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2:49

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3:00

which we have to talk about. Please

3:03

help us welcome Jason Dall.

3:06

Hello. Hey. How are

3:09

you? Good. How are we doing? Good.

3:12

Good. We're so

3:15

excited to have you here. I'm happy to

3:17

be here. The G.O.A.F. The Tom Brady of

3:19

D.coms is here with us. It's

3:21

me and Brenda Song. I think

3:23

we're tied for... I

3:26

think we both have four. And

3:29

I think that's the most. Yeah.

3:32

There's a few of you because we

3:34

just interviewed from Halloweentown. Oh, Kimberly Brown,

3:36

of course. There we go.

3:38

Yeah. There we go. Now, were

3:40

any of those sequels though? Yes, they were. Oh,

3:42

all yours are stand-alone. The Not Of

3:45

Mine were sequels. Oh, that's a

3:47

good point. Which

3:49

Brenda Song's, I believe, are also all originals. Oh,

3:52

that's big. That would be, yeah. That's

3:54

a good point, Jason. I had to make a whole

3:56

thing about it. We might have

3:58

to call Kim and say... I need her

4:00

to return that crown we gave her. That's

4:03

awkward. Well, at the very least, we're tied. You

4:05

know. Oh, I, oh, OK,

4:08

no, that's good. That does put you in

4:10

a more rarefied form here. So

4:12

OK, first of all, I have to tell you this. We

4:14

are going to get into Minutemen, because that's what we just

4:16

watched and reviewed. But so

4:19

when I came up with the idea

4:21

originally of doing this podcast, everyone

4:24

at iHeart were saying, OK, well, you need

4:26

a co-host. It's like, of course, they're like,

4:28

what Sabrina from the Cheetah Girls. It's like,

4:30

oh my god, that'll be amazing. But

4:34

we'd never met. We didn't know each

4:36

other. It's like, we've got to at least

4:38

do some sort of a test run. Yes.

4:41

Yeah. To see if this is going

4:43

to. So the very first thing, we've

4:45

never aired it. It's just for us

4:48

that we watched was Hatching Pete. Really?

4:51

And it was the first one we'd ever

4:53

done. We'd never done the podcast before. Neither

4:55

of us had ever seen it. We'd never

4:57

seen the movie. So the unaired

5:00

episode of Magical Rewind, the first

5:02

time she and I ever worked

5:04

together, was Hatching Pete. We talked

5:07

about Hatching Pete. Oh, that's lovely. That makes

5:09

me so happy. So bringing you here for

5:11

Minutemen, we are so happy to have

5:13

you here, because you are very

5:15

special. You are the first reviewed movie we

5:17

ever did. Yes. I feel

5:19

so honored. It's wonderful.

5:22

You were adorable in Hatching Pete, by

5:24

the way. Thank you. It

5:27

was. OK,

5:29

but we got to talk Minutemen. Yes.

5:31

So can you tell, this was your

5:34

second D-Com? Yes. Number two.

5:36

Which one was the first? First was Read

5:38

It and Weep, which was actually before Cory

5:40

in the house. So it was before I was like a

5:42

regular on the channel. OK. OK.

5:44

Yeah, I was like 14 for that. And

5:46

I was 16, I think, for Minutemen. Was Julia

5:49

the writer of the book on set

5:51

ever with you guys? Yes, she was

5:53

for Read and Weep. Yeah. She's

5:56

awesome. Yeah, she's lovely. I got to co-write

5:58

a book with her. Oh

6:00

really? Incredible. Yeah. She's a great

6:02

writer. You wrote a book Sabrina?

6:05

Yes, it's called Princess of Gossip. I

6:09

did not know this. Right. You even do your

6:11

research on this person? Oh my god. I agree

6:14

to work together. I had no idea. What's going

6:16

on? I'm finding out things about her every day.

6:18

Oh man. Okay, so then we'll talk about Minutemen,

6:20

but let's talk a bit about your journey to

6:23

the channel. Was it just a

6:25

straight up regular audition for a DCOM or how

6:27

did you get involved with Disney Channel? Yeah,

6:29

well for Read and Weep it was. Read

6:32

and Weep was just a regular audition and

6:34

then bizarrely, so Read and Weep, I actually

6:36

didn't book it initially. And then

6:39

I was, it was a

6:41

Friday night and I was ready the

6:43

next week to go on like a

6:45

week long trip with my eighth grade

6:47

class to Washington DC. Oh, the

6:49

eighth grade trip. Yeah, that's awesome. Right. I mean, I see

6:51

that every now and then people go, oh, I know exactly

6:53

what you're talking about. Not everybody does. Oh, it's big. The

6:55

eighth grade. My brother had done it before. It was a

6:57

whole thing. And so that was

6:59

the next week and I got a call Friday night

7:03

and it's from Judy Taylor, former

7:05

SCP of casting at Disney Channel. And she says,

7:07

we're going to get her on eventually. We're trying

7:09

to get her on. Yeah, yeah,

7:11

she's amazing. She goes, look, the guy

7:13

we cast came down

7:16

with acute appendicitis. And

7:19

literally can't do it. Can

7:22

you be on a plane tomorrow

7:24

morning? Literally

7:26

the next morning, like fly to Utah. And

7:29

do this movie. And

7:31

I had a brief moment of hesitation, but

7:33

I was like, dude, I can't. I

7:35

can't not have to the dream of being on

7:38

the channel. You got it. For real. And it

7:40

was like, I could do this. I could go

7:42

on this trip that I

7:44

know will be a lot of fun. But who

7:46

knows where this will take me. And, you know,

7:48

here we are. And we saw where it took

7:50

you on. It's Washington's going to be there. So

7:52

it would be there after Utah. Yeah, yeah. There

7:54

was no there was no going back after that.

7:57

So were you on the East Coast? Or were

7:59

you on the West Coast? No, I'm from the

8:01

Simi Valley. Oh, okay. LA area. Yeah.

8:03

Okay. But you had to go up to Utah. It

8:06

was a big trip. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, they always

8:08

say if you want to get that audition that you

8:10

don't think you can have or you want to get

8:13

the trip. Yeah, book non-refundable plane tickets. Which I've tried

8:15

to do a lot since then, and it hasn't. It

8:17

doesn't always work. It's not always. I've gone on a

8:19

lot of trips. I've gone on a lot of trips.

8:21

Not a sure thing. Not

8:23

always. Only book the trip if you actually really want to

8:25

go on the trip. That's my only piece of advice. Okay,

8:28

so then wait. Now I've got to talk

8:30

because we talk about how so many of

8:33

the D coms are in fact filmed in

8:35

Utah, right? That is the D com Central

8:37

Utah or Vancouver. Vancouver. Yeah. For sure. Hatching

8:39

Pete was definitely shot in Utah. All four

8:41

of mine. Oh, I was going to say,

8:43

okay, that's two out of four. All right,

8:45

all four of them. Got it. Okay. Were

8:47

any of them shot at the same high

8:49

school? Like, did you go back to the

8:51

same high school as a different character? I

8:53

don't think so. That

8:55

would be funny. That would be funny in the same hallways. It's

8:58

possible that Minutemen and Hatching Pete use

9:00

the same one. That's

9:02

possible. I don't remember for sure. I

9:05

didn't recognize that. Probably not.

9:08

Because the Minutemen one is

9:10

very iconic. At least

9:13

to me, it has a very sort of

9:15

specific big broad, it

9:17

felt like a mall being inside

9:19

of it. It was

9:21

massive. Huge. Very distinct. So I'd

9:23

be surprised if they

9:25

went back there. But I'm having trouble

9:27

remembering, to be honest with you. I

9:29

don't know. And we've heard from somebody

9:31

about a hotel, America, or

9:35

something. Mall of America. There's the Grand America,

9:37

and then there's the Little America. That's

9:40

a hotel where you stay when you're filming there,

9:42

right? Okay. So you did stay there. All right.

9:44

Both of them. First time you go, you're at

9:46

the Little America. They're literally across the street from

9:48

each other. So you're like,

9:50

at the Grand America, or you're at the Little

9:52

America. Oh, it's like, what's your budget? Very much.

9:54

What's your budget? Is your budget Little America? Totally.

9:56

Okay. How many D-coms would you have to do

9:59

before they put your And

22:00

so we were shooting this, I believe in like July,

22:05

sometime in the summer and Utah summers are pretty

22:07

hot. And so we're covered in the snow suits

22:09

for a lot of the sequences, especially

22:12

when we're running and doing all this stuff. So

22:14

we got crazy hot, drinking tons of water and

22:16

whatever. And

22:19

at one point they got these like ice

22:21

pack vest things, like cooling packs for us

22:23

to wear. And then we

22:25

got a lot of ice packs. We were like, great,

22:27

awesome. And put those on in 10

22:29

minutes. All the cooling stuff had just melted and was just

22:32

at that point, just

22:34

dead weight. Okay. There's no solving

22:36

this. This is

22:38

just, we just have to kind of just hot.

22:40

Yeah, we're just hot. All right. What

22:43

a man. We tried, we tried to make the best of it.

22:46

It was man. It was really fun. How did they hang

22:48

you from the Ram? Oh, that's a good question. I'm

22:51

not sure. I'm not sure. How

22:54

did they hang you from the Ram? Oh,

22:56

they, so they built the Ram

23:00

for that shot. Of course, that Ram was

23:02

like steel reinforcing wires. And

23:04

like, it was a really sturdy talk

23:06

to the talkers through that whole, you

23:08

know, how they built it and how it was really, we started eating all this stuff. And

23:12

then, yeah, like we just had harnesses on and

23:14

they had little, you know, hooks and carabiners and just

23:16

screwed us in. And

23:18

we were literally actually dangling from that

23:20

Ram as far as I remember. Maybe

23:23

I'm wrong, but that's my memory in my brain

23:25

is that we lowered us up on a crane

23:27

or whatever and we got on there and we

23:29

were there. Let's make, you

23:31

know, there's big shots. There's big like establishing shots. Yeah. Yeah.

23:35

I'm pretty sure we were really there. Yeah. I

23:37

have memories of looking out and seeing people down

23:39

below and, you know. I mean,

23:41

it's funny because it kind of one of the things that

23:43

led us to talking about was the fact that this

23:46

school represented the worst adults that

23:48

we've ever seen on a D-Com when there were

23:50

adults around. So the

23:52

question is, I mean, we couldn't think

23:54

of another movie, at

23:56

least that we've watched so far in the D-Com world where

23:58

there are no parents. Yeah, there's

24:00

the yeah, you have parents none of you

24:03

so I like the summer camp shooting because

24:05

there were no anywhere

24:09

Right, what's what are what

24:12

are Virgil's parents doing? What are they

24:14

yeah where we never know? Yeah In

24:19

his house for at least a like few

24:22

scenes there's like Yeah,

24:24

yeah, well when you're either when you're studying

24:26

or when the little the Wonderfully,

24:28

it's a Disney trope. We keep seeing all

24:31

the time now the horribly annoying little sister

24:33

Oh, yeah You're in your basement and there is

24:35

so you're in the basement and the little sister

24:38

who's for some reason dress like a stripper from

24:40

the 50s comes down And

24:44

is hitting on your Oh,

24:46

yeah, yeah, I forgot about

24:49

that completely but no parents

24:51

anywhere to be found We've

24:58

seen so many of these movies

25:00

that you know shoot in in Utah we've

25:02

never asked anyone Do

25:04

they have a specific agency

25:07

out there? Where do they get their extras

25:09

because they're always in high school So there's

25:11

obviously always a lot of high school age

25:13

kids or middle school Age

25:16

kids. Do you know where they were

25:18

they just kids that went to that high school? I

25:21

don't remember. I mean, I know the it was

25:23

like the same production company every time I mean

25:25

by the time I was going for even for

25:27

reading we've been there for a while so

25:30

it was kind of like, you know,

25:32

sort of like a mini Atlanta where The

25:35

certain handful of projects are gonna come through every year if

25:37

your local talent, you'll get some opportunities and I think by

25:40

that point people just sort of knew that Yeah,

25:42

Disney Channel comes through here every now and then is

25:44

that there were some plenty of repeat Cast members that

25:47

I'd seen they're either extras previously that then had a

25:49

speaking role in the next one or Yeah,

25:52

yeah, so it was people people knew the word

25:54

was out for sure Yeah, there's got to be

25:56

a machine by that point because they're pumping out

25:58

so many D comms that they're either in Toronto,

26:00

Vancouver, or Utah. That's it. And unless

26:02

they need an ocean. We've noticed that

26:04

they need an ocean like Johnny Tsunami,

26:07

they'll shoot somewhere else. Yeah. That for

26:09

sure isn't Vancouver or somewhere nearby there,

26:11

because they have ocean. No,

26:13

we talked to them. Where did they shot in

26:15

Hawaii, didn't they? And then they went to. Yeah,

26:17

they shot there. No, they didn't. Where were they?

26:19

I can't remember. Oh, the second movie he told

26:22

us was shot in New Zealand. Oh, yeah, they

26:24

went to New Zealand. Oh,

26:26

yes. Oh, yeah. Which is super cool. There was

26:28

stuff that was by the ocean for Brink. That

26:30

was all in LA. Brink was in LA. Yeah,

26:32

OK. Brink was in LA. And then the one

26:35

we just saw was also in LA with the

26:37

ocean. Yeah, but that wasn't

26:39

a Disney Channel remember. Oh, they went to. Oh,

26:41

yeah. OK. They did some in LA, but they

26:44

did the rest in Puerto Rico. Yes. So we

26:46

were. Oh, yeah. It was nice to be back

26:49

in our comfortable Utah high school. Yeah, we

26:51

felt. We missed it. We were

26:53

watching Minutemen. One

26:55

of the things we also noticed is that for

26:57

a DCOM, it had a decent budget.

27:01

Your budget was five million dollars, which is good

27:03

for a DCOM. And

27:06

the special effects looked pretty

27:08

good. Yeah. You

27:12

know, they kind of don't know what they want

27:14

to say they had to. But you

27:17

know, I really appreciate that

27:19

they took the time to make

27:21

those look good. Because, you

27:23

know, it's the kind of thing where, yes,

27:26

the movie can be good. And I'm just I'm

27:28

happy that they put the right amount of the

27:30

appropriate amount of budget to that because it doesn't

27:32

look you watch it back and you go, yeah,

27:34

it's clearly from a few years ago, but it

27:37

doesn't look terrible. No, it looked a lot worse. Oh,

27:40

yeah. And it would have still been

27:42

fine. The rocket that's behind his his

27:44

behind. Yeah, behind the car. That didn't

27:46

look that great. The rest of it

27:48

did. The vortex and the black hole

27:50

before a DCOM in mid 2000. Yeah,

27:53

not bad. Yeah, it's such an

27:55

integral part of the story. And

27:58

you have to. that

28:00

thing and that thing needs to

28:02

look like a really big problem.

28:04

Yeah. Right. And they really did what

28:07

was necessary to make that

28:09

come across. Yeah. What we got a

28:11

chance to interview Michael Healy and

28:13

oh yeah. From what he

28:16

had to say about this movie specifically, they had

28:18

high hopes for the movie and thought the movie

28:20

was great. So, you know, they did. I feel

28:22

like they really did make sure that they put

28:25

a lot of effort and they bumped up the

28:27

release date. Right. Oh yeah. They moved your release

28:29

date. You were going to be I think in

28:31

March or wherever, but they moved you up to

28:34

January to a better time. Yeah. Because

28:36

they had high hopes for this. And when we

28:38

asked Michael when you look back on

28:40

your career at Disney Channel, what's a movie that did

28:42

well but deserved more than it got. And

28:44

he instantly went to Minamend. He said no. He said

28:46

I thought that movie was going to be and again,

28:48

you still did. It was like almost seven million viewers.

28:50

Yeah. Yeah. Which is great. Really great for the channel.

28:53

But this is the one that he looks back on.

28:55

Like this is the one that I thought was going

28:57

to blow up. Right. And thought was going to be,

28:59

you know, you know, you're always thinking sequels and because

29:01

again, you can always go back to time travel stuff.

29:03

So are we. Yeah. We

29:05

were waiting for a couple years there for that Minamend

29:07

2 call. Did they talk about it? Well, we talked

29:10

about it. I mean, we would talk about it to

29:12

whenever we got a chance. You know, Gary Marsh is

29:14

there. Hey, Minamend 2. You know, that kind of thing.

29:16

Yeah. Hey Gary. As far as I

29:18

know, there was no like real

29:20

talk like that. That

29:22

I ever heard. Right. Yeah. Is it

29:24

all going to get hatching Pete too?

29:27

Because I want to see more of

29:29

the dancing. That one I

29:31

think is better. That's

29:33

a complete story that wraps up really

29:35

nicely in that one. I think we

29:37

can. Yeah. Do you. I

29:39

would do it. Don't get me wrong. You

29:41

keep in touch with any of your Disney

29:44

Channel peeps. Anybody did movies with. Yeah. Yeah.

29:46

I mean, I still see Dexter

29:48

Darden every now and then. Luke.

29:50

It's been a few years. Same with

29:52

Nick. Yeah.

29:54

And but I mean, obviously people from good luck. Charlie.

29:56

I still see Bradley. I still see Eric. I still

29:58

get the brother of dad. But

30:02

no, there's lots of people that I still will

30:05

text every now and then or send a

30:07

message here. That's cool. Well, it's a rarefied

30:09

club. Yeah, for sure. It's also... So one

30:11

of the things we like to ask is,

30:13

have you felt the resurgence? Because everything is

30:15

coming back. With Disney+, everybody watching

30:17

it, have you... I mean, since you

30:19

again are in four originals. Yeah,

30:22

I mean, it's interesting.

30:24

So I went to Disney World over Christmas,

30:27

and it was the first time I was

30:29

recognized by more cast members

30:32

than by park goers. Okay.

30:35

I don't know if that really lines up

30:37

with what you're saying, but it was just

30:39

interesting. Yeah, I mean, I think it does.

30:41

The age group that is now trying to

30:44

sort of know that my time has kind

30:46

of shifted from that to that. Yeah.

30:48

So, and look, I mean, I...

30:51

You say, have you felt it? I mean, I would feel a little

30:53

bit more if I got some reboot calls, to

30:55

be quite honest. Right? Exactly, right?

30:57

I'm not sure what's keeping them rebooting Good

30:59

Love Charlie at this point, but hey, you

31:01

know. From

31:04

your lips. But you just wait until you get

31:06

your first... My grandmother used to have your picture

31:08

on her wall. Oh. Because

31:10

I've had that, and it's like,

31:13

hey, thanks to Nana. Right, right.

31:16

Uh, awesome. But yeah, they do. They grow up with

31:18

you. They grow up with you. Yeah, they do.

31:20

They do. That's cool. Well, speaking of,

31:22

you just mentioned Disney World. I'm... We've

31:24

heard and found out a little bit

31:27

that you are huge Disneyland fans with

31:29

your family. Yep. Do you go off

31:31

to... I'm as well. I was there

31:33

last night. I mean... You

31:36

were there last night? You really? Yeah. Or yesterday.

31:38

I can feel it. You also live close. I

31:40

live in Orange County. I live about 20 minutes

31:42

away from the park. I went as far to

31:45

take my daughter for the day, text my husband

31:47

and said, hey, after work, do you want me

31:49

to grab Ledger, our son, and we'll

31:51

come back and do nighttime Disney?

31:53

And he's like, sure. So we went. I

31:55

came back, got the kids, got the husband,

31:57

and then we went back to Disneyland. So

32:00

are you there often? Should

32:04

we do a Disney day? Less

32:06

than I used to go. I'm

32:09

probably there at most once a year. Although

32:11

I mean, I was in Disney World last

32:13

year. So, you know, but. Disney

32:16

World's like a whole trip for us. That's a whole

32:18

thing. Yeah, that's a big trip. But Disneyland's not that

32:20

far. It's an hour or so. So you

32:22

can get that. But

32:26

yeah, I mean, I grew up

32:28

going to Disneyland. And then it

32:30

was like, so I knew the layout, I knew the rides. And

32:34

then, you know, when you start working with Disney Channel,

32:36

they send you there or you go there and you

32:38

get the guide. You get the plaids. Oh, the plaids.

32:40

Yeah. And it was like, oh, man.

32:43

It's a whole new world. This is it. And

32:46

then I was worried. I was like, I didn't want to

32:48

go back without the plaid. But

32:50

I got to tell you, it's still a

32:52

great experience. I just I don't mind waiting in

32:54

the lines as much as I thought I would.

32:56

It's like, yeah, it's nice. You just sort of

32:58

you get to experience the atmosphere of the thing.

33:00

It's like there's definitely there's pros and cons to

33:02

both. Because like some of the rides

33:04

I've been on in Disney World, I

33:07

was going through the lines and I was like, this is really cool. I

33:09

never got to see like the front of this ride. OK,

33:11

yes, that's very true. You don't get

33:14

a lot of it has so much

33:16

of the story. There's very cool. All

33:18

the detail that's at Disneyland and Disney

33:20

World. It's worth the trade off to miss

33:22

that to go to the front of the line. I'm

33:25

not trying to sound like it's bad the other way,

33:27

but you know. It's nice to go

33:29

in the line after and see all

33:31

the stuff, you know. I mean, a

33:33

ride like Indiana Jones just has so

33:35

much detail and cool stuff that, of

33:37

course, it's nice to miss the 75

33:40

minute wait and you go right on.

33:43

However, they haven't done that. If you

33:45

haven't done it is very important. You should.

33:47

Because it's it is cool. Yeah, it's so

33:49

strange as an East Coast kid, like growing

33:51

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I grew up going to Disneyland because it

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34:02

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34:04

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so I hate to do this to you. Do

38:04

you really? No, I actually love it. I've been looking

38:06

forward to it since I knew you were coming on

38:08

here. What's your

38:10

favorite one that you've done? Mm. And

38:14

why is it hatching Pete? And why is it hatching

38:16

Pete? Exactly.

38:21

It's hard to choose. I

38:25

think if I was going to watch one,

38:28

I would watch Minutemen 100%. That's

38:30

the one that I think I would enjoy watching the most.

38:33

And as far as the experience building

38:35

it, it's hard

38:37

to pick between, frankly, probably Minutemen

38:41

and the Good Luck Charlie Christmas movie, just

38:44

because they're too vastly different

38:46

experiences. Minutemen, I was

38:48

the lead. I was on set every day. It

38:50

was a group of brand new people that all happened

38:52

to be just awesome people that we

38:54

were behind all the time. When it's a

38:57

good group especially, it's really extra fun because it feels like

38:59

camp. Summer camp. It's

39:03

a really, really special bonding time. Whereas

39:06

with Good Luck Charlie, I knew everybody already. And

39:08

it was lovely to go on basically a vacation. Because

39:11

it was like they split the genders for that one.

39:13

The Bridget and Lee had their own story and then

39:15

the guys had their own story. So

39:18

we were kind of shooting, working together, and

39:20

then when they were working, we were kind of at the

39:22

hotel hanging out. So

39:24

that was more like a family vacation

39:26

feeling. And

39:28

to take it off of a studio lot too, I'm sure. Yeah,

39:31

yeah. You know, take it

39:33

off a studio lot, go to a new venue

39:35

location, that kind of stuff. There

39:38

was a whole big sequence in that

39:40

film with paintball guns. And

39:42

so there was all like a paintball fight scene. So we

39:45

went to like a paintball arena and we played paintball all

39:47

the time together during that shoot. So

39:50

it's like experience wise, it's really hard to

39:52

pick. But I think if it was

39:54

like, okay, watch one of your D-coms right

39:56

now, it's Minutemen. Okay, so Minutemen

39:58

is your favorite and you hit it. the other three.

40:00

Got it. You heard it from

40:02

my mouth. We

40:04

got to go back to the paintball scene because while

40:06

we haven't seen that one, I'm sure we'll

40:08

get to it. I just thought we're definitely

40:11

going to be doing lots of like Halloween-ish,

40:13

you know, with zombies and Halloween and stuff like that. We'll

40:16

obviously do that. I didn't know there was

40:18

a Christmas type. A Christmas D-com.

40:20

Yeah. Category in the D-coms. I did

40:22

not know that. So we'll have to do that

40:24

because I love a Christmas movie. So

40:27

we'll eventually see it. So there's a

40:29

paintball scene. How do they do paintballs

40:31

in the Disney Channel

40:33

filming situation? Because they can't

40:35

be real paintballs, right? Those things hurt. Well, no,

40:37

but they were real paintball guns. You just didn't

40:39

have anything in the hopper. So

40:41

you'd shoot and nothing comes out. And

40:44

then they just put it in digitally at the end.

40:46

Or they, you know, you just whip pan over and

40:48

then it's like you've already sort of dressed there.

40:51

Got it. Okay. There's like a whole action

40:53

sequence. Like we had, you know,

40:55

like, like throughout a whole area. Like, you know,

40:57

she is very fun. It was very, you know,

40:59

that's James Bond kind of ask. It was very

41:02

fun. Yeah. That's something I've never done. It

41:05

looks so fun, but I am too

41:07

much of a chicken to get somebody.

41:09

They took us one time, all the teams,

41:13

either tiger beat or teen beat. One

41:15

of the beats took all of like young

41:17

Hollywood at the time when we

41:20

were doing Boy Meets World and just handed us

41:22

all guns. And we was just,

41:24

you know, shooting each other

41:26

when you're hitting the kids from, you know, full

41:28

or high. I mean, it was like, we're just

41:30

nailing each other with paintball guns. It was a

41:33

ridiculous amount of fun. You only wear

41:35

a chest thing, right? You're not fully in

41:37

the padded. Probably. In a mask.

41:39

But like, if your legs or your arms

41:42

can hit, right? Those brews. Yeah. One

41:44

point, Jenna Van Oeij from Blossom got up to

41:46

run away and Ryder Strong's brother, Shiloh, stood up

41:48

from five feet behind her and just tagged her

41:50

in the back. Unloaded. Yeah. I think I was

41:52

dating her at the time and I just heard

41:54

her go like, and like fall.

41:57

I mean, it was like kids in Hollywood. Just

42:00

shooting each other with paintballs from five

42:02

feet away. That sounds like

42:05

a nightmare. No, thank you. It

42:07

was a lot of fun. When you were shooting Minutemen,

42:10

did you play with the time machine? And when you

42:12

did, how far back did you go? Oh,

42:17

man. It was... I don't even remember

42:19

what it would even look like, to be honest with you.

42:21

It was like... What was it?

42:24

What did it look like? You just saw it, watched it, what

42:26

did it look like? It was a projector. Oh,

42:29

yeah. It was the little projector that then you're in

42:31

the abandoned pool and you've got to jump off the

42:33

diving board. Oh, yeah, okay. Into the swirling vortex where

42:35

the first thing you do is grab a

42:37

poor defenseless cat and throw it

42:39

into the vortex. That poor

42:42

cat. Have you ever seen where that cat... No,

42:44

does that cat come back out? It does, just

42:46

comes back frozen. It comes back cold. And

42:48

I didn't understand, did they ever

42:50

explain why it's so cold to

42:52

time travel? Why you guys are

42:54

freezing? Oh, probably. Going through the

42:56

vacuum of space. They probably said they

42:59

didn't. I'm sure they did. No. No,

43:01

they didn't. I did not understand

43:03

why. We rate every movie, and

43:06

in all fairness, because you all probably go

43:08

back and listen to us, listen to the

43:10

Minutemen, it lost some points based on awfulness

43:13

of adults. Because

43:15

they were... The principal is the... I

43:18

just wanted to actually kill him. Principal.

43:20

What was the principal's whole deal? So

43:23

he wouldn't help any of the kids that were

43:25

getting bullied. He was like, no, that's how it

43:27

works. Any of the nerds that were getting

43:29

bullied, he was like, this is the... He

43:31

called it the social climate. That was JP

43:33

Panu, right? Yeah, I believe so. They

43:36

ever explain why it's so cold to

43:38

time travel? Why you guys

43:40

are freezing? Oh, probably. Because you're going

43:42

through the vacuum of space. They probably

43:44

said they didn't. I'm sure they did. No.

43:46

Did they not? No, they didn't. I did

43:48

not understand why. We rate

43:51

every movie, and in all fairness, because you

43:53

all probably go back and listen to us,

43:55

and listen to the Minuteman. You lost some

43:57

points based on awfulness of adults.

44:01

Cause they were the like the principle is

44:03

the, I just wanted to actually kill him.

44:06

Principal. What did the, what was the

44:08

principal's whole deal? So he wouldn't help any of

44:10

the kids that were like getting bullied. He's like, no,

44:12

that's how it works. The nerds that were

44:14

getting bullied. He was like, this is the,

44:17

he called it the social climate. That

44:19

was JP Panoo, right? Yeah, I

44:21

believe so. Isn't that his name? Yeah.

44:23

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

44:26

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

44:29

So he was like, well, I'm not going

44:31

to kill anybody. And then the FBI deciding

44:33

to send children into the spinning vortex of

44:35

death. Just as bad as

44:37

you guys throwing that cat in there. I mean, they

44:40

didn't care about you at all. They didn't care about

44:42

the kid. They're like, just go. We'll see if you

44:44

guys can figure it out. If not. I

44:46

could see some argument in favor of us doing it

44:48

rather than somebody else because we've done it before. Yeah.

44:51

But your children were the only ones

44:53

with experience. Your children. But

44:56

at the same time, yeah, if we

44:59

die, then the FBI has child

45:02

blood on their hands, which they

45:04

were okay with. But here's the thing that

45:06

we did love. And I mean, love the cast. You

45:08

guys were all great. I mean, really good. I

45:11

was just thinking about that. Actually in preparation

45:13

for this was like, first of all, yes,

45:15

we all were great cast.

45:17

And he also like, it's undeniable looking at the careers

45:19

of some of the people, a lot of the people

45:22

that are, were in it. You know,

45:24

Nick Braun doing succession. I mean, Benra

45:26

did a ton of comedies with like

45:28

Melissa McCarthy. It was Dexter Darden, tons

45:30

of works. It was really

45:32

a special collection of people. If you look

45:34

at the timeline and everything, it's not really

45:36

just a cane, of course, doing all her

45:39

baby daddy stuff. I mean, you know. And you all

45:41

the chemistry that you know, that's why one of the questions

45:43

we asked was like, well, I'm sure they knew

45:45

each other before they went in because the chemistry

45:48

was just so good. Yeah. Yeah.

45:52

Really strong casting. You should

45:54

be proud of that. Yeah. There you

45:56

go, Judy. Yeah. She knows

45:58

what she's got. Judy is. All-Star

46:00

and that's that's what we've really seen

46:02

with so many. I mean gotta kick

46:04

it up America Ferrera I mean, it's

46:06

like just these all these Disney D

46:09

comms are filled with so much talent

46:11

and so and to wear As

46:14

an actor why you want it you

46:16

were hopeful to get on the channel

46:18

because that was such a huge stepping

46:20

stone into Taking

46:22

your career to that next level, you

46:25

know and and also Having

46:27

fun. These movies are made of you

46:29

know, we hated every every adult who

46:31

cares because we've got just a great

46:33

cast Amazing

46:37

amazing so fun to work on and

46:39

yeah, that's awesome Okay, so

46:41

for our last question here and we would be

46:44

remiss if we did not ask this You

46:47

have a time machine What

46:50

do you go back in your own

46:52

life and change and change not relive

46:54

I tried to relive will told me I was

46:57

she was playing the game wrong. I couldn't do

46:59

that I played the game wrong. You have to

47:01

change Was

47:06

it on family Answer

47:10

yeah, it was a great answer to

47:12

hi Well, I would

47:15

you know what I would do to

47:17

bring this whole conversation full circle. I

47:20

would go back and I

47:22

would I would not stop

47:24

going back to the Simon

47:27

Says game Until

47:30

we want Got

47:38

a freaking win That's

47:42

like genuinely Don't

47:44

really Don't have a

47:46

I frankly don't have a ton of regrets in

47:49

my life I mean, that's probably that's wonderful. That's

47:51

really hanging over me the more I think about

47:53

it. So I

47:56

love it. That's perfect. Oh, I do

47:59

have to ask has

50:00

not embarrassed himself on anything. No,

50:03

we've got to do Hatching Pete. OK, thank you

50:05

everybody for joining us on this Park Opera episode.

50:07

Thank you, Jason Dolly, for coming out. It

50:09

was so cool to talk to him, and I can't wait to

50:11

do it again for another show. And

50:14

everybody, yeah, just go watch Minutemen

50:16

and get some underwear and shake

50:18

the leg. That's all

50:21

I think I got to do. Gosh,

50:24

let this nightmare be done. Show me,

50:26

shake the leg. Thanks,

50:30

everybody, and we will see you

50:32

next time. Bye. Bye.

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