and it becomes a little bit more
second nature. And that was the same thing when I
started doing Med. That first season was like being shot
(47:47):
out of a cannon and yeah, sure, I know what
anything means, and you're just doing it phonetically. And then
as you get more comfortable with it, and luckily we
just have we've got professionals, actual doctors and consultants on
the show that helps through that sort of thing, so
it becomes easier. But you know, when you first start
doing that stuff, I mean, I think if somebody were
(48:09):
to try to teach me to dance right now, I'd
be like, no, I'm good, I'm just gonna stand here.
Everybody else can dance around me.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
Yeah yeah, yeah, You're like, I feel more comfortable not dancing. Yeah,
So please let them do the work.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
How many months of the year do you shoot?
Speaker 10 (48:25):
Golly, we would for Chicago ed twenty two episodes. The
season takes about ten months. That is, so you're like
you're deep into it for like nine or ten months
a year. That's that's generally how long like a twenty
two episode network television show takes.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
But that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Like a lot of people, I feel like a lot
of actors have shows and things where they go like
they do it in two months, three months, and then
they're back, And I feel like that's the goals to
have something that's like steady that many episodes.
Speaker 10 (48:52):
Yeah, I mean, it's an amazing gift when it can happen,
and it doesn't happen as much anymore. You see television
now is mostly like ten twelve episode or even shorter sometimes,
and it's great to have that kind of steady gig
go on for you know. I did over eighty some
odd episodes of Chicago med over the four and a
sliver of a season that I was there in five
(49:14):
and it was awesome, Like I wouldn't change it for
the world, and it's and then I've gone off to
do like you know, I shot a show that was
ten episodes over seven months, and it's just a different,
different kind of experience.
Speaker 7 (49:25):
But the.
Speaker 10 (49:31):
Grind, for less of a better word, of doing twenty
two episodes so quickly and just getting into the rhythm
of that. You see how hard these crews work to
make that happen week after week we shoot an episode
in eight days and to do that for all those
moving parts to work in unison to make that happen
(49:52):
is really inspiring. And it's what a lot of people
don't see as watchers of television. They don't see all
those names on the credits going to work. Yeah, it's
these things don't get made unless all of those people
come together and believe in a show that can get
to the screen after eight days of shooting in a
(50:14):
little bit of time after to edit and you know,
make it all glue together.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
And what is it like when you're at conventions like
this one, Like when you actually get to see the
fans meet the fans get the bracelets from the fans.
Speaker 10 (50:28):
It's it's it's amazing because you know, coming from theater,
there is an access to the people you're watching on stage.
You know, we come out of the stage door after
the show and there's fans that are lined up outside
of the stage door that we get to interact with.
And you get that immediate response when you're on stage.
You get people applauding for you at the end of
the show and hopefully standing or whatever it is. And
(50:51):
it's fun that places like this, events like this exist
because then we get to actually, you know, connect with
people who have connected with our work.
Speaker 7 (51:04):
That we wouldn't otherwise get to know.
Speaker 10 (51:06):
Like you know, I've had so many stories over the
years of doing these types of conventions.
Speaker 7 (51:13):
Where shows that have done have provided.
Speaker 10 (51:17):
People with, you know, an escape from whatever they were
going through at the time, or helped them work through
something they were going through in their lives. And it's
you know, it's easy sometimes to think about, you know,
I'm just doing another medical show, yeah, or I'm doing
a comic book show. But to somebody who's watching who
really finds something in it that they connect to and
(51:39):
that they love about it, and that they connect to
the character that I'm playing and have them express that
to me, it makes me feel like I'm doing something
that is worthwhile, yeah, which is ultimately what got me
into the business in the first place.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
Yeah, because it's like for you and if through the
mundane of going to work every day, you're like, I'm
just showing up for job, right like everyone.
Speaker 4 (51:59):
Else sort of, Yes, but it is a job at
the end of the.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
Days like a box you're doing it in like a
like a bubble, you know. So it's like to see it,
to see the fans. That's like, that's what you're doing
it for.
Speaker 7 (52:11):
Yeah, to see Yeah.
Speaker 10 (52:12):
And and ultimately, I mean you're right, like, we don't
do this if it weren't for the fans. Like you know, art,
to me, art doesn't exist in a vacuum, right, It's
meant to be seen and experienced by people, whatever your
medium is. So it's it's really great to be able
to get that sort of feedback at the end of
the day and to to know that what you're putting
(52:34):
out into the world is being appreciated and sometimes taken
really to heart.
Speaker 2 (52:39):
Yeah, do you when you come to these things, is
it do you have a reaction from different parts of
your career where people are like, I know, I love
you from you know X Yeah.
Speaker 10 (52:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean there's there's some people who
have you know, been watching me from the time that
I was on Arrow.
Speaker 7 (52:59):
Uh, people who.
Speaker 10 (53:00):
Have you know, really followed my career from uh, from
the beginnings of it, whether it was zero or even
before that, whether if they were fans of Broadway and
musical theater who knew me from either seeing me on
Broadway or listening to me on on cast recordings that
I've done.
Speaker 7 (53:19):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (53:19):
And it's it's a really flattering thing to have somebody
follow you in your career. Yeah, as you've grown up yourself,
I mean, and you know, gotten to play different characters
and maybe they tuned into the next show you did
because they loved you in the previous.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (53:36):
And it's it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
I know, it's so cool. It's fun. We were saying,
like people fall in love with the first project they
see you in and then they get there like I
want it wherever he goes, I'm gonna I'm gonna watch. Yeah.
We were just talking to Skylar and we were talking
we do episodes because we have a lot of listeners
who are in the dating scene or married or single,
(53:58):
and we like to ask the man. It's called our
mannal where we ask. It's our paneling, it's our man panel.
Speaker 7 (54:05):
A panel of one.
Speaker 2 (54:06):
Yeah, you're a standalone right now, and we wanted we
just like to get advice on, like, you know, from
a male's perspective. And you've been married for what nine years?
Speaker 7 (54:19):
Nine years now? Yeah, just my ninth. We get two
beautiful kids.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
What was it about her? Like, what was it that
stood out that you were like this?
Speaker 10 (54:30):
She's so my beautiful, insanely talented wife. Her name is
Patty Miern. We'd known each other for years before we
ever started dating, actually, and we did after I was
killed off of Arrow. I was just out of relationship
myself and she was recently divorced and she had a
(54:53):
rehouse warming party because she kept the apartment from the
from the divorce, and we were about to start rehearsals
for Shakespeare in the Park the next day that we
were doing a show together, and I don't know, I
showed up and I just had a great time talking
to her and was remembering all these times that like
(55:15):
she'd made me laugh and how easy it was to
hang out with her, and so I was the last
one to leave the party. We kissed, I went home,
and the next day I was sort of like, oh,
I think this is something. And I really was like
I was all in I pretty quickly because there was
(55:35):
just something I don't know if I can put it
to one thing that made it clear. But the more
we hung out and the more we were around each other,
it was really I just was head over heels and
I was like, I want you to be a part
of my life.
Speaker 1 (55:55):
I feel like humor is what I heard.
Speaker 2 (55:57):
I know that's an takeaway.
Speaker 10 (56:00):
It was a really big thing. Like for me, somebody
somebody who would laugh at my jokes. Yeah, could really
like make me belly laugh in a way that I
hadn't really before.
Speaker 4 (56:10):
Yeah, And like we knew each other's.
Speaker 10 (56:14):
Hang ups, so, you know, having been friends before and
moving forward in a relationship, it was kind of nice
to have somebody be able to call you out on
your things.
Speaker 6 (56:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
Why So y'all met after Era. So she and she's
in the industry.
Speaker 7 (56:29):
She is, she's an actor, Okay.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
So she's very she understands the role. I have a girlfriend,
and she is in the industry, and I struggle with
the uh, just the elements that come along with it
of like, you know, kissing other people, just all the things.
But I always feel like it'd be so much easier
if I was also an actor, or does it not?
Speaker 7 (56:53):
Yeah, I think that there there is a there's just
stuff that has.
Speaker 10 (56:58):
To be worked through, and uh, you know, certainly we
have worked through our own things to be able to
be in a place where we're comfortable with, you know,
the realities of what we do right. And we've done
projects together and weirdly enough, never played opposite each other
in those projects a lot of times, like so, you know,
(57:20):
we did this Hallmark movie Love on Iceland together, but
we weren't paired up in the movie. So I'm off
kissing and she's, you know, is just there. It's just weird. Yeah,
I mean, there's.
Speaker 6 (57:34):
No other way to describe it.
Speaker 7 (57:36):
It's a weird situation.
Speaker 10 (57:38):
Yeah, but you know, it's it is the job.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (57:42):
I feel validated hearing that, though, because everyone's you know,
we talked to other and they're like, well, you know,
they're in an industry, they get it, and I'm like,
it's just an unnatural thing. To watch her the person
you love.
Speaker 7 (57:52):
Yeah, try explaining it's a kids.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
Eventually, that's a whole other thing.
Speaker 10 (57:58):
Yeah, I mean Patty was Patty was Princess Anna and
Frozen on Broadway, and like we've showed our Uh. We
have a four year old daughter who's old enough to
understand it. But she's like, well, why are you kissing
that guy? And I was like, not the conversation I
have right now. Yeah, why can't I see daddy do stuff? Well,
because daddy doesn't do stuff that is appropriate for kids
(58:20):
your age.
Speaker 7 (58:22):
Daddy's not a Disney prince. He does the darker role.
Speaker 10 (58:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (58:26):
Yeah, before we go, what is your toxic trait?
Speaker 7 (58:31):
My toxic trait.
Speaker 2 (58:33):
Lighthearted, like I'm always late.
Speaker 10 (58:35):
Oh uh, I'm quiet.
Speaker 3 (58:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (58:42):
My toxic trait is that I will sit in the
background of like I'll be happy to like just sit
in the corner.
Speaker 1 (58:49):
Interesting party going on, that's interesting for an actor.
Speaker 7 (58:53):
Yeah, I'm I'm.
Speaker 3 (58:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (58:56):
It takes me a while to warm up, usually.
Speaker 2 (58:59):
Takes you all and warm up. Well, but that's that's
your That's not very toxic. But if that's it, then
congrats to your wife.
Speaker 4 (59:08):
If that's your I'm sure she probably has quiet.
Speaker 1 (59:16):
Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 2 (59:19):
Hope you have a great day to day and enjoy
meeting all the fans.
Speaker 4 (59:22):
Thank you,
Scrubbing in with Becca Tilly and Tanya rap An iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Hello everybody, we are scrubbing it scrub.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Dub dub with the mananal. Oh that was pretty thank you.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, we've got this. It's been a minute since we've
done a Mantle.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
It has been because you know why, can I tell
you why? Why?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
From my perspective, why, Because I'm dating a woman, and
now that it's public, I'm like, do we need the
men's advice? But you know, there are a lot of
people out there still in the dating world with men,
in the in the thick of.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It, in the thick of it with men, and such
as myself. Well, I'm not in the thick of it,
but I am dating a man.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
You were engaged to me.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Yes, I'm going to marry a man. I'm going to
marry a man. That's so crazy.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Well, we were like, it's time to remake the Mantle
and where where better to do it than at Epicon.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Yes, and we had. Let me tell you, we have
some stacked Mantle participants today.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
And all these guys are married men in like long
term relationship.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah, so we got to get to the root of
how it all began, how it all.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Began, And on this list, we're gonna, we're gonna talk
to Sean Ashmore, Bar Johnson, whom we absolutely adore. H
you know what that movie is?
Speaker 3 (01:22):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Oh it takes two?
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Oh yeah, I've seen that movie.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
David Limb, yes, and Colin Donnell, who you have a.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
Okay, so, no joke. I literally this was over ten
years ago. We look at if he's gonna remember.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Me, that is all I want. All I want is
for him to not remember. Oh my gosh, just for
like the discomfort of this moment, not for anyone, like
I think you're so memorable. I think it'd be crazy
for like the entertainment factor. It'd be so good if
he doesn't. So we're gonna we're gonna just hit them
with all the questions.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
That's right, and further ado, without further ado, here we go,
let's go Mantle.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
All right, everybody, welcome Sean Ashmore. Thanks for having me,
Thank you for being here. Of course you're our first
guest of the whole epicn.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Okay, all right, warm up is what you're saying?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
No? No, no, jump right in? Yeah? All right? All right?
Do you do these often? These con fan conventions I.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Do a few year. I actually personally really enjoy it.
I think it's a good way to kind of find
out what stuff is working on whatever current project you're in,
and I feel like it's yeah, I feel like you
get a lot of comments on like well, I'm really
loving the storyline or like this scene really worked for me.
So I think it's kind of interesting to sort of
hear what the audience that you're making the show, film,
(02:49):
whatever you're working on is enjoying. Especially on a long
running TV show, you can be like, oh, this stuff
is really kind of working. It's also like a yearbook
on your career, Like I've gotten all these bracelets that
are just different characters over the years, and it's just
kind of fun. Like it's just a really enjoyable kind
of experience to hear about like what what people watched
over the years, what really sticks with them?
Speaker 4 (03:09):
And I'm always kind of surprised.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Do you remember your first one, like first event like
this that you came to where there was fans? Yeah,
were you like totally overwhelmed and shocked or did it
feel that it.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Yeah, it felt good. Again, Like the.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
I look at being an actor as kind of a
I mean, it's sort of a gift. And so the
fact that there you have a following, that's the only
reason you can continue to do it. That there's people
and a fan base or or people that are interested
in the stuff that you do. So to me, that's
kind of what I enjoy about it. Also, the first
con I did was in Philadelphia, and it was years
(03:44):
after I'd been a part of all the X Men stuff,
so I'd kind of been used to interacting with fans
over the years, whether it be on the street or
at premieres or whatever, So it wasn't that overwhelming.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Yeah wait, any way, you got these bracelets at each one,
so that's like.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
No, no, this is this is today. That's just yeah, just
out there. Yeah, as like, and I'm sure I'll have
it just as a thing.
Speaker 5 (04:04):
It's become a thing the last couple of years at
cons where people like make bracelets and like when they.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
Come to meet you, they leave you a little things.
So these are all from the first hour they.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Get Okay, so they give you that, and what do they.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Say, just like, hey, I loved you okay.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
So Wesley is from The Rookie, which is the TV
show that I'm doing right now. There's a show called
In a Heartbeat? Was it a Disney Channel show that
I did as a kid?
Speaker 4 (04:22):
So I got it.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
In a heart Beat one I got that's another rookie
one Iceman from X Men brad Rigby, which was a
Disney Channel movie I did with Hillary Duff like years ago,
and then this one was Iceman. So just it's just
all the stuff, like.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
A like for people that are listening. These are basically
like Taylor Swift friendship that you get like at the
Aras tour.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
Yeah. Yeah, so I don't know. I always throw them
on like a put on and it's kind of like
a little badge at the end of the con all
these things.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Yeah, it's like going to a festival and you have
all your like wristbands. Yeah, that's your wristband. Yeah, what
do you have like one project where people come up
to you and they like freak out, like is it
consistent with one or is it so spread out?
Speaker 5 (05:01):
So I've been I'm forty five for about to be
forty five, but I'm been acting since I was ten,
and so I've done a lot of projects and things shift, right.
It's like when during the X Men years, it was
all about the X Men. I did a show with
Kevin Bacon called The Following that was on Fox. It
was all about the Following. It's about the Rookie right now.
So I feel like it's kind of whatever is most current. Yeah,
(05:22):
but because I sort of have a library of work,
there's there's always that recognition, and I think people really
get excited about the first thing they saw you in.
So I did a Nickelodeon show called Animorphs, so you know,
I get a lot of animals. Love like Kelly is
still a thing. So it's kind of cumulative in a way.
But mostly it's usually about whatever you're kind of doing
in the moment where people kind of like recognize you
(05:43):
from that. But it's really kind of fun to have
that like library of stuff and people be like, yeah,
I'm watching the rookie, but I know you from whenever
the thing is, you know, and I'm like, Oh, you're
an old school fan.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
That's it's so true though. You do fall in love
with people from the first project you see them in. Yeah,
like you kind of that's when you decide, like, I'm
going to be a fan of.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
This person, and that's what con sort of remind me
of is like because people are like, oh, I love
the Rookie and watching it, but I've been watching you
since in a heartbeat animalphs Kelly and again it feels
really awesome, and I sort of feel like I owe
my career to an extent to the people that have
like stuck around with you and continue to support you
over the years.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Well, let me tell you. Two of those people work
on our podcast, one of them and then another one
is listening. Her name is Crystal. They have Crystal with
you from the beginning. Are tried and true?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
That's so awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Yeah, yeah, but we do feel like you were like
before internet boyfriend was a thing. We feel like you
were the Internet boyfriend.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Wait, I don't really know what internet boyfriend is.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Explain, explain, Okay, it's just everyone everyone loves they like
dubbed the Internet's boyfriend. So I was just like the
Internet moment. Yeah, the moment is the Internet boyfriend right now,
like Timothy shallon course, Yeah, the original?
Speaker 4 (07:01):
All right, right, the.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Original, the original.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
I'll take that, man, I'll take that, and I'll move
forward to the day feeling good about being the original.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Internet boyfriend as you're like, bio.
Speaker 4 (07:14):
That doesn't seem like.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Scrubbing in has Originally, Oh, I.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Wish we would have had. We should have given you
some sort of like.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Trophy already we got another day next time.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Actually, you know that does it's because you've been married
for how many years now?
Speaker 4 (07:33):
Twelve years?
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Twelve years and being that you are like the original
internet boyfriend, is that like so weird for your wife
to kind of just be like, my husband is this
like boyfriend to all these.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
She's like, I don't give I don't care about any
of that. She doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So we met.
Speaker 5 (07:49):
She was an assistant director for years and a producer
for years, so she doesn't care.
Speaker 4 (07:53):
We met on a movie.
Speaker 5 (07:54):
She gets it, she's in it, and she's just like,
I mean, she's the best, she loves me, all that stuff.
But whenever this kind of stuff happens, she just it's
like an eye roll.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
You know.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
She's like, you know, you're taking the trash out when
you get home, and I'm like, I know, so that's just.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, mess up your bracelets, but the trash does need
to be taken up exactly.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, the dishes need to be done, the trash. He's
taken out time to make lunch for your son.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
You know, yeah, I am curious of what because at
the time that you met her, was there anything about
her I'm assuming being like a heart throb in people
coming up to you and loving you and getting attention
from women. What was it about your wife that set
out that you were like, Cho's it.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
I just sort of knew.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
We met on a film and it was kind of
like forbidden romance on the set because she was an
assistant director like part of the crew, and it's like,
you're not supposed to like mingle. So I think that
was part of the initial attraction where it was like
it's kind of like forbidden.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:49):
Yeah, Like we would hang out after work and then
I would go to work and she wouldn't look at me,
she wouldn't talk to me and try to sit next
for her lunch and she would just be like uh uh.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
So I like, it's like Meredith Gray and uh and
uh Meredith and Derek in the beginning the forbidden line,
oh like the boss.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well yeah, yeah, just like.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
OK, yeah, So it just was like, well, we're not
really supposed to be doing this, so that was kind
of fun.
Speaker 4 (09:10):
But when I left.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
We shot in Utah and she lived in Atlanta and
I was in Los Angeles. I when we the day
that we left, I was on my plane. I got
off my plane to say goodbye or because I was
like I didn't know, like we'd kind of been dating,
but I wasn't sure if I was going to see
her again.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
But I had like a movie moment where.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
I like got off the plane and I was like,
I need to go like Huger and say goodbye and whatever.
Speaker 4 (09:29):
So I just knew. I don't know what it was.
I just knew.
Speaker 5 (09:33):
And then she ended up and I'm not She'll tell
you I'm not the most romantic guy, so it probably
the most romantic thing I've ever done. But literally I
was like, the plane's not taking off, I'm getting off
the plane. I just want to go find her in
the airport and like say goodbye, because I was like,
I just didn't know when I was going to see
her again, So I yeah, I just knew.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Wow, Yeah, Ross and Rachel I got off the plane.
Speaker 4 (09:50):
Yeah, Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
Do you know her love languages or do you know
your love languages?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Her love language is physical affection and and.
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Like acts of.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
Service and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
You know, we love a man that knows that just
even knows that term honestly.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
Yeah, she loves like a like a foot massage for
her is like the you know has her like you
know if that if I if I'm ever in the doghouse,
I'm like, let me give you a foot rub, honey.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
She wow. Service and I mean that's acts of service
and physical touch. Yeah, so you just knock out.
Speaker 7 (10:25):
To right there.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Yeah, I'm efficient.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
What what are you working on right now? What's coming
up for you?
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:33):
So we're shooting season seven of The Rookie. We're right
in the middle. I think we're about to start shooting
episode nine. Uh and it airs in January. I don't
know the exact date. Also have at least two films
that are done. A film called The Huntsman that's like
a thriller based on a novel of the same title
that I shot in Oklahoma City this summer and I'm
(10:53):
really excited about that. And then also a horror film
with an actor named Ashley Green who've actually worked.
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Yeah, Yeah, she's great.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
We did a movie called Aftermath on Netflix Film and
we had the opportunity to work together again on another
kind of similar genre movie and yeah, it's called It
Feeds and I'm not sure when that's coming out, but
those are both done and ready to come out.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Oh that's so cool. Do you have a preference of
movies or network television.
Speaker 5 (11:20):
I think my love is always film. I just love
the idea of popping into a character, living in it,
and then being done, like moving on. And I also
like reading a script from start to finishing, knowing exactly
what the character is, what the story is, like I
can fully prepare. But that's also what's interesting about network
TV is like you don't know where it's going to go. Yeah,
(11:40):
so there's that unpredictability. And if the writing is good
and the character is good, to get to develop and
spend a lot of time with a character is really
enjoyable too, So it's not like one's better than the other.
I kind of like to do both. Whenever we have
a hiatus, I try to go make films because I
like to mix things up with different characters.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
He's a busy man. Wait, I didn't want to throw
it to eat because he was raising his hand and
I'm assuming that there's an X men question.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Close close, I wanted to. It was the movie You
Met your Wife on Frozen.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
Yes, it was Frozen.
Speaker 8 (12:08):
I love Frozen. I went through this thing where I
was watching movies about people trapped places. Oh yeah, yeah,
and Frozen they're trapped on a chair lift. Yeahs it's
so good. And if you haven't seen Frozen, everyone listening to.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Breaking Wait, that's like one of my biggest fears.
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Yeah, it's crazy. So it happened.
Speaker 5 (12:24):
It's happened in real life, not quite to the extent,
but the crazy thing is. So we made that movie
in Utah. We got into sun Dance and so we
had this movie about being stuck on a ski lift
at the Sundance Film Festival. It was like, this is
the perfect audience for this movie.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Was like skiing. They're like, our skiing has been lower
than the.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Lower Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
Yeah, the attendants on the lift steve been low this season.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Wow, we're getting the finger to wrap it up. So
thank you for coming in and taking bank to you.
That was really, really fine, a wonderful time here, and
collect all the bracelets and.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
Hopefully next time I see you both arms will be covered.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
We'll get you an internet boyfriend bracelets. Thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
We have Bart Johnson in the house.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
What a nice more welcome, that's so nice. Thank you,
so good to be here.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
I was so excited to see you on our rundown
people to talk to you.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Yes, I was breaking up. I was like, came out
of nowhere today we have a podcast. I said who,
and they said you guys. I was like, come, let's go.
My old friends ever get to see I know.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
What is it? Do you love coming to events like
this where you get to interact with the fans?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Love it? I'm kind of new, Like I started doing
this one for Disney with a Keny Ortega and all
the high school musical and different kind of Disney musicals
in Paris every year.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Oh my god, like a deal.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
And like the fans are so great, like they're so
gracious and they're so glad you there, and it's really, uh,
it's pretty awesome. Ye's great. I like to party with
my people, you know.
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Yeah, you are.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
You and your wife Robin, who's one of my favorite
people in the world, are party people. Like your party energy.
It's so fun to be around y'all.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Well, same same with you, of course. I think that's
why we hit it off right away. But yeah, we
do like our family. I just went to a family event.
There's like seventy five cousins there. So I think it's
like it's in our DNA. It's just it just is.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
It's so fun. But when you took the how long? When?
What year was it when you got the role for
coach Bolton?
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Oh my gosh, that was like nineteen years ago.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Wow, could you ever imagine that?
Speaker 3 (14:42):
No, it is No, it was wild like as it
because it came out of nowhere too. I got a
call from I knew I met. This is a long story,
but I met Kenny Ortega on the set of Newsies
if you know that movie like way back with Christian
Bale and Dave Moscow's like Keiths anyway, and he just
kind of was involved in my career, like he's just
been like really supportive. And my mom did his hair
(15:03):
the hair for the movies. So he's just like a
family friend for all these years. But he watched every
time I was on a TV series or did a movie.
He called it I loved you on that roll. So
this kind of came out of nowhere. I got the
phone call that said, hey, Listen, we're doing this movie.
It's small, it doesn't have a title yet. We're calling
it high school Musical until we come up with something.
No one's going to see it and there's no money,
(15:24):
but like we'll hang out, we'll have a great time.
I was, man, I'm totally in.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Wow, that's a really great lesson in life.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Actually this man say yes, yeah, say yes to those
opportunities for sure.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, and it may look like a like a like
a dull penny, but that it could be a shining
diamond at the day.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Here's here's another crazy thing. I couldn't get a job
after this, Like for like the first ten years, high
school Musical was out because I was like I was
the dad in high school musical. Like I wasn't like
like the new Like who's that all. That's Zach g Frond,
that's Vanessa Hudgens. Okay, yeah they're cool, but like the dad,
like that doesn't really give you the heat you want. Really,
like they're call going, hey, get us the dad from
(16:01):
the high school. No, I'm not saying that, you know.
So like I was, I didn't get I didn't have
like cool opportunities, not for like cool edgy like interesting
Netflix shows or anything like that. It was like I
tell you I was too and I get an unemployment.
(16:22):
But it all changed probably like ten years ago, all
of a sudden. Like what was interesting is I did I
did a TV series, a big network show, and when
I was like halfway through the show, then the show
runner came up to me and said, hey, by the way,
I'm a big Wildcat. So yeah, my wildcats now were
like then now they're running things.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
So it's like it's all come back around.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
And now it's like, I don't know, it's it's interesting
because I used to only be famous for little kids,
and like as time goes on, it's like, oh, I
see now they're now every vis in junior high. Oh
now was in high school? Oh now everybos in college.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
You know.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
So it's like I've got this like this big long
fan base of a Wildcats are looking out for their
coach now. So yeah, I got a nice audience.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
So we have you and I have a thing where
you go to different countries and you'll tag me in
videos of McDonald's and so I'll repose the comments is
so sick, yes, and the idea literally my d are
like how do you know, Coach Bulton, Like this is
(17:22):
my favorite collab ever, Like people love it so like
we need to pitch ourselves to McDonald's to do like
a tour tour.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
McDonald's has been the best so far.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Man.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
That's that's a tough question.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
Tough one because they all got different stuff everywhere, you know,
Like the one that Japan I just went to, they
had like a shrimp in their chicken sandwich.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
I can try.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh my god, that sounds actually interesting.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, that's pretty interesting. Yeah, I don't know that. You know,
that's a question I'm going to work on and get
back to me.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
You get back to Hamm. Yeah, you're really good at TikTok,
really good at TikTok.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (18:00):
What do your kids say about your TikTok?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Oh, my gosh, they hate it. They hate it so much.
They just wish I never got that assay actually loves
you things well, Robin has known, like I actually came
from like musical theater, and so when I got high
school musical I was supposed to have a song and
a dance in that movie, and the first one there
was a song and a dance like a competition one
like anything you could do, I could do better. I
(18:23):
love competition in a darbus and they cut the sucker.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I never want to use moment.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Yeah, So I think I'm finally getting into a musical.
And I was pretty young when I did that high
school music like I've never played a dad before. They're like,
you're gonna play a dad. I'm like a dad, Like,
I've never done that before. So I think I'm gonna
be doing all the singing and dancing. And I get
there to the movie and they're like you stand over
there on the sideline or we're gonna do all the
dancing you hear without you. I'm like, oh this sucks, man,
And a lot of those kids like they don't they
(18:49):
don't have a singing dancing background. I do singing dance.
So and then the sequel comes out. I'm almost certainly
now I danced pretty good at that rap party on
high school is going on there, no, no, not out,
and I'm like number three, like this is my moment
to shine, man, I'm gonna do some singing and dancing nothing.
So then TikTok comes out and I have a lot
of people you're messaging me like you got you gotta
(19:11):
jump on okay, all right, I'll try. Yeah, now it's
my time. Yeah, because you could do whatever you want
on TikTok, so let it be.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Another lesson in life. Yeah that's right, yeah right, yeah,
go do don't get what you want to do it yourself.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
I haven't debuted my singing yet though, that's that's in.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
The work coming. Instruments.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
Yeah, play a little, I play a little piano, little guitar.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
What about the first track? What about the first track?
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Yeah, well yeah, I guess you know, whatever the kids
want you, whatever the kids.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
Want from.
Speaker 4 (19:42):
It's zaddi.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Yeah, kids love that.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
There was there was one first trap and then you
got you deleted it, so.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
I didn't know about that.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
As soon as it went not.
Speaker 3 (19:55):
I s.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
You're not quick enough for.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Online I love yeah, No, you know, I like the
the trends are fun and I like to try to
find anytime a trend comes out, I always think like, okay,
I don't want to just do the tremble, like how
can I do like the coach version of this trend,
you know, or the and I get the best response
from you know, from that for my like little spin
on it I love you.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Like they go creepy, Like I'm like, when we need
a Coach Bolton musical.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
We do. I've written one, actually I have. I have
so you know, I'll.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
See what that like live high school.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
You've done it, You've written one.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
You're so surprised. I guess I never mentioned.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
It to anybody when you essence, you now have it.
You did it. Why don't you get these people that
are the Coach Bolton fans that are now like the
people behind the scenes to make it.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
That's true, that's good.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Can your taga?
Speaker 3 (20:50):
Yeah? You know, Kenny's like so good with like the
young kids, and like, you know, he's always like on
the cutting edge of this. Yea, you know, I don't.
I don't know if you wants to look for maybe
he does. Maybe I love Kendy so much, Like he's
so sweet. I've known him like my whole entire life,
so I'm nothing bad to say back ever, like he
(21:11):
has like made such a good impression on me and
take care of my family and he's just been awesome.
He's great.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I love that. What what's your dream role to play?
Like if you could, if someone was like you have
the choice to play any role on TV movie whatever,
What would it look like?
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Boy? You know, I guess I probably like jeez. I
don't know if i'd want like Jason Bateman's crip. Maybe
because people always thought I looked like Jason. You ever
since I was a kid, people thought I looked like
Jason Bayman. It's a crazy not so much now and
I'm getting like John Cena and like it's kind of
some weird stuff like I don't know, I think they're
talking about the bike.
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Yeah that's something like that.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
But yeah, I don't know. I really like those roles,
but I don't know if that's a fun thing about them.
That's crazy. It's crazy. I didn't see it at all.
It's like, what are people talking about? And then I
saw his picture was one particular picture John Cena was like,
whole crap, man, I look like that dude. Yeah, I'll
take his career. I mean he's doing he's doing comedies, like.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah, he has gone into like oh yeah, well acting now,
oh yeah, he's doing like.
Speaker 3 (22:18):
Cool action movie. I would love that. Kidding me, I
think a square in a second. But I really like Jase.
But you know, Jase Bailey directs and he acts and
I'm really interested in that too. I've done some directing
and I love it so much. And writing. I love
writing too, So I don't working here, man, I'm.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Going to do a quick little gearship Robin have been
married for how many years?
Speaker 3 (22:39):
For I think this September is twenty five years? Can
you believe that September twenty f twenty five years? I
wish she was here, man, she was loving.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
She's one of my favorite I just am obsessed with her.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
I want to know, because twenty five years, that's that's
like what people strive for, you know what I mean?
Like that's like that's like the hope, the dream. How
how do you keep the twenty five years?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
What do you do? Like?
Speaker 1 (23:03):
Give me all the seat us we got?
Speaker 3 (23:04):
How we have to come back from a much longer podcast.
But no, I have a lot to say about that, honestly,
like because we talk about it and we we uh
uh we work on it, and it's kind of I
don't know. I kind of think it's like.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
It's like peaks and valleys.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Well it is, but it's also like what you put
in is what you get. I'm kind of like every
time I've given a talk because I give talks sometimes
because I like it, you know, like speeches or not speeches.
Speaker 4 (23:24):
But like a talk ted talk.
Speaker 3 (23:26):
Yeah, look kind of like that. Yeah, I always too
often I use the analogy of like the gym, you know,
like you go into the gym, Like if you go
ahead visit the gym every once in a while, you're
not gonna see any results, you know. But if you
go in there and consistently work, and you work really hard,
you're going to get some results. What you put in
is what you're going to get out. And I kind
of feel like a lot of people go to relationships
to receive, like oh I want this, I want this,
you know, and really your growth comes from you giving.
(23:48):
So I think there's a lot to be said about that,
Like show up to your relationship to give and light
that person up and don't think about yourself, you know,
think about what can I give to this relationship? And
the more you give, you're going to get back. And
because you're in in that relationship. And then there's all
the all the things, all the work things. You know,
what do they want? What lights them up? And what's healthy? What?
What are good healthy decisions do you make in your
(24:08):
life for your relationship. So I think it's I mean,
you put it in the center of your life and
it blesses your life. I think. You know. So we've
done that. We've like we've put our our kids and
our family and our relationship like at the center of
our world. And our career has suffered because of it. No,
not really, but but but it is it is, right, Yeah,
you know I joke about but that's like you have
(24:29):
to do that. You have to You can't put your
career first because it's like that's not really fulfilling. People
think that's what where you give filment. That's not where
you give fulfillment from giving and sacrificing and contributing and sacrifice,
you know. That kind of stuff is like there's your
fulfillment and then all the fun stuff and the career
and the acting and the movies, and that's icing on
the cake. That's the that's the fun stuff. But yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Also feel like y'all just genuinely like each other, like
being in love with each other, y'all like it, like
y'all just enjoy y'all have fun together.
Speaker 3 (24:56):
That's true. That's true. No, that's and and I don't
know if I just kind of got lucky, because I
don't think when I was in my twenties, I was like,
that girl has really a lot of wonderful qualities as
a mother. You know, she'd be an amazing homemaker. Like
when you're in your twenties, you're so stupid, You're like,
she's hot. It's a bid body, like I don't want
that ship you make any stupid and based on stupid decisions.
(25:16):
But I will say when I met Robin, I was
teaching acting class for her dad. Another long story, but
I'll tell it here. But she walked in the door
one day and I was like already friends with her
sister Blake, like in acting classes for Ernie Lively's acting studios.
And she walked in the door and I was like,
that's the one. I'm going to marry that girl. And
I was probably twenty five at the time, but the
(25:38):
way she lit up the room and her personality and
everything I saw, I was like, that's it. That's like
I saw her like genuine like I don't know, just
like that energy she is she is oh so drawn
to that. And then it was like three years of
stocking until I got to date her. Yeah, but maybe
two and a half three years of like she was like, nah,
(25:59):
she had a boyfriend of the.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Time, sneaky.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Yeah, I was working from the inside.
Speaker 4 (26:04):
Yea was very helpful in life.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
Persistence persistence, Well, you know, I had this mindset of like, oh,
these kind of girls, like they're never single, They're never like,
oh cool, I'm single. I'm gonna go hang out at
a bar, like they're not like that's you're not gonna
you gotta do.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
You know what's wrong with the single girl at the bar?
Speaker 3 (26:19):
Nothing's wrong with her. She just doesn't go to a
bar ever, Like she just doesn't go.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
At the bar.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
She's just not there. She doesn't go there. Yeah, I'm
in more specifically for her, I should clear fat but well,
plenty of amazing people I was single Attle bar of course,
but but her, she didn't go to bar. She's literally
never been to a bar, never went to parties, never
went out, she never went outside. So she like, you
know she so so I knew, like the only way
(26:48):
what I noticed about the about is this is Robin Specifically,
she's an actress, right, She's been actresses she was three.
So every single boyfriend she had for the last like
fifteen years or all guys that she was on a
TV series with like those were her Yeah, and that was.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
And it's really easy.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
That's just because you don't ever go out ever, you
don't ever socialize, So then the only time you socialize,
you're on set and you have a scene where you're
just you're together. You know, when you shoot a movie,
you guys know, it's like you spend twelve hours a
day with like one person. So that's who she dated.
I'm like, well, how am I going to get on
TV Seria? I got how I did this girl? She
never goes out, So I was like, I gotta just
be I got to hang out and like like develop
(27:24):
the friendship and do that thing where it's like, oh,
the best kind of people dated when people you had
a friendship first, Like okay, never done that before, but yes,
I gotta do. So started laying the groundwork, working from
the inside, hanging out with the family, and uh just
kind of like waited for the opportunity. And then she
finally got single, someone else swooped in. Yeah, and I
(27:45):
had to do it again. It was terrible, so painful,
Oh my gosh, it's so hard. I mean there was
a lot of humility, a lot of broken heart, a
lot of just one, just one one broken heart, right, Yeah, yeah,
it's pretty brutal. It was, it was. It was tough.
(28:05):
It was tough, but I've worked through it.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
It worked out.
Speaker 3 (28:08):
Yeah, it's a great story, like how the whole thing
like went down. But some of the black people have
encouraged to write a movie about you don't have to
embellish a thing.
Speaker 2 (28:19):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
It is so heartbreaking, but you don't hate. Twenty five
years later and uh, you got the girl.
Speaker 4 (28:24):
Yeah, I got the girl.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, I got the redhead with the three redheaded kids.
And it's uh, it's it's a good it's a great life.
I love it.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I love that. I love our family. I know, I know,
before we go, what's your toxic trade, toxic trait. It's
like the lighthearted toxic truit.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
Oh oh gosh, you're always late. Oh okay, oh I eat
too much? Oh yeah, yeah for sure. I literally like
I last night I got here to Chicago and I
was like, okay, they have a gym. Let me go
check out the gym. And the gym like sucked. It's
terrible here. And I was like, okay, Giordano's is like
five minutes away, so I was like, let's go to
your daughter's. I got a whole big pizza of myself
(29:02):
and ate every single I did not leave a bite
on the table.
Speaker 2 (29:05):
And then you're just like, yeah, yeah, I feel like
I would have a better career, more money, and a
better life if I would just less.
Speaker 3 (29:14):
So yeah, I can't do it too. And then we'll
just go to McDonald's world tour.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
We love you so much, thank you for taking have
so much fun this today.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
And this is a great start. I just arrived and
this is amazing.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Yeah, you're the best. Thank you. All right, you guys,
we have David Limb here.
Speaker 6 (29:55):
What a warm welcome thing.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Yeah yeah, yeah, that's how we do it in the
O R.
Speaker 6 (29:59):
What's so R?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
That's that's our podcast?
Speaker 4 (30:02):
Oh okay, cool, where's the stand for operating room?
Speaker 6 (30:05):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (30:07):
Our podcast name comes from we We just celebrated our
seven years yesterday, so thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (30:14):
Amazing, but we we got you by one year eld
season eight.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah, but y'all have had some complicated journey. Yeah but yeah,
our podcast is called Scrubbing In because of our love
for Grady's anatomy, so we reference ourselves.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
As wed Yeah. Yeah cool.
Speaker 2 (30:32):
So, speaking of the bumps in the road on SWAT
were you has it been an emotional roller coaster?
Speaker 9 (30:38):
Yes, no doubt for sure. I mean we we've been dealing,
uh with the emotions when you since the pilot. When
you get a show, you know, you're like, great, I'm
part of this really cool pilot. More swatch Sean Ryan
from the Shield, Justin lenn Is directing. So it's like
you're overwhelmed with so much shoy that you're a part
(30:59):
of something. Okay, then you got to go make it,
and then you got to see if you get picked up, right,
So you're you're constantly wondering, are we even going to
be able to make a season of this?
Speaker 4 (31:10):
Okay?
Speaker 9 (31:11):
Then you get picked up season one? Congratulations?
Speaker 6 (31:14):
Great?
Speaker 9 (31:15):
Now are we going to get a back nine of
the first season. So we've been going through this for
and at the end of each season, you you know,
are we going to get canceled? Are we going to
get picked up? And then obviously the last couple of
years we've been canceled. After season six uncanceled, Well.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
How does that happen?
Speaker 2 (31:31):
How do you get uncanceled.
Speaker 1 (31:32):
Yeah, sounds like the dream.
Speaker 9 (31:34):
Shamar Schamar had a lot to do with it, our
fans had had a lot to do with it. And
there's a lot of things that go on behind the
scenes of getting the show made, all the political the
economics of doing a show, and in today's world of
five hundred different scripted shows, all sorts of streaming platforms,
(31:55):
it's no longer that, you know, you get good ratings
and you get great viewership, which we've always had, and
you automatically come back, that's no longer you know how
it works.
Speaker 6 (32:05):
There's so many other factors that come into play.
Speaker 9 (32:07):
So we were just super fortunate and a little bit
we had some luck on our side too, to canceled. Uncanceled.
Here's season seven, it's gonna be your final season. Wrap
up the storylines, and then we always knew in the
back of our mind that that if we just delivered
a really good season that there might be a chance
that we can come back and do season eight, because
(32:29):
we all wanted toeah and now here we are.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
That's so cool. I don't think I've ever I don't
know if I've heard of that happening.
Speaker 1 (32:36):
It's happened it feels like an emotional journey.
Speaker 4 (32:39):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (32:40):
I was just telling a couple of the fans who
I met signing autographs. We thought season seven was our last.
I was getting ready to say my goodbyes to a
show that I've been part of for seven years. So
you know that I was getting stealing myself. I'm not
gonna be emotional. My god, I'm not gonna cry. And
on the last day, I was getting ready to say
Mike goodbyes, and I thought we were done. Samar gets
(33:04):
up in our boxing ring at our HQ at Swat HQ,
and he says, we're coming back, and we're coming back
for twenty two more episodes. And I looked around and
people were in tears. You know.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
I looked at Jay.
Speaker 9 (33:20):
We're like, I'm like, dude, I've never seen crying before.
You know, we're like crying. We're hugging all of our
crew who love making the show. It meant that they
had jobs for another another year in a time where
it's where it's really tough. As you know, we've dealt
with strikes, pandemics, So it just meant a lot to
a lot of people to come back and that we overcame.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
Yeah, you know, that's amazing. So now I have a
question going on to a show like SWAT where it's
like physically demanding, yes, how many how much of the
action are you doing? And then I'm assuming they're sun coordinators.
Speaker 6 (33:56):
Right, we have stunt coordinators.
Speaker 9 (33:58):
We all have stunt double but we do a lot
of our own stunts, and we do a lot of
action in Chamar Jay and myself, the whole cast, we
joke all the time. The acting part is not hard
on SWAT. It's the physicality of the show that's the
most challenging. Because you're in the gear for ten twelve
(34:19):
hours a day. We're doing our own stunts when they allow.
Some stunts are a little dangerous, like when people are
hanging off the side of helicopters and exploding through semis.
They don't let us do that stuff. We leave that
to the stunt doubles and the pros, but we do
a lot. Of us are former athletes, so we're capable
of doing our own action and chase sequences and tackles
(34:42):
and takedowns and fight scenes, and as actors, you can
always tell, like when you're stunt double on the final
cut I'm like, that's clearly my stunt double, you know,
so none of us want that, you know. But then
ten to fifteen takes into the fight sequence when you're like,
you hurt you, you banged up your knee, you accidentally
(35:03):
got hit in one of the takes. You know, the
gear is super heavy. Then you're like, Okay, maybe I
should have left this one to the to the double.
But we're just all we all love doing it. And
so but to answer your question, yes, we do a
lot of our own action.
Speaker 2 (35:18):
So you have to stay physically in shape.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Yeah, do you train all the time?
Speaker 9 (35:23):
We do on our own time. Like we all just
keep in shape and work out. And we know when
we're coming back for a season that it's a grind.
It's twenty two episodes, it's it's out of the year
of filming and there. Once that train starts, it doesn't stop.
So once you start episode one, you're not getting a
break until maybe Christmas, and then you're finishing out the season.
(35:46):
So it's it's really taxing on the body. You got
to make sure you get your sleep, you got to
make sure you're in great physical shape, and then it's
constantly like maintenance throughout the season, you're always nursing some.
Speaker 6 (35:58):
Sort of bump or b.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Always.
Speaker 6 (36:03):
I mean, if you talk to samar if you get
him in here, ask.
Speaker 9 (36:05):
Him what his h his maintenance routine is outside of work,
and you'll get a laundry.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
List of It's like a job on top of the job. Yeah,
how do you handle that? Because you're you're married, correct,
how do you handle the balance of relationship in such
a strenuous schedule.
Speaker 9 (36:25):
Well, thankfully we get weekends off, so you know, but
usually weekends we're catching up on like the next script
or studying preparing for the next the next week. But
my wife knows that when we're in season, it's just
she's going to get a very tired version of me.
Speaker 6 (36:45):
But we always you know, you do what you you you.
Speaker 9 (36:48):
You work hard during the week and then you leave
that and then when you have a day off or
you have your weekends, then you you know, you go
do have your personal family time and you know, hang
with the dog and the wife, go on little trips
and stuff.
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Our listeners are they're either dating, looking looking for love.
What is something that when you met your wife that
like made her stand out? You were like, I have
to marry her.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
Oh, I don't know if I knew that right away.
Speaker 2 (37:15):
I wanted to monogamously.
Speaker 9 (37:17):
You know what it was. I wasn't looking for to
date and I and I was. I was kind of
newly single at the time. This was gosh uh a
ten years ago now as we've been married for five.
But I wasn't looking for to date or for love
at the time, and I think that's how it how
(37:37):
it happened.
Speaker 6 (37:38):
It just kind of organically, you know.
Speaker 9 (37:41):
I met somebody and she happened to be amazing, and
we connected and we started hanging out.
Speaker 6 (37:47):
And even though I wasn't necessarily looking for a relationship,
I would have.
Speaker 9 (37:51):
Been a fool to let her go exactly. And that's
how I knew I wanted to marry her too. I
was like, if I don't want to marry this girl,
like what am I?
Speaker 6 (37:59):
What am I looking for?
Speaker 3 (38:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (38:01):
So it's so interesting because I feel like that's the
that's the thing. Like I feel like everybody when you're dating,
you're like, oh, is this it? Or is there something better?
Like that's always like that question, you know what I mean.
And I feel like when you know, you just know,
you're like that's it.
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Yeah, yeah, applies to everything in life. Great. You always
think the grass is green?
Speaker 2 (38:18):
Yeah, so true.
Speaker 6 (38:19):
And sometimes you don't know how good you have until
you you don't have it anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
Right.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
So y'all met on a modeling shoot correct.
Speaker 9 (38:26):
Yeah, yeah, not too far from here in Minneapolis, and
we were joking because it was a modeling job for
Macy's that traveled to different cities and the second stop
was Chicago.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
So we met in Minneapolis.
Speaker 9 (38:39):
Then this show went to Chicago and ended up in
San Francisco in La so we kind of like.
Speaker 6 (38:43):
Hung out and we were hanging out.
Speaker 9 (38:46):
Yeah, we were at the checking out the Bean downtown,
we were on the bridges, we were you know, hanging
out in all these different cities.
Speaker 6 (38:54):
And that's how it started.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Like remember our first date when I took you to
the Bean and she's like that was work.
Speaker 9 (38:59):
Yeah, yeah, no, but we still reminisce. Even when I
was coming out to Chicago this weekend. I was like, oh,
remember when.
Speaker 6 (39:05):
We, you know, Chicago, two years ago.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
So were you acting before I mean sorry, were you
modeling before you got into acting? Was it all cohesively together?
Speaker 6 (39:14):
Kind of kind of cohesively together?
Speaker 9 (39:15):
I always knew I wanted to be an actor acting,
it just was harder to get jobs.
Speaker 6 (39:21):
At the beginning.
Speaker 9 (39:22):
I was like, oh, you got to study and actually
this will you have to skill. You have to get
good at this thing before you can get some jobs.
And so in while I was training to become an
actor and in class I was, I was getting some
modeling jobs and doing some commercials. And I feel like
that's kind of how a lot of works. Because a
lot of the guys I was coming up with who
(39:42):
were modeling, we all wanted.
Speaker 6 (39:43):
To be actors.
Speaker 9 (39:46):
It just it's it's a long I think it's a
longer journey, yeah, to find steady work as an actor, right.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Well, I also feel like there's so many people that
are in the modeling industry and you act, like you said,
acting you have to study and stuff. But I actually
think modeling seems very complicated too, Like not everyone can
just model, you know.
Speaker 9 (40:05):
Yeah, no, my wife has done it since she was
fifteen years old, and she's traveled the world and she's
very experienced. And yes, modeling is it's a superficial industry.
It's a lot of it's how you look nowadays, it's
a little different I think they're more open.
Speaker 6 (40:22):
Yeah, but it is. It is a skill.
Speaker 9 (40:25):
It is a business, and you have to you know,
get experience, and you have to you know, you have
to to learn how to It's not easy to just
she makes it look easy to do all these like poses.
Speaker 6 (40:38):
And walk the runway. That's a skill.
Speaker 9 (40:41):
So I tell her all the time, I'm like, your
name you you crush it. You have experience, like you've
done it all.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
So how does she handle it? So? Is she an
actress or she strictly modeling?
Speaker 4 (40:52):
She just models? Okay, except when she runs my lines
with me?
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Okay, which is important.
Speaker 6 (40:58):
You need it very important.
Speaker 9 (40:59):
You, me and Runner need somebody to run those lines,
you know, because when you look at it yourself, for like,
nothing nothing sinks in But when you read it with somebody,
all of a sudden everything makes sense.
Speaker 2 (41:09):
Yeah. So does she when you come to things like
this and people are like or just being an actor
in general, and people falling in love with your character
and girls, you know, commenting on your Instagram and DM
and you does she how does has that been weird
for her at all?
Speaker 4 (41:23):
Or is she just like not gig?
Speaker 9 (41:25):
No, she understands it, you know, She's modeled for years,
so she understands the industry.
Speaker 6 (41:35):
She's a pro.
Speaker 9 (41:36):
You know. She's also European, so she's not as like uptight,
I feel like, as as as some Americans might be.
She's like, oh yeah, cool, all right, you know whatever. Yeah,
you gotta kiss a girl on set today.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Okay, Yeah, I'm just gonna take your credit card.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
I'm just gonna take your credit card. I'll go to rodeo.
Speaker 2 (41:53):
You know, nice little trade off back you get to
kiss another girl. We're both happy.
Speaker 9 (41:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but we know she knows like we're
I'm a pro, been doing it for a long time.
And like she and I, we got so much love
for each other, and we trust each other and love
each other so much that it's like, yeah, go go
do your thing and then you know, and then come home.
Speaker 1 (42:15):
Yeah, the special special lady.
Speaker 2 (42:18):
Yeah, it is yeah, very confident and also Yalla, the
way you speak about her, it seems like Yelberry. There's
a lot of trust and love and just respect for
each other.
Speaker 9 (42:26):
Yeah, trust, love and respect. If you have that, everything
else is easy.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Okay, before we go, what is your toxic trait? Not traumatic?
This is not chirpy, but more like like I'm always late,
Tanya doesn't have I won't have a.
Speaker 9 (42:40):
Job if I Yeah, toxic, Uh trade, that is a
good one.
Speaker 6 (42:46):
That's a that's a tough.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Tough What does your wife nag you about? Not nag,
but what does she say, like you do this?
Speaker 1 (42:53):
Like do you pile the trash up before every any
last crime?
Speaker 6 (42:58):
A clean dude, I and help her clean around.
Speaker 4 (43:03):
This is a tough one. I need some more examples.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
Someone said they get they turn into a monster when
they're hungry. They eat too much, to the point where
you know, there's they're like, I eat too much.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
I had a lot of heart spatial awareness. I like
to be really close to people.
Speaker 4 (43:19):
No, that's something I know. There's some stuff.
Speaker 1 (43:23):
You're perfect. No toxic trade.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
No, I know toxic.
Speaker 6 (43:27):
Maybe toxic is extreme.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
You know an annoying trade?
Speaker 6 (43:32):
Annoying trade?
Speaker 7 (43:34):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (43:35):
Do you leave your shaving clippings and the toenail clippings
in the same buy.
Speaker 6 (43:39):
My nails there it is. Yeah, I've been doing it
for years. Yeah, by them all the time.
Speaker 3 (43:46):
We got it.
Speaker 7 (43:49):
Knew it.
Speaker 9 (43:50):
I knew it, and my wife will catch me just
like stop that stopping. Since I was a kid, I
don't know how to stop.
Speaker 2 (43:56):
Well, thank you so much for taking time.
Speaker 1 (43:58):
Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (43:59):
Really appreciate fun today.
Speaker 6 (44:03):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (44:18):
All Right, everybody, we have Colin Donald. Yeah, welcome. I
love it. Okay, So you and Tanya actually go back
a little bit.
Speaker 7 (44:31):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
It was a long time ago at iHeart Festival.
Speaker 7 (44:36):
Oh oh boy.
Speaker 1 (44:40):
So I had just gone through like a really bad breakup,
like like heartbroken, like devastated, and I was like at
this point where I was like I'm never gonna have
fun again. Like I just was like you know that
phase when you go through a breakup and you're like
I don't want to look at a guy, I hate
them all, like that type of thing. And then I
went to the festival and I met you, and you
were like my gateway and to be like I can.
Speaker 4 (45:02):
Do this again.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
This is all I wanted from this. This was all
I want.
Speaker 10 (45:07):
Oh I'm so glad there's not video on this podcast.
Speaker 4 (45:11):
Well that is uh, it's good to see you.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
It got me back into the like I can do
this again.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
I know she's engaged.
Speaker 1 (45:19):
Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
Wow.
Speaker 10 (45:23):
Yeah, that was an unexpected start to this interview.
Speaker 3 (45:28):
I did not.
Speaker 2 (45:31):
To get out of the way because I saw the
photo and I was like, wow, we have to talk
about this is so fun, and I go.
Speaker 1 (45:37):
I told Beck, I was like, I guarantee you he's
not gonna remember because this was so long ago. It
was my gateway. It was like, that was my that
was my my launch pad into like back into life.
Speaker 2 (45:50):
You're the reason she's engaged.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
Basically, I have you to think.
Speaker 4 (45:53):
All right, hero, all right, anyway, work stuff.
Speaker 10 (46:03):
I'm sure that I am bright red, calmly.
Speaker 7 (46:12):
It's like a sneak attack. It is amazing.
Speaker 1 (46:14):
It was so I mean, it's just I can't explain
to you kind of the season of life that I
was in, you know what I mean, Like it was
I get it. Yeah, I'm sure everybody gets it.
Speaker 2 (46:24):
Yeah. I also like my first time ever being blacked
out on the ground was at iHeart Festival, so I
understand the experience of that.
Speaker 10 (46:32):
I remember doing an interview there where I I think
I crashed Steven Emmel's interview and said something inane about
wanting to get out and see Pitbull.
Speaker 8 (46:45):
It was uh.
Speaker 7 (46:47):
Something yeah.
Speaker 4 (46:50):
Yeah, Anyhowuck has been on.
Speaker 1 (46:53):
The bathroom floor multiple years.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Yeah, I heard festival brings out either the best, best,
or worse.
Speaker 10 (46:58):
You just I don't know if it's fine lines, it's
Vegas and apparently this thing that happened in Vegas didn't
stay in Vegas anyhow.
Speaker 2 (47:09):
Okay, going into work stuff, Yes, when you're learning a script,
what is harder? What is harder in the in your world?
Is it singing and dancing or learning medical? Because yeah,
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
No, I was.
Speaker 10 (47:25):
It's it's all like learning a language, right, So you know,
once you get into the rhythm of learning those learning
steps and songs, then you get more and more practice
at it, and you like, you flex the muscle a
little bit more, and it becomes a little bit more
second nature. And that was the same thing when I
started doing Med. That first season was like being shot
(47:47):
out of a cannon and yeah, sure, I know what
anything means, and you're just doing it phonetically. And then
as you get more comfortable with it, and luckily we
just have we've got professionals, actual doctors and consultants on
the show that helps through that sort of thing, so
it becomes easier. But you know, when you first start
doing that stuff, I mean, I think if somebody were
(48:09):
to try to teach me to dance right now, I'd
be like, no, I'm good, I'm just gonna stand here.
Everybody else can dance around me.
Speaker 2 (48:16):
Yeah yeah, yeah, You're like, I feel more comfortable not dancing. Yeah,
So please let them do the work.
Speaker 1 (48:21):
How many months of the year do you shoot?
Speaker 10 (48:25):
Golly, we would for Chicago ed twenty two episodes. The
season takes about ten months. That is, so you're like
you're deep into it for like nine or ten months
a year. That's that's generally how long like a twenty
two episode network television show takes.
Speaker 2 (48:41):
But that's the goal.
Speaker 1 (48:42):
Like a lot of people, I feel like a lot
of actors have shows and things where they go like
they do it in two months, three months, and then
they're back, And I feel like that's the goals to
have something that's like steady that many episodes.
Speaker 10 (48:52):
Yeah, I mean, it's an amazing gift when it can happen,
and it doesn't happen as much anymore. You see television
now is mostly like ten twelve episode or even shorter sometimes,
and it's great to have that kind of steady gig
go on for you know. I did over eighty some
odd episodes of Chicago med over the four and a
sliver of a season that I was there in five
(49:14):
and it was awesome, Like I wouldn't change it for
the world, and it's and then I've gone off to
do like you know, I shot a show that was
ten episodes over seven months, and it's just a different,
different kind of experience.
Speaker 7 (49:25):
But the.
Speaker 10 (49:31):
Grind, for less of a better word, of doing twenty
two episodes so quickly and just getting into the rhythm
of that. You see how hard these crews work to
make that happen week after week we shoot an episode
in eight days and to do that for all those
moving parts to work in unison to make that happen
(49:52):
is really inspiring. And it's what a lot of people
don't see as watchers of television. They don't see all
those names on the credits going to work. Yeah, it's
these things don't get made unless all of those people
come together and believe in a show that can get
to the screen after eight days of shooting in a
(50:14):
little bit of time after to edit and you know,
make it all glue together.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
And what is it like when you're at conventions like
this one, Like when you actually get to see the
fans meet the fans get the bracelets from the fans.
Speaker 10 (50:28):
It's it's it's amazing because you know, coming from theater,
there is an access to the people you're watching on stage.
You know, we come out of the stage door after
the show and there's fans that are lined up outside
of the stage door that we get to interact with.
And you get that immediate response when you're on stage.
You get people applauding for you at the end of
the show and hopefully standing or whatever it is. And
(50:51):
it's fun that places like this, events like this exist
because then we get to actually, you know, connect with
people who have connected with our work.
Speaker 7 (51:04):
That we wouldn't otherwise get to know.
Speaker 10 (51:06):
Like you know, I've had so many stories over the
years of doing these types of conventions.
Speaker 7 (51:13):
Where shows that have done have provided.
Speaker 10 (51:17):
People with, you know, an escape from whatever they were
going through at the time, or helped them work through
something they were going through in their lives. And it's
you know, it's easy sometimes to think about, you know,
I'm just doing another medical show, yeah, or I'm doing
a comic book show. But to somebody who's watching who
really finds something in it that they connect to and
(51:39):
that they love about it, and that they connect to
the character that I'm playing and have them express that
to me, it makes me feel like I'm doing something
that is worthwhile, yeah, which is ultimately what got me
into the business in the first place.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
Yeah, because it's like for you and if through the
mundane of going to work every day, you're like, I'm
just showing up for job, right like everyone.
Speaker 4 (51:59):
Else sort of, Yes, but it is a job at
the end of the.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
Days like a box you're doing it in like a
like a bubble, you know. So it's like to see it,
to see the fans. That's like, that's what you're doing
it for.
Speaker 7 (52:11):
Yeah, to see Yeah.
Speaker 10 (52:12):
And and ultimately, I mean you're right, like, we don't
do this if it weren't for the fans. Like you know, art,
to me, art doesn't exist in a vacuum, right, It's
meant to be seen and experienced by people, whatever your
medium is. So it's it's really great to be able
to get that sort of feedback at the end of
the day and to to know that what you're putting
(52:34):
out into the world is being appreciated and sometimes taken
really to heart.
Speaker 2 (52:39):
Yeah, do you when you come to these things, is
it do you have a reaction from different parts of
your career where people are like, I know, I love
you from you know X Yeah.
Speaker 10 (52:52):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean there's there's some people who
have you know, been watching me from the time that
I was on Arrow.
Speaker 7 (52:59):
Uh, people who.
Speaker 10 (53:00):
Have you know, really followed my career from uh, from
the beginnings of it, whether it was zero or even
before that, whether if they were fans of Broadway and
musical theater who knew me from either seeing me on
Broadway or listening to me on on cast recordings that
I've done.
Speaker 7 (53:19):
Uh.
Speaker 10 (53:19):
And it's it's a really flattering thing to have somebody
follow you in your career. Yeah, as you've grown up yourself,
I mean, and you know, gotten to play different characters
and maybe they tuned into the next show you did
because they loved you in the previous.
Speaker 2 (53:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (53:36):
And it's it's awesome.
Speaker 2 (53:38):
I know, it's so cool. It's fun. We were saying,
like people fall in love with the first project they
see you in and then they get there like I
want it wherever he goes, I'm gonna I'm gonna watch. Yeah.
We were just talking to Skylar and we were talking
we do episodes because we have a lot of listeners
who are in the dating scene or married or single,
(53:58):
and we like to ask the man. It's called our
mannal where we ask. It's our paneling, it's our man panel.
Speaker 7 (54:05):
A panel of one.
Speaker 2 (54:06):
Yeah, you're a standalone right now, and we wanted we
just like to get advice on, like, you know, from
a male's perspective. And you've been married for what nine years?
Speaker 7 (54:19):
Nine years now? Yeah, just my ninth. We get two
beautiful kids.
Speaker 2 (54:24):
What was it about her? Like, what was it that
stood out that you were like this?
Speaker 10 (54:30):
She's so my beautiful, insanely talented wife. Her name is
Patty Miern. We'd known each other for years before we
ever started dating, actually, and we did after I was
killed off of Arrow. I was just out of relationship
myself and she was recently divorced and she had a
(54:53):
rehouse warming party because she kept the apartment from the
from the divorce, and we were about to start rehearsals
for Shakespeare in the Park the next day that we
were doing a show together, and I don't know, I
showed up and I just had a great time talking
to her and was remembering all these times that like
(55:15):
she'd made me laugh and how easy it was to
hang out with her, and so I was the last
one to leave the party. We kissed, I went home,
and the next day I was sort of like, oh,
I think this is something. And I really was like
I was all in I pretty quickly because there was
(55:35):
just something I don't know if I can put it
to one thing that made it clear. But the more
we hung out and the more we were around each other,
it was really I just was head over heels and
I was like, I want you to be a part
of my life.
Speaker 1 (55:55):
I feel like humor is what I heard.
Speaker 2 (55:57):
I know that's an takeaway.
Speaker 10 (56:00):
It was a really big thing. Like for me, somebody
somebody who would laugh at my jokes. Yeah, could really
like make me belly laugh in a way that I
hadn't really before.
Speaker 4 (56:10):
Yeah, And like we knew each other's.
Speaker 10 (56:14):
Hang ups, so, you know, having been friends before and
moving forward in a relationship, it was kind of nice
to have somebody be able to call you out on
your things.
Speaker 6 (56:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (56:25):
Why So y'all met after Era. So she and she's
in the industry.
Speaker 7 (56:29):
She is, she's an actor, Okay.
Speaker 2 (56:31):
So she's very she understands the role. I have a girlfriend,
and she is in the industry, and I struggle with
the uh, just the elements that come along with it
of like, you know, kissing other people, just all the things.
But I always feel like it'd be so much easier
if I was also an actor, or does it not?
Speaker 7 (56:53):
Yeah, I think that there there is a there's just
stuff that has.
Speaker 10 (56:58):
To be worked through, and uh, you know, certainly we
have worked through our own things to be able to
be in a place where we're comfortable with, you know,
the realities of what we do right. And we've done
projects together and weirdly enough, never played opposite each other
in those projects a lot of times, like so, you know,
(57:20):
we did this Hallmark movie Love on Iceland together, but
we weren't paired up in the movie. So I'm off
kissing and she's, you know, is just there. It's just weird. Yeah,
I mean, there's.
Speaker 6 (57:34):
No other way to describe it.
Speaker 7 (57:36):
It's a weird situation.
Speaker 10 (57:38):
Yeah, but you know, it's it is the job.
Speaker 1 (57:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (57:42):
I feel validated hearing that, though, because everyone's you know,
we talked to other and they're like, well, you know,
they're in an industry, they get it, and I'm like,
it's just an unnatural thing. To watch her the person
you love.
Speaker 7 (57:52):
Yeah, try explaining it's a kids.
Speaker 2 (57:54):
Eventually, that's a whole other thing.
Speaker 10 (57:58):
Yeah, I mean Patty was Patty was Princess Anna and
Frozen on Broadway, and like we've showed our Uh. We
have a four year old daughter who's old enough to
understand it. But she's like, well, why are you kissing
that guy? And I was like, not the conversation I
have right now. Yeah, why can't I see daddy do stuff? Well,
because daddy doesn't do stuff that is appropriate for kids
(58:20):
your age.
Speaker 7 (58:22):
Daddy's not a Disney prince. He does the darker role.
Speaker 10 (58:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (58:26):
Yeah, before we go, what is your toxic trait?
Speaker 7 (58:31):
My toxic trait.
Speaker 2 (58:33):
Lighthearted, like I'm always late.
Speaker 10 (58:35):
Oh uh, I'm quiet.
Speaker 3 (58:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (58:42):
My toxic trait is that I will sit in the
background of like I'll be happy to like just sit
in the corner.
Speaker 1 (58:49):
Interesting party going on, that's interesting for an actor.
Speaker 7 (58:53):
Yeah, I'm I'm.
Speaker 3 (58:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (58:56):
It takes me a while to warm up, usually.
Speaker 2 (58:59):
Takes you all and warm up. Well, but that's that's
your That's not very toxic. But if that's it, then
congrats to your wife.
Speaker 4 (59:08):
If that's your I'm sure she probably has quiet.
Speaker 1 (59:16):
Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 2 (59:19):
Hope you have a great day to day and enjoy
meeting all the fans.
Speaker 4 (59:22):
Thank you,
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