Speaker 1: Hey, Fanorrito's welcome back to how Rude Tannerito's Our guest
Speaker 1: today is a delightful surprise. We have been talking about
Speaker 1: the Rippers and the Mullets a lot on this podcast,
Speaker 1: and today you get to meet one of the most
Speaker 1: influential rippers. He is a keyboardist and a vocalist who
Speaker 1: was not only a member of Jesse and the Rippers,
Speaker 1: but also performed with the Beach Boys. He has been
Speaker 1: a part of Full House ever since the beginning season one,
Speaker 1: episode two, and we are so thrilled that he has
Speaker 1: joined us today. Please welcome my personal favorite ripper, no
Speaker 1: offense to the other Rippers and the Mullets, the Redheaded Ripper,
Speaker 1: Gary Griffin.
Speaker 2: Whoo Hi Gary, look at us old.
Speaker 1: Forever forever.
Speaker 3: Oh God, so good to see you. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 3: We're so excited to have one of the Rippers on
Speaker 3: the show. And you know, we're going back and watching
Speaker 3: this from the beginning, and we didn't watch it really
Speaker 3: like as kids, we didn't watch the show. We were like,
Speaker 3: glad we did it, it's over, you know, right, and
Speaker 3: I did not. We both were talking about like we
Speaker 3: didn't realize how integral the Rippers were to the first
Speaker 3: couple of seasons. First episode two of the first season,
Speaker 3: Yea and I Will Episode two standing on a speaker
Speaker 3: dancing was like the best time of my life up
Speaker 3: until that point.
Speaker 2: Pictures of that episode, which I should send to please. Yes,
Speaker 2: Oh yes, Unfortunately miss miss Kimmy Gibler is not in
Speaker 2: the picture.
Speaker 3: There's plenty of Kimmy to come. Yeah. Now, I remember
Speaker 3: I had like purple spray painted hair in the front. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's probably like before they made like hair spray paint.
Speaker 3: It was probably just actual spray paint in the eighties,
Speaker 3: lots of toxic chemicals. Yeah. Yeah, they were like, nah,
Speaker 3: you'll be fine, just don't breathe in you know. I
Speaker 3: guess we should tell Gary that we we just kind
Speaker 3: of jump right in and we start. So ignore all
Speaker 3: the the other people on the that you see on
Speaker 3: there just listening and being creepy.
Speaker 1: They're on their phones playing games, that's what they're doing.
Speaker 3: They're ignoring all of us. They're yeah, yeah, yeah, they're
Speaker 3: ignoring us, and they're just like hoping. They're hoping for
Speaker 3: the best, and we don't get threw it up, Sweeten.
Speaker 2: So Andrea, I haven't seen even you know, it's been
Speaker 2: like thirty years.
Speaker 3: Since far well, since it's ended. Yeah, since it ended.
Speaker 3: That's wild. I know, it's so fun.
Speaker 1: It's so fun getting to go back and watch all
Speaker 1: of the rippers and their mullets, Like there's so many
Speaker 1: mullets in the thirty years.
Speaker 2: That puts me in my mid forties, I believe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you were obviously, I mean you
Speaker 3: were about DJ Kimmi's age. You're a very tall child star.
Speaker 3: He had a growth spurt early. It was yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: you had a fake ID. You were playing with the Rippers.
Speaker 3: You were like, nobody knows I'm ten. Yeah, no, it's fine.
Speaker 2: The thing I didn't realize about those episodes. I didn't
Speaker 2: know it at the time, but I had a mullet
Speaker 2: and I didn't even.
Speaker 3: The red mullets. Yeah yeah you did.
Speaker 2: Later people saying you did you had a mullet. You know,
Speaker 2: I did not.
Speaker 3: You know, they were sneaky, they were sneaky, they were
Speaker 3: they were just sort of omnipresent. You didn't even like
Speaker 3: you had a mullen. You didn't even know it. You
Speaker 3: wouldn't even like they were. They were just sneak up
Speaker 3: on you. And then only in hindsight do you realize,
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I was a victim.
Speaker 2: Of a mullet. There's no problem with that now, it's no.
Speaker 1: Thank goodness, thank goodness. We were so glad when when
Speaker 1: John finally cut his hair in season two or like, blessed,
Speaker 1: thank you, mullet.
Speaker 2: You look in the encyclopedia on your mullet, it says
Speaker 2: see also stamos commet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely true. It's true. It's not it's more than
Speaker 3: a mullet. It's just a stamele.
Speaker 2: But it was cool.
Speaker 3: It was more than a mullet, and all.
Speaker 2: The guys that's what we aspired to. We thought, God,
Speaker 2: if I had hair like stainless meant right, this whole
Speaker 2: thing would be so easy. That would be styling.
Speaker 3: But seeing you like and like realizing how much the
Speaker 3: rippers were involved and on set and with us, like,
Speaker 3: how did how did the rippers come to be? What
Speaker 3: is the origin story of If we don't know, if
Speaker 3: we don't, this actually too Yeah.
Speaker 2: Be tired, I'll tell you nippity all right. Prior to
Speaker 2: Full House, John was on General Hospital, of course, and
Speaker 2: he his character Blacky Parrish. They wrote him a storyline
Speaker 2: where he had a rock and roll band, Blackie in
Speaker 2: the Riff Raft, and I had just met John just
Speaker 2: prior to that. He was, Oh, the backstory is kind
Speaker 2: of cool. He was a teenager and he would come
Speaker 2: to see our band at not very fair yes, and
Speaker 2: he was an Aspire actor and he said, I've got
Speaker 2: an audition this week for General Hospital. And we were
Speaker 2: all like, oh, great kid, that's great, good luck. You know,
Speaker 2: that's that's gonna be great. Man. And of course within
Speaker 2: two weeks he's a major teen teen idol. You know.
Speaker 2: He got the job right then. And he came to
Speaker 2: us and said, hey, they want to make my guys.
Speaker 2: He's gonna have his own band, Blackie and the Riffraff.
Speaker 2: You want to be in it? I said, sure, What
Speaker 2: what am I doing? You're gonna be on General Hospital?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. So I was brought in it to be
Speaker 2: part of the band on General Hospital. But the weird
Speaker 2: thing was I had no experience acting nothing. I've never
Speaker 2: even been in a school play, a church playing nothing.
Speaker 2: I've just been a musician only my whole life. My
Speaker 2: whole life is only like thirty years old at that time,
Speaker 2: but no, probably less. But so they brought me. They
Speaker 2: brought me in a couple of our buddies in to
Speaker 2: be the riff raff. But for some reason they started
Speaker 2: writing scenes. But they're giving me speaking lines and tons.
Speaker 3: Of wow intimidation.
Speaker 2: And page see I go.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. Yeah. Soap operas are super hard too,
Speaker 3: because it's like, hey, here you arrive at this time
Speaker 3: in the morning. Here's ten pages. Learn them now see
Speaker 3: see you in an hour.
Speaker 2: Like I had no idea what I was doing, but
Speaker 2: I didn't know enough to not say anything like what
Speaker 2: do you guys? Are you guys nuts? Why are you speaking?
Speaker 2: I don't know what I just said. Well, I'll just
Speaker 2: give it a try and let's see how it works out.
Speaker 2: So I would have, you know, scenes with John long
Speaker 2: extended scenes, but I was just like the what do
Speaker 2: you call exposition? I would just be saying the things
Speaker 2: that that the viewers need to know, like, hey, Blackie,
Speaker 2: we got that big, big show at the Armory this weekend,
Speaker 2: and you know we got to rehearse because we have
Speaker 2: a new drummer.
Speaker 3: And right right right, let me tell you all the
Speaker 3: reasons why we're having this conversation.
Speaker 2: That's never like, hey, Blackie, let me tell you how
Speaker 2: I feel about.
Speaker 3: Things, for sure. But you know, they almost made your
Speaker 3: character die and then come back to life with an
Speaker 3: evil twin, so it's it could have.
Speaker 2: You know, well, you remember Blackie John's character, he caused
Speaker 2: the death of his girlfriend. Oh, that's how they wrote
Speaker 2: him out of the show because he had to go
Speaker 2: off to prison because I didn't know that.
Speaker 3: I see, I didn't watch General Hospital. My parents were
Speaker 3: g H fans, but I don't know this backstory. And
Speaker 3: I did not know that you were a General Hospital star.
Speaker 2: You were about you're about one at the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was on Days of Our Lives, so
Speaker 1: I was on a competing, competing show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't watch General She also has a soap background.
Speaker 3: I feel so left out.
Speaker 2: So we're written out of the show finally because Blackie
Speaker 2: goes off to prison and we were and we you know,
Speaker 2: just that storyline.
Speaker 3: Ended at least of your riff raft duties.
Speaker 2: I was relieved Riff. So then Full House comes along
Speaker 2: and this character, uncle Jesse's going to have a band.
Speaker 2: So John comes back to me. He said, well, we're
Speaker 2: gonna have a band again. Jesse and the Rippers want
Speaker 2: to do that one. So yeah, I want to do that.
Speaker 2: Of course, I go from a being, you know, a
Speaker 2: number one daytime TV General Hospital, number one daytime showing
Speaker 2: to Full House, which turned out to be extremely successful too,
Speaker 2: but who knew at the time, right, So that's how
Speaker 2: the Rippers came. He said, well, come on, do you
Speaker 2: be the Rippers? And I said, well yeah, And I
Speaker 2: felt kind of guilty about it because there were so
Speaker 2: many aspiring actors in that city who would kill for
Speaker 2: that job, and here I am completely unqualified when they're
Speaker 2: giving me the scenes I was on. I counted I
Speaker 2: was on about thirty five episodes the show.
Speaker 3: Wo oh my god. I didn't realize that either. I mean,
Speaker 3: I knew you were on a bunch, but like I.
Speaker 2: Said, eight seasons, about four or four to five per season,
Speaker 2: which was like, I was down there a lot because
Speaker 2: John and I worked on a lot of music scenons,
Speaker 2: so way more than that to work on stuff. But
Speaker 2: being on the shows on like thirty something episodes, that's and.
Speaker 1: They gave you lines on our show too, like in
Speaker 1: season one in the in the cabin and then up
Speaker 1: Inake Tahoe or whatever, when Jesse goes to get away
Speaker 1: from the kids, you have lines there.
Speaker 2: Oh I had lines.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't know that you aren't or it was all
Speaker 3: that experience on General Hospital.
Speaker 2: My biggest regret was I never got to do a
Speaker 2: scene with Andrea.
Speaker 3: I know this is a tragedy. I hear that there's
Speaker 3: a there's rumor that this particular ripper could be actually
Speaker 3: related to the Gibler.
Speaker 2: Just tell me that's what that's what we decided. We
Speaker 2: decided Uncle.
Speaker 1: Gary Gibbler is the relation here?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it tracks.
Speaker 2: So proud of that. But I did. I don't know
Speaker 2: if Maddie got the picture, but I did send a
Speaker 2: picture of when we did Fuller House. Yeah, Rumber Jody,
Speaker 2: but we you we did a scene with the rippers.
Speaker 2: You guys were going to buy back the Smash Club
Speaker 2: or that's.
Speaker 3: Right, the Smash Club had been turned into a laundromat.
Speaker 2: So the rippers are in the launch have to be there.
Speaker 3: All of them, right, like they've never left the Smash Club. There,
Speaker 3: they're trapped forever in those walls.
Speaker 2: And you say to me, what are you guys doing here?
Speaker 2: And I say something, guy, Well, it's Friday night. We're
Speaker 2: doing our laundry for the last twenty years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, to night. It's not a club anymore. I
Speaker 3: guess we do the loan right now.
Speaker 2: I thought that was a great So.
Speaker 1: How did you put how did you put these particular
Speaker 1: rippers together? How did John who put them together? How'd
Speaker 1: you find them? Were they friends?
Speaker 2: You know? There have there have been so many rippers
Speaker 2: through the years, there have been a.
Speaker 3: Lot of you know, sure there have been a there's
Speaker 3: been some. I've definitely noticed some cycle through, but I
Speaker 3: also know there's like, you know, two or three that
Speaker 3: have been pretty consistent, right.
Speaker 2: Oh. Yeah, And Roger Lodge was in there a lot,
Speaker 2: and uh my buddy Tony Shooto from Baltimore, and Mark
Speaker 2: Vogel was one who was in. But we were going
Speaker 2: through it the other day because Dave is going to
Speaker 2: do a podcast also.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he's doing. He's doing as he came on
Speaker 3: as a guest to ours, and then we're gonna gonna
Speaker 3: go do his as well.
Speaker 2: He wants to try try to assemble as many rippers
Speaker 2: as he can. Quite a challenge because everybody's everywhere else
Speaker 2: these days. Ray Yeah, he's in Pakistan.
Speaker 3: Believe I know, he's doing some really incredible work over there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's quite a struggle keeping them safe. I do.
Speaker 2: He'll send me every couple of weeks, He'll send me, Hey,
Speaker 2: can you do a piano? Can you do a piano
Speaker 2: part on this song I'm working on? So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: I go down to my basement where I have a studio,
Speaker 2: work for an hour, push a button. And it's in Pakistan.
Speaker 3: Amazing. Yeah, it's really cool. He is working on bringing
Speaker 3: music education to young people in Pakistan and was in Afghanistan,
Speaker 3: but obviously they've now had to across the border into
Speaker 3: Pakistan after the Taliban because he also there's the school
Speaker 3: I think teaches a lot of young women music, which
Speaker 3: is forbidden obviously under the talban. So they had to
Speaker 3: go to Pakistan and do some stuff. But it's really
Speaker 3: the miraculous love kids is Lanny's.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're really great. The girls can play guitar quite well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah they done. They released videos they're like of
Speaker 3: these young women singing and like it's really incredible.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Do you remember a ripper?
Speaker 1: Okay, this has a been a We've talked about this
Speaker 1: a lot.
Speaker 3: This is gonna seem really weird.
Speaker 1: There's a one particular ripper in a recent episode we
Speaker 1: watched Who's got a rat tail that he has a ponytail,
Speaker 1: the bullet's and a ponytail, but then he has a
Speaker 1: rat tail that kind of comes around his neck. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you remember this ripper.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a look if you thought if you
Speaker 3: thought your surprise mullet was one thing, let me tell
Speaker 3: you the rat tail just elevated the celebrated rat tail
Speaker 3: with some beads at the end of it.
Speaker 2: I'm sure you remember Randall Curia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Randell, there were a bunch of Yeah. Landy actually
Speaker 3: taught me to play guitar for an for our episode
Speaker 3: of of As We Were Girl Talk. One of the
Speaker 3: rippers taught me to play guitar, and then John would
Speaker 3: practice remember my.
Speaker 2: Home studio to pre record.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2: And I was young and with one of the other girls, Marla.
Speaker 2: Marla and you were young, and I thought, oh, this
Speaker 2: is going to be torture. These girls would be so
Speaker 2: this is gonna take forever. It took about this long
Speaker 2: if you're just singing this song, so good, thank you.
Speaker 3: That was the first time I ever recorded music. That
Speaker 3: was the first time I was ever in like a
Speaker 3: music studio. That was the first time i'd ever sung
Speaker 3: in front of a microphone. Yeah, well that's not true.
Speaker 3: I had sung in front of microphones and like you know,
Speaker 3: talent shows and pageants. What it but like as far
Speaker 3: as to be recorded by a professional musician with the headphones,
Speaker 3: Like I felt so cool?
Speaker 2: Well you were, yeah, you both you both were exceptional
Speaker 2: talents as little tikes. I mean I was. I didn't
Speaker 2: watch about acting or anything, but I'll watch you guys
Speaker 2: do it. I thought, God, these kids are good. Everything
Speaker 2: that comes out of their mouth sounds like it's being processed.
Speaker 2: Right then, you know, there's no prep, there's no mulling
Speaker 2: over the lines. Okay, I got a line coming up here,
Speaker 2: It comes here, it comes here, it comes here. Okay.
Speaker 2: Do you know? You had every natural as could be?
Speaker 3: Thank thank you.
Speaker 2: That's why I've become such the great actor that I
Speaker 2: am today.
Speaker 3: Well, you know it's with the award season approaching, I
Speaker 3: just really want you to remember carry when you're up
Speaker 3: on that stage, who taught you what?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: We'll wait for our shout out.
Speaker 2: People the names again, Angela and what.
Speaker 3: Right? So how I would love to know Gary, how
Speaker 3: you got into music yourself? Like how did how did
Speaker 3: you become a musician. I love hearing the backstory of
Speaker 3: this and.
Speaker 2: My On my fifth birthday five, my aunt friend said,
Speaker 2: I'm going to offer you for your birthday one year's
Speaker 2: with a piano lessons and I was like this excited
Speaker 2: about it. I don't get a new toy or anything.
Speaker 2: Analysis Okay, So I said, okay, let me think about
Speaker 2: it it. So sometime in the next day I consulted
Speaker 2: my older brother who's five years older, who knew in
Speaker 2: my mind, who knew everything. You know. John said, yeah,
Speaker 2: you should do that. You should learn to play the piano.
Speaker 2: That'd be great, look good. So back to Anan the
Speaker 2: next day, I said, yeah, I want to do that.
Speaker 2: So I started piano lessons at age five, and from
Speaker 2: what they tell me, I was I was. I took.
Speaker 2: I was really good right away, like for a little kid,
Speaker 2: it's really good. Then I completely lost interest in it
Speaker 2: until I was about twelve or thirteen, and I started
Speaker 2: hearing rock and roll on the radio, and then it
Speaker 2: all kind of clicked. Oh, so I could play these
Speaker 2: songs I'm hearing on the radio. I could learn along
Speaker 2: the piano. That would be kind of cool. So that
Speaker 2: was it, and then from then on. It was just
Speaker 2: no looking back. I just played piano, and that's the
Speaker 2: only thing I've done in my life, playing rock and
Speaker 2: roll bands.
Speaker 3: So actually, I mean not a bad life though, you
Speaker 3: know that's right, Other than your illustrious soap career.
Speaker 2: Called me back at General Hospital. All that may come home.
Speaker 3: They never you know, it's once you're in. Once you're in,
Speaker 3: they never let you go. Gary, don't be modest.
Speaker 1: You've performed with the Beach Boys, which is so incredible.
Speaker 1: How did you meet them?
Speaker 3: What to take us through?
Speaker 2: That's a good one. That's a good one. I was
Speaker 2: just I was a big fan all through my childhood,
Speaker 2: a big fan of Beach Boys, and I would go
Speaker 2: to their shows anytime they came to the area. I
Speaker 2: grew up in Cincinnati, which is kind of where I
Speaker 2: am now, but anytime they would come to the area,
Speaker 2: I would go to their shows and be one of
Speaker 2: those you know kids hanging back. Hey, I know all
Speaker 2: your songs. I should be in your band. You know,
Speaker 2: you should let me be in your band. I know
Speaker 2: all your that's great, that's great. So I kept bugging
Speaker 2: them for several years and then out of the blue,
Speaker 2: I got a call, like in nineteen seventy seven, said Gary,
Speaker 2: this is Mike Love.
Speaker 3: He's a great Mike Love and Bresion by the way, perfect,
Speaker 3: thank you.
Speaker 2: We need a keyboard player in the van if you
Speaker 2: think you'd be interested in doing that. Wow. So that's
Speaker 2: how it started. That's incredible persistent and they called me
Speaker 2: and they harm me and I in and out of
Speaker 2: their world since nineteen seventy seven. Wow. Wow, the last
Speaker 2: bunch of years, I've been playing with Brian Wilson, touring
Speaker 2: with him, right, so great, so so great. But he's
Speaker 2: he's pretty much retired now. He's kind of yeah, unable
Speaker 2: to get out there. He's you know, eighty yeah, eighty
Speaker 2: two in June.
Speaker 3: I remember, I think when Brian was on the episode
Speaker 3: of The Beach Boys. Wasn't that kind of the first
Speaker 3: time in a while that he had done anything?
Speaker 2: It was that era. Yeah, he had been brought back,
Speaker 2: he had been sort of so, he'd lost some weight,
Speaker 2: he was in better physical shape able to do something
Speaker 2: like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I think because he'd kind of stepped away
Speaker 3: from the band for a while and then kind of
Speaker 3: came back, right, So it was, you.
Speaker 2: Know, he was in and out. Yeah, his life the
Speaker 2: fact that he's still going, he's still doing he's still
Speaker 2: doing well is just a yeah Brothers, which is yeah,
Speaker 2: so's He's quite a guy.
Speaker 3: Such a musical legend though. And you know, Andrey and
Speaker 3: I were talking about it the other day, how like
Speaker 3: when we were kids, we were like, oh, cool the
Speaker 3: Beach Boys and yeah, you know, and like going going
Speaker 3: on stage at the coliseum with them or whatever, and like,
Speaker 3: we just watched that episode of US at the Coliseum
Speaker 3: when the Beach Boys first.
Speaker 2: Show it too. I just watched at the guys.
Speaker 3: It was so like I watching it back and again,
Speaker 3: I haven't watched it in thirty some odd years. I
Speaker 3: haven't watched that. I like, a little fool in my
Speaker 3: office was like bah bah, like just it was so
Speaker 3: full of joy. It was so fun, Like the crowd
Speaker 3: in that episode was, you know, just loving it. The
Speaker 3: band was having fun, all of us as cast we like.
Speaker 3: It just was such a great memory and it was
Speaker 3: something I hadn't watched in such a long time.
Speaker 2: And I was like, wow, I remember I was down
Speaker 2: there that day. I wasn't in the scene, but I
Speaker 2: was down there hanging out with you all cool and
Speaker 2: cracks me up. I watched that the other day too,
Speaker 2: and this scene, you know, they they're panning across the
Speaker 2: stage while you're singing rob Ran and as they get
Speaker 2: to one of you guys, they kind of crank up
Speaker 2: your microphone a little bit like you're here in the
Speaker 2: band here and everybody got.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Definitely hear Jody's voice distinctly.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I man I project. Do you remember the
Speaker 2: last time he came out to the studio to record
Speaker 2: just you know, five, six, seven years ago.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I came out to record something for Dave. That's right.
Speaker 3: The h was it legend of Jimmy Booger in.
Speaker 2: Your character's name?
Speaker 3: Remember, no, what was my I don't remember my character's name.
Speaker 2: Look it up because I know it was Emily. It
Speaker 2: was Jimmy Booger was a little is This is Dave Coulier.
Speaker 3: This is right. Dave did that whole series about this
Speaker 3: little booger that had a whole life and it was it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, and his girlfriend's was Emily, not Asaki.
Speaker 3: That's right. Emily's not a Saki. Emily's not a Saki, which,
Speaker 3: by the way, like that seems like a You're like,
Speaker 3: that's so stupid. That's a ridiculous idea about a booger.
Speaker 3: What I think it's hilarious. But my kids were fascinated
Speaker 3: with a show from South Korea called Larva that was
Speaker 3: a cartoon about these two like trash dwelling worms that
Speaker 3: had no dialogue. It was all like physical comedy, sort
Speaker 3: of looney tune stuff, but like all bathroom human just
Speaker 3: all you know, boogers and farts. Like Dave, I'm sure
Speaker 3: would love this show if he hasn't seen it already.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah it It reminded me of that, and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh no, this, I guess this is really funny.
Speaker 3: But yeah, Emily's not a Saki.
Speaker 2: And you did great on sang You remember that?
Speaker 3: Oh that's right, there was songs. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2: But David and I did four or five comedy albums,
Speaker 2: you know, since Full House. We did some Weaver Beaver stuff,
Speaker 2: remember that character, his right, just a whole bunch with
Speaker 2: all his voices. And as we were making these records,
Speaker 2: we're laughing so much, laughing our butts off, just and
Speaker 2: thinking this is we're creating the greatest comedy record. People
Speaker 2: are gonna love this. We finished it and played it
Speaker 2: for the general masses. And that's pretty good. Now what
Speaker 2: are you gonna do with it? And we could barely
Speaker 2: do the work because we were laughing so hard while
Speaker 2: we were making this record. Dave was on fire.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when Dave gets going, it's amazing. So but I
Speaker 3: love that you, like, I mean, you've became friends with
Speaker 3: Dave and like started recording stuff with him from doing
Speaker 3: the show, and you know it was you just sort
Speaker 3: of became a part of you. I mean, obviously you
Speaker 3: and John have been friends since.
Speaker 2: You know, still are we still for the show Once
Speaker 2: every week or two. We have a group of us,
Speaker 2: group of or all buddies that has a Zoom call
Speaker 2: every Sunday night, But not everybody can make it every
Speaker 2: single right, it's just.
Speaker 3: Sort of a standing Zoom call.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Are there wait, other rippers too, or just other rand
Speaker 1: there are other rippers there. I want to I want
Speaker 1: to attend a rippers Zoom on a Sunday Night is.
Speaker 3: A Sunday night ripper musician reunion. And it's that this
Speaker 3: brings out so much story.
Speaker 2: Well that gives us two nice Friday night we all
Speaker 2: get together and do our laundry Sunday night with Zoom.
Speaker 1: Pretty active lives modern day rippers in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: rippers in their senties. So not only not only were
Speaker 1: you a ripper and Uncle Gary Gibbler, but you produced
Speaker 1: music for all eight seasons of Full House. What was
Speaker 1: that like producing music for a sitcom? Like all the
Speaker 1: jings that Joey and Uncle Jesse did.
Speaker 2: Usually John and I worked on these things together. He
Speaker 2: would say, we need a little again ten seconds, So
Speaker 2: I can't even there were so many of us. Can't
Speaker 2: remember some of them. But if there's a challenge, we
Speaker 2: just had to write something that fits the show. And
Speaker 2: it was great. And I still get pennies.
Speaker 3: For record yeahs, visuals.
Speaker 2: Three hundred dollars maybe every three months, which is fine.
Speaker 2: I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we just wrote a bunch of little pieces for
Speaker 2: the show. I think I counted up the number of
Speaker 2: musical segments I worked on for the show, and I
Speaker 2: think it was over one hundred.
Speaker 3: Well over, Wow was it? Like? Did you work on
Speaker 3: like the jingles that like that John and Dave did
Speaker 3: is when they were doing their jingle writing career. At me?
Speaker 3: You know, we just watched yep, we just uh watched
Speaker 3: the episode where they were Jesse finally decides that he's
Speaker 3: going to be a jingle writer and not an Elvis
Speaker 3: impersonator or whatever it was or was not an Elvis
Speaker 3: impersonator an extriminator, and.
Speaker 1: Dave or Joey brings out the cats in the.
Speaker 3: An Elvis exterminator, right, yeah, that you know what I
Speaker 3: would hire an Elvis exterminator. Someone's just dressed in an
Speaker 3: Elvis costume to come and clear your house of bugs.
Speaker 3: The have left the building.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Jody synapses are firing today, which.
Speaker 3: Is shocking that there's any left.
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