WEBVTT - Some Time With... Judy Savage! (Part 2) 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:18.400 Either fan. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.160 Rito's welcome to part two of our interview with Judy Savage. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:25.600 She is the talent agent who changed our lives along 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.480 with so many other actors. So it's truly been an 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:31.840 incredible experience to talk to her and see her again. So, 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.080 without further ado, here's Judy. 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:35.120 What was like? 0:00:35.280 --> 0:00:37.720 Do you remember what were some of these negotiations, like, 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.120 because you were a tough negotiator, oh, studios? Like, was 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.200 there particularly tough negotiation or one that you were really 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:45.559 proud of that you achieved? 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:53.440 The kid the Boys on Tim Taylor's Tool Time. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:54.120 Oh? 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.800 Yeah, I improvement. I remember this. 0:00:58.480 --> 0:00:59.200 Do you remember this? 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:01.560 I remember this because I was good friends with Zach 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:02.880 and Jonathan at the time. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:13.840 I represented two of the boys, not all three, and I. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.520 Think it was Tarn and Jonathan Harrin. 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:19.640 Taron Smith was like six years old when he got it. 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.119 He'd never done anything, and so when he got on 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:28.959 that show an episode, that's all I could get because 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:35.400 he'd never done anything. And Zach was Jonathan Taylor Thomas 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:40.039 had because he had lots of credits. Got well. It 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.479 was just customary that in the third season you negotiate. 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:49.200 So when the third season came. I tried to get more, 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:54.680 and they offered me more tickets to the tapings. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no, 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:58.360 that's not going to work. So I called mothers and 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:02.320 I said, okay, all going to be sick. They're going 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.600 to be sick, and they're not going to go in 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.840 for the callbacks. So I told him they were all sick. 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.400 And it went on and on and on, and I 0:02:12.600 --> 0:02:16.520 remember that they didn't show. Remember that they sent a 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:21.600 doctor and Karen happened to have a cold and like 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:31.480 coughing and sneezing. Uh Zach had a football injury. And 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.840 I don't know about Jonathan Taylor Thomas because he wasn't 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:40.520 mine at the time. But they you've got to be 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.000 willing to say no in order to get more money. 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:50.600 So they came away on the negotiation. And in the meantime, 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.239 they said they started seeing new kids for the roles, 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:58.400 and I sent some of my new kids just because 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.000 I was you know, I was not going to be 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:02.280 bluffed by the way. 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:02.519 Wow. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:08.120 And finally Tim came in and he said, okay, enough 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.359 of this. I want my family back, and I want 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:14.400 the same kids, and I don't want anybody else, and 0:03:14.480 --> 0:03:17.480 they came through with the money and that helped my 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:20.720 reputation because I got there. I was the agent that 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:22.480 broke the back of Disney. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:24.880 Yes, yes, I remember. 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:29.120 I vividly remember this because it was like such because 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:32.519 all like kids and parents that you know, were on 0:03:32.720 --> 0:03:33.520 working on shows. 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:34.639 It was like you did. 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.480 You were always kind of you got the scraps, you 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.240 got the like the leftovers. If you asked for something else, yeah, 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:40.839 it was like, oh, here, we'll give you an extra, 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:42.600 you know, take it to the taping or something that 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.400 doesn't pay a bill. You know, it doesn't work for anything. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:50.920 And yeah, I remember like everyone particularly all of your 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:55.000 clients were like, yeah, Judy get it. It was It 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:56.880 was really impressive to watch. 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:02.640 Also, I got very friendly with the like the people 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.360 that you negotiate with, the attorneys. I'd go to lunch 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.600 with them and chat and talk and be friendly. So 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:13.520 when it came time to negotiate, they were my buddies, right, 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:17.720 And I'd say, Okay, now how much can I get 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:18.040 from this? 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:18.880 Right? 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:23.640 And they'd tell me, well, we're offering you ten, but 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.800 we've got twenty in the budget, so I would hold out. Yeah, 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:32.719 and later on it always I started to I learned 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.120 as I went along, But as I started to get 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.480 a lot more money for the kids, I would get 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:43.840 twenty you sometimes thirty thousand an episode. And also as 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.840 the years went by, there was more money in the business. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:49.200 You know what I mean, you can get I mean 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:52.960 not now it's all been sucked out. But yeah, there 0:04:53.080 --> 0:04:56.320 was a moment it was peak television. It was great. Yeah, 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:57.640 sushi on a Friday night. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.280 We were doing it. I you were at exactly the 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:04.200 right time and it was love. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.840 Yeah, it was we had We got to really enjoy 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.920 the experience of like a network TV. 0:05:09.880 --> 0:05:12.640 Show, and they found any excitement of it. 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.880 Yeah, the producers had to have one hundred episodes to 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.640 sell the syndication. Right, there's no syndication anymore. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:25.560 No, it's yeah, it's changed so much, well, and. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:29.480 It's affected everybody. My son Brad has a production company. 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:35.760 He's having a hard time. Yeah, people that are writers, everybody. Yeah. 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:41.760 Yeah, it's a very different business, uh than when like. 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:48.720 When the seventy eight records went to forty five and 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.440 then went to uh. 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.040 CDs, you know, atrex. 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.280 CDs and then too little. 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:00.560 Right, and then to now it's just in the in 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.839 the air. Yeah, just exist all of. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.000 Those places where you used to rent movies. 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:13.120 Yeah, blockable spell yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was what 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:15.880 was the like sort of speaking about how things have 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:20.360 changed whatever, What was the reason that finally made you 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.520 decide to retire. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:28.280 I was seventy six years old, I think, and the 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:33.160 business well, I had Stella in there. Yes, it was 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.480 very good, and the business was starting to change. And 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:39.119 when I retired, I mean when I was about to retire, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.880 I had thirty six kids on series. So I was 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:47.479 going to sell her the business. And I think I'd 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:51.280 had one knee replaced. So it was getting harder and 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:53.360 harder and hard. Oh, I know what it was, it 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:58.320 really did it. I've had a yes, I remember, and 0:06:59.600 --> 0:07:02.960 I could stay on the phone cast in. Doctors wouldcall 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:05.200 and I'd cough and cough and cough and coffin. I 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.280 still have it, and I've been to every doctor and 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:12.679 every allergist and everything. Anyway, finally I decided I can't 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.760 really do this anymore. And I would think I was 0:07:15.840 --> 0:07:22.000 seventy six, so I'd better get out while the getting 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.120 is good. And so I knew that I could sell 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:30.160 the business for a lot of money, and Stella bought 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:33.800 the business and I sold the building and it was 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:38.040 just the right time. Although I missed it terribly. I 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.880 was gonna say, what do you miss about it? The 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:45.880 kids and talking to the mothers and just the whole business. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:46.880 I love the business. 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:48.840 Yeah, it is. 0:07:49.240 --> 0:07:49.480 It is. 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:51.680 I mean, it's the reason that I think we're still 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:55.160 in it, you know today, is because there is. If 0:07:55.200 --> 0:07:59.520 you love it, there's something about it that is absolutely 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:01.160 truly magical. 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:05.880 Even in the most grueling of schedules, like use, there's 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:11.720 just nothing like it. No, do you remember I remember this? 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:12.400 Uh? 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:15.800 At I believe it was. Was it not the Ivy? 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:17.960 Oh? 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.080 What was that little restaurant that you loved the Ivy? 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:20.800 Was it the Ivy? 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:25.520 No? The little yellow house. Oh that's what you're talking 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:27.320 about Off Vine. There we go. 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.080 I'm like, the Ivy is on Robertson Offline. 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:31.240 Yep. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:35.280 Offvine was the most adorable restaurant that was your favorite. 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.920 It was a few blocks from your office and it 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:42.840 was a little few bungalow that they turned into a restaurant. 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:45.679 And that was always I just always remember being like, oh, 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:46.760 we're going with Judy to off. 0:08:46.640 --> 0:08:48.640 Fine Like that was just always for your West there. 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:50.679 I have a picture of you, me and Chad Allen there. 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:52.760 Well, what I was going to say is for your 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:58.679 anniversary for some i'd there, yep, And we had a 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.240 picture with all the kids, which I still have. Yeah, 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.280 I still have it too. We'll put it on our Instagram. 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:03.559 Yeah. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:05.400 Yeah, we all wore black and white, and I think 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:06.920 you had black and white and red. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:12.040 Yes, and Andrea's mother had gotten us all together and 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:17.880 had a picture taken before that the year or two 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:20.439 before that. But at that time there were so I 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:23.240 had so many kids. I wanted a bigger party. 0:09:31.160 --> 0:09:33.840 Yeah, we took out we took out a page in Variety, 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:39.120 I think, yes, with the congratulations on your anniversary, whatever 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:39.880 number it was. 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.959 At the time. I lasted for forty five years. 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:45.480 Yeah, that is just. 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:50.120 Incredibly impressive, absolutely remarkable, this stay in power that you have, 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:53.280 and to go through these through the decades, the eighties 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:58.200 and nineties, the aughts, and see child actors change from 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.079 you know, the innocent little kids that didn't really know 0:10:01.120 --> 0:10:03.760 what we were doing, like me and Jody, to really 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:08.199 cultivated careers where social media is a big deal and 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:10.920 branding yourself is a big deal and you have to 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.000 be a triple threat, a singer and a dancer and 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.040 an actor. And I think it's so different now that 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.599 it was when Jodi and I were growing up. Was 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:23.040 that a challenge for you as the agent or how 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:25.560 did that change for you throughout the years. 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:32.120 Well, I just sort of learned as I went along, 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:35.800 you know, until it got to the point of streaming, 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:42.120 and streaming was so different thing. I mean, I couldn't 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:45.880 make the money that I had been making before and 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.520 be able to hire employees like I had because at 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:53.040 one time I had eight different people working before me, 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.560 and by the time I retired, there was just Stella 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:04.200 and her son and one other person. Oh no, on Jennifer. 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.080 Oh that's right, Yes, I remember Jennifer. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:10.640 Yep, Jennifer. Now does do you remember the person that 0:11:10.800 --> 0:11:16.040 sent you to me? Jody? She was a person I 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:21.400 can't remember, Phyllis, Phyllis Ellis. She was a person that 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:27.520 would just meet children, interview them, and then send them 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:28.480 to different agents. 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:29.840 Yeah, and. 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:36.040 So there's never been anybody like that since. 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:37.000 I remember Phyllis. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.880 You know what I remember about Phyllis She would always 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.000 have pink lemonade at her house. 0:11:43.240 --> 0:11:44.599 I don't know why I remember this. 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:49.920 I remember it vividly, like the black minute made like 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.800 old school pink lemonade, and she would always pour me 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.240 a glass of pink lemonade because I think she did 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.360 like I don't know, she did like acting stuff too, 0:11:57.480 --> 0:12:00.400 like not teaching, but like I just remember remember like 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.920 meeting with her, and yeah, I have a very strange 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.520 memory of like associating that name. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:09.959 Well, I can always thank billis Henson for sending you. 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:13.199 I was blown away when you came in because well, 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.640 both of you kids, you were so young and you 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:19.679 were so smart, and I think you were reading Jodie. 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.920 Yeah, yeah, I was reading by then. And that was 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:23.960 one of the things that a lot of. 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.160 People were like, oh, she's you know, three and a 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.079 half four, like really until she's you know, reading or anything. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:30.959 And my mom was like, well she kind of is, 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.080 people like. And then we went in and. 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.040 Yeah it was four, and I remember you handed me 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:37.959 a script, you know, and I was like okay and 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:39.199 just started to read it. 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:41.720 Yeah, it's so impressive. 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:45.160 So you were you reading when you came in. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.079 I don't I don't well, I was four when I 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:49.760 came to when I met you, So I don't know 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.360 if I was reading then, but definitely by kindergarten by five, 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:54.599 by the time I by the time I booked my 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:56.880 first full time role, right, I was reading by them 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.839 by days of our lives. Yeah, but no, I don't 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:03.280 remember what. I don't become my exact audition with you. 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:07.120 The kids that could read the most at a young 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:11.720 age always had an advantage. And if you were small, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:17.079 and if you had great personality, yes, yep, so that's 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.400 what I'd look for. But I'd also I would tell 0:13:20.520 --> 0:13:24.320 the parents if I was interviewing the child and the uh, 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.839 they said, I don't really want to be here, my 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.000 mother made me come. I would tell them they don't 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.199 want to do this, and I'd say, what do you 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.360 really want to do? And they'd say, play baseball or 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:39.079 you know something. Yeah, you know, if you want to 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:41.319 get him some training and bring them back, I'll be 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.240 happy to see them. But they don't want to be 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:45.679 here now, and why should we do that to him? 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:51.200 My own grandson who's twenty now, my youngest grandson, Tracy's son. 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:57.440 When he was five, she took a year from working 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:02.280 at NBC and she got some pictures made and she 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.640 got her master's degree, and she got some pictures made 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:10.800 for Michael, and he was also cute, short and talented, 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:16.120 and I sent him on six interviews and he got 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.160 six callbacks and he booked all six of them. And 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.800 it was just at the time he was born in 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:26.520 two thousand and three, two thousand and five and things 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:30.360 were still pretty good then, and he made I don't 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.120 know one hundred and fifty thousand dollars or more, and 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.200 Tracy saved it all. So he's in college now and 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.480 he's paying for most of his college. 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.800 Oh that's the savage way, isn't it right? 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:42.000 You get these kids. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:45.200 Jobs, yeah for college, and we all go to college. 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.160 And yes, so many of. 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:50.440 Your kids clients went to college too, And yeah, it's 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:51.440 just you're remarkable. 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.120 I know a lot of them went to college, Like 0:14:54.680 --> 0:15:00.320 Rioters started college while he was envoy Min's world. Yeah, oh. 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:05.640 Yeah, yeah, they really like again, you you made sure 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:05.880 of it. 0:15:06.080 --> 0:15:08.800 But we also were very fortunate that most of us 0:15:08.920 --> 0:15:12.480 grew up on sets that were warm and welcoming to 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.760 young people, right, you know it was we all. 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.840 Had those states Jose ran for seven or eight years. 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:25.680 I mean you have nothing like that too, No, No, I. 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:28.040 Mean even fuller. We got five seasons. I mean they 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.920 were shorter seasons, but like that is remarkable for that. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.200 It was such a surprise and so amazing. 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:38.680 Yeah, that's a long run for nothing. I mean, like 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:43.760 what other It's really hard to think of other streaming 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:48.040 series that go on for more than three, you know. 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:50.920 So I think we were always very, very very fortunate 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:55.200 in that. Do you have any regrets, anything you wish 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:56.120 you'd done differently? 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:57.120 Not a thing? 0:15:57.680 --> 0:15:58.760 Yes, I love that. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.720 I mean at first, I was when I started to 0:16:03.760 --> 0:16:07.880 get really really busy. I wanted to travel, but I 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:12.000 didn't feel I could I could leave the office to travel. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:16.560 And finally I found in June, just before it got 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:22.120 really really busy, that I could start taking vacations. I 0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:27.480 didn't take vacation for like twenty years, and except in 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:31.080 the summertime. We go back to Michigan where my family 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:35.040 lived and we had a summer home. But like I 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:39.520 was fifty before I got to Europe, and I went 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:43.320 for two weeks and I was so excited to go 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:50.720 to Paris in Italy. And my daughter went to Europe 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:56.600 right out of high school. Yeah, and Mark went to 0:16:56.840 --> 0:17:00.880 Europe for a year after we graduate from college and 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:04.440 he lived in France with a woman. He rented a 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:08.160 room from this woman, and he got a job translating 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:11.760 French to English and English to France. And he's traveled 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.159 all over Europe for a year, and he worked with 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:15.040 mother Teresa. 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:22.399 Oh wow, wow, that's incredible. Yeah, well, Judy, you have 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:23.800 you have really. 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:30.840 Been the catalyst and turning point for a lot of 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:34.760 people in this business who started out young and uh 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:38.520 and who are still continuing today. And I think still 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:45.440 love this business in large part because the beginning experience 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:47.399 of it with someone like you was. 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.760 But it's true, it's true you you. 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:56.920 If I would have had an agent like some other 0:17:57.000 --> 0:17:59.359 people who we want mention, I don't think I would 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:00.679 have wanted to stay in this business. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.800 But I knew my mom knew that you could go 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:05.280 to Judy. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:06.879 Just go to Judy, just go talk to her, and 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.040 whatever it was, you'd get it worked out with us 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:14.159 and you and you didn't pressure us or anything. You 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:19.320 just you really set up so many young people in 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:22.159 this business to have a wonderful experience I think in 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.960 a business that sometimes isn't so great. 0:18:25.680 --> 0:18:28.840 Well, I felt like all of you were my children, and. 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:32.200 You treated us like you really really did. You really 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:32.600 felt it. 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:38.280 We felt that maternal love and protection from you. It's extraordinary. 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:40.120 I mean you you changed our lives in the best 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:46.240 possible way and for success, not just like financially and professionally, 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.920 but like emotionally. Yeah, you set us up to be 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.960 a well rounded humans, you know. I mean we're not perfect, 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:55.320 of course, but like you know. 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.920 We also had wonderful parent Yes. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:03.200 Absolutely did wonderful you know you It was you knew 0:19:03.240 --> 0:19:06.359 how to work with good parents. You knew how to 0:19:06.640 --> 0:19:10.120 like you knew how to work in conjunction with parents 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.920 who also wanted the best for their kids, and you 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.760 tended to avoid the really toxic personalities. 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:28.000 You know, Hey, fan Ritos, don't forget to check out 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.920 our merch at howarudemerch dot com. 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:37.840 I used to go to different cities and do seminars 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.840 with mostly with Diane or Diane I yeah, and then 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.720 find kids and tell them to come for pilot season. 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:50.840 Well I found this in I think it was Arizona. 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:58.320 Two girls, two sisters, and they were amazing girls, and 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.920 I said comfort pilot season. But when they came for 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:07.160 pilot season, the mother was like the worst stage mother 0:20:07.240 --> 0:20:10.680 I had ever seen. Oh, and I didn't take them. 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:14.960 In fact, I chased them out of my office. Yeah, 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:18.280 and was running down the street saying go come back. 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:22.280 They got into the and they both had series and 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:26.640 they both were successful. But it was like, who wants 0:20:26.720 --> 0:20:27.359 to deal with that? 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:29.480 Yeah, it's true, and you know what there are but 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:31.119 there are a lot of people in this business who 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:34.399 would for the right price. And I always I just 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:36.639 have such great respect for you because you you. 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:39.240 Were you guys had wonderful families. 0:20:39.400 --> 0:20:42.080 Yeah, we did, Yeah, we did. It was it was 0:20:42.119 --> 0:20:42.879 a group effort. 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:46.120 It was a group effort, and because we had wonderful families, 0:20:46.359 --> 0:20:49.800 we wound up with an agent who saw that and 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:53.320 was also a family person yourself. You were like you, 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.040 you know again, you were you were Auntie. 0:20:56.280 --> 0:20:58.159 You know, you were like you. 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.760 You made us all feel very safe and comfortable, and 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:03.879 I think you made our parents feel safe and comfortable too, 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:04.800 trusting you. 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:07.720 So thank you for that, Judy. It means a lot. 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.359 Oh that's so sweet. Thank you both. 0:21:11.960 --> 0:21:14.560 Yeah, we love you so much, Judy, like you're just 0:21:14.680 --> 0:21:18.159 You're so special to us, and I'm so happy that 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.640 you came on our podcast to yes share these stories 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:23.600 in this, we get to reunite. 0:21:26.880 --> 0:21:28.280 What is the name of your podcast? 0:21:28.800 --> 0:21:31.800 It is how Rude Tanner Ritos. 0:21:33.040 --> 0:21:36.720 Yes, it's both of our catchphrases from Full House combined. 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.399 To mush together because you know, we didn't want to 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:40.320 we can pick one. 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:45.560 You can't do that, no favorites. So yeah, I think 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:49.040 Judy's frozen free. She's she's either really impressed or she's 0:21:49.119 --> 0:21:52.840 frozen right. Oh, amazing, there she's back. Yay. 0:21:53.119 --> 0:21:55.040 We were just saying that we that when we that 0:21:55.160 --> 0:21:57.440 when we grow up, if we ever do that, we 0:21:57.560 --> 0:21:59.919 want to that we want to age like Judy Savage 0:22:00.200 --> 0:22:01.560 because you're kind of fabulous. 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:05.880 Well, thank you so much for being on the show 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.240 with us today, Judy. It was really really a pleasure 0:22:08.320 --> 0:22:08.760 to talk to you. 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:12.480 It was so great to see you. Guys. If you 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:16.959 ever want to come here and have lunch, I will absolutely. 0:22:16.480 --> 0:22:19.560 Do it because I'm relatively close. So yeah, I'm gonna come. 0:22:19.840 --> 0:22:21.439 I'm gonna come knock on your door. Maybe my mom 0:22:21.440 --> 0:22:22.800 will even come with me because I know she'd love 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:23.080 to see you. 0:22:23.320 --> 0:22:24.240 That would be wonderful. 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:31.160 Yes, Heartbeat, the food is not that great, but well 0:22:31.760 --> 0:22:34.400 we'll figure it. That's all right. I'm not going about 0:22:34.440 --> 0:22:35.760 the going for the company. 0:22:36.080 --> 0:22:38.080 You know, it's about the company. 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:41.000 Exactly, exactly. Well, thank you so much, Judy, we love you. 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:43.040 Thank you for joining us today. 0:22:43.560 --> 0:22:48.920 You made me feel so good. 0:22:49.280 --> 0:22:53.000 Well it's you deserved, well deserved thing. 0:22:54.080 --> 0:22:59.080 Bye Judy, Bye Judy. That was so great. I love 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:01.160 I just love Judy Savage. 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:03.720 Like doesn't it just fill your heart with just so 0:23:03.880 --> 0:23:04.520 much joy? 0:23:04.720 --> 0:23:05.080