TPS Interview: K. Trevor Wilson
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The gang at The Produce Stand are joined by K. Trevor Wilson for a chat. K. Trevor plays Squirrely Dan, on Letterkenny.
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Hi. This is Al from the produce stand before we begin, tonight's special episode with our guest Kate, Trevor Wilson like to take a quick moment to thank all our patrons and the members of the produce, stand Twitter group without their support. We wouldn't still be doing this if you'd like to support the podcast, please rate US, and leave us a review on iTunes, it helps new people. Find the podcast. Another way to support us is to become a patron. Patrons will get early access to select content like this special interview. Finally, anyone with the Twitter account can join our little community at produce tan pod, and it's a supportive group of good people who love the show. Letterkenny, that sounds like you just send us a DM, and we will add you. Now, on with our interview with K, Trevor Wilson, you're having thirsty Thursday with your pals. The other day. It is not thirsty, Thursday. It is Monday and welcome to the produce stand up Podcast, paying tribute about the Great Canadian show Letterkenny. Now, I know what you're thinking, there are many other podcasts about Letterkenny out there, but this one is one too. I am your, I am out your host and joining me in the room. As is always the lovely, Tanya and online, we have squirrely mat and the Very groovy Victor. And of course, the reason we're all here today is, we're thrilled to welcome our very special guest. He is an award-winning Canadian stand-up comedian and actor, he's a self-proclaimed man-mountain of Comedy, he's appeared on just poor ears. The multiple times as well as the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. He's also appeared on shows like what would Sal do billable hours, Darcy's wildlife. And of course little-known show on Craven who leaked Hulu called. Letterkenny his debut album. Sex cop fire penis. Reached the top of the iTunes comedy charts and was named best taped live performance at the 2016. Canadian Comedy Awards, his second release, sorry a Canadian album was nominated for a Juno and 2018, some of his other Awards include the 2012, Irwin Baker. Homegrown award to 2014 and 2015, coca comedian of the year and Canada's best male stand up at the 2015. Canadian Comedy Awards. He's our favorite hick, Make some noise for K. Trevor Wilson. How's it going, everyone? That's a lot of sound bites on. We call that are perfect score sound, but we also use the one. We have special guests. Like you, okay? Trevor Wilson before we begin, what can we call UK, Trevor? Trevor or Mr. Wilson. I most people call me Kate rub. So that works for me. Uh oh thank you so much. Thank you for joining us here today. Amazing to have you on the produced a podcast where you call Come to us from today. I am at my home in Toronto and is that where you grew up? Yeah, I am actually one of the few guys in Toronto from Toronto, born and raised here, grew up in Etobicoke, which is part of the GTA. Oh yeah, I lived on the subway line, my whole life and Accutron is the only city I have ever called home. I just, I have moved all times, but always within Toronto, sort of, if you're doing entertainment in Canada, the big three or one Tree all and Vancouver and Toronto. And I didn't feel like learning French and I don't like rain. So I stayed put your French is fluent though. Just you're just / ears. Is very can hateful back, actually, beautiful. Beautiful parts of Quebec. It's funny. Matt and I both work in your neighborhood and Victor used to work. I would like blur in Islington, so we know that area quite well. Oh, right on. I used to work at the milestones at Queensway in Islington. Oh yeah. I have visited that place. Yes, I know the area well and actually I mean Victor, you're in Toronto, right, I believe. And I am up in the egg in Caledonia area. So we are City people as well and Al and wifey, they're stuck way up North. So will we let sometimes the hex where the hell is exactly anything north of 7 is considered Hicksville I guess the Hicks of the podcast. No produce tan but yeah, very close. So, I mean, let us talk. Let us get you to Letterkenny. But let us start off your, I mean, your known as a stand-up comedian and actor. I have heard in your interviews, acting came first. So how did you get into acting? I started off as a kid actor. I got into the business. She's a friend of mine. Roger Barton. Encouraged me to start acting. He was a professional actor. Who came into my grade school to direct our school play. When we were doing Shakespeare, when you were doing Midsummer Night's Dream, and I was in sixth grade, I was the script prompter and male understudy. I was a working very closely with Roger and I guess he saw and Back in for me and suggested to my folks that they get me in acting classes. And I started training at Young people's theater, and I was actually through those school plays that, I met my agent Mary Swinton who still is my Canadian representation to this day. We have been together for peace. We're looking at just over 15 years. We have been working together and gradually getting closer now. Actually, now that I think about it we're up around 25 years together. Yeah, so I started out as a good actor, doing disease of the week films and was pumps and stuff like that. And yeah, my first professional gig was a Canadian film company short. And then, after that was Goosebumps haunted mask Park to. That's, that's amazing classic. Yeah, I grew up with that stuff, man. So, that's great. I got to go find that. Unfortunately, I am the Only thing you will see me and Haunted Mask Part 2 is my credit. At the end, they cut my scene out of the final airing but I still get residuals. It is responsible for my occasional 50 Cents. Check that I get from when that is, but Goosebumps did bring me back. Two years later when I was 17 to play another bully on my best friend's invisible and you can see, you can see that and it all of its Glory wherever Goosebumps is at. I think it's on Netflix. Probably season 3, 3, or On Netflix. That's a good. That's a classic. I have a wicked bowl cut. That's sweet. That's sweet. Early 90s shape side long at the top mushroom. We all thought was a good hat. How old were you then? That Leo DiCaprio. I was 17 sporting that Leo DiCaprio and growing. Pains are, I will have to look that one up, it held true through the times. So acting was your first Passion. When did you Get into the stand-up comedy? I always thought love stand-up like as if, you know, George Carlin and Eddie Murphy. And Robin Williams were guys that I like just absorb days to, you know, put their capes on in the car and rent their VHS, has and watch him all weekend. But having this knows, really the real way for a kid to be a stand-up comedian, you know. It's not like we're allowed in bars or anything. So Something I didn't really think about until I finished high school, and found the Humber School of Comedy through Humber College. And they had, you know, they were just starting up their two-year graduate program. And I would been, you know, auditioning for all the theater classes and University, but comedy was really the thing that I wanted to do. So, I went out for that and got in, and I mean my buddies did our first stand-up set. The September of that year drove out Ajax actually the Ajax Yaks because fewer people are trying to get on the open mic there Toronto, you could get on maybe once a month and that's if you got good in good with Jack Norman, who ran the open mic back then. But Ajax you could get up every two weeks, and they were just fewer people. So a bunch of us comics from the program. We'd all call And no matter how many of us got on, we'd all Caravan out to Ajax every Wednesday in the jump up on the open mic and that's how it started. Can you remember your first time on stage doing a stand-up cold you never forget it? I will never forget it. It was I had two jokes that work and one of them was about how bad I was doing the other joke. The other joke was a joke I wrote driving into the parking lot. Lot of the cloud. Wow. All the stuff I had prepared and rehearsed bombed. Oh my God I am so frickin bad hard. Bombed like a drone strike but those two laughs, we're enough to know that I wanted to do this again and again. Now, let us come on. Yeah I must be a lonely feeling though when you're on stage and I mean, all you have got is your own stuff to fall back on and if it bombs I was cocky because I would come from so many years of doing theater, right? You know, I have been at Esa for five years. Majoring in drama, I would already started working professionally as an actor. You know, I been on stage. I would done a full hour monologue recital on my own, so I wasn't nervous about being on stage, but it was the difference of using David, mamet's material, and my material and David Mamet still probably a far better Rider today. So, yeah, it was a wake-up call. But again, I had those two jokes, so something I knew at least thing was funny, so moral of the story joke to start a career in comedy, all I need is two good jokes and then and your jokes actually steal the legend of Steven Wright the deadpan comic is that he wrote his joke, he has set one joke at a time every week in Boston. He'd get up, and he'd have one more joke. So the first time he went up, he had one second time, he went up, A to, and after a year he had a full act and what an act. I mean, that's even rights as a legend for sure. Italian, I used to go to the clubs a lot. I mean, that's one thing like Toronto back in the day did not the greatest music scene. For if you are in a live band like me, but I feel like it had a really strong comedy scene in terms of like places that comedians can go kind of cut their teeth, right? You had your Yaks but like laughs Resort and even kind of smaller places that you can kind of just go and try your craft up. Did, did you find that? Well, I mean the late 80s and the 90s was the real Boom for stand up and by the time I got into it, the business was already in a serious decline like Yuk's was pretty much the only show in town when I started laughs Resort had closed down. I think the other one above Gabby's was barely staying afloat. You know, there were The yucks and Second City. And that was, that was it. And actually like we through Humber, we started our pretty much ingrained in Yaks reaction. My first year of college, my stand-up class was at the old yuk-yuks. I dug LinkedIn and young. Yeah, that's the one we see going to yeah, we bus up there every Friday morning for stand-up class with Larry Horowitz. So it wasn't till like and then there were the open mics, there were the standards like Spirits should you know, Longest-running open mic in Toronto at that point, but there was more stuff. Starting up the Humber program, really brought a lot of very hungry young Comics into Toronto and like the, the current comedy scene really grew out of that to the point that now or pre-pandemic in Toronto. There was multiple shows every night. Like I did went from, you know, you were hard-pressed to get stage time. No, maybe two, Three nights there were shows and then otherwise we just be hanging around Yuk's looking for scraps to, you know, 3/4 shows a night, every night, all around the city and it's now a scene where it's really easy to go out and hit the gym and jam out the material. If you do now, there's lots of opportunity. Yeah, that's great. Are Havens for our Haiti was one? Yuck X's out, young and egg. And we got to see Russell Peters down there. We got to see even Mitch Hedberg, once which was a For me anyway before they moved it. And, but I think, yeah, it's amazing to hear that, you know, that scene kind of dwindled a bit. It's sad to hear so but that's what you were coming. Yeah. When we were coming up, there was like me and my cohorts in the early 2000s, everyone was telling us, you know, don't have high hopes, you know, I remember like, you know, even the first time I got jealous for Laughs, people were Like this isn't what it used to be. Nobody gets signed out of here. Nobody gets TV deals out of here. Yeah, you know, just lower your expectations and that was where we were at for 10 years, no matter what we did. We were told to keep our expectations low because there's nothing, and then they were wrong turns out. And we're glad yeah, for sure. And on that, on that note, like, what would you say? I mean, I know that if I know the stand up like role can be Cutthroat of times and it's hot and there's a lot of competition by the get out there not in the competition of the work. A lot of people trying to do and try to make it. What was your big break or what would you have considered your moment where you kind of took it to the next level and hit those kind of platforms? My I think the, what might my big break was Winnipeg, Comedy Festival. Is my first TV, really is a stand up. Yeah, it was 2011. So I was already 11 years into doing stand-up at that point and for the first few years I was doing it, I was doing stand-up, but I was also working full-time going to school, you know, trying to be an actor. Try and a tie to sketch true for 10 years, smells like the 80s. So I was trying to do everything as I always say, I was doing a lot of things, okay? But nothing really what? Really great because my focus was split. I was trying to do too much all at once and, you know, a few years before I got the Winnipeg Fest, I made the decision. Like you got to pick one to focus on and sort of Keep the other ones as Hobbies, but focus on the one, you can control and then get that to where you want it to be. And then work on something else instead of trying to do it all at once. So I picked stand up because it was the one I had the most control over. You know, I told my work, I am switching to day shifts because I need my nights free, call my agent. You know, you can get me auditions on my day off, but I am making stand up my focus right now because it's the one I can. You Know, sketch group, you need everyone to be, as committed as you. You need everyone to want it, as bad as you want it acting. You never know, you know who you're going up against, you know whose Uncle cousin nephew, you're brought up in a row for, you know, The number of times I have been up for a park in their like we literally have no idea what we're looking for, you know, like I got a call and it's like we decided the character was black so you really you were really good, but we just can't use you and we have decided to go in this Direction with the character, and I was like, yeah, you know, that's really out of my hands. If the characters black I am definitely not the best choice. So many things happen to MacKay. I remember, I got cast once in a movie with Vanessa Redgrave and that was probably going to be my big break. I was cast as a leader of a gang of teenage thugs in a movie with Vanessa Redgrave. And I didn't even know I got the part because I found out from the casting director a year later. The whole project got scrapped because the director punched out the producer at a party and my gosh before they were even able to send us the contract. The money pulled out though, project got scrapped. I didn't even know I had the role till a year after it had been canceled. That's an agent who's just trying to protect your ego there. So that was those like submit stand up. I could control. So I threw myself full into it and because I have been doing it for so long. At that point, when I decided to make it my focus to a lot of people I seem to brand-new because I just sort of been To some people, I just been on The Fringe sort of hobbyist for a long, long time because I never 100% committed to it. But with 2011 rolled around, I pressed a larger array at a chance meeting or a way the artistic director for the Winnipeg Comedy Fest. And she happened to see me doing Boyd. Banks is show at the underground comedy club and I talked for 15 minutes on one subject, and that's pretty much the whole format of the Winnipeg Comedy Festival. So, so Laura went to bat for me and got me my first TV show and then that open the doors. You know, the following year I got homegrown at Just for Laughs which is where I won the Irwin, Barker best newcomer award which you know, it took me 12 years to become the best. Newcomer, the overnight success that took 12 years, you know if you're five years and you're like why my career is really slow. It took me 12 years to become Newcomer. Yeah, in the Canadian comedy industry. But and then from reading and I want homegrown, which led to me getting JFL 42, which led to me opening for Louie, c.k. And Patton Oswalt. And then sort of, after that for years I had been just cold calling and emailing pubs across Canada trying to drum up work and I would showcase to be on the X roster. See. Six times and had been passed over every time. But after homegrown, and Louis and patent, everyone got back to me. Yeah, they couldn't say no and I had a career. And I think it was also around 2012 that my day job at the time, I was working with Kelsey's and I started getting busy enough with the stand up, that they stopped putting me on the schedule. No, never fired me and I never quit. Actually still technically employed by. Are you gonna do some shifts every once in a while you gotta fall back? I talked to the old kitchen manager, a few years ago, he's like, yeah, actually, you are still in our book, it's an ongoing joke, they probably owe me severance pay. Maybe that's why they won't fire. You just show up for a shift one day and yeah. Say God, you know, I actually enjoy cooking show. So much more now that I don't have to do it professionally, not now you know, I just like baking without time constraints and people that's your favorite cold. What's your favorite thing to make? You know what, I mastered my banana bread recipe, this kind of excited been enjoying that streusel is everything right now a good streusel coating about that. All about the topping. Yeah, all about that. In this house, I do make a mean goat cheese, stuffed chicken breast, but that's actually a Milestones inspired recipe. That's something that's two flavors. I learned were delicious together there. Yeah, that was like the 2011 getting Winnipeg and then just for laughs and then it was a Just for Laughs that I met Mark and Pat from the new met media who asked me to put together a show based on my stand-up that they ultimately passed on. But through that working relationship, I got the audition for Letterkenny who is through Just for Laughs that I met my us agents. My original us agents at APA and my current US agents at the CAA which led to me getting my Going to be meeting with Jimmy Kimmel, I got roast Battles Through JFL which led to me beating Jimmy Kimmel in the bathroom which led to me getting invited to do Kimmel. I thought probably the weirdest show about getting asked to do stand-up on Kimmel because I met him. Literally it was like, after the rose petals shoot, where he was the judge. I was coming out of the stall in the bathroom, having just dropped a deuce. Jimmy. And his And Sal, we're heading into the bathroom to use a urinal at the same on each other. No, but Jimmy started up a conversation with me and I thought he was just going to be like a quick. Hey, hello. How are you? He kept talking and, and so, I am like washing my hands standing by the door. Like really wanted to get out of there because of what I just did you wanted the chance? So, we had a nice long conversation on, you was taking a piss. And, and then he flew home that night and told his producers to track me down and amazing spot. Wow, that's so cool. I actually hold the distinction of being the first comedian like filmed live at a regular taping, Jimmy Kimmel traditionally before that. They had just blocked shot. All the comedian's over, like a two-day or three-day period, and then kept the performances in the can. And whenever they needed a comedian, they just threw one of the prune, a performances on really? So, I was the first guy who live taped his performance and then got invited to the couch. I was the first stand up to get the couch invite from came over, because I was the first stand up to perform with the possibility of getting the couch in. But yeah, we don't have to lead with that. You can just say that you got the couch invite because I used to be a big deal on the Carson Show, right? If you got invited to the couch, you'd made it as a comedian. So that was yeah, that was a huge deal. Yeah. And Jimmy was great and his warm-up comic. Don Barris is also terrific. Actually, after the show Don took me around to some of the clubs and introduced me to some people, and they're just they're incredibly generous and nice on that show. I still have the card with my name from the door to my dressing room. I have that, I have that framed above my bathroom and then I that was a, that was a great taught me a lot. Not actually about television you know in Canada we don't have the same TV opportunities and when we do get TV our sets get vetted a bit. But preparing my set for Kimmel was the most Hands-On I would ever had. The producers for the show, be with a comedy set and it was, it was really weird because I am known for my long-form storytelling, I am known for my long-drawn-out. It's, and they didn't want me to do, you know, like, 15-minute B, they wanted five minutes of like the best of just a little joke, joke, joke. And there's about six producers, and they'd all send me their notes. After every tape and I got you is about It is about four months back and forth, like I got my set approved, probably two weeks before I flew out to LA to record it and it was what finally did. It was, I literally put like included, one note from each producer, set like at some point, they'd all sort of put their favorite joke into the note. So I just put each of the producers favorite jokes into the set. And I realized the whole process was just to give Producers the moment, the turn go I told him to do that. The whole that's crap just had to be fair. It works he's good. It was a solid set, it was a good best of money was good. Set user is that really interesting experience of navigating the business side of this is okay I have got to give each of these people there their moment in my set and include each of their notes. I can't just Go with what I think is best. There's set by committee on that one. And then I mean the flip side is I when I do just for laughs this year, I send them my set, and they go cool. Yeah. And let it ride. Oh yeah. So let us see. You were your comedies rolling around 2014 2015. You win the comedian of the year. Two years in a row. Is that? Is that right? I won the actually I think I have won the Coca. The end of the year four times. Wow, total, I wanted two years in a row, and then my buddy, Nick won it and then I want it again and I wanted to get a few years ago and actually I think my buddy dumper a still has the trophy, picked it up for me because I know the awards have always fallen during a Letterkenny shoot. Huh? So I have never actually been to the cocoa Awards. Think a couple years I was able to do the pre-tape message for him and then like the last one, I didn't even know, I was nominated. I don't leave dumb to college gigs that year. So I was really surprised we did. Dumb still has the trophy. I mean that's fine, that's just Coke. Has the association for college entertainers, so they do like a big annual event where people come and perform and try to get hired at Colleges around universities around Canada, and it's a Coca, sort of the organization behind that. And yeah, I mean, it's a great showcase you can get on and it's lovely to be in a favorite of campuses across the country. And it's always, it's always a fun, a fun prize. I mean, you always like, you know, hearing that you won an award. Sure. Yeah, exactly. Absolutely. It sounds like a fun. Going from college to college and doing those. Those shows, they can be a lot of fun. They can be, they can be odd sometimes. Like I got in trouble once for telling a joke about dolphins and how I don't trust dolphins, be as their known sexual assault occurs. It's a true fact. Is it? True fact? I have heard it more people. You are more likely to be sexually assaulted by a dolphin than eaten by a shark. Wow, and I am sorry, I have a whole bit about this fact. And, and then afterwards, the organizers, I was doing the Western. The organizers were upset at me for joking about sexual assault, and I was like, yeah, but I was talking about adult, and they were like, well, it's still very inappropriate that it campus to talk to joke about sexual assault. It's like but it's flooded Don't like, I am hoping your school full of University, students can understand the difference between people, dolphins are mammals just gotten in trouble for sexual assaults on campus. So I think they were extra sensitive. All right, I can feel our listeners going. What the hell was that? That's his Letterkenny podcast. So let us get you to Letterkenny. So you get approached by who or did, was it your agent? Who got you the audience with Jared and Jacob? Yeah, the Edition came by the old-fashioned way. I got an email from my agent saying there's this new show Bells making called Letterkenny based on this web series and I have been familiar with the web series, I have discovered it through funnier. I think at some point Funny or Die was area does as Canadian as f*** I believe they were calling it, and they're not. So I have been a fan and I would actually talk about the shorts on my old cast The Cow column K Trav podcast that I used to do with Cal post. So I was a fan going into it. I was really excited. This was coming to TV and I knew I wanted to Be a part of it because I thought it was just really fresh and sharp and original and unapologetically Canadian, which I loved. So I did my homework on the Letterkenny one night, I watched the videos that they had sent. You know, I watched all of the online stuff and I really worked at matching Jared and Nate spacing from the original shorts because you know if you'd seen my stand-up again, I am the slowest. And professional speaking. So I, you know, it was a challenge and I went in there, and I wanted to give him something a bit different. So, in my audition, I started flirting with the esses and the crop isms just the turn of phrase and the broken pronunciation. And it, you know, he'd worked out. He was, it was an interesting Road. I discovered Bird years later from key. So that Robin sees him to. I would hear the rumors that squarely, Dan was originally written for petrovich to play. We're unfortunately, fortunately for me Dan couldn't take the role at that time. He had, I know you had a part in Suicide Squad, and he had a couple other things happening in his personal life that prevented him from committing. So he had Network approval, accuse all You to go, but then he had to step back at the last minute and you know, Bell had been pulling for me. I know Bill Lundy over Bell at the time as a fan of mine and the new metric, guys were a fan of mine. And so I was number two. So they went with me and I got Network approval and all that jazz and I came in and it was funny because like the part from Dan leave. Being before they met me. But when they hired me, the park had been reduced slightly because they weren't 100% sure. You know, Jared, Jared hadn't worked with me, and he didn't know me. And what I could do, Jacob and worked with me, and he didn't know me, and what I could do. So they, some of the original script had been Rewritten. Some of my dance, peaches have been given to other cast members and then I drove up the Sudbury, and we did our first table read. After the first table read Jared patted me on the back and went, I am gonna go give you back all your speeches that just fine. That's great that's amazing. And just as certain I mean for those listening along they're not sure Dan pitching evic plays me, hurry and when I heard you say I think was that was listening to the queue interview. I think that's where you talked about this as well. It blew my mind and trying to re Vision the entire show with and I love patronymic and how he does mcmurray's One of my favorite cares. Well, try trying to see him playing squirrely Dan was it kind of flipped my whole universe, and I am glad it panned out the way it did. It's so amazing, but it really was a bit of a, wow, what it could have been, what if? Yeah, for sure. It's. I mean to me it was one of those happy accidents and I think, ultimately, the character of squarely Dan has grown into, you know, such a soft cuddly guy. The fans quite enjoy and you know Dan is squarely. Dan would have been great, just different. Yeah, but you know if you go back and watch season one, especially you see how different the writing was for damn he was a bit more mischievous. Yeah. There was a lot more celebration of his checkered past. Like well, it led us to question because when the whole professor Trisha thing would come up that you were going to women's Studies classes. We wondered whether they were court ordered because of so you know your shady past with the schneef and it was a professor Tricia is one of those things that literally just a name. I grabbed out of The Ether in a random improv onset is in the script. It just had me storming around. And pissed off, and I threw together. This like this quick little grumbly Yosemite Sam style rant just muttering and cursing to myself and I thought like wouldn't it just be a scream of Dan was in a woman's studies class online and I threw that out there and you know, is the despit ball and you throw it up. There and you see what sticks and the guys loved the professor Tricia gag, and he came it just became this running thing, and then she's almost become the Maris of Letterkenny. You know, there's this figure that we hear about, but we never see and extended, you know, even in a little Kenny I was going to say school teacher. Is that is it the same person? I believe that's a loving nod. You know whether not it ends up, it ends up being that our grade school teacher went on to become a university level. Women's studies, Professor remains to be seen things crazier. Things have happened in letter Canyon. But you know, for those who haven't watched little Kenny yet, there's a character Miss. Trisha. And she's at is the teacher for the Hicks, in grade school. And, and so, yeah, it's a bit of a coincidence or so, there's a bit of Step, you know, people's Wondering whether it's the same person. While Wayne's character seems to provide the moral compass for this show. It's usually up to squirrelly Dan to play Jiminy Cricket in and remind the Hicks of, you know, Progressive ideas. And you have mentioned now that, you know, well we have mentioned that it would have been a very different role had Dan played it and how its may be changed because of you being in that role. So I mean I guess you have already answered the question that it's evolved. So do you think it was a More to do with, how you played it, or did Jacob and Jared just see? Oh, this is what where we should go with squirrely. Dan? I definitely, you know, it's been a lot of back and forth, like, you know, I played the script, you know, to the best of my abilities as I interpreted it by, you know, they gave me a lot of stuff on the page to use. And, you know, it's such a well-written show that, but, but at the same time, they have always paid attention to how we play the characters. What we bring to the characters and there's always been an encouraged sort of back and forth, you know if I get an idea you know jarrod's always encouraged us to bring it to him, and he loves collaboration and you know, a couple of the stories from season 1 the day and told her actually real life stories that I told he so off camera that he likes so much, he asked me to put them on the show like jivin Pete, that Character grew out of, I tell Jared a story from my real life. He'd asked me if we could put it in the show, and we'd just call whoever driving Pete is actually a real-life friend of producer Mark Montefiore. And he asked me to call the character Jive and Pete for whenever I tell the story of my idiot, buddy in this dumb thing that he's gone, he was like, would you mind doing Jive and Pete? That's a friend of mine and I think he'd get a real kick out of it. So that was the producer, my Open Jared all came together to accidentally create this Jive and Pete character eventually became the leader of the D, gems from up country. That's amazing. And it was like my that came from my real life, buddy. Tommy O'Donnell got hit in the nuts with a hockey puck, and he is one giant ball now. And yeah, actually Tommy came on see Sirius XM interview with me once and showed his giant ball today. Oh my God. And Mark forward and I will never forget the look of legitimate concern on. And he's convinced it is distinct Andy, Kindler, voice going but for real, are you, all right? Let us go my real life, buddy, Sullivan got really drunk and pissed down his own stairs, and then only reason the next day. Yeah, and then stage dive down the stairs, then woke up the next day and cleaned his whole house. And I told these stories to Jared, and he was like, I like them. You want to put him in the show and then Mark asked us to call the character driving Pete and out of that. Collaboration grew that character but getting back to the original Point. Yeah, I think, I think me playing the softer. Dan LED helped lead to sort of the more Progressive — you know, Allied Dan and also it worked well with we kind of needed that voice on the show anyways and you know, is that is where the world is going and it's fun to play a progressive farmer. You know that go against The Stereotype that so often happens with that character, who with so many of the characters on Letterkenny, be really easy. Just do the same old pigeon-holed caricature of small-town Life character. And instead, you know, they have Jared and Jacob and all the Riders and all the performers have created these unique completely over-the-top and yet somehow believable, people with differences and challenges and interests and lights all unique. To each other and that all cohabitate in almost a judgment-free Zone. Yeah. Almost Sherpa lat. Sure. I think that are believable because they're people that we want to believe exist, you know. I think they're grounded some in reality and in the stereotypes but also like we want to make sure we want to believe that in rural Canada or u.s. That it's possible to have, you know, forward-thinking Progressive, quote, unquote Hicks, right? Yeah, yeah and I think that's really what was drawing so many people to this show. I mean, you guys are nine seasons in now, and actually, a lot of our listeners are in the u.s. We have listeners as far as Australia overseas. Of course, you're in Canada, but like the progressive nature of the show, and no topic is really off grounds in this place. But you be there, always tackled in such mature yet, fun points, immature, maybe even not sure, but they're in such fun, smart ways to draw attention to the subject. And yeah, and it's brilliant and it's such like I can't imagine what it will just be a part of something like you're nine seasons in. Now, did you ever expect this to become what it is now? I mean, we always knew we were making something good, you know, the first season, I would often say to the gang are there. This shows brilliant, or we're all stupid because we just we were laughing so much making it and got so much enjoyment out of doing the show and it was like, you know, there was this real buzz in the air. Like I think, I think we're making something special here. But you know, there's no way to predict it especially in Canada, where we are notoriously defeatist against our own products, like Canada has really low self-esteem in their own projects. It's something. Don't give ourselves a fair Shake. Sometimes, you know, we have all, we have all been like, Oh, Canada and change the channel on our own stuff. We have all been guilty of doing that, and we weren't on a channel. We were the Very first 100% streaming Canadian show at the flagship show for a brand-new streaming service. So he was everything about the waters was untested and everything in the history books told us this probably wasn't going to be a hit. And you know the one thing we had going for us is that we were already a successful Internet Property. You know they you know, hit the million views on almost all of their videos. Was before we even turned on the camera for the first time. So we had that going for us but it was you know a lot of shows that had been big on the internet and tried to translate the TV, you know, didn't last either. So there was no guarantee and then it I mean it took off like gangbusters. Even as far as just a Canadian show goes like you know, and Bell through their support behind us in a way that, you know, Very few Canadian Productions, Get support, I mean, buying this ad time during the Super Bowl. That's amazing to announce our first season like that, that showed a commitment to us to. And then a lot of credits, got to go to bail for actually getting off their wallets and putting some real support behind the show. But, you know, the fan reaction was great in Canada and then it became this Underground. Hit this. You know I attribute the military actually a lot to helping get the word around about Letterkenny I found out a few years ago when Nate and I were doing a show for about five thousand Allied troops. That Letterkenny had been included in the homesickness packages, sent the soldiers serving overseas. They would get USBS with like Canadian TV shows on it that they could watch. So the You know, feel like they were a little bit closer to home and what ends up happening, you know, troops are stationed with troops from other countries and once they watch all the videos on there too, there's that start trading USBS with other countries. So a lot of Canadian soldiers discover Australian and British in the shows and vice versa. So the Americans, the Aziz, the kiwis and the Brits all discover done, Letterkenny through the troops. And then went back home and started trying to find it. Snowbirds heading down to Florida, we're spreading our word. I met a guy Minnesota, a couple of years before we hit Hulu, and he told me he would get episodes of Letterkenny mailed to him on CD-ROM, body in Florida who would get them from a snowbird whose son would burn episodes on onto disk for him, so he could give him to his buddies in Florida. He became big and Ireland because we accidentally took over the Letterkenny Ireland of hashtag you were hashtagging everything. Letterkenny, so, in Letterkenny Ireland, they all started getting these updates from behind the scenes on our TV, show on the feeds, and they're like, what is this? And a couple months after our show debuted. There was a whole article about us in the dairy, Daily News and dairy Ireland, Ireland, the headline was, we found another Letterkenny and it's full of Canadians. That's great. Okay, Trevor I am want to be, you know, respectful of your time. Can we get another five minutes with you just have a few like shirt? All right, just a couple of listener questions. Let us see our buddy, Stephen Walker. He really wants to know what your favorite episode would was. Man, we have done, we have done so many good episodes. I mean, personal favorites for me. The cookout episode was a great one because of the giant, the giant brawl at the, so we had massive fight scenes, the battle of the bastard. Coincidentally we just reviewed and recap that episode and this past week it's a great episode. We love it. And yeah, my like watching that scene I am like wow that's a really like you have got a lot of fight scenes but that one there seemed very epic like, almost like Braveheart level where you guys are charging at each other and Slow motion. And it was a that was exactly what case I was going for. Yeah that he wanted. That Braveheart level fight. I would love that because red ass and I had worked out this whole big fight thing and then when we came up with the bottle shot over the shoulder, it was like well that just sort of defeats the purpose of all the other stuff we choreographed, and so we'd we choreographed this whole thing. And then it just then we came, then there's one spot, was just well, that's better than everything. Thing else? We came up with, and we just went with that and that was here. We got a budget for breakaway glass so that was a really fun year. Oh, so that explains a Canada Goose episode. Spend your budget on that. It was Battle of the bastards in the Canada Goose. Yeah, we had so many Breakaway bottles that year, but they were just like yeah. You can break another bottle, go right ahead. So we were just, it's awesome. Actually, you know what, the Canada Goose episode was a ton of fun. If anything just to zip around a closed, golf course, golf carts. All day at the mcmurray's almost flipped. There's, they were having a bit too much. I have no doubt about that. They're seeing him, that's great. It's and I mean they're just some scenes like sushi and sashimi. Oh man I will never forget. At how hard key. So, was laughing. Filming met seemed like he was just the shape this grin and afterwards. He's like, did we get it and Jake? It's like, no, that was the, why'd you ruin burps? That whole take, that's one of the most common comments. You know? What the new or listeners is it? How many takes did it take to get that seen? It must have been forever. I mean, have you ever had like any scenes? Like in Jeopardy, if you're not getting them because you can't get through. No. I mean we have never really I don't think there's any scene that we have almost lost you too. We're pretty efficient. And yeah, we're good at turning around. I mean, there have been times when we have gotten to the okay. Like seriously. Get your s*** together, right? And get this seemed on. Like, I remember one scene when the, the hockey boys were doing their, their coupons, with hockey player names and Her Z it about 15, takes where he said, say cout coypu instead of Saku Koivu. And, and like, every, and every take would Cottage a cup and lean out its sacko. It's a code, not sacred, there's a great right. Saku action, saeko and s***. And eventually the Jacob came out of the garage. The video Village is set up, and he's like for the thousandth time I am Saku, Saku Koivu. He's a goddamn personal hero of mine. Just say Saku Koivu. So, yeah, just says more listener. Comments, Crystal. She had asked about how you came about with squirrely Dan's unique. Way of speaking, which you have already answered, but thank you, Crystal. And also our body red beard or modiste. He just wanted you to know how incredible this show is and how it's helped him, and he assumes many others get through all the hole. Endemic. And I mean, it's true for us, even my first time watching it was back in May because of the pandemic. So it's this has definitely helped us get through some tough times. Yeah, I agree like this. This show really became real during the pandemic. I know. Alright, I would let Alan of the show. He fell in love with it and you reached out and said, hey you want to do a podcast? And now we're into season four, and we're just loving every minute. And I mean, we're so thankful, you're here. And I don't know if you knew is we actually had plywood on the show. Yeah that's a great guy. Not many people know this but I knew I guess your listeners do. I mean why would who was not only one of our kids, but he's been on our crew for the past several years as well working with our grip team and had a Pat's up. That's a great guy. He's definitely walks to the beat of his own drum. And, but I appreciate that about him. He's a good guy. Sweet. Did you know, I love them to death. I am glad that the our backups kids are getting more play. And yeah, getting more to do on camera, but they have been, they have been a terrific addition to use my buddy's favorite character after the first season. My buddy Tim Wilson was like my favorite guy is the skid in the gas mask. Doesn't say anything. Do anything. Yeah, it's good to hear, the loves gone both ways because you actually I went in when he found out you were coming on and you agreed to send me a quick. No he said, just tell him. I send my love and support and that I have had an honor and privilege to work with and get to know the guy. It is a dream come true. It still surround still surreal to this day. That's how fast is it? He's a great guy. He's a great guy. Love Pat. Okay, let us I mean letter Kenny's like a family. There we all love each other. Yeah, it sounds like it. So we got some speed questions to really get to know you the, the So these is just answer off the top of your head, don't think about it. And let us see how you do, you ready? Okay, here we go, coffee or tea? Coffee Tim's were Starbucks. Tim's cats or dogs? You know what? I got to say cats are just, my mom is allergic to dog. So I never had any. Oh, no. Does Jared know this. Yeah, Jarred knows this. He, he wants me to buy my fiance a dog Jared. Never mind. My fiance is like this Jared like music. He tells me to marry you and buy you a dog every day. So yes, if your life was made into a movie who would play you, well, who would you like to play you? Let us see, I will probably Jack. Seth Rogen. That'd be great to dinner with anyone dead or alive. The cast of Monty Python eyes. Nice, your best vacation. We recently took an amazing trip to Jamaica years ago. That was really, really wonderful. I almost passed out from exhaustion at Bob Marley's house in the right time to make this beautiful window or aisle seat. I will beer wine or liquor. Beer, very good early bird or night, owl night owl. And if you can be somebody for a day, who would it be? Mmm. Nature Boy, Ric Flair. So I wanted to ask you about that because the Venn diagram for Letterkenny fans and wrestling fans is almost like a perfect circle almost why do you think what is it about? Letterkenny that wrestling fans are so fond of. Well, we have a lot of fights in our show too. Yeah. My good rapid-fire chirping and, you know, a strong rural backbone just like wrestling. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I don't know. We're just, we're wacky, and we're weird and it just it fits in that's in with the group. I am actually really always pleasantly surprised to find out how many professional wrestlers are. The show, it's led to some great opportunity. I get the weirdest messages, you know, like a couple of Christmases. I got a message from Baron Corbin. Inviting me to come by House show in Toronto, I happened to be out of town. Yeah. Back in the winter I got a message from Xavier Woods. Letting me know he was coming to see the Letterkenny live in Atlanta, Alexa Bliss. Invited me to go see SummerSlam unfortunately, we were filming, but the met a lot of got to talk to a lot of really cool wrestlers because of the show. There's so many other things we'd love to ask you about but I again, we want to respect your time. Let many guys, Letterkenny. I thank you so much for joining us tonight. So what is there anything you want to shed light on any projects coming up for you? Working people find you online. I am the only caterer ever Wilson on the So it's an easy find @k Trevor Wilson on Instagram and Twitter. Kate, Trevor Wilson.com. I don't have any shows really coming up because of the pandemic, but I am hoping to get back to work on some project soon. I would love to talk about him but I can't. We're back to work on Letterkenny and may. You can buy T-shirts from a t-shirt shop at below the caller.com and you can buy my records at comedy records.com or k Trevor Wilson.com. Yeah, yeah, vinyl. I mean, I wanted to ask you both vinyl comedy records, like, they're making a come back to and it seems like you're spearheading that or am I just not, you know, we're all about doing the collectible limited edition vinyls over comedy records, we found a good vinyl producer and it's just, you know, I made the decision on my first record not to do CDs just because I didn't want to carry them around everywhere, I went and the download cards are easier, but there's something, there's something beautiful about vinyl, like even if you don't have a record player, It's just, you know, you can frame the, they're beautiful. Yeah. Vinyl just feels like a bit of artwork almost and it's of the tactile physical ways to listen to something, it is by far the prettiest. Absolutely, thank you again. Kate Trevor for joining us today, and we're going to play us off here. That's all pleasure, sir. That's all we have for this episode later. This week, we will have regular thirsty. Thursday episode, where we will recap In review, episode 4 of season 4. Letterkenny Town, show please, write us on iTunes? If you like to show if you'd like to support us become a patron. Here's there's a link on our patreon website or Twitter profile at produced a pod. We also invite you to visit our website to produce a.com for episode Recaps and list of our favorite episodes. Thank you for joining us. Now, we're going to go over some schneef with our new friend, Trevor. No, we're not, we're not going to do that at all.
