Speaker 1: You may know our guest today as the iconic voice
Speaker 1: of Aladdin or as the one true love of DJ
Speaker 1: Tanner Steve Hale. We know him as the smartest man
Speaker 1: in the room who reads novels in French for fun.
Speaker 1: Please welcome to the pod, actor, writer, producer, teenage heart
Speaker 1: throb and our dear friend Scott Wenger.
Speaker 2: Yay, Hi Scotty, Hello, Geo.
Speaker 3: Hi really far away, you guys look much closer to
Speaker 3: the screen.
Speaker 4: Oh well, I thought it was just so that we
Speaker 4: could intentionally see all of the books behind you, because
Speaker 4: you are such a smart man that you needed to
Speaker 4: make sure and.
Speaker 2: Show off all of your book which.
Speaker 3: Are probably these books twice right, and none.
Speaker 2: Of them are in English. So yes, it.
Speaker 3: Does look like a Kubrick shot behind us. I did
Speaker 3: Bob's podcast and it's like same. I look like like
Speaker 3: a thousand yards away from the computer.
Speaker 5: It's really weird.
Speaker 4: It's like a big well, you do have a very
Speaker 4: tiny head, which people aren't aware of.
Speaker 5: People people don't know. It's like it's so small.
Speaker 6: It's like a special talent you should put on your resume.
Speaker 5: Tiny head.
Speaker 6: It's a shrunken head.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we are, we're doing this entire episode as if
Speaker 4: you're a hobbit, So it's actually all force perspective.
Speaker 2: So all right, it works out.
Speaker 3: Famous movie stars have big heads, like most celebrities like
Speaker 3: big are famous for having big heads. So if you
Speaker 3: have a small head, that's like a huge disadvantage I feel.
Speaker 4: And by big heads, we don't just mean egotistical, we
Speaker 4: do mean actual physically large heads.
Speaker 5: You know, I don't have that. You know I'm humble.
Speaker 6: You are very humble. You really are one of the
Speaker 6: most time.
Speaker 3: It's one of the great things about me. It's one
Speaker 3: of the top ten best qualities that I have.
Speaker 4: One of your top ten favorite things about you is
Speaker 4: how humble you are?
Speaker 5: Is my humility.
Speaker 6: You're channeling Bob right about.
Speaker 3: I think it's the last time I did one of
Speaker 3: these was probably with Bob in this room, and and
Speaker 3: he was He made the comments about how the office
Speaker 3: and I was very sheepish about it because this used
Speaker 3: to be a lawyer's office. We bought the house from
Speaker 3: a lawyer, and I.
Speaker 2: All write a very lawyer, and you bought all the
Speaker 2: books with you.
Speaker 4: So in your spare time, you've become an expert in
Speaker 4: what real estate law constitutions.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you guys needed any advice.
Speaker 6: By charge, we'll put you on retainer.
Speaker 3: That's perfect. How are you guys? We haven't done this
Speaker 3: in a long time, just like hung out.
Speaker 1: No, no, we had well, the last time we saw
Speaker 1: you was in Tampa right at nineties con.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, John's birthday party. It was that or was
Speaker 3: it it.
Speaker 2: Was it was in September? Was before that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that was fun. Those things are those the
Speaker 3: super fun. They're exhausted, like I'm I'm sick.
Speaker 5: It's a great week for sure.
Speaker 4: Well it's I mean it's fun like going and meeting
Speaker 4: all the fans.
Speaker 2: I mean they get so we've been talking about on
Speaker 2: the show, and.
Speaker 4: You know, with all of our interviews and John and
Speaker 4: Dave and stuff, talking about like just how our fans
Speaker 4: are so dedicated to the show and know everything about
Speaker 4: the show, Like they things that that Andrey and I
Speaker 4: have like I have no clue about, especially now that
Speaker 4: we're rewatching the show. I'm like, wow, they correct things
Speaker 4: all the time.
Speaker 3: I feel very sheepish because sometimes they'll know so much
Speaker 3: more than I ever knew about the show, you know,
Speaker 3: and they remember every episode and then every once in
Speaker 3: a while, someone will say something that I'm like.
Speaker 5: I'm quite sure you're right about that, but let's just
Speaker 5: go with it.
Speaker 2: I don't like to sure, right, but.
Speaker 3: But yeah, people, it's really cool. I always appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I'm never like annoyed. I'm never like when people are like,
Speaker 3: oh my god, Steve, I never like, I'm always very
Speaker 3: i always get a kick out of it, and I'm
Speaker 3: grateful for it and it's cool.
Speaker 4: But that's just your wife saying that, right, like, so
Speaker 4: it makes it like it's yeah, okay.
Speaker 3: I mean, in fact, that's how I married her. She
Speaker 3: won me in a contest.
Speaker 5: Wow, it was a celebrity bachelor.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it was a fantastic.
Speaker 1: How does nineties con compare to all the Disney conventions
Speaker 1: that you do as the voice of Aladdin.
Speaker 3: I don't go to any like Disney specific like conventions.
Speaker 3: Nineties con is a very specific thing. But the funny
Speaker 3: thing is, okay, Aladdin came out in the nineties, and
Speaker 3: so there's usually like it all comes to.
Speaker 2: Get so it kind of counts for both.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so, like I've been to I guess two
Speaker 3: of those nineties cons now, and.
Speaker 4: Well sometimes they have like the voices from some of
Speaker 4: the like the movies around Jody Benson and things like that.
Speaker 3: Right just went to It was like that. It was like,
Speaker 3: it was really funny because I was wondering. I got
Speaker 3: like anxious before it. I was like, are they gonna
Speaker 3: sit me with the full House people or with the
Speaker 3: Disney people?
Speaker 5: And I didn't know.
Speaker 3: And then they were so clever because I was the bridge,
Speaker 3: like they had like all oh and then like the
Speaker 3: whole full House group, and then just to my left
Speaker 3: was I think Linda Lark who's the voice of Princess
Speaker 3: Jasmine and the Disney people on. So I was like
Speaker 3: right in the middle of it all of the action.
Speaker 5: That was nice.
Speaker 6: That was planning.
Speaker 5: It was better. It was yeah, it was good. It
Speaker 5: was yeah. It was good planning on their part.
Speaker 3: Because the only other nineties con I went to was
Speaker 3: in right as the pandemic was starting to calm down,
Speaker 3: and we all went to Hartford, Connecticut.
Speaker 5: I didn't make it, that's right.
Speaker 2: We did Hartford too, and that was the first.
Speaker 3: One, which was like crazy. There were so many people.
Speaker 3: I think there was a lot of yeah stuff like
Speaker 3: excitement because of the pandemic. Everybody just sitting.
Speaker 2: At home and right, it was just good to be
Speaker 2: like out in the world again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but none of my Aladdin people were at that one.
Speaker 3: That was just us us full house guys.
Speaker 4: Just us is so speaking of I mean, we're going
Speaker 4: back and rewatching the show from the beginning, so we
Speaker 4: haven't we haven't gotten to Steve's arrival yet.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting season five. You started in season five if
Speaker 1: I record, you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there was one. I did one episode as Steve Peters.
Speaker 2: And I really I don't remember this.
Speaker 3: Well you got you were so little, But do you
Speaker 3: remember the episode where DJ's going out on a date
Speaker 3: with Steve Peters from school, and but she's supposed to
Speaker 3: babysit for Michelle and Stephanie. So she Michelle and Stephanie
Speaker 3: to the movie theater on the date, right right, and
Speaker 3: Kimmy works at the movie theater right right.
Speaker 4: And which sneaks us in or something because it's like
Speaker 4: an rated movie or something.
Speaker 2: Right, it's a movie, right right right, and.
Speaker 3: Peters just as doing the whole yawning arms around, you know,
Speaker 3: like trying, yeah, J. And but the weird thing is
Speaker 3: I never Then the next year they said, would you
Speaker 3: mind coming back? Would you be interested in coming back
Speaker 3: and being like a regular on the show and being
Speaker 3: DJ's boyfriend Steve, and I was like, of course, And
Speaker 3: it never even occurred to me that then I came
Speaker 3: back and I was Steve Hale.
Speaker 5: It was a whole different Steve.
Speaker 3: But I think in the writer's minds, I was a
Speaker 3: totally different guy. Like the guy that she went on
Speaker 3: a date with, Steve Peters is just another Steve.
Speaker 2: I don't know. We do it.
Speaker 4: We changed names on this show, like the mannequin's change outfits.
Speaker 2: You know it'sis name.
Speaker 6: Cochrane went to Calis. Yeah, common changed, We changed.
Speaker 4: Names, switch out actors that play characters and grandparents. It's
Speaker 4: I think you're probably the same Steve. And they were like,
Speaker 4: just make it Hale a.
Speaker 5: Writer on the show, Boyd Hale. And so that's why. Yes,
Speaker 5: I think they were like.
Speaker 2: You're named after Boyd. I think, oh little baby Boyd.
Speaker 1: So BOYD say, hey, I've been here five seasons. I
Speaker 1: deserve to get my name one of.
Speaker 5: The character named after me. Yeah exactly.
Speaker 3: So yeah, so I did one of Steve Peters and
Speaker 3: then another fifty or whatever is Steve Pale.
Speaker 4: What was it like auditioning for the show. Do you
Speaker 4: remember actually auditioning or like.
Speaker 3: It was one of those it's funny like to say it,
Speaker 3: but I didn't really.
Speaker 5: I didn't audition for it. I was working.
Speaker 3: I was already part of like the Miller Boyett sort
Speaker 3: of universe at that point, okay, And so the year
Speaker 3: before I came on, I did that one episode of
Speaker 3: Steve Peters. I was on this series for them called
Speaker 3: The Family Man that was like supposed to be like
Speaker 3: a TGIF kind of show, right, but it was on CBS,
Speaker 3: which was weird. It wasn't part of the ABC TGIF.
Speaker 3: And we did twenty two episodes of it, and it
Speaker 3: got canceled or it got picked up and then canceled again.
Speaker 5: It was like a very weird story.
Speaker 3: And then they asked me to come on and do
Speaker 3: that one episode as Steve Peters, and then the following
Speaker 3: year they asked me to come on and be Steve Hale,
Speaker 3: like I never auditioned for it, which is always wow,
Speaker 3: that's the story of my life. I mean, not just
Speaker 3: like incredibly weird lucky things happening to me with no effort,
Speaker 3: but also but when I when there's a the stakes
Speaker 3: are high, like I suck at auditions.
Speaker 1: I'm really same same, you really hate them.
Speaker 3: I can't picture you. I just imagine you being graded
Speaker 3: auditions both.
Speaker 2: No, you're both CROs Jody's like.
Speaker 4: I actually I miss auditions though, like going into a
Speaker 4: room because I do miss.
Speaker 2: Really to like talk. Yeah, yeah, that was the.
Speaker 4: Most fun part of the interview, was like going in
Speaker 4: and actually talking to people and meeting people because yeah,
Speaker 4: and then you then it just makes it that much
Speaker 4: more comfortable.
Speaker 2: Self tapes are awful.
Speaker 5: Oh well, yeah, well that you know. It's funny.
Speaker 3: I haven't been like a professional, I mean, except for
Speaker 3: coming back to do Fuller House, I haven't been an
Speaker 3: actor for a long time, so I haven't gone on
Speaker 3: any auditions, right, And it's true, like the last time
Speaker 3: I went for an audition.
Speaker 5: You would get a call from your agent.
Speaker 3: They'd say, oh, you're going in for a thing, and
Speaker 3: then get have to drive to the agency and pick
Speaker 3: up the pick.
Speaker 2: The pages sides and then right, and then.
Speaker 3: Drive to across town to whatever Paramount or Fox or wherever,
Speaker 3: right for five minutes in the room and then leave
Speaker 3: feeling like they hate you. And I hate the audition.
Speaker 5: I hate it.
Speaker 1: I mean I really it's hard psychologically, it's had auditioning.
Speaker 3: I hate auditioning. I was like, if you just give
Speaker 3: me the part, I promise you all do a really
Speaker 3: good job.
Speaker 2: But I always which is how you got, Which is
Speaker 2: how you got Steve. I did not realize that, yeah, that.
Speaker 3: I never auditioned for the you know what I think
Speaker 3: When I first met Tom Miller and Bob Boyette, who
Speaker 3: of course you guys know, but just for your audience,
Speaker 3: they were like the kings of the television in the
Speaker 3: eighties and nineties and.
Speaker 2: The seventies even yeah, literally.
Speaker 3: I mean starting with even before like l Vernon Shirley
Speaker 3: and and Happy Days and stuff and more committment and
Speaker 3: a million more. But they I remember I met with
Speaker 3: them and they they really liked me. I was probably fourteen.
Speaker 3: I'd just come to LA and they wanted to put
Speaker 3: me on a like a holding deal where you and
Speaker 3: I did have to read for them. I had to
Speaker 3: show them that I knew how to, like say, dialogue,
Speaker 3: and I was I'm sure I was like shaking like
Speaker 3: a leaf or whatever.
Speaker 5: But I passed.
Speaker 3: And so then they put me on like a holding
Speaker 3: deal and just that and my mom was like, what
Speaker 3: we just got here, get you know, and I remember
Speaker 3: my agent or manager or whoever at the time said,
Speaker 3: trust me, these are.
Speaker 5: The you know, these are the people.
Speaker 2: This is what you want.
Speaker 3: It's like they're the kings of television. And if they
Speaker 3: want you, if they want to put you in there,
Speaker 3: basically they would just pay you to just be available
Speaker 3: to them to do it.
Speaker 4: Right, holding, yeah, holding fees, which I don't they don't
Speaker 4: do as much anymore now, stringing you along and yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think now, yeah, it's true.
Speaker 3: I don't know if they do that, but like, uh,
Speaker 3: and then they put me on that show, The Family Man,
Speaker 3: and then then they put me on and then I
Speaker 3: did another pilot for them that didn't end up going
Speaker 3: or they recast all the kids with younger kids because
Speaker 3: it was And then I was I didn't know what
Speaker 3: I was going to do next, and then full House
Speaker 3: came along, and it was a really lucky, lucky break.
Speaker 3: It was really I mean, I couldn't have known how lucky,
Speaker 3: you know. I mean, it was just I didn't know
Speaker 3: I'd be sitting here thirty something years later.
Speaker 4: Talking exactly forever a part of the full and Fuller
Speaker 4: House universe.
Speaker 2: I mean, you are you're Steve, you are part of
Speaker 2: stee J.
Speaker 3: Like that's it's funny because some people lose their minds,
Speaker 3: you know, Like I mean, you know, like I remember
Speaker 3: I was walking my dog on the beach and this
Speaker 3: lady walked by, and she did the double take and
Speaker 3: then the like the number of expletives that came out
Speaker 3: of her mouth when she realized that she just walked
Speaker 3: by Steve on the beach, you know, I mean, it
Speaker 3: happens every day, but that one was really funny because
Speaker 3: the sun was setting, it was so beautiful.
Speaker 5: She's like, she's like.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, yeah, a moment with Steve Hale.
Speaker 3: Right. But it's nice though. It's like people grew up
Speaker 3: with us. It's really cool. I get people all the time.
Speaker 3: People say they learn English watching Full House. Yeah, a
Speaker 3: full House got them through a tough time in their life,
Speaker 3: you know, Like my parents were splitting up and it
Speaker 3: was a really tough time at home, and watching Full
Speaker 3: House made me feel better, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: It's really I'm sure you guys hear that ten times.
Speaker 1: More than I. Oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like it's comfort food for people, familiar faces
Speaker 1: and relatable storylines.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so weird how it's still so relevant today,
Speaker 3: you know. Yeah, so I don't know if this is true,
Speaker 3: but like because I I remember when I was a
Speaker 3: kid in like an old like a Brady Bunch rerun
Speaker 3: would be on the out right looked very weird to me,
Speaker 3: Like it was very seventies, Like you could tell that
Speaker 3: it was from a different era, and we right, And
Speaker 3: you don't know that could be one hundred years ago
Speaker 3: or ten years ago, but you right.
Speaker 5: True, I watched Bullhouse.
Speaker 3: Today and a lot of the clothes and the fashion
Speaker 3: I think I think it might have gone away and
Speaker 3: came back because I feel like nineties stuff is very.
Speaker 2: In right now. Nineties stuff is very in right now.
Speaker 4: It's things going like thirty year trends, right So like
Speaker 4: when we were in the nineties, Like remember that big
Speaker 4: resurgence of like bell bottoms and like sort of late
Speaker 4: sixties seventies clothes and my mom going, why is this
Speaker 4: popular again?
Speaker 2: Like this stuff looked ridiculous when I.
Speaker 4: Was, you know, And now I say the same thing
Speaker 4: because my kids are wearing like they literally have they
Speaker 4: have genes called nineties cut jeans really wow, the same
Speaker 4: little baby dolls shirts and this whole Doc Doc Martin's
Speaker 4: and the and I'm like, yeah, oh my god, I'm
Speaker 4: finally old enough to see it become a trend again.
Speaker 4: And yeah it is. It's definitely, it's definitely out there.
Speaker 4: But there I would I would beg to differ and
Speaker 4: say that there are some pretty oh yeah, pretty terrible
Speaker 4: if you go back to the.
Speaker 3: Eighties, the eighties episode, you know, they're.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, the early episodes are wow.
Speaker 5: Did I see kids now? Like you said? And Doc
Speaker 5: Martin's and like flannel shirts.
Speaker 2: And ripped jeans and yeah, the ninety Yeah, it's all back.
Speaker 5: That's funny.
Speaker 4: And you know, we've talked a lot about it too,
Speaker 4: about how not just the cast, but like our families
Speaker 4: also were such a big part of the show. And
Speaker 4: your mom, the infamous babswinger, Yeah, uh, the infamous.
Speaker 2: It was such.
Speaker 4: It's just such a lovely human and fit right in
Speaker 4: with our moms. Your mom and my mom used to
Speaker 4: go to dinner because your younger brother, Todd, and I
Speaker 4: were in acting class together at the Young End and
Speaker 4: they at the Young Actors Space and they would drop
Speaker 4: us off like during the week. It would be oftentimes
Speaker 4: on like a Wednesday or Tuesday or Wednesday.
Speaker 2: So we were up there for rehearsal, and.
Speaker 4: Our moms would go to dinner and then come and
Speaker 4: pick us up after after acting class.
Speaker 2: Well, you know my mom, I remember your I remember
Speaker 2: your mom.
Speaker 4: I think catching Todd and us all smoking in the
Speaker 4: back or something, and our moms were sitting in the car.
Speaker 4: I believe that she was like, he better not, he
Speaker 4: better not, and he did. She's like, god, damn it.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, Well, you know.
Speaker 5: It's funny.
Speaker 3: It was very cool of you guys, you and your
Speaker 3: parents to sort of accept us, because when I came
Speaker 3: onto Full House as a series regular, and I think
Speaker 3: it was like season six, you guys were already very
Speaker 3: much a family, and I felt like I was the
Speaker 3: new guy, and then like immediately I felt like part
Speaker 3: of the family. And I know my mom, my whole
Speaker 3: family felt that way too, and she loved hanging.
Speaker 2: Out with your Lauren, your sister got there.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, they're all by the way, they all
Speaker 3: say hi, they're all they're all.
Speaker 5: Doing great everywhere.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's really nice.
Speaker 2: So wild.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I forget that you weren't in the early seasons
Speaker 1: because it feels like you were a part of the
Speaker 1: entire run of the show.
Speaker 4: You and Laurie just both feel like it's been there
Speaker 4: since the beginning.
Speaker 5: Lauri did come me, lur came on pretty early.
Speaker 4: We just we just watched her first episode season two,
Speaker 4: episode two.
Speaker 2: Oh really she can't.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so she actually has been here since like almost
Speaker 4: the beginning.
Speaker 2: But you have always also.
Speaker 4: Felt like someone you like, You're just thanks. You just
Speaker 4: always been with us.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, you know, we did. We were a very
Speaker 5: close knit bunch.
Speaker 3: I've worked on a lot of shows, like as an
Speaker 3: actor and as a writer and stuff, and like there
Speaker 3: there are not many casts that sort of gel and
Speaker 3: sort of like on screen but also behind the camera,
Speaker 3: like just as Friends became so close, you know what,
Speaker 3: and like I mean, I have to give Bob a
Speaker 3: lot of credit for that because he was always organizing
Speaker 3: hangouts for us.
Speaker 2: And Rob was the glue.
Speaker 5: He was the glue. Yeah, for sure, for sure.
Speaker 2: But I remember I remember when you this was probably
Speaker 2: eighth season.
Speaker 4: This was around the end because I my mom was
Speaker 4: finally letting me go to dinner with everybody before tape night,
Speaker 4: and I was like the youngest one that you know,
Speaker 4: I finally got included in the in the with the
Speaker 4: exactly with like you and Candace and Andrea and then
Speaker 4: the adults, and we would go to dinner beforehand, and
Speaker 4: it was usually like right over the hill from Warner Brothers.
Speaker 2: We'd go to Jerry's or we'd go so.
Speaker 4: And can you, by the way, can you imagine stage
Speaker 4: managers letting us do that?
Speaker 2: Now? Could you imagine?
Speaker 5: I know that's great.
Speaker 4: Would never get us questions they would have They wouldn't Yeah,
Speaker 4: they wouldn't have gotten us back. Their heads would have exploded,
Speaker 4: like I can't imagine. And you know that we were
Speaker 4: probably never on time. We were probably always late.
Speaker 3: Oh god, back by the stage manager standing outside like
Speaker 3: looking at this.
Speaker 4: I do remember you guys, let's go right, and we're
Speaker 4: like he but I remember you had I think maybe
Speaker 4: just gotten your car or something, and you were driving
Speaker 4: and Bob was driving, or maybe it was Bob that
Speaker 4: had just gotten his car.
Speaker 2: He was he got a new car. He was very
Speaker 2: excited about it.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, And all I remember is us like and
Speaker 4: this terrible but you and Bob racing over the hill.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, she's up terrible hill. I just remember, yeah,
Speaker 2: and Bob listening to whatever. It was probably.
Speaker 3: Beck, Yeah I was. I was sixteen years old. I
Speaker 3: don't know what his excuse. We was.
Speaker 4: Well, that's the thing, is like saying it now, you're like, yeah,
Speaker 4: you were.
Speaker 2: You were a kid. Bob was an idiot, but he was.
Speaker 5: He was like a big kid.
Speaker 3: He always like related very much to like the young
Speaker 3: people on the show. And he'd be like, you have
Speaker 3: to come in my car and listen to this, you know,
Speaker 3: which is funny.
Speaker 5: It's like going, I.
Speaker 2: Always say yeah, Bob to this day, Bob had.
Speaker 4: One of the biggest influences on my music growing up,
Speaker 4: and to this day I can hear certain songs and
Speaker 4: it reminds me of him.
Speaker 5: One hundred percent. He was definitely a big musical influence
Speaker 5: for sure.
Speaker 4: So but what I hear you saying is that we're
Speaker 4: your favorite cast, that you've worked on a lot of
Speaker 4: other shows, that you've done other things, but nothing.
Speaker 5: Nothing compares nothing.
Speaker 2: I don't even like it, nothing compares to you us.
Speaker 3: Now It's well, I mean, you guys are more than
Speaker 3: a cast. I mean, like we were a family for real,
Speaker 3: you know, I mean, I know it sounds like, I mean,
Speaker 3: the show's been off the year long enough that like,
Speaker 3: we don't have any incentive to not tell the truth about.
Speaker 2: This, right, Yeah, exactly. If we really hated each other,
Speaker 2: we would have done it by now.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And when we do, when we hang out together and public,
Speaker 3: people can see right away that it's a very close
Speaker 3: knit bunch, you know that, like we're you know, and
Speaker 3: then and then even when we go a long time
Speaker 3: without seeing each other, it's immediately we fall.
Speaker 5: Back into that.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Although I feel like you guys see each.
Speaker 3: Other all that you're doing this podcast and you're together
Speaker 3: all the time. Everybody is everybody hanging out without me?
Speaker 3: Is that what's going on?
Speaker 2: That's what's happening, Scott.
Speaker 4: And I'm so glad we brought you on this public
Speaker 4: forum to let you know that we've all been hanging
Speaker 4: out without you because we just want.
Speaker 2: To make you feel bad because you feel bad.
Speaker 6: I feel bad.
Speaker 5: I feel bad.
Speaker 6: Wait where did that come from?
Speaker 2: Where did I feel bad come from? It was you?
Speaker 3: And well you know why, because I always felt bad,
Speaker 3: Like I thought, like.
Speaker 2: Is it does?
Speaker 3: It?
Speaker 2: Is your thing?
Speaker 3: I was like obsessed with not wanting to hurt anybody's
Speaker 3: feelings ever or saying anything that might offend anything.
Speaker 4: That's why you and Bob would all write. You and
Speaker 4: Bob got along really well because he also was like that.
Speaker 4: And then he would eventually take something too far and
Speaker 4: then wind up texting you about it later.
Speaker 5: It's true. Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2: And and Bob you'd be like, I'm sorry, I feel bad.
Speaker 2: I feel bad, and.
Speaker 3: He would give me a hard time over qualities that
Speaker 3: he himself that he was afraid he had, you know, like,
Speaker 3: so he would always say.
Speaker 5: Stop feeling bad all the time. You're always feeling bad.
Speaker 5: Just live your life. Stop feeling I'm like a kettle.
Speaker 2: You know, right exactly.
Speaker 5: But yeah, it's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Bob would, Yeah, one of us would always like
Speaker 3: we'd hang out and then I'd be like, at three
Speaker 3: in the morning, I'm really sorry about that thing.
Speaker 5: I said. I hope he's like, you're an idiot, and
Speaker 5: then he would do it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But yeah, we had a very funny relationship because he
Speaker 3: was twenty years older than me, but we were like,
Speaker 3: I guess, like brothers, you know, like.
Speaker 1: He was Yeah, So do you feel bad about leaving
Speaker 1: full House in season eight to go.
Speaker 6: To Harvard, Which I don't know why I feel so
Speaker 6: bad about it?
Speaker 4: What was I thinking, he feels so bad, Yeah, getting
Speaker 4: an education.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 3: It was funny because I remember, you know, when I
Speaker 3: came on to the show for that first season as
Speaker 3: a series regular, I was still in high school.
Speaker 5: I was a senior in high school, and.
Speaker 3: Then I got into college and then you know, in
Speaker 3: those days, you would just mail them back a postcards
Speaker 3: saying yes, I'm coming, but next year. And so I
Speaker 3: sent them on the postcards. So I deferred a year.
Speaker 3: If you skip it, if I think, then you would
Speaker 3: have to reapply, which I was.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you can differ a year on an exception or
Speaker 4: on being accepted. You can then say I'll come next year.
Speaker 4: But more than that, then you have to go through the.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I wasn't prepared to do that. I was
Speaker 3: stressful enough, and I felt like I won the lottery
Speaker 3: and got into the school. I'm not going to try it,
Speaker 3: you know, take a chance, right and so, and you know,
Speaker 3: and also I didn't want to be like, way older
Speaker 3: than my classmates and stuff, you know, young. You know,
Speaker 3: when I got there a year late, I was like
Speaker 3: one of the I was. I was one of the
Speaker 3: youngest kids in my class anyway, So it felt like
Speaker 3: I was totally but you know, and but I remember
Speaker 3: having to take a meeting with everybody and explain that,
Speaker 3: you know, as much as I loved the show and
Speaker 3: was so happy I wanted to leave for college, and.
Speaker 5: They were cool, you know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like they were not like great,
Speaker 3: get out of here, you know, but I feel like
Speaker 3: it was a good opportunity for them to have DJ
Speaker 3: date other people and stories.
Speaker 4: And stuff, right, And they were also like our producers
Speaker 4: were also always so supportive of education, of making sure
Speaker 4: that like our school life really was a priority and
Speaker 4: came first. So like, I'm sure that that was also
Speaker 4: part of it too, And yeah, did you were going
Speaker 4: to Harvard? Like it's not like you were like, hey,
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to you know, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: Well, you know, they were so gracious about that big
Speaker 3: you know. The funny thing is some people were like.
Speaker 5: What are you thinking?
Speaker 3: Like you have this, like you won the lottery, You're
Speaker 3: like an actor on a hit show. Why on God's
Speaker 3: Earth would you walk away from that?
Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
Speaker 3: And then other people said the exact opposite, like you're
Speaker 3: doing the right thing.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 3: You don't want to be one of those Hollywood kids
Speaker 3: or whatever, And there were.
Speaker 5: Times and I don't regret it at all.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was an amazing experience and I would
Speaker 3: do it again a hundred times, you know, like exactly
Speaker 3: the way I did it. But like, there were definitely
Speaker 3: times where when I was in college and I felt
Speaker 3: like the show was still going on and I missed
Speaker 3: you guys, and I missed my liked about in la.
Speaker 3: You know, there were definitely times where I was like,
Speaker 3: what was I thinking? But in the aggregate, I was
Speaker 3: glad I made the decision.
Speaker 1: Did you feel like a normal college student or did
Speaker 1: you feel like a famous person at Harvard? Like how
Speaker 1: did the other students respond to you when you little
Speaker 1: bit of boat?
Speaker 3: You know, like I tried to just sort of you know,
Speaker 3: it was pre social media and pre you know, not
Speaker 3: pre true that.
Speaker 5: Old, but it was like but it was definitely pre
Speaker 5: all close.
Speaker 4: But I don't know, Internet made a weird noise when
Speaker 4: you started it and you had to make sure nobody
Speaker 4: else was on the phone in your house when it
Speaker 4: was not like it is today.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you didn't have to dial in.
Speaker 3: But like when I was a freshman in college, they
Speaker 3: had wired all the buildings for ethernet, like for.
Speaker 2: Right right you could plug it in, but it.
Speaker 3: Wasn't in the walls like they had all these It
Speaker 3: looked like when you look at like pictures of like
Speaker 3: the nineteenth century, like telegraph wires and stuff, there were just.
Speaker 2: Right, right right everywhere.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was the.
Speaker 3: Beginning, but I definitely felt like I don't know, like
Speaker 3: I tried really hard to be I remember they wanted
Speaker 3: entertainment tonight. I think wanted me to carry my agent
Speaker 3: or somebody called it, and said they want to know
Speaker 3: if you would take a video camera just sort of
Speaker 3: videotape your life. They could do segments on what's it
Speaker 3: like to be a kid actor going off to college?
Speaker 3: And I was like, that's literally the opposite of what
Speaker 3: I you know what I mean that right, nothing could
Speaker 3: draw more attention and.
Speaker 5: Intros.
Speaker 4: I mean, now it would be it would be like
Speaker 4: totally be fine because everyone walks around with a video
Speaker 4: camera filming themselves and talking about what they're doing. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but yeah, I shouldn't have been or you could have
Speaker 4: been the original influencer, Scott.
Speaker 3: You could have could have been, you know, I was
Speaker 3: still part of like I still had like hollywoodish kind
Speaker 3: of jobs, like, but I was doing that. I was
Speaker 3: like a correspondent for Good Morning America at the time,
Speaker 3: Like I was their youth correspondent, so like cool, I
Speaker 3: would go.
Speaker 5: Off and do stories.
Speaker 3: I would like leave for a couple of days and
Speaker 3: go do a story and then go to New York.
Speaker 5: And like present, that's cool. That was very cool.
Speaker 3: So that I mean, I definitely was still had a
Speaker 3: foot in like show business a little bit, but I
Speaker 3: was very conscious about I don't know, it's sort of
Speaker 3: backfired anyway, Like I don't know why I tried so
Speaker 3: hard to be like normal. I was very like obsessed
Speaker 3: with my privacy, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: And I think that kind of comes at that age though.
Speaker 4: It's like because I think we all kind of went
Speaker 4: through that. We were like, oh my god, and it's
Speaker 4: you know, it's the teenager like you just I just
Speaker 4: want to be like everybody else. I just don't want
Speaker 4: to stand out and just want to be like normal
Speaker 4: until everyone realizes that none of us are, and you know,
Speaker 4: that doesn't happen.
Speaker 3: I think I would with being normal and private that
Speaker 3: I was like normal and too private, and I sort
Speaker 3: of like screwed myself out of a little bit of
Speaker 3: the experience of like college a little bit, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean.
Speaker 5: But it was great.
Speaker 3: It was I mean, you know, I definitely there's certain
Speaker 3: things I would do differently, but for the most part,
Speaker 3: it nailed it.
Speaker 2: For the most part. Awesome.
Speaker 1: Were you still doing Aladdin? Were you recording a Laddin voices?
Speaker 3: It was so funny because it was like a process
Speaker 3: because you know, like you know what we're talking about.
Speaker 3: It's like pre nowadays you could record it from your
Speaker 3: you know, you could go in the bathroom and put
Speaker 3: up something, right. But uh, at first they would fly
Speaker 3: me to La sometimes to do recording sessions, and then
Speaker 3: they would fly me to They were like, this is
Speaker 3: too much traveling for you. And then we found a
Speaker 3: studio in New York where I would just go to
Speaker 3: where the New York actors would go, which was fun.
Speaker 3: I would like take the Delta shuttle. That was such
Speaker 3: an easy flight and in those days, the security so
Speaker 3: like I could get.
Speaker 2: In a cab right, you just pop on.
Speaker 3: It was literally like if it was the Delta shuttle
Speaker 3: was like every hour or every half hour whatever. I
Speaker 3: could get there at like seven fifteen to catch a
Speaker 3: seven thirty shuttle to New York and it was crazy.
Speaker 3: But then eventually they found a studio in New York
Speaker 3: in Boston and I would just go, you know, take
Speaker 3: the subway into Copley Square and just do you know,
Speaker 3: do it there. So they were very cool about trying
Speaker 3: to make But wherever I go in the world, they
Speaker 3: would find me to do a session. You know, like
Speaker 3: even when I did a semester abroad in Paris, they
Speaker 3: found me. My agent left me a message at home.
Speaker 2: They found you.
Speaker 5: They found me, and then a.
Speaker 3: Car came and picked me up and took me to
Speaker 3: a recording studio like somewhere in on the outside of Paris,
Speaker 3: and I recorded there.
Speaker 5: You know, it was very cool.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't get away from them, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Right, I mean they had your permission before the car
Speaker 4: pulled up, and it was to a studio to record
Speaker 4: a lad under duress and.
Speaker 2: Then come back.
Speaker 4: Okay, got yeah, making it clear. I was just walking
Speaker 4: down the street in pars and this car pulled up.
Speaker 4: We'll be inside, told me to be Aladdin.
Speaker 1: What was your audition like for Aladdin? Like was it cutthroat?
Speaker 1: Were you up against a lot of others?
Speaker 5: Well, you know, I was very lucky.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I suck at auditions because I get
Speaker 3: so nervous, you know, I get so in my own head.
Speaker 3: And I was I started auditioning for Aladdin when I
Speaker 3: was doing that show before Full House, the Family Man,
Speaker 3: and my mom because I was still a kid when
Speaker 3: I was fifteen or fourteen, my mom said, you have
Speaker 3: an audition after work today, and I was like, what's
Speaker 3: the force.
Speaker 5: She said, it's like some cartoon. It's like a cartoon.
Speaker 3: Audition, which I had never gone in an audition for
Speaker 3: a cartoon, and so I remember we went and there
Speaker 3: was like a music stand with the dial, you know,
Speaker 3: and they showed me pictures. They were like, he looks
Speaker 3: like this, and he basically just looked like a kid
Speaker 3: my age. Basically I was like, okay, I think I
Speaker 3: could do that.
Speaker 5: And that was it. I mean, I just you know,
Speaker 5: the only interesting thing.
Speaker 3: About that about that audition process was the singing part,
Speaker 3: you know, because people, well some people know, some people
Speaker 3: don't know, and I don't bother. I don't know why
Speaker 3: I'm bringing it up, but I'm not the singing voice.
Speaker 5: Of a Laddin.
Speaker 6: I didn't know that I had learned.
Speaker 3: I was smart enough to know because I started auditioning
Speaker 3: for things when I was like eights or whatever, and
Speaker 3: I knew if you if they ask you if you
Speaker 3: can do a thing, if you have a certain skill,
Speaker 3: then yeah, yeah, I could totally juggle totally.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I've been doing it since I was a child.
Speaker 5: Really, if they like you enough, they'll they'll get you
Speaker 5: a fire.
Speaker 2: Juggling, right, but they'll figure it out.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: So they were like, that was a great audition. Can
Speaker 5: you sing?
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh my god, of course I
Speaker 3: could sing, and they were and they gave me cheap
Speaker 3: music and a tape and everything, and I tried.
Speaker 4: I you know, I thought, I thought they gave you
Speaker 4: sheet music and like an accompanist, and we're like, okay,
Speaker 4: you ready.
Speaker 5: They gave me time.
Speaker 3: I had time to prepare, like I worked with a
Speaker 3: coach and like crack, I tried so hard but I
Speaker 3: had no training. But you know, I just I tanked
Speaker 3: it really badly. And but it was one of those
Speaker 3: things where I felt like it was a triumph in
Speaker 3: the sense that I like put my like I just
Speaker 3: sucked it up and I did a thing that I
Speaker 3: knew I couldn't do, and I just went for it yea,
Speaker 3: and I just assumed it was over. But then a
Speaker 3: few months later they called me again and they wanted
Speaker 3: you know, I think they at that point they were like,
Speaker 3: this is our guy, so we have to figure this out,
Speaker 3: like we have to end. And they found a guy
Speaker 3: named Brad Kine who was also a kid actor, who
Speaker 3: was had a stunning voice and sort of say it
Speaker 3: made it sound like mine, you know, in terms of like,
Speaker 3: you know, like I could go from speaking to him
Speaker 3: singing and people couldn't really tell.
Speaker 2: That, right right, You guys have the same sort of
Speaker 2: tonal quality.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And so to this day when people say, oh
Speaker 3: my god, you have such a beautiful voice, and I
Speaker 3: just say, oh.
Speaker 5: I don't know. It takes too much energy to be
Speaker 5: like well.
Speaker 1: Actually well actually yeah, right right right, You're like just
Speaker 1: take the compliment, take the wind, take it, write it down,
Speaker 1: email it to Brad.
Speaker 4: Let him know, you know, like, hey, somebody said thank
Speaker 4: you today.
Speaker 3: Are very talented guy, and he's this very successful television
Speaker 3: writer and producer. Like we did the same profession as
Speaker 3: adults too.
Speaker 2: I was gonna see. Yeah, you guys both wound up
Speaker 2: being writers.
Speaker 3: Our paths crossed from time to time, you know, and
Speaker 3: professionally and stuff. But and then I see him at
Speaker 3: all this Aladdin stuff, you know, D twenty three kind
Speaker 3: of thing.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, he's a great guy.
Speaker 4: I have yet to go to a D twenty three,
Speaker 4: and I really want to go because I grew up
Speaker 4: at Disneyland. I love Disneyland. I love I mean, I'm
Speaker 4: not you know, John level, but I'm a big I'm
Speaker 4: a big.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's true.
Speaker 3: I mean he, I mean he and his wife they
Speaker 3: let go and put on costume, but they're crazy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they go cosplay.
Speaker 4: It's the whole, the whole thing. What a Disney bounding,
Speaker 4: That's what it is, where you put up that's so Yeah,
Speaker 4: there's a whole where you you dress inspired by but
Speaker 4: not in costume as so like if you it's like
Speaker 4: inspired by Bell and maybe it's like a little like
Speaker 4: similar colors and style something like that.
Speaker 3: But anyway, I think Disney is a really good and
Speaker 3: healthy thing to be obsessed with. Like I think, you know,
Speaker 3: like people come up to me all the time and
Speaker 3: they'll be like covered in Disney tattoos and things like that.
Speaker 3: You know, they'll have an Aladdin or a Princess Jasmine
Speaker 3: on their arm or like a bunch of characters. And
Speaker 3: I think it's in terms of like obsessions, it seemed
Speaker 3: it's healthy. I mean, I'm sure, like anything else, you
Speaker 3: can cross the line with it.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, you know, to each their own.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean there's people out there that have our
Speaker 4: signature's tattooed on them, which is actually kind.
Speaker 5: Of that's true.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I remembering at nineties Con I signed that I signed
Speaker 4: how Rude, and someone got it.
Speaker 3: I remember a girl came to our taping and I
Speaker 3: signed her leg and then she came back and it
Speaker 3: was there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was permanent.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but you.
Speaker 5: Know, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: I think that people, you know, with full House and Disney,
Speaker 3: it's kind of the same thing, and that people grew
Speaker 3: up with it and people feel like it's a.
Speaker 2: Closes tap into that nostalgia.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it brings them back to their childhood and everything.
Speaker 5: It's really sweet.
Speaker 4: No, you did bring up that you went into writing
Speaker 4: as an adult. What how how did that transition happen
Speaker 4: for you? Was that something that happened while you were
Speaker 4: at Harvard? Was it something that.
Speaker 2: Happened like late after that or what? Like what made
Speaker 2: you decide to go.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, other than the fact that you hate auditioning,
Speaker 4: what made you decide to go?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it is funny, Like it's such because
Speaker 3: being a TV writer such like a precarious like it's
Speaker 3: like it's pretty much up there with trying to be
Speaker 3: an actor in.
Speaker 4: Terms of like jobs, right, right, it's right, do you
Speaker 4: have a job, You don't have a job.
Speaker 2: You have a great job.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but it is an amazing job.
Speaker 3: Like it's sort of like acting where the heart of
Speaker 3: the sucky part of it is trying to get the job,
Speaker 3: and then when you have it, it's pretty much always great,
Speaker 3: you know, even even if they're you know, like there's
Speaker 3: you know sometimes like there's like not perfect scenarios where
Speaker 3: maybe the hours are really bad, or there's somebody in
Speaker 3: the room is really mean or whatever, or you're constantly
Speaker 3: getting terrible notes and having to rewrite the thing a
Speaker 3: million times, and but generally speaking, it's a really fun job.
Speaker 3: It's a great job. And I didn't appreciate it. Like
Speaker 3: when we were kids and the writers would show up
Speaker 3: for run throughs and table reads and they're like they
Speaker 3: looked like such schlubs, and they would laugh way too
Speaker 3: hard at all jokes.
Speaker 4: And I could because they're delirious for eighteen hours.
Speaker 5: I'm part of their their you know group. Now. Yeah,
Speaker 5: like they just looked really tired.
Speaker 4: And exhausted and over it and yeah, they were laughing
Speaker 4: because they were just punchy and yeah.
Speaker 3: And they were cool. I liked talking to them like
Speaker 3: they I liked their vibe, like I liked hanging Yeah.
Speaker 3: But I was never like so what. I never was
Speaker 3: like curious about the profession, really like about it. Didn't
Speaker 3: occur to me that I would ever try to pursue that.
Speaker 3: And by the way, it's a big bummer because Harvard
Speaker 3: is like a feeder for TV writers, you know, for
Speaker 3: you know, if you want to be a comedy writer,
Speaker 3: the smartest thing you can do is go to Harvard
Speaker 3: and join the Harvard Lampoon, which.
Speaker 2: Sort of right, I was gonna say.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And I had never even occurred to me
Speaker 3: to try, Like I just was not you know, I
Speaker 3: don't know what I thought, but I just.
Speaker 2: Didn't just wasn't in your It wasn't in your It.
Speaker 5: Wasn't until the thing.
Speaker 3: You know, The funny thing is it was really like
Speaker 3: I had been out of college, maybe for a couple
Speaker 3: full of years already before I decided like, maybe that
Speaker 3: would be a fun thing. Like I think I had
Speaker 3: become friendly with some TV writers and I'd heard more
Speaker 3: about the job and the sort of lifestyle of it,
Speaker 3: and so I started writing specs, which is what in
Speaker 3: those days, what you would have to do. So like
Speaker 3: I wrote an episode of Scrubs, I wrote an episode
Speaker 3: of the King of Queens, you know, like I went.
Speaker 3: In those days, what you had to do is I
Speaker 3: would go to the library at the Museum of Television
Speaker 3: and Radio, which I don't think it's there anymore. But
Speaker 3: and also the writers, I.
Speaker 4: Think, I think there it's not at that location anymore.
Speaker 5: Maybe yeah, maybe it's somewhere else.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you could go and you could check out
Speaker 3: scripts and you can watch all the episode.
Speaker 5: You know, it was pre Netflix or whatever.
Speaker 2: You well, now it's all online.
Speaker 3: Yeah, act Now you could just sit there in your
Speaker 3: pajamas and do it. You know, life is so much easier.
Speaker 3: People don't know how I mean. But there was something
Speaker 3: nice about it too, having a like put on book
Speaker 3: and go somewhere. But so I would watch all the
Speaker 3: King of Queen's episodes and try to like learn the
Speaker 3: show and learn you know, it was really about match
Speaker 3: yeah voices. You know, they wanted to see even if
Speaker 3: you weren't up for a job on that show, they
Speaker 3: just wanted to see that you can write somebody else's voice,
Speaker 3: you know, somebody else's show. And nowadays it's not really
Speaker 3: done like that. I don't think aspiring television writers write
Speaker 3: specs of existing shows. Now. You want to like write
Speaker 3: an original pilot that makes a splash and gets a
Speaker 3: lot of attention and all that, right, which probably isn't as.
Speaker 4: Good, which is impossible to sell because you've never done anything,
Speaker 4: so nobody pays.
Speaker 5: Well, no, there is.
Speaker 3: You know a lot of times, you know, something will
Speaker 3: break through and then they'll hire somebody. You know, they'll
Speaker 3: they'll pick up a somebody's never worked in television before,
Speaker 3: and then that's its own kind of disaster.
Speaker 5: But you know, but then they'll usually hire.
Speaker 3: Like an experienced showrunner to help SUPERVI co run it
Speaker 3: with them or whatever.
Speaker 4: But you worked on the Muppets, though, and I need
Speaker 4: to know everything about it. I am probably as big
Speaker 4: of a Muppet fan as I am of a Disney fan.
Speaker 5: Oh, Wow, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I love them up.
Speaker 5: That was amazing.
Speaker 3: That was like, that was such a fun job, you know.
Speaker 3: I did that around the time we were starting on
Speaker 3: Fuller House.
Speaker 2: When Fuller House, I remember that, like, how did you?
Speaker 2: I mean, did you write a a what did you?
Speaker 3: You know? They had hired a woman named Kristin Newman
Speaker 3: to come on and run that show, and I with
Speaker 3: her on a couple of shows already. We had worked
Speaker 3: together on the show The Neighbors for ABC, and we
Speaker 3: had worked on this show Gallivant, which was a really
Speaker 3: wonderful it was a musical for ABC, and and she
Speaker 3: reached out and asked if I would be interested in
Speaker 3: coming on and working with her on that and and so,
Speaker 3: and it was amazing. It was one of those lucky
Speaker 3: gigs that just sort of fell out of the sky.
Speaker 3: And it was amazing because the writing process was very
Speaker 3: much just like writing a regular show, you know it
Speaker 3: was it was sort of like that show. It was
Speaker 3: like a workplace comedy about muppet right right. You didn't
Speaker 3: really appreciate how crazy it was until you went to
Speaker 3: the set and the whole set is six feet off.
Speaker 2: The ground's right.
Speaker 4: I've watched all the like documentaries about the Muppet It's
Speaker 4: in Sesame Street and Jim Henson and stuff.
Speaker 3: You know, like I had known that you had this obsession,
Speaker 3: I would have invited you to come down and visit
Speaker 3: the set and everything.
Speaker 5: It was.
Speaker 2: Really I would have died.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I Like I remember being a kid and like
Speaker 4: watching Jim Henson's funeral and Big Bird Woman sobbing, Like
Speaker 4: I love Dark Crystal Labyrinth all like I'm a big
Speaker 4: Henson Muppets fan and the Muppet Christmas Carol is the
Speaker 4: best Christmas Carol of all time. I will fight someone
Speaker 4: about I love.
Speaker 3: You know, I was always a huge fan of the
Speaker 3: Muppets and like that was it was a really that
Speaker 3: was an amazing job that you know, just like being
Speaker 3: on the set with those and those the pup there,
Speaker 3: you know the voice actors and they're you know, they're.
Speaker 5: Not just so talented their puppeteers.
Speaker 3: They like it's a skill set that I don't know
Speaker 3: where they got it. I guess they learned it from
Speaker 3: doing it or something, but it's amazing. Yeah, and everybody
Speaker 3: loves the Muppets. So like if we ever wanted a
Speaker 3: big guest star, like we did an episode with them.
Speaker 5: Jack White came out like we always.
Speaker 4: Just like never, I know, because the muppets are there,
Speaker 4: you can't get anybody.
Speaker 2: You can get any anybody.
Speaker 4: Will be like yes for Kermit, I do anything.
Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly know, exactly right, you know.
Speaker 3: And I remember Jack White from you know, from the
Speaker 3: White Stripes, you know, this episode and then at the
Speaker 3: end he sort of gave the speech like to the
Speaker 3: crew of the you know, and meant to him to
Speaker 3: do this episode, you know, like and like how he
Speaker 3: respected everybody so much as artists and it was really cool.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but they're amazing.
Speaker 3: I mean, what they can do is really that was
Speaker 3: so fun. I wish, you know, I ended up writing
Speaker 3: the season finale co writing the season finale of that
Speaker 3: show was but unfortunately it turned out to be the
Speaker 3: series finale.
Speaker 2: I was going to say it was yeah, and I
Speaker 2: was like, there wasn't I killed.
Speaker 3: The show basically, no, But I don't know, you know,
Speaker 3: it was real. It was a very like tough needle
Speaker 3: to thread that show because they wanted it to be
Speaker 3: kind of a dry work, like like the Office kind
Speaker 3: of Rumpets, and I just I just think that like
Speaker 3: maybe with a little more time. I mean I thought
Speaker 3: that it really found its groove by the end. It
Speaker 3: was really christ an amazing job running that show, and
Speaker 3: she really like figured out.
Speaker 5: I mean, it was just wonderful. But you know, it
Speaker 5: just wasn't meant to be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I remember the watching the Muppets as a kid,
Speaker 4: and the Muppet even the original Muppet Show was sort
Speaker 4: of dry humored and kind, you know, if you watch
Speaker 4: it like it was definitely not kids entertainment necessarily.
Speaker 5: It's true.
Speaker 4: Well, fan of Rito's, we had so much fun speaking
Speaker 4: with Scott, so we're going to finish up with him
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Speaker 2: And in the meantime, thank you so much.
Speaker 4: For joining us on another fabulous episode of How can
Speaker 4: I say, I can say that we did a fabulous episode.
Speaker 2: That's of course, okay, we did. We did do a fabulous.
Speaker 4: Episode, and we will see you next week. And remember
Speaker 4: the world is small, but the house is full.
Speaker 1: It only took you a season and a few episodes
Speaker 1: to get that right.
Speaker 4: Don't worry, there's still a couple more to do today.
Speaker 4: There's the chances are I'll screw it up something