I probably my favorite meal would uh have to be pancakes and uh chocolate. Uh probably chocolate chip pancakes. uh you know, very simple. Uh it uh tends to be difficult to make because I forget the canola oil occasionally and it just sticks on the pan.

Yeah, my really horrible British accent. No, I like it.

Thank you.

You know him as Ravi from Jessie and now Bunked. My guest today, Karan Brar.

Hello. Thank you guys for having me by the way.

Well thank you for coming by. I know you're very busy. I mean this, I have to say like this has been worth it cause like guys for those of you watching like this is extremely fancy like I heard T-pain was here before.

A little bit, yeah, maybe.

A little bit. So you are sitting in a very very special spot. So take advantage. Please yes, revel. Lean back. Where's your chain? Where's your You need a chain in here somewhere.

I feel like I'm living up to it. See I can't compete with that much. I mean I mean who really can, right? I brought the white vans right?

Oh yeah, there you go. There you go. Dang it, you're right. You might get into Diddy's white party. I mean we don't know.

Exactly.

But you might get in. Also because you were the first Indian American star on Disney Channel prime time. That is huge. Do you ever stop and and think about just how important that is?

It's pretty cool cause it's like, you know, we're expanding people's cultural horizons and boundaries and introducing people to new cultures and, you know, I think it's fun being able to educate people on my culture and, you know, where my family comes from.

Where are you from originally? You were from like Like you're

I'm originally from Bothell, Washington. So I'm like in this like small town. So there's nothing interesting about me.

Are you saying like like Redmond, Washington? around that area, right?

Exactly. So like a really really small town.

So you're educating everybody about Redmond, Washington.

Yeah, Redmond, Washington. So guys, usually it's about like mid fifties, sixties there.

It's a beautiful surprise that you don't actually have an accent when they meet you. I mean you do it very very well on the on the show. But I mean like I mean it's not how you sound.

I mean a lot of kids actually refuse to believe it's me. Cause they'll be like, "Hey are you from Jessie?" And I'm like, "Yeah that's me." They're like, "No." They're like, "Stop lying." And I'm like,

You're like, "No way, it's me." You're like, "I'm the real it's Karan actually."

Please like I I will try.

Yes this is what he sounds like everybody.

Exactly.

Um speaking of Jessie and now Bunked, how fun has it been to transition from one show to the next?

I think it's really cool cause it gives us some space to expand the characters and, you know, um instead of like uh letting the characters like prosper in like the penthouse, we get to take them out of their natural environment and just throw them in a camp where it's like nasty. Like downgrade a little bit, right?

Exactly. You got to downgrade to upgrade, right? Like I like that. Downgrade to upgrade.

So, I mean, it's fun cause we get to add like, you know, our own stories. Like a lot of the writers put in their own stories into uh like into the storylines. Like we have an ongoing joke, one of our writers who went to a uh place called Camp Champion. So we call it Camp Champion all the time. You have to say it like that.

Exactly. Always.

It's like, "Hey Eric, how are you doing?" And what we did is like we wrote that into the show. So our rivaling uh camp is called Camp Champion. So you know we try to sneak things in there.

Nice. And you also had a camp experience, right?

Oh yeah, mine wasn't as good though. I I could

Can you please share with us your camp experience? Cause like

So like I grew up in like all I went to was like elementary school and then sixth grade for middle school. Okay. So my our big thing in fifth grade was like, "You're going on a camping trip guys." Like.

Like was this real camping or was this like glamping? Like you were like

Um it was like it was I want to say it was glamping cause it's not like we were like intense or anything. We were in like pretty nice cabins. Okay. So, you know, we're out there. It's like raining. We got to uh submit cards of who we wanted to share, you know, um our cabins with. And I was a nerdy guy so like me and all my friends who are also very much nerds we ended up in the Panther cabin. And all like the cool like, you know, jocks also like they're all super nice guys like disclaimer like before I get deeper into this story. They're all like really nice guys. Yeah, okay. But uh the Wolf cabin was right next to us so to pull a prank they actually got dirt and they put it in our bunks.

No.

It was like it wasn't that bad but it was a pretty funny prank. Like we were trying to pull pranks without getting in trouble and then the principal had to come who was like, "Guys, you got to Yeah. Shut You got to shut this down. You got to shut this down."

Well I want to get to know you a little bit better. I know you're really big on social media. What's your favorite social media platform right now?

Ooh, uh I have to say Twitter. Cause that's like the first real platform that I just fell in love with. So like Twitter is like

What's your um most used hashtag on Twitter?

Um Camp Champion. Camp Champion. No doubt.

Uh circle back to Camp Champion whenever. This is This is going to be in my head all day so thank you for that.

No, of course. Anytime. Um I don't know I probably like at most I'd hashtag my own show, Jessie or Bunked. As horrible as that sounds. But like I'm like, is this too many hashtags? Am I using less hashtag? It's too much trouble. So like most of the time I don't use hashtags.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who like overthinks the hashtagging. We're on the same page. Okay.

Exactly. We're just over-

Throw that out there. Here we go. Nice. Um what's your favorite snack when you're on set?

Ooh, JoJo's from Trader uh Trader Joe's.

Those are the JoJo's?

They're like the organic Oreos from Trader.

Why do you give the name of the place?

So see I want to like semi-feel good about myself Uh huh. on set and like eating junk food. So I try to go with the organic Oreos which is the JoJo's. Okay. Oh yeah. You're kidding. So, see imagine eating an Oreo. I yes. Okay. So like five seconds in. You're like you feel really bad about yourself. And then if you eat a JoJo you add like,

Well you feel bad about yourself if you're doing it wrong.

Really?

Is there a way to do it right?

You just ignore the fact that you're eating Oreos and you pretend. Okay. I'm going back to Oreos now. That is like Yeah, that's you pretend that it's like, you know, a granola bar. And you're like, "This granola bar is great. I feel awesome."

There we go. No regrets. No regrets. Hashtag no regrets.

Exactly. Hashtag blessed. Exactly.

Um hashtag Oreos. Hashtag Oreo life. I like that one. We need to get that started. If you could remake any TV show or movie, what would it be?

Probably what we did was uh we remade Alfred Hitchcock's uh what's it called Rear Window? So we did like a spoof of it. Yeah, it was a real throwback. And um I just did it for an episode and I watched uh the entire film. Cause I accidentally got a hold of it. And um I fell in love with it. So I

How do you accidentally get a hold of it?

Cause they were supposed to give it to Peyton and Cameron cause they were in the storyline. Oh. Oops. And then they accidentally gave it to me and I was like, "Free movie. Why not?"

Exactly. So so you would like to remake that.

Yeah. I mean it's really awesome. It's a classic. So I mean and Alfred Hitchcock is a genius. So.

Yeah. You are so great at doing Ravi's accent. But I want to give you a chance to showcase other accents that you can do. So I want to do a little thing called musical accents. Okay. Challenge here is don't do Robbie's accent. And tell me your like dream meal to me. Okay. So when I snap though, I have to go into it. You have to go into an accent. And then if you snap again I have to get out of it. Okay. So I can only do like one other accent. Okay. Well then we'll do that okay. Um so describe to me like what's your what's your like favorite meal?

Um by the way I haven't done this in a while. Um probably my favorite meal would uh have to be pancakes and uh chocolate. Uh probably chocolate chip pancakes. Uh you know, very simple. Uh it uh tends to be difficult to make because I forget the canola oil occasionally and it just sticks on the pan. But uh you know, then uh it just gets a new pan. I don't know where I'm going with the story but I'm just trying to like keep the accent going. So uh improvising improvising.

I love it. I love it. That was so that that was your uh I guess your British accent.

Yeah my British a really horrible British accent.

No, I like it. Thank you. Karan this was so much fun.

Thank you guys so much for having me. This was so chill.

Well is there anything that you want to take cause you have a lot of things. I just I probably will just like yeah. I'll just Okay. Okay, bye. Peace. I'll just And there's okay. Probably have to stay here til we're done.