Speaker 1: Hey there, Fanta Rito's welcome to part two of our
Speaker 1: interview with Jim Falkenstein. As the prop master on countless projects,
Speaker 1: including Fuller House, Jim has a plethora of stories up
Speaker 1: his sleeve, from sourcing props to mistakes that have happened
Speaker 1: on set. We're looking at you, Jody Sweeten. We are
Speaker 1: so excited for all of you to hear the rest
Speaker 1: of this conversation, so please welcome back.
Speaker 2: Jim. So how did you get it? So you've been in.
Speaker 3: The business for a long time, you just kind of
Speaker 3: like fell in it. What are some of the other
Speaker 3: Like what are some of the other sitcoms that you've
Speaker 3: worked on? You know, not your top three because we're
Speaker 3: in that one, but like, what other stuff have you
Speaker 3: worked on? I mean, I did you work on Tombstone?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 4: I did work So that wasn't very funny.
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, yeah, different holidaying of tuberculosis doesn't
Speaker 3: really inspire laughs.
Speaker 2: But great movie, Yeah, pretty great.
Speaker 4: And that was that was very young and I was
Speaker 4: very green.
Speaker 5: I was I was the assistant on that and uh,
Speaker 5: it was wild in a variety of ways.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say, this is back in the in
Speaker 3: the heyday of Val Kilmer being Val Kilmer.
Speaker 5: Great stories. I mean right, forced me to drink a
Speaker 5: lot of per diem at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: but great stories for sure.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So that was wild.
Speaker 5: It's a lot of that was crazy, a lot of bullets,
Speaker 5: but so many big actors on that it was super fun.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, I love that movie. My dad is obsessed
Speaker 3: with Western and that's also one of his favorites.
Speaker 4: And I was so I'm so dumb at the early time.
Speaker 5: I didn't realize there's like mementos that from that movie
Speaker 5: that I was you know, the gardens you can't to Kilmer,
Speaker 5: the dives that they used in here, the bottle that
Speaker 5: was kind of stuff like I could have actually kind
Speaker 5: of kept some of that stuff. And I did keep
Speaker 5: some stuff, and I kept scripts and dustar cool stuff.
Speaker 5: And then I screw like a year, somebody goes, hey,
Speaker 5: did you work on Tombstone, and go, yeah, he was
Speaker 5: getting cool stuff. I go, they can have all this stuff.
Speaker 5: I don't know what if you want. And then later
Speaker 5: now I'm like, oh, you see walk by what the
Speaker 5: city of Tombstone this summer?
Speaker 4: Oh by, And I'm going like this is from the movie.
Speaker 4: We could have sold that for it.
Speaker 2: They couldn't write if only I'd known think about it.
Speaker 3: Now, did you work Did you work on Sultan Sea too?
Speaker 3: Which was another Val Kilmer movie? Yes, another movie that
Speaker 3: I love. Uh oh yeah, weirdly.
Speaker 2: Love that movie.
Speaker 3: It's it's dark and and just it's about you know,
Speaker 3: tweakers out in the Sultan Sea and uh yeah. The
Speaker 3: first scene is always the one that sticks with me,
Speaker 3: when they're like, you think they're at night in the
Speaker 3: dark in the house, and then they opened the front
Speaker 3: door and it's just they're like vampires and blinded you.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah, that was It was wild.
Speaker 5: There are so many people who are right in your
Speaker 5: character because this it's all about the tweakers. So they
Speaker 5: were all they had these they got all these guys
Speaker 5: would show up.
Speaker 4: Consultants were just freshly.
Speaker 3: Fresh, freshly so right, they're like, here's how you take
Speaker 3: a part a toaster.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they had all the technical stuff down and blah
Speaker 5: blah blah, and every one of them was like wire thintle, jittery,
Speaker 5: you know. And uh and then you go in val
Speaker 5: Val would put on an extra twenty five pounds or something,
Speaker 5: and he was just kind of like whenever I'll give
Speaker 5: you a Vouchimera's special eye left on this. So on Tombstone,
Speaker 5: they smoked cigarettes a lot. We had fake we had
Speaker 5: to roll them by hand, you know, had a bunch
Speaker 5: of them. But they also smoked their own personal cigarettes
Speaker 5: in between takes.
Speaker 4: So I had cigarettes galore on me.
Speaker 3: Right, you were a walking smoke shop, las you get
Speaker 3: been one of those like little you know you had
Speaker 3: one of those trays like in the the thirties and
Speaker 3: forties at the movie theater, you know, Yeah, maybe he.
Speaker 4: Was upside once we're in the short fly skirt.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would have made all the difference.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so he go, perps, I want a cigarette.
Speaker 5: I go, which flavor would you like?
Speaker 4: Sir?
Speaker 5: And he goes up marble like right open the pack
Speaker 5: and his cigarette and there's another lighter and he goes
Speaker 5: he rolls, just holds it up to my ear. He
Speaker 5: rolls like this. He goes, did that sound fresh to you?
Speaker 5: I'm like, I just opened the pack right here? He goes,
Speaker 5: bad pack, give you another pack and you walk away? Mike, Mike,
Speaker 5: all right, so that's the kind of stuff you would do.
Speaker 2: Yeah, wow, more than one?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yikes, that's it requires a whole other level of
Speaker 1: patients from the protesters.
Speaker 4: And that's another thing, like certain you have to have
Speaker 4: the patients to be on set. Steve has to sit
Speaker 4: with my assistant. Steve had to be on side with
Speaker 4: you weirdos.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, right, yeah, we give him a really hard time.
Speaker 1: So explain the difference between between your job and Steve's job,
Speaker 1: between the prop master and the assistant prop master.
Speaker 4: Yeah. So I do all the prep before bringing the
Speaker 4: stuff in.
Speaker 5: I shop it, I get the vendors figured out, I
Speaker 5: figure out I give vendors for food.
Speaker 4: I go. Sometimes I arrange. I make stuff myself. Sometimes
Speaker 4: I have graphics. I make a thing and.
Speaker 5: Then I have to bring it all together and kind
Speaker 5: of create the prop to a point and then I
Speaker 5: hint it give to Steve and then he arranges them
Speaker 5: all for each scene throughout the show. So I get
Speaker 5: them all together and bring them all in, and then
Speaker 5: he arranges them all for you guys so that you
Speaker 5: use them in the scenes, and he keeps track of
Speaker 5: all your.
Speaker 4: Stuff, and and then once in a while he'll come
Speaker 4: to me and go Andrea wants ano, there's something something.
Speaker 3: Andrew wants a lifetized Ostrich baiting, store them.
Speaker 4: Off running you know, it's it's sick schedule. It's really fun.
Speaker 4: It's usually pretty fun.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I do more prep work and all that
Speaker 5: episode got a schmooze. I gotta be not like Steve's
Speaker 5: great with the actors because he's a theater guy. Yes,
Speaker 5: he loves the theater and he loves being on the
Speaker 5: stage and the actors and uh uh, I like, I
Speaker 5: always want to be a writer, so I like hanging
Speaker 5: out with writers, and so that's where I would liaise
Speaker 5: between the writers who are coming up with ideas, and
Speaker 5: then with the director who that might be, and then
Speaker 5: you guys, and then try to coordinate a bunch of
Speaker 5: different inputs.
Speaker 2: What every what does everyone want?
Speaker 3: And how do I make everyone equally unhappy and just.
Speaker 2: Get this through? Uh production?
Speaker 3: How do I disappoint everyone equally and just go, look,
Speaker 3: this is what you're getting.
Speaker 4: Jims and idiot, isn'ty? I agree?
Speaker 2: But do I have to make another one of those? No?
Speaker 3: Okay, great, that's I'll be done.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So that's so you basically have to be like like
Speaker 3: a partial chef sometimes an engineer uh, an entrepreneur schmooser
Speaker 3: uh and.
Speaker 2: And a shock and a bit of a thief and
Speaker 2: a bit of a.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah see both here to say, like, so I
Speaker 5: will look, there's not thievery. It's just acquiring too many
Speaker 5: props every week and then having to give them away
Speaker 5: to people. So that was always happy to do that, right,
Speaker 5: It's certainly some people are some guys are horrors, some
Speaker 5: prop people are horror They just have so much stuff everywhere.
Speaker 5: I'm not the hoarder, so whenever I got too much stuff,
Speaker 5: I had to get rid of it because I didn't
Speaker 5: want any more stuff, right, so I would sometimes you
Speaker 5: have to buy too much on purpose, and if you
Speaker 5: guys wanted something extra for whatever non show related or
Speaker 5: just order it and get it and bring it up
Speaker 5: and keep doing it. So that's technically not illegal.
Speaker 2: No, No, it's the gender we're redistributing. It was mutual aid,
Speaker 2: is what it was. Really. Yeah, you were helping out
Speaker 2: others exactly.
Speaker 3: But I do remember like at the end of a
Speaker 3: week there you'd.
Speaker 2: Have like the table. I was like take this, you know,
Speaker 2: like just I don't you don't need it, I don't
Speaker 2: want it, I don't you know.
Speaker 4: Absolutely always trying to get rid of stuff.
Speaker 3: Oh and everyone was. I was always quite excited to
Speaker 3: take it.
Speaker 2: I don't think there was.
Speaker 3: Any ever anyone that was like, now, I'm not gonna
Speaker 3: They were like, oh, what do you got?
Speaker 5: Like what's the work got out on that stage because
Speaker 5: it was right near the commissary or it was credibly
Speaker 5: close not right there, but pretty close to the commentary.
Speaker 5: So once the work out and the commentary would come,
Speaker 5: deliver food once in a while and whatever it is.
Speaker 4: And I had a table.
Speaker 5: It was a free table and certain are right and
Speaker 5: they were like, this is free for everybody.
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't want to deal with it.
Speaker 4: They all run it right, a bunch of stuff perfect.
Speaker 1: Tell me about the prop prop budget, like do you
Speaker 1: get a budget for the whole season or do you
Speaker 1: get a budget per episode?
Speaker 4: There's a you know, you're you've got like a your standard.
Speaker 5: They when you get the job, go say what kind
Speaker 5: of what kind of budget are looking at?
Speaker 4: And that's what you kind of.
Speaker 5: Know whether your butt shot is going to be good
Speaker 5: or bad. It's got if it's you guys had a
Speaker 5: crazy big budget because you're a Netflix.
Speaker 2: Netflix.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was kind of bigger.
Speaker 5: It was like money wise, it was and uh, so
Speaker 5: it was they say, okay, you got to two thousand
Speaker 5: for rentals every week and fifteen hundred for purchases and then.
Speaker 4: A thousand for effects or whatever. It is, okay, like okay,
Speaker 4: and then every week you get another script and you go.
Speaker 6: Oh, that's going to cost five thousand dollars, right, and
Speaker 6: then everyone knows as long as you ever what you're
Speaker 6: communicate well with everybody and go like, okay, so we're
Speaker 6: making this, so we're going to do this, and if
Speaker 6: you want me to get that, that's gonna cost more,
Speaker 6: and then negotiate a little bit, go like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's fine, spend the money or people get them
Speaker 5: to rewrite it, so you know, it's a little negotiating
Speaker 5: you can do early on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I do remember that, just to rewrite and rewrite.
Speaker 2: I remember that from production meeting.
Speaker 3: And it was just like there were certain things that
Speaker 3: you know, one department or another would be like that,
Speaker 3: I don't know how you want us to pull that off,
Speaker 3: you know, like wardrobe or something. Wardrobe is usually like
Speaker 3: they can't do that in a skirt, so like something
Speaker 3: needs to be rewritten.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's fun because the writers will will have watched,
Speaker 5: just watched some movie and they'll write in a thing
Speaker 5: from the movie.
Speaker 4: They'll go like, oh, I just saw some moves. It
Speaker 4: looks pretty easy. I go, no, No, it was a movie.
Speaker 4: There were you know, they were they were on a
Speaker 4: stage that's tall, there were puppeteers underneath it all. There's
Speaker 4: green screen here and effects there, and then in cameraon.
Speaker 3: Shot it right, And they had seven days just to
Speaker 3: shoot that.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 3: We've got like seven minutes to get an insert shot
Speaker 3: make it good.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, but that's that's.
Speaker 5: The sitcom thing is is good in that sense because
Speaker 5: it's really restricted as to how how big and uh
Speaker 5: you acting more creative on how you do things like
Speaker 5: an effect or somebody gets pie in the face or.
Speaker 4: Even something that simple. You got to get smarter and
Speaker 4: do it quicker so that you clean up as quick.
Speaker 4: You got an audience there, you're going to get big bang.
Speaker 5: There were those the little games and the tricks and
Speaker 5: the you know, the body doubles you throw in real quick.
Speaker 5: But you can, you know, you have to be smart
Speaker 5: and ticky. But they also restrict the writing, right.
Speaker 3: You sort of have a sandbox that you have to
Speaker 3: play within. You can't do you know, in a movie
Speaker 3: you can be like, we want to do let's do
Speaker 3: an entire crash scene. You're like, that's not no, we can't.
Speaker 3: We can run one car through one kitchen wall.
Speaker 2: That's it. One time per season, per season.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta.
Speaker 3: Say, man, the stability of that house is impressive because
Speaker 3: we've had what three four cars go through that and
Speaker 3: for being an old.
Speaker 2: San Francisco house, it is it.
Speaker 3: Is really twisted earthquakes car backing into horses walking upstairs,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: In the kitchen. Yeah, that was in the kitchen, right,
Speaker 2: livestock you know, yeah, oh, what.
Speaker 4: Did I missed one episode? What was the one where
Speaker 4: I think who almost.
Speaker 3: Died when something Candice when and the we were doing
Speaker 3: the stunt with the zipline.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they didn't cap.
Speaker 3: They were adjusting it and then didn't put the cap
Speaker 3: on the end of it. So the entire like forty
Speaker 3: pound metal mechanism ran along. She ziplined along the track
Speaker 3: and then there was nothing to stop her or it,
Speaker 3: and it just it went right down in front of
Speaker 3: her because of the weight of it. It didn't even
Speaker 3: like or it just dropped and luckily Mary she had
Speaker 3: stopped already. But yeah, dented the set, dented the snares.
Speaker 2: Yeah, one of those.
Speaker 4: It was the last that was the last day for
Speaker 4: that stunt guy, wasn't it.
Speaker 3: Yeah Yeah he didn't Yeah, yeah, but yeah it definitely
Speaker 3: Uh you know these, I mean, these are the things.
Speaker 2: These are the things that happen on.
Speaker 3: Set and you and you do you're gonna stick on.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, what's the worst? This this is easy
Speaker 3: was the worst that could happen, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: And you're like, oh, there's you know, someone light on
Speaker 3: the higher there's all manner of things that Actually, yeah, it's.
Speaker 2: Very dangerous job. When do you think about it? Yeah,
Speaker 2: we're pretty well, we're on fuller for sure.
Speaker 4: Well we're all like first responders. I think we're.
Speaker 3: Heroes, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, we got you know, we'll
Speaker 3: jump in and try and do anything.
Speaker 4: You know, Well you guys would.
Speaker 5: That's fun too, Like you guys got to do fun
Speaker 5: stuff because I remember, like normally I'll go on my
Speaker 5: show and if there's a kitchen of the kids show
Speaker 5: out Nickelodeon or just near or whatever it is, the
Speaker 5: adults that I talked to are usually you know.
Speaker 4: Just jaded because they're like, going, I'm here for the check.
Speaker 3: Well, because you're right, you have seven lines and you're
Speaker 3: right and all of them.
Speaker 2: You're like, I'm an idiot, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to walk through whatever.
Speaker 5: But you guys, so what I think when I first
Speaker 5: met you had early on, I was like, because you
Speaker 5: were doing like three crazy things in a row, two
Speaker 5: three different shows, and I'm going, they got you doing
Speaker 5: crazy stuff. I mean that's crazy, right, you got to
Speaker 5: you gotta be a little sick of this nonsense, right.
Speaker 4: And you went, I love it. I love it you
Speaker 4: you said, oh no, that was my favorite thing. I
Speaker 4: get to do crazy stuff all the time.
Speaker 1: Probably the probably your first episode was the opener of
Speaker 1: season four where I was I think it was rollerblading
Speaker 1: and like on acrobats on silks or whatever and cart wheels.
Speaker 2: Like what yeah, yes, where was I was that? The
Speaker 2: opening of season five? It was Kimmy did aeroals and silks?
Speaker 2: What yes? Who am I this?
Speaker 1: Maybe it was season five because Kimmy was no longer
Speaker 1: pregnant and so she's like, I can do everything now.
Speaker 2: I can roller blade, I can.
Speaker 1: Just do I can go up in those aerial silks,
Speaker 1: which was the body double that wasn't I can't remember
Speaker 1: what else, but yeah, that was a lot for a
Speaker 1: season opener.
Speaker 2: I was, That's right. I do remember three stunts that
Speaker 2: weak that was crazy.
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, you guys, your characters were were well, I
Speaker 4: don't know. The weird parents would.
Speaker 5: Just say you're you're, you've found you were the probably
Speaker 5: the most I would say most parents watch the show
Speaker 5: and go, I want to be that parent, the one
Speaker 5: way I got to do whatever I want.
Speaker 4: I almost never see my kids.
Speaker 3: Oh well, we've been watching Full House and we're amazed
Speaker 3: at Michelle as a toddler really was just kind of
Speaker 3: doing her own thing, you know, and just wandering around
Speaker 3: the house. She'd pop in fully dressed and everyone's like, oh,
Speaker 3: good morning, Like you know, obviously was able to put
Speaker 3: her hair up in a ponytail and dress herself, and
Speaker 3: she's just hanging out around the house.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: The Tanner girls basically raised themselves right for three dads.
Speaker 3: It seemed like they were alone a lot, you know,
Speaker 3: three four adults in the house, and yet the kids
Speaker 3: were always just kind of.
Speaker 2: In on their own.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, funny. That's so great.
Speaker 3: So how was Hollywood, like, I mean, was it You've
Speaker 3: seen definitely like the shift in everything.
Speaker 2: How has it changed your view of it from.
Speaker 5: As far as like the TV shows, shitcom stuff world
Speaker 5: that used to be a lot more more fun in general,
Speaker 5: there's still occasionally a fun show to go on, but
Speaker 5: sets are a.
Speaker 4: Little bit more serious.
Speaker 5: There's not quite the the camaraderie between the cast and
Speaker 5: crew because I think cruise cycle.
Speaker 4: A lot more right there used to be the season
Speaker 4: was like July, August to.
Speaker 2: March pretty much, and you'd all stay.
Speaker 5: On the same show, and then the next year you
Speaker 5: come back, and then you stay on the same show,
Speaker 5: and the next year you come back, and it was
Speaker 5: always the same.
Speaker 4: So everyone scheduled their lives around the show schedule.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you see the same people every year. The
Speaker 5: same crew would come in, the same writers would show up.
Speaker 5: You know, a couple of changes here and there, but
Speaker 5: so everyone got to know each other. So over the years,
Speaker 5: the family thing worked pretty good. If you had a
Speaker 5: difficult person number two or whatever, work around them and
Speaker 5: had a great time.
Speaker 3: Like any family, you're like, oh, everyone knows that that's
Speaker 3: the person that you have, you know what I mean, Like,
Speaker 3: and then you just do it and you're like, oh,
Speaker 3: we're all here for the holiday.
Speaker 2: Just make it work, you know.
Speaker 5: But yeah, so it was like, so you had more
Speaker 5: there's more continuity for each shows, like a lot of
Speaker 5: the time. He had the same director all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, and it's like, well, you guys had was
Speaker 5: Rich Correll.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had Rich well on Fuller. We had Rich
Speaker 3: quite a bit. We had him on full House too.
Speaker 3: Joel's Wick did a lot of the original full House.
Speaker 1: We have Mark Sandrowski a four times every season on Fuller.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Fuller.
Speaker 5: Did you hear the Mark Mark Sandrowski director of Mark Sandrowski.
Speaker 5: You know, he claimed because he grew up with Dave Koeer.
Speaker 5: They worked together in the Michigan or whatever. They had
Speaker 5: some kind of comedy duo. Yep, And and Dave K's
Speaker 5: catchphrase was was cut out.
Speaker 2: That's Sandrowski line.
Speaker 4: Drowski says he was life stole it.
Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, that is absolutely true.
Speaker 3: Dave will tell Rich He's like, oh no, no, that
Speaker 3: was cinders thing in our little comedy duo. And then
Speaker 3: he like threw it into as Joey's sort of catchphrase.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was up.
Speaker 4: I made that guy, I could take.
Speaker 2: It's so true to me.
Speaker 3: I have a picture of Sandrowski in some very short
Speaker 3: shorts on a beach in Hawaii with a clipboard and
Speaker 3: like an earpiece, just looking like.
Speaker 2: All hell has broken loose.
Speaker 3: Uh, And it was like, yeah, it was like nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety two and uh it was.
Speaker 2: It was fun exact.
Speaker 4: Great, but yeah, so Rich because Rich Correll did most.
Speaker 2: A lot of them, right, he did a lot of
Speaker 2: fuller yep did.
Speaker 5: But anytime like someone would get directing job, like what
Speaker 5: it was Cameron or do you Jody it?
Speaker 4: You did one?
Speaker 2: I did? I directed one. It was you.
Speaker 3: I have the the director's chair which you lowered from
Speaker 3: the ceiling.
Speaker 4: Oh, Yeah, that's right. We've made a big deal.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was so cool.
Speaker 4: Why not? Why not make it?
Speaker 2: No, there were you had laser pens.
Speaker 3: There is everyone like, there was lasers going and and
Speaker 3: I think some smoke and I think you had the
Speaker 3: yellow tuks on.
Speaker 2: I think it was an official yellow Tux moment.
Speaker 4: That was That's a good yellow Tex moment.
Speaker 5: So whenever somebody else would direct that wasn't Rich Krell like,
Speaker 5: I go, I go, okay, Rich, I'll see you next week.
Speaker 4: He goes, I'm not directing next week. I go it
Speaker 4: just because I invented what are you invent? Tanner?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Yea, all those scripts and almost all these episodes. I
Speaker 5: guess I'm not as good as this new person.
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Speaker 10: what was going on from the very beginning, from being
Speaker 10: raised by two immigrant parents, paying my own way through
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Speaker 2: You know what's so funny?
Speaker 3: So I recently did a couple of days on a
Speaker 3: Disney show.
Speaker 2: And then got sick and had to swap out. But
Speaker 2: your daughter was on it.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and uh.
Speaker 3: And Rich Correll's daughter in law was one of the
Speaker 3: stand ins. Noay, yeah yeah, And then Chris Jensen was
Speaker 3: our ad and Tony was the.
Speaker 2: Third and yeah, yeah, we had it was like several
Speaker 2: of the Fuller of the Floorhouse group. Meg DeLoach was
Speaker 2: on it.
Speaker 3: On the Newest One yeah, yeah, yeah, Tony's his second
Speaker 3: now Tony, because I think Adam retired and Tony I
Speaker 3: think moved up to his second, so it's crazy.
Speaker 5: And uh, my daughter Freya I think it's now the
Speaker 5: second second because she's going out with Tony.
Speaker 2: Know that. Okay, they're super cute.
Speaker 3: And I saw her and it was so funny because
Speaker 3: I walked by her and I was like, did you
Speaker 3: work out fuller? And she was like, well, not technically,
Speaker 3: but my dad's Jim Fall because he was like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, yeah, and you.
Speaker 2: Were okay, yes, I totally remember. So it was Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was a fun. It was fun to see her.
Speaker 3: And we had just done Steve's interview that week and
Speaker 3: we're talking about you and then like literally I ran
Speaker 3: into her two days later.
Speaker 4: That's crazy. She didn't tell me she saw you.
Speaker 2: I yell at yeah, yeah, yeah she did.
Speaker 3: And uh and I guess she doesn't like you now,
Speaker 3: so sorry to break the news.
Speaker 4: Well maybe it's because you've quit the show. Pretend to
Speaker 4: get sick.
Speaker 2: That's true. Well that's probably it too. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was like I'm done with this now. I
Speaker 3: first time I've ever quit or not quit. The first
Speaker 3: time I've ever like not been able to work.
Speaker 2: It was just so sick. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, actually no second time, because the first was I
Speaker 3: think the one and only time on Full House that
Speaker 3: we had to shut down because it was a Stephanie
Speaker 3: centered storyline and I think I got sick like midweek. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and I had like one hundred and three hundred and
Speaker 3: four fever. They had to send the doctor out to
Speaker 3: like be like, yeah, no, she's really really sick and
Speaker 3: pull the insurance parachute.
Speaker 2: You couldn't do the live show. You couldn't do the
Speaker 2: audience show. You couldn't do the audience show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, so we had to push.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that I mean that's the you know.
Speaker 4: Rare back then, like since COVID it's like every.
Speaker 2: Week, right, Oh yeah now, I think.
Speaker 3: And they were also very because if the kids got sick,
Speaker 3: you know, if you're an adult and you get sick,
Speaker 3: they're like, I don't know, take some DayQuil, fair fluid up,
Speaker 3: let's go. We got things to do, you know. As
Speaker 3: a kid, they're like, oh wait, wait, wait, wait wait,
Speaker 3: we gotta yeah, we want to take care.
Speaker 2: Of them a little bit.
Speaker 3: So totally, but yeah, sof and and Saw and saw
Speaker 3: Rich's daughter in law.
Speaker 2: So it's a very small world this business.
Speaker 3: We all sort of generationally travel and you know, in
Speaker 3: the same little circles.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's helpful.
Speaker 5: You talk about nepotism all day and like, how you
Speaker 5: know somebody so it's easier to get in because you
Speaker 5: know people, which is true. But it's also good that
Speaker 5: if you're in the business you kind of have a
Speaker 5: support built in support staff of older people that you
Speaker 5: can go like, I don't know what I'm doing, and
Speaker 5: somebody who can go like it's.
Speaker 4: Good, be okay. Yeah, so that you get the guidance,
Speaker 4: you know, feedback.
Speaker 5: From your family, right, which is helpful and makes you
Speaker 5: a better employee.
Speaker 4: In addition to the nepotism.
Speaker 2: Absolutely well.
Speaker 3: I always think, look, every job, no matter what job
Speaker 3: you get, if you know somebody, it helps you know.
Speaker 2: And I always say like it's I've.
Speaker 3: You know, seen talented people who happen to have a
Speaker 3: parent that's in the business, and you know, it is
Speaker 3: what it is.
Speaker 5: Used I used to I used to buy be more
Speaker 5: and then I was just like, man, it's just the
Speaker 5: way It's fine, you know.
Speaker 3: Which is ironic because you're a nepo baby, So you
Speaker 3: really it's just that self hatred you're like.
Speaker 2: I was just I was born into this.
Speaker 5: Legendary Let me ask you this, Andrea, because I was
Speaker 5: trying to call this, I talked to Steve Aldikowski a
Speaker 5: little bit off and on I did.
Speaker 4: I did more when I was around. Do you know
Speaker 4: here Steve and Brian got in a fight. You don't
Speaker 4: talk anymore?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah I did hear.
Speaker 1: I did hear that bad. I didn't hear the details
Speaker 1: of the fight. But yeah, they aren't writing partners anymore.
Speaker 4: I like them both. I don't like huh, but I mean, well,
Speaker 4: watch out barriage break up. You don't know what happened? Right?
Speaker 2: They seemed so happy? Right? You know one?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 5: Talking with Steve went after the show, and Andrea, wasn't
Speaker 5: he pitching you one Pablo for some something?
Speaker 1: It wasn't Steve Boldokowski, Yeah, no, one. Pablo and I
Speaker 1: were working with a different writer to pick well. I
Speaker 1: wanted to do the Gibbler spinoff. I don't think anyone
Speaker 1: knows this. I want to do the Gibbler spin off.
Speaker 1: And so I went to Warner Brothers and pitch that,
Speaker 1: and they said well, we can't do that because Netflix
Speaker 1: owns the characters. They own the new characters on Fuller
Speaker 1: for ten years, yep, and then they own our characters
Speaker 1: for three years, five years whatever.
Speaker 2: It was, Well it's been ten years now, you could
Speaker 2: go do it. Well, I know, maybe I should go
Speaker 2: pitch it again, right you go. So then we were
Speaker 2: pitching it a different.
Speaker 1: Show, which was like we were, you know, gibbler esque.
Speaker 1: I was the wacky person. He was the heart throb,
Speaker 1: you know, Latin man who sings. But that never I mean,
Speaker 1: between COVID and everything else.
Speaker 2: We pitched it around, but it just never happened.
Speaker 3: Yeah, COVID sort of ruined everything. COVID killed everything, I
Speaker 3: mean for.
Speaker 2: A lot of reasons.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think I felt like everybody had like
Speaker 3: all of these things kind of happening in the early
Speaker 3: part of twenty twenty, particularly even on our show. We're like, oh,
Speaker 3: we've got like there were things that were happening and
Speaker 3: what and then it was just.
Speaker 2: Like, oh no, actually none of that. They'd never mind. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that was too bad.
Speaker 3: But well, Jim, this has been so awesome to have
Speaker 3: you on the show.
Speaker 2: I love it.
Speaker 4: It's I love it too. I have to. I have
Speaker 4: to give you my my favorite story though.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, oh my god, yes please.
Speaker 4: The Bob Saggat start.
Speaker 2: Oh well that's right, yeah, the Saggat story.
Speaker 4: Now, this is when I tell everybody about my Fuller
Speaker 4: House case.
Speaker 5: So after Fuller House, uh like two years after Floorhouse,
Speaker 5: I get another show right on that exact same stage,
Speaker 5: so I mean the same prop room. And this is
Speaker 5: after Bob's passed, and so I come in. I'm working
Speaker 5: on the same prop room, going that same corner where
Speaker 5: we just talked about. Everybody is right, yeah, and it's
Speaker 5: Sunday and no one's on the stage and the lights
Speaker 5: are all off. I'm just dropping off some stuff and
Speaker 5: I'm outside with the mic prop room there and I'm
Speaker 5: just thinking also, and I feel this cold rush run
Speaker 5: through me, like you know, they say ghost stuff that
Speaker 5: doesn't happen to me ever, and I'm like going like, oh,
Speaker 5: that's not like a ghost, I go, but it was
Speaker 5: Bob Saggot's ghost just came to my head.
Speaker 4: I'm my Bob Saggot's ghost right there and there I
Speaker 4: gotta go tell the tour.
Speaker 5: I mean, nobody believe me or anything, however, I uh,
Speaker 5: I moved up to Ashland, Oregon, just full of the mystics.
Speaker 4: And nandlers and stuff like that.
Speaker 5: I know a guy who dabbles in that stuff, and
Speaker 5: so he's a talking to him, like a couple of
Speaker 5: weeks later, I go, hey, listen.
Speaker 4: He goes, look, I was gonna buy this house, but
Speaker 4: I couldn't fix the electrics.
Speaker 5: He goes, I can get rid of ghosts, but I
Speaker 5: can't fix electric I'm like, oh, well, hey, if you
Speaker 5: know ghosts, let me ask you this story.
Speaker 4: A guy who knows ghosts, I told him to Bob
Speaker 4: Saggot's story and I go, so, what do you think
Speaker 4: is that? And he goes like guess. He goes, yes,
Speaker 4: that was Bob Saggett. I'm like, oh, really, that's how
Speaker 4: you find out.
Speaker 5: And then I said, Slosy, like, just haunt the stage now,
Speaker 5: and he goes, wait, no, no, he was just a
Speaker 5: visiting stage.
Speaker 4: He saw ant even wanted to stay high.
Speaker 5: So in my mind, and I usually don't believe in
Speaker 5: that stuff, but for this, I believe in it because it.
Speaker 3: Was like, oh, you know what, I would one hundred
Speaker 3: percent see Bob going back to that stage, all all
Speaker 3: of us, really, I think We're all gonna the entire
Speaker 3: full house. Gast is going to haunt stage twenty.
Speaker 2: Four in perpetuity because we did.
Speaker 3: We did the original show there, right, and then we
Speaker 3: can and those built like we were the first people
Speaker 3: in those dressing rooms when they built it, like that
Speaker 3: was hard.
Speaker 2: Really they built all of that.
Speaker 3: And we were the first people in it.
Speaker 2: It was home. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then when we got to come back to the
Speaker 3: same stage, to the same like dressing room areas and
Speaker 3: all that, it was it was incredible. So I would
Speaker 3: I would say Bob would probably be like, I was
Speaker 3: gonna go check out stage for a little bit, see
Speaker 3: if I can find a microphone.
Speaker 2: Always looking for a microphone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe that sameometer joke.
Speaker 2: It's true, yeap, yeah, some inappropriate joke. Always always Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was great.
Speaker 3: No, I jokingly said, I was having a bunch of
Speaker 3: mic issues and like electronics, Like it's Bob, Bob just
Speaker 3: trying to interfere with the mic like I want to
Speaker 3: trying to pull focus, which.
Speaker 2: Is totally fine, and I'd absolutely allow course. Well, yeah,
Speaker 2: that was so many.
Speaker 3: Great stories, Jim, and we just we loved having you
Speaker 3: on the show.
Speaker 2: We loved having you as our prop Master.
Speaker 3: You were so creative and so fun and like brought
Speaker 3: such you and Steve brought such great energy to the set.
Speaker 5: Really yeah, well it was a great guy, but we
Speaker 5: felt appreciate it. So that makes it makes you work
Speaker 5: have more fun, work just as hard and and you
Speaker 5: guys were fun to hang around with.
Speaker 4: So that was fun. And uh so that makes for
Speaker 4: our top three shows. They about push up the top two.
Speaker 2: Cool, okay, okay, so ahead of Jackson. Oh okay, take it.
Speaker 2: We're moving ahead. We're moving up in the raven I
Speaker 2: like this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, thank you so much for joining us. Guys
Speaker 3: really really appreciate it, and it was so good to
Speaker 3: see you and enjoy your lovely Ashland Oregon life.
Speaker 2: The retired retirement of the Tucks, the Yellow Tucks.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 2: Great to see. That was so fun. That was so fun.
Speaker 3: He is so yeah, he's hilarious and quick and now
Speaker 3: that like he's like, oh yeah, I wanted.
Speaker 2: To be a writer. I'm like, I can absolutely see that.
Speaker 2: I can totally see that too.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, he's he's just got one of those brains
Speaker 1: that is ultra creative and constantly going yeah, constantly going yep.
Speaker 3: That was so much fun and and like hearing about
Speaker 3: you know, it's always fun to hear stories of like
Speaker 3: the movies that we know, you know, Tombstone or whatever.
Speaker 2: Then you're like, yeah, it was always fun to like,
Speaker 2: wait was it? What was it really like? Give us
Speaker 2: the insight scoop? Yeah, oh cool.
Speaker 3: The behind the scenes drama and I had Yeah, I
Speaker 3: forgot that you guys were I knew you guys were
Speaker 3: paying the Gibbler show, but I didn't realize that then
Speaker 3: it was going to turn into something else.
Speaker 1: I know, it's one of those sliding door missed opportunities,
Speaker 1: but hey, never say never could that's true, Right, it's
Speaker 1: been ten years.
Speaker 3: Maybe we spend ten years now something, right, although I
Speaker 3: wonder if it's ten years from the end of the show.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I never figured that out, if it
Speaker 1: was ten years from the start or from the rap.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna say from the start, I'm going to I'm
Speaker 3: going to make a legal decision here and say you're
Speaker 3: entitled to do it, and if someone sues you.
Speaker 2: I don't know it. Yeah, I'll be like I'd just
Speaker 2: avow all knowledge. I thought it was a good idea,
Speaker 2: Like I don't I don't. I'm not a member of
Speaker 2: the bar. Yeah don't.
Speaker 3: I have no legal oblik and apparently even if you
Speaker 3: do these days, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 2: There's no there's no more rules. There's no more rules,
Speaker 2: Las Schmas. Who cares think of your own rules? Yeahah, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's great, it's going well all right.
Speaker 3: Well, thank you guys so much for joining us for
Speaker 3: another really fun interview with Jim falcon Scene. We love you, Tannerito's.
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Speaker 3: remember you, guys, the world is small. The house is
Speaker 3: full of yellow tuxedos.
Speaker 2: M full said he didn't wear it today.
Speaker 3: I'm a low key clauset fulls of tuxedos.
Speaker 2: It's in a loose sight box. It needs to be
Speaker 2: hanging up like a museum tea. Yeah, like Elvis's jumpsuit.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like the like at the hard Rock you know
Speaker 3: cafe that's full full suit. All right, well we're going
Speaker 3: to petition him for it. Let's this next step on
Speaker 3: the list.
Speaker 2: We could dress the Sea Pappy in the yellow texedo.
Speaker 2: Here we go, crossover everyone's been waiting for. Yep, alright,
Speaker 2: you guys, see you next time.