A Comic Conversation Ep 29 - AJ Buckley & Reb Brown - Silver Age Comic Con 23

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[00:00:18] Comic Con Radio! Get ready to enter our universe! Let's go! Stand up nerds, because this episode is as American as Apple Pie, as American as the Navy Seals, or as American as Captain America Shield. We're going full red, white and blue on this episode of... A Comic Conversation!

[00:00:50] This episode we talk with AJ Buckley, who's most famous for the show Navy Seals and CSI New York, and Reb Brown, the original 1970s live action Captain America. So load up on your weapons, solve a crime and throw your plastic shield. It's time for... A Comic Conversation!

[00:01:08] Ladies and gentlemen, our next guest... guests. Well one of them here is an actor, director known for CSI New York, Navy Seals. His other credits include Blue Bloods, The Good Dinosaur, Narcos, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from 2012 to 2015,

[00:01:22] Justified, Supernatural, Longmire, the superhero squad show, and Wolverine and the X-Men. We also have the original Captain America with us, but he's also been in shows like Love Boat, Chips, Fantasy Island, Alice,

[00:01:36] Threes Company, Miami Vice, and many many more. I can keep reading these all day, but guys on your left, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Brian AJ Buckley and Reb Brown! What's up everybody? How are you?

[00:02:00] This is awesome. How are you guys liking the con so far? How's Reno? We've just been good so far. I haven't really seen it outside, but it looks hot. People were sweating earlier. So it looked very hot, so I'm grateful to be inside and it's nice and cool.

[00:02:14] I've had a wonderful time here and I mean the people have been spectacular. Thank you for coming you guys. God bless you. Awesome! Yeah Silver Age, you guys have been great all day long. We appreciate you so much. I thought it was awesome.

[00:02:27] There you go. Just gotta get it close. We forgot to grab the shield. No, I don't need the shield. I'm retired. Alright, so we're the Distance Nerding podcast. We have a segment on our show called Growing Up Geeky.

[00:02:43] So we want to know what you two geeked out on as kids and Ozzy. What I geeked out on is everything you've been in. So go ahead. What did you guys geek out on?

[00:02:55] I'm originally from Dublin, Ireland and when I emigrated my family moved to Vancouver Canada and there was a show The Real American Hero. Yes! That was one show that I believed it or not. I'm walking on it.

[00:03:10] I was like the guy's kind of can do it but kind of not. I thought he was a perfect character. I loved that show. Reb were you in that show too? Billy Cap is a buddy of mine. I did him. Oh, I'll see.

[00:03:24] Big Wednesday with him and a lot of fun and a movie called White Ghost. He was a great guy. Since Reb you're awfully big. I think people realize how tall you are.

[00:03:34] I was growing up they had Captain America in a cartoon and it was Throw Your Mighty Shield and who knew that I got to do it someday? I loved it. I'd come back from football practice and there it was. That's great. Destiny. It was. It was.

[00:03:49] It really was. Awesome. AJ you kind of mentioned it. You're from Ireland. Yeah, Dublin, Ireland. Yeah, Donnie Brook. What inspired you to get into acting then Reb? We're going to ask you too.

[00:04:00] It's crazy. It's kind of the only thing that I've always known what to do but I don't even know if I know what I'm doing. I was five years old. It was either the Abbey or the Gady Theater.

[00:04:12] I was watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and every time Sneezy came out, it was during Christmas time and my parents took me there.

[00:04:18] When Sneezy came out, the crowd would laugh and I remember this. It was like a tickle in my ear of the sound of the audience. And I kept looking around and I said to my mama, I was like, Ma what is that?

[00:04:28] She's like, well those are actors and I was like that's what I want to do. And then that was pretty much it. So inspired by Sneezy of all people, right? Some people think I say sleazy and I'm like I'm not inspired by sleazy.

[00:04:40] I mean we're all inspired by sleazy. Sometimes. Bye you Reb. I started my acting career. Actually, I was working as a bouncer in a bar and what happened was that an agent came in that actually discovered Valerie Perrine too.

[00:04:53] And I was in the middle of throwing two guys out. I had one in each hand and he said hey kid, do you want to be an actor? And I said just a moment and I banged her head together, threw him outside.

[00:05:03] And I said I don't know what I'd do. He said that'll work. And then I ended up getting under contract at Universal and then I worked from 1972 on. Reb became an actor doing real life things that happen in movies. Exactly, yeah. That sounds like a scene from Roadhouse.

[00:05:19] Yes. Well you know the thing is. Well he was living Roadhouse. Yeah. As you guys can say, you were the script Roadhouse is based on you. Yeah, exactly. It's a fun fact, Roadhouse is based on me. You had cut, you could easily do the sleazy hair too.

[00:05:33] Oh yeah. Like today you still could do sleazy hair. Yeah well pretty close. That's badass. And back then I really had. I was in a movie called Big Wednesday about surfing and that was with Bill Kat and Jan Michael Vincent and Gary Busey.

[00:05:48] And when I went in for the audition I was supposed to be basically the guy that cleaned up everything, the enforcer. So I did my scene and the director goes I think that'll work. And so I ended up doing that and I learned how to surf from that.

[00:06:02] And of course as an actor you know that you always say whatever they ask you to do you say yeah I can do that. That was one of the hardest things I've ever learned how to do was to surf. And I enjoyed it and I loved it.

[00:06:13] That's awesome. And it must be extra difficult being that tall you know. Yeah, well you start out as big as I was you know and the guys out there and they brought me out there when we were doing the movie and with some of the other surfers

[00:06:25] and I didn't know the protocol so I was cutting off other guys in front of me and they're looking at me well I better not mess with him. And the guy that was with me I guess I said how am I doing he's cool.

[00:06:35] Oh man you're doing bitchin'. That's awesome. Now going back early days do you remember your first audition? Yeah well I remember I don't remember my first audition but I remember the audition that sort of changed everything. And you know I was 20, I moved to LA when I was 17.

[00:06:55] I did a movie called Disturbing Behavior with Katie Holmes and Nick Stahl and Jimmy Marsden and came down there and kind of had no clue. I didn't come from any money and was very overwhelmed with the Hollywood sort of lifestyle.

[00:07:08] Lost my way a little bit, ended up living out of my car and I remember there was a sort of a crossroads where it was like do I go back home to Canada get nine to five or do I sort of figure it out

[00:07:21] and I realized because I was living in my car I was having a lot of conversations with myself in the rear-view mirror and I was like oh I'm doing what I love. Family believes in me, got my health. I'm happy. Got no money but that'll come.

[00:07:32] And probably like a week or two later after I started with like sort of accepted the thing I had got a call for CSI New York and I was in a 7-Eleven parking lot. I had $32.95 to my name and I was trying to figure out how to buy

[00:07:48] microwavable mac and cheese, a slurpee and gas and split that up and that's when CBS called and booked CSI New York and it was like a seven-year contract and totally changed my life. Wow, that's amazing. That's cool. My first one I was that agent who discovered me.

[00:08:07] Universal was looking for a football player that could be a bit of an asshole. I fit it pretty nicely and I ended up doing the movie called It Was With Dirk Benedict and Heather Manzies and Four S's. That's the title. Four S's.

[00:08:22] And Strother Martin and that's how I got into business. I mean basically out of a bar into that and I was on the sheriff department at the present time too, off and on before I got the contract but that was the first audition I ever had for that.

[00:08:36] Were you shooting over at Lancashire? Over there? Yeah, that's awesome. Back in the day. That was it. I bet you have at your house like something like gold. Like your photo album is probably the most ridiculous. That's amazing. It doesn't fit under a bed. No, definitely not.

[00:08:54] Sorry, I was listening. I love these dual interviews where the actors the talent are just talking to each other having conversations. We just want to be a fly on the wall. It's like two moose meeting in the woods. Hey, you're okay.

[00:09:08] Well, I think in acting too, you need to test it. It is not an easy road and a big part of our success is because of you guys. The fact that you find what we've done interesting or you've blogged about it

[00:09:22] or tweeted about it and so I know I'm sitting here because of you guys showing up for me so truthfully from the bottom of my heart, thank you for that. I'm sure the same for you and you know, so it's coming to Comic-Con to meet fellow actors

[00:09:35] we're all been on a journey. There's ups and downs and ups and downs but it's like anything. It's like when you're doing what you love and for whatever reason, you know, if you can make money at it and you know, that's the, you know, you won the lottery.

[00:09:52] Here's one for you. I was doing your in Turkey and they named the country properly. Anyway, I was there. I was there and I'm in a loincloth and a wig that looked like it was a reject from the Supremes

[00:10:08] and I'm sweating and I've got this hatchet and I'm in this mud and all this stuff and I'm really having a good time. But that's what acting is. It's enjoying it. You know, you got to love it if you don't. You won't survive because it's like he said

[00:10:23] it's hard but the rewards are incredible and I mean because of you people you know, you're responding to it when you come up to us and you respond to us you know, you make us feel good. That's what it's all about.

[00:10:34] Yeah. 100%. That's awesome. So, Rev, I got to ask you, just kind of getting into so you were part of a bunch of iconic shows like pretty much all of John Mez's childhood right here. And my childhood too. Yeah, I know, right?

[00:10:45] So like, you know, the kids in this we got to ask like what's it like being on the $6 million man, Threes company, Alice, Facts of Life, Love Boat, Fantasy Island, The Ted Knight Show, Miami Vice, Chips, Happy Days.

[00:10:58] Tell us about your experience with basically being the Golden Age of Hollywood. Okay. That was the best. Yeah, I'll tell you what about the Happy Days. When I did the Happy Days, that was an absolute blast, okay?

[00:11:10] Because we had, you know, it was called Rayquiem for a Mouth and in that episode in that episode I play, I was a boyfriend of this girl that Ralph was interested in and I catch him with her, okay?

[00:11:23] I pick him up and put him on the wall and Fonzie comes up to me and he says, hey Rev, you asked me a question. I got a Chevy and he's looking at me, what the heck? Anyway, when we did the film, when we actually did it rehearsal,

[00:11:36] he put his feet on my legs, okay? You know, to help support him. When we did the show I just went... And he goes, Rev you held me up to her, I says, I was pumped. Another one, Threes company with John Ritter, God Rest His Soul

[00:11:52] and Suzanne Summers. We're doing that and I'm supposed to come into the room and with Furley and really be, you know, kick down the door, da da da da. Well during the rehearsals I kicked down the door and I didn't knock down any of the stuff up above.

[00:12:06] Once again, the adrenaline was running and I kicked the door down and it started to fall down and he's on my shoulder and he goes, he's walking in there and he goes, where'd you go Rev? You just broke the set. Then I go through the door.

[00:12:19] But I'll tell you, working in those shows, all of those things were just absolutely wonderful because the people were just great. I really had a good time. That's amazing, man. That's so cool. All right, AJ, CSI New York, you were in 140 episodes. That is cool. 148, 148.

[00:12:39] 148? There you go, there you go. Can you tell us what that's like being in a production like that? I mean it's CBS so it's like... You know, just going up what I said before to go from living in your car to that and having no clue.

[00:12:55] It was just life changing. But I didn't go to college. I sucked at school. I had a really bad... Growing up they didn't know how... Still to this day I have trouble reading and I have to hear everything.

[00:13:09] So actually the funny story is the very first day of filming CSI New York. So go in and I know, I've signed a contract but they're going to test me for three episodes. So I have dyslexia but it's not just like your regular dyslexia.

[00:13:23] Like I really truly can't read it and like even signing a check at like it's sometimes super embarrassing where it's like... Or even like when I'm signing autograph, I need to hear how you spell the name. I've gotten over that fear through you know work and stuff

[00:13:39] but when I showed up on set that day I know that I'm on a test and my first word that I have to say is methoxydiacepropylotryptomy. And the only reason I can remember that because it's still... I have fucking nightmares about this word and it is horrible.

[00:13:53] It is an 18 letter word methoxydiacepropylotryptomy. For a dyslexic person that is acid in your eye. Yeah, that's hell. So and I'm still living in my car and I'm like okay this is before I got the word that it was going through.

[00:14:07] So I show up and the scene is with Gary Cediz and they don't have any scenes written yet. They're just testing out lab techs. And I know that when Gary walks in the room I've got to... I'm there to just give information, information, information.

[00:14:21] And Gary goes he'll say one where he's like what are you at Adam? And I'm like well I found some methoxydiacepropylotryptomy which is was ecstasy. And I said to the right can I just say ecstasy? Like no you got to say the big word and Gary goes ecstasy.

[00:14:32] I'm like okay so I'm like panicking in my trailer because I'm trying to remember and on top of that they were giving me the script on set. Usually I have to have time with it this show up go through the thing and first take I butcher everything.

[00:14:47] I knock over all these scientific things in the lab and for some reason I get through the word and at the end of the scene they call cotton the showrunner Panvasi and Peter Lenkoff were like AJ that was a great choice to play them all nervous and bumbling.

[00:15:03] That was... we love that. Yeah that was a choice. I was like there's a God, there's really God. I believe in God. It was like this crazy moment. Look at that absolutely was a choice. Because Gary just has this cold pan and honestly Gary Sidney's been

[00:15:18] prior to that like meeting him was someone I'd like from Steffen Wolf to Forrest Gump I mean Lieutenant Dan. And he's just staring at me while I'm doing all this stuff and I'm thinking I'm fired, I'm fired, I'm fired I'm just blowing the biggest thing.

[00:15:30] So when that happened it ended up they wrote it into the show that Adam was this bumbling sort of thing and it wasn't until like three seasons in I told the showrunners like oh so you know like this is I was me.

[00:15:45] And even on some days when they put stuff into the script and I was still funding my ways and accurate of how I was learning and stuff I was bumbling through but the more I bumbled naturally because of my anxiety from it

[00:15:57] they're like that is amazing we alive so funny I'm not even trying to bring comedy but they're like keep doing that I'm like I'm having an heart attack I'm just so much anxiety. That's cool. They're gonna be sweating

[00:16:09] I'm like yeah because I can do that on the ground I sweat on command. I was going to ask you about that like 148 episodes like how do you get into the character have the character evolve keep you know kind of improving that character

[00:16:24] that's gonna be interesting like the first day for me honestly I know a lot of actors have a process and I've had some projects where I go in there for me my process is I show up on set, I look up to this guy

[00:16:36] I say thank you so much for this opportunity I go to work, I hit my mark, I say my lines I go home, I kiss my kids I realize how lucky I am to have this job there is no process

[00:16:46] my process is going to work and saying somebody else's lines and being me you know like how do you not get comfortable with that role because now it's like okay how do I flare up my anxiety so that I can play this character the way I need to

[00:17:01] I think because that one was all information information information every role after that has never happened again and I'm okay with never playing a character like that again gotcha but it was just there was so much detail like the writers as both ghost facers or with SEAL team

[00:17:17] I'll get one or two in the can and then I'll just start to improvise how my memory reminds me like for ghost facers we improvise so much stuff but that you know that had to be word for word because it was exposition

[00:17:29] so that was the nine minute stuff but that being said it's the process in getting into character is showing up to work and just being grateful have a job that's awesome Reb we had to ask you this man how did you land the role as Captain America

[00:17:43] like how did that whole thing come about well I was on the contract at Universal at the time and Alan Balter was the producer okay and we had lunch together and he was the same producer today six million dollar man we sat down and talked

[00:17:58] and we just got along and we liked each other the next thing I know they gave me the script was that quick you know I just well thank you very much here hold the shield exactly is that a hold my beer it's hold the shield

[00:18:10] the first time they put that uniform on me I'm going hey this is cool I got a quick story about Captain America the second one we did at Venice Beach California okay we want to hear all the stories alright we're down there filming

[00:18:25] and if you've never been to Venice Beach it's like Star Wars bar let me tell you it is really something Cantina even more shows back then too oh right yeah oh yeah it's the Cantina but like everybody's buffer yeah yeah they're all walking around like yeah I'm pumped

[00:18:41] anyway I'm in there and I'm getting ready to do into the Captain America and I'm in my motor home and I've got my outfit on and I'm ready to go and I come out of my motor home and there's this guy down on the wall

[00:18:53] and he's looking up at me and he's got one of those wine flask he says man I gotta stop drinking I swear Reb's life is like an actual movie the things that he sees catch this and after he falls down and comes back up of course I'm just

[00:19:08] he comes back and says well maybe not he's real yeah but that's it I mean some of the stuff that happens when you do stuff like that it's just incredible you just love it what was it like just walking around with this like giant plastic shield

[00:19:23] and the bike it was fun it was fun that shield is not plastic that is not plastic not vibranium either you know why it was you could see through it because of the highway patrol the highway patrol said that if you don't have something you can see through

[00:19:37] you can't have it that's why I had to wear a helmet too because of the highway patrol but I'm glad I did because I fell off the bike a couple of times and I'm glad I had a helmet on I mean you're a hard guy to stunt double

[00:19:51] did you have to do I did a lot of this stuff yeah a lot of guys yeah that's why my body feels like it does alright because you did your own stunts I did a lot of my own stuff yeah I really did you know I did

[00:20:04] all the fight scenes all the time and then with the motorcycle they said Reb we're going to keep you off of that because Miami Vice here's another one for you guys yeah okay we're filming Miami Vice and I'm doing this scene and I'm firing back at the Ferrari

[00:20:19] okay and everything was cool everything went well and the stunt coordinator who is also the stunt coordinator on chips Paul Knuckles said Reb you feel comfortable about going to the other side and I said yeah sure so I go around to the other side

[00:20:34] he didn't stop the traffic I had to dump it and go underneath the truck what and I hear on the microphone are you okay I said yeah thanks a lot Paul that stuff happens like that you know that yeah all the time we can't stop traffic but

[00:20:49] we can stop a bike under leg they said Reb just run off the road here with the motorcycle into the tree but don't hurt yourself Reb you okay that's nuts well I mean let's talk about SEAL team yes I mean let's hear about that there was like 148 episodes

[00:21:07] of CSI New York and then over a hundred of SEAL team yeah 112 so far yeah that is a crazy career plus would you say like 12 episodes of Ghost Facers yeah we did ghost we did like on Supernatural we did like five episodes

[00:21:23] and then we were the first spin-off originally and then Travis and I wrote and directed that spin-off we were the they did a web series and it was way before web series were what they are now so it's a little like they did not attract

[00:21:37] or anything like that but sort of Eric Kripke called us into his office and was like hey like we want to we thought we were in trouble yeah and we walked in the office and there was like 15 executives and like so we want to

[00:21:49] do a spin-off with you guys and we want you guys to write it and they were like what and they're like and direct it and we're like okay cause it was when we shot the show because we were all filming ourselves and they like

[00:22:00] we don't want to mess with the rhythm of it and so we went off and shot it and again it was it had to be a few years later when that the algorithm understanding of how it was cause they aired it and you couldn't see it

[00:22:10] in the UK or you couldn't see it in this but the show for the Supernatural fans out there that show was as good as it was because of the two captains on that team Jared and Jensen Jared and Jensen are the greatest human beings

[00:22:24] and the best leads of a show I've ever worked on and your show is always defined by your number one and with Jared and Jensen they're both the number ones but one and two you call them they for us to come in and sort of be the presence

[00:22:35] that we were and just sort of take over the show when we would and it would change the filming they were so gracious and just everything that they the reason why that show was what it was is because who they were how much

[00:22:47] what you guys did as fans but the the community the fandom that I've got to be a part of for the last you know 10, 15 years especially with Supernatural yeah the Supernatural world is unbelievable I mean it's it's it is like the people I bet I was in Iraq

[00:23:03] and it was like doing a USO tour in 2009, 2010 I remember like we were in Camp Liberty which was where Saddam Hussein was it was his house and General Tukobi was a three star general and they were based out of there it was just before

[00:23:16] they did the push to go in Afghanistan this is when I was on CSI New York Gary Sinesad sent me to go do this and I remember walking through Camp Liberty and three or four soldiers that I walked by on Ghost Faces for those who don't know

[00:23:30] the Ghost Faces had this sign like Ghost Faces so we would do this Ghost Faces I'd walk by and every once in a while I'd be looking at so many of them to be off in the distance be like Faces whoa I'm like I'm in Iraq

[00:23:40] and then I'd go to the next one and it was like Faces then we fly out Black Hawk to one of the the fobs it was Camp Shocker and as I'm coming in and landing we're getting out to Black Hawk literally like the guys

[00:23:51] running the gun as he goes like this he's like with his he looks like a halo character with the big big thing he's just like I'm like this is crazy but that show affected so many people yeah but SEAL team itself and I've been lucky to be

[00:24:06] part of these big franchise shows keep running and running that's right you hang around enough soldiers and vets you see the kind of sense of humor that we have very dark and it's awesome it's like my sense of humor like we Geek Saga

[00:24:20] another podcast has been coming up here and kind of like doing stuff in between with us and they're both of those guys are MPs I'm a former Army Ranger so it's kind of like the two of us all three of us having to censor ourselves

[00:24:29] when we're around each other yeah because our jokes are pretty dark and pretty messed up but they're funny you got it and even with growing up Irish like the the Irish sense of humor and like the worst of times is when someone starts laughing about something

[00:24:45] and you're like this we should not be laughing right now the way I put it for people to understand if you've ever seen the movie 300 there's the scene where they're all blocking the arrows and he goes well we'll fight in the shade and they all start laughing

[00:24:57] as people are getting shot with arrows that's basically a military sense of humor 100% yeah is you have to laugh in the worst situations by the way if you guys have questions I know there's a lot of SEAL team fans out there and CSI New York fans get ready

[00:25:11] come on up get them ready we got about 15 minutes left can I pee real good? if you want go ahead I mean there's a bathroom if you want to do that instead I was gonna pee here you guys don't mind the capgater you've got a can right there

[00:25:23] you're like the guest of honor here so I gotta pee yeah go for it we'll talk to Reb we won't do anyways exactly right where's he going he's gonna go to the restroom is he pissed off no ha see what you did there alright

[00:25:37] so Reb I know you've got like a million stories right give us just another fun Hollywood story it doesn't matter what franchise it's from or anything you worked on just something fun that you've you know an experience that you've had just being an actor

[00:25:48] uncommon valor with Tex Cobb alright when we were filming the scene up on there where there's supposed to be like an agent orange thing that went over there you know okay we're up on that hill with about 200 feet up and Tex marvelous human being but crazy

[00:26:03] just absolutely crazy he puts his feet on a tree pulls out a joint he says hey Reb fire up and I said no Tex this is the set we're not supposed to do this here he goes doesn't matter they won't bother me I mean he was

[00:26:18] and then he he stole the surfboard from John Milius okay on the film and he was one of the producers and Milius sent him some close-ups that he had in the film and he said if you don't bring back my surfboard these are gonna disappear

[00:26:33] surfboard got back like that quick he was really a character first day I met him he kicked me you know how martial artists they do that he said I'm not used to the boots and he got me burned in hose he's a great guy they all were Patrick

[00:26:49] Fred all those guys that's fine Reb seeing where Captain America and the MCU is now or are now what do you think of the MCU what do you think of Chris Evans and I think they did a beautiful job I would have liked to see it for myself

[00:27:06] and I wouldn't hurt so much were you watching you're like where's the motorcycle what is happening here it's just amazing to me what they can do now I think sometimes that they get a little bit over over it on because they do so much of it

[00:27:19] you can't connect to the story as much you don't feel that the people interaction and that's that's what it's all about I mean Lou Ferrigno and I were talking about that I mean because the difference between when we were doing stuff like that it's real

[00:27:31] we're doing it physically and nowadays they can do it through the CGI and sit back and go man I look cool and it's just different but I think they've done a wonderful job I just I think Captain America is a wonderful character

[00:27:44] and I was really proud to play it I love how you just name dropped Lou Ferrigno the original Incredible Hulk like it was nothing I mean they were the Avengers man he's my buddy we did two films together and we worked together well we actually did

[00:27:56] a Comic Con recently and he looks at me and he goes oh, I'm going to go I'm going to go I'm going to go I'm going to go to the Comic Con recently and he looks at me and he goes Rab you're looking older

[00:28:04] I says Lou you're looking the mayor and he goes oh, oh, oh oh yeah he's a good guy yeah he's a good guy all right we're back sorry Aji got any fun Hollywood stories you mentioned the one about going on the USO tour yeah

[00:28:19] any fun stories on set or just being in Hollywood oh man there's I mean there's yeah I mean one of my very first auditions in Hollywood it's still embarrassing I went into a casting he's one of my very first castings can't believe I'm telling this right now

[00:28:37] but what the hell and I went in and you know when you're like oh I think it's a fart so I'm like and it's like it's a callback and I'm supposed to go in so I stepped outside I'm like it's like nervous gas

[00:28:55] sorry if this is gross anybody but we're committed so we're going for it yeah at a certain area I know where this is going I was like okay I got my sides I'm reading the things and I stepped up and I said

[00:29:04] Mike oh it's gonna work okay cool about to go inside I'm like oh step back I literally shut the door and I'm like gonna let all think it's just a little toot good luck toot and if I can I shit my pants and it wasn't just like

[00:29:17] it was like ultimate moment to show and I'm like I've never had a callback before to like go inside and pretend like that smells not me like what guys who's that who who ripped one who smelled the dealt it you did your best I'm not gonna walk

[00:29:33] I took like two steps in and then I was like oh this doesn't feel good it's like going on my leg I'm like I gotta get out of here I'm like I looked at the lady I'm like I don't feel good and I turned around

[00:29:44] and she's like what and I left and we had pagers then we didn't have so I get like a call from agent it was a really cool pager though I had like a cool chain on it I just put my pager on my hat remember like the chain

[00:29:57] you just put my pager on the I could type like codes on it so I got a code from my agent to call her and I stopped over it was at what was the it was the name of the theater it was on Sunset and Laurel Canyon

[00:30:11] the movie theater there that used to be there I can't remember Sunset Lemley Lemley yeah Sunset Lemley it was an old movie theater so I'm going along and I'm just one I gotta get home because I've chipped my pants but I was like and she's like call me

[00:30:25] 911 I'm like alright so I pull over I'm like put a quarter in I'm like hey she's like the cash interactor said you left it was a callback it was a big deal I'm like it was very embarrassing but I tell you something

[00:30:38] I'm not going to tell a lot of people other than a room full of people out of Comic Con room full of people out of Comic Con as well as on the internet I thought it was a fart yeah I thought it was a fart

[00:30:46] totally thought it was a fart it sounded like a fart at the beginning and it just came out quickly I chipped my pants and I gotta go home she's like oh okay understandable the best part of this is this is going to be on the internet

[00:30:57] oh sweet awesome think that's great hashtag I chipped my pants what happened after that I didn't get the fart after all that he threw out his underwear yeah I thought he'd get like a sympathy callback but they're like that guy's he's got problems

[00:31:13] so yeah now he took off yep there's reasons but I just can't alright questions questions does anybody have any questions in the audience at all coming up I'm going to steal all your time this is your time we'll talk to Rev and AJ don't be scared

[00:31:25] yeah don't be scared you're going to get it ready okay Kim thanks what would be I guess this is a question for both of you what would be a dream role or dream franchise to be a part of okay I'm thinking I mean you've been

[00:31:38] part of a lot of them yeah exactly I mean I think that you know if you had like a series of nightcap in America I think that would be a blast to do that for a period of a period of years and I would have

[00:31:49] enjoyed that very much very much yeah and then you know anytime you're working with a good bunch of guys and you got good people and it's more like a family than you're cool yeah you know that's it what about you you know what I secretly hoping they do

[00:32:04] like a reboot of like young guns or something yes I would love to be okay fun fact they're doing a Gundam thing right now they what they announced that they're doing a Gundam live action young guns young guns oh young guns yes okay sorry nothing else

[00:32:22] but that'd be fun I love old westerns yeah that would be so it'd be cool to do something like something like that I'm surprised they haven't tried to reboot that I know maybe we started something yeah there you go alright so we got a question here

[00:32:35] we're both of you so out of all the the characters you've played the sets you've been on which one have been your favorite what favorite sets that you've been on favorite sets well it's a two-parter but I would say Ghost Facers because when we got to

[00:32:52] write and direct it and sort of the creative process of that and then Jensen and Jared and just being that whole universe and you guys truthfully the fan the fandom in that world the journey that I went on probably top there just like what you're doing

[00:33:08] the way that we shoot Ghost Facers we roll 15 to 16 cameras at once so it was sort of like doing theater because everyone's filming each other was no film crew was high and wide and everyone's holding the editor's nightmare but we would go through it so that in itself

[00:33:22] was just fun and we'd always we'd have a set what we'd have to say but then there would be so much improvisation and then the other one and I'm not just saying it was CLT and truthfully getting to be part of a show that represents the military community

[00:33:38] and getting to work alongside some of the top guys some of the guys from that were on the bin Laden mission some guys from Delta that are on our set and tell their stories and be a part of that and bring like PTSD and some of the

[00:33:55] traumatic brain injury stories to be an easy thing to talk about has been really special things so those two for me it was uncommon Valor I loved uncommon Valor I just got to work with those guys I met a lot of vets it was really special for me

[00:34:12] it touched a lot of people a lot of people came up to me afterwards that were actual military and they thanked me because they said their wives never understood what it was all about and they said that this movie helped them to communicate what friendship and sacrifice

[00:34:28] and all of that meant it was very special to me I mean it's a hard thing to explain to people who haven't been through it you know so like a lot of people don't understand the camaraderie again the sense of humor we mentioned before it's hard to speak

[00:34:43] to like your significant other if they don't know kind of what that bond is you know so and guys I appreciate you both honestly for that too as a veteran I appreciate it oh man thank you brother does anybody else have any questions? question questions come on up

[00:34:57] no be scared calm down Missouri you want to ask them get your questions in they're saying how's your guys today going so far very well this is the highlight man alright especially the questions questions or the highlight now it's there we go alright there we go

[00:35:13] there she is I like the outfit thank you I mean it kind of goes with the it's a couple's costume so it's both of them I'm just sure that's okay yeah you gotta go with it so with all of everything you've been in the characters who have been

[00:35:28] which director has been the biggest jackass to you guys oh some tea cause I watch we're spilling the tea right now cause I've watched too many shows and I've had watched so many films with my father especially some of your films actually surprisingly

[00:35:45] cause it took me a minute to realize who you were when I saw your your poster back there and I'm like oh my god I watched that with my dad when I was like 8 and my dad made a comment of like yeah the director's

[00:35:54] kind of a dick though so I couldn't hear you that well go ahead one more time pardon who is it what director did you not like working well what's director was like the biggest dick oh that was in Centennial don't hold back right yeah Centennial

[00:36:12] I can't remember his name and there's a reason for that I remember I was working with Bob Conrad and a bunch of really good people on it and we had horses that we had to you know mark the line okay anyway my horse wasn't agreeing with things

[00:36:30] and he says what the hell is going on here and the horse takes off with me and I said I'll be back and he really oh boy he gave me a bad time so I hate to say it but I punched the horse

[00:36:42] and he was obedient after that but that was it yeah he was a famous western director and thank God I forgot him I mean if you forgot him that's kind of a great thing but at the same time if an animal is in obedience

[00:36:57] and it tends to listen to you after you suck it maybe it was just a jackass in the first place here's one for you too an uncommon valor when I did the scene where I'm doing the demonstration I shot that 26 times whoa and 26 times he printed number one

[00:37:15] and number 26 and I was gassed and John Milius goes that guy is not right Rev I said tell me about it I guess they're very asshole they'll make you do it 20 or times over most of it was okay but I need 20 more takes just to make sure

[00:37:32] I mean it was unbelievable I was exhausted and I knew he was going to get me exhausted and I knew he was doing it but you know you got to do what you got to do with 26 takes that's crazy I mean compared to the shining with their director

[00:37:47] I mean half the scenes were taken over almost close to 50 to 60 times almost 120 for some takes to the point where like the actors were crying so they weren't bouncing around and jumping up and down and falling around doing somersaults and all kinds of stuff 26 times 26 times

[00:38:06] it was worth it I guess so but thank you so much for your time you're welcome thank you alright guys we're coming up on time right you real quick here I have one more question for AJ I was checking out your Instagram and you were just in Colombia

[00:38:20] what was going on I went down to I got hurt really bad in season 3 on SEAL Team I fell down a flight of stairs an explosion went off early and I didn't know where I was and fell down a flight of stairs and I just absolutely wrecked myself

[00:38:33] like bulging discs in my C4, C5 thoracic tore my L4 L5 tore my labrum tore my meniscus anyways what did a bunch of rehabs and trying to get better but our window to get better was very limited time being between seasons and then one of the team guys

[00:38:50] Kenny recommended I tried stem cell and in Colombia and Medellin they have this place called bio-accelerator went there and when I say I'm a different human being like you don't realize how much pain you're in until you're out of pain and I went down there

[00:39:05] and got some stem cell working it because it was either that or surgery so if anybody has the opportunity to when he's something go to bio-accelerator I'm not paid by them by any means they're just they're state of the art down there I was very nervous

[00:39:22] going to a foreign country to get a procedure done but once I got there and saw how sophisticated where but yeah it's like that's the thing it's like we've all gotten injuries filming these things and stuff you carry through and it's you know you sort of push you

[00:39:36] because you want to be a team player and then when the the camera stops rolling the lights fade your body's broken and so you got to do all this other stuff on the side that people don't see but yeah I was very very grateful to find this place

[00:39:50] bio-accelerator but they I lost all feeling in these three fingers and it was literally like to have that back as a god said that's amazing good for you that's great that's awesome alright let's get to the wrap up questions because I know we got cosplay coming

[00:40:08] I know fans just want to get a chance to some cosplay there's some sick costumes out there man there's some serious money on the line can I vote can I vote because I've seen some amazing ones I don't know who's running the cosplay contest

[00:40:20] but I mean we can ask them if you you know if you want to see you guys are you guys crush it man my favorite part coming to Comic Con is to see the cosplay so well done you guys sometimes I'm glad I'm behind a desk

[00:40:32] you guys take it to a whole new level the videos I've sent my kids back home I'm like oh my god there's a transformer and my boys are like oh dad that's so crazy you're hanging out with transformers oh man alright so I gotta ask you guys

[00:40:45] serious question here very very serious what is your favorite kind of taco I like it like a street taco like off like a corner on the street like not like a restaurant that says to you taco but like a real street taco where you're you're questioning the meat

[00:41:06] but you're like man it's good it smells good it smells so good that's usually the best way there are no food permits no no and there's no coolers either anywhere around and so but you kill the bacteria when you cook something something that bourbon I drank

[00:41:21] is gonna kill that one it scares me when a tail comes out yeah what about you Rev what's your favorite kind of taco beef beef taco yeah alright so guys what's some advice you might have for anybody trying to come into the industry be persistent don't give up

[00:41:36] it's a tough business you gotta wear a helmet you have to wear a helmet because if you don't you'll give up I mean you know it's hard it's very hard but it's well worth the sacrifices that you make okay that's that's what it's all about

[00:41:51] that's what I mean and I to echo that I totally agree on everything you're saying there I've always you know my father once said to me and literally the greatest man I ever met and he said he's like son would you other have pain from discipline

[00:42:07] or pain from regret and pain from discipline is committing and there's risk involved in that but pain from regret is knowing that you could shoulda coulda and he's like so which which do you which you want in life I think it's really good advice yeah

[00:42:23] I must steal that yeah please do please do that's tell his son that's from Papa Joe Buckley there you go what's next for you guys any upcoming projects anything I got another comic con in Texas at Killeen, Texas in September and a couple other things

[00:42:39] that are in the works at the right time God willing he knows that season seven of Seal Team we start filming I got a movie coming out called Bark it's a horror movie and then depending on when the writer strike ends I'll be doing another film after that

[00:42:56] I can't see what it is yet because it's 1998 but it'll start in January in Austria one more thing that I want to put in there my 44th anniversary is coming up in September with my wife Sissy and she's the love of my life congrats to you

[00:43:13] that's what it's about right there she's the real captain America so again guys another really hard question right here hard hitting questions because that's all we ask here at the Distance Arte Podcast 1979 Captain America versus Toad from the Wolverine and the X-Men who wins in a fight

[00:43:32] that's pretty easy yeah yeah Toad it would be very short he would smash Toad yeah be very short I'll tell you that right now alright guys where can everybody follow you if they want to find out more social media things on Facebook and other stuff

[00:43:51] because I'm a senior citizen just A.J. Buckley on Instagram there's been a lot of random ones I'm sure a lot of people say but it's just A.J. Buckley there's no other account just A.J. Buckley as a blue check here we go alright well guys

[00:44:09] let's get a round of applause for these patriots thank you guys for coming tonight man appreciate you guys thank you very much God bless all of you yeah God bless we hope you enjoyed this week's comic conversation this was the production of the Distance Nerding podcast

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