Starring Brandon Baker as Johnny Kapahala in "Johnny Tsunami"

"Johnny Tsunami" star Brandon Baker is joining Will and Sabrina as he talks about a crazy freak accident on the set of "The Jungle Book" and his new career path.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
So welcome to our park Hopper episode this week where
we are super excited yeah for today's guest. First of all,
you might notice that I'm coming from an undisclosed location.
If these clips go up on the Instagram machine, I
am as all the Pod Mets World listeners will be
able to notice. I am in Danielle Fischele's little podcast
area from pod Meets World. Be free by daniel Fishle

(00:37):
on this side because the power in my house is out,
So they graciously invited me to do our park Copper
episode from here, and I couldn't miss this one for
a very very specific reason. Sabrina, who's joining us today.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
We are so.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
Lucky to have the one, the only mister Brandon Baker
is joining us here and we get to talk all
things Johnny Sunami.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
I can't wait. This is gonna be so much fun.
We both love this movie and we're so excited to
actually get a chance to get some of the insights
of what happened on the film with the man himself.
I was gonna say with Johnny Sunami himself, but we
find out that's that's not him.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
I got a little tripped up when I want to
go introduce him because he is not Johnny Sunami. It's
not something that I just think is still so crazy
because obviously there was a big storyline with the Grandpa. Yeah, however,
it's still strange to me that Brandon's character is not Johnny,
right right.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, we gotta we gotta figure that out. Yes, Johnny
Sunami Junior.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
What if there was a title before?

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Who knows?

Speaker 2 (01:40):
Like they landed on Johnny Ssunami? Who knows? All coming up?

Speaker 1 (01:44):
It's one of those things where you know you've have
you ever had this thing where you've never heard of something,
and then once you've heard of it, now you see
it everywhere? Right, I have that now with Johnny Tsunami
back on the board. Has I never heard of the
sequel or didn't know this sequel existed? And now I'm
seeing stuff about it?

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Is it popping up on your Disney Plus.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
And Disney Plus and people have been emailed me about it,
and I just keep going like, okay, just don't tell me,
don't tell me yet. I want to know.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I was a giant fan of this movie when it
came out, and I still had no idea and you
had no idea. What is that about? What is that about, Disney?
Why were you not targeting.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Me and making sure that I knew there was more
of the good.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yes, the title should have been Johnny Sinami back on
the board, Sabrina. That should have been idiot. The movie
was called but he is here. We can't wait to
talk about what it was like to shoot Johnny Syinnami,
if he is in touch with anybody from the show still,
and of course what he's doing now. So can we
please all welcome Brandon Baker? Hey, welcome, guys, Thank you

(02:53):
so much for joining us. Where are you joining us from?

Speaker 4 (02:55):
I'm curious Denver, Colorado?

Speaker 2 (02:58):
Nice?

Speaker 1 (02:59):
Nice?

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Hey, Yes, I remember you, Jesus.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Brandon and I know each other from way back in
the day. Wait will I messaged him on Instagram and was, hey,
we uh did a pilot. It was before Cheetah Girls, after.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Johnny Tsunami, though you had already done Johnny right. I
think I was.

Speaker 5 (03:24):
Trying to piece that together. I was talking about fiance yesterday.
I was like, I know who Sabrina Brian. I was like,
look at this message, and she sent me wondering if
I knew.

Speaker 4 (03:32):
Who she was Like, I was like, I had a
crush on this girl when I was like thirteen. Oh yeah, yeah.
I was like, come on, I know you're married and
you have a couple of kids. I did, but yeah,
of course kids like a classic actor. Yeah, totally.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
And the premise will I don't know if you remember.
Sometime in the early two thousands or late nineteen nineties,
I can't remember, but TRL was like giant and the
Disney Chance wanted to kind of do a Disney version
of TRL, and they were talking to us to be
like the host for it, and so we were super excited.

(04:09):
I you know, obviously loved music. And then we get
there after they were kind of still piecing the show
together and we did.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
We didn't do an official pilot.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
But we did a little bit at the Disney Channel
building and then nothing, nothing came from it.

Speaker 2 (04:26):
We were super stoked about it.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
They kind of talked to us like it was a
like go ahead thing, and then I like, never, no, yeah,
but that was gonna be such. We were excited about
the show. It's gonna be fun. And I don't remember,
I can't remember if Johnny Tsunami came before that or not.
I know, I feel like it had I feel like

(04:48):
you were you know already.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Well, didn't we say that, Johnny some I think when
we recapp Johnny Tsunami, didn't we say that? It was
like nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
Yeah, and I think ioot that in two. So it
was either right in the middle of that or.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Before. It would have to be.

Speaker 4 (05:07):
It'd have to do when we're all one to the
same casting directors all the time.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
I'm sure. Well, Sabrina, when we originally started, even just
the idea of this podcast, she was like, Giant Ssnami.
We gotta do Giant Giant Snammy's my favorite movie. We
gotta do Gianni Snami. So I have to imagine that
doing the pilot with you was probably one of the
highlights for Sabrina. It was because she was such a

(05:34):
fan of your movie.

Speaker 2 (05:36):
I was.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
I was telling him it was during my It was
perfect because it was during my surf era. I have
a picture of my freshman year high school photo book.
Literally I'm wearing puka shells like I was a I
love surfing.

Speaker 2 (05:51):
It was like the thing for me, but I also
loved snowboarding.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
So it was a perfect movie for me to absolutely
just fall in love with because it was two incredible sports.
The storyline was awesome, you were adorable. I mean, it
was just it was there was nothing else to not
like about Johnny Sunami.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
I love well.

Speaker 1 (06:10):
Speaking of that, I mean, do you have you been
aware of I mean, there's been this massive resurgence of
dcms lately, and one of them that's become hugely popular.
I mean, in the conversation, it's always Johnnysunami, It's Brink.
It's all of these kind of nineties from Smart House,
like all these nineties movies that have really come back
into the zeitgeist. I mean, is this something that you
are aware of totally?

Speaker 4 (06:32):
It's it's crazy. First of all, thank you guys for
having me on. Obviously, Sabrina, good to see you. Will.

Speaker 5 (06:37):
I'm fanboying because I grew up always wanting an older
brother and so stoked, Like ten year old me is
so stoked myself.

Speaker 1 (06:45):
Hearing so thank that is so cool. Thank you very much.
I appreciate it. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Was Will your older brother in your mind?

Speaker 4 (06:51):
It's like the older brother that like I wish that
I had. I I'm the eldest, so okay, I think
I kind of patterned to myself after you or at
least honestly after Eric, let's be real where I'm like, oh, yeah,
if I'm an older brother, actually be like, you know,
kind of kind of a a said sometimes I'm sorry. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
The resurgence of the Disney Channel movies is crazy, man.
It's it's been something that I've been trying to piece together.
I think during the pandemic, right when Disney Service came
out that was huge where obviously we're all watching movies
at home. Now I'm getting people like dming me saying like, hey,
oh my god, we're watching movie.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
This is awesome.

Speaker 1 (07:30):
Hey.

Speaker 4 (07:30):
Also now I'm showing it to my son, to my daughter.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
And that's when you're like, this is crazy because, just
like you're talking about Sabrina, we were just a couple
of thirteen year old kids from Orange County.

Speaker 4 (07:39):
I was just trying to land a gig, right, I
was just like trying to get chosen for the team
that happened to be Johnny's Tsunami, without any clue that
thirty years from now this would be a thing that
we're still talking about. So pretty incredible, Like, like, what
an incredible blessing that I never asked for.

Speaker 5 (07:56):
I mean, people, I just recently talked to a kid
who's kid, a guy in his like mid twenties Filipino.
Dude was like, hey, man, I don't think I would
have gotten into acting had it not been for you.
Like you're the first person that I saw on screen
that kind of looked like me. That gave me the
thought that, like, oh, shoot, I can do this too.
So little things that where it's like, wow, I have nothing,
I actually have nothing to do that right, I was

(08:18):
born looking this way. I got casted because I was
brown and had long hair or whatever. The fact that
I'm part of someone else's story in that way is
so cool. It's like the coolest thing, isn't that?

Speaker 3 (08:29):
Such a bonus of being part of the Disney Channel
in general is that they create these storylines, Yeah, and
opportunities for young talent, and there's just such a huge
push from them to open the boundaries and have you know,
like you said, you look like me or or your
character really resonated with what I was going through. You know,

(08:50):
that's such a huge bonus for actors to get to
do roles that end up matt like having a meaning,
they matter, They're not just you know, fun, and that's it.
They actually really touch people and young the youth, you know,
the next generation.

Speaker 2 (09:06):
That's unreal. I love that. I love that. That's so cool.

Speaker 4 (09:09):
I think also they've played our shows or our movies.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
Over and over, and yes, a little bit of brainwashing
does go into it.

Speaker 3 (09:16):
It is a little bit a little like you will
like this movie Johnny is the best movie.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
Yeah. I think also like we're part of like the
last or one of the last generations of like monoculture.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (09:29):
Absolutely, So much is fractured now into these different little
niche groups of whatever you're into. And back then it
was like, well we all kind of had just you know,
twenty cable channels, Disney Channel. If you were in that
age group, that's what that's what you went to, or
TRL or Nickelodeon or or whatever.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
So yeah, I also have to add just one thing
to what you said. Yes, they cast you because you
were brown and you had long hair, but they also
cast you because you were really, really good. You stole
that movie all the way around. And can you take
us back to the beginning. Do you remember the first
time you heard about Johnny Tsunami or the audition process.

Speaker 4 (10:08):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so at that point, I had a
little bit of a relationship with like the Disney Channel
casting I think I think I was either on Even
Stevens around that time or maybe afterwards, but I kind
of know those people. My big break was a few.

Speaker 5 (10:24):
Years earlier, as as Mowgli in the Jungle Book, so
I kind of knew some of the Disney people from there,
like went off to do like a few of the
TV shows.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
But that was the first role where I was able
to have a mom and a dad.

Speaker 5 (10:36):
Because back then I was like ambiguously brown, right, like, Okay,
you in a roomful of Asian dudes, you look Hispanic,
and roomful of Hispanic dudes, you look Asian, and like,
you know, what are you same?

Speaker 2 (10:48):
I was not white, but not Hispanic. It was exactly
as Asa.

Speaker 4 (10:53):
So usually I was like the love interest for the
best friend. I never had a last name, and it
was like, oh, I have a mom and a dad.
This is really cool. I like, you used to bring
up from southern California. I love to surf and skate
and snowboard. So it was like, I mean, you know
when you because have had these roles where it comes
through and you're like, oh, I totally know this person is.
If I don't get this or if I don't get

(11:14):
too very close to getting this, then I've screwed it up.
I like, yeah, whatever. So that was one of the
few ones where like I felt really confident in it.
Not that I knew that it was in the bag,
but I knew everybody in there. There's like a lot
of you know, there's like maybe six or seven rounds
of auditions, but it was one of those where I
was like, ah, this is kind of made for me.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, did they have you submit any videos of you
surfing or snowboarding?

Speaker 2 (11:40):
Did you have to prove that at all?

Speaker 3 (11:41):
That's kind of tough in LA to eat snowboard or sir?
So how did they do that section?

Speaker 4 (11:49):
Only enough?

Speaker 5 (11:49):
I don't think I ever had to submit anything. I
did audition with a cast that I broke jumping off
a jump snowboarding.

Speaker 1 (11:56):
Okay, well right, and the director I was like an.

Speaker 4 (12:00):
Ex stunt guy who did right, He's like, what happened?
I was like, I broke it on the jump snowboarding,
and he's like, oh, that'll be done in like a month,
He'll be fine. And so he had all the confidence
in me. Maybe I brought him to skateboard and he
had me like skate around the room a little bit.
But yeah, luckily I was able to believe me.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
Yeah he was. He was one of the biggest stunt
men in town at the time. I mean we were
looking at his resume and I mean he was doing everything.

Speaker 4 (12:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
Yeah, that was amazing. Okay, So when's the last time
you actually watched the movie?

Speaker 4 (12:33):
Great question. Probably within the last few years. Okay, yeah,
I mean sometimes friends or fiance my fiance will like
bring it up as a joke, like we're we're going
to do that.

Speaker 5 (12:47):
I'm like, great, you guys are going to do that.
I'm going to go do something else. But every now
and then I'll like indulge and like be like, okay,
let's do this. And that is one of those movies
of the things that I've done.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
And there's many things that I've done that aren't terribly
rewatchable at all, but that's one of the ones where
I'm like, wow, that was actually like a good movie.
I do feel proud of that personally, but even outside
of myself, it's like that is actually just a really
well made film.

Speaker 1 (13:13):
Yeah, really well made film.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
I how much of the stunts did you end up
getting to do? I feel compared to some others. You know,
you can sort of see the surfing one a lot
more than the actual snowboarding one.

Speaker 2 (13:29):
You could tell when there was a stunt double, But
how much did you get to go out there and
like rip it up and have fun? I just said
rip it up.

Speaker 1 (13:39):
I wasn't gonna say anything. I wasn't gonna even bring
it up Sabrina that you decided to go with rip
it up.

Speaker 4 (13:43):
But let me tell you about how much I ripped
it up in this movie.

Speaker 1 (13:47):
Can you can let us know. Let's Sabrina know how
much you shred. That'd be awesome.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
I'm never gonna live that down. I live that down,
no a good amount.

Speaker 4 (13:57):
I mean, like, obviously I was like the star of
the movie.

Speaker 5 (13:59):
So it was like an insurance issue, right, like oh
anything right, it can like end himself, can't do it?
So yes, like big fifteen foot waves you know off
north shore in Oahu.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Sorry, we need you to be alive for this, you know,
if you need to like, yeah, I don't know, board
slide this like fallen tree. You're not going to do that.
But there was like we were on boards like kind
of all day. Like they had actually one really fun
thing like I never haven't done since, but they would drag.

Speaker 5 (14:26):
Us up the mountain on a stomobile, so rather than
us taking the ski lifts, we'd go down and shoot
the scenes and then basically almost like we'd like jet skiing.

Speaker 4 (14:34):
There'd be ropes that we'd hold onto.

Speaker 5 (14:36):
Coolan Lead Somempson, Young and Chris Kirson storms and we
just like snowboard up the mountain.

Speaker 4 (14:41):
Which was like super Red.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
Whoa, that is awesome.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
You mentioned you did, I mean, did you do all
this stuff before you did the movie? Did you surf?
Did you snowboard? Did you do everything before you started
the film?

Speaker 4 (14:53):
Yeah, totally, I definitely did.

Speaker 5 (14:55):
I mean I started skiing when I was like, I
don't know, seven or eight, moved to snowboarding probably around ten, surfing, bodyboarding,
that sort of thing.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
I mean, I was a kid. I wasn't like great
or anything I was, but I was like competent and
knew how to do it.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, I mean that's one of the best things I
love about Orange County, even more than La. It's just
a little bit farther, is you can be up to
Big Bear in an hour and a half, and you
could be at the beach in fifteen minutes. It's it's
just incredible. You get exposed to different sports because they're
just so close to us to reach out and pick
it up.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Yeah, when we were recapping, Sabrina was just telling us
about all the time she es to rip it up
on both the snowboard and surfing. So she was pretty
incredible a ripper as it.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Goes, Oh, my husband's gonna just tear me apart for this.

Speaker 1 (15:42):
Oh gosh, as well he should. So it was filmed
in Utah, right, and also in.

Speaker 4 (16:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:01):
So how long a shoot was it?

Speaker 4 (16:04):
I want to say, like two months something like that.
Really know why in like six weeks and you taught
something like that? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (16:10):
Awesome.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
Now, some of the other people we've had on from
the different movies have talked about how they have to
they go to like a boot camp before they start
the movie where it's intensive rollerblading or something along those lines.
Did Disney have you doing stuff like that as well?
Do you have to practice?

Speaker 4 (16:25):
I really don't remember that, to be honest. I mean
maybe a couple of like runs like a day or
two before, but was in a boot camp. I don't know.
I don't know why they weren't concerned about that, or
I don't know why they trusted me.

Speaker 3 (16:35):
But look, what was the cast like, you know, you've
got to shoot with Kirsten Storms, you got to shoot
with Lee Thomas Young.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, how was the relationship with the cast?

Speaker 3 (16:52):
It's so fun to have a young cast that's predominantly
your age that you get to just get to know
and have such great memories.

Speaker 2 (17:00):
What are memories like that for you?

Speaker 4 (17:02):
I was like such a good cast. I mean, as
you guys know, sometimes you're you know, you're there's my
laundry is done? Sorry, yes, oh I love that.

Speaker 1 (17:10):
Mine does the same thing. It's not the best. It's
nice your laundry is done.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
The past is really good. It was one of those films,
in one of those sets where we really just were
locked in.

Speaker 5 (17:19):
And there are certain films where you are locked in
and like you see the end product and you're like,
oh wow, that really didn't translate. And other times where
like the cast isn't locked in and it actually turns
out to be like a good work of art. This
one was kind of a twofer. I think to that point.
I had done it again in jungle Book, which was
like me on a green screen with a bunch of animals,
so there was no kids around. I'd done another TV

(17:43):
show where I had a bunch of brothers and sisters,
but they were all like, you know, sixteen, got their
ged so they're all like adults, and I'm like the
only kid you know in in the in the schoolroom,
I guess.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
And so for this to have.

Speaker 4 (17:55):
Kirschen with me, to have Lee Thompson Young was so
much fun. I remember Lauren Hill.

Speaker 5 (18:01):
This is gonna really as if I'm not old, but
Lauren Hill's album, like her debut album, came out at
this at that time, and me and Thomson Young like
listen to that over and over and bust the Rhymes
album that came out. Then he listen, I learned every
single lyric with and he would love like freestyle rap,
and he would like, try to get me a freestyle rap.

(18:21):
I cannot freestyle rap, but I have like the best
memories of trying to be a person who knew how
to freestyle rap.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Yeah, I mean, even like my my dad and my
grandfather movie. It was just I mean, even going back
to the you know, finding people who look like you.
It was like, oh, he these like older veteran.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
Asian actors that are really dropping knowledge to me and
to Lee and to Keirston, but really like finding I
don't know, like father figures, like I have a dad,
I love my dad, I have a great dad. But
also to like have these older men in my life
obviously on camera, so we're like trying to form some
sort of like paternal on but even additionally just as

(19:02):
as men. That was really really cool. Yeah, everyone was.

Speaker 4 (19:05):
Like super giving, super loving.

Speaker 5 (19:07):
Yet again it was really nice to feel like I
was actually in a family rather than the next door
in Abrakid, right, So yeah, so I don't know, it
was like it was one of those times where we
knew that something special was happening and that actually like
truly came to be.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
We were talking about how both the father and the grandfather,
they're mainly known for villain characters with the rest of
their work, and it was so awesome to see them
both having such great relationships, you know, your grandfather relationship
with you and then them themselves working out their relationship

(19:44):
and it was all happy and you know, there was
no villain aspect to it, which was really cool to
see actors take on and actually want to do that,
to go onto the channel and play these kinds of
roles versus what they are so well known for, you know,
that was really cool.

Speaker 5 (20:02):
I think they were really excited about that, you know.
And I was like, Oh, I'm Shane Soon in Mortal Kombat.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
I'm yes, lead the bad guy.

Speaker 5 (20:09):
Now you like the good, kind, loving grandfather, which was
the cool departure for him.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
And they were also only nine years apart in age, right,
which we thought was really funny that it was like, wow,
they're very very similar in age. Oh, that is so funny.
So yeah, we've talked about Lee Thompson Young obviously, who
was a Disney Channel star and you could tell why

(20:35):
the second he steps on any screen, he just lights
the thing up. What was it like? Can you tell
us a little bit about what it was like working
with him? I know you guys said you you know,
you said you you wrapped and listened to music. But
what was he like as a person, Like.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
One of the coolest people I'd ever met in my
life at that point, Like he was a year older
than me. So you're going back to the big brother thing.

Speaker 5 (20:53):
It kind of felt like I had this cool year
older black brother, which I was just like, So I
was stoked about that, Like we had this like friendship
that he even wanted to be friends with me, And
you're totally right, Like I think as an actor, I
think I was pretty good.

Speaker 4 (21:11):
Had a natural talent. He had like a charisma where
you know, just walking in the room and never one
ever really just was you.

Speaker 5 (21:19):
Know, pulled to him, gravitated toward him in a way
that like I knew that I didn't.

Speaker 1 (21:24):
Have and he had it.

Speaker 5 (21:27):
And yeah, and he was just like, I don't know,
a normal guy, really intelligent, sweet, funny, yeah yet again charismatic,
super sad. You know his story, but yeah, yeah, I
mean we he ended up going to USC the same
time I went to UCSB, So we liked stayed in
contact with see each other randomly at LA parties. I
would see him at SC he would see me at

(21:48):
Santa Barbara. So we keep in touch things like that.
But you know, obviously, life happens, and yeah, that's so
tough and so sad, and it's honestly been something that
was was and is still a pretty big part of
my life, you know, to lose anyone that way. Yeah,
I know that's kind of a heavy thing to talk about,
but that's that's real. That's why, you know, And I

(22:11):
don't know what he was going through, what he was
struggling with. I don't know what happens to us after
we leave this life, but yeah, I hope that he
found like solace, I mean.

Speaker 1 (22:20):
Some kind of piece.

Speaker 4 (22:21):
Yeah, totally, because you know, there's no judgment. I mean, no,
you're so confused and almost like angry maybe at yourself
or with the world that these things happened. But yeah,
I'm I'm super excited to see him again whenever that happens.

Speaker 1 (22:36):
Yeah, you know, it's one of those things where people
who aren't in the industry can assume that, oh, you're
on a big television show, your your career is going
really well, you're getting everything you want. You don't you
don't have the right to feel depressed, anxious, any of
that kind of stuff, and you just that's you never
know what another person's going through, and you know, you
never judge another human being until you you can walk
a mile in their shoes, and you can't. So it's

(22:58):
just a good idea to just not judge people, because yeah,
you just you never know, you never know what someone's
going through. But he was, Yeah, he was a huge loss,
because you're right, he was just he lit everything up.
So yeah, it was a shame.

Speaker 5 (23:10):
Luckily nowadays, I mean that happened years ago at this point,
but now obviously talking.

Speaker 4 (23:14):
About those things is much more prevalent. And let's be
real about growing up being a kid actor.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
So it's like I do have an understanding at least
to some degree, some of the miles that he's walked in,
and thankfully I myself have like gone to therapy and
extrapolated how.

Speaker 4 (23:29):
Complicated that whole thing was for most of us and
for me as well.

Speaker 5 (23:35):
I Mean there's that whole cliche of the child actor thing,
you know, where like your identity is kind of made
for you before you even hit puberty, that sort of thing.
So luckily I think that, yeah, that's more people will
now moving forward have resources and that won't be as
something that you have to like keep to yourself.

Speaker 4 (23:54):
As much anymore.

Speaker 3 (23:56):
Yeah, I read online his family is actually created or
at the time fairly close to when everything happened, that
they created a foundation to help reach out to get
more education out there, get more you know, help out
there for people that are going through any kind of
you know, a mental illness that that that can turn

(24:16):
you know, and so it's hard to lose people, but
there are always you know, it's amazing that their families
taking something tragic and wanting to do something positive in
the world. That's always incredible. And I feel like one
of the one of the things to look at this
movie was that was one of his first real jobs
that he got, I feel, right, was that? Did you

(24:37):
guys talk about that on set?

Speaker 4 (24:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (24:39):
I think I think the famous jet Jackson was the
first one, wasn't it. And then and then he this
was his first movie, this Verse movie.

Speaker 3 (24:45):
Okay, yeah, yeah, I mean that's just I mean, you
were catching him right on the rise and to hear
that he was such a fun, awesome guy and you
guys created such an incredible bond that you took into
college with you. I mean that that's pretty awesome. A
lot of times these kinds of movies, especially you go in,
you shoot, you leave. You might see each other on
a press day, and that kind of turns out to

(25:06):
be what it is, you know, which is okay, working
relationships are important too, but for you guys to have
created such an awesome bond, it's amazing to hear that
you guys kept in touch and you know, continued to
be friends throughout your next chapters.

Speaker 2 (25:20):
That's awesome and.

Speaker 1 (25:21):
What we will definitely put up a link to the
foundation that we were talking about there. And of course,
if anybody out there is dealing with any problems, get help,
because there's a lot of ways out there for you
to reach out and there's people that are trained in
helping in whatever those causes are, so please don't be
shy about doing that. But I have another question for you,
Johnny Tsunami related because we frankly, and this floored Sabrina

(25:44):
more than me I because I didn't know going in.
I had just missed this era of the d Coom
by a little bit y age wise, sure, So the
thing that floored her was that there was a sequel
to this movie that she did not even know existed.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
I was unaware. I am sorry, Branched. I feel like
a terrible friend.

Speaker 3 (26:07):
I had no idea that there was more goodness in
the world related to Johnny's Tsunami.

Speaker 4 (26:13):
So in your early twenties, you were just watching Disney
Channel all the time. Oh you got it?

Speaker 3 (26:17):
Well, to be fair, I was working for the channel.
So it's still kind of irritating that I did not
know that and I can't believe. So we don't no
spoil alerts.

Speaker 1 (26:31):
Yeah, because we haven't watched it yet, so don't tell
us too much.

Speaker 2 (26:34):
Yes, we will absolutely watch it. But how was it
to then? Because how many years had passed a couple?
Was it super close? They did they book one right away?
Or how did that come about?

Speaker 5 (26:45):
Well, they did book one right away, and then there
were the Tsunamis in Southeast Asia maybe three or four
years afterwards. Like as we're like kind of in pre production,
Disney was like, oh got it, which is why the
one is Johnny kappajaala back on board, back on the board,
that word altogether understand this. So I think we shot

(27:06):
that as like a junior in college. I think I
was like twenty twenty twenty one. That so like pretty
fat sabbatical, so like seven between.

Speaker 4 (27:14):
That was a ton of fun too. It was really nice.
It was like a reunion for most of us.

Speaker 1 (27:18):
Did the whole cast come back except for Lee Thompson?

Speaker 4 (27:21):
You okay, Wow, yeah, and we shot in New Zealand
for like two months. Oh my gosh, incredible. So yeah,
it was. It was a ton of fun.

Speaker 6 (27:33):
It was it.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
So, yeah, what we're what we're learning then from Cheetah Girls,
from this, from Descendants this, it's the sequel where they
really spend in the cash.

Speaker 2 (27:41):
Yes, they just up the ante and take you to New.

Speaker 4 (27:45):
Zealand get the tax breaks.

Speaker 1 (27:47):
Either way, Yeah, it works, either one works.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
True.

Speaker 4 (27:51):
True.

Speaker 1 (27:52):
We do have to address one possible rumor that we
read on the internet machine. Wow, and we said we
were going to talk to you about it when you
were here. There are rumors that maybe there was something
between you and Kirsten Storms at the time.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
Is this is this true?

Speaker 1 (28:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Yes, yes there.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
I mean.

Speaker 4 (28:13):
In the sense of, like, are there things between thirteen
year olds that I can't drive themselves to a date? Exactly?
I guess exactly.

Speaker 2 (28:21):
Let meet you at the cafeteria at three o'clock.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah. Date is the question with the with the with
the little cute quotes. Did you date?

Speaker 4 (28:29):
I yes, No, I mean like we didn't go on
any dates. I mean, I guess there's a couple of
times where her mom or my mom maybe dropped us
off at her house where like her mom's like hung
out where nothing happened, you know.

Speaker 1 (28:44):
I mean like we were just like a total date.
That's a date when you're thirteen.

Speaker 4 (28:48):
I think I stole a kiss one time in Utah
on a stairwell of the hotel that we were staying in,
you know, in between you know, rapping with thee Thomas
Young right cool Wednesday evening, you know. But yeah, yeah,
we were like she was cute, Yeah, of.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
Course, Yeah, the chemistry was definitely there. I feel like
they could have, you know, dove.

Speaker 2 (29:16):
Into it a tiny bit more.

Speaker 3 (29:18):
I'm like a rom calm just fanatic, so you know,
there was a little bit of it. But she also,
to be honest, was not.

Speaker 2 (29:27):
A great girl to you. I feel like she was.
She dropped you like a bad habit multiple times during
the movie and.

Speaker 1 (29:37):
Then invites herself to the mountain, gets herself into a
ton of trouble. You go out of your way or
Johnny goes out of his way to save her literal life.

Speaker 2 (29:47):
Almost dies the next day, almost dies, and she blames
it on you. What a jerk? What a jerk that like.

Speaker 4 (29:56):
Deeply rooted, you know, skier bias, you know, which we're
all try I'm to extrapolate, we're all trying to work,
you know.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
I mean you jammed down that mountain.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
Not really, No, he was born into that world, into
that life. So that's exactly blame her for it.

Speaker 1 (30:12):
Once a sky, you know, right.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
Exactly, once a sky all in the jerk.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Oh that's what's so funny though, because so Sabrina, we're
starting to notice has a thing about some of the
girl the girl characters in these movies where she hits
a certain point and then she's like, and I'm now
done with you. I'm done with you. We've seen this
in multiple films. Now it's the new Disney trope of
the Sabrina's done. I got to the scene and I'm finished. Now.

Speaker 2 (30:39):
I trying to root for them. I try to think
they're going to be better, and they just disappoint every time,
every freaking time.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
Thank you, Sabrina. I feel I feel seen good.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
You are You are definitely were We probably should have
talked about this at the very beginning, but we like
to jump around. And I'm just curious. You mentioned you
grew up in Orange County like Sabrina grew up in
Orange County. What what drew you to the entertainment industry

(31:12):
in the first place. I mean, was this something you
knew you always wanted to do or how did you
end up acting?

Speaker 3 (31:17):
Did you get picked up at South Coast Plaza while
walking around by some random agents?

Speaker 1 (31:21):
My wife's favorite mall is that your story, Sabrina.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
I don't know, but I have so many especially when
reality TV started. I mean that's where they get so
much casting. It's embarrassing. There's people that will walk up
to kids and go, you've got such a great Oh
look at this personality.

Speaker 1 (31:42):
Mom.

Speaker 3 (31:42):
Here for seventy thousand dollars, you can get one headshot
and one acting class and an eight.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Oh that's awful. Oh that's awful.

Speaker 4 (31:53):
No, it wasn't at South Coast Plaza unfortunately. But yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:57):
I actually grew up doing Polynesian dancing with my family.
So my mom danced, my sister danced, my dad drummed,
I danced, and it was this cool like community.

Speaker 4 (32:07):
Thing that I was like a part of.

Speaker 5 (32:08):
One of the girls I used to dance with was
like an actress and she had a few like small
parts in small films, and she basically invited me to
an acting class. My parents asked me, my brother and sister, Hey,
do you want to try this to like maybe book
a commercial to help it for college.

Speaker 4 (32:23):
We all said sure, let's give it a try. My
sister is shy. She hated it, my brother hated it.
I happened to be good at.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
It, and I was really competitive, honestly, is what it
came down to. It's like it was a really competitive kid.
I love sports, and I kind of viewed it as
a sport where I remember going to like auditions and
like a sociopath, like a ten year old sociopath, like
in my head hearing these other like kids like running
through their lines, and I'm like, this could sucks.

Speaker 4 (32:50):
You know, this could as a ten year old like
a crazy person. And they're all like chummy and introducing
and talking to each other because they all know each other.
And I'm like this kid from Orange County and yeah,
like when I wanted to be.

Speaker 6 (33:04):
Good, I love that you did. You went in just
just straight up balls to the wall. I'm crushing every
other kid who's here. Yeah, but I saw you at
a few auditions. You never gave that vibe off.

Speaker 3 (33:17):
You were just always super nice but in your head
you were selling Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
You've got no chance I'm gonna cream you.

Speaker 4 (33:27):
Ten years of therapy latter, I'm like, oh got it.
I'm a people pleaser. I want love and affection. If
I do well, things me too same.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
One hundred percent save. Yeah, I feel exactly the same way.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
But it served me well, and you know, kind of
motivated me to do well and luckily, Yeah, I had
a little bit of talent and I worked really hard,
and honestly, that just certain, like you know, films film
into my lap, like the Jungle Book, things.

Speaker 1 (33:51):
Like well, can we talk a little bit about that?

Speaker 2 (33:53):
I mean, that's actually can we talk about the Jungle Book?

Speaker 1 (33:56):
I mean that Yeah, I mean, you're that's an enormous role,
especially in the Disney pantheon. I mean that's that's like
playing Cinderella. That's I mean, that's an enormous, enormous role.
What was it like getting that movie? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (34:08):
That was that was pretty wild. It was really really cool.

Speaker 5 (34:10):
I think up until that point, I'd been acting, taking classes,
auditioning for maybe a year. I'd done like a couple
of like educational videos. I think I've told my parents, like, hey,
I'm starting to miss hockey practice, which means I can't
play in the games. I don't think I want to
do this anymore. They're like, why don't you just try
it out for like literally one more month. I think
I told this in like November. They're like, just just
do it through December and then we'll move on. Of course,

(34:32):
in December A book, Jungle Book, I auditioned in like
a shammy, Like my mom fashioned these like shammy so
like I'm literally wearing a loincloth to this audition with
these other kids, and like jeans and stuff around the room.

Speaker 4 (34:47):
But one of those serendipitous things.

Speaker 5 (34:49):
Where it's like, yeah, I am ten or eleven, I
am brown, I did have long hair. It's like, had
I hit puberty, had I cut my hair, had I
been a little bit lighter, a little bit darker, and.

Speaker 4 (34:59):
I would have just passed me by.

Speaker 5 (35:00):
And I've been one of those talented kids that never
booked anything, just like so many other people. So that
was honestly just pretty awesome, don't get me wrong. Like,
of course, preparation meeting that incredible opportunity in luck of
the moment that was super red. Like growing up, I
wanted I think at five to my parents, I want
to be a comedian or a zoologist. I was not

(35:22):
a funny kid.

Speaker 4 (35:22):
I had no idea how to tell you that I
wanted to be a comedian. But animals. I always loved
animals and drew them growing up. And so that was
one of those things where I did train for like
a month and a half ahead of time, just with
the animals. And that was just like this incredible moment
of like whoa, Like, I'm walking next to a tiger
and a bear. I'm learning how to climb an elephant

(35:43):
without anyone's help, to ride the elephants, wolves and chimpanzees,
the whole thing, and yeah, and after that then it
was like, oh wow, there's like eleven year old kid
who can like star in a movie. Then it was
just like, you know, off to the races, my career
for the next like ten years something like that.

Speaker 1 (35:58):
A second, so it was too dangerous to ride a
twelve foot wave, but walking next to a tiger and
a bear is totally fine.

Speaker 2 (36:05):
Hey Brandon, why don't you climb up that elephant over there?

Speaker 5 (36:09):
Well, I don't know if you guys found this on
the research because maybe this is like stuffed like somewhere
deep in the hallways of Disney. But I actually got
bit on set by a chimpanzee.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
I believe it.

Speaker 1 (36:20):
They're evil, So this squirre you're on moneet.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
They are not nice animals.

Speaker 4 (36:25):
They're very intelligent, and yes it bit you on the face.

Speaker 5 (36:29):
So in training for the movie, right like, I'm training
with obviously wolves and tigers and bears in the whole thing,
and I trained with the chimpanzees. And the chimpanzees you
are taught to be basically neutral, right like you they
hold your hand, you don't hold theirs. You're not supposed
to be dominant, submissive, anything like that. There is one
scene in the movie where monkey comes up, puts his

(36:52):
arms around me and kisses me on the lips in
like a funny gag scene. We trained for months to
do this. We do that earlier in the day. We
have like like a pickup shot that on that day
where I'm on the ground, my hands around my knees
and the monkey is supposed to come up and grab
my hand. But the problem was is that I was
on the ground. Monkey comes up to me, puts his
arms around me. I think he's gonna kiss me on
the lips and bites my face. But the camera is here,

(37:17):
so like everyone sees the back of the monkeys and
sees the monkey get up and sees me hold my face. Right,
So video village has no idea what's going on. The
trainers rush in. There's three monkeys, there's three chimpanzees in
the scene. Grab the three chimpanzees, wrestle them in the
ground because they're afraid they're.

Speaker 4 (37:32):
All gonna jump me. I walk up.

Speaker 5 (37:35):
I get up because it's like a hard pinch on
my face. Walk over to my mom obviously because I'm
a ten year old kid, and I show her my face,
so I guess my face kind of does this so
she can see me like the meat of my face, right, and.

Speaker 4 (37:47):
Then my mom makes that face to Brina. She's crying.
I'm crying. I'm like, oh my god, what is happening. Yeah,
we like went to the emergency room. I think it
was like maybe twelve stitches across and like a few
deep in there. We had a like delay production for
three weeks. Oh the animals on the fourth week, and
then by a month later they could put enough makeup

(38:08):
on it to like Sturfham.

Speaker 2 (38:10):
Oh my my god.

Speaker 1 (38:13):
No.

Speaker 2 (38:14):
By the way, our producers did not find yeah, which
is crazy because they're so good.

Speaker 1 (38:20):
They kissed Kirsten Storms nothing about being bitten.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
By almost eaten by monkeys, which, by the way, I
will never work with that. That story itself just completely
solidified it. But the monkeys are they freak me out.

Speaker 2 (38:36):
I can't. We used to be No in India, I
saw them.

Speaker 3 (38:42):
They they're very smart and they were trained to go
and take people's phones, take people's cameras, take people's sunglasses
right off their face, and they would like wrestle you
and freak you out to then get in your purse
and grab like stuff out of your purse. They're crazy,
They're too smart.

Speaker 1 (39:00):
I know, that's it. You know, I've trained to rob
them first. Oh see, that's what you do, and you
take their stuff first, exactly exactly.

Speaker 2 (39:12):
How crazy is it?

Speaker 1 (39:13):
Though?

Speaker 2 (39:13):
You're on set with so many different animals and it's
the monkeys.

Speaker 1 (39:16):
You just your off the.

Speaker 2 (39:18):
Monkey once, your poor mom, your poor.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
Yeah, they lost your ship.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
No.

Speaker 5 (39:26):
I mean I trained for six weeks with a grizzly
bear or brown bear whatever, where I'm walking next to
the brown bear for the first week, you know, through
a fence with a trainer that has like a chain
link on them. Right, next week the fence is gone.
The week after that, then the trainer removes the collar.
Then the week after that, the trainer is gone. Then

(39:47):
the week after that then it's just an electric fence
between us. Eventually there's a scene where I go and
I hug Blue the bear because Blue and motely right.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
Yeah, you could have totally ended could have just.

Speaker 4 (39:59):
Completely erect me, which yes, my poor mom also mom, whoa.

Speaker 3 (40:05):
What of course, But I mean imagine after this incident
does happen and her your Mom's like, how do we
I mean, this is a huge booking, You've signed a contract,
You've got like how can you even get out of

(40:27):
that contract?

Speaker 4 (40:28):
In the production? Yeah, it's like it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
My heart right now is just.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
I know, it's nuts.

Speaker 4 (40:37):
Yeah, ultimately ultimately monkeys but also a monkey, you know.
The poor was just like he even like bit me
in the face and he backed up like confused, like
I think I just step right now, you know, like
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
That wasn't what I was supposed to do, you know,
but yeah, was that the last time you worked with
the monkeys and I'm the last time with the moment.

Speaker 2 (41:00):
Okay, good.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
I can't imagine there'd be more. Speaking of incredible people
to work with. So you've got monkeys, tigers, and elephants,
which is great, but you also did punks with Henry
Winkler and Randy Quaid and l But now I hear

(41:23):
Randy Quaid bites like monkeys. I've heard that, correct. But
what was it like working with that cast?

Speaker 4 (41:30):
Yeah? That that was That was a ton of fun.

Speaker 5 (41:31):
I think that was the first time that I had
worked with a bunch of kids, like I think that
was before Johnnysnami, So it was like there was really
that energy on set.

Speaker 4 (41:41):
Yeah, I work with Henry Whinkler.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
That was really really cool, the nicest guy in the world,
by the way, nicest guy.

Speaker 5 (41:47):
At the point where you're like, is this an act?
Like I don't person nice before? What does this guy
want from me? But yeah, Kathy Moriarty, I mean, it
was just it was before I truly knew who I
was talking to.

Speaker 2 (42:00):
Let's yeah, I.

Speaker 5 (42:01):
Knew who the Fonzie was, but like, oh wow, raging
well I don't know anyway, but that was really cool.
Jessica Alba is three years older than me, with the
same exact birthday. She's three years older than me. I'm thirteen.
I'm meeting a sixteen year old Jesscalbum.

Speaker 2 (42:16):
Oh my gosh, I noting.

Speaker 4 (42:18):
Everything I could ever imagine a woman to ever be right.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
Yeah, fastal fact, but a sixteen year old esscal Album
and a thirteen year old brand and prepubescent Brandon.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
There's like an ocean between us.

Speaker 1 (42:30):
Oh yeah, different species, your different species at that point.

Speaker 2 (42:35):
Did you have any stairway incidences with her on the set?

Speaker 4 (42:40):
Well, I wish, Actually I do have.

Speaker 5 (42:42):
So My fiance and I met three years ago on
Hinge on a dating site, and one of my I
forget exactly how I put it, but there was like
like a prompt that's like too truth and a lie,
and one of my truths actually is I slept with
Jessica Album.

Speaker 4 (43:01):
One night on set. We had a night cheat and
I shared a trailer with her and her mom and
my mom. We're all playing like cards. I'm tired, I
go take a nap. In the middle of the night.
She comes up and she big spoons me, and my
heart just completely mouts. So I can actually say that
I slept with Jessica. I will I will tell this story.

(43:25):
I don't know. I will never stop the story.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
I love that.

Speaker 1 (43:29):
I'm also guessing the second you mess Jessica alba A
Sabrina Bryan went right out of your head, Sabrina, Oh my.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
Gosh, that's unreal. I love that's so awesome. That is
so good, so good. So now now in life, you're
in Colorado. Are you still snowboarding? Tell me you're snowboarding.

Speaker 5 (43:56):
Yeah, it is a little bit life imitating art, a
bit good. I'm giving ship about oh joy to move
to the mountains.

Speaker 1 (44:03):
Off to the mountains. You totally did.

Speaker 2 (44:05):
Yeah, are you still wearing the beanie with the like
fake dreadlocks?

Speaker 4 (44:10):
Look I should, I haven't. I need the only one.

Speaker 1 (44:13):
I don't go break the internet. The second picture and
a snowboard with that, Oh my.

Speaker 3 (44:18):
Gosh, yes, you should get a sponsor for that before
you do any pictures.

Speaker 2 (44:22):
Absolutely.

Speaker 4 (44:23):
Three seasons ago, I tried skiing again because two of
my best friends out here are skiers, and so for
an entire season I skied and thought that the same thing, like,
I cannot take off my helmet of these goggles because
I'm going to get dreamed on the internet.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
So I have put back the sky.

Speaker 2 (44:42):
Boo, I hate it.

Speaker 4 (44:44):
Boo still snowboarding out here in Colorado. Yeah, I love it.

Speaker 2 (44:51):
So on your Instagram, are do you do? Are you
a wedding officient? I am?

Speaker 4 (44:57):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (44:59):
Can people request you?

Speaker 4 (45:01):
Yeah? It's it's really cool.

Speaker 5 (45:03):
It's like such a random I mean, I feel like
my life has been a series of like random events
that have led me to these really cool.

Speaker 4 (45:10):
Roads, and this is one of them. Where I never
grew up obviously thinking one day I want to be
this destination adventure elopement officiants. But it does make a
ton of sense where like I had ten years of
driving in La traffic Tork, every day I drive up
the mountains of Colorado to like a beautiful alpine lake,

(45:31):
you know, where I have to read from a script,
but I don't have to act anymore. I get to
like be my authentic self. I've always been someone who's
love love, whether that's Jessica Alba or Sabrina Bryan or
you know whatever. But no, but to like be with
these people on this like.

Speaker 5 (45:45):
Amazing day, like sharing that with them, where I can
be my authentic self in this beautiful place. It's like
such a cool like thing that has fallen into my lap.

Speaker 4 (45:55):
And yeah, I love it. I marry people here all
the time.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
I love that. Well, my little cousin just got engaged
and lives in Colorado, So.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Am I get you booked on that because I just
think that would be so amazing. How far would you
literally go to Hawaii? And I mean that would be
the ultimate Johnny Tsunami wedding efficient experience.

Speaker 4 (46:17):
I married two people out in Hawaii last year.

Speaker 1 (46:20):
Yeah, no way, did you really? Man?

Speaker 2 (46:23):
Amazing?

Speaker 3 (46:24):
Okay, I love weddings too. I've helped friends plan weddings.
I love planning my own wedding. Weddings are so magical.
I love that you're part of that. And you're right,
you get to be a part of a giant moment
in so many people's lives, Like you really get to
to know that you, you know, especially if you've got
these like words of encouragement helping them throughout their process

(46:47):
of engagement.

Speaker 2 (46:48):
That's just that's so rad. I love that, I really do.
I think that's so incredible.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Do you still recognized? Do they recognize you when if
you're performing the ceremony? I mean is it like they
do they know you're past or.

Speaker 4 (47:01):
No, sometimes they do, and sometimes they do, a lot
of people do, and a lot of people hire me
specifically for that, which is it? Again? So crazy and
really yeah, But the other people just see, you know,
like the.

Speaker 5 (47:12):
Name Brandon Baker and think that I'm probably just some
like average white guy in Colorado. But that has happened
to where like I'm standing up there, like at the
front with the couple, there's like a bride walking, you know,
down the aisle, and one of the groom's gonna like
this this happened, and one of the gridsmen like taps
to their groomsmen. They're like saying something and I can
hear they're talking to and eventually gets to the groom

(47:33):
says something to him and he reaches over to me.

Speaker 4 (47:35):
He's like you Johnish, and I'm like yeah, he goes no.

Speaker 5 (47:43):
Family around, right, And everyone erupts and the bride's looking
over here, and I have to like calm him down,
like hey, all right, cool, we'll talk about this later,
get you married. Bride comes down, we do the whole thing,
we marry them, and everyone's still geeked on it. And
the bride is there's no idea, So the bride thinks
that everyone's taking a picture with their efficient because they must.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
Have loved what the officiant said. So it's really funny.

Speaker 5 (48:08):
It's really funny, and I think it's like such a
cool like cherry on top for the people on that
day who don't know.

Speaker 4 (48:14):
Right, yeah, oh my god, on my wedding day.

Speaker 5 (48:17):
There's like this kid that I grew up watching, This
thirteen year old kid from this movie is now standing
in front like marrying us. So just another like really
cool random life thing.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Oh that's amazing. Do you do any social media if
people want to follow you or find you or do
any of that kind of stuff.

Speaker 4 (48:33):
Yeah, I need to be on social media a little
bit more. I've like kind of enjoyed a little bit
of anonymity, but more and more people have been reaching out.

Speaker 5 (48:40):
And honestly, it's been like nothing but love, which is
so cool that everyone's so nice about it. But yeah,
Brandon be Good is my Instagram name. Okay, yeah, come
and follow.

Speaker 3 (48:49):
You have some recent videos of Polynesian dancing on that too, right,
is that there's a clips of something?

Speaker 4 (48:56):
Yeah, buddy, yeah, buddy of mine is like a director
photographer to help on some production recently, but he found
some old footage of us in polonies and dancing.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
Yeah, it's like it's still happening.

Speaker 4 (49:08):
That's I'm here with you guys. You know, it's like
pretty well. So yeah, thank you guys for having me
for sure.

Speaker 1 (49:15):
Well, thank you so much for joining us. And hopefully
you'll come back when we go back on board because
we have. We haven't yet, so we'd love to maybe
maybe next time seeing it. Yeah, maybe next time you'll
do the rewatch with us. Maybe we'll all watch a
movie and then and then we can all recap it together,
which would be I think a blast.

Speaker 4 (49:33):
That would be rad. I'd love to do that.

Speaker 1 (49:34):
Okay, cool, Well, thank you so much for joining us, Brandon,
and yeah, we're gonna we're gonna hold you to that.
We're gonna see you next time.

Speaker 4 (49:41):
Wicked sounds good.

Speaker 1 (49:42):
Thank you so much for ripping it up with Sabrina.

Speaker 2 (49:45):
I knew it was gonna happen. Sorry about that. I
will try better next time.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
Oh man, he was rad and tubular and you ripped
it up. I don't even know what else to say.

Speaker 2 (50:03):
I don't even know where that came from. I think
you do so embarrassed.

Speaker 1 (50:08):
Hey, embrace your nerddom, Embrace your fandom, my friend.

Speaker 2 (50:11):
But it could not have happened in front of anyone
worse than you.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
My god.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
You just wait when we get that Kurt Russell interview
on me. It's going down.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
I'm going to be in a full tuxedo. I'm going
to be like the picture of class Russell. Come on,
By the way, I told you he's a wedding officiant
and in Colorado, we are now legally married.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
Oh got it.

Speaker 1 (50:42):
That's the way it works when you do a podcast
with with Brandon. Legally married, but only in Colorado. Luckily,
so where are our spouses? Don't have to worry about it.
Stay far from We just got to stay away from
from the rocky mountains off of the future tour we're
going to do. We are not going to rip it
up in Denver.

Speaker 2 (51:04):
Oh man.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Thank you so much for joining us for this park
Hopper episode. And uh you know you can follow us
at Magical rewind Pod on the Instagram machine. Stay away
from monkeys, Stay away from monkeys. Go out there and
rip it up and you can send all of your
wedding gifts to Colorado and we'll pick them up next
time we're there. Thank you, bye everybody.