WEBVTT - One on One: David DeLuise 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:18.000 I am all in. Oh, I am all in with 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:26.279 Scott Patterson, an I Heart radio podcast. David, How are you? 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:29.880 How are you? David? Long time? No see. I know 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.080 it's been a long time. You know, I know it's 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:36.159 been a while. But when I read about the passing 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.800 of your dad, I was so so down in the 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:41.880 mouth about it. I reached out to Michael, but I 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.640 guess he changed his number. Um, but I remember being 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.519 at your house. I remember being at his house with 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.279 you guys back in the nineties and he served this 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:54.880 elaborate lunch of chicken that he could. I mean, it 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:58.480 was just like this amazing He's an amazing host. We 0:00:58.480 --> 0:01:01.360 were laughing, you know, we tears coming out of our eyes. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.840 I mean, that was your That's how you grew up. 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.600 And I got to experience one afternoon of that, and 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.000 I just went away from that experience going, man, those 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.840 guys are what a great family and what a great guy. 0:01:15.880 --> 0:01:18.640 Are you trying to make me crying because it's working, Yes, No, 0:01:20.520 --> 0:01:22.120 But I just you know, I hadn't seen you in 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:24.760 so long, and I just it affected me because he 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:28.000 was just one of the great you know, one of 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.120 the great wits and one of the great talents and 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.039 one of the great people that this business has ever known. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:37.360 I mean, he was a legend. He's a worked very fast, 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:42.360 like you know in like Jonathan Winters, Rock Williams that 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:46.520 you know, certain comics, but also that that like I 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.080 see it as some of those people where their mind 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.240 works that fast and they're so in tune. It's like 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:54.760 they're kind of in touch with different kind of paralleled 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.160 energies and universes and stuff. So you can kind of 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:02.840 a lot of those comedians, we're not the happiest and 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:05.040 that kind of was a little bit of what was 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.960 masking that, you know. So but thank you for saying that, 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.240 and I really appreciate that. That's very sweet of it. Yeah, 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:16.040 but it's great seeing you, ladies and gentlemen. We have 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:20.320 the David de Louise. He portrayed TJ's brother and Gilmore 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.960 Girls for two episodes. First episode, season four, Episodes twenty 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:27.560 Luke Cancierface. Second episode was season four episode twenty one, 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:34.040 Last Week Fights this Week's Tight. He's an actor, director, producer, 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:37.919 son of legendary actor and comedian Dom Deloise, the Great 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:42.440 Dom Deloise actress Carol Authors. Godparents are mel Brooks and 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:47.919 Anne Bancroft. Wow. David and his brothers Peter and Michael 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:51.079 have carried on the legacy of their father Dom by 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.760 all continuing to act. Dom has won the admiration of 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.640 millions of children and parents alike. Verst portrayal of family 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:03.560 patriarch I'm sorry. David has won the admiration of you 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:08.720 know what's interesting? Go ahead? What's so nice that that 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:17.120 works for me or my dad? Um on the Dignity 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:21.000 Award winning digital channel series Wizards of Waverley plays for 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.880 a hundred and six episodes plus TV movies. More recently, 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.280 David has guest starred on the shows The Rookie, This 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:31.760 Is Us, and Home Economics. Let's start out, um with 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.720 some Gilmore stuff. You played TJ's brother, but also TJ's 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:41.120 played by your your real brother, Michael, you stand by. 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.920 Thank you for that introduction, and whoever wrote that made 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:48.480 me sound very cool. We have a crap. We have 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.119 quite a team over here. And the thing and I'll 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.920 just say this, the thing with the Wizards regularly places 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:56.760 Jennifer Stone and I who played Harper. We're doing We're 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.760 doing what you're doing, which is the rewatch right, right, right, 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:03.080 and it's it's it's really fun and I uh and 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:07.680 then really enjoying it. So yeah, uh the best thing Scott. 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.400 Maybe you agree or disagree, but when you're an actor 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.760 and someone calls you and says we want you to 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:19.320 work and you don't have to audition the best, that's 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.599 really good. Yeah. So when I got that call to 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.280 be Michael's brother on the show, I was like, oh 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:27.880 my god, that's so awesome. I can't wait to do that. 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.520 And um, I'll let you ask questions, but I have 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.720 stuff that I want to share with you. Uh So, 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:36.840 But yeah, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna get into your 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.120 podcast because it's so similar to this. No no, no, no, 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.080 I don't even talk about no, no, we are going 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:42.880 to talk about it, but we're gonna let's let's do 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:46.240 some Gilmore stuff. Did Michael suggest you right away to 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.600 join him on set? Was that how it went? Now? 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:51.880 You know what, I'll tell you this A lot of 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.279 times when you know when your family is in the business, 0:04:55.360 --> 0:04:58.400 like when my brothers were doing SeaQuest, they brought me 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.520 and my dad on and we did a art right. 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:03.280 I actually did a part, a small part on twenty 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.760 one jumps to it with my brother Peter and Johnny Depp. 0:05:06.839 --> 0:05:10.839 Hold on, it just dropped the name um and and 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.800 on on Third Rock from the Sun. Both Michael and 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.640 Peter and my dad played my family on that. So 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:20.440 it just as kind of happens, like if there's a 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:25.920 DeLuise brother. Michael and I played brothers. On Las Vegas. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:31.159 There was a show called Muslie. Yeah and Yeah there was. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.360 I don't know if Michael said to you guys like, uh, 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.719 my brother David can do it, you know, or just 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:40.159 the kind of came up. But to get that call 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:44.800 was so awesome because listen, I'm just gonna fan out 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:49.400 a little bit. I love this show so much. Um 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.920 And and I had I don't know if you know this, 0:05:51.960 --> 0:05:53.680 but I had done a pilot. I had worked with 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:57.520 Lauren or we were we were married. We got married 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.440 on this show. Um there's not a happy end by 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:04.840 the way. Um but it was called Townies, Ron Livingston, 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:12.480 Jenna Elfman, Uh uh pretty and pink. What's the Molly ring? 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:17.480 Molly Ring? One? Yes, exactly me and and Lauren and 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:19.520 I had to kiss her. It was like one of 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.440 my first kisses. Like, but I was gonna say it's like, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:28.760 you know, but then uh, it went from uh from 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.479 the pilot to the series and I was not optioned. 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:35.040 I was replaced by Bill Burr because it was um. 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:39.080 There were a lot of accents. It was Boston accent, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:40.760 which is I don't know if you can do that. 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.200 It was tough, but I was I was let go. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.159 But then I got to see Lauren again and worked 0:06:47.160 --> 0:06:49.479 with you guys, so I was really excited to do that. 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:52.800 Oh that's great. You guys stick together as a family. 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.120 That's great. One one guy doesn't see the whole family 0:06:55.120 --> 0:06:57.200 comes in. But if you're a producer on a series 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.839 and you've hired a day Louise, you'd kind of say 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:03.400 yes to the rest of them. Sure, bring him. You're 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.000 not gonna lose, you know. It's like that's a good 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.800 that's a good thing. So you too, You You and 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:12.800 Michael look so similar. Do you guys ever get mixed 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.440 up when you're going for roles? Do you ever get 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:21.720 confused that way? To Cassie, just mix you up. I 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.440 don't know about mix this up. But I did an 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:29.320 episode of CSI Miami and I pretty much was dead. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.200 I was the killer. I you know, I'm tuning my 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:35.760 horn for a second. I was on all three U 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.120 c sis. I was the murderer, the red herring and 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:44.760 got the killed, I got killed the victim and Carusoe 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:48.240 is there. I don't know if you worked with him. 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.640 I have, I did that show. Yeah, okay, so you know, 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.400 so he's very into his own thing, like you don't. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.760 You don't mess around like he's there, he's doing his thing. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:58.720 And then he goes. But he came up to me 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:08.200 and he goes, I love your work. Very talented. Now 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.960 I said thank you, of course, But in my mind 0:08:11.000 --> 0:08:13.320 I was like, oh, he thinks I'm my brother Michael, 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:18.920 Michael Dennis Brand's son on nypde Blue and and and 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:22.440 also there was something else like I hadn't really kind 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.200 of I don't know. I don't even remember when it was. 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.080 But I didn't feel like I had hit my stride. 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:29.640 So I thought that he thought that I was my 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:34.000 brother Michael, you know, which is so silly. And if 0:08:34.040 --> 0:08:35.640 I may, and I know I'm talking a lot. I 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:39.840 had a look coffee. But I think I was very 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:42.960 similar to my dad. And then my brother Peter, my 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.200 oldest brother, is kind of a mixture of my dad, 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.680 and mom and then Michael, who happened to be born 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:53.520 on my mom's birthday. Is very I just see a 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:55.560 lot of my mom in the hand and his face. 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.760 And my oldest daughter was born on the same day. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:05.360 Three generations one day is really really crazy. That's wild. Yeah. Wow. 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:09.319 So you know what, um, what was it like growing 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:13.760 up in that household? Amazing, so much fun? Loud if 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.720 you weren't loud, I mean you were there, you know 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:20.440 you said that. By the way, was every Tuesday, every Sunday, 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:25.840 you know, Carl Reiner or did Van Dyke, or Bert 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:30.800 or Ricardo Montavon or the Brooks is Mala man or 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:34.480 I mean Joe's Journey. The list is long. And I 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.640 got so lucky or Gene Wilder was it was such 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.959 a wonderful you know, worked all the people that my 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.800 dad worked with became his friends because he had no choice, 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:44.400 he had to be his friend, you know what I mean, 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:51.000 horrible and and it was it was a great experience. 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:55.600 I got so lucky to be around and and my 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.480 and my mom who was emblazing saddles and did the 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:02.280 Sunshine Boys and Broadway and it was you know, she 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.080 you know, kind of kind of gave that up to 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.960 raise me and my brothers. We had very involved She 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:12.120 was in the PTA and my mom was just so 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:16.000 wonderful and I I share this with people that that 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:19.280 she would say to me, you have a gift. You're 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.480 you're a wonderful person. And she would say that to people, 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.319 and whenever you left or go to an audition or something, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.080 she would say, give your gift. You know, it's just 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.680 you know, amazing. So yeah, it was fun. We had 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:34.160 a good upbringing. My dad was you know, there was 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.560 one time where I was it was open house, you know, 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.480 where your parents go to school. And I think I was, 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.600 I don't know, ten or eleven, and I said to 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.319 my dad, I said, Dad, you're going to meet all 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.120 my teachers, so can you just not say the F word? 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.800 That's my dad had a bit of a body mouth, 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:54.520 you know, So that happened. But I was very lucky 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.800 to be with not only loving parents, but you know, 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:02.240 I mean, was it acting right into it? You know, 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.120 at dinner it was like who can make me laugh? 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.600 Who can cry? You know? The improv you know yet end. 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:14.000 And it was also interesting because my dad always said 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.320 to us, you can always get into this business. But 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:20.320 you can only have a childhood once. So he really 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.240 encouraged us. We all went to public school, to Pacific 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.680 Palisades and Paul Revere Pacific Palisades High, and you know, 0:11:27.720 --> 0:11:31.319 we did plays and stuff and we keep on us. 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.440 I mean, now I'm really dating myself. But he bought 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.920 us a video camera so we could make our own movies. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.720 And it was like one of those old ones that 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.920 had to be attached to like a big VCR thing, 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:48.120 And so me, Michael and Peter were making home movies 0:11:48.160 --> 0:11:50.559 like nobody's business. It was did you do that when 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.720 you were younger? Oh? Sure? Oh god? Yeah. Me and 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:57.920 this the kid down the street, Jimmy Twitchell made uh, 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.320 we made war films. We I was running for president 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.640 in the film. I was a Vietnam Vet. So we 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:08.880 were like, you know, six years old and we were 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.800 making these little movies. Yeah. So we did all that stuff. Yeah, 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.679 it's so much a lot of fun. Yeah yeah, um, 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.720 and you got to transfer all that stuff if it's 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:21.320 on film, you know, so we took I mean we 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:25.000 had film like this was great. Michael actually did this 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.679 because we used to play the Super eight and my 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.000 dad would sit down and he would narrate it because 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:33.520 there was no send. So before my dad passed away, 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.319 my brother Michael recorded him narrating the movie and it's 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:41.000 actually online. Michael uploaded it. So it's like the Dracula 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.000 Brothers and the Bloody Cave Brothers. There's if the old 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:47.599 home movies are there, people can enjoy it. Oh that's fantastic. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.880 I tell you, I spent a couple hours there. I 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.679 didn't want to leave. I did not want to leave 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:55.880 that house. I mean, you shouldn't have. I'm surprised you 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.920 did that. The one interesting thing is I, you know, 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.559 every once in a while struggle with my weight, and 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:04.000 I would be going over to my dad's house and 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.880 I would I would have already eaten, and he would say, 0:13:06.920 --> 0:13:08.800 do you want a sandwich? Second you walk in, you 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:12.280 want some food? His Italian. And that's how you showed love, right, 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:15.560 So I said, I'm good Dad, I ate and he 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:21.240 would go it was not happy, but he would prepare 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.040 sandwiches and we would sit down. We'd be talking for 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.040 two hours, you know, after the tea whatever, and I 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:30.480 take a bite of a sandwich and he would go, ah, 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:36.000 I knew you were hungry, but he was so warm 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.240 and so kind and so welcoming and just I just 0:13:39.360 --> 0:13:42.280 remember him smiling and laughing and telling jokes and being 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.160 fast and funny and witty, and with plates full of 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.240 food and shoving them at us and like we were 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.240 just eating our faces off and laughing. It was just 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.840 it was fantastic. It was It was a great afting. 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:57.000 He enjoyed himself and he was so interested, genuinely interested 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.000 in people. I'll never forget every time we would take 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.200 a cab to the airport, he would say, what's your name, 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.160 you know, whatever the person's name was, and what did 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:08.600 your father do? And he would always somehow get the 0:14:08.760 --> 0:14:12.120 life story out of every person he would come in contact. 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.840 And he wasn't just you know, bologning you know with them. 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.720 He was like asking genuinely how are you and wanting 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:22.240 to know. He was very interested in the in the 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:25.960 human experience. How would he how would he get I mean, 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.280 how would he get through a public space with everybody 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:34.360 wanting his attention and autograph or whatever it was back 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.560 in the day, right, because it wasn't selfies, it was 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:39.960 it was autographs and I want to like shake your 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:42.320 hand and I loved you in this movie or that movie. 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:46.760 What was that like? Well, that was an interesting time 0:14:46.800 --> 0:14:48.800 because you would have to have a pen. He always 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.520 had a sharpie on him because you're always looking for 0:14:51.560 --> 0:14:54.640 a pen. Ca of your autograph? Okay, let's find a pen. 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.800 Does anybody have a pen? But you know, he just 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.480 he had sharpies all over the place, you know, So 0:14:59.520 --> 0:15:01.880 he was he was like autograph, Yeah, I saw your face. 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:06.720 What do you want? He was great. He was a master. 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:09.760 And I learned this from him, and I'm very lucky 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.000 that I learned this. And it really I understand people 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.280 want privacy in their lives, but if you're going to 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.840 be in this business, they take a piece of you. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.640 Your privacy is you know, you have to make sure 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:25.400 that you're going to a place that's private. But he enjoyed. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:27.800 He loved it when people were like gay, you know 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.840 in New York it's like dum and he would say 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.600 hello to them and say hello, and he had his pen. 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.760 Somebody had a camera or something, but he would genuinely 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:39.120 be like, you know, thank you so much, or oh, 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.400 I'm gonna tell I can't do it because it's a 0:15:41.920 --> 0:15:44.120 bad bird. But I'll tell you that joke off Eric 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:49.160 I learned what my dad did. If we were having dinner, 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.800 my dad would if somebody came up, he would say hey. 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.760 He would either say, you know, after dinner, I'm happy 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.720 to do whatever you want, or he just would be like, hey, 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.920 thank you so much, and he would just he had 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.240 the thing and he's like, here's an autograph from thank you. 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.720 You know, I appreciate you know. He just he never 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.360 had a bad attitude. But now, Scott, this is what 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:13.720 I do. They go like this are you? And I'm like, yes, 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.120 how are you? And I'm usually joke and say I 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:19.400 played the mother and they're like, oh, no, you have 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:21.720 a phone. They get the phone and I just take 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:26.400 the selfie. I'm like, hey, how much? It's so nice meeting. Obviously, 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.000 if someone wants to talk to me a little more, 0:16:28.080 --> 0:16:31.840 I will, but I can get a fan interaction down 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:35.760 to like eleven seconds. It's amazing. Huh. Sometimes you have 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:39.000 to right, yeah, yeah, exactly. And of course, I mean, 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.360 do you appreciate it when someone says, oh I love 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.320 your work? Oh yeah, yeah. I stand and talk and 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:45.920 if I can talk with him, I talk with them, 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.560 and they're usually very nervous and I just sort of 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:51.880 calm them down and talk to them like hey, and 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:55.040 we're old pals. And then they you know, they they 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.400 leave happy. They're always leave happy. And they must be 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.840 a little surprised because your character, you know that you 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.200 were most known for its a little crumpy's a little 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.360 like get out of my diner. It must be so 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:14.080 happy that they are they are. Yeah, you know, we 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.840 did it. We did a live event at a podcast 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.720 event at Warner Brothers on December twenty second, in front 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.159 of an audience, and I just you know, after that 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.040 was over, I went out in the crowd and just 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.560 like you know, you want to get to everybody. You can't, 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.600 but you but you try, because that's there's a lifeblood 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.159 of everything that you do in the business. Of course, 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:37.639 I mean, it's all about fans. I I watched something 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:41.240 happen on my show two things per that story. After 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.480 every taping, you know, because we were a multicam, all 0:17:43.520 --> 0:17:47.240 the audiences there, they would bring the audience down to 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.159 the alley where you know, where the cameras are and 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.720 we would take pictures for after the show for half 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:53.919 an hour oh whatever it was wow. I mean we 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.240 would have our visitors right, you know what I mean 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.800 like i'd have my family friends want to take pictures 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.679 with them, and then vice versa and all that. And 0:18:02.760 --> 0:18:06.200 in the beginning, I was like, you know, we shot 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:07.959 the first season in a hole, like we hadn't been 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.159 on TV yet. I was like, this is not gonna last. 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:16.080 But it did. We lasted the whole time, the whole series. 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:17.919 I mean, every once in a while there was like 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:21.640 four big men around Selena making sure nothing happened right. 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:26.920 But the interesting thing was Selena started her music career 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:30.480 while we were still doing this, and I saw her 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:34.080 go up to the audience and just say, I am 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:36.879 so sorry that I can't take pictures with you guys. 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:39.040 I have to go to Texas right now to do 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.760 a concert. I just want to say thank you guys 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.240 for making us, you know, for being there, for supporting me. 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:51.000 And I watched this fifteen, sixteen year old girl address 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:55.520 her fans with such honor and dignity. I was like, 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.960 oh wow, that's a whole other thing. And that's right 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:03.439 when Twitter had just started. So you know, people, I 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:05.399 think I don't know what your take was on Twitter 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:08.040 at the very beginning, but I was like, I don't 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.280 want to do that and then it was right after 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:15.439 my dad had passed away and somebody was pretending to 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.159 be me talking about my dad and all this. I 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.800 was like, I gotta get on there and clarify. Then 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:24.200 there was no blue check or anything then. But she 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:28.160 what was so interesting? She had a lot of followers then. 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:32.920 Now she has three hundred and seventy seven million followers, 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.080 a lot of people. But back then she had like 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:41.240 I don't know, ninety thousand, one hundred thousand. I think 0:19:41.280 --> 0:19:44.919 all the older people were like, what this is? This 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.399 is stilly, one hundred and forty characters. What you know, 0:19:47.560 --> 0:19:50.680 I'm taking a walk and I think I was doing 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.720 the same Rubin show that KTLA, and I said, well, 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.080 if she has a book coming out or she can 0:19:57.119 --> 0:20:00.679 reach one hundred thousand people in a Namo sec, like, 0:20:00.880 --> 0:20:02.880 why wouldn't you want to do that? And they all 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.640 were like there was a panel of people and everybody 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:10.639 was like, yeah, that makes sense, right. Remember when Twitter 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.760 started or no, um, you know, I was really late 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:18.320 to the party with the social media stuff. But I 0:20:18.600 --> 0:20:21.359 do remember sitting down I don't know, maybe a year 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:26.399 or so after it debuted, but I remember sitting down 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:31.560 with one of the executives, one of the top executives 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:34.200 of Twitter, and they were going to plot a course 0:20:34.320 --> 0:20:38.640 for my social media engagement with Twitter. And they gave 0:20:38.680 --> 0:20:41.200 me all these sort of secret codes and all kinds 0:20:41.200 --> 0:20:45.439 of things and I and I stayed in touch with 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.560 them for a little while and it didn't improve my 0:20:47.640 --> 0:20:49.800 numbers and all that. But yeah, I started on it, 0:20:49.840 --> 0:20:51.320 but I just I didn't know what I was doing, 0:20:51.520 --> 0:20:53.600 you know what I mean. I it took me. It 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.960 was a learning curve. But with hashtags and tagging people 0:20:57.000 --> 0:21:00.000 in the hole, It's like, what's going on? So silly 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:01.960 I was? I was. I was reaching from my Almond 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:03.960 Brothers Records, wanted to you know, listen to music. But 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:06.560 you know, we became our own publicist. We had to. 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:10.760 You know, everybody was like, I'm you know, I'm doing 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:15.040 publicity for myself now content and everything. Okay, I'm gonna 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:19.800 tell you something that meant a lot to me after 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:23.399 I did the show, and you know, I mean, you 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:25.240 get a lot of guest stars, You've got a lot 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:28.040 of people there. But you invited me to your house. 0:21:28.280 --> 0:21:30.440 You invited me to a pool party or if you remember, 0:21:30.480 --> 0:21:32.040 I'm not going to say where that I actually do 0:21:32.160 --> 0:21:35.240 remember that. I do remember, and I was so I 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:38.720 was like, Scott part what am I mean? Like what 0:21:38.800 --> 0:21:40.399 am I going to wear? I thought I was, And 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.560 I wanted you did you did show up? Yes? Yeah, yes, yes, 0:21:44.760 --> 0:21:47.800 and and there and I was like a little nervous. 0:21:47.960 --> 0:21:52.720 I just I was so pleased and happy that you 0:21:52.840 --> 0:21:55.280 included me and invited me. And when I went in, 0:21:56.160 --> 0:22:00.200 uh beautiful house and with the pool and everything done 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:03.720 a lot to me. And I I always if anybody 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:09.440 asked me about doing um Gilmer Girls, and so many 0:22:09.480 --> 0:22:12.000 people are such big fans of the show. I mean 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:15.000 I was there for two episodes, very small stuff, but 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:17.439 everybody remember, I mean you you know, you know, but 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:21.399 I always say he invited me to his house. I 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:27.200 was so happy. I was always having little last minute gatherings. 0:22:27.240 --> 0:22:29.600 I loved. I loved that was that was a party house. 0:22:30.119 --> 0:22:31.960 You know, that was a house to serve food and 0:22:32.040 --> 0:22:34.320 drink and it was just you know, that was Dick 0:22:34.400 --> 0:22:39.600 Martin's house. He built that house. Yes, that was his house. 0:22:39.640 --> 0:22:43.840 So all of so, so the stories go. The realtor 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:47.320 told me before I bought us, like every major Hollywood 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:50.560