Speaker 1: Hey there, Fanto's welcome back to a brand new episode
Speaker 1: of How Rude Tannerito's. Throughout the past four seasons of
Speaker 1: Full House, we have found ourselves paying close attention to
Speaker 1: the props that are being used, like the cold fried chicken.
Speaker 1: Prop masters are the ones who handle anything in actor
Speaker 1: touches or interacts with which is why we're very excited
Speaker 1: for today's guest. Steve Girard was the assistant prop manager
Speaker 1: on Fuller House, so he's going to give us the
Speaker 1: inside scoop on everything the job entails and maybe some
Speaker 1: fun little behind the scenes stories from his time on
Speaker 1: Fuller Hmmm, please welcome Steve.
Speaker 2: This is so exciting.
Speaker 3: That's great.
Speaker 1: Oh. I was so excited that you were willing to
Speaker 1: come on here and regale us with all your stories.
Speaker 1: Three of us, we're very excited that you're here.
Speaker 2: We'll be a good editor because need to add all
Speaker 2: the doll out of.
Speaker 1: This, no, please, So we are we are delighted.
Speaker 4: We are so excited to see Yeah, we like, first
Speaker 4: of all, we just keep like realizing all of like
Speaker 4: the prop stuff that has been going on in you know,
Speaker 4: full House whatever.
Speaker 5: So we've been focusing on that and I was like,
Speaker 5: we need to have Steve, like Steve would be amazing,
Speaker 5: and so yeah, this was this was really fun.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Thanks, I really appreciate it. I was kind of
Speaker 2: always secret secretly hoping you would ask me. But I
Speaker 2: figured because I've been listening to but I figured it
Speaker 2: wouldn't be until you got to the full house stuff, right.
Speaker 2: So I was like, I got years still, I got
Speaker 2: plenty of time.
Speaker 1: We can't wait that long.
Speaker 3: No, we had to talk to you now, right, there's
Speaker 3: no time to wait.
Speaker 2: Yes, I'll talk to you anytime. You know that I
Speaker 2: love you both.
Speaker 3: I love you too.
Speaker 1: So great to see her face because I saw you
Speaker 1: for three seasons on that Girl Leyle. We worked together
Speaker 1: on that show. We were masked up all the time
Speaker 1: except for me when I was at camera. But I
Speaker 1: haven't seen your face five years.
Speaker 2: Right, to talk about a different show for a second.
Speaker 2: After the run, Gabby had a thing. She was doing
Speaker 2: a comedy bit, huh, And so I went to see her.
Speaker 2: And this was after the masks were over, and I'm
Speaker 2: just sitting in the lobby and her mom walks by
Speaker 2: me and I don't recognize your mom? Did don't recognize me?
Speaker 2: I don't recognize them. It was crazy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, see that you know what, we were just having
Speaker 5: this conversation. But it had to do with how we
Speaker 5: just don't remember anything anymore because the brain fog is
Speaker 5: sitting in. But now I'm just gonna be like, oh
Speaker 5: it was the masks five.
Speaker 3: Years later, but oh I didn't. It's yeah, I know
Speaker 3: the eyes, totally know the eyes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you know, and I actually really have a
Speaker 2: touch that's brain the face blindness thing. Oh yeah, So
Speaker 2: for me, it's also helpful. I've had Okay, I've had
Speaker 2: discussions with people that I thought I was talking to
Speaker 2: in the day before. So I'll go, so remember the
Speaker 2: thing yesterday we're talking about and somebody completely different, Oh.
Speaker 3: Wow than that, And I don't have face blindness. That's
Speaker 3: that's the problem, exactly.
Speaker 1: A conversation. We'll just keep talking about the same topics
Speaker 1: in a loop forgetting.
Speaker 5: That as you age, right, is you just sort of
Speaker 5: circle around the same three or four things remember, go
Speaker 5: on the head and okay, go back to your home.
Speaker 5: So see, we want to start like at the beginning. Okay, uh,
Speaker 5: when when did you first start working in the industry, and.
Speaker 3: Like did you go to school?
Speaker 1: For it.
Speaker 5: Was it one of those like somebody needed help in
Speaker 5: the art department.
Speaker 2: You were like, I sure, I am third generation Hollywood.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, I did not know this. See this
Speaker 3: is why I love these interviews.
Speaker 5: We cind out so much fascinating step Oh my god,
Speaker 5: third generation Hollywood.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah. So my grandfather and my father were both
Speaker 2: in the Labor Union.
Speaker 3: The union.
Speaker 2: My dad also did costume me so and it's kind
Speaker 2: of both of these. So when I started, they were
Speaker 2: taking people off the streets in the business. And my
Speaker 2: dad called me up one day and said, being Universal Studios,
Speaker 2: but work boots and a hammer, You're going to be
Speaker 2: a laborer. Okay, But actually I started before that. When
Speaker 2: I was sixteen, I worked at Universal Tour okay.
Speaker 3: Wood Oh yes, did you like were you miserable in
Speaker 3: the suits? Or was that a fun job?
Speaker 2: It was hot and heavy and horrible and loved it.
Speaker 2: The kids just mad arts. You know about the old
Speaker 2: timer thing. You know, those kids today today doesn't know
Speaker 2: how hard it was back in. My dad right, because
Speaker 2: the woody head was huge and it was made out
Speaker 2: of this thick rubber stuff. Oh, I weighed like twenty pounds.
Speaker 1: It was not breathable material.
Speaker 3: I assume you're no.
Speaker 2: It was it was like a velvet kind of a thing.
Speaker 2: And then also for some reason, they wanted wood to
Speaker 2: be fat, so they have like a fat suit and
Speaker 2: a thing. And but like I said, you know you
Speaker 2: oh and also you had to look out of the
Speaker 2: mouth and it was like that yeah right, but you
Speaker 2: know some of the girl looks up and goes, I
Speaker 2: love you Woody, and it just it was the greatest.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the great.
Speaker 5: What fun what I like, what a fun sort of
Speaker 5: introduction to the business.
Speaker 3: Though, And I also heard that those characters.
Speaker 5: Is really fun because you you it's it's a total cost.
Speaker 5: Nobody knows you can be silly and you could, you know,
Speaker 5: be totally over the top, and it's you get to
Speaker 5: fully embrace being someone else.
Speaker 2: Right, nobody knows. But I knew my way around studios anyway,
Speaker 2: because I'm going back and forth about where was gonna
Speaker 2: let this conversation, but I'll just say it now. So
Speaker 2: my dad, when I was a kid, worked for Jerry Lewis. Okay,
Speaker 2: back when Jerry Lewis was like he was making the
Speaker 2: nutty Professor and stuff like that, like the yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: So for me, Paramount Studios was a playground growing up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was pretty good. Get that. So so I was
Speaker 2: on sets, you know, and and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 1: Were you immediately drawn to the props or did you
Speaker 1: kind of play around and do different roles.
Speaker 2: I fell into that. You know, I was a laborer
Speaker 2: for a couple of years, and and then those are
Speaker 2: still the days of the studio system. So you'd work
Speaker 2: in a studio and they would fight different things, and
Speaker 2: so the prop department needed some guys, and.
Speaker 5: You kind of would get moved around within the little Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 2: And and I fell into that, and that's the one
Speaker 2: that works best for my head.
Speaker 3: Mm.
Speaker 2: You know, I'm kind of a person that likes to
Speaker 2: go from one thing to another thing. I'm one of
Speaker 2: those three inches deep a mile wide kind of people,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I relate.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So, so I liked that the idea of figuring
Speaker 2: something out and moving on to something else and figuring
Speaker 2: something else out kind of a thing or even going
Speaker 2: from show to show.
Speaker 5: Right, you know, especially on a sitcom because every like
Speaker 5: every week, I always say, it's like the ninth routine
Speaker 5: of you know, you're kind of your your schedule, but
Speaker 5: every week is some new problem to solve, some new
Speaker 5: thing to do. Like it, It keeps you having to
Speaker 5: think constantly because there you don't kind of get settled in, you.
Speaker 2: Know, and it's like the best of both worlds that way.
Speaker 2: M hm. You know you have the surety of a schedule,
Speaker 2: but there's new things to you know, show the objects.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, exactly, new things to pique my attention.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you started on Home improvement right, well, not started
Speaker 5: on but like you you didn't considerable amount of improvement.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which was a blast, It was. It was great fun.
Speaker 2: It speaking of instant experts. So you know some of
Speaker 2: the best acting happens behind camera. Very first show on
Speaker 2: Home Improvement, and I was the whole show revolved around
Speaker 2: Tim pat dancing at the end to a jukebox. All right,
Speaker 2: they put a corner in the jukebox. It's their song,
Speaker 2: the jukebox. You see it light up and play works
Speaker 2: great all week long, works great all day blocking day. Right,
Speaker 2: we get in front of the audience, it starts buzzing.
Speaker 2: Pristadi says Steve, can you fix it?
Speaker 1: No pressure?
Speaker 2: And I say, yeah, absolutely, Thinking is the jukebox is
Speaker 2: thirty feet away. I've got thirty feet to figure out
Speaker 2: how to make this thing work.
Speaker 3: You just hit it on top of A couple of times,
Speaker 3: I started pulling.
Speaker 2: Wires just because it had to light up. It had
Speaker 2: to stay lit up and work. We couldn't make the
Speaker 2: sound wow. So it's pulling wires and finally ended up working.
Speaker 2: But that's that's the kind of thing that happens. So yeah,
Speaker 2: Home Improvement seven years.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 2: It was a blast. It was great fun.
Speaker 5: Oh that's so I went to the set of Home
Speaker 5: Improvement a couple of times. I was friends with zach
Speaker 5: Ty Bryan. Yeah, he and I were friends because we're
Speaker 5: about the same age, I believe, even officially. He was
Speaker 5: kind of like my little boyfriend, like my little industry boyfriend,
Speaker 5: which entailed like going trick or treating at his house,
Speaker 5: I think, but he did. He came to full House
Speaker 5: one time, and I had gone to Home Improvement a
Speaker 5: couple of times, maybe just one time, but anyway, Yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Was on set. We crossed paths, and it was meant
Speaker 3: to be.
Speaker 5: Just the thing I remember about Zach that all that
Speaker 5: was that one time he was screwing around in my
Speaker 5: mom's car and he opened the door while she was
Speaker 5: driving like down Culver Boulevard or something, and.
Speaker 3: She freaked out. She was just like, no, absolutely not.
Speaker 3: I thought it was hilarious.
Speaker 1: Not so much.
Speaker 2: He was great, you know, those those kids were great
Speaker 2: on that show, and actually everybody was. You know, Tim,
Speaker 2: it was really interesting. Tim, Well, and you were on
Speaker 2: the set a couple of times, so you would know
Speaker 2: whenever those one of those inevitable technical glitches, we'dn't have
Speaker 2: to wait for ten minutes. He would take that ten
Speaker 2: minutes and and entertain the crew. It was great. It
Speaker 2: was great.
Speaker 5: When Bob would we'd have something like that and Bob
Speaker 5: would go grab the mic and exactly exactly.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, there's a lot of parallels the two shows.
Speaker 2: I would say, we're most like a family.
Speaker 3: M hmm.
Speaker 2: His Home Improvement and floorhouse and you guys, it was
Speaker 2: it was it was family. It was jump in ahead.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, So you two you know all right? So,
Speaker 2: so I was in on only did the last two seasons,
Speaker 2: right of yeah, I did the last two seasons. The
Speaker 2: other day, I know it felt like for everyone that guy.
Speaker 2: So I came into a situation where you guys did
Speaker 2: full House for what nine years, and you'd already in
Speaker 2: three years of Fuller House with a lot of the
Speaker 2: people from that show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: And I come in and it's the first day of
Speaker 2: school at a new school, right, and I get it
Speaker 2: to you two, We're so welcoming to me and made
Speaker 2: me feel so at home and so comfortable. I will
Speaker 2: always always remember you for that, really, thank you.
Speaker 3: It's we we love adding to our full Fuller House family,
Speaker 3: you know, it's we we love.
Speaker 5: We've picked up so many new amazing in that crew
Speaker 5: on Fuller House and you're definitely in there. But you know,
Speaker 5: it is it's intimidating, and I can't imagine. I mean,
Speaker 5: I've heard horror stories from people on set. Friend of
Speaker 5: mine who's a set dresser, who had some horrific incidents
Speaker 5: with certain actors who are just not very kind and
Speaker 5: who you know, treat anyone below the line like you know,
Speaker 5: they are just there to serve them, uh, And I
Speaker 5: just I don't I don't ever, I don't ever understand
Speaker 5: that mentality in this business, Like it's so much fun
Speaker 5: to meet and create with other people, like and nobody
Speaker 5: wants to be doing something when they're being yelled at fun.
Speaker 2: No, no, you know, I've been that same dance. It sucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they suck.
Speaker 2: And what they don't realize is we're here to make
Speaker 2: you look good, right right, yeah, and we want to
Speaker 2: make you look good.
Speaker 3: That's what we want to do, right yeah. Yeah, it's
Speaker 3: it's a it's a team sport, you know, definitely a
Speaker 3: team sport.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But now do you do you do any like single
Speaker 3: camp stuff? More dramatic stuff.
Speaker 2: I did, but I got too old for it, so
Speaker 2: I did things like us, things like and Lacey. That's
Speaker 2: why before you guys time.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I remember Cagne and Lacey and my mom
Speaker 3: loved that show.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, you know, I did some. I did
Speaker 2: some movies too, like I did a Dennis Hopper movie
Speaker 2: and and stuff like that. So it's a bunch of
Speaker 2: single camera stuff. The last single camera I did was Shameless,
Speaker 2: And I did like a month on the prop crew
Speaker 2: with old friends of mine prop guys, and after a month,
Speaker 2: I just said, I don't know how you guys do
Speaker 2: it anymore. I'm going back to my sit joms, right,
Speaker 2: I'm you know, but but also what happens. I'm a
Speaker 2: theater guy and and Andrews and and what we're doing
Speaker 2: putting on a play every week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know, put a week.
Speaker 2: I don't tell you if she told you. I tried
Speaker 2: to get her into one of our plays.
Speaker 1: I was very close. I did the table I did
Speaker 1: the table read, but I couldn't commit to the to
Speaker 1: drive it into La Forever, you know. I just I
Speaker 1: couldn't commit at the time, but would have.
Speaker 3: Been amazing, understand completely, absolutely.
Speaker 1: Well, But that is a goal some day. I want
Speaker 1: you to direct me someday.
Speaker 3: Let's yes, I love what you do.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, let's both of us. Let's all get it.
Speaker 5: Let's I mean, it is like I you know, that
Speaker 5: combination of the live show and the ability to screw
Speaker 5: up and try something again is kind of it is
Speaker 5: the best of both worlds. Yeah, you know, it's and
Speaker 5: it is such a fun putting on a play every week.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's what you're doing, you know. And it's
Speaker 2: interesting because when I first started directing, I I I
Speaker 2: didn't go any school forward anything like that. I just
Speaker 2: kind of fell into it. My whole life seems like
Speaker 2: it's I just kind of fell into stuff.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: And I remember the first day of rehearsal, thinking I
Speaker 2: don't know what to say to these people. I have
Speaker 2: no idea what to say to these people, and then
Speaker 2: it all just kind of came right, and I realized
Speaker 2: it was from being on sitcom stages forever watching the
Speaker 2: greatest directors ever, because I did a season of Alice
Speaker 2: also great show. Yeah, and it was and that was
Speaker 2: the Isla Lucy people. Yeah, so you know, I was
Speaker 2: watching them direct the shows and put the shows on
Speaker 2: like that, and the same thing. Home Improvement was great directors,
Speaker 2: you know, and it was just yeah, so it just
Speaker 2: kind of all soaked in something.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 5: I mean I feel like that kind of for us too,
Speaker 5: with the writing and the directing. It was like, you
Speaker 5: don't necessary you know, you just sort of it's in there,
Speaker 5: like floating around, you know, the rhythm of a sitcom,
Speaker 5: you know, the you know, you just kind of know
Speaker 5: what it is.
Speaker 2: Mean, I'm gonna pump you guys up a little bit.
Speaker 2: You were talking about having having friends and you know,
Speaker 2: other shows stuff like that. So I've got friends on
Speaker 2: two different unnamed TV shows right now, and they're both
Speaker 2: network shows, and you know, and we do the same
Speaker 2: up shields and you know you're gonna watch the show
Speaker 2: to support your friends and hoping the show is good, right,
Speaker 2: And one of them was brutal. I could not watch
Speaker 2: five minutes of it, and the other one was better,
Speaker 2: but it like I kept like thinking like it's lost opportunities,
Speaker 2: lost opportunities. When you guys called me, I decided to
Speaker 2: watch my two seasons again just to refresh my memory.
Speaker 2: And when you're in the middle of the show, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't think you don't realize how good it is.
Speaker 2: Fuller House was a great show. It was a thousand
Speaker 2: times better than those two things. I just watched a
Speaker 2: thousand times better. And I'm not saying this to bump
Speaker 2: you up. I would say this to you guys faces. Yeah,
Speaker 2: if this camera was not on stuff like that, you
Speaker 2: know it was. It was great. It was great, and
Speaker 2: you too, were fantastic. Steve.
Speaker 1: You got to give yourself credit to because your kind,
Speaker 1: yes was so infectious, Like you had an endless amount
Speaker 1: of patience, which I imagine is a huge component of
Speaker 1: the job, as the actors move all the props right
Speaker 1: after you set them, right before the scene. But you
Speaker 1: always had a smile on your face or a joke
Speaker 1: to tell or a nice thing to say, and so
Speaker 1: we were just responding to that. You know that you
Speaker 1: were just oozing kindness and instant friends, instant friends with us.
Speaker 2: Thank you. Yes, well, we bonded over something else, but
Speaker 2: that's you.
Speaker 1: Know, we did, Yes, Jody knows forever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I was around for peak forever plaid
Speaker 3: ab days.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you, well, well, speaking of you being
Speaker 2: on the Home improvement set, we were Andy and I
Speaker 2: were probably both in that same theater twenty times together.
Speaker 3: They can probably.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I could not know.
Speaker 2: I was a total plaid head.
Speaker 3: Oh, I couldn't get I remember it, I remember going
Speaker 3: with you. It was Yeah, it's so graice.
Speaker 1: I just I was telling Jody last week that I
Speaker 1: pulled out a bunch of boxes full of stuff and
Speaker 1: I found a lot of my forever plaid stuff, my
Speaker 1: jacket and like a framed picture of the four guys
Speaker 1: that they had autographed like all programs. It's just so cool,
Speaker 1: so cool. If they ever dow a reunion show, you
Speaker 1: and I are going, yeah, absolutely, Well, you know.
Speaker 2: We almost got him over to the stage, but it
Speaker 2: didn't work.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I know you that's right.
Speaker 3: I know we tried. You were trying.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, well that's the end of another story, I think.
Speaker 2: But you know that the other you guys made it
Speaker 2: easy for me as a prop guy. Really to say that,
Speaker 2: I'm shocked.
Speaker 5: No, I will say we were better than the than
Speaker 5: the guys, I know that for sure, and probably better
Speaker 5: than we knew.
Speaker 3: Where the living went back and we left it alone,
Speaker 3: and I just yeah, Bob David John would pick it
Speaker 3: up and it would go walking around.
Speaker 2: Well, you would never know. Yeah, it's it's the hell
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Where'd he go?
Speaker 1: I just remember every time I would pick up a mug,
Speaker 1: the mug with the K on it, and take a drink,
Speaker 1: Steve would be instantly there with his little invisible light flashlight,
Speaker 1: turning it exactly because you know you can never you
Speaker 1: you knew you had that identic memory, so you knew
Speaker 1: exactly how the cup should be on the table.
Speaker 5: Well, wait, why don't we have Steve explain what the
Speaker 5: little secret magic light is. Yeah, he's not just flashing
Speaker 5: a flashlight on a thing.
Speaker 2: And yeah sure, so so yeah, your I like to
Speaker 2: tell people the hardest part of my day is remembering
Speaker 2: who gets the K mug? Who gets the s mug,
Speaker 2: you know, but so you know, if if the mug
Speaker 2: is on the kitchen counter there and you go to
Speaker 2: drink some coffee and then you maybe you walk up
Speaker 2: to the table and that sort of thing. If we
Speaker 2: do take two, the mug needs to start in exactly
Speaker 2: the same place and none of the exactly the same place.
Speaker 2: But which way is the handle facing? And so I
Speaker 2: had a ultra violet flashlight and ultraviolet marking pins and
Speaker 2: so the marketing that I make a little circle around
Speaker 2: the cup and also a little line where the handle was,
Speaker 2: and so you can't see it on camera, but then
Speaker 2: I did my little flashlight and then that's where it'd be.
Speaker 1: It's brilliant.
Speaker 3: It's brilliant. The same things.
Speaker 1: You don't know though, unless you're on a set witnessing it.
Speaker 1: Like people don't know these little tricks.
Speaker 3: I love it.
Speaker 1: That's so cool.
Speaker 3: I never I had never seen the little UV light
Speaker 3: trick until like, yeah, yeah, what's that? What are you doing?
Speaker 3: What's happening? Is there a secret message? Somebody read it
Speaker 3: an invisible ink? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Like oh I should done that kind have been a
Speaker 2: good idea. Oh there you go a booger.
Speaker 1: Yes, with the cheerios or not the cheerios, the alphabets
Speaker 1: or whatever.
Speaker 2: It was. It was, Yes, that's so great.
Speaker 1: Now where do you get all these props?
Speaker 3: Do you buy them all?
Speaker 2: Do you?
Speaker 1: Is there a big like a warehouse somewhere like where
Speaker 1: do you? Where do you go to get all?
Speaker 2: So so, first of all, you know, I'm the on
Speaker 2: set prop guy. And then we had Jim Falkenstein, who
Speaker 2: just a great, great, great prop master.
Speaker 3: We're just talking about Jim and his tuxedo.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, I've got to get you the book. Yes,
Speaker 2: the other of all of the people that he photo bombed.
Speaker 3: Oh no, yes, I love it. That's right, because he
Speaker 3: photo bombs everybody in the yellow text here. It's so great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's hilarious and every single person he puts,
Speaker 2: my best friend great, think about it. It's it's hilarious.
Speaker 2: So but so he's the really the creative force, and
Speaker 2: he's the on that we read the script and he's
Speaker 2: you know, we've got some wacky prop again this week.
Speaker 3: He's always always a wacky prop on a on a sitcom. Yep,
Speaker 3: what do I need to make?
Speaker 2: That's yes, and lots of food and a lot of
Speaker 2: sort of thing, and so so he's the one. So
Speaker 2: there are warehouses that you can rent stuff from, like
Speaker 2: normal stuff, and then sometimes you buy stuff. You know,
Speaker 2: Amazon has become a prop master's best friend now, you know,
Speaker 2: used to be you have to like research stuff and
Speaker 2: try to find it, and now it's just and then
Speaker 2: also make things, you know, and make things and and
Speaker 2: then my job was more know where everything goes, get
Speaker 2: it there, get in your guys hands, stay the hell
Speaker 2: out of your way, lease set when you're you know, yeah,
Speaker 2: between takes and that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: I forgot and also anticipation too. I'm sorry I forgot
Speaker 1: that you guys were in charge of the food. Oh
Speaker 1: can I forget that, like all of those sandwiching contests.
Speaker 3: Our actor treats. Yes, we'd be eating all of our
Speaker 3: little almond thin crackers and be like, yeah.
Speaker 1: You're so good to always ask us like, oh, do
Speaker 1: you have a flavor preference of whether it's a donut
Speaker 1: or what we were eating. You were always good to
Speaker 1: have any allergies, Do you need flavors?
Speaker 3: What do you want in the mug?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: It was very conscientious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, cremer with your cool, Well, you.
Speaker 2: Guys gotta eat it. You know, it's like, let's give
Speaker 2: you something you like. Yeah, right, you know what the
Speaker 2: heck I mean the deal? Although I say you guys
Speaker 2: were good about the whole the fake eating, fake drinking
Speaker 2: a lot of times. Yeah, you know, you're like, it
Speaker 2: looks like I'm look looking, I'm drinking out of this
Speaker 2: and you're not drinking a damn right, I'm not ding
Speaker 2: by do Can we see that?
Speaker 1: Wake up?
Speaker 3: San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Mine.
Speaker 3: It's so cool.
Speaker 1: I love it. Did you te any props from Fuller
Speaker 1: House like the rest of us?
Speaker 3: Just just the one?
Speaker 2: I got two props we mentioned both shows. I've gone
Speaker 2: one of the original tool benches from Home Improvement and uh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so cool. Okay, so you get props from
Speaker 1: the warehouse or from Amazon? How much lead time do
Speaker 1: you have, like, do does production give you a list
Speaker 1: of the props or do you have to read through
Speaker 1: the script and mark every time you see a prop?
Speaker 2: It's both, you know, Ron and Ron and John and
Speaker 2: and and uh Steve and Bark and Brian. Right. They
Speaker 2: were good about if there was some super wacky prop
Speaker 2: to give Jim lead time on that for a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks or a week or something like that.
Speaker 3: All I can ever think of is that Rube Goldberg machine.
Speaker 2: Poor Jim.
Speaker 3: Crap I thought about. That's the I use that as
Speaker 3: an example of like the hell that prop people have
Speaker 3: to go through, and they're like, hey, can you be
Speaker 3: an engineer this week and do this?
Speaker 2: Oh my lord, and he spent the entire weekend. I'm
Speaker 2: not sure he slept. It was. Oh that one was
Speaker 2: a hot I feel so bad for him that week.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he didn't even get the credit.
Speaker 1: Got it? Okay?
Speaker 2: Dam it? Oh man?
Speaker 1: Okay, So you've got about maybe a week lead time
Speaker 1: and then when they rewrite the script, sometimes they'll change
Speaker 1: the props and then you guys just have to.
Speaker 2: Adjustst and you have to adjust on the fly, and
Speaker 2: that's what you do, you know, But it's only a
Speaker 2: big thing. They'll give you a week lead time on.
Speaker 2: You know, most of the stuff we don't find out
Speaker 2: about until we've read the script. And some shows it's
Speaker 2: the morning of there's a script, you know, it's the
Speaker 2: you know, just before the table read and uh, the
Speaker 2: provision suppress you mean first table read. Then I don't
Speaker 2: know what you guys do, have a mudpath or something
Speaker 2: for an hour and then we rehearse, right, and so
Speaker 2: in that time, I'm like pulling together what I can
Speaker 2: for AST to rehearsal that first day, to stand in
Speaker 2: for whatever we're going to really use, you know, because
Speaker 2: for me it's important. So my training was U hoging training,
Speaker 2: and her thing was all about the props.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know your hands.
Speaker 2: Yes, So it's so important to me to get something
Speaker 2: in your guys' hands immediately.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: It's true. It does make something feel like you're you know,
Speaker 3: when you're rocking around your house or doing something, chances
Speaker 3: are you've got something in your hand that's going from
Speaker 3: one place to another or that's you know, and it
Speaker 3: get you do feel awkward sometimes on care like where
Speaker 3: do I put my hands? You know, but like I
Speaker 3: have something or and it gives me business hands always
Speaker 3: have business.
Speaker 2: Your prop can do a lot of work for you.
Speaker 2: You know, you can do a lot of work for you.
Speaker 2: So you know, so it's always important to me to
Speaker 2: get get that stuff in your hands. Even it wasn't
Speaker 2: exactly the right thing, it was you're gonna have a thing.
Speaker 3: Here right right, yeah, because it does.
Speaker 5: I mean, I the one thing that's always different to
Speaker 5: is like going from sitcom to single cam when you
Speaker 5: don't really have a lot of the rehearsal time, and
Speaker 5: like getting on a single cam set and it's like, okay,
Speaker 5: you got on your lines and everything, but now here's
Speaker 5: gonna be the blocking. And then also you're gonna do
Speaker 5: it with this thing in your hand that you haven't
Speaker 5: done it before.
Speaker 3: Let's run it a couple of times.
Speaker 2: And then let's go.
Speaker 3: You know, I mean, particularly on like those shorter you know,
Speaker 3: Hallmark movies or whatever, but props change everything.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and I don't know on the Hallmark movies
Speaker 2: they're shooting all those digital now too.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: So my time on Shameless was you know, I hadn't
Speaker 2: done single cameras and since like Taggy and Lacy, so
Speaker 2: it was a twenty year So that used to always
Speaker 2: be film, right, you know, and in film it would
Speaker 2: be all right, we're gonna block it.
Speaker 3: Now, gonna light it for two hours, and so you
Speaker 3: know that's still a thing.
Speaker 2: They would rehearse it and it's like we're shooting now.
Speaker 2: Oh and so I was just like the third guy
Speaker 2: prop guy, you know, I'm like, okay, we're not breakfasteing
Speaker 2: next okay, fine, the reversion right now, all kind of
Speaker 2: start making breakfast. They complying, where's the food? Where's the food? God?
Speaker 3: Yeah, most of the time it takes.
Speaker 5: A little while before you're like, get to set, get
Speaker 5: to that, and then they're like, relight it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember your big cart, like your big black cart
Speaker 1: that you would wheel from set to set, and you
Speaker 1: always had like mints or something for us to What
Speaker 1: are some of your tricks for like staying organized? Do
Speaker 1: you line props up a certain way? Do you have
Speaker 1: a list, like what are your organizational I have lists.
Speaker 3: I have a.
Speaker 2: Uh so I use like a legal pad and each
Speaker 2: scene will be one page of legal pad over that,
Speaker 2: and then I'll try to organize the prompts on my
Speaker 2: cart per scene, okay, you know, and and put them
Speaker 2: in bankers boxes or whatever, depend on how much stuff
Speaker 2: you've got and that sort of thing. I'm also I
Speaker 2: was also good at like hiding stuff around the set,
Speaker 2: you know, so like if we had a bunch of
Speaker 2: stuff for the next thing that's gonna go up on
Speaker 2: the counter, there a bunch of food and stuff. A
Speaker 2: lot of them have been in the cabinets underneath.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, right, that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah, sort of pressmart so smart yep, thank you.
Speaker 2: The best thing for that cart. My memory of the
Speaker 2: cart too, is is that on show night, I would
Speaker 2: perk the cart right outside the it's only always open door.
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, I can picture, and now I
Speaker 5: was like, oh, it's it's right outside the living room.
Speaker 2: There, exactly right outside the living room there, And it
Speaker 2: was like and that was fun for me because because
Speaker 2: that's where you guys will huddle before the first thing.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: So, so yeah, you always saw us being ridiculous doing
Speaker 3: something stupid off camera, then just walk right in the door.
Speaker 1: Now what happens when an actor takes the props from
Speaker 1: your cart and autographs them all by accident?
Speaker 2: Did that happen?
Speaker 1: I'm wearing I'm wearing.
Speaker 2: Do you have any more?
Speaker 3: I do I have?
Speaker 2: I have one?
Speaker 1: I have one that Jodi signed. It says how rude.
Speaker 3: Yeah, she signed the signed T shirt. Yes, for those
Speaker 3: that don't know what Andrew is wearing and not only
Speaker 3: listening to this, and she is wearing a white T
Speaker 3: shirt that has my signature across the front of it.
Speaker 3: And we're gonna tell you why. Here, here we go.
Speaker 3: We've got alluded to this, but we need to hear
Speaker 3: I've alluded to it, but we now have We now
Speaker 3: have the source.
Speaker 2: So were you guys already in the middle of your
Speaker 2: prank war when this happened?
Speaker 1: This was started prank the start.
Speaker 3: I think this was the start of the prank war, right,
Speaker 3: did it started? No? We I think we had. I
Speaker 3: think the post its were first. I put you were
Speaker 3: taking a nap, and I covered your entire door in Uh.
Speaker 2: That came after, for sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, that was after.
Speaker 2: Okay, So all right, So there's two things. One is
Speaker 2: is so if the people know, so when you're exiting
Speaker 2: through the always always open door when you go outside.
Speaker 2: Around to the right, I had a little prop table,
Speaker 2: so if an actor was had to come in with
Speaker 2: a prop, that's what the problem would be. Here's your purse,
Speaker 2: here's whatever. Then we all sat another table over by
Speaker 2: our prop room, which was down the bottom of the
Speaker 2: stairs back behind the set, which was right on the
Speaker 2: way to the stage. And Jim had a genius idea.
Speaker 2: Because you guys are always having to like sign program
Speaker 2: a program, Yeah, you had to sign stuff. So Jim
Speaker 2: would put all this stuff on that table and Mark
Speaker 2: and marking pans, and you guys just knew sign here
Speaker 2: to sign it. You sign us up on the way in. Ye.
Speaker 3: So if it's sitting there, gets something very rich for
Speaker 3: us every week exactly.
Speaker 2: It was just a normal thing. So one week we
Speaker 2: had it was on there. It was the run of
Speaker 2: of Jackson being the football player, right and so right,
Speaker 2: helmet on the prop table right outside the door.
Speaker 5: Yeah, nice shiny little prop. Just a nice football helmet,
Speaker 5: probably not a cheap one.
Speaker 2: It was great. It was beautiful. And on one take
Speaker 2: he comes in. I go and I look at it.
Speaker 2: They go, what's that on? There's something on his helmet?
Speaker 2: What the heck is it? Did? I get it dirty?
Speaker 2: And I get the helmet and it's got Jody's signature
Speaker 2: on it. Oh god.
Speaker 3: And then so did everything else on the table? I
Speaker 3: mean there was a foam finger, Yeah, yep, there was
Speaker 3: because someone said make sure you sign the stuff on
Speaker 3: the table right right. The first table I came across
Speaker 3: was that one. And you know, we would give props.
Speaker 5: Away, we would do stuff like that, you know, so
Speaker 5: I was like, oh, wow, we're giving a lot of
Speaker 5: wraps away this week.
Speaker 3: And I wondered why nobody else inside.
Speaker 2: Was like, what the hell? So you caught a lot
Speaker 2: of hell about it that day, well because it.
Speaker 3: Was right before run through. Yes, it was right before
Speaker 3: like network run through. So everyone's prop came in with
Speaker 3: my signature on it.
Speaker 2: It was hilarious.
Speaker 1: My memory of this is what Jody coming over to
Speaker 1: me with like a beat red face and I'm like,
Speaker 1: what's wrong with you? And She's like I signed all
Speaker 1: the props and I'm like, you did what? And I
Speaker 1: see Steve in my peripheral vision with like baby wipe
Speaker 1: trying to wipe the autograph off of the helmets.
Speaker 3: Sharp you no, less me on a brand new football helmet. Yeah,
Speaker 3: so man, it was I.
Speaker 2: Don't know if it was the next day of the
Speaker 2: next week. That's when you put all of your signatures
Speaker 2: on her door.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, that is right, because you and Cam and
Speaker 5: Mel had come in and signed stuff.
Speaker 3: In my room. You guys had put I think you
Speaker 3: guys had.
Speaker 5: Signed things and put it in my put them in
Speaker 5: my room or put post its on top of things
Speaker 5: in my room that you guys had signed.
Speaker 3: So I was like, okay, okay, it's on. So you
Speaker 3: were taking a nap.
Speaker 5: One lunch and I was in my room and your
Speaker 5: door was closed, and I was like, I'm just gooding.
Speaker 5: So I signed a bazillion little post it notes and
Speaker 5: just covered your door in my signature and escalated things.
Speaker 2: So then I asked Andrew, you mind if I have
Speaker 2: a couple of these post its with their signature on it.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: And then for the rest of the run of Fuller House, Jody,
Speaker 2: the camera could never see it, and I was it
Speaker 2: on take three? Was it on take three? I would
Speaker 2: slip one of those things in, so like she had
Speaker 2: a book she had open, ye, you know, take three, sat.
Speaker 3: One of the posts, or I would pick up a
Speaker 3: mug and in the bottom of it would be my signature.
Speaker 3: And like we're in the middle of scenes. I'm like yeah,
Speaker 3: and I can.
Speaker 2: Just see you like you're seeing the scene. But you're like, Steve,
Speaker 2: you just.
Speaker 3: Like I got got, Yeah, I got got. But it
Speaker 3: really peaked when Andrea took it to an entirely new
Speaker 3: level and uh, I think, please explain, well, I.
Speaker 2: Think you yeah, I think you have read me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't durtn me with a good time. I take
Speaker 1: Frink course very seriously, and I was determined to win,
Speaker 1: so I wrangled Steve and Jim. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I need your help with this. Oh and Kim and
Speaker 1: Mel too. Kim and Mel were instrumental in this. I
Speaker 1: asked Kim, I said, do you have a digital copy
Speaker 1: of Jody's signature, because Kim worked in production. And Kim's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: but why do you need it?
Speaker 3: I said, I'm going to print writing bad checks in
Speaker 3: her name. Yes, I write some wandering fine.
Speaker 1: I said, I'm going to put her signature on two
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty shirts, and I'm going to dress.
Speaker 3: The crew in Jody's signature.
Speaker 1: This was an endeavor because we had to get the sizes,
Speaker 1: everyone's sizes in every department. So this was like a
Speaker 1: labor of love. Thank goodness for for Kim and Mel
Speaker 1: because they did the part that work.
Speaker 3: The best. It was something I will remember for the
Speaker 3: rest of my life. It was the best moment ever
Speaker 3: because it was.
Speaker 5: I walked on stage from where I parked my car,
Speaker 5: which was right next to like the stage door.
Speaker 3: So I walk in and usually like you.
Speaker 5: Walk in and you know, it's buzzing, you hear people,
Speaker 5: someone's hammering something, there's you.
Speaker 3: Know, people laughing.
Speaker 5: It was quiet, there's nothing, and I walked on stage
Speaker 5: and I was like, it's weird.
Speaker 3: It's quiet. So I'm like walking.
Speaker 5: Towards the dressing rooms and I come just around the
Speaker 5: corner of like one of the sets, and there is.
Speaker 3: The entire crew silently sitting in white T shirts with
Speaker 3: my signature on them in the living room set, like
Speaker 3: people on the stairs in the Alco. But the entire
Speaker 3: like the whole crew, including the dog. The dog even
Speaker 3: had a T shirt on and it was I couldn't
Speaker 3: stop laughing.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 3: The most brilliant rank ever, you guys.
Speaker 1: I it was such a proud, proud moment. People still
Speaker 1: wear their shirts like, Gwen, you wear shirt, Steve wears
Speaker 1: his shirt, like we all still wear these shirts.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: I mean, that was.
Speaker 5: It was one of the stupider things that I've that
Speaker 5: I've done on set, and yet it led to some
Speaker 5: great comedy moments.
Speaker 1: So I will never let you live it down ever.
Speaker 5: I just remember being like, oh my because and I
Speaker 5: remember feeling so bad because I just love See so much,
Speaker 5: and I'm like I just really made his day harder.
Speaker 3: Like way harder than it asked. Steve. Oh, he's got
Speaker 3: to clean up my mess.
Speaker 2: And so also, Andrew posted that on YouTube looking up.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if you go to her YouTube you can. If
Speaker 5: it's still up there, I'm sure. Yeah, you can find
Speaker 5: the prank War episode and watch it yourself.
Speaker 3: It's truly worth watching if you like, I mean, because
Speaker 3: you got the behind the scenes of like how it
Speaker 3: was getting pulled off.
Speaker 5: So like, if you want to see this entire story
Speaker 5: unfold in like a ten minute YouTube video, go find
Speaker 5: it on Andrew's page.
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's prank War whatever.
Speaker 1: And yet checkmate, checkmate, Actually check that's what.
Speaker 3: It was, checkmate. And I think I think I gave
Speaker 3: up after that you did.
Speaker 1: I was like, top that you can't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean short of like parachuting into your backyard,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, with like the signature being
Speaker 5: on the.
Speaker 3: Parachute, I don't know what I could have done it.
Speaker 3: That's actually a great idea. I'm gonna pick that if
Speaker 3: you ever pop that.
Speaker 2: Balloon on the gender reveal.
Speaker 3: Ben just thousands of post it notes.
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good idea. See you no shortage of
Speaker 1: good ideas here?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: So apparently a word from our from our amazing producer
Speaker 5: that that video has one point four million views, So
Speaker 5: it's pretty good.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good, right, excellent, excellent, immortalized forever.
Speaker 3: My my screw ups are there to bring joy.
Speaker 2: It was no no big deal to me. I thought
Speaker 2: it was funny.
Speaker 3: It was it was, and it was funny. And like
Speaker 3: it's also because like I don't I am I'm good.
Speaker 3: I'm good, like I trying to make jobbies.
Speaker 2: So it's just like, oh no, and you are probably
Speaker 2: be different if you were somebody that like, you know,
Speaker 2: didn't care about the props.
Speaker 3: And right right, or somebody was just constantly screwing things up.
Speaker 1: I was so like, so sorry.
Speaker 5: And then I think we were doing the thing and
Speaker 5: like people kept asking what what's on the what's on
Speaker 5: that pham finger?
Speaker 3: You know, it's like it's it's me. I thought I
Speaker 3: thought it was a giveaway. There is out it's not
Speaker 3: in the show.
Speaker 2: Well, speaking of the gender reveal, that that popping the
Speaker 2: balloon thing, that bit was hilarious. You were freaking hilarious
Speaker 2: doing that. Oh my god.
Speaker 3: The laying that's right, yeah, laying on top of the balloon.
Speaker 3: Oh jeez, I forgot about that for.
Speaker 2: I watch all these So now I've got like oh okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh I forgot about that ridiculous.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh it's hilarious. Yeah, it's hilarious. Yeah, and I
Speaker 2: like pointed out you guys know where I'm pointing. It's
Speaker 2: hilarious here, old guymon, old man trying to do and
Speaker 2: Andrew what you do? You did a couple of times
Speaker 2: in my two seasons when you would like talk to
Speaker 2: yourself as different characters, Like the one was you you
Speaker 2: and talking to your mom.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, yes, me and Adam hagen Boo were pretending
Speaker 1: to be the safari Oh hilarious.
Speaker 2: There's also another one where when she was quitting, she
Speaker 2: was gonna quit and like, okay, I'll be your friend,
Speaker 2: I'm your boss.
Speaker 3: Okay, Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Those were just hilarious. They were hilarious.
Speaker 1: Such good memories, such good memories. Was it difficult, I
Speaker 1: know when we started Fuller House, Elias was pretty young,
Speaker 1: the boys, the twins were very very young. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: were just babies. Is it difficult working with kids because
Speaker 1: they like to touch everything, they touch and move things around.
Speaker 3: Do you have any stories you want to share? You
Speaker 3: don't have to name names?
Speaker 2: No, you know, actually no, And I'll tell you the twins.
Speaker 2: They didn't you know, they didn't do much Alias. You know,
Speaker 2: Elias was an age and my feeling is they're kids,
Speaker 2: and you gotta let them be kids, because their kids
Speaker 2: make sure you got extras of that prop, you know,
Speaker 2: and they're gonna and at first, and Alives was just
Speaker 2: right at that age where he didn't, you know, and
Speaker 2: after a while he started to become a pro and
Speaker 2: he started to get it, you know, And and it
Speaker 2: was don't get mad at the kid, just explaining to
Speaker 2: the kid, here's what's going on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 2: And I've like all the kitchens I've done, I've done
Speaker 2: really well with all the kids. And the little secret
Speaker 2: behind that is I know how hard it is. I
Speaker 2: know how hard it is for kids. And you guys
Speaker 2: went through that too. I mean, how old were you
Speaker 2: guys when you started in Full House five and ten?
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I was in a Jerry Lewis movie and
Speaker 2: it was the worst debut in movie history, and you
Speaker 2: could just see I was like, my shoulders are up
Speaker 2: here and I hardly moved and Jerry was like, so
Speaker 2: it was a shot. It was a two shot to
Speaker 2: mean somebody else. And Jerry's just off camera, and this
Speaker 2: was a cross you know, cross sight of my head,
Speaker 2: and you know, I'm like this and I'm not doing anything.
Speaker 2: And so he would tell me something to do, and
Speaker 2: so I would like, I look at him and go
Speaker 2: and then go back and do the thing. Oh it's
Speaker 2: just brutally bad. It was brutally bad. So I understand
Speaker 2: how hard it is for a kid, you know. So
Speaker 2: I always have given kids lots of lots of leeway
Speaker 2: about that sort of thing.
Speaker 1: That's a good attitude to have because we had a
Speaker 1: lot of kids on the show, always lots of kids.
Speaker 3: So broke all the cardinal rules kids and dogs.
Speaker 2: And the other thing is I treated them even though
Speaker 2: I knew there were kids and I had those kind
Speaker 2: of expectations. I also treat them like adults.
Speaker 3: Talk to them like people.
Speaker 2: Exactly.
Speaker 3: They're smart, especially particularly Elias Alias was very smart. Oh
Speaker 3: my god.
Speaker 5: And that was I think why I work with him,
Speaker 5: because I would be like, hey, you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: you just like, I'm like, I know you're smart, I
Speaker 5: know you get it, come here and like and then.
Speaker 3: You do it, you know, and it is it is
Speaker 3: so it's such a.
Speaker 5: Like so much is expected of you to put aside
Speaker 5: your normal kideness in order to do your job right.
Speaker 3: And some kids do that really well and some don't,
Speaker 3: and it's you know, it's hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was tough because you got to balance those
Speaker 2: two things. You know, you're there to do a job
Speaker 2: and you're a good thing done. Also, if the kid
Speaker 2: can't have fun during the day.
Speaker 3: Right, and you're not going to get this stuff on.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and the energy that they're they're you know, trying
Speaker 5: to contain is often the thing that makes them great
Speaker 5: in their role and cute and fun and you know,
Speaker 5: so yeah, it's it is definitely, But I imagine working
Speaker 5: with props in particular, because it's like everything that has
Speaker 5: to be in their hand.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh no, no, no, no, no, don't do it.
Speaker 5: No no, no, no, no, no, right, just break the
Speaker 5: glass table at one point, were you there? I think
Speaker 5: that was that Charlie had to deal with that. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: our sound dresser, Yeah, yeah, And it was it was
Speaker 5: one of those like hey, don't do hey, don't do It.
Speaker 1: Was the Jinga set, right, wasn't there a Jinga set?
Speaker 3: The Jenga set?
Speaker 5: And it yeah, and it went a little too I
Speaker 5: think something it got thrown or whatever and it cracked
Speaker 5: the whole table.
Speaker 2: And really, I actually have more problem with crew members
Speaker 2: than with kid actors, really because they'll walk by my
Speaker 2: cart and see a cool thing and grab it, want
Speaker 2: to play with it?
Speaker 1: Oh dang, that's a no.
Speaker 3: No, what's apartment's the worst?
Speaker 1: That's this is the biggest offender, which is the worst.
Speaker 3: Sound.
Speaker 2: They might still be hanging sandbags.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 5: What do you what is do you have like one
Speaker 5: particular prop moment that stands out as like something really
Speaker 5: like complicated that you had to pull off or or
Speaker 5: like that was in a scene that it was like
Speaker 5: there was just a stupid amount of props that had
Speaker 5: to be like interacted with.
Speaker 2: Was There's a couple of things. One was certainly already
Speaker 2: mentioned it the food eating episode the yeah, what was it?
Speaker 2: It was in the.
Speaker 3: Right right the sandwich Oh yeah, that entire episode.
Speaker 2: Was about people eating sandwiches, right, the entire episode.
Speaker 3: I ever seen so much sandwich, right, And so that.
Speaker 2: Was the same thing like the coffee cup. It's now
Speaker 2: you got to go back and have the write amount
Speaker 2: of sandwiches and a mount of stuff run. But for me,
Speaker 2: it was always so during my run, I had three
Speaker 2: prompt masters because a couple of times Jim couldn't be there.
Speaker 2: Remember we made that like fifteen foot sandwich. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: that was Marjorie Coster praterer. Okay, he was the prop
Speaker 2: master on Friends. Oh okay, we shot on the same stage.
Speaker 2: So she was great and Jim was great. And then
Speaker 2: like there was a couple of episodes where I had
Speaker 2: somebody else I didn't know, and it was not good
Speaker 2: situation with Jim and Marjorie. I was used to having
Speaker 2: fully functional camera ready props. So on the episide, when
Speaker 2: you guys went to the wedding expo, oh yeah, the dresses, yes,
Speaker 2: And and you sneak Fernando in in the duffel bag
Speaker 2: in the wheeling double bag thing, right, yes, yes, the
Speaker 2: woman just brings me like a carry on sized duffle bag, right,
Speaker 2: there's a little carry on thing, like you know, you
Speaker 2: can't And I looked at I said I can't. I said,
Speaker 2: you know, what, did you read this crypt A person
Speaker 2: has to come out of this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You known?
Speaker 3: So she finally child, but.
Speaker 2: She doesn't do anything to it to make it work.
Speaker 2: So while we're doing the while we're hears in the
Speaker 2: shawl we claw. I am trying to figure.
Speaker 5: Out, how do you So I remember zipping JP, you
Speaker 5: guys zipping JP up in that bag?
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, And I got a picture of me with
Speaker 2: my head sticking out of the bag as like proof
Speaker 2: of concept.
Speaker 3: Right, You're like, look, a human being canfid in here.
Speaker 2: Yes, exactly. So for me that's when that stood out.
Speaker 3: But it had nothing to do with you know, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean the right team makes all the difference, you know, huge, true, huge,
Speaker 3: got it, very true? And you and once you get
Speaker 3: to be a well oiled machine with people, it's like,
Speaker 3: you know, the slightest little thing you're like, oh wait,
Speaker 3: hold on, that's yeah, I'm not used to this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so set up be the ones?
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, Steve, what are you working on? Now? What
Speaker 1: what's pilling your time? Right now? I'm retired, tired, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm happy for you, but no, because I
Speaker 1: won't see you on set.
Speaker 3: I'm retired and now I'm back, how and.
Speaker 2: I'm back and we're back. However, I will come out
Speaker 2: of retirement for you too. So full of or golden girls.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm in something something, something that we need props for.
Speaker 1: We're gonna.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna. I'm gonna demand that every scene I have,
Speaker 3: I have to have something in my hand and.
Speaker 2: Hand in your hand.
Speaker 3: Prob we're going to hold you to that.
Speaker 1: We're going to hold you to that promise.
Speaker 2: More than happy to really so I'm hoping to get
Speaker 2: so I want to stop put my traveling shoes on
Speaker 2: in Europe in a few years. And I got a
Speaker 2: bunch of friends that live over there.
Speaker 1: Oh cool, So it's that idea. Are you still active
Speaker 1: with your theater group, are you still directing them?
Speaker 2: Or is that sort of well I pulled back away
Speaker 2: from that. Yeah, A bunch of people that that this
Speaker 2: would be more for Dave's pin. A bunch of people
Speaker 2: around me have medical issues. I've had some medical issues,
Speaker 2: so I needed to pull away from it. The last
Speaker 2: two things we did was I did was how I
Speaker 2: learned to drive, and then a street car, which dang you.
Speaker 1: I know, I know, I feel I feel guilty that
Speaker 1: I was looking, but.
Speaker 2: I was looking really forward to kind of you know,
Speaker 2: seeing where we could take Stella. I think it would
Speaker 2: have been really a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: I know, well, and any excuse to spend more time
Speaker 1: with you too, of course.
Speaker 2: Maybe we'll do it again, Jody is Bland, let's do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well right date right, I love I mean, I
Speaker 3: love me some Tennessee Williams.
Speaker 2: So it came out really good. I was really proud
Speaker 2: of it. It came out really good. Yeah.
Speaker 1: We had a great group, great group of actors. It's
Speaker 1: really hard workers, you guys. You guys were outstanding.
Speaker 2: Thanks. I appreciate that. We were really proud of our work.
Speaker 2: We were a little so you know, Jody, we were
Speaker 2: a little teeny company like play the thirty six seat theaters.
Speaker 2: But it didn't matter. We love it.
Speaker 3: That's I mean.
Speaker 5: I I like, I did a reading for a theater
Speaker 5: thing that my friend had written, and like I just
Speaker 5: just sitting there and doing that in a you know,
Speaker 5: and it's not a huge theater, but there there's again
Speaker 5: something about live theater and sort of like the sitcom
Speaker 5: thing that it's h there's a creative energy that builds
Speaker 5: there that is unlike anything else.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, absolutely, so true.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, well, see thank you so much for being on
Speaker 5: the show today. Like it really it made my heart
Speaker 5: smile to see you.
Speaker 3: I just I love this.
Speaker 5: I'm glad we got the full signature scandal, idiot, the
Speaker 5: best and so the problems.
Speaker 2: I I was so happy that you guys reached out
Speaker 2: to me, and and I'm always happy when you know.
Speaker 2: We've so so the people know we reach out to
Speaker 2: each other all the time. Yeah, you know, irls. The
Speaker 2: kids say, well, they may not say that anymore since
Speaker 2: I say it now, right, kill it. I just killed
Speaker 2: it's I love you both to pieces you both. You know.
Speaker 2: I started Fuller House as a job and it became
Speaker 2: a labor of love and I was being with my
Speaker 2: family every day. Yeah, and a lot of that has
Speaker 2: to do with you too, and I would not change
Speaker 2: that experience for anything in the world. I love you
Speaker 2: both great. Thank you and thank you for inviting me today.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, thank you so much. I love you so much.
Speaker 3: We will see you soon, I know.
Speaker 2: Okay, yes, yes, we'll make a date.
Speaker 3: Sounds good. Okay, take care by thanks bye. I adore him.
Speaker 3: I just adore him.
Speaker 1: I adore him too. He's just so kind and generous
Speaker 1: and I just love me and smart. Oh.
Speaker 3: He and I used to talk all sorts of random that.
Speaker 5: I mean, he just he has a brain that works
Speaker 5: like mine where you know, again, like just sort of
Speaker 5: all over the place and we would have the most
Speaker 5: interesting conversations that started one and wound up somewhere totally different.
Speaker 3: But now he's and like finding out he's third generation Hollywood. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean was a child. Yeah, and we didn't know
Speaker 3: these things.
Speaker 1: No, I've learned a lot about the people we worked
Speaker 1: with for so many years, you know, we really have,
Speaker 1: and it's been I love it. It's so great.
Speaker 3: I love it so great.
Speaker 5: It makes me, you know, always kind of fall in
Speaker 5: love with the business a little bit more is hearing
Speaker 5: just all of the different, wild, interesting stories about what
Speaker 5: we get to be a part of.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, we worked with some very very cool people
Speaker 1: in our lifetime.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we really have, and so much fun that we
Speaker 3: get to like interview them again with this as adults,
Speaker 3: I mean, I yeah, so cool. What else will we do.
Speaker 3: It's not like we call up people and just be like, hey,
Speaker 3: I need to have a few questions for you.
Speaker 1: How did you start in the business?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, was this an interview?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, just my own edification, just wondering.
Speaker 1: Yes, this podcast is a great excuse to get to
Speaker 1: know our people.
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 3: It's true.
Speaker 5: And speaking of people that we get to know we
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Speaker 3: And yeah, I think that's it. I think I covered
Speaker 3: all the bases, all the basics, covered all the bases.
Speaker 5: You guys, wellek the outro right, I'm now it's done.
Speaker 3: Now, I can't performance anxiety.
Speaker 2: I believe in you.
Speaker 1: You can do this, Jodie.
Speaker 3: The world is small, but the house is full of
Speaker 3: my signature. Everywhere.
Speaker 5: I've signed everything, every wall, every I've signed the toilet seat,
Speaker 5: it's everything. Yeah, inside of the fridge even, yep, all.
Speaker 3: Of it just full of my signature.
Speaker 1: I will never get tired of telling that story. It's
Speaker 1: my favorite thing.
Speaker 5: Oh and I just I remember the realization of what
Speaker 5: I had done because someone was like, what are you doing?
Speaker 3: I think I might have been Kim was like why
Speaker 3: are you site? And I was like, I thought were
Speaker 3: supposed to sign stuff on the table. Oh and I
Speaker 3: just you were the first person I saw. I like
Speaker 3: relined it to you and was just like help anyway.
Speaker 1: It's very rare that I see you like genuinely embarrassed.
Speaker 3: Doesn't happen off genuinely mortified? I yes, yep, So the
Speaker 3: house is full of my signature. Guys, You're welcome. See
Speaker 3: you next time. Bye,