Speaker 1: Hey there, fan Ritos, Welcome back to a brand new
Speaker 1: episode of How Rude Tanarritos. Today, we have a guest
Speaker 1: you've all been waiting for. It's Taj Maurie. You know
Speaker 1: him as Teddy, the lovable and very honest best friend
Speaker 1: we all wanted to have in kindergarten and his success
Speaker 1: on Full House was just the beginning. We're going to
Speaker 1: get into everything today, from Full House to Kim Possible,
Speaker 1: and yes, even the Muppets mayhem, much to Jody's delight.
Speaker 2: Definitely the Muppets.
Speaker 1: We can't wait to talk to Taj, so let's bring
Speaker 1: him in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, go like, god, hi ToJ.
Speaker 1: Reunited.
Speaker 2: So good?
Speaker 3: Whoa how so good to see you too. You look
Speaker 3: amazing you so do you?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Yeah, this is like the benefits of doing the show
Speaker 4: is we get to see people that we know.
Speaker 3: It's really it's a beautiful thing. It's so wonderful.
Speaker 2: Yeah, your smile, you there you go, oh all.
Speaker 4: Of that gushing and you oh you guys walk amazing
Speaker 4: you guys.
Speaker 3: You really look the same, you love the same.
Speaker 1: Well you look the same but better like you were
Speaker 1: five years old. And yes, yes, ray.
Speaker 3: Thank you guys.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, you're joining us. We're just thrilled that
Speaker 1: you're here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and we just jumped right into the interview, so
Speaker 4: we're just yeah. So you know, like there's no we
Speaker 4: don't do like an official We.
Speaker 3: Just yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, because fans love to hear, like the first reaction
Speaker 2: when we.
Speaker 3: All see each other, that was.
Speaker 1: Right there, you are the winner, the best on a
Speaker 1: zoom entrance.
Speaker 3: I'll take it. I'll take it true.
Speaker 4: But you know what, I feel like, you like were
Speaker 4: you were such a part of the show for being
Speaker 4: Michelle's friend for so long, and like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just like.
Speaker 4: I I love bringing back people and like you were
Speaker 4: the younger generation, just a little bit younger than me,
Speaker 4: and like bringing back people that are like that was
Speaker 4: such a part of my childhood and like I remember
Speaker 4: it like on the behind the scenes stuff is just it's.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we haven't seen each other in so long.
Speaker 3: I feel like.
Speaker 5: I've seen I feel like, out of everyone, I've seen,
Speaker 5: you guys the lead because I see I've seen other
Speaker 5: people at you know, award shows or advents.
Speaker 3: Or stuff like that. And so that's why my reaction
Speaker 3: was so light.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, I have been avoiding sometime now it's been intentional.
Speaker 2: I just I feel like we should address it. Uh yeah,
Speaker 2: the pod.
Speaker 4: Yes, Oh god, I just I what I remember is, uh,
Speaker 4: you coming to set and your sister's coming with you,
Speaker 4: and they.
Speaker 3: Were my age.
Speaker 4: So I was always stoked because I was like, yes,
Speaker 4: finally some people mine age to hang out with.
Speaker 2: And the three of us just kicked it like we.
Speaker 4: Just hung out and you know, and like, yeah, it
Speaker 4: was just like your whole family was you know.
Speaker 3: It was Yeah, I love like.
Speaker 1: Your parents, like the whole past. You guys were the
Speaker 1: whole package. You're feeling so nice, yeah, so kind, just
Speaker 1: so down to earth and wonderful to have on set.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 4: Yes, Now, I mean you, I think you and I
Speaker 4: and Andrew have all started in this business about the
Speaker 4: same time.
Speaker 2: You were like four around there around there, Yeah amazing.
Speaker 2: Andrew you were five, I was five. I was like
Speaker 2: four and a half.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we're all.
Speaker 4: We're all old and we're all we're all we've been
Speaker 4: doing this time the days of Masa.
Speaker 3: No, but we it is like.
Speaker 4: It's crazy to think of all of the things that
Speaker 4: have happened sort of in between now and then. I mean,
Speaker 4: you major, you made your debut on Who's the Boss?
Speaker 3: Right, I did?
Speaker 2: I did remember that, Like do you remember?
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't. I feel like that that was
Speaker 3: my first show. I feel like the show.
Speaker 5: I did after that, which was how I got Full House,
Speaker 5: I remember more of more of and that was a
Speaker 5: show called Out All Night and Now with Patty LaBelle
Speaker 5: and Morris Chestnut and Via.
Speaker 2: I remember that show.
Speaker 5: And that's how I think Jeff had saw me on that,
Speaker 5: and then that's how I got Full House and then
Speaker 5: so I remember more of that.
Speaker 3: But Who's the Boss, I don't.
Speaker 5: When I see it, I'm like, oh, okay, I think
Speaker 5: I remember the steps that I walked.
Speaker 3: Down right right, But like because I used to love.
Speaker 5: Like growing up on sets, and and I was mesmerized
Speaker 5: by the fact that you could go up a staircase
Speaker 5: but nothing was there.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 4: It amount of people that go that are surprised when
Speaker 4: they come to a set and they're like, wait, it's
Speaker 4: all on the same level, but you got up the
Speaker 4: stairs right, and you're like, that doesn't funny enough.
Speaker 3: The Full House stairs. I will never forget.
Speaker 5: How hyped I was the first time I got to,
Speaker 5: you know, do a scene and go up there.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, I'm a part of the show.
Speaker 6: Now, Yes, yes, I just loved it because that set,
Speaker 6: that living room set was so cool and so I'll
Speaker 6: never forget how amazed I was when I got to
Speaker 6: finally go up those stairs.
Speaker 1: The stairs were tall too, they were tall. They were tall.
Speaker 1: It was tall stairs with the land different landing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure I feel down them.
Speaker 4: At least one was a season.
Speaker 1: Well, they would try to put an adult up there,
Speaker 1: like if it was just kids waiting for an entrance
Speaker 1: after the stairs are they would try to put a
Speaker 1: p a or somebody there because Adria would be up
Speaker 1: there all off on the other side, or there'd be
Speaker 1: ladders or nails or all sorts of lights whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: so it could be it would you know, Yeah, splinters, yes.
Speaker 2: The seconds off camera, like if you don't see it,
Speaker 2: it looks it was just a show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: There's always like random half drink water bottles and the script.
Speaker 3: Yeah during dust.
Speaker 2: Swim through it. God, the memories.
Speaker 4: Well, House fans absolutely adore Utag. They loved you as
Speaker 4: Michelle's friend, so from the very beginning, like what made
Speaker 4: you want to become an actor?
Speaker 2: Like what was the thing that I was like, this
Speaker 2: is why I want to do it.
Speaker 5: I think it was just it was always fun for
Speaker 5: me to memorize lines and like become someone else, like
Speaker 5: and pretend, you know. And growing up my mom so
Speaker 5: I've been told I would watch commercials and then I
Speaker 5: would repeat the commercial and act the commercial.
Speaker 3: Back out, and she was like, we got to do
Speaker 3: something with this.
Speaker 5: Kid nowhere else. So yeah, it was just fun for me.
Speaker 5: And I'm so grateful because it's still fun for me.
Speaker 3: You know. It never became not fun.
Speaker 5: And I know that you know, that can happen to
Speaker 5: a lot of actors and kids who start so young
Speaker 5: they sort of grow out of love with it, but
Speaker 5: that never happened with me, and I'm just so grateful.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I just I just wanted to have fun
Speaker 5: and like pretend, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and your parents think about putting all three of
Speaker 1: their kids into the business. Were they intimidated by it?
Speaker 1: Were they go getters like we're gonna we're gonna make
Speaker 1: our kids start.
Speaker 2: Were your sisters doing it first and then you? Or
Speaker 2: was it you? And then they know it's actually we.
Speaker 5: Actually started around the same time because they actually guest
Speaker 5: starred on Full House one episode and then they ended
Speaker 5: up getting They got Sister Sister before I got Smart Guy.
Speaker 5: So I think a lot of people assume that it
Speaker 5: was like I started way later, but we're eight years apart,
Speaker 5: but we kind of started around the same time, which
Speaker 5: was just And yeah, my parents, I feel like, to
Speaker 5: answer your question, they were the best of both worlds.
Speaker 5: Like they were super supportive, but they weren't like stage
Speaker 5: parents in any way. And like I said, we liked
Speaker 5: what we were doing. We never felt forced, and I
Speaker 5: think that's why they put us in it, because they
Speaker 5: saw that like, oh they have something, and I think
Speaker 5: they like this, and we did. But my dad was
Speaker 5: in the military during it, so he my mom was
Speaker 5: usually the one.
Speaker 3: Taking us to our auditions and stuff.
Speaker 5: Like that, but he would do it also, you know,
Speaker 5: homework in the car, getting carsick, the audition because I
Speaker 5: can't read it in the car.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they were just.
Speaker 5: The best of both worlds, you know, super supportive, always
Speaker 5: kept it fun, great at running lines with us, you
Speaker 5: know what I mean. But also you know, from that
Speaker 5: military background, they taught us and instilled in us not
Speaker 5: only are our faith which is very important, but also
Speaker 5: just the hard work.
Speaker 3: You know, if you if you want to do this,
Speaker 3: you gotta work hard.
Speaker 5: You gotta know your lines, you gotta you gotta, you
Speaker 5: gotta perform, you gotta be on set and perform. But
Speaker 5: they also taught us how to separate it. So when
Speaker 5: we weren't on set, we weren't on set. We were
Speaker 5: just regular kids. And I think that sort of helped
Speaker 5: us stay somewhat normal.
Speaker 4: I mean, I think that's why you and your your
Speaker 4: family were such a great fit with the full house plan,
Speaker 4: because that was all of our moms too, incredibly supportive
Speaker 4: there every week, always taking us back and forth and
Speaker 4: whatever it took.
Speaker 2: But when we were.
Speaker 4: Off, we were off your kids, and they it was
Speaker 4: never like they wanted it more than we did. That
Speaker 4: it was like, as long as you are loving this great,
Speaker 4: if that changes, we'll like we'll figure it out, you know.
Speaker 4: And so yeah, I think we were really fortunate in that, Yes,
Speaker 4: we were fortunate in that regard that you know.
Speaker 2: It was it was something that we loved.
Speaker 4: Doing, and I think that's why that's why we still
Speaker 4: do it, because it was never something that was forced
Speaker 4: upon us or that was like a chore or something.
Speaker 5: You know right, it never felt that way, and my
Speaker 5: mom kind of just juk us for a while.
Speaker 3: She was managing all of us.
Speaker 4: I can picture your now by the way, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 5: But she jumped right into that and she just had
Speaker 5: this business knowledge that just you know, she just had it.
Speaker 5: And I'm very thankful for that because, you know, as
Speaker 5: an adult actor, I learned a lot. And because she
Speaker 5: stood up for us at such a young age. You know,
Speaker 5: I never had to really worry about not being taken
Speaker 5: care of on a set because you know, Mama Darlene,
Speaker 5: she don't play.
Speaker 3: So so yeah, I'm very I'm very thankful for both
Speaker 3: of my parents. Man, Oh my gosh, they're amazing.
Speaker 2: I definitely remember your parents being around on the set.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you were five when you started on Full House.
Speaker 4: Do you remember, I mean, do you remember your first
Speaker 4: day there? I mean again at five? Like, tell me
Speaker 4: about what you.
Speaker 2: Did on a random Tuesday thirty seven years ago, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean? You're like, oh, yes, with a
Speaker 2: lovely coffee.
Speaker 3: No, I don't know. I think I vaguely did it.
Speaker 4: I'm not sure if I really remember this or if
Speaker 4: it's just a name what I saw.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember certain scenes, so like I remember, and
Speaker 5: I don't know if it was like my first episode,
Speaker 5: but I feel like it might have been like Michelle
Speaker 5: and I talking about how she was doing her handwriting
Speaker 5: or something, and I feel like that might have been
Speaker 5: I was telling her she's got to cross her te's
Speaker 5: or daughter eyes or something like that, right, and I
Speaker 5: and I remember, I remember that scene, and I remember
Speaker 5: being in the classroom, and I remember, you know, scenes
Speaker 5: with Dave and U.
Speaker 3: And I remember very well anytime I got to go
Speaker 3: to like a new set, like I was talking about.
Speaker 5: The staircase, or like if we were in a car
Speaker 5: or like that was cool for me because I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: I'm not in the classroom today, like I get to
Speaker 5: be somewhere up or in Michelle's room, you know. So
Speaker 5: I remember the little things, but yeah, I was so young.
Speaker 5: I remember school, being tutored with with the rest of
Speaker 5: the kids. And I remember when like Journey and Miko,
Speaker 5: I remember when it was all of us, because there
Speaker 5: were some episodes where it was, you know, the whole crew,
Speaker 5: and then there were some episodes where it was.
Speaker 3: Just me and Michelle, you know.
Speaker 5: So I remember very pretty vividly when it was like
Speaker 5: the whole crew because it was like, oh we got
Speaker 5: more kids.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was always the best when you were on
Speaker 4: a show, like for us, it was like hi, other people.
Speaker 3: My age yeah yeah yeah yeah, so it's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I remember. I remember that little.
Speaker 4: The little like group of you guys, oh my god,
Speaker 4: yeah kids.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 3: So those those little those little moments I remember, but
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't remember like what my first day on set
Speaker 5: was like or anything like that, because it's just like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, because you're still here.
Speaker 3: Love it. I love it. So yeah, little things, little things.
Speaker 1: Did you were you strictly tutored on set or like
Speaker 1: homeschool or did you go to regular school as well?
Speaker 3: So I think I was.
Speaker 5: This is not normal for for actors in general when
Speaker 5: they're kids, but I would only be tutored on set.
Speaker 5: So if I wasn't working, I would go back to
Speaker 5: my public school and I would be and I would
Speaker 5: be yeah. See So that's why that see, that's why
Speaker 5: that set was just so the full house set just
Speaker 5: felt like home. It felt safe because a lot of
Speaker 5: child actors don't do that. They're homeschool, they don't know
Speaker 5: what it's like to be around their peers, and then
Speaker 5: when they become an adult, it's like whoa, it's the
Speaker 5: what is this? What's life? And it can be hard.
Speaker 5: So I'm very thankful that my parents did it that
Speaker 5: way because I was in sports. You know, I had
Speaker 5: my friends at school. I didn't really have a lot
Speaker 5: of their friends per se. I didn't still to this day,
Speaker 5: my my my best friends are not in the business,
Speaker 5: and and that's how it's.
Speaker 3: Been for years.
Speaker 5: And of course I have, you know, lovely friends in
Speaker 5: this business, but my but my core group of people,
Speaker 5: they're they're not actors, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: They may be artists and other avenues.
Speaker 5: But but I think that really helped, you know, help
Speaker 5: me learn about what life is like outside of a set,
Speaker 5: which that did bring its complications because I would be
Speaker 5: gone and then come back and then kids, I remember
Speaker 5: middle school was the whole other thing because they were like, oh,
Speaker 5: you could leave whenever you want.
Speaker 4: I'm like, no, the changing dynamics, I know, like for girls,
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not sure, but for girls, it was
Speaker 4: like you came back after being gone for three days,
Speaker 4: there were entirely this one and You're like, I thought
Speaker 4: we thought we were cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, no, that definitely happened, especially during the Smart
Speaker 5: Guy days, because that was middle school and middle schools
Speaker 5: not fun.
Speaker 3: Soddol.
Speaker 4: We all done middle school being on a TV show,
Speaker 4: I think we would definitely be like, yeah, no, that's
Speaker 4: middle school sucks.
Speaker 5: Anyway, I'll never forget. It was the first day of
Speaker 5: like see sixth grade. I had all the friends in
Speaker 5: the world, went to go shoot three episodes. A Smart
Speaker 5: Guy came back. Everyone hated me, and I was like,
Speaker 5: what is happening? And so those dynamics were hard, but
Speaker 5: I'm grateful for them because I was that kid that
Speaker 5: got made fun of at school. I was that kid
Speaker 5: that had to stand up for myself at school, and
Speaker 5: so I'm able to uh to have sympathy my mammy.
Speaker 3: I was able to grow in that way. So I'm
Speaker 3: grateful you.
Speaker 4: Give you a thicker stand where you're like, you know
Speaker 4: what you learn. I feel like you learned at a
Speaker 4: much younger age. In some way, You're you're forced to
Speaker 4: confront the ideas of uh, of being who you are
Speaker 4: versus being who people want you to be.
Speaker 2: So like, I think any kind.
Speaker 4: Of struggle with that question a little bit earlier because
Speaker 4: it's like wait a minute, like yeah, and I'm in
Speaker 4: seventh grade and you guys don't actually.
Speaker 5: And then learning learning how to discern who your real
Speaker 5: friends are and not just for like what you do
Speaker 5: you know, because I had to learn that like oh,
Speaker 5: you're on a TV show. Cool, I'll be your friend,
Speaker 5: but like are you really both friend?
Speaker 3: Though? Like you do you like me?
Speaker 6: Though?
Speaker 4: I can't imagine going through that today because it would
Speaker 4: all be about getting a picture with somebody or getting
Speaker 4: into their house and record you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's hard enough then to be like I don't know,
Speaker 4: are you cool or not? Like now it's like no,
Speaker 4: I don't.
Speaker 3: Know how these kids do it now with social media.
Speaker 3: I don't know how.
Speaker 5: Like I I'm so grateful that we didn't have that
Speaker 5: because that would have been a whole other thing.
Speaker 2: Had enough hard enough, now, did you When you did
Speaker 2: smart guy?
Speaker 4: You did that from like ninety seven to ninety nine.
Speaker 4: Sure you're like exactly, yep, that was the years I
Speaker 4: could give you specific dates. But was it like super
Speaker 4: fun for you to play like this ten year old
Speaker 4: super genius kid?
Speaker 3: Was that?
Speaker 2: I mean again, you loved pretending yeah.
Speaker 3: It was cool. It was definitely.
Speaker 5: That was cool because that was my first experience with
Speaker 5: something being created around you, because that was something that
Speaker 5: we just went into the network and I just was
Speaker 5: taug and they were like, okay, we'll give you your shows,
Speaker 5: and so that was fun to know that, like, oh,
Speaker 5: this environment was sort of created around me.
Speaker 3: But I never felt the pressure of that.
Speaker 5: A lot of people ask that I never felt it
Speaker 5: because you know, the home life was great, so grateful
Speaker 5: for that. I always felt safe and looked after. But yeah,
Speaker 5: it was fun.
Speaker 3: I think the most challenging thing about that part.
Speaker 5: Was knowing the definition of the words that I was
Speaker 5: saying so that I could act it out properly, because
Speaker 5: I can't just be saying these words that I don't
Speaker 5: know what they mean. So you know, I had someone
Speaker 5: specifically on set that would be working with me with
Speaker 5: my lines to know, Okay, do you know what that
Speaker 5: word means?
Speaker 3: This is what this means?
Speaker 5: So and I'm like, okay, that might change how I
Speaker 5: how I how I say it, And.
Speaker 4: So that that was like a like a Siri before Syria,
Speaker 4: but you know what I mean, I light and look
Speaker 4: up the word.
Speaker 2: Like yeah, someone was like here's what that means.
Speaker 5: It was s at training before I even knew what
Speaker 5: SATs were. Uh, that's probably aging me too, because I
Speaker 5: don't even think they have SATs anymore.
Speaker 3: Anyway.
Speaker 2: They have a sixteen year old and she is yeah,
Speaker 2: she's taking it year.
Speaker 3: Yeah they do.
Speaker 4: But they for a while it was like optional, I think,
Speaker 4: post pandemic. And now they're like, no, maybe we need
Speaker 4: you should do it.
Speaker 3: You should do this. Who knows what's happening?
Speaker 1: Right, and now now it's digital like it used to
Speaker 1: be filling the circle and now it's not right.
Speaker 2: I can't I couldn't do it.
Speaker 3: I need to fill Oh my gosh. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So that was a whole thing for me because I
Speaker 5: had to know what I was saying and there I
Speaker 5: remember the dialogue. I think that trained me a lot,
Speaker 5: whether I realized it or not, of just like you know,
Speaker 5: big monologues of just words, because I would have to
Speaker 5: say these huge things and didn't know what.
Speaker 3: They know what they meant. So yeah, but it was
Speaker 3: fun for me. I loved it.
Speaker 2: Did it help you in school? Were you like, oh
Speaker 2: got it?
Speaker 3: Luckily?
Speaker 5: Not?
Speaker 3: Luckily?
Speaker 5: Unfortunately, it didn't help me in my SATs at all.
Speaker 5: I will, I will not be telling you that score.
Speaker 3: But it was not. It wasn't looking good. I think
Speaker 3: it helped me. Here's the thing.
Speaker 5: Because I grew up and have been in this industry
Speaker 5: for so long, memorization was never a problem for me.
Speaker 5: So in school I would always get good grades because
Speaker 5: I could just memorize.
Speaker 3: But when I got to college.
Speaker 5: That was different. It was like, oh, no, you don't
Speaker 5: really have homework. I just need you to have these
Speaker 5: fourteen novels done by the end of the semester.
Speaker 3: Right, but you don't have to come to class.
Speaker 4: And so I look at you know, your interpretation, and
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, no, no, no, I don't know, right,
Speaker 4: I don't know what this scanddron.
Speaker 2: Just give me a scan tron.
Speaker 3: So that was I remember, which is which is why
Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't end up finishing college because it
Speaker 3: was just a little, a little too much for me.
Speaker 4: You know what school is like that kind of level,
Speaker 4: like academics are not it's not so many ways to
Speaker 4: be blessed and talented and creative like and some people
Speaker 4: test well on some people very smart don't test great.
Speaker 3: You know, yeah, it didn't, it didn't.
Speaker 5: It helped me in the memorization part, but not in
Speaker 5: the in the comprehension part of God.
Speaker 2: So you didn't actually take your SATs, although maybe you
Speaker 2: would like.
Speaker 3: To blame this.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, so young you know, did you really did
Speaker 4: you relate to Teddy? Like when you I mean, you
Speaker 4: know again, you're a kid and you basically play yourself.
Speaker 2: They're like, oh, you're kind of cute. Do more of that.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 5: I think the relatability of characters didn't come until Smart
Speaker 5: Guy because I was in every episode, so like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you would find you had more ways to find things
Speaker 5: that were similar.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as a kid on a guest star you're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's such No one knows how I felt.
Speaker 3: About some episodes ago is Teddy? You know again?
Speaker 5: So it was and you know also being young, so
Speaker 5: but I mean playing with your friends, you know, stuff
Speaker 5: like that at school, you know stuff like that. Yeah,
Speaker 5: but like I think on a deeper level that you know,
Speaker 5: as an adult actor, you look you look more into No,
Speaker 5: I didn't really have a sense of of that.
Speaker 3: I was just like, oh, this is the line you
Speaker 3: want me to read? Cool?
Speaker 2: Right, I mean that's yeah.
Speaker 4: Child acting is very much like a lot of memorization,
Speaker 4: you know, like can you stand there and long after
Speaker 4: you're like, this is super exciting and do your exactly.
Speaker 2: For many child actors, it's so great to hear that
Speaker 2: you had a good experience, though. I just love that
Speaker 2: makes me very happy.
Speaker 1: Was it confusing at your age to see the Olsen
Speaker 1: twins switching off the role of Michelle. Was that easy
Speaker 1: to understand or were you kind of thrown back?
Speaker 5: I think obviously my sisters are twins, so in that aspect,
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, okay, yeah that makes sense.
Speaker 3: There's two of them. They split the work like, so
Speaker 3: like I understood that. I was never like huh, like
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. I was just like, oh, okay, right,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I've never been asked that question before.
Speaker 5: I wonder It's like, I wish I could go back
Speaker 5: into my thinking the first time I saw.
Speaker 3: That happen, and I wonder exactly what I was thinking.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I think having twins sisters at home kind
Speaker 5: of like I don't know, it made it make more
Speaker 5: sense to me maybe.
Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, yeah, you were like, oh yeah obviously they.
Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, yeah, you could understand it on a
Speaker 1: basic level. Right, I'm sure that I you don't understand.
Speaker 1: Oh well, child labor laun hours so we have twins
Speaker 1: and you don't need to get into the weeds on.
Speaker 3: It also made it fun for me because you know,
Speaker 3: I would get to instead.
Speaker 5: You know, when you're watching the show, Teddy has one
Speaker 5: scene partner, Michelle, but in real life, I got.
Speaker 3: To have two scene partners and they were right.
Speaker 5: You know, they're two different people, so we had different relationships,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 4: So I was like and then there was always someone
Speaker 4: your age to hang out with because you know, if
Speaker 4: you weren't in a scene, Ashley or Mary Kate would
Speaker 4: be there to you know, you're.
Speaker 5: Right, So yeah, in that sense, it was it was
Speaker 5: cool because I got like, you know, I got to
Speaker 5: I got to have two scene partners like.
Speaker 4: In the in the day, right, did you guys did
Speaker 4: you spend like a lot of time I'm with any
Speaker 4: of the kids from the show, like that little crew outside.
Speaker 5: Of oh, I feel I think I would see Journey
Speaker 5: the most. I think, yeah, I say, out of everyone,
Speaker 5: I would see Journey the most. I've talked to Miko
Speaker 5: like online as an adult, which was just so cool.
Speaker 3: When we've when we uh, you know, found each other
Speaker 3: on Instagram and and all that.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I'd say growing up, I would mostly see
Speaker 5: Journey the most because she had such a has such
Speaker 5: a big family and yeah, yeah, and they were all
Speaker 5: in the business so like so it was mine. So
Speaker 5: it was just like a little connection there.
Speaker 3: For sure.
Speaker 4: I have to ask you something because I have a
Speaker 4: great love for the Muppets, Like it's it's usually if
Speaker 4: we do like a stupid thing where we're.
Speaker 2: Like, oh, let's recast you know this episode, who would
Speaker 2: you pick?
Speaker 4: I'm always like, I can't think of actors, but I
Speaker 4: can tell you the entire cast of the Muppets, So
Speaker 4: the Muppets mayhem take the floor, tell us about it.
Speaker 4: How did you wind up doing that? It's always fun
Speaker 4: because it's I want to be.
Speaker 3: It's it's it's all.
Speaker 5: There's very There's not a lot of things that are
Speaker 5: better than talking about my experience on that show with
Speaker 5: a fan of the Muppets, because it was just, hands
Speaker 5: down one of the best things I've ever got to
Speaker 5: be a part of. There was never not a joyous
Speaker 5: moment on that set because everyone wants to be there.
Speaker 5: Everyone wants to be there, and it also blows your
Speaker 5: mind at the production value of it, because I don't
Speaker 5: think people realize that every shot that involves a muppet
Speaker 5: is a visual effect shot. So it takes it takes time,
Speaker 5: and it's very meticulous. These these these muppets, and they're
Speaker 5: real people. Jody, there are real Okay, yes you appreciate this,
Speaker 5: so will you Andrea. But you know, the most saddening
Speaker 5: thing on set was when after a take the muppet
Speaker 5: would go down because you you you're in this scene
Speaker 5: with this character and they're talking to.
Speaker 3: You, you're talking to them, You're reacting with this character, right,
Speaker 3: and then the scene ends and they just The first
Speaker 3: time I saw it, I was like, yo, animal, where'd
Speaker 3: you go? Someone?
Speaker 5: But are our cast the muppet performers, They're They're incredible.
Speaker 5: They do the puppeteering and the voice.
Speaker 2: Well, this wraps up part one of our interview with
Speaker 2: Taj Moury.
Speaker 4: If you didn't already love them as Teddy, there's no
Speaker 4: doubt that he just when you over with this interview,
Speaker 4: because I remember him as lovely and sweet and wonderful,
Speaker 4: but I think he has even become more lovely and
Speaker 4: sweet and wonderful.
Speaker 2: And we have so much to talk about. Still, we
Speaker 2: absolutely loved having.
Speaker 4: Him on the podcast, so we will be continuing this
Speaker 4: interview in part two, airing this Friday. You don't want
Speaker 4: to miss it, so make sure and tune in in
Speaker 4: the meantime. We love you, Fana Rito's. Check out our
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Speaker 4: send us an email, you know what else, keep in
Speaker 4: touch with us.
Speaker 2: We love you guys, and remember the world is small.
Speaker 2: The house is full of muppets. Much kind to my delight,
Speaker 2: much just overflowing with muppets. Yep, we gotta get you.
Speaker 1: We got to get you on a show, a movie, something.
Speaker 4: We got to get you with me go wear a
Speaker 4: sandwich board outside of Muppets studios.
Speaker 3: That would probably be effective.