Welcome to Zach to the Future.

I'm your co-host, Dashel Driscoll, joined today by Bayside's visionary filmmaker, Mark

Augustler, Hello Mark Paul.

Hello Dashel.

What was it like seeing yourself behind the camera?

Was that like, you're like, ooh, I could maybe move into directing.

This looks good for me.

Well, I wish I had those aspirations when I was younger, but I didn't, unfortunately.

I do now. I mean, I have directed two episodes in my entire directing career. I directed

an episode of Franklin and Bash, and then I directed an episode of Stephen Bach's show

called Murder in the First, with my good friend, Curry Graham, who was also on NYPD Blue

with me. And that was fun to do because I wasn't an actor on that show. And it was just

fun to work with Tay Diggs and Kathleen Robertson, some of the other people in having to

work on the camera side with Stephen Bachgo, is just a whole nother experience. But nowadays,

I'm just so envious of the talent nowadays because you go into the business going, I don't

just have to be an actor, or I don't just have to be behind the camera. I can kind of

do it all. And I'm envious of that because when I started out, it was like, well, you

can only just be an actor. And if you were an actor, you could only be a television actor.

You can just be a film actor as well. And definitely couldn't do commercials because I was

selling out. Now people are just like, whatever is creative and fun and makes you money is

good for I think everyone. No, no one blinks at commercials. You can do commercials all day

long now. And I think it was the correct me if I'm wrong. I feel like you're the TV

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