The Truth About Acting & Why It’s Harder Than Fighting | Sean Carrigan DSH #1253

I would go up and visit my dad all the time up in DC, live right outside DC, Northern Virginia.

And he'd start training fighters. And that's when, you know, I just kind of fell in love with it.
Watched him, you know, training fighters. I was around a gym.
And, you know, being that I was little, you know, I just like, you know, I had moments when I was a kid where I felt like powerless. and I wanted to have a sense of power

and being able to defend myself and stand up to people. Being around a boxing gym seemed like the way to go.
So my dad was all about being Irish and boxing. Fighting Irish, baby.
Yeah, that's it. So me and my brothers, my dad trained me and my brothers and so I would spend all my summers and winters up there and and then um you know eventually I lived up there after college and um and that's when I like you know I had my a lot of my amateur fights all right guys fellow Sean here today got an actor and uh new release right Grace.
That's right. Grace Point.
Yeah. It's out already.
It's out on Amazon and Apple TV. I love it, man.
And so. Was that your most recent film? Yeah.
Oh, actually, I just shot something called Demonetize. It's coming out in April.
But yeah, Grace Point, you know, we've been working. Rory Karp, the guy who directed it, he's been working on this film, getting this film together for a long time.
And we got a great cast, and we shot it a few years ago, and it's finally coming out. Yeah.
And we're happy it's getting the attention it deserves. Yeah, it must be tough these days to make a top-selling movie, right? You know, I think so.
I mean, you know, it's a tough time. You know, a lot going on with, you know, streaming and, you know you know movies it's just you know and plus there's like so many distractions in the world you know what I mean so it's hard to get people to sit down for a whole film but our you know our movie's good and you know hopefully people watch it yeah yeah I feel like there's a power shift towards the streaming platforms now it seems like they're having a lot of power yeah they are I mean you know uh that's that's the way the world goes you know i mean it's different convenience because i've had a lot of uh documentary filmmakers on the podcast and they have numerous stories of how they can't even get on netflix because they said certain things in the documentary oh right yeah i mean look you know at the end of the day um you know people just trying to get their stuff made and get it seen.
And, you know, I think there's I think the the the platform has gone gotten bigger for that. Yeah.
But now it's just getting flooded. And so, you know, people, you know, and I don't know what, you know, sponsorships people have with other, you know, you know, with with stuff, you know, stuff on their site and why they won't air movies and stuff like that.
Like, I'm just an actor, man. Yeah.
Yeah. It's cool, though.
You're seeing alternative routes. Andrew Schultz, who's a comedian, ended up launching a special on his own site and it crushed it.
Yeah. So there's other routes.
He's super funny. Yeah, I love that guy.
Have you seen him in performance, live performance? I haven't seen Andrew Schultz, but, you know, comedy store quite a bit, and I see a lot of guys. Yeah, Theo Vaughn's crushing her now.
Shout out to Theo. There's some good comedians these days, man.
It's a new era. Yeah, Dean Del Rey.
Dean Del Rey, he does a lot of work with Bill Burr. I'm a big fan of Dean Del Rey.
And Bill Burr is obviously the king. Yeah, it's's hard to beat that man.
I want to talk about your boxing career. So you said you started at 16.
So, yeah, man, I was a little growing up and, you know, my parents got divorced when I was really young. So I moved down to Miami, Florida and started living down there with my mom.
And I would go up and visit my dad all the time up in uh DC live right outside DC Northern Virginia and he'd start training fighters and that's when um you know I just kind of fell in love with it watched him you know train fighters I was around a gym and you know being that I was little you know I just like you know I did I had moments when i was a kid where i felt like powerless and i wanted to have i wanted to have a sense of uh power and being able to defend myself and stand up to people and you know being around a boxing gym seemed like the way to go and so my dad my dad was all about you know being irish and and, you know, boxer. Fighting Irish, baby.

Yeah, that's it. And so me and my brothers, my dad trained me and my brothers.
And so I would spend all my summers and winters up there. And then, you know, eventually I lived up there after college.
And that's when I, like, you know, I had a lot of my amateur fights. I went all over the country.
My dad would, like, every other weekend we'd, like, be going off somewhere. He would find fights that were going off in Roanoke or West Virginia or up in New Jersey.
He would just find fights for all of us to go to. I mean, one time we went to Boston.
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To fight in Brockton. I mean, it was just like my dad was always trying to get his son's fights.
Wow. Yeah.
I mean, when we were really young, I've even got a picture of it. My brother, my brother's three and a half years older than me.
And my dad laced this up when I was like nine. My brother was 12.
And he's just, he's like about to, they caught the photo right as he's about to land a right hand, right on my head. Bam.
Yeah. So you were stopping with your brother.
Yeah thing my dad like he loved like you know putting gloves on the kids and we'd all like get out in the yard and get after it so he had some tough love to him that's i think that's i mean that's what you know when he was when he was coming up uh he grew up in alcoa tennessee and you know his uncles were prize fighters and and and they would they would lace up all the cousins and put gloves on them and then they'd all go to battle out in the backyard. My dad was like, he was one of the better ones.
Yeah, that's how it was back in the day, man. My dad grew up on a farm and he was scrabbing all the time.
Yeah, You could lay hands on people in school even back then, but now you get immediately suspended. Yeah.
I think there's a lot of fight stories back then. Yeah.
Different era. Now people fight online.
Yeah. Cerebral bullying or whatever.
Yeah. It's a much different era, but at the same time, mental health's worse.
So you kind of start to wonder which one was better. Yeah.
I mean, it's a toss up yeah you would rather get physically beat up or mentally assaulted on the internet i guess oh i'll take an ass kicking i'll take a little yeah i'll take a physical ass kicking man man so that was kind of your destiny from a young age then fighting uh well i you know look man you know I wasn't very good when i like it's interesting because um i was real small and i wanted to wrestle and box those are my two sports and i uh i started out wrestling in high school and i just i was terrible i wasn't very good i was weak i was small and i think i started at 119 my, my sophomore year. And then I went up to 130 my junior year.
I never even made it to the, to the, um, to the regional tournament, you know, in Dade County. And, and, and so I didn't even make it to regions, man, you know, regionals.
And, uh, you know, right before my senior year, I wrestled freestyle, and then I went off to a summer camp. Went to Jay Robinson Intensive Wrestling Camp in University of Minnesota before my senior year in high school.
And I wrestled with the guy who was a state runner-up in Michigan. I wrestled with him every day for 28 days.
And it was just me and him became pals. And then you just wrestled.
They had you working out at J-Rob. They had you wrestling, you know, a couple times a day.
Then you were doing runs in the morning. You were doing weightlifting.
And then they had you write out all your goals. I came back my senior year and just destroying everybody.
And one of the best wrestlers in Florida my senior year. So I had a good senior year.
I never even wrestled in a regional tournament. And, you know, went to state championships.
Didn't do as well as I wanted to. But, you know, got to go off to college, and I wrestled D1 in college.
Amazing. That's a great story of just being in the right environment, right? Because you had to feel inside you.
You just needed someone to help bring that up. Yeah.
And that camp, J. Robinson Intensive Camp, we had a shirt that we would all wear.
It said, I'm going to heaven because I've been through hell, J. Robinson Intensive Camp.
I love it. And so I don't know what I did with that shirt, but I wish I could find it.
Yeah, that sounds like a legendary shirt. I love that quote, though.
Yeah. You got to go through some tough stuff if you want to make it to the top.
You do. And what was great about that camp was, you know, they had us writing out goals and just doing things that, you know, pushing you farther than you realized you could go.
And so I came back that year, my senior year, and preseason tournaments I would wrestle 145 and 152. I'd register in two weight classes, and then I'd be in the finals in both.
Wow, that's hard to do. Yeah, man.
So that was a good career in high school, in high school and, you know, I did something.

That's why I love the mental side of sports, actually, which is why, I don't know if you watch basketball, but I think Phil Jackson's the GOAT.

Yeah.

Because he just had the mental side of the sport on lock.

Yeah.

He would make the players meditate, write out goals, like you're saying.

Yeah.

I think that's kind of what separates the best athletes from, like, everyone else, the mental side. You know, man, I think you're saying yeah um i think that's kind of what separates the the best athletes from like everyone else the mental side you know man i think i i think you're right um it's just it's just a matter of of just working working working for me you know i've always kind of fell on my face quite a bit you know uh it seems like i you know i fall down 10 times before I actually succeed.
And, you know, it was the same thing of boxing. There was a guy in the gym when I was, when I was younger, when I first started, he'd been boxing since he was five years old.
And he just, you know, he was just better. He was just better than me because he'd been boxing so long long that was just starting and he would just beat my ass all the time all the time and my dad on the drives you know we'd be driving home and my dad would just be like just keep working just keep working just keep working and he's like one of these days it's going to be like you know a light bulb goes off it's like a window's going to open and all of a sudden you're going to you're going to see you're going to see the going to see things coming at you.
And it's just going to, like, get easier. He said, you just got to keep working.
So I listened to it. I'd go back to the gym.
And again, you know, we'd box, we'd spar. He'd beat my ass again.
And my dad would just say, just keep working. Just keep working.
Just keep working. You work harder.
You work hard. And so, and then next thing you know, he was, my dad was right.
It was like, all of a sudden, one day it was just like, you know, it's like the window open. I was like, oh, wait a second.
I'm like, I see everything. I like, you know, I started seeing punches coming at me.
I was like, oh, no way, no way. You know? And then, and then that, that guy You know? And then that guy, that kid, he never beat me after that.
Oh, really? Yeah. It was like an overnight thing for you? Yeah.
It was just like my dad said. It was like, one day, blah, the light went off.
But that comes with hard work. Yeah.
And, you know, it's the same thing, you know, in wrestling. You know,'s like, it was just hard work, hard work, hard work.
So I was just lucky to do, uh, two sports that, um, that, you know, that just spoke to me and, and really gave me a sense of identity because I kind of felt lost most of my high school career until my senior year. You felt lost like just overall?

Just felt like unseen, you know?

Just didn't really have a sense of identity.

That's the thing I love about sports is working hard at something gives you character.

And then all of a sudden, you know, you start having some success and you start to like feel, okay, this is like, I am here. I am, I'm seeing, I'm seeing this hard work pay off.
Um, and I, it was valuable for me. Absolutely.
I attribute, uh, I was a track runner in high school and that helped me find myself and learn mental discipline too. But like, like you, I was, I was lost in high school, man.
My identity. I was pretending to be someone I wasn't for sure.

Yeah, it was tough, man.

I think I was smaller and I didn't really have the right direction. And, you know, I found wrestling and boxing and it changed my life.

So you really tied a lot of your identity to your height and size?

I think so.

I think I did because, you know, I height and size? I think so. I think

I did because, uh, you know, I felt like everybody was bigger than me. Um, was that intimidating to you? Yeah.
I think, I think especially in junior high, junior high was rough. Yeah.
Um, and then ninth and 10th grade, you just, you know, you want to be taken seriously and, um, you know, You just, you know, it's just when you, when you, I attributed, I attributed like being, not being able to like stand up to being scared. Okay.
I'll give you an example. I'll give you an example of what I'm saying.
When I was in junior high, there were, there was a big fight, right, out in the yard. And a couple of my friends were outnumbered.
And a bunch of guys jumped in. And I, like, I went to, like, go help, and I froze.
I help and I froze.

I froze because I was scared.

And I felt like I literally couldn't make myself scared.

I couldn't make myself go help.

Now, a bunch of other of my friends jumped in and they got out of the situation,

but it's still that feeling of being scared and frozen

Thank you. jumped in and like you know they they got out of the situation but it's still like that feeling of of like being scared and frozen i was like dude i can't i can't live my life like this i don't want to live my life like that and that's why you know i think i i turned to wrestling and why i turned to boxing and there's nothing like you know rory my my, my, my buddy Rory Carp who was on here, um, his director.
And, you know, he said he always wanted to have the one fight. He wanted to know what that's like when you're walking out to, you know, taking that, that walk out to the ring.
And he wanted to know like, you know, what that feels like. And I wanted to know what that felt like.
I wanted to know that like i can i can i can conquer being scared and frozen and and that's why i did it and you know that when you first walk out that first fight that i had i fought a guy named leonard johnson from alexander boxing club at the olympia boxing in Falls Church, Virginia. And it was a big smoker event.
And I, you know, walking out to that ring was one of the one of the scariest moments in my life because I was like, why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? Why am I doing this? You know? And, and you, you're part of you wants to chicken out. Yeah.
And then I just forced myself. I was like, you have to, you have to, you have to.
And then you get in there and then you start mixing it up and you're like, all right, I can, I can do this. I can do this and conquering your fears.
And I think that's what it is. It's, you know, the thing about boxing and wrestling is you learn to conquer your fears, learn to like, you know, to really like stand up and fight for yourself.
And, um, you know, there's, there was an interesting thing that happened in that fight is my first fight. And between, so there's a three round, you know, it was a three rounder and between rounds two and three, you know, me and this guy had been going at it.
We had been going at it and I was, I was doing really well. And Jim Ed Jones, who was my trainer at the time with my dad, Jim Ed Jones said to me in the, in the middle of round two and three, he goes, Hey,

this next round, this next round ain't about boxing. This, this next round is about heart.

It's about how much heart you got. You go out there and you give it everything.
This round is about heart. It's about what you got inside.
You get out there and you get it. You take it,

you take it right now. And I've never forgotten that.
Wow. And, uh, and I went out there and

Thank you. side you get out there and you get it you take it you take it right now and i've never forgotten that wow and uh and i went out there and it's like you know just you know put it on the guy and it was one of the greatest moments of my life and and i'll never forget that that uh that advice wow you know and go ahead where you know it sounds like a really pivotal moment in your life.
You remembered every single word in life. Yeah.
Yeah. And I remember him like standing there looking at me because I was gassed.
I was so, I was, you know, I was exhausted and you get on, when you have your first fight, you know, in the amateurs, you, you're exhausted. Cause you don't know how to pace yourself yet.
Yeah, no. I mean, it just exhausting.
There's so much adrenaline pumping through you because you're also nervous and scared. And then you get in there and it's just you're probably going at a faster pace than you would as time goes on.
I mean, as the years went on, you know, the fights got easier, you know, you, you manage those emotions better, but nothing like a, that first, that first match. I love it, man.
Yeah. That's why I love sports and especially fighting sports.
It builds your confidence, right? Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, uh, you know, I was, I was boxing and wrestling way before, uh, MMA became a thing. I kind of missed the MMA window.
But I always loved feeling like I could defend a takedown and also defend myself with my hands. It's a good life skill to have.
You never know when you'll need to throw hands with someone at the bar or something. Yeah.
But just that confidence, knowing you can defend yourself, you can defend your girl, your friends. I mean, that's really the only reason I started boxing and wrestling is I wanted to be able to defend myself.
And then I just, as the years went on, I did it more and more. And then my dad was such a proponent of it that, you know, just ended up having a career longer than I ever anticipated.
But that was the main reason I started, was just to be able to defend myself. Yeah.
Did your brother get to the pro level too? Yeah, both my brothers. I've got a bunch of brothers and sisters, but two of my brothers fought.
My younger brother, he started fighting when he was like six.

Wow.

Yeah, he was young. Yeah, he was just scrapping it out, just scrapping it out.

Seeing little kids fight at that age is ridiculous.

It looks like they're running for a hell.

Yeah, it's super early, man.

I don't know about that.

But he had tons of fights, had a very long amateur career. My older brother had an amateur career, too, and then he turned pro.
And I think he had, like, maybe my brother had, like, maybe four pro fights. Same thing with my younger brother.
Okay. And then, you know, but they had, my little brother, he started boxing at a very young age, fought in all kinds of national championship tournaments and did really well for a long time.
And he was even a better wrestler than he was a boxer. But there's no money in that, right? No, I mean, no.
But, I mean, now he would be MMA, you know, but back then he had the most single season wins as a freshman in his high school.

He had the most single season wins as a freshman.

And he could have been, he could, I mean, he could have done really, he went to the state championships a couple times and then he just got, you know, he got in a little bit trouble.

He followed my, my other brother was in and out of jail jail both my brothers have been in and out of jail yeah they both uh they both kind of you know i think they were selling drugs at one point and you know getting in all kinds of trouble and then they did some time i mean i get it man i was a little weed dealer in college you know yeah you're broke i mean yeah but yeah they were they were you know they got messed they got messed up but my my little brother's cleaned himself up pretty well my older brother's doing all right and um but they were actually both of them what's a funny story they were both in fairfax county jail for uh about a year and a half around Around that time, they were both in that jail on different floors when I was on The Young and the Restless. Yeah.
And both of them got in fights in the TV rec room over somebody trying to change the channel when I was on The Young and the Restless. Both of them at different times.
And so that's, you know. That's cool that you could provide them some hope while they were in there though yeah yeah and then you know my one brother is like that's my brother it's like no it ain't it's like yeah that's my brother yeah a lot of it man it sounds like you're tight with your brothers that's cool yeah we're we're all really tight with all my brothers and my sisters yeah i grew up an only child so i can't relate but um when i have kids, I want them to have siblings.
I think that's important. Yeah, it was good.
I mean, you know, we came from a rough and tumble family. Some of my brothers and sisters, they struggled with addiction.
I think that that's why this movie that we did, Grace Point, has been so important to me. You know, the main character struggles with addiction and, you know, and he goes on this journey and it's about a father and a son and a son trying to find his father.
You know, it's like an inspirational thriller and a heartwarming thriller. And so I think, you know, that's why I related to the script, um, and why I wanted to do it.
And, you know, something like family. I love that.
I think everyone can relate to addiction, whether it's themselves or the family members. Right.
I saw my dad with alcoholism, that rectum. Sure.
You know, I think there's a, it's a problem everywhere. Addiction., it really is.
And it's commercialized too. Like, you know, alcohol, be out, you know, and, you know, beer commercials.
Right. Everything, everything.
Drug commercials on every television network, you know? Yeah. I mean, it's crazy.
It's so easy to get access to this stuff too. Yeah.
You really got to have the right people around you to break you out. Yeah.
I had to break my brother out of a crack house one time. Damn.
Yeah. Yeah.
That sounds straight out of the movie The Fighter, I swear to God. I saw that movie and I was like, Jesus, man, that was me and my older brother.
So those actually exist, those crack houses. Yeah.
He was in some, like, you know, some, like, just this worn-out house that, you know, everybody went and did drugs at. And he called me one day, and he goes, hey, man, hey, man, you got to come get me, man.
These bikers are coming to jump me, man. These bikers are coming to jump me.
And so I was wrestling at George Mason University at the time. and I you know I was there and I was at a i think i was like i forget where i was but but a couple of my other wrestler buddies were with me and i said hey man i gotta go i gotta go rescue my brother man he's at this this you know drug house and you know it's i i i don't know i i just gotta go and they were like hey we're coming with you and i, yeah, I don't know what I'm walking into, man.
You know? So just letting you guys know that. And so they're like, we're coming.
So my buddies, Mark and Ty, you know, they're guys that wrestle on my wrestling team with me. We went and we got there and we pulled up to this house.
And I go, all right, I don't know how how this is going to go but what I'm going to do is I'm just going to go kick that front door in and start yelling where's Michael Kerrigan, where's Toby Kerrigan where's he at and so you guys Ty you go around the back Kira you come with me Ty went around the back I front you know uh kira was with me i just kicked the door in i was like yeah where the fuck is michael kerrigan where the fuck is toby kerrigan he also goes by toby that's a big name and uh i said where the fuck is he where is he um and they're like you know people were like oh he's over there he's over there i was like say, oh, hey, man, hey, man. And I grabbed him, got him out of there, and then, you know, saved him, I think.
I don't know. And that was your older brother? It was my older brother.
Yeah, he struggled with addiction over the years. So you kind of had to grow up quick then.
You had to be responsible for your older brother. You know, he he's uh like i like to say he's my uh he's my older little brother i love that so but uh but he's always you know look we had different moms and you know he had he had a rougher upbringing than i did really and so you know same same thing with my other uh older brothers and sisters.
And so I take that into account, you know. You know, it's I guess we're a victim of our environment sometimes when we're growing up.
Yeah. And, you know, I just just try to be as much help to my brothers and sisters as I can.
And, you know, family's meant so much to me over the years that I'll do anything for them. I love that, man.
Yeah. My blood.
Yeah. Yeah.
Family's important for sure. I saw, so I grew up mixed.
I'm half Irish, half Asian. So it's such a different lifestyle with family on the two sides.
So I got to experience both, you know. Wow, man.
So now i kind of know what the best of each and i'm gonna have a good family one of these days you know yeah are you gonna have kids yeah and i didn't want kids when i was younger but now i do yeah you know i uh i just i don't know should i talk about i just uh i just my girl and I, we decided to have kids.

Oh, nice.

And we just found out that we're having twins.

Dude, congrats.

Yeah, and I called it, too.

I called it, by the way.

Two for one, baby.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I told her, I actually told her before, I was like, hey, listen, we need two for one.

I might get any younger.

You manifest.

Yeah, and so we're pretty excited about it.

That's cool, man. You held off.
Yeah. You know, hey.
What was the deciding moment to have them? When I met her. Wow.
I just, I hadn't met anyone that checked all the boxes like that for me. And it made me, she's such a good mom.
She has two kids from a marriage and she's just the most wonderful person and

mother that's a good ass for.

And I just met her at the right time.

And we'd known each other for a long time

but we never really

started dating until

back in May. Is she an actress as well?

No, no.

She's a government worker. She

runs the water department over in the city of

Oxnard. Total opposite personality it sounds

like. Yeah.

I always tease her. I'm like

Thank you. She's a government worker.
She runs the water department over in the city of Oxnard. Total opposite personality, it sounds like.
Yeah. I always tease her.
I'm like, you like the movie Chinatown. You run the water.
Sometimes you need that balance, man. Opposites attract, like you say.
It's cool. But she's amazing, and she's super supportive with my career.
So I'm just lucky. I love that, man.
I want to hear about your transition to acting because that's not an easy space to penetrate, right? Getting acting gigs. No.
You know, man, when I was a kid, I knew I wanted to be an actor. And, you know, one of my favorite movies is Star Wars, you know? Classic.
Yeah. And, you know, then Return of the Jedi came out, or Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.
And, like, you know, when I was a kid, I'd see these movies and I'd, like, come home and I'd just, like, act them out to my mom. And then, you know, Luke Skywalker did this.
And then Han Solo did this. And my poor mom, you know, she's, like, you know, been working all day.
She's all day she's like sitting there trying to like listen to me describe all these different scenes of these movies and uh I think she knew at that point that I wanted to be an actor um but you know when I was in high school I had you know especially after um you know my especially my senior year it was like you know going into my senior year I had I had these athletic goals that I wanted to try to hit. I wanted to, I wanted to go to, you know, a division one program, wrestle in division, you know, division one, try to be an all American.
And then I also wanted to have, have an amateur career, more of an amateur career and then turn pro and fight professionally for a couple of years. I only wanted to have like, my goal was to have like five pro fights.
I ended up having eight. And so, um, I just, well, I wanted to, uh, but I wanted to, you know, uh, do those things.
And then I, I used to tell people my senior, I was in drama my, my senior year. I would tell, I used to tell people in my class, I'd be like, I'm going to go to, I'm going to go to college.
I'm gonna try to be an all American in wrestling. I'm going to, I'm going to have a few, I'm going to have a brief pro career in boxing like, I'm going to go to college.
I'm going to try to be an All-American in wrestling. I'm going to have a brief pro career in boxing, and then I'm going to become an actor.
Wow. You called it.
So people, they'd be like, you're going to do what? You're going to do what? Oh, and then you're going to do what? Yeah. Okay, pal.
That's not the path that everybody takes. Yeah.
But I was just I had it. I had it in my mind.
And so when I when I was boxing, I was by, you know, I turned pro in 98 and I was, you know, fought professionally until April 2000. And after that fight, I got cast in a UPN pilot that was shooting in Baltimore.
And I got my SAG card from it. And so once I got my SAG card, I was like, all right, well, I'm going to go to New York.
I'm going to go to L.A. I'm going to give up my boxing career.
Wow. It's time.
It's time, you know? And my dad, he was pissed, right?

Oh, he was so mad.

He said, hey, man, you're going to be driving cabs

the rest of your life.

I go, hey, Pop, I'll show you that one of these days

you're going to see me on the big screen.

He's like, hey, he's like, I'll be dead and gone

before that ever happens.

And then I went off. I went off to New York.
I was having no luck up in New York. I was bouncing at the China Club in New York for like six months, having no luck.
And then I ran into Michael Rappaport and he goes, he was at the club and I go, hey man, when you made it in film or when you made it in acting, did you make it here in New York or make it in L.A.? He goes, what kind of acting do you want to do? You want to do TV and film? And I go, yeah. He goes, then you've got to go to L.A., man.
And so next thing you know, I was in my truck driving out to L.A., and I'd been here for 24 years. Wow.
Shout out to Michael. Yeah.
Does he know that story, by the way? No. I mean, I've never ran into it.
I'm going to the podcast is that right yeah i'll tell him about it yeah that's cool man and so uh yeah i love that guy i love he's hilarious yeah and he's a great actor and and uh he said that to me right there and i was i was bouncing at the china club and i was like you know and he and because i he was cool too because as he was walking out i was like hey man you mind if i asked you something you know and uh he was cool, too, because as he was walking out, I was like, hey, man, you mind if I asked you something, you know, and he was he was very forthcoming, man. He was a good dude.
And but anyway, so fast forward years later, I'm sitting with my dad. We're at we're at a D.C.
film festival. We're about to watch this movie I did on the big screen.
And he and my old man sitting right next to me. And I go, hey, hey, pop, remember how you said that you'd be dead and gone before you saw me on the big screen? Guess what? You're about to watch me on the big screen and he and my old man sitting right next to me and i go hey hey pop remember how you said that uh you'd be dead and gone before you saw me on the big screen guess what you're about to watch me on the big screen he's like you son of a bitch you remember everything god damn it and so it was good sometimes your biggest haters are your biggest yeah he became one of my biggest fans though he was saying he was he was yeah shout out to my mother um you know skeptical at first you know coming from china.
Education, getting good grades. That's how she escaped poverty.
So why not apply it to me? But different path, you know? Sure. So we used to butt heads all the time about it.
But now she watches every single episode. She's like my biggest fan.
Of course. Yeah.
It's funny how that works. My dad at the end of, you know, in his older years, he would hang out at, like, the Moose Lodge and the American Legion.

And he'd be, like, hanging out with all these, you know, like, be hanging out with different women and stuff.

And all of a sudden, I'd get a call.

And I'd go, hey, what's up?

And he'd go, hey, tell this girl that you play Stitch on Young and the Restless.

And the girl would go, your dad says you're Stitch. I don't believe.
And I'm like, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's like, prove it.
And I go, all right. Well, I was with Victoria.
I left Victoria. I got with her stepmom, Ashley.
And then, you know, I left Ashley. And then I got with Ashley's daughter, Abby.
And then I was in a love triangle between Ashley and Abby. And she was like, oh my God, it is Stitch.
And then my dad grabbed the phone and he's like,

all right, hey, thanks, man. Appreciate it.

Used it to get girls. This was before FaceTime,

you know? Yeah, man. Times have changed.

That's funny, man. Yeah.

Well, dude, this has been really fun.

What are you working on next? Where can people keep up with you?

I'm on Instagram.

Follow me on TheRealSeanKerrigan.

And, you know, do us a favor.

Go out and buy or rent Grace Point.

Yeah, we'll link it below.

Yeah, it's on Amazon and Apple.

And, you know, we worked really hard on the movie.

And it's got a great twist at the end.

And people get a lot of great feedback from it.

Yeah, guys.

After you're done watching Beast Games, check out Grace Point.

It's on the same platform. Right on, man.
Let's do it. All right, guys.
After you're done watching Beast Games, check out Grace Point. It's on the same platform.

Right on, man.

Let's do it.

All right, guys.

See you next time.

Thanks.