WEBVTT - Some time with… Dave Coulier (Part 2) 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:20.040 We are back with part two of our interview with 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.040 the one and only Dave Koolier. We are so thankful 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:25.479 to him for joining us and being so candid about 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:30.360 questions we've never known the answers to. Without further ado, 0:00:31.320 --> 0:00:33.519 here is part two of Dave Kolier. 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:36.839 I would love to hear like how you I mean 0:00:36.880 --> 0:00:39.559 talking about comedy and stuff, Like how you got into comedy. 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:42.720 I know, you know, my Finder was a big part 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:46.640 of that, like growing up in Michigan and stuff, and. 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:52.120 Mike Mike uh talked me into moving to la when 0:00:52.120 --> 0:00:56.760 I was eighteen years old. I got into comedy just from, 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.080 you know, the way a lot of comedians do just 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:04.480 through pain, and it was a way to you know, 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:06.760 deal with pain that was happening in my life. I 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.200 grew up in a really strong Catholic family, in a 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:14.760 Catholic neighborhood, in a Catholic community, and I went to 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:18.240 Catholic school. I went to Catholic All boys High School, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:22.640 and so you know, all that guilt that is associated 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:28.200 with that came crashing down on me when my parents 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:30.440 got divorced. I was nine years old. I was in 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:35.479 third grade, third grade, starting a new Catholic school, and 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.760 my way of dealing with the pain that was at home. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.800 Because my parents were both lovely people, they just should 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:50.080 never have procreated together, you know, But I'm glad they did, 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:56.440 you know. But it was my coping mechanism of feeling 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.360 all this Catholic guilt on a daily basis was to 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:03.480 be the funny kid in the class. And so I 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.919 learned very early how to do voices with my brother. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:08.960 My brother and I would lay in our bunk beds, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.600 and my brother was the funniest person I ever know. 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:18.440 He was so dry, but so brilliant and witty, and 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.800 he was a savant. He could play classical piano just 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.680 off the top of his head. He was a sculptor. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:29.120 He was a painter, but very very troubled, you know. 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:33.600 But he truly was a savant with a lot of 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:37.680 different things. And so my brother and I, my brother 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:40.799 taught me how to do impressions, and we would lay 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:45.040 in our bunk beds at night, and we would do 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.520 impressions of our neighbors and our family members and friends. 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.360 And my brother would do these impressions and make me 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.640 laugh so hard. My dad would run into our room 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:57.880 at like one in the morning and go if you do, 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.840 don't knock it off. I'm tired of hearing Hooper and 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:04.440 mister Rondo in here. And those were our neighbors across 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:07.480 the street. So my brother Danny and I we would 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.960 sit on the we would sit on the front porch, 0:03:10.520 --> 0:03:13.519 and we called it it narrating the neighborhood. And so 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.360 we would just look across the street. You'd go, okay, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.400 you take mister Maddox and I'll take mister Hooper, and 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.959 you take mister Rondo and mister Gat and we would. 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:26.079 Just I can't stand at these kids. They're lawnmower. I'm 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:30.800 just a dub old buffalo. And then you know, I 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.600 would my brother would do mister Hooper. 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:38.080 I can't stand my own stomach because he had a 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:41.000 huge stomach, and my brother would always do this bit. 0:03:41.440 --> 0:03:44.840 I can't stand my own stomach. You know, my belly 0:03:44.920 --> 0:03:47.960 button is like a jar. I could pour a dirt 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:49.760 in it and grow a plant. 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.320 And we would we would make each other laugh so hard, 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:55.880 but we would carry that into our bunk beds late 0:03:55.880 --> 0:04:01.640 at night, right And and I I thought farts were 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:05.960 the funniest thing in the world. Still do because I had. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:11.040 I had nine uncles growing up, and my joke was I. 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:14.560 I pulled and some sort of hereditary bowel disease. So 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:18.560 absolutely so needless to say, it runs in the family 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:19.279 quite literally. 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.880 So my joke is, I had nine uncles growing up. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:27.839 I pulled more fingers than an orthopedic surgeon. So so 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.520 you know, I was a funny kid, and my my 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:36.440 aunts and uncles were all funny. My dad was really funny, 0:04:37.000 --> 0:04:41.479 my mom was a great laugher, my sisters were terrifically funny, 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:46.240 and so comedy for me was just basically something that 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:51.000 brought intense joy laughter, and because I wasn't here in 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:53.760 those laughs when I got home, the laughter would stop 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:56.240 when I got home because it was very painful the 0:04:56.320 --> 0:05:01.400 relationship between my mom and dad. And then I was 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:05.440 a jock. So being a jock, you've got a built 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:06.159 in audience. 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:06.400 You know. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.080 I would play hockey and there's twenty kids sitting around, 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.320 and I would do impressions as the coaches. It was 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.200 just an extension of what I was doing at home 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:16.039 with my brother, but I brought it into locker room 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:22.359 when I got into high school. Let's back up, I 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.839 met Mark Sandrowski in third grade. 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:25.880 Wow. 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:30.040 And Mark Sandrawski. By the way, just as a side 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.680 note here, Mark Sandrowski was as far as he relates 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.520 to us, he is Dave's one of Dave's best friends. 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.359 But he was our second ad on full House for 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:44.080 a while, and then he went on to successfully direct 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.440 Big Bang Theory and win Emmy's and he's directed a 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.279 ton of shows and he's an incredible sitcom director and 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.040 he's a lovely human being. A side note anyway, back 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:53.279 to you. 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:58.000 So I knew Mark Mark and I Mark and I 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:00.880 met in third grade and I walked by his desk 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.479 to go get my paper from the teacher, and he 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:06.760 was drawing in his notebook and I was like, what 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.160 the heck is that kid doing? So I walked back 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.440 up my paper. I walk back and I go, what 0:06:11.480 --> 0:06:14.280 are you drawing there? He goes, Oh, these are Martians. 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:18.880 And I'm like, I'm gonna like this kid. And so 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:23.479 we became best friends and we started writing comedy bits, 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:28.159 probably end of third grade, fourth grade, and we would 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.480 do little sketches at the hockey banquets, and you know, 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.719 he would always have me do voices and he would 0:06:33.720 --> 0:06:36.240 be the straight man and I would do the funny 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:37.000 guy and. 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.440 So you know where we're cut it out came from. 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:44.080 Yeah, I stole it from him because his brother. He 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:48.200 and his brother Dwight were a comedy duo and they 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:52.599 used to open for me and they were called Ski 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:57.240 Squared Sandrowski, so it was Ski Squared and Mark would 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.520 do this Mark Suave character where he would button his 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.720 shirt all the time to a woman in the front, oh, 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:05.440 and go, I know what you're looking at. Now cut 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.400 it out? And I told him, I said, I'm going 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:11.200 to steal that, so I did. I started using it 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.800 on a show that I hosted on Nickelodeon called out 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.320 of Control, and it became kind of my catchphrase. I 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:21.000 remember doing cut it out at one of our run 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:24.840 throughs early on at full House, and I remember the 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.160 producers laughing and they were like, what was that weird 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.680 thing you did? I went, oh, cut it out. They go, 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:33.720 we're gonna we're going to write that in and they did. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:39.480 You know, so so comedy for me. I had a 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:43.800 partner in crime early on with Mark, I knew another 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:49.480 funny kid, and then with stand up. I started doing 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.440 impressions in high school at Notre Dame, where Mark and 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.560 I went and I could do dead on impressions of 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:01.560 about six or seven teachers and our principal. And one 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:05.960 day we're in the we're in the cafeteria for lunch, 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.920 and I was doing this bit using our principal's voice, 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.560 and all of a sudden, everybody's eyes stopped and was 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:15.480 looking behind me, and I was like, uh oh, and 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:18.280 I turned around and it was the principle and they 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.640 talked like that, David, I'll see you down in my 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.600 office now. And his name was Conrade Veschan. So I 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:27.720 went down to his office and he said, you and 0:08:27.800 --> 0:08:32.760 that Sandrowski fellow, you know those kids follow you. Why 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:37.520 don't you do the announcements? And I said really like 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.840 he goes, yeah, you do it, and I said as you, 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.040 and he goes, well, yeah, whatever you want. So Mark 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:47.120 and I started writing the announcements in the morning, and 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:50.559 I would go on as the principal of our school. 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.240 Oh my god, that's doing the announcements. 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:56.280 So that's kind of how kind of how I really 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.400 got hooked. And we were always listening to George Carlin 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:05.000 and Richard Prior albums and sketching stuff and creating funny characters, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.600 and then we added another friend of our, Tom Keenan. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:12.120 So everybody called us the Three Stooges, and we would 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:17.599 perform at October fests and you know, charities and banquets 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:22.480 and the Hockey Awards local you know, the banquet, we 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.800 would do a show, and so it was really nice. 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.800 By the time I got to high school, we had 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:31.560 a whole troop of nine guys and we would do 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.640 kind of Monty Python Saturday Night live sketches to raise 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:40.800 money for the school. And so that just led into 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.560 doing stand up here in Detroit when stand up was exploding. 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:51.440 My group was Robin Williams, Richard Pryor, Gary Shandling, Bob Saggat, 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:57.480 Jim Carrey, Howie Mandel, Drew Carey, Dennis Miller, Louis Anderson. 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.720 It was an extraordinary time to be stand up, Jerry Seinfeld, 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:08.040 Larry Miller, and it was such an amazing group that 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.000 you couldn't you couldn't follow Jerry Seinfeld and do your 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.640 b material. You had to go on at the comedy store. 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:19.800 And I'm following Shandling, I'm following sag and I'm following Seinfeld, 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:23.000 I'm following Robin Williams, and you know, None of us 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:27.120 were stars. We were just comics. You had to you 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.240 had to go up and really hit it out of 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:32.040 the park following those guys because they were hitting it 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.760 out of the park. So, you know, when I was 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.800 nineteen years old, it was really exciting, you know. And 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:43.040 then I was a stand up for a long time, 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.680 right through Full House, and then I quit. 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:48.800 What made you decide to quit? 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.520 I was burned out. I was doing I was doing 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.760 Full House. I was hosting America's Funniest People on ABC. 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:58.840 I was doing voices on The Muppet Babies on CBS, 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.480 and I was doing voices on the Real Ghostbusters cartoon. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.800 And so I thought, you know, this isn't gonna last forever. 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:07.560 I'm going to tour. I'm gonna do stand up dates. 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:12.800 So there's a theater here in Michigan called Pine Knob 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.320 and it's like ten thousand seats. So Dennis Miller I 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:20.320 played there three times. I cohig headlined with Bob Louis 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:23.199 Anderson one time and with Dennis Miller. The third time 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.800 was with Dennis. Dennis. I opened the show and then 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:32.920 Dennis closed, And during my set in front of like 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:37.240 eight thousand people, I started talking to myself and having 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.040 this inner dialogue, and I was telling myself how I 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.760 wasn't into it, how I was just like going through 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.720 the motions, and like, I caught myself. And I don't 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.120 know how long I was taught, Probably it was probably 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.200 just milliseconds, but I caught myself having this inner dialogue 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:57.640 and I and I thought, ooh, you have just been 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:02.720 on autopilot. This is really awful, and it scared me. 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.560 And I walked off stage, and then Dennis and I 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.600 went out to dinner and I just told him. I said, 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:12.720 I can't do this anymore. And I called Brad Gray, 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.360 who was my manager, and I said, Brad, cancel the 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.080 rest of my dates. He goes, what are you talking about, Dave? 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:23.240 And I said, I'm burned out. He goes, you got 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:25.400 these theater dates. He goes, You're going to make a fortune. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.120 I said, I can't do it anymore. I just scared 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.360 the crap out of myself on stage. So I took like, 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:35.960 I don't know, eight or nine years off and then 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:41.800 just wasn't interested in it. And you know, never say never, 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:44.440 but I don't think I'll do it again. You know, 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:47.839 I achieved everything in stand up. I wanted to do. 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.400 You know. I did an HBO special, I did the 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:56.680 Tonight Show when Johnny Carson was hosting. I was on Showtime, 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:01.199 I you know, toured, I you know, it was it 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.800 was awesome. It was really awesome. But to do it now, 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.520 stand up's hard. It's really hard. And if anybody tells 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.760 you it's not that they've never done it. It's really hard. 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.600 And I know what it takes to put an hour 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.680 and a half together, a killer hour and a half. 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.400 I did an Air Force tour a couple of years ago. 0:13:21.440 --> 0:13:24.320 I did twenty four US Air Force bases and I 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:28.000 had to headline and it was so much work. And 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.720 you have to be on a stage every night to 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:37.120 get good. And I don't want to do that anymore. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.640 It's a lot, a lot of work, you know. And Jody, 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.120 I know you're out doing stand up and you. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:48.679 My finder actually gave me my first opportunity. He had 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.840 me open for him at the Ice House. It was 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.959 my first time getting up and doing original material and 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:56.760 he was and it was because he was like, I've 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.600 seen you. I know you can do this. I know 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:00.480 you can do this, and like I got off the 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:01.840 stage and he was like Bob and Dave would be 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.360 so proud of you, like and that meant the world. Yeah, 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:06.080 but yeah, it is. I mean I get like I 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.760 haven't put as much effort into it because it's it's 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.199 also like a young people's grind, you know what I mean. 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.360 All my friends that are stand ups, like they're out 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:15.840 every night at the club at comedy's door, I laugh, 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.920 going club club till two three in the morning. I'm like, 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:20.720 I got kids that got to get up and go 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.560 to school. And I get, you know, I can do 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.000 a couple shows here and there, but it is, it's 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.520 it is. It's a lifestyle. Being a comic, I see 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.920 is kind of and it's it's awesome and it's great, 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.280 and but it is it's a lot. 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.120 Yeah, and you're either all in. 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:37.920 Or you're not right right. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:41.360 Because you know, audiences will tell you, oh, you're not 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:46.640 all in right just by their response. And I know 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.680 how much effort it takes to write and go out 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.760 just to get five minutes is hard, you know, to 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:58.400 get a five minutes set together that's rip roaring killer. 0:14:58.360 --> 0:14:59.920 Yeah, takes you a month. 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.800 Yeah, at least a month for five minutes, you know, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.040 so to put an hour together is going to take 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.600 you a year. Yeah, And that takes a lot of 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.880 work and commitment, and and you know, I have so 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.320 many other nice things in. 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.440 My life that I can devote that time too that 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.160 you know, I'm not a laugh junkie. I don't need 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:23.440 to hear the laughs. You know. 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:27.880 Did you ever have any other jobs like other Didn't 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.600 you tell me that one time you did, like some 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.400 sort of engineering or something right or some sort of Yeah. 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:36.760 Like I always love bragging about like you and Andrea 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.160 and Scott because like the people that played the stupidest 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.000 characters on our show were actually some of the most 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:47.880 intelligent people. And so I'm always like Dave's like really bright, 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:49.480 like don't let Joey fool you. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:55.520 Yeah. I worked in a mechanical engineering firm here in Detroit. 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:59.360 I was a detailer where you had to draw everything 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.080 by hands. So I had a giant drawing board and 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:07.800 we would design cycloidal transfer units and so I would 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:13.280 take down substations from those huge assembly lines. What it is, 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.840 it's it moves parts down an assembly line, OK. And 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.920 we would design all of these different stations that would 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:27.760 you know, take a piece of steel, rotate it, drill it, 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:30.880 counterbore it, you know, switch it and move it on 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:33.440 to the next station. You know, of the all this 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.040 automation that was going to happen, So I would have 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.600 to break down certain sections of that and draw it 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.760 in detail, it all out, call out all the parts 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.920 and how you could machine it. So I did that 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:51.480 before I moved to LA And I have two sides 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.440 of my brain. I definitely have a creative side, but 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:57.080 I also love the technical stuff, like That's why I 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.960 love aviation. That's why I love flying. And as a 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:04.240 kid growing up, I could never I could never really 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.520 make sense of math or science until I became a pilot. 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.760 And then being a pilot is all math and science. 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:16.119 You know, it's meteorology, it's you know, it's physics, it's aerodynamics, 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:20.119 it's you know, and then there's communication, and then there's navigation, 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:24.600 and then there's you know, all the technical aspects of 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:30.639 just you know, fuel navigation. I love that stuff, but 0:17:30.680 --> 0:17:32.480 it never made sense until I could put it all 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.159 together in a three D package, which is flying an airplane. 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:40.800 And so you know, I love that that stuff, which 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.920 is why I love directing television. You know, you get 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:46.320 to be so creative and you get to work with 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:49.760 cameras and technical aspects, and you know, you put that 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.440 together and you've got this wonderful, funny symphony. 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:55.840 I was going to ask, how did you like? How 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.520 was it directing the show? 0:17:58.760 --> 0:17:58.840 Like? 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:00.400 How was it directing us? 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:03.160 It was a wonderful experience. 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:04.640 How was it directing Bob? 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:06.240 Oh? 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.760 Bob is such a pain in the ass. I mean, 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:14.400 he was just you know, it made sense why directors 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.760 would just shake their heads all those years, you know, 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.200 because I feel like, like, oh boy, he's not off book, 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:26.399 but he's out of his mind, off somewhere making people laugh. 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:28.240 And it's like, Bob, you don't even know your lines. 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:31.679 You should probably be taking that energy and putting it 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.520 into memorizing your life. But you know, he was. He 0:18:35.640 --> 0:18:39.040 was a laugh junkie, you know, he for sure, you know, 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:41.320 if he had an audience there, he was going to 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.240 make sure that they were laughing at him. And you know, 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:46.639 a lot of times it was to his own detriment. 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:51.000 True. I always loved being directed by you. I've never 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.840 the one time I've seen you serious is when you're 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:57.159 flying or when you're directing. Other than that, you're just 0:18:57.440 --> 0:19:00.840 making jokes all the time, but or farting, but. 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:03.400 Yeah, that's true. We joke. We're like, ooh, it's serious day. 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:04.840 It's serious day, serious day. 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.359 Yeah, I know, but did you have to be? 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:08.600 Yeah? 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.399 You know, I built this house that I'm sitting in here, 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:14.120 and it was it was a tough build. It took 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:18.200 me seventeen months. But I approached it like directing a show, 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:23.359 like the plans are your script. I just didn't realize 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:25.639 I was going to be working with so many actors. 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.440 Contractors are a whole world. But you know, I love 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.720 being able to work with all of these different personalities 0:19:34.880 --> 0:19:38.960 doing different things, and then falling back on the script 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:42.240 the plans to make sure that everything was executed properly. 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:45.760 It was a real challenge, but I'm glad I did it. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.199 You know, it was we We love the pictures of 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.880 you in your in your little tractor back hove thing 0:19:54.080 --> 0:19:57.360 with your little hero let me go. Yeah, you've got tractor, 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:00.320 and I just always pictured Dave. I'm like, he's just 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:05.159 he's just plowing something on his property, digging a trench somewhere, 0:20:05.320 --> 0:20:08.360 happy and just with the dogs. And that's it. 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:09.119 Yeah. 0:20:09.160 --> 0:20:13.440 Today I'm going to be loading stone on our driveway 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.000 and we have these big walkways and I have to 0:20:16.000 --> 0:20:20.240 put pea gravel in between those walkway pieces. 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.440 And you're going to drink a lot of water, that's right. 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.320 Yeah, so yeah, we'll be a director later today. 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:33.000 Oh well, enjoy I love that. Do we want to 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:39.000 play one of these? I mean, I mean, well. 0:20:38.920 --> 0:20:41.120 I want to. I want to talk about full House. Rewind. 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:44.239 We can't let you go without talking about Congratulations. Your 0:20:44.280 --> 0:20:49.120 podcast is back. It's very exciting. I love watching it. 0:20:49.119 --> 0:20:50.359 It's true, really really fun. 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:57.040 A unique show that combines video, interviews, impressions, puppets. It's 0:20:57.040 --> 0:20:59.960 like a variety show, and it's so cool to watch 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:00.919 you create. 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:02.520 You thanks. 0:21:02.920 --> 0:21:03.199 You know. 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:05.879 I love being a host. You know, I kind of 0:21:05.920 --> 0:21:10.840 started in show business being a host hosting a series 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.520 on Nickelodeon called out of Control. So I wanted to 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:17.800 I wanted to create something that, you know, I could 0:21:17.840 --> 0:21:21.000 do my voices and have puppets, a little bit of 0:21:21.040 --> 0:21:25.000 Pee Wee's Playhouse, but but kind of drag one foot 0:21:25.119 --> 0:21:27.440 in the world of full House, you know, and do 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:31.840 just something different than a podcast, kind of do a 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:37.040 video podcast and create like a little show around full House. 0:21:37.119 --> 0:21:42.000 So yeah, we we relaunched with Staymos as our guest. 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:43.240 Nice. 0:21:43.280 --> 0:21:45.439 I'm so excited because you guys are going to come on. 0:21:45.920 --> 0:21:48.640 Yes, can't wait, Yes, it would be really fun. Can't wait. 0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:50.880 I can't wait to see the set. The set which 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:54.040 so cool. You got like the plaid, the plaid couch chair, 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:55.720 sitting chair. It's so cool. 0:21:56.040 --> 0:21:59.159 It's so tiny, which is a metaphor for my life. 0:21:59.600 --> 0:22:04.520 But it's just a tiny little set, you know. But 0:22:05.040 --> 0:22:08.240 we're having fun and I get to write the episodes 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:13.679 and it's a real challenge, you know, trying to be 0:22:13.880 --> 0:22:18.359 funny with these characters that you know, I'm borrowing mister 0:22:18.400 --> 0:22:24.480 Woodchuck and comment. We have character Granny Tanner and always 0:22:24.520 --> 0:22:29.119 see her ankles. So it's been really fun. It's been 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:35.720 a real challenge. You know. We're back, which good. I'm 0:22:35.720 --> 0:22:37.080 going to be very busy again. 0:22:37.240 --> 0:22:41.360 So what has surprised you most? Rewatching or I guess 0:22:41.440 --> 0:22:44.320 watching for the rewatching, your watching it for the first time. 0:22:44.960 --> 0:22:50.359 You guys were so good. You guys were so freaking good. 0:22:50.600 --> 0:22:54.000 I mean, you were so funny. Just to have that 0:22:54.119 --> 0:22:57.600 kind of timing. You you can't teach a kid to 0:22:57.680 --> 0:23:00.760 have timing. You just either have that or you don't. 0:23:00.880 --> 0:23:03.280 And I mean, you know, because I'm going back to 0:23:03.359 --> 0:23:07.199 first season. I just watched the scene Jody with you 0:23:07.359 --> 0:23:11.840 in Candice where you get as episode I think it's 0:23:11.880 --> 0:23:16.040 thirteen called Sisterly Love where you get the commercial boat. 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:17.919 Yes we did, yeap oak boats. 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:19.240 Yeah ooatscial. 0:23:20.080 --> 0:23:22.719 So I'm watching you too. And then you have that 0:23:22.800 --> 0:23:26.000 heartfelt scene. First of all, you were so funny in it. 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:30.720 Secondly you have that heartfelt scene and I'm tearing up. 0:23:30.800 --> 0:23:32.159