Speaker 1: Hey, they're Fanerrito's.
Speaker 2: Welcome to part two of our interview with my big brother,
Speaker 2: Darren Barber. Just when you thought you couldn't possibly hear
Speaker 2: any more embarrassing stories from my childhood, Oh there's more
Speaker 2: for part two of Growing Up Barber. Here's Darren. What
Speaker 2: other stories do you remember from our childhood? Like, there's
Speaker 2: there's so many, but what are the highlights? You know?
Speaker 2: Like I was dad's favorite, you were mom's favorite, so
Speaker 2: you know, oh oh yeah, okay, how it just I
Speaker 2: don't know what happened to Justin and all of that.
Speaker 3: Well middle child again, it doesn't even doesn't matter, doesn't
Speaker 3: even exist. So how how now we've heard about how
Speaker 3: you know your dad favored you? How was Darren your
Speaker 3: mom's favorite?
Speaker 4: Well? I think because I was the first born. I
Speaker 4: think because it took them many years to conceive. This
Speaker 4: was before in vitro, and they had to go through
Speaker 4: a whole bunch of you know, experimental stuff to try
Speaker 4: to even see if they could conceive. So I think
Speaker 4: that had a lot to do with it in terms
Speaker 4: of that my mom and I were similar in many
Speaker 4: ways that Andrea mentioned earlier, and so I think that
Speaker 4: that probably contributed greatly to it in terms of and
Speaker 4: a lot of the first as a parent you'll experience
Speaker 4: with the oldest child, you know, just by definition and stuff.
Speaker 4: And then in all candor, and I don't know if
Speaker 4: Andrew has ever shared this on the podcast, but after
Speaker 4: I was born and then my brother was born, that
Speaker 4: was it. You know, it was so difficult for them
Speaker 4: to get pregnant it you know that that was going
Speaker 4: to be the end of it. So Andrea was more
Speaker 4: of an oops like, oh we're pregnant again, right, oh okay, wow,
Speaker 4: So that was I was s talk to everybody in
Speaker 4: a good way, but you were the special one. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I definitely was was mom's mom's favorite. I think largely
Speaker 4: because I was the firstborn and went through all of
Speaker 4: her first as a parent in that way and most
Speaker 4: of the things that happened.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's okay, that's okay.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. We'd have you know, as far as
Speaker 4: the home dynamics go, my dad he liked to when
Speaker 4: Andrew was really young, probably like four or five, you know,
Speaker 4: he would he would yell out, save the fair maiden,
Speaker 4: and he would grab Andrea's ankle or her wrist or
Speaker 4: something and my brother and I would have to wrestle
Speaker 4: with my dad to break her free right any way possible.
Speaker 4: So we're all rolling around on the floor trying to
Speaker 4: tickle Dad or distract him or probably like one digit,
Speaker 4: you know, from his hand off her at a time,
Speaker 4: and you know, if she got away, he would like
Speaker 4: lunch and grab her again. And it became this big game.
Speaker 4: And I think that game probably went off on off
Speaker 4: and on for probably two years. But I distinctly remember
Speaker 4: the time when she was she was either seven or eight,
Speaker 4: and my dad's like save the fair Maiden, and he
Speaker 4: grabs her and Essin and I looked at each other
Speaker 4: and went nah, and we just walked out, and it
Speaker 4: was like that was the end of Save the Fair Maiden.
Speaker 4: Never played it again, happened, that was it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were like fair Maiden, Sure, yeah, done.
Speaker 2: Do you remember I would stand in a doorway with
Speaker 2: my arms out, I say, you can't pass the Queen.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that works like twice, and then finally
Speaker 2: at one point you were just.
Speaker 1: Like you just picked me up and put me yes
Speaker 1: the Queen.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean yeah, that was I forgot about you
Speaker 4: can't pass. It was so annoying. I'm like, yeah, I can't,
Speaker 4: like on twice her side, Why am I letting this happen?
Speaker 4: You know, I mean the size of Queen Elizabeth. The
Speaker 4: second I'm like, I don't know why. I'm thinking you
Speaker 4: have any way to stop me from going through this?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I forgot about that. There was also the
Speaker 4: the part you know that, like I said, the teenage
Speaker 4: years that we all go through that are awkward and
Speaker 4: rebellious at times. And there was a stage in which
Speaker 4: Andrea wasn't doing her laundry and just letting things pile up.
Speaker 4: So of course my mom is making sure things are
Speaker 4: cleaned and clothed or whatever, and eventually Andrea kind of
Speaker 4: did it. But you know, doing laundry was she would
Speaker 4: just like leave it in the washer and the dryer.
Speaker 4: So now that's the easiest part of doing that now, right,
Speaker 4: So we've got the you know, the dew and the
Speaker 4: mold coming in the in the washer and then her
Speaker 4: clothes in the dryer. Yeah, and so she would go
Speaker 4: to the dryer to get the clothes, but only what
Speaker 4: she needed to wear that day and just leave the
Speaker 4: rest of it in the dryer, which completely breaks down
Speaker 4: the whole system. Okay, and if you can imagine, knowing
Speaker 4: my dad, he literally built a closet that had doors
Speaker 4: on both sides. So there's a door doors on the
Speaker 4: side of their bedroom, doors on the side of the
Speaker 4: laundry room, and the cabinet or dresser you know that
Speaker 4: holds the clothing. The drawers would swing into each room,
Speaker 4: so he could literally do laundry, put it in the drawer,
Speaker 4: and then when he was in his bedrooms.
Speaker 1: So why did he not patent this? Why did this?
Speaker 3: I would buy it now they could be selling it
Speaker 3: at Ikia. The d Barbs closet system, that's.
Speaker 4: What we should call it. So Andrew would completely block
Speaker 4: the whole system by leaving her clothing in the dryer,
Speaker 4: so none of us could do.
Speaker 3: Laundry drawer sliding back and forth. Great design can't be
Speaker 3: used because of you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So my mom finally got fed up in a
Speaker 4: rare mom of annoyance with my sister by her, and
Speaker 4: she took all of her clothes out of the dryer
Speaker 4: and put it into a trash bag and kept it.
Speaker 4: And so Andrea goes to the dryer and it's empty,
Speaker 4: and it's like, oh, where are my clothes, and Mom's like,
Speaker 4: I have them in a bag and say, okay, I
Speaker 4: need them. You can buy it for a dollar. Andrew,
Speaker 4: I'm not doing that. She's like, well, you're clogging up
Speaker 4: the system. I'm holding your clothes hostage until you you
Speaker 4: can purchase them. Oh. So she storms off or whatever,
Speaker 4: and that lasted, I don't know, maybe fifteen minutes, and
Speaker 4: Andrey just walks into the room. She takes out a
Speaker 4: dollar bill and hands it to my mother. Can I
Speaker 4: have my clothes? Yeah? My mom hands with the bag
Speaker 4: of clothes. Andrea takes them and goes off and gets
Speaker 4: dressed and does whatever she needs to do the next day, Jodie.
Speaker 4: The next day, Andrea needs clothing again and she can't
Speaker 4: find whatever outfit she wants, so she literally just walks
Speaker 4: up to my mom, hands are a dollar, doesn't say
Speaker 4: one word, and my mom looks at it and takes it,
Speaker 4: and she says, what's this for. And Andrew's like, I
Speaker 4: need this outfit, blah blah blah, and my mom goes, oh,
Speaker 4: it's in the same bag, and then just pocketed the
Speaker 4: dollar and walked off. So Andrea paid for something she'd
Speaker 4: already paid for that she had in her room.
Speaker 2: She the bag.
Speaker 3: Oh that happens all the time with kids.
Speaker 1: I think it's a it's some sort of thing.
Speaker 3: Their eyeballs don't work somewhere between middle and high school.
Speaker 3: They just can't actually see things one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely paying for it now because both Tate and
Speaker 2: Felicity clog up the dryer and yeah, they'll just go
Speaker 2: remove the one sweater that they're wearing.
Speaker 1: For the day.
Speaker 2: I'm like, this is it, this is paramase me.
Speaker 3: They am also a laundry forget person. I like my
Speaker 3: and poor Mescal lives in a house with three people
Speaker 3: who will start two loads of laundry and then they
Speaker 3: will die there days and forget. I didn't can't even
Speaker 3: remember I started laundry, like it didn't even happen.
Speaker 1: And then he'll go to do laundry and be like and.
Speaker 3: Go to move the washer stuff into the dryer, but
Speaker 3: he can't because the dryer is also.
Speaker 1: Full, and he's just like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: So I relate, although I am forty two and should
Speaker 3: really get my act together, But anyway, tons of.
Speaker 1: Time, tons of time, you had tons of time and don't.
Speaker 4: At the very end, someone will dress you.
Speaker 1: That's the way it works right now.
Speaker 3: Was there, like, was was there a lot of systems
Speaker 3: in the barber house?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: Was there did things run along pretty smoothly? Because I
Speaker 3: know it sounds like there was a laundry system. Sounds
Speaker 3: like your dad had, you know, these these bi directional
Speaker 3: drawers and this genius closet system. We know that organization
Speaker 3: runs in the Barber family. Were there a lot of
Speaker 3: systems growing up?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 1: Was that something that was always present?
Speaker 4: I would say so. My mom was really good about
Speaker 4: organizing stuff. We even had a little small clause and
Speaker 4: I know it was probably six feet by three feet
Speaker 4: or four feet, but it was called the Etcetera Room,
Speaker 4: and it just had all the extra things and stuff,
Speaker 4: so all the clutter could be in just one room.
Speaker 4: We had a junk drawer which would have scissors and
Speaker 4: tape and other same kind of stuff. The system for
Speaker 4: the thermostat was don't touch it, and if he did it,
Speaker 4: who touched the thermostat? So we weren't allowed to do that.
Speaker 2: Dad could Dad had radar, like he could be on
Speaker 2: the other end of the house and he could detect
Speaker 2: if we had moved to the thermostat. One degree. You'd
Speaker 2: be walking down the hall, you know, who would touched
Speaker 2: the thermostat? I had to be at sixty eight, sixty
Speaker 2: eight all the time. Sixty eight that's cold, yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, it was. It was, you know, and
Speaker 4: so there was there were systems and stuff, but not
Speaker 4: everybody adhered to the systems and things. I can remember,
Speaker 4: you know, my dad as now you know I have
Speaker 4: those jeans. He likes to eat cookies late at night
Speaker 4: and stuff. So we'd have like a package of oreos
Speaker 4: and you know, I eat, I'd eat some for dessert,
Speaker 4: and then he would eat some late at night. And
Speaker 4: the thing with oreos is they get stale if you
Speaker 4: leave them out, and so I would usually put them
Speaker 4: in a gallon, you know, ziplock bag, and as part
Speaker 4: of the system, I would push the air out of
Speaker 4: it before I would zip it. So my dad, in
Speaker 4: order to torment me, would make sure to blow air
Speaker 4: into the bag so it was like a balloon when
Speaker 4: he'd zip it up. And I'd find it the next
Speaker 4: day and I'm like, well, you know, like that's for
Speaker 4: touching the thermostat. And I'm like, Dad, wasn't me? That
Speaker 4: was Andrea and Andrea wouldn't do that. I'm like, oh my,
Speaker 4: like so yeah, we we did. We did have something.
Speaker 4: We did have to have systems with respect to like
Speaker 4: homework and how things were going to get coordinated because
Speaker 4: Mom was on the freeway probably days a week driving
Speaker 4: peopled auditions, and that necessitated either who's going to be
Speaker 4: home or how are you going to get a ride
Speaker 4: home from sport or different things like that during the
Speaker 4: times we overlapped in the years of days of our
Speaker 4: lives and commercial shoots and things you were doing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Now, I was going to ask you are the originator
Speaker 3: of the funeral file? Correct, yes, because this is one
Speaker 3: of my favorite things and I think it is absolutely
Speaker 3: brilliant and can you please We've talked about it on
Speaker 3: the showcase.
Speaker 1: I have one future. I have a funeral file for
Speaker 1: Jody and one for Canvas.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that started with you, Darren.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and I think it's a great idea. I
Speaker 3: think everyone should do it. It's like, just it's the best,
Speaker 3: but please let.
Speaker 4: Us see in funeral Files copyright Darren W. Barber, twenty five.
Speaker 4: It was it was born out of just being held
Speaker 4: hostage by the family in as I got older, the
Speaker 4: death of our maternal grandmother was a big deal in
Speaker 4: the family. And I was at an age or i'd
Speaker 4: finished law school. I had been a school teacher for
Speaker 4: a period of time, so a lot of public speaking
Speaker 4: and different things, and so everyone decided I should give
Speaker 4: the eulogy. And I didn't really want to do that,
Speaker 4: and so they were like, no, no, no, you're you're
Speaker 4: really funny and stuff, and I'm like, yeah, this isn't
Speaker 4: the prerequisite to giving the eulogy. You know, it's it's
Speaker 4: usually a black shirt and a white collar or anything,
Speaker 4: but being funny. I mean, you want some humorous antecdotes
Speaker 4: in talking about someone's life. But I didn't really feel
Speaker 4: like it was, you know, my role to play. And
Speaker 4: I lost that argument with everybody in the family, and
Speaker 4: they said, all right, you're giving the eulogy for your grandmother,
Speaker 4: and I said, okay, So then you're struggling to come
Speaker 4: up with, Okay, what am I going to say about her?
Speaker 4: I mean, I can get her life history, but you
Speaker 4: want to sprinkle it with a little bit of humor.
Speaker 4: And so I did that. I put it together and
Speaker 4: I don't know if Andrew's even shared this with you,
Speaker 4: but my parents decided for the actual ceremony or whatever,
Speaker 4: we didn't go to a church. We went to a
Speaker 4: restaurant to have this function. But my dad, being as
Speaker 4: frugal as he is, he only rented out half the restaurant.
Speaker 1: I assume the viewing was somewhere else.
Speaker 4: Yes, yes, yeah, that wasn't I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: It was at a seafood restaurant. Oh well, the salad
Speaker 1: bar came in handy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, would you like some pepper with that?
Speaker 1: Are one thing out of the way, yeah, Ice is
Speaker 1: already there. Yeah, so it was.
Speaker 4: It was just like a collision course of like, oh no,
Speaker 4: you rented out half the restaurant. And so, come to
Speaker 4: find out, as I get up to speak, I realize
Speaker 4: a minute into this thing, somebody is walking by me
Speaker 4: to go to the bathroom, because we are in the
Speaker 4: half of the restaurant that have the restrooms. So now
Speaker 4: people fantastic walking through the eulogy to get to the restroom,
Speaker 4: or they're just turning around and deciding to hold it.
Speaker 4: I mean, it was it was a nightmare, right.
Speaker 1: This is amazing, This is such a such a great
Speaker 1: lea up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so then I'm doing improv and I'm like, no, no,
Speaker 4: just come on through, you know.
Speaker 1: It's like and then I'm doing a tight ten.
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly. I'm like, okay. So I got through it,
Speaker 4: and after it was over, you know, I was venting
Speaker 4: to the family and I like, all right, never again.
Speaker 4: This was too much stress. This was horrific, I said,
Speaker 4: And now I'm starting funeral files on all of you.
Speaker 4: And like, what do you mean? I said, I'm going
Speaker 4: to start a file and I'm going to have stuff
Speaker 4: in there that happens, and when something goes on in
Speaker 4: your life that I think is funny, it's going in
Speaker 4: that file. So when I get asked to do your eulogy,
Speaker 4: I'm just breaking out the funeral file and going, all right,
Speaker 4: which one of these am I going to use to
Speaker 4: talk about you in a way that's.
Speaker 3: Prepared, presumptuous that you think you would be doing everyone's eulogy.
Speaker 1: But I you know, I appreciate the enthusiasm. It's actually brilliant.
Speaker 3: Now it is amazing, And I seriously I love this
Speaker 3: idea because it's true. When you're in the middle of,
Speaker 3: like dealing with losing someone, it sometimes it can be hard,
Speaker 3: very hard to be funny. And it can be hard
Speaker 3: to like remember specific things, and I think it's great.
Speaker 4: Well, you know, odds are I will have a time
Speaker 4: where I outlive my father. I mean, my sister's probably
Speaker 4: gonna beat me. She's younger and she's a woman. But
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna give it.
Speaker 1: To the queen.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So because my son will thoroughly enjoy giving her
Speaker 4: eulogy and the stuff that I will, I will leave him.
Speaker 1: So get down. We'll be great at it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he'll be fantastic. But from my dad, I mean,
Speaker 4: just by way of example, I already know how I'm
Speaker 4: going to open with my dad because there was a
Speaker 4: time that he and my mom were running late to
Speaker 4: the funeral of a friend of theirs, and they got
Speaker 4: there right after the service had started, and they walked
Speaker 4: in and, you know, embarrassingly kind of scoot in and
Speaker 4: sit down and kind of give a few head nods
Speaker 4: to the two or three faces they recognize. And about
Speaker 4: five to seven minutes into it, they realize they're at
Speaker 4: the wrong funeral and they don't know the decedent. There's
Speaker 4: just a couple of local people from the town they
Speaker 4: know in the church with them. So when they got
Speaker 4: up to have the first hymn that was being sung.
Speaker 4: They quickly exited, got in their car and went to
Speaker 4: the other church and were even later to the funeral
Speaker 4: of the person and who they were supposed to be honoring.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like that would have been a graaty.
Speaker 3: Sorry, we had another funeral to hit before we came,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like, yeah.
Speaker 4: Look at our age.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just back to back, you know.
Speaker 4: So I will literally open with you know, we're here
Speaker 4: to honor Don Barber and in his memory, I'm going
Speaker 4: to share this story, and after I do, I'll say,
Speaker 4: if any of you are in the wrong, you know, church,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna allow you to get up now in honor
Speaker 4: of my father and leave and get to the correct funeral.
Speaker 4: So we perfect. We have that one locked and loaded
Speaker 4: to open with. And amazing, Don's got a wealthy material.
Speaker 4: I may run a full hour set on that and
Speaker 4: maybe Netflix will pick it up.
Speaker 1: I'm here for the movie. I'm ready for the documentary.
Speaker 3: I'm this is Yeah, I can't imagine what's in Don
Speaker 3: Barber's It'll.
Speaker 4: Be Don Barber by directional doors and drawers and other stories.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly right, you know.
Speaker 4: I like the way that you phrased that. So I
Speaker 4: think I'm gonna I'm gonna go opted.
Speaker 2: I think it's safe to say that Dad has the
Speaker 2: longest funeral file of all of any of the files
Speaker 2: that you've kept.
Speaker 1: Like he is a daily there.
Speaker 3: There there are some pretty epic stories of like things
Speaker 3: where you're like, what happened.
Speaker 4: He's like, you know, we went and saw that movie
Speaker 4: paint Face, And I'm like what. He's like, paint Face.
Speaker 4: I'm like, you mean Braveheart? Yeah? It what best picture?
Speaker 4: Like how do you not know that name? But it's
Speaker 4: it a height of popularity, you know. And he's like,
Speaker 4: let's go see missus double fire. Missus is it? Is
Speaker 4: it too?
Speaker 3: Dad?
Speaker 4: It's missus doubt fire? Like, holy crap. You you're a lawyer, right.
Speaker 3: You use words for a living, and you yeah, it
Speaker 3: is amazing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we've written down all the mispronunciations of movies and
Speaker 4: other things. Yeah, to keep to keep it going.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: He is a wealth of material.
Speaker 1: He's close enough that you know what he's saying. But
Speaker 1: he's completely right. You're like, I know where you're going
Speaker 1: with this, but also wow, and.
Speaker 4: Half the time he'll try to die on that hill, like,
Speaker 4: he's right.
Speaker 1: The original script said double fire on it.
Speaker 4: I saw it right a hundred Yeah, it was the
Speaker 4: working title, you guys. You guys just weren't in the
Speaker 4: no I was on the lot wandering around. I got
Speaker 4: ahold of one of the scripts, and yeah, it was
Speaker 4: the working title.
Speaker 2: I love it, Darren. Today, Jody and I are recapping
Speaker 2: the infamous Telethon episode.
Speaker 1: Which you were. You were in it.
Speaker 2: You got more screen time than I did in this episode.
Speaker 4: My talent finally recognized, right, But you.
Speaker 2: Didn't know you were going to be on camera. So
Speaker 2: what tell us this story? You know, you were just
Speaker 2: coming to see me for a Friday night take and they.
Speaker 1: Were like, put that kid in the picture.
Speaker 4: Yeah, classic elements to it. So obviously the Friday Night
Speaker 4: ABC lineup was a juggernaut. It had picked up steam.
Speaker 4: I at that point had been in college for four
Speaker 4: years and I had some really good friends I had
Speaker 4: made there, and there were four guys that I bonded
Speaker 4: with that so the five of us lived together three
Speaker 4: of my four years, my sophomore, junior, and senior year
Speaker 4: we all lived. We all lived together. So inevitably they
Speaker 4: figure out and find out that Andrea is on Full
Speaker 4: House and it's becoming more popular, and I'm getting peppered
Speaker 4: with let's go see a show. Can we go see
Speaker 4: a show? Can we see a taping? And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 4: but you know, it's not really what you think it is. No,
Speaker 4: it's gonna be it's like a half hour to be hilarious.
Speaker 4: I'm like, no, it's like six hours. And it's not
Speaker 4: how it works. You're gonna be uncomfortable, like you're in
Speaker 4: chairs and got a stret I'm trying and explain to
Speaker 4: him it's not like all glitz and glamour. But they were.
Speaker 4: They were hammering me on it and wanted to go
Speaker 4: see it. And so I finally said, all right, I
Speaker 4: will take you up there and we'll go see it.
Speaker 4: And I worked it out with Andrea's manager and by
Speaker 4: that I mean Dawn to figure out one would be
Speaker 4: a good time to go. And thankfully you guys had
Speaker 4: Friday night tapings because I went to school at you
Speaker 4: see San Diego, so it's going to be a little
Speaker 4: bit of a trek to get up there to the studio.
Speaker 3: And so.
Speaker 4: We got tickets for the show, and so I told everyone,
Speaker 4: all right, we're going to go see the show and stuff,
Speaker 4: and UCSD is a intellectual school and not really known
Speaker 4: for partying. And I lived with a group of smart gentlemen,
Speaker 4: but the smartest of all of us, and the guy
Speaker 4: with the photographic memory said, nah, I'm not going to go.
Speaker 4: I got to study for a test on Monday. On Monday.
Speaker 4: I'm like, you have all weekend and you're the smartest
Speaker 4: dude in the house and you have a photographic memory,
Speaker 4: and he's like, no, I just don't think so, and
Speaker 4: his girlfriend's like, we should go. We should go because
Speaker 4: I invited her. They'd been together for about five or
Speaker 4: six years because they started in high school together. And
Speaker 4: he's just he says no. So that's an important component
Speaker 4: to the story. So the other three guys, myself and
Speaker 4: my girlfriend at the time, we all go up to
Speaker 4: the full house studio. We get ushered in, you know,
Speaker 4: through mom and dad, and we have to sign some paperwork.
Speaker 4: I just assumed it was because we were getting preferential treatment.
Speaker 4: At this point. I don't realize they're going to use
Speaker 4: the audience in the show, and neither do my roommates.
Speaker 4: So we all sit down in the front row, front
Speaker 4: and center and then somebody comes out and explains it's
Speaker 4: a telethon episode and they need to use the audience
Speaker 4: as telethon but you know telethon people, and so we're
Speaker 4: going to be on TV and that's why we had
Speaker 4: to sign all the waivers. Oh it dawns. So we're
Speaker 4: front and center, you know, and of course my roommates
Speaker 4: are super excited about this. It's very you know, they're
Speaker 4: they're very, very pumped up. And so we're sitting there
Speaker 4: and the show's being shot and and you know, you
Speaker 4: got to see, you know, how I clapped and was
Speaker 4: very rhythmic and doing the good job to your dancing, and.
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. It kept me on track.
Speaker 4: Absolutely want to make sure we're helping the talent and stuff,
Speaker 4: and about I don't know, I would say twenty minutes
Speaker 4: into the episode, they ask us all the switch seats
Speaker 4: because it's a twenty four hour telethon and no one
Speaker 4: would sit there for twenty four hours, and it makes
Speaker 4: total sense. So they put us in the second row,
Speaker 4: right behind the first row we were sitting in, and
Speaker 4: I'm like, you don't think you never now recognize the
Speaker 4: fact that the same five people are now sitting right
Speaker 4: behind where they were before.
Speaker 3: We replaced Grandma three times in the first two seasons.
Speaker 4: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like, please, that's not a through line. Is not something
Speaker 3: that we worry about on this show. Yeah, yeah, now
Speaker 3: they yeah to switch a shirt, throw a baseball hat on.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, who's that? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Right? So yeah, kind of like when Carrie Brady on
Speaker 4: Days of Our Lives was nine years old and stormed
Speaker 4: up to her room and two weeks later came down
Speaker 4: as a fourteen year old and a different actress, and
Speaker 4: Andrea Barber was unemployed. So you're really mad and aged
Speaker 4: in two weeks, didn't you. Ye. So yeah, it was
Speaker 4: a lot of fun. I mean, I had a good time.
Speaker 4: It was a lot of fun obviously for our roommates
Speaker 4: and stuff. And they're very excited when we're driving back
Speaker 4: to San Diego. So we get back and so shout
Speaker 4: out to Chuck, Bruce and Dave that went with me.
Speaker 4: And so we go home and tell Patrick they're like, bad,
Speaker 4: we're gonna be on television and he's just like shut up,
Speaker 4: like no, We're on TV, And like seriously, he's like
Speaker 4: I'm not buying it. Whatever, and he's like no, So
Speaker 4: they explained to him what happened. And Pat's girlfriend, Laurie,
Speaker 4: who's the better half of the two of them, as
Speaker 4: much as I love Pat, literally just kind of hits am.
Speaker 4: I knew he could have gone. I can't believe it.
Speaker 4: So to this day, we are always on those reruns
Speaker 4: and Pat gets reminded of it whenever I imagine Lori
Speaker 4: sees it on television or has one of her kids
Speaker 4: or nieces or nephews look at it, and I find
Speaker 4: it hilarious. You know, it's very funny. So and even now,
Speaker 4: what thirty years later or whatever, thirty five years later,
Speaker 4: there will be people that you know that I do
Speaker 4: know I should say that. But I was watching an
Speaker 4: episode of Full House. I think I saw you on it,
Speaker 4: and I'm like, oh man, that thing lives on I
Speaker 4: can't believe it. So that's how the story came about.
Speaker 4: It was total dumb luck, and it was literally the
Speaker 4: only episode of Full House I saw taped in the
Speaker 4: entire run.
Speaker 3: I feel like you were set up by your parents
Speaker 3: down it was Dawn.
Speaker 1: I feel like it was.
Speaker 3: Don Barber, and I feel like somehow he negotiated that
Speaker 3: you were supposed to be paid for it, but you
Speaker 3: never wore.
Speaker 4: Probably not, And yeah, it's another good theory. I don't
Speaker 4: even think you're wearing a tin foil hat. I think
Speaker 4: it probably had ben't lots of secret that I didn't
Speaker 4: even consider to be quite honest, that you probably did
Speaker 4: manipulate that now that.
Speaker 1: You like, he was like, you know what, yeah.
Speaker 4: One hundred percent.
Speaker 2: The best part is that it's now like a meme
Speaker 2: because you're you're shown in the audience mostly during Jodie's
Speaker 2: dance to the B fifty two's love Shack and that
Speaker 2: that is just.
Speaker 1: Well the cover band, let's be fair.
Speaker 2: Yes, I listened to it and I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: such an iconic dance, and it's all over Instagram and
Speaker 2: TikTok and everywhere. And so when you when that goes viral,
Speaker 2: Darren inadvertently is also going viral because you see him lap.
Speaker 3: It, yeah, doing that the amazing clapping that you were
Speaker 3: doing that has been recorded for all time.
Speaker 4: Andreas sent me the link to it being in on
Speaker 4: I G and I thought it was a story or something.
Speaker 4: Everywhere went off. It's literally a mean.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's everywhere.
Speaker 2: It's everywhere. It's a clip it's a me. It's like,
Speaker 2: it's all over the place. It's just it's just you.
Speaker 2: It's just your head clapping.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it's all over the internet. It's gone.
Speaker 3: That's but yeah, but no, but it definitely yeah, there's
Speaker 3: when you see the little clip, there's definitely.
Speaker 4: The row.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: But just created that dance. She just I recreated.
Speaker 3: I recreated the Motown Philly dance. Adam recreated the telethon
Speaker 3: dance on the episode that I directed on Fuller House
Speaker 3: when he wore the blue leggings and the sweater and
Speaker 3: the hair, which was all kinds of amazing, iconic, so iconic.
Speaker 4: Absolutely well, I had no idea. It shows you how
Speaker 4: out of touch I am. I'm always I'll have to
Speaker 4: check my IG last time, I think I had over
Speaker 4: two hundred followers. You need to know, I've never posted
Speaker 4: anything so occasionally. I got it originally because my kids
Speaker 4: had it and I wanted to follow them and make
Speaker 4: sure everything was okay. And then I guess Finstow was
Speaker 4: created by the underground network of teenagers to avoid their
Speaker 4: parents following them.
Speaker 1: So I'm now and now Instagram is basically Facebook. It's
Speaker 1: no one, no one cool is on there exactly, which
Speaker 1: is why I'm still there.
Speaker 4: And that's the people in my you know, demographic tend
Speaker 4: to follow me and then they'll say, hey, am I
Speaker 4: not your friend? Or did you block me? I'm not
Speaker 4: really seeing anything, and I'm like, no, I've never posted.
Speaker 4: I told you that when you wanted to follow me.
Speaker 4: It's kind of my goal.
Speaker 1: To never I was taking it very personally there and
Speaker 1: I was like, wow, I.
Speaker 3: Guess I'm not even gonna ohst anything or talk to me.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just everybody. It's just everybody. You just
Speaker 1: don't care.
Speaker 4: I want to see how many followers I can get
Speaker 4: with doing nothing, honestly.
Speaker 3: I mean you know what, I'd say A good fifty
Speaker 3: percent of those are just from your clapping alone. So yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah, and then the and then the other half
Speaker 3: are Farley fans.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 4: I was in the audience at a telethon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were like shocked.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the underground Farley audience is huge.
Speaker 2: I know, I know we have to wrap this up soon,
Speaker 2: but I have to talk about one of my favorite
Speaker 2: stories and how everything comes full circle, right, everything comes
Speaker 2: full circle. So I was the famous sibling growing up,
Speaker 2: you know, getting the success and the the kudos or whatever,
Speaker 2: the recognition when we were out and everything. But when
Speaker 2: I left acting for twenty years, I wasn't doing anything.
Speaker 2: So the tables had turned because Darren then became very successful,
Speaker 2: first as an elementary school teacher, as a first or
Speaker 2: second grade teacher, just like our mom was, and then
Speaker 2: as a very successful special ed attorney for the school district.
Speaker 2: And he's also like on the school board, like, you
Speaker 2: just do everything. You have more jobs than anybody I know.
Speaker 1: You're so good at them. Runs in the Barber family.
Speaker 1: You guys just yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: And so now now when I go out in either
Speaker 2: the town we grew up in or any of the
Speaker 2: surrounding towns within like a thirty mile radius, now I
Speaker 2: get stopped and people say.
Speaker 1: I know you.
Speaker 2: You're Darren Barber's sister, and I'm like, okay, tables have
Speaker 2: turned to now I'm the one known as Darren Barber's sister.
Speaker 2: And he's like the mayor of everywhere he goes because
Speaker 2: everybody loves him and he's so funny and so charming
Speaker 2: and yeah, it's just it's my favorite thing.
Speaker 1: And I always text him I'm like it happened again.
Speaker 2: Like I was on a jurty a jury for a
Speaker 2: murder trial several years ago down in Orange County, and
Speaker 2: the bailiff stopped me before entering the courtroom and he
Speaker 2: was just like I know you. And I'm like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's fine. I'm trying to, like, you know, I'm trying
Speaker 2: to keep it on the down low here, right, And
Speaker 2: he's just like, no, your brother came to my elementary
Speaker 2: school and read for rid across America. And I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I was there too, dude, and he's just like no,
Speaker 2: but it was Darren, Darren Barber.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, okay, it's official.
Speaker 2: Now Darren is now the more famous sibling of the
Speaker 2: True family.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have two hundred and fifty followers on Instagram
Speaker 3: in no time.
Speaker 4: That was a great moment because you were running late
Speaker 4: to get to court and the bailiff stopped you and
Speaker 4: he tells you, no, no, I was a student in
Speaker 4: his class. You're like, oh, hey, She's like he came
Speaker 4: to the school and my kids at that school now
Speaker 4: and You're like, yeah, I read there too, Like I
Speaker 4: was there with him last week. And anyway, yeah, we're
Speaker 4: all talking about it in the where the bailiff room
Speaker 4: or whatever. And Andrew goes, why are they talking about it?
Speaker 4: And I'm like, I don't know, and she goes the
Speaker 4: bailiff was like, oh yeah, I've got Kimi Gibbler and
Speaker 4: in my in my courtroom, and the other bailiff's like,
Speaker 4: I can one up that her brother was my schools teacher.
Speaker 1: There you go, Toche.
Speaker 4: Those those moments are funny because they happen few and
Speaker 4: far between, but when they do happen, they are they
Speaker 4: are very entertaining, and it's I think it's it's funny
Speaker 4: for both of us in many ways.
Speaker 1: Well, thank you.
Speaker 3: You have been entertaining, Darren, and I so loved like
Speaker 3: having you on the podcast, hearing all of these fun
Speaker 3: stories about Andrey and her gigantic ego. I always suspected it,
Speaker 3: but I am glad that there's confirmation.
Speaker 1: Uh, it was.
Speaker 3: So much fun to to have you on the show
Speaker 3: and and like and to hear all about like your
Speaker 3: all of you guys in the business and growing up
Speaker 3: and you know what it's like to grow up with
Speaker 3: with the queen here. So it was we just really
Speaker 3: appreciate you coming on the show. It was super fun. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I appreciate coming. I don't know how your sister feels, but.
Speaker 2: No, and I was going to say Darren and I
Speaker 2: could around a lot, but for as much as we
Speaker 2: fought when we were sharing that bathroom back when I
Speaker 2: was in high school and you were in law school,
Speaker 2: I'm just really proud that you're my brother and we
Speaker 2: are closer than ever now. We live like six minutes
Speaker 2: apart now, and so yeah, I'm just I'm really proud
Speaker 2: of you. And every time I do get recognized as
Speaker 2: your sister when I'm out and about, I just have
Speaker 2: the biggest sprint on my face because I'm so proud
Speaker 2: of you and how hard you worked and just you're
Speaker 2: an awesome brother and I love you all well, thank you.
Speaker 4: No, I appreciate that. I would say it's funny, because yeah,
Speaker 4: we did fight a lot during those those years, her
Speaker 4: teenage years in my early twenties, But it's funny how
Speaker 4: close we've gotten now over the years, and it, you know,
Speaker 4: both when we get together in person or on the
Speaker 4: text threads that we have going, it's awesome. And the
Speaker 4: humor that you see here on the podcast and elsewhere
Speaker 4: is something that just emanates in real life for Andrey
Speaker 4: as well, and I congratulate both of you on your success.
Speaker 4: You both are immensely talented and deserve everything that you
Speaker 4: have have received for this, and I'm glad. I'm glad
Speaker 4: this podcast is a big, big success. There are It's funny.
Speaker 4: There are some younger attorneys that I deal with regularly
Speaker 4: on our side of the bar, and one of them
Speaker 4: knows Andrea's on Full House. Andrew was kind enough to
Speaker 4: spend an evening out years ago. I don't think she
Speaker 4: remembers us. We went to the improv to see Bob
Speaker 4: and was my wife and I, Andrey and her husband,
Speaker 4: and the other attorney and her husband. She still talks
Speaker 4: about it to this day. She's told a whole bunch
Speaker 4: of the other attorneys who won't ask me about it
Speaker 4: or or talk about it, but I'll hear about it later.
Speaker 4: They're like, oh, you know, everyone knows your sister's on
Speaker 4: Full House, but no one wants to ask you. And
Speaker 4: I'm like, good, I'm not going to bring it up.
Speaker 4: So they are all huge fans and they know about
Speaker 4: the podcast. So thank you to the two of you.
Speaker 4: Thank you to iHeart Heart Media, whatever, whatever it is
Speaker 4: going by all the names.
Speaker 1: That's going it's my heart Jensen today, right exactly.
Speaker 4: Yet you shout out to Maddie for all the jumping
Speaker 4: through hoops, for everything that that had to happen to
Speaker 4: make this all work with everybody.
Speaker 3: We really appreciate it. It was super fun to have
Speaker 3: you on. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 4: I you continued success.
Speaker 1: So Darren, you're awesome.
Speaker 2: Derek By, you can lug off anytime.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 5: I love you.
Speaker 1: Go be done. I'm done with you. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: That was so fun. That was really really fun.
Speaker 3: It's great to have you know, our families who are
Speaker 3: like our extended families, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 3: it's I love having him on.
Speaker 1: It was really fun.
Speaker 3: That finishes up our interview with the great Darren Barber.
Speaker 3: I enjoyed so much having your brother on the show.
Speaker 3: This was so much fun, Aby, I loved hearing all
Speaker 3: of these stories.
Speaker 1: It was really's epic. Are you nervous about what he
Speaker 1: might say?
Speaker 2: I was mostly excited because he's just such a funny
Speaker 2: person and he's so charismatic.
Speaker 1: But I was a little bit nervous.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what's he going to pull out that we
Speaker 2: haven't discussed yet that I have bat about in forty
Speaker 2: something years.
Speaker 1: So that's what siblings do. Yep well, yep well.
Speaker 3: Thank you fan Ritos for joining us for the part
Speaker 3: two of this fun interview.
Speaker 1: We loved having you along for the ride.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't say there for a second, when they.
Speaker 3: Arrive or drop or whatever the kids say now whatever
Speaker 3: they're saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, But thank you guys for joining us and we
Speaker 5: will see you next time on how Red tan Rito's
Speaker 5: I Remember the world is small, the house is full,
Speaker 5: and you shall not pass the Queen.
Speaker 1: You can't pass the Queen. Pass the Queen. Can't pass
Speaker 1: the unless you're Darren Barber