TPS48: An Interview With Tyler Johnston (aka Stewart)
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The gang at The Produce Stand are joined by Tyler Johnston, who plays Stewart on Letterkenny.
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You're having thirsty Thursday with your pals the other day. Welcome to the produce stand podcasting tribute to the Great Canadian show. Letterkenny now, I know what you're thinking there are many other podcast about Letterkenny out there, but this one is about to get wondrous. I am Al your host and joining me on in the room as Is a lovely tenure and online. We have squirrely mat and the valorous Victor. And of course, the reason we're all here. Today, we are thrilled to welcome our very special guest. He is a veteran of Canadian movie intelligent television industry is IMDB's, impressive with appearances, on the L word, the dive is Smallville Flash point. The Don Cherry story to Saving, Hope a recurring role on Supernatural, regular customer and less than kind and many more, he's been nominated twice as best supporting actor in a comedy series for his role on less than kind by the Canadian screen. AIDS and as best lead actor in a television film, or miniseries for his role in the Phantom's, in 2016, he was nominated by the Montreal International Film Festival Awards in the best actor category for his role as Edward K wehling Jr. In this short film to be, or not, to be based on the story by Kurt Vonnegut, his latest film was just released called A picture-perfect Wedding, but we all know and love him best as the leader of the skids on Letterkenny. Please join me in making some noise for a Tyler Johnson wondrous. Oh my gourd. Well done. Well done. I regret nothing. Welcome to the produce stand, Tyler. I wasn't sure when it comes in there. I guess we try to make it when you guys play it. Yeah, we try to make up the guest, try to make up for a lack of a Studio audience. Thank you so much for joining us today. Tyler. Hey, no problem. I mean, I reached out enough times I figured it was time. You let me on your show. Oh those are that's very kind of you to say that you reached out. Yes shots fired. Oh, speaking of shots fired before we started recording. Victor decided he was going to insult your favorite NHL team. Do you want? Do you have any rebuttal for Victor's favorite team? Which is the New Jersey Devils, okay. It's a sensitive spot for me right now, the connector down-and-out but I can appreciate a good joke too and it was a good joke. So I am going to let Victor off the hook on that one. All right, we are connected therewith the Hughes brothers. So there's that. There's that, and he said his son, favorite hockey team is the Vancouver Canucks. So clearly the Apple fell really far from the tree. That's the right direction, of course. Yes, so Tyler. Where are you speaking to us from today? From Vancouver, British Columbia Canada, that's where you call home. That is my home. I was born and raised in Coquitlam which is a suburb of Vancouver and I moved to Vancouver in my early 20s and I have been living out here since my mom and dad live, you know, 20 minutes away or 45 minutes away. So it's very much my home and I can't see myself really going anywhere else. No, it's that's cool. So we're going to get to Letterkenny. But first, let us just talk about your career, kind of leading up to the show. How did you get into acting my younger? Sister Kelsey, and I grew up acting in Vancouver at a young age. So actually my mother used to send us on the sky Train, which is the Metro in the Vancouver here. She sent us on this guy trained, and we would go take, you know, teen acting classes. So he would learn how to audition and learn how to dissect scenes and things like that. My mom would always say to Kelsey and I, you know if you guys become actors great but If not, you develop public speaking skills, you know, you know how to speak in front of a group of people, you know, you know how to build relationships and it just kind of continued onward for me. I got a commercial when I was like 15, it was a Doritos commercial and then I got some jobs, and I was 17 and then it just sort of continued naturally from there, but I wanted to get into acting from a young age. Like I always remember watching TV and wanting to be on the TV, and I was very outgoing and was doing plays with my friends like I do remember wanting to be a Power Ranger. And expecting that to my mom and I think honestly, Power Rangers is a big. Big reason for me getting into acting, you know. You know. 11 12. Yeah, yeah. And actually, an opportunity for Power Rangers when I was like 20 or something and I got a callback, and I was so excited, that didn't happen, you know, but that would have been a crazy experience. Yeah, obviously a major forever. Did you have, like, a martial arts background or moves that they were done not matter? I grew up doing all sorts of stuff. I was a very active young person. I played hockey and I played lacrosse, I played soccer, I played some baseball, but I grew up. Playing hockey and Lacrosse is my two main sports. I did some karate when I was younger, you know, I went swimming. I did, I did some downhill skiing. I was kind of doing a bunch of everything. As a young person, I even did some dancing take a hip hop class with my buddy when we were teenagers, I did a couple of musicals in high school. So I wasn't pretty well-rounded young person which has been great moving into acting. Because big thing in acting you want to be a well-rounded individual. So you can bring certain Dynamics two characters. Yeah, so some of the acting teachers in the past have mentioned, you know, to become a better actor. You kind of just want to become a better more Diversified person. Hmm. And a lot of acting is movement, right? I mean, especially Stewart, Stewart has a lot of interesting movement so it's okay. It started season 1 Jared sent that video to the skids of those cybergoth underneath the bridge. You know, that radio, keep all those young people raving, and he's like, I want you guys to dance like this. So, season one, we had that scene outside of the, was it? What was it? Don't remember, exactly. Yeah, but it was before that even, it was like, anyway, with outside of an old church, and we were just dancing. Our little skid hearts out, and then it, then they just continued as a theme throughout the show and then Evan. And I, and who would incorporate just movements into the scene out of the scene during this be Gene and that we're just kind of like these little dancing weasel like you things, you know. Yeah. What was your first kind of speaking role that you can remember other than the commercial? I mean, like, on a television show or movie Yeah, it was on a show called Romeo, so Lil Romeo the rapper and actor was the star of the show. And I got a guest star, the character's name was Blake, I will never forget it, and he was one of the bullies of the episode. So I know I threw a rock through the principles window or something, and I got in trouble when it was like two or three days on set and I didn't, I had no idea what was going on. I remember, being in the trailer and turning to the one of the crew members Asking what I was to do next because I just didn't know, you know, there's a whole process onset, you go to your trailer, you got to sign in with the idea and then you go to hair and makeup or you get your wardrobe first and I had no idea what's going on and I remember the crewmember just looked at me, and she's like this is your first day like it is like you're so green and I don't know what to do. Yeah so that was a show called Romeo and then after that I did some bit Parts, it was a pretty significant role for my first speaking role and then I did some like You know, teenager number 3, and partygoer number 5, and those type of kind of roles for a number of months and stuff. And then, yeah, I just don't sort of, naturally, naturally progressed from there. We just say that before. Letterkenny, less than kind would be your kind of career highlight before. Letterkenny Yeah, I was saying at the day, I probably have less than kind to thank for my Letterkenny position. Less than kind was a popular show here in Canada and wasn't, it didn't have very much viewership but it was critically, acclaimed. One plenty of awards. We did Four Seasons and I know Jarrod watched it in its entirety. And that we have talked about that and it's past in the past story. So yeah, I definitely say and you know, I got to work with Mark McKinney, who is Comedy, genius. And to watch that guy creates on set was a big learning tool for me and I got to die. I don't know how many episodes they did 20 of those maybe or something and it was a very, very cool experience. Actually keep in touch with Jesse Camacho, who's the lead actor that we talked a lot about Survivor, mainly, but we do, we do keep in touch so you don't share Jared's views on reality shows. Then you we have a Two different views. Jared and I and sometimes Jared and Wayne has slightly different views or not. Yeah, so I mean, there isn't really a star system in Canada for actors or musicians for that matter. We know Jared Story of making a goal of things down south before coming back to Canada and ultimately achieving his success. How strong is Hollywood's pull for you? Are you content to stay in Canada? You'd already mentioned, you wouldn't want to leave Vancouver, but are you, are you content to just keep on, you know, working in Canadian television and Now that I am in my 30s, I feel very content being here in Canada. In my early 20s, there was Major pressure to go down to Los Angeles. And I was there for a number of pilot season, probably five or six, come January, February of every year me and a friend would drive down, and we'd have, you know, one or two roommates, and we would do the pilot season thing, and we had a lot of fun. It was almost like our College years that, you know, we didn't really go to college, so we sort of like a really fun experience. We got to meet Actors from all over our country it was what wells American actors producers directors. But it never really felt like home and having a successful career in Canada, and being able to tell Canadian stories, there's been something that I have always been very, very proud of. And then obviously with Letterkenny having the success that it has, we haven't had to shy away from being Canadian at all. We really, really lean into it. And with this, this movement guys, like Jared and Jay Baruchel, they're trying to move a lot of Back to Canada because they have gone to America, and they have had successes or had whatever Journey they have had, and they want to come home and share stories from our great nation as well. Like, we always kind of mask over our stories and throw in Seattle, or throwing New York. Yeah. And it's changing, you know, which shows like Letterkenny and shows like s**** Creek. It's exciting. Yeah, I am sure shows like Kim's Convenience, even though that's the latest one right games convenient. And, you know, it's funny as a Canadian. We know what shows are very popular here and have done well, but you never really know how it goes over and in America, or differ off different audiences. So it's nice to hear that. You guys have been made. Well aware that show as well. Well, it's funny. A lot of our listeners. I am the majority of our listeners now are from the US and it's hilarious. There seems to be these surgeons or Resurgence of appreciation for Canadian television. Especially a lot of these American people who are schooling me anyway on. Oh, you got, you have to watch this Canadian show called whatever, and I am like, really And turning around and watching it going. Oh well, yeah, that is actually quite good and it's funny. It's so Canadian of me not to know what the great stuff is coming out of this. Don't just, you know, this country, where are you guys from? Where's everybody going in the Toronto area? So, Toronto and on that topic, it's so fun of me. I watch Kim convenience. I love it. And it's, and I see a lot of scenes from the show that are like my surrounding neighborhoods and even a lot of like, American Productions, you know, you know, in Vancouver, Vancouver is Another version of Hollywood North, right? Same with Toronto is. So we watched movies shows that are filmed all over. It's like you said, take place in New York as exam, but I am like, no, that's down the street from the I know that Alleyway. I know that building these are all Toronto and or Vancouver in a lot of cases. So, yeah, it's very heavy in these areas and but if I didn't think you guys were American, so that's not the trial area. Yeah, we're in Toronto and it's what's interesting. There's a very big difference between Canadian content and it shows Movies shot in Canada and because there's so much like you know whether it's the boys which is a big popular show on Amazon that's exclusively shot in Toronto. Yeah. And you know, I don't think of that show as a Canadian show, definitely a difference there. One down the street from where, Matt, and I work is the studio that's responsible for handmaid's tale and I just thought I should learn recently that a friend of mine is a photographer's director. Photographer's assistant on the show or something. So I mean, yeah, there's so much production happening up here but only recently, does it seem like we're finally saying, you know what, we're trying to play Toronto or Vancouver, plant Vancouver and it's glad that we have Canadians who are backing our shows and our content as well. And we have, we haven't I mean, you guys know we have some of the best content makers, the writers actors or musicians? We have like three out of the top five, musicians in the world right now and it's been this way for a long time. You know, you look at the In America there was a lot of Canadian Actors will say for this conversation sake, who went down there to make a name for themselves? You know we can name a bunch off you know of the top of our hand, Mike Myers and Seth Rogen and let us continue their eye on road. I am Jeff Ryan Reynolds, and he comes back to Vancouver and shoots Deadpool in Vancouver, which is awesome. He gets to hire a bunch of Canadians and crew members and gets to give back to the community. It's puts so much into the economy. Yeah, and it's funny like we there's a stigma with Canadian content which has been around for a very A long time. And now, I think with technology and knowledge, we don't I think the stigma is no longer valid because we can create content. That is world-class, we have the tools. We have the, the players now. We just need to continue to highlight them and not run away from our stories. Like what? We, I am excited for the next couple years here in Canada. Yeah, we have had the existing Studio system. Now for a while because we haven't settled so many choses haven't shot and produced up here. And we had the writing talent. But so only recently have they started marrying the two, which is weird that it had to happen sooner, right? Yeah, that's unfortunate, but I am excited to see how it goes here. And like, I have purchased the options to the rights of a book here in Vancouver. Oh, called the last gang in town. I was very early in the production phase, but it's just, it's just like a side project passion thing for me. That it's a story in Vancouver. We will see if we can get it made on what? Never platform. That is right. Again, a story from Just Around literally blocks away from where I have lived in the past. Yeah, and that's awesome. Feet will see how cool? Yeah. And thanks for Letterkenny. Hopefully, it opens the doors for you to make that happen, right? And it's, and because of Letterkenny, it's allowed me to think a little bit differently. I am no longer in that the hamster wheel of, what's my next audition? What's my next job was my next audition? What's my next job? I can kind of just have a little bit of job security which is just unheard-of in this line of work. It allows my brain to just think a little bit differently, you know, instead of scrambling. I am like, how do I actually position myself using this success of the show? That's fantastic. Last question before we get to Letterkenny your latest film called a picture-perfect wedding that so that just got released. Can you tell us a bit about? What about this story? Yeah, so it's, it came after covid and my lovely lady. Emily is deleted actually. No, it was, it came down into this. Looking for covid couples, and we happen to be one of those covid couples. So it's a, it's her story about a photographer who is trying to find her way in that world, and she gets invited to a wedding, and then we will see what happens from there. That's amazing though that you guys get to do together. What an experience, it was an amazing experience. It was right? Kind of after things started to open back. Again, it was the summer of 20/20, so we still very strange but everyone was wearing masks. They think it was like the fourth or fifth production to come back in North America after covid. So it's still very new, you know, we were still figuring it out but it was a lot of fun and, and, you know, it is a romantic comedy movie of the week. So they're definitely a certain style, but we had a lot of fun making it, and it was the director was awesome. Now picture-perfect wedding if you got a different name than when we filmed it but I like the name that it? Yeah. How is it? It? Is it difficult to navigate between acting and when you're, especially if you're acting with your actual partner, like is it, is it tricky to maneuver that those scenes or is it? Ezel is. Makes it easy? Yeah. Yeah. And it's just, it's just a respect thing, you know, you would just respect any co-worker and It was pretty easy to be honest. Yeah. And we got to run our lines at home so it was made a lot easier than well. That's fantastic, very good. She was that she was the lead, so she could have fired me if, if I was acting up, you know, there's a power, power struggle there. So, exactly. Yeah, even though you were in a regular cast member, you had a recurring role on Supernatural, which is another kind of big cult favorite show. Did that prepare you at all? All for being on a cult favorite show. Now, like, Letterkenny the great question and the answer would be. Yeah, I yes, I would say because, you know, I showed up season one of that show, and I was 18, that would be in like, right, maybe two years after that, Romeo episode or maybe not even two years after that. Run with Romeo episode, I mentioned season 1. They didn't know what the show was going to be. You know it was like my episode was about bugs, and we were being haunted by like an indigenous. That was unleashing insects on the house and fans consider that one of the least favorite episodes of the entire series, and they did 15 seasons. So they made so many episodes and that happens to be one that found don't necessarily love. I have a fun little story actually about that. I could get back to if I remember. And then I came back season 8 and I did three or four episodes as an angel completely different character and this angel had a very silly hot dog wearing outfit which is red and white. Pipes and very, very silly looking and fans took a liking to the character because he's an angel, and they have all these factions May Angels being a special one in the show's mythology. So I got invited to a few conventions, over the past number of years. So I have been able to go and sign autographs, and meet and greet fans and take pictures and do q&as. And at first, I was a little intimidated because I don't know very much about the show, you know, you Kind of Hired Gun especially on a show that's going 15 Seasons, right? It's like you can do some background work but I didn't have, you know, 15 years of life to dedicate to it. So you can ask these questions on stage and you just have to be honest with the fans like hey, I don't really know what's going on and then from there they laughed and it was all good, and they're just happy to interact and I got to go to Europe. A couple times for fan conventions and throat America few times. So You know, this it's really neat for me to receive posts on Instagram and Twitter. I am way better on Instagram, and I am a Twitter. I am not very good on Twitter to see fans tweeting and posting their cosplay. You know, they're dressing up for their friends, super soft birthday party, or they're going. They're going to another event, and they're dressing up as the characters. It's I just find that so amazing to have people, you know, be so inspired that they would make their outfit. Our or going Source their outfit. It's really, really neat to me. I don't think it will ever get old for me and I look forward to the days when maybe there's some Letterkenny conventions and a bunch of little skid lips in Black from running around, you know, like, you know, whatever right? Like I said some marketing. Okay, China since a marketing opportunity, there for like a candy called Skillets, you know? Yeah. How did you become involved with Letterkenny? Where did it start for you? Well, I did a miniseries. Many years ago. You guys being Canadians. May be familiar. It was the Don Cherry miniseries. Played young, Don Cherry to Jared, kisos adult dong, done Cherry. So I played gone from 15 to 20 and Jared played Dawn from 21 to 65 or something strange? And I always joke because he's having three years older than me or something. So we always really sounded quite funny. I am I have always been very youthful looking and actually that audition. I went in, I was in Toronto at the time and I went to the audition and I had a good little. I had a good read and the director Goes, you know, Tyler, what hand are you? And I am like, I am right-handed. He goes, oh, Don was left-handed. I am like, did I say right-handed? I definitely met left-handed and, and I left the room, and he told me later that he turned to the casting director and was like, that is the most confident fifteen-year-old I have ever met. And I was probably 23, you know? He can drink here. I got. Exactly. So that's how I got that job, and then Jared and I became instant friends, and he was living in Vancouver at the time. So we would get together. Go to the beach and just kind of hang out. He was making a lot of web series of webisodes or freaking whatever you want to call them. Because he did those blue jay ones as well. I don't know if you guys have seen those, but they're quite he did some other ones that you're very funny as well and Calgary Flames once he was you just a very creative guy. He told me that he wanted to get Letterkenny made into a TV series. I was like, hey, he's like, I would like you to be one of these kids, you know, cigarette, smoking, meth doing. And I was like, okay, yeah. Like I don't know that impression and then years later, he kind of got the green light for auditions and the email, I saw a bunch of my friends auditioning for the show. And I didn't really think anything of it because I knew Jared being Friend, if there was something appropriate, he would reach out to me and I ended up emailing my age and just be like. So where's this at, what's happening to it? I got the audition, I Threw It On Tape, Jared tells me, they weren't hiring anyone else from the West Coast, because there's major cost flying people and putting them up and set it up. And he says, but when you sent that tape, I said I had to tell the, you know, the that Bell. And this is the guy and that's kind of what happened. It was like he told me about it. He was developing it, it kind of came. I didn't want to miss the boat, you know, there's a lot of things that go into casting it and I threw a tape down and the rest is history. So he's like, he called me a few weeks later, and he's like, hey, buddy, I wanted to call you before your agent does, because that's just the way he is. He's just the classiest guy in the freaking world, and he's like, I want you to come to Sudbury. We're going to put a dirty black wig on you, and we're going to have a lot of fun. So stupid. When did version? No, that's great. Appreciate all the details. So, Stuart is probably the most tragic character in Letterkenny and on the show anyway. And just so just to give you some context we're at season at the end nearing the end of season 5. So we're still kind of halfway through. So up until now, you know, the you pace yourself through the show or are you as far as your podcast? Yeah. On our podcast know, Matt and I have seen all of it. Well, Matt hasn't seen season 9, I have victory in 10 years. For the sake of the cast. Yeah, that's good though. That's good. I appreciate that. I love watching reaction videos online all the time. Yeah, so this is, I mean, this is, this is an after-show, so we react to each episode. So remember, Matt and I are kind of the Fanboys Victor and Tanya are, you know, they're still trying to be convinced, you know, just for the fun of it. We within inside the Letterkenny World Universe, we introduced a rating system, so the rating system is, you know, compared to other So is it says everything is beautiful but within so just for fun and give it to create some cut, some, you know, controversy and whatnot. We have that as well. So it remained for a fun conversation. Absolutely. A little a grade of the episodes that you guys seem your favorites and your least of your favorite. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It leads to some conflict and but that's always fun, you know. Okay. Can ican I Circle back to that story about do you? Eric, Eric Kripke was the creator of Supernatural and many, many successful shows, I was reading for a show called revolution in America, I was testing. I don't know if we didn't ask, it was audition two or three and I walk into the studio and I get into the room and Jon, Favreau and Eric Kripke are in the audition room. So I am like, okay this is a big deal. It's just, you know, doing whatever I am here. Do your thing and Eric Kripke goes, oh my gosh. You're on Supernatural house. Yeah, I did the first season I was in this episode called Bugs because oh, yeah, you know, the fans, they consider that the least the worst episodes that were, they consider that the worst episode we made. And he goes, yeah, you know, it's just this, this, this and this includes going to detail as to why it was the worst episode ever. Meanwhile, I am standing at the front of this audition room with these two legends, and I am trying to like, keep my composure, and he's just telling me about how I was a part of the worst episode of the television series. So, So and then Jon Favreau, some point was like hey maybe we just let the kid read. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I felt you know, combust here. So yeah after all the pressure of that conversations all right now go ahead and read please. Yeah. Well just so you know this the seed for this podcast was that Daniel saw me watching fart book and said, what the f*** are you watching? And I thought that was the dumbest thing she'd ever seen. And so, then I convinced her to be on here so that we can convince her that it's actually the greatest show ever. And when it came time to review fart book, her she and Victor both gave it the our highest rating fresh while Matt and I who are The Fanboys, are kind of like, ya know, it's kind of compost. It's not one of our favorites so people love it and people hate it. But one thing you could say about far bucks is it was very unique and it's choice, and we kind of learned early that maybe there is not a place that's too far for us to go. Yeah. Well and we refer to a lot of episodes like these concept episodes because it was very much the what the social network So it was really smart. How is done? But it didn't feel part of the show and it was very different from it was. Yeah. So do a lot of dumb people hate. It showed a whole new side, though of the skids and especially your character that I really enjoyed, because leading up to that, it was like, what is this crazy dancing people doing like I did? Yeah. My reaction to the skids were WTF. Why do they doing? Why are they here? Well, you can't even imagine some of the tweets and comments. I got the first A few seasons but that was like and it's still on my number five. Top five where I will not remove it because yeah, it was my one moment where I am like I get it and I like this kids now, and I am like I see they're about that and that's like pure Letterkenny. Those first couple Seasons. You know, before the fact the fans. I mean there're some fans who were there. No, no I am just you know, when you start to know that Edward Watching the show, I know, right? That's crazy. Always just sort of like, okay, like why? It's not just, you know, being silly thinking, it's an extended YouTube series anymore because it's not the case. So I think that far book and I think some of those early episodes are really sweet for how genuinely Letterkenny is still very much Letterkenny. I am not saying it's changed, but that was just a special moment. Some of those episodes. I think, you know, before we even really knew what was going on, we're just having fun. And making some television. Yeah, so I want to try to get to our listener questions as soon as possible because we have a hard stop with you and I can go to three of my days. Okay, thanks I appreciate that. Just a few questions on The Following season because production starts soon right in May is that when you guys are going to start shooting I am not totally sure we're hoping to film episodes in the near future. I am just saying For optimistic. Because we, you know, I don't have anything set in stone. I am just going to stay optimistic and hope the world continues to move in a positive trajectory. Yeah, for sure. Okay, I plan is to make episodes again. We're we have plans to make more episodes. Yeah. And they will probably be some of the best episodes yet, right? Be honest with you, you can scare and, and the crew have had so much time to write and it's their going to be, they're going to be well, I am just going by. I think what Jacob Tierney said, in the last AMA that he did, though, the plan I think was springing around May that you guys were going to start shooting and was that. But do you know, is that going to be Four Seasons 10 and 11? Or do you not even know that far yet? I am not the one to say too much if you want someone to say too much Jacob apparently doesn't give an s*** so I can. I swear. Yeah. We listen to later. In an ambulance, we have plans to make a number of episodes. Yeah. Awesome. Alright, what else asked me to come questions? I will sorry. Let us go back to the softball. Let us talk about Live tours. When did they start and did you imagine them being so popular? Hey, started probably man. Time is so weird. Now that like has to add on a year every time you're thinking of a memory, you know. So probably two and a half three years ago, maybe they did a test tour. They did, they did. I don't remember how many shows they did, but there was only a small group of the cast that went out there, and they had such a great time. They said and the reception was beautiful, and then they extended it to the rest of the cast. Later, Kenny live that we went out 2020, and we had 42 shows lined up, but then we only got eight or nine of them complete, and we didn't know how they were going to sell, you know, you know that there's lots of folks tweeting and instagramming. And we know that we have a very strong faithful fan base, but when the tickets were released that day and Jared was sending all of our, we got a group chat, a couple group chats, and he was sending, you know, he sends like Cleveland. So Old out, you know, and then a couple minutes later he'd say, you know, Seattle sold out a few minutes later he'd say need, you know, do New Jersey sold out. It was just like throughout the day, it was just like, we were all. It was such a cool experience wrong, the different cities, and we got to kind of he's very good at including us in like when's like that, you know, because you could very easily not have contacted us, and we could have had no idea how things were going, but he likes to keep us in the loop, and he's very much a team guy, so we after that first date. Good sales, I think it was even pre-sales, you know, we were all Pleasantly surprised and very excited to get on the road. And then when we did get on the road, those first eight shows were incredible, you know. Yeah, you know, you being on set you, you know, you do the same seen a few times. And sometimes you make the crew members laugh, and if you can try and make your cast members laugh a little bit but walking on the stage my first show, you know, had like a Britney Spears head piece in, you know? And it was like, I had in years. Never experienced in ears before and I walked on stage and there were hundreds of people our first night and I could hear myself go, I can hear it in my ears, that's like okay buddy there's nowhere to run, take one more, one more deep breath to get the lines out. You know, and after that first show we were rolling, and we just really started to feel like we were getting into the rhythm of it. And then unfortunately, you know, covid hit. We have done a show in Detroit for or 4000, I think 4300 people in Detroit. Wow. And it was again, like one of the top probably five experiences of my life, the energy. You just can't even begin to describe. Everyone's there for your cast to laugh at your jokes to maybe say the punch line before you if they can you know. And then we got on a bus, we drove to Buffalo and then the following day the tour was postponed. So it was like this super high and is super confusing. In period in time when it was Ultra paranoid. And that's wild to think about, you know, because we just gotten started on that. And I know everyone has their story for where they were when things kind of halted there. And we were literally on a tour bus just entered America. So that's crazy. We're hoping that when it resumes will have an opportunity to catch one in Toronto if ever. There's another one because it sounds like a lot of what it's going to be. We are hoping to go back and do that. Again, obviously, that is dependent on a lot of variables in a lot of cities. So we, you know, I am yeah there is light at the end of the tunnel but I didn't know you guys were drinking. No one told me that I got a cappuccino. I would have brought something that we lost you for a second there. Oh it was the poppers he came running out. Check out my whole computer, just trust me. I read I would run into the house to check my internet and when I came back thankfully a reconnected. I am like hoping it Miss. something good. But well, I am sure he did. But regardless, well, you missed the best part of the episode laughing. Oh man, he revealed all the inside Scoops didn't holler was super Charming. It's not, it's not a beer but it's a vodka. No, Cheers. Cheers, here's everybody. All right, that was mighty. I didn't have a beer either. What should go get one? Well most called that out, as soon as he came with his cappuccino because I cracked a beer, then I was like, I got a tee and then you have this is soft as interview I have ever seen here. You know, we still got some daylight, I didn't want to show up with a judgment-free Zone unless you're alright. So we have a bunch of listener questions. I mean, when we announce that you're going to Mine, and it happened really quickly. By the way, thank you so much for, for yes. You ask us if you could come on. That's exactly how it happened. Last act. So you finally accepted. Yeah, there you go. So, we have some questions from some of our listeners on our private DM group here. So the first few are from someone named, what do you mean? I am not awesome. And she would love to hear any embarrassing /. Sweet stories about Jared key, so she's A big, a bit of a fan. So do you have any maybe, you know, stories about onset or something that you can share? Embarrassing or sweet stories. Honestly, there are countless sweet stories which are T. So he's the key really is one of the nicest guys in the world. Well, when one time, Emily came to sex and was I was introducing him to Jarrett Jared while the vodkas pasta, and he had a, he had a mustard shirt. I must have stain on his shirt, and he was so, So embarrassed, it was a very, very sweet moment because no one gave an s*** that he had a mustard stain on his shirt, but he couldn't handle that. He was making a first impression with, with a stain on his white T-shirt. So I just like he is a good old boy who likes to, you know, present himself in a, in a manner. And it was just a really sweet like human moment, you know? Because he's the boss, right? Like I know him as a close friend, we talk. We talk. We text all the time we can. Each other, we're friends. But when he's on set, he is the boss, right? Yeah. He is that. There is a producer, he's a writer, he's the star and the list goes on and on. So he is very much in work mode. He's very playful, and he can be himself but just seeing him flustered in a very meaningless moment. Like that was really cute. Yeah. That's very much like his character Wayne. I think, you know, another one for Moss. Awesome. Ask him if he will hang out with us on Discord. So awesome. She's a, she's a moderator on both the Reddit and Discord and I guess she's trying to see if you will join maybe for an Ama or something on. Oh, I could do something like that. I don't know exactly what Discord is. It's a fitting cats. It's a bit of a chat Community / Shopper. Very, I mean, I am kind of the same. I have got a son who uses it all the time but yeah, there's a man a yeah, all right, I will let her know and maybe we will Joe and one last, you can see you can ask me anything but I will only answer what I want. Of course, you can change the name to ask me anything, but I only answer what I want. Final one here from awesome, and she just wants to know if rolled is got, I kind of see this work canonically professed in the Halloween episode. All right, so the Halloween episode rolled gets possessed or acts like he's possessed, and she wants to know if that's actually Ali. What we're supposed to believe or what happened or whether he was that what actually happened? Yeah. Anything specifically developed for Stewart and rolled together. He's thinking kind of more like the force choke thing or so you know him calling you Stuart those kinds of things where those things kind of did they kind of organically happen or were they written into the script or how did some of those come about? Evan. And I have a great relationship. We get together days before we're on camera, and we run our lines relentlessly. Again, again, use me because some days we have a lot of dialogue and a lot of the time I don't know what Stewart is saying. I have to Google countless words in my dialogue, so we get together, and we rehearse and will sometimes find funny moments that we want to bring to set an Is because we feel really comfortable with each other. So we he might try something and then I will get a reaction out of me and then I will try something, and he will react to What I have done. So the force was something that came out of just us playing around. Sometimes we enter scenes with you, no weird movements or dance dancing, and we exit scenes. That's just us being silly. And there're countless one-liners. I shouldn't say countless, but there are many one-liners that we have thrown in at the end of cake. It's just the fun like that. Recent one. I think it was last season, some one of the characters mentioned something about sex and then Evan and I go at the end of the bar and all the characters look at us, like, you know, and that was just something that he and I were being playful in the moment and it made the show. So we're very, very prepared week. I am very prepared and because of that were able to mess around a little bit and one of the straight, one of the funniest things that's we The watch that episode recently with hard, right? Jay where are you guys are talking to the Hicks and then you just all fall backwards, and they carry you out of the room. I am thinking what the heck just happened? Yeah. Now was that? That was improvised. Yeah. That was improvised the first time we did that. It was like, I think it was in maybe the First cake. I don't know who was the one that was used, but I said, like, I went, I should put my arms when I say, catch me or something and I fell back once I caught me. And they were like let us do it again but take the catch me out. You know, sometimes you have like a really funny moment that you're like this might make the crew laughs. It might make the director laugh and might not make the show. Sometimes Jacob, our director will just say, hey, that was funny, but leave it out because it takes away from the joke later in the scene, or it doesn't necessarily fit. So it's we gonna have so much fun on this show. We really do awesome Steven ass. I mean, Stewart, the character Stewart is known for, for a certain attribute certain, Oversized attribute. And whether that's it has ever gotten you, any negative attention in real life. I mean, how do you take a certain person to be negatively affected by that? In fact, he also wanted to see of ten. You will get distracted by that question, which I get to be on the show. Now you can remind them that in the well my goodness that show when a packed show, there's a cup corn Corner. Yeah let us let no less than kind. There's a couple of nudity scenes there so, is he? I am you finish all Victor. Oh yes, yeah that was my God. Wait a minute. Who's nude in it, really? Okay, so this might be an exclusive tour. Our listeners. If anybody wants to, I need this podcast is shifted. That's amazing. There's a very funny scene in less than kind where I was. I knew that I was early on in the show from To, I had to be naked. My character was streaking, and I talked to my male bits into like a, like a sock, right? They have like these really silly socks that you put your stuff in. So, no one sees you it really is kind of weird because you can kind of see everything anyway and it's just like a weird bag on it and it's like it's honestly felt like kind of little stranger than just being a normal human being. But the scene is I walk away from camera, look at Victor with his s***** And Grant on, and he likes doing that, he likes the throwing a green grenade and walking away so that's what he just did. I walk away from the camera and pans down. You see me, you see my butt and then underneath my butt as right before it cuts. You see something dangling. Well, so I just it's like and it's like it's very effective in the comedic theme, and I was so unaware that was going to go to that extent. So when I watch it for the first time, I was kind of gobsmacked. As well. Wow, but that's out there forever, so I was cast can undo that s***. No, now and now all the listeners are going to be downloading episodes. Yeah, I was so great. You know, that ends up being, you know, just the one of the fun little tidbits. No pun. But it's a great show. I apologize. Can't take him anywhere. Our friend Red Beard. He just wants to thank you for helping. Give us such an incredible show to get us through. This covid-19 are how it brought us all here, and he's here. He means the Twitter DM community that we have kind of created around our podcast. We you know, have a lot of fun talking about the show but also talking about each other's lives and stuff and it all, you know, it all came from our love of Letterkenny. So Yeah. Thanks for watching guys. And like I mentioned being able to experience the live tour with some fans was really incredible. We got to meet and greet and shake hands because you know you could do you can text and DM all day long but when you really get to meet the people who are supporting the show, it means the world to us and that's why I wanted to come here today and hang out with you guys for a bit and am a something that I would definitely do as well. So appreciate that, you only got two quick questions. On that same note, how often? And I have to assume this happens. Are you out and about and you just had a randomly here start? And how do you react if that happens, it's wild out on the west coast? We don't get it as much but own Toronto and other cities. Like, you know, I definitely have that experience. Usually I will get it in Vancouver when I go to a Canucks game or lacrosse game, it's kind of the demographic that's watching the show. So I will go to the, I will go into the bar and the bar. There might recognize me or like I do get recognized and sporting event but Evan my co-star gets recognized all the time because he's a little more. Unique-looking I would say he's very definitive and his appearance, and he gets, he gets scared. No way. You're the, how does it feel being a part of this? Like as a whole just into Genesis, how Feel to be part of this show? I am very, very proud to be part of it. I am a very proud Canadian through my entire life. I grew up playing hockey, lacrosse, I watch Hockey Night in Canada. I, this is exactly where I want to be. To be honest with you is on a Canadian show, telling Canadian stories and Jared's done, a great job of incorporating, all sorts of Canadian stories into our show, and he's made it. He's done it because job of like, touching on story points and things that need to be discussed without like without patronizing or making you feel like you're a bad person if you disagree and I, I am absolutely very, very proud. I hope to make Canadian stuff for the rest of my life, and that doesn't mean you know if America calls like Mom, I am happy to go to New York or New Orleans, or I am gone to Alabama. I mean, I am happy to work anywhere, and I have a lot of American friends that I have worked with, but I just as far as Got being a part of this Canadian show. I am very proud. Thanks a couple more can messages from our listeners. One! Hey tie dye guys say hi to your cat and Mica for me even though we haven't been properly introduced, hello to your nice lady Emily and that I am proud to call him a friend co-worker or whatever. Actors, refer themselves to working with you and love to you and yours plywood. So yes. He's been on our podcast, and he's a really good friend of the show. And I, so I reached out to him and asked him if he had any, any message for you and this is what he gave me. We text every few days, he texts me and checks in, and he's he is someone who is very much an actual skid, he recommends like heavy, heavy music to me. And he's him, you know, patent and Danny are two. Other skids have been, written Troopers day one. They Come to work. And while it may seem like they don't do much in some scenes, they're always contributing fun. Not many choices, you know whether Danny staring right into the corner or Pat it in his VAP or doing it. Like they are very much a part of our skid crew and Pat someone who, you know, when we when were filming the show will go out for beers and play some pool and stuff like that. So that's become a good friend of mine, and he's one of a kind that guy. Very cool. Steven found your Honda for sale in the bye. Buy sell trade listings for $400. They claim it's the actual car you drove in season 2. And he wants to know why you're selling the car. Yeah, I saw the ad he posted a picture of the ad. I mean he could have been doctored I guess. But yeah. The green Honda that you drive that I was mentioning actually that's one of my favorite moments of just kind of something that happened. Is when I throw the jacket over my head and I have to dodge the Dodge that my own jacket that was just something that kind of happened At that moment, you know, which is its fun when you feel so free and be silly on the show because you know, the worst thing is Jacob just tells you that was funny but don't do that again. One last Quick, really quick one from our friend, Crystal, when Stewart gets Jack / shredded at the end of season 8, was he always that jacked or did he plant downplay it or did you have some crazy? ASL building, binge for that part of the show here at asked me if I could, if he thought I could put on 10 pounds of muscle and I said, sure not really knowing what that entailed and I just spent half of a year bulking up. That was here that was my entire life for half of the year. I didn't drink, I didn't socialize because I knew if I had a couple beers I would want half a pizza and then I wake up and want bacon and then I would probably just confess what does like, that's how I function, I have some beers and then I eat garbage and then I wake up and I ate garbage and then the cycle continues. So I, you know, I go I got up, I would eat oatmeal and eggs and fruit. And then I would have chicken and rice. And then I have chicken and rice, and then I have a fruit smoothie, and then I got shaken rice, and then I would go to sleep, and then, oh no, I would have a yogurt and protein before I go to sleep, and then I just repeat Pete. And I was working out, working out, it was crazy. I was, I have never been more insecure about my appearance, then when I was in the best shape of my life, you know, it's weird how that works. It's like, that was overanalyzing everything. It was an amazing experience. I got to challenge myself in a way that like, maybe I would not have done had. I not had the responsibility of the entire show because like people can go to the gym and like half-ass it and then I will go to Morrow and whatnot. But I was like, I have Jarred relying on me and like I can't show up and let the jokes wouldn't fly. If I am not bigger, you know, the jokes just wouldn't be funny and that was an amazing experience that maybe I could try and find some balance, you know, like half of that and half of my current state. It's all about balance. I am still, I am still kind of find it this last year through me. Threw me off a bit. So all right. Well Tyler, thank you so much for joining us today plugs. Yeah, working folks catch your latest movie. A perfect picture, perfect wedding. I am City TV, I believe, and I will be posting any sort of lengths or any access that you guys can get to it. I also did a show call to sentence horror stories. I didn't have a sort of that and it's a fun horror episode. I think you could find on the CW but yeah I am on Twitter, I am on Instagram, hit me up, I will try and answer, I am better at Instagram that I am, it's Twitter. I appreciate you guys spending the time and dedicating a you know, a podcast to our show. We have a lot of fun making And to know that you guys enjoyed almost as much as we do if not more really warms my little skit heart. Awesome and we really appreciate you coming on and taking time out of your busy schedule. I am sure. We're looking forward to more seasons, and we're hoping to get more cast members on to. So any help you can with do in that direction, would be great. I don't know what you're talking about, and we're just playing us off here with a song called, that's it. That's all we are from. We are the city. That's a short song, one of my favorites from the promoter. Kenny And that's all we have for this episode. 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