Smosh Mouth - S1: #29 - So Random! Reunion Special w/ Matthew Scott Montgomery and Allisyn Ashley Arm

Episode Date: September 4, 2019

Shayne and Damien reunite with So Random! co-stars Matthew Scott Montgomery and Allisyn Ashley Arm to dish on the origin of Dark Damien, bad makeup artists, and the reality of what it’s really like ...to be a Disney star. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:36 cast. It is a Disney So Random reunion with my former castmates, Matthew Scott Montgomery, Allison Ashley Arm, and of course, Damien Haas. It is pure chaos. Enjoy. Can we talk about the use of money on the show? Instead of just putting a pig nose on someone and letting them do sketch comedy, it was a $10,000 mascot costume, anthropomorphic pig, that we bought.
Starting point is 00:01:02 I remember some kids once talking to me and they were like, they're like, oh, you're on that Disney show. I'm like, yeah. They're like, so are you like a millionaire? And I'm like, oh, Kevin Lorraine was doing my makeup, poking all up in my eye and my eye started to get red. I show up to work the next day and they're like, oh, you have pink eye. And they sent me home from like the dance routine part.
Starting point is 00:01:19 And I was devastated. They were business advisors. And I remember one time they asked me, they they asked me to lunch or some sort of meeting or something, and they were telling me to invest in gold. Excuse me, 15-year-old girl, you need to invest in gold. How can we put them in the blue suits again? How can we see their dick imprints again on Disney? Shane, is that a comfortable place
Starting point is 00:01:46 for the mic for you, or would you prefer it elsewhere? Maybe we'll turn it a little bit more so. Great. It doesn't look comfortable, so that's why. Shane, are you comfortable? Hello, and welcome to a very special Smosh cast. It is the So Random Reunion cast. It's a party
Starting point is 00:02:02 get down. Oh my gosh, I've been thinking about it all day. And I'm joined by my former castmates, Allison Ashley Arm, Matthew Scott Montgomery, and of course, Damien Haas. That's me. Guys, how are you doing? We're just your former castmates, that's it. So good, yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:16 We're great. Incredible being here. Family. Family. Well, we like to keep it at an arm's distance, so let's stick with former castmates. Okay, former castmates. I know.
Starting point is 00:02:26 Shane's family. S-H-A-N-E. That's where Shania came from. Yeah, that's true. A script misspelling. And we were just like, let's run with this for eight years. It was always Shania. We were talking about it.
Starting point is 00:02:38 It was only eight months that we were all together, but it literally seemed like two years. Yeah. Not in a bad way. It just seemed like two years. Yeah. Not in a bad way. It just seemed like two years. My life is kind of like measured by before So Random and after So Random. For those of you listening who don't know, So Random was a Disney show. It was Sunny with a Chance and then third season, the main actress, Demi Lovato, left. Then they did a fourth season and they turned it into a sketch show.
Starting point is 00:03:02 Third season. Third season. Yeah, we just did two seasons and we were all locked down. We actually got picked up for season three and then it got announced that she was leaving and we were all like, do we have jobs? And then they were like, we're going to go ahead and do So Random. There was no season four. That was it. It was done by the same people who produced All That, so it was definitely like the All
Starting point is 00:03:23 That of our time. Just for context, if people have seen the show but aren't quite remembering, what were some characters that y'all were known for? Alice, you go first. Well, I had Janice. It was like this. Janice. Yes, yeah, Janice.
Starting point is 00:03:39 I mean, we all had a bunch of really weird characters. Janice was like just a very nasally version of myself. That whole time was a blur and just costumes. Well, you were Zora playing. Yeah, yeah. So we were all, like, playing versions of our, well. Because it was a show within a show. We were ourselves, but you guys all had your real names.
Starting point is 00:03:58 I was still Zora. Partially. It was Shane Zabo. I forgot about that. I was Damian Johansson. I was Matthew Bailey. Bailey? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:06 I don't remember that. You should only describe it to people for at least season three or so random is that it was like SNL for Disney Channel. Yeah. Because we opened the episode kind of as ourselves slash, well, the three of us were kind of heightened versions of ourselves. You were Zora. And then we had Tiffany and Brandon and Sterling and Doug.
Starting point is 00:04:23 And then we'd have sketches throughout the episode. And then there'd be musical guests at the end. Yeah, and we kept getting moved to later and later time slots because Disney should not do sketch comedy. Because their whole thing is you can't make fun of anything. And it's like that's all that sketch comedy is. Yeah, it was tough. The hook hands is my hands. Because the thing is that we had the skit where it was like a let's touch animals.
Starting point is 00:04:44 And Tiffany had hook hands and she was trying to get kids to touch the animals and I was like I don't want hook hands and then a mom writes in and is like my daughter has hook hands and it was a big fight yes it was my daughter has hook hands if one mom would complain about anything they would cut it
Starting point is 00:05:01 they would take out the whole sketch Brandon had a sketch that was like learning to speak Spanish and so we had like a Spanish accent and they were like, you can't have an accent of any kind. It was like, okay. He shot like three of those and cut them. It was so weird because I feel like one of my first sketches there, I was playing
Starting point is 00:05:17 Billy Mays or I was playing Willie Craze, but this was only like a few months after Billy Mays had passed away. And I'm like, this isn't offensive. I think the only one that I was like, this is definitely offensive was the guacamole one. Like when the mom complained about that one, I was like, okay, I understand. Guacamole, refresh my memory. That was the one where Mitchell Musso, yeah, was there.
Starting point is 00:05:38 And it was like you put guacamole on your mole so that you can like socialize at parties and hide your mole. Because no one wants to look at a gross old mole and it's like, okay, got it. So many things are flooding back to me memory wise. It's weird. Yeah. I think the ones that I get recognized the most for are Rufus, this kid who like would be like, I haven't said this phrase in so long. Oh my God.
Starting point is 00:06:00 Here it is folks. People ask me to say it all the time, but it's, oh, it's a, oh, you're not going to believe it, which does not sound real. That's like something out of a movie of some, like, that's a character in a movie. It's like, what's that thing you played as a kid on TV, like Rufus with a stupid cat? But that's actually so real. And then Angus, who's the Australian supermodel. And then, like, Billy the cheerleader. And Angus and Billy, I, like like wrote myself and made up in the audition.
Starting point is 00:06:25 And then word for word what I came up with is what ended up on television. That's crazy. And all the time people are like, do you get paid for writing that? I was like, no. Because I didn't know any different at all. They used a lot of our characters we auditioned with. And some of them didn't make sense. Because I auditioned with a Jerry Seinfeld impression.
Starting point is 00:06:41 And they threw me in as Jerry Seinfeld in one of the sketches. Oh. And it didn me in as Jerry Seinfeld in one of the sketches. Oh. And it didn't like even make sense. I think it was something Tiffany was like working with animals. And then I came in as- Hook hands. Was it hook hands? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:06:53 Was it hook hands? I just wanted to say hook hands. And I came in as Jerry Seinfeld and get eaten by a lion or something. Yeah, that's actually the same sketch, 100%. Yeah. Did you audition with the Tom Cruise impression? I did. I did do that.
Starting point is 00:07:05 That's my favorite of yours. That's your best, in my opinion. Oh, thank you. Your Johnny Depp impression was so good, but unfortunately was covered up by a million prosthetics. That was your least favorite sketch, huh? That was definitely my least favorite sketch. It was very early on. I was playing Jack Sparrow, but he was an actual sparrow. And so they put me in a bird suit.
Starting point is 00:07:25 Freakish. Terrifying. I looked awful. And they spent a solid four hours putting a prosthetic beak that moved with my mouth. Yeah. And I had to do the whole sketch with that. And so hot. So much lights.
Starting point is 00:07:40 My favorite thing is that I was a miner. So I got mine on last, but Sterling went first. And he's a smoker. And they didn't want him smoking with the beer. Oh, my God. And I just remember walking out of the schoolroom at one point, and he was just, like, sitting on the patio with, like, a cigarette hanging out of the beer. And we don't even blink at that side. That was the unhappiest I've ever seen Sterling, and that's saying a lot because Sterling was unhappy frequently. I saw him cry more than anyone else
Starting point is 00:08:05 in the cast, I think, too. Oh, my God. He was scared of clowns. Was he scared of birds, too, or just clowns? He was so terrified of clowns that he was dressed up as a clown and he, like, had to leave.
Starting point is 00:08:15 Was it the Halloween episode where somebody was... I know it was a scarecrow. I just remember him crying and me comforting him about the clown. I love clowns, man. You do?
Starting point is 00:08:23 I do. You're the only one I've ever met in my life. I was having a conversation about this earlier, and this is not so random based, so I'll keep it short, but I have an affinity for those that are misunderstood or are broken. Like clowns. Like clowns. But think about a creature that's 100% of its goal is to
Starting point is 00:08:37 be there to make you laugh. Creature. And everyone is terrified of it. You just said creature, Damien. It is a creature. It's not a person. What, like a clown can vote? No. No. Clown rights. They're there to make you laugh
Starting point is 00:08:50 and then they make everybody scared. So I'm just like, yeah. It is adorable. I love that about you. Thank you. Just wanted to give him a hug. What were your guys' least favorite sketches
Starting point is 00:09:00 that you had to do? Least favorite. I think any time a sketch would get rewritten so much to the point where it didn't make sense anymore and then we were still trying to sell jokes that just didn't work because they were like oh that's offensive also you can't do this
Starting point is 00:09:11 accent and like. Yes. I remember like the saggy pants one like they kept changing it was for our sunglasses and they kept changing all of our accents and like our entire characters and it was just like I don't even know what this character is anymore or what we're doing. Yeah. There was one sketch where I was like a counselor in the woods or something and some boys were going camping. I missed the table read because I was taping an episode of Austin and Allie.
Starting point is 00:09:33 And Scott, one of the writers, read for me in the table read. And I got to work the next day. Everyone's like, oh, my gosh, this sketch is so funny. You're going to kill. You're going to destroy. You're going to slay. And I didn't get the gag of the scene. We did it in like the network run through and it was dead silent everyone's like
Starting point is 00:09:47 staring me like well don't worry we'll fix it and then like we're taping in front of a live audience i still don't get what the deal is and the lines are just like not landing and i remember michael feldman coming over to me and goes you know what just make up whatever you want like anything you come up with is going to be better than what we can come up with. And I pulled a stunt. I was like, I was such a diva that day because I was like, this is not acting.
Starting point is 00:10:10 I'm an actor and I need a script and I do not want to do this. And I like stormed off of set and Sterling came to get me and Sterling was like, hey man, we have like minors.
Starting point is 00:10:20 Like we're going to lose the audience in like five minutes. And I'm like, I'm not going on until they write me something that makes sense. And there's some line about me finding out my wife was leaving me on Facebook. I don't even know.
Starting point is 00:10:30 And that episode didn't make it to air. And I remember going back to my dressing room, calling my manager, and being like, this isn't art. I am an artist. This is garbage. I was like, what was I thinking? What was that whole thing? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:10:40 You were young, and you had just won an award for best actor. I don't remember the name, but we were always so impressed with you just as an amazing actor in general. So we're just standing there like, yeah, this is our first project too. Welcome Doofy the Platypus. Yes, it's true. I had just come from doing a show that ran for a year that was dead serious. It was super dramatic. So it was very different for me to come on doing like,
Starting point is 00:11:07 I remember for the audition, because the audition was come up as like three characters. What we had to do, like there was no script. It was just you come up with three characters. I did an Australian accent. I did the Billy the cheerleader thing. And I forget I did something else. And I never thought in a million years I'd book it.
Starting point is 00:11:21 I'm like, this is ridiculous. I'm just gonna do it. My brother thinks it's funny. And then I kept getting called back. And Damien, I remember you and I were always at the same call I book it. I'm like, this is ridiculous. I'm just going to do it. My brother thinks it's funny. And then I kept getting called back. And Damien, I remember you and I were always at the same callback. Yes. I remember describing it as like going through like the rounds of American Idol because like the first call you were there, then the callback and then like again, and then I think a test.
Starting point is 00:11:38 And there was one day where it was you and me and Audrey and we came to like have our final audition and Cheryl who's the cast director gave us like a tour of the set yeah and I think I remember that
Starting point is 00:11:48 and then it went to a table read yes and we didn't know we were cast already yeah so I was like this is all great why are you showing us
Starting point is 00:11:54 the set because we didn't know if we booked it or not so like me and Audrey and Damien are like holding each other's hands like are we cast like I don't understand
Starting point is 00:12:02 whoa and that was that for 28 episodes. Yeah. They were like hey we're bringing it back for one more week. I remember that.
Starting point is 00:12:09 Yeah we were technically guest stars for the whole season and there was finally it was like episode 7 or something where my manager was like I'm gonna ask them
Starting point is 00:12:18 about you becoming a regular. I think you you were the first new guest star correct? I came on the first episode but we all we all had the same amount of episodes at the end. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:27 Because my manager reached out to them and was like, hey, can he become a regular? And they're like, no. And also, we don't need him next week. And I was like, oh, okay. Audrey and I, we did our first episodes together. And they put us in a – they didn't have dressing rooms for us. We were in an office building with no electricity on the lot. And so what we did was we had a system of doors that were open to get sunlight in there as the sun was going down.
Starting point is 00:12:52 Wow. Yeah, and Audrey and I were like in this. They gave you a cell. Audrey and I were getting ready in this like public restroom before we like taped in front of a live audience. And that's when I did Rufus for the first time. And then I went back in the darkness trying to like go through this office building to find my clothes so I could change back to go home. Oh, my God. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:08 Insane. I remember when the first table read where you came in and you did Rufus. It was insane. So funny. Everyone was laughing so hard. I cold read that on the spot. Which is unbelievable because looking at the script, that sketch should not have worked. The main joke being the catchphrase, you're not going to believe this.
Starting point is 00:13:25 Like you said, it's not a believable thing. A kid making up excuses. Rufus is just a kooky guy. I guess I should explain maybe for people who don't know, but Rufus was this kid who was more or less dressed
Starting point is 00:13:34 like I dressed to my final audition, I think. But it was a kid who would have excuses for everything. I'd be like, Rufus, where's your homework? He's like,
Starting point is 00:13:42 you're not going to believe this. But 17 monkeys ate it or whatever. And then at the end, it would reveal that it was real. Everything that I said was true always. I think they made you more and more of like an ancient forgotten god as time went on. Because it would be the kind of thing where like all of a sudden you're behind someone and then like you have a job at a place now, but then you're also the manager. Yes, the movie.
Starting point is 00:14:03 Rules went out the window. You also severely hurt yourself in one of them, right? I did. Smashing the glass. Or was that Rufus or was that? That was Rufus. That was Rufus? So Rufus was, there's an episode that Lee Allen Baker was guest starring on.
Starting point is 00:14:16 You played her daughter. God, the makeup was so funny. Do you remember? Yeah, the prom one? No, this was like the hibachi grill. This was at the hibachi grill place. Do you remember this? You were sitting there, and I was the chef that was going to come up,
Starting point is 00:14:29 and they literally just gave me props. They were like, just flip around knives and glass. Because I was pretending to make rice. I'm like, you like rice? I was playing that same character in the fat suit that I played in the big hand sketch, right? Yes, big hand. Yeah, because I had the unibrow and the pimples and everything.
Starting point is 00:14:47 Oh my God, you're so funny. Yeah. The weird thing about all of my characters, I felt like they didn't really have names or at least iconic names. They were just kind of like the really freaking weird ones. You're the ugly girl.
Starting point is 00:14:57 No, seriously. Yeah. You're a unibrow in that suit. Yeah, I mean, that's what Janice was. It was like, ah, she's got like really frizzy hair and high pants. Oh, my God, Janice. You're a teeth person.
Starting point is 00:15:08 That's your new character, teeth person. Speaking of Big Hands, it was the one time I ever, Brandon Michael Smith was, like, the most friendly, like, hey, what's up, man? Kind of, you know, always high-fiving and, like, good to see you. So I got him really bad one time. Big Hands was the sketch where they had these, like, massive, very realistic hand prosthetics.
Starting point is 00:15:24 I can't believe all this is real. Every story is so insane. Remember Big Hands was the sketch where they had these massive, very realistic hand prosthetics. I can't believe all this is real. Every story is so insane. Remember Big Hands? Yeah. But I think they had just used it. No, that was Unibrow Day. No, that was Demon Bird Day. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:15:37 I think they had just used it on a Star Trek shoot or something like that. So they were very realistic giant hands that looked like mine. So the whole thing was like, hey, it's just me in my big hands. And so Brandon came up. Flat out body shaking. That was a lot of the jokes. 2011 was a different time.
Starting point is 00:15:54 Why didn't it come back for another season? Well, you made fun of everyone. So Brandon comes up to me to give me a high five. He's like, hey, what's up, man? I'm like, hey, dude, what's good? And like, just let him see it
Starting point is 00:16:05 and he literally went ah it was very satisfying wow that must have been so frustrating because you couldn't like touch your face
Starting point is 00:16:13 or anything yep that's funny thank god I wasn't a smoker yes we were all in misery there was one are you Sterling with the big head
Starting point is 00:16:19 I'm sorry Damien do you remember the episode where we were like Lady Gaga's backup dancers in skin tight I've tried so hard to block that out, my dude. Like our costumes were so tight you could see what our religion was.
Starting point is 00:16:30 You know what I'm saying? Yeah. And we're like, this is our wardrobe. Great. So Damien and I walk out. We're like, here's what it looks like. They're like, we can't use that. Let's put shorts over that.
Starting point is 00:16:37 They're like, let's find some blue shorts. I'm like, really? Should we find some? Maybe. It was the only time I've ever been like, here's my penis. My jaded nature was more than how much I didn't want to show my ween. So, yeah. I also remember,
Starting point is 00:16:52 I don't think I ever told you this, Damien, but my dressing room was next to wardrobe and I would leave my door open sometimes so I could hear them talking shit. Not a whole lot, but they were like, I don't know what we're going to do about this blue bodysuit thing. They think they can't wear them, like it's too revealing. And I was like, it is't know what we're going to do about this blue bodysuit thing. They think they can't wear them. Like, it's too revealing. And I was like, it is.
Starting point is 00:17:08 And they came in and apologized. Speaking of, you know, wardrobe and makeup and stuff, I remember having, we maybe shouldn't say this. Dark Damien? So we might cut it out. But there was, you know, there were all different makeup artists. There was one that was. Oh, no. Oh, God. This is the only time in my life
Starting point is 00:17:25 where I've been flat out betrayed by Damien. So we, yeah. Oh, my gosh. We have to tell this story. Maybe we should want to say her name. There was one that was, at the time, not our favorite, because she sort of overdid the caked on... Like, there shouldn't be an ancient makeup on. She'd make you look like a dead clown, as Matthew Scott said. Here's the thing. So there were so many cast members,
Starting point is 00:17:41 right? And we'd be hurried to get into makeup really quick, so we would just be randomly assigned whoever had a chair that was open. But sometimes we would systematically plan, take a little bit longer with things so we wouldn't end up in this certain makeup artist's chair. Because she made you look all green and dead, like a zombie.
Starting point is 00:17:57 Let's call her Lorraine. Yeah. Let's call her Kevin. That's different. Her name is Kevin. Her name is Kevin. Kevin Lorraine. Kevin Lorraine.
Starting point is 00:18:07 Shane and I are like walking into the room at the same time, and I see that that's the open chair, and I'm directly in front of him, and I go like, oh, my room. And I'm like, it's not even. You didn't even say an excuse. You were like, oh, my room. And you walked away. My room. And then she was like, sit down, Shane.
Starting point is 00:18:21 Wait. Do you guys remember when Kevin Lorraine gave me pink eye and I had to leave the set? Do you guys remember that? Oh. Oh Wait, do you guys remember when Kevin Lorraine gave me pink eye and I had to leave the set? Do you guys remember that? Oh, oh, you guys. So it was the Halloween special, which is my favorite time of year. And I was doing a sketch and Kevin Lorraine was doing my makeup. And I remember poking all up in my eye and my eye started to get red. I show up to work the next day and they're like, oh, you have pink eye.
Starting point is 00:18:42 And I'm like, um, it's because Kevin Lorraine was using her dirty sponges poking in my eye and they sent me home from like the dance routine part of the music video for the Halloween special. And I was devastated. I remember one of the other makeup artists coming into my dressing room and like holding me because I was crying because I was like, this is my dream to do a Halloween special. And I was like, it's Kevin Lorraine's fault. Kevin Lorraine did this. And I had to go home. Oh, my God. I can rewatch episodes and I can tell when she did my makeup.
Starting point is 00:19:10 Yes, 100%. Because you look visibly so different than everyone else on camera. I remember I would bring my own makeup and I would go redo my makeup in the bathroom. She was the sweetest. Well, that's the problem is that my set teacher, Marsha, one time, she was, like, asking why I was taking a long time in my dressing room. I was like, I'm redoing my makeup. She's like, wait, you do this all the time? So then she talked to the head makeup artist and got me, like, switched so that Kevin would no longer do my makeup. But it was on the day that, like, Kevin had got me, like, a birthday present.
Starting point is 00:19:42 So I was just, like, so utterly awkward because I because I was like going to somebody else for my makeup. And it was like. Oh my God. I shoved this deep down in my mouth. Oh my God. Yeah. She was so nice is the problem. She was.
Starting point is 00:19:54 She wasn't like a mean person. So you couldn't have an excuse to be like, I don't want to sit here. She was so, so sweet. She'd be like, hi, how are you doing? And just paint your face. I remember I was in a zombie costume and they took me straight to the doctor in my zombie costume with the wig on. And yes.
Starting point is 00:20:13 And then they sent me straight home from there. And then I had to pay for the doctor's bill. What? Yes. As they wouldn't pay you series regular money. Yeah. Also, can we talk about the use of money on the show? Because I feel like that was
Starting point is 00:20:25 one of the major reasons we didn't come back. Oh, yeah. We had a sketch called The Pig Speech where it's supposed to be Porky Pig mimicking the king's speech
Starting point is 00:20:32 and it's his stutter and all that. And so instead of just putting a pig nose on someone and letting them do sketch comedy, it was a $10,000 mascot costume,
Starting point is 00:20:41 anthropomorphic pig that we bought. Yeah. We didn't rent it. We all had our turn with like crazy prosthetics. Yes. Also the whole strawberry shortcake set that they built. Incredible.
Starting point is 00:20:51 Gorgeous. Expensive. Like 10 second gag where it was like, what if aliens attack strawberry shortcake? And now here's the intro. It's like, wait, why did this take up half of the soundstage? Yes. We would have completely new sets every week. We'd have the main stage where we came out and we danced.
Starting point is 00:21:08 Yeah, I was like, put us in front of a curtain with little alien antennas. That's all you need. Do you remember Dark Damien? Oh, he's still here. Oh, so Dark Damien recently made a very popular appearance on Smosh. Oh, okay. He's been slumbering. Damien is literally known as the most polite.
Starting point is 00:21:24 He's the nicest guy on the planet. And he's also known for's been slumbering. Damien is literally known as the most polite, like, obviously, as you know. He's the nicest guy on the planet. And he's also known for apologizing a lot, which you guys also know. I've mentioned that my first interaction with- one of my first interactions with Damien is we got- we all had lunch outside of our dressing rooms, and the next day, I was walking to my dressing room, and Damien was there, and he was like, he's like, hey, hey, man, I just want to say, I interrupted you at one point during lunch. Seven months ago.
Starting point is 00:21:46 I'm sorry. Seven months ago. I'm really sorry about that. It was 2.38 PM and he was eating a turkey sandwich and I looked at you funny and I haven't slept in seven weeks. That's me. Um, literally the most polite guy, but whenever he got a mustache. Oh, I don't like stuff on my face.
Starting point is 00:22:03 All emotion shuts down. It's like a bunch of little needles pr like stuff on my face. All emotion shuts down. It's like a bunch of little needles pricking you on your lip constantly so like my face just goes down and I'm just like what's up?
Starting point is 00:22:10 They would give them to you non-stop. You constantly had mustaches. You're gonna be the dad in this scene who's also a coach. I would like read
Starting point is 00:22:17 the script and I would like have to bite the inside of my cheeks to keep from laughing. I'm sorry but like I was like oh no it's gonna be
Starting point is 00:22:22 Dark Damien's back for this episode. Oh no he's a dad who's a coach again. You would walk past his dressing room and he would just be sitting there like he's in confession. There was a cartoon cloud above him with rain. And the rain would disappear before it hit the ground,
Starting point is 00:22:34 but it was there. He would be looking at his coffee table. There's nothing on the table. He's just looking at it. Dressed as a cop. Just dressed as a cop with a mustache. Bummed. So sad. You'd be like, how you doing, man? I'm good. I've had better days.
Starting point is 00:22:46 I don't know. You know, each day we die a little more. Oh, okay. It's just needles poking into my eyes. When will death come and release me from this bullshit? Wait, what were your guys' first impressions of us? I'm curious. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:01 Oh, I mean, I loved you guys coming in because going through season one and two of sunny with a chance i was very much the younger sibling of everything like they would all go get cast dinners afterward and it was very much like i was in the school room and it was just like them and me and then you guys all came on board and i was like hey how's it going and i felt like actually i was like making friends and like hanging out. Like everybody had been nice to me season one and two. But then actually I felt like, oh, I have friends. Like we can hang out afterwards. You're very welcoming.
Starting point is 00:23:32 Yeah. The age difference didn't matter when it so normally would. Like you were very friendly and like always invited us to stuff. You were like, come to my birthday party. I'm like, yeah. All right. Allison, you were my first date on a red carpet ever. That was so fun.
Starting point is 00:23:45 Yeah, we went to prom. Yeah. And like I think yeah, all right. Allison, you were my first date on a red carpet ever. That was so fun. Yeah, we went to prom. Yeah. And like, I think you were, were you 14 at the time? And I identify as a 14 year old girl
Starting point is 00:23:52 on the inside. So I think that's why we got along so well. But immediately. You were like, were you 14? And I'm trying to think of what my hair was like.
Starting point is 00:23:59 That's how I like mark all of my teenage years. It was pink. Yeah, pink. That's right. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:04 You've been through it all hair wise, haven't you? Oh, wow. Yeah, so I immediately identified with Allison because she looked like a 14, 15-year-old girl who celebrated Halloween. And that's who I truly am underneath this drag that I'm in right now. Shane, my impression of Shane was that, so Damien and Audrey and I got the tour of the set and treated like we were cast but we hadn't heard anything yet and I remember feverishly checking social media because I knew filming had was about to start or started already and I think maybe Allison you or Tiffany or something had posted something and you were tagged in it Shane and I remember thinking
Starting point is 00:24:39 like oh that's the guy that got it or whatever I wasn't thinking like and it was Bridget remember Bridget so it was Bridget Bridget and Shane were cast so I was whatever. I wasn't thinking like, and it was Bridget. Remember Bridget? So it was Bridget and Shane were cast. So I was like, oh, I guess me and Damien and Audrey didn't get it. And so I was like, oh, okay. And then we got the call that we were going to be on it. And then you weren't there when I filmed my first episode. It was the regulars.
Starting point is 00:24:58 And then it was, I don't think you were there either. I think it was just me and Audrey. Maybe they tried us like two at a time or something like that. I came on either the second or the third week. So I think I was the me and audrey maybe they tried us like two at a time i think i came on either the second or the third week so i think i was the last newbie so i knew damien already from like the audition process but it was delayed you and i shane getting to know each other and i remember being intimidated by you because i'm like oh my god this guy is amazing everyone's talking about how funny he is and i still didn't feel completely comfortable being like a sketch comedian or whatever it was and you were just such like a legend at it already because people had talked about how funny you were
Starting point is 00:25:28 because the episode they're like oh Shane wasn't on last week I remember Tiffany talking about it and Tiffany I got pretty close pretty fast and I remember like just thinking you were like God's gift wow and I knew I already knew Damien was a really really nice guy because we'd spend some time together and we're I felt like we were in the trenches together and we were holding on to each other through this tornado experience. But to me, you were this guy who already booked it. He's already a regular. Everyone already really loves him.
Starting point is 00:25:51 And I was like, oh gosh, I have to make a good impression on Shane. Meanwhile, I'm freaking out. Oh really? They're going to fire me next week. Yeah. Because I did the first episode and I was like, oh, this is great.
Starting point is 00:26:00 I got this job. The next week, Damien comes in and I'm thinking, I suck. And then the next week, you came comes in and I'm thinking, I suck. And then the next week, you came in and just killed with Rufus and I was like, we're both out. What mental warfare that was
Starting point is 00:26:14 to not have us just let us know that we booked the job and we're creating all these imaginary fights between ourselves. That's BS. We all got along really well. Oh, absolutely. Damien taught me math. I did. I tutored you every once in a while.
Starting point is 00:26:28 It was nice. Yes. You guys were always relegated to the school room because you were under 18. So every once in a while, there'd just be a little knock and be like, can you help us with a problem? I'm like, yeah. I'm needed. Because your dressing room was right near the art room.
Starting point is 00:26:41 It was right near the art room. Or the school room. It became the art room. It was right near the art room. Or the school room. It became the art room. It was the art room. Yeah. Also, my dressing room, like, I don't know what happened, but I think I'm the polar opposite person than I am now because I, you know, I really like being to myself and I like cold rooms.
Starting point is 00:26:56 I'm always like easily overheated. That room, I would constantly want people in there, like playing video games. I set up my Wii and my GameCube in there. It was the hangout spot. It was. And I kept it really hot. I was like, how hot can this go? I don't remember the heat thing. I don't remember the heat thing either. I think it was when people weren't
Starting point is 00:27:10 in there. If it was just me, I'd be like, crank it to 90. Take a nap. Maybe it's because it was as close as the door when you entered and it was just like immediately easy to hang out. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. You know. Or you just, you know, guys liked me and whatever. And you were still. Oh, yeah. That. You were closest to the door. Oh my god. Wow. We did it just because it was as close as the front that. You were closest to the door. Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:27:25 Wow. We did this just because it was closest to the front door. We didn't really like you. I tried bringing game consoles to set, and I brought my Xbox for like one week, and then Brandon asked to borrow it, and then he brought his posse to his dressing room, and then the Kinect was gone, and I was like, cool. I remember him playing what was the
Starting point is 00:27:46 Dead Space I remember him playing it and he's on the complete other end of the hallway of the dressing rooms from mine but I just
Starting point is 00:27:54 would hear him just be like ah ah wow that really sounds like him actually he was the loudest human
Starting point is 00:28:02 he is Damien I think has referred to him as an interdimensional being. Wait, can we just talk about Brandon for a second? There's a couple things I want to say about Brandon. Brandon Michael Smith. Brandon Michael Smith.
Starting point is 00:28:11 Constantly, especially on taping nights, he would have white men in business suits and suitcases who would go into his dressing room, don't know what would happen in there. Honestly, maybe five or six in full suits and silver suitcases. They were business advisors. And I remember one time they asked me, they asked me like to lunch or some sort of meeting or something. And they were telling me to invest in gold. Those are my gold people. Excuse me, 15-year-old girl, you need to invest in gold. I was like, cool things.
Starting point is 00:28:40 I'm going to go buy Invisalign with my checks. I'm an adult. Brandon could talk like, oh my God. Here's the thing about Brandon, though. When we did press one time, I sat with him, and he described so random, like, the wire. He goes, no, I remember thinking, he's the master of bullshit. He really is. And I respect it so much.
Starting point is 00:28:59 It's a quality I wish I had. But he was like, you know, every great great television show the third season they change it up So we're changing up for the third season cuz now it's so random not saying with the chance just like how the wire did It for their third season. I was like bitch like this is You know I'm saying like this is not like god bless you for saying that but I also remember him saying at one point like You guys should do stand-up. You know you're really funny, which is very nice It was always like rooted in a supportive nature He's like you're really nice, you know walking to anywhere. Walk into anywhere and just let them know you're on the Disney
Starting point is 00:29:26 channel. They'll put you up there. You can walk out with $20,000 in your pocket. And I was like, maybe you can. What world? That's how stand-up works. What open mic night? I can't even walk into set with $20,000. Does he really think you go to an open mic and just get $20,000? He might have said $12,000, but either way,
Starting point is 00:29:41 $12,000, that's better. The thing is, I could see Brandon doing that. He probably could. He's really successful. He's on a show now. He voices Michelangelo in the new Ninja Turtles. Does he really? That's so dope.
Starting point is 00:29:53 I remember him talking, though. He had this one speech where he just was like, talking about how So Random was going to go for like eight seasons. Oh, no, girl. And how we were all going to do our characters on SNL. Like it was going to become the biggest thing. Yeah. See, it's rooted in a supportive nature.
Starting point is 00:30:11 That's what I'm saying. He cares about us. He could see us going far. Like even if he BS's, like he sees good things for everybody within there. Yeah. He has a way of talking people into things. That's really respectable.
Starting point is 00:30:21 It's just, oh my God. I remember I brought my brother and sister-in-law to visit set and they're in my dressing room and he just walks into my dressing room in just like skin colored
Starting point is 00:30:32 like tight underwear. Yes, that sounds right. And he was just like, he's like, hey, have you seen this thing or whatever?
Starting point is 00:30:39 And I'm like, Brandon, what are you doing? He's like, oh, sorry. And he's like picking a wedgie too. Like, I'm like, what are you doing? Yeah, that sounds and he's like picking a wedgie too
Starting point is 00:30:45 like what are you doing yeah that sounds right oh he was nuts but such a great guy he's a great guy but nuts oh I remember once also
Starting point is 00:30:52 I was like yeah I need to stretch more he's like yeah I had a friend 5'7 started doing yoga 6'2 and like
Starting point is 00:31:00 dead serious yes dead serious you just would have to be like, yeah, man. All right. Oh, my gosh. Did he mention his friend was eight years old when he met him? Yeah, 14 later.
Starting point is 00:31:12 Yeah. So many different personalities. Because you have Brandon Michael Smith, who is just the most insane person. Sterling Knight, who is just bummed. Oh, my gosh. Always bummed. Whatever sketch we were doing, he was like, I can't believe we're doing this. He's like, if Eeyore was the heartthrob in a CW drama.
Starting point is 00:31:28 Really? Yes. Really? I mean, Sterling's harmless. I love him to death. His bark is worse than his bite. Remember when he slept through work one time and a PA had to go and get him? And then he rolls up on set in his Batmobile or whatever and comes on set smoking and then
Starting point is 00:31:44 yells at everyone and then goes back to his dressing room, and he's like, I'm sorry. And then we go back to work like it never happened. I remember they chewed him out one week, and then they gave him only the opening line, and then he had to apologize to all the executives, and then he brought the air mattress, and he was just sleeping in his dressing room because he was like, I don't want to be late.
Starting point is 00:32:00 So it was like a dick move and also be late. But he was really the sweetest guy. He is. That's so sweet. But he was really like the sweetest guy. He is. Yeah. He was so sweet. Yeah. After the show got canceled, I would go over to his house and he would like make me dinner. He would like, he's like, we're cooking chicken this week.
Starting point is 00:32:13 I'm like, okay. And I was just saying to you guys, I saw him in a play a couple of weeks ago and he was great. Awesome. He was really great. I believe he was incredibly talented. Yeah. He was great.
Starting point is 00:32:21 And then we had Tiffany Thornton, who was awesome. Yeah. Doug Brochu, who is. To this day, one of my best friends. You really he was great. And then we had Tiffany Thornton, who was awesome. Doug Brochu, who is to this day one of my best friends. Wait, should we talk about Blue Boys and Yeti? Yes, we should absolutely talk about Blue Boys and Yeti. So there was, we always had musical guests. This week it was
Starting point is 00:32:35 the New Boys. Are we doing this? Is this happening now? Sure. There's so much to talk about. It's going to combine the two stories. So the opening joke was that they were like hey guys don't go anywhere the blue boys are here and then the new boys
Starting point is 00:32:52 walk out sort of we'll get to that and they say don't you mean us and then we open the door in these giant blue skin tight jumpsuits with like teardraw teletubby style how can we put them in the blue suits again
Starting point is 00:33:06 I know right how can we see their dick imprints again yeah we can see which side they choose left so
Starting point is 00:33:13 left of course and you were right I think so we walk out and we're like no they mean us it's been eight years but I remember the shadow of his dick has never left my mind I could draw it right So we walk out and we're like, no, they mean us. It's been eight years, but I remember.
Starting point is 00:33:29 The shadow of his dick has never left my mind. I could draw it right now. It's like a lobster tail without the shell. So, yeah, so that was the joke there. And then Doug was also in this massive, like, woolly mammoth costume. So we made our club the Blue Boys and the Yetis. So we're just, hey, Blue Boys and Yeti, the new people on the show. Yeah, because we turned to each other and we're like, Blue Boys. And we all put out our fists.
Starting point is 00:33:48 And then Doug walks up and just goes, and Yeti. And then that was, we've referred to ourselves as that since. The only set piece that we had that stayed every week was like a rotating two-story stage where we'd pop out of our doors. There was nothing really behind the doors, but we'd pop out of them. And then I think all you guys, all the regs were down below and then the blue boys were upstairs. We had like different doors that we'd pop out of.
Starting point is 00:34:13 No, you stay up there! We'd come out and dance. And we would dance. Oh my god, so much dancing. Tons of dancing. I'm still uncomfortable dancing, but back then I was really uncomfortable. And we had to end every episode by dancing for like a solid three minutes with whatever like,
Starting point is 00:34:32 it was like Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez, and I'm there like kind of trying to not like bump into him, but still dance and still look happy. And we have to like have these bright smiles on our faces. They would also, when the musical guests were there, would put us in the audience with the children
Starting point is 00:34:47 to like watch the musical performers and they would like cut to us like screaming along with Loving LA or whatever it was. And a lot of times
Starting point is 00:34:55 they would rush to put us in like street clothes. I remember sometimes I was still in like some costume pieces from other stuff. And like,
Starting point is 00:35:01 they would like separate us too where it'd be like, okay, like Damien and Matthew Scott, like you go over here and like Shane and Tiff, you go over here. And I always was relieved when I was partnered up with one of you guys, because like, I don't like children. There, I said it.
Starting point is 00:35:12 And like, that was one of them. I remember Tiffany being like, why do all children smell like mac and cheese and BO? That's the team! Wow. So I was like, I don't want to be alone with this crowd of children. I know I'm like On like a kids TV show But I was like We're also grown ass adults
Starting point is 00:35:27 By that point Yeah Yeah we were Yeah You're also working Like this is after Like a whole day And then we get thrown
Starting point is 00:35:33 In front of a live audience Yes And have to entertain And we have to dance To things like The New Boys Real quick before we go into that The other awkward thing about it is
Starting point is 00:35:41 It was so long Before the show premiered Into our actual filming process That like They would have all these moments where they're like, we're the new people. No one has seen us on TV yet. So they'd be like, hey, guys, who's here to say hello to the audience right now? Shane Topp. And you just hear, oh, where's Chad Dylan Cooper? That's what he paid for.
Starting point is 00:36:00 So we're in the audience, like taking the spot of two other children that they've just sort of shoved us into and we're like Dancing and they're keenly aware that we're adults were keenly aware of their children world just like let's just have fun and smile They don't give two shits. We are New boys, oh god, so we would have a musical guests every week We had the new boy scheduled one week and did they just not show up the first time? One of them. No, no, no. It was twice.
Starting point is 00:36:29 Oh, really? They were supposed to be there one week. I think we had the table read, we're like, oh, we're the new boys. And I think maybe later they had a replacement musical guest at the last minute. So we were supposed to have the new boys for one episode who are a rap duo, a hip hop duo. I don't know. They had one popular song and I can't remember. Is that the Meet Your Mom song?
Starting point is 00:36:45 No. That's the one they sang though. Oh, okay. So, so. You're a Jerk. You're a Jerk, yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:51 Oh. Was that them? Wow, Courtney knew. I listened to the New Boys. I like that song. Courtney was a New Boys fan? That was the New Boys? Well, we met half of them.
Starting point is 00:37:00 Anyway, so they were scheduled for one episode and then they just got scrapped for some reason. And then a few weeks later, we get our scripts and we're like, this week's episode, the new boys. And we're like, oh, I guess that they're back. But then on the live taping night, they don't show up, or one of them didn't show up? One of them, I think, got stage fright and didn't want to perform, so they got one of their friends. Why are you so stupid? He really hates children. That's what I hear, but it could be something like, he's drunk and can't go. He really hates children. That's what I hear,
Starting point is 00:37:27 but it could be something like, he's drunk and can't go. It could be anything. It could be something like that. So they gave sunglasses to one of their friends and were like, nobody knows what we look like, so you just go out and dance and mouth along to the words. I remember watching them from our trailer with dressing rooms and they were
Starting point is 00:37:43 in the parking lot and the one guy was teaching the new guy the words to the song and how to perform on stage. This was like 20 minutes before they're about to be on television to be performing their song. Quick, join our band. I like how you're like, oh, nobody knew what they looked like, but I had gone to Hot Topic and bought a t-shirt because I would try to get the musical guests to sign t-shirts. Oh, my God. And their faces were on the t-shirts, and I remember just looking at the t-shirt and like I would try to like get the musical guests to sign t-shirts and their faces were on the t-shirts and I remember just like looking at the t-shirt and looking at them. Do I still get them to sign? Oh, you have a different face now and body.
Starting point is 00:38:15 Okay, we'll do that to you. This isn't you. Do you want to sign this picture of this other guy? That performance was trash too. They were so bad. They just filmed from behind them because the guy didn't know the lyrics. Pretty much all the artists lip sync on the show. I think maybe just because it's easier or whatever.
Starting point is 00:38:30 Not all of them did, but some of them did. I mean, they were definitely lip syncing. But the guy, the new new boy. The newest boy. The newest boy. He didn't even try to lip sync. He just went in the audience and high-fived people for three full minutes with his sunglasses on. Yep.
Starting point is 00:38:43 It was a disaster. The song was like if hip-hop had a baby with a terrible spooky carnival and they would catch us in the audience cheering and smiling like it was normal. Like normal things were happening. We were laughing. We were literally laughing at them.
Starting point is 00:38:58 If they looked at us, we would have just been like, what are you doing? This is so not funny. They just had the cameras behind them and like really high overhead. Oh my god. It's so wacky. I couldn't believe that happened. They're legends. That's like legendary now though. There were so
Starting point is 00:39:13 many moments like that of us just being like, I can't believe this is happening. The hardest I've ever laughed in my life was on set for So Random. So, my favorite story, one of my top five favorite stories of all time is we did a sketch that never made it to air. Thank God. Called Teenie in a Bottle.
Starting point is 00:39:33 And I forget. Oh, I'm sweating. I know it was Matthew Scott and myself. You were the dad. I was the dad. I was the son. Tiffany was my wife. Or baby mama.
Starting point is 00:39:43 Audrey was your. Audrey was my sister. So we were the children. So the sketch was like a 60s sitcom. Like a 60s sitcom family. I think I was cleaning out the basement. I was like, hey kids! I found this lamp in the basement. Wanna rub it?
Starting point is 00:39:59 And then out of it, out of this genie lamp that we find comes a teenage genie who doesn't grant any wishes because she's sassy and doesn't want to like. It can't be bothered. She's a teenager. Yeah. She's like an angry, sassy teen.
Starting point is 00:40:11 There was a lot of issues with the girl who played the. She played Teenie? Who played Teenie. She had to be painted and they painted her green, but that wasn't working. So the producers were so focused on her and how she was doing the character that Matthew Scott and I were just like, let's give the worst performances of our lives. We were running behind on time. The actress's name was Coco Jones. She was
Starting point is 00:40:33 having a really hard time with the material. She was also like a toddler. She looked like an adult, but she was like 11, 12. The notes they're getting from the network or whatever, everything she was doing was too negative or would be a bad influence on kids. But that was kind of how it was written. So on the fly, they're trying to rewrite it to make it more positive, but it's not working.
Starting point is 00:40:51 She's half in green makeup. What was the line about being adopted? I don't even know. Like there was some line where it's like, what do you want to wish for? And like you were like, I wish I weren't adopted. And like, do you remember that? And we like were improvving and they're like, okay, and moving on. We're like, what? No that? And we like were improv-ing and they're like, okay, and moving on. We're like, what?
Starting point is 00:41:06 Dude, no. So we start this and Matthew Scott and I had talked but we're like, let's go insane with this. Yes. So I'm going to see, and I'm thinking, I'm going to go nuts. And all of a sudden Matthew Scott just goes, a genie.
Starting point is 00:41:20 Yes, literally. Do you remember the face though? I said, genie. I was watching this on the like closed circuit TV in the dressing room, and I think you said you turned to Matthew Scott at one point, and he just went like, just gritted teeth, eyes looking like they're going to pop out of his face. You looked both angry and happy at the same time.
Starting point is 00:41:41 We were running way behind, and the last shot we had to get was the opening credit shot where it's like, and that's teeny, or whatever it was. And it was a shot of me and my family shoved around each other and Coco popping up between us. And we only had time for one take. And so instead of me saying the line, that's teeny, I literally would go,
Starting point is 00:41:57 ahhh! Literally like that. There was moments where you just were screaming in it. Where it was just like she's like, I'm the most... There was moments where you just were screaming in it. Where it was just like, she's like, I'm not going to grant that wish. And I go, Danny! And no one corrected me. No one corrected me.
Starting point is 00:42:14 And then they were like, okay, check in the gate. Time to go to the lunch. And I was like, that's going to be a dumb move. I was laughing through most... No, it's not. I was laughing through most of the takes. I didn't have a line delivered where I wasn't like, oh, what a genie!
Starting point is 00:42:29 And we only shot our stuff once because they didn't have time, so we knew they were going to have to use those takes. You had a part where you folded your arms, but you didn't touch. Your arms did not touch. You just, like, weirdly folded them. I was like, genie! Oh, my God.
Starting point is 00:42:44 It was absolutely insane, And they said nothing. We're like, we're kidding. They never even looked at me. Damien was watching it on the monitor. And I come back. I'm like, did you watch it? He's like, no. Yeah. Everyone's watching on the monitors in the dressing room.
Starting point is 00:42:54 And they were so disturbed by what we were doing that they came out to set. Like, is everything okay? Like, what's happening? But they were so concerned with Coco that they never looked at us. It was the most, it is the hardest I've ever laughed. There's this guy, Skip, who was editing, and I went to him in the editor's bay a couple weeks later. I was like, can I please watch Teeny to Bottle? He's like, oh, no, we scrapped all of that.
Starting point is 00:43:15 He was like, we couldn't use any of that. I was like, oh, my God. Is it just deleted? It's not even. I mean, I would give anything to watch all that stuff now. Oh, man. There were so many funny moments. Oh, man.
Starting point is 00:43:26 Oh, my God. This is a perfect moment, though, to bring up that I'm well known on Smosh for my screaming, but I actually learned it from Matthew Scott. We all did. There's the famous ooh-ooh. Look, I think you should do it. I don't remember how it started. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:43:45 It started out as more of like a ooh ooh. Yes. And then it just grew. It was celebratory and then it got like that. Yeah, it started off like a ooh ooh. It started off like that, but it turned into a ooh ooh. And we would try to sneak it in as many episodes as possible, especially in the audience when like Colby Kelly's like,
Starting point is 00:44:03 and summertime. We're like, ooh like oh oh my god there was something there was one where you had a pause like you would oh but this just scream came out of your face oh my god who you do have a great scream I talk you well thank you you. Yeah. No, you had some that hurt. It hurts so good. Watch the veins pop. Oh my God. Allison, I was just reminded of something. This is a total tangent
Starting point is 00:44:34 so tell me to shut the hell up. No, no, please. Shut the hell up. Okay. So I remember you used to sneak off on set quite a bit. I didn't know this. To go hang out with one particular friend. Yes. Yeah. So the Kickin' It cast was across the lot on Hollywood Center Studios. And I became friends with their cast, particularly Dylan Snyder on the cast. And so I would go hang
Starting point is 00:44:57 out with them, especially during lunches. Yeah, I would be a little bit late coming back to set sometimes. And Eric Dean Seaton, one of our directors, our frequent directors, he he would be like hey where were you who are you uh over there hanging out on the kick-ass set and I was like shut up and he's like you're hanging out with hanging out with a special special somebody special villain and who is that special somebody now yeah less than a month wow yeah yeah man that's really exciting Wow I'm looking forward to it Me too Originally when you sent out An invitation for that
Starting point is 00:45:27 It was said like Hey you know We're just gonna have A little party To celebrate the fact That we got engaged Saved the date And I ended up having
Starting point is 00:45:34 A business conflict And I was just like Oh thank goodness Just the party Yes I can do the business thing I'll come to the actual wedding And then a second invitation Got sent out
Starting point is 00:45:42 Where it was like Psych it's our wedding And I was like Gotcha So what I'm gonna be doing now Is taking a train down To TwitchCon wedding and then a second invitation got sent out where it was like, psych, it's our wedding! And I was like, what I'm going to be doing now is taking a train down to TwitchCon, being there for a day, taking a train back up that night to go to the wedding, then a train back down for the second day
Starting point is 00:45:55 to TwitchCon. Oh, I'm sure as hell not going to miss it. Why would you do that, Allison? Why would you do that to me? Your wedding is about me. Well, the funny thing is that both of us are, like, really casual about the whole thing. We're like, hey, it's a tax contract. And our families are like, well, that's romantic. We're like, well, it's not.
Starting point is 00:46:12 It's a tax contract. We're like, mainly we just want to get everybody together and celebrate. Yeah. And so we sent out our save the dates, which were up to us. And so we were like, we put a picture of, like, beer pong. We're like, yeah, come hang out with us and celebrate. We're getting married and stuff. Play pool at a bar. And all of our families were, like, really confused. They're like, yeah, come hang out with us and celebrate. We're getting married and stuff. Play pool at a bar.
Starting point is 00:46:25 And all of our families were really confused. They're like, is this a wedding or not? So we were like, okay, we'll make the invitations a little more formal. Like, okay. Come to our wedding kickback. I literally, yeah. So I found a warehouse space where we're going to be hosting it. And it's literally two rooms.
Starting point is 00:46:43 And I'm dividing them as like this is the party room and this is the old people room. Oh my god, amazing. I know my side. Old people room. Hope you got places to nap because that's what I'm going to do. I will be there.
Starting point is 00:46:59 Yeah, be there. I'm excited. Very excited. Thank you. It's basically going to be alcohol and cake, so even if you couldn't make it, we could still have alcohol and cake on another night. Just mail me some alcohol and cake.
Starting point is 00:47:12 In one bag. In an envelope. In a loose Ziploc. Just cake with an old Blue Moon beer poured in it. Like some crumbs and pour some beer in a Ziploc bag. Thanks for coming to my wedding, asshole. I guess I missed it.
Starting point is 00:47:27 That should be the party favors. I don't have party favors yet. There it is. Bagged cake. Ziploc bags of crumbs and beer. Do them like, I don't know, you like dark art stuff, like owl pellets, so everybody can find like mouse bones in an owl pellet. I could see that. I feel like that would be way too expensive,
Starting point is 00:47:44 honestly. No, they're cheap. I got a guy. What? You got an owl pellet? He's got an owl pellet guy. It's just an owl pellet. I could see that. I feel like that would be way too expensive, honestly. No, they're cheap. I got a guy. What? Yeah. You got an owl pellet? I can get you some owl pellets. He's got an owl pellet guy. Okay.
Starting point is 00:47:49 It's just an owl. It's just what I found. It's like, there's another. All right. 50 more. We're good. That sounds good. Also, um.
Starting point is 00:47:59 Anyways, also. You're an artist, though. I was always, like, impressed with your art skills while on set. Like, we said the school room became the art room, but now you're doing it, like, much more. You're just doing it. Yeah, very much. My love for art was mainly from working on Sunny with a Chance and So Random because it was really long days. And, you know, especially with, like, all the script changes and, like, in and out of hair and makeup and everything.
Starting point is 00:48:21 Like, my set teacher was incredible, and she she very much understood like, this is my downtime. These are my breaks. Like this is my chill period. And especially with like the hecticness of set, she was like, hey, on film days, just like let's paint and stuff. So it's like we would come in on the hiatus weeks. So when, whenever you guys were on break, I would come in, I would actually do all my schoolwork then.
Starting point is 00:48:40 That way, whenever we were filming and rehearsing, we could be more like reading and painting and drawing i brought in this pair of jeans once do you remember the jeans that i brought in where yes and i was like i when i found out what a cool artist you were and like i literally have a painting of yours up in my apartment right now that's the the orange alien that you gave me literally like eight years ago i brought in this like pair of jeans and i was like i'm gonna do one leg of the jeans and then you can do whatever you want with the other leg. And on my leg of the jeans, I wrote like every Goosebumps title, like in order down the leg.
Starting point is 00:49:08 And then on Alison's side, it says, love is dead. And there's all these like aliens and robots and broken hearts. And it's like my favorite pair of clothing, thing of clothing I have. It was awesome. Yeah, I remember I would draw like these really crazy, like with Sharpie, like these stick figures
Starting point is 00:49:24 and then I would splatter red paint all of them, and it was, like, all these, like, really morbid, dark things, and I would hang them up on the walls, and, like, one day, Marsha, the set teacher, was like, hey, so, like, somebody walked by and got very disturbed. Like, we may want to take those down. I was like, oops. Incredible.
Starting point is 00:49:39 Yeah. You painted me a one-legged junkyard dog and a squid, which I think is just a weird inside joke for us, but I love it. I remember that. Thuggles. Oh, yeah. I definitely did a lot of painting on the set, and I actually did that as wrap gifts.
Starting point is 00:49:55 I would do, for all the cast members, for Sunny with a Chance, I did these portraits of them, these three-dimensional portraits made out of like actual objects. Oh, I remember that. If they were into skateboarding, then I might use like one of those little tech decks and do that as like a mouth or something. And the state that they were from, I would use that coin as an eye or something like that. So cool. One of the showrunners, Michael Feldman, he loved that and he asked me to do one for his family. And so I did. The frame ended up breaking at one point and he took it into a shop.
Starting point is 00:50:24 And she was like, who did this? Like, what is this? And so he put me in touch with her and that was why I had my first art show. That's so cool. Yeah. So it was the gallery owner. Yeah. That's so awesome. I wore a black turtleneck to that because I was like, I got an A-artsy. Yeah. So my first art show that you guys all came to was at the Decor Art Galleries. So cool. Yeah, I remember. That was the first time that I was actually taking it seriously. And I remember it was to raise money for a family friend who just lost their dad to cancer.
Starting point is 00:50:55 We had prices on the pieces and everything. And I very much at that point was very like, oh, I want to just give all my art away and birthday presents and anniversaries and everything. And then I was actually selling things. I was like, oh, people like this and people will buy it. Yes. Yeah. Money. No, it was nice.
Starting point is 00:51:12 It was kind of like, oh, this is something that I've always done as a hobby, but I actually started taking it a little bit more seriously. That's fantastic. That's really cool. Yeah, you're so talented. Thank you. Thank you. I still give it away, though.
Starting point is 00:51:22 I'm so bad at trying to price my stuff at, like, what artists are supposed to price their work at. I think my favorite time was at this art fair. I had this booth, and I sell my stuff for really cheap. And even some of the other people from the other booths would come over and be like, you're selling this for $35? Like, what? Even this guy came up, and he fell in love with this piece and he pulled out like $20, $25 from his wallet. And he's like, hold on. He's like, don't sell this.
Starting point is 00:51:48 And he ran to his car and he gathered up like all the quarters and the change. And he like came back and paid for it like with all the spare change. I was like, you can have it. I was like, this is amazing. Oh, my God. Like how much he wanted the piece. I was like, I want my art in like college dorms and like the people who like are eating ramen because they couldn't
Starting point is 00:52:07 afford groceries because they bought my painting. Like I don't want to. That's sick. Yeah. I feel like out of the whole cast,
Starting point is 00:52:13 you two, Allison, Matthew, Scott, you two are like the most artistic and create the most because since So Random,
Starting point is 00:52:21 I feel like you guys are constantly making stuff, whether it's a web series or a show or a play. I mean, how many plays have you written? Spook Night, Dead of Summer. Spook Night is one of my favorite things. I've been to all of them.
Starting point is 00:52:33 So Random was an interesting time because I don't know if you guys know this or how much this, but like, you know, Gersh, the agency Gersh. They would like come to set and like try to like woo me over there. Oh, interesting. So finally, and then I signed with them and I was with this huge agency and I was like, oh my God, this is amazing. And then our show got canceled. We didn't get picked up, which I found out on Twitter. I don't know how you guys found out.
Starting point is 00:52:52 But then Gersh dropped me after that almost immediately. And then my managers, so like I was all of a sudden like I had literally nothing. And so what I had done before was theater out here. And so I was like, I want to do more plays. I remember talking to you about it and Debbie Ryan as well because Debbie is a close friend of all of ours, and Jessie was on our lot as well, and she was talking about it.
Starting point is 00:53:16 She was like, I want to see more plays, and I was like, I'll write like a silly Halloween one that you can come see. I started diving back into theater after So Random was canceled because working in television is a total blast and really, really great. Something about Disney Channel that they do is Disney's really good at making stars. I'm very interested in, like, being an actor and, like, I'm always, like, talking about, like, that stuff. And so I don't know if I identified with it completely.
Starting point is 00:53:36 And I felt like some of my artist battery had been drained. And I feel like a good way to recharge that is live performance. And I kind of was tired of waiting for opportunities from other people. And so I was like, I'm just going to write the kind of thing that I would want to do. So I started writing these annual Halloween plays called Spook Night, which kind of turned into some other things.
Starting point is 00:53:54 And I just get, as you guys know, we've all worked together on stuff that I've written that's ridiculous and silly. I get bored very, very easily. And I like, I want to perform right now. And so for me, a lot of the immediacy of that comes from theater because I have more control over either what I can put up myself
Starting point is 00:54:07 or you can kind of get auditions yourself. And the theater world is very small in Los Angeles. So if someone knows you there, there's more opportunities there. It's a little harder to get into an audition room for film and TV. So that's where a lot of the necessity from writing comes from.
Starting point is 00:54:21 And Allison and I recently worked on something. My brain's going, which one? Which thing? Ah, that's cool. Room 566. Yes. Can you talk about that? Yes, I can.
Starting point is 00:54:30 Yeah, so you played a demon. I did. Yeah, I texted you and I was like, hey, it's going to be a lot of prosthetics and it's going to be crazy. Are you cool with wearing full blackout contacts? I was like, yeah. I want you to play a demon in a nightmare sequence.
Starting point is 00:54:41 I would do anything that you guys ask me to do. Any three of you, I would do anything. Let's kill a man. We're going to recreate a Jackson arrow. Yeah, let's not choke or smother. But yeah, so Room 566 is my most recent project. And it's a project that I wrote and my fiance directed. And we are using that to pitch a feature.
Starting point is 00:55:03 And so the style and tone of that project is what we aspire to do. Watching Allison on set and Dylan as well is really, really incredible and like you guys all inspire me so much and Allison like the filmmaking that she does and the awards that you've won from short films and other films that you're doing is really, really
Starting point is 00:55:20 incredible and to like show up on set and to have like Josie sign me, like Allison's sister just like sign me in to like and then you go through hair makeup and wardrobe and then you're on an actual set we were shooting on like this hospital set stage yeah yeah it was it was and like the the effects and what I look like I have like this long gray blonde wig and these horns yeah they were they were cast from like actual goat Yeah. And I got like fingers molded to my hands. Like I was so impressed with the whole, I can't wait for people to see it and see everything that you're going to continue to show. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The project, it all takes place in
Starting point is 00:55:54 a hospital and it's about this guy who's waiting in the emergency room, waiting room for his sister and he doesn't know why she's there. And so it's all about like his anxieties and he keeps like falling asleep. So it kind of goes back and forth between these nightmare sequences and what's actually happening and how his anxieties are sort of manifesting into this creature that's like hunting his sister down in the hospital.
Starting point is 00:56:14 So he has to like try to get her out. And that is me. Yes. You are anxiety. Yes, yes. That's so cool. Yeah. It's awesome to see like how far we've all come in these different directions.
Starting point is 00:56:27 And you specifically, I never thought of you as anything other than a friend, but you were like my little sister in a way. Yes. So it was just like, like I said, didn't treat you any differently because of that. You were just one of us. But at the same time, it is kind of weird looking at you now being like, okay, you're making your own movies. You have your own condo.
Starting point is 00:56:46 You are engaged. I am much older than you. And I am not. It's like, I don't know. I wrote a play I'm putting up next weekend. It's in a hole in the north of Hollywood. Which is amazing. Well, the funny thing is you saying that, like, you get bored easily.
Starting point is 00:57:01 Yeah. My mom, when I was really little, told me only boring people get bored. And I was like, uh-oh, okay, need to do things all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She doesn't remember that and I'm like,
Starting point is 00:57:11 you shaped my entire personality with that one sentence. Yep. Yeah. I remember just like after So Random got not renewed, I remember I didn't do much. That's a nice way to put it.
Starting point is 00:57:22 Yeah. Not renewed. Well, because we were extended. I've written a dime. It was like a, like it wasn't just a 13-episode season. That's a nice way to put it. Yeah. Not renewed. Because we were extended. It was like a like it wasn't just a 13 episode season. It was extended several times. It would be like, OK, six more and then eight more. So we did a lot of episodes. It was just not financially feasible, especially because that would have been season four for the regulars.
Starting point is 00:57:42 And so contracts and everything. That's long for Disney Channel as well. It is really long. Yeah. I feel like three to four is pretty standard, especially because they kept having to move our time slots later and they kept having to pull sketches and then entire episodes from the air anyway. But also, like, we were all kind of making it up as we go along.
Starting point is 00:58:00 I mean, like, I found out, like, do you guys remember that one time we as, like, a cast and, like, the writers went to go see the last Harry Potter movie I think yeah, and then when we walked out of the movie the writers were like That was the first Harry Potter movie any of us have seen we're like oh cool We've been doing Harry Potter sketches for the last 24 episodes, and they had never seen anything from Harry Potter So it's like we were all just making stuff up as we've been along I liked all the writers but I think that is part of the The issue with the show is like they had a team of like 10 writers
Starting point is 00:58:26 and they were all sort of like the same type of person. Like there was no like, all right, I'm the new young kid writer that knows about Harry Potter and all that stuff. They were all just like adults. They were like silly bands. Yeah, kids love silly bands, right? All of a sudden they were writing basically a sketch show,
Starting point is 00:58:41 which isn't necessarily something that they signed up for. Yeah, all the writers were still from the sitcom days and they did a marvelous job i'm just saying like when you have that many writers like there were so many same thing with set design and costumes as well moving from sitcom where it's like everything had to look really grand and wonderful and they were able to put budget into things like that and then like you were saying we're having a prom at the north Pole and we're all vultures. Yeah, it should have just been like a nose on a string. The show was so nuts, I can't remember if that was real or not.
Starting point is 00:59:11 I'm actually also trying to do the mental gymnastics to figure that out. Oh my God. The stuff that we did. Covered in ketchup, robots, dancing, giant meats. Jamtron. Jamtron. Jamtron.
Starting point is 00:59:21 That nearly broke Damien. That nearly, the costume was way too small it was made for someone else on a different show I think it was some Wizards of Waverly Place thing so they were like trying to like get one of the pieces over my forearm and it just wouldn't go and eventually they got it on they're like oh it fits I'm like I will lose my hand it was like a
Starting point is 00:59:37 was that a music video? yes you guys and I think I was just background in that one or something like that cause I watched it from afar all of it happen and i watched poor poor sweet damien go through all of that stuff namely the part that sticks out the most to me is filming this hellish sketch for hours and hours and hours and then like in the like the midnight hour someone coming up be like what does this button do and then he presses part of the robot thing and the whole thing lights up and they had shot everything without the lights on.
Starting point is 01:00:05 And that was the whole reason it was designed and so heavy and uncomfortable is because there was like a light grid inside that they forgot to press the button. I also remember the issue with like learning the song was like, it was Jamtron, so it's a play on Scantron, right? So it's like I'm a living Scantron machine. So the chorus was like listing A through D. So it'd be like A, B, C, D, like A B C D A B C B C D A C And it changed every single time there was no pattern no rhyme or reason so I remember saying like hey
Starting point is 01:00:32 This is pre-recorded. Can I just like move my mouth like a robot? They're like no say like A B C and all that stuff And I'm like does it have to be one-to-one with what the script is and they're like yeah And I'm like lines are one thing. Yes we You get sued if you do it wrong. It was insane. It's literally like B, C, D, B, A, B, B, B, C, D, B, A, E, C, B, D, E, B, C, B, C, B, D. That was a real crash course, all the stuff that we had to do. Do you remember there was a Rufus music video where we had like a, it was like, I'm sorry, an Angus music video.
Starting point is 01:01:03 So Angus was the Australian supermodel that I played. And it was the whole thing is like, do the Angus. I go into recording studio. I like help cast the backup dancers. I dated one of my backup dancers. And, and then we like got to set and we're like,
Starting point is 01:01:13 okay, okay. Time to film. Do the Angus. What's the Angus? And I'm like, it's a dance move that we described while I was singing, but none of us had like done the move before.
Starting point is 01:01:22 And everyone's expecting me to come up with this dance move to do, which if you guys remember, and it's on YouTube, kill myself, why did I say that? But like, it is the most complicated dance move that children cannot do. I can barely, it's like do the Angus, and it's like the spin move and you flip your leg over the other leg and like do a back flip and then you stand like in like two beats.
Starting point is 01:01:40 So incredible, like the stuff they had us do, or made us do. Oh my God, I love throughout the course of the whole show, all our characters just devolved. Because you started off and you were like, you're not going to believe this. But by the end, you were literally like, you're not going to believe this. You guys all at least got catchphrases. You all got characters with catchphrases. With me, I remember Audrey and I would go to the roller rink and they'd'd be like, oh, do the I'm Gonna Marry Zach Feldman show.
Starting point is 01:02:06 And she'd be like, I'm Gonna Marry Zach Feldman show. And they'd be like, now you sing the ketchup song. And I'm like, oh, yeah. And I would do the first version. I'd be like, thanks so much. And they're like, that's not all of it. You didn't do it right. She's not doing it right.
Starting point is 01:02:18 Do the thing. It's not clear like ketchup. Do you remember it? How does it go? I don't remember it. It was ketchup on everything. I whipped my hair. How does it go? I don't remember it. It was because it was. I whipped my hair. That was a crazy shoot.
Starting point is 01:02:30 Just covered. We were all white, but then you had red braids. I had the red long braids. Yeah. And like. They were like spray painted and getting on your costume, I think. Yes. That was insane.
Starting point is 01:02:40 Yeah. And every week was like that. Yeah. Every week was nuts. Yeah. I remember that was probably the longest day that I had had up until that point because they had me go record the song after we finished. So we like got there early for dance rehearsals to learn it. And so we were like technically I don't think we were like on the clock or it was something weird to where I remember doing the math later and being like that was a 16 hour day.
Starting point is 01:03:02 Yeah. Yikes. Yeah. Yeah. For someone who's under 18. Yeah. Yikes. Yeah. Yeah, for someone who's under 18 to do all that. Yeah, because I was supposed to be like nine, nine and a half hours or something. Yeah. Nope.
Starting point is 01:03:11 But it was like technically two different contracts than people because it was like the studio time wasn't on the clock. Like, hey, can you throw us a freebie and work a 16-hour day, please, child? Do you mind? It's just seven more hours. Okay. I know. That was why I felt so bad for Demi seasons one and two.
Starting point is 01:03:26 It was very much like, hey, can you do this interview? Or like even during our hiatuses, it was like, now you're flying to Germany. It was like. Well, we were doing like Lion King 3D stuff on our day off. Do you remember that? Is that when we were laying in the grass and the camera was spinning overhead and you were like, what is even happening? I don't remember this at all.
Starting point is 01:03:46 And then Allison and I did like cooking challenges with Coach Michael Simon. That's right. He just kept making fun of how I was a vegetarian and I was like, that bit's dead now. I was like, that doesn't need to be the whole episode. I think I got paid $50 for that day. And what I remember them saying, Disney saying was,
Starting point is 01:04:01 my manager was like, we should take it even though it's only $50. And they're like, even, the thing they say is like, even Selena does it for that. And I'm like, uh, what? And they're like, even Selena gets paid the same amount. I was like, what? And it was an eight hour day on a Saturday that I got paid 50 bucks to like make granola for eight hours. Yeah, it was like a yogurt thing. And talk about nutrition for kids on Disney Channel.
Starting point is 01:04:20 Yeah. But that's what Selena got paid, so. Oh, I nearly ran into her when she guest starred I remember that I like turned around a corner and she like we nearly head butted each other yes
Starting point is 01:04:35 and we're just standing there like she was on her laptop walking in the hallway I think yeah and like we stop and she's like and I was just like looking at her like that's Selena Gomez
Starting point is 01:04:42 I nearly ran into her and then she just like walks away doesn't say anything. Weren't you like nice to meet you? And she was like. Wait, wait, what? You were like said hi.
Starting point is 01:04:49 And then she like didn't say hi back or something. I never talked to her. I never talked to her either. But like I nearly bumped into her. She walks to her dressing room with her mom. She's like, I nearly dropped my laptop. And I was just like, oh, okay. I think I almost ran into a pole or something.
Starting point is 01:05:02 Oh. Was that a human? Can't even see. She was the only guest I never, like, spoke to. Even Justin Bieber. Even Justin Bieber, yeah. Like, he, I was just, like, standing on stage being respectful, and he turns to me and he's just like, hey, man, I'm Justin. And I'm like, in my mind, I'm like, yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:16 And I'm like, frickin' no. Yeah, the SWAT team on the roof. I'm no one. A bird landed on his shoulder. Some, like, sparkles came out when you shook his hand. Yes. My favorite is that I believe it was season one of Sunny of the Chance on the same lot. There was like a day where the president like was guest starring or like appearing on something that was shooting on that lot.
Starting point is 01:05:39 And I mean, obviously there's like full on like, you know, SWAT, whatever. But then Justin Bieber had like double the security. There was like snipers on the roof. That day was crazy. There literally were people on the roofs when Justin Bieber was there. There were people with like walkie-talkies all over the place. But they weren't even that thorough because there was a guard in front of the studio like standing there checking everyone. I walk up to the door and he goes, are you on the show? And I go, yeah.
Starting point is 01:05:59 And he's like, all right. And I'm like, that's it? Wait, that reminds me. The three of us did not – we couldn't park on the lot do you remember that oh yeah so we had like it was very humbling
Starting point is 01:06:09 to had to convince security to let us on to shoot our television show and then after the show was over after live tapings we would have to walk
Starting point is 01:06:17 through crowds of fans on the way out once the show started we didn't know who we were thankfully but once the show started airing they did and I remember feeling
Starting point is 01:06:23 very uncomfortable because I was like I have to walk through that crowd of fans. Like, hi, excuse me, I need to get to my car. It's the one with no hubcaps and that lot across the street. Do you know what I mean? And they're like, would you sign this? I'm like, great. And then my car's falling apart and I have to walk a mile to get to where I'm parked.
Starting point is 01:06:40 It definitely removes the facade of like, our lives are this fun Disney show. And it's just like, all right, I'm going to go to my dead car. I remember one time at an autograph signing, a kid was like, can you buy me an iPhone? I was like, can you buy me an iPhone? I remember some kids once talking to me and they were like, they're like, oh, you're on that Disney show. I'm like, yeah.
Starting point is 01:07:00 They're like, so are you like a millionaire? And I'm like, oh. Let's like talk about that specifically so I think a lot of people think that the second you get on TV in any possible capacity you're rich they give you a limo they give you everything there are different like pay grades and for something like Disney and Nickelodeon it can be a great opportunity for exposure but they're definitely like bottom of the barrel in terms of pay for the most part yeah so there are also tiers to that. Maybe if you're a series regular, you're going to make some okay money. Co-star, a little less.
Starting point is 01:07:29 Guest star, not much. Or did I switch those? Yeah. And make a lot of money off residuals, right? But not with Disney. And what really sucked is I want to say it was around summer of 2012 that we found out it wasn't getting renewed, right? Yes. And that's around the same time that residual checks just stopped.
Starting point is 01:07:49 Yeah. That's also not in the know. Those are checks you get for the show airing. They pay you for every air of the show. And it might be a few cents, but it all builds up. But they do the bullshit where it's like, oh, we have to pay you X amount of dollars if it airs 10 times. So we'll air it nine times. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:08:03 It was brutal. I'm sure we've all gotten those residuals where it's like 13 cents. Yeah. I've literally gotten one cent checks with that. I've gotten one cent checks. I'm like, the postage cost more than this. Why did you send this? You cut down a tree to print this.
Starting point is 01:08:15 Yeah. There is a bar in Los Angeles called Residuals, and I think if you bring in your residual check, they'll give you a drink for free or something. Oh, we should go later. What are you guys doing? Let's go right now. Yeah, do you promise? Yeah, I love having people over to the condo.
Starting point is 01:08:30 They look at the condo and they're like, oh, like Disney money? I'm like, no, commercials since I was four years old. Disney paid for my Invisalign. Yeah, we were really just like, once it stopped, it was just like done. I didn't work for a while. You got that Subway commercial though pretty quick.
Starting point is 01:08:47 I did get a Subway commercial that did literally pay my rent. Oh, I did? Oh, good. That was it. That was all I got. And that's, I was about to quit acting. It is humbling too when it's like when you're on Disney Channel, it's like you get a free guide to go to Disneyland.
Starting point is 01:09:00 Yes. Like you don't have to like wait in lines. You like can go whenever you want. You have a guide. But then when the show's canceled, it's like, nope, you're paying like everybody else. Sorry. Yeah. The mouse thanks you.
Starting point is 01:09:10 Yes. Bye-bye. Yeah. We don't remember you at all. Who are you again? I remember Dylan and I tried to reach out to Disney. We were like, hey, can we like maybe. And they're like, what shows are you on?
Starting point is 01:09:21 Yeah. We were like, okay, nevermind. Fine. Yeah. Because we were like even just like tickets. We weren't even asking for a guide. We were just like, hey, can we like get a hookup with some sort of tickets or even like an employee discount kind of thing.
Starting point is 01:09:31 They were like, sorry. Employee where? 10% off code, please. No. No. No. You got your residual checks. Use those.
Starting point is 01:09:42 Bill them up. Spend 20 minutes trying to scan in a one cent check on your Bank of America app on your phone. Get closer. I did that this morning. It was $2.38 and my phone would not take the picture of the back of the check for the Bank of America app.
Starting point is 01:09:58 They're like, it's too thin of a check. I was like, it's December 1st next week. I need that $2.38 from the Jane the Virgin episode. Oh, my God. Oh, thanks. He's Jane. I play Jane.
Starting point is 01:10:14 I'm the Virgin. Oh, my God. Oh, my God, dude. This has been great. I miss you guys. I know. I miss you guys, too., I miss you guys too. We have done, I am pretty shocked at like how well we've all kept in touch for the most part.
Starting point is 01:10:30 Like, I know we don't see each other as much as like maybe we did back in the day. And like you and I get like a couple times a year maybe. Damien and I will like send each other these texts like a couple times a year. It's like, I don't see you a lot, but you know I love you. We literally do. Yeah. I mean, you literally texted us the other week just being like, do you guys remember So Random?
Starting point is 01:10:47 That was crazy. Before you asked to do this podcast, I literally had texted them. Just random, like, photos and behind-the-scenes videos. I was just thinking about it. I was like, was that all a dream? Oh, I remember because someone, I was working on a show where someone brought up Edward Cullen somehow or Twilight. And I was like, oh, I played Edward Cullen on TV.
Starting point is 01:11:05 And they're like, you did? So I pulled up pictures of me all glittery from that one sketch that we did. I was Gollum. Was that celebrity Edward Cullen? Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. Wheel of Fortune. Magical creatures.
Starting point is 01:11:14 You were Harry Potter. And then looking at that picture of me covered in glitter, I was like, the simulation's glitching. I was like, did this really happen? I don't believe it happened. Did that happen? It did. I think it was not real.
Starting point is 01:11:25 And I didn't get recognized for it for a long time. Because you were always dressed as somebody else. Yeah. So part of me was kind of like, did anyone watch it? Yeah. And then once I started here at Smosh, then everyone was like, you were from So Random. I've been a fan since So Random. It's crazy.
Starting point is 01:11:42 That's So Random. My favorite show, That's So Random. What's that show you played on? It's The Future She Can See. So Random. It's crazy. That's so random. My favorite show, that's so random. What's that show you played on? It's The Future She Can See. So random. Oh, my God. Yeah, I also thought nobody had ever watched anything, but it wasn't until I got on Smosh and started reading the comments
Starting point is 01:11:54 that they're like, oh, that's where I know Damien and Shane, the anime brothers. And I was just like, where were you? You should have been really mad that we got canceled and did a Twitter campaign. You had Twitter. They were also 10. Yeah, your voice is just as loud on and did a Twitter campaign. You had Twitter. They were also 10. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:12:06 Your voice is just as loud on the internet. You type. You hit send. I remember I like didn't, I don't think I had an Instagram. I didn't have. You got me started on Twitter. I just barely got a Twitter. I made a Twitter because of Disney.
Starting point is 01:12:18 I did too. And you were the first one that actually shouted out like, hanging out with my new cast member, Damien Haas. And I remember having notifications on and waking up the next morning and be like I got 300 followers in one night oh yeah that was the beginning of all of that yeah crazy I remember like my parents would like pre-approve my tweets before I would post them out smart very like yeah parents are awesome by the way yeah they're like they're definitely like life slash marriage goals. Oh.
Starting point is 01:12:45 Like eloping on a motorcycle. Oh, hell yeah. I know. They're so cool. They sound like something that should have crashed and burned. Like, that should not have been. No, they're everything. Yeah, they literally, my mom was 17.
Starting point is 01:12:55 She was driving down the street with her best friend, and they saw these like rocker dudes with like these long 80s hair and like leather jackets walking down the street. And my mom's best friend was like, oh, those guys are cute. Like you should ask them for a ride. So my mom, this little like 17 year old blonde, was like, you guys want a ride? My dad was like, I mean, it's right around the corner. And the other guys were like, bruh. Girls.
Starting point is 01:13:15 And so we like got in the car. My mom introduced herself as Kid Cat. And like. I didn't know that part of it. Yeah, she turned 18. It's literally an 80s movie. And they eloped to Vegas on a motorcycle. They didn't have enough money for the marriage license.
Starting point is 01:13:28 So my dad stopped off at his work and took money out of the cash register, putting an IOU in it. And my mom thought he robbed the place and still married him. That's dope. I mean, he also did rob the place. It's not like there's a company policy like you can do whatever you want if you bring it back. He took money out of a cash register. It was a pretty relaxed job. No, but yeah, they met on Sunset in La Plata.
Starting point is 01:13:55 God, you're so cool. That's the coolest tattoo I've ever seen. For those listening, you can't see. It's the coolest tattoo. Guys, I think we're out of time. Oh, man. We didn't cover so many things. I'm just thinking in my head, we didn't cover Miss Diane and going to Disneyland.
Starting point is 01:14:12 We didn't cover so many things. Oh, yeah. God. D23. Anime Bros, D23. Oh, yeah. Miss Piggy the Muppet, Kermit's. Nuts.
Starting point is 01:14:20 Oh, yeah. Kermit the Muppet's. There we go. We worked with Miss Piggy. That's right. I forgot. Well, can't okay
Starting point is 01:14:26 can't talk about it bye I want to get you guys on Try Not To Laugh at some point that'd be so I would love a so random Try Not To Laugh
Starting point is 01:14:33 I feel like it could do pretty well and then like what things do you guys want to shout out what are you guys working on right now a little bit of everything yeah only boring people get bored
Starting point is 01:14:40 yeah that's right no but yeah I have Watch The Footage Productions, and so you can find us, Watch the Footage, on all social media platforms. See what we're up to. You can see Matthew Scott as our lovely demon in our upcoming
Starting point is 01:14:54 project. My name is spelled weird. It's A-L-L-I-S-Y-N, so if you try to look me up on social media, you won't find me. Off the grid. Yes, but yeah. Thank you, guys. Yeah, But yeah. Thank you guys. Yeah, I'm huge on Instagram. I live on there basically.
Starting point is 01:15:10 My Instagram is Matthew underscore Scott underscore Montgomery. Right now there's a really intensely stupid web series I'm doing called West Hollywood that really makes me laugh. If you watch it, hopefully it will for you too. It's getting this weird kind of like cult following. It's awesome. Surely.
Starting point is 01:15:27 I'm always doing, performing live in LA. If you're ever in Los Angeles, I do a monthly comedy monologue show called Guess Whom. That's like this group of students from University of Michigan that saw me in a play. And like, do you want to be part of us? I was like, okay. So I'm like the only one that didn't go to school with them. But that's at Bar Lubitsch
Starting point is 01:15:39 in the last Tuesday of every month in West Hollywood. And then I just got cast in a play festival called Short and Sweet that I'll be on for three weekends in the month of October then I just got cast in a play festival called Short and Sweet that I'll be on for three weekends in the month of October that I'll post around my Instagram. But that's like a
Starting point is 01:15:50 Spanish-speaking slash LGBT play festival. Great. So I'll be doing some really fun LGBT stuff with them. Oh, I totally, I always forget to mention
Starting point is 01:16:00 Astrid Clover, the web show that I've been doing for five years. Yes. But you guys have all been on it. And I remember the episode that you were on playing a cop. That's right.
Starting point is 01:16:08 You got Smosh that week. That's right. Because I remember you telling me that it was perfect timing. You were like, literally, I'm on my way to go sign a contract saying that I can't do other web content. Oh, my God. That's crazy. Yeah. It was when all the planking was popular. Yeah. Oh, my God. Wow. That's crazy. Yeah, it was like when all the planking was popular.
Starting point is 01:16:26 Yeah. Oh my god, planking. We were like, we're coning, and we would stand in the middle of the road, and it was like, get out of the road. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cars were almost driving us over, and it was like gargoyling, so we were up on a roof, and he played a cop that came over. I was the traffic guard in that, because you were like, we're traffic guarding or something
Starting point is 01:16:39 like that, and you guys were mimicking my traffic guard dance. That was another episode. Different, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You were the traffic guard. Do you want to be road waffles? I was like, we're keeping it. Sounds like something I'd say, but I have no memory of it.
Starting point is 01:16:52 Well, guys, this has been lovely. My favorite people in the whole world. Don't tell anybody it's Smosh, but they are. And guys, make sure to check out our merch. We got some good stuff. We got some water bottles. We got all the shirts. It's the best. The Girls Are Gross Tea is a limited run. So if you want it, you better jump right on that I don't even know if it'll be available by the time this is you gotta get it
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