It's great to be back with you. I have a friend back with me in Tennessee today.

Kirk Cameron is here or Mike Shevers is in the house, whichever you prefer? I answer to both.

I bet you get that wherever you go. I do and it's it's a it's a sweet endearing a term

of endearment to me when people say hey mikey how you do I know that they grew up in the same

era that I did we probably have a lot in common grew up in the same era that you did you just made me feel old all

well you know the decade yeah I got it in the same era that you did you just made me feel old all of a sudden

you know the decade that I grew up in so how old were you when you started

that with growing pains I was nine years old when when my mother took me down to an agent, this was a talent agent in

Hollywood. We lived just outside of Hollywood and she said, you know this could be

fun, who knows, maybe you could get a job on a commercial and you'd make a few thousand dollars

and we could save that up for for your college tuition and so I didn't want to be

an actor I didn't even know what being an actor meant but I went down audition I got a I got a part on a fruit roll-up commercial I got a McDonald's commercial and several others and

it was so much fun that I just kept going and there were days when I hated it. I wanted to play basketball with my friends and my mom instead would

She would put a nice freshly pressed golf shirt on me and brush my hair and tuck my shirt in and drive me for two hours downtown to an audition and then I'd get home, you know,

too late to do my homework and so he was, it wasn't fun as a kid but there was something

in me that really did enjoy it and so I kept up with it.

So what would your friends say when they knew you're doing commercials and

they think you're so great now? Oh you think you're so. There was a few there was a

little bit of that but but my my good

friends it didn't really phase them much until I was working on growing pain

so when I was 14 I started working on growing pains and that was an all day,

everyday thing. So I didn't even go to my school and so I had a different set of friends at

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