Speaker 1: Well, thank you everybody so much for joining us on
Speaker 1: a very very special episode of Magical rewind Sabrina. Where
Speaker 1: are we?
Speaker 2: We are at the Magical Brady Bunch House. We are
Speaker 2: this is wild, will Oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: It really is because you walk in, it's been completely redone.
Speaker 1: It looks exactly like it did on the show. But
Speaker 1: it gets even cooler than that because we're not here alone.
Speaker 1: An amazing special guest with us. Christopher Knight is here,
Speaker 1: Peter Brady himself is here.
Speaker 3: I come with the house. Yes, perfect, I'll never leave
Speaker 3: home again.
Speaker 1: Now we have to jump into the house first before
Speaker 1: we get to you.
Speaker 3: We since we're here. Absolutely no, it deserves it's it's
Speaker 3: it's due, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're responsible for a lot of this happening recreation.
Speaker 3: Well, Discovery HGTV is responsible for it actually happened because
Speaker 3: they were the ones with the wisdom and the money
Speaker 3: to make it happen. And and I was very upfront
Speaker 3: with the idea that it couldn't be done really in
Speaker 3: terms out we each one of us has had experienced
Speaker 3: building and this it's a very there's a lot of
Speaker 3: volume here. I mean that's there. It's an and it's
Speaker 3: iconic and everyone knows what it's supposed to look like
Speaker 3: at the end. How do you make that happen when
Speaker 3: you have a split level house elevation from the street
Speaker 3: without destroying the street elevation. Yeah, and that they were
Speaker 3: we're able to do it because yeah, it looks like
Speaker 3: it's us because we're carrying the story on the show,
Speaker 3: but you know, it's there's a lot of work that
Speaker 3: we're not doing that's being done by individuals hired by
Speaker 3: HGTV to make it happen. Like for instance, the floor
Speaker 3: was dug down. One step uh is missing from the stairs,
Speaker 3: so it's not quite as tall, but we needed more
Speaker 3: space to fit that volume, and so most of the
Speaker 3: house that was here is gone and parts that were
Speaker 3: left then needed to be dug out and new foundation
Speaker 3: board underneath. So it was it was more than a remodel,
Speaker 3: I'll say, but without changing that that street elevation, because
Speaker 3: which is amazing.
Speaker 1: But you know, you're you're getting the the You're in
Speaker 1: the age of the internet where you know there's people going,
Speaker 1: excuse me, but there's one stare missing.
Speaker 3: I'm one of those on our podcast, we watch our
Speaker 3: show and I'm and I'm seeing what people have been
Speaker 3: seeing for years, and it's just like there's no continuity.
Speaker 3: We'll have to talk about that, because it's been a
Speaker 3: revelation where we have come when we produce product now
Speaker 3: from that day when there was no concept that these
Speaker 3: things would be watched.
Speaker 2: A million times every episode in a row and loved.
Speaker 2: The reason why people pick up on those details is
Speaker 2: because they love the show and they watch it so
Speaker 2: many times.
Speaker 3: I guess people are crazy. And then I mean Iam
Speaker 3: Shatner the story he tells me about somebody telling him
Speaker 3: about how did you get from here? Because the you know,
Speaker 3: engine room is down and he said it was a
Speaker 3: television show. You know. I mean, this guy has in
Speaker 3: his head built the enterprise and had questions like, in
Speaker 3: all fairness spent that time the engineering.
Speaker 1: Room on the NCC one seven oh one was very
Speaker 1: far away from uh.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying it.
Speaker 1: You know there they had to pass the holidays.
Speaker 3: You've had some time with them.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to get into it now. When you
Speaker 1: and HGTV, when you all got together and decided to
Speaker 1: do this, was there anything you were adamant about?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: This has to be this one's thing has to be
Speaker 1: done or this has to be perfect, or you can't
Speaker 1: skimp on.
Speaker 3: This, right, No, and it wasn't. I mean, frankly, I
Speaker 3: had these great ideas of doing the Brady House with
Speaker 3: modern materials, and I didn't understand why we we'd replicate
Speaker 3: a sixties kitchen in sixties materials. Yeah, I got it
Speaker 3: with for Mica, it sort of didn't make any sense
Speaker 3: to me until we did it, and then I then
Speaker 3: I then I got it. So I was like one
Speaker 3: of those who was not as aware of how faithful
Speaker 3: not only they were choosing to be, but that they
Speaker 3: needed to be. Yeah, and I'm glad for it. I
Speaker 3: mean it was to the point where some of the
Speaker 3: furniture that couldn't be found was recreated. I wanted to
Speaker 3: do the horse that became an episode because to me,
Speaker 3: that's like an eleventh character on the show. It is so.
Speaker 2: And you have your own home furnishine line.
Speaker 3: Yes, which I used, the horse is the is the icon?
Speaker 3: I mean it's it's more of a Phoenician is.
Speaker 2: The house that's like directly from the line at all?
Speaker 3: Or No? I mean there's nothing that we sell that
Speaker 3: is of this era, right, However, all that shot it.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's why we couldn't we couldn't buy current furniture,
Speaker 3: find that television, that refrigerator. You know, this is why
Speaker 3: this house really can't be lived. And refrigerator doesn't work, the.
Speaker 1: Wonderful avocado fridge from the safeties.
Speaker 3: Something years old. So you know, but you know, we
Speaker 3: get to live forever in this time zone when we're here, Like.
Speaker 2: Ron, I was very shocked that we're not sitting on plastic.
Speaker 2: I was ready to like not move during this podcast, thinking.
Speaker 3: There was my grandma's house, or you would forgive it,
Speaker 3: it would be this house.
Speaker 1: This is the place exactly.
Speaker 3: I think this was like fabric that they were able
Speaker 3: to print. They literally inked it and printed it. I
Speaker 3: know that's the case with the day beds in the
Speaker 3: family room.
Speaker 2: That oh my god.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, anybody who's who's watched the series, you
Speaker 1: walk in and you're every so we're sitting here, just
Speaker 1: to give our dear listeners a kind of visual of
Speaker 1: where we're sitting. We're sitting here and the front door
Speaker 1: is directly ahead of us, and every single producer person,
Speaker 1: everybody who's walked in the front door just explode like
Speaker 1: a giant smile.
Speaker 3: And walked in and we did as well. I mean,
Speaker 3: we were working on bits of the house, and then
Speaker 3: they kept us from the final reveal, I mean until
Speaker 3: it was ready to reveal to us because they really
Speaker 3: wanted our honest reactions, and it was it was breathday, literally,
Speaker 3: because this is a space that we grew up in,
Speaker 3: and it's better than the space we grew up in,
Speaker 3: and which was odd. The whole reason for doing it
Speaker 3: is because forever people have been taking photos of the
Speaker 3: house from the outside, mostly you know, baby boomers. You
Speaker 3: know that in the day, either watched it on at
Speaker 3: prime time or you know through it's it's it's arc
Speaker 3: and syndication, knowing that we were actors, but over time,
Speaker 3: with enough familiarity, it's like, no, we're a family and
Speaker 3: lived in this house, like we worked in this house,
Speaker 3: and that we didn't. I didn't know where this house
Speaker 3: was ninety four, like twenty years later, I didn't. And
Speaker 3: what's interesting, I didn't think to ask, I mean Lloyd
Speaker 3: and Shore up until recently sure was around to ask.
Speaker 3: Certainly they knew, and I did. I asked Lloyd some
Speaker 3: somewhere in the early nineties, where you know where was
Speaker 3: the Brady House. Yeah, and it was around the corner
Speaker 3: from where I used to live, loud and I never
Speaker 3: knew it was here, and I didn't think to ask.
Speaker 3: And I'm not the only one, apparently every single one
Speaker 3: of us had no idea and didn't care to ask.
Speaker 3: So it was a much important, much more important article,
Speaker 3: if you will, in the show to our audience, and
Speaker 3: it was to us, Yeah, and it's because it represented
Speaker 3: what we worked in. But this was a set, you know,
Speaker 3: at stage five at paramout slot that we've recreated here.
Speaker 3: Luckily I was wrong and we were able to do it.
Speaker 3: And when you that seat that you're sitting and looking
Speaker 3: out that front door and that that window, that was
Speaker 3: a window that didn't have any real sunlight, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: no sky, it's a much better view.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: We've had a chance to interview quite a few celebrities
Speaker 2: from movies that they've done on the Disney Channel, and
Speaker 2: one of the things that they talk about being a
Speaker 2: young actor in just this giant you know space, you're
Speaker 2: just working and you're kind of just a kid that's
Speaker 2: like living this dream and you're not really thinking of
Speaker 2: the aspect of actually working or being bigger to somebody else.
Speaker 2: You're just having so much fun doing it because of
Speaker 2: the age that you're at, hopefully and well, it's that
Speaker 2: we've been lucky enough to mainly talk to and do interviews,
Speaker 2: and it's it's like they're growing up on camera. It
Speaker 2: just was ending up being who you were working with
Speaker 2: was family, and you know, they just it was all
Speaker 2: about good memories and stuff. Was it was.
Speaker 3: It was about a really and and that's another point
Speaker 3: of our existence that is a little bit different from
Speaker 3: what has been told, is the story of Hollywood and children.
Speaker 3: It was a really wholesome environment. It was a betterronment
Speaker 3: than the environment I had at home. Matter of fact,
Speaker 3: it paralleled it. And it gave me a counterpoint like
Speaker 3: how it could be. I know it's not real, but
Speaker 3: you could aspire to it, which is exactly what the
Speaker 3: show is about. And I don't know how I kind
Speaker 3: of tapped into that at eleven or had that kind
Speaker 3: of awareness, but I knew that there was something wrong
Speaker 3: at home that we could do better trying to be
Speaker 3: like the Bradys, because what's the harm in that? And
Speaker 3: my mom had a whole different take on family than that,
Speaker 3: But that is what the show really was primarily about
Speaker 3: about like the working together as a family, and some
Speaker 3: do it naturally and some need a lot of lessons,
Speaker 3: and our family needed lessons in my family at home.
Speaker 1: So what now? I'm so interested in this because, as
Speaker 1: anybody who knows me knows, I'm a television junkie, a
Speaker 1: television history I love everything about TV. It was my
Speaker 1: best friend growing up. It really was what was being
Speaker 1: a child actor in the seventies, like compared to you know,
Speaker 1: the we started in the nineties, late eighties. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was the process I had to imagine was the same.
Speaker 3: Completely different, really really completely different for insidious reasons that
Speaker 3: you can't see. Today. Attitudes about the industry have changed.
Speaker 3: The importance of the industry has grown. The treatment of
Speaker 3: children and professional children is completely different. Certainly and probably
Speaker 3: repeating myself, but the focus on celebrity is totally different
Speaker 3: today than it was back then. The focus on entertainment
Speaker 3: as a financial engine an industry. I mean, these were
Speaker 3: the visions of conglomerates, and the other parts of those
Speaker 3: conglomerates were bigger than the movie and television industries, you know,
Speaker 3: so there was far less focus on entertainment specifically for kids.
Speaker 3: It was like kids. It wasn't a kids medium. Matter
Speaker 3: of fact, there was no judging of any of the
Speaker 3: product by from the point of view of it being
Speaker 3: a children's program. They got we got slaved, you know,
Speaker 3: by by critics for being banal and simple, and truthfully,
Speaker 3: it was because it was a very primary show, because
Speaker 3: it was about kids and family andes and done in
Speaker 3: a in a very straightforward, digestible, simple way. You know,
Speaker 3: it was the blocking and tackling of life in a home,
Speaker 3: and to be criticized for that was them not understanding
Speaker 3: who was aimed at. Really, I mean, because today, if
Speaker 3: somebody's reviewing a Disney show for kids, they have different
Speaker 3: glasses on than when they're then than when they're doing
Speaker 3: you know, any you know pinter, you know, reviewing you know,
Speaker 3: what's considered to be literature. But then our television has
Speaker 3: become our new literature. So it was at a time
Speaker 3: when people didn't regard anything on television, especially as important,
Speaker 3: and certainly our show was on the tail end of importance,
Speaker 3: so you know, it was it was scoffed at because
Speaker 3: it was so simple, and my family were artists and
Speaker 3: they picked up on that scoffing and believed it to
Speaker 3: be true. But that's not as it's turned out in
Speaker 3: looking back what the show was about. Sure, So yeah,
Speaker 3: kids in the industry weren't. It wasn't. It wasn't an
Speaker 3: industry for kids. It was an exception to have kids
Speaker 3: in it. And when we're coming you know, we're still
Speaker 3: in coming out of it, but we're in the midst
Speaker 3: of that. Children should be seen and not heard. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, era, and we didn't have parking. They didn't
Speaker 3: give us parking. Really, we didn't have our own dress rooms.
Speaker 3: We shared a dressing room in the first all of
Speaker 3: you all yoys, they didn't go that far. So for
Speaker 3: the first year, the three of us and we were small,
Speaker 3: so I guess we would fit. We shared, we each
Speaker 3: shared our The three of us shared one dressing room,
Speaker 3: the boys and the girls shared another. And it wasn't
Speaker 3: I think until the well it was it might have
Speaker 3: been done two years. Everything's foggy. It's like, yeah, five
Speaker 3: years ago, and then we got dressing rooms, and but
Speaker 3: our dressing rooms were like off the set.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: We didn't have parking until the fifth year on on
Speaker 3: the lot, and the parking we had was off lot
Speaker 3: that we had to pay monthly for. It wasn't part
Speaker 3: of our deals. So, I mean, the the the the
Speaker 3: power that a child walks into a show with today,
Speaker 3: ever since Gary Coleman sort of you know, broke the
Speaker 3: bank on his show, I'm like a first child to
Speaker 3: do so it was a recognition that the child is
Speaker 3: perhaps the star of the show and should get the
Speaker 3: line chair. It wouldn't have been that way because most
Speaker 3: children aren't going to have been a star other than
Speaker 3: Shirley Temple, uh, you know, coming into a product like that.
Speaker 3: I mean, Patty Dupe was an adult when she was
Speaker 3: doing the Petty.
Speaker 1: I mean, even David Cassidy was the only reason he
Speaker 1: signed his big contract is because the network didn't care
Speaker 1: enough about him to realize he was seventeen when he signed.
Speaker 1: So he signed a crappy contract at seventeen, and it
Speaker 1: was his agent who went, you can't sign that you're underage.
Speaker 3: So at all, his parents didn't sign his contract for him. No,
Speaker 3: did your your parents signed your contract for us? It
Speaker 3: was it was valid. It wasn't as you could get
Speaker 3: out from under it because you were you signed it
Speaker 3: when I was you know, ten or eleven. That was
Speaker 3: I don't frankly know whether or not my hand hit
Speaker 3: the page. It probably was a parent signing for you.
Speaker 2: Do you remember how many hours you would work on set?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely, we I mean I think that hasn't changed
Speaker 3: because that's and that's here in California, different in other states.
Speaker 3: But it is eight hours a day, one hour for lunch.
Speaker 1: So and that was.
Speaker 3: Good for the for the crew, right because we all
Speaker 3: know and it's not changed that that hours can be
Speaker 3: long in this industry, endless le long. Not for our show,
Speaker 3: very cheap show. One of the reasons I believe the
Speaker 3: network bought it is it could be done really cheaply.
Speaker 3: But for shows that aren't with kids, you can work
Speaker 3: well into the night and you know, have you turn
Speaker 3: around issues and so farth you called in the morning
Speaker 3: and pay all those penalties. Well, on our show, we're
Speaker 3: not going to pay any penalties. And we have kids,
Speaker 3: which there isn't a right to hold after the hours,
Speaker 3: and we have a welfare worker looking after our best interest.
Speaker 3: So they're told when they're running right up against the clock,
Speaker 3: she's right there, getting closer and closer to the ad,
Speaker 3: you know, tapping her wrists saying that we got a poem,
Speaker 3: got a pom, get it in this shot. This is
Speaker 3: your last shot. So at that point that welfare worker
Speaker 3: has that that authority to pull us off the set,
Speaker 3: so you know, they have to struggle to get done.
Speaker 3: So they do all the parent stuff after we're gone.
Speaker 3: So you know, get a nine o'clock call, we got
Speaker 3: to be out by six. It's an eight thirty call.
Speaker 3: We got to be out by five thirty. The crew
Speaker 3: loved it, that part of the crew that wasn't looking
Speaker 3: to make extra money in overtime because they could. They
Speaker 3: they could manage their life right. They could get home
Speaker 3: to a family that they had and not have to
Speaker 3: you know, you know, I have no idea what time
Speaker 3: getting home tonight. They knew too, they were getting done.
Speaker 3: So but because of that we we had you know,
Speaker 3: we had thirty pages, thirty five thirty six pages to
Speaker 3: do in three days.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 3: And and with six kids. That's why the table scenes
Speaker 3: were you can't do those too often, yeah, because they
Speaker 3: take forever. Yes, so big group scenes and that's why
Speaker 3: you also don't go out of the house a whole
Speaker 3: lot because it's contained and controllable. Lighting was so much
Speaker 3: different back then, and that's what took all the time.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean to take a half an hour
Speaker 3: forty five minutes to set up a shot. I mean,
Speaker 3: this was a big volume to have the light. And
Speaker 3: you notice the backyard, which is not something we could
Speaker 3: faithfully replicate because it's but you can see it when
Speaker 3: you watch it, like you had fourteen hundreds. When you
Speaker 3: go out back, there's a place in your mind you
Speaker 3: go to. You immediately are assessing it's fake, but it's okay. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you allow it, you allow you allowed like I'm good.
Speaker 3: You know that trees moving around ever being in the
Speaker 3: same place, it's just as well. But the lighting took
Speaker 3: so long to light up because there was so much
Speaker 3: the films was so much slower. There was a filmy,
Speaker 3: and we didn't ever have outtakes. Really going back to
Speaker 3: that budget thing and making sure that we were an
Speaker 3: economical show. They would never print any film that wasn't necessary,
Speaker 3: and there was nothing ever printed of any of the
Speaker 3: stuff that would be fun to watch today.
Speaker 2: Do you remember like going Obviously you've got great memories
Speaker 2: of things, but do you remember when was there a
Speaker 2: moment where you as a cast kind of looked and went, wow,
Speaker 2: there's like a switch that has been flipped on. We
Speaker 2: have hit the next level with this this show. While
Speaker 2: you were filming, was it a specific season that you
Speaker 2: felt the difference on set.
Speaker 3: Or we went to Hawaii well before we went to
Speaker 3: Grand It was the first time in front of in
Speaker 3: front of an audience, you know, you know, it's a
Speaker 3: it's interesting when you're eleven years old, you're you can't
Speaker 3: even forecast how your life is going to be impacted
Speaker 3: by this. But it was very strange. I mean, the
Speaker 3: idea that people you don't know think that they know
Speaker 3: you makes a little difficult, you know for new people
Speaker 3: that you're meeting at school because they think that you
Speaker 3: think that you know, you're better than them. And you know,
Speaker 3: it's just a weird place to be and and and
Speaker 3: kids hate that which is different. Like you know, there's
Speaker 3: a nature of horrors, Mars revolution. You know, they accept evolution, right,
Speaker 3: it's just the way you know, raise birds and when
Speaker 3: you start seeing what the pecking order actually is in
Speaker 3: real life, dinosaurs are pretty nasty. You know, what your
Speaker 3: idea is, get rid of that thing that's different because
Speaker 3: it's taking resources. And so if mom doesn't kill it.
Speaker 3: This my brother will. So that is the way. I mean,
Speaker 3: there's some part of that that's natural. We're supposed to
Speaker 3: have evolved beyond it. But tendencies are there, and then
Speaker 3: you're and you're that you're the the odd duck and
Speaker 3: so but you can get I learned how to get
Speaker 3: past it. It's just you know, all of a sudden
Speaker 3: you're getting that kind of attention. But interestingly, we were
Speaker 3: you know, sixty nine through seventy four there was there
Speaker 3: were only three networks, and not in all big cities
Speaker 3: there might be two. So if anybody and everybody did
Speaker 3: watch television, that was like other than I mean, nobody
Speaker 3: watched during primetime local very few. So that's one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty one hundred and eighty million people at the time,
Speaker 3: all divide it up watching television over three channels. So
Speaker 3: so you get like thirty million, you were just in
Speaker 3: the top thirty. You needed forty and fifty million to
Speaker 3: get into the top ten. Up to about twenty four.
Speaker 3: You're guaranteed you're getting picked up when you're over twenty four,
Speaker 3: even though you got thirty million eyeballs on you, you know,
Speaker 3: it's not me and maybe we got picked up only
Speaker 3: one year for the whole year. Wait, we were always
Speaker 3: there for thirteen episodes and then the back ten and
Speaker 3: so we'd have to wait for that pickup. Wow, So
Speaker 3: it was old time except for one year, except for
Speaker 3: the fourth year, so even in the fifth season. But
Speaker 3: you realize that, I mean, there's a time stamp on
Speaker 3: this show because it's about kids, and the kids are
Speaker 3: growing up. So it kind of got a little awkward
Speaker 3: at the end there, and you recognize that if it's
Speaker 3: not canceled, maybe it should be. Because it's not, it
Speaker 3: doesn't work the same way anymore. And Barry and I
Speaker 3: have discovered in watching these shows that the better crafted
Speaker 3: shows were the shows done in the first two seasons,
Speaker 3: when well, that was that was its strength about those
Speaker 3: kind of simple lessons that you teach kids between you know,
Speaker 3: six and fourteen. As soon as you get into the adolescents,
Speaker 3: you're in a whole different trip, and you know, those
Speaker 3: kind of simple lessons are a lot more complicated and
Speaker 3: and not necessarily covered as well in this in this space,
Speaker 3: in this format. So it had it had a it
Speaker 3: had a a born on and you know, an exit
Speaker 3: date that was that was approaching. So in that fifth
Speaker 3: year we all had five year contracts, it was pretty
Speaker 3: well assumed we probably weren't coming.
Speaker 1: Back fifth years. Oliver, Right, that's when they start bringing Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: well I mean to see, that's what they're trying to do.
Speaker 3: It's fine to bring on the someplace a raft to
Speaker 3: jump onto.
Speaker 1: When Brian Bonsall comes on to Family Ties, they're like,
Speaker 1: it's probably tying to the show up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Oliver was before there was jumping over the shark.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, I just going back to you getting started.
Speaker 1: Did you want to be an actor as a child.
Speaker 3: No, I mean no, I was too shy to ever
Speaker 3: want that or even think about it matter. I thought
Speaker 3: it was weird when I was on the show and
Speaker 3: people would be writing me like fan mail. Right, It's like,
Speaker 3: who is this president? Why are they I don't know them, Well,
Speaker 3: they see you on television. I go, and they knew
Speaker 3: enough to write and knew how to get.
Speaker 1: It to me. I go.
Speaker 3: I would have never thought of that. I never even
Speaker 3: thought that. I know they're real people, but I never
Speaker 3: thought of them as real people. So I was assessing
Speaker 3: myself against those who were actually watching from the other
Speaker 3: position and thinking they're a lot smarter than I am
Speaker 3: that they even thought that through. I mean, life was
Speaker 3: rather immediate for me, you know, it was just something
Speaker 3: to consume in the moment, and I never took any
Speaker 3: of that and embraced it as fully as fans were
Speaker 3: at that point.
Speaker 1: It was, I know, what was your question, A just
Speaker 1: if you wanted to be an actor, if this was
Speaker 1: something you were you were hoping to do.
Speaker 3: Or it was something my parents my dad, you know,
Speaker 3: first generation here, so his parents are here, but they're
Speaker 3: you know, very European and old school, you know, family
Speaker 3: members worked to support the family. So my dad's idea,
Speaker 3: he was an actor. And that's an interesting story right there,
Speaker 3: the idea of television. Who was a stage actor. That's
Speaker 3: where real actors worked because there were artists and the
Speaker 3: only people who did television or sell outs movies were okay,
Speaker 3: you know, but still acting was done on you know,
Speaker 3: on stage on stage. Hard to make money there, but
Speaker 3: you could be excused from your peer group if you
Speaker 3: had a family and needed to feed them doing television.
Speaker 3: Otherwise you don't needed an excuse to when he starts
Speaker 3: having kids and he has no way of affording them.
Speaker 3: Living in New York City. His father had already moved
Speaker 3: out here to retire for the weather, and we drove
Speaker 3: cross country. This is before the highway, well fifty nine.
Speaker 3: The highway system was you know, getting put in, you know,
Speaker 3: from the early fifties, so it was barely done. We
Speaker 3: drove cross country to do Thanksgiving with his dad, that
Speaker 3: was the idea, and then we're going to drive back.
Speaker 3: We never went back because he had an agent in
Speaker 3: LA which or an office. His agent had an office
Speaker 3: in LA from New York and there was this thing
Speaker 3: called television you could make some money at. He was
Speaker 3: coming out here and not only do things, get me
Speaker 3: to check out the opportunities might be in this relatively
Speaker 3: new industry television. Not that he wanted to do it,
Speaker 3: but he had his family had to support. And it
Speaker 3: reminded me. I remembered that when all of a sudden
Speaker 3: this thing called reality television started and people at the
Speaker 3: front end of that arc were thinking that this was
Speaker 3: a blip, it was a change that was going to die.
Speaker 3: It was a fad. It was you know, when you
Speaker 3: look at the economics of producing reality television, it's like
Speaker 3: it's not a fat this is this is a new
Speaker 3: genre of television, a new type of television, and it
Speaker 3: too was scowled upon, you know when it first began,
Speaker 3: and I was a big business and no one would
Speaker 3: do it initially, sort of like television. That was the
Speaker 3: age when he was coming into television. Was that feel
Speaker 3: of television was the similar feel that we as actors
Speaker 3: had about reality television when it started.
Speaker 1: Do you remember your audition?
Speaker 3: No, No, I cannot recall. Well. I mean I had
Speaker 3: I had no experience, really had no talent. But it
Speaker 3: was hard for me. It's hard for me to speak.
Speaker 3: I couldn't.
Speaker 2: I mean, like I because of your nerves, because you
Speaker 2: were shy.
Speaker 3: Well would turn out I mean freaking a d d
Speaker 3: uh and and dyslexia, so I couldn't cold read. But no,
Speaker 3: it's like instead of a sentence coming out, like like
Speaker 3: all bullets had to come out at one time, and
Speaker 3: then they would you know, blurted out. It's like you know,
Speaker 3: it was it was it wasn't natural, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: it wasn't something that was studied. It was again my parents,
Speaker 3: you know, do commercials, and then the commercials you know,
Speaker 3: grew into this and and though I love the environment,
Speaker 3: I mean I really because it was an environment that
Speaker 3: was supportive of us, you know, and it was a
Speaker 3: safe arbor, and it was one that also required our
Speaker 3: partnticipation in our participation.
Speaker 1: H was.
Speaker 3: Valued, Yeah, I mean really necessary. And and you were
Speaker 3: a needed cog and that was a different kind of feeling,
Speaker 3: you know, other than being sort of in the way
Speaker 3: and a burden possibly, you know. And and in a
Speaker 3: world that we were, nourishment or just stuff is not
Speaker 3: an abundance all of a sudden, you have this place
Speaker 3: where there is an abundance of care and oversight. And
Speaker 3: I needed that. So for me, this whole idea of
Speaker 3: television being a bad place for kids, it's like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I can't disagree, but in my case, was kind of
Speaker 3: saved the day.
Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it all depends on the set, because our
Speaker 1: set was the same way. Our set was a really wonderful, safe,
Speaker 1: nurturing kind of place to be and what you're going
Speaker 1: to do next.
Speaker 3: And coming back to that, that's what Sure was looking
Speaker 3: for in children. He didn't want actor kids. He wanted
Speaker 3: kids who could act or at least remember the line,
Speaker 3: but that were real and and I brought that in abundance.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think Our interviews were just you know,
Speaker 3: some toys on a desk, you know, and you come
Speaker 3: in and and you know, just interact with them. I
Speaker 3: don't believe there was a test because go back then,
Speaker 3: they would have had to have done that somewhere where
Speaker 3: there's a camera, yeah, you know, and I don't remember
Speaker 3: going to a stage for any of that. There might
Speaker 3: have been, there had to have been, but I don't
Speaker 3: recall and there was never any you know, acting as
Speaker 3: part of the process. It was just a personality give
Speaker 3: and take, you know, like you're in a sandbox.
Speaker 1: Did you all get along right from the start, all
Speaker 1: kids or was there some getting to know your time?
Speaker 3: It was it was an exceptional group. I remember I
Speaker 3: thought that Barry was a dick because but you know,
Speaker 3: so the pilot we're doing the so firstly, that's the
Speaker 3: other thing, you know, never experienced anything where you didn't
Speaker 3: leave and never see those actors ever again, right, because
Speaker 3: that's I mean, there's a reason why actors are very
Speaker 3: personable and friendly and approachable, because it's it's all it's
Speaker 3: an immediate it's a it's a learned response, and maintaining
Speaker 3: those friendships has becomes you know, something that either difficult
Speaker 3: or impossible because you're just meeting too many new people
Speaker 3: all the time. But that could end up being, you know,
Speaker 3: an unexercised muscle. And then you end up with casts
Speaker 3: that I've known my entire life, and that's incredibly unique.
Speaker 3: And so this would be the first cast that I
Speaker 3: number one worked for over two weeks, and secondly that
Speaker 3: there would be this idea of coming back to see again.
Speaker 3: So I remember that doing a pilot, you know, the
Speaker 3: shoot was two weeks or something like that, and and
Speaker 3: I remember again sharing the same dressing room. We're doing
Speaker 3: this one mostly on location. I remember the tuxedo scenes.
Speaker 3: We had to get out of our tuxedos at lunch.
Speaker 3: We had to get out whatever worder where we were
Speaker 3: in at lunch. Could They didn't trust us as ten
Speaker 3: year olds to the letter to eat properly, So remove
Speaker 3: your clothes before you go eat, put them back on.
Speaker 3: So I remember Barry, he was always an adult. He
Speaker 3: was the youngest in his family, two older brothers, so
Speaker 3: he pretty much probably wanted to be them, and he
Speaker 3: would be. He was always with his hand in his
Speaker 3: pocket with that little tuxon, clicking something. And I'm just
Speaker 3: this kid, you know, wide eyed everything it's all new,
Speaker 3: you know, and just reacting to it. You know, I'm
Speaker 3: looking at his you know, his pocket or him and
Speaker 3: he says, looks down at me. At one point he says,
Speaker 3: you know what that is? And I said, you know,
Speaker 3: and he's he's older, so he's intimidating at this point.
Speaker 3: Don't know him well enough right to, you know, to
Speaker 3: be buddies with him. And he says, well, I want
Speaker 3: you to guess what this is by the end of
Speaker 3: the day. That's was something I had to do, right
Speaker 3: because he said I had to do it. He's older
Speaker 3: than so like instead of just pissing on the ground,
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna figure out what it is. At
Speaker 3: lunch there were his pants in the in our dressing room,
Speaker 3: which was like, you know, a star wagon at the time. Perfect,
Speaker 3: So could it be that? Is that whatever that was
Speaker 3: that was in his pocket is still there? Sure enough
Speaker 3: it was, and sure enough he'd find he'd come in
Speaker 3: right as my hand was in his pocket of his
Speaker 3: pants and I'm grabbing a lighter and I don't know
Speaker 3: what it is now, but yeah, I reached into your
Speaker 3: pants to get you know, pants were off. I mean,
Speaker 3: but it was like, you know, and it's like, so, so,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm ten years old. This was September October
Speaker 3: of sixteen eight. We do the pilot, we're gonna know
Speaker 3: about a pickup, and that's something you know. I'd never
Speaker 3: done a pilot, so you know, I didn't really know
Speaker 3: what the process was. But sometime in spring we'd find
Speaker 3: out whether or not you got picked up. But clearly,
Speaker 3: you know, mom, Dad's idea was never gonna get picked up,
Speaker 3: so don't worry. But then a phone call comes, you know,
Speaker 3: and I remember at the time, I was trying to
Speaker 3: figure out how to do a backflip. I didn't know
Speaker 3: how to do it, and you know, funny things you remember.
Speaker 3: Because the phone call came and it was like you
Speaker 3: got picked up, and I was like, oh, I wish
Speaker 3: I know I did do a backflip. Do a backflip
Speaker 3: right now, And I thought, oh, no, I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: to see him again. That was the first thought I had,
Speaker 3: you know, because it's kind of like kind of left it,
Speaker 3: kind of like I don't think that was the last
Speaker 3: state it might have been, you know, the whole Lighter incident,
Speaker 3: and I just felt like a fool and it's like,
Speaker 3: I'd like to leave that behind, but I also kind
Speaker 3: of liked what we did, and it'd be nice to
Speaker 3: see some of those people again, you know. So I
Speaker 3: didn't know where it would pick up, you know, I
Speaker 3: was you know, there's a lot of stuff going on
Speaker 3: underneath that you know, X stair at the time and
Speaker 3: so but but Barry was it was was right from
Speaker 3: the get go. From that point forward was friendly, if
Speaker 3: you will. Yeah, and then and then and and and
Speaker 3: it's because of all the parents around us and that environment.
Speaker 3: It just we became you know, we modeled what we were,
Speaker 3: what we were saying, you know, or behaving like on
Speaker 3: the show. We were just like, you know, be supportive
Speaker 3: of one another, you know. And and it was, I mean,
Speaker 3: in this world now, in this new world, everybody looking
Speaker 3: at us, we were you know, we all had the
Speaker 3: same experience.
Speaker 1: That's really amazing. So you're you're coming up together on
Speaker 1: a show.
Speaker 3: Are you.
Speaker 1: Realizing that the show is becoming something as.
Speaker 3: You're on the show. Well, that's the long answer to
Speaker 3: that question, because half an hour ago you asked it. Well, no,
Speaker 3: because we weren't sure how successful we were, right, we're
Speaker 3: kids in reviews on a show, a show that my
Speaker 3: mom says, shouldn't he be on the air? And so yeah,
Speaker 3: we go to Hawaii. We get reactions from people, nice,
Speaker 3: warm reactions, and the show is a big enough success
Speaker 3: to last five years, yea, and it probably and back
Speaker 3: then shows other than Bonanza and gun Smoke didn't last
Speaker 3: you know, five years was a good run, I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, and we were going to time out, so
Speaker 3: there was some feeling that it was a success, but
Speaker 3: not an overwhelming feeling like how many people we we affected.
Speaker 3: So part of this experience has been living in you
Speaker 3: know it with life in the review mirror. It's changed,
Speaker 3: not just a view of it, but it's changed it.
Speaker 3: Its value has changed over time because of its length,
Speaker 3: and so it's only gained more and more audience over
Speaker 3: the years. And probably you know, I mean generation it's
Speaker 3: the second most watched television series of all time, you know,
Speaker 3: after I Love Lucy's is an esteem place to be.
Speaker 3: And I say it's transcended its original intent. You know,
Speaker 3: it was entertainment, and it has become a touchstone and
Speaker 3: representation and if you think about it's like the last
Speaker 3: of its genre of you know, there's been other family shows.
Speaker 3: But if you try, if you look back, if you
Speaker 3: tried to do what we did today, you couldn't because
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if the cat's out of
Speaker 3: the bag or life is just never going to be
Speaker 3: that simple again. Can't people trade that way unless it's,
Speaker 3: you know, a cartoon, because what we've learned too much
Speaker 3: we come to I don't know. I mean, I just
Speaker 3: don't know how you would do it with that kind
Speaker 3: of sweetness, And.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think it would. You almost it's it's
Speaker 1: kind of like the Brady Bunch movie where you almost
Speaker 1: had to parody it nowadays.
Speaker 3: Well in that ya, that's a fish, that's a fish
Speaker 3: out of water. Well I thought through the eyes of
Speaker 3: some seven year old that I was I think made
Speaker 3: aware of by a fan who brought their daughter to
Speaker 3: the movie at the time and who had wanted to
Speaker 3: go because they watched the show and they were so
Speaker 3: disappointed in a movie. So for a that's an adult
Speaker 3: view of their of their childhood, of their simple, their
Speaker 3: simplistic view of themselves at the time, laughing at themselves.
Speaker 3: So that's what the movie is. It's it's the Brady's
Speaker 3: as these well portrayed as sort of bumbling mister mcgoo's superheroes.
Speaker 3: But really what it is is looking back on your
Speaker 3: childhood with adult eyes, you know, laughing at how simple
Speaker 3: you used to think it was. And but that doesn't
Speaker 3: work for the seven year old, right, that's a whole
Speaker 3: different story. It's not the spirit of the show. But
Speaker 3: it wasn't. That wasn't for the kids watching the show.
Speaker 3: It was for the kids at the time.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was for the kids who used to watch the show,
Speaker 3: who have grown up and you've left that behind.
Speaker 1: It.
Speaker 3: It's like a size that like putting on old pants
Speaker 3: that you know they don't fit anymore. Look at how
Speaker 3: silly this is. You know, look how small my shoes were,
Speaker 3: and you're just kind of like tickled by it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what the show, That's what the movies were.
Speaker 1: Now. I was always curious whose idea. I mean, do
Speaker 1: you remember do you remember the discussion that ever took place,
Speaker 1: or did they come and talk to you about the
Speaker 1: fact that the Bradys were now going to kind of
Speaker 1: move in a music direction? I mean, how did how
Speaker 1: did this come about? It was this because the Partridge family,
Speaker 1: I mean, what happened well.
Speaker 3: Conspiring parties, probably the dominant parties were Barry and my
Speaker 3: mom really of all people. So we had some difficulties
Speaker 3: reconciling that after the show. Is because I have no
Speaker 3: musical talent whatsoever, and unlike most people, I don't you know,
Speaker 3: I don't believe people should sing who can't sing? Right?
Speaker 3: I mean, what in the hell would I do? What
Speaker 3: would be fun about going to a karaoke bar? Even
Speaker 3: if I didn't have to sing? Why do I want
Speaker 3: to be there? You know, there's enough people with talent,
Speaker 3: let them do the freaking singing, you know, and not
Speaker 3: everybody can sing. I mean, if there's that that statement
Speaker 3: I got the music in me, well, then at the
Speaker 3: other end of the spectrum is that person that doesn't
Speaker 3: have the music in them right? And let them be
Speaker 3: you know. Well, now we're a little tree. Well yeah,
Speaker 3: so my mom has a business mind, you know, watching
Speaker 3: you know the Osmond's and the Jackson's and and the DeFranco's,
Speaker 3: and you know, and then you know, Bobby Sherman and
Speaker 3: David Cassid and everybody. You can make money selling albums.
Speaker 3: We should do the same.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 3: It probably dawned on her or the idea took hold
Speaker 3: one one, you know, the third ye or fourth year,
Speaker 3: because Florence was doing a show, a live show, and
Speaker 3: she approached my mom, the mom's the boys she wanted.
Speaker 3: She had an idea about maybe having the three boys
Speaker 3: be a small segment on of her show. It never
Speaker 3: worked out, but somehow that idea kind of took hold,
Speaker 3: and the next thing, you know, we're doing a Christmas album. Wow,
Speaker 3: and you know, I mean a rhythmic and tone deaf.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: It was humiliating, and then the music starts coming into
Speaker 3: the show itself and and I know, sure, what is
Speaker 3: his has? What did share that that he that was
Speaker 3: being forced on? He didn't really want that. That was bearing,
Speaker 3: you know, and and our moms and and trying, you know,
Speaker 3: forcing a career after this thing. And I hated every
Speaker 3: I didn't want to do that. I mean, it's like
Speaker 3: I didn't want to be I just made me. And
Speaker 3: then that those albums we recorded more, and then we
Speaker 3: did concerts and I couldn't do a solo. You know,
Speaker 3: there's no way in the world. So it was like
Speaker 3: what am I doing here? It was like, you know,
Speaker 3: my mom's you know, literally just looking at it as business.
Speaker 3: It's like, Mom, if you really wanted to be in music,
Speaker 3: maybe we would have had music at home, you know,
Speaker 3: and and lesson and it was and then I took
Speaker 3: a really strident kind of attitude. Again, it polarized me
Speaker 3: against music, you know, as an enemy of sorts. So
Speaker 3: but that's the reason, because it was, you know, Barry
Speaker 3: wanted to be Tom Jones from the early stage, you know,
Speaker 3: and and that was it, and and and this show
Speaker 3: was a vehicle to get there.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So you've now talked about Barry a few times.
Speaker 1: Did you say that you you both are doing a
Speaker 1: show where you're watching The Brady Bunch.
Speaker 3: Again, Right, that'd be fun to actually watch it together.
Speaker 3: But we can't obviously watch it with and then broadcast
Speaker 3: that that because that would be even that'll be over
Speaker 3: the top.
Speaker 1: But so we do.
Speaker 3: We've we watched the episode separately. He's and we do
Speaker 3: our podcast separately. He's in Missouri. But there's a lot
Speaker 3: of lessons in watching. You know, we haven't watched these
Speaker 3: episodes for fifty years.
Speaker 1: Had you watched them since they aired?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, I seem to recall so that there
Speaker 3: was an episode I missed you know that I didn't
Speaker 3: see in its primetime. I don't remember what episode that
Speaker 3: might have been, but it doesn't really matter at this point.
Speaker 3: I don't remember any of the episodes because that was it.
Speaker 3: That's what I watched. And then if I, you know,
Speaker 3: change in channels run across it, I don't. I don't
Speaker 3: watch anything I do. I mean, that's far enough away
Speaker 3: now that I can watch it and actually with some distance,
Speaker 3: you know, see it objectively. So this is that that
Speaker 3: this approach, when we did this show and found our
Speaker 3: you know, people photographing the house, even forgetting that we
Speaker 3: were actors, think we lost time. When they've asked us
Speaker 3: this question, what's your favorite show? And our responses is
Speaker 3: always Hawaii? But our response is why because we got
Speaker 3: to go to Hawaii? Is that the question they're asking
Speaker 3: It might be a favorite show of theirs too, but
Speaker 3: they're asking us, which show do you enjoy watching? It's like,
Speaker 3: we don't have an answer for that. So this was
Speaker 3: that this was getting caught up with our audience. What
Speaker 3: if they've been watching, what's compelled them to watch it,
Speaker 3: you know, repetitively over all these years, so that its
Speaker 3: success only has grown and that's when now there's a
Speaker 3: new appreciation for the message that was there, because the
Speaker 3: message is really simple and seemingly as primary as it
Speaker 3: is one that we consistently need to relearn, and that
Speaker 3: is just how to get along.
Speaker 1: Were you happy with the product? I mean, as you're
Speaker 1: watching it again, is it giving good vibes as you're
Speaker 1: watching it again and laugh?
Speaker 2: Definitely?
Speaker 3: Definitely?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: I mean I still have some problems watching myself because
Speaker 3: some of that is really raw, and but I can
Speaker 3: laugh at it because it's like, you know, I have
Speaker 3: to watch that show like the time to change, which
Speaker 3: is you know, my voice cracking. That was the lowest
Speaker 3: week of my life because I thought they were actually
Speaker 3: pointing to me saying, see he can't sing.
Speaker 1: That's what that.
Speaker 3: It's like, do I want music on the show?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: And I this is the reason, and now you're going
Speaker 3: to make fun of me. That's how I took it
Speaker 3: and didn't explain that to anybody, but that's what I've
Speaker 3: worn and felt about music and that moment this time, No,
Speaker 3: I watch the show and a crack crack, I crack
Speaker 3: up like everybody else.
Speaker 1: Funny.
Speaker 3: It's like, you know the things that go through your
Speaker 3: head as a kid.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, Do you have any like of the special
Speaker 2: guests that that came in that really is a big
Speaker 2: memory for you to meet somebody who you were excited
Speaker 2: about or you knowerience in general.
Speaker 3: The second year. I just think it was a second
Speaker 3: year when Deacon Jones came on because I was a
Speaker 3: big RAMS fan, and that's during the Fearsome foursome, you know,
Speaker 3: so and and he's a giant individual, you know, and
Speaker 3: then sadly like things like Joe Nammouth was obviously you know,
Speaker 3: a hero as well. But I didn't work with them. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I'm in school, so I don't. I don't get
Speaker 3: this man anytime, you know, just shake his hand, meet him,
Speaker 3: but not work with them. And that's and that is
Speaker 3: part of that, you know puzzle. And looking back on
Speaker 3: our show, I do these do these are recaps? We
Speaker 3: watch them and I'm wondering, why don't I have any
Speaker 3: recollection of X y Z. And it's like, huh, probably
Speaker 3: because then I go back and I look when we
Speaker 3: filmed that, that's during his school year. And if you
Speaker 3: didn't have any scenes with that person, you were not
Speaker 3: sad you weren't there with them interacting, there was no
Speaker 3: there was no memory. And and then also like, why
Speaker 3: wasn't I aware that he had another show before this
Speaker 3: that I was a fan of with he was a ventriloquist,
Speaker 3: but he was on The Brady Bunch as the director.
Speaker 3: Come on, he's a very famous and he was on
Speaker 3: our show. And now I'm going anyway, and it's like
Speaker 3: I'm reading when we're doing the podcast, I'm reading like
Speaker 3: beyond you know, my recognition, recognition of him being the
Speaker 3: the puppeteer and and and star of Winchell Mahony Hour,
Speaker 3: that he was also an inventor and invented the artificial
Speaker 3: heart and he was on our shows.
Speaker 1: Somebody, somebody, the guy who invented the artificial heart was
Speaker 1: also a puppeteer for a children show. Okay, yeah, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: take them. You need to google because that's insane.
Speaker 3: Paul Winchell, he really yeah, and.
Speaker 2: He played a director on an episode.
Speaker 3: Yes, he played an episode the best I don't know
Speaker 3: if we have in the house. I'm sure that if
Speaker 3: we don't, Tina, we'll get it. The ubiquitous bottle of
Speaker 3: Best Soap or was it Safe Soap? There was a
Speaker 3: battle between Best and safe, and we ended up with
Speaker 3: like you know, cartons and cartons of safe soap. And
Speaker 3: throughout the that was the only consistent article or prop
Speaker 3: throughout all the years from that day on, every time
Speaker 3: there was soap being used, there was this box of
Speaker 3: safe or best I think it was safe safe. There
Speaker 3: you go, that's it. And and that was the episode.
Speaker 3: He's a director, uh, directing us in that commercial or
Speaker 3: safe soap. And apparently and now watching it also see
Speaker 3: commentary coming from Sherwood because there was some this was
Speaker 3: later I think it was four seasons, you know, some
Speaker 3: issues between the legendary now between him and Bob. And
Speaker 3: I didn't know any about anything about that because we
Speaker 3: as kids that would happen after we went home, and
Speaker 3: their difficulties were kept from us. Very very classy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it was what was most important. It was about that
Speaker 3: the kids environment wasn't wasn't soil but apparently got tense
Speaker 3: and and so this episode there's a director, you know,
Speaker 3: who's directing us, and none of the family knows how
Speaker 3: to act. So they go to a friend who's an
Speaker 3: acting coach, and they start then acting badly, you know,
Speaker 3: in front of the camera. And he's wondering what the
Speaker 3: hell happened to these my my my natural family wanted
Speaker 3: us to be all just natural. They have learned to
Speaker 3: act because some taught them about motivation and he had
Speaker 3: you know this, these are all bad things for actors
Speaker 3: to know about. Was like, hmm, it's interesting, that's.
Speaker 2: A you know it.
Speaker 3: At the time, when had any clue as to really
Speaker 3: where some of that energy was coming from, These ideas
Speaker 3: were parked.
Speaker 1: All right, So all these years later as you're rewatching,
Speaker 1: what's the one thing you hope the fans take away
Speaker 1: from the show.
Speaker 3: Well, it's I think turn it around. It's I'm glad
Speaker 3: that now I'm able to take from the show because
Speaker 3: I've been watching it myself, and it's what they have
Speaker 3: been taking from it, even if they're not conscious of
Speaker 3: it's a we all yearn to get along. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: and and and family is the first place. These walls
Speaker 3: are the first place. As a kid you learn your place,
Speaker 3: and with six it becomes highly structured in where your
Speaker 3: place is. But it's a wonder. I mean, as a kid,
Speaker 3: that's what you're fighting for. You know, your identity is
Speaker 3: is is reflective of your environment and where you fit
Speaker 3: inside of it, and so where we fit starts here
Speaker 3: at home.
Speaker 2: And and and.
Speaker 3: Getting along helps you fit.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 2: Everything you guys have accomplished with this house is just unable.
Speaker 2: Like we said, everyone that is another show that you
Speaker 2: know of.
Speaker 3: Show you a photograph of every single room in this
Speaker 3: house and you'll know where it's from.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't think there was another television show.
Speaker 3: That even has maybe one room.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean maybe the bar Cheers the bar,
Speaker 1: other than that, like an actual house, but no, this
Speaker 1: is this is arguably the most iconic television house in history.
Speaker 3: In the backyard, Patty, I mean all of it. It
Speaker 3: was like when doing it was recognizing that which is
Speaker 3: your favorite room, It's like, oh, well, kitchen. You know
Speaker 3: I kind of dressed for the kitchen. So yeah, it's
Speaker 3: just like it's remarkable and and it it would be
Speaker 3: how you still want to live in and it was
Speaker 3: built in the late sixties, so it's it's kind of wild. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's amazing timeless, and I don't think if it if
Speaker 3: it didn't and wasn't still timeless, I don't think we
Speaker 3: would be now.
Speaker 1: It's also true neighbors to the Boy Meets World House,
Speaker 1: which is not too far from here, and we were
Speaker 1: both on Friday.
Speaker 3: Nights, so it's safe children.
Speaker 1: I feel a kinship.
Speaker 3: I feel a kinship with you. People think we grew
Speaker 3: up on the same street, you know, with Danny Bonducia
Speaker 3: next door neighbor.
Speaker 1: I think, well, you know, Marion Ross is my next
Speaker 1: door neighbor in real life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she's a doll. She's the doll's So yeah, we've
Speaker 3: got it.
Speaker 1: We've got him everywhere. But thank you again so much,
Speaker 1: Thank you time. And what's the name of your podcast?
Speaker 3: The Real Brady Bros? Like this house. We weren't real,
Speaker 3: but we were depicting ourselves as the real Brady Bros.
Speaker 3: Because there was brothers named Brady doing a podcast out
Speaker 3: of Boston. Interestingly enough, so we're the real Brady Bros.
Speaker 3: Because we're not really real, but to you we are, yes,
Speaker 3: the real Brady.
Speaker 1: Bro Well, everybody please go and check that out.
Speaker 3: And I am certainly going to do that. One other thing.
Speaker 3: We're really important. We're in the house. Tina Treyhan who
Speaker 3: owns this house now and by virtue for buying the house,
Speaker 3: the house will continue to be a part of my
Speaker 3: life and I can't thank her enough. For that for
Speaker 3: allowing us access to the house. She is also recognized
Speaker 3: that there's a lot of people driving by taking pictures
Speaker 3: of this house, said to be the second most photographed
Speaker 3: house in America after the White House. So how do
Speaker 3: people because the real magic's now inside the house, not outside,
Speaker 3: how do you let people in the house? And so
Speaker 3: she has started a sweepstakes called the Brady Experience for
Speaker 3: a chance to win a tour of the house and
Speaker 3: brunch with some of the Bradys like myself included sometime
Speaker 3: next year. And it's running right now. So yeah, you can.
Speaker 3: You can enter to win an opportunity a ticket out
Speaker 3: if you don't live in LA for yourself and a
Speaker 3: guest and a tour of the house.
Speaker 1: Wow, awesome.
Speaker 2: Where you can enter is the Bradyexperience dot com.
Speaker 1: That is correct, perfect, and that is going to be
Speaker 1: a pretty awesome experience all the way around. I can't
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here with us, and
Speaker 1: of course, dear listeners, thank you so much for joining
Speaker 1: us on yet another journey.
Speaker 3: Join us next time.
Speaker 1: When we watch a Disney Channel movie, we don't know
Speaker 1: which one it's going to be because we don't know
Speaker 1: where we are in the pecking order, but chances are
Speaker 1: it's gonna have something to do with a dog that
Speaker 1: doesn't talk or cheetah girls. That's saying we don't know,
Speaker 1: we'll figure it out when we get there. Tooth fairy
Speaker 1: that can't really fly, thank you everybody, and we will
Speaker 1: see it next time.
Speaker 3: Bye.