WEBVTT - My Key Grip - Rick Uva 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.920 We asked another former employee of Tosh Porn of the 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:05.760 same question. So here goes talk about what a good 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:08.440 time that show was and how easy I was to 0:00:08.520 --> 0:00:08.960 work with. 0:00:09.440 --> 0:00:11.319 I would say, you're the easiest person ever. 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:14.320 You hear that, Andrew? I know he listens every week. 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:22.160 I was a pleasure to work with any were pashhash 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:29.640 shows show. Welcome to Tosh Show. I'm Daniel Tosh, and 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:33.200 I can name that TV show in under two frames. 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:37.800 Go ahead, give it to me. Little House in the Prairie. 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:42.120 Goddamn boom you see that? I mean, half pint's not 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:43.720 even in the picture. How'd you get that? 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:50.640 Were you forced to watch the Little House in the Prairie, Edie. 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:52.920 I don't even know it was forced. There wasn't a lot. 0:00:52.800 --> 0:00:54.840 On I think I was. I think we were forced 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:55.400 to watch it. 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:56.200 You don't. 0:00:56.200 --> 0:01:02.840 I always uh get confused. What who's this star of 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:08.360 Little House in the Prayer? The Father Michael? I always say, oh, 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:11.640 he was the closeted gay man, But I know that 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:15.720 that's not true. I get that confused with the Brady Bunch, right, 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.240 you know he was closeted right? Oh? 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.680 Yeah. Robert Reid, who played Mike Brady on The Brady 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:25.440 Bunch was gay and kept a sexual orientation private for 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:26.319 most of his life. 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.280 Anyway, I always get that. I always got them confused. 0:01:29.440 --> 0:01:30.720 I wouldn't fuck Carol either. 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:32.679 I was into Carol. 0:01:32.880 --> 0:01:33.839 You like Carol Brady. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.360 I thought she was all right, all right, I thought 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.840 she was all right. She certainly dressed nicer than my 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:44.480 wife ever has. Do you like Lassie? I hated Lassie. 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.320 I'll be honest with you. I don't like a border Collie. 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:50.920 That fucking weird face, so skinny. 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:51.800 Ugh. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:57.000 You know I liked Benji. You know, I like Benji 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:02.040 over Lassie. Benji was a mutt. I'm just I'm more 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:04.720 of a mutt guy. Now you say, oh, Carl's not 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:09.079 a mutt. Depends on who you ask, akc. I don't 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:17.120 think they're recognizing bernodoodles. I know what I sound like 0:02:17.160 --> 0:02:21.080 when I talk fuck an idiot. Sometimes they get nostalgic 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:26.720 these shows. I was cleaning out, uh some stuff, as 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.000 I always do. I found this photo and it was 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:33.280 a photo I took of a man, okay, like just 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:35.880 his face, right, I mean, not like a man man 0:02:35.960 --> 0:02:38.799 like like like early twenties. And I was like, oh 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.040 my God, I don't remember his name, but I'm like, 0:02:41.080 --> 0:02:45.720 I it just immediately took me back. This guy worked 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:49.120 at the Comedy Works in Denver, Colorado, a club you 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.480 and I've worked a ton of times. Yeah, oh man, 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.120 remember that. They were always like, we don't put you 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.480 up in a hotel because we have a really nice condo. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:58.280 Oh okay, Wendy, that's that's nice, but some of us 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:00.640 would like room service. But that's beside the point. You 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:03.079 stay at the condo, you have to walk through a 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:06.000 seven eleven, which oddly at the time was like a plus. 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:08.760 I was like, oh, you know, get some gross snacks 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:10.840 at night and head on up to my room, and 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:14.880 you know, get rid of this weird faux fur blanket 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:19.800 that has been jerked in by every other comic. Anyway, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.840 one week I was working there as a young comedian 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:29.200 and this guy was an employee there, and he and 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:33.120 I just hit it off, and I just found him hysterical. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.200 And I just remember like we like went out every night, 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:39.640 maybe we went out during the day for like lunch 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.760 and stuff. All of a sudden, he has like a 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:42.960 best friend. 0:03:43.160 --> 0:03:43.840 Just doing stuff. 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.760 We were just hanging out. It's just funny. I was like, 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:49.640 this guy is hysterical. And then the next time I 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.760 worked there, he didn't work there anymore. I just never 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.160 You know, is you don't ask when you're a man, 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.920 it's hard for you to ask for another man's phone number, Like, hey, 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.040 we should stay and be in touch and hang out. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:07.240 The point is, I'd like, I'd like you, guys, my fans, 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:12.160 uh to find out who this guy is and where 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:16.039 is he? What's he doing and does he remember hanging 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:19.120 out with me for a week and were his memories 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.000 fond like it? I'm curious. 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:23.400 It's a mission for the listeners. 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:25.760 Yeah, so it's a job for the listeners. They can 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.520 figure stuff out. They seem to have all the answers. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.720 I know it sounds you know, I don't. I want 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.840 to make sure I use the right PC term here. 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:36.120 I know it sounds fruity. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.279 I think that's what. Yeah, you're supposed to listen. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.520 I think that's that's that's the right way to say it. 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:43.760 But I just had a good time this guy. We 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:44.880 had tons of laughs. 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:45.920 I don't know. 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:47.320 I hope this works. 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:50.719 I hope it works too. That'll be a fun guest. Yeah, 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.320 have him on what if he what if I would 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.320 be heartbroken and be like, what I don't remember. Oh 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.520 yeah I did work there. Oh we hung out. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:01.560 I think it's gonna this is gonna this is gonna 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:01.880 be great. 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:08.400 Okay, speaking of a blast from the past, today's guest 0:05:09.200 --> 0:05:12.000 he was with us every step of the way on 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:16.520 Tosh Point. Oh, and now he's here, he's back. So old, 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:22.440 he is so old, he's our oldest friend. He is ah, 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:31.720 he's a good guy. Enjoys show. My guest today worked 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:34.240 with me at Comedy Central from our show's first day 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:37.280 to its last. He's seen it all and knows too much. 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.599 He's the most respected crew member in the history of 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:46.720 Tosh Point. Oh, all right, that's fair. Please welcome key Grip. Rick. 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:49.000 I still have no idea what a key grip is. 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:50.400 All right, Rick, how are. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:51.320 You doing fine? 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:51.520 Sir? 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:57.400 Thanks, thanks for the invite. Daniel, how you been what dreaming? 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.520 You're a white dream How long you been married all together? 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:02.920 Yeah? 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:04.559 Forty years? But how many women? 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.440 That's two ways? Forty years too? How many did you 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:08.080 give the first one? 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:11.240 First one is about eight nine years? How many years? 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.920 Was too? Was the writing on the wall and you're like, 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:15.560 oh that we should have done. We should have got 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:15.920 rid of it. 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:21.000 Well, I think it was probably after about seven. Maybe 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:23.920 it's kind of a kind of separated grow part. 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:25.159 That's seven year itch? 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.560 Is that a real Well, I think it was achy 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:28.200 all the time. 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:32.359 Yeah, that might be herpes? All right? Ray, do you 0:06:32.480 --> 0:06:33.440 believe in ghosts? 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.080 I believe in the spirit. I guess you can call 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.159 them ghosts and the holy ghost. How about that one? 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.279 Well, sure he's like the top ghost. Yeah, he's above Casper. 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:41.840 I know. 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.960 By the way, I want people to know, I thought 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.239 I was gonna be dressed exactly like you, because every 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.719 time I've seen you for just years and years, you 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:52.599 have a black T shirt on and a headband. And 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.440 sure enough you have a headband on, But today you 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.040 fancied it up with a Henley You've got so I 0:06:58.120 --> 0:06:59.960 didn't know that you were going. I didn't even know 0:06:59.960 --> 0:07:02.000 you owned the button shirt. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:02.919 My wife dressed me today. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:04.880 Oh, I mean, cause that's as fancy as I've. 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:06.840 Seen you pup these buttons right now? 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.520 Why do you wear black shirts every day of your life? Well? 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:10.800 Is it just to work? 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.000 It's for work. And if we see a reflection, like 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.360 I was shooting something the other day in a in 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:19.880 a beautiful black piano lacquer and they say, hey, I 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.720 can see your jeans. So you don't want to be 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.440 that guy being called out when they're getting to take 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.160 number six and they love it. So everyone wears what 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:29.120 they call show blacks. 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.440 Gotcha all right? So there was a reason that you 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:33.520 always there's a reason. I don't feel like you would 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:34.880 it would have. You could have mixed it up a 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.640 little bit, maybe wear like a navy or something like that. 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:40.600 Could you were born and raised in southern California. Tell 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.280 me about what life was like here seven decades ago. 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.239 You could paddle out to Malthab and get waves to yourself. 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:47.720 Mm hmm. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:49.680 Anywhere you wanted to serve, you could do that. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.400 Let me say long I served yesterday at the Rock. 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:57.760 I'll say where I served. It was. It was overhead glassy, 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:01.080 there's a real swell that was fading out, and I 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:04.440 surf for two people. Great. I mean, so it still happened. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:06.520 People always always say, like, you know, I don't know 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.400 if it's revision, it's history, like, oh, there used to 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.720 be no crowds. It's like you can still find it. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:13.120 You got you have to you have to dedicate your 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.560 life to it, and the reality is we get older 0:08:15.920 --> 0:08:20.080 and we can't dedicate every minute to surfing exactly. So 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.440 you were a surfer. When did you start surfing? 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.080 I was eleven. First board was a Gregnoll eight eleven, 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.400 picked it up for ten bucks from the Gregnoll shop 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:31.560 right there off of pch and Peer Avenue. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.800 And you just took to it right away like this. 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.160 Yeah. Once, when you first stand up, you're on top 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.480 of the world. Dan, you know, wow, it's pretty good. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:44.240 I start in third grade, North Carolina. I was living 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:47.720 in Newbern, North Carolina. We had something to come there 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.640 because I went to a predominantly black school there. You 0:08:50.679 --> 0:08:55.120 grew up in a predominantly black neighborhood in Inglewood. Where 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:55.960 else did you live? 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.000 Then? From Inglewood we moved into Hawthorne, a slight knighte. 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:05.640 The neighborhood was called Little Watts Little Watts, and all 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:06.840 my schools were blended. 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.040 So what is your ethnicity? I've always been an Italian? 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:13.000 You're an Italian? Did you guys know he was Italian? 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:17.600 Yes? Okay, my mom was a Russian Jew. Russian Jew, 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:19.240 So I say we're a Jew. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:20.920 Wap Oh, I don't say that. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:23.600 I can say it. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.840 Please don't go to Eddie Rick. We're all in trouble 0:09:27.840 --> 0:09:30.800 if he's the barometer. Uh, you don't do drugs, but 0:09:30.960 --> 0:09:33.440 look like the biggest hippie I've ever laid my eyes on. 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:37.120 I'd say I'm fit right in that mold. You never 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.240 bring any Petulia oil today, But I'm not old hippie. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.320 Did you ever did you go through a big drug phase? 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.679 No, never did marijuana. Well, yeah, I did a CBD 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.880 once in a while, but you know, but not not 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.480 but any of the other stuff. I mean, you know, 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.040 are you still a hippie at home? I'm still a 0:09:53.080 --> 0:09:54.040 hippie at heart, Daniel. 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.120 Did you go to college a little bit? 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.160 Not much. I was more of a hands on guy. 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.160 I was doing and metal welling and stuff like that. 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.360 And then mal was ten foot and I didn't want 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.640 to do arc weding in the summer in the leathers 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.920 when so I just quit and it started surfing, and 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:11.520 then I became a landscape contractor. 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:13.800 Surfing took you around the globe though. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:15.160 Kind of Yeah, I guess it, do you? 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:19.360 I mean you never considered living someplace that you couldn't surf? 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:20.880 No, I had to be by water. 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:24.080 That's the problem. I've always said that's the problem with surfing. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:27.439 It ruins you in that you'll only live by water, 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.360 which happens to be the most expensive areas to live. 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:30.760 Right. 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:33.320 Ah, it's a bad it's a bad thing. And then 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.920 being like, if you really dedicate yourself a surfer, that 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:39.920 doesn't coincide well with making a good living exactly. 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:41.960 I learned that when I was doing contest. 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.760 You were a competitive surfer in California and Hawaii. Describe 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:45.480 what that was like. 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:49.640 Well, I was a competitive I did one year. I 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.199 served pretty well. I was out of high school, probably 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:56.240 seventeen maybe eighteen, and I got to the Huntington Open. 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.400 It was WSA back then, So I won the first heat. 0:10:59.600 --> 0:11:01.320 I kept win in the first and then I moved 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:04.160 to two A and then three A and I just 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.679 kept winning. And then I got an invite to serve Malibu, 0:11:08.040 --> 0:11:10.840 a four A contest with all the pros. Well, I 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.800 served Malibu quite a bit. I knew the break, I 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:13.640 knew the tide. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:15.080 So this was that first point. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.800 Actually, here's what they did. They put everyone out at 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.800 third point and we had it to ourselves. Four guys 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:24.360 in the water, double eliminations from second point all the 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.040 way to and was lining up all the way to 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.880 the pier. Talk about hooting and hollering. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:29.880 That's a good day. 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.640 That was a good day. And then I just kept 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:35.360 winning and winning because of double eliminations, and and then 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.800 I had to go in the final. I served seven 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:39.880 times that day and I had to go up again 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.040 to Mike Purpose. He was like the best guy around 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.120 roundhouse cutbacks, and I studied him quite a bit. He 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.640 was a South Bay guy, like I can't even paddle 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.360 out because you got to go out. Well, he won anyway, 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.600 But that was what I claim to fame. But like 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.680 you said, there's no money in it. There's no money 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:58.040 in the business. What is this steamer's lane in the contest? 0:11:58.200 --> 0:11:59.319 That's you yeah. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.800 Back and steamer will boom. Oh that water was cold, cold, 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.079 cold water up in steamer lanes. You ended up in Australia, 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:08.000 I did. How long did you live there? 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:09.640 I lived there for about a year and a half, 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:13.320 but I stopped in Maui for about four months, and 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.680 then I surfed in Honloa Bay. Best wave in the 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:16.560 world at least for me. 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:17.200 Uh huh. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.679 I got in really really good shape because you're just 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.360 out there and the waves are bigger and stronger, and 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:25.120 I don't like big waves now on either. I'm like 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.320 six seven foot waves when it comes bigger than. 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.360 That double overhead double overheads, where I sad. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.440 And you try to stead outside and get the big 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:33.000 set wave. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.600 You know, you worked in Hollywood for nearly forty years. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:38.400 How much have things changed during that time? 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.880 I'd say. When I started, we were burning arcs, which 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.960 are the old the lights that were tied together. They 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.800 were like welding rods that were put together, and they 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.440 created this arc in these lenses. And then we were 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.559 shooting film. The mags would come in a thousand foot mags. 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.800 It's like big things. I look like Mickey Mouse. Here's 0:12:56.840 --> 0:12:59.439 on the old cameras. It cost a dollar a foot 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:02.160 to buy it and two dollars a foot to process it, 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:04.000 and you only get three minutes out of it. So 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.440 that's changed quite a bit. So you're spending three grand 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.040 on just three minutes, and who knows what's going to take. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.559 So then eventually they change the lights. Now that's all 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.920 led and the cameras are little chips. Yeah, Star Trek said, 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:20.240 here's a chip we found about this planet and all 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:21.440 of a sudden, everything's on it. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.280 Well, for people that always see the title key Grip 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.439 in the credits and myself, what does a key grip do? 0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:31.160 I would say the key grip's responsibility is listen to 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.720 the director, and then you want to listen to the 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:37.280 head guy, the head electrician. And then anytime he moves, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.680 we go and service his light. So he puts up 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:41.360 a light, we go in there and shape it or 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.199 cut it. Then we put people on the dolly. Sometimes 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:48.040 we have a dolly. Sometimes it's just handheld, so we 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.520 stay right next to the camera. A lot of times 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.280 we see the cranes moving, that's probably two key grips, 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.320 or sometimes it's camera operators. 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.120 Now explain the difference between grip, best boy grip, and 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:00.760 key grip. 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:04.679 Okay, the key grip is pretty much the guy in charge. 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.240 He's in charge of men and equipment, so you make 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.240 sure you surround yourself with the best guys. Then the 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.640 best boy is basically like like your wife. You know, 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:16.720 you you get someone that's brilliant, really good at taking 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.520 care of the numbers, making sure all your your points 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:24.000 fit together, and he basically handles all kinds of stuff. 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:26.480 Like I say, Matt, we need we need three guys, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.840 and we're going to be doing this and here's here's 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:31.600 our order. So he'll get it all squared away, get 0:14:31.640 --> 0:14:35.200 it all sent in. That's our best boy. Girl. 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.200 It can be a best girl. Do they change the 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.640 title the best girl when it's a female sometimes? 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.080 But I think I think they stick with the best boy. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.600 Okay, that's got to be a fun credit read best 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:46.520 boy Susan. 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:47.960 Yeah. 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.720 And then the key grip and that's that's the and 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.000 then oh sorry, then just the regular grip. Got it right. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.760 There's a book titled The Grip Book written by Michael 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.600 g Uva and your relationship to you. 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:01.840 That's my big brother. He taught me. 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:04.560 Did you know that? Yeah? 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.480 It was like a silverspoon guy started in the commercial world. 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:09.800 How good is your grip? 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:11.000 By the way, it's good. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:19.480 Oh man, that's a strong grip. What were the glory 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:20.479 days of Hollywood? 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:23.120 I think they treated you great. We were doing commercial 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.880 hall around the United States, so hit our boss. He 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.760 lived by like a block and a half from Malibu Pier. 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:33.200 His wife was a producer, so it flies to all 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:36.680 these different states. Would send the trucks out grip and electric. 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.680 He was a photographer, so he didn't use money many lights. 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.720 He liked the sunrise, sunset, the beauty shots of golden hours. 0:15:44.120 --> 0:15:46.360 And then we'd stay in these great hotels, give us 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:47.600 some money per dim and. 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.720 Talk about the cocaine. Was there tons of cocaine back then? 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:55.600 I think I missed that, fortunately for you, but not 0:15:55.640 --> 0:15:58.920 for me. Well, there was a little bit still dabbling around, 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.120 and then you know, once the bike came down in cocaine. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:03.680 I don't think he saw it on set, but I 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:06.800 heard stories about people would be getting paid in time 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.320 and a half or double time by Bindles. I mean 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:10.760 that's a. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:14.400 Rumor talk about working on the set for the film Heat. 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:19.080 The shootout scene unbelievable. We spent a month on the weekend, 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.400 Saturdays and Sundays with the shootout scene. They robbed the 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:26.320 Bank of the West. They started running down Figaroa and 0:16:26.360 --> 0:16:30.960 there's basically thirty cops and the guys are running away 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:34.400 and you see flames coming out the barrel. It's pretty good. 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:38.240 And then we got down by the Omni Hotel Sunday 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.720 morning and all of a sudden, boom boom boom, every 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.000 shooting cars running back and forth. You see people look 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:47.240 out the window. They hit the deck because they thought 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:48.240 it was a real shootout. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.440 Well right, because you were using as Michael. 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.160 Mann, we weren't using real bullets, but we're using real 0:16:54.240 --> 0:16:56.320 blanks right with flames coming out, So. 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.360 Just as loud as any, just as loud, just as scary. 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.960 What are some of the famous movie sets you've worked on. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.720 I work on Heat, g I Jane was your show 0:17:04.840 --> 0:17:08.200 was pretty good and always turning and burning something. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:11.440 From Heat to tosh Point Oh. Well, most people wouldn't 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:13.520 put those two in the same sentence, but I think 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.760 I appreciate Rick doing that. I feel like when you're 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:18.719 talking about Heat and you talk about tosh Point Oh, 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:22.680 is the two p's in a pod? Was tosh Point 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.040 Oh an easy gig? Or was that a pain in 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:26.960 the ass gig? Where where did it fall? 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:30.440 I'd say it was probably the easiest gig I've ever had. 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.800 And I know because I easily. You never saw me 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:37.280 because I always got behind the drapes. But as you're 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:39.680 up there rehearsing, I got to hear your life and 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:42.240 this that and things are going on, and then the rehearsal, 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.399 of course, I'd be at the drapes making looking at 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.159 my shoes, I see cashro come up. 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:48.560 Oh aren't you in astro? 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.399 And then let you out, get out the door, and 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.840 then let the people out of the stage. It was fun. 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:54.680 We had it down. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.240 Yeah, no, it was that was It was a well 0:17:57.240 --> 0:18:00.000 oiled machine, and I appreciate that you made sure everything 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:03.800 ran smoothly and quickly. How many layers of green screen 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:07.760 paint were on the wall by the time my show ended. 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:09.480 Oh, I'd say probably about an inch thick. 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.359 There was a lot of green paint. Was so huge. 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.560 That green screenwall was so huge. Talk a little bit 0:18:15.600 --> 0:18:18.920 about ramboard. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:20.439 All right. Ramboard's good for protecting your floor because you 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:22.400 always had had ramboard. 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.840 Everywhere I looked, there was ramboard. Man, I ramboard. I 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.879 don't think you're a sponsor of the show, but you 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.800 really should. We really loved your cardboard that we would 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.320 roll out everywhere. I think I stole a few rolls 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.000 of that ramboard at some point. 0:18:36.440 --> 0:18:36.840 Good to have. 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.800 Oh, it's it's amazing. If you're work in your garage, 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.320 you can roll that out quickly, especially if you're doing 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:46.840 ding repair. I loved it. What's the most insane thing 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:48.520 you were asked to do on Tosh point zero. 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:51.720 I'd say one year we did these tracking marks up 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:53.840