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MN-native, actor, Vikings fan Adam Bartley is in studio for the final hour!

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Speaker 1 (00:12):
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Speaker 2 (00:39):
Excited for this one since we started recently texting about it.
My man's name is Adam Bartley. Many of you know
who he is Eden Prairie High School, Go Crazy. He's
an actor and a connoisseur of fine men of Chevitz
and Adam Bartley joins the equation here nine to noon
at eleven ten, Adam, is the last time I saw

(01:00):
you at a Vikings Road game? Must have been was
this sometime? It was in Los Angeles and you took me,
Bursig and others to a Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles. Is
that the last time? Wow? Did we win the game?

Speaker 3 (01:14):
I think we won and we just had so much
maple syrup over every bit of food we could imagine.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah. See, I think it might have been a Wednesday
night before a Thursday night game at the Coliseum when
Jared Goff had a perfect passer rating against Zimmers defense
and we ended up with Anthony Barr covering like Brandon
Cooks and I think Cooper Cup and they were redoing

(01:42):
the LA Coliseum. So Bursage and I were like in
a broom closet man, just like right next to each
other calling the game.

Speaker 3 (01:49):
There was another one at the soccer stadium that would.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
That, Oh the Chargers game. Yeah, the Chargers game. And
Ifadi Odenebo had a scoop and score touchdown and he
tried to do a Viking vault into the stand and
I love it body so I feel like I can
say this without you know, any feelings being hurt. His
vertical was about eight inches and he couldn't get up
to the crowd, I think because he was tired from

(02:11):
returning the Philip Rivers spo.

Speaker 3 (02:13):
Speaking of vault, how do you have the ability to
remember like the specific plays from games. I mean, we're
talking how many years now?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
Okay, Well, I can't answer that question. Okay, however, I
can turn it on you, turn it to you and say,
I bet you season one, episode two of Longmire. If
I brought up an example, you probably could remember the
line I could.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
You know as funny as I actually wasn't in that one.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
Like I said, episode three, season or let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
To one of the only ones I was not in
in the entire series.

Speaker 2 (02:46):
Yeah, you were in a Longmire and I watched most
of not all of it, but there was one that
involved a vampire, right, oh gosh, or somebody pins somebody
up against the wall and I can't remember.

Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, oh no, I think you're thinking.

Speaker 2 (03:00):
Of Lucifer potentially this is and you were in that.

Speaker 3 (03:03):
I was in that.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Yeah, well that's what it was.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
My favorite thing is I'll just be sitting around to
La doing my thing and I get a text from
me because you're you were sitting there watching something and
you're like, I just saw you in the thing.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
He always makes My naught was Lucifer. Yeah, what was Lucifer?
Was that vampire bit?

Speaker 1 (03:18):
Was it?

Speaker 2 (03:18):
Like, what was it a one time hit or a series?
It was a long series, right.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
I think so, yeah, but it was I got thrown
up against the wall by the Devil.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Yes, I remember that, and then I died. I'm pretty
sure so. But you probably could remember your lines in there,
which would be like, ah, stop, that's sixty five thousand
out of the mailbox, and you're good. That's it. That's
the that's the Adam Bartley and Alan Roach, the box
of all boxes ever to box. I got two people
in my life mailbox money who get that mailbox money

(03:49):
and get to live there lives not getting slipped on.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
It used to be so amazing. When I did my
first commercial, I was in New York. It would have
been just out of college, and I got to I
was working at this like restaurant or whatever, and late
at night and I was, you know, I went I
did a commercial for Sony. It was my first big job.
And then I remember going back to you. I lived
right next to where I was working at the my apartment.
I went in, I looked at my mailbox and there

(04:12):
was a first residual check from Sony and it was
like twenty K and we're I was going on like
one hundred and fifty at night just to get through.
And I remember looking at that and yeah, being like
I'm going to quit my job, and I did, and
you know, then was broke shortly thereafter.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
But now now you know, you recently did some work
with Gray's Anatomy, right, I just finished? Yeah? Wow an episode?
Is that reason? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Just recent I just did. I lived right above the
studios for like the l for seven eight years, and
I finally got to go in there.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
And I still love the show. So wait, because you
lived above the studio, keep like knocking on it. Hey guys,
any commercial. Hey that's the vamp, that's the double holding
me up against the wall. Will you take my head shot?
Security guard? No?

Speaker 3 (04:59):
Yeah, I mean I but I got to look down,
and I always people will come over and I'd be like, hey,
you know that's where they shoot the Grace and Edemy
and I finally got to go in there and do it.
And it was such a fun when you got a
show like that that's been around twenty three years or whatever.
It's just dialed in everybody. It's like you, guys, it's
so comfortable. Everybody's so kind and so easy, and it's
a joy because it's not always like that.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
You know, I should know the guy's name, the one
who just died. But then Eric Dane. Eric Dane, Yeah,
really sad, and I wasn't super familiar with him or anything,
but then like I read up on him and his
marriage and his faith and stuff, and I'm like, damn, he's.

Speaker 3 (05:33):
An wonderful guy. I didn't get to meet him, but
you know, it's one of those things where it's like, man,
just you could have the greatest life and everything's awesome,
and then one day you're just like, whoops, I got
this thing, and then a year later you're gone. So
it's just another reminder to just be grateful, to enjoy
every minute, hug the loved ones. But yeah, he was
a great, great actor. Di'd some really great work.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Minnesotan and actor IAB is here to wat chat Mary things,
including a project he has momentarily. It's called in the
Lab with Adam Bartley. It is super super cool and
we're going to get into that. And he's a lifetime
Bikings fan. But I have an actor sighting story that
I'd like to share with you, and I'm hoping Nordo

(06:18):
remembers the picture that I'm going to reference here. It
was Tottenham Hotspur hyper announcers on the sideline and there's
Woody Harrelson. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, okay, cool, cool, yeah,
because his memories Razor Sharp so Tottenham Hotspur before they
beat the Jets, and Van Ginkle had that pick six,

(06:38):
remember that. So I snapped a selfie with Woody Harrelson.
It's Woody Harrelson, Are you kidding me? And I posted
it on Twitter, which now is X Well the age
of rage came snapping at your boy and I couldn't
figure out why, so I got deeply into it. Also
in the picture was a political person named Dean Phillips,

(07:03):
and I had no idea who he was. And there
were people offended on the sideline an hour and fifteen
minutes before Ben Ginkle's about ready to be day. Roger like,
how do you not know?

Speaker 3 (07:13):
I'm like, I don't know, okay, And that's that every
person in every picture that I get taken away.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
However, there was this famous actress with strawberry blonde hair
also in the picture, and I had no idea who
either one was Dean or the lady. I can't even
remember the lady's name now, which is an l on
my part. But yeah, so people are like, yeah, there's Woody,
but there's also this guy and this lady and I'm like, damn, man,

(07:41):
I'm sorry, I didn't know who they were. There's no
time anybody ever think you were somebody else come up
to you like a group, says Josh Tamel. What's what's
going on? Dog every day? Or what about does Zach
Galifanakis from the Hangover early days? I know Zach, what's up? Man?
I'd actually take that.

Speaker 3 (08:02):
If Sean Aston I used to get people would be
like you like Sean when I don't have a beard,
going Sean Aston, he.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Was I got the gallifan Akis hangover a bit when
you had the beard.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, I'll take it. Yeah no, I
but luckily no, no nobody that I'm I can't imagine
how frustrating that would be. There's people, there's you know,
people talk about it, coming up and saying, hey, can
I get an autograph?

Speaker 2 (08:26):
Football ganger? Yeah, that stuff. Do you know Josh well
or at all?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
I don't you know. I've read it.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
Weird. It is weird. It is weird.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
I would love to meet him, and it's funny because
we both have the same passion or whatever. I met
Nick What's what's his name? The comedian.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Oh, Schwartz and Schwartz and Schwartz and yeah, we used
to go.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
We used to watch Vikings in l A together way
back when when I moved out there. But I haven't
met Josh, but at some point I need to to
just to talk Vikings.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
Well, you both love the Vikings. Yeah, he had a
moment last year where I don't remember what part of
the game was. He whenever he's in Minnesota, he'll come
into the box box and say hello. Then he walks
down between me and Bursic like we'll go to break
and then with the crowd right in front of us
are going, hey, Josh, him out everybody, and like everybody

(09:15):
turns around and gives him just the loudest standing ovation.
It's Isla Fisher in that photo. I kind of oh, wow,
you found it. Strawberry blonde hair. Did I describe it
the right way?

Speaker 1 (09:26):
Yeah, perfectly, No wonder Dean's pissed though I didn't remember
because he's in the he's posing for the photo.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
And I didn't with respect, I didn't know who he was.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
He's locked it. He's actually center of and you're pointing
at him. But look at what Isla Fisher used to
be married to Sasha Baron Cohen, who was born They
used to be and they're no longer.

Speaker 3 (09:48):
I know that.

Speaker 2 (09:49):
So she's famous, right she was.

Speaker 3 (09:51):
She was in that movie with Vince Vaughan to the Crash. Yes,
oh wow, she was the girl that he was with
in that movie.

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Oh dang, she's great. Yeah. So I mean there was
an actor sight. I'm like, hey over here in London,
Tottenham Hotspur. I just ran into Harry Kane as I
was going through security, and I knew who he was,
but I'd never really seen him. Nordo got me all
dressed up on that one just in case I happened
to see Harry Kane. He was right in front of
me at security to get into the field. Harry Kane,

(10:21):
unbelievable soccer player out England way. I think at that
time might have been for Tottenham Hotspur, Everton or something
like that. So cool. So I got to fist bump him.
And then a half hour later, selfie, there's Woody. You know.
But Age of Rage just destroyed me. Well no, it
wasn't a destruction. Age of Rage got after me for
a little bit for not knowing who the political guy

(10:43):
was and is only go. It's dangerous out there, which
is crazy. Adam Bartley in studio nine to noon. Let's
go in the lab. All right, let's go in the lab,
and we suggest those listening go to in the Lab
dot org in the lab dot org to listen more

(11:06):
and learn more. That is about ab Adam Bartley's latest
venture in the lab with Adam Bartley. The acting workshop
you are conducting in Minnesota. I mean it looks unbelievable.
Oh sweet, Yeah, it's in Minneapolis in the lab dot org.
But also looks acmeannis, it looks like Yeah, it looks

(11:28):
like mucho work for you and your staff to provide
the best experience. Staff tell us more.

Speaker 3 (11:34):
Yeah, you ain't got a staff, extensive staff. It's me
sitting at a computer at my mom's house right now. No,
I yeah, I've never.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Really still that grades anat. I mean money comes, well,
there's that.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
I haven't started a business. I did start a business
a long long time ago. But this is really extensive.
It's I'm really just used to sort of reading scripts,
playing tennis, you know, going out with friends and waiting,
you know for my next acting job to hit. But
this is is that tough yeah, I mean it can
be great. I mean, you know, people are like, wow,
your life is pretty great. You really don't do very much,
you know, lucky lucky. But you know, I'll tell you

(12:07):
what's tough is just you know, the insecurity of the
of the job is wild. You know, you have I've
had years. I had thirteen years right and stop working,
you know. And when when I met that's was the deal.
It just wouldn't stop.

Speaker 2 (12:18):
And you know there's a year that I'll go by
and you're like, okay, well long Mayre on Netflix was
the bomb. And I think when I first met you,
you just had finished or well finished. Yeah, literally just
at right I met you and I'm not with respect,
I'm just not big TV guy, but I got in.
I mean I watched the series and it was fantastic.
You did such a good job.

Speaker 3 (12:38):
Thank you. Yeah, no, it was great. It's it's a
journey out in la you know. I signed up for
this life and this life of not knowing what's next.
But I'm here for it because great, beautiful things have
come my way and it's been an amazing journey. But
I was here two years ago filming I got asked
to be the lead in this film called Unholy Communion
that we shot here. And when I got offered the role,

(12:58):
I was like, wait, they make movies in Minnesota. What
are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I had no idea. Oh yeah, Fargo.

Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yeah, well, I mean all the most they shot most
of that in Canada, believe it or not.

Speaker 2 (13:09):
Really.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
Yeah, So in other words, they have tax credits here
that have happened recently and there, and there's.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
Actually credits in Minnesota.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
For filming, and there's film, there's films and independent films coming.

Speaker 2 (13:19):
So better tell my tax guy with these ten ninety nine's.
I get you. I need some of those credits. Seriously.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Well, wasn't that the big thing, Adam in terms of
Hollywood finding I mean, you know, New.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
Mexico or Arizona.

Speaker 1 (13:31):
Like from a production standpoint, it's almost like we would
want to lure somebody here to to host the Super Bowl,
for instance, So maybe there are tax credits or some
discounts and such that are part of that. Similarly with Hollywood,
you know, you you it can be more expensive maybe
in a studio in LA than it could be in Montana,

(13:51):
for instance, So maybe you would look for those tax
credits and the financial viability of certain projects exactly.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
And I mean you know that if you go and
watch things and you see people, you'll notice, wow, gosh,
there's a lot more international shows that I'm seeing on
the Netflix around the other streaming services. And the reason
is is because it is incredibly high incentive for these,
you know, for these shows and films to go and
shoot in Ireland or to shoot and we're not as
competitive here more with these credits, and so we're in

(14:18):
LA we're trying to even make them more. But there's
a bill going through the House and Senate right now
in Minnesota that would create literally the best most you know,
incredible incentive in the country and making this and there's
just there's this burgeoning, incredible community of artists here and
actors and and you know crew that are I have

(14:41):
this amazing time and I'm working with these actors and
I'm like, wow, there's some real talent here. And I
was really moved. And I'm like filming a scene in
Eden Prairie where I like down the street from where
I grew up, and I'm having this whole moment of
you know, to be able to be around my family
and and and work at the same time. Usually I'm
just here for Vikings games and and you know, Christmas

(15:01):
or whatever. But to be able to do that was
so cool. And I'm driving home back to LA and
I'm on the road and I just kind of hit
me this idea that you know, you know, what I
should do in the time when I'm not you know,
when I'm not working, when they're in between work, is
establish a workshop whereby I can really bring and give
really added value to actors here. And you know, when

(15:22):
you talk to most actors and you ask them, you know,
I often talk and counsel actors like they I want
to get where you are. I want I want an
opportunity to like raise my game and to do bigger things.
I always ask, well, what what does your demo reel
look like? You know, your your most your calling card,
You're you're advertising for your work, you have the best work?
Do you have a demo reel with your best work

(15:44):
on it that looks quality and great? And the answer
ninety eight eight percent of the time is now. And
so what I'm That's why I've created this is that
it's a three week workshop where we're going to you know,
sort of explore the work, fine, tune, shape it, and
then when it's ready and alive, we bring it to camera.
And I've got I'm assembling a whole crew of professionals,

(16:05):
director of photography, gaffers, sound operators, hair and makeup, and
we're going to film them and make them look incredible.
And the work that I'm good and I'm gonna be using.
You know, my expertise is really the craft. I've devoted
my life to the craft after how many years now.
I went to school for it at SMU, and I've
been coaching actors for years.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
You went to theater school at Southern Methodist University. I did,
Why believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (16:32):
At the time it was in top ten undergraduate acting programs.
Wow in the country. Yeah, Kathy Bates went there. Yeah,
but what was the running back backfield? Eric Dickerson and
Craig James. The Pony Express. That's the pear shape history.
And have you ever seen there's a documentary called The
Pony about the Pony Express, an ESPN doc about My
friend Fad Matula made it.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
But it's great. But yeah, no, are you in it? No?
But the football when I went there was terrible. Yeah,
well they cheated and they were like on some type
of ban for a tracade or something.

Speaker 1 (17:04):
It was like no wins, but no quote unquote death
penalty or something with that's right, yeah see, but they
actually were forward thinking because they were doing nil before
it was.

Speaker 3 (17:13):
Legal, right, well, just ahead of their time. Really that's
such a positive spin. But now they're playing well I guess,
but football college folks. So I don't watch college football.
It was never a part of my life. I never
got to like get into a team or whatever. So
I always just look the other way when it's on.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
All right, So so with Adam, and this venture is
in Minnesota, and these workshops begin in May. But there's
there's a pre a pre ordering or signing up in
advance to save cash. It's in the lab dot org.
In the lab dot org limited to ten actors per session,
adults and those fourteen to eighteen separate classes. Right.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, I wanted to This is the one thing I'm
the I really. When I was a kid, I would
have just died to have the opportunity in eating pre
high school doing theater.

Speaker 2 (18:00):
I would have loved to have the.

Speaker 3 (18:02):
Access and the opportunity to work with somebody that's established
that knows this technique and knows what on camera work
is about. And I don't think there's a ton of
that here and a lot of kids, you know, would
love to have the access, so I want to give
it to him. I'm only doing one class, you know,
for kids, and I can't do too many people because
we have to film these things, yep, and it's a
lot of work to add it set up, and a

(18:23):
lot We are renting a high end cinema quality cameras
and the work we're going.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
For it got Anthony Hopkins coming into one of them.

Speaker 1 (18:29):
Coming.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
He's coming.

Speaker 3 (18:31):
I didn't just waiting to hear back from his management,
but no, I mean we're but you know, I want,
you know, for anyone who has kids who are in theater,
you know, who would love to have the opportunity to
try this or to get the opportunity to be on
set and have a real experience and really get some
great work that they can have and use. You can
use that, really get an agent to get auditions, to

(18:54):
book work. You know, your agents can take that and
send it to incoming movies and commercial and say hey,
look you know, and it's a huge selling point and
it's just it's for me. It feels really good to
like give back to the place that you know bread
me and.

Speaker 2 (19:10):
Good for you, Bud. It feels good. So so yeah,
stick around, Okay, okay, I have a few more on
in the lab dot org for the artists, the actors
and your family fourteen to eighteen or adults in the
lab dot org. Take a peek in the lab dot
org and Adam Bartley is in studio with us. More
on that plus some Viking shatter coming up now. Just

(19:50):
a quick reminder before we bring in events.

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Adam Bartley again, we're gonna do a live listen in
ninety six seven KFA and the Plus Class A semi
final action first takes this shot that hits a stick
and goes into that trapezoid area Hibbing.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
We're going to get something going. Three minutes left to
go in period number.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
One, another's shot down with them by Jesse might have
hit him off the mask.

Speaker 2 (20:13):
And that is indeed Kevin Fallness on the call.

Speaker 1 (20:16):
Ninety six to seven KFA n the Plus Class A
semi final Hibbing and Mota meade I first period action
taking place right now and after.

Speaker 2 (20:24):
That Delano Delano plays is it a Warroad Yep, thank you Warrote.
Then six o'clock tonight Bobby Brinks Skippers taking on rose Mount,
and then you have the Dina and Morehead Dinah mooreheaded Day. Yeah,
they're the late one Minnesota State high school Hockey Tournament.
Adam Bartley Minnesota. He's an actor, but he's a Minnesotan

(20:45):
for all time. When I'm the state high school hockey tournament,
I mean I don't even need to, Like, I could
just stop right there and you could go back to
when you're at Eden Prairie High School with the likes
of Patriots wide receiver coach DoD Downing, and you could
probably remember when Lee Smith coached the Eagles and just
how big the high school hockey tournament was, even if

(21:06):
you're not really into hockey.

Speaker 3 (21:09):
Yeah, it was huge. Was it was unbelievable. I mean,
my stepdad still is just watching a NonStop constantly on
the TV. But yeah, we were always good too, by
the way, Eden Prairie, We've always been pretty darn good
at the hockey. But yeah, it's pretty wild.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
Vikings before you say goodbye, but first I Adam's here,
longtime dear friend, big time actor, longmire raised Anatomy Lucifer,
that series.

Speaker 3 (21:35):
What Else night Sky on Amazon that was pretty recent.

Speaker 1 (21:39):
Alight Night Sky is unbelievable, by the way, with JK Simmons, No,
I love that and I think it was just a
one season.

Speaker 3 (21:45):
Right, Yeah, unfortunately, Yeah, it was one of the best
things I've ever been a part of.

Speaker 1 (21:49):
It's truly an amazing show and really really well done.
That was Sissy Spasic too, maybe.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, Sissy and JK Simmons, And it was one of
the best times I've ever had working And we were
just shot in Chicago, and I was in Paris just
like going to the French Open doing press and couldn't
have had a better time in my life. Couldn't be it.
And this is just three or four years ago. And
then got the word this is at the beginning of
when these streaming services started to shrink and collapse and

(22:14):
stop putting the big investment in, you know, is sort
of the end of the big TV era.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
Yeah, if I'm if I might ask about that, Like,
You've been in this business for a very long time,
so how how has streaming you know, me as a customer,
you know, habits change in terms of viewing and such
but I also think just the pressure to continually push
out new content, like what is that? How do you
experience or feel that on the acting end, where there

(22:40):
there are certainly more projects and opportunities, but the streaming business,
I feel like that's certainly changed kind of that industry
as a whole.

Speaker 3 (22:47):
You know, it's a it's a real, very very hard
time right now. You know, we're still coming off of
the strikes just from a couple of years ago that
we're still paying for. There's a there's been a fifty
some percent reduction and productions in and overall because the
streaming model, which was precipitated by you know, Wall Street
and Silicon Valley, they kind of came in and bought

(23:07):
up the old model, which was Nielsen ratings and knowing
you know, it was advertising and you could see with advertising,
you could see, okay, you know, here's how many people
watched our show, and that gave this sort of leverage
that you could say, well, our show is kicking butt
and we can now you know, we can now try
and get more money for the show, for the actors
and everything. But with streaming, all that information is proprietary.

(23:29):
They don't need to give it to you. They don't
need it. They don't need to say how well your
shows are doing wow. So it completely eliminated any leverage
on the artists, and we're in, wo, how.

Speaker 2 (23:37):
Can they do that?

Speaker 3 (23:38):
They because they just did it because they own that
they have all their data and they don't need to
share it because legally they don't need to. So it's
changed the industry so much. And now they're contracting because
ultimately all the investment that they put in, which you
know Silicon Valley does, they put in all this investment
for their and it didn't pay off. I mean, it didn't.
The streaming model isn't as profitable as we had hoped.

(24:00):
So now we're all sitting around being like, well, what's next?

Speaker 2 (24:02):
You know, but how is the streaming model not as
profitable as people thought? With the amounts of money they're
spending with the NBA and the NFL for you know,
third prime games and things like that.

Speaker 3 (24:15):
Yeah, I mean I think that the sports and reality
stuff is really expanding a big time.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
But you know, because of that, in terms of the
more original content is it isn't doing what it needs
to do.

Speaker 3 (24:26):
Ask the teenagers, you know, what what shows are you
watching what what you know? What are you sitting on watching?
Are you sitting on watching full TV shows and movies
and most of them I'll tell you, Well, I'm watching
other people play video games for eight nine hours a day,
all the twitch bit, yeah, and watching YouTube and things
are changing. So we're trying to Holly was trying to
change with it.

Speaker 2 (24:44):
My we're gonna land the plane with in the lab
dot org momentarily. But my favorite role of yours all
time was when you played Jacks Teller in Sons of Anarchy.
I always loved that one. I mean bring in full circle,
I mean rideing the way you run the motorcycle, the

(25:04):
end of it with the truck and everything was that
it was leaked. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (25:08):
If someone rolls up though, and there is one of
those moments that the mistake, do you correct them or
do you just go with it?

Speaker 3 (25:16):
I mean, it's never happened. I'm for me, you know,
anybody any actor that gets upset, I do get People
still come up and want, you know, autographs and pictures
and stuff, and it's always such a joy.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
It's like, wow, you like what I do. That's awesome,
this feels great.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
I don't know, I never understood actors that are like,
please leave me be. I'm you know, I mean when
you get super super famous, I understand. Hey, can I
bring up I have a thought about Viking stuff I
wanted to throw out.

Speaker 2 (25:38):
In the lab dot org. Yeah, go to the website
for the artist in you or in your family. Adam's
behind this. It's going to be unbelievable. Limited to ten
actors per session. It's for adults and separate classes I
believe for those fourteen to eighteen correct, yes, so it
lastly here if some of them with with the with

(26:00):
the in the lab sessions and training you to be
on the silver screen, uh, et cetera with Adam really clicks,
if they knock it out of the park, would you
represent them on the spot and segue to that game?

Speaker 3 (26:13):
Well, I mean I really do there.

Speaker 2 (26:16):
In there and just kills it and you're like, who knew?
And then you've got to sign them up to Team
Bartley so you can get more mailbox money.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Start a management agency company. Yeah, no, I mean, you
know there, I would it would not be passed me
to recommend, you know, great actors that have real chance
here to agents or people I know in LA.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Why wouldn't I if they have an opportunity get anything
else within the lab we need to know. No, I
mean there's a March date. That's key.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
It's May May second time.

Speaker 2 (26:42):
I thought it was if you sign up mid March
or something.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
Oh, I have an introductory early bird offer until March fifteenth.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
Yeah, exactly, and then the price. How come I know
more about the website than you. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
I need a staff and you're number one on the list.

Speaker 2 (26:56):
Affairs go alphabetically, Dude, I'm five weeks, six weeks from
from needing the.

Speaker 3 (27:00):
Money may well May second through seventeenth. It's already half full,
which is exciting and so wow. Yeah people, I've only
launched it a week ago. It's going to fill up.
So grab your spot when you can. If you can, people,
tell actors, I really want. I'm trying to fill this
class up with students and get the word out. I'm
starting to call high schools I love that, call drama

(27:20):
teachers and let them know what I'm doing.

Speaker 2 (27:23):
So vikings non stop in the final segment, which is
around the corner. But let me let me and this
part of the equation like this, and I hope it's
an answerable question. How does one get into character?

Speaker 3 (27:37):
Oh that's interesting. Well, ultimately, especially for you know, on
camera work. You know, the the character in quotations is you.
You know, it's it's about the process, is about you know,
your the units, the things that make you you and
who you are and what makes you tick and how
you process something naturally, the elements of you that also

(28:00):
align with the character on the page that you're reading.
Sort of that's what comes out, you know. I think
it's finding ways to connect and empathize with the character
and have a real understanding for where they're coming from,
what they want, what they need, and in just the
empathizing with it, you then you know, so then it
comes out through you. You want it to come out
through you and your uniqueness in the way in which

(28:22):
you live and breathe and go through the world. I mean,
we have these we all play different characters. We're different
with our mom, we're different with our you know, relationships,
we're different with people at work. We're all playing different characters.
People just don't know it.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
Now.

Speaker 3 (28:36):
The hardest thing is when the cameras are on you
and you know you're being watched, and you know you're
focus on you. The hardest thing that is to be
unequivocally yourself and trust that even in your smallness, you're
most insignificant. Just sitting and listening that it's it's interesting
enough and that it's worthy of people's attention.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
That's hard. It's really hard. Leonardo DiCaprio Wall Street? Was
he in that? Oh yeah, Okay. Now here's why I
asked that question because when I was writing this yesterday
and just like searching for Adam Bartley, Doppelgang or stuff
like that, I came across a clip a I think
it was a YouTube short of somebody being like, look

(29:17):
at Leonardo DiCaprio get in character here, and it was
a behind the scenes shop from Wolfe of Wall Street
and he has this head down a little bit, then
you hear the whatever and he picks it up and
just kills it. So he went from just like normal
thinking about something like okay, three two boom. It was him,

(29:37):
but it was but it was the role, it was
the getting into character piece. It was. It was a masterpiece.

Speaker 3 (29:43):
I know the clip you're talking about, and I mean
that's pretty standard, you know, I mean, that's that's pretty
across the board for it. I trained and you know
with a guy that was his acting coach for a
long time. I did a workshop with him in La
years ago. And you know, it's it's all the same
kind of stuff coming from the same.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Field of stuff, which is it's called packing. You got
to pack your bags.

Speaker 3 (30:03):
And if you're in a scene where you're running around
like trying to amp everybody up and get him to sell, sell, sell,
like he was in that scene.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
Yeah, you're he's packing. That was the scene.

Speaker 3 (30:12):
Yeah, I know, he's piece packing. Inside, he's he's telling,
he's going over his work and his his preparation, and
he's and he's making sure in his head he's probably going,
all right, you're gonna get in there, You're gonna tell this,
You're gonna come this. That's what he's doing so that
as soon as we hit go, he's energetically and spiritually
and physically in them in that modality.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
Adam Bartley, Minnesota, an actor in the lab dot Org
give it a look some Vikings conversation after this and
he heard it there in the liner again.

Speaker 1 (30:42):
State Boys Hockey Tournament is here and we are your
RN side destination for all the action played a little
live listening with fondness, but uh, the semi finals games
Class A. You're gonna hear him on ninety six seven
the Plus and also listen of course KFA N We
got double a games tonight KFA and YouTube channel. It
is indeed all presented by James Hardy, the number one
brand of siding in North America.

Speaker 2 (31:04):
That's beautiful, just like Adam Bartley actor in Minnesota. Adam
Bartley for a couple of minutes. Vikings fan too, and
a lot of Jack's. Tell her this, Woody Harrelson, that Hollywood,
this Eden Prairie High School. That you have something on
your mind involving your favorite football team, what is it?

Speaker 3 (31:22):
Well, I've wanted to share first before I started. I
just have to shout out to my brethren of Valhalla,
my buddies who are just so are listening and we
are on texts thread all year long, constantly arguing, debating,
sometimes viciously getting into it. You know, Kirk was a
big subject for us for a long time, of lots

(31:42):
of uh. You know, I thought maybe we might might
lose a few of these friends based on.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
Which one of your friends incessantly is like O'Connell, doesn't
run enough. Well, there's always those in a.

Speaker 3 (31:54):
Group chat, yeah, Jason probably, Yeah, No, there's there's that.

Speaker 2 (31:58):
But really, the quarterback has.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Been a real cause for conjecture for a long time.
And I have the thought that for me, my life
is about story. Why I love the Vikings, why I
love sports while I follow this team so intently as
the story. Right, we're watching a story. Everybody's watching a
kind of story, and there's updates on the story. There's
a little elements and different things.

Speaker 2 (32:17):
I personally this is like chapter sixty eight or sixty nine.
We still have no happy ending.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
And there never will be hopefully ending. That's part of it.
We know there won't be an ending. It just keeps going.
But like you know, you have to look at the
story of Kirk and the time he had hear and
how successful we were in our season and then in
the playoffs not so much.

Speaker 2 (32:35):
We got a chains fan. I can feel with common no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
What I'm saying is frame Donald's year and us dumping,
not dumping, about us moving on from him or letting
Seattle take him, I should say, is their appropriate thing.
You can't frame that decision without the story of Kirk
before one thing leads to the other. If we had no.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Good quarterback Donald, that's right, that's right.

Speaker 3 (32:58):
But letting Brick.

Speaker 2 (32:58):
Gets go, I'm playing in the movie someday. I think
he's trying to become Brazinski's right hand man. Keep going, No,
I'm just saying that.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
I just think here's here's my take on the McCarthy situation.

Speaker 2 (33:12):
I think we all saw.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
Moments with him, and you heard Brazinsky talk about McCarthy
and about how everybody's being pretty harsh on him. You know,
you talked about it earlier in the show. I think
that is true. But also, let's just let me just
frame it this way. If I could write a Hollywood
film script about you know, if I could write, I
could not write a first act any better than the

(33:34):
dumpster fire of media coverage and situation of McCarthy's first
sort of year of playing. I mean, just a disaster
in every way. I mean, here in your mind, don't
you talk about it. I mean, if you want to
set up, if you want to set up, and this
kid is like, he he's streight, he like is full
of spirit, and he has that kind of movie going

(33:55):
on all the time. Sometimes maybe when he shouldn't. But
like he is in tapped into that kind of flow
and vibe, And all I'm saying is that he doesn't
need to create a movie in his mind to come
out and ball.

Speaker 2 (34:08):
He didn't need it.

Speaker 3 (34:09):
He's all he's got to do is just think about
what happened last year and reach. It's a perfect setup
for these storytellers for him to come out and do something.
I'm just saying, it's on the table. He's got to
stay healthy, but it's on the table that people could
be absolutely Florida. I'm here for it. I want to
see it. If he gets you know, if he isn't
you know, if somebody else isn't starting over him, he

(34:29):
has a shot, I think, to shut everybody up in
maybe one of the biggest ways we've ever seen here.
And boy, would that be a story. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
There is acting immortality and I'm gonna say, God rest
his soul, because he would probably be one hundred plus
if he wasn't dead. Nicknamed the Duke, Oh yeah, John Wayne, Oh.

Speaker 3 (34:49):
Yeah, I know his grandson.

Speaker 2 (34:50):
Pity the fools who told John Wayne all the way
until he was like age twenty nine to thirty one.
You don't fit, You don't fit. And then he became
the Duke. The Duke. The Duke was on fire. They
gave up on John Wayne, and he's John Wayne. Don't
give up on the kid.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
Right, Yeah, and then he basically just owned Hollywood for
about two decades.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
And Geen Audrey never paid for any meals out there, ma'am.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Yeah, I'm just saying. I mean, the kids got something
in there, and we've seen it, and the question is
can he, you know, can he technically catch up?

Speaker 1 (35:24):
You know?

Speaker 3 (35:24):
And we saw People don't really remember Josh Allen's first year.
They don't even think about it. But it wasn't great.

Speaker 1 (35:30):
You know.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
It was great at us Bank Stadium when they were
sixteen and a half point underdogs and he ran over everybody.
He was hurdling Anthony Barr unfortunately, I do remember that. Yeah.
In the Lab dot org for the is actor and
actress still acceptable to be artist? Oh?

Speaker 4 (35:45):
It's acceptable, all right if you have emerging actors or
actresses or artists in your home and they dreamed to
get on the silver screen and they got skills in
the lab dot org.

Speaker 2 (35:56):
In the Lab dot Org, I love your brother, good
sceneing you.

Speaker 3 (35:59):
Thanks for having me appreciate this.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
Adam Bartley, love you too, nord to see you soon,
Love you Nordo. Today four o'clock ware Minneapolis Convention Center,
Northwest Sports Show. Everybody have a great weekend. God bless
you and all your families. And thanks for listening to
nine to noon. The program is next podcast, Today's Paul
Allen Show. We're listen back to previous show and interview.
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