TPS261: An Interview With Dylan Playfair
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The gang at The Produce Stand are joined by Dylan Playfair, who plays Reilly on Letterkenny.
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Fucking sexy. It's thirsty Thursday. At nine minutes, we are once again Hanger at the Produce Stand, podcast paying tribute to everything in that universe. Speaker 2
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what you're thinking. There are many as Lotte County podcasts out there, but this one is about to interview a Disney Descendants. I'm Al, your host. And joining me in the room as always is lovely Tanya online. We have Squirrely Matt. And, unfortunately, Victor can't join us tonight because it is his anniversary, so we'll give him a pass. But joining us this week, he is a Canadian actor and producer known for mister hockey, the Gordie Howe story, the mighty Ducks game changers, descendants two, but we all know and love him as Riley, one half of the hockey duo known as Riley and Jonesy. Please join me in making some noise for Dylan Playfair. Wondrous. Oh my god. Speaker 5
Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. Speaker 2
Oh my god. Speaker 4
Oh my god. Speaker 5
Thank god. Speaker 2
Thank god. Speaker 4
Thank god. Speaker 5
I regret nothing. Speaker 4
Welcome to the produce stand, Dylan. Speaker 2
Oh, man. It's great to be here, fellas. This is, what an intro. Speaker 4
No. What an opener. We try. We try. Actually, and that's that's our OG opener. We've moved on now to a more Shorezy, based opener. But, I like bringing these out whenever I, you know, interview the old cast like you, and we had Kate Trev on recently and stuff. So it's always fun to bring that one out. Speaker 2
Right on. Yeah. No. That was fun. Nostalgic. Speaker 4
Now, where are you, joining us from tonight? Speaker 2
I'm in Vancouver, British Columbia. Speaker 4
Very cool. And your looks like a studio or something behind you there? Speaker 2
Yeah. The, the fine folks over here at Shoreline Studios. So my wife and I have a production company called Meaty Button, which does commercials and documentaries and music videos. We've also got a a film and television company called Crystal Mountain Films, and we share a space with, Shoreline in Vancouver. And they've got a a a sound stage, I guess, you'd call it, for for musicians to come in here and and record. So it's the best best audio in the building. Speaker 4
Yeah. Very nice. Speaker 2
You can hear you can hear a fucking mouse fart. Speaker 4
Very cool. Now you're out in Vancouver. Is that where you are from originally? Speaker 2
Originally from Northern British Columbia from a small town called Fort Saint James, about twelve hours north of Vancouver. But I bounced around a lot as a kid. So my dad's a pro hockey coach. And when, when I was born, he was coaching in, where the heck was he? Dayton, Ohio, and then we moved to, Kalamazoo, Michigan, then St. John, New Brunswick, Calgary, Alberta. From there, I went off went off to play a junior in Merritt, and they bounced around the states. They're in Arizona, then Edmonton, and Abbotsford. Lots lots of moving around chasing the dream. You know? Speaker 4
Yeah. Talk about, like, there's army rats and then there's hockey rats, I guess. Where where would you say you spent, like, your formative years or like your high school? Speaker 2
Calgary. Yeah. Calgary is for sure. Alright. Yeah. That's that's second home from the we moved halfway through the year in grade five, and, I was there until the eleventh grade when I went off to play junior. Yeah. Fair enough. Speaker 4
Very cool. Now you mentioned, your dad I mean, but your brothers are all hockey players and and, and your dad is, Jim Playfair who's, a former NHL coach of the the Calgary Flames, correct, and and assistant coach in Arizona and in, in Edmonton. And I swore that if I ever had you on, I'd play you this video because I I need to get your reaction, if you don't mind, to this video. Speaker 2
No means. Speaker 4
This is, and folks who are listening, I'll I'll try to just be descriptive of a bit because it's it's pretty hilarious. But, it this is, Riley's father, Jim Playfair. Oh, let me get the sound going here. Speaker 2
Is he Dave Sheldon with the call? Blue Speaker 5
ice area. Speaker 2
I mean, Speaker 5
blue ice area, Dave. He's up at the now. Jim Playfair is getting a penalty. And Jim Playfair Speaker 4
is stick on stick over Speaker 5
the ice. He is lost. Speaker 4
On the board. Jim's angry. Speaker 5
Throwing the stick on the ice. Unbelievable. Speaker 4
And now he threw his jacket off Speaker 5
off. Jim Playfair Speaker 4
Hulk Hogan style. Speaker 5
Nuts on Jamie Koharski right now, and the fans are with them. Speaker 4
And he grabbed another stick. Speaker 2
He's gonna break Speaker 5
a second stick. He's on the top of the pitch. Speaker 4
And Chip, Speaker 5
Wayfair once again throws another stick out in the ice. Speaker 4
He is angry about something. Speaker 5
Has absolutely lost it with this referee. Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah. Handled that well. Speaker 2
Yeah. And I I quote, he said, I I disagreed with the referee's call. Speaker 4
What is Speaker 2
the quote? Speaker 4
So that was back in twenty ten in Abbotsford. So my question here is not what started or why it started. My I'm I'm curious. You know, what does dinner you know, what what's the conversation around dinner table like that night? Speaker 2
I I was, I was actually I wasn't living at home at that time. I was playing in in Merritt, but I did get a call from him saying, hey. You might wanna turn on turn on TSN and, get ahead of this thing. So I turned it on, and and honest to god, it was playing as I put the television on. And I asked him, I said, what happened? Like, Jesus, you're pissed. He goes, I disagreed with the referee's call and, wanted to express my, my frustration. But, no, it it it was funny, actually. That, that clip ended up paying out dividends for me. I mean, when I first moved to Vancouver and met with my agent, I didn't didn't have any credits or anything. I was in acting school, and Mhmm. She was, representing some pretty big names at the time. And, about three quarters of the way through our our initial meeting, she asked, you know, are you committed to this? Like, I don't need some, you know, half in, half out pretty boy hockey player who thinks he wants to be an actor. Like, I want someone who's gonna, you know, give it their all. And I was like, can I show you something? And I pulled up that video. Yeah. Speaker 4
And I Speaker 2
said, this is the guy who raised me. This is my dad. So love it. What a play. I love it. Whatever curveball you think you can throw my way that I can't handle, trust me when I say I can handle it. Speaker 4
That's that's making lemonade there. Speaker 2
Well done now. Fantastic. That's a bold move, my friend, but, Speaker 3
wow, did it ever pay off? Speaker 2
Yeah. It paid off. She signed me, and it it worked out. But, no. He's a passionate guy, man. He he he's really passionate and, loves loves the game. I don't know. He looks back. I think he shakes his head. He goes, Jesus Christ. So was I thinking. But, honestly, it's become you know, it's a bit of a badge of honor now. So Sure. Wear it with pride. Right? Speaker 3
Absolutely. Yeah. Speaker 4
You Speaker 3
you knew what clip he was pulling up even before he did it, didn't you? Yeah. Yeah. You're like, oh, here. Fuck. We go again. Yeah. Here we go. Speaker 4
So now now to say that you're a hockey family is an understatement because, obviously, yeah, you had your dad coaching all over in the NHL. You you played hockey. Your brother Jackson played and is now a coach at UBC. Is he still coaching at UBC? Speaker 2
He was at UBC. He's now at Rink Academy in, in Kelowna. Speaker 4
And and your brother Austin is a like, did play, but now is a fashion designer. So that's an interesting, career, change, which brings me to your career change. Like, at what point did you decide, oh, maybe hockey isn't for me, or I like this acting thing. I wanna try this acting thing. Speaker 2
You know, I always knew that I I wanted to act. It was something that was always, you know, in my in my mind, it was something that I I love storytelling. When I was in high school, I was always in the, you know, in drama class, doing school plays and things like that. So my my plan a was the NHL. My plan b was a professional actor. I I don't know if it was delusional or if it was having watched my dad go through the process of of getting there, and I just kinda figured, you know, you you gotta have a you gotta have a big dream and then just take a single step every single day towards it. And I think the, you know, the the day that it became really clear was, I was nineteen. I just finished the season with the Merit Centennials, and my stats looked like a defenseman, and and I was a left winger. And I kinda saw the writing on the wall, and and I thought, you know, if if I take all the all the work that I put in to getting to this place in in my hockey career because I was never really a naturally talent skilled player. I was always, you know, the hardest worker. I tried to be the hardest worker on the ice. I always ended up winning the, you know, training camp, like, the the fitness awards. Like, I was really, really keen on whatever I can control. I'm gonna do my absolute best to to give myself a fighting shot. And I ended up playing, you know, in the BCHL, which which at the time and still is one of the the top junior leagues in Canada. And I kinda figured, you know, if I can take some of this natural talent because I I got a sense from, you know, telling stories in the dressing room and having done plays and getting support from just friends as far as, like, you know, hey. You're a funny guy. This is something that you're naturally gifted at. You can you can make people laugh. It's something that, you know, I felt I had a bit more natural talent in that department than in the hockey department. So I figured if I can combine the work ethic from the hockey with this this thing that I I believe to be you know, I think I'm good at it. Imagine how far I can go. So I I packed up my bags, and I had a tough conversation with my coach, and we both agreed that it was a a good decision. I I honestly thought, you know, there's a kid in training camp who wants this more than I do at this time, and that's not fair to the team or to him. So, you know, I felt it was a good time to pass the torch, and I had a good conversation with my dad. And he his words were, don't ever play the game past the point where you love it because you'll resent it. And resenting this game, which has given our family so much, would be a tragedy. So make sure you leave at the point where you still wanna go play Veer League, where you still wanna go watch games. And coming from him, you know, he's seen so many careers evolve and and shift out of hockey. I mean, he's been coaching since I was born, so that was thirty years of of experience of of seeing guys go through what I was going through. So he was really, really supportive, and, I sort of had this expectation that if, if if an actor I mean, he I I didn't know I didn't know at the time, but I assumed, well, actors can make as much as doctors, and it takes a doctor seven years to to to get to that place. I didn't think I was gonna get a job for seven years. I was fully prepared to wait tables for seven years. That was sort of my number, and I thought if I don't get a sniff in in that chunk of time, then I'll I'll find a new path. And I think that lent itself to getting traction fairly quickly because I was, you know, working on what I could control. I was going to class. I was asking questions. I was really keen to take advantage of any opportunity that presented itself in in film or television or, you know, theater productions. And, yeah, I I I got fortunate. I met some people who were doing some really cool stuff and teamed up with them, Jared being one of them, who I met through a beer league hockey team. And, yeah, it's been, it's been a ride, and I'm I'm I'm very happy with the decision. Speaker 4
Yes. I think you made the right call. Speaker 2
I think so. Speaker 4
What was your kind of first role? Would it have been, Grave Encounters two? Can you Speaker 2
That's right. Speaker 4
Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2
So Grave Encounters two, it was it was interesting because I was going to acting school at the time. And part of normally, when you're in acting class, they ask you to or a school setting, not audition so you can go through the full process and come out with your diploma. And I had an agent already. I I'd signed with an agent, and then I went to her and said, hey. I wanna be working on this every single day. I feel like I need, you know, to turn like, I want this to be my job. So I went to Vancouver acting school with the one condition that I could still audition. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
And, I ended up auditioning for this music video and booked the music video, and the producers of that were doing Grave Encounters too. So then I got an audition for that, and I actually worked on it with one of my teachers and, ended up booking it. So I got to leave school after three months of a six month program and then, came back and was about two months in after Grave Encounters. Same thing happened. I booked mister Hockey, and I kinda looked around. I was like, you know what? I think I'm I think I'm gonna go keep doing this. Speaker 4
So mister Hockey was was your second booked gig. Yeah. That that's crazy. Because in twenty twelve, you you play the son of, Gordie Howe. Speaker 2
Mhmm. Speaker 4
And who played your brother? Speaker 2
Andrew Heir. Speaker 4
Unbelievable. So we had an early view of what Riley and Jonesy were like because you guys played brothers in in the Gordie Howe story. Speaker 2
That's right. Which is actually that that was one of the one of the, sort of factors that played into Jared writing us into his letter Kenny problem skids because he was doing the the stuff with the, with the Hicks and the Yeah. And I think he had one with the skids, and we came in for the sixth episode of the YouTube series after having done mister hockey where Jared actually had us over for a red carpet viewing party, and it was, it was pretty special. You know? He he took us under under his wing in a big way, and, you know, we were, yeah, we were having a really good time watching that, and it's crazy what it turned into. Speaker 4
Was was that the first time you met Andrew? Speaker 2
No. Andrew and I were actually, roommates. So Speaker 4
Oh, that explains a lot then. Speaker 2
I know. Right? It Jesus. Speaker 3
The story just gets thicker and thicker. Speaker 2
Yeah. It it's it's wild, man. So I came out to Vancouver, and I had a friend who was going to UBC, and this was before I'd even left left hockey. It was the winter that I was still playing. And I came out for, for Christmas break to basically party with him Mhmm. And ended up, meeting Andrew and a couple other buddies that all lived in the same dorm. And so we became pals. And then when I actually moved out to Vancouver permanently, Andrew was looking for a place to stay, and and the house that I was living in had a room open up. So he had moved in, and, actually, he was in France with his family that went because we both auditioned for it. Speaker 4
Right. Speaker 2
And then he didn't like, it was, like, three weeks after we auditioned, so he kind of assumed, like, well, this isn't this isn't gonna happen. So he went to France with his family, and his agent couldn't get ahold of him when they when they booked him. So they called me like, hey. You need to you need to get ahold of Andrew. He's he's playing your brother. He's gotta be in Winnipeg in two weeks. Speaker 3
Come bring your boy. We gotta get him here. Speaker 2
Yeah. So I messaged him on Facebook, and then he flew back early, and we went and shot Mr. Hockey. Speaker 4
So that's Mr. Hockey, the Gordie Howe story. That came out in twenty thirteen. I I I feel like I I saw it a while ago. It's been, what, eleven years since it came out. But, yeah, I think I remember but that was before I knew who you guys were, before Letterkenny and stuff. Right? So now when I heard that both you and Andrew were were brothers, I'm like, it was meant to be. And I guess so Jared saw that and said, these guys need to be the hockey dum dums on Letterkenny. Speaker 2
Absolutely. And and we were also I mean, the the it's kind of the thick it's it's wild, this story. So there was six of us playing on a beer league team called the Trappers Right. Out at UBC. So there was Jared was our team captain. I was on the team. Actually, McDear, Ryan from, Shorezy. He was on the team. McDonald. Yeah. Yeah. McDonald. Exactly. Right. Yeah. McMcD. Who else? Nate Dales is on that team. Jamie LaPointe who played the ginger. Who else? Tyler Johnson. Speaker 3
Come on. Speaker 2
Yeah. So most of that team, actually, Letterkenny was part of the reason why the team pulled it because we all we all got too cool. We all Speaker 4
got teams, so we had we couldn't play Speaker 2
in the regular season anymore. Speaker 4
That's too much. Well, before we get to Letterkenny, I've got a few more of these, credits that that, I wanna ask you about. First Speaker 3
of all Yeah. Speaker 2
You bet. Speaker 4
What is your dad and your what your brothers say when you rub it in their face that you made it into the hockey hall of fame before they did? Speaker 2
They're proud. They're they're they're pumped for me. That was, yeah, that was really cool. We shot that. That jeez. That might have come before mister Hockey. You know? What's what's the year on that credit? Speaker 4
Twenty twelve. Twenty twelve. And I think mister Hockey was twenty thirteen. So, yeah, it's just before. Speaker 2
I I think it was. I might have gotten a mix of Speaker 4
that. Let me explain this for those who wouldn't know. There's a a movie called Stanley's Game seven three d, and it's a it's a three d immersive movie. And we saw it when we were at the Hockey Hall of Fame, because when I watched the trailer, I'm like, I remember watching that. And and it's a it's a hockey it's a three d hockey movie where you got Dylan and a bunch of other hockey players, but then they turn into Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux. They turn into the legends, and it's it's a really cool video. And I remember watching it, like, at the hockey hall of fame. So when I saw it, I'm like, oh, yeah. And then and then I started laughing because you're in the hockey hall of fame. And I don't know if your dad's in there yet, but, you know Speaker 2
I think I might be the only play fair that's, in the hall of fame. And, actually, cool thing about that that, short was usually so there's two Stanley Cups. There's the actual Stanley Cup they present the players, and then there's a a a replica that they use for for certain events, especially when it's when when a team wins the cup, each player gets a chunk of time with the cup. So we filmed that in Penticton, and I believe I think it was Duncan Keith had won. I can't remember who won it that year, but whoever had won it was living in Penticton and gave the go ahead to actually lend the cup for the day. Speaker 4
For his one day with the cup? Speaker 2
Isn't that wild? Speaker 4
That's crazy. Speaker 2
So so we had the actual Stanley Cup out there. And, Phil, the, keeper of the cup, he was on the ice with us. It was it was a pretty wild pretty wild experience. And I'd actually played junior b in Penticton, so to be able to, you know, have a bunch of friends out that were still living there and come watch the, the film getting made. It was wild, man, to like, filming in three d. Speaker 4
Yeah. Speaker 2
It was, it it was it was quite a quite an experience. And some of those slow motion shots, they had the camera on this rig where it would it had this, like, electronic wire that would pull the camera super duper fast, and they shot in ultra slow motion. There's a scene where I get blown up, and it didn't happen one time. It was I probably I probably got smacked in my head down about fifteen times, and that was at the time, it was nonunion. And I was like, for the for the hall of fame, man, let's do it. I'm I'm game. Anything goes. It wasn't until a couple years later that I heard the term stunt man. I'm like, oh, interesting. Speaker 4
Those exist. Okay. Speaker 2
Okay. But I I Speaker 3
I coulda had one of those? Speaker 2
I'm like, man, that was a hell of a shoot. Like, I'm rattled. But, no, it it was fun. And and truth be told, I probably wouldn't have wanted him to do it anyway. I'll do my own stunts for the hall of fame. Let's get going here. Speaker 3
Yeah. Yeah. I got a quick question. So, I mean, looking, and I'm sure Al's got more on your on your IMDB there, but a lot of hockey stuff. Right? Was that was were you seeking that, or was it just a natural fit with what you brought to the screen? Speaker 2
You know what? I I I I was not seeking it, but here's what I I I figured if I'm gonna get an opportunity and if a special skill, like like playing hockey opens doors up for me you know, people talk about getting pigeonholed and being afraid of being typecast and things like that, and I always approached it with an attitude of they're all different characters that happen to play hockey, and I think every one of them has a different energy and a different persona. And hockey is is a part of their identity. I mean, for sure in Letterkenny, like, that is their identity. They are the hockey players. But when it comes to, like, you know, Stanley's game seven, that was one of my very first things. And because I played hockey, that really opened the door. And and then with, with mister hockey, having come from a hockey family, you know, when I spoke with Andy Nikita, I think a big part of of of that opportunity was knowing what it's like to have a father in the NHL to, you know, play it and and grow up in that shadow and and what that pressure looks like for for a player who wants to carve their own identity in the game. That was a big part of of that movie that that came about. Plus, I was able to skate and, you know, it made it look more realistic. And I didn't I didn't really wanna say no to opportunities that at the early, you know, phase of my career. And and even now, it's like, I I think people who are afraid of being pigeonholed are not looking at it the right way. Like, if you can bring something unique to a character, I think you should. And and it opens a lot of doors, and and it's never something that I've been afraid. And and if you look at my, you know, my my resume, like, it didn't stop me from being a dancing pirate in in a Disney musical. You know? Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 4
Yeah. Let's let's get to that. But first, for before we get to that, somewhat some assembly required now you know, obviously, not my age range, but it's kind of that, you know, sitcom geared towards a teen, preteen audience or whatever. What that and you were on it for for fifty six episodes. So that was a pretty big, was that kind of a big time, deal for you? Speaker 2
Yeah. That that was huge. I mean, that was my first, television show. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
Up until that point, I'd only ever done films. Speaker 3
Right. Speaker 2
And I and I really, really loved it. Like, to me, it sort of brought back a lot of what I was missing from hockey, which is that consistency and the ability to, like, see growth and improvement over a chunk of time because, you know, a lot of the a lot of the cast, it was their first time. For me, it was obviously my my first television show, and we did it in front of a live studio audience. So How Speaker 4
was that? Like, were how were you nervous about that? Speaker 2
You know what? Honestly, it was because we had two days of rehearsal, so we get really, really tight with the scripts, and then the audience was mostly kids. Right? Like, they wanted it geared towards the age range that would be watching it. So they were great. They came in there and they were already on your side. They were they wanted to laugh. They had high energy. They were stoked to be there. And you you had feedback on the jokes instantly. So you knew if something was working or not, and you could kinda work on the fly. If something wasn't landing, if the jokes weren't hitting, if the audience wasn't laughing, you could adjust it and get feedback right away. So it was, like, absolutely the the best education I could have asked for because, you know, I was on set every week for three years learning a lot about how films get made, how rehearsal process you know, how to memorize on the fly, how to deal with changes, how to deal with adversity. We worked with a bunch of different directors, so I I I was able to, you know, figure out how different people work. And, it was a lot of fun. And being a kids show, not not to say, like, I mean, you put your all into everything you do, but there is a sense of, safety in in, like Sure. You can grow here. You know? Like, this isn't this isn't marquee. This is, like, you can figure out things that work for you, that don't work for you, and I was able to, I think, really improve my chops on that show. And it was a ton of fun too. So, and it was a comedy, which, like, you you know, you ask what were the kind of things I wanted to do. It it was comedies. Yeah. And I had done horrors and biopics and, you know, sports dramas up until that point. I felt comfortable doing it, but I kinda knew when I got that audition, I was like, oh, this is my wheelhouse. Like, this is what I've been looking for, and it was super fun and super silly and very far from, from the the aggressive, you know Sure. Yeah. Or flying grinder than it was when I played. Speaker 3
Yeah. And as a Canadian, I mean, it it was YTV, wasn't it? Like, that is that is the kids' network Speaker 4
Absolutely. Speaker 3
To be on in Canadian culture. Right? Speaker 4
Yeah. The fact that I even know the name means it was probably a big deal because it wouldn't have been something I was watching at the time, but I do remember the name. So did that open up the the door for the possibility of Disney, of dis of Descendants? Speaker 2
Yeah. A a hundred percent. Yeah. You know, as as big as the, the industry is, it's it's quite small. You know? So you see a lot of crossover between, you know, YTV, Disney, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network. And when I got the opportunity for Descendants, I'd done the audition and ended up meeting with, with the director, and he was really happy with with the read. And we started talking about the the dancing aspect, and I was like, look, man. I'm an athlete. Like, I I'm I'm comfortable with, like, a lot of the stuff, but I I just wanna be upfront and really honest. Like, I I've never really danced. Like, I'm not a professional dancer. And I and I saw Descendants one, and it it's like they're they got chops. Mhmm. And he had watched some assembly, and and there was a couple episodes there where Knox is a Zumba instructor. And he's like, I've seen you dance. I know you can dance. And I also know that you're an athlete. And if you're not afraid to look stupid in the beginning, I can teach you how to dance. Mhmm. You just gotta listen to us and and follow instructions, which as a hockey player, I'm like, yeah. I'm coachable. Let's do this. Nice. So, yeah. It was two months of dance camp and then two months of filming, and, we got two great flicks out of it. Speaker 4
So it Speaker 2
worked out pretty good. When I Speaker 4
met you at Fan Expo, I I mentioned that my cousin was was on that set too, Justin Lopez. He was one of the dancers as well. So, and you guys are you probably know each other. Speaker 2
That's right. Yeah. He's a beauty. Justin's a great guy. Yeah. And we got really, really close. I mean, that's it feels like a team. You know? You're Yeah. You're you're you're all working towards the same goal. It's very, very physically demanding. I I told my dad actually after the first, like, week of dance camp. I'm like, this compared to training camp Speaker 4
Yeah. Speaker 2
Is like it doesn't hold a candle. Like, eight hours of nonstop dancing. And you think about it, like, the move like, it was challenging, man. I think I lost, like, fifteen pound. Like, it was crazy. And, like, they they had on set, like, they had a whole protein shake set up. They had it wasn't, like, food at lunch. It was food the whole time because you're burning so many and it was eight hour days of dancing the whole time. Wow. So it's like you're gonna get in good shape. Speaker 4
Yeah. Does that help your hockey hockey game then? Speaker 2
Oh, man. I don't know. It it was it was on par because it's like it it's too like, however long the song is, that's how long you're going for. Speaker 4
Right? Speaker 2
And sometimes you're you're stopping and you're going back to ones, and it's, yeah. It was very physically demanding but really rewarding to Speaker 4
Those are two and a half minute shifts as opposed to your your quick cut. Speaker 2
Exactly. Exactly. Speaker 4
Forty minute shifts. Yeah. Or forty second shifts. Sorry. Speaker 2
And no cruising the blue Speaker 4
line too. No on your head. Amazing. Speaker 3
And and be honest, you've got the dance bug now, don't you? Like, you and wifey go out on the regular and hit the gloves, don't you? Yeah. Speaker 2
I got those moves like Jagger now, bro. Alright. Speaker 3
I know I know the movie you want. Speaker 4
We need to get to the Letterkenny stuff, but I I I'd be remiss well, obviously, that must have opened the door then for Mighty Ducks. Speaker 2
Yeah. So Letterkenny opened the door for Mighty Ducks. Oh, okay. Yeah. And and, you know, it's so funny. Everything's interconnected. Right? Like, Ariel Boysewert, who produced, she produced the Descendants films and several other shows here at, at Brightlight, which is a big production company here. Yeah. They were they were working on the Mighty Ducks and talking to Steve Brill, and and I guess my name came up, in regards to Letterkenny. So she connected us to just have a beer because I I wanted to meet him. I grew up with the Mighty Ducks. He wanted to meet me. He was a fan of Letterkenny. So we met up for for a drink, and, initially, I was gonna do a cameo with just one line sort of back of the scene. And as we started talking, the interest grew. And and by the end of the night, he goes, you know what, man? I think you would be a great fit as coach t. I think if you slick your hair back and, you know, if you can play a bully, I'm like, I could I could play a bully, buddy. I I I think I could figure that out. So, so, yeah, we ended up meeting up and and chatting about the character, and and that's how, Mighty Ducks came about. Speaker 4
It's amazing. Last credit that I wanna talk to just because it's a bit of a departure, from what people might know about you, but you're a documentarian as well. And in Yeah. And in twenty twenty in twenty fifteen, you you did a you you were in a documentary. You shot it. You produced it, I guess. You directed it. You were starting it, called The Drop, Why Young People Don't Vote. I mean, talk about that for for a sec. Speaker 2
So, as a kid, I was always, I was always fascinated. It's I was like a I was a weird hockey player, man. I was kind of a nerd. But I was just I was fascinated in in by government and world history and and World War two. And I remember I watched this, like, black and white doc when I was, like, ten or twelve, and there was a line talking about how Hitler came to power and how he was technically voted in and and, like, how how that whole, political climate allowed for something like that to happen. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
And I always thought, like, that's fascinating. And and, I was living in Vancouver, and at the time, the the tax credits were a really, really big topic of the of the election as to whether or not they were gonna be competitive with the East Coast. So it was the first time I really felt that something political was gonna have a direct effect on me. So a friend of mine asked me to do an interview for they were gonna do, like, a ten minute mini documentary just trying to improve voter numbers. And, I came and I did the interview, and at the end of it, I said, look. I think this is a much deeper issue than than than just this ten minute piece. Like, I'd love to help you expand it. And then we went off on this very, very long arduous journey of of producing this documentary. We we flew down to Ferguson, Missouri. By the time, Mike Brown had just been been killed, and there was a like, that was the the birth of Hands Up United. We went to Burning Man, which was, the intention of that was to show, a society that, you know, Burning Man become Black Rock City becomes the second largest city in Nevada for the duration of the festival, and they get their own airport code, and they have this this system of governance that's very unique to to the festival. Mhmm. So we kinda wanted to to get some information on that. And then we went to, to Ottawa and and interviewed, Justin Trudeau and the leader of the NDP and, leader of the conservatives. And my whole thing with that was I wanted to learn a bit more. Like, I was really curious about the process. Yeah. And I always thought it was important to be engaged in in the democratic process just having had that experience as a kid because I I always thought that dictators just grabbed power, and and I didn't realize there is ways that you could do it essentially by the book. So it kind of Sure. Fascinated me. And, I also wanted to do something that made me, look smarter than the characters I've been playing. Speaker 4
So on that note, I have a clip here of somebody who you know talking about just that. Here we here it is. Speaker 0
I call him my my most loyal soldier. He is he is true friend. I just love this kid so much. You know, he's I would say, like, he's like the Canadian Ashton Kutcher. And it's it's not just because of his talent on screen. It it's because he's a bit like Ashton Kutcher, I guess, in that he plays characters that may not be the brightest. Right. But in reality, he is so smart. I mean, he's he's he's hyper intelligent and and insightful and worldly, And I think that that stems from his just a general curiosity that that he has. He loves people, and he loves their stories, and he loves telling his own stories. He's just he's got such a big heart. He was raised by really good parents, that I'm close with as well. Yeah. Actually, his his, his his mom reminds me of my mom, and his dad's now, coaching, the Prince George Cougars, the WHL. So DP and I are doing a road trip to follow the team around in January or February for a little while, and I can't wait for that. Speaker 4
So first question is, did you guys do that road trip? Speaker 2
Mhmm. Did Speaker 4
you take a slip? Speaker 2
Sorry. Yeah. Tough tough tough spot to take a sip of water. Yeah. That's that Speaker 4
my bad. Speaker 2
We did we, to to answer your question, yes. We did do that road trip, and it was, as much fun as as as you'd imagine it was. We had an absolute blast. And, I mean, Keesa, man, I I I love that guy like a brother. He's awesome. That that was, you know, really sweet to hear him say that because I, I respect him so very much. I mean, truly, if if you look back from Jared introduced me to that agent, to Kerry Wheeler, who, who gave me my my, you know, my start. I actually met Jared through McBee. I was I was working behind the scenes as a production assistant telling everyone who would listen my game plan. I wanna be an actor. I wanna get in. Anyone know anybody who can help me, please let me know. Yeah. Ryan was like, hey, buddy. I I play on this team. You should come out. So that's how I met Jared. He and I hit it off. He, introduced me to to Cary. So he he's really been there since the very start. And, I I mean, to see what he's done, you know, his work ethic is incredible from, you know, from slugging it out in Vancouver, standing in line at auditions like the rest of us to to seeing what he's done now. Like, I mean, the like, he's Canada's most respected showrunner. I mean, he's creating content that will live on, and I know he's gonna create a lot more, which I'm really, really stoked about. But, yeah, it's, it's nice to hear that, and and he's he's, he's on point. You know? I I I we talk about pigeonholing and and knowing your your lane. I think he comes back to hockey. Right? It's like, hey. If you're you're a third line energy guy, you you're not gonna serve your team if you're trying to be a first line center if you wanna play defense or if you wanna stand back in the front of the crease and try and stop pucks. It's like, hey. You're gonna help the team by doing the job we need you to do. And and I I love playing that guy. I I love playing the goofy guy. I'm I'm aware of of the importance within the ecosystem of the show for those people to stay in that lane to for the audience to expect those characters to behave the way they do. But I also really enjoy, you know, making documentaries about youth voter apathy in the United States and Canada and going to Burning Man along the way. And, you know, I I wanna do a lot of different things in my career and, playing funny dumb guys and playing, you know, me bad coaches and, you know, anything else. It's like the this career is so wild. You're playing make believe. So if there's a story that you identify with and you see a role that you think you can bring to life and give justice to, sign me up, man. Let's go. I'll do it all. Yeah. Wow. Nice. Speaker 4
Well, now we're at Fantastic answer. Exact yeah. Very good. Now we're at Letterkenny now, obviously, and it's it's well documented by us and by many others how it started with the the shorts. And and now we know how Jared found you and and Andrew and stuff, you know, playing on on the the Gordie Howe movie. Yeah. So talk about just, like, twelve seasons of Letterkenny, you know, and try to, you know, maybe describe what that's been what what's that meant for you, your career, and and so on. Speaker 2
So we shot the, the hockey player's YouTube short, and, it went viral pretty quickly. Mhmm. I think it had been on on YouTube for, like, five or six days, and it was knocking on a million views. So Jared, Jared called me and Andrew and was like, boys, this thing's going viral. This is wild. Like, check it out. It's on Funny or Die. It's getting shared all over the Internet. People are ripping it and putting on their own channel. Like, I think something's happening here. And then, New Metric Media reached out, and, they they were like, hey. We think this this could be a show. So Jerry went to Toronto and and met with a a couple of different suitors, so to speak, people who were interested in the show. And, and Bell was just launching Crave. It was their first streaming platform, and they were looking for content. Yeah. So it was sort of right place, right time for that. There was talk of auditioning roles for the hockey players. And, you know, I I I say this every time I talk about the show, and it's one of the one of the many reasons why, I I love Keith so much. He he hard lined and said, no. These are my guys. It's Andrew and Dylan, and, and and we'll, you know, we'll find the rest of the roles, but these guys are are coming with us. So we got a six episode order. Cherry took us up for dinner at the keg and sat us down, and he goes, boys, we went to Toronto and, you know, tried to get a pilot, but, they said no. We're we're not getting a pilot. And we're like, ah, hey, man. It's so good. The nice young we got we're gonna have a lot of fun anyhow. He goes, but we are gonna shoot six episodes in the spring, so get ready for Sudbury, and we were just fired up. Speaker 4
That's amazing. Speaker 2
So we went out and didn't know what was gonna come of it. I mean, we only had that one, the only guarantee was that we'd shoot six and see what happens. So, the very first scene that Andrew and I shot was the scene in the dressing room when we find out we're we're trying to figure out, who gave the the rookie meth. So Right. You know, Belsey, Wellsey, Burnsey, Deatsy, we're going back and forth trying to figure out who hangs out with the skids that could contact the the the the schmelt. And, that was a big, big chunk of dialogue. And it was sort of right at the beginning of filming the show. So Andrew and I rehearsed like, I've never rehearsed a scene more than Andrew and I rehearsed this scene. We knew each other's lines frontwards and backwards as fast as we could go and as slow as we could go and every single possible way to run this because we felt like we weren't just going to, you know, to perform for the network. We're you know, Jared has stuck his neck out for us, so we wanted to really make a splash. So we filmed that that day. The scene's over. And, later that night, I get a text, and he goes, hey. Jacob and I wanna talk to to you and and Andrew. So I'm like, okay. I can't believe I'm fired already. That was fucking quick. Right on. Well, we're in my room. Buzz it. Talk to you soon. And it was, Jacob and and Kiso, and he goes, boys, if you guys keep doing that, we'll be just fine. This show is gonna do just fine. And it was such a vote of confidence. And then, you know, every season after that, we kept getting renewed and we kept, you know, getting the momentum and it kept building and growing. And, I think one of the one of the coolest things about it was we had no expectation of that. We we did not go into it thinking we're gonna make the biggest show in Canada and we're gonna be an international success. We really went out there thinking, how fun is it that we get to make a show with, like, legitimately, like, my best friends. Like, Andrew and I literally were roommates. We played on the same hockey team as Keith with his nickname's Cap. He was the captain of our hockey team. You know, Nate got me my first job working at section three as a bar back. I mean, Tyler, like, was a stud like, you wouldn't look you wouldn't know it looking at him, but he'd come out to the trappers and, like, zip around and fucking score goals. Like, he is a stud hockey player. So Speaker 4
we Speaker 2
were out there making a making a TV show with our friends, and it kept getting renewed, and we kept getting to go back. And, you know, summer camp was what we started calling it. Yeah. Speaker 4
And Speaker 2
then you count Speaker 3
the first one to say that. Many many of you on the, that we've interviewed have been Speaker 2
I don't even get Speaker 3
an exact reference. Speaker 2
Yeah. And I think that's part of the success of the show is the fact that the audience can tell we're having fun. Mhmm. And then, you know, you look back and it's like, holy crap. That was, like, ten years of our lives, like, twelve seasons. And, you know, I'm I'm so proud of what we did. And, like, it happens fast, and you're in it. There were like, a lot of times, I I I put both feet down, and I went, like, look around. This is cool. Because I had I I was in a unique position where I'd been on a show, like like, fifty six episodes of Some Assembly Required, and then it ended and, you know, several movies leading up, and and I had I had been on quite a few sets as had Jared. And I think we both kinda knew, you know, something special is happening here. And I wasn't the only one that had had been on set before, but, we were both, I think, probably around season three, we're like, this is this is it, man. This is rad. Speaker 4
When we oh, go ahead, Matt. Speaker 3
Oh, I wanted to add something, because you talked about the rehearsal between, you and Hersey there. Mhmm. We often, like, on the and I have lots of people for when when we talk about Riley and Jonesy, it's always Riley and Jonesy. Right? Like, it's like you guys are a single entity. Did it feel like that onset? Like, even from the dialogue perspective, was it often, like, were your lines always divided as one or the other, or did sometimes they just kind of blend in and it didn't matter who said it? It just was a single unit of dialogue. Like, how did that evolve or or no. Talk me out of it. Speaker 2
So we would rehearse it to the point where if someone, and it was usually me, would take the other guy's line, Andrew or myself could switch and say the other person's lines. And it it it got to the I mean, our name on the set, it wasn't Riley and Jones. It was hockey. Speaker 4
Hockey. That's a big deal for us. Speaker 2
And and, again, it's like we we we knew our role, man. Like, we understood. We were we were a two headed dragon. You know? You didn't get one without the other. Yeah. And, and and, honestly, like, to this day, I I I have yet to experience chemistry with another actor like Andrew and I's chemistry. We we got to the point where we'd read it once, and we'd say the same words at the same time. Like, when and it happens a lot in the show. You see, we're like Speaker 4
Yeah. No. Speaker 2
No. Like, we'd look at each other and just do it, and it was, like, shocking how tight and on time. Like, we really do share a brain when we get into those characters and start talking and saying lines. It's a it's a wild experience at Canvas. Speaker 4
On that point, we we told our listeners that you were coming on. Of course, they had lots of questions, so and we invited them to submit their questions. Mike from New Jersey, on on this note, he says, you know, we know Evan and Tyler, whom we've had on, worked on their banter to make sure it was crisp and precise, and you talked about how how you and Andrew do the same. Your banter with Andrew is different from theirs in principle, but really similar in style and speed. How long did you have to work on it to get to get it down for the quick filming days Jared and Jacob were used to? Speaker 2
So in the first, I'd say, four seasons, five seasons, we would put in, like season one, it was, like, eight hour rehearsal. Each night, we were really, really adamant about making sure that we were super crisp and tight. But it's like a muscle. It's funny because by season four, we would we would, you know, meet up and we'd start running it. And in one or two runs, we'd we'd get to where we were, you know, in season one after, like, a whole day of rehearsing. And it it truly became, like, this muscle where, like, we kinda knew like, we knew our characters. We knew our tone, and you just you kinda get faster at memorizing as you do it over time. So, it's very important on Letterkenny that you show up to set being very, very off book. Mhmm. Not just not not just for the for the pacing of the show, but for the other actors in the scene because if you fill up a line, their lines are flow because that like, the cadence of the show moves in such a way. Like, there is no dead air when people are talking. There's very few, like, wait, respond. Mhmm. So if you don't have that rhythm, you're gonna jam up the whole shot. So we'd get to the point where we had the rhythm and we knew what we were doing, but we would definitely never show like, there are some films you can show up and look at the sides in the makeup trailer and figure it out because you're only shooting two or three pages. Letterkenny, by the end of it, we were shooting fifteen, twenty, thirty pages sometimes in a day. Crazy. So Yeah. You had the you you knew the script when you first got. Like, you'd send it about a month and a half, two months before, so you get familiar with the stories. And then we would rehearse to the point where we knew we weren't gonna make ourselves look like idiots on set. Speaker 4
Some of those scenes in the gym between you and Andrew, I don't know how you guys got through. And I know there's a lot of blooper reels on on YouTube showing you guys fucking up the the words, but still, like, the fact you were able to get through those, I I don't know how. Yeah. Speaker 3
Did did you ever have, like, a favorite episode or a favorite bit that you guys did? Speaker 2
One one was my most hated I wanna crawl under, bridge and die moment that became my most favorite, that we should be ripping when they switched the Ritz for Roids or Roids for Ritz. Speaker 4
Yeah. Speaker 2
Because we were going like, that was what like, there aren't many I don't have very many memories of being like, ah, Speaker 4
yeah, man. Speaker 2
I'm blowing it. Yeah. And that because we were trying to go so fast. We were trying to be so intense because, like, the joke is they they took a ton of Adderall, which is an amphetamine. So they're supposed to be, like, flying. Right? They think they're on steroids, but they're just, like, ripped on basically meth. You know? And, like, when we ran it, we're like, we gotta go faster, faster, faster, faster, and to the point where our blooper reel was this we should we should we should we should be because we Yeah. We were getting tongue tied. And and when Jared sent us the cut, it it went from, like, my most, oh my god. I can't believe that's how that day went to that is amazing. I'm so stoked that went that way. That was one of my favorites. And then, of course, the the cold open pulling up in the Jeep, that was, you know because it's such a such a throwback to to the YouTube stuff, and I Speaker 3
It it set the tone of the whole show, man. That was so fucking good. Speaker 4
And the winner of the best cold open in all of Letterkenny on of Fire Pole, anyway. Speaker 2
I love it. Speaker 4
Jeff from Maine wants to know what you know, you mentioned summer camp in Sudbury. I don't know how much, experience you had with Sudbury before Letterkenny, but, I mean, you spent a lot of time up there. So what are your favorite places to eat in Sudbury? Speaker 2
Oh, Laughing Buddha. Love Laughing Buddha. I gotta say Pepe Panini, of course. Speaker 4
I mean, Speaker 2
j j Burton. Yeah. We spent a lot of time at Laffin' Buddha, a lot of time at, Pepe Panini. Where else did we what are the watering holes? SRO, standing room only. I don't know if it's even there anymore. I don't remember. Where the hell else did we? Peddler's Pub. Speaker 4
Peddler's. Yeah. Yeah. Speaker 2
Yeah. Peddler's was a good time for a for a pint and some nachos. I think I might have named all the restaurants in Sudbury just now. Speaker 4
Sadly, there are a few that are are no longer around. But, yeah, we had a lot of fun when we visited the, Sudbury and the sets as well. Mike from New Jersey, yes, has a Letterkenny fan who also has a seven year old Descendants fan in the house. Oh, Georgia, in case you feel like a shout out. Her name is Georgia. You wanna give Georgia a shout out? Speaker 2
Georgia, what's up? Thanks so much for, supporting and, watching, and don't watch Letterkenny if you're seven. We ride with the tide. Yeah. Speaker 4
Mike Michael clipped that for his daughter. What are the biggest advantages and disadvantages between working with Jared and the Sudbury crew versus working with the Disney corporation? That's a big question. Like Woah. Yeah. Speaker 2
Advantages and disadvantages. Oh, boy. Speaker 4
Maybe just compare the two. Speaker 2
No. No. I I I can I can I mean Alright? Look. I I I think, shockingly, I don't know if this is gonna be in trouble, but the language offset is not as different as you think. Speaker 4
Oh, Speaker 2
okay. Is hilarious. I was at I was at home. All the descendants films were filmed in Vancouver, which is nice because I got to, sleep in my own bed. Right. There was a chunk of time where I I was living in LA and then I came back. So I was put up in a hotel for a bit halfway through the show, which was fun because I kinda got to hang out with the cast of Descendants in a a bit of a staycation environment. I mean, they they had a really clear super clear vision of of what they needed on on on the Descendants movies. And, you know, they they wouldn't move on until they got it, which is most shows are are like that. I think, Letterkenny was a lot more because there wasn't a character breakdown. Right? Like, we had done the show we had done the YouTube stuff, and we were never told, like, hey. This is what Riley's energy is. This is what he's doing. Speaker 4
Right. Speaker 2
That was kinda like what Andrew and I had brought. So a different kind of freedom, I guess. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
But it was still, you know, both very, very collaborative, both really, really fun. Like, I feel I got lucky, man. I haven't had a horror story on set, and I know that's rare, having spoken to so many other people in the industry. Like, my experiences have been, like, shockingly positive. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
And I'm really, really fortunate to have had that experience. You know, working with Kenny Ortega on Descendants was incredible. The cast was amazing. We we did some really strong work that I'm super proud of. And I can honestly say the exact same thing for, for Letterkenny. I mean, that crew is amazing. We moved super fast. We got really good stuff. I mean, obviously, the show went twelve seasons and fans, are incredibly supportive. I I would say, like, those three shows, I loop, Mighty Ducks into that. Like, those are for sure the three shows I've had the most success with, and the common thread amongst all three is a really, really solid team. And it it goes back to that hockey thing. Right? It's like what makes the team successful? What makes the company successful? It's from the top down. If you have a culture of, let's buy in in the beginning and everyone do their role and everyone work towards a common goal, and I think you just gotta I think if people speak that in the beginning of, like, hey. We're gonna do the best that we can collectively. Everyone from the from the director to the makeup artist to the guy making sure that the trash bins are empty. Like, let's all Speaker 3
Mhmm. Speaker 2
Do the best we can. Yeah. That that seems to be the recipe for success, and and I've been very fortunate to be a part of a lot of those mentalities. And Sure. Speaker 4
Yeah. James from Pennsylvania. How does it feel to have fans from two very different groups, Disney fans and Letterkenny fans? And when they're when they're interacting with fans of these different groups, do you change your communication and engagement style at all? I kinda I kinda witnessed this firsthand at Fan Expo when you spoke to us and then you spoke to my daughter. But let's, Speaker 2
Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean, it's it's not it's not even so much that I I I change personality. It's it's an I recognize it's a different fan. Right? It's a different kind of fan. So, Riley's got a cadence, and energy. I think there's an expectation when a when a Letterkenny fan comes up, and the same can be said for, a descendants fan or some assembly fan. You one hundred percent can't say, we'll snipe silly dirty fucking dangles to a seven Speaker 4
year old. It's not gonna Speaker 2
sit well with mom and dad. So, I like I like to I like to say read the room. You know? I I I read I read the room as best I can and, and respond accordingly. Speaker 4
Alright. Last Disney related question, I promise. Adrian from the Hilltop asked, who is your favorite Disney princess? Speaker 2
Favorite Disney princess. I don't know. Maybe Ariel. I I get I I mean Always. Speaker 3
It's a tale, isn't it? Speaker 2
Yeah. It's gotta be the it's gotta be the so, I mean, some of the best songs come from, you know, Little Mermaid. Yeah. But then I did play Son of Gaston, so so Belle from but she wasn't really a princess. Speaker 4
Alright. Let let me help you with this because this is a test. This is a trap. Okay. The answer trap. The the answer is Ariel because prince Edward Eric would never smash a mermaid that was too little, not the prince Edward that Riley knows. Speaker 2
Yeah. That's why there it is. There it is. Jared You Speaker 3
got there by accident. Yeah. Speaker 2
I got there by he keeps notes, man. He must've heard me say something positive about the soundtrack to The Little Mermaid, and that's how that joke got into Letterkenny. Speaker 4
I was gonna say, when when you saw these Disney references in Letterkenny scripts, you know that they're they're they're taking the piss out of you. Like, how did you react? Like, were you like, Jared, you you motherfucker? Like The Speaker 2
hold open. Like, everything's here in LA LA. LA. So at the time, I was living in LA because I, you know, Speaker 4
we we kinda figured that was that was a shot at you as well. There's a lot of shots at you in in Los Angeles. Speaker 2
Yeah. But that's, you know, that's, that's addressing your humor. You know, I'm I'm happy about it, man. It's, it's funny. It's a little little art imitating life, and that's okay. That's alright. He he actually, I guess, one time, I think he got misquoted. Somewhere along the way, someone someone printed that he had said something disparaging about and I honestly, I'd be pulling it out of thin air if I if I remember the quote, but it came up on some Reddit forum about, like, tripping me for being in Descendants. And it bugged him so much, he called me, and he was like, hey, man. I have you heard? I'm like, what? Have I heard what? I don't know. He goes, somewhere along the line, someone misquoted me about you being in Descendants and me making fun of you. I just want you to know that I think it's so freaking cool that you're doing that, and I'm proud of you, and that's dope. And and, like, if if you see that, like, that's not what I said. I'm like, oh, buddy. I I appreciate that, but I don't even know what you're talking about. So, there's there's a lot of love. And I mean, look, Keith and I both like, we started on YTV. He did Monster Warriors. He did something. Speaker 4
Exactly. Yeah. He knows. Yeah. Speaker 2
Yeah. That we we've we've gone through it, you know. And, Speaker 4
Adrian's follow-up Adrian's follow-up, and it was another trap here. What's your favorite Robert Munch book? Do you remember? Speaker 2
Robert Munch. What is it? Speaker 4
I forget this one. Speaker 2
I love you forever. I love you for always. Speaker 4
Probably. Yeah. Yeah. Very good. Yeah. Speaker 2
Yeah. Speaker 4
Well done. Speaker 2
Yeah. Out of the, the moccasin the moccasin goalie. Is that Robert Munsch? Speaker 1
I don't remember that one. Speaker 4
Yeah. I don't I don't recall that one. There's one about socks, and there's one about the hockey sweater, but I don't remember the moccasin. Speaker 2
I haven't. Speaker 4
Anyway, it's all it's all good. Speaker 3
They're always testing you, man. Speaker 2
Yeah. I know. Right? We're Speaker 4
Sorry. I'm I'm sorry. We're pushing you to an hour here. So, I No. Speaker 2
Take your time. Speaker 4
I Are Speaker 2
you sure? I cleared the schedule. Yeah. But Speaker 4
I'll Oh, Speaker 2
okay, man. It's been a Speaker 4
long time coming, guys. Speaker 2
I appreciate this. Speaker 4
Chat. Because we could do this another day too if you want. Like, we do a part two if Speaker 2
you want. Okay. So We're Speaker 4
gonna roll. I got the studio. Alright. So I love Casey's question here because it's it's very different. She said, what is your wife's favorite role that you played? Now, you were married to, Jen Araki. Correct? Speaker 2
That's right. Jennifer. Yeah. Jen Araki. Speaker 4
She's your partner, but she's also an actress and and director as well. So, yeah, what would she what would you think she would say your favorite her favorite role of yours would be? Speaker 2
So when I first met Jen, she actually had just moved here from Los Angeles Okay. And, ended up signing with with Carrie, with my agent, and she had done a a documentary. So, Carrie texted me and said, hey. I just signed this this new this new girl. She makes documentaries. I think you guys would would really like each other. So I I wasn't gonna go to this event. I had a ton of stuff to do. I was about to go shoot Letterkenny, but I needed to hand off some some paperwork to to Carrie. So I texted her and I said, hey. I'll probably put this in your mailbox, but if I have time, I'll swing by the bar and and say hi real quick. I ended up swinging by the bar thinking I'd I'd be there for ten minutes. So I parked in, like, twenty minute loading zone and came in, and there was one seat sitting next to Jen. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
And Carrie is like, that's the girl I was telling you about. So I went and, sat down next to her and and started chatting. And I didn't I didn't know, like, the capacity of the the docs that she'd made. She made, this doc called we gotta get out of here, which followed, six kids through the foster care system in Compton from the ages of sixteen to eighteen. And when you age out in the foster care system, they essentially give you your clothes in a garbage bag and say best of luck. Speaker 4
Oh, shit. Speaker 2
And I was like, I asked why people don't vote. Yours is way cooler than mine. Like so, we ended up, I thought my car would get towed for sure because I stayed there till the bar closed and and chatted with her. And during that time, a couple people came by and were yelling letter Kenny lions, like, say flow, bro. Like, ladies love the flow. She had no idea that I was even like Right. She knew that I was a filmmaker. But in her words, a couple months later, she goes, I did not know that there were people who lived in Vancouver who could pay their bills with acting. Like, I I I truly had no idea who you were. She goes, I thought people were just really friendly and complimenting your hair, which is kinda cool because, you know, she just came at it with a clean slate of of who I was and, you know, what I was up to. And at this point, like, we were about to go film season, like, six or seven. Like, we've been doing it for a while. Mhmm. So, yeah, we hit it off and, you know, I that night, I was like, hey. I wanna see you again. So we went on three dates in a row, and then I had to go film Letterkenny. And, she was like, I don't know what this guy's, if if he's if he's, you know, here today, gone tomorrow, if he's coming back. But while I was there, I was like, hey. I know this is kinda fast, but I, I might've I told someone that you're my girlfriend while I was out here. I hope that's okay. She's like, Alright. And, yeah, we got engaged a year later, and we've been married for, yeah, we've been together for Speaker 3
You were smitten. Speaker 2
Oh, yeah. Very much so. No. She she's awesome. She's an incredibly talented filmmaker and and really fantastic actress. She was in the Sopranos, I think, the the final season. She had an episode, there. Done several movies and TV shows, lots of commercials, and, her directing skills are incredible. I mean, she really runs Meaty Button and Crystal Mountain. She's on set lots. She directs, tons of tons of commercials. She recently, we produced two music videos for Nickelback. Oh, yeah. Quentin music video and, the the those days. So, yeah, she she's really, really talented and really hard worker. And, Yeah. I love her. That's why I married her. Attaboy. Speaker 4
Good question. Speaker 2
But to to answer your question, I I I I have no idea which one is her favorite. I I have absolutely no clue. Speaker 3
Is she a fan of Letterkenny? Speaker 2
She thinks that she's she's a fan of what Letterkenny has has brought in our family, which Speaker 4
is a Speaker 2
lot of opportunities for her brother's shows. I think, yeah, the the takedown tourney, I'm I'm Right. I think the takedown tourney episode and all the big city slams might be a little bit Speaker 4
Or when you and Andrew have have her p or what was it? No. A VD and, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's burning. No. That yeah. I'm I'm sure she was really really proud of that moment. Speaker 2
Her taking the clot pills and whatnot. No. She, she's straight. I I I'm pretty sure she's aware that it's acting, but Speaker 4
Very good. Cassie from Simcoe says, this isn't really a question. Just wanted to thank him for playing such a memorable, entertaining role. Letterkenny is a big influence for me to start playing hockey, and, obviously, his character has a role in that. So thank you for unknowingly inspiring a fan. Cassie from Sudbury from from Simcoe. Sorry. Speaker 2
Yeah. Cassie from Simcoe. It's my pleasure. I it's the greatest game on Earth. I'm glad you're you're getting into it. Speaker 4
And she's killing it too. Yeah. She, she's all over the Discord showing us pictures of, her pink, hockey equipment and and all the and Yeah. Pre and post. Speaker 2
I think she Speaker 3
met I think she, she met you at Fan Expo. I know you met a lot. Speaker 4
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Speaker 3
Pretty sure she was there and said hello. Speaker 2
Yeah. Oh, that's awesome. I I love going to expos and meeting fans. It's, there's actually a line in Mr. Hockey, where, Andrew's character, walks by and he sees Gordy signing autographs. And it's, like, late at night, and he asks him, you know, what are you doing? Like, why are you doing that? Like, he's got stuff to do. And he goes, something to the effect of, you know, we don't get to do what we do without fans. And if we don't show appreciation for them, they're not gonna come watch. So, like, we get a real special opportunity to do what we love and get paid to do it. So you have to appreciate the people who allow that. And that's been my ethos with with fans. So when people ever ask me for photos or anything like that, and a lot of times, like, hey. I'm so sorry to bug you. It's like, hey, man. I don't have the job that I have without fans, and I'm very aware of that and very appreciative. So I I really like taking time to to chat with folks and and, you know, it I think it's an important part of it that I that I really enjoy. Speaker 3
Yeah. And that that shows I mean, when we met you in Toronto there with with Al and, Tanya's, daughter there, I, Lynn, I know you and I had some words in Instagram, Dylan, afterwards about this, but that, hands down, was my favorite moment of that entire day when how you dealt with their daughter because it was so genuine. And I could tell, like, you literally like, we didn't exist. You just honed in on her and had a moment, and I literally turned around Tanya afterwards. I'm like, that's what Fan Expo is about right there. So I applaud you on that ability to to do that, and and you made her feel like there's she was the center of her I mean, there was the center of the universe right there for her, and it was a a really special I'm not even her I'm not even her parent, but I was like, that was awesome. Speaker 2
Yeah. And, it it Speaker 3
was it was really good on you, man. Speaker 1
And and so you know what happened after that? That photo that you signed for her has went into every single room that she is in. She holds it like her most it is her treasure. And she is so thrilled to have met you and holds that so so deep to her heart for sure. Yeah. Speaker 2
Yeah. Oh, that means the world to me. That's that's so cool. It's, yeah, it's it's wild to think that, you know, the the the presence with someone can, can have that impact and have that effect. And you talk about me being a a hockey hockey pride having to move around so much. I have really vivid, poor memories of of being that age, and it's intimidating to to see someone you've seen whether it's on the ice or on a television screen. And, you know, you you wanna say something, but it's like, the words can't come out. And I remember so vividly the hockey players that took the time to connect with you and make you feel comfortable, and it just, like, stays with you, man. And it doesn't take a ton of energy to give someone a minute of attention. And, and and if you can do that and have a positive impact, I'm like, man, that's like a superpower. Like, that's the coolest feeling in the world. So I I that's great to hear. Thank you for sharing that. That that's awesome. Speaker 4
So you just answered the question, but I wanted to to give Jay a shout out. Jay from Edmonton asked, on multiple occasions, I've read or heard about how gracious you are with your fans. Is that something that comes naturally, or is it something you saw in others that you wanted to emulate? And thank you. So you you perfectly answered it right there, but, I wanted to make sure Jay got a a shout out there. Speaker 2
Jay, beauty. Speaker 4
From Edmonton. Y y z Gord from Toronto. He loves your character in Letterkenny and happy that you're doing that you're on the pod. Somewhat silly question. How did it feel to be made into a Funko Pop, and do you own any? Speaker 2
It was first of all, it was awesome. Yeah. That was really cool. I own I own two actually. Before there was a Riley and Jonesy Funko Pop, a, a fan at I can't remember which expo it was, and I wish I had their name. I have it written on on on the bottom of the Funko, but they you know, you can customize Funkos. You can get custom ones. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Yep. We got some. Yeah. Speaker 2
They had made a custom Riley Funko. Yeah. What about DJ DJ Speaker 3
Pop customs? Was it? Speaker 2
It might have been. I think it might have been DJ Pop customs. You know what? I'm gonna I'll find out, and I'll send you guys a message so we can give him a shout out maybe in the credits. Speaker 3
That's him. He was our sponsor of what? Season two or three? Speaker 4
I forget now. But, yeah, he made Funko Pops of of the of the four of us too. And, yeah, it's so cool. Speaker 3
Yeah. It's awesome. That one that was me. Speaker 2
Like, how cool is that? Like, you're an action figure. That's awesome. And then when they released the Raleigh and Jonesy combo pack, I mean yeah. It's a trip, man. It's like, you know, you're a little kid dreaming about being on TV or having action figures, and then you look at it and it's real. It's happening. It's like Sure. Yeah. It's a trip. It's a trip. Speaker 4
Jeff from Maine says he saw you in Boston on the Letterkenny Live tour, and his favorite part was Mark Ford actively trying to get you and Hersey to break. What was it like working opposite that guy for so many years? Speaker 2
That would be good. I mean, one of the most talented, funniest guy and and, like, a really good person, you know, a really freaking talented comedian and, very gracious, very I I don't know. Speaker 4
Just thinking of him makes you laugh. Speaker 2
He he honestly. Honestly, he's he's so like, the the the dynamic between coach and and Riley and Jonesy was was incredible. And, I mean, like, happy accidents. Right? Like, that was originally that role was gonna be an actual hockey player. Like, there was there was talk of, you know, Paul Bissonnette was potentially gonna come in. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
There was a couple other retired guys that we were looking at, and then Mark Ford's name came up. And he's just like he's perfect. He's the perfect coach. He's so funny. And that like, the improvisation he brought to the show, you know, kicking the garbage can and the boot named Barb and fucking embarrassing and just, like, his whole entire energy to those guys was so on point, honestly, to some coaches that I've had in my past, and it's like it was so funny. There was a bet on tour, twenty bucks, because he was breaking me like, and I I I'm like, I pride myself. Like, I'm a professional actor. Like, this is an amateur hour. I should be out there. I should be holding it down. But he loved it. He loved it, and he knew the things that he could do to make me crack. Yeah. And he'd lean into it. And, he, it was twenty bucks. I go, twenty bucks, you won't break me tonight. And he's like, okay. And sure as shit, like, three quarters of the way through the show, I'm like and fuck. He Hershey threw me under the bus because I was like, that wasn't a break. That was not a break. I went down like, I did a little head shake. Speaker 4
Yeah. And Speaker 2
he goes, that was a break. You owe him twenty bucks. Pay the man. Ugh. So I paid him. He takes a Sharpie. He goes, fuck you, Riley. Shows it to me, walks over to the toilet, bust Speaker 4
flushes it down the toilet. Speaker 5
Oh my god. Speaker 2
I'm like, you son of a bitch. He goes, you're the principal. Speaker 4
Does that even want the money? And I'm Speaker 2
like, I'm like, that's the sense of humor he has. And, that's not illegal. That's not destroying money. That's not I Speaker 4
was about to say, I'm pretty sure what's but depending on what side of the border you're on, that might've he might've committed a crime there. Speaker 2
He might've committed a felony. I apologize. It was paper it was it was, monopoly money. Speaker 4
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Letterkenny money. Speaker 2
Listening at home. Exactly. Yeah. Letterkennyopoly money. There's a plug for Letterkennyopoly. Speaker 3
We had him on, and and just really quick story. Like, these two things behind me here, both signed by him from the comedy shows they did. Right. But when we had him on, beside his signature on everyone, there's an eighty six. And then he talk we were talking to him and he goes, yeah. I wanna hear something funny. He's like, about a handful of those things out there have a sixty eight on it. I'm like, what's the significance of that? He's like, oh, I don't know. He's like, just I thought one day if they're ever worth something, those people with the sixty eight would be like, I got the good one. Right? So so significance of the number other than he just wanted to have that unique Speaker 4
Just wanna fuck with people. Speaker 2
He changed it up a bit. Oh, that's hilarious. Yeah. That's his humor, man. He he's he's wild, man. He's a funny guy. Speaker 4
Paddle from Rhode Island. I couldn't think of an original question, so I'll ask my stock question. Who are some of your favorite comedians? I'm guessing maybe Mark is one of them, but, don't don't feel pressure. Speaker 2
Mark and Caitra have both. I mean, I I should almost be a fixer, man. When I sit in those audiences, I laugh my ass off. I think they're both freaking hilarious. I I'm a I'm a huge fan of of I like Rogan's podcast for a bit of the same reason why, you know, we talked about my desire to do comedy, to to do, documentaries. Because I think, you know, he he's a really curious person, but he's got this, like, toilet humor, sense of humor. Like, he gets on stage, and he just follows to a fourteen year old boy. He was like, what the fuck is going on? This is hilarious. Yeah. And then he can sit down and talk to Neil deGrasse Tyson for four hours about, like, quantum mechanics and Speaker 4
Yeah. Speaker 2
You know, I I think he gives, a lane for for people who he disagrees with and gives him really, you know now I'm talking about podcasting. I'll answer your question in a second. But, I I I just like how, you know, he's I think he's a very intelligent person, and I think he's a really good conversationalist, and then he's also got this, like, crazy, funny, dirty sense of humor that I love. Speaker 4
Sure. Well, there's the reason he's the biggest in the world. Right? I mean Speaker 2
Yeah. He's he's good at what he does. And, I mean, I I I think he's, you you know, he he's he's proven time and time again that he's open to being corrected, and and he he challenges people. And I think he acknowledges. He's like, I don't know everything, then I'd like I'd like to learn more about everything. And I think that's really, honorable. But, I mean, my brothers and I grew up watching Eddie Murphy. We we had, we had what what is it? His super famous special where he's in the bright red suit. Delirious. Yeah. So we were young. We were for sure too young to be watching it, but we used to watch a lot of Eddie Murphy Delirious. Speaker 4
Sure. Speaker 2
Fox is such a good one. Mhmm. Dane Cook. I I I kinda my sense of humor was kinda developing in, like, peak Dane Cook time. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
Whenever I'm in LA, shout out to Merv, one of the best doorman, biggest beauty in the league. If anyone's ever in Los Angeles, swing by the Comedy Store, say hi to my buddy. He's hilarious. Theo Vonn. I mean, I'm I'm a big fan of comedy. Like, that's the number one thing I I I do when I'm when I'm in LA is I like to go and sit and and watch comedians. So, to boil it down to one would be tough, but I'd say Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Theo Vonn. Nice. Joe Rogan. There you go. Speaker 4
Alright. Last two questions. Tobias from Missouri wants to know what your dream role would be if you had like, if you haven't done it already. Speaker 2
Yeah. I mean, Letterkenny was was, it was a dream role in the sense that, it was a character that I didn't have to ask if I was doing the right thing because I kinda developed it. And then got to got to live in it for got to live in it for twelve seasons with with my best friends, and it led to so many great new opportunities. Honestly, my dream role, I love I love comedy. I really wanna keep doing comedy. I also and and I think I get this from my dad. You know, he's always had a little Stanley Cup statue. He wants to win a Stanley Cup. I wanna win an Oscar. I love this career for the fact that you can do it until the day you die. So, you know, I think there'll come a time where I'll I'll I'll find a project or something will present itself that's really challenging that could eventually result in an Oscar win, which is something that I want to do in my lifetime. I'd like to create my own show. It's it's I think something that I learned from from hockey was, my my dream for the longest time was to play in the Western League. And then I recognized once I finished my career was that the people who went on and had successful careers wanted to win multiple Stanley Cups. Yeah. So for me, I don't think it's one specific role. I think it's, it's the the the career that I wanna have is my dream. I wanna have a diverse career with a lot of different roles. I wanna predominantly play funny characters because I love doing them, but I also wanna be have I wanna be given the opportunity to, sort of break molds and do things that people don't expect, like descendants, like, you know, the Gordie Howe story. Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
And, ideally, win an Oscar one day and do it while filming funny movies and TV shows that you look at Adam Sandler. I mean, the same guy that did Waterboy was in Uncut Gems, and it's like, wow. That's impressive. And I look at something like that. Speaker 4
Yeah. There's yeah. He's in some Yeah. Some heavy movies. Yeah. Speaker 2
Exactly. So, yeah, to have a career like that is something that I'm I'm gearing for. Speaker 4
Alright. One last, listener question before I let my cohosts, in with their final questions. Matt from Australia. He wants to know if there are any plans for the Hockey Brothers, so you and and and Hersey, from Letterkenny to show show up on Shorsey one day. Speaker 2
You know, I I always say, never say never. You you never know what could happen. I mean, it's, it's, what is it? Life is the longest and shortest thing you'll ever do simultaneously. So, you know, you can, if the opportunity presents itself, I'd be first in line to say yes. I I love working with Keith. I know I I I know him and I get along really well comedically. I think we both have a lot of the same, sense of humor. I've I I understand completely as to why Riley and Jonesy don't exist in in the Shores universe right now. Mhmm. You watch those two shows and they're different. Right? There's a different pacing. Shorzi's more story driven. Letterkenny was a lot more, it there was connective tissue, but it was it almost played like skits. Like, every scene was a bit of a skit whereas Shorzy has this sort of overarching, you know, character development. If there's an opportunity for Riley and Jonesy to fit in and it makes sense, a hundred percent, I'd be there. If that opportunity does not come up, I'm not gonna you know? Sure. I'm not pissed about it. I I think, he and I work together again Speaker 4
Yeah. Speaker 2
Some someday along the road. And Speaker 4
He still seems to have a knack for bringing his, friends back on, on his project. So yeah. I can see that happening. I always thought if there's gonna be a crossover between the two shows that they would do it. Like, if Wayne ever showed up on Shorzy, you would see only the back of him. So in in the Shorzy world, you wouldn't see Wayne's face. So maybe, you know, maybe two two hockey players showed up, but you don't see their face, but you hear their voices. And one's blonde and one's a brunette. And Speaker 2
Right. Right. You see the back of their jerseys, probably in Jones or something like that. Yeah. Speaker 4
So, you know, season twelve was was not that long ago, like, in terms of when it came out. I know you guys shot it, like, now a couple of years ago. But when you found out that that was gonna be the last season, you know, how how did you feel? Speaker 2
Yeah, man. It it's like it's bittersweet. You know? I I don't think, I don't think I'm alone in saying that. I mean, anytime something that you love comes to an end, it's like it's like the Green Day song closing time. You know? It's like, oh, there's that nostalgia. But I I I don't know, man. It was, like, watching the final season, seeing how it all wrapped up, I think it was a really, really solid send off. You know? I I I love the way it wrapped up, for a bunch of different reasons. One, it wasn't finite in the sense that, like, no one no one got blown up. You know? No one drove off a cliff in a blaze of glory. There there's lines within the show that says, you know, like, it they sort of allude to this sense of it's not over. It's it's changing and, you know, people felt stuck and people think they might go. And there's this this sense of, like, everyone's gonna go their own direction, and then they end up all going to the egg hall to have this Yeah. This this party together. So, you know, was I sad? For sure. I mean, anyone would be. It's like getting traded off of a team that you've had success with for many, many years, and you find out that you're not gonna be going to summer camp next year. Yeah. But I also look at, you know, what that show gave me. I mean, man, I was an unknown Canadian actor who is who if I didn't book a job every, you know, two months, like, I was gonna go work at a bar. And Letterkenny gave me the opportunity to, you know, make a mark in the film industry to the point where I didn't audition for Mighty Ducks. I was I was given that opportunity, and I can you know, I went on a live tour around North America, and we sold out, like, the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. Speaker 3
And Mhmm. Speaker 2
Walked down the street in many cities, and people recognized me for this for this character that I played. So I really can't look back on it with anything but appreciation and gratitude. And, you know, when it ended, because we were told it was gonna end and then we went and shot the final season, something my mantra was I will not be the guy who ten years from now is remembered as, weren't you that guy on on Letterkenny? Like Yeah. That is one of the most, like, proud things that I've done in my career. But I will do everything in my power to ensure that it's a springboard onto the next thing. And Yeah. You know, I I I think in doing that, you wanted the show, but you also what's the saying? You can't drive forward looking in the rearview mirror. That's why the windshield's so much bigger. Speaker 4
Yeah. Speaker 2
So, yeah, it was it was surreal. It was crazy. It was it was nuts. I mean, I I think I speak for everyone when I say we would have done it forever if the opportunity presented itself. But then you also have to think of the fans and think of, like Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
A story that wraps itself up in a bow and delivers really quality content for that many episodes. Like, I think Jared's worst fear would be doing a season or one episode beyond the point where he felt his Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
His vision wasn't being, brought to life. And as someone who's now running his own production company and creating my own stories and pitching TV shows and pitching movies, like, I get that, man. Like, you are dealing with a lot. There's a lot of things on on a showrunner's plate, and one of them is is how does this end? How does this start? How does the middle look, and how does it end? And I don't think those are easy decisions to make, and I don't envy him because not only was he all of our he he's our friend Speaker 4
Mhmm. Speaker 2
But he's also, you know, the showrunner. It's like he's creating these stories. So, you know, it's it's not an easy spot to be in. But, but, man, am I glad that that that happened, and, and I'm very happy to say that my relationship with with everyone, you know, the producers, the actors, the crew even. I I was I was talking to Charlie Collin, one of our drivers, literally yesterday. We were FaceTiming and catching up. So, you know, I've I've stayed very close to all of them, and, I'm I'm really proud of that. And, I look forward to creating more stuff with all of them. I think they're all incredibly talented, and and I'm sure that, more fun stuff is coming down the pipe. Speaker 4
Dan, do you have any questions? Speaker 1
Dylan, you are such a good guy. You thank you so your stories, your your your how you shared everything with us. I'm going to listen back to this and clip so many parts because you are so well spoken and, so insightful. And I just and I I I it's it's I can't wait to see what you come out with next. It's it's it's truly been a pleasure, speaking with you. I do have a question. I would like to know, how easy or difficult is it to come in and out of character? Like, do you ever have dinner with Andrew and and, like, fall into Riley and Jonesy? Like, I know in our daily conversation or weekly conversation, there will definitely be a Letter Kenny, Speaker 4
reference. Speaker 1
Yeah. Reference. Like, I can't say sandwiches anymore. We're having sandos. We're crushing sandos. Like, do you find that that slips into your day to day, or is or are are you very, good with separating the the two? Speaker 2
I I I mean, a hundred percent, it comes in to my to my day to day. I mean, right, I I get bugged all the time by the cast. So, like, the the most, Riley like, I'm most like my character in in the sense of, I think, my my attitude and speech patterns and things like that. But, you know, it's funny. Like, I'm not a method actor by any stretch of the imagination. However, I will say whenever I'm on a a film set or or a TV show, I really do sink into, like, offset the the tonality and the pacing of the speech. And I think it's it's it's twofold. One, it's like if you're around a group of friends. Like, you hear about people who moved to Australia or England, and they're there for four years, and they come back and they got a bit of an accent. It's like you start to speak in the and that's what being, you know, human. You you hear and your brain just kinda wants to fit in and you start to replicate those speech patterns. And with the cast, I mean, that that comes in a hundred percent. You know? Even when I'm around hockey guys, I have a slightly different cadence of speech. When I'm when I go back on to Fort St. James, I have a different cadence of speech. When I'm, you know, pitching to a network and I have to be, you know, prim and proper, I'm not gonna drop a wheel site sale if I'm I'm talking to some suit. Right? And I think that, you know, I think that really comes from how much I actually did move as a kid. Like, I was I was in very Mhmm. Different places. I was in the Midwest. I was on the East Coast. I was in Calgary, which is basically the Texas of Canada, and I was on the West Coast. And, like, you kinda you you you figure out how to fit in even in the cadence of your speech. So that's a long winded way of saying when Andrew and I get together, we finish each other's sentences, and sometimes the fist bumps and the Firdas come out, and we have no control over it. Speaker 4
Firda. Awesome. Beautiful. Matt Matt, you got anything? Speaker 3
Actually, nor so, normally, I ask, so first off, thank you. This was unbelievable, man. You like, Tanya said it about you're a well spoken, incredible person. I I I love the stories and the articulation, everything you've done, and honestly can't wish you nothing but success. Like, I wish you nothing but success on everything you do, man. I I see big things for you. Normally, this time, I ask a question around what it's all meant to you, but I think you've answered that about a hundred times over in different ways. So I won't have you do that. But what I'm gonna do is actually I wanna take a selfish moment here, for myself. So I I think it's stay safe to say you're an athlete. I, for those who know me, am not much of an athlete. But this weekend, I'm doing a tough mudder, which I've never done, which I don't know if you know it's an endurance event. Uh-huh. Big run, lots of obstacles. I'm getting ready. I need you to put your coaching hat on for a second and tap in and give me a couple lines of advice here so that I don't fuck it up, and I and I deliver on Sunday. So I I need I I'm gonna I'm gonna flip it over to you, please. Speaker 2
Buddy, here's the deal. You're gonna dig deep, bear down, and you're gonna wheel a snipe and sell it. And there's no skipping leg day on this one, Palsy. And here's the deal. The human body can go through a hell of a lot more than you think it can. The mind is strong, and it's all between these two goddamn things. So just when you think it's so tough, you gotta quit. Guess what? Don't quit. Keep going. Grind hard. Stay hard. Let's fucking go, bro. You're gonna get this. You're gonna do this, baby. Speaker 3
Yeah. Fucking right. Speaker 4
I love it. Speaker 3
That's funny. Amazing. I'm ready. Speaker 2
I'm ready. Speaker 3
I got a Speaker 2
little I got a little marble mouth in the middle, but you know what? I that's alright. That was natural. That was awesome. Yeah. Phone, bro. Speaker 4
Let's go. That's great, man. Speaker 3
Wow. That was what I needed. Alright. I'm ready, man. Thank Speaker 4
you. You're Speaker 3
a beauty, buddy. Speaker 2
You're a beauty. Speaker 4
Final couple of questions just for me. Is there anything you're working on right now? Any projects coming up, either you or Jen, that you wanna, you know, shed some light on? We're here to amplify you guys. So whenever there's something you wanna release or promote, please let us know because we we'd we'd love to do that for you guys. Speaker 2
I appreciate that very much. I'm about to go shoot a movie in Winnipeg, actually, in October. I'm really stoked about it. I don't think I'm technically allowed to say anything, but I wish I could because I'm so pumped. It's gonna be with a really, really funny comedian and, some really, really talented folks. Lots of them from LA. Oh, Speaker 4
and they're going to Winnipeg in October. Why? Speaker 2
They're going to Winnipeg in October. So I'm gonna be on that film. Speaker 1
Hopefully, you're out before the snow flies. Speaker 2
Yeah. We'll we'll see. I don't know. October fifteenth is when I'm I'm getting out there. So I'm pumped on that. It's with someone who I've wanted to work with for my whole life, and, I should've texted and asked if I could say they they're I mean, I don't know why they're all NDA. Like, no no disclosures. Don't say anything. Like, what am I gonna like, I'm gonna Speaker 4
No one's listening. But, anyway, it's okay. Speaker 2
I know. Speaker 1
Right? Just us girls. Speaker 4
When it does come out when it does come out, let us know, and we'll we'll definitely shout it to the Speaker 2
mountain top. I will I will for sure let you know. And, yeah, I got a couple things in the works with, with some folks that are are really funny. I I really veered in on on some comedy stuff. So, hopefully, we start starting production, this spring on that in the summer. And the minute I know I'm allowed to start, pumping it, I will, I'll hit you guys up because I I appreciate everything you guys do, and you've, you've really expanded the the reach of the of the show and what you've been able to do with with Shorzi. And and like you said, you celebrate so much more than than just the letter Kenny universe. So thank you guys for for being awesome. I I listened to your stuff, and I'm pumped to finally finally get here in the well, in the flesh. Yeah. I can see you guys Speaker 4
as well. I just wanna give, like, a really quick, like, rundown because we you you reached out a couple of years ago maybe and said, alright. Let's do it. I'm ready to come on. And then I got an email from you saying, I can't come on right now. You'll you'll know why soon enough. And that's when we all well, we didn't find out at that time, but but I did the math, and I'm like, oh, that must have been when he found out about season twelve. Speaker 2
I I emailed you about going on the podcast Yeah. And I think it was within, like, that day or the next day Yeah. We we got the news. And, I truthfully I I just didn't know what what what was what was happening, and I needed to get the lay of the land. And, No. Speaker 4
We understand. Yeah. Speaker 2
And the land has been laid, and I I know, obviously, you know, we we all know what went down. But, no. I'm glad we're able to to sync up and circle back, and and now I you know? Speaker 4
Yeah. Where can folks follow you online? Where can folks find you online? Speaker 2
On Instagram, I'm, Dylan Playfair one. Dylan Playfair one on on Twitter as well. That's because I have Dylan playfair on both the platforms. However, I lost a password back in two thousand, which is hilarious. Speaker 4
Isn't it just firda with the number three as an e? Come on. Speaker 2
It should be. So, yeah, the best word. Dylan Playfair one. No. It's it's hilarious. Like, the the Instagram and the and the and the Twitter x now, I guess. They're just, like, two dead old accounts that are, like, with, like, three photos of, like, my dog or something. But, anyway, yeah, Dylan Playfair one. Check out, Crystal Mountain Films if you wanna see some of the stuff we're producing and working on. We're super proud of of of that company. That's crystal mountain films dot com. And, media button dot com, we've got some really exciting, content on there that, yeah, we're we're we're producing, and Jen's behind most of that. Speaker 4
But Yeah. I was on that site, the other day, and it looks great. Yeah. It looks like you guys are doing some really fun work there. Speaker 2
Yeah. Thanks, man. Appreciate it. Speaker 4
Alright, man. Well, we you we we asked for an hour. We took ninety minutes, and so we're so appreciative of that. Thank you so much, for coming on today. And, hopefully, we'll we'll have you back, you know, when you have something to to talk about, promote. And, so yeah. Please Speaker 3
catch up sometime with the beer? Speaker 4
Yeah. Catch up. Yeah. That'd be great. Speaker 2
I I I know. A thirsty Thursday, and I I don't even have a a brewski. I almost got a show. We'll we'll circle up after, after the unnamed movie comes out. Maybe we can chat about that. I think it's gonna be lots of fun. Speaker 4
Sounds good. I'm gonna play us off here with Tanya's favorite song, Your Man by Joji. And that's all we have for this episode. If you'd like to support the podcast, please tell a friend. Also, follow us on most social media outlets at protistan pod. Thanks for joining us. Now we're gonna hang out with our new buddy, Dylan. On behalf of Dylan, Tanya, Matt, and Victor, and myself, thank you for listening, and have a great week. 
