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the one and only Bobby Bones. But being the neurotic person that I am, I wanted to give you guys at least a little bit something new and something pretty big happened in the last week that I wanted to talk a little bit about, but also just give the kind of origin story of Bobby and I work relationship, friendship, and now I was actually a part of his wedding. So of course he's gonna come on the show next week when we're back from vacation and talk about the

wedding in details. So I'm not gonna tell any of his part of the wedding, but I will share a little bit as far as me being involved in it. And I want to go back to the very beginning of how I met Bobby and if you're not familiar with my story, how I became a part of the show and how Bobby and I became friends. It actually all started with a message I sent him on my Space. This was like eleven years ago. I was trying to start a podcast at the time, and I had just

moved to Austin, Texas from Marcacachi. I was going to college there, and I specifically remember the first time I ever heard Bobby on the radio. He used to be on Kiss FM back in Austin, and I was driving to class and I heard a conversation. It was Bobby talking about he had recently turned a thirty or thirty one, the age I am now, which is kind of crazy, and he was saying he was beginning to think he

was too old to wear a baseball hat backwards. And there was that whole debate they were having on the air, and I was just like, that was I've never really heard that on the radio before, a guy being really

sincere and real. So from that very first conversation I heard, I kept listening to the show, and throughout listening to the show, I started hearing about these interns and you know, if you're a way way back in the day listener, the show used to be really big on having interns, and they would get new ones with every class and with the way they would talk about him on the air, they were basically a part of the show. If you could work your way up to like the head intern spot,

you were basically a member of the show. And I heard all these college kids on the radio and I was like, you know what, I kind of want to do that. And after listening to the show for a year just being a listener, and then I also wanted to start my own podcast. So, you know what, I thought to myself, I'll message him on my Space and see if he could just give me some advice on how to start one. He's been doing this forever and podcasts were still relatively new at the time this is

they're nothing what they are like now. So I messaged him asking for some advice. Bobby messaged me back pretty quickly and said, you know what, just come up to the radio station and watch like thirty minutes of the show and you can kind of see how we do it live, and you know that would be your notes.

Take that back and start a podcast. So while I was there, I met the executive producer at the time, Elena, and I also met with all the interns there, and from that moment, I was like, you know what, this is what I want to do. I figured out how to get an internship. I did that for probably a year and a halfter two years. I found a way just to stay there. And I think it was during that internship where Bobby was able to kind of see my work ethic. I was there all the time, and

he took note of that. He gave me more and more responsibility. The more it could take on and the more I kind of proved myself. And I remember specifically the day they said they were moving to Nashville, and he sat me down and was like, we don't have a spot for you right now, but I'm going to send back for you and you will come to us in Nashville when there was a spot available for you. And I remember that and I believed him, and in my head, I always knew that I was going to

be a part of the show. I just saw it in my I wanted it so badly that I knew was going to happen, and I believed his word. And it was through the show moving to Nashville, me staying in Austin, and I still worked in the radio station.

Bobby actually got me my first job there. I was running the show locally here while I was in Austin, and it was kind of through that time where I was there and they were here for the first few years that Bobby and I became more friends, to the point where I kind of started this podcast on my Snapchat at the time. I would review things on Snapchat and Bobby would see them and actually be like, Hey, send me that audio and I'll play it on our show.

Like I was not a part of the main show in Nashville, but I was sending him bits in a way, So we kind of built our friendship there, and obviously every time they would come to Austin, we would still hang out until the day finally came where I moved to Nashville, and that was really where things kind of got real. I lived with him for the first few months living in Nashville, and we started to get really close as we started to work on the show and

kind of build what the show is today. And it was mainly because he trusted me a lot and believed in me to give me a type of responsibility that no one has ever had before. And while this is all going on, I'm getting more things in my career. We also start traveling a lot together, and I mean we went hard for probably like two years. We spent more time with each other than anybody else in our lives. We were going NonStop doing the radio show, comedy tours.

He gave me a spot on his comedy tour. Opening up. I went from being only able to say I've been to like three states now close to forty something. And even though Bobby is like eleven years older than me, I felt like we kind of grew up together during that time. And it was mainly through us kind of being in the same point of our lives of like

trying to find somebody, trying to find a relationship. And I remember having many conversations with him where he gave me guidance, where I listened to what he had going on his personal life and trying to date. And I was there through a lot of it up until now and even leading up to how both of our kind of lives have changed in the past two years of being in serious relationships. We got engaged within a week from each other, and then we both got married within

a month from each other. It was crazy to see him actually get married, and how we both kind of went from this life of utter chaos and not having anything consistent in our lives so now both being able to settle down with somebody who truly makes us both happy. And what I took away most from that day of his wedding was I've never seen him that happy. Like I've seen things that make him happy here and there,

but nothing the way he is now. And as odd as it sounds, how human he appears now to be and just to be able to enjoy things is a big thing for him. And that's something I saw a lot on his wedding day. To look on his face was something I've never really seen before, to where he was completely living in the moment, and I can tell he was just overjoyed and said the word I love you, that phrase so many times it was amazing to hear.

For a person who had never really said that to anybody in his life to now kind of go around and, you know, tell a bunch of people that the way

he actually feels. And he asked me maybe six months or so ago to be a groomsman in his wedding, and it was kind of in that moment I realized how our relationship went from being an intern on the show to being a member of the show to becoming friends and him kind of also being at the same time my mentor and guiding me through all this stuff that in that moment, I felt like I didn't realize that we became family, and not only everybody on the show, but even you guys listening, like I feel like a

part of a different family that I didn't realize I had. When I moved to Nashville, I didn't know anybody. I lived with Bobby and his dog, Dusty at the time, was like the first friend I made moving to Nashville. And when he asked me to be a part of his wedding and then going on the bachelor party, I felt something I never felt before of being a part of a group. The whole time, I was kind of like searching for somebody here and feeling like I didn't have friends, and I didn't realize that I had it

the whole time. And it was standing up there as he's saying his vows is he's getting married, that this all kind of set in with me. How sometimes you don't realize the relationships you're building and the things that you're doing are like really fundamental and are really kind of building onto the bigger picture. You don't realize how much other people affect you and how much you kind

of become a part of each other's lives. So it really meant a lot of me to be a part of that day that he would consider me an essential part of his life, to stand out there with him, and realizing now that he and Caitlin are probably going to be in my life for the entire time that I am living, so that that just says a lot. I'm really happy for them. I'm also really happy that he's also on his honeymoon right now and able to take a break away from work and enjoy being married now.

So all that to say, he's come a long way and I'm proud of him and happy for him. And I wanted to share this episode that we recorded last year, talking about some of his favorite movies, the time he had a small role in a big Hollywood production, and how much he made to be in a movie called Band Slam. So I will be act next week with the new episode. Also, if you're a listener of The Bobby Bones Show, we'll be back live next week. So if you haven't heard this episode, hope you enjoy it.

I'll talk to you again soon. In a world where everyone and their mother has a podcast, one man stands to infiltrate the ears of listeners like never before in a movie podcast. A man with so much movie knowledge. He's basically like a walking on MTV with classes from the Nashville Podcast Network Movie Movie Podcast. All right, joining me now on the podcast, we have Bobby Bones. Never heard of this guy. I've never interviewed you before, so

it'll be a bit different today. Well, I tend to uh take it my own way, so feel free to stop me. But let me start by saying that, Okay, I started watching the movie about the Beastie Boys last night. Yeah, I know this is a movie podcast. I started it last night too. I don't like how. I don't like how they put it together, how it's a lie show.

I want a documentary the Best Boys. Yeah, that got me a bit off from and I was trying to watch with Kalin and I would have been into it enough to sit through all of it like that, but that was a struggle for her. I just I don't like how it's format it now. I only watched again, probably a sixth of its well, because she wasn't feeling it. She didn't know the guys on stage. I think if it were a documentary, a good documentary you can watch

without knowing anything personally about it. You can just jump in and go, I'm learning something. But you kind of needed to know who those guys were when they're out, because if you haven't seen it yet, you probably haven't because I'm a big Beastie Boys fan and I had it until last night. There it's a in a theater and it's a live recording of the Beastie Boys showing pictures and telling stories of their life. Does it ever get more as a documentary or does it stay like that?

It stays like I've watched an hour of it and it stays like that the whole time, and I think it's still interesting. But yeah, like you said, it feels like you're not really getting the whole story because they're kind of just telling it and lets you know them already. You don't feel it's connected, like, oh, you could just

go into this without knowing anything about them. And I love the Beasto Boys, one of the most influential musical groups of my life when it comes to how I modeled any of my career, not not just broadcasting, but the music. I like the music that I do kind of funny, and for a while I was a funny hip hop artist and you know, being a white kid, and you see other white guys that were funny but could still be cool. So uh, yeah, I'm not through one on how you felt about that? Will you finish

with them? I will, but I won't with her. I'll probably finish it tonight. Did your girl watch it with you? Yeah? She liked it, but she likes yeah. Okay, Well that's all. That's my movie topic that I brought in for discussion. But I'm not all the way there yet, so I'll give you an update later. All right. So what I want to do is get to know you more through movies. So I guess I want to know your favorite movies from your life and like why they affected you. And

you call them your favorite movies. Well, it's interesting because I'm not a movie guy as much as you are this as much as I'm not. Just I mean, I guess I watch them, but I never really care to sit down for that long, um, unless it was a true story I could get more. It's like books. I can very much get into a non fiction book because I feel like I'm learning. Even if it's not great a great book, I still feel like I'm learning. I would compare all my media consumption for movies or books

like to The Queen's. Other movie that that ss on Netflix is called The Queen The Crown. Yeah, the Crown, thank you, because it's kind of boring, but it's just good enough. But because you're learning, you stay in. That's how I kind of feel about my movie. So I was thinking about this. My top three movies at number three is probably Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Oh interesting because not since I to watch over and over again.

But that's not in my criteria for best movies. My criteria is stages of my life, movies that affected me the most in what way? And Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure was met for two reasons. One because it was funny, but two I learned something in it because in this movie, Bill and Ted are two idiot kids who have to go back in time to create, uh like an spoken report in a theater to pass, and if they don't get a great or so, they fail out of school

and I I have to go to boarding school. I haven't seen it so long, I'm yeah. So what they do is they find this time machine with George Carlin and they go back through history and they meet all these famous people and Napoleon, which I was like, okay, I know a little about Napoleon, but maybe you want to learn more about Napoleon. Um so creates who's also Socrate? Who I So you learn about all these folks, uh Joan of Arc, Abraham Lincoln as you're laughing and it's

a really stupid movie. I also felt myself learned name and that for the much much of my life. I told us probably nineteen or twenty was my favorite movie. I was just that was it. That's what I just stuck with. The movie came out nine were probably nine. Did you watch it when it came out or would you watch it later? Like it's a teenager? Probably when it came out to rent because we really couldn't afford to go to the movie. Um I went to as

a young kid, I would say twelve or below. I probably went to two movies, and it was they were both. When my mom met my stepdad, he took me to watch The Babe with John Goodman because we were both big baseball fans and white Man Can't Jump and enjoyed both of them, and they were sports movies, and that's really how we bonded was through sports. But I can't really remember going to any movie other than him taking me to my first movies at twelve, and those were

the two that I went to. I guess that was the same way because I remember I had I didn't go to the movies a lot as a kid, but I had a cousin who would get everything on VA. Yes, and that's kind of where I got all my movies from. Like I'd be like, oh, yeah, all these movies I get to watch now. Yeah, we would go to on because what would happen at the movie store, which was on the way to town. You could stop at the movie store and you could rent a movie on Friday

and pay the and you get to keep it till Sunday. However, if you went on Saturday in the movies were left over because Saturday wasn't a big, big rental day because it only got one day to keep it. Like Thursday was Friday, Wednesday was Thursday, but Friday was you can bring back Sunday. You got that extra day because it

was the same movie. You got a half off, so if you want so, we would go on a Saturday see what was left, and we rent movies from the you know, dollar ninety nine or dollar twenty nine movie rental. You never got the big ones. But I'm positive that I saw Bill and Ted on VHS for the first time and watched it a lot of I think, kind of buying it um which was crazy because I don't think we had a BCR for a lot of time. But that's at number three and that that's really the

only movie that I'm bringing in from childhood. So Bill and Ted's excent a mature. That means Bill and Ted's two was okay, wasn't that great? It was Bill and Ted and the Grim Reaper was in it, Like I don't remember. I remember being excited for it to come out, watched on VHS and it was like it was okay. I still loved it was Bill and Ted, but there they just made Bill and Ted three. Yea, hopefully they

finished it. Do we know if they finished it. I think it's what's close to being finished, but it's obviously delayed. To come out. Um, so that number three, that number two, Well, this is where it kind of got tricky with me, because, like, what movies just hit me the hardest. I guess because I definitely wouldn't put down movies I've seen the most as my favorite movies, because that would be something on

TBS that I would stop. Hitch I've probably seen. I've probably seen Hitch more than any movie just because it's been on so many times. So I took that out of my sort of list of things I needed to have my favorite movie. So then I go, Okay, what movie. Just when I finished it, I was like, oh, and it had to. I guess I can put them ball the number two. But the one that almost made the list was Her. It didn't make the list. But the other one, the other one I want to pick it

takes its spot is that movie. When it finished, I went today, I felt that because Her before I honorable mention. Her is about a guy who just can't find love because he's odd. So he finds love with an outside but it was an outsider. That's really the the over art of the story. It's not so much that's an operating system. That's a big part of it. But the real part of the story is guy doesn't fit in.

He finds some other way to find somebody he loves and it turns out it's you know, basically, you're falling in love with Safari on your computer. Um. And so if you look at it from you know, above the forest instead of in the trees, it's a sad romantic story. If you look from the trades, the weird old guy who falls in love with a computer. UM. I loved her because when I turned it off, I was like, Dang, I kind of felt that I could never fit in, never had girls. Was always like I'm gonna have to

fall in love with something or someone different. Um. But I watched that and there's a great movie. I loved it that you either loved that or hat did that? Did Spike Jones do that movie? And he did The Beast two Boys? Documents were talking about but what did he do? Because he there's the documentary what does Spike

Jones do? By I take it and watch it in the theater, I think he's like doing all the stage direction because they like call him out like during the later on, Okay, I must not the sound effects and like running the slides and all that he put all that together. Okay, I was gonna say a stage direction, they just stand up pictures. Um. So Her didn't make it. But this movie that gave me the same kind of feeling did which was Eternal Sunshine in the Spotless Mind,

which is the Gym Carey movie. And I'm not a big Jim Carrey guy, but I'll watch that movie and it was would you eliminate all of these toxic, sad, unworthy feelings that you have accumulated? And with him it was her, um if you could, like would you or would you keep them all and grow from it? And it didn't hit me on a romantic level, but him me on a personal level was like, dang, I've been too much crap in my life. Would I get rid

of that? Or would I am not? And you know, I thought about it for long, but because that movie made me think about it for a long time, I still think about that based on the movie. I may I may have only sent movie once or twice, but I'm just going from the lasting feeling that it gave me when it finished. So number two is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Because of I still feel a scar from that movie, like it cut me in the right way and the scar is still there. Have you

ever seen it? Yeah, I see, I've probably watched it pretty recently, like maybe within the year really, and it's I think it still holds up, and I remember it kind of hit me like that to that first line where he's like he's sitting on that train and that line he says about he falls in love with like any girl. I was like, dangn that kinda hit me pretty hard. See, I don't remember anything about it because I've only seen it once or twice, and I don't

know if it holds up. Almost don't want to watch it again because and in the same way i'd never listened to my favorite interviews on on the radio show. I don't want to remember it differently than I felt it, especially if I felt something that a feeling that was so distinct, like I can remember how I felt when the movie finished. So there are interviews in my career h Kevin Smith early John Mayer interviewed that we did

my first timeime in too Garth Brooks. I won't go back and look at or listen to it anyway because I don't want to look at and go, oh, that's kind of stupid. I shouldn't have said that, or the same way with probably this movie unless someone just wanted to see it. I don't want to go back and go like this Mayvie kind of all his lame now, like it didn't hold up that well. So that's why I seeing a movie over and over doesn't have to fall into my category of my favorite movies. Now I'm

pricing old school thirty times. You know, if we look at movies and go old school hitch comedies, you can kind of watch over and over. Yeah, they hold up a little bit better. Yeah, that's number two. Do you have any questions about that one? I think I want to get to number one. Well, and I'm just not a Jim Carrey fan and a hater, but my top two movies or Jim Carrey movies, yeah, listen, you like the series Team Carey though, right, because you know what would be in the top five if I were doing

top five, would for sure be The Truman Show. It's not number one, but it's in that honorable mention because it's that you have to think outside of what you know, and then that's when it gets scary for people. Gets scary for me to like, I know what I can see in touch and been taught, but what if there's something that we have no idea. That's what Truman show is. He hasn't He's part of a freaking he was born.

They're watching him the whole time. He has no idea, finally figures out, takes a big risk, could die, you know. And if you don't look at it as here's a guy on a boat going at the end going like, here's the guy that's risking everything to go find out what's true, people have to do that on a much larger level a lot of times, leaving their cultures, leaving and so that movie hit me pretty hard. That would be in top five, But my number one have three Jim and I don't. I don't know. I'm not an

anti Jim Carey guy. I just wouldn't think I'm a huge Jim Carey guy. I guess I'm a huge serious Jim Carey guy because Jim Carey playing Andy Kaufman and Man on the Moon is my favorite movie ever for a couple of reasons. One, I love Andy Kaufman. Not the funniest of performers. Andy Kaufman never set out to be the funniest. But Andy Kaufman, the performer who died when I was zero or one, wanted to be someone who was noticed, wanted to be someone who was always

pushing it, even if people didn't like it. And I love I didn't always love the bits that Andy Kaufman did something I thought were lame, but I think that that's pretty amazing that he would go out and try stuff that could bomb their face off and be like, well that didn't work, what else can I do to see?

I admired that about him as a performer, um, and all the stuffs highlighted that were worked really great for him, the wrestling, um, the having an opening act in front of him that was actually him, and then later got um, you know, he got one of his buddies in it too, his manager. So I loved Andy Kaufman. Now to make that story because I was already such a big Andy Kaufman fan, but like history, it would be like somebody now loving like a musician now who's thirty years old,

loving Johnny Cash and like watching Johnny Cash documentaries. That that's what it was like with Andy Kauf Because knew I wanted to be a performer. I knew I was never gonna be a straight stand up because that was not the skill that I decided to pursue early on. I'm not particularly talented at riding jokes with punch lines. I think you're a far better writer of jokes than I am. But I knew I could go out, get on a stage and perform doing whatever I needed to do.

Some stand up sure, some music sure, some improv absolutely, and some even the jokes that I would do in my early attempts when I was touring a comedy. I just love to make the audience feel awkward. I just I love that feeling of like the air being sucked out of the room. And I had a couple of jokes that I would do. I don't do them any more because I wrote them in my last book, But it was, by the way, the set that the setup is.

You know, on Facebook, you get that thing friends you may know, and it's like all these people that aren't your friends right now, but it goes friends you may know, all the pictures and I did just a little bit about Facebook, and I was like, you know, I just got one of those friends you may know notifications and it was my my biological father. Um, the weird thing is I don't. And then I would just sit and

it was really uncomfortable. Sometimes thatis pep, really unconfortable. Some people would laugh and I'd be like, this is a messed up audience. Sometimes you hear laughing. Some people wouldn't get it. It It would just be weird. But I would just sit so long to let people figure it out. And then you'd hear some booze or or come on or groans, and I'm like, all right, sorry, sorry, sorry, And I would follow that up with the joke, Fine,

we'll do something. We'll break it up here. I'll do an impression, not the best of impressions, but I'm now going to do an impression of my biological father. And I'd walk off the stage and leave and I would just sit on the side. You see me, do it something, go sit out there longer than others, and the crowd didn't know how to react. And I love and I would love it when it would be the most uncomfortable.

And but that's one one what Andy Kaufman did, and you know, he's kind of what inspired me even in my earliest radio days, early to mid one we would do really uncomfortable stuff on the air, meaning we wanted to see reactions people live. Um. But so I'm a big Andy Kaufman fan for for someone to go into that movie and nail it like Jim Carrey did with a bit of his own spin. But I don't think he put that much on it because I think he also was a massive Andy Kaufman fan, so he wanted

to keep it as true as possible. For the movie to be good and written, well, big big deal for Jim Carrey to nail it and for it just to come together. I thought, Who's I was nervous watching it, Um, this was, But it was so good. It meant everything that I wanted was somebody already loved It, was a great story about him, and it was an actor nailing it. It was the three things you want. So that's my

favorite movie because of that. I don't know that if Andy Kaufman wasn't someone that I admired and Jim Carey didn't nail him, that I would feel that way about that movie. But I went into it going love it. I loved Howard Sterns private parts. I don't know if I never had known Howard Stern wasn't He wasn't a big influence on how I do radio that I would have felt the way about them. I don't know. Maybe it gets people love it, but it's just people who

love Stern. I love Howard Stern. But that's it. It's those three. It's number three Bill and Ted's That's a venture because of the funny and the learning. Number two Jim Carrey an eternal Sunshine at the Spotless Mind because it cut me and there's still a scar that I can see today. And then number one is Andy Coffin Man on the Moon, Jim carrying and that because he nailed the character. I love Andy Coffin. It was a well written story, and then it just had a perfect ending,

a perfect ending for that movie and that story. And that's it what I want to get into now. I think the arguments that we've had some arguments, but I think this one is the biggest one we've ever had. And I want to get into it. About the Marvel universe. Cool with that? Yeah, Now, I'm not a Marvel expert by any means. I don't know that I haven't seen all the movies. I've seen all the Avengers and not I didn't rush to see them, So you'll win this

argument because I don't have enough history. I don't know the fact I haven't seen I've pricing half of them. Okay, so go hit me with it. I'm going into this though, Okay, a little underweight. All right. Well, the thing is, I've had this idea of an episode that I'm gonna do of retelling. Instead of remaking a movie and rebooting a movie, you do a movie from a different perspective. So I was thinking of like if you took the Avengers and switched it as Danos is the good guy and it's

the Avengers trying to stop his plan. But you have a theory that Daniels is actually a good guy in the Avengers movies. Well, and I said this as soon as I finished the movie. I was like, wow, I maan, if you just tell the story on the other side of it, Danos is not the bad guy. And people acted like I had kicked their puppy man because in the version we see Thanos is the bad guy. Because we have a relationship with all the quote unquote good characters,

we know them, we know they're back stories. Again, you can correct me on facts because I've only seen it once, but I just think I remember Danos went and destroyed a bunch of planets, right, Yes, killed lots of people to collect stones, because once you have enough stones, you then have control of the universe everything. Yet, and the reason he wanted control of everything is because back on his planet, he saw it die because it was overpopulated.

There weren't enough resources for everyone, and so not only did see everybody die, he saw everybody struggling for a long time until they died, and so he goes, I don't want that to happen to the world. So he had to make the decision of I would rather collect all the stones and eliminate half the people and those people have a real shot to thrive and keep the planets going, then to not and let everything die by itself. Anyway. Now, I don't know that he was right or wrong ideologically,

he has a point. Depending who's telling the story and what their situation is, it could be right from either side. I don't think Dane's was just a pure villain. And I think if you saw him growing up, and I had to make those decisions because again, the core of his decision was he saw people dying and didn't want that to happen everybody else. That's it, there's no it gets no core more core than that he saw death

and destruction and didn't want that for everybody. I see, I could see that, But I think there's a point where he kind of turns and he ends up doing it at a spite rather than him trying to save people. And I think it's more becomes that he wants to have all the power. And there's really nothing saying that by eliminating half the population that everything will be able

to sustain itself. But there is saying that if you don't eliminate and there isn't overpopulation, that nothing will sustain itself. But what if he took that power and doubled resources. There's something else like that and didn't forgot created a new planet. So I don't remember the whole story here, And what all I'm saying is at the Cora fan of that's not a villain. He only did all of

that because he saw death, sadness, poverty, That's why did everything. Now, he may have made some wrong decisions amongst the way it could have been. We all are polluted with different I've been guilty of it too, killing people. But you know, as you grow, you have good things that come to do and bad and you're trying to figure it out as you go. My only thing one And I may not be right on all those facts. I haven't seen the movie, but once is it Danos, if shown from

a different director writer, he's a good guy. But that's just the killing part that messes with people. But if you don't think all these countries are killing people for their own causes anyway, every country, they're all killing people for their own causes. Because then then what he wanted to do an endgame was I don't you're now you're out of it. I don't even know. I'm not even talking about the storylines. All I remember is going dan it was a getting a bad rap. He was only

doing all of this so everyone didn't suffer. He made the tough decision in his heart. He'd rather see some people die so some people could thrive rather than everybody dies slowly. So right or wrong, I'm not on team Thanos, but I definitely didn't think he deserved to be the super villain that he was. When the movie was out, and all I said, and it's It's funny this is last because it gets brought to me all the time. All I said was, I don't think he's the villain

if you tell that story from his side. But throughout history, you can tell the story from almost any one side that's the villain, and they're the good guy. No villain ever thinks they're the bad guy by the way. They're all finding for for a just cause in their mind. So and the good guys are the ones that win, by the way, throughout history, the stories that we know of the good guys, we won. That's why we that's

why we're here. That's why I think that Thanos is it was probably a bad dude by the end of it, But I don't think he was. I don't think he was a villain for his cause. That's right. You've been You've been changed a little bit by bit, all right. The last thing I want to get into is I did an episode a couple of weeks ago about one Hit Wonder actors, and you actually submitted yourself for band Slam?

Was that on Instagram? On Instagram story? So people may not know, but back in two thousand nine you were in a movie called Band Slam, So I had five questions for you about that movie that was two thousand nine. I had that dopey hair at twenty nine years old. Holy crap. Wow, okay, go ahead, alright. So Band Slam two thousand nine. Did you audition for it? Yeah? I did. Man, I haven't thought about this since that. Wow, I did audition for that movie. What was that? Like? Someone called

me and said, Hey, they're doing this movie. They're shooting it in Austin because they can use the University of Texas Theater and Music um and it was cheaper to shoot movies and Texas at the time. Now, Louisiana's a big hub for movies, but it was until recently. It's all about taxes, right, That's why a lot of stuff is in Canada. Yeah, you can shoot it for less. So they're like, they're shooting this, but they have a role of a guy named Gordy which was my name

at first, who hosts a big competition. You have some lines. You're it's like at the time it was like nineteen lines. He got cut way down in line I think by the time it was over, but you have like nineteen lines. But they need someone who's like, you know, in his twenties and it's cool, and I was like, well, it's not that. So I went and there was a long line wrapped around the building of guys that were good looking,

like lots of hair jail, lots of the actor type. Uh. And so I went to a pair of jeans and a white T shirt because I didn't know what I was doing. I remember thinking I was gonna be the only one the audition because I thought they just hadn't ready for me. I was like, oh, I gotta bude to do this movie. It was a bunch of people. So I went into this room. This is just a room like a bedroom at a house, and there were two people sitting behind the long table and they're like, okay,

Ridge the lines. I didn't memorize mine. I guess most people did because I'm a script in my hand. And so I was like, oh, can you believe they're gonna play the show? You're this one man, They're never gonna and they were like all right, thank you very much, and I left. That was it. I never thought I was gonna get a call back because it didn't go well in the him. I thought because they showed me no emotion, nothing. It was like, wow, that was great. They didn't say it was great, it was good. It

was like, all right, thanks a lot. Now walking I was like, dang, almost really sucked. And they called me back and they said, hey, you're one of the best ones. Come back again. I went back again. I was the only person there are the second time, I think they were they just had to spread out a little more and I gotta call and said, hey, you're in, and you're considered because you have this many many lines. You're a principal actor. And so I had my own trailer.

I had. I was on the biggest level with the lowest amount of work and money, like I was if in the A lest part of that movie. It was Vanessa Hudgens, it was Leasta Coudrophebe from Friends. It was Scott who was in Friday Night Lights, and I forgot Scott's last name. Um. So there were these actors and of the A principles, I was the bottom of the barrel, but I was higher than all the extras and midst So I had my own umbrella carrier to make sure my makeup when sweat ahead they got on my clothes.

I had a trailer. It was crazy. I got paid three or four thousand dollars a day for about seven days. I remember making about twenty dollars on that movie for a week's work. That's pretty good. Yeah, it wasn't what they made obvious, but that's what I got. You still get checks from it, yeah, but it's like since, yeah, three cents, twelve cents. Sometimes I'll get a dollar tin or something like that. So that that was that movie.

How many days did you actually film? A week? I mean it was a week straight or the thing that stunk was again I was a principal, so they kept us all together. We ate together, and again I didn't know anybody because I wasn't a real actor. I didn't know any of them, so they didn't really let me in their cool group and they would all pretty much all the prints actually, like all right, we're gonna go play Superintendo and we're gonna have this party. I was

never invited anything, um because they didn't know me. And I also had the radio show, So I did the radio show all morning and go straight over so some of the bonding stuff it was late at night I couldn't go to anyway. But I never really got invited to do anything. Did you end a meeting of the co stars? Yeah, at least Couch was really nice. We sat in a makeup chair beside each other for like an hour one day and she was super nice. It

was really going. She played the mom on that that movie. Um, it's only the only time we spoke, but yeah, I met her. Best of Hudgens was okay. Um the Scott I wish I was last name, but he was. He was really nice. Are you surprised that it has rating on Ryan to make it wow? Um? I'm I was surprised that it when it came out that it didn't make more at the box office because I don't think it did well. I made five million opening weekend and twelve million throughout the run while it was up. Okay,

so you're talking about me. We didn't do that well financially, but it kept getting shown everywhere. Every time I would see, uh, like a weekend of rare weird movies on Disney, and it would be like showing movies, it would pop up. That's why I first I saw it on TV and I would get checks on it would air on TBS. It would for some reason. It still are now occasionally because people keep send me pictures of me with my

big curly hair. Yeah. Sometimes movie channels will pick it back up and put it into rotation, which sometimes people say, like these movies bomb, but they end up making money back when they get put into syndication and stuff like that. Well, this was no big financial risk for the movie makers. I mean, for making a movie was expensive, I'm sure, but I'm saying it wasn't like a hundred million dollar movie. It wasn't water World. Yeah. Um, so yeah, that was fun.

I forgot it has been a long time, and then, um, would you ever do another movie? It's just the time you have to be on set and shoot things ten eleven, twelve times. I'm sure it'll be tough to do it right now, but I could if it was the right role. You get offered stuff, some small stuff, but I don't put myself in the mix for it either. You mostly have to audition. Even some of the big actors have to go on auditions for stuff, and so I don't

get offered stuff. No, as far as movies that people would see, but I do get offered to go audition for stuff, and I just never want to go do it. The only things I could offered her like super Indica type stuff. Can they just want anyone to be in it will promote it, So that's like, hey, let's get buy a real because if he talks about it, people might see it. So the answer is no, not really. All Right, Well there we go. I'm big movie star,

movie star, first first actor. Nice. All right, Well, thanks for hanging out may all right, we'll talk to you later