Episode 191: "Little Rascals 30th Anniversary with Jordan Warkol 'Foggy' & Blake Collins 'Woim' "

On Episode 191 of the Ready 2 Retro Podcast, we are thrilled to welcome guests Jordan Warkol (who played "Foggy") & Blake Collins (who played "Woim") for a special 30th Anniversary Celebration of the The Little Rascals (1994)! In this episode we hear from Jordan and Blake about their experiences on the set, growing up as a child actor in the 1990s, being friends for the majority of their lives and playing Goldeneye on the Ninetendo 64! 

This episode is a must listen to if you are a fan of the film and growing up in the 90s! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ladies and gentlemen, the time has come. Turn your devices
to the maximum volume, sit back, relax, and let's get
ready to retro.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
Yes, Hey, everybody, welcome to episode one ninety one of
the Ready Diretro podcast.

Speaker 3 (00:47):
My name is Max.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
I am your host, and we have a special episode today.
It is a thirtieth anniversary reunion of the Little Rascals
and joining us. First played one, we have Blake Collins
all right, all right, all right, and next you know

(01:09):
him as Froggy, we have Jordan Workle.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Jordan, welcome to Ready Directro.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
How's it going?

Speaker 5 (01:16):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Nice to be here, So first and foremost, Jordan, I'll
ask you first just initial thoughts that this movie is
now thirty years old.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
It's uh, it's pretty crazy. There's nothing I had saying
that I did thirty years ago that isn't like just yeah,
just go to the bathroom, or like just the same
stuck weiled it. It feels weird having like a larger
moment from thirty years ago because didn't mean done. I'm
a little bit older.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Awesome? And what about for you, Blake, what thoughts on
the movie turning thirty?

Speaker 6 (01:46):
It's just a coster reminder that the highlight of my
life was like you know, a long time ago.

Speaker 4 (01:53):
I like to tell my wife that. She goes, oh,
I'm not the highlight of your life. Movie.

Speaker 5 (02:00):
What do you pek? What do you pick when you
when you peak at six? It's hard?

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Yeah, it's hard. You know, it's funny.

Speaker 6 (02:06):
I talked to Travis Tedford Spanky the other day and
he was like, yeah, it's really hard to tell people
that I peaked at six years old.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
It's like a thing that he likes to say. He's
a pretty funny dude.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Well, Alfalfa is always the one to be known for
the hair. But you guys peaked as far as hairstylus,
both of you guys with those mullets going on in
the nineteen you know, ninety four.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
So oh yeah, Jordan and I rocked. The mullet's hard.

Speaker 5 (02:31):
Yeah, I would keep it if if I could.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
Yeah, it was so distinct. Now were those mullets? Were
they part of your look back then or did they
cut it that way?

Speaker 4 (02:44):
I don't know, Jordan. I think that was our follower
decisions of our moms.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
For me, and uh, it got jobs. So I kept
it until it was cut for another another project. But yeah,
if if if I had any, if I had any
and I wouldn't kind of s.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
It's awesome. All right, Well, we're gonna have a lot
of fun today.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
We're gonna talk about, of course, the movie turning thirty
years old, but also what you guys are up to
now and just reflecting on what that time was like.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
But before that, we're gonna put you into the hot seat.

Speaker 2 (03:18):
So this is something that we do with every one
of our guess we put them on the hot seat
and it's just random questions for our listeners to get
to know you. So this is the hot Seat with
Blake and Jordan, and we'll start with Jordan first. Jordan,
what is your favorite movie of all time?

Speaker 5 (03:40):
Big Trouble, Little Jinna?

Speaker 3 (03:42):
Blake?

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Same question, Favorite movie of all time? Point Break, Blake,
TMNT or Power Rangers.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Power Rangers?

Speaker 3 (03:52):
All right, Jordan, same question? Oh nice? Okay, back to Jordan.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Jordan, beside your own, who is your favorite character in
the Little Rascals movie?

Speaker 6 (04:04):
Ah?

Speaker 5 (04:05):
Man, Uh, probably Porky. Probably Porky. Yeah, I'll come back
to the reason why.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Okay, Blake, same question.

Speaker 6 (04:14):
Well, I was gonna say Froggy, but.

Speaker 3 (04:23):
Porky Okay Blake favorite video game growing up as a
kid Golden Eye Nice, same question, Jordan's.

Speaker 5 (04:34):
Same weird Nope, all right.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Next question goes to Jordan's favorite nineties musical artist.

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Man nineties baby probably like their name one nice.

Speaker 6 (04:49):
Blake, Like when when back in the nineties or like
now my favorite artists from the nineties.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Uh, let's say when they were prevalent in the nineties.

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, the Spice Girls.

Speaker 5 (05:01):
Nice.

Speaker 3 (05:02):
That's awesome. Like the Olympics just ended, but if you
had the opportunity to add an event in twenty twenty eight,
what would it be? Would be your Olympic sport?

Speaker 4 (05:14):
Like a new one?

Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
That's a crazy question.

Speaker 3 (05:22):
This is the hot season.

Speaker 6 (05:23):
Yeap up, just random just because it relates to how
Jordan and I grew up.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Parks awesome. That would be too. I would love to
hear why all right, Shortan, what would you add.

Speaker 5 (05:37):
After being to dad?

Speaker 6 (05:39):
Now?

Speaker 5 (05:39):
I like to see like Olympic Daddy, Like you just
have to like Harry and baby and see how many
other things you could do before they start crying and
need you again.

Speaker 3 (05:48):
That would be awesome.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Yeah, like Ziper changing car.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Yeah, I was thinking of that too.

Speaker 5 (05:52):
Yeah, and like yeah, like and different age groups of
you know, the fifty and there's the two year old,
five year old, the baby.

Speaker 3 (06:00):
You just have to let the toddler go and you
see who can pick them up the quickest. That would
be awesome. All right.

Speaker 2 (06:07):
Last question, Jordan, what is one word to describe your
time on The Little Rascals?

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Awesome?

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Same question, Blake. One word to describe your time on.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
The Little Rascals A lot of fun? Awesome?

Speaker 3 (06:19):
All right, Well that was the hot seat with Blake.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
It depends what you happy.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
All right.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
Well let's go with Power Rangers first. So Blake, why
did you choose Powering?

Speaker 6 (06:35):
I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the Ninja Turtles,
but I think Power Rangers was very much our Like
that that small period of time when Jordan and I
were growing up, especially around the time of the Little Rascals,
it was it was everything, Like we had every single toy.

Speaker 4 (06:50):
Uh you know, I feel like we dressed up as
Power Rangers for Halloween. Like it was.

Speaker 6 (06:56):
It was very much the It was the biggest thing
in the world for a very short period of time
at that age, around the time in the Little rascals.

Speaker 5 (07:04):
Yeah, there's there's something about the shows that had like
the really shitty effects, but you didn't realize it, and
then you get to see it when you're older and
you still love it for that reason. So it'll gets
you a second time of like when you look back
and you and you see the like the pretty lunchters
look like actually made a puddy and like those little
like crazy creatures are like like how they've filmed it

(07:25):
seeing it now and it's still entertaining. It's kind of
speaks too. It was changing good then and now you
know it and it's still good.

Speaker 4 (07:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (07:33):
And I think I think probably the first like our
first love of our lives was the Pink Kim.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, you know Amy Joe Johnson.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, oh yeah, Amy Joe Johnson.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
I was like, wow, I like her, So what's crazy is?

Speaker 2 (07:47):
I actually met her in April at C two E
two in Chicago, and it was like a crazy experience,
you know, because I'm like walking towards her to take
a picture.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Well, this is crazy, like my little I can't really
you know, comprehend this. It was a lot of fun.
I don't know if you guys are aware of this.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
But there's actually a Power Rangers convention that happens every
two years called power Morphicon, and it's in Pasadena.

Speaker 4 (08:14):
Oh my god.

Speaker 5 (08:15):
And it's just like iterations of each other in different years.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
It's the biggest Power Rangers convention in the world. It's
every two years and it's all thirty years. So the cast,
like the guy, I know, the guy, his name is
Scott Zilner. This isn't a plug for this, but maybe
it is. Yeah, but yeah, So you have literally hundreds
of talents there and it's a meet and greet. They

(08:39):
have panels and they have anybody from the originals to
you know, the recent ones from like last year and stuff.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
So it's amazed they can have their own Oh.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yeah, yeah, people from all over the world come and
it's it's huge deal. Yeah it was. And what's crazy
is it's still continues.

Speaker 5 (09:00):
You know.

Speaker 2 (09:01):
This is the first time this year was the first
time they haven't released a new season since ninety three.

Speaker 5 (09:06):
So yeah, I think, yeah, they were going to and
then there's some like some issues. I think, right, yeah
it was going to come out and yeah, it.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Was supposed to come out in Netflix, but I guess
there was creative differences or it's on it's on hold
right now. So anyways, that was our Power Rangers rabbit
Hole on a Little Rascals podcasts.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
All right, so let's talk about Porky.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
You both answered Porky as your favorite little rascals in
the movie Blake.

Speaker 4 (09:34):
How come he was so cute?

Speaker 6 (09:36):
I just I feel like he had these epic, like
pretty epic lines in the movie, and he was the
I think he was the youngest out of all of us,
so it was just hilarious to have him around because
like it's just like a baby just running around, just
saying crazy stuff. And you know, he didn't really I
don't think he ever. I mean, I don't think all

(09:56):
of us fully grasped the fact that we were on
like a huge film set for like a you know,
a pretty big movie.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
But he definitely he was a little kid, you know.

Speaker 5 (10:07):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (10:07):
And Zach is just a great dude. He's hilarious, Like
I still talk to him occasionally.

Speaker 4 (10:10):
He's a sweetheart.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yeah yeah, what about for you, Jordan, Yeah, I mean
it was I.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
Think it was like four and a half and it's like,
you don't know in the moment because we're we're not
that much older. But I always remember there's a bunch
of life like filming, and it was kept being his
turn with their line. I think in like the one
of the firefighting scenes were outside and the club wasn't
burning down, and he just didn't want to say his line.
And it's like he's four and a half, you know,
like now I get it, I get it more. I

(10:37):
have a tow an afro, Like he just doesn't want
to do things and and uh, and Penelope is like
the director because like like are you're gonna say the line?
Are you gonna say? He's like, I don't want to
do it. I don't want to then so she came
the line on somebody else, Like looking back to film
a movie with kids, were like that just becomes mops
you have to do in the moment. It's just awesome
because that's why it's like it's like you don't you

(10:59):
don't think of that much at all in the moment
the kid could roll kid, but like that's how you
have to be like a kid want to say his line?
You can't, you can't, you know, send them down and
talk him down. You go, okay, Then who wants who
wants to say?

Speaker 4 (11:11):
Yeah? How come you don't want to say this line, Zach?
What's going on? That actually made it into the Bloopers, right, Jordan.

Speaker 5 (11:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, Like call my agent. I
thin I wouldn't say these words.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
He had the hiccups, right that that was at the end,
He had the hiccups and he's like, I don't want
to say the line.

Speaker 5 (11:27):
You know, it's like just just dealing with like five
to ten kids on average and everything I can't imagine.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Right, And that's what's unique about the little rascals, Like,
for the most part, it's not like you know, the
Mighty Ducks where they're in their you know, preteens or adolescents,
Like these are young children you mentioned, like six to nine, right,
And I think that's what makes it so crazy and hilarious.
And I don't know if you guys caught this, but

(11:55):
now watching it as an adult, I feel like Porky
has a little bit of spice, you know. He was
like that ain't saying oh, kiddy litter. It's like, you know,
the stuff like that just is so funny. Yeah, Porky's
a great character.

Speaker 5 (12:08):
That's why that's why I think it it's days data
is relevant because you can enjoy it for different reasons
of different ages. And there's other comedies like that we
like probably we were in our in our twenties or
or even teens, that you can really like when you
can rewatch something at different five year time periods and
it has a different type of enjoyment. That's the last thing. Movie.
There's like some comedies that are like that, some are not.

(12:31):
You know it much like that or TV seris or
like that, And you know, I think more about that.
Every time a group of years goes buying someone else
tells me how they like it. They're like a kidnap.
I'm like it just it just it's weird hearing it,
but it makes sense.

Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, it's cool.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
Yeah, all right, well let's go to the uh the Olympics. So, Blake,
you said POGs, which I think is actually awesome. Did
you have a big POGs collection back in the day.

Speaker 6 (12:56):
Yeah, dude, My pog collection was crazy. Jordan's was probably bigger,
though he was.

Speaker 4 (13:02):
Jordan and I. Jordan and I went through Jordan. I
really grew up there. That's why this is good with Jordan,
because I mean we were friends before Little Rascals.

Speaker 6 (13:10):
Oh really, Jordan and I have been friends for over
thirty years, like our moms are best friends, like our
families have kind of grown up together.

Speaker 4 (13:16):
So Jordan and I went through a lot of phases together.

Speaker 6 (13:20):
Hoggs was Hoggs was definitely one of them, and uh,
POGs were a big thing at the time, and actually
one of the cool things they made for us when
we did Little Rascals.

Speaker 4 (13:29):
So they made the Little Rascals pog.

Speaker 6 (13:30):
Sheets where we all like a you know, one of
the one of the little POGs with the picture of
us on it. That's the only reason I said it.
I mean, I couldn't really think of any any other
sports that aren't already in the Olympics.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
For Do you still have those those POGs?

Speaker 5 (13:44):
I actually do, I wish I I definitely don't have
them anymore. I remember we went to Fao Schwartz in
Chicago for like a press tour, which feels it feels
weird to say, like, you know, flying flying kids are
throughoute the movie, but like we were throwing hogs down
from like the second story to like other kids.

Speaker 3 (14:06):
That's crazy. Oh that's awesome.

Speaker 5 (14:08):
You have Oh my god, So I'm gonna have to
buy it. On eBay.

Speaker 6 (14:15):
I have a I have like a little rascals kind
of memory box thing with photos and like just some
little things. And so the other day for because it
was like the thirtieth anniversary, obviously.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
I was like, I'm gonna pull some of this stuff
up and share some of it on the internet. So yeah,
I did. And you know there's there's Jordan's that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (14:33):
There is a legend.

Speaker 6 (14:36):
Yeah, that's fantastic.

Speaker 5 (14:40):
All right.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
So last hot seat question. So we're talking about Golden Eye.
So you just mentioned you guys grew up together. So Jordan,
who was the better player?

Speaker 3 (14:49):
You really?

Speaker 5 (14:50):
Oh? Man? It was It was probably my brother who
was laughing as he killed the balls, but probably but
probably Blake. He was he was a little older, but
they got the hang of games a little before me.
I was just I would just run around and just
just fire. But the we had a lot of a
lot of nights playing me and him, a sister, my brother,
and like his other friends just just playing in fifty

(15:11):
four games.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
Yeah, so uh, odd job, Like I know, there's different
house rules. Was he banned? Could the little guy?

Speaker 2 (15:23):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Yeah, he couldn't even see him.

Speaker 4 (15:26):
I don't know if he was banned. Probably not your brother,
probably all the time.

Speaker 5 (15:29):
I just I remember we I don't think I don't
know how common knowledge it was. But when you could
when you when we learned you could throw them mine
and explode them in the air change, it changed the
way we play.

Speaker 2 (15:42):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I just remember like growing up
with my friends, we used to get in like you know,
wrestling fights, and we would like tackle each other if
we used the odd job. So we just decided, hey,
he's banned because he was just like a cheat code,
you know. Uh, especially if you like crouched and stuff.
It's just like, hey, you know you can't do that.

Speaker 3 (16:01):
He's so cheap. But a lot of great moments with GoldenEye.

Speaker 6 (16:05):
Yeah, and I think it's funny that Jordan I both
chose Golden Eye also because I don't know, if you
see it once in a while, like a meme of
like a nineties kids starter pack, like the Perfect Night
on Saturday Night. Oh yeah, it's literally you know, GoldenEye
an N sixty four controller with a rumble pack of
pizza and like a movie from Blockbuster, like that.

Speaker 4 (16:23):
Was that was Jordan I's weekends, Like every weekend.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
That's fantastic.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
All right, Well, we're gonna take a quick break, and
when we come back, we're gonna talk a little bit
about growing up in the nineties and especially we'll talk
about your guys' experience on the Lot Rascals. So we'll
be right back. Listeners, don't go anywhere. All right, we

(17:01):
are back here on ready to retro.

Speaker 3 (17:03):
We are with.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
Blake Collins and Jordan Warkle. Jordan, I actually have something
I wanted to show you in particular. This is actually
not the first time we've met. Oh good Okay, I
want to show you a picture. Let me pull it up.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
Everybody.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
This is from nineteen ninety four. There I am next
to PD Can.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
You get see?

Speaker 4 (17:27):
No way? Where is this?

Speaker 2 (17:29):
So my recollection is this is Sam Goodies at Universal
Studios at City Walk and I think this is the
VHS release.

Speaker 6 (17:41):
Oh this is so cool, just saying Sam Goodies even
like a ghost of our past.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
So I remember.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
Meeting you specifically because I had a headshot of you
signed and I have I don't know where it is,
to be honest, it's probably somewhere in Mike or it's
lost take no offense, but yeah, I you know it's
one of those things where I remember it through pictures.

(18:09):
It's like one of those memories like I vaguely remember,
but yeah, there you are at a VHS release and
there I am so uh, this is our actually our
second time.

Speaker 5 (18:21):
I only remember. I remember like fo shorts pretty well,
like that whole flight and tour. And then was it
Heroaldo that we were on?

Speaker 4 (18:31):
No, it was Danny bona Ducci.

Speaker 5 (18:33):
No, no, no, the talk show where he had our
former Rascal actors from the from the original. Are you
sure I thought that was Heroaldo in there?

Speaker 4 (18:42):
Oh dude, do you know you're right? That was Roaldo.
Danny Bonaducci was another one.

Speaker 5 (18:46):
All the all the all the guys that are now
looking back like oh, they're just taking advantage, you know,
for them. But like Heroldo, I don't know if he
was like Jerry Springer kind of head, but I felt
like it was weird. I didn't have anyone who think
they were well.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
Proggy died right, he was like sixteen when he passed away.

Speaker 5 (19:04):
Which there's still like a lot of people on TikTok
when they do the word they now, a few of
them like have a grade for me, and and like
one guy has like you had like ten million views
and he's like, look like, oh my god, Proggy's death. Right.
I popped in They like, you know, I'm like, hey,
I'm from here. I'm alive. You do some research o.
People are like, oh my god, you're alive. Okay, But

(19:25):
it's kind of funny because on TikTok there's way more
viewership on any like nineties you know, like video or
fandom stuff.

Speaker 3 (19:32):
Right, that's crazy.

Speaker 6 (19:34):
Well, when they do wherever they now, for me, it's
usually like some random.

Speaker 5 (19:40):
Sometimes dude, they use dance sometimes, you know my brother
in law.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
No for me, Oh yeah, well that's crazy. Yeah. So
so you said you don't remember that at all.

Speaker 5 (19:53):
No, I'm not even sure. I've never been in the
stamping goodies.

Speaker 2 (19:56):
Okay, yeah, well there is uh, there's proof that we
have met before. So I think that was the first
time I watched the movie. Was like getting that VHS
and watching it and it was on just repeat.

Speaker 3 (20:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:11):
So I want to ask you Blake during that time,
what were you like as a kid, Like, what were
you into talk?

Speaker 3 (20:17):
Golden Eye? Yeah, how would you describe yourself.

Speaker 6 (20:23):
If you looked up like a d d adhd in
the like the in the dictionary always be a.

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Picture of me.

Speaker 6 (20:30):
I was insane. I had a massive amount of energy.
I think I used up a lot of my energy
at that It's because I'm a pretty chill person now.
I was always talking. I was always like, you know,
making up wild stories. I was just I was a
nutty little kid. And I think that's what was my

(20:50):
charm of why I got jobs.

Speaker 5 (20:52):
I was.

Speaker 4 (20:52):
I was very outgoing.

Speaker 6 (20:54):
You know, I'd be the first one to jump on
it on a table and start dancing like you know,
I was.

Speaker 4 (20:59):
I was a wild kid.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, a little performer.

Speaker 6 (21:02):
Huh yeah, crazy little redheaded step child.

Speaker 3 (21:08):
But it was the mullet that just you know, made
it perfect.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
Bullet was pretty HAPPI yeah.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
What about for you, Jordan, how would you decide yourself
at that age?

Speaker 5 (21:17):
I think pretty similar. I get the why we you
We both were like actors at the same time, and
and you know, I was just running all over the place.
And I think if if you, if you were acting
like that, then everyone would tell your mom, like you
should put him, you should put him at actings. You
have me an agent, and I just I had a
lot of energy. I talked a lot, don't talk a lot,

(21:40):
have a lot of questions, probably know a lot of people,
and just uh, we got like a really annoying hit
that just ran around acting like crazy and with a
mullet that people would confuse me, like I think you're
going to the wrong bath I think you're going to
the wrong bathroom, always say. But I got I got

(22:00):
that one a lot. It wasn't like look you get
pull up the ball. Mine was like really long, right
and then blug bangs.

Speaker 3 (22:08):
Oh man, dude, yeah the bull cut. I had one
as well. You just saw it. You just saw me
with min The.

Speaker 5 (22:13):
Ball cut is different than like cool spiky hair, right.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
My sweet spiky hair.

Speaker 5 (22:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:20):
So let's talk a little bit about just your friendship.
So uh that was used to me. I didn't know
that you guys knew each other before. So, uh, Jordan,
how did your families get to know one another?

Speaker 5 (22:32):
I think it was just from audition, right, We just
kept seeing each other like at that time. You'd see
It's like when you hear like Matt Damon and and
that kind of crew talk about how they'd see the
same people in audition relies and like except when your kids,
you're you're you're playing with people and you're having fun.
It's not like you're competing for each other the way
it was like if you're in your twenties. So we

(22:54):
all just became friends and I'm sure mom's rapping and
make more friends and just you know, see each other
and we just got really close or our families were
closed and then uh, then we moved near each other
Apple little Rabble that we're in the same like uh,
same community in the valley and uh in l A
and just grow up friends. So like all the all
the nineties stuff, all the collecting cards or power Rangers

(23:16):
and stuff like you know, we just said, you know,
grew up the Coldent together.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
So instead of like growing up you know, playing baseball
or doing boy Scouts or something, it's it was acting George.

Speaker 4 (23:31):
We were going to be in the NBA together, like
we had some serious.

Speaker 5 (23:33):
Plan, you know. Yeah, we were gonna Yeah. And then
the hoops get become a fee when you're older, and.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
It changes things, yea, changes things a little bit. The
six foot hoop we were the best.

Speaker 5 (23:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we commented, hoop done well.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
Blake in pictures, do you look like you were the
tallest kid on set.

Speaker 4 (23:52):
I was, Yeah, I think I was at the time. Yeah,
are you not now?

Speaker 5 (23:58):
Are you still not?

Speaker 4 (23:59):
I don't know. I feel like last time I saw
a bug, bug's pretty tall.

Speaker 5 (24:05):
I don't want to make it. I don't want to
make any jokes. Yeah, he's kind of tough.

Speaker 6 (24:08):
Yeah, I guess I'm tall, like six to one, so.

Speaker 2 (24:12):
Okay, okay, So I I saw just going through your
IMDb it says your listed at six four, but you're
six one of.

Speaker 5 (24:21):
The NBA really tall put that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
Yeah, it says you're height is like six four, you know,
so six to one. So that's big news.

Speaker 4 (24:33):
I'm a big mystery, you know, I don't know six
six four. Then you probably still wouldn't get it to
the NBA even if.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
So, even after the Little Rascals, you guys continue to
be friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fun. What are some
of the core memories you have with one another? Uh
post that age, like you guys hang out as teenagers.

Speaker 6 (25:01):
Yeah, like, yeah, we're still I mean he just swipped
to my wedding like six months ago.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
Yeah, that's like Jordan and we've been reading a long time.

Speaker 6 (25:09):
Yeah, that's what was fun, Like what's a good one, Jordan,
I don't know, like some good memories. I don't know,
like the card shows we see the lot of sports
cards shows.

Speaker 5 (25:18):
Yeah, it's hard to it's hard to say like specific
moments versus just like long periods of time, like every
Sunday or once a month we go to like these
these collectible shows for trading card. Yeah, like like like
one of our dads to take us. We did some
trips together really just like a lot of like all
the stuff that you would do with your friends, like
like yeah, really just normal stuff. It's like, I feel

(25:40):
like it would be very specific les moment.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
If it was just like you t dun talk right, right,
So you guys were just you know, good friends and
just was it was normal. Yeah, that's awesome. That's cool
to hear. So, Jordan, how did you get into acting?
How did you get into the business.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
I started with beauty pet My mom had a friend
that put these up. I'm trying to think. I don't
know if they were like like in the back of
the ball or something weird, but they were just like
like normal beauty pageants. And because she kept hearing like,
oh he's outgoing, you should put some one act like
that was just the thing you said. In the nineties,
there wasn't social media. It was a lot easier because

(26:18):
you get an agent, you actually auditioned, and then did
you get lucky, they start getting some parts and just billballs.
You didn't have to have any like any self creation talent.
How you do now? So I did the beauty pageants,
kind of proved that I would be crazy in front
of an audience, and then got an agent. Then pretty
much from one commercial to the open casting call of

(26:41):
a little rascle in that marathon, it's just a snowball
from there.

Speaker 3 (26:45):
That's awesome. What about for you, Like, how'd you get
into it?

Speaker 6 (26:50):
Definitely not beauty pageants? It was really cute. I actually
it's funny that he's.

Speaker 4 (26:56):
Mentioned that because I remember the picture on his fridge
growing up and he's in the Little White Red Students
in the World.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
Another one to talk about Jordan's Yeah, yeah, the Gold
Coast Rummer. Yeah.

Speaker 6 (27:08):
So I was in pre school and uh, I had
a friend in pre school whose dad was starting a
talent agency. And like I said, I was an absolutely insane,
like very hyperactive, very ongoing kid, and he was was
just kind of scouting out kids at the school and

(27:29):
I was the only redheaded a kid and he asked
me to go out on an addition, it.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
Was for a Burger King commercial and I got it.
It was for Aladdin. It was like Aladdin. Oh okay,
there's a little little throwback for you.

Speaker 3 (27:41):
Is that on YouTube?

Speaker 4 (27:43):
Yeah? Probably?

Speaker 3 (27:44):
Okay, gotta check that one out.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
I put a few of them on my Instagram, a
few of those old commercials, but uh, okay.

Speaker 3 (27:49):
Cool.

Speaker 6 (27:50):
So it was kind of similar thing as Jordan, Like,
you know, it kind of snowballed from there. I did
I did you know a handful of commercials and then
the casting called Little Rascals Have and.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
I got the part.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
You know, yeah, that's awesome. So like, what are you
doing now? What are you up to?

Speaker 2 (28:07):
Now?

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Are you still in the business? Like what do you
what do you do?

Speaker 5 (28:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (28:10):
I'm a I'm a cameraman.

Speaker 6 (28:11):
I've been a cameraman for like fifteen years, almost fifteen years.
It's TV movies and stuff, and you know, so I've
pretty much been in the film industry my entire life.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
To something great that it's cool, it's it's it's part
of who I am. It's part of my identity, and
you know, I enjoy it.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
What was enticing about being behind the camera rather than
being in front of the camera, for you.

Speaker 6 (28:37):
Well, after high school I went and got a bunch
of silly tattoos and stuff. So I don't know, like
if my acting.

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Career was you know, I don't know. It just it
just it.

Speaker 6 (28:45):
Never really, it never really appealed to me after high
school to go back and acting. I stopped when I
went to high school because I just want to have
a normal childhood. It was hard getting picked up every
day from school early, you know, and you're missing a
lot of school, and like you're constantly going to Hollywood
and Santa Monica and auditions all day, getting your hair done.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Like it's a job, you know, and that's.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
Not what you want to do at twelve, thirteen, fourteen
years old. You know, I want to I want to
hang out with my friends. I want to I want
to chase girls, I want to play sports, you know.
But it really was a job, like it's it's and
you have to it's it's every day. Almost So after
high school, I I had a friend whose dad was

(29:28):
a DP, A big he was a big cinema photographer,
in the early nineties and he had actually shot a
bunch of commercials that I was in. So he was like, hey, like,
are you interested in doing camera And I was like, yeah, sure,
So he gave me a job as a camera pa.
And you know, fifteen years later and still doing it.

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Awesome. That's fantastic. Awesome.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
What about for you, Jordan, are you still in the
industry or what do you what are you.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
Up to know?

Speaker 5 (29:53):
I guess like in a in a kind of way,
we're so our company we build stream applications, So I'm
in like the business side of the entertainment space where
we build the technology to build applications that are like
Netflix or Hulu but kind of more nee streamers and uh,
and then other forms of content that just are being

(30:14):
streamed by people on n connected TVs and tablets and stuff.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
Got it. So are you retired officially from acting? Never?

Speaker 5 (30:24):
I mean yeah, I mean I stopped like like like
early college and uh. For me, I would always go
back and just like fun stuff for comedy or like podcast,
like something that you could do on your own and
kind of like and decide how you want to do
it versus ever like acting and go through like auditioning again,

(30:47):
like that that is not appealing at all.

Speaker 3 (30:50):
Yeah, uh, as you Jordan and Blake kind of mentioned it.
But when you're coming out of that, you know, elementary age,
and you're going into like early adolescents, you're in middle school. Uh,
did you feel like you wanted to disassociate yourself with
little rascals? Was that like, oh, that's when I was
a kid, Like I'm a different person, Like what was

(31:13):
what was your relationship growing up with little rascals?

Speaker 5 (31:17):
I think it's it's what happened over like different phases.
So like, yeah, and in middle school, no one really
cared as much in my school, but I think almost
like you look back, probably more like jealousy because like
they knew you would leave and come back and kind
to do that. They didn't really care or maybe probably
understand that. It's like high school. They like to be

(31:38):
friends with you and and and tell other people that
they're friends with the route goal, but I'm not. I'm
not draw much. They cared, and then in college it
was like all my friends, it was a pick apply,
but it became fun again in college care except when
they're allowed, like hey, do you remember who this guy is?
And like obviously, now what like none of us looked
the exact same except except like them. But they like,

(32:00):
oh you recognize this first, They're like no, they keep
they keep asking questions and you sit there for like
five minutes, but they don't recognize. You're like, okay, just
stop and just it just gets the worst and worse.
But I don't think I ever wanted to be like
it just is still a kid from it. I think
I got to appreciate it more as I got older,
and now I'm like way happier to you know, talk

(32:20):
about it or people ask about it. It's it's fun.
And then it's just I can see how many people
actually appreciate it. Instead it was like you know, something
they liked that they always like to watch and kind
of like you know, how you shared your story at
the beginning, you know, stuff like that's fun to hear.

Speaker 3 (32:36):
Awesome you were not in your head, Blake. Do you
feel the same about it, like as far as your
experience with little rascals growing up?

Speaker 6 (32:45):
Yeah, when I realized I could use it to like,
you know, as a pickup liner, but uh, yeah, it's funny.

Speaker 4 (32:54):
It was.

Speaker 6 (32:54):
There was a there was like a period like it
was ups and downs, like it was, Oh, this is annoying.
I'm so tired of like people bringing this up and
and you know, eventually, like especially now, like I welcome
and I love to talk about it because it is
it is a pretty special thing. Like you know, uh,
this movie is like transcended generations. Like you know, there's

(33:14):
people our age whose kids are watching it and their
kids love it now and that's a pretty cool thing
to be a part of, you know, and it's uh,
it's something we'll have for the rest of our lives.
Like you know, all these photos and all these memories
in this this movie that's kind of timeless.

Speaker 4 (33:28):
You know, there's there's there's.

Speaker 6 (33:29):
Nothing about the movie that's like you look back and go, oh,
that's kind of weird, Like you know, that doesn't really
hold up with this time.

Speaker 4 (33:35):
I don't think Maybe I'm wrong, Jordan.

Speaker 5 (33:37):
Well no, I don't think. Look, I don't think there
is and I there is something too. There's a lot
of other actors that that act for a lot of years,
maybe work as much as us. Yeah, but you don't
have something like that. It's almost like it almost would
feel a little a little different and less not a
negative way because for us, like it's nice to have
had wealth, like so big that laugh. But the only time,

(33:59):
the only time I would get no. One growing up
is when you'd say you're an actor, you've done something,
and then I one was like, yeah, I'm an actor too,
and they're like, but they're the people that came out
here to be an actor. They don't have an agent.
They don't So that was the only time I would
never be like, look, I don't want to say anything.
I've worked, I have an agent. Like it's it's it's
like now saying you're like if you're a creator versus

(34:22):
like an influencer. With following there was a different you
should be able to qualify for the word you you
identify yourself with.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Yeah, like you don't know who I am. I'm froggy.

Speaker 5 (34:34):
I didn't. I didn't want to have to say this,
but you're making.

Speaker 3 (34:39):
Oh it's funny, uh that the fact that you guys
use it as a pickup line, and it's funny just
the irony because you know, Jordan, your character was in
a he Man Woman Haters clip, so it's like, you know,
girls are yucky and here you are flipping on its
head and trying to get it as a pickup line.

Speaker 5 (34:55):
Yeah, well, I think the I think the irony is
is used as a pickup line for people to remind
themselves of the moments when they're child watching you as
a child, and yet that's for you and called at
that time like that that I to grapple with, like
when when when a girl will be like, oh my god,
that's so cool. And they liked you that night because
of that. They like you because the member of you

(35:16):
when you're when you're set, weird, weird. There's a lot there.

Speaker 4 (35:21):
I don't want to unpact that right now.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
No, no, no.

Speaker 5 (35:24):
We don't need we don't need to and and and
those moments. I was just happy to say, I'm happy
you were a fan.

Speaker 3 (35:30):
Yeah, awesome.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
Well we're gonna take another break and when we come back,
we're gonna get into the weeds of Little rascal Is
having a great time with Blake and Jordan. All Right,

(35:55):
we were back here on ready to retro. We are celebrating
the threieth annivers of the Little Rascals. Blake, I want
to ask you, what do you remember about your audition?
If if you remember that process.

Speaker 4 (36:07):
I actually I gotta be honest.

Speaker 6 (36:09):
I really don't remember the audition, But what I do
remember is the getting the call that we got the job.

Speaker 5 (36:18):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (36:19):
We were we were somewhere in Hollywood. I was in
the backseat of my mom's car. We were going out
on auditions and my agent, my agent like page to
my mom right because it was I think pages were
a thing, and my mom had a car phone, an
actual like this nineties, like the actual car phone, you know.
I was in the middle console those are yeah, with

(36:41):
the court and everything, and you kind of had to.
You kind of had to when you were like a
child actor because you were getting called, like you get
a call, a hey, can you go to this audition
right now?

Speaker 4 (36:49):
Like you know, it's constant. It was you know, it
was work. But we got the call and they told
us we got the part, and we went ballistic. It
was awesome. It was like like everything changed.

Speaker 6 (36:58):
We knew everything changed, Uh, in my life from that
moment on, it was pretty cool. I do I remember
that moment, but I actually I don't remember the audition
at all.

Speaker 3 (37:07):
What about for you, Joran, do you remember the process
of getting the role?

Speaker 5 (37:11):
I do, because it was like a more of a Marathon.
I first auditioned for for Alfalfa, and I did a
number of times. I dyed my hair and did the
end of the cal like and I kept going in.
And what's weird, remember right now, my my acting coaches
were Blake Lively's parents, because the whole family was in

(37:33):
the industry and their coaches and her mom and dad
were like known acting coaches, especially for kids. So they
helped me with like my early roles, and they helped
me well in that and we would like rewrite the pages,
and they liked me for Alfalfa. But Bug I think
was the oldest or second oldest maybe with you and Sam,

(37:54):
and he was tallest, and because of the role that
they wanted someone older because every year or two you
can work some more hours and the day as a kid,
and then they want that, you know, the leader of
the of the movie to be also taller than the
rest of the kids as the leader of the club.
So they brought me in for I think for Butcher.
Even they like because like when kesher like she like
just trying to pitch you in at some point and

(38:15):
then uh, dad was like he knew the original movies
or the original show that he was like to put
on the classes and say you're a thrug agents goal
like bad. And then the next tion I went in
and like, hey, you might also like me for this,
and I like put on glasses and I just and
I guess they they had someone already hired. But I
think I think all of us is how I remember,

(38:36):
I always had something in our contract that like in
the first two weeks either we weren't paid or we
could be like replaced. And I assume it's because everyone
was like so young that maybe it was like a
like thing to be careful with. And then that's where
my life and whoever this person's life was went a
different direction.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
That's crazy, that's crazy. And then yeah, but I just
learned this last night that actually that's not your voice
in the movie. That's eg Daily it is.

Speaker 5 (39:06):
It is h and I the voice of Tomic Pickles
and yeah, we love Yeah, it's the It's the first
question I get asked all the time. And at some point,
like I think, like high school just started answering questions
in the way to see how far people could like
would believe me. So I would always say and I
still do, and people sometimes believe I'll be like I

(39:28):
was in I was one of the earlier method actors
and I I really told my said, no, look, I
don't want you to get into my voice. I will
do this. And I my mom and you know had
went by me like the figure at the day and
I just I just rehearsed, reheardhearth smoke all day and
really got into character. Really unhealthy. But you know when

(39:49):
you really look, when you love your craft, so you
do and people would believe me, They forget like you're six.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
Yeah, that's crazy for art. For the art because there's
a video online of when Entertainment Tonight was on set
and there's a little clip of your actual voice and
you say, let's give alf alfa big smoleoli. But it's
not the raspy voice that.

Speaker 5 (40:16):
Was like it's like a four year girls place.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Yeah, and it's like you know it's there, it's it's
on video of your voice.

Speaker 5 (40:25):
I think that's I think that's also. I don't remember.
I like they went to set eat and they were
like walking up. I think I grabbed the camera and
I put my faith in the camera, like all your
people out there are crazy.

Speaker 4 (40:42):
I do remember when he was there that was fun.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
This moment in my brain though, I was taking a
bath at home, like and this is like I was
like six or seven, and I hear my mom like
screaming because it was on TV. They aired me telling
everyone out there that they're crazy, and oh that was funny.

Speaker 4 (41:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (41:02):
Actually the interviews on YouTube, it's uh, it's on there
right now.

Speaker 4 (41:06):
Yeah, I have it's pretty funny.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
So, Blake, is there any kind of core memories or
anything that you remember being on the set.

Speaker 4 (41:18):
Yeah, there's a lot. Uh.

Speaker 6 (41:20):
One in particular that I think it's funny. And when
we were doing the mud scene when when uh, Sam
slot Butch and I had to jump in the mud
right there, it was it was really cold and in
between takes they had to hose us off and then
like you know, redress us and stuff. But there was

(41:44):
like a brand new housing track across the street, and
someone had the idea, oh, let's just go into one
of these houses and we'll shower them in there, and uh,
the the houses didn't have hot water yet, so we
were freezing cold showers like just screaming and and destroying
these brand new houses just with mud everywhere.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
Because that's child abuse.

Speaker 4 (42:04):
Yeah, right, that that was. That was funny. And then
I don't know, I remember us always like chasing.

Speaker 6 (42:13):
I mean we would actually like try and catch lizards
on set, like like you know, we all we all
were just playing all the time.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
It was the best time, just you know, kids just
having a good time.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
And I was going to ask you about that. You
mentioned the mud, but you were covered in blue paint.
You had pickles thrown on you. That wasn't even there,
you know, the original cut. It was you know, post
credits you were put in the mud. I hope you
got paid extra to do all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (42:42):
I don't have to ask my mom.

Speaker 2 (42:45):
Yeah, because I mean, you do you remember that, like
just being covered.

Speaker 4 (42:49):
In blue whaint.

Speaker 6 (42:50):
I remember all that stuff, like after the paint. I
actually I drove home covered in paint and they're like, oh,
just we'll just take them home and just shower them
at home because our trailers, our trailers didn't have showers
in them.

Speaker 4 (43:05):
Uh, you're good. Yeah, that was kind of fun.

Speaker 5 (43:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (43:17):
I guess I did get I did get a little
bit abused on that movie.

Speaker 4 (43:20):
Hot.

Speaker 2 (43:22):
Now we're unpacting childhood Trauma. So Jordan, what's funny is
you're very first scene.

Speaker 3 (43:28):
You open the door, it's p D and you're trying
to read the letter and the dog is like licking
your face and you could tell like you're trying to dodge.
It was that totally uh improblem was like you looked
annoyed as as as a viewer.

Speaker 5 (43:45):
Man, I don't know, but it probably was. I'm not
sure if you get you asked people to do that,
it probably was. I don't know how all those tough,
but like four or five year old and younger.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
Yeah, yeah, and you had a monkey on your lap,
you had like a lizard. You were interacted with a
lot of Yeah.

Speaker 5 (44:07):
There were there were two. I kept them and there
they grow a very big, like crazy and I kept
them for years.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
I want to ask you guys about this scene where
the clubhouse is burning down.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
There's look, there's actual fire there.

Speaker 2 (44:28):
Uh. It just looks kind of crazy when you see
a bunch of like eight year olds and their fire everywhere,
but a pretty memorable seed. Jordan, and you were there specifically,
do you remember uh that said or that time which
is all the fire and stuff.

Speaker 5 (44:44):
I remember having aware of the heavy wardrobe. I think
it was the firefighters suits and just like heavy wardrobe.
It was hot. I don't even know how they would
film to like if they would film that scene like
real fire and all that kind of stuff, but that
many kids, I like, they'd be too scared, Like I
think that I was. Probably the benefit is like it
was a little more relaxed to be able to fright
film this movie in the nineties, and I think doing

(45:05):
it now would probably act for too many checks and
balances on that that there were probably plenty because it
was all it was all fun experiences. But I wonder
if they would still film that feat today in the
same way it was hard. I'm sure look hard for them.

Speaker 2 (45:20):
Oh yeah, it's crazy because I'm sure there's you know,
perspective shots in there, but it looks like you're pretty
close when you're throwing the bucket and there's no water
in it.

Speaker 3 (45:30):
It's like it's real flames and stuff.

Speaker 5 (45:32):
Yeah, that's a crazy scene. And the idea of like
it's like actually Hunter Clubhouse is pretty funny. Yeah, there are.

Speaker 6 (45:38):
A lot of professional filmmakers on set or know what
they're doing, and uh, you know, that's their job.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
To make it look crazy.

Speaker 5 (45:46):
That's a crazy filmed out the director. You kind of
take a like a break after that.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
Probably what's wild is she went from like Wayne's world
to you guys, so but it was probably.

Speaker 5 (45:57):
All black, like black shape with Chris Farlow.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
That's right. Yeah, yeah, that's funny.

Speaker 2 (46:03):
I have to mention it because it's you know, current events.
But Blake, one of your fellow cast members, ended up
being the President of the United.

Speaker 5 (46:13):
States holding black joke.

Speaker 6 (46:20):
I guess that's is that the only like I guess
that's the only thing from the movie that's like kind
of did in the age.

Speaker 3 (46:25):
Well, yeah, that's.

Speaker 5 (46:29):
Definitely the one thing. I mean, it was like looking
back at what was word I said, he's liked you
in the future.

Speaker 4 (46:36):
I tell everyon I tell everybody that he gave us
twenty bucks each. He gave us all twenty bucks, like
I'll call him, call him.

Speaker 5 (46:50):
Buying that that that boat years in the event.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
Yeah, did you guys get to meet him?

Speaker 4 (46:55):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (46:55):
Yeah, he was there.

Speaker 5 (46:58):
What's crazy? Uh? Thank you? That was supposed to be
John Candy.

Speaker 3 (47:04):
Oh wow, I think he must have died.

Speaker 5 (47:06):
I think he literally died, Like I think it was
a week or two before it was right, It was
really recent Yeah, and like I didn't realize like that
would have been a really big cameo.

Speaker 4 (47:15):
Yeah, really was.

Speaker 5 (47:16):
He was really famous at that point.

Speaker 6 (47:18):
Really appreciate It took a long time for me to
actually appreciate something the cameos, like I mean Donald Trump
to me back then, he's like, oh, this is just
like the richest guy in the world. I don't know,
And like Darrel Hannah, I didn't know who Darryl Hannah
was or mel Brooks, like mel Brooks is a legend.

Speaker 5 (47:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I realized, like who's this I don't
know who this guy is.

Speaker 3 (47:39):
He's still alive, which is crazy crazy.

Speaker 6 (47:42):
Well, you know, and then who also, like the was
a few there was the actress from Back to the Future,
like we.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
Had Leah Thompson.

Speaker 6 (47:50):
Yeah, yeah, we had a lot of pretty crazy cameos
that you know. It took me a long time ago.

Speaker 5 (47:56):
Once I saw her at a Laker game like that
I was at and like I walked over and she
like remembered and like she was super nice. I think
was was it was Magic Johnson in it or supposed
to be in it.

Speaker 4 (48:11):
I don't remember.

Speaker 5 (48:12):
But there are a bunch of cameos. Yeah, Yeah, it's
pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (48:16):
It's funny that Leah Thompson when I mean she's like,
you know, ten years removed from Back to the Future.

Speaker 5 (48:21):
But oh she was the valley teacher.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Yeah, she was getting changed and Blake walks in on her.

Speaker 4 (48:28):
We had Mary Kate and Ashley Dude.

Speaker 3 (48:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:30):
We also had the all the tourists on the UH
on the Universal lot. We like wave when they were
driving by. This was also wasn't a film during the earthquake.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
Yeah, we had an earthquake there.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
We got we got, we got picked up afterwards.

Speaker 6 (48:44):
I remember the northrod An earthquake happened while we were
while we were shooting.

Speaker 5 (48:47):
And we just kept kept filming the next couple of days,
like we got picked up in bands. I remember, like
I always remember that, Like that seems it seems so
casual to us, like but like realizing people were out
of like job, like they're a home under damage and
like we're just going to work a film, a movie,
Like imagine that messing with your production. Out You're on.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
You're welcome, You're welcome.

Speaker 3 (49:08):
Okay, that's a dedication at eight years old. Yeah, that's crazy.
Well I want to ask you guys as we wrap
this up.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
But ten years ago, you guys did this giant twentieth anniversary,
and I just want to talk about that. I mean,
that was ten years ago, but Blake, can you just
tell our listeners the significance of getting the gang back together?

Speaker 3 (49:35):
Twenty years ago?

Speaker 2 (49:36):
You guys did a photo shoot, you did some some
interviews and things like that.

Speaker 3 (49:40):
What was that like to be together?

Speaker 6 (49:42):
It was cool, man, Like it's crazy to think about that. Like,
you know, even ten years ago, I was a completely
different person. You know, it was it was really special
for us all to get back together. And I think
it's it's we all have this bond and no matter
how different some of us are, or you know how
much some of us don't talk, you know, if we
get back together, it's like we have this very very

(50:04):
special bond that like it transcends like whatever there the
period they're at their life or political.

Speaker 4 (50:10):
Beliefs or whatever whatnot. It's pretty cool that we all
share that.

Speaker 6 (50:14):
And it's it's easy to be around each other. Yeah,
you know, And I hope we do something like that again,
Like I'd love to do a thirtieth Like it'd be
so cool to get us all back together, but you know,
we'd have to have someone pay for it. We all
do different, Like Jordan and I lived close to each other,
but like a lot of a lot of a lot
of the others live out of state or you know,

(50:34):
like Jordan have kids.

Speaker 4 (50:35):
You know most of us are married, I think, right,
you know, but that'd be really cool to do it.

Speaker 6 (50:40):
So if there's anybody out there willing to organize it,
we'd be in.

Speaker 4 (50:44):
You got two of us here.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
I'm a little surprised there wasn't anything, to be honest
with you.

Speaker 5 (50:49):
I mean, I think it's because I'm trying to blank.
But that the guy that every child told like he
was really cool and I think he put those on yeah,
and he there. I don't know if he covered it
himself or be as a company or if it was
like he did it with E and somehow it was
like covered that way. But like like I said, there's
a lot of logistics, there's flights, there's hair and makeup

(51:12):
and wardrobe crew to get it before and after photos,
and like it was, it was a very well organized
and professional like from when someone first reached out, like
you never know what to think of I get reached
out for the like the random things over the years,
and I'm sure you do blake and like it's like
you never know what to believe in, Like that one
was like way way classier and like more organized than

(51:33):
I thought it was gonna be from the first message.
And you didn't know getting everyone together was going to
be like a bunch of friends getting back because you
share a moment at like at something that old you
didn't and like if you asked almost experience, it's not
gonna be that far different because we're all a kid
that like whether we continue with acting or many of
us who didn't, we had no idea what we were
doing and probably only learn the significance as we got older.

(51:56):
And I'm sure everyone had different levels of appreciation over
the and I'm sure like as we all get into
our thirties and you know, and appreciate different things. I'll
stop with thirty.

Speaker 4 (52:08):
Yeah, on the wrong side, almost like as you start to.

Speaker 5 (52:12):
Appreciate that, like it puts a different perspective over the years,
Like the way I looked at it ten years ago
still very different, I do not.

Speaker 3 (52:19):
Yeah, yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Yeah what I'm hearing you guys say, It's like it
was such a formative thing in your lives obviously, but
also like the friendships, it just bonded you. And I
think like in my own life, I have two best
friends who we have friendship for twenty five thirty years now,

(52:43):
and it's those core memories that you make as a kid,
and I think it takes intentionality to continue that. You
have to be open for that because you know, friends,
especially when your kids, they tend to fade away or
you change and things like that. But the fact that
you guys are still friends and still hanging out, that's awesome.

Speaker 3 (53:03):
It's awesome to see.

Speaker 2 (53:04):
And I think there's something especially about the time that
we grew up in that the pop culture, like like
GoldenEye or you know, the movies we watch, brought us together.
And I think that's why there's so many nostalgia podcasts
and there. You know, it's more than just like, hey,
the nineties were cool, but it's something that really brought
a generation together.

Speaker 5 (53:24):
I don't I don't think the newer generations happen as much.
Like I think moments are more living now than they were,
Like how GoldenEye and video games was like a bigger thing,
Like now there's a bunch of games people play, but
I don't think gaming is as culture as much of
a culture as it is the right Filming videos of
you playing games and talking on like on the stream

(53:45):
is different. You know, I'm still amazed, Like I think
I think Netflix should be doing a reunion. It's like
I keep every time every time I see on that
movie like the Lidderle Mascal's rank in the top ten
over the last five years, I will be happy, like
we need to do something out of it. And I
feel like that someone like that could have done or

(54:06):
could still do a reunion that like, you know, the lowest,
the lowest cost thing you could do to get a
very organic and like I think fun experience like like this,
there are fun stories of different age groups, and it's
like it's just really fun to hear people talk about it.
And I think the age we're at, it's like it's
a fun time to hear it just because it's you know,

(54:26):
it's very relatable. I just think that's what's cool. It's
like even you talk about like it's just it's all
the it's all the same, just we all different versions
mm hmm.

Speaker 4 (54:35):
Yeah, Max, if you could get this in Netflix come.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
On all right, Yeah, well you were you were talking
about it earlier, Jordany, You're like, you know, so many
people reach out to us, and I was like, oh,
I'm one of those truthful no.

Speaker 5 (54:46):
No, but I mean, like you never, I'm always very careful.
I say yes to one. I feel bad saying no,
but it's yeah, it's it's more, you know, like doing
it this way is a great idea. It was a
lot more fun to Like, I'm not a big fan
of sharing the same stories about it over and over
and over because like I've called a bunch of people,

(55:07):
you know, like, oh, like Blake Live's parents are my coach.
It's like a cool thing to be able to say now,
like I don't want to repeat. I don't want to
have like a super cut of me saying that like
ten different times and ten interviews as an example, Like
it's fun to talk about it and share it with like,
you know, so what I grew up with and like
I'm friends with and like it it's reminiscent so different.

Speaker 2 (55:27):
Yeah, well, I want to appreciate it because I reached
out to be honest, I reached out to as many
of the cast as I could and you guys were
the ones to reach out.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
And then when I said hey, because I didn't know,
I don't know what the relationship is, you know, yeah,
but you're like, oh no, we're like great friends. I
was like, oh, this is awesome. We got to have
both of you guys come on.

Speaker 5 (55:48):
So no one else wanted to do it.

Speaker 3 (55:50):
Nobody reached back out to me, So you guys were
the ones that responded.

Speaker 5 (55:54):
I always wonder because people say no, people just like
I get I usually see my messages and what respond
I think some people also, like in business, I reach
out to people on LinkedIn a lot, so some people
just don't respond. And I think that's just part of
it too, which is that it's.

Speaker 4 (56:08):
Hard to you get me on a good day when
I respond.

Speaker 5 (56:10):
I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure you don't like like
it like it's.

Speaker 2 (56:15):
Yeah, and you know, like my you know. Uh, I
don't have a lot of followers. I don't have like
a huge footprint and anything. But the fact that you
guys said yes, really appreciate it.

Speaker 4 (56:24):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (56:25):
Last question I want to ask for you guys, and
it's maybe a little deeper, but it's something I like
to ask, especially child actors who come on here and
I'll ask you, Blake, what's something that you learned, either
on the set of Little Rascals or in the process
that you still continue to live out today as an adult.
Is there like a core kind of lesson or thing

(56:46):
that you learned that you still live.

Speaker 6 (56:48):
Out when you're When you're a child actor, I think
you spend so much time around adults, you're forced to
grow up a little quicker than I think you would
like to in a certain sense.

Speaker 4 (57:06):
And I'm not sure if that was a negative or
a positive thing, but.

Speaker 6 (57:13):
That was that was just something that kind of I
remember about being a little kid, and like you're just
constantly dealing with adults, like and you know, they're either
catering to you or your list. You know, they're telling
you what to do, or you know, it's just a
constant thing. But luckily, during the filming Rascals, you know,
it was all little kids, so that was a pretty
nice environment. But everything outside of that, you know, when

(57:34):
I was doing it, you know, when I do it commercials,
it would be me and then fifty you know, adults
just telling me what to do all the time.

Speaker 4 (57:43):
So that was an interesting way to grow up.

Speaker 6 (57:47):
But other than that, like it was a great experience,
and like, you know, I don't really have anything negative
to say about being a child actor because I just
I had a pretty great experience. I think I got
out when I was ready, before I turned out or
you know, it had any negative efects on negative effects
on my life. Yeah, So yeah, I'd say all and

(58:08):
all was a pretty positive experience that I took from it.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
Yeah, what about for you, Jordan, is there anything you learned,
uh during that time that you still implement now?

Speaker 5 (58:18):
Hard to say when I was young young about what
I learned, But I think just as I got older,
I kind of learned to just kind of always enjoy
what I was doing. So for me, like acting was
always fun and then kind of some of the blake
when I wasn't enjoying the audition process and the and

(58:39):
the aspect of it and it felt like a job.
That's what I was pretty much going to college and
I was like, I'm just gonna make the choice of
staying just focused on college. Not like it was it
was a major choice. Like I dropped out in two
movies and like set them to go to college is dead.
It was the transition of being a child actor and

(58:59):
and all the cat structors know you and they would say, oh,
you just go straight to the director and like you
have that, and then all of a sudden, you're like fifteen, sixteen, seventeen,
finally looking not like you're twelve thirteen anymore, and it's
pretty much starting over. But I had a resume, so
I was starting over. And you know when you're not
either a really good looking kid or the super nerdy,

(59:21):
weird kid and you're like something in between, it's just
like a weird kind of experience and you kind of
then learn what you want to do, and that I
think same as Blake. I I remember consciously making the
decision like I'm sure I could have tried hard to
work and got a few, you know, bit roles, but
like they're loving it to really hold for in terms
of starting over, and I was happy. I appreciated everything

(59:42):
I did and like I never I've never looked back
and said that was a rung decision. I might have
wanted to do a little more like comedy of different
things like for fun, but I never regretted like stopping,
and I'm happy I did it, like not like having
to be desperate trying, and then they and someone else
told you, like, I think you could just go to college.

Speaker 4 (01:00:04):
Jordan and I went out on our own terms.

Speaker 6 (01:00:06):
Yeah, yeah, well I just I want to add to that, Jordan.
I'm sure you could relate in some way. But like
when we were really little and we were doing this
like it wasn't it wasn't something that we had consciously
decided to do, like our parents put us into it.
Like I just I thought that that's just what I
was supposed to do.

Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
Like I didn't. Really you never really comprehend that, like.

Speaker 6 (01:00:26):
Oh, I'm on a film set and I'm acting like
I'm selling a product, Like you know, that's that's not
something that I ever really grasped. And then by the
time I got close to high school and started understanding
what it was really, that's kind of when I made
the decision that I don't I don't want to do this.

Speaker 4 (01:00:43):
Like this is I didn't sign up for this. This
is my mom's thing, you know.

Speaker 6 (01:00:47):
But you know, like like I said, very positive experience,
and I love it and I'm happy I have all
the memories.

Speaker 3 (01:00:53):
Yeah, thank you, well, thank you for sharing that, because
you know, there's this conception that you know, all child
actors are just kind of screwed up in the industry really,
which is true for.

Speaker 5 (01:01:05):
Some people because Max is trying to pull the stories
and look like out of people the documentary people reach
out to me like acting, and I like seeing the
clips of a lot of other people get asked and
like no, I told, like, did no story for it. It
seemed like they were really because they had one like
one linch pin story from still someone who's known say

(01:01:26):
something terrible, which you know, not not a great experience
at all obviously, but I think they were trying to
like get more and they're not looking who are It
wasn't being done in a way to help those people,
just being done in a way to highlight more drama
and perpetuate everyone had a bad time, Like every kid
that worked as adults. Everything is not like an experience

(01:01:46):
that like people read about we had a great experience.
Everything I remember about all my experience. I'm sure there's
little things that were like either weird or awkward. And
that's the idea of like being younger work to older people.
It's not it's not a normal working and experience. But
like I don't we traveled, our families were together, Like
we we went on like Chicago, and like we did

(01:02:06):
a bunch of stuff, Like I got to go to
place with my grandparents vis me in Canada. I lived there,
like two different time periods I got. I did. Yeah, yeah,
they would they play with me, like they came visited,
like when I was filming a movie called Purple out there.
But like so we say, like maybe we missed out
playing a few park games, but like we had the

(01:02:27):
experience that everyone would probably choose if they had the choice,
and we didn't know, there was nothing I really missed
out on that if I look back, like I missed
out playing an extricame, I still played park games, we
still played sports. We pretty which did everything, and there's
only a few trade offs and if you compare to
what you get out of it, like it's not even
a question, sure, like like you know stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (01:02:49):
Well, I want to thank both of you for coming
on here to talk about Little Rascals thirty years after
the fact, sharing a little bit about your story. But Blake,
is there anything you want to plug to our listeners?
Is there anything, uh your social media or anything like
that that you would want our listeners to know about.

Speaker 6 (01:03:07):
Uh, No, I'm on social media, like you know, it's
just Blake calling dude. You want to follow me, sure
if you're not, you know, But other than that, I
just hope everyone still enjoys the movie and uh, you know,
it's nice to talk about it.

Speaker 3 (01:03:20):
Definitely. What about for you, Jordan, anything you want.

Speaker 4 (01:03:22):
To plug just just my showerings?

Speaker 5 (01:03:25):
No, I got nothing to plug. Uh just follow me
if you want to be pictures of my baby and
dumb jokes.

Speaker 2 (01:03:34):
Yeah, all right, Well this was an awesome experience.

Speaker 3 (01:03:39):
Again, this is surreal for me. Uh a little rascals,
which is it? Honestly, it ties me a lot to
to my mom and my mom is no longer with us,
and it's always a special uh movie for that is
just really a family movie. So the fact that I
was able to admit that to you guys and we
can end the Pure Station and the picture welcome.

Speaker 4 (01:04:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:04:02):
Yeah, so it's our second time meeting orses. Yeah all right,
well that doesn't here on Ready to retro. We will
see you next week with screenwriter Mike erb who wrote
the Mask and Face Off.

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