May 12, 2025 • 8 mins
A long-forgotten photo triggered a core memory of Wendy and Maxwell's time with Nickelodeon and a secret project they unknowingly auditioned for.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Life Bites with Wendy Wild, your bite sized podcast filled
with lifestyle stories, personal stories, and a roundup of stories
Wendy talks about on the radio. Here's Wendy.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh my god, it's been a hot minute been.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Where have I been? Yeah? It was it too soon
for me to chime in.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Like I want you to feel comfortable because usually we're
in Maxwell's house, but today we're we're in my space here,
so like not my space, my space like two thousand five. Yeah,
although you would be my.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Topy, would be my top eight.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, we're like work besties and it's really cute. But
you know it's funny. The other day, Uh, you brought
up this core memory that completely slipped from my brain.
So one thing a lot of people don't know is
Maxwell was actually on a few episodes of the show
De Grassy.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
No, no, it wasn't a grass it Make It Pop.
But no, but that's okay because here's the reason why,
because I was wearing my grassy jacket.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
And then the thing was is that is a fun
fact about Make It Pop and Degrassy. It was filmed
at the same school that Degrassy was filmed out.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's not that it's not the same show.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
No, it's a totally different show.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's not the show with Drake.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's not the show with Drake.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But it was filmed though it was filmed at the
same campus, the same air Quotes campus studio in Canada
that they filmed The Grassy.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So I was on Make It Pop when DJ Maxwell
I was DJ Max. So were you like you were
just playing yourself or yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I was playing like a they had a DJ. So
the show real quick synopsis about Make It Pop. It
was about four It was about four students at a
school that was like a I was schooling.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Your parents send you to a school and like what.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
They call it reform school, school military not a military school.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
But when school private, let's say private school. But you
know when you send your kids.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Somewhere rich kids send their kids.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes, all right, So it was about rich parent school
where actually.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
One of the girls was like from a rich family.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The other girl was like a YouTuber air quotes YouTube
or she was like a streamer type of person. Another
one was like a boy who was just like a kid,
and there was another girl.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Who was got to get the nerdy one that's there
in a scholarship, so.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It was so it was about these these four kids
who wanted to start a K pop group that they
went to the school and they make it pop.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It was about a school, right, Oh, okay, Yeah, So
that was the synopsis of the of the show.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And if anybody's watched on Nickelodeon, I think this was
the year twenty fifteen sixteen seventeen. I think it ran
for three seasons or something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Anyway, there was a few episodes where because they were
trying to get their music played, I was the DJ
in this fictional world that was on the radio station
that they were trying to get their music.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Okay, but here's the thing. Okay, we got to rewind
a little bit because you and I something that a
lot of people don't know. This is not the first
time that we've worked together on k TU back in
twenty thirteen minute launch twenty twelve, twenty I have to
look around that time, Maxwell and I were both on
(03:06):
Nickelodeon Radio also known as nick Radio on iHeartRadio, and it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Lasted for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was a
lot of fun. Kids loved it. Even adults loved it.
We played most of the same stuff, like the.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, and we actually gone slides.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But here's how this whole thing with you being on
this TV show ties in. I remember one day we
got an email and it was me and you and
it was Erica America and I don't know if Moe
was part of this whole thing. They sent an email
to a few of us and they said, listen, we
want you to audition.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
For this secret project.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I don't remember how they quote how they said it,
but it was so it was so quiet, like it
was really hush hush. So they gave us this random
address and I remember showing up with Erica. It was
very sketchy, and this woman rushes us away, rushes me away,
and she's like, starts doing my hair. She decides that
(04:04):
I'm going to be like the wild one, so she
does my hair like crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I think you went either before us or after us.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I was there with Erica and they're like, you're going
to be the wild one. And she starts curling my hair,
but it's like a knot. It's like everywhere, and I'm
like okay, And then they set up this fake DJ booth,
I guess or it was like a fake computer. They're like,
can you pretend that you're playing music? Can you pretend
that you're banging pots and pants? I don't remember what
(04:34):
they had with, but I was like, you guys know,
I'm not an actor, right, Yeah, So I found that
Eric and I were like snapping pictures of the monitor
at this time, and I'm like, y'all want.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
To tell us what this is about?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What are we auditioning for? And like, we can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It's top secret.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I'm wondering now were we auditioning for the role of
DJ Maxwell.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Well, I have some insight on that. I have some
insight on that audition process thing that we did. So
there's a thing in television, especially with the Nickelodeon and
maybe if you have a kid, or you've ever watched
the Disney Channel whatever, you know, the shows will end
and then there would be like some sort of a
snippet of a show or a bumper or like a
(05:17):
small commercial for something. Those are what are called interstitchals,
and those are things that they stitch together other parts
of a brand within you know, their community.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Like after these messages, Well.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But that don't those are the best?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
That was not Nickelodeon, was it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
That was like NBC interstitchs are like things that will
promote like So what we were trying to do is
what we were auditioning for. They were going to do
a Nick Radio like TV show. So we were auditioning for.
This is what I found through my folks and my sources.
They were thinking about building and creating like a program
(05:57):
that ran as like a little.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Promo in between Nickelodeon shows, thing of.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Us doing what we actually do in real life, like
a reality show.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It was almost going to be like a like a
mini younger version of like a TRL, like an interstitual
type of a show. It was going to be like
this like party in the Basement with the Nick Radio DJs.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh my gosh, I'm so glad I never knew this
till now. I would have been devastated because.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It never happened.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So it's had nothing to do with you being on
that show.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
No, but but I will tell you I did find
out also that my audition led to them thinking how
can we work one of our Nick Radio DJs into
other TV shows? And I followed that path and I
kind of Fords that path to try to be the
DJ with.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Nick Radio Rest and Peace. It was such a time.
It was And shout out to Sharon when she was
running the show over there, that was. It was just
a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun.
I remember, I remember the sliming incident. I remember tasting it.
Everyone was like, oh, yeah, it tastes good, and I
was like, no, it's it's definitely.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So it's very chemically.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Did a lot of people ask you during your time
is number they knew?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Like if you knew what the secret ingredients were and
all that.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, people always wanted to know what it was made
out of and what it tasted like. And I can
tell you, I just remember how slippery it was.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, it's it's not a I was always telling people
if you or if we got we got sneezed on
by a dinosaur?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
But I think that also may have been the first
and only time I ever took a shower at the
radio station.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Do you remember what we had party? Yeah, we had
a shower at the radio stage. Did back the cow?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I remember, I do remember.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But I've been slimmed several times since then, and that
was the first, and there were several times afterwards. But
to you know, put a bow on the story. That's
what that audition thinks.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I don't have to be mad at you for getting
a part that I didn't even know that I was
auditioning for. Yeah, don't hat different separate, Oh my god,
what could have been. But I just I love the
fact that we got to take this trip down memory
lane like so much fun. Always. I love hanging out
with you, Max, and I know we're getting ready to
do our little switch over here where I end my
(08:10):
show and then you step into Maxwell's house, so tell
everyone how they can rate you.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Oh, in Maxwell's house on Instagram and threads and all
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Over here we go.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Threads okay, yeh, beatle thread right yeah, and right here
on one of three. Five K to you and thank
you for tuning in for another episode of Life Bites
with Wendy Wild.
Life Bites with Wendy Wild, your bite sized podcast filled
with lifestyle stories, personal stories, and a roundup of stories
Wendy talks about on the radio. Here's Wendy.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Oh my god, it's been a hot minute been.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Where have I been? Yeah? It was it too soon
for me to chime in.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Like I want you to feel comfortable because usually we're
in Maxwell's house, but today we're we're in my space here,
so like not my space, my space like two thousand five. Yeah,
although you would be my.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Topy, would be my top eight.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Yeah, we're like work besties and it's really cute. But
you know it's funny. The other day, Uh, you brought
up this core memory that completely slipped from my brain.
So one thing a lot of people don't know is
Maxwell was actually on a few episodes of the show
De Grassy.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
No, no, it wasn't a grass it Make It Pop.
But no, but that's okay because here's the reason why,
because I was wearing my grassy jacket.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
And then the thing was is that is a fun
fact about Make It Pop and Degrassy. It was filmed
at the same school that Degrassy was filmed out.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It's not that it's not the same show.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
No, it's a totally different show.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's not the show with Drake.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
It's not the show with Drake.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But it was filmed though it was filmed at the
same campus, the same air Quotes campus studio in Canada
that they filmed The Grassy.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
So I was on Make It Pop when DJ Maxwell
I was DJ Max. So were you like you were
just playing yourself or yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
I was playing like a they had a DJ. So
the show real quick synopsis about Make It Pop. It
was about four It was about four students at a
school that was like a I was schooling.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Your parents send you to a school and like what.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
They call it reform school, school military not a military school.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
But when school private, let's say private school. But you
know when you send your kids.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Somewhere rich kids send their kids.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yes, all right, So it was about rich parent school
where actually.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
One of the girls was like from a rich family.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
The other girl was like a YouTuber air quotes YouTube
or she was like a streamer type of person. Another
one was like a boy who was just like a kid,
and there was another girl.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Who was got to get the nerdy one that's there
in a scholarship, so.
Speaker 1 (02:11):
Something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
It was so it was about these these four kids
who wanted to start a K pop group that they
went to the school and they make it pop.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
You know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
It was about a school, right, Oh, okay, Yeah, So
that was the synopsis of the of the show.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And if anybody's watched on Nickelodeon, I think this was
the year twenty fifteen sixteen seventeen. I think it ran
for three seasons or something like that.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Anyway, there was a few episodes where because they were
trying to get their music played, I was the DJ
in this fictional world that was on the radio station
that they were trying to get their music.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Okay, but here's the thing. Okay, we got to rewind
a little bit because you and I something that a
lot of people don't know. This is not the first
time that we've worked together on k TU back in
twenty thirteen minute launch twenty twelve, twenty I have to
look around that time, Maxwell and I were both on
(03:06):
Nickelodeon Radio also known as nick Radio on iHeartRadio, and it.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Lasted for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
It was a lot of fun. Yeah, it was a
lot of fun. Kids loved it. Even adults loved it.
We played most of the same stuff, like the.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
Yeah, and we actually gone slides.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
But here's how this whole thing with you being on
this TV show ties in. I remember one day we
got an email and it was me and you and
it was Erica America and I don't know if Moe
was part of this whole thing. They sent an email
to a few of us and they said, listen, we
want you to audition.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
For this secret project.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I don't remember how they quote how they said it,
but it was so it was so quiet, like it
was really hush hush. So they gave us this random
address and I remember showing up with Erica. It was
very sketchy, and this woman rushes us away, rushes me away,
and she's like, starts doing my hair. She decides that
(04:04):
I'm going to be like the wild one, so she
does my hair like crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
You.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I think you went either before us or after us.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I was there with Erica and they're like, you're going
to be the wild one. And she starts curling my hair,
but it's like a knot. It's like everywhere, and I'm
like okay, And then they set up this fake DJ booth,
I guess or it was like a fake computer. They're like,
can you pretend that you're playing music? Can you pretend
that you're banging pots and pants? I don't remember what
(04:34):
they had with, but I was like, you guys know,
I'm not an actor, right, Yeah, So I found that
Eric and I were like snapping pictures of the monitor
at this time, and I'm like, y'all want.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
To tell us what this is about?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
What are we auditioning for? And like, we can't tell you.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
It's top secret.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
I'm wondering now were we auditioning for the role of
DJ Maxwell.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Well, I have some insight on that. I have some
insight on that audition process thing that we did. So
there's a thing in television, especially with the Nickelodeon and
maybe if you have a kid, or you've ever watched
the Disney Channel whatever, you know, the shows will end
and then there would be like some sort of a
snippet of a show or a bumper or like a
(05:17):
small commercial for something. Those are what are called interstitchals,
and those are things that they stitch together other parts
of a brand within you know, their community.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
Like after these messages, Well.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
But that don't those are the best?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
That was not Nickelodeon, was it.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
That was like NBC interstitchs are like things that will
promote like So what we were trying to do is
what we were auditioning for. They were going to do
a Nick Radio like TV show. So we were auditioning for.
This is what I found through my folks and my sources.
They were thinking about building and creating like a program
(05:57):
that ran as like a little.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Promo in between Nickelodeon shows, thing of.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Us doing what we actually do in real life, like
a reality show.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
It was almost going to be like a like a
mini younger version of like a TRL, like an interstitual
type of a show. It was going to be like
this like party in the Basement with the Nick Radio DJs.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Oh my gosh, I'm so glad I never knew this
till now. I would have been devastated because.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
It never happened.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
So it's had nothing to do with you being on
that show.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
No, but but I will tell you I did find
out also that my audition led to them thinking how
can we work one of our Nick Radio DJs into
other TV shows? And I followed that path and I
kind of Fords that path to try to be the
DJ with.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Nick Radio Rest and Peace. It was such a time.
It was And shout out to Sharon when she was
running the show over there, that was. It was just
a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun.
I remember, I remember the sliming incident. I remember tasting it.
Everyone was like, oh, yeah, it tastes good, and I
was like, no, it's it's definitely.
Speaker 1 (06:59):
So it's very chemically.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Did a lot of people ask you during your time
is number they knew?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Like if you knew what the secret ingredients were and
all that.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, people always wanted to know what it was made
out of and what it tasted like. And I can
tell you, I just remember how slippery it was.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, it's it's not a I was always telling people
if you or if we got we got sneezed on
by a dinosaur?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
But I think that also may have been the first
and only time I ever took a shower at the
radio station.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Do you remember what we had party? Yeah, we had
a shower at the radio stage. Did back the cow?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I remember, I do remember.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
But I've been slimmed several times since then, and that
was the first, and there were several times afterwards. But
to you know, put a bow on the story. That's
what that audition thinks.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
I don't have to be mad at you for getting
a part that I didn't even know that I was
auditioning for. Yeah, don't hat different separate, Oh my god,
what could have been. But I just I love the
fact that we got to take this trip down memory
lane like so much fun. Always. I love hanging out
with you, Max, and I know we're getting ready to
do our little switch over here where I end my
(08:10):
show and then you step into Maxwell's house, so tell
everyone how they can rate you.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Oh, in Maxwell's house on Instagram and threads and all
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Over here we go.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Threads okay, yeh, beatle thread right yeah, and right here
on one of three. Five K to you and thank
you for tuning in for another episode of Life Bites
with Wendy Wild.
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