WEBVTT - Some Time With... Darin Barber! (Part 2) 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:19.920 Hey, they're Fanerrito's. 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:22.720 Welcome to part two of our interview with my big brother, 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.400 Darren Barber. Just when you thought you couldn't possibly hear 0:00:26.440 --> 0:00:30.000 any more embarrassing stories from my childhood, Oh there's more 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:35.040 for part two of Growing Up Barber. Here's Darren. What 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:38.480 other stories do you remember from our childhood? Like, there's 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.600 there's so many, but what are the highlights? You know? 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.760 Like I was dad's favorite, you were mom's favorite, so 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.800 you know, oh oh yeah, okay, how it just I 0:00:47.840 --> 0:00:49.639 don't know what happened to Justin and all of that. 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:53.760 Well middle child again, it doesn't even doesn't matter, doesn't 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:57.960 even exist. So how how now we've heard about how 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.639 you know your dad favored you? How was Darren your 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:02.440 mom's favorite? 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.320 Well? I think because I was the first born. I 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.399 think because it took them many years to conceive. This 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.959 was before in vitro, and they had to go through 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:16.039 a whole bunch of you know, experimental stuff to try 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:17.960 to even see if they could conceive. So I think 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.280 that had a lot to do with it in terms 0:01:21.280 --> 0:01:24.520 of that my mom and I were similar in many 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.520 ways that Andrea mentioned earlier, and so I think that 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:33.120 that probably contributed greatly to it in terms of and 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.080 a lot of the first as a parent you'll experience 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.679 with the oldest child, you know, just by definition and stuff. 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:42.600 And then in all candor, and I don't know if 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.839 Andrew has ever shared this on the podcast, but after 0:01:46.280 --> 0:01:48.080 I was born and then my brother was born, that 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.960 was it. You know, it was so difficult for them 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.800 to get pregnant it you know that that was going 0:01:53.880 --> 0:01:55.560 to be the end of it. So Andrea was more 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:59.400 of an oops like, oh we're pregnant again, right, oh okay, wow, 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.480 So that was I was s talk to everybody in 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:07.160 a good way, but you were the special one. Yeah. 0:02:07.320 --> 0:02:11.799 I definitely was was mom's mom's favorite. I think largely 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.040 because I was the firstborn and went through all of 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.839 her first as a parent in that way and most 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:17.880 of the things that happened. 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:21.160 Yeah, yeah, that's okay, that's okay. 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:23.840 Yeah, that's right. We'd have you know, as far as 0:02:23.840 --> 0:02:28.359 the home dynamics go, my dad he liked to when 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.800 Andrew was really young, probably like four or five, you know, 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:36.320 he would he would yell out, save the fair maiden, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:39.200 and he would grab Andrea's ankle or her wrist or 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.440 something and my brother and I would have to wrestle 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.760 with my dad to break her free right any way possible. 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.000 So we're all rolling around on the floor trying to 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.560 tickle Dad or distract him or probably like one digit, 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:53.200 you know, from his hand off her at a time, 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.200 and you know, if she got away, he would like 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.240 lunch and grab her again. And it became this big game. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.919 And I think that game probably went off on off 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:06.480 and on for probably two years. But I distinctly remember 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.600 the time when she was she was either seven or eight, 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.720 and my dad's like save the fair Maiden, and he 0:03:11.760 --> 0:03:13.880 grabs her and Essin and I looked at each other 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:16.799 and went nah, and we just walked out, and it 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.560 was like that was the end of Save the Fair Maiden. 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:22.399 Never played it again, happened, that was it? 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.440 Yeah, you were like fair Maiden, Sure, yeah, done. 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:29.760 Do you remember I would stand in a doorway with 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.120 my arms out, I say, you can't pass the Queen. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.120 Oh my god, that works like twice, and then finally 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:37.000 at one point you were just. 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:40.520 Like you just picked me up and put me yes 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:41.160 the Queen. 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:44.400 Yeah, I mean yeah, that was I forgot about you 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.480 can't pass. It was so annoying. I'm like, yeah, I can't, 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.600 like on twice her side, Why am I letting this happen? 0:03:51.680 --> 0:03:53.960 You know, I mean the size of Queen Elizabeth. The 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.040 second I'm like, I don't know why. I'm thinking you 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.520 have any way to stop me from going through this? 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:03.720 Oh yeah, I forgot about that. There was also the 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.520 the part you know that, like I said, the teenage 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:08.800 years that we all go through that are awkward and 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.400 rebellious at times. And there was a stage in which 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:15.840 Andrea wasn't doing her laundry and just letting things pile up. 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:19.960 So of course my mom is making sure things are 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:24.680 cleaned and clothed or whatever, and eventually Andrea kind of 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:29.279 did it. But you know, doing laundry was she would 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.960 just like leave it in the washer and the dryer. 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:36.400 So now that's the easiest part of doing that now, right, 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.600 So we've got the you know, the dew and the 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.160 mold coming in the in the washer and then her 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.680 clothes in the dryer. Yeah, and so she would go 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.400 to the dryer to get the clothes, but only what 0:04:48.560 --> 0:04:50.920 she needed to wear that day and just leave the 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.240 rest of it in the dryer, which completely breaks down 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:58.799 the whole system. Okay, and if you can imagine, knowing 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.239 my dad, he literally built a closet that had doors 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.880 on both sides. So there's a door doors on the 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.560 side of their bedroom, doors on the side of the 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.880 laundry room, and the cabinet or dresser you know that 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:18.000 holds the clothing. The drawers would swing into each room, 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:21.480 so he could literally do laundry, put it in the drawer, 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:27.040 and then when he was in his bedrooms. 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.120 So why did he not patent this? Why did this? 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.960 I would buy it now they could be selling it 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:38.480 at Ikia. The d Barbs closet system, that's. 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:44.320 What we should call it. So Andrew would completely block 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.200 the whole system by leaving her clothing in the dryer, 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:48.599 so none of us could do. 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:52.719 Laundry drawer sliding back and forth. Great design can't be 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:54.039 used because of you. 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.560 Yeah, So my mom finally got fed up in a 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.200 rare mom of annoyance with my sister by her, and 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.120 she took all of her clothes out of the dryer 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.960 and put it into a trash bag and kept it. 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:10.279 And so Andrea goes to the dryer and it's empty, 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.760 and it's like, oh, where are my clothes, and Mom's like, 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:14.479 I have them in a bag and say, okay, I 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:17.240 need them. You can buy it for a dollar. Andrew, 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.520 I'm not doing that. She's like, well, you're clogging up 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.440 the system. I'm holding your clothes hostage until you you 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:28.320 can purchase them. Oh. So she storms off or whatever, 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:31.560 and that lasted, I don't know, maybe fifteen minutes, and 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:34.320 Andrey just walks into the room. She takes out a 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.320 dollar bill and hands it to my mother. Can I 0:06:37.360 --> 0:06:39.520 have my clothes? Yeah? My mom hands with the bag 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.920 of clothes. Andrea takes them and goes off and gets 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:47.240 dressed and does whatever she needs to do the next day, Jodie. 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:52.640 The next day, Andrea needs clothing again and she can't 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:56.400 find whatever outfit she wants, so she literally just walks 0:06:56.480 --> 0:07:00.279 up to my mom, hands are a dollar, doesn't say 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:04.360 one word, and my mom looks at it and takes it, 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:06.640 and she says, what's this for. And Andrew's like, I 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:09.760 need this outfit, blah blah blah, and my mom goes, oh, 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.080 it's in the same bag, and then just pocketed the 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:15.840 dollar and walked off. So Andrea paid for something she'd 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:18.360 already paid for that she had in her room. 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:19.880 She the bag. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:24.320 Oh that happens all the time with kids. 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:26.160 I think it's a it's some sort of thing. 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.760 Their eyeballs don't work somewhere between middle and high school. 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:33.120 They just can't actually see things one hundred percent. 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:36.840 I'm definitely paying for it now because both Tate and 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:40.240 Felicity clog up the dryer and yeah, they'll just go 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:42.600 remove the one sweater that they're wearing. 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:42.920 For the day. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:46.720 I'm like, this is it, this is paramase me. 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:52.920 They am also a laundry forget person. I like my 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:55.800 and poor Mescal lives in a house with three people 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.480 who will start two loads of laundry and then they 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:03.400 will die there days and forget. I didn't can't even 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.000 remember I started laundry, like it didn't even happen. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.760 And then he'll go to do laundry and be like and. 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.760 Go to move the washer stuff into the dryer, but 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:12.440 he can't because the dryer is also. 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.559 Full, and he's just like, what are you doing? 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.640 So I relate, although I am forty two and should 0:08:18.640 --> 0:08:21.640 really get my act together, But anyway, tons of. 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.400 Time, tons of time, you had tons of time and don't. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.160 At the very end, someone will dress you. 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:27.920 That's the way it works right now. 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:32.280 Was there, like, was was there a lot of systems 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:33.160 in the barber house? 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:33.320 Like? 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:35.720 Was there did things run along pretty smoothly? Because I 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.880 know it sounds like there was a laundry system. Sounds 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.680 like your dad had, you know, these these bi directional 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:46.679 drawers and this genius closet system. We know that organization 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.880 runs in the Barber family. Were there a lot of 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:51.839 systems growing up? 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:52.000 Like? 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:53.840 Was that something that was always present? 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.720 I would say so. My mom was really good about 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.959 organizing stuff. We even had a little small clause and 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.120 I know it was probably six feet by three feet 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:05.600 or four feet, but it was called the Etcetera Room, 0:09:05.640 --> 0:09:08.200 and it just had all the extra things and stuff, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.720 so all the clutter could be in just one room. 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.480 We had a junk drawer which would have scissors and 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.520 tape and other same kind of stuff. The system for 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.559 the thermostat was don't touch it, and if he did it, 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.920 who touched the thermostat? So we weren't allowed to do that. 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.680 Dad could Dad had radar, like he could be on 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.439 the other end of the house and he could detect 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:33.640 if we had moved to the thermostat. One degree. You'd 0:09:33.679 --> 0:09:35.480 be walking down the hall, you know, who would touched 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.120 the thermostat? I had to be at sixty eight, sixty 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:41.479 eight all the time. Sixty eight that's cold, yeah. 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.520 Yeah, yeah, no, it was. It was, you know, and 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:47.440 so there was there were systems and stuff, but not 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.240 everybody adhered to the systems and things. I can remember, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.520 you know, my dad as now you know I have 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.199 those jeans. He likes to eat cookies late at night 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.960 and stuff. So we'd have like a package of oreos 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.280 and you know, I eat, I'd eat some for dessert, 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.600 and then he would eat some late at night. And 0:10:05.640 --> 0:10:07.880 the thing with oreos is they get stale if you 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.400 leave them out, and so I would usually put them 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:15.640 in a gallon, you know, ziplock bag, and as part 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.560 of the system, I would push the air out of 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:21.520 it before I would zip it. So my dad, in 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:24.320 order to torment me, would make sure to blow air 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:27.000 into the bag so it was like a balloon when 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.160 he'd zip it up. And I'd find it the next 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.439 day and I'm like, well, you know, like that's for 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.760 touching the thermostat. And I'm like, Dad, wasn't me? That 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.400 was Andrea and Andrea wouldn't do that. I'm like, oh my, 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:44.240 like so yeah, we we did. We did have something. 0:10:44.120 --> 0:10:46.360 We did have to have systems with respect to like 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.840 homework and how things were going to get coordinated because 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:53.840 Mom was on the freeway probably days a week driving 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:57.679 peopled auditions, and that necessitated either who's going to be 0:10:57.760 --> 0:10:59.199 home or how are you going to get a ride 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.480 home from sport or different things like that during the 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.040 times we overlapped in the years of days of our 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:09.240 lives and commercial shoots and things you were doing. 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:09.880 Yeah. 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.720 Now, I was going to ask you are the originator 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:21.600 of the funeral file? Correct, yes, because this is one 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.400 of my favorite things and I think it is absolutely 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:29.160 brilliant and can you please We've talked about it on 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.440 the showcase. 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.240 I have one future. I have a funeral file for 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:34.680 Jody and one for Canvas. 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:34.959 Yeah. 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:36.720 Yeah, and that started with you, Darren. 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:39.480 So yeah, and I think it's a great idea. I 0:11:39.559 --> 0:11:42.760 think everyone should do it. It's like, just it's the best, 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:44.560 but please let. 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:48.360 Us see in funeral Files copyright Darren W. Barber, twenty five. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.480 It was it was born out of just being held 0:11:54.600 --> 0:12:00.360 hostage by the family in as I got older, the 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:05.160 death of our maternal grandmother was a big deal in 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:09.920 the family. And I was at an age or i'd 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.760 finished law school. I had been a school teacher for 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.560 a period of time, so a lot of public speaking 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.240 and different things, and so everyone decided I should give 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:21.720 the eulogy. And I didn't really want to do that, 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.640 and so they were like, no, no, no, you're you're 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:27.959 really funny and stuff, and I'm like, yeah, this isn't 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:31.640 the prerequisite to giving the eulogy. You know, it's it's 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:34.880 usually a black shirt and a white collar or anything, 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:38.560 but being funny. I mean, you want some humorous antecdotes 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.360 in talking about someone's life. But I didn't really feel 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.840 like it was, you know, my role to play. And 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:48.520 I lost that argument with everybody in the family, and 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:51.200 they said, all right, you're giving the eulogy for your grandmother, 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:55.000 and I said, okay, So then you're struggling to come 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:56.959 up with, Okay, what am I going to say about her? 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:58.600 I mean, I can get her life history, but you 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.120 want to sprinkle it with a little bit of humor. 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.800 And so I did that. I put it together and 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.840 I don't know if Andrew's even shared this with you, 0:13:07.920 --> 0:13:15.080 but my parents decided for the actual ceremony or whatever, 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:18.480 we didn't go to a church. We went to a 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.959 restaurant to have this function. But my dad, being as 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.479 frugal as he is, he only rented out half the restaurant. 0:13:27.160 --> 0:13:29.640 I assume the viewing was somewhere else. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:35.120 Yes, yes, yeah, that wasn't I'm sorry. 0:13:35.320 --> 0:13:39.280 It was at a seafood restaurant. Oh well, the salad 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:40.120 bar came in handy. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.280 Yeah, would you like some pepper with that? 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:47.480 Are one thing out of the way, yeah, Ice is 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:51.520 already there. Yeah, so it was. 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.440 It was just like a collision course of like, oh no, 0:13:55.960 --> 0:14:01.320 you rented out half the restaurant. And so, come to 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:06.000 find out, as I get up to speak, I realize 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.679 a minute into this thing, somebody is walking by me 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:11.640 to go to the bathroom, because we are in the 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:14.560 half of the restaurant that have the restrooms. So now 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:19.280 people fantastic walking through the eulogy to get to the restroom, 0:14:19.720 --> 0:14:21.920 or they're just turning around and deciding to hold it. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:25.120 I mean, it was it was a nightmare, right. 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:31.240 This is amazing, This is such a such a great 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:31.800 lea up. 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:34.880 Yeah, And so then I'm doing improv and I'm like, no, no, 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:36.120 just come on through, you know. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:39.040 It's like and then I'm doing a tight ten. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.320 Yeah exactly. I'm like, okay. So I got through it, 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.520 and after it was over, you know, I was venting 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.320 to the family and I like, all right, never again. 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:52.960 This was too much stress. This was horrific, I said, 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.560 And now I'm starting funeral files on all of you. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:57.360 And like, what do you mean? I said, I'm going 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.680 to start a file and I'm going to have stuff 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.320 in there that happens, and when something goes on in 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.560 your life that I think is funny, it's going in 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.360 that file. So when I get asked to do your eulogy, 0:15:07.480 --> 0:15:09.960 I'm just breaking out the funeral file and going, all right, 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:11.960 which one of these am I going to use to 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.520 talk about you in a way that's. 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:17.760 Prepared, presumptuous that you think you would be doing everyone's eulogy. 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:22.560 But I you know, I appreciate the enthusiasm. It's actually brilliant. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:26.720 Now it is amazing, And I seriously I love this 0:15:26.800 --> 0:15:29.280 idea because it's true. When you're in the middle of, 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:34.600 like dealing with losing someone, it sometimes it can be hard, 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:36.600 very hard to be funny. And it can be hard 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:44.320 to like remember specific things, and I think it's great. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.840 Well, you know, odds are I will have a time 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.960 where I outlive my father. I mean, my sister's probably 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.160 gonna beat me. She's younger and she's a woman. But 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:58.120 I'm just gonna give it. 0:15:58.080 --> 0:15:59.080 To the queen. 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:04.040 Yeah. So because my son will thoroughly enjoy giving her 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:06.680 eulogy and the stuff that I will, I will leave him. 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:08.800 So get down. We'll be great at it. 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.120 Yeah, he'll be fantastic. But from my dad, I mean, 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.400 just by way of example, I already know how I'm 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.920 going to open with my dad because there was a 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.320 time that he and my mom were running late to 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:24.000 the funeral of a friend of theirs, and they got 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:28.520 there right after the service had started, and they walked 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.840 in and, you know, embarrassingly kind of scoot in and 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:32.760 sit down and kind of give a few head nods 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.680 to the two or three faces they recognize. And about 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:41.000 five to seven minutes into it, they realize they're at 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:44.440 the wrong funeral and they don't know the decedent. There's 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:46.920 just a couple of local people from the town they 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.160 know in the church with them. So when they got 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.560 up to have the first hymn that was being sung. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.840 They quickly exited, got in their car and went to 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.200 the other church and were even later to the funeral 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.800 of the person and who they were supposed to be honoring. 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:04.400 I mean, I feel like that would have been a graaty. 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:06.720 Sorry, we had another funeral to hit before we came, 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.199 you know what I mean, Like, yeah. 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:09.440 Look at our age. 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:12.240 Yeah, it's just back to back, you know. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.840 So I will literally open with you know, we're here 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:19.280 to honor Don Barber and in his memory, I'm going 0:17:19.359 --> 0:17:21.600 to share this story, and after I do, I'll say, 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.080 if any of you are in the wrong, you know, church, 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.200 I'm gonna allow you to get up now in honor 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.200 of my father and leave and get to the correct funeral. 0:17:30.400 --> 0:17:33.240 So we perfect. We have that one locked and loaded 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.200 to open with. And amazing, Don's got a wealthy material. 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:39.320 I may run a full hour set on that and 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:40.639 maybe Netflix will pick it up. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.640 I'm here for the movie. I'm ready for the documentary. 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:49.320 I'm this is Yeah, I can't imagine what's in Don 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:50.440 Barber's It'll. 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:53.639 Be Don Barber by directional doors and drawers and other stories. 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:55.760 Yes, exactly right, you know. 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:57.399 I like the way that you phrased that. So I 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:58.840 think I'm gonna I'm gonna go opted. 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.760 I think it's safe to say that Dad has the 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:06.400 longest funeral file of all of any of the files 0:18:06.400 --> 0:18:07.080 that you've kept. 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.280 Like he is a daily there. 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:13.920 There there are some pretty epic stories of like things 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:15.440 where you're like, what happened. 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:17.440 He's like, you know, we went and saw that movie 0:18:17.480 --> 0:18:19.560 paint Face, And I'm like what. He's like, paint Face. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.240 I'm like, you mean Braveheart? Yeah? It what best picture? 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.920 Like how do you not know that name? But it's 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.719 it a height of popularity, you know. And he's like, 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:33.280 let's go see missus double fire. Missus is it? Is 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:33.600 it too? 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:34.080 Dad? 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:38.320 It's missus doubt fire? Like, holy crap. You you're a lawyer, right. 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:41.879 You use words for a living, and you yeah, it 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:42.840 is amazing. 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.159 Yeah, we've written down all the mispronunciations of movies and 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.600 other things. Yeah, to keep to keep it going. 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:50.480 I love it. 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.080 He is a wealth of material. 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.720 He's close enough that you know what he's saying. But 0:18:54.800 --> 0:18:58.160 he's completely right. You're like, I know where you're going 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:02.000 with this, but also wow, and. 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:04.280 Half the time he'll try to die on that hill, like, 0:19:04.359 --> 0:19:05.640 he's right. 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.359 The original script said double fire on it. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.399 I saw it right a hundred Yeah, it was the 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:15.639 working title, you guys. You guys just weren't in the 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.199 no I was on the lot wandering around. I got 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:19.879 ahold of one of the scripts, and yeah, it was 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:20.720 the working title. 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:26.320 I love it, Darren. Today, Jody and I are recapping 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:31.200 the infamous Telethon episode. 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:32.760 Which you were. You were in it. 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:37.000 You got more screen time than I did in this episode. 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.960 My talent finally recognized, right, But you. 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.640 Didn't know you were going to be on camera. So 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.240 what tell us this story? You know, you were just 0:19:47.280 --> 0:19:49.680 coming to see me for a Friday night take and they. 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:51.000 Were like, put that kid in the picture. 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:57.720 Yeah, classic elements to it. So obviously the Friday Night 0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:00.680 ABC lineup was a juggernaut. It had picked up steam. 0:20:01.240 --> 0:20:03.359 I at that point had been in college for four 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.280 years and I had some really good friends I had 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:13.000 made there, and there were four guys that I bonded 0:20:13.000 --> 0:20:16.119 with that so the five of us lived together three 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:18.720 of my four years, my sophomore, junior, and senior year 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:22.280 we all lived. We all lived together. So inevitably they 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:24.600 figure out and find out that Andrea is on Full 0:20:24.640 --> 0:20:28.280 House and it's becoming more popular, and I'm getting peppered 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:30.080 with let's go see a show. Can we go see 0:20:30.119 --> 0:20:32.520 a show? Can we see a taping? And I'm like, yeah, 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.240 but you know, it's not really what you think it is. No, 0:20:35.320 --> 0:20:37.480 it's gonna be it's like a half hour to be hilarious. 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:39.800 I'm like, no, it's like six hours. And it's not 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:43.000 how it works. You're gonna be uncomfortable, like you're in 0:20:43.080 --> 0:20:45.159 chairs and got a stret I'm trying and explain to 0:20:45.240 --> 0:20:48.440 him it's not like all glitz and glamour. But they were. 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:50.719 They were hammering me on it and wanted to go 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:53.960 see it. And so I finally said, all right, I 0:20:53.960 --> 0:20:55.679 will take you up there and we'll go see it. 0:20:55.720 --> 0:20:59.000