1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:09,280 Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garth. Hi, everyone, 2 00:00:09,400 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 1: welcome to I Choose Me. This podcast is all about 3 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:16,079 Speaker 1: the choices we make and where they lead us. I 4 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:20,040 Speaker 1: have a really fun episode for you today. Something that 5 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:22,040 Speaker 1: is so great about this podcast is that I get 6 00:00:22,079 --> 00:00:26,080 Speaker 1: to take you listeners with me for fun and interesting conversations. 7 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: And today I choose to live out one of my 8 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:35,600 Speaker 1: childhood dreams because you guys, I am recording this episode 9 00:00:36,040 --> 00:00:39,680 Speaker 1: at the Brady Bunch House. Yes, that's what I said, 10 00:00:39,720 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 1: The Brady Bunch House. My guest today is known for 11 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:46,640 Speaker 1: playing the beloved Peter Brady and in recent years has 12 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,560 Speaker 1: made appearances on shows like The Masked Singer and A 13 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 1: Very Brady Renovation. And outside of acting, he's also an 14 00:00:53,080 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: accomplished entrepreneur. Please welcome Chris Night to the podcast. 15 00:00:57,840 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 2: Thank you very much. 16 00:00:58,840 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, this is such an Are you tripping? 17 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:06,800 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I tripped here, I'm tripping. Yeah, you'll come 18 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:08,400 Speaker 3: out of it eventually. 19 00:01:09,680 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 2: It's now real. 20 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:17,360 Speaker 3: So it is a trip, but not as as poignant 21 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:19,440 Speaker 3: as it was when we first completed it. 22 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 1: Because we're sitting here in this house that you all 23 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:26,080 Speaker 1: have redone to look exactly like what was the set? 24 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:28,520 Speaker 1: Right of the interior. 25 00:01:28,319 --> 00:01:31,080 Speaker 3: Better than the set, as it turns out, because it's real. Now, 26 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,199 Speaker 3: this set was a pretend place. 27 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 1: You know it is really no how I know. I 28 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,679 Speaker 1: just went to the bathroom in your parents' bathroom. 29 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:41,040 Speaker 2: And that added toilet. 30 00:01:41,360 --> 00:01:41,839 Speaker 1: It worked. 31 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, and they work everywhere because essentially it's a real 32 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:47,240 Speaker 3: Allison has to have an occupancy permit. 33 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: Okay, well they I occupied. 34 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 2: It couldn't faithfully replicate that part. No toilets. 35 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:55,600 Speaker 3: You know why we didn't have a toilet on the 36 00:01:55,640 --> 00:01:59,560 Speaker 3: show on the show because you weren't allowed to show 37 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 3: a toilet for nine nine o'clock. There was standards and 38 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 3: practices at the time, and actually that. 39 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 2: Anybody was going to be wanting to use the toilet. 40 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: The toilet, the toilet itself, It wasn't there. 41 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:14,120 Speaker 3: There's a tub, there's and there's something missing that's obvious. 42 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:18,359 Speaker 3: Article in every bathroom in all not that there was. 43 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:21,880 Speaker 2: But one bathroom that was really featured on the show. 44 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 1: Wow, when did that change? Do you think because we 45 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 1: had toilets online? Or you want? Oh, good for you, Yeah, 46 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:29,880 Speaker 1: we really will. 47 00:02:30,480 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 2: We're built of different materials. 48 00:02:31,760 --> 00:02:35,680 Speaker 1: Back in the sixties, they must have decided that toilets 49 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:37,119 Speaker 1: are okay to show on prime time. 50 00:02:37,200 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 3: Is someone read through the manual and said, you know, 51 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:41,560 Speaker 3: we've got to update this. 52 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:43,000 Speaker 2: These are real people. 53 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,959 Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, things, times changed things. I mean, 54 00:02:47,760 --> 00:02:49,960 Speaker 3: you know, do my podcast on our show. We're watching 55 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 3: the show for the first time in fifty years, and 56 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:55,160 Speaker 3: it innocuous, is the Brady is. There's quite a few 57 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:56,680 Speaker 3: episodes where we'd have to change some. 58 00:02:56,639 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 4: Of the dialogue. 59 00:02:57,880 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question about that. You're 60 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:01,960 Speaker 1: watching the show from the very beginning. Is that something 61 00:03:02,000 --> 00:03:04,720 Speaker 1: that you had ever done before? Number have you ever 62 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 1: watched one full episode well when they. 63 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:12,400 Speaker 2: Were first on on Friday nights in primetime. Other than that, no, so. 64 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 3: Kind of avoided it, you know, stumbling through the channels 65 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:19,960 Speaker 3: and there it is. If it's Tevieland or whatnot, I 66 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 3: wouldn't watch it, you know. I don't watch my own work, 67 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 3: you know. And though it's you know, somewhere around forty 68 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 3: years afterward, it was distant enough to be able to 69 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,320 Speaker 3: be watched objectively. I'm an adult and there's nothing there 70 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,480 Speaker 3: for me, you know, as to consume. I didn't think 71 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 3: but in doing this house in the in the HGTV project, 72 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 3: it became apparent that so many people over the years 73 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 3: have driven down the street and taking photos of this 74 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:50,520 Speaker 3: house that was sort of utilized to become the house, 75 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 3: and that it could much to my surprise. Yeah, it 76 00:03:54,840 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 3: now gives this tenth character an opportunity to exist in perpetuity. 77 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:05,480 Speaker 3: And Tina, who owns it, has been gracious enough to 78 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 3: allow well, podcasts like this to occur here, limited productions here, 79 00:04:12,040 --> 00:04:15,880 Speaker 3: and us access to the house. And it's very comforting 80 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,480 Speaker 3: because it really was a special place, and you know, 81 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:22,160 Speaker 3: it's just it's remarkable that it's still that we were 82 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 3: able to do it to this kind of detail, or 83 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:29,040 Speaker 3: that HGTV kept at it so that this detail was 84 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 3: faithfully reproduced. 85 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 1: You said that the tripping would pass, but it hasn't 86 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 1: passed yet. 87 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,360 Speaker 2: I'm staring weeks or months. It's a couple of years now. 88 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 1: I'm talking to Peter Brady. 89 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:43,080 Speaker 3: Guys, never left home. 90 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: No, I used to watch your show every day. I 91 00:04:45,960 --> 00:04:50,480 Speaker 1: lived on a farm way on the country and Illinois, Illinois, 92 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:54,920 Speaker 1: and I would come home down state upstate central central Illinois. Well, 93 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:57,080 Speaker 1: I would sit right there in front of the big 94 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: TV with the wood around it, and. 95 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 2: I would watch remote controllers. You have to turn you 96 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:03,840 Speaker 2: had to actually get up, don't turn that die. 97 00:05:03,960 --> 00:05:05,719 Speaker 1: I sat close enough to turn the dial like this. 98 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 2: Well, of course we all did. 99 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:07,839 Speaker 1: That wasn't bad for my eyes. 100 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 3: Right, I was supposed to, like, you don't watch television 101 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 3: like that because to do something to your teeth. I know, 102 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:13,240 Speaker 3: it's a bunch of a bunch of wives tales, you know, 103 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 3: I think television or rot your brain, you know all. 104 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 1: That's that's what my mom always said. 105 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 2: Yeah, they were born in the same era. 106 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: I think I connected with this show on such a 107 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: deep level because I was from a blended family, were you? 108 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,200 Speaker 1: And if I'm not mistaken, I think The Brady Bunch 109 00:05:29,320 --> 00:05:32,960 Speaker 1: was one of the first shows, at least to my recollection, 110 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:38,360 Speaker 1: that ever really spotlighted a blended family on television. 111 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:41,200 Speaker 3: Purposefully so because if you look at Sherwood, Sherwood had 112 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:43,320 Speaker 3: two shows that are. 113 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 2: You know, wildly popular, Gillian's Island in The Brady Bunch. 114 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 3: He had a third that only lasted thirteen weeks. But 115 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:53,200 Speaker 3: oddly I can still remember the theme song from which 116 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:55,440 Speaker 3: is one of the things that Sherwood is very famous for. 117 00:05:55,800 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 2: Theme songs. You can't forget, and that was it's about. 118 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,960 Speaker 3: Time, It's about time, it's about it's not in the 119 00:06:01,040 --> 00:06:04,040 Speaker 3: human race, And all three are the same premise, and 120 00:06:04,080 --> 00:06:07,919 Speaker 3: that is disparate people learning to get along, forced to 121 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:08,440 Speaker 3: get along. 122 00:06:08,600 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: So on Gilligan's Island, they were forced because they were 123 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 1: stuck on the island. 124 00:06:11,640 --> 00:06:11,800 Speaker 2: Yep. 125 00:06:12,160 --> 00:06:16,280 Speaker 3: And it's about time, it's about space less only two 126 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 3: astronauts stuck in space. I don't know how that would 127 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,520 Speaker 3: have lasted over years, but okay, being forced to get 128 00:06:22,520 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 3: along in a very small space. And then the Brady's 129 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:29,479 Speaker 3: is this idea of new family being zippered together and 130 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:31,919 Speaker 3: now watching it and getting caught up to where the 131 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:32,600 Speaker 3: audience has. 132 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:33,919 Speaker 2: Been with it. 133 00:06:33,920 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 3: It's clear what you know, the vision that Surewood had 134 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 3: on the show in those first two seasons, but those 135 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:44,679 Speaker 3: you know, first twenty thirty shows are about a family 136 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 3: that is coming together and not easily being having but 137 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 3: then learning the benefits of getting along. And then by 138 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 3: the second or third year there's you know, there's never 139 00:06:58,839 --> 00:07:02,839 Speaker 3: any mention of you're not my sister ever, which probably 140 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:06,480 Speaker 3: isn't real, but getting to that place is so important 141 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:12,920 Speaker 3: because that really then is the family. When when when 142 00:07:13,400 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 3: It doesn't matter where. 143 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 2: You're from, that you are my sister. 144 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:20,800 Speaker 1: It was his and hers and it became ours. 145 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:23,760 Speaker 3: Well, there was a movie like that, His Heres and Hours, 146 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:25,239 Speaker 3: His mine and ours. 147 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:28,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was my My family was his hers, and 148 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 1: I was the Hours. So basically I was Tiger in 149 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: your family? 150 00:07:35,880 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 3: Were you part of Were you not the blend? Were 151 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,760 Speaker 3: you the the the biological child was the blend? 152 00:07:43,840 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 1: You were the biological child of the two that had 153 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: his and hers, So they came together and then they. 154 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 3: Had so you were the Yeah, you're the next evolution 155 00:07:50,760 --> 00:07:53,239 Speaker 3: of what we were. You would have been Oliver born 156 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 3: to Carolyn. 157 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:56,120 Speaker 1: Forgot about all. 158 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:58,000 Speaker 3: That's a whole flip on that because he wasn't. 159 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 2: So he's the inside out version of you. 160 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:01,880 Speaker 1: He's the cousin though. 161 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 3: The cousin that wasn't even part of wasn't even on 162 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 3: the radar screen. 163 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:08,800 Speaker 1: Oh my god. 164 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a cherub found on the street. 165 00:08:11,440 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 1: I think that that's what's so cool, because I know, 166 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 1: being on a show in the nineties, your show really 167 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: represented the seventies, and being on a show that represented 168 00:08:19,720 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: the nineties, you're sort of forever frozen in people's minds 169 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:29,120 Speaker 1: as a certain image, you know, like, I'm sure people 170 00:08:29,160 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: look at you and stare at you the way I'm 171 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:33,400 Speaker 1: steering at you right now with that look of like 172 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:35,640 Speaker 1: I can't believe what I'm seeing. And I know, people 173 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: it's weird. I'm tripping out because I'm I'm experiencing it. 174 00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: I'm doing it to you, but I've experienced. 175 00:08:43,320 --> 00:08:44,880 Speaker 3: It as you, so you're doing it to me, but 176 00:08:44,960 --> 00:08:46,240 Speaker 3: seeing yourself do it to me. 177 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:48,839 Speaker 1: Yes, that's deep. 178 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I feel like I should have a doctorate 179 00:08:52,880 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 3: psychology to. 180 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:54,719 Speaker 2: Be here, right. 181 00:08:54,800 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 1: But how does that? I mean, I know how I've 182 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,760 Speaker 1: dealt with it over the years, and what a role 183 00:09:00,640 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: my show and the significance of my show played in 184 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,240 Speaker 1: my life. What would what is the significance that the 185 00:09:06,280 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: Brady Bunch played in your life? Like overall, would you 186 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 1: say pretty significant? 187 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:17,360 Speaker 3: I mean, it's pretty much unlike your show's where you 188 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 3: sort of became an adult, a young adult before the 189 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:26,800 Speaker 3: intersection of that celebrity, we were kids. I mean those 190 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:31,880 Speaker 3: formatal years you were ten, tended to the pilot just 191 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:35,080 Speaker 3: just about eleven, and then eleven twelve in the first season, 192 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,120 Speaker 3: but then ended at sixteen, so you know, kind of 193 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 3: all that kind. 194 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 2: Of childhood years. 195 00:09:40,520 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, so you're forming yourself. You know, you're forming 196 00:09:45,040 --> 00:09:46,760 Speaker 3: an idea self. 197 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: Do you think it's a realistic when you're in that bubble, 198 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,360 Speaker 1: do you think that who you're forming is a realistic Well? 199 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 3: I think in my case it was very helpful because 200 00:09:56,559 --> 00:10:01,840 Speaker 3: it wasn't it offered exactly what the show people watching it, 201 00:10:02,280 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 3: But for me it was in three D. 202 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:04,560 Speaker 2: It was around me. 203 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 3: I mean it was more than just assumed through the script. 204 00:10:08,360 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 3: It was lived in this environment. It's a really wholesome environment. 205 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:14,760 Speaker 3: And I do laugh at it because it's not exactly 206 00:10:15,080 --> 00:10:17,800 Speaker 3: I wouldn't if I had kids, I would try to 207 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:20,440 Speaker 3: keep them away from show business until the're eighteen. I 208 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,640 Speaker 3: don't think there's any success of consequence to anybody in 209 00:10:23,679 --> 00:10:26,920 Speaker 3: this industry, you know, as a child, that will help 210 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:30,200 Speaker 3: as an adult, and the chances of you falling apart 211 00:10:30,280 --> 00:10:32,240 Speaker 3: in the process making that leap. 212 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 2: Let me do it. 213 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 3: Either way, you successful as a kid, being successful as 214 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 3: an adult, you know, is difficult because you're going to 215 00:10:40,360 --> 00:10:43,200 Speaker 3: have to it's a whole different person then, and no 216 00:10:43,320 --> 00:10:45,200 Speaker 3: success leaves you then with what. 217 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 2: So either way you're kind of setting yourself up. 218 00:10:47,760 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 3: And isn't that your parents' job to work, not you, 219 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,520 Speaker 3: because having a childhood. 220 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 1: Is why did you work as a child. 221 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 3: Well, because my dad was an actor and he had 222 00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 3: access to getting us agents, and my brother who's a 223 00:11:03,360 --> 00:11:05,840 Speaker 3: year older, thirteen months older, we got an agent at 224 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,240 Speaker 3: the same time. I was seven, he was eight. I 225 00:11:08,240 --> 00:11:11,600 Speaker 3: immediately started working, much to my mom's surprise, because she 226 00:11:11,679 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 3: thought he was the outgoing one. 227 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:14,400 Speaker 2: I was the interviewed one. 228 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:16,520 Speaker 3: He had no idea what went on inside that room, right, 229 00:11:16,520 --> 00:11:18,520 Speaker 3: because moms don't go in the room with you when 230 00:11:18,520 --> 00:11:22,480 Speaker 3: you're going on your interview, and we didn't go in together. 231 00:11:22,679 --> 00:11:24,480 Speaker 3: You know, we were just so close in age that 232 00:11:24,520 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 3: we would be up for the same commercial together. I 233 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 3: got the first interview, at the third interview and just 234 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:30,160 Speaker 3: kept working and. 235 00:11:30,080 --> 00:11:30,560 Speaker 2: He never did. 236 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 3: And she thought he would be the one working because 237 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:36,680 Speaker 3: of her relationship, you know, with him and his outgoingness 238 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:42,719 Speaker 3: in my quiet, you know, reserved sort of so and 239 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:48,800 Speaker 3: self wasn't anything she thought would sell inside of a room, 240 00:11:48,840 --> 00:11:50,160 Speaker 3: and so she was quite surprised. 241 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:51,880 Speaker 2: I didn't learn about that until I was an adult. 242 00:11:51,960 --> 00:11:53,559 Speaker 1: What was your secret? What'd you do in that room? 243 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 2: I don't know, I don't know. 244 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 3: I mean, I think what I did is I is 245 00:11:56,200 --> 00:12:00,400 Speaker 3: I lit up because in my environment it was hard 246 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:04,679 Speaker 3: to even you know, take a breath. And so this 247 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:06,920 Speaker 3: is what the Brady's provided, you know, the stuff that 248 00:12:07,000 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 3: I wasn't getting. 249 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:10,880 Speaker 2: Similarly, in that room, I. 250 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 3: Was getting stuff I wasn't getting because of the environment. 251 00:12:15,080 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 3: I had an older brother, you know, pecking order being 252 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 3: what it was. Who you know, he even laughs at it. 253 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:23,719 Speaker 3: I was literally trying to kill me when we were 254 00:12:23,880 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 3: one and two and and and I guess it's not 255 00:12:27,679 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 3: unusual or impossible when when you live in a in 256 00:12:31,720 --> 00:12:37,680 Speaker 3: an environment that is chaotic and and and not not abundant, 257 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:42,239 Speaker 3: when survival is palpable. 258 00:12:42,559 --> 00:12:44,840 Speaker 2: You know, my dad even said. 259 00:12:44,640 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 3: To me at one point, or told my mom when 260 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 3: because he's an actor, an unemployed actor raising two kids 261 00:12:49,960 --> 00:12:51,920 Speaker 3: in New York City, it was like, you know, there's 262 00:12:51,920 --> 00:12:54,480 Speaker 3: not a we don't have enough milk to feed the kids, 263 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:55,720 Speaker 3: he said, feed him every other day. 264 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,080 Speaker 2: His environment from the old world. I mean, it's like 265 00:12:59,160 --> 00:13:02,520 Speaker 2: not all, not all your kids lived. That was his. 266 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:09,640 Speaker 3: Mindset might be. You know, he had a brother, didn't 267 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 3: that that didn't make it. You know, it's like a 268 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,520 Speaker 3: lot of it's really a jungle law. You know, a 269 00:13:15,559 --> 00:13:19,000 Speaker 3: lot of the Fittest Survival of Fittest. 270 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:20,959 Speaker 2: And so Brady's is not that. 271 00:13:21,160 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 3: Brady's probably was an extension again of that interview, which 272 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:27,840 Speaker 3: is if somebody's asking me my uh, asking me questions, 273 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:31,679 Speaker 3: asking me about something that doesn't. 274 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 2: Happen at home. 275 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:34,760 Speaker 3: At home, it's that you talk to and you know 276 00:13:34,840 --> 00:13:38,520 Speaker 3: you're just in the way, and and so you kind 277 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 3: of receid. You know, you don't want to buck that. 278 00:13:40,760 --> 00:13:42,400 Speaker 3: So been an interview all of a sudden you can 279 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 3: come out. So that's probably where that began. And then 280 00:13:44,800 --> 00:13:46,560 Speaker 3: here I really felt it. I mean, I remember one 281 00:13:46,600 --> 00:13:53,160 Speaker 3: episode Bob redirected and we were very inexpensive show, and 282 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 3: you got six of us, and so we got a 283 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:55,680 Speaker 3: director coming in. 284 00:13:55,760 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 2: He's going to do. 285 00:13:56,760 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 3: This scene with six of us, and you know, maybe 286 00:13:58,720 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 3: seven eight of us in the scene. So you three 287 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:02,559 Speaker 3: stand there, you come up, you stand here, and we'll 288 00:14:02,559 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 3: do the scene like the static. So nothing organic about it. 289 00:14:06,000 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 3: But he's trying to get done by the end of 290 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 3: the day, and how else are you going to block 291 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:09,360 Speaker 3: this thing? 292 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,080 Speaker 2: And then here's Bob read first thing in the morning. 293 00:14:12,160 --> 00:14:15,760 Speaker 2: It's a show that you know, I'm featured in and 294 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 2: he says, so, how do you see this blocking work? 295 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:22,760 Speaker 2: How do you see this work? And it was like, wow, 296 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:24,480 Speaker 2: I'm valued. 297 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,480 Speaker 3: I have an idea, but no one's ever asked me 298 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 3: my idea to that degree before. And that's where that developed, 299 00:14:30,760 --> 00:14:33,080 Speaker 3: you know, And that probably wouldn't have happened at home 300 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:39,040 Speaker 3: until I did it for myself at some in some 301 00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 3: rebellious kind of way, and so it shaped me. 302 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 2: It shaped me, and it gave me an idea of 303 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 2: how family can be cooperative. 304 00:14:49,360 --> 00:14:53,480 Speaker 3: My mom was dead set against even believing that families could. 305 00:14:53,240 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: Be really Yeah, so it sounds like, much like myself, 306 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 1: you found the Brady Bunch sort of like a safe space, 307 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:02,320 Speaker 1: a sanctuary. 308 00:15:02,960 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, And I didn't know how safe it wasn't until 309 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 3: you know, it was gone. 310 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:08,480 Speaker 2: And then when I was an adult. 311 00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 3: At that point, I was sixteen, but I realized that 312 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 3: the space that I was left in at like at home, 313 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 3: it's like, I need to escape this so that I 314 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,640 Speaker 3: can go make something closer to that for myself. 315 00:15:19,840 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 1: That's that's a really interesting story. 316 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 3: It's like, and my mom and I we'd have I mean, 317 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:28,760 Speaker 3: it wasn't like we were close friends when she passed away, 318 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,200 Speaker 3: but because we discussed it all. You know that she 319 00:15:31,320 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 3: had different ideas based on her experiences in life and 320 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,440 Speaker 3: the hardships that she was under and the you know, 321 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:42,240 Speaker 3: the difficulties that were day to day confronting her. 322 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 2: And she did the best that she could. 323 00:15:44,360 --> 00:15:49,040 Speaker 3: But the result of that was these reverberations were you know, 324 00:15:49,640 --> 00:15:51,280 Speaker 3: a need to create something different. 325 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 1: Did your mom go to work with you? 326 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,560 Speaker 2: Yeah? Since you were, she gave me every day. And 327 00:15:56,880 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 2: I mean, I have a brother seven years younger. I'm eleven. 328 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:02,640 Speaker 1: Did he come who was? No? 329 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,600 Speaker 2: He's left home with my sister who's three years younger. 330 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 3: So it's like, you know, she's he's been raised by 331 00:16:09,840 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 3: a seven year old. 332 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:11,360 Speaker 1: Wow. 333 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:13,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, And I you know, I didn't get to witness that, 334 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,240 Speaker 3: but you know, talking to my sister and you know, 335 00:16:17,560 --> 00:16:21,200 Speaker 3: you know, that's tough. And that's why when when friends say, oh, 336 00:16:21,240 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 3: my kid is so cute, he should be in show business, 337 00:16:24,400 --> 00:16:26,840 Speaker 3: And I said, do you realize what would happen if, like, say, 338 00:16:26,840 --> 00:16:28,160 Speaker 3: they live in Ohio and they want to come out 339 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,880 Speaker 3: for pilot season again, a pilot they you know, you're. 340 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:36,080 Speaker 2: Successful, What about the other kids? Where are you going 341 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 2: to live? What do you do to the family, and. 342 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 3: You shouldn't me work for you know, and support your 343 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:43,640 Speaker 3: kids and then let them do what they want. 344 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 2: At eighteen. 345 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:54,600 Speaker 1: I became emancipated when I started working. I think I 346 00:16:54,640 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: was sixteen. 347 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:58,080 Speaker 3: So you can't get a massipated earlier than that, right, 348 00:16:58,120 --> 00:17:00,000 Speaker 3: I think sixteen is when you first can be it. 349 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:03,080 Speaker 1: I believe so. And so you could drive, I could drive. 350 00:17:03,200 --> 00:17:05,399 Speaker 1: I drove myself. I went to work just like an adult, 351 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:06,400 Speaker 1: like I didn't have my mom. 352 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 3: Barry got himself emancipated because for a time my mom 353 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 3: would be on set and his mom wouldn't, and she 354 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 3: would be his guardian for that day until he got emancipated. 355 00:17:16,240 --> 00:17:17,760 Speaker 3: His mom was there mostly in the first year. I 356 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:20,440 Speaker 3: think that was the second year, because he didn't really 357 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 3: need or want his mom around, but he legally was 358 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:26,480 Speaker 3: needed to have someone there looking, an adult looking after 359 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:27,120 Speaker 3: him and. 360 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:27,920 Speaker 2: Till that happened. 361 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:29,960 Speaker 1: Did they sequester the parents away from the set. 362 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:34,160 Speaker 3: Oh no, They were very much part of the entire program, 363 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:39,200 Speaker 3: because True's idea was that we first he wanted you know, 364 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:45,159 Speaker 3: I don't know how much he actually took in to 365 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:49,480 Speaker 3: account parents when he was casting us, but I'm sure 366 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:54,560 Speaker 3: he had some I out for that. He didn't want actors. 367 00:17:54,920 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 3: He wanted kids to kid act. So he wanted kids, 368 00:17:57,840 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 3: he wanted he wanted people that they were people first, 369 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:09,879 Speaker 3: person persons first before actors. And I'm sure part of 370 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 3: that process and looking for that was not just what 371 00:18:12,960 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 3: he got from the interview in the room, but somewhere 372 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 3: along the way there must have been. But it is 373 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:19,679 Speaker 3: tough because you're not interviewing parents, right, So how do 374 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:21,919 Speaker 3: you know what you're getting with the parents? 375 00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:24,960 Speaker 2: Are like, So, yeah, that's a tough question. I've really 376 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:25,600 Speaker 2: not thought about it. 377 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:28,439 Speaker 3: He couldn't have known too much about how the parents 378 00:18:28,480 --> 00:18:32,359 Speaker 3: worked out, and luckily it worked out. You know, we 379 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,639 Speaker 3: had distinctly different kind of parents like Marine's. She lived 380 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 3: not too far away, but her mom couldn't drive. Her 381 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:42,399 Speaker 3: dad was a school teacher, so and she was the youngest. 382 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 2: In her family. Her brother's rolders. 383 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 3: She had one brother whose special needs mom had some 384 00:18:47,840 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 3: eye condition tunnel vision or something. 385 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:51,959 Speaker 2: So you couldn't drive, We drove. We drove them. 386 00:18:52,000 --> 00:18:54,520 Speaker 3: I mean that gave me an extra couple hours every 387 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:59,000 Speaker 3: day to be like a quasi brother some Marine growing 388 00:18:59,080 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 3: up in the back of a car. 389 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:03,280 Speaker 2: But it worked. I mean, the parents weren't the typical 390 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:06,919 Speaker 2: None of them were the typical set parents. 391 00:19:06,960 --> 00:19:10,280 Speaker 3: Set parents, or you know, pushy kind of like this. 392 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,640 Speaker 2: Was also at the stage was it was an ensemble. 393 00:19:13,800 --> 00:19:17,680 Speaker 3: Now we're at times it would just it would show 394 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 3: itself in defense of those things that were important to 395 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,320 Speaker 3: that person, like Eve's hair. She had this incredibly long, 396 00:19:24,359 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 3: gorgeous hair, but to keep it like that required a 397 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:31,720 Speaker 3: lot of brushing. Mom was constantly brushing and brushing because 398 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,960 Speaker 3: it wasn't I mean again, light lightly budgeted. Wasn't like 399 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 3: we had an abundance of hair and makeup people so 400 00:19:37,840 --> 00:19:40,720 Speaker 3: that they were probably you know, giving it a couple 401 00:19:40,920 --> 00:19:43,160 Speaker 3: couple of strokes before taking care of Florence. 402 00:19:43,480 --> 00:19:44,240 Speaker 2: It was. It was. 403 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:47,600 Speaker 3: It was Eve's mom constantly on her brushing right up 404 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:48,239 Speaker 3: until right. 405 00:19:48,840 --> 00:19:51,439 Speaker 1: I have just such a vivid imagination of what that 406 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,240 Speaker 1: was like. But you did, her hair looked amazing. But 407 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:56,040 Speaker 1: that's why now we. 408 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,639 Speaker 2: Know takes a lot of brushing. Well, thank god for 409 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 2: mom's right. 410 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 3: So stage momming is important to some extent. 411 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:08,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, So do you feel as if you're frozen in 412 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:10,440 Speaker 1: time when you walk around. 413 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,840 Speaker 3: Today or have a lot of us to reconcile this. 414 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,439 Speaker 3: You know they say about electrons, they don't really have 415 00:20:17,480 --> 00:20:21,960 Speaker 3: a place. They can be in two places at once. Yeah, 416 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:26,400 Speaker 3: and that is kind of what happens when this occurs. 417 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,560 Speaker 2: Right, we did something long ago, it still exists, it 418 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:34,239 Speaker 2: still lives, and then I exist now, So I have 419 00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:35,160 Speaker 2: two existences. 420 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 3: I'm not really frozen in time, but I understand that 421 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,800 Speaker 3: somebody could see me frozen at time. That's what's fun 422 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:43,960 Speaker 3: about doing the podcast is I go back and learn 423 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:47,280 Speaker 3: what people have thought about me and why by watching 424 00:20:47,280 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 3: the show. 425 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:48,840 Speaker 2: You know and. 426 00:20:50,240 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 3: I'm amazed were both are about how much we were 427 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:54,840 Speaker 3: gaining from watching. 428 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:56,040 Speaker 1: It, Right, isn't that the case? 429 00:20:56,240 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 3: Yeah, that we always get the same question, right, what 430 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,600 Speaker 3: is your favorite show? But it dawned on me that 431 00:21:02,119 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 3: wasn't a question. We were answering it without regarding the 432 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 3: question as it was being asked. We always said why 433 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 3: because we have to go to why that would be 434 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:14,240 Speaker 3: our favorite experience, not necessarily favorite show. So all of 435 00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,880 Speaker 3: our answers are about the experiences of doing a show. Well, 436 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 3: I mean, I'm thinking going in that my favorite shows 437 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 3: were those when I was older, right, because that's when 438 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:27,480 Speaker 3: all of a sudden you're more conscious making conscious decisions, 439 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:31,159 Speaker 3: and I watched the show. The shows are not nearly 440 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,159 Speaker 3: as good as the first couple of years because the 441 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:35,280 Speaker 3: show had a structure in those first couple of years 442 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:38,480 Speaker 3: that kind of untethered as the show as we got older, 443 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,840 Speaker 3: because it's power early, if you will. Its real strength 444 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,880 Speaker 3: was in that you know, six to twelve, fourteen year 445 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 3: old kid realm. As soon as you get fifteen sixteen, 446 00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:56,160 Speaker 3: your issues are not as simple to conclude as they 447 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,960 Speaker 3: are or as they can be. They're not as primary 448 00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 3: like the colors on the show. The issues that we 449 00:22:02,720 --> 00:22:05,840 Speaker 3: dealt with best were very primary issues. I'm you know, 450 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 3: getting along, telling the truth, you know. 451 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:11,720 Speaker 2: Just it's it's a parable, modern parable. 452 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,200 Speaker 1: But so simple like for those of us watching it. 453 00:22:14,280 --> 00:22:16,359 Speaker 3: Yes, well life for a kids should be simple. It 454 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,840 Speaker 3: gets more complicated out that front door. Oh yes, so 455 00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,680 Speaker 3: the more reasons you know, like you don't, I mean, 456 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:28,400 Speaker 3: if there's if there's like Vietnam was it was in parallel, 457 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:30,440 Speaker 3: you know, I was like a year from being drafted 458 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:34,240 Speaker 3: doing the show, and so there was all that you know, 459 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,960 Speaker 3: tumult you know around us, and we're doing the show 460 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:40,120 Speaker 3: already felt like it was out of time. 461 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:41,160 Speaker 2: And if you think about it. 462 00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 3: The Brady's as this kind of family was already a 463 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 3: throwback in the late sixties to the families of the 464 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:50,920 Speaker 3: late you know, reminds me of leave It to Beaver, 465 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:53,600 Speaker 3: you know, as you know, a blended leave it to 466 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 3: Beaver like family, and that was late fifties, you know, 467 00:22:56,640 --> 00:22:58,160 Speaker 3: and really hasn't been done. 468 00:22:59,119 --> 00:22:59,879 Speaker 2: And I don't know if you can. 469 00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 3: I mean I think that they're like, I don't know 470 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 3: you can cycle back to that kind of that kind 471 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 3: of innocence again. 472 00:23:06,800 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 2: You will just laugh at it. 473 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,720 Speaker 3: And that's why the movies laughed at it, because it's 474 00:23:09,720 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 3: like when you're an adult looking back at yourself as 475 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,040 Speaker 3: a child in the ways that you thought, you laugh 476 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,679 Speaker 3: at how simple things were for you, but they're purposefully simple, 477 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,920 Speaker 3: like you know, the the you know, if you're ten 478 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,080 Speaker 3: years old or eleven years old, I'm not sure your 479 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:27,200 Speaker 3: parents want you watching the news of the war that's 480 00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,760 Speaker 3: going on, you know, and the and the body count 481 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 3: and stuff like that. Keep you in a different space 482 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,439 Speaker 3: because you'll have enough time to deal with that as 483 00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:36,359 Speaker 3: you get older. 484 00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 1: That's the thing with kids these days now, you can't 485 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,240 Speaker 1: keep them from seeing everything all at once everywhere. 486 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:46,920 Speaker 3: Which is troublesome. Yeah, I don't know how you know. Yeah, 487 00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 3: everything all at once is not necessarily not. 488 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,119 Speaker 1: I did well to just take my Brady Bunch, followed 489 00:23:53,119 --> 00:23:55,720 Speaker 1: by my Happy Days and then my Laverne and Shirley. 490 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:57,840 Speaker 2: You did it naturally for yourself, yes. 491 00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:02,160 Speaker 1: Yes, Well did you when you left the show? When 492 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,360 Speaker 1: the show was over, how did you feel like? Did 493 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:06,440 Speaker 1: you feel. 494 00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 2: Well? 495 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 4: I was. 496 00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:16,119 Speaker 2: Happy, at least initially, because I wanted to go to school. 497 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 2: I wasn't my idea. 498 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:19,920 Speaker 3: To be an actor, though I was getting so much 499 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:26,960 Speaker 3: from it and very much appreciated it. I hadn't decided 500 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:28,800 Speaker 3: on what I wanted to do with my life. 501 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,760 Speaker 2: And I knew that you're only sixteen right when it 502 00:24:32,800 --> 00:24:33,120 Speaker 2: went off. 503 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 3: I was, yeah, halfway through eleventh grade, so I was 504 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:39,120 Speaker 3: just turning yet seventeen. Just about seventeen, I was sixteen. 505 00:24:39,280 --> 00:24:43,399 Speaker 3: You're right, I was sixteen, but high school was only 506 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,000 Speaker 3: I only had a year and a half left of 507 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:45,560 Speaker 3: high school. 508 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 2: I hadn't gone to my real high school yet. 509 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:49,399 Speaker 3: We went to a private school tenth grade so we 510 00:24:49,400 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 3: could do the singing, dancing, concert stuff that I didn't 511 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 3: really want to do. 512 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:55,080 Speaker 2: But I'm part of this group and being sucked along 513 00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:55,439 Speaker 2: by it. 514 00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:58,200 Speaker 3: And so now the show's going off, and I'm it's 515 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 3: like the twentieth week in going up to the second 516 00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:04,320 Speaker 3: semester of eleventh grade, and finally I get to go 517 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 3: to the high school that's right down the street, and 518 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,199 Speaker 3: the friends in the neighborhood they go there, and I 519 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,320 Speaker 3: hadn't gone yet. Brother goes there. I was big into science, 520 00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,800 Speaker 3: but there was no science of being taught laps. 521 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:16,400 Speaker 2: You know, biology and chemistry and physics. 522 00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:18,639 Speaker 3: All the stuff that interested me were stuff that I 523 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,359 Speaker 3: couldn't get unless I went back to my high school. 524 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 3: And luckily I got just I got out just in 525 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:25,760 Speaker 3: time to start catching. 526 00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:26,160 Speaker 2: Up on someone else. 527 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:27,480 Speaker 1: Did anybody ever pick on you? 528 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 3: Well, that happened, Well, I was. I to seventh grade 529 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 3: is a new school. The first season the show was. 530 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:37,160 Speaker 1: Out, you were still in school, Rul I went. 531 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:39,639 Speaker 3: The only year was tenth grade when we went to private. 532 00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,200 Speaker 2: I went. Every we finished. 533 00:25:41,480 --> 00:25:44,320 Speaker 3: We start the day the monday that school got out, 534 00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:45,679 Speaker 3: and we were all in public schools. 535 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,119 Speaker 2: We were on the same system. So they did that 536 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:49,760 Speaker 2: money that. 537 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:52,520 Speaker 1: They could keep so they didn't have to work you certainly. 538 00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 3: Now and work they could work us seven hours right, 539 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,720 Speaker 3: they could work us well, let's eight hours seven as 540 00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 3: opposed to just you know four, right, because once the 541 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:04,199 Speaker 3: school starts. On that day that the school begun, we 542 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,679 Speaker 3: were in our classroom when we weren't you around the 543 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,040 Speaker 3: camera or in front of the cameras. Matter of fact, 544 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:12,919 Speaker 3: they had to invent rules, like you know, putting us 545 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:15,240 Speaker 3: into school and taking us out five minutes later is 546 00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:18,080 Speaker 3: useless for school, so you have to leave us there 547 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,119 Speaker 3: for at least I think it was fifteen minutes or 548 00:26:20,200 --> 00:26:20,919 Speaker 3: twenty minutes. 549 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 2: And then because. 550 00:26:22,320 --> 00:26:27,720 Speaker 3: We'd be featured, our welfare worker was just brilliant, classic 551 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 3: school marmish, wonderful woman, Francis Whitfield. And she was our 552 00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 3: welfare worker and our teacher. She was accredited up through 553 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,360 Speaker 3: eighth grade, so there was another teacher for us when 554 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:44,200 Speaker 3: we got beyond eighth grade. 555 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 1: I want to know, like when you go out in 556 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:53,239 Speaker 1: public and people stop you, as I'm sure they do 557 00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:55,720 Speaker 1: a million times, what goes through your. 558 00:26:55,600 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 3: Mind depends on what just happened, like what their interrupt 559 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 3: because sometimes I have no hope for humanity, like where 560 00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,440 Speaker 3: you have that right though, I'm with my brother who 561 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,600 Speaker 3: we've always had, Like I said, a relationship that's on an. 562 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,320 Speaker 1: Edge, a little competitive, right, and he. 563 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 3: Oh, I never never closed on that. So we go 564 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:17,280 Speaker 3: on these same interurgers for two years and I can 565 00:27:17,560 --> 00:27:18,360 Speaker 3: he never worked. 566 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,119 Speaker 1: Oh, that must have really never worked. 567 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 2: And then finally said, why am I wasting my time? 568 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:25,160 Speaker 2: Living in Woodland Hills. You had to drive into house. 569 00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 2: I mean that's like an hour two hours, you know, 570 00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 2: and it's like, why am I going on this? I 571 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:30,480 Speaker 2: don't want to go anywhere. 572 00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:32,560 Speaker 3: So he didn't have to at that point, I'm now 573 00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,240 Speaker 3: doing you know, by that point, just about doing the 574 00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:35,760 Speaker 3: Brady button. 575 00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,960 Speaker 1: Okay. So you're at lunch with your brother now as 576 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 1: grown man, and someone comes up to you and says. 577 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 3: Well, this is this is the thing about humanity my 578 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,320 Speaker 3: brother and I. So somebody recognizes me. This is some 579 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,199 Speaker 3: years ago, ten years ago, and then turns in are 580 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 3: you somebody? 581 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:54,600 Speaker 2: And it's like, I don't even want to look him 582 00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 2: in the eye right now. I didn't do it. It's 583 00:27:56,800 --> 00:27:59,600 Speaker 2: not my fault. I'm not I'm not going to you know, And. 584 00:27:59,520 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 3: It's like, hey, you know, what do you say to 585 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:02,120 Speaker 3: this person? 586 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 2: You know? And what do you say to your brother? 587 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,119 Speaker 3: You're not gonna say any of your brother because hopefully, 588 00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:07,200 Speaker 3: you know, he'll. 589 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:08,400 Speaker 1: You know, handle it. 590 00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:14,040 Speaker 2: Yeah, And it's just like I'm not But I knew 591 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 2: at a young age too. Why are people asking for autographs? 592 00:28:16,359 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 2: What are they gonna do with that? 593 00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,960 Speaker 3: They're gonna he's gonna draw and it's gonna disappear forever 594 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:27,480 Speaker 3: and there it's a handshake. It's their way of interacting 595 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:29,679 Speaker 3: before cell phones, it was. 596 00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,600 Speaker 2: It's a way up. But they don't know that. 597 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 3: They're wanting to just say you've intersected my life positively, 598 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:38,560 Speaker 3: or I liked your work. 599 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:40,360 Speaker 2: Can I can I just say hi, thank you? 600 00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 3: It takes a real adult to do that, but until 601 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,240 Speaker 3: not everybody ever gets to be a real adult to 602 00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,560 Speaker 3: handle it that way. So mostly it's just doing what 603 00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 3: somebody else has done, which is asking for an autograph. 604 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:58,400 Speaker 3: But you know, it's really just to interact. When I 605 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 3: figured that out self, want to make it so much better. 606 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 3: Just take the selfie because now I'm a life size collectible. 607 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:06,400 Speaker 1: It doesn't bug you. You're a life size collectible. 608 00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:06,720 Speaker 2: Yeah. 609 00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 3: I love that, And it's so much easier. I don't 610 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,680 Speaker 3: sit down and write terrible handwriting, you know, and what's 611 00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:13,000 Speaker 3: your name? 612 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:13,840 Speaker 2: And how do I spell? 613 00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,560 Speaker 1: That it's like it seems though, that you have such 614 00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:19,840 Speaker 1: a deep appreciation for the show and its significance in 615 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,000 Speaker 1: television history and in so many people's lives. 616 00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:24,400 Speaker 2: I know this. 617 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,520 Speaker 3: I know I had a really contentious relationship with my 618 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:32,760 Speaker 3: mom growing up that predated The Brady Bunch, and you know, 619 00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 3: and we worked that out as adults, so we had 620 00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 3: we had little problem as adults. We were a family 621 00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:43,080 Speaker 3: that shared exactly how we were feeling, which has a 622 00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:47,000 Speaker 3: good side and it can have a bad side. Chaotic 623 00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:57,000 Speaker 3: and independent, uh, can be desperate, loud. Yeah, So that 624 00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,840 Speaker 3: relationship wasn't something I thought was healthy, but I felt 625 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,440 Speaker 3: what whatever we were doing here was it was a 626 00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,000 Speaker 3: depiction of it and it set me up to realize that, 627 00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:11,840 Speaker 3: you know, there are good things that can come from this. 628 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 3: Although we were derided in the press, I mean, as 629 00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 3: a show reviewed, we're banw and you know, just. 630 00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:19,440 Speaker 2: Because that's what we were. 631 00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:22,880 Speaker 3: There wasn't anybody reviewing from the point of view that 632 00:30:22,920 --> 00:30:24,959 Speaker 3: the show was trying to deliver on because there was 633 00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 3: no children's programming per se. I mean, there was Disney, 634 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,600 Speaker 3: but people didn't look at if Disney wasn't really trying 635 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:36,200 Speaker 3: to provide entertainment for children at that but there wasn't. 636 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 3: They didn't review children's programming separately. Then you reviewed any 637 00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,880 Speaker 3: other kind of art, and with the same reviewer. It'd 638 00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,040 Speaker 3: be doing theater and doing television, and so we were 639 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,200 Speaker 3: kind of like, what the hell is this doing on television? 640 00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 2: This is you know, television itself was derided as being 641 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 2: a entertainment below art, art. 642 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: Form below keyword. So later in life you pivoted to 643 00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:02,640 Speaker 1: business entrepreneurship. 644 00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,080 Speaker 2: I pivoted right in high school. 645 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:06,120 Speaker 3: When I left and went into high school, it was like, 646 00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,719 Speaker 3: that's this is it, you know, because I was happy, 647 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,920 Speaker 3: you know, just I got my I was getting my sciences, 648 00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,280 Speaker 3: and I'm now going to figure out what i want. 649 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 2: To do with the rest of my life. And I 650 00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:18,000 Speaker 2: didn't know that I had a learning disable. 651 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,680 Speaker 3: I was learning disabled, you know, kind of got buried 652 00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,600 Speaker 3: in all that other stuff they had. This dyslexia and 653 00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 3: I had would turn out to be add but I 654 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,400 Speaker 3: had a real difficult time with the subjects I didn't 655 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,640 Speaker 3: care about, you know, And I then went off to 656 00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,920 Speaker 3: UCLA and realized that I was going to get buried. 657 00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:36,680 Speaker 3: I had no problem in any of the sciences, but 658 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,000 Speaker 3: as soon as I went into litt in English and 659 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:39,640 Speaker 3: then asked. 660 00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:40,680 Speaker 2: I was going to get buried, and it's like, how 661 00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 2: am I going to finish this? 662 00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:41,640 Speaker 4: And that? 663 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,840 Speaker 3: Right at that same time, here comes the entertainment industry 664 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:47,479 Speaker 3: back asking me to do something I don't want to do, 665 00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:48,240 Speaker 3: which is music. 666 00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:49,880 Speaker 2: But I said yes to it, and that was. 667 00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,720 Speaker 3: The Variety Show because I realized as well, half my 668 00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:56,680 Speaker 3: friends at UCLA we're North campus, you know, studying theater 669 00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,280 Speaker 3: and cinema, and it's like I'm and I'm just dropping that, 670 00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:04,440 Speaker 3: and whatever whatever advantage I had in that industry, I'm 671 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:08,000 Speaker 3: just disregarding as perhaps I need to leverage that, maybe 672 00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:09,920 Speaker 3: I need to look at that again. So I use 673 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:11,920 Speaker 3: that as the entree to get back into it, and 674 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,479 Speaker 3: that would last for a number of years, and then 675 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 3: I found myself just drifting into into the realm of 676 00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:18,280 Speaker 3: computers when you know. 677 00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:19,560 Speaker 2: Just naturally just got. 678 00:32:21,720 --> 00:32:24,200 Speaker 3: Attracted to him and ended up in a career in 679 00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,120 Speaker 3: the computer industry for twenty five years. 680 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,880 Speaker 1: So when the cast came back together to do the 681 00:32:28,920 --> 00:32:33,920 Speaker 1: renovation show for the house on HDTV, how was that? 682 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 1: Would you? Was that a good? 683 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:37,600 Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, well look at it was come. 684 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:38,960 Speaker 1: Back together the gang was back together. 685 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 3: It was just odd the way that it all came We, 686 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:47,600 Speaker 3: like everybody Lancepass included, read that the house was for sale, 687 00:32:48,080 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 3: it was in the USA today, and then a few 688 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:57,280 Speaker 3: days later, agents are getting contacted about this house that 689 00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,680 Speaker 3: HGTV or Discovery body. 690 00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:01,680 Speaker 2: I wanted to know if we could meet with them. 691 00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:03,920 Speaker 2: It's like, okay, we had no idea really what this 692 00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:04,360 Speaker 2: was about. 693 00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:06,480 Speaker 3: What it was for them to tell us that they 694 00:33:06,480 --> 00:33:09,320 Speaker 3: had bought the house and that they were looking at 695 00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:13,480 Speaker 3: doing something with it, and then we told them about. 696 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:14,800 Speaker 2: The history of the house and they didn't even know. 697 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 2: They had no idea. 698 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,360 Speaker 3: It was just because it came up on the market 699 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,040 Speaker 3: and somebody was reading it during a production meeting or 700 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:25,120 Speaker 3: some development meeting. We should buy the Brainy House, and 701 00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 3: then somebody said, yeah, we should, And within two days. 702 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 2: They're making it off our house. They didn't know it's 703 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:33,520 Speaker 2: the fiftieth anniversary. It all came to just kind of 704 00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 2: came together. 705 00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:35,680 Speaker 3: It's like, well, that's a present to us, you know, 706 00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,240 Speaker 3: if they're going to have us involved, I don't know 707 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,240 Speaker 3: what it's going to be, but hey, you know, making 708 00:33:39,280 --> 00:33:41,840 Speaker 3: that doing something at the house is like a way 709 00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:42,800 Speaker 3: to acknowledge the. 710 00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,880 Speaker 2: Fiftieth anniversary, and it turned out to be much. 711 00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,000 Speaker 3: More than that, and in a way to you know, 712 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:49,720 Speaker 3: resurrect this eleventh cast member. 713 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,640 Speaker 1: Right, I love that. Well, speaking of the eleventh cast member, 714 00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:55,280 Speaker 1: we've got to bring in Dina Treyhan, who is the 715 00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:57,800 Speaker 1: owner of this beautiful, iconic home. 716 00:33:58,960 --> 00:33:59,120 Speaker 3: Hi. 717 00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:00,080 Speaker 1: How are you? 718 00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:01,959 Speaker 4: I'm well? Thank you? How are you? 719 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 1: I'm good? I need to know why you bought this house. 720 00:34:04,880 --> 00:34:05,920 Speaker 1: Were you a fan of the show? 721 00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 4: Well, I watched it every day after school, yes, growing up. 722 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,200 Speaker 4: So when I heard the house was for sale, I 723 00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:14,960 Speaker 4: just knew I had to buy it. I did not 724 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,200 Speaker 4: know why. I knew I wanted nothing to happen to it. 725 00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:20,280 Speaker 4: I didn't want it to get torn down or anything 726 00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,880 Speaker 4: like that. What I didn't know is what I was 727 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 4: going to do with it. 728 00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:24,879 Speaker 1: HGTV. 729 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,120 Speaker 4: I bought it from them, so they had already done 730 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:32,120 Speaker 4: the addition and made it just like the show. So 731 00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,280 Speaker 4: what I did, I just added a bunch of things. 732 00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 4: I've added over three hundred things I've lost count from 733 00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:39,560 Speaker 4: the show, like Kitty carry all. 734 00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,840 Speaker 1: I saw her upstairs, she's sleeping. 735 00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,200 Speaker 4: Right, and the cars, and you know, so I did 736 00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 4: I did a lot that way, and I turned the 737 00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:50,280 Speaker 4: garage into the car port just like they had without 738 00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:52,480 Speaker 4: a permit. So I got a violation. 739 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,680 Speaker 1: Oh no, that didn't make the news good. 740 00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:04,719 Speaker 3: So what Tina has would to all of us. Obviously, 741 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,000 Speaker 3: it's a museum, it's a you can't make it. 742 00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:07,839 Speaker 2: No. 743 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:10,200 Speaker 1: First of all, I heard a rumor that you have 744 00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 1: slept in this home. Have you slept over? 745 00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,480 Speaker 4: I have a few of my friends have come out 746 00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:16,280 Speaker 4: to LA and they wanted to sleep in the house. 747 00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:18,560 Speaker 1: Whose room did you sleep? 748 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,520 Speaker 4: Well? They slept in Carol and Mike's and I slept 749 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:22,319 Speaker 4: in the girls room. 750 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:23,520 Speaker 3: Oh my god. 751 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 1: Can I have a sleepover with you? 752 00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:26,920 Speaker 4: Absolutely? 753 00:35:27,120 --> 00:35:30,759 Speaker 1: Amy, and I will be right over You. Guys are 754 00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,680 Speaker 1: having a really incredible event here, so can you tell 755 00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:34,200 Speaker 1: me about that. 756 00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 4: Yes, we partnered with No Kid Hungry and we're doing 757 00:35:38,080 --> 00:35:41,440 Speaker 4: a sweepstakes where five people and they each get to 758 00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,839 Speaker 4: bring a guest get round trip airfare, hotels, ground transportation 759 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,680 Speaker 4: and meals. And but what's going on at the house. 760 00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 4: It's we're calling it the Brady Brunch, So you have 761 00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,520 Speaker 4: brunch with Brady cast members. And yes, we are serving 762 00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:58,120 Speaker 4: also pork chops and apple sauce. 763 00:35:58,800 --> 00:35:59,680 Speaker 2: Wi. 764 00:36:00,800 --> 00:36:02,400 Speaker 4: Yeah, buy someone dressed like Alice. 765 00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:04,759 Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, are you going to be here? 766 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,279 Speaker 2: I didn't know about the Alice part. I yes, I 767 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:07,839 Speaker 2: plan to be here. 768 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,719 Speaker 3: So we don't know the date that it's going to be, 769 00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:14,880 Speaker 3: but it's based on professional availability. I will work, however, 770 00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,600 Speaker 3: I as hard as I can to make certain that 771 00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,520 Speaker 3: I am one of those. I am local so I 772 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,840 Speaker 3: don't have to be flown out. I know that Barry 773 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:23,759 Speaker 3: has shown interest in Ev has shown interest in Mike 774 00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 3: has shown interest, and whether or not they can be 775 00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,480 Speaker 3: here on the date that is selected will have to 776 00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:30,040 Speaker 3: be determined. 777 00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:31,719 Speaker 2: But they'll be a Brady. 778 00:36:31,360 --> 00:36:34,680 Speaker 3: Here, a Brady at least you at least. 779 00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:36,600 Speaker 1: Okay, that's enough for me. 780 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,600 Speaker 3: Well, and I'll take I'll bring my version of Tiger. 781 00:36:40,719 --> 00:36:43,200 Speaker 1: Before I let both of you go, I'd like to 782 00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:45,520 Speaker 1: ask you both, what was your last I choose me moment? 783 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:47,440 Speaker 1: What was the last time you choose yourself? 784 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:49,680 Speaker 2: It's endless. 785 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,239 Speaker 3: I choose me all the time. I think more important 786 00:36:52,800 --> 00:36:56,239 Speaker 3: for me is my first I choose me. And that's 787 00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,960 Speaker 3: when we were doing the singing and dancing. We were 788 00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,560 Speaker 3: literally doing concerts for our albums, and I hated it 789 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,239 Speaker 3: and I couldn't sink, and I thought we shouldn't be 790 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:09,560 Speaker 3: doing it, or this one shouldn't be doing it. And 791 00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,279 Speaker 3: I'm my mom was like the business manager of the 792 00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:15,080 Speaker 3: be She was kind of the the she put it together, 793 00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:15,560 Speaker 3: It's like. 794 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:18,480 Speaker 2: You and I'm not doing I got no. 795 00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,080 Speaker 3: Musical I should be kept as far away from a 796 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:22,240 Speaker 3: microphone as possible. 797 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:24,520 Speaker 2: And I just covetched a lot. 798 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:26,680 Speaker 3: And she finally said, well, if you don't want to 799 00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:27,759 Speaker 3: do it, you should quit. 800 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:31,680 Speaker 2: I go, I will so well. You got to write 801 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,359 Speaker 2: a letter of raggedy. I wrote two sentences. I quit. 802 00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:37,839 Speaker 3: And that was the beginning of me doing things for 803 00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,600 Speaker 3: me because I didn't this industry. You end up getting 804 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,040 Speaker 3: caught up and doing stuff that others make me feel 805 00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:48,680 Speaker 3: you have to do. And I realized, no, no, if 806 00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:49,920 Speaker 3: you're gonna you got to. 807 00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:50,759 Speaker 2: Do what's right for you. 808 00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:52,839 Speaker 1: I love that so much. 809 00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:56,080 Speaker 2: That was it. That was at seven sixteen. 810 00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,839 Speaker 1: That's so early. That's great. Good for you. So, Tina, 811 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:01,720 Speaker 1: what was your last I Choose me moment? 812 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,920 Speaker 4: My last I choose me moment was when I bought 813 00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:09,480 Speaker 4: this house because so many people were like, what are 814 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,399 Speaker 4: you going to do with it? Why are you buying 815 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:15,200 Speaker 4: the house? And some days I did question, wait, why 816 00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:18,279 Speaker 4: am I buying the house? But I chose me, and 817 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:19,080 Speaker 4: I bought the house. 818 00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,399 Speaker 3: And didn't you get a response recently from somebody who 819 00:38:22,880 --> 00:38:25,080 Speaker 3: saw that you were running the sweepstakes and they had 820 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,320 Speaker 3: something positive to say to you. Some member of the family. 821 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:33,360 Speaker 4: Yes, oh my gosh, yes, my daughter's father, his mother. 822 00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,600 Speaker 1: That's getting your ex mother in law. 823 00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:39,480 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yes, sorry, she was one of the people 824 00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 4: that thought I was nuts. 825 00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,360 Speaker 1: As the mother in law did exactly. 826 00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,160 Speaker 4: So after she saw the Today Show, she sent me 827 00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,640 Speaker 4: and I have two very nice text messages that said, 828 00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:53,680 Speaker 4: oh my gosh, I thought you were nuts, and now 829 00:38:53,719 --> 00:38:55,560 Speaker 4: I see all the good you're doing because we've done 830 00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,600 Speaker 4: other charity things here at the house. So she was 831 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,640 Speaker 4: proud of me, she said, was a big deal. 832 00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 1: You chose you in buying the house, but really it 833 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,520 Speaker 1: was a choice for other people too. Yes, how do 834 00:39:06,640 --> 00:39:08,680 Speaker 1: people get in on this sweepstakes? 835 00:39:09,040 --> 00:39:13,440 Speaker 4: Oh so you enter at the Brady Experience dot com. 836 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,120 Speaker 1: Okay, you heard it, hear people straight from the Brady House. 837 00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:19,680 Speaker 1: You can come here too. Thank you for being You 838 00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,719 Speaker 1: can have your own just like it. It is a 839 00:39:23,760 --> 00:39:29,080 Speaker 1: trip that was fun, getting to live out one of 840 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,320 Speaker 1: my childhood dreams today, Oh my gosh. I want to 841 00:39:32,320 --> 00:39:34,040 Speaker 1: thank Chris and Tina for being a part of it, 842 00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:37,200 Speaker 1: and we'll be sure to put all of the info 843 00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:40,279 Speaker 1: in our show notes for how to enter that incredible 844 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,480 Speaker 1: brunch they are hosting. I think I'm going to enter myself. 845 00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,560 Speaker 1: As we continue to choose ourselves each week, I want 846 00:39:46,560 --> 00:39:50,240 Speaker 1: to encourage you this week to tap into your own 847 00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,879 Speaker 1: childhood feel good memories. What did you love as a kid, 848 00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:57,719 Speaker 1: A certain kind of food or a song, a type 849 00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:01,239 Speaker 1: of music, a specific board game. There are things from 850 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,439 Speaker 1: our childhoods that still bring us joy to this day 851 00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:08,120 Speaker 1: as adults, and sometimes it's fun to act like a kid. 852 00:40:08,200 --> 00:40:11,080 Speaker 1: So this week, take some time to relive your own 853 00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:13,719 Speaker 1: childhood memories for a little bit and see how much 854 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:16,200 Speaker 1: fun you have doing it. Thanks for listening to I 855 00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 1: Choose Me. You can check out all of our social 856 00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:20,840 Speaker 1: links in our show notes. Make sure to rate and 857 00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,239 Speaker 1: review the podcast, and use the hashtag I Choose Me 858 00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,839 Speaker 1: anytime you feel like it. I'll be right here next week. 859 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,839 Speaker 1: I hope you choose to be here too.