MICHAEL CAMPION stars on the hit Netflix series, FULLER HOUSE in the role of Jackson Fuller, the teen son of DJ Tanner played by Candace Cameron-Bure.
Michael previously starred opposite William Baldwin, Denise Richards and Tom Arnold in the feature film CHRISTMAS TRADE. This busy teen is also one of the stars of ROBO-DOG and the soon to be released ROBO- DOG UNLEASHED where he worked alongside Jonathan Silverman, Patrick Muldoon and Olivia d’Abo. Another early credit was a starring role in the feature film FINDING EDEN.
A veteran of dozens of television commercials and short films, Michael also has a love of the theater. He has appeared in stage productions of THE WIZARD OF OZ, ANNIE and THE LITTLE MERMAID, just to name a few.
When he isn’t working professionally, he enjoys water sports, video games, performing magic tricks and like a typical teenager, hanging out with friends. When not in Los Angeles, Michael lives in Florida with his parents where he is always eager to visit the many theme parks Florida has to offer.
MICHAEL CAMPION stars on the hit Netflix series, FULLER HOUSE in the role of Jackson Fuller, the teen son of DJ Tanner played by Candace Cameron-Bure.
Michael previously starred opposite William Baldwin, Denise Richards and Tom Arnold in the feature film CHRISTMAS TRADE. This busy teen is also one of the stars of ROBO-DOG and the soon to be released ROBO- DOG UNLEASHED where he worked alongside Jonathan Silverman, Patrick Muldoon and Olivia d’Abo. Another early credit was a starring role in the feature film FINDING EDEN.
A veteran of dozens of television commercials and short films, Michael also has a love of the theater. He has appeared in stage productions of THE WIZARD OF OZ, ANNIE and THE LITTLE MERMAID, just to name a few.
When he isn’t working professionally, he enjoys water sports, video games, performing magic tricks and like a typical teenager, hanging out with friends. When not in Los Angeles, Michael lives in Florida with his parents where he is always eager to visit the many theme parks Florida has to offer.
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ladies and gentlemen may i give you
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if you will the indisputably
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verisimilitudinous ventriloquial
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virtuosity
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and the flippantly filibustering
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feliciatus frippery
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of the one and only
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nick and russ don't know anything
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podcast
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and hello everybody i am nick and i'm
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russ
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and today we got two special guests we
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got lydia and
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michael campion of fuller house
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well actually it's it's over now right
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so i was yeah
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michael campion of california california
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so he's here today it's still fuller
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house
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it's not like when they ended it they're
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like all right we gotta get rid of
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it now it doesn't exist anymore it's not
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russia they're not just like
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it's not they're not getting rid of the
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whole cast
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yeah yeah yeah yeah so that's cool and
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he's also like a magician
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i hear he's gonna do a few magic tricks
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no i'm kidding anyway but he's like wait
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he's a magician so it's good to have him
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on and uh
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actually i look forward to this
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interview i i did a little research on
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you i don't normally do that this much
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research so
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no he does this was exciting because of
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lydia i had to like be on my game today
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yeah because she she well okay for
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everybody who's listening
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my daughter lydia is uh sitting in on
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the podcast
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she uh earned the right to do this she
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had to clean her room and she jumped to
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that and
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uh cleaned her room so that she could
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interview be part of the interview with
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michael
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and uh she's a huge fuller uh house fan
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uh she started off watching full house
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and then when fuller house started she
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jumped on it and
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was like daddy you got to watch this
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with me so i watched the whole thing
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twice
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oh wow all seasons yeah she it's hard to
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go
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show to watch so i haven't even seen all
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the show so
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that's awesome
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though oh yeah you know so it's yeah
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yeah yeah sometimes well okay
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full disclosure i think i'm on season
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four oh okay
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so you're watching the whole thing
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that's pretty good yeah i want i did
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watch three episodes i watched the
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pilot the one episode like in season
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three
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and then the and then the very the
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finale with the three weddings so that
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was kind of cool
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that was good so i saw those three so i
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figured just
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to at least grasp a little broad range
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right right you got the cliff notes
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you did the cliff notes yeah no perfect
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yeah it's great did you watch full house
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i'm curious
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uh but you know what i never really
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watched it that often but
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i did see a few episodes when i was like
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when i was a teenager when it was out so
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i was just a little bit of it but it was
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always like on friday night and it seems
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like i always was trying to be in
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trouble with my friends on friday night
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versus staying at home so
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so that was a little difficult but i was
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a little bit younger so
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that was our thing to do it was tgif and
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um it was what full house and then
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urkel or something like that good job
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i forgot that one family matters yeah
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family family matters yeah
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and then you had uh the america's most
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funny
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thing is bob's funniest home video
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character yeah yeah yeah yeah
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that's great it was like bob sag at
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night like
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that's hilarious yeah so it is it it was
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a it was
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it was fun times because my family and i
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would sit around and watch it because it
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was uh
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you know something we could do that's
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great anyway all right
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well let's jump into this interview uh
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so uh
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lydia do you want to start off a little
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bit yeah i have a question for you
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michael um
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how do you get into character at in when
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you're
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in fuller house how do i get into
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character um
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you know it's very interesting because
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when i first
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read for jackson i'm like this is so
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incredibly close to my personality
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already it's just like
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it's like in in a sitcom so literally
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literally
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zero prep i go in there and i act like
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just
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30 more goofy as myself um and
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it's great i don't i mean the the
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the load is very very light and it was
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um
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yeah you know sometimes you like oh you
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got to go in jabs with like these
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characters but i mean it's like a sitcom
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so we just
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i i just got a chance to um be goofy and
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be myself so that was great
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that was great awesome awesome
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okay so speaking about like getting into
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character uh
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i i i've listened to a few of your of
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the podcasts that you've been on and i
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love the story
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of how you were casted as jackson
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uh you want to go ahead and kind of like
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tell us that sorry yeah i was casted as
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jackson oh man this is a
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it's a doozy i mean it just it just
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really shows how how like crazy the
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business is and
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how things can change in like two
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seconds but um essentially
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uh uh i'm from orlando and so i um
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got an audition as usual i mean uh i get
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an email
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they have a breakdown of the character
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and what the show is but they didn't
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tell me what the show was it was like
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untitled sitcom
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four and i was like okay so uh i go to
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this place where i normally do
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what we call self tapes where instead of
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going into the room and doing an
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audition
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you um uh you tape your lines and
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another person's on the other side doing
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their lines
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and um i did it i sent it and i was like
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okay i didn't think anything of it
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and then i get a call back which is a
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pretty big deal i mean like hey they
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want to see me again
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awesome and this time they actually gave
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me the name of the show which was
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fuller house and i was like the sequel
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to
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full house okay awesome because i i
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loved i loved
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full house and uh i was i was freaking
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out internally i thought this was great
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and um then i i sent it again then they
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got a third call back
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they're like hey change your clothes
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change your hair like we really like you
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know okay this is going somewhere
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and then all of a sudden um i
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didn't hear anything and it was like
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just dropped off the map
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uh and i was like okay you know you win
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some you lose some i
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you know it's just crazy how this works
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so i go in there like
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for another podcast i go in there for
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another audition entirely something
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completely different
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and they my mom is sitting in the like
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like waiting room of this self tape
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place
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and she gets his email and it's like hey
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uh we actually want to like
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recast this deal because apparently they
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had already cast
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jackson they're like okay uh something's
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not working here
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we want to see michael um tomorrow
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tomorrow uh if he could just you know
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fly out here
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but he's got to do an audition first so
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just like gavin do one more audition
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and then they'll come out here so i'm
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like oh i'm in the middle of doing this
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completely other audition a
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complete separate one go in there change
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my clothes
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do this audition i fly out the next day
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i get there like 7 00 am
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me and my mom this is like the second
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time i've been out in california i'm 12
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at this point
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and we get picked up in a limo from
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um uh the airport we get
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driven all the way to uh warner brothers
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studios at like
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7 a.m and uh it was it was just a wild
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experience because the place wasn't even
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open that like the casting office but we
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were there so early from our flight
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so we just like they they let us use the
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employee break room so for me to like
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get ready and do stuff
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until stuff is open so i'm sitting there
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for several hours um
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and then eventually a lady comes by and
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i i go into the back room
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and in this room it's this like dimly
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lit
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uh it it's it's a it's a rather small
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broom but it's got all these like rows
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of people
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and i can barely make out their faces
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because there's all these lights on me
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um and i was like i felt like i was
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being judged very harsh like this is
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everyone this is everyone who's gonna
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cast me right now if this happens
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um and uh i thought i did a good job
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there was one other kid there who went
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in
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and um then uh the
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lady came outside after we we were done
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and was like hey
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michael uh could you come back and we
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need to tell you your hotel information
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and
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she told the other kid that he could go
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i was like okay
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so me not knowing anything i go i go in
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there and everyone's like in this circle
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and there's like this camera on me and
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like what's going on and it's me my mom
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and um they're like uh
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well michael you know a little bit of
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magic happen today congratulations
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uh you [ __ ] the role and i was like
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whoa what so there was like right in the
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room i had
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zero time to do anything okay here's the
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script
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we're shooting tomorrow you're cutting
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your hair and you're gonna be out here
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for three weeks for the first
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uh three episodes since we have a hiatus
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so i was like holy mackerel and
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um that literally 180 in
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like 24 hours so uh that was crazy
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so the the next day i got up i didn't
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have any rehearsal time because they
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were already
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two days into rehearsal the rehearsal
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days were already out i was there
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shooting
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so got my lines first scene was like
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with john stamos and i was like oh wow
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wow wow wow
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so yeah it was great it was really uh a
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life-changing life-changing moment for
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sure
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and and uh it it happened around your
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birthday didn't it
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oh that's right yes that's that's
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totally forgot man that slipped right in
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my mind
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yes it was the week of my birthday that
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i got i i got this uh
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show so quite the best that's awesome we
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have done so much
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research on you uh nick when's his
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birthday
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july 26 2002. i mean i'm telling you i
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haven't produced or sending any of the
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other guests
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so you're 19 years old in a month how do
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you feel
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we're slightly stalking you right now
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you know what hey that's all good
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no i saw there was like something on i
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think it was on youtube or something and
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i saw
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you and your dad were like in a medieval
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times costume or something
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was it like a renaissance fair or i
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don't know
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when i don't know well someone older i'm
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assuming it was your dad but
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you're like in a medieval times costume
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or something was it a play
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because you do was it like a play maybe
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maybe it was a play oh
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yeah yeah yeah that was definitely yeah
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it was just like it was like recent
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you think or no like a long time ago
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okay so i was very little
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yeah you were like six or seven maybe
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gotcha yeah then i've been yeah yeah it
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was like a night costume was with me and
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my me and my dad
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um yeah okay yeah yeah it seemed to be
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like your dad so but i don't know
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yeah yeah so yeah that's that's funny
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that we have a lot of costumes
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okay so like my mom like designs
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costumes and stuff and so like
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every halloween will like go out as
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like a big like high quality super
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production value family costume and it's
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baller every year like we we go to
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disney um they're like halloween event
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and oh man it's awesome so yeah that's
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like our favorite thing to do together
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as a family oh wow tell us more about i
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mean this is kind of interesting now
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like you go to halloween and uh
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disney i mean in disney world right yeah
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everybody's already dressed i'm assuming
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there but right right
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disney characters but if you guys go
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like others then that would be
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interesting too right
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so yeah yeah so so what happens is um
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they have this event called mickey's not
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so scary
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and um when i was uh i think
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five like we started this tradition to
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where we would start going every year as
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a family
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and my and and my mom was it was me my
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sister
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uh my dad my mom and we would um but
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it started like when we started doing
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like group costumes i was probably like
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seven or eight like the very first one
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was like alice in wonderland i was the
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mad hatter
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uh there was other stuff but but before
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then it was like miscellaneous like we
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were just like medieval
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things uh but yeah like uh oh my gosh we
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had
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we had some killer costumes like like my
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mom
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really goes all out every single time
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and sometimes i'll bring my
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my best friend and also roommate here uh
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to to go with me
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um and we just have a great time like we
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dress up and everyone is like
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hey can we take pictures with you
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because they think that we work there
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and like that's our goal every time
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we're like we have we have people who
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work there going like
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hey sorry but like you can't take
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pictures with people because like
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you know it's so quality we're like
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that's our goal every year we want
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someone to come up to us because it's so
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good
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to say you can't take pictures with
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people so it was great
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yeah we we do a lot of con conventions
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and we do cosplay and so we took lydia
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when she was what four yeah four years
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old to her first comic con
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and she dressed up as batgirl and so
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think about this little four-year-old
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adorable girl pigtails everyone
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was taking pictures with her everyone
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like she
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like grown adults kids everybody they
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just like because she's the littlest kid
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like there and she was having and she we
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won a prize because she was dressed up
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like they gave us these um
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authorized set photos from star wars
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like from the 70s the original like so
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we have these original like
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lucas you know authenticated set photos
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that were really cool so
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wow hey how fun is that starting again
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get them in early yeah exactly
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the with the cape i don't know that
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story what are you doing like i don't
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remember where you coming
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when okay when when i cosplay i
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cosplayed as batgirl one more time
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and um every every time someone tried to
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take a picture with me i would always
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put my cape over my
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over my face
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she has these poses she would do all
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these poses when she was a kid
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that's funny i'm actually feeling like
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very
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young right now thank you michael
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actually you're bringing like all the
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youth here
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i'm next to being 12 again this is like
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really awesome
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you're you're an expert on disney world
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all right when's a good time to go
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because we don't want to go
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when like the huge crowds are yeah oh
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dude you do not want to go right now it
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is the middle of summer
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uh it is hot as heck um
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no my favorite time to go is definitely
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during like the winter because it is
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um uh like january because
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it's like right after like like like
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like christmas is over and the crowd's
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like
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okay we're done now um and it's just
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like
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cool enough to where you don't want to
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die and uh
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yeah so like like january is like the
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the time to go
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january yeah because i told my wife we
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should go during christmas
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and she's like are they even open during
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christmas like well yes they're open
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during christmas
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um but you don't want to go you don't
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yeah it's probably super packed yeah
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yeah yeah it's ridiculous you probably
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can't get on any rides and
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yeah yeah so what we want to do is like
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in two years we're gonna go
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uh and we're gonna do everything we're
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gonna do like the star wars we're gonna
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do
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even go to universal studios to do the
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harry potter stuff so yeah yeah
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yeah okay so getting a full like orlando
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experience
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well we went a few years ago when she
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was
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in 2014 to disneyland and we took her
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and
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her brother you know he's four he hasn't
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seen any disney stuff so we got to take
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him
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now and we figure we'll go disney world
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this time uh so we went
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you know west coast and then we go east
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coast so oh that's great yeah i mean i i
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grew up at
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disney my mom she's she used to be a
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fairy godmother
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there uh so she worked i'd get in all
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the time
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yeah i know that i know a place like
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back my hand so yeah you guys will have
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a great time
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did you ever get to go to the
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underground city no no that's only for
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like cast members
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unfortunately yeah i would have loved
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you my mom did though
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my mom has yes that she clocked in there
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like your mom was a fairy godmother
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that's like
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so okay so so i i i just say i just say
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the fairy godmother because it's harder
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to explain but there's this place inside
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the
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inside the the castle itself called the
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bibbidi-bobbidi boutique and it's like
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where all the like
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little girls get like transformed and
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they have like princess outfits and
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everything
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and so she worked as one of those people
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who who did that but they're called
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fairy godmothers
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but for people like who i just say in
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conversation yeah she's a fairy
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godmother just to not explain all that
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but that's like awesome though oh yeah
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oh yeah no it's it's awesome and and now
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um yeah she she's still doing that so
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it's great yeah it's a great time did
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you besides
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posing did you get any trouble while you
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were at disney world
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did i get any trouble do a little
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mischief stuff you know
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a little bit of mischief yeah you know i
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i go there often enough
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to where uh yeah definitely mischief um
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there's a place called tom sawyer's
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island like like smack dab in the middle
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of the
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place um and it's like this big old like
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playground thing with all these like
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caves and stuff
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that was my favorite place to go i
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remember when i was
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i was little i was i was being a little
16:38
booger and i was like going around the
16:39
corner and like scaring people because
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it was like these like dark
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he's like he's like dark corners and
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stuff people were already freaked out
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because they're like in a cave
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oh that was being so annoying uh yeah no
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no like crazy trouble but just like
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stupid stuff like that with me like i
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always
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i would always when i was littler i
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would always scare my brother like that
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i would hide by the doorway and when he
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was walking by i just
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grab his leg like casually like it's so
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much fun isn't it it's like
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yeah it's like we still
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scare each other this family is uh
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how bad can we scare you oh dude that's
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hilarious
17:13
if you could scream and throw stuff
17:15
we've we've succeeded i don't want to be
17:18
in your house now russ
17:20
well guess what nick we do it at other
17:22
people's houses too oh okay
17:24
yeah we can bring the scare to you just
17:27
ban them from every house like okay all
17:29
right bye-bye
17:30
um yeah it's funny i actually i love it
17:33
so much that i was a scarector
17:35
like like one of those guys that pop out
17:36
at you at like um
17:38
uh uh like those like haunted houses uh
17:40
i got a chance to do that that was
17:41
really cool
17:42
um oh man this just the just the
17:45
thrill of scaring someone is so funny i
17:49
love it yeah
17:50
i did a hayride haunted house one time i
17:53
was a character
17:54
and it was the only one i ever did
17:55
because uh it was outside and everything
17:58
like that there was no like
17:59
the the group that i was in we were
18:01
supposed to run at the uh
18:03
the hayride and so i like the last
18:07
hayride was coming out i ran
18:09
i tripped and i slid
18:12
on the gravel but it didn't stop me i
18:14
still acted like i was trying to get
18:16
there
18:17
and i get up and i'm showing my hands
18:18
and my hands are bleeding and people are
18:20
freaking out now my hands are really
18:21
bleeding like they're not
18:22
it's not makeup or anything and i'm
18:24
still scaring people and they're
18:26
freaking out and then afterwards and
18:27
they're like
18:28
they're like wow you you took a tumble
18:30
there and i was like i know what i did
18:31
like
18:32
and they're like you were committed and
18:33
i was like that's the life of the
18:35
thespian you know
18:38
just gone to the hospital but
18:42
all right so okay speaking of this man
18:45
you are you
18:45
got your start in theater and so um
18:49
tell us about some of the uh productions
18:51
you've done
18:53
some of the productions i've done um
18:55
well when i was
18:57
five i started uh doing like community
18:59
theater
19:00
um nothing crazy uh the most recent
19:03
thing i did i was in a
19:05
play uh called snow white christmas and
19:08
they like um
19:09
uh it's called a panto
19:12
i'm not sure if you're familiar with
19:14
that at all but it's like where the
19:15
audience
19:15
can interact with the with the stage and
19:18
stuff and it's like a seasonal thing
19:19
over here
19:20
um that was really cool i got to be is
19:22
that in l.a or where was so yeah it was
19:24
in
19:24
um uh it was in north carolina it was in
19:27
raleigh and then it was also here for
19:29
half of it so
19:30
that was that was great but um yeah i
19:32
haven't done theater in a long time i
19:34
mean when i was
19:35
little i did like man so many
19:37
productions i can't even count like
19:39
uh classic stuff i mean like i was the
19:41
scarecrow wizard of oz
19:43
uh aladdin all like the disney princess
19:45
stuff cinderella
19:47
um and then i did a few things for like
19:50
at the time where like my church and all
19:52
that where i was uh
19:54
um it was like this big old like
19:56
broadway style production like
19:57
it sat like 5000 people which was like
20:00
my very first experience like
20:01
oh this is like this like a big thing uh
20:04
it was like sold out
20:05
almost every night it was great it's
20:07
called the singing christmas trees
20:09
uh did you play a christmas tree i did
20:12
not play christmas tree i was actually
20:13
the main character in that one but
20:15
okay the main character is not christmas
20:16
tree okay no no yeah so the the deal is
20:18
that there's
20:19
there's these two giant christmas trees
20:21
that have like quiet that like like
20:22
choir
20:23
people in there and then they're like
20:26
the choir in the trees and they say and
20:27
it's great
20:28
yeah yeah do you sing uh i
20:31
i mean yeah i do but not like
20:34
i i i wouldn't say like i'm a singer i i
20:37
can sing
20:38
in these productions but like i don't
20:40
love to sing yet
20:42
i cannot uh when i was in theater my
20:44
musical director told me not to sing
20:46
during the because i was in the chorus
20:50
you're tone deaf and i was like okay he
20:53
goes just mouth the words no one will
20:55
know
20:56
that's hilarious yeah that is very
20:58
hilarious
20:59
well my wife my daughter can sing i
21:01
can't like you know
21:02
i can draw i can do the art stuff they
21:04
can sing i can sing horribly too so it's
21:07
all good
21:08
don't worry about that well there you go
21:10
yeah so the three of us combined we may
21:12
form one singer like just we might be
21:14
able to i think so
21:15
it might be good let's see i'm gonna
21:17
bring it down
21:20
i sound like i'm strangling a goose
21:23
you know hey sometimes i don't know hey
21:26
don't worry about it
21:27
we'll figure it out i'll just mouth the
21:29
words okay i speak the song i'll mouth
21:31
the word so awesome oh yeah that's funny
21:33
why don't we take a little break and
21:34
then when we get back we can talk a
21:36
little bit about
21:36
magic i think this is fun so yeah we'll
21:39
talk a little bit more about fuller
21:40
house and magic all right here we go
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so we are back and welcome back michael
22:40
campion of fuller house
22:42
and magic castle so what is the magic
22:45
castle i have no idea what that is
22:47
first of all let's start there castle
22:48
okay are you uh you guys where are you
22:51
based i'm curious
22:52
uh we're in texas i'm in michigan i used
22:55
to live in texas though so
22:56
okay that's how i met russ gotcha okay
22:59
but i used to live in los
23:00
angeles too for a very long time so oh
23:02
okay i'm familiar with the scene there
23:03
and everything but
23:04
i'm just not familiar with magic castle
23:06
so that's yeah that's new to me so
23:09
yeah so in in hollywood there's this
23:11
place um
23:12
it's this uh mansion looking thing this
23:15
old victorian mansion
23:16
on this hill and um uh it's called the
23:19
magic castle
23:20
uh it's like a private club for
23:22
magicians and
23:23
uh it's also a magic venue
23:27
where there's like inside it's these um
23:30
oh my gosh just all these like beautiful
23:32
rooms it's so
23:33
uh old and
23:36
uh it's so cool inside i wish you guys
23:38
could just like look up a picture of it
23:40
because it's it's awesome
23:41
um but essentially yeah i perform magic
23:44
there i'm a junior
23:45
oh yeah no no you're fine you
23:48
keep talking but i'm here i'm about to
23:50
go oh okay oh awesome
23:52
okay great yeah this is this is the
23:53
magic castle um
23:56
super cool uh i i always equate it to
23:59
like a comedy
24:01
um venue where there's all these like
24:03
different rooms and all these different
24:04
performers going
24:05
uh each night but i usually perform on
24:07
on the weekends i'm a junior member
24:09
there
24:10
and um yeah there's like a very specific
24:12
dress code you have to know a magician
24:14
to to to get in like in the first place
24:17
to be invited
24:18
um yeah it's super exclusive and i i
24:21
love it i mean it's
24:22
like my side gig uh very very close to
24:26
my main gig i mean this is what i do
24:28
uh professionally and it's wonderful i
24:31
love taking people
24:32
here that's awesome so you can
24:35
come over then right sorry go ahead russ
24:38
no go ahead so you can invite guests to
24:41
come over
24:41
and watch you perform is that what that
24:43
is or right yeah so
24:45
you have to know a member of the magic
24:47
castle to even be invited
24:48
in so um uh yeah i'll take
24:52
like my friends there and stuff like
24:54
we'll go to the magic castle just have a
24:56
magic castle night go see whoever's
24:58
performing there uh but yeah
25:00
yeah yeah i get to perform on the
25:01
weekends um the
25:03
the normal like monday through friday is
25:06
uh 21 and up um because it's all dinner
25:09
but i perform like brunch
25:10
because i'm not 21. and we're like the
25:14
the the junior member private
25:17
society program type deal so yeah that's
25:19
great so do you do
25:20
card tracks like what's your biggest
25:22
thing
25:24
well right now
25:32
yeah so um i have a i have a um
25:36
close-up show at the magic castle right
25:37
now but i'm working on a stage show
25:39
so that'll be happening soon once things
25:41
open up uh but yeah i mean i
25:43
it was strange because i was i just got
25:46
to be a member in 2018 like like late
25:48
2018
25:49
i went back to florida and then uh
25:52
2019 i was doing fuller house the whole
25:54
time so like i i got to go to the magic
25:56
castle and perform
25:58
sometimes but not all the time and then
26:00
when 2020 hit then i was like boom
26:02
it's all gone for now uh so i've only
26:05
been
26:05
like yeah it disappeared unfortunately
26:07
uh but we're making rape here very soon
26:09
and
26:10
uh i didn't get a chance to like go and
26:12
perform there
26:13
uh so it's been a long like dry dry
26:16
stretch of magic but i would have been
26:18
like performing stage and close-up and
26:20
stuff right now but
26:21
uh yeah mostly cards um stage is what i
26:24
want to get into
26:25
mostly nice i love the fact that there's
26:28
some rules like
26:29
no cell phones and see okay i found out
26:32
i found out about this i can't even like
26:34
tape them
26:35
no no no no like you'll have the big
26:38
bouncer guy come and
26:39
you know removed what a shame that's
26:41
okay all right well that's good well you
26:42
don't want to give away the
26:43
the that's true and plus you want to
26:45
like enjoy the show
26:47
that's the other thing yeah you don't
26:48
want everybody doing your tricks
26:50
yeah so i didn't know this existed until
26:52
i watched the series love on netflix
26:54
oh yeah they went to the magic castle
26:56
and i was like is this a real place and
26:57
i went to look it up and i was like oh
26:58
it is a real place
27:00
because it just was funny because it's
27:01
like it's you know the secret club kind
27:03
of thing you know where
27:04
only magicians can invite you yeah and
27:06
uh yeah so uh
27:08
so okay do you let kids in that at any
27:11
time to this like i know you said
27:12
there's
27:14
yeah yeah so uh the the weekdays it's
27:16
just dinner and that's 21 and up but the
27:19
weekends is brunch and uh yeah anyone
27:22
can go there it's uh yeah so that's
27:25
typically
27:25
when pointing one another if when we
27:28
come out there
27:29
can we get a hookup a hundred percent
27:32
yeah
27:34
we're in we're in the magic castle now
27:37
yeah uh you guys got to come
27:38
when i'm performing of course so yeah
27:40
yeah of course yeah yeah
27:42
yeah we'll be well can we scream or
27:44
anything like that or just like oh yeah
27:45
oh yeah okay i know you had to be quiet
27:48
do it like a golf club
27:50
no no it's not that secret it's not good
27:52
yeah no it's a great time
27:54
and and do we have to like do you have
27:56
to sign waivers like we will not talk
27:57
about this whatsoever
27:58
so i'm gonna make a prediction i have a
28:00
feeling you're going to have a show
28:02
in vegas doing magic and i would not be
28:04
opposed to that
28:05
that's that's what i'm just saying
28:06
because if you're getting trained here
28:08
i mean that's a good start right man
28:10
people from the junior program are doing
28:12
crazy stuff like
28:14
um lots of america's got talent stuff uh
28:17
i don't know if you know like like like
28:18
penn and teller
28:19
uh a lot of guys what's that
28:22
we love pinon teller love penn and
28:24
taylor i'm sure that you've i mean if
28:25
you've seen um fool us
28:26
a lot of magic castle guys were on there
28:29
um i know
28:30
i like i know really really big names in
28:32
magic because they all go to the magic
28:34
castle so that's cool
28:35
yeah definitely vegas people too when i
28:37
was about her
28:39
age or a couple years older i the only
28:41
magician i ever saw like that was huge
28:43
was david copperfield okay that was
28:45
amazing
28:46
what he came to my hometown which well
28:49
not my hometown the hometown the town
28:51
beside us
28:52
which was bigger and um and i
28:55
and what happened was is there some mix
28:57
up with the tickets
28:59
and so my mom we got to sit my sister
29:01
and i got to sit in the front row
29:03
and my mom had to go sit like several
29:05
rows back yeah and
29:07
because they like somehow double booked
29:08
or whatever but they kept
29:10
a few of the seats in the front so we
29:12
were like right there that's crazy
29:14
watching david copperfield did they make
29:15
your town disappear like what did they
29:17
do i don't even i don't know i mean if
29:18
he can make the statue of liberty
29:19
despair i imagine he could
29:21
take a count of 150 000 people make it
29:23
disappear yeah yeah he probably did
29:25
it's all good he makes everything
29:26
disappear and then reappear
29:28
so that's good okay real quick like
29:30
total connection
29:31
so where i'm from is the same city uh
29:34
that elvis got to start in and you sir
29:38
did an elvis thing didn't you when you
29:40
were young
29:41
yeah i did i was i was three and um
29:45
i did like this halloween costume
29:47
competition uh
29:49
and i ended up like winning the entire
29:52
thing
29:52
because i loved it so much apparently
29:55
and i was being super extroverted and
29:57
like i don't know i was like we were
29:58
like working the judges and stuff
30:00
so uh yeah yeah that was fun i don't
30:02
remember any of it but i have pictures
30:04
so
30:04
it was fun yeah and i also like found
30:07
out through the internet of course
30:09
because it's a beautiful
30:10
and google um that you love
30:13
marvel comics and you want to be like in
30:15
a movie ever so
30:16
that would be oh yeah ask that question
30:18
what we had that question
30:20
oh sorry lydia i don't know you had a
30:22
question russ no it's fine
30:24
so lydia go ahead and ask your question
30:28
do you have one okay so you she wanted
30:31
to know uh go ahead
30:33
marvel do you do you like anime
30:36
if so what are your favorites twilight
30:39
anime if someone are my favorites um
30:42
and and she wanted to ask you about
30:44
marvel too she's just
30:45
kind of looking down also marvel
30:47
character um yes i
30:49
i do like anime i'm not like super into
30:51
it but um i'd say
30:53
my my top three um
30:57
uh attack on titan uh soul eater sorta
31:00
online i like a lot of like
31:02
studio ghibli movies um that's cool
31:05
uh i don't know are you an anime i feel
31:08
like
31:09
chess okay i know of it because my
31:12
brother
31:13
like watches it a lot but i have i have
31:15
no idea what you just said right now
31:17
michael about those gotcha
31:18
yeah right but yeah i know it's it's it
31:20
exists in its own like little pockets
31:22
right yeah um yeah but for marvel
31:25
character my favorite marvel character
31:26
this is a good question uh
31:30
i want to say either
31:34
peter parker or star-lord uh
31:37
probably parker okay yes the spider-man
31:40
yeah yeah
31:41
they both know what you would make a
31:43
great spider-man after seeing you know
31:45
toby mcguire you know all those movies
31:47
they rebooted for the fourth total
31:49
right i could totally see him taking
31:51
over the franchise
31:52
that would be awesome all right i'd love
31:54
that okay hey warner
31:56
i don't know who has the who has i don't
31:58
know well sony has star and
32:00
sony has uh spider-man with like and
32:03
they kind of
32:03
marvel helps him but sony owns it
32:05
because what happened was is it
32:07
if it wasn't for spider-man toby maguire
32:08
spider-man we wouldn't have any of this
32:10
okay because x-men had came out years
32:13
before and it didn't do
32:14
what they needed to do sony came out
32:16
with uh
32:17
spider-man after 2001 and it just
32:20
blew up and marvel sold almost all of
32:23
their stuff like
32:24
just like here we go and all these
32:26
studios were buying it up
32:28
and but they weren't doing it properly
32:30
like and so
32:31
when marvel was able to get some start
32:33
getting some of the stuff back after
32:34
iron man because iron man was the one
32:35
that brought it back to show that
32:37
you could do this properly right now you
32:40
know now and then disney owns everything
32:42
and we're back to disney again back to
32:44
disney again uh yeah they have taken
32:45
over they are slowly consuming every
32:48
single
32:50
everyone oh no it's all disney now she's
32:53
got another question for you
32:54
okay do you watch the new uh the new
32:56
loki show
32:57
have you started it i haven't seen it is
33:00
it any good
33:01
oh yes it's definitely it's very good
33:03
definitely what show is this again
33:05
loki loki they got a new series marvel
33:09
on disney plus it's called loki
33:10
is that like animated no no no it's live
33:13
action it's uh tom middleton
33:15
recovery uh we uh does areas back as his
33:18
role as loki
33:18
okay so that's great i gotta i gotta
33:21
give it like like a fair try
33:23
yeah okay did you watch uh captain
33:26
america
33:26
or not captain america but falcon the
33:28
winner soldier yes yes that one and in
33:30
one division
33:31
um so good one of israel's great
33:34
we've got to get you disney plus oh god
33:36
oh yes all right no i don't want to do
33:38
another stream i have
33:39
i'm stream serviced out at the moment so
33:42
let me
33:42
let me get through the shows that i need
33:44
to finish because i am like way behind
33:46
and then then i'll then i'll re let me
33:49
let me get rid of two streaming services
33:51
before i get another one how does that
33:52
sound
33:53
because i feel like i'm every time i
33:55
turn around i gotta
33:56
i gotta join another streaming service
33:58
it's like it's weird so
33:59
you know okay if they do a trillion if
34:01
they do a third one of this series i
34:03
think you should be on this one this
34:04
movie
34:05
now now you see me oh dude that's one of
34:08
my favorite movies ever it is
34:10
it is so good yeah it's got you know how
34:12
do you have someone i've seen the first
34:13
one with morgan freeman right and justin
34:16
eisenberg yeah yeah yeah all right yeah
34:18
it's got yeah and then woody harrison
34:20
as well and like you know the they are
34:23
connors but also
34:24
you know magicians and it's so good it
34:26
was so good we saw the first one in the
34:28
theater and then the second one on
34:29
streaming
34:30
oh my gosh amazing that's a that's a
34:32
great movie and it's it's
34:33
interesting because i also am like super
34:36
fascinated in
34:37
um like the
34:40
like hacking i i i i it's a as a bit of
34:43
a layman's term but
34:44
um i i really like
34:48
information security in that department
34:50
where like deals with people
34:52
and uh and like how people get like
34:55
socially engineered to like give up
34:56
passwords and things like through emails
34:58
and like in person and
35:00
all that yeah yeah yeah for example if
35:03
you get a quiz and it's like
35:04
your first your middle name your dog and
35:07
your favorite food
35:08
what are those and that'll be your
35:10
superhero name it's like
35:12
what's your question yeah that's what
35:14
those are your security questions of
35:15
people not
35:16
realizing that and i'm like don't answer
35:17
those questions people and they're like
35:19
no this is a fun game i'm like okay you
35:22
know but i haven't
35:23
been a victim of that too though you
35:25
know where i answered what my street
35:27
was and all that but you know what it's
35:29
like how are they gonna know but then
35:30
it's like it dawned on me
35:32
you know like how sometimes when you go
35:33
fill out an application online for a
35:35
financial thing
35:36
and then they ask you like these
35:37
questions did you ever live on this
35:38
street did you
35:39
you know what i mean i'm like oh like
35:41
that's how they'll know
35:42
like that's kind of weird so yeah that's
35:44
how they get you i mean i've been in a
35:45
computer since i was
35:47
like four my dad got me early on he was
35:50
huge in the computers and
35:51
and i remember when i was graduating
35:52
high school i i kind of dabbled in
35:54
like hacking a little bit and i had the
35:57
marines and the navy fighting over
35:59
trying to recruit me
36:00
and so i i didn't i wasn't going to go
36:02
into the military but i was having fun
36:03
with them
36:04
like every week they would call me to
36:05
see if they can get me to do something
36:06
and i'll be like well the navy offered
36:08
me this and the marines were like don't
36:09
go to the navy there
36:10
and then they would say that back and i
36:13
don't see you as a marine russell i'm
36:15
sorry
36:15
or well i wouldn't have been in i would
36:17
have been you know on the computers
36:20
because i was saying i'm like dude you
36:22
would not survive i know i would not
36:25
i told them i said i don't want to go
36:26
fight and they're like you don't have to
36:27
you would be behind the computers and
36:28
doing you know hacking can you imagine
36:30
me and hell week
36:31
oh my god absolutely not
36:35
i would be dead after day one so yeah
36:38
you'd be like where's my latte
36:42
so okay so what are some of the you know
36:44
yeah i i i see you branching out you
36:46
know like
36:47
going and doing like a horror film like
36:49
quiet place three
36:50
i don't know oh yeah how tall are you
36:53
are you really tall now or i don't even
36:54
know
36:55
so i'm five ten not really i have ten
36:57
okay okay
36:58
that's the that's the about average
37:00
height that you need for an actor like
37:01
they don't want you super tall because
37:02
then they have to
37:03
build the sets taller yeah no i'm not
37:06
kidding that's that's that's the thing
37:07
you're kidding i didn't know that wait
37:08
no like
37:09
i'm not confused actually it's like a
37:11
thing there's a lot of
37:12
people in l.a i don't know what you're
37:14
talking about pin uh
37:16
is it the tall one pendant now i can't
37:17
think of their pin and teller
37:19
yeah uh pins the tall one right he talks
37:22
about this like how he used to not get
37:24
casted
37:25
and stuff because he's so tall and they
37:27
would have to build like
37:28
you know they like because we they did
37:30
his head interesting okay they don't
37:31
have ceilings like they don't have
37:33
you know things like that so they would
37:34
have to build stuff like that because he
37:36
came
37:36
past the door like sometimes the door
37:38
thing yeah he's like he's like super
37:39
tall but if i was like like one or two
37:41
more inches i'd be like okay like this
37:42
is this is good i'm max
37:44
now but you're taller than tom cruise
37:47
but you know shorter than uh pin so sure
37:50
yeah i have never seen top cruise up
37:52
close because i keep thinking
37:54
so i don't know i can't really judge but
37:56
but i've seen ben stiller up close
37:58
and he's like my height so that's kind
38:01
of good if you look up
38:02
leading men in high like the average is
38:05
around
38:05
five six five eight no really yeah
38:08
yeah look at that yeah no one's no
38:11
leading man's like
38:12
not not no very few are over six feet
38:15
that's not
38:16
then that did not cross my mind honestly
38:20
ever
38:21
once like i i heard some like weird
38:22
things about guys being short like
38:24
leading men but i didn't know it was
38:25
like average that's crazy i don't know i
38:26
want you to be like
38:27
james franco stop growing you got the
38:29
long hair now
38:30
sorry go ahead i keep talking about you
38:33
russ it's okay
38:34
i said don't grow anymore you're at the
38:36
perfect height you'll be fine
38:38
okay don't have another growth
38:41
well i mean boys men stopped growing
38:43
around 19. so
38:45
yeah yeah yeah so i'm i'm good here i
38:47
want to get taller but
38:49
that's all right well there's surgery
38:50
that's going to happen i'm 50 now
38:52
so it's all good anyway but um anyway i
38:55
got to tell you
38:55
i love like your look now i love the
38:57
long hair i totally see you in like a
38:59
james franco movie maybe pineapple
39:01
express two
39:02
with seth james franco's not doing too
39:04
well why what is it what's going on
39:06
what's wrong with him now
39:07
well uh he has allegations against him
39:10
so let's move past
39:11
he does oh okay i'm sorry
39:14
i'm sorry there's another metoo movement
39:16
situation
39:17
yeah i had no idea all right so let's
39:21
yeah all right is there anybody that you
39:25
would love to work with like
39:26
you know on a project or anything like
39:28
oh i would love to do that
39:30
any one person i'd love to work with i
39:31
have a list of actors i would
39:33
i mean i love but um ones i'd love to
39:36
work with oh gosh
39:37
that's like hard to pick one um uh
39:40
you're gonna get you're gonna be next to
39:41
somebody soon i think anyway and you're
39:43
gonna be like oh my god i can't believe
39:44
i just worked with him or her and you're
39:45
gonna be like oh my god wow
39:47
so that's right do you ever get that
39:48
feeling when you're next to somebody
39:50
who's like
39:51
you know uh up there on your list like
39:53
if you're at an uh
39:54
some kind of gala do you oh do you nerd
39:56
out let me tell you i was nerding out so
39:58
hard the other day it was ridiculous i
40:00
i was at um like a good event it's
40:02
called race to erase ms and
40:04
uh yes exactly a gala and i heard that
40:07
john berthanol
40:08
was there the guy who plays the punisher
40:09
and i was like oh my gosh this
40:12
is the coolest thing i've ever and i
40:14
didn't didn't see him then
40:15
get a chance to take a picture with him
40:16
but i knew he was within like 30 feet of
40:19
me and i was like
40:20
this is dope so um yeah i was definitely
40:23
nerding it out because of that
40:25
yeah yeah he was at a con that we were
40:27
at and he was 30 feet away from us and
40:29
uh and he's not a very tall gentleman
40:31
either
40:37
i'm oh alienate all these uh uh lady
40:40
actors and they're like we're not coming
40:41
on your podcast next week we want
40:42
all the dwarves all right let's see the
40:45
other
40:46
so uh well you know it's a good segment
40:48
to do
40:49
here we go what's something new you know
40:53
[Music]
40:56
that's our segment like way to put us on
40:59
the spot here okay go ahead
41:01
yeah so it's like okay what do we do
41:02
well you know uh
41:04
here we go michael we'll start with you
41:06
what's something you do hey what's
41:07
something new i know i'll out of all of
41:10
it
41:10
all the things this week i'll tell you
41:12
no now learning
41:14
that most leading men are under six feet
41:17
is so interesting i i'm gonna google
41:19
that for you guys i'm promise you it's
41:21
the leading men height i feel safe i
41:24
don't feel like you need to grow anymore
41:25
all good insecurities gone this is
41:27
wonderful
41:29
yes yeah i feel like such a short i
41:31
michael i feel exactly
41:32
because i'm like i feel so short
41:34
everywhere i go you know and then you
41:36
have
41:36
you have russ who's like six foot eleven
41:38
or something
41:40
no no no i'm six three and some change
41:42
but still it's like
41:44
you know and here's me five eight you
41:45
know i have to like look up to him all
41:47
the time
41:48
like hey okay so it says the average
41:50
leading american male
41:51
is five feet 9.5 inches
41:55
so there you go you're you're slightly
41:57
above the leading ladies are 5'4
42:00
all right that's good i mean here's the
42:02
thing when
42:03
when mike when um tom cruise was paired
42:05
with nicole kidman
42:06
he had to stand on an apple crate uh
42:10
next because she's taller than him
42:12
that's hilarious
42:13
yeah so anyway we're not we're not
42:16
getting tom cruise
42:17
do you work out like what do you do to
42:18
work out to keep yourself healthy and
42:20
stuff like that so um yeah i go to the
42:23
gym
42:23
i mean that's a pretty yeah yeah it's uh
42:26
like
42:27
five five days a week yeah oh wow all
42:29
right yeah yeah my
42:30
my um my roommate's personal trainer so
42:32
we uh
42:33
yeah it's it's like we all go together
42:36
that's very convenient then that's good
42:38
yeah and it's good that you have a buddy
42:39
to do it with so that's that that makes
42:41
it a little bit easier so
42:42
especially if he's a personal trainer he
42:44
needs to be
42:45
constantly on his game so right yeah
42:48
yeah yeah exactly all right
42:49
do you what kind of person you like what
42:51
is it i said i had a personal trainer
42:53
for like three days and then i fired him
42:55
well let me do the boxing thing he may
42:58
this is okay
42:58
i used to wait a lot so he made me do
43:00
the boxing thing like you just got to
43:02
keep punching punch punch button
43:03
i threw up afterwards i was like he was
43:05
like are you done i was like
43:07
huh yeah and he was like maybe we
43:09
shouldn't do that anymore he's like
43:10
no we should not and you're gone thank
43:13
you
43:14
bye-bye and then he called me the next
43:15
day hey you coming in no
43:17
he goes but you paid for six sessions
43:18
i'm good
43:20
that was it oh i'm sorry so i like i had
43:23
a personal trainer once too
43:25
and he was maybe 5 11 or something and
43:29
maybe 300 pounds of muscle and i was
43:32
like
43:33
i don't know i fired him too after about
43:35
a month i just couldn't do it
43:36
so i'm like you lasted longer than i did
43:39
but anyway
43:40
so it was good to learn how the machines
43:43
work and how the weights work and
43:45
all of that so it wasn't too bad but
43:47
yeah yeah i mean they have how do you
43:48
keep yourself healthy though like what
43:50
do you what kind of foods do you like
43:52
so yeah um
43:55
well i work out i i eat very clean
43:58
um i i'm i have to eat a lot because i'm
44:02
like like gaining muscle uh but
44:05
i mean gosh like my well don't get big
44:09
no stay like don't get big yeah don't be
44:13
cool
44:14
i mean like gaining he's not going for
44:17
the rock
44:17
like he's no no i'm not i'm not i'm not
44:19
trying to be like a bodybuilder i mean
44:20
just like more muscle just like a little
44:22
more muscle you know
44:24
he's toning up he's totally toning
44:25
toning he wants what's called
44:27
definition yeah there you go okay there
44:29
you go um yeah not trying to look like
44:31
bane
44:32
right now do you run as well or not
44:33
really uh i used to run a lot
44:36
uh you know i used to do more like like
44:38
calisthenic type
44:39
type deal like i didn't do bodyweight
44:41
things uh yeah but but now i've
44:42
transitioned more to like going to the
44:44
gym and all that because before i i
44:45
felt like i was really shredded with no
44:46
muscle but but now it's like i just you
44:48
know
44:49
i'm just getting to that point in my
44:50
life where i'm like yeah you know muscle
44:52
but yeah eating wise is
44:54
super clean um i eat a lot because i am
44:56
gaining muscle but
44:58
i don't know like my breakfast today is
45:00
eggs avocado
45:01
oatmeal banana like you know stuff
45:04
normal stuff
45:04
all right yeah super normal okay do you
45:07
tic talk
45:09
no not okay so yeah on tick tock
45:12
one of the videos going around is how
45:13
you can remove an avocado pit have you
45:15
seen this
45:16
i haven't seen you normally cut it in
45:18
half and you have the avocado
45:20
pit there you take the avocado and you
45:22
have the pit right here and you just
45:23
take your thumb
45:24
and you push and it pops the pit out no
45:26
more
45:27
taking a knife and hacking it and
45:29
twisting and almost losing your arm yeah
45:32
i stabbed myself because of that the
45:33
other day so awesome i will now
45:36
i will i'll remember that thank you okay
45:39
so
45:39
lydia had one more questions about magic
45:42
so she wanted to ask you one more
45:43
question
45:44
okay um what's your favorite trick
45:47
illusion to do my favorite trick
45:50
slash illusion oh man that's uh
45:54
that's that's that's a really tough
45:55
question because i have so
45:58
many like once you get to this point
46:01
like you have so much in your repertoire
46:02
like it's it's
46:04
hard to pin down because there's lots of
46:06
environments where you do different
46:08
things like i have different
46:09
uh tricks for different environments uh
46:12
like strolling magic
46:14
i i think my favorite environment is a
46:16
strolling situation where you're just
46:18
walking around and
46:19
people are coming up and it's like a
46:21
very free-flowing type deal like
46:22
especially to get hired for like a party
46:24
but me and my friends will go out and do
46:26
that
46:27
like just for fun just just us uh so oh
46:30
my gosh okay there's this one
46:32
um that's super mind-blowing i'm not
46:35
sure if you guys have ever seen this
46:36
before
46:37
uh but man i i'm gonna get
46:40
give it away if you guys ever see this
46:42
but just it's all good um
46:44
the guy draws like a like an x on his
46:46
hand and then he asks the other people
46:48
like like close their hands and he like
46:49
like like takes it and throws it onto
46:51
their hand like like do you know the one
46:53
i'm talking about
46:55
i've seen something like that before
46:56
you've seen something like that yeah
46:58
right yeah that i
46:58
i have that and it's oh dude it's so
47:00
good that freaks me out
47:02
all right that's cool yeah you know what
47:05
you should like
47:05
this would be fun like next time you're
47:07
in florida go do the strolling in disney
47:09
world
47:09
the sterling magic while you're at the
47:11
magic kingdom well you mean just like
47:13
at disney just doing some magic just go
47:15
in there and start doing magic
47:16
oh yeah i already have i had totally
47:18
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that's that's
47:20
super fun i didn't make you stop
47:22
like um well i remember no no no no they
47:26
made me stop but like like sometimes i i
47:27
would just be like doing magic in like a
47:29
crowd would like
47:30
gather i remember one time i did magic
47:33
for aladdin because i was i was like
47:35
taking a picture with him that was funny
47:37
um yeah yeah yeah yeah i could make your
47:40
carpet actually
47:41
float i could make you play he asked if
47:43
i was a genie it was very funny yeah it
47:45
was good
47:45
that's so cool that is cool it is cool
47:48
all right well uh well as we wrap
47:51
everything up you know um
47:53
where can people find you michael where
47:55
can people find me
47:56
i am on instagram um mainly oh there you
48:00
go hey perfect instagram
48:02
michael campion uh uh my twitter i use
48:05
a little bit less actually significantly
48:06
less i barely ever go on there but
48:08
um underscore michael champion and hey
48:10
hopefully i'll get more active
48:12
one of these days we got to see some of
48:14
your magic tricks on your instagram
48:16
which was really cool
48:17
yeah oh yeah okay okay i'm gonna follow
48:20
you on instagram that way i could like
48:22
follow well look at making russ
48:23
shows already following him but the one
48:24
thing okay is the card tricks where
48:27
you're making like the card
48:28
flip and then come back in and stuff
48:30
like like there's no trick to that you
48:32
actually have to learn how to do that
48:33
right right so that's wires or anything
48:35
yeah yeah so that's called like like
48:37
cardistry like um it's it's what people
48:39
do
48:40
uh more it's just like a like a
48:41
technical exercise
48:43
um but yeah yeah yeah cardistry is
48:45
really big but it's just just adjacent
48:47
to magic you know
48:48
right so yeah that's all the terms card
48:51
artistry
48:52
there we go yes wait hold on
48:56
what's something new you know
49:04
i didn't know that word existed until
49:05
now artist there's probably a dictionary
49:08
like a magic term dictionary that you
49:10
have to learn right
49:11
i mean you just pick it up but i if i
49:13
literally had a book i'm sure that we
49:15
could fill it up with
49:16
all those weird terms so yeah oh that'll
49:17
be good yeah
49:19
i mean i think if we played d and d with
49:21
him he would be
49:22
a mage oh you guys play d and d oh yes
49:24
we do oh yes we play
49:25
someone's i'm a dm for my for my group
49:29
yeah oh dude you just like you upped
49:31
your nerdism what's this
49:33
stand for now okay i know it's dungeons
49:35
and dragons but what does dm stand for
49:37
dungeon master yeah dungeon master okay
49:40
they're the ones that
49:41
if you have a game they're the god
49:45
basically yeah and they they put you in
49:47
scenarios and tell you the story and
49:50
like wow and you have the action nick
49:52
when we get together
49:54
we're going to play a d no but that's
49:57
good
49:58
no you've got to nick you got to try one
49:59
time it's it's kind of like crack you
50:01
got it no i'm kidding
50:02
[Laughter]
50:04
like don't tell your mom i said that so
50:06
anyway um
50:08
anyway so yeah it's a lot of fun all
50:10
right so you're the wow okay
50:12
so yeah yeah we're gonna have to all
50:14
right then when we're out in la for
50:16
out there longer than a week we have to
50:18
hook up and play a game like one yeah
50:22
we also like to do homebrews too so i'll
50:24
play yeah
50:30
that she could roll and uh she would sit
50:33
there and
50:34
uh one of our first campaigns we played
50:35
was a star wars campaign
50:37
the only video game i've ever done was
50:39
super mario brothers i was young
50:41
and i and what happened is i stayed up
50:45
all night long
50:46
and i had to go to school literally an
50:48
hour after i was like
50:50
up all night and i went to school and i
50:53
slept all day inside each classroom
50:55
and uh i didn't get written up or
50:58
anything which is strange
50:59
but it was the worst thing and after
51:02
that i stopped that was it i just
51:03
stopped completely
51:04
video games i'm like this is the most
51:05
idiotic thing i can't believe i stayed
51:07
up all night long instead of studying i
51:08
was like playing
51:09
super mario brothers yeah industry
51:12
because i wanted to get to the next
51:13
level like each time i just kept going
51:15
the purpose of a video game anyway yeah
51:19
after that i stopped but yeah that's
51:21
hilarious
51:22
yeah the one one time i remember i
51:25
remember playing dean
51:26
when we were playing dvd and i was a
51:28
fairy princess character right and
51:30
we were trying to get my mom out from
51:32
these guards and i went up to the guards
51:35
and i
51:35
asked hey can i look at your sword all
51:37
innocent like
51:39
and i took the sword i chopped off the
51:40
guard's arm and i beat him with his own
51:42
arm
51:43
yeah this was like she rolled a 20. what
51:45
are you doing okay i was like hold on a
51:47
second
51:48
yeah i said you had i said you'd have to
51:50
roll to see if you could
51:51
do because she didn't tell me exactly
51:52
her plan and um
51:54
and so she was five at the time this is
51:56
a five-year-old
51:57
okay interesting she's 11 now but this
52:00
was when she was five
52:01
and she rolled a 20 and she successfully
52:04
chopped the guard's arms off hilarious
52:08
and i would have loved for something
52:09
like that to happen in my game uh that's
52:11
awesome
52:13
okay well first off thank you so much
52:16
for
52:16
coming on uh it was a lot of fun and uh
52:20
we enjoyed you and if you want to check
52:22
out michael camping
52:23
also check him out on fuller house all
52:25
the seasons seasons one through five
52:27
it's on netflix and uh it's a lot of
52:30
great fun and a lot of good
52:31
entertainment
52:33
nick you wanna um and that's our
52:36
show for this week once again thank you
52:37
michael for coming on and don't forget
52:39
to spread the love
52:41
lawfully exactly russ thank you so much
52:43
and yeah we don't want anybody in jail
52:45
just
52:46
you know just be cordial with everybody
52:48
love one another
52:49
and thank you for uh
52:52
i can't wait to see what you're going to
52:53
come up with next i think you're going
52:54
to have a very good career ahead of you
52:56
i'm really really excited to see what's
52:58
going to happen so i appreciate that
52:59
thank you no i really
53:00
i really do see it so i i even see you
53:02
in vegas doing you know magic
53:04
i'm inviting my vegas show like yeah
53:06
yeah i think it's going to be great so
53:09
so once again thank you and uh that's
53:10
our show for this week see you next week
53:13
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53:16
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53:38
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53:39
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53:42
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