Happy Campers

"I showered in cold water, I looked at a tree. It's been three hours, I need hair product." — Shane Gray Meet the cast of Camp Rock 3! See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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  Jonas. It's an exciting day for the pod.

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  Extremely exciting.

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  That's right. Where's Piper?

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  Piper?

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  Belle?

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  Yes.

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  Eliza?

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  And Eliza's here. Hi, Eliza.

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  Front row.

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  Welcome. Thank you so much for joining us.

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  Thank you so much. We're so glad you're here.

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  We're so happy. And I believe we met Belle. We met Belle before.

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  So my mom hosted you all at Saddleback Easter Church service back in like 2009. I was one years old.

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  You were one years old when we met.

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  What did you remember most from that experience?

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  It was at the Angel Stadium. And my mom hosted you all, and then you guys sang "It's a Betsy Spider" to me, which is absolutely crazy. So it is a full circle moment to be here today.

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  Wow.

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  You know what? I think that's the only time we've ever sung that song.

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  It's a bitzy spider.

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  That's all we got. We have to pay for the song now to use it on the podcast. No, that's probably the first time we've ever performed that song together.

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  Well, I love that. Well, we're honored that you're here. To everyone here, all the warriors, thank you so much for spending your day with us. And we have a very special show for you. Today, Camp Rock is out. We are so excited to be introducing you to the new cast, the Camp Rock 3.

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  Oh. Oh no, this is dangerous. My soundboard is Camp Rockified. Let's back it all the way up real quick. Before we get right into Camp Rock 3, let's go to where the journey began with Disney as a whole for us.

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  Where's Reconnect Reconnected?

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  But more specifically, with Camp Rock.

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  Right.

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  Okay, so to really paint the picture, we have to go all the way back to the year 2006. We had just moved from New York, New Jersey area, to Los Angeles. And one of our big first meetings was right here in this town that we're in right now, in Burbank, at the Disney Channel building. And they would basically give us these scripts for fake shows that just had funny bits for us to do. And Kevin, you actually found

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  Yeah.

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  one of our OG auditions for the Disney Channel. And for whatever reason, because the audition was not very good.

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  Nope.

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  They saw enough promise in us that they kind of kept us in mind for different projects. And I remember specifically, we were on tour in '07, early 2007. We called it the Marvelous Party Tour, which is really great. Great name. And we were playing at Six Flags across the country. And our father said, hey, Disney has this project that they're putting together. They hope it'll become like the next high school musical, and they'd like Joe to audition. And so with this camera, it's called a Flip Vid.

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  They also asked, they said, the audition is one song of your choosing, and a dance as well. They didn't say exactly what kind of dance. We really need to find this clip, though.

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  We gotta find it. Basically, the audition was shot so poorly.

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  We thought we crushed it. We thought we crushed it. We used the lamp in the hotel room, but turned it like this, to hold it like this, so that the hole was like a spotlight. That's as good as we got.

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  And to be honest, I was panicked that basically Joe was gonna go do this movie, become a big star on his own, and then the band would be over. But our dad had a different idea. Basically, he called and said, exactly. If you want Joe to be in this movie, then you gotta include Nick and Kevin in some way. And so they literally wrote in our two characters, Nate and Shane.

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  There really happened to be other two.

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  Shane, no, he's Shane. What's your character's name?

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  Jason.

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  Jason. We still don't know to this day if we're brothers in the movie or not.

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  In Camp Rock?

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  Yeah, nobody knows.

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  In two, they say brothers.

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  The credits at the end of the first one, it just says Nate and Jason.

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  Yeah.

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  No last name.

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  No last name.

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  So we don't know to this day. I think we can assume that we're related in the film.

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  I think cousins.

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  Have you ever watched the first one?

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  The Camp Rock?

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  Yeah.

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  Have I watched it? No.

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  Should I?

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  You've watched it.

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  Of course I've, yeah.

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  We watched it at the premiere, I think.

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  I love watching my own work. We watched the premiere, I remember. Yeah, it's interesting that they watched the dance part, knowing that I'm not the greatest dancer. And they were like, we're still gonna hire you, and you're still gonna do a dance number.

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  They believed in you. They saw something.

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  Start the party.

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  Somebody finally saw something.

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  Yes. Starts out the party.

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  Well, anyway, cut to 18 years later. And here we are, the release of Camp Rock 3, which we produced alongside our friends over at Disney. And really got to do the thing that was most exciting for me on this project, which was putting together a group of absolutely, you know, just incredibly talented young people to take the torch and kind of usher in a new generation of camp rockers. And this cast is just amazing.

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  Stacked.

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  It's been incredible already just to see all of their profiles, and they're just exploding as the promotion for the movie's begun. And it's just gonna be, you know, even more massive once people have seen the movie. On Disney+, which you can watch right here. Click over from this platform. Or now, we're on Hulu as well, guys.

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  Yes, you can like

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  Oh.

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  So you're watching us and listening to us.

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  Yeah. But we have some of the cast here today from the film.

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  It's gonna be great.

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  And they're gonna share some of their camp rock stories. We're gonna get all the info. It's gonna be a lot of fun.

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  All the tea.

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  Ooh.

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  We're gonna ask the hard-hitting questions.

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  The hard-hitting questions.

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  It's what we're known for here.

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  Is it?

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  Yeah, that's the reviews are in. What kind of questions should you ask, like to start?

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  I have a list, Kev. I don't know if you got this, too.

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  I did.

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  Oh, yeah. Well, should we bring them in?

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  I think we should.

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  Our first guests play Sage and Fletch in the film, Camp Rock 3, played by Malachi Barton, Lee Manu Segura. Here's a clip of them in the film now. And then we're gonna bring them on out.

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  At least I am inspired. At least I am a break. Confident and insecure, even at my best.

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  Not bad.

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  I'm still struggling with the lyrics. Just gotta have fun with it.

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  You make it sound so easy.

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  All right, just so you know, all of this isn't gonna distract me. All right, I'm in it to win it. So am I.

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  Congratulations, guys. You guys are no strangers to premieres. So tonight's not a big deal for you.

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  Yeah, it'll be fun.

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  Yeah, it's gonna be so sick. Obviously, it's not strangers, but also like still, I'm just excited.

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  Yeah.

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  I'm so excited to see it.

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  It's been a crazy month already of promo.

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  Yeah.

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  Between Camp Rock stuff getting going, but also Sendance most recently.

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  My girls absolutely loved it.

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  Oh, did they?

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  Yeah, Disney franchises. How's that feel?

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  Oh, my gosh. It feels so, honestly, so crazy. I like have to pinch myself every day. Like, God is so good. And I think it just feels so unreal, you know? It feels very special to be a part of all these franchises, though, because, you know, I'm gonna be a part of all these, this new generation's childhood, and that means so much to me. So I know how much, you know, the movie's meant to me growing up. And so now that I'm gonna be a part of it, it feels so wild. Yeah, I love it.

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  Yeah, I mean, it is crazy for us, as we mentioned on set, to be, you know, looking at all of you and seeing how tremendously talented you are. But really, carrying the torch and introducing a whole new generation to something that, you know, we loved, being a part of.

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  Yeah.

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  And that we look back at now with such nostalgia and gratitude. Malachi, for you, I mean, stepping into this role after having already been in so many beloved films with Disney and taking this on. Was there any pressure about the Camp Rock franchise? Were you aware of it even before you signed on to do it?

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  Oh, 100%, I was aware. I think that, I've said this before, I think that the Camp Rock franchise is like something that's just like automatically embedded into your childhood, no matter what.

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  Ooh, I love that.

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  And yeah, it's great. It's so great.

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  We told him to say that.

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  Yeah, he did. He paid me right backstage before I came on.

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  Exactly. Say this, please.

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  But I mean, I think that for a second, I was like, oh, is there gonna be pressure? But honestly, I just wanna like say thank you to you guys for making it feel like there was no pressure. Because it was like, you guys could have so easily been like, this is our baby, and this is like, we've created this, and this has been our thing, and like, have to do what you guys have to do. But you guys gave us the space to create and make it our own in a way. And so I just wanna say thank you to that. And like, made it feel like there was no pressure. But obviously, there's the like, oh, shoot, we're making Camp Rock again. A little bit of pressure.

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  There was pressure.

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  Well, hearing Malachi with Tomorrow and Lee Manu with One Beat Away for the first time, I was, we were getting, you know, going through the production process. And hearing your versions of it, and I was just like, okay. It's gonna work.

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  Yeah, so good.

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  It's so good.

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  Have you guys seen the film yet?

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  We've seen it once.

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  Nice. Oh, you've seen it once?

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  It was so good.

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  Great.

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  Have you guys seen the film?

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  Yeah, we have. We did an early premiere at my house with Mark Girls.

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  Did you?

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  So we did a full sleepover for, full huge like blowout sleepover for the Descendants film.

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  Oh, my God.

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  Full decorations, the whole thing.

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  Yeah, our daughter watched it, too, actually, most recently on vacation. It's kind of one of her first live-action movies, and she just loved it.

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  Are you serious?

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  Descendants or Camp Rock?

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  Camp Rock.

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  Camp Rock, yes.

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  Wow.

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  And what's been so fun to see, too, is all the reaction online before the movie came out. You know, now it's on Disney+, which you can watch here. But people flipping out about the new songs, but also some of the songs that were a part of the original film.

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  Right.

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  Play My Music being one of those. And for us, "We Rock", which was incredibly hard to sing as a now-grown man.

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  Whoa.

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  Yeah, it just happens.

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  As Jesus is camp rockin'.

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  It just happens, guys.

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  But some of those reactions are, you know, so great to see parents watching with their kids.

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  Yeah, so full circle.

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  It's full circle. Have your parents watched the movie?

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  Oh, 100%.

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  Of course. We're like such big fans. Like literally, it was played all the time when I was growing up. Like every time I would come home from school, turn on Disney Channel and that would be the movie that would turn on. And we're fans. We're big fans.

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  Love it. And Malachi, your mom auditioned for American Idol, is that correct?

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  Yeah, my mom, so my mom was on American Idol for, I forget, was it like top, up until top 10? She's right there. Was it 12? Okay, okay, okay. She's, okay.

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  Did we make it to Hollywood?

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  Okay, we made it to Hollywood.

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  But now she works on, uh, now she works on American Idol.

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  But you work on American Idol now. Oh, cool. I love it. That's great.

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  That was my little, like, that's my little connection to the singing world. She's like the goat. She's so chill. I love my mom.

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  Was there ever like, uh, American Idol dreams for yourself? Were you like thinking, maybe I'll do this?

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  I, you know, maybe, maybe. But I was also like, that's my mom's thing. Like, let my mom, like, that's my mom's thing. She's like the singer and she has a great voice. So it's like, I'm just gonna let her do her thing. And then I went into the acting world and then like, the musical stuff started happening and I was like, oh, shoot.

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  Does that mean that there's more independent music coming from you guys?

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  I mean, um, yeah, you can always definitely expect. I'm actually working on my album, my first album right now. So exciting. Crazy, crazy.

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  Yeah, um, I mean, I've always been like acting first, but I also think I just like, I trust God's plan. Like, that's all I can do. And like, I think there's something so special about giving everything to God and just trusting him with everything. So like, what happens, happens. You know what I mean?

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  Cool. That's awesome. Love it. Well, we'll be excited for music from you then, both of you.

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  Thanks. Yeah, so exciting.

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  One thing you guys definitely can do better than we can though, is dance.

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  Oh, okay.

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  Yeah, it's very impressive.

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  It was extremely hard.

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  That's so sweet. Yeah. Oh my gosh. The choreo for this movie, for Camp Rock 3.

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  Dude, intense. Jamal was putting it, going, like putting in extra hours.

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  How was rehearsal process? Cause ours was non-existent.

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  Our rehearsal processes were very different. I mean, mine, I was on tour. I was doing the.

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  Yeah, just this other big tour that was happening last year.

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  Yeah.

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  I may have gone and seen you.

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  You may have gone. I may have seen you back.

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  Tell everybody at home then, if they didn't, they don't know what you guys are talking about. What's the tour that you're talking about?

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  Yeah, so I did, we're doing another tour together this coming summer. Um, and it's the Worlds Collide Tour. It's Descendants, Zombies in Camp Rock. That's this year. Um, and then last year, we did Descendants and Zombies. Um, but yeah, it was, it was wild.

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  Is it like zombies attack the camp and then?

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  Like basically, honestly.

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  Is it like medieval times a little bit?

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  Oh, 100%. Are you kidding me? We're just all battling on stage.

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  We do need a Avengers style, I think, Camp Rock Descendants zombie movie.

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  I think that would be sick. Cross all of like.

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  All the universes collide. But there's, there's one problem is that when you're in multiple franchises, we have to figure out a way to.

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  It's the multiverse, you know?

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  What if it was like a screenplay and it was like Worlds Collide and we had to do quick changes into different characters? That would be, that'd be great. Let's pitch it. Let's pitch it. Come on. There we go.

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  This is expensive.

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  I know. Oh, look at that. Do you just have like the time of your life with that thing right there?

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  I have.

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  Yes, he does.

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  I just feel like I just see you.

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  I wish I could carry this. I wish it worked like this in real life or just happens in the wings. There's quite a few. There's a new guy on here.

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  What does it have?

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  She's really good.

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  Oh, I like that. What's your favorite one?

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  It changes all the time. My favorite one is.

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  That one's good.

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  That's when we're, that's usually when there's an argument between these guys.

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  I'm Shane Gray for crying out loud.

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  I like that a lot. I like that a lot.

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  Some drama.

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  Throwback.

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  Big throwback.

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  We, we got off track for a second. So you, you were rehearsing while you were on tour?

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  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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  Playing double duty.

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  Yeah, they had hired one of the dancers that were on tour and Jamal was sending all the choreos. I was, because I was obviously on tour during pre-production, I wasn't able to make it out until we literally started filming. So then I was like.

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  Well, we ran into each other and I looked at him backstage. We, he was, they were so kind. The entire cast on this, the live show, met, met our daughters and took some pictures. Photos and I've never seen my girls blush the way they blush when I met you and watched you on this movie. Um, I'm not comfortable with it, but it was a great moment. You made them feel so special. But you kind of looked at me and was like, so, and I was like, obviously I knew that you'd been cast in Camp Rock. But none of the other cast members of the tour had seen.

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  You're just like looking at each other, communicating through eyes.

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  I know something, you know something and you hung back and we got to talk about it a little after. But it was a good like, okay, we know the secret.

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  Well, that's a fun question then. I mean, I guess, uh, where were you guys when you got the call? You're like, hey, you're gonna, you made it. You're gonna, or they, they offered or the audition. I'm not sure how the process went for you guys.

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  I was actually, uh, I was in the car with my mom. We were in the mountains. I had like no service and I get the call from my manager and she sounds like super bummed. She's like, hey, like Disney wants to let you know they're really proud of you and they're happy you came in and you got the role. And I remember like screaming, I like burst into tears, fangirling, all the things at once. But yeah.

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  I was, I was in, I was in the middle of intermission. I was literally in the middle of the intermission. Yeah. My mom pulled me aside.

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  It's a good intermission.

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  My mom was like, yo, you're never gonna believe this.

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  You're going to Hollywood.

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  No, literally. Exactly.

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  You're going to Canada.

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  I know. I was going to Canada.

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  Uh, well, before you go, we, we on our, on our show, Hey Jonas, we always have this bowl of questions that we don't know what they are. If you guys are willing to participate with us.

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  I would love to participate. I think that'd be so much fun.

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  Camp themed. Whatever that means.

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  Camp themed. Would you guys like a pull?

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  I would love to pull.

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  So cute.

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  Oh gosh. And I'll cheer her. I'll pass the ball. There you go. Boom. Oh, it's an eight ball. I love that. So sick.

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  Limani, do you want to go first?

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  Do it.

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  I'll go first.

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  What do you got?

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  In Camp Rock, Shane Gray works at the camp as an instructor. Which famous musician or artist would you hire to work at your camp?

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  That's a good old.

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  Wait, that's crazy.

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  Alec I. Burton. I'm just kidding.

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  That's kind of, that's a good, that's a good one. Um, this is really good. Um.

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  Hit the she's really good button.

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  She's really good.

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  I don't know. I think like.

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  She's really good.

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  To help you.

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  Probably like Ariana Grande or something.

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  That's great.

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  Like a famous like pop star or something.

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  Yeah, she's, she's very good at music.

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  She could teach us all their tips and tricks.

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  Just like working, you just hear whistle notes, whistle tones, whistle notes, whatever they're called.

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  Literally, that would be fair.

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  All right. Great answer. Okay.

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  Let's do it. Oh, you're in charge of wake up music every morning. What's your pick?

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  Hmm, that's a good one.

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  I feel like they're hearing like, what are they hearing? Like, dude, I like, this is like niche pick, but I'm gonna say like, I'm gonna say like, could you imagine like just hearing Jireh by Maverick City Music just like playing? Or like Firm Foundation or something like that? That'd be lit.

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  Solid.

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  I feel like that'd just be like super dope.

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  That's great picks.

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  Tennessee Whiskey or Broken Halos or something like that. Basically, I'm trying to set my playlist and we can open the camp up with that.

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  All right. I'll send a bunch of songs.

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  Play your whole playlist, actually.

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  Play the whole playlist.

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  I like it.

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  There we go. We'll share them later.

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  Well, thank you guys so much for hanging out with us.

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  Oh my gosh.

• 18:03Speaker 00

  Everybody, we love it. Come on. Amazing. You know, I recently learned that every 36 minutes, another child in the US is diagnosed with cancer. Think about that for a second. Some of the bravest warriors you'll ever meet aren't professional athletes or superheroes. They're kids in this fight.

• 18:19Speaker 02

  And every day, these young warriors face challenges most adults couldn't imagine. Yet they continue to show up with incredible courage, determination, and hope.

• 18:26Speaker 00

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• 18:29Speaker 02

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• 18:41Speaker 00

  But we're not done yet. We need your help. Together, let's bring every warrior home.

• 18:45Speaker 02

  Join the fight to end childhood cancer at HyundaiWarriors.com or ask about Hope on Wheels at your local Hyundai dealer. Malachi and Limani, awesome.

• 18:53Speaker 00

  So good.

• 18:53Speaker 02

  Superstars. Superstars. Just incredible to see.

• 18:57Speaker 00

  They just got it.

• 18:57Speaker 02

  Their star rising. It's gonna be.

• 18:58Speaker 00

  You just know.

• 19:00Speaker 02

  Yeah, they're gonna be in many, many movies to come. I'm excited to hear their music too. And whatever music the Malachi said he wasn't but going to not, he's going to release, you know?

• 19:09Speaker 00

  It was very mysterious.

• 19:10Speaker 02

  It's cause I'm working on a project with him right now.

• 19:11Speaker 00

  Oh, gotcha. You signed him separately.

• 19:14Speaker 02

  I signed him, yeah.

• 19:14Speaker 00

  Oh.

• 19:15Speaker 02

  He doesn't know yet.

• 19:16Speaker 00

  Good get. Well done.

• 19:17Speaker 02

  He doesn't know yet or.

• 19:18Speaker 00

  He doesn't know yet?

• 19:18Speaker 02

  Or his agents and managers.

• 19:20Speaker 00

  Speaking of agents and managers.

• 19:21Speaker 02

  Speaking of agents and managers.

• 19:23Speaker 00

  Great segue.

• 19:24Speaker 02

  Kevin's agent and manager is next. Um, actually, the Connect 3 manager.

• 19:30Speaker 00

  That's right.

• 19:30Speaker 02

  New character.

• 19:31Speaker 00

  Unlocked.

• 19:32Speaker 02

  Character unlocked.

• 19:32Speaker 00

  And classic character continued.

• 19:35Speaker 02

  Maria was in the first two, uh, Camp Rocks. She of course is Mitchy's mother, but also now the owner and operator of Camp Rock. And we find her in Camp Rock 3.

• 19:46Speaker 00

  I love it.

• 19:47Speaker 02

  Um, there's a lot of mysterious mystery about her.

• 19:49Speaker 00

  I want to know all the lore behind, like the, the. How did she get the camp?

• 19:53Speaker 02

  I think she has a backstory. Let's talk to her about it. Please, ladies and gentlemen, please make some noise for Sheri Cola and Maria.

• 20:01Speaker 03

  My family and friends. The group chat, hello.

• 20:05Speaker 02

  Here we are.

• 20:05Speaker 03

  This is like quicksand over here.

• 20:08Speaker 00

  Yeah, you, you, we sink into these. You need a pillow in the back there?

• 20:11Speaker 02

  For our first live audience, we wanted it only family and friends.

• 20:15Speaker 03

  Yes, exactly.

• 20:16Speaker 02

  Really warm audiences.

• 20:17Speaker 03

  Yeah, you all know too much. Okay, lock the doors.

• 20:19Speaker 00

  We will be interviewing that later.

• 20:20Speaker 02

  Um, well, thank you for being on the pod. This is very exciting to have you both a part of this. And, um, obviously, this is, you're no stranger to Camp Rock.

• 20:29Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 20:30Speaker 02

  So it feels great to have you back. I think we should show a clip of, of Maria in Camp Rock 3 now.

• 20:34Speaker 07

  Welcome to Camp Rock.

• 20:39Speaker 07

  Let me ask you something. Who's ready for the best summer ever? Woo hoo. I'm Connie Torres, camp director, and yes, Mitchy's mom. This camp changed Mitchy's life and now I run it, which means I get a chance to watch it change yours.

• 21:00Speaker 07

  Couple of quick rules. Most important, no phones. I know, I know, but Camp Rock is better face to face than screen to screen. Trust me. You know, when I look out at all of you, all I can think about is all the talent that has come through Camp Rock. Legends are made here. And I know that this summer will be no different.

• 21:29Speaker 02

  Nice, nice.

• 21:30Speaker 04

  That was so fun.

• 21:31Speaker 02

  Yeah, it was incredible. We also have a clip of our good friend Sheri Cola as well.

• 21:35Speaker 04

  Oh, yes.

• 21:36Speaker 02

  We should play that now. Yes, play.

• 21:37Speaker 04

  Little Miss Lark.

• 21:38Speaker 00

  It looks a lot nicer though.

• 21:40Speaker 01

  They have, they have four engineers.

• 21:42Speaker 04

  Hold on.

• 21:42Speaker 01

  Lark?

• 21:43Speaker 04

  Oh, hey guys. Sorry, I can't really talk right now. You have me producing Final Jam, which is like a billion tiny shows in one on a summer camp's budget. So.

• 21:52Speaker 01

  We're pretty familiar with what the Final Jam is.

• 21:54Speaker 04

  Well, get ready for my Final Jam.

• 21:56Speaker 01

  Lark, you let your hair down. Literally.

• 22:00Speaker 04

  How nice of you to notice, Jason. I have bug bites on my bug bites and a lot to discuss with my therapist. You'll be getting the invoice.

• 22:08Speaker 01

  Oh, come on. You're gonna miss this place. You know you are.

• 22:12Speaker 04

  I guess the songs are kind of catchy. You know what? I don't have time for this. I'm busy. I'll see you later. Don't be late.

• 22:18Speaker 01

  I saw that smile.

• 22:21Speaker 00

  You think we bear enough? Probably not. How many bug bites?

• 22:24Speaker 04

  What an arc.

• 22:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 22:26Speaker 04

  Lark has never been more vulnerable. Mosquito bites.

• 22:30Speaker 00

  On your mosquito bites. It just looks so much like newer than Camp Rock 1 and 2. It just looks so much.

• 22:37Speaker 02

  The first two were shot on a potato, I think.

• 22:39Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 22:40Speaker 02

  And it's just funny to see now Camp Rock 3. We were just saying while we were watching the first clip, taking away their cell phones. It was never really a problem in Camp Rock 1 or 2.

• 22:49Speaker 00

  No?

• 22:49Speaker 07

  Yeah, it's like camp is more important than ever now because that's where you make real connections. And it's just a different time, a different world.

• 22:58Speaker 00

  It really is.

• 22:59Speaker 07

  I love that that was in there, that we addressed that, the importance of really relating. And then they're disappointed and then they're so happy at the end because they had real connection with real, living people.

• 23:08Speaker 04

  Yeah, making memories, you know?

• 23:10Speaker 00

  Do we actually take their phones away for the entire production, though?

• 23:13Speaker 02

  We did.

• 23:13Speaker 04

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 23:14Speaker 00

  Yeah, we did.

• 23:14Speaker 04

  I still have Malachi's phone, by the way.

• 23:18Speaker 00

  We haven't given it back yet?

• 23:19Speaker 04

  This weekend.

• 23:20Speaker 02

  I guess for you, Maria, like stepping back into a familiar role, a new role, because I think we're, just before you got out, we were trying to kind of understand you became the person that runs Camp Rock.

• 23:32Speaker 07

  That's right, camp director. I love that. I love that they gave me that arc, that I started as a self-sacrificing mom who wanted to make her daughter's dreams come true and was willing to work in the kitchen for a discounted rate. You're going to Camp Rock, the famous line. And then I come back and we're still working. And then even though Mitchy is now a big superstar, like Demi, she still cares about the place where dreams came true. It's not just about her kid. She wants to be there for other kids. That's so beautiful. And I love, as a real mom, I love to see other moms that love on all kids, not just their own. I always would notice that when a mom would love, support, encourage my child. It's just a beautiful thing. So I love that about Connie. I love being Connie.

• 24:17Speaker 07

  I love seeing you guys again. That was so.

• 24:19Speaker 00

  It was so surreal seeing you up there on day one. Like when we showed up and you were standing on the Final Jam stage on the lake, it was just like, okay.

• 24:28Speaker 02

  I was kind of emotional. I remember like.

• 24:30Speaker 00

  Yeah, it was weird.

• 24:31Speaker 02

  Even though it was a different location. I mean, technically, we shot the first one somewhere else, but it was like this wave of, you know, after reading the script and being a part of the production, thinking of all the things we're gonna do and meeting the cast. And then once we saw you up there, I was like, oh, man. That was all brought back to us. It was really great.

• 24:49Speaker 07

  That's so awesome.

• 24:50Speaker 02

  Sherry, having a part has been a blast.

• 24:52Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 24:52Speaker 02

  And, you know, every dysfunctional band needs a manager.

• 24:56Speaker 04

  Listen, Lark is hanging on by a thread. You know what I'm saying? She's two phones, two coffees. Am I even acting? But it was such a delight, honestly, just playing with all of you, especially that first day, because right now people are craving that nostalgia. They want to feel good and they want to go back to like a really just joyous time. And I feel like this movie is really gonna deliver. And it's so cinematic. It's elevated. Veronica Rodriguez, shout out to our director.

• 25:23Speaker 02

  Who you've been longtime friends with.

• 25:26Speaker 04

  Yes, yes. We met at Funny or Die in 2017.

• 25:29Speaker 00

  So that's how we actually got you. Got it, got it.

• 25:31Speaker 04

  No, but honestly, we've just been like creative soul sisters on this journey. So to be able to, you know, come alive through Camp Rock 3 is a dream come true.

• 25:40Speaker 07

  Yeah, I knew we were in good hands.

• 25:41Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 25:41Speaker 07

  And when I saw you guys, the same thing happened to me, where I got a little like, because you're all daddies now, too. You're dads. I'm like, wait, these guys were teenagers. And I noticed that we all have girls.

• 25:54Speaker 04

  Aww.

• 25:55Speaker 02

  Yeah, I was gonna say.

• 25:55Speaker 07

  You're all girl dads, so far.

• 25:57Speaker 02

  During the second movie, I think, your daughters were tiny. I mean, they were my daughter's age now, I think.

• 26:05Speaker 07

  Yes.

• 26:06Speaker 02

  Which is wild.

• 26:06Speaker 07

  Yeah, that was, and I remember how sweet you guys were to my little girls, who are now, Bridget is 23 and Madeline's gonna be 21.

• 26:14Speaker 00

  Crazy.

• 26:14Speaker 07

  And it's just wild. You guys were so sweet to them, not just their teen fans, but even their little fans. You encouraged her and what to sing, because she's a singer. And I remember Bridget interrupted an interview you did, and you were so sweet to her. You weren't like, who's this kid in my way? He wasn't like that at all.

• 26:33Speaker 02

  I was rude because I was in character.

• 26:36Speaker 07

  No, you were, you were darling.

• 26:37Speaker 04

  I'm seeing gray for crying out loud.

• 26:39Speaker 02

  It was part of my act. Well, it's been so fun, obviously, to be, to watch leaving this young, new gen. And I'm curious, like for you, Maria, like being on set, did you find yourself seeing any similarities to the original cast?

• 26:54Speaker 07

  Oh, yeah.

• 26:55Speaker 02

  That you were like, oh, I see it. I see talent.

• 26:58Speaker 07

  Totally. I mean, if Disney knows something, it's how to find young talent.

• 27:02Speaker 00

  They're kind of good at this.

• 27:02Speaker 07

  And it was amazing, amazing. Yes, of course, I see Demi and Leomani and I saw, I think they actually had even more characters have their own little storyline.

• 27:13Speaker 02

  Definitely, yeah.

• 27:14Speaker 07

  Thanks to Edie's script, which is terrific.

• 27:17Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 27:18Speaker 07

  And I love that because there's a little bit of something in every character that I think a lot of young people will identify with. You know, those struggles that are so important to us during that developmental stage. And, you know, everything matters so much. My crush, my career.

• 27:33Speaker 02

  Right.

• 27:33Speaker 07

  You know?

• 27:34Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 27:34Speaker 07

  And I just.

• 27:35Speaker 04

  Even reading my diary.

• 27:38Speaker 04

  Yeah. The dynamics out with the friendships and the chemistry. Everyone is like, we love each other, honestly.

• 27:45Speaker 07

  And did you guys know when you did it how much it was gonna be loved? Did you get a sense at all that your big movie break was gonna be such a hit?

• 27:55Speaker 02

  I mean, we had no idea. I mean, but we obviously, we were, we were touring at the time. I mean, when Camp Rock was being made, we kind of took a break from touring for the first time in a couple of years. And there wasn't as much social media when we first started with Camp Rock 1.

• 28:11Speaker 00

  MySpace.

• 28:12Speaker 02

  So it was just kind of bubbling in the States because Disney started playing our music videos and Disney Channel. And so by the time the movie came out, it was, the reception was just wild. And it was an interesting, like, high school class because that was Zack and Vanessa and the High School Musical cast. Zack and Cody was a popular show at the time. Trying to think, there's, and it's just, there's so many great, kind of amazing vocalists and dancers and singers. It's really wild. So to answer your question, we had no idea.

• 28:43Speaker 07

  No, do you think that's why you guys were so good? Because you were so relaxed and having fun?

• 28:48Speaker 02

  I think we just didn't know what we were doing.

• 28:51Speaker 00

  We didn't know any other way.

• 28:52Speaker 02

  Still don't.

• 28:53Speaker 07

  That's the best.

• 28:54Speaker 02

  But I think, you know, the moment we kind of realized that Disney really understands how to do a global event was after the second movie came out. And we were touring in parts of the world where English wasn't the first language.

• 29:10Speaker 07

  Right.

• 29:11Speaker 02

  And they would know a majority of our songs as the Jonas Brothers, but when we would go into the Camp Rock songs, they would know every single word because they'd been, you know, learning English in a lot of ways because of this.

• 29:20Speaker 07

  That is so cool.

• 29:22Speaker 02

  Or, you know, just consuming it in different ways. And that was a really powerful thing for us.

• 29:26Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 29:27Speaker 07

  Yeah, that's how far the reach is.

• 29:28Speaker 04

  Yeah, Camp Rock is a universal language, seriously. Like, you can feel the impact. And even, you know, going to your concert in Vancouver.

• 29:36Speaker 07

  Oh, it was so fun.

• 29:37Speaker 04

  You see how much it means to the fans. And to see you three like operate with so much gratitude and, you know, it really was touching, touching to witness.

• 29:48Speaker 02

  That was a fun show.

• 29:48Speaker 00

  It was a great show.

• 29:49Speaker 07

  It was the last to be there.

• 29:50Speaker 02

  For those that don't know, listening or watching the pod, we were shooting in Vancouver, Camp Rock 3, and it just so happened that we also had a concert around that same time in Vancouver.

• 29:58Speaker 04

  Multitasking over here.

• 29:59Speaker 02

  The whole cast came out to the show.

• 30:01Speaker 00

  We made it schedule it appropriately.

• 30:02Speaker 04

  You squeezed it in.

• 30:03Speaker 02

  And at 90% we had MGK out as a special guest, which was great. Who's become just a great friend of ours. Had you been to a show before that?

• 30:11Speaker 07

  I have.

• 30:12Speaker 04

  Of yours?

• 30:12Speaker 07

  I've been to a Jero concert.

• 30:13Speaker 02

  You have, yeah.

• 30:14Speaker 04

  I have not.

• 30:15Speaker 07

  Yes.

• 30:16Speaker 04

  And I highly recommend it. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 30:19Speaker 07

  It was great.

• 30:20Speaker 04

  First timer.

• 30:21Speaker 02

  So, so, so.

• 30:22Speaker 04

  Certainly not the last. But yeah, it was just so cool to see how highly anticipated this film is. Because you all like did a little shout out when you're on stage and everyone went wild. And I even remember the first day when we were filming, that scene of Connie on the stage, there were fans like 100 yards away that found out where we were filming.

• 30:44Speaker 07

  Oh, yeah.

• 30:45Speaker 04

  And I had no idea, but there were these videos of us, like zoomed in, like super paced. And everyone thought I was Demi.

• 30:53Speaker 02

  Yes.

• 30:53Speaker 07

  Yeah, because of the dark hair.

• 30:54Speaker 04

  My friends were sending me videos and like people were like, it's Demi and Jonas Brothers, because I have a snatch pony.

• 31:00Speaker 07

  And then you said yes, and you wrote.

• 31:02Speaker 04

  What an honor.

• 31:02Speaker 07

  You wrote them letters.

• 31:03Speaker 02

  Played into it.

• 31:04Speaker 04

  And then I signed autographs. No, but it was just so surreal. You know, you see how major this is.

• 31:10Speaker 07

  The love, the love.

• 31:11Speaker 00

  That was really fun to see after the fact that we were on set. Like, they had all those cabins just in that area. And people were just walking through the set as if it was like real life camp. I don't know if you saw that online. It was so cool to see.

• 31:24Speaker 04

  It's like paparazzi on a canoe.

• 31:25Speaker 00

  Yeah, they're just like hanging out.

• 31:27Speaker 02

  Sherry, you, in the clip we showed, you mentioned the song's really catchy.

• 31:31Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 31:32Speaker 02

  And obviously, you're in character. But do you have a favorite song from Camp Rock 3?

• 31:36Speaker 04

  From Camp Rock 3, honey? You know what? Lark got to be a part of a lot without spoiling too much, just with the challenges, you know? So Play My Music was stuck in my head as a classic.

• 31:48Speaker 02

  My favorite things to see right now is that people are, some of the songs are being released in real time. And Play My Music, which is the audition scene.

• 31:56Speaker 04

  Yes.

• 31:56Speaker 02

  Out of context, you don't know what's happening.

• 31:58Speaker 04

  Right.

• 31:58Speaker 02

  It's very confusing. And it's kind of like, I love it because we're kind of trolling the audience.

• 32:04Speaker 00

  It's a little bit of rage bait.

• 32:05Speaker 04

  100%.

• 32:05Speaker 02

  Yeah, it's rage bait. But it's fun to watch the people at home.

• 32:08Speaker 04

  This is a prank.

• 32:09Speaker 02

  It's a prank.

• 32:10Speaker 00

  It's a prank song.

• 32:12Speaker 02

  I'm sorry, you're saying, so Play My Music.

• 32:13Speaker 04

  I mean, yeah, and also high key changing Kevin Jonas.

• 32:19Speaker 00

  Hey, from the show. Thank you.

• 32:21Speaker 04

  It's brilliant.

• 32:22Speaker 00

  Oh, thanks.

• 32:23Speaker 04

  Emotional.

• 32:24Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 32:25Speaker 04

  Therapeutic.

• 32:26Speaker 02

  It is. I agree with all those things.

• 32:28Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 32:29Speaker 00

  Thank you very much.

• 32:30Speaker 04

  Just real quick, as a little side dish.

• 32:32Speaker 00

  I appreciate that.

• 32:33Speaker 02

  Thanks. Well, on the pod, we always have our guests participate in a fun little game that we have here. We have a bowl in front of us. There's bowl of questions if you're willing to partake. They're all camp themed. We don't know what they say. We haven't written them. So if you don't like it, then it's not on us.

• 32:45Speaker 07

  Okay.

• 32:47Speaker 02

  Feel free to grab one.

• 32:49Speaker 04

  All right. Stay vigilant. That's a quote from the movie that should be merch. Is my family here? Yeah, they are. My mom's in the audience now with my group and my family visiting from Shanghai.

• 33:01Speaker 02

  Hello, good to see you. Hi, hi, welcome.

• 33:03Speaker 04

  We roll deep around here.

• 33:05Speaker 02

  Okay, what do you got?

• 33:05Speaker 04

  All right, Maria, you go first.

• 33:06Speaker 07

  Which Camp Rock song are you singing first at karaoke? Well, it used to be Too Cool For You.

• 33:13Speaker 00

  Oh, that's a great one.

• 33:14Speaker 02

  Deep cut.

• 33:15Speaker 07

  Yeah, that's the fun.

• 33:16Speaker 02

  Shoulder, yeah.

• 33:16Speaker 00

  Shoulder, shoulder move.

• 33:19Speaker 07

  So now it has to be Liamani's current hit.

• 33:21Speaker 04

  Oh.

• 33:22Speaker 01

  What a song.

• 33:23Speaker 07

  Because I can't get that out of my head.

• 33:24Speaker 01

  It's so good, all over my.

• 33:26Speaker 04

  They're just these superstars, you know.

• 33:30Speaker 04

  Working with them, like, aren't you so inspired? Like, the future is bright.

• 33:35Speaker 07

  Totally.

• 33:35Speaker 04

  You know?

• 33:36Speaker 07

  Totally. And they're good kids.

• 33:38Speaker 04

  So good.

• 33:39Speaker 01

  Most important.

• 33:39Speaker 04

  Gooder than me, that's for sure.

• 33:41Speaker 07

  Much better at grammar.

• 33:42Speaker 04

  Yeah. If someone handed you the aux cord on a bus ride to camp, what's the first song you're playing? Camp Rock related or no?

• 33:50Speaker 01

  No, it could be anything.

• 33:51Speaker 04

  Let's go Michelle Branch and Carlos Santana, Game of Love.

• 33:55Speaker 01

  Love that.

• 33:56Speaker 04

  She's on tour right now. Shout out to Michelle Branch.

• 33:59Speaker 01

  Michelle Branch.

• 34:00Speaker 04

  I love her.

• 34:00Speaker 01

  We gotta have her on the pod.

• 34:01Speaker 04

  Even though I was born in 2008.

• 34:04Speaker 01

  Right.

• 34:04Speaker 04

  My mom listens to Michelle Branch.

• 34:06Speaker 01

  Yeah, yeah.

• 34:07Speaker 00

  Correct.

• 34:07Speaker 04

  Yeah.

• 34:08Speaker 07

  Hey, mom.

• 34:08Speaker 04

  Stick to the script.

• 34:11Speaker 01

  Well, thank you for being on.

• 34:12Speaker 00

  Thank you so much for being on.

• 34:14Speaker 07

  Thanks, guys.

• 34:15Speaker 01

  Make some noise.

• 34:16Speaker 04

  Congratulations, y'all. Camp Rock 3.

• 34:21Speaker 07

  Thank you so much.

• 34:22Speaker 01

  Consume the movie. Okay.

• 34:24Speaker 00

  Okay. There are more cast.

• 34:26Speaker 01

  We have more.

• 34:27Speaker 00

  There's still more cast.

• 34:28Speaker 01

  Guests on the, this is the most guests we've ever had on the pod.

• 34:31Speaker 00

  I know.

• 34:32Speaker 01

  I will say, when we were wearing the producer hat.

• 34:36Speaker 00

  I like that hat.

• 34:37Speaker 01

  While putting this film together alongside our partner, Spencer Berman at Powered by Jonas. The casting process was really fun.

• 34:46Speaker 00

  Incredible.

• 34:47Speaker 01

  You know, because all of the talent we were seeing were phenomenal. And there was obviously a handful that were just perfect for these roles. And some people that we actually have some, you know, some mutual friends of in different things. It just all just made sense, came together kind of beautifully. And these performers have, I think, you know, a very promising future.

• 35:15Speaker 04

  I'd say.

• 35:16Speaker 01

  We should show a clip now.

• 35:17Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 35:18Speaker 01

  Of Lumi Hudson and Casey.

• 35:20Speaker 00

  Yes.

• 35:21Speaker 01

  And then bring them on out here.

• 35:22Speaker 00

  Roll the clip.

• 35:25Speaker 04

  Oh, good. You guys are awake. Your 24 hours are up. Is this real or am I still hallucinating? This is very real. You're done. Final jam is tomorrow night. That means you have one day left to work on your songs. Don't waste it. You know where to find me. Is it weird that I'm kind of gonna miss this bus? Not weird. Same here. So we make a pact. Whatever happens, we stay in touch.

• 35:59Speaker 02

  Great. First sort of business? Group chat name? How about Cliff and the Cliffhangers?

• 36:11Speaker 01

  Well, thanks for being on the pod. We're so excited. Congrats. Camp Rock 3, Camp Rock 3 Day. Are you guys excited?

• 36:17Speaker 07

  So excited.

• 36:17Speaker 01

  Hum.

• 36:18Speaker 07

  Today's the day.

• 36:18Speaker 03

  Big day.

• 36:19Speaker 01

  Pretty wild. A lot of preparation going into this movie. Have you guys been looking forward to today? Quite a bit?

• 36:27Speaker 07

  Yeah, I feel like this has been the most looked forward thing for a lot of us, like, even in the early stages of filming. We were like, what are you looking forward to? What are you excited for? And a lot of us were just like, I'm excited for the premiere, so.

• 36:38Speaker 01

  Love it.

• 36:38Speaker 07

  Today's a big day.

• 36:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, I definitely think that was one of the most exciting days that we were looking forward to and for everybody to see the movie and everything. So, yeah, we're just so excited.

• 36:48Speaker 01

  Well, Lumi, we were reading this note and it got us so excited because we're like, we gotta talk about this. So, please talk to me about this Jaguar experience. Because I'm reading this, you spent 10 months in the jungles of Mexico bonding with a Jaguar, is that correct?

• 37:00Speaker 03

  Yeah, actually, I was not expecting for that to be brought up here, but.

• 37:04Speaker 01

  Well, it's the first thing in my notes and I was like.

• 37:05Speaker 03

  No, that's.

• 37:07Speaker 01

  Enough about Camp Rock.

• 37:08Speaker 00

  That's so cool.

• 37:10Speaker 03

  Yeah, when I was like about 13 years old, I did this movie called Autumn and the Black Jaguar. And I imprinted with these two Jaguars and they were about this big when I met them. And I didn't really act for eight months. I kind of just stayed in the jungles of Mexico and I trained with them and I acted as their like mother almost. And I worked with animal wranglers and I got to watch them grow up. And then finally, when they hit about eight months, they were pretty much fully grown and we got to film the movie with them.

• 37:39Speaker 01

  Wow, that's so cool.

• 37:40Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 37:40Speaker 00

  That's insane.

• 37:41Speaker 03

  Quite the experience and very different going to Disney after this, I would say.

• 37:46Speaker 01

  Sure.

• 37:46Speaker 03

  A little less grueling, yeah.

• 37:47Speaker 01

  Camp Rock just as hard, right? So.

• 37:48Speaker 03

  Yeah, exactly. I had to train and wrangle these boys, so, yeah.

• 37:52Speaker 01

  Moving this way, Hudson, this is your first acting debut, correct?

• 37:56Speaker 07

  It is, yeah.

• 37:57Speaker 00

  You did great, kid.

• 37:59Speaker 01

  Great job.

• 37:59Speaker 00

  You deserve it.

• 38:00Speaker 07

  Thank you, yeah.

• 38:01Speaker 01

  And I guess it's, you're not that off, like, when it comes to acting when your family, obviously, has long, beautiful credits in front of you. What does that like to me, growing up at home? Did you ever think acting was gonna be something you'd walk into or has it just kind of happened?

• 38:14Speaker 07

  It all just kind of happened. I feel my parents, they're both, obviously, my dad is in film and television, but just as himself and more reality stuff. And my mom's an incredible actor, but it was never set out for me to become an actor. I never even knew I wanted to do it. I just saw, so like, people from her management agency, they were like, we'd love Hudson to audition. Because I've always done music, I've always played the guitar, I've always sung. They're like, we want him to audition for stuff and a lot of Disney musicals. And I was always like, nah, not for me, I don't really want to. It's not really my style, not my thing. And then they sent over Camp Rock and like one other thing. And I'm like, oh, these are so cool. I remember I watched Camp Rock as a kid, like, you know, I'll audition for this one. I auditioned for three roles, Fletch, Cliff, and Desi. I ended up with my role, Desi.

• 38:59Speaker 07

  But, yeah, it's pretty insane to be here at least a little over a year. It's like 370 days after this all started, but it's insane.

• 39:07Speaker 03

  Wow, and counting.

• 39:08Speaker 01

  And who's counting?

• 39:09Speaker 07

  And counting.

• 39:10Speaker 01

  That's cool. And that's, well, congrats, that's really exciting. And Casey, I guess you're no stranger to a stage.

• 39:16Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 39:16Speaker 01

  Right, tell us about that experience for you, because you've done a lot of theater performances, correct?

• 39:21Speaker 05

  Yeah, so back when I was around like four years old, I started drumming and I really fell in love with music. And I thought that was what I was gonna do for like my whole life. I was like, I'm gonna go on tour, I'm gonna be a drummer of a metal band. My dad got me into metal and that was kind of my thing when I was a kid.

• 39:36Speaker 01

  Shout out dad, I like that. What kind of metal? Any artists you can sing?

• 39:41Speaker 05

  I went, my first concert, I went to Iron Maiden.

• 39:44Speaker 00

  Nice.

• 39:45Speaker 01

  How old were you?

• 39:46Speaker 05

  I was six, seven, something like that. And then I went and saw Slipknot and I saw Meshuggah, Swedish metal band, so great. My favorite drummer is part of them.

• 39:57Speaker 01

  Yeah, so you play the drums in this movie as well? Is that something that you've always had a passion for?

• 40:03Speaker 05

  I couldn't really envision my life without it. Like, I started playing, my dad, actually, before I was born, he bought a drum set because he was like, ah, I need a hobby to pick up. So he bought this electric remote, like, drum kit. He bought this and over, he didn't, he never played it, but he had sticks there. And when I was two years old, I just picked them up, started playing. And once I was four, I was playing with an instructor. And then at six, I started playing shows, like, local shows, which brought me to like a nice band program in Vancouver, where I got to tour around Vancouver and play a lot of really cool events. And that brought me to Camp Rock and to doing some community theater too, yeah.

• 40:43Speaker 01

  Very cool.

• 40:43Speaker 00

  So cool.

• 40:44Speaker 01

  It's amazing, guys. Let me ask you, were you guys, were you in school during production?

• 40:49Speaker 03

  Yeah. Well, we were doing online or homeschool, but we were all in school together.

• 40:55Speaker 01

  Because that was the thing, when we were shooting our Camp Rocks back in the day, we were homeschool, we were touring. So we never really like studied with other people. And then I remember feeling so excited that I was suddenly in a classroom with all my castmates actually doing school. And it's the only thing that made having to do school while you're working a positive experience.

• 41:14Speaker 00

  It's kind of the first experience for a while for us.

• 41:15Speaker 01

  But by the second movie, I was already done with school, so I didn't get to do that again. But you guys are all in a classroom together, then you're on set together. You had to become, I think, pretty close pretty fast. And it seemed, at least observing from the time we were on set, like, you guys all genuinely got along and had a good rapport. What was that experience like? And are you guys staying in touch? Is the group chat staying alive?

• 41:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, the group chat, we were actually all on FaceTime this morning in the group chat, but.

• 41:41Speaker 00

  That's great.

• 41:42Speaker 03

  I think school was like.

• 41:43Speaker 05

  Everyone was on Face? Okay.

• 41:45Speaker 01

  No one added us. No one added us to the group chat, guys.

• 41:47Speaker 03

  Some did enjoy, I'm so sorry. But I think school was one of the places where we really bonded the most and where the least schoolwork might have happened.

• 41:55Speaker 05

  I had to drop out of French because of school. Like, I couldn't, like, I couldn't keep up, it was crazy.

• 42:01Speaker 03

  We were just getting yelled at, I think, for talking so much, but.

• 42:04Speaker 01

  That'll happen, making friends.

• 42:05Speaker 03

  It's fun.

• 42:06Speaker 01

  You're in camp.

• 42:07Speaker 03

  It's too fun. We're like, shooting a scene and then two seconds later, they're like, you guys gotta go to school. I'm like, I'm still in the mode of Camp Rock and I don't want to be learning like math.

• 42:16Speaker 01

  My camp.

• 42:17Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 42:18Speaker 01

  I mean, there was obviously a ton of music in the movie. On top of school and acting in the scenes, you guys had a pretty intense rehearsal schedule. And this is your first time singing and dancing and acting, you know, on screen. What were the dance rehearsals like? Stressful? Do you guys enjoy that process?

• 42:38Speaker 07

  I have never danced before in my entire life. I didn't know I was gonna dance going to Camp Rock. I had already, I'd already gotten on the plane and my first day, they were like, you're gonna go to dance rehearsals tomorrow. And I was like, I think you're mistaking me for somebody else in the cast because I don't like to dance. Like, that's not my thing. And I had to relearn how to play the piano alongside with that. And I had to kind of learn how to act and be in a movie and all this stuff at once.

• 43:02Speaker 00

  So you kind of really got put into Camp Rock?

• 43:04Speaker 07

  Yeah, I got put into Camp Rock.

• 43:06Speaker 00

  You got the full experience.

• 43:07Speaker 07

  A bunch of little workshops, yeah, it was fun. But I had a lot of fun. I was around really supportive people who helped me through it. Jamal and Kai, who were the choreographers on Camp Rock, they killed it and I'm so thankful that they were there. I had a lot of fun.

• 43:20Speaker 03

  I think the prep was honestly such a great experience for us, not just because, obviously, we have to prep for the movie doing dances, but I think getting thrown into such a huge project, we got to bond ahead of time and really get into the Camp Rock mode before we actually had to shoot. So I think it was about a month of prep that we had. And, yeah, I mean, learning the dances was just so fun, got really in shape, I would say. I remember the first day, I think we had like dance rehearsals together.

• 43:48Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 43:48Speaker 03

  And I remember I also had to learn how to play the cello, which was very challenging, but.

• 43:53Speaker 01

  It's a lot to learn so quick, too.

• 43:54Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah. But it helped me get more into the mode of Camp Rock and the mode of my character, so I'm really grateful for that.

• 44:01Speaker 01

  That's awesome.

• 44:02Speaker 05

  I think, yeah, same as Hudson, I never knew I was gonna be dancing. I had an inkling of a feeling. I was like, maybe I'll dance, maybe I'll do something, but I'm gonna be on the drums. And I came out of the studio and I swear, my driver goes, you're going to movement now. And I was like, what? What, movement, movement, what's that?

• 44:19Speaker 01

  What does that mean?

• 44:20Speaker 00

  And it was dance and I walk in there and I see a bunch of dancers I've seen all over my For You page. And I'm, I'm watching them go crazy and there's like freestyling happening and I'm, okay, so am I gonna watch, am I gonna drum in the back? And they had me dancing right off the bat, but yeah, again, Jamal and Kai were so great. They helped us along the way and. I think that happened to us too. We showed up on day one and they're like.

• 44:42Speaker 02

  Day one was dancers.

• 44:43Speaker 00

  And we are like, we looked at each other like.

• 44:44Speaker 02

  Yeah, yeah, nope.

• 44:46Speaker 00

  That's not gonna happen.

• 44:47Speaker 02

  It's for you guys. All right, well, so on the pod, we do this little fun thing where we have everyone pull a question from the bowl, questions of questions here that we don't, they're camp related. Would you guys be?

• 44:59Speaker 03

  Let's do it.

• 45:00Speaker 02

  I'd love to.

• 45:01Speaker 00

  Go. Let me watch you go first there.

• 45:03Speaker 03

  All right.

• 45:04Speaker 02

  Pass it down.

• 45:05Speaker 03

  This feels right.

• 45:06Speaker 00

  Which camp rock performance would you have wanted to be a part of? I think I read that right. I'd say Asta La Vista.

• 45:17Speaker 03

  Ooh, yeah.

• 45:18Speaker 00

  Yeah, that looks so fun.

• 45:20Speaker 02

  Yes, absolutely. So fun.

• 45:23Speaker 01

  If you ran a camp, what type of camp would you run? Um, oh, I don't know. I'd run a music, I'd run camp rock. I'd run camp rock. I take it from Connie. That's my camp, come on.

• 45:37Speaker 03

  Okay, my question is, if you had to add one ridiculous camp activity, what would it be? I think that in this movie, we deal with some mean characters, I would say, so maybe like a bully training.

• 45:49Speaker 02

  I love it. Bully training.

• 45:52Speaker 00

  That's a good answer though.

• 45:54Speaker 02

  Bully training, that's good. I believe that's called detention.

• 45:57Speaker 03

  Right?

• 45:58Speaker 00

  Yeah, full disclosure, my, my girls watched Camp Rock, we watched it the other night and they absolutely loved your character. They loved you in Electric Blim too, by the way, of course, but they loved your character and they had to run to go do something, they're like, pause the movie because she's about to perform. On the final jam and she's like, we cannot miss it. I was like, we will not miss it. So they were very excited, they thought you did a great job.

• 46:19Speaker 03

  Yay.

• 46:20Speaker 00

  They thought you all did a great job.

• 46:21Speaker 02

  Well, congrats.

• 46:22Speaker 00

  Big night tonight.

• 46:23Speaker 03

  Thank you guys.

• 46:24Speaker 02

  We're so happy to be here tonight. You're very proud of yourselves, you guys crushed the movie.

• 46:27Speaker 00

  You look forward to it for 370 days.

• 46:29Speaker 01

  370 days and counting.

• 46:31Speaker 03

  And counting.

• 46:32Speaker 02

  And counting. Thanks, guys.

• 46:34Speaker 03

  Thank you so much.

• 46:35Speaker 02

  Wow, that was fun.

• 46:36Speaker 00

  So how old do you feel now?

• 46:37Speaker 02

  I feel quite old.

• 46:38Speaker 00

  Yeah, a little aged.

• 46:40Speaker 02

  That's just, wow, it's kind of, you know, it's funny.

• 46:43Speaker 01

  I don't feel that old.

• 46:44Speaker 00

  Cause we didn't ask them, were you born yet when it came out? And they would have told you no.

• 46:49Speaker 02

  Some of which, some of these, these new campers weren't even born when the first.

• 46:52Speaker 00

  That's what I mean.

• 46:53Speaker 02

  When we went to camp.

• 46:54Speaker 00

  Most of them.

• 46:55Speaker 02

  Well, this is how old we are.

• 46:56Speaker 00

  We're not born.

• 46:57Speaker 02

  This is how old we are, guys. In the original movie, we're not even campers.

• 47:00Speaker 00

  That's true.

• 47:02Speaker 02

  It's a camp we went to.

• 47:03Speaker 00

  We're alumni. Oh, yeah. Oh, no.

• 47:06Speaker 02

  Exactly, we were there to be, you were a counselor, Kevin, you were a counselor in the first movie.

• 47:09Speaker 00

  How old were you in the first one?

• 47:10Speaker 02

  I was, how old was I?

• 47:12Speaker 00

  I was 20 years old.

• 47:14Speaker 02

  Yeah, I was 18 and yeah, so too old for camp. Technically not, yeah, so I was also.

• 47:20Speaker 00

  You were aged out.

• 47:22Speaker 02

  I was not, I was a counselor, that's right.

• 47:23Speaker 00

  Yeah, well, yeah.

• 47:25Speaker 02

  And it's just amazing to see kind of their excitement, this is gonna be such an amazing ride.

• 47:31Speaker 00

  It's gonna change their lives.

• 47:32Speaker 02

  Yeah. It's already is and also it's so much different now. I mean, I was like seeing like today, there's like, I just came on my feed and Camp Rock and like a coffee shop collab and like, what?

• 47:43Speaker 00

  We wanted a coffee shop collab.

• 47:45Speaker 02

  The cool, like, I mean, we, we opened a couple of roller coasters, but we never did a coffee shop collab. That's pretty cool. Um, anyway, so thrilled for them and obviously excited for everyone to see the movie. Please watch it with your family and friends.

• 47:57Speaker 01

  This movie is meant to be enjoyed with the family. I think the fact that there are people that connected with it and resonated with it when they were in their teens or when they were kids, who now probably have kids of their own and those parents that watched it with them back then, now grandparents, it should be something that the whole family can enjoy and I think for us, as we step into this kind of chapter of our life and journey, teaming up with Disney again and finding projects like this with a Christmas movie where we can just bring some, some joy into people's lives and we can have people connect with the people they love, uh, that's what it's all about for us. But that's again, why having our incredible warriors here today, Piper, Belle and Eliza.

• 48:37Speaker 02

  You said incredible lawyers?

• 48:39Speaker 01

  Warriors.

• 48:41Speaker 02

  Oh, warriors, yes, of course. You guys may be our lawyers too.

• 48:44Speaker 01

  Yeah.

• 48:45Speaker 02

  But we are so glad you guys are here.

• 48:47Speaker 00

  You said lawyers.

• 48:48Speaker 01

  Sentimental moment gone, once again.

• 48:51Speaker 02

  It's a silly sentimental moment, but we are so glad to see you again.

• 48:54Speaker 01

  Yes.

• 48:55Speaker 02

  And you guys are here, thank you for inspiring us and, um, we, we just, we love you guys, so thank you. Appreciate you.

• 49:03Speaker 00

  All right.

• 49:04Speaker 01

  All right. If you're watching us on Disney Plus right now, you can jump off of this and click next to go watch Camp Rock.

• 49:12Speaker 02

  Why not?

• 49:13Speaker 01

  Three, and if, if you're watching on Hulu, then move to the different platform on Disney Plus and go watch it.

• 49:17Speaker 02

  And if you're listening into a car, don't watch a movie.

• 49:20Speaker 00

  All right.

• 49:22Speaker 01

  Until next time.

• 49:23Speaker 00

  Bye.

• 49:24Speaker 02

  Bye.

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