Starring Riley Smith as Dean Talon in “Motocrossed”

Riley Smith joins Will and Sabrina to talk about how much of an impact “Motocrossed” made on his career. 
While he’s still acting and making music, the classic DCOM is what he still gets recognized for on a daily basis! 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:14):
Thank you everybody so much for joining us on this
Park Copper episode of Magical Rewind, and boy do we
have a special one for you today. I kid you
not when I say I don't think I've ever seen
the producers of this show as excited as they are
for our guests today. That the Magical Rewind text chain

(00:35):
was going crazy. And not that this matters in any way,
shape or form, but I think I'm the only guy
on the text chain. I think, well, no, Jensen's on
the text chains too, and then it's like seven women
and it just was.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Bing bing bing bing bing bing bing bing pictures, pictures.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
I am telling you there is a serious excitement for today,
including from my stepdaughter who was like, wait, who are
you interviewing so.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
Out right there in the back. Yeah, I'm telling it, man,
this is one they are they are waiting for.

Speaker 1 (01:06):
I'm gonna get my hair to look a little less
like Doc Brown as we go.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
But yes, Wow, everybody is very excited.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Everybody you know is excited because this guy is obviously
not only has had a phenomenal career, but was a
heart throw back in the day and now apparently to
all the women that they love.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
But he's also just in one of the coolest he
cooms we've seen so far.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
So without any more ado, can we please welcome mister
Riley Smith.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
Hey, how are you? Hell y'all, I'm good, Thank you.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
I was just saying in your intro We've now done
twenty interviews, twenty five interviews. I don't think we I've
ever seen our producers as excited as they were today
for you to come on. They were I was telling
them our text chain was blowing up. It was just
producer after producer going, Oh my god, I can't wait,

(02:05):
I can't wait.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
This is so much fun.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
So now that I'm done embarrassing them, we want to
welcome you to the show.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
I'm very excited to be here. Was uh, it was
fun to get the call. And you know, motocross is
like one of those things that I literally get talked
about to every.

Speaker 4 (02:22):
Single day, and I'm sure so when.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
You when you called to talk about it, I was like,
all right, finally we'll do like a proper, a proper
talk that.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
Well, that's good, I mean, so jumping right in, then,
what was the first time you ever heard about this project?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
Was this so just a standard audition that came across
your your desk. What happened?

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, you know, I was thinking about that before we talked.
And you know, as y'all know, back in the day,
you go on a million auditions and I don't remember
most of them, and I don't even remember most of
the ones that.

Speaker 4 (02:54):
I booked, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
But for some reason, I remember Motocross audition like it
was yesterday, and I remember every detail. I remember what
I wore, I remember where it was. And I don't
know why, because when it came about, I was a
really new actor to LA. I think I've been in
LA maybe a year or two. I had done a
reoccurring on Freaks and Geeks, which at that time was

(03:17):
not nearly as big as it is now, and a
couple of failed pilots, and you know, a bunch of
guest stars. But for me, at that moment, it was
just another audition. But what I liked about it was
he was like this cool motorbike rider. And I never
admitted this until years later, but my mother would never
let me ride bikes, like I couldn't ride a motorcycle

(03:39):
or a dirt bike, so of course I had to
lie about that in the audition.

Speaker 4 (03:45):
But I just thought he was such a cool guy.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
And I mean I remember standing there giving the read
and as you as y'all know, that's.

Speaker 4 (03:52):
Like very rare, especially years ago.

Speaker 3 (03:55):
I don't remember ones I did five years ago, but
you know, and at the time, it was just one
of those regular auditions that you know, you just hoped
your book because it was a job. I didn't really
watch Disney at that time because growing up, we didn't
have cable growing up, and then by the time I
moved to LA I was like, you know, past watching Disney.

Speaker 4 (04:17):
Sure my cool, cool guy life.

Speaker 3 (04:20):
And so I didn't know the power of Disney, and
I don't think anyone did at that moment. You know,
the d coom, Yeah, yeah, those were those became you know,
just I mean overnight. But so I remember getting it
and we were shooting in San Diego, California, and I

(04:40):
was just excited to have the job. I was excited
to get to ride dirt bikes and my mom couldn't
tell me no until I got there, and then they said, well,
you don't really get to ride much like you'll ride
into the scene, you'll ride out of the scene. And
that was about it. But but yeah, I was just
excited to have the job, and it was a lot
of I remember so much of it so vividly, and

(05:03):
at that moment, I didn't know why I would remember
it until it came out, and I remember it came
out on Valentine's Day night, and even when it came out,
it was just like, cool, I've got a movie on TV.
And we had a party with a bunch of our friends.
And the next day my life changed, and it changed,

(05:24):
I mean literally forever, you know, because one day I
was just this actor who had had done some things
and was trying to come up. And the next day,
I remember I went to the Sherman Oaks Galleria to
get something I don't know what, fifteen year old girls.
It was like the Beatles walked in and I was like,
I was shocked. I mean they were squealing and running

(05:46):
and chasing me, and I'm like, what the heck is
happening right now?

Speaker 4 (05:51):
No?

Speaker 3 (05:52):
And will I mean you both, you know, I mean
with both of your projects. I mean, you know you
saw that kind of reaction For a guy who had
been off the boat from Iowa for two years. I'd
never seen anything like that, and it scared me. It
kind of really scared me, Like I would like go.

Speaker 4 (06:10):
Home and I'd be like, What's what is going on?
You know, you you almost.

Speaker 3 (06:14):
Feel like you're on a reality show because why are
people one minute next minute treating me like I'm an
alien or something, you know, And then that lasted about well.

Speaker 1 (06:27):
Today, yeah, I'm still there.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
But I love it because you're this movie is at.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
A time with the de Crams, Like you said, they
really never knew at this point for sure what was
gonna hit the wall and stick or what was going
to kind of just be a whatever, And you know,
especially doing such a big idea in this world that
they had not done on the channel at all, And
I mean, it just blew up. When we asked fans

(06:57):
at the beginning of this podcast, what do you guys
want to say? It was on everyone's top five?

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I mean, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's usually usually top three,
top three.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Yeah, was was this movie?

Speaker 5 (07:09):
And this is just one of those. It changed the
game of how big I think Disney Channel realized these
dcoms could actually be.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
It also in ninety nine, it showed, I mean, we
were still such a monoculture that kids were running home
to watch one thing. So, I mean it was you nowadays, Hey,
you stream it whenever you want to stream it. You're
gonna see whatever it is. Oh, I'm gonna watch this.
I'm gonna watch this.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
At the time, they would run home, they'd watch this
one thing.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
It wasn't it Maybe you had it on TVO, but
if you didn't, it was like if you missed it,
you missed it till they ran it again. And so
this was the water cooler thing. Was the dcom for kids.
They would they would actually be in school, so the
water fountain thing, and that's, you know, it's what they
would be talking about. Were the dcoms and the stars
to break. I mean when we talk about everybody from

(07:58):
Brink and Johnny Tsunami, they all had these same kind
of reactions where, hey, on Thursday, I'm an actor and
I have a movie coming out and I'm really excited
that i have a movie coming out, And on Friday,
I'm a rock star.

Speaker 4 (08:11):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
It was bizarre and it was yeah, like I said,
very like surreal and almost scary, and then you get
used to it and and then you're like, is it
like how long is this.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Going to last?

Speaker 3 (08:26):
You know, and you know, and you see that I
actually now know when I go out in public kind
of what people are going to recognize me from. And
you know that that particular era, those girls were like fifteen,
you know, and now they're like thirty five.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
But what I can literally tell.

Speaker 3 (08:44):
I mean, I went to get a sandwich before we
did this today, and I get up to order and
the girl right away she goes, are you from motocross?

Speaker 4 (08:52):
And I'm like I am, and I'm about to go
do a podcast and talk about it.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
And she's like, oh my god, what And she wanted
to know about the podcast where it's every single day
at least once and wow, It's crazy that twenty some
years later that because I mean, I I've went on
to you know, and people ask me like, do you
ever get tired of it? I'm like, maybe if I'd
never worked again, I would be, you know, a little

(09:16):
weird about it or something, and some some you heard
those stories, but sure, but I went on to you know,
I've had a great career, and so I always am
hoping that somebody when they walk, when I see him
approach me, I'm like, is it going to be?

Speaker 4 (09:29):
Is it going to be? You know?

Speaker 3 (09:31):
Frequency or something, you know, and it's without a doubt,
it's always motocross.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
Even I love that though, but that's I mean, that's
how it happened exactly the age you said. So, my
stepdaughter's thirty four. I've known her since she was eleven,
so she grew up around me. She's met and Sync
and Backstreet, like all these people around everybody. And she said, oh,
you know, what are you doing this time? I said, oh,
We're doing motocross. And she got all quiet and she's like,

(09:56):
who are you interviewing? And I'm like, well, we're interview
Trevor and Riley. She's like, wait, you're interviewing Riley Smith.

Speaker 3 (10:03):
I was like yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
She got quiet, like she turned fourteen again.

Speaker 1 (10:07):
And so it was one of those things where she's
just like, oh my god, okay, you know I was obsessed.
I mean, it caught it in the it was in
the zeitgeist of the time. I mean, motocross just was
this thing that everybody loved. And I think one of
the reasons that we're starting to see, especially with d coms,
is the good d cooms like motocross. Yes, the nostalgia

(10:27):
is there, and the teen heartthrob is there or the
teen girl that you fell in love with, but.

Speaker 2 (10:32):
The writing is still there. It's a just a good movie.

Speaker 4 (10:38):
But ours was really ahead of its time.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
You know, they said it was based off of The
Twelfth Night was just played, but it you know, with
the girl empowerment and any boundaries that it crossed that
are now, you know, so huge. But then that was
it was like the it was the first to do that.
I have a funny story back in must have been

(11:02):
maybe too. You know, five years after Motocross came out,
I did a movie with Eric.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
Von Dettin from uh Brye. We're shooting in Vancouver and
we talk about blowing people's minds.

Speaker 3 (11:15):
When we were together, people were like, what the Disney
is going on?

Speaker 4 (11:22):
You know? It was that was a fun that was
a fun shoot.

Speaker 5 (11:25):
Oh was doing I mean all the things for that movie.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
So well, one of the things that was I don't
know if you remember this or if you had the
same experience. So we talked to Trevor yesterday, okay, and
he said that when he auditioned, they didn't even really
let him know what the project was. He said, they
kind of gave him sides that maybe weren't even part
of the movie that he didn't didn't get the script
until the night before, Like they were trying to keep

(11:53):
everything kind of hush hush. Do you remember it being
like this or were they kind of like, nope, here
here's the project, here's what we're doing.

Speaker 4 (11:59):
No, I don't remember that at all. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:01):
Mine was, like I said, I knew pretty much everything
that was going on. That's interesting. How is Trevor. I've
been talked to him, and.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
He is doing very very well.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
He said the same thing. He had nothing but amazing memories.
He lives in Georgia right now.

Speaker 5 (12:17):
Ye on like a two hundred acre girl Scouts the
case of land.

Speaker 2 (12:21):
They bought a girl Scout camp.

Speaker 1 (12:23):
He's a construction worker and he is rebuilding the entire
thing to like his whole family's going to live on
this compound and they're going to do self empowerment classes
there and leadership classes.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Really cool.

Speaker 5 (12:34):
Yeah, he's doing awesome things.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
He also, I'm not sure if you know this, he
bought the two hero bikes.

Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, they did offer those to us.

Speaker 2 (12:44):
He bought him, he had him and he sold them
years ago.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
Though.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Oh man, Yeah, they offered those to us. At a
really good rate. When when we ended, and everyone was like,
you gotta buy it, and I should have, but I
was like, no, my mom's not gonna let me ride it.

Speaker 2 (12:58):
What am I gonna do with this bike?

Speaker 6 (12:59):
Where's it?

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Good guy? My mom's still not going to let me
ride it. Are you still in La?

Speaker 4 (13:10):
No? You know, it's funny. I just moved. Well.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
I was living in Vancouver, Canada for the last five
years doing Nancy Drew and that just ended. And while
we were there, I since had a five year old
daughter and I just wanted to try to raise her
in a normal life. And and so we moved to Nashville, Tennessee.

Speaker 2 (13:32):
She's everybody. Everybody's in Nashville here.

Speaker 3 (13:35):
I had done this the TV show Nashville, Yeah, twenty fifteen,
fell in love with this place.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
It was booming.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
Then I should have bought then, but but then yeah,
So when Nancy Drew ended and it was time to
come back to the States, all of our friends and
so many actors had moved here, and I was like,
I'm gonna, you know, let's give Nashville a try. And
so we just moved here less than a year ago
and loving it. It's really cool, and it's atistic town.
I do a lot of music, so I can do

(14:03):
that and and you know, it's funny. Then the first
job I got after Vancouver was stationed nineteen and that
film's in La so I had to fly back to
la every month for a while. But yeah, so we're
here and it's funny. Scott Tara, who played the little
brother on Moncross, he was He lives in Wilmington and

(14:27):
I was out there doing a movie a while back
and we were trying to get together and we never did,
but it was good to hear from him. So so
we all kind of keep in touch social. That's a
great thing about social now, is that you can't.

Speaker 5 (14:40):
Yeah, he seems like such an awesome guy.

Speaker 4 (14:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (14:43):
I mean he just had the best things to say
about everyone and just his like view on life.

Speaker 2 (14:48):
He was really a great guy to talk to.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
Yeah, he was always a sweetheart.

Speaker 3 (14:52):
I was I was gonna make a joke when you
were saying he owns the girl Scout camp. It's like
the girl Scouts come in and the moms are like, wait, what.

Speaker 2 (15:04):
I know exactly.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Well, one of the things I want to talk to
you about, because you mentioned Nashville. You mentioned freaks and Geeks,
you mentioned Nancy Drew. So one of the hardest things
for any actor is a getting a job. Then getting
a second job is even usually more difficult than that.
But one of the biggest skills for any actor ever
that shows longevity in the business is being able to

(15:28):
pick a project. And you seem to have this incredible
talent for picking amazing projects.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
And I'm just wondering where does that come from?

Speaker 1 (15:38):
Is this luck or is it a combination of luck
and skill because you are hitting one banger after the next,
and I'm wondering how you're doing it.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Well, it is, it is. It's a lot of things.
I mean, a good good representation, you know that you
trust that put you in the right position. But I
always say, you know, it takes a team to do everything.
So you know, if they get me in the right position,
and and then I do my part, and I'm ready
and prepared and and and I'm always studying if I'm

(16:09):
not working, and so you know, I take my craft serious.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
And it's just been.

Speaker 3 (16:14):
I've always equated life and especially our business to remember
on prices, right, there was the game Plinko, of course,
that little and and I would say, you know, our
career is kind of in life is it's it's uh,
it's like plinko. I mean, you start here at the
top and by the time you end, it's, uh, you
could win a million dollars or bankrupt and anywhere in between.

(16:37):
And you know, and one move takes you to the
next move takes you to the next move, and it's
just kind of a you know, a business in life
of moves. But but I always say it's it's really
about the journey, because you know, that's what people get
excited for where it could go. But once once you
get to the bottom, the game's over and then it's
not you know, that's the end of the game.

Speaker 4 (16:58):
So for me, I've always tried.

Speaker 3 (16:59):
To keep in perspective that these moves in life and
in our business is that's the journey. That's the beauty
of it, you know, and that's what I enjoy. I've
always prided myself on being a journeyman actor, somebody who
just really enjoys the journey. And I've never been about
the destination or about you know, getting something, getting somewhere.

(17:24):
It's like I'm where I'm supposed to be, and I
think that if you really just embrace where you are
and you give that you're all, and you don't look
past it, and you don't look for the next best thing,
then you're opening yourself up to be the best version
of yourself.

Speaker 4 (17:39):
In that moment.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
And when you do that, that takes care of itself,
that takes care of the next move and the next move.
And so I have been very fortunate, and now you know,
there's been a lot of bad breaks.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
For as many times as you see.

Speaker 3 (17:52):
That I got a good job, there was probably as
you as you guys know, there's probably five or ten
that I didn't get that would have changed the Plinko trajectory.

Speaker 4 (18:00):
But I don't worry about that.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
I know that whatever I did get, that's what I'm
supposed to be doing. And I know that if I
give it my all, that's going to lead to the
next thing. And it's just always It's always worked out that.

Speaker 4 (18:11):
Way for me.

Speaker 1 (18:12):
I'm never ever going to look at my life as
anything other than plink come from this moment because it's
a perfect analogy, very really a perfect analogy.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
But we really do get it's a perfect analogy.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
Okay, So then I hate to do this to you,
but take motocross out of the the equation.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
Do you have a favorite project that you've worked on.

Speaker 4 (18:33):
Well, you know, so many.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
I would think that this one here, Frequency, which only
lasted one season on the CW, was my favorite because that,
let's see, yeah, that one was just like years and
years of hard work getting to be the lead of
the show, you know, and having it having myself be

(18:58):
you know, the person that gets to drive it and
be responsible for, you know, making a good show. So
many of these shows I'm on, you know, you're the
third or the seventh lead and you're just trying to
be the best teammate you can be. But I worked
really hard I had. I mean, it's kind of a
joke amongst the people that know me. I think I
did fifteen failed pilots before.

Speaker 4 (19:20):
I got one that got picked up. Wow.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
And every year I started my career with a pilot
for for Warner Brothers and the w B which is
a sea and that was the CW, but it was failed.
And then but I was always lucky and where I
would after the pilot wouldn't go, they'd put me on
their network on a reoccurring and and then I'd get
another pilot or a holding deal and and but things

(19:46):
just wereever and you know, it got to you know,
I went through where I was angry and then you know,
bitter and why is not one of these pilots gotten
picked up? And and but I know that it was all,
like I said.

Speaker 4 (19:59):
For a reason.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
And yeah, you know, I was always taken care of
in between, you know, with movies and things and things
like that. But but that one was, you know, I
think it was sixteen seventeen years in the making before
it was the first pilot that got picked up. And
it was the first pilot I was the lead of.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
So wait, that was the first pilot that you did
that got picked up. Was the one where you were
the star?

Speaker 4 (20:22):
Wow? Wow?

Speaker 3 (20:24):
Every other one I was, you know, a series regular
supporting lead. And that was the first one where it
was on me and it got picked up, and so
that one was really special.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
And yeah, yeah, wow.

Speaker 5 (20:37):
I mean it's just you have to have such tough
skin in this industry. Even just like you were saying
a little bit before, you go on a hundred auditions
and for any reason of your height, your hair color,
your eyes. Sometimes it has nothing to do with your
actual acting of why you don't book so many auditions
and you just have to have tough skin, going okay,

(20:59):
I'm waiting for that that you know, two hundred no's
leads to one yes, and then you find a motocross
where people are still recognizing you twenty five years later.
I mean, that is such a cool experience, but you
have to be tough enough to get to that.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yes.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
So many people quit before they even book their first job.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
You know, you're right, And I've had a lot of
people say that to me, like, oh, you've been so resilient.

Speaker 4 (21:27):
I was like, I never look I never looked at
it that way.

Speaker 3 (21:30):
I felt like, you know again, I think that goes
back to not trying to look too far ahead, not
trying to look at what I think I need, where
I need to be, just you know, staying staying focus,
having blinders on being in the moment and just take
care of the steps in front of you and don't
look too far ahead. Then you don't get sidetracked with

(21:54):
what why am I not getting this?

Speaker 4 (21:55):
Why am I not getting that?

Speaker 3 (21:57):
And I will say, like, there are so many shows
that I got that probably somebody else might have been
better than me, but you know, like y'all said that,
the chips fell in my favor, whether it was hair
matching someone or whatever. And then there was a lot
of shows and movies that I think I should have
gotten that I didn't get because of the same reason.
And I had an acting coach early on that said

(22:19):
to me, and it was stuck with me, and it
was the best thing you could have said. He said,
he goes, I take you to McDonald's to get a
to get an ice cream cone, and what would you get?
And I said, I love twist cones and he said,
but you can't. You got to get vanilla or chocolate.
And I said, okay. He goes, you like them both, right,
And I said yeah, and he goes, but you got

(22:39):
to pick one. And I said, I'll take vanilla, and
he goes, but you like chocolate, right, Yeah. And it's
like that with with what we do. You know, they
can see two to five people that they really really like,
but they have to pick one for one reason, and
that doesn't mean that they don't like everybody else or you.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Know, the other choices.

Speaker 3 (22:56):
So you know, it's all these little mind game and
it's they're not mind games. It's philosophy of life and
the business, and and those are the things that kept
me humbled and kept me focused and kept me in
the moment, you know, to where I didn't really And
I think I learned early on, as y'all probably did
with your shows, that when these things that are meant

(23:18):
to be, like a motocross or you know, when they
come across, you don't.

Speaker 4 (23:22):
See them coming.

Speaker 3 (23:23):
Usually, right, the biggest things that really change your life
are the ones that you don't see. They just happen,
and they happen because you're ready and all the stars
aligned and it's mean to be. It's the ones where
I mean, I did gosh, you know, I remember I
got True Blood one year.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
I did a big reoccurring plane of the vampire on
that and that.

Speaker 3 (23:45):
Led to True Detective opposite Rachel McAdams, And at that
moment in my life, I.

Speaker 4 (23:50):
Was like, this is it, Like we're all wo.

Speaker 3 (23:53):
And then the track didn't really go as fast as
I thought. And you know, but that's because I was
looked ahead and I was perceiving that these things were
going to do these things, and I got you know,
you cannot That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 (24:06):
You can't get caught up in.

Speaker 1 (24:07):
That, especially in this industry, which is the strangest industry
that's ever been created anywhere. Just the rules none and
the rules change all the time, if you can even
call them rules. The guidelines change all the time. The
business changes all the time.

Speaker 2 (24:20):
You're hot one day and then exactly the thing that
made you hot that day is.

Speaker 1 (24:24):
Out and they no longer want it just doesn't make
any sense, but it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yeah, go ahead, right The business is so weird, rights
really weird place.

Speaker 1 (24:35):
It doesn't know what it is right now, and we're
in one of those lulls and everybody's just trying to
figure it out.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
But yeah, no.

Speaker 1 (24:42):
It does lead me to an interesting question, though, is
did you say you're from Iowa? I am So How
did a kid from Iowa realize that this is my path?
I want to be a movie star, a TV star?
What's the genesis? How to start?

Speaker 3 (24:57):
This is a pretty funny story because you know, this
was nineteen ninety seven, pre social media, where you could
kind of create your own persona and get scouted. He
used to have kids. Back in the day, there were
model scouts, and models walk around and pluck people from
these obscure towns like cedar Appids, Iowa, and I had

(25:20):
a scout that saw me at a mall when I
was picking up my tuxedo for prom, and she said,
I'd like to take a polaroid of you and send
it to New York. And I'm sending this other guy
who just won this model scout search.

Speaker 4 (25:35):
I'm sending him to New York and.

Speaker 3 (25:36):
I'd like to fly you with him, and you're gonna
do this model thing.

Speaker 4 (25:41):
And so I get on the plane that day and.

Speaker 3 (25:45):
I'm sitting next to this guy who becomes my roommate
in the model apartment in New York.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
And his name's Chris.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
We went to rival High school, as he was a
year older than me, and we start talking and he's like, yeah,
we played you guys in football, and I was like,
I played basketball, and uh that Chris ended up becoming
Ashton Kutcher.

Speaker 2 (26:03):
Oh, oh, oh my god?

Speaker 4 (26:06):
Are you yeah?

Speaker 2 (26:08):
Are you serious?

Speaker 3 (26:09):
He was discovered at the University of Iowa's freshman year
by this lady and and uh, then she saw me
at the mall and uh, and then put us together
and flew us to New York and we lived in
this model's Department, and then I flew to LA for
that that Warner Brothers pilot, and just I mean, like
a few weeks later, he calls me and he said,

(26:30):
remember that audition you went to with me?

Speaker 4 (26:32):
I walked.

Speaker 3 (26:33):
I went to the seventy show audition with him with
him in New York, and I waited in the waiting
room while he went in. He came out, he said,
I think what really were good? And then I got
my pilot. I went to LA and he called me
and he said, yo, I got that pilot.

Speaker 4 (26:44):
I'm doing it in LA.

Speaker 3 (26:46):
So we reconnected in LA and then of course mine
didn't go and became seventy And that was my first,
you know, introduction to the breaks of Hollywood.

Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, sure, man, just walking through them. Did you end
up going to the prom? You didn't ditch your date? Right?
You ended up going?

Speaker 4 (27:04):
Oh no, no, what's the problem. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
I finished out my my senior year, and then I
think it was about a month after I graduated, I
went to New York and then I never really went
back to Iowa. And in fact, when I was moving
to Nashville, I had we had moved to Vancouver full time.
So I had this huge U Haul with every with
our whole entire life in it, and my father and

(27:28):
I got to drive it across country here my daughter,
but we but we drove together, which was an amazing
experience that you know, I would I will never get
again probably with him, to have this like five.

Speaker 4 (27:42):
Day road trip.

Speaker 3 (27:43):
So we moved through Iowa and I picked up all
my tubs of memorabilia that I had had in Iowa
for all these years that have been sitting there, and
I thought, you know, now I'm moving to Nashville to
take them all with me, and I've got them, and
that's what made me think of it. So I'm going
through tubs when I finally get here and unpacking, and

(28:03):
I fine Dean Talent motocross helmet.

Speaker 4 (28:08):
Yeah, I had the entire I have the whole outfit.

Speaker 3 (28:12):
So I'm thinking, maybe like for Halloween, you should, Dean Talent.

Speaker 2 (28:18):
You should. Yesterday Trever wore his outfit.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah, he on screen and he's wearing his entire rig.

Speaker 2 (28:29):
It was so funny.

Speaker 5 (28:32):
You should stop by iHeart Radio because he won't.

Speaker 2 (28:36):
Make it out alive.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
He won't make it out alive.

Speaker 5 (28:41):
Lad you know, just trying to help my girls out.
They work really hard over there at I he would
come up alive.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
It would be horrible. Oh jeez.

Speaker 3 (28:53):
I was telling so many people that I was doing
this with all and they were so excited that I
was going to be here with you.

Speaker 4 (28:57):
And you know, everyone's like, oh my god, I love them,
I love oh cool.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Well yeah, okay, so but we got to get back
to motocross a little bit.

Speaker 2 (29:05):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
I want to know if your daughter, I mean, and
she's probably young a little bit, but has she watched
motocross just yet?

Speaker 4 (29:12):
This is a good story too.

Speaker 3 (29:14):
She has not watched it yet, but but she came
home from school one day, she's in kindergarten and she said, Dad,
you're you're the green the green motorbike rider. And I
was like what she said, Yeah, you're the green guy.
I said, who told you that? She said, my teachers.
They showed me a video.

Speaker 4 (29:30):
I'm going to pick her up.

Speaker 3 (29:32):
I realized, now the teachers have been telling my daughter
about my my past history.

Speaker 4 (29:40):
Down with her and show her the movie.

Speaker 3 (29:42):
But she and she knows, now, you know, like we
were just in the airport last month and I was
getting a picture of us in the airport and these
girls walked up and asked for a picture, and and
she looked at him and she goes, motocross, right, that
that's what people know me from, and so she's getting

(30:02):
used to it.

Speaker 1 (30:02):
I just love how with all you've done, though, that's
still the thing that people gravitate.

Speaker 3 (30:10):
Where I was on The True Detective, which was at
that time the big show in the world, and Bill
I was excited about that, and then I'd see somebody
come on up to me and I'm like, yes, it's
going to be True Detective and they're like motocross.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
Yeah, yeah, it's because it's because nothing affects us like
the things that affects affect us when we're young. When
we're young, so when your kid, when you're a kid,
it matters so much to you that it changes your life.

Speaker 2 (30:37):
It becomes part of your life.

Speaker 1 (30:38):
I mean again, my stepdaughter was like I would watch
I was obsessed.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
I'd watch this thing over and over and over again.
It mattered to her.

Speaker 5 (30:45):
Yes, and the demo of Disney Channel because you were
probably so many girls first crush, like first celebrity crush, right,
and they remember that, and you know that's just so
cool that you will always kind of own that for
them and like it's a big deal. It really is,
because you know, talk about let's we got to talk

(31:07):
about setting the bar maybe a little too high because
your character is such a good guy.

Speaker 2 (31:15):
They do make the perfect dude. Really, you know.

Speaker 5 (31:20):
Gosh, you know, you befriend this new person, you're so nice,
you're teaching them how to maybe even beat you in
a race. I mean, and then you find out this
person's lied to you, and you kind of get upset,
but you come back. I mean, what the hell?

Speaker 2 (31:38):
What are we doing to young girls out there? All right?

Speaker 5 (31:41):
And they clearly are not getting over it because they're
now thirty five dying as you pass them at Starbucks,
they're probably I mean that that's crazy.

Speaker 3 (31:53):
And so many and guys too, It's crazy. So many
guys will come up to me and be like you
were my first crush, and I'm like, man, now that's
like mind blowing because it was twenty years ago, and
I'm like, okay, like this is yeah. You know one
of the things when we when I was when I
was shooting motocross, and I remember this very distinctly too.
I was sitting and it was like the first week
of rehearsals. And I was watching A River runs through

(32:16):
It with Brad Pitt, just on TV at night, and
I'm I'm I'm watching him, and I'm like, what besides
his beautiful looks, I'm like, what, what was the thing
about him that made him pop?

Speaker 4 (32:26):
You know?

Speaker 3 (32:27):
And I was watching the movie and he smiled all
the time. He was just always smiling and he was
so nice. And I was like, and that's what I
took from that, And I was like, I'm going to
implement that into dean talent at that moment. And so
I really tried to focus on because I could have
made him kind of a I could have made him
a cocky chump. I mean, he was he was set

(32:47):
up to also be that guy, and that would have
played totally different. But I really focused on, like what
would Brad Pitt do? And he was like be you know,
be sweet and smile and that really worked for the guy.
And I think, so I I thank Brad for that.

Speaker 1 (33:01):
You know, I would bet you most actors, Yeah, Brad,
if you're watching, I would bet most actors would have
played him cocky.

Speaker 2 (33:08):
Yeah, that's what I meant itself to that kind of character.

Speaker 1 (33:10):
And you took it a completely different way and it
worked perfectly.

Speaker 3 (33:15):
Yes, but well it's like, you know, there was already
so much of that going form anyway that I didn't
need to lean into that. And so that was a
nice lesson to learn early on because it did work.
It worked really well, and especially for that demographic. You know,
it's funny Disney, you know, just put all of the
I don't know all of them, but they put Motocross

(33:35):
back on, you know, their.

Speaker 4 (33:36):
Their their Disney player.

Speaker 3 (33:38):
Yeah, Disney, what was that in like nineteen or twenty. Yeah,
so we it kind of had this resurgence and so
I remember making a post on Instagram where I'm like, hey, guys,
I have this new movie out where I played twenty.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Year old biker and it's going to be really good.
You know, I think people are going to be talking
about it for years to come.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
We had a little friend's watch party that night, and
I couldn't believe because I mean, obviously I hadn't seen
it for twenty years, and I couldn't believe my voice
was still like a little boy voice, like it hadn't
even dropped yet.

Speaker 4 (34:14):
I was like, hey, I didn't know what.

Speaker 3 (34:19):
I was doing with acting. I've been acting for a
couple of years. So I watched it cringe a little, but.

Speaker 1 (34:26):
It was Yeah, it was great theme when you watch
family videos, it's like that kind of thing. Now, speaking
of Andy, you hadn't met Alana beforehand, right.

Speaker 4 (34:44):
I had not met Alana?

Speaker 1 (34:45):
No, And do you guys get along right away because
the chemistry is instant?

Speaker 4 (34:50):
Yeah, we were.

Speaker 3 (34:51):
We were really tight and you know, we still keep
in touch socially, and you know, and I think it
was her her dad was a producer or not right,
maybe a co writer and a producer on it, which
I didn't know until oh wow, Yes, So I've been
I've been wanting to hit her up because Billy Zapka,
who redid the Karate Kid with the Cobra Kai, he's

(35:13):
an old old friend of mine, and I started thinking
about it, and actually he lives here in Nashville. But
I started thinking about it. I was like, maybe we
should pull a Zapka and do like a sequel, like
a like a sequel type thing, like a Cobra Kai
for motocross.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
I shouldn't see, but we were.

Speaker 1 (35:29):
That's one of the questions I had, because absolutely there
is actually.

Speaker 2 (35:33):
There was so there was a rumor going around.

Speaker 1 (35:35):
I want to make sure that I get this absolutely
right of something that was called Monster Jam and now
Monster Jam was supposed to be a sequel to Motocross
about I think the same character Andy now getting into
racing monster trucks.

Speaker 2 (35:54):
Whow and so had you heard about this at all?

Speaker 4 (35:57):
Is this in circulation?

Speaker 2 (35:59):
That's a good question. We got.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
We've got some some producers that do some pretty amazing
deep dives on this stuff.

Speaker 3 (36:04):
Because I have been thinking, well, this is why I'm
asking because I actually reached out to one of the
writers about five years ago and I said, hey, I've
got an idea, and I kind of alluded to it
and then he was he was in correspondence with me
until I told him what the idea was, and then
he went m A And I was like, Okay, so

(36:25):
I don't know what's going on there, but maybe I'll
have to just go to Alana. And so it's been on,
but I just keep putting it off. But I need
to reach out to Alana because I know our dad.

Speaker 4 (36:34):
Was part of it.

Speaker 3 (36:35):
Yeah, I think with the two of us, then you've
really got something because I had so too.

Speaker 4 (36:40):
I have a whole storyline where.

Speaker 1 (36:42):
Save it, save it because you don't want anybody to
take it from you. But I pitched one to Trevor,
which is and I think this is great. It's the
cast of Motocross, the cast of Brink and the cast
of Johnny Tsunami get together and their kids all go
to the X Games.

Speaker 5 (36:57):
Yes, like a like a multime multi sports arena right right.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
Now, right because it's you've got your hitting all these
amazing sports and you're hitting the nostalgia and you'd go
straight up ten Pole d com.

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Yeah, yes, yeah, brilliantly, Yeah, Superpower d com. Yeah, that's
an idea. Yeah, somebody, somebody's listening. They should should make that.

Speaker 4 (37:21):
Do they make movies anymore?

Speaker 1 (37:23):
Is it not? Like those they do they make reboots
or with d coms nowadays, the ones that we're watching now,
so the for instance, the budget of the New Zombies
four is forty million dollars. Like so, d coms are
now slightly different than they were back in the day.

Speaker 5 (37:41):
It almost feels like they sometimes are bigger than even
the shows that they have on all the time. The
d coms are.

Speaker 2 (37:47):
Just that's now the Ten Poles Channel, it seems like.

Speaker 5 (37:50):
Speaking of Alana, do you so you said you keep
in touch with her because she's now out of the industry,
like she's no longer a doctor.

Speaker 3 (37:59):
I don't know exactly what she does, but she she
was in last I saw she was in San Diego,
and then I saw that she was in Europe posting something.
And I don't know exactly what she does anymore, but
you know, we had like shot each other messages said Hi,
it was you know, just very brief and but you know,

(38:19):
just socially keeping in touch, you know.

Speaker 4 (38:22):
Yeah, so I don't know exactly really what she does.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
You guys, this is making me want to really reach
back out like you should.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
You should.

Speaker 1 (38:29):
It's one thing that we've learned from doing this show,
from doing Podmets World, doing all that kind of stuff,
is life is too short, and if people matter to you,
reach out and just say hey, especially nowadays with.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Social media and everything going on, it's easy to do.
And you hop on a zoom.

Speaker 1 (38:44):
You don't even have to leave anywhere. You hop on
a zoom, you say hey everybody, and it's so working like.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
A little zoom happy hour, and and you know I
would be interested too, because I haven't really seen them
in person since then to hear their stories, like did
you guys get this reaction? I got, like is it
still going on for you? Like it's going on for me?
Like what are some of your stories? Because I've got
a million of these stories, like they have to do

(39:08):
with motocross, And it's like that thing that just is
never going to go away.

Speaker 4 (39:12):
And I love that.

Speaker 3 (39:14):
I mean it's like, you know, when you when you
start in this business, you could only hope that you
would do a movie or a show that touches a
generation and lasts forever. I mean, really that to me,
if I never did anything again, I can always tell.

Speaker 4 (39:30):
My daughter you know, hey I didn't. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:35):
So so you're you're you're you're bonded then by that forever.

Speaker 4 (39:40):
Absolutely shows and movies.

Speaker 1 (39:42):
You know, you really are. It's a connection that's it's
rare too, because it's not only somebody that knows exactly
what you've been through because they went through it with you.
But like you said, you you all caught lightning in
a bottle together, and it's it's something.

Speaker 2 (39:55):
That lasts, especially in this day and age. Nothing lasts anymore.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
God appliances break down in three years like they build
them to break anymore.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
This stuff does.

Speaker 1 (40:05):
This stuff it lasts, you know, for for people's entire lifetimes.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
These things matter, and that is probably one of the
last generations where that can be said, right, you know,
I mean, yeah, we lived in the golden days.

Speaker 2 (40:18):
Yeah, I think that's true.

Speaker 5 (40:19):
Oh man, So okay, I've got so with your time
on set, what was the energy like being around these
motocross legends that were coming in to play all the
stunt doubles and they're just riding around because you had
a lot of scenes that was like within you know,
that whole thing where Trevor didn't he didn't get a

(40:41):
chance to really do and be there filming all those days.
So what was that energy like? I mean, I just
feel like everyone on set that doesn't normally get to
be around people of that world were like, you know,
I just see just heads just flying just because it's
such a cool, such a cool sport. And you guys
had megastars there.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:02):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (41:02):
Like Travis Pastrana was my stunt double and he is
at that time, he was one of the biggest. Now
he'll go down in history is one of the biggest.
You know, Yes, he was my stunt double. I mean,
that's just insane. And then he played himself as well,
but he did my riding. Yeah, that was really cool.
And again I didn't really know a whole lot about

(41:23):
that industry when I when I got the movie, and
I just kind of was learning as I went. But yeah,
the energy and then seeing it firsthand from not really
ever knowing much about it to watching these bikes and
these guys do this stuff and seeing the power of it.
We saw a couple accidents, I still some guys get
really hurt. Yeah, and so you know, you realize the

(41:45):
power and the magnitude of that industry. And I think
that industry was really just starting to pop off at
that time.

Speaker 5 (41:51):
Yeah it was.

Speaker 2 (41:52):
It was newer, yeah it was, and.

Speaker 4 (41:54):
So it really got huge after that.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
So that was a really cool experience, and I think
it's it was probably better for me that I didn't
know much about it and I didn't know who they
were as much. You know, I would have been fambling
out if I knew now right totally, But yeah, that
was that was we we they had. I mean, I
can't even think of all the names. You guys can
pull them up, but it was I just remember Travis and.

Speaker 2 (42:17):
Oh yeah, no it was it was Travis Pastry. No,
we we've got the names.

Speaker 1 (42:21):
It was who's who of of the industry at the time, and.

Speaker 4 (42:27):
Guys up becoming historically the best writers.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Yes ever.

Speaker 5 (42:31):
And I've loved that about Disney because again, and we're
seeing this with so many of the d coms. They're
at the forefront of these of what's gonna be like
the next big thing to blow up for so many
of the different things, whether we're talking about smart House
or the other you know, with the like electronic type ideas,

(42:51):
and we've just seen so many that Disney just seems
to always be right there in front and like exposing
that to the rest of the world, which is so cool.

Speaker 2 (43:00):
Yeah, people were able to see this world.

Speaker 1 (43:02):
Some of the names are Jeremy McGrath, Travis Postona, Steve Lampson,
Sean Collier. I mean these are just like one after
another of the people that made the sport what the
sport is so to yeah, to be there and kind
of watch that it Also, this is one of the
things I love because we rate all the movies and
we talk about it, you know, And again I was

(43:25):
in my twenties when a lot of these movies came out,
so I didn't see most of these movies. So I'm
watching them for my first time, and I'm trying to
put myself in the guise of, Hey, I'm a thirteen
year old boy watching.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
These as opposed to I'm a forty eight year old
man watching these, and some of them I have trouble
doing that, and I'm like, Okay, this was not a
good movie.

Speaker 1 (43:41):
And then there's movies like this that brought me right
back to the movies that I loved growing up, like BMX,
Bandits and rad and all these just awesome movies, and
I love the hell out of it.

Speaker 2 (43:50):
It was great.

Speaker 3 (43:51):
Yeah, yeah, well, and do you remember, like the one
of the things that always sticks with me about that
movie is the soundtrack with they had this Julian Theory
song We're on top of the World song like if
I ever want to give a good mood?

Speaker 1 (44:06):
Yeah, now that is Unfortunately, one of the problems with
the streamer is that a couple of the songs that
were in the movie weren't licensed for Disney Plus, so
they've replaced them.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
When you go to when you go watch it on
Disney plus.

Speaker 4 (44:19):
I wonder if that one made it.

Speaker 2 (44:20):
I forget no, that one made it.

Speaker 1 (44:22):
I think that there is a fastball song that was
that was that one's gone.

Speaker 2 (44:26):
Yep, Okay, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (44:34):
This is a perfect transition, though, to your musical career,
because if you hadn't done enough with all the shows
and everything you've been on, you're also a musician.

Speaker 2 (44:44):
Can you talk a little bit about that?

Speaker 3 (44:46):
Yeah, I mean so, I've played in a band in
lah coming up for a decade and it was just
always my side project that you know, I wait for
me to just express myself in a differentism way. I
loved playing and writing especially, and so it wasn't until

(45:06):
I got the show Nashville where they made me this
over the topic is life rock star who Connie Brittain's character,
Reina James was turning into a country singer. And that's
when really things became more professional with music, because I
got thrust into this world where I was recording a
song every week on the show and performing it, and

(45:29):
I was writing with some of the biggest writers, going
to the best studio, and you know, I was really
thrown in the deep end because I at that point
was an amateur writer and singer, but I learned so much,
and from that experience, I got a record deal down
here in Nashville, and so then I made a little
run at it where I was. I made an EP
and a bunch of singles and music videos, and we

(45:51):
did tours and we played some really great places, played
the O two in England, and we played you know,
the blue Bird here in the Grand Old Opry and
so and then all the places in like La and
New York. But that was that was an amazing opportunity
that opened up a ton of doors.

Speaker 4 (46:08):
And and coming here when you're on this, when.

Speaker 3 (46:11):
You were on the show, here, all the writers wanted
songs on the show, so they were all trying to
smooth you to write with you, thinking that you could
get a song on the show. Well, I had no
power to get a song on the show, but I
didn't let them know that. So I write with some
amazing writers and keep those songs for myself. I did
that for you know, a good like five or six years.

(46:34):
And then when I got Nancy Drew and moved to Vancouver,
and simultaneously we were having our first child, and I
thought I'm just gonna put it down for a while.
I need to like recharge my my batteries with that,
and I needed to come up. I was I was
starting to just make up stuff when I was writing.
I wasn't writing from a true place anymore. What rhymes with.

Speaker 4 (46:55):
The you know? I just you know.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
And so I was like, I'm just gonna take a break.
And so that lasted five years in Vancouver, and in
that time, I really just put everything in my my
I have a note section in my phone of song ideas,
and it's like things I go through, things I witness,
things I think of, and it's it could be one liners,
it could be a title, it could be.

Speaker 4 (47:19):
An idea, and and so I built that way back up.
And so when we moved back down.

Speaker 3 (47:24):
Here to Nashville, I got back in touch with all
my whole contacts and I started pulling out, you know,
all the ideas I had. And so now I've I've
got a whole new record that I'm working on with
all this this these new material and new ideas, and
and I'm glad I did it that way because I
now I'm like excited to do it again, and the

(47:45):
material is meaningful, and and I'm in a different place
in my life, like as a father, a little bit older,
so you know, the songs are coming from a different place.
And so yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna put it. I'm
gonna put it out. I'm just trying to figure out
when to do it. About half of it's done. The
rest of it have to finish. But I think I

(48:05):
want to stay independent this time because you know, the
music business is a business and and and I mean, Sabrina,
you know you do.

Speaker 5 (48:14):
Yeah, I was gonna say I totally relate to you
on that because I feel like, compared to acting, the
music industry can be very draining, and you know, whether
it's your your schedule, fighting for what you want, what
you're needing as an artist when it comes to stage,
and you know, just there's just so much. I just

(48:37):
feel like the music industry can be very very draining,
where when you're acting, you kind of already know your
set of days that you'll work and whatever. But the
music industry, I feel like it just continuously goes and
if you don't take care of yourself mentally and realize,
like I think it's so admirable that you realize, like
I'm not now I'm not writing from where I want to,

(48:59):
and you kind of just let yourself get back to
that place because you have to have the energy to
be an artist. If you don't, then you're just gonna
you're gonna fizzle real fast, you know. And it's it's tough, but.

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Think about that where it is just kind of an
ongoing circle and.

Speaker 5 (49:16):
Yes, you're writing, you're recording, you're you're touring, you're this,
and you just keep going. If you don't have that energy,
then you need to take a step back because you'll
end up just walking away completely, you know. And so
it's crazy, but I love you. You're in the area though,
how I mean the energy in Nashville, it's like you

(49:37):
can't go there for a day. You got to go
for three or four because you're going to a.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Friends from La come visit this last weekend and they
were like, we're moving here. I'm like, everybody from LA
is moving here right now.

Speaker 4 (49:54):
It's crazy.

Speaker 2 (49:56):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (49:57):
It is. It's a great place for for music and
there's so many talented people and so I you know,
I just try to surround myself with those people and
mostly for me though, the music is like like I said,
a way to express the things inside of me, you know,
things that I've been through or things that I've witnessed
that I think would tell a good story.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
It's just it's a way for me to be a storyteller. Really.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Yeah, I don't have the best voice in the world,
and you know, and I don't need to be a
rock star anymore. I just you know, put me on
a little stage at the Bluebird Cafe and let me
tell my stories and that'll be fine with me. You know,
It's acting will always be my my bread and butter.
Just any any way that I can artistically express and

(50:42):
tell stories and represent, you know people, that's that's all
I want to do.

Speaker 1 (50:47):
Well, that is truly amazing, And yeah, thank you so
much for taking the time to join us today.

Speaker 2 (50:52):
You are arguably the busiest actor we've we've interviewed so far,
working all the time. So we were like, oh my god,
he's actually an hour for us.

Speaker 3 (51:00):
That's awesome, y'all call because like I said, you know,
I on a daily basis, I talk with strangers about
this every day, and so to talk to two of
you who have been through what I've been through and
are in the industry and to talk about motocross.

Speaker 4 (51:16):
What is you know? Yeah Proust, Yeah, it's cool. I
like to pay homage to it, for sure.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
Well, it is out there and had a huge resurgence
all the d cooms have and it is just will
forever be part of the history.

Speaker 2 (51:29):
And again we cannot thank you.

Speaker 5 (51:30):
Yes, yes, don't you ever get rid of that helmet?

Speaker 6 (51:34):
Don't you ever do it?

Speaker 4 (51:36):
Hang on? I'd a lot of people come to my house.
I have a Yeah.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
One girl came over and she she's like, I won't
say your name, but she's like a TikTok famous person
and she's.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
I wouldn't know her anyway.

Speaker 4 (51:47):
She came in.

Speaker 3 (51:48):
And she she knew I was on motocross, but I
had it. I have it up in my studio here
and she started crying. She's like, can I can I
put it on? I'm like, I haven't even put it
on since two thousand and one, so.

Speaker 4 (51:57):
Here have you?

Speaker 2 (51:58):
Not really here?

Speaker 3 (51:59):
We's coming out of it.

Speaker 1 (52:03):
But yeah, oh the honor.

Speaker 2 (52:07):
I'm so sorry. I love it.

Speaker 1 (52:10):
Thank you so much, and we'll talk about the sequel
because I got ideas.

Speaker 3 (52:15):
Yeah, that's a great and thank you too.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Thank you. Good luck with everything, and yeah we're gonna
be talking soon. Thanks.

Speaker 4 (52:25):
Okay, well see ya that buye.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Oh man.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
First of all, I will never ever ever look at
my life as anything other than plinko after that.

Speaker 2 (52:38):
It is such a good analogy. It is such a
good analogy. So yeah, what a guy and what career?

Speaker 1 (52:45):
I mean, we we literally didn't list of what this
guy has done.

Speaker 5 (52:50):
You're right, he is just has been so busy.

Speaker 2 (52:53):
Yeah, prolific.

Speaker 5 (52:56):
Okay, this guy stars aligning in you're kidding me that
two of you got picked up in Iowa? And oh,
by the way, the other one, are you kidding me?

Speaker 2 (53:07):
I almost fell out of this chair. They seriously, what
are they putting in the water there? And see.

Speaker 5 (53:15):
Every scout and agency get to Iowa because clearly the
talent or just they're there.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
Take the whoever discovered the two of them should go
to the Hall of Fame of like, you know, go
bring this person out, have them start their own company
because that is amazing.

Speaker 2 (53:31):
Well, oh my god, thank you Riley so much for
taking the time. Again.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Go if you want to have some fun, just go
and to IMDb and check out his resume because it
is very impressive.

Speaker 2 (53:41):
He's working all the time and the stuff that he's done.
It's one great show after another. I mean, he really
knows how to pick a project.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
And speaking of projects, our next movie everybody is so,
I mean, of course we want you to watch with us.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
So it is two thousand and five's Life is Oh God,
I can't believe I'm gonna do it again. Life is rough.

Speaker 1 (54:05):
And I said this before to you, Sabrina, and I'm
gonna say it again. If this is not about a dog,
I quit, Yes I do.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
I just quit, and I'm.

Speaker 5 (54:14):
Gonna do something else crazy titles.

Speaker 2 (54:18):
Yes exactly.

Speaker 1 (54:20):
If this is not about a dog, I am moving
to Iowa to become a talent scout because I don't
get it anymore. The world will have no meaning if
Life is Rough is not about a dog. So thank
you everybody for joining us on this episode again, Thank
you Riley Smith, and we will.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
See you all next time. Bye everybody, Bye,