Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe - David Arquette | Career Highlights, Hollywood Parties, and Bringing Back Clowns!

Episode Date: August 15, 2024

#763. In this episode of Off the Vine, Kaitlyn Bristowe sits down with the multi-talented and super sweet David Arquette for a wild ride through his eclectic career. From growing up in a famous family and making his mark in Hollywood to his surprising foray into professional wrestling, David shares it all! Tune in to hear about his favorite roles, hilarious on-set bloopers, and why he got thrown out of a huge party. Plus, David opens up about sobriety, social media, and that time he nearly got into a fight with Harvey Weinstein. This episode is packed with laughs, jaw-dropping stories, and heartfelt moments you won’t want to miss! If you’re LOVING this podcast, please follow and leave a rating and review below! PLUS, FOLLOW OUR PODCAST INSTAGRAM HERE! EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS: (5:05) – Moving to LA and how his sister Rosanna made her big break in Hollywood. (24:25) – David’s hilarious and embarrassing party story involving a flaming piñata! (31:53) – David’s intense experiences in professional wrestling, including a neck injury. (37:40) – David’s reflections on his acting career and his passion for reviving Bozo the Clown! Thank you to our Sponsors! Check out these deals! Macy’s: Shop in stores and at macys.com/summerhits Love 2 play: 50 Free Spins. $50 minimum deposit with promo code Vine! HYATT...See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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and I did a cold plunge and a sauna and I worked out this morning and I had a smoothie. So basically, if you need health and wealth, not wealth. If you need health and wellness advice, no, don't come to me. Anyways, I had a guy on the podcast today

who wears many hats. He's an actor, apparently a clown. He's a former professional wrestler, a director. He's definitely faced and overcome some serious challenges. And you might know him as Dewey from Scree. That's definitely how I know. I'm more doofy from the mocking versions of the movie. Also, was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, never been kissed, a bunch of movies, and he's got a new one coming out that looks amazing.

But please welcome the incredibly versatile David Arquette. But thank you for coming on the podcast. Thank you. I'm glad to be here. Have you done many podcasts? I've done a few in my time. Do you like it? Do you enjoy it?

Because I feel like I know I did my research. I know you're an introvert, so I don't know if you like podcasts or if you're like, I just got to be part of the job, man. Uh, I'm, I don't know. I sometimes overshare and it gets me in trouble, so I kind of then get nervous. Yeah, I'm nervous about doing it. I'm like, uh, uh, well, the good part is, um, if you say anything you don't like after, you just tell me, we'll edit it out. I also don't like doing that.

Oh, oh, good. Yeah, that's. You say it, you have to live with it. That's how I feel about tattoos. You can't get them removed. You made that choice. I know, I mean, so a lot of people do, but, yeah, I don't believe that. I see some, tell me about these tattoos.

Well, same. Bad choices. No. Look, do you have tear drops tattooed on your fingers to go like us? Because these are ridiculous. But again, I was. Good. I like it.

A little mustache too. I thought about that one. I'm actually shocked. I don't have it. But I was, I think I was 19. And I was like, that would be funny. And now at the age of 39, I'm like, that's still kind of funny, actually. I do.

I like it. I like it. But I'm like, I always like to know people's, not even if there's a meaning, but a story behind their tattoos. because I'm like... Well, this silly thing that looks like a test you take at school,

like one of those tests you for them. It's how a trumpet works to a piano. Oh. Apparently. Okay. But then I had Quincy Jones look at it. Name drop.

Yeah. He was like, that's all wrong. Oh, no. Yeah. So I don't know if it works. But the idea is if their song is in A, I know that the trumpet's an F?

Do you play the trumpet? Badly. No, I don't really play it at all. Wait. But I could find the notes that fit the song. You're like, but if I did. If I know what song, like... That's amazing.

Yeah, I've had some... I feel like you have a bunch of famous, talented people in your family. Are people musicians? My grandfather was a musician. He was a piano player out of vaudeville, and then he hit the road with like a big band. But no, none of the... None of us, although my sister Rizano's been the muse to a lot of songs. My grandpa was also a musician and played the piano and was on the road.

So, you know what, we're like the same person pretty much already. We both overshare. We both have weird tattoos and our grandpas were musicians. Okay, so you were. Oh, Nash. Oh, Nash. I was just, hi, sweetie. I literally was just downstairs going, why can't Nash come upstairs with us?

Look at that. I can't get over that he's 11. My golden is probably, I rescued both my goldens, and one is like fully gray, but I think he's only eight. Yeah, but sometimes when you rescue him, they don't really tell you the real. We have a basset hound that's so old. Aw. But she's still, she's still doing good. That's, I swear, my old dog is still puppy energy.

Like he's, he gets the zoomies. He's, yeah, he's a little angel. Okay, wait, tell me about all your animals. So you live on land. You move to Nashville. Yeah, we moved to Nashville, and we've got a farm, and we got too many horses, a mini donkey, three mini pigs, two many goats, two ducks. Two ducks?

Yeah, two ducks. They're really funny. They're runner ducks, so they can't fly. Oh, well, then I could get down with those ducks. Those are the best ducks. I have a fear of flapping. Yeah, they don't flap. They don't flap.

Well, they stretch their wings out just once in the morning, but they can't fly. Yeah, okay. So they don't really, like, flap around. I could fuck with ducks if they don't fly. Those ducks are amazing. Wow. What are they called? They're really funny, runner ducks.

Runner ducks. Okay, I'm gonna look that up. That's, so you went... Wait, you started in Virginia. That's where you're from. I was born there, yeah. And then you made the move to L.A. pretty quickly. Well, we moved to Chicago first, and then out to L.A. when I was, like, five, kindergarten.

Wow. Yeah. A bunch of famous personalities, like I said earlier, but which of your siblings had like their biggest break first? biggest break first. Rosanna definitely broke down the doors for this generation of us. I was born on a commune in Virginia and she was not having it. She was getting a bunch of terrible, like, she was getting some racist and weird stuff happening.

So she high-tailed it out of there and moved to L.A. like around 15 or 16 and stayed with a family of our, a friend of our families. And then she sort of like broke into the business. she I mean it's her story to tell really but she faked an epileptic seizure in a in a casting director's office and got her first role wow wait that's genius yeah totally because they couldn't find someone with epilepsy wow and yeah she didn't have appointment or anything but after that she got it and she's like she worked with betty davis and all these things really early in her career but then she really she broke out with like uh Desperately Seeking Susan and the Executioner song. She's done some incredible films like After Hours and New York Stories and the Big Blue. She's a wonderful, wonderful actress in person. That's amazing.

Wait, so you really don't know anything other than that lifestyle. Like you, to go to, like, when did you first start acting? Well, I was, like, kind of rebellious as a teenager, like everybody. Yeah. I was doing graffiti and run around the city and stuff. and in high school some I always liked acting we always did improvisation my dad was an improvisational actor

my mom taught an acting class in Chicago but my sisters started becoming famous and I saw what that was like when people were like oh your sisters and blah blah blah yeah and I wasn't into it and then they were casting this play at my high school and some of the girls in it

encouraged me to audition for And so I did. And I met an incredible teacher there named Ben Debaldo. And he really changed the course for me. He got me more like focused on it. And he gave me confidence and enrolled me in like a competition. And, you know, it just gave me like the thought at least that this is the possibility that I have talent. You know, it's not just something like nepotism like that I'll say.

Yeah. Wow. That's so crazy because I. I personally, I took theater and like I did theater all growing up, but I'm very extroverted, but I recharge, like I like to be alone and I like to be by myself. But I always, I'm intimidated by improv classes. Like, I still want to go do them just because I think it's good for anybody in life to go do an improv class. Did that make you feel more like comfortable because you got to like play characters or was, did you just enjoy it? Okay, first off, we may be the same person because I'm the same.

Oh, you are? Okay. time and all that. But you should definitely give it a shot because you already can think on your toes and you're really quick and you can tell. So then you'll just learn certain like rules of improv, like yes and like these simple rules that help the scenes move forward. Yeah.

Then you'll learn things when things bomb. Like it's kind of, you have elements of like stand up in a way. And I feel like you have people that are good in the class. You have people that are beginners in the class. Like it's kind of a mix of everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but the real, like, my dad did these things with something called the committee,

which were like this group of amazing improv actors. And we studied with a guy named Paul Sills, who was one of the founders of Second City and his wife. And we just took on a lot of, like, information and learning how to do it. And I don't know. I still use it to this day, like, a lot of, like, little things if you find, usually it has to come from the character has to not take away

from the story. It has to enhance what they're trying to say or do. But if you can find the little moments, like I just feel like a character in a film called The Perfect Gamble where I'm sarcastic and I'm not typically sarcastic. So

I came up with a, I started thinking sarcastic. I guess I started thinking sarcastic. You just hang out with me for a while. I love sarcasm. Good, good. But yeah, so I just kept always throwing in these little things, these little jokes and little comebacks, little side talks to the, yeah, I don't know. It was fun to explore that in the character.

I just watched the trailer for your new film. I'm not just saying this. Movies really has to capture my attention from a trailer to what, this movie looks magical. It is. It's really cool. It's a fun movie. I mean, it's about grief and how to deal with it, but it is like there's, there's a really it's crafted really well by Robert Schwartzman, an incredible director who really knows like he's an actor as well and a musician and just a creative in general

and he just understands the vibe that was going on he put a great cast together it was Nick Jonas I didn't that's amazing he's amazing he's really a talented actor I didn't know how I don't I didn't know if he was funny or you know right I didn't know

you're like I thought you were just a Jonas brother but you're so much more That's amazing. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, it looked really, it looked moving. It is. Yeah. I mean, it's moving.

I play Rick, who's a real prick in it. Which was really fun to play, actually. I feel like a stepdad named Rick just, like, paints the picture already. Like, you can't be a sweet stepfather named Rick. You've got to be a dick. I mean, he's just, it's really funny because we'd, like, there would be moments of improv or moments of, like, someone going off script. And then in my head, I'd be like, oh, I'm sorry. Like, you know, how I usually feel.

And I was like, no, Rick wouldn't think that at all. Yeah, Rick would not be sorry. What the fuck are you guys doing? That's, I always find it so fascinating that, you know, how much people get into their character and how much you have to, like, study that character and, like, immerse yourself in it, kind of. But you've done so many different roles. And I'm sure this is the number one question you get asked, but I'm going to ask it anyways, because I'm genuinely curious.

But what was your favorite one? I usually say scream just because it was so impactful. for me and working with west craven and trying to sort of change the course of my career yeah i mean that that's my favorite oh thank you but i also was in this film called uh it was i went directly from the screen set to uh san francisco to film a film called dream with the fishes and that was a really impactful movie for me too really yeah it was just i met an actor named brad hunt on it and worked with a director named fin taylor and it was just fun like yeah It was based on a true story, and the guy was kind of this mess of a character.

It was just fun to do. I don't know. I learned a lot. Yeah. I feel like I would like acting. If I chose that, if I, I, I, absolutely. Well, I, that's, don't you think it's too late now? No, it's never too late.

I can't believe I just said that. I would never say that to anybody. No, it's never too late. It's never too late. Well, I don't think anyone would take the girl that came off the Bachelorette who gets drunk on camera and has a podcast. Seriously, I don't know. I mean, don't think what people think. You can't think what people think.

You have to do what you wanted to do. Where were you 10 years ago? I needed that advice. Man, if I thought, if I listened to, I mean, I'm constantly like saying like, okay, you know, well, I'm doing it. Yeah. So, you know, we can have to figure it out. It's hard to not care what people think because I feel like you, well, correct me if I'm wrong. You were in, like, such an iconic era of, you know.

film and television and all this time and social media was not really a thing but i know forums were in magazines and the trash magazines were probably all over your relationship and everything but do you enjoy having social media or do you like what is your relationship with it yeah i'm i don't really understand it and i try to like post and do stuff but i do like it's always weird and not i don't know i'm on it too much like just like as we all are yeah just try to like numb the world but yeah gosh well which is so because first of all congratulations on being sober and yeah my dad is 33 years sober i just know you learn a lot of important valuable lessons and you kind don't have other things to like lean on you kind of have to lean into your vulnerability and like

just being who you truly are to your core but i read somewhere that you started drinking at like the age of four is that true no it wasn't oh i saw that and i was like whoa i mean i had like a sip of beer right from my dad's beer. Yeah. And I do remember that. Okay, maybe that's what I saw. I just was dramatic about it. I mean, we were really young.

We were so, like, young at one point where, like, we got to stop. Yeah. We're too young to be drinking. You're stopping yourself. Yeah. I mean, yeah. It was, but, you know, in high school, we got into it. Yeah.

Like a lot of people. Well, you came from, like, an abusive past, and you've had dyslexia. And I feel like all those things have probably shaped who you are as, well, of course they have, but like even your career. But I feel like reading, this might be a stupid question, but having, being dyslexic and reading scripts and memorizing scripts, does that make it even harder? It still does. Yeah. I'm still like, I can go over a script a thousand times, like on my own. Yeah.

And like, I can still not have it when I walk on the set until I hear the people say it and we run it a couple times. because it's all like I had this one scene where it was like block cut it into three scenes but when I got to the set they were like we'll put them all together and just the sheer like putting them all together just scrambled my brain and it was like oh and it was a monologue that one so I knew the pieces on their own I don't know why it just but you know that was two films ago so

it wasn't that long ago and I've been doing it over 30 years, so I was like, ah, to be like, oh, doing it, and feeling this nervousness again. Yeah. I don't know. I can't even memorize a script for like an, like I, this is not an ad, but they are an advertisement on my podcast, but I've been taking this hair growth pill, neuterful for like three years. And it'll be like, use this code for blah, blah, blah.

And it's literally two lines. And I can't for the life of me remember it. Like, I don't know how people memorize lines for a whole ass movie. yeah movies i had did this play i mean movies or something but plays are like harder yeah i mean just well not not once you get it down yeah yeah yeah getting it down like i did this play and i played sherlock holmes and i had an english accent and it was oh wow i should never played that role just so not right for that kind of character my gosh but it was a comedic version but still but it was so hard and I wasn't off book yet and it was the dress rehearsal and they

invited like all of these schools yeah the whole place is filled and I'm not like comfortable with the lines yet and I was so nervous and oh man it was like I had nearly had a mental break it was so scary I had one of those three weeks ago oh I'm telling you have you heard of the term Menti B, it sounds cuter. Yeah, it's cute, right? I had a little Menti B a few weeks ago. It was really cute. I don't happen.

That's real. I'm just trying to figure it all out. Gosh. Have you figured it all out? No. I'm like, you've seen some shit, and you've been through a lot in your life. And still, I'm like, I don't think you ever get,

like, even if you're on your deathbed as a hundred-year-old human, I feel like those people are still like, I didn't have it all figured out. There's comfort in that. At that time. I don't know. I mean, hopefully by that time, you're like, I got it. I'm ready. Yeah.

Yeah, look at your watch. Yeah, I'm right. You know what? Yeah, I'm good. I figured it all out. Yeah. I've reached that point. Yeah.

I've reached that point. That's, do you ever, you can also tell me to shut up, but like, do you hate when people talk about your relationship with Courtney Cox because it was so public and you moved on and you have your own family now? Like, do you ever feel like, hey, that's an old story, like moving on? Yeah, I mean, whenever I sort of bring it up, then it becomes the headline and then, you know, that's what really is like, you know, why I don't sort of talk about it. I ask that only because it drives me nuts that like still to this day, the, you know, the reason people know who I am is because I was the bachelorette. The guy that I picked, you know, we've both moved on so many times, but it's always what gets brought up in the interview.

It's always what gets the headlines. My exes are always what gets. And I'm like, I talked about so many other things. So I figured that was the case for you as well. well because you've already dealt with so much of the like, you know, trash magazines and the paparazzi and this and having, you know, a family. And I'm like, I can imagine the same way that I feel going back and talking about it doesn't usually feel comfortable.

Yeah. I mean, it's funny because some of the stuff like lives in that world and like, you know, I mean, people still think you're in that world like. Yeah. But it's been years and years. You're like, I live on a farm with ducks now with. my own family. Can you? Okay, I did want to talk about sobriety a bit because I do find it so fascinating just because

you said it helped you kind of like become more outgoing, but at the same time it created some like cringy moments that you aren't proud of. Is there something like specific in your brain that you remember that you're like, I regret that one? I regret that one. Yeah, I mean, tons of them. I was thinking of an embarrassing story. He, like, I had to share. You did your homework. I was really young and early, early in my life. But there was this crazy party in Hollywood.

And it was at this guy named the captain's house. And it was an old guy who dressed like a captain. Yeah. And the red hot chili peppers were playing. And it was all during the time that they were like going around wearing socks on their penises. I do remember this. And it was just the craziest party.

And I dressed up as Don Vito. Corleone from the godfather. I had a tuxedo on and a fake cat and I had a, I had in my pocket, there's a way back so I had like played a VCR

and had a tape recorder next to the VCR because you couldn't like download a song so I'd get bannana na na na na na na and I over and I just rewinded it and I put it in my pocket so I'm walking around

like the godfather and everybody's like hi godfather I'm out of a ring people kissing my ring and you know at one point they were I guess they were heading out to the to perform the chili peppers and some dude grabbed flea sock

and threw it in the pool and he's like dude that sucks bro are you fucking serious that was my only thing covering my dick and you just fear an asshole It was just so surreal the whole experience For some reason I had a cigar too

Because he had a cigar And they played on this tennis court And they were all The chili peppers were up on this tennis court And they had decorated the tennis court With these pinatas on strings Like, and I just mentioned that Because I'd come into play

But I was wasting I was just having fun And for some reason I love flash paper I mean I always love flashpaper you could get like little dollar bills and they look like dollar or $20 bills and they're flash paper or you just get flash paper

in this case it was just flash paper but I had lit the flash paper and I threw it up and it hit one of the pinatas on the string of pinatas and burst into flames and everyone like stopped and looked up

to see if this pinata is going to catch on all the other pinatas And it just went, pow, and just went out. Just the one piana, thank goodness. Then they grabbed me and threw me out of the party. No. Yeah. They threw you out of the party for that?

Yeah. I feel like those. We're almost starting a fire. Oh, I mean, I just, I feel like parties. It was really dangerous. There were pinyanas everywhere. Okay, fair enough. But I just, I picture like Hollywood parties with that kind of like with rock stars

would get crazier than that. Yeah. I mean, they do. Yeah. There's plenty of crazy. parties, that's for sure. Oh my gosh. I fell into a pool once at a party. That was embarrassing. It's literally the first video on my Instagram. I fell into a pool at a party and it was a whole thing. Okay, then I was... That's the most embarrassing thing because you hear the party and

then you're... It is embarrassing. And then it's like, oh, no. It's like you're alone with your thoughts. They're silenced out. How are you going to pop out of this water? That's the moment. It's the walk back from bowling alley like where it's awkward and you don't know why coming up from falling in a pool you're like do i celebrate and act like i meant to or are you like yeah i'll go home like that party i was just such a mess was that whose party was that oh that was our party oh you're like i got to take myself to bed at the roosevelt hotel i used to do a club called uh david arquette presents beecher's madhouse at the roosevelt hotel and we had a screening room there and we did a screening of the Black Swan.

Oh. I knew he got in a fight with Harvey Weinstein. Oh, good. Did you punch him in the face? Almost. Because, I mean,

he was like, hey, I'm Harvey. I was, you Harvey. You, Harvey, asshole. You fucking. Yes.

What's wrong with you? That's amazing. I went up to have director. Oh, God. Which one? My brain goes to Brett Rattner. I met him once. Oh, gosh, I know.

There's a quick jump from Harvard. But, no. Todd, I'm blanking on his name. That's okay. The director of the Joker. Oh, yeah. I'm embarrassing. I'm embarrassing myself telling an embarrassing story.

Todd Phillips. There you go. And I'm like, you know, hey, I felt like I got pretty close on. One of his other films, I was like, how do I get in the Todd Phillips business? God, what did he say? Not by saying that. Hey, you never know. Sometimes those guys just need to be flattered.

I don't know. I always think about, like, confessions and embarrassing stories. I always think of bloopers. And then I always think when I'm watching scary movies, I always, because I get so freaked out, I have to remind myself that these are actors, they probably, like, start laughing. Like, in the movie scream, was there any bloopers where, like, oh, I'm sure. There's a bunch of bloopers, but like, what's a funny moment that people wouldn't know where it's like all serious and you're about to like kill someone and you guys just all start laughing? I have this funny video of, I used to shoot Super 8, a bunch of Super 8.

I shot Super 8 on the set and I'm like going through the set and shooting the crew and you see West and you see Matthew Lillard and Skeet-O-Ritch and then you see Nev and then you see the dad all tied off me. He was, like, tied up for two weeks, this guy. Poor actor. I should even know his name. I'm horrible with names, obviously. Clearly, but that's okay. We got Google. Google is our friend when it comes to names.

I always just picture, like, that would be so funny to see blooper reels. Because, you know, you can see blooper reels of, like, shows you can just go on YouTube and, like, sign-filled bloopers. But for scary movies, I'm like, I want them to put out scary movie bloopers. It makes it less scary. Oh, yeah. I think there's some, like, I know they, like, another, like, ghost face would. hide you know especially with nev where she'd be running fighting the ghost face and she'd get up and turn around and then so another one would jump out of the like that was a big funny scare they

did to her one time or something but um there i do it was so bad in one scene and scream too that was graven came up to me he was like that is unusable david was terrible absolutely horrible i was like wow west you're like i'm humbled thank you what can i do it's like it again, do it faster, do it better. Oh, my gosh. But, yeah, we had to reshoot that whole scene. It was a big, long monologue, like, how do you know my dim-witted inexperience

isn't a subtle form of manipulation used to... I love it. I just, those movies are so iconic. Did you ever watch the spoofs, like the scary, like the... A little bit. A little bit, yeah, I watched the ones. Are you offended or are you like, that's hilarious? Well, for, like, years.

after that. I was called Doofy all the time. I was like, that's not me. And the actor who plays Duffy, sometimes I see him at like Hork Adventures. Really? He's out there character. He's a wildcat. So, yeah, we took a doofy, Dewey photo once. Wrestling, you're super into wrestling. Tell me about this. I'm a former world champion. That's crazy. crazy it wasn't uh it was frowned upon by the wrestling community but uh why because i was an actor oh well so are they yeah i know i know but they're also professional athletes so i did go back and trained and i trained for uh two years and i independently wrestled i did a documentary called

you cannot kill david arquette yes where i wrestled and i wrestled all over the country i studied with luchadors and I trained with a guy named Peter Avalon, had my first match with RJ City where he kneaded me in the face. For real, too. Yeah, it was intense. Didn't you get stabbed in the neck? Yeah, that happened as well.

Like literally stabbed in the neck? Yeah. Oh my God, do you do? Because you never know what's real and what's not in wrestling, but you literally have a scar. Wrestling is like more real than you'd ever know. Oh. Like there's some really intense stuff.

It's really, it's a really kind of, brutal sport. It's really hard on your body. I mean, when you wrestle the legends, like the really, like guys have been doing forever, it's amazing. They're so good at what they do. It makes it so much easier and it looks so much better.

And like, it's just smooth. You get into this flow. Yeah. But when you have someone who's starting out and maybe someone who's not that they're starting out, but might have some other things going on, like jealousy or personal stuff

or anger toward you yeah there's a lot of stuff in wrestling when you're coming up where they're going to teach you a lesson you know what I mean like oh let's show this actor kid like you know

stabbing in the neck is taking it a little too far yeah that was too much who did that to you oh I don't well I guess we can Google it it's a whole thing yeah I'm sorry I forgot his name

at the moment I love that. Good. Yeah, we shouldn't give him any attention. I know his name, but I typically don't talk about it. Oh,

don't then. No, it's all right. I just can't believe that happened to you because I feel like that's, I mean, that could have killed you,

obviously. Yeah, it hit my neck muscle that saved my life. Wow. What was the recovery like? I thought for like a few minutes there I was going. Yeah?

It was like bleeding profusely and I felt that a big gash there. What went in there? A light tube. Yeah, it was something called a death match. You had no shit. Oh my gosh. I didn't know.

I mean, I was in over my head and, you know. I did Dancing with the Stars and my partner. You did? Season 13. Shut up. Yeah. Who's your partner? Kim Johnson. Oh, yeah. Okay, no way. Did you enjoy it?

No chance. I did. It's so hard? I enjoyed the. experience of, like, dancing, especially with her learning the stuff. Yeah. The sort of popularity contest of it, the grind of it. And the, I got really, like, by dyslexia and all this stuff kind of kicked in. Like, I couldn't hear the, like, music so much or the counting, like, all that kind of stuff.

It's so hard. I grew up dancing. Like, that sound that they do right before you dance is, like, I get PTSD. I do you? They switched it to clicks. I don't know if yours was clicks, but it was like clicks, but I still, I can't hear those clicks without, but that's, it is a, I mean, I will never get tired of saying this, but I won. And I was literally just like, my body was beaten the F up. Like, it was, I had torn rib muscles and tendonitis and like, I was an absolute mess and I was in the best shape of my life going into it. So I'm like, I can't, I don't know how, I didn't know what

I was signing up for, but I grew up dancing and even the counting was different because I'm used to like a five, six, seven, eight counts and then there's different counts for different dances and it's all just a lot. But Ardham, that's awesome. Thank you. Artem, who is my partner. I lost to Nancy Grace. Did you really? She did you like. I got eliminated. She stayed, but I would made it down to the final six or eight. Oh my gosh. You did well. I'm going to go back and watch. But Ardom, who's my partner, his wife, is one of the Bella twins. Yeah. And they are awesome. And, um, I mean, it was no joke. She had to quit her whole career because of concussions and like certain, it's just no joke on, on the body, but my gosh.

So you've gone kind of all over the map. You're now in Nashville with your wife, Christina, you have boys, you're living the farm life. Do you think you'd ever move back or is this home for you now? Um, this is definitely home for me. I mean, I hope. Yeah. I don't know. The world's so crazy. I know. It really is. If you want to move back, I'm Canadian, if you want to come back with me. Come on. I'll open a farm. I would love to have a bunch of animals and just live in Canada and live off the land. I know. I love Canada. It's the best. It's an amazing place. So the U.S. It's just such, I don't know, weird stuff going on right now. It's, I mean, I feel like everywhere in the world is, even Canada's got their own weird shit. But I bet you filmed.

Like Nazis marching in downtown. It's like, it's like, it's me like, oh, I don't feel comfortable. I mean, anyone who does feel comfortable with that should go to hell. Should also vote against it? You would think. You can't be on that side, you know. You would think. There's a certain, like, it's gotten to a point where there's, you know, you got to make a hard choice right now. I wish I could vote, but I can use my voice, but I cannot vote because I'm Canadian.

But did you film it in Vancouver? And at all, I feel like they film a lot of stuff out there. Yeah, yeah. That's where I lived for almost 12 years. I loved it so. much. I love that place. I'm going back the end of August. I just can't wait. It's literally my happy place. But anyways, I just feel like you've had such a diverse career and just done so much, like so much impressive shit. What are your future goals? Because I feel like that's a long

career you've had. Do you feel like, are you like, I'm good? Or are you like, no, I want to keep doing this? No, I mean, I don't know. I'm a working actor, so I have to keep doing it. You know what I mean? I'm like, or I have to figure something else out where like, you know, we need to help pay for these animals or taking care of, you know, there's just, I'm down the street if you need help. I want to come ride your little bitty horses. We have two big horses, too. Oh, that is my dream. They're amazing.

I love horses. I'm trying to book a horse therapy session in next month, and I'm like too excited about it. I'm like, it's probably going to be very revealing and it's therapy at the end of the day, but I'm like, wee, a horse, I can't wait. It's fun. I mean, it's really like equine therapy. I've done it. It's nice, but it's like combing the horse and connecting with the horse and something like that.

But it's sweet. I guess we do that all the time. There is something really grounding about it. And we have bees too. Bees are really supposed to be the best thing for you. Yeah, well. Like even just hearing the buzz. Oh, really?

Supposed to like, yeah. I mean, I do love the local honey. Have you been to South Hall in Franklin? Oh my gosh. You love that place? I'm obsessed and everything is like farmed a table. And they, if you stay there, they're like, I'm like, can I get some like freshly picked apples in the morning?

And they're like, well, peaches are in season. We'll go pick you some. And then they bring local honey and it's just the best thing ever. Oh, yeah. I love it there. Yeah. Spent the fourth of July there. Did you really?

Oh, it's, I spent my birthday there in June and it was, I just love it. But that's, yeah, I don't know. I always like to know people's, like, future goals. I feel like even at your, like you say you're a work. actor do you love it so much like do you have what are your future goals i guess what are my future goals well we're trying to bring uh happy clowns back tell me more yeah we just did a a citywide uh baby shower for nashville peacemakers this organization that does a a baby shower for you know of this community in in north nashville and um so we did a we did performance like we did a couple songs we introduced

Joe's Joe's, oh, I'm trying to bring back Bozo the clown. Obsessed? Yeah, he's, yeah, he was formerly the world's most famous clown. Is he still the same? The world's most friendly clown. Is he alive? Like, it's the same guy? Well, there were 200 different bozos throughout the country at one point.

No, no, no. WGN has like the most popular Bozo show. And Joey Diary, there was the last Bozo there. He's still alive. We interviewed him for a documentary we're doing. and yeah so we're just i bought the rights to bozo it took me 15 years no way the rights yeah and so it's been a journey but we've got an album coming out we're doing a event in um chicago in october with chloe corgan and billy corgan he's a big bozo fan cool and uh

at madame zuzu's tea house up there so we'll perform some songs i'm also a certified bob ross instructor like what painting like yeah yeah i know bob ross is who bob ross is i took a course where i could teach people how to you're kidding so we're doing a uh yeah bob ross course up there oh see you there yeah i don't know those are some of the things i'm doing that was the most fun fact of this whole podcast what that's amazing it's fun you wrestle you bob ross you act clowns are the clowning world is a whole like thing It's like getting in touch with like that kid in your heart. Yes.

And just like being silly again. Like laughing at yourself. Like, you know, finding a skill and like. There's like an art to it. There's a lot of art. That's my, this guy that I dated when I was like 21, his sister danced for Celine Dion and his other sister was a professional clown. And she was like like very in touch with like who she was and her inner child.

And she did like like therapeutic. it for other kids and yeah it was actually pretty incredible i think she went to like clown school everything it was a whole thing there's an amazing organization called healthy humor that has medical clowns in 15 hospitals throughout the country and they just sort of provide distraction and entertainment for kids in there you know dealing with different situations but yeah it's a really beautiful organization we did something at the at vanderbilt we went in for st patrick's day for holiday heroes. Yeah.

And we did a little show, went on the radio, just met, you know. Yeah, the Ryan Seacrest radio station they have in there. Yeah, that's so cool. Wow. Do people know, like, do you promote this on your social media? I do. It's International Clown Week this week. What a time to be on the pod.

Yeah, so I bring awareness to the clown community. I love that. Posting a bunch of stuff. We did an art show called Bonkers at Lala Land Gallery. And do you know who Puddles the Clown is? Yeah, I have heard of puddles. is amazing he's such an incredible singer so he doesn't speak in his act but he'll sing like if puddles is coming to your town you have to go see him he's really brilliant would he talk on the podcast

he doesn't talk oh no he sings would he sing on the podcast he just sings all my he would um uh i don't know if like whoever puddles friend is talks on podcasts oh but uh puddles himself no he doesn't but in clown alley there's something called clown alley i learned about really clown alley is essentially backstage of any clown performance like clown alley but it's the sacred place where you share like clown secrets i'm obsessed he taught me how to put my makeup on which i'm still learning how to do most clowns put their own makeup on oh my gosh do your kids love that my kids are on the fence about it all i mean they do like one of my son gus is like loves clown and around and being silly.

Yeah. But I think, I don't know. I did, like, the performance that they were in the audience that I could see him, like, kind of like, there's, you know, there's levels of embarrassment parents, like, bring to their kids. Yes. It ramps it up when you're an actual clown. It also probably scares the kids when they're like, that's all my dad. I know right now, clans have a bad rap.

A lot of people are scared of clown. They do have a bad rap. They do. I mean, it's all scary clowns. clowns right now. But I think they're also kind of a reflection on society. So that's why we're trying to you know, keep up the good clown

and bring back the good clown name. I'm going to do some research and talk about this on my Instagram. Yes. I'm like very intrigued by that actually. That's interesting. Before I let you go, the your movie, the good half, when, is it out already or where can people

because I think this will come out. days and then it yeah it's coming out uh yeah august sometime in august okay i think it's coming out in theaters and also on uh streaming or whatever wherever you can find it amazing yeah yeah streaming is i mean that's everything now movies sometimes don't even go to theaters anymore they just that's it's crazy was it cool working with nick jonas and brittney snow yeah yeah really cool they were really wonderful when i landed in l.a after my season of the bachelor at paparazzi was there and it was like one of my first experiences with paparazzi and they're like Brittany and I was like what and they were like oh and they thought I was Britney snow like 10 years

ago and I was like well thank you but no but it was just interesting now every time I hear her name I just think of that moment but well I told this story and she didn't believe me it's like no way what I was like why would I lie about a story like that what was the story well it was a I was friends with David Geffen at one point, and he invests a lot of money in hospitals and all this stuff. And he was telling us about this, like, this research they had done. I know it sounds like a fake story. That's why I don't know.

Probably why she didn't believe it. But he told him about this research they had done why certain doctors are more, like, have a better survival rate than other doctors. And it came down to a point where a small, number of them, they had to classify it as those doctors had magic hands. And she was like, no way. I was like, well, he told me this. Like, what do you mean magic hands? Like the doctor specifically had something magical about their technique or their energy or what the knowledge that

they knew. Like other doctors had known the same sort of things. So these doctors were just better because they had magic hands. Wow. I would like to find those magic doctors of magic hands, but anything happens to me. Yeah, that's a good point. That's a good point. Well, I can't wait to watch the movie.

And it looks, again, I really watched that and was like, oh, shit. Because I didn't, you never know what to expect when, you know, people are like, oh, this is the new movie. I'm in. Okay, great. Watch the trailer. But I was like, oh, shit. That looks, it looks really amazing.

It is. It's a really cool balance of like what people go through during having lost somebody. and oh, it's so painful, but there's also this awkward humor within it. Yeah. Well, because people can relate to grief for so many different things. Like, you can grieve like a friend that you aren't friends with anywhere. Like grief has obviously so many, so everyone who watches this movie can obviously relate to it or find comfort or joy or sadness or, I don't know, to feel some sort of comfort from it.

Sure, for sure. Yeah. Wow. Well, thank you so much for coming on. I'm such a big fan. I was really excited. Thank you so much. It was really fun talking to you.

And I'm like, I'm like, you're living the life I want to live. I'm telling you, my five-year plan is to live on a farm. Yeah. And have all the animals. All the stuff. And act and do improv. Oh, yeah. And I'll be in.

Don't stop. Don't stop yourself. If you ever wanted to do that stuff, like the biggest thing is like, that's one thing with the wrestling and near the dine, all the kind of stuff. Like, I don't know. There's not much I fear anymore. I don't like, there's like, you can't like, I mean. You're like, what's the worst second half? happened. You're going to stab me in the neck. Been there. Done that.

But I mean, like, you can't, like, I don't know. I tried not to let fear really have a part in it. Like, if I want to do something, like, you're going to embarrass yourself. Like, I embarrass myself all the time. Like, especially as a clown, like, running around this place and, like, you know, being embarrassing. You should have dressed as a clown for the podcast today. I could have. Damn it. We'll have to do this again. I'm going to have a wig and a nose in my car. Imagine breaking into your car. What's going on here?

No, but I do like that because one of my favorite sayings is if you are scared to do something or you have fear around it, just do it scared. So you can still be scared, but just do it scared. Yeah, I like that. For sure. Wow, okay. There's a great saying, like if you're walking through hell, keep walking. Yeah.

No way to get through it, but through it. Yeah. Wow. Put that on a T-shirt anyway. Yeah. You know, at the end of the day, like, if you're walking through help, keep walking. like when I was, like, thinking I was dying, I was like, well, this is it. Like, okay, so I was thinking about, like, my family, you know, like my, I love my family,

they love me, you know, I'll miss them, they'll miss me, my, all my friends and all this stuff. But if this is it, well, then that's it. So then if that is it, then, like, this is the journey. Like, you never know when it's going to end. You just have to enjoy it. You have to, like, go after certain things or, and then ultimately, it doesn't matter anyway. And you know what, that's, I can't remember who said it. Maybe it was Billy Elish, but she said, we're all going to die and nobody's going to remember us.

So, yeah, I think so. I mean, there's something about like being in your hearts and the hearts of your friends and family and that we're all connected in this certain way. And even like, you know, I think there's generational stuff from family members. I don't even know or remember or interacted with that still sort of. There is a legacy left, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I think it's all way more connected than that.

Well. Than us all just forgetting about it. I think it's, I don't know. I guess I said the same sort of thing, but. No, that's, I don't know if things are forgotten as much as like when you're gone, you're just part of more of everything. I'm, hey, I'm with you on all of that. I am a woo-woo spiritual witch, I like to call myself.

So, yeah. I'm Caitlin Bristow. your session is now ending. And if I'm being honest, I wouldn't mind a rating in a movie.