WEBVTT - Some Time With... David Lipper (Part 1) 0:00:17.880 --> 0:00:20.759 Well, fan Ritos, and welcome to another episode of How 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:24.200 Rude tan Ritos. Today, we are thrilled to have David 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.600 Lipper on the podcast with us. You'll recognize David from 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.400 his role as Viper in season eight A Full House, 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.280 where he played a cool and confident guitar player in 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:37.319 Jesse's band who immediately caught DJ's attention. We can't wait 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:39.200 to talk to him about his time on Full House 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:39.879 and beyond. 0:00:40.200 --> 0:00:41.400 So welcome David. 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:41.880 Yay. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:45.480 Oh well, David, welcome to the show. We just sort 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:47.960 of jump right in with our interviews. We don't warn 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.879 our guests because we like to surprise attack people. But no, 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:53.920 we just jump right in to the interview. So we 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.960 are so happy to have you here. I know that 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.520 we you know, we're reviewing the show, so we have 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.760 made it to what season three, episode nine, so we 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.960 are we have not met we haven't met Bert yet. 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:12.120 But the original full House. 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:12.520 The original full House. 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.440 Yeah, we're going back and watching the original full House 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:16.600 because we've never watched it. 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:23.679 Yeah, it's a true no, not as an adult, we did, 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:27.600 but we did see you. We we've been reunited more 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.120 recently on Fuller House because you came back the high 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:32.520 school reunion episode. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.720 Much fun, so much fun. Oh my goodness. 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:39.240 Yeah, Viper and Nelson got to uh got to square 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.959 off again with Nelson. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:45.800 Yes, yep, yeah, House Sparks was the new Nelson. Now 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.880 for those that I mean, since we haven't made it 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.720 to season eight in Viper's appearance yet, let's give a 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:58.840 little background as to Viper. And he was in Jesse's band, right, 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:03.600 He was like the new young hot dude in Jesse's band, which, 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.480 of course Jesse was a little you know, a little 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:07.080 threatened by. 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:09.960 And then and then. 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:12.480 Then monkey Puppets, by the way, was the name of 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:18.239 the what was it again, Hot Daddy and the Monkey Puppets. 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.560 And I was a monkey puppet. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:22.480 Wow. 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:24.080 We've all had to be a monkey puppet at one 0:02:24.120 --> 0:02:26.400 point in our lives. 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.280 Wow. But you didn't have to dress as a monkey puppet, luckily, No. 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.600 I did have to wear leader hose in one episode. 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:37.480 If you remember, I do, I do? 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:41.200 I remember your your sleeveless shirts, like they always had 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:42.239 you in sleeveless shirts. 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:44.280 They like to show the muscles. 0:02:44.480 --> 0:02:46.600 Yes, he it was a gun show every week. I 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:47.000 loved it. 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:49.520 Yeah, but yeah, it was so you you know, he 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.800 was the new confident dude in the band. And of 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.800 course at this point season eight, DJ was, you know, 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:57.880 senior in high school, graduating high school. 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:05.080 Yeah, so they the Viper. DJ was there. 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:09.760 Welcome back Carter band as a kid, and John Travolta's 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.000 Finny Barberino right of that character. So I tried to 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.560 bring some of that into into Viper and kind of 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:19.000 some rocker version. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.320 Yeah, I was going to say, what was how did you? 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:26.720 I mean, were you were you close to a monkey 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.000 puppet in real life or were you were you like 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.160 totally the opposite of a monkey puppet, like like. 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:37.600 A music guy. I was all through high school, I 0:03:37.640 --> 0:03:38.080 was a singer. 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:39.880 I mean, with hair like that, you had to be David. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:43.920 I'm sorry, now that's where the hair requirement and I 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.320 you know, we peaked, I would say when I was 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.440 about eighteen and we won the Battle of the Bands 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.000 at Montreal. It was a big deal. But what happened 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:53.560 is I went off to college and I was a 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:56.240 musical theater major, which is very strange. 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.480 Because I'm a theater kid myself. Yeah. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.560 Yeah, I was that had kid who played varsity hockey 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:02.680 and also was a musical. 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:07.520 Theater guy, I love rad. It's so rad like and 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.640 I just said rad, but yeah, it's like that's I 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.840 love that. I love people that are like, no, I 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.119 can do. I'm like sports and creative. 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:14.480 You know. 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.279 Yeah, I don't care. I don't fit in with either 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.000 of you groups. So what I'm saying, I'm going to dance. 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.760 I was in chorus line in yellow tights, prancing through 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:25.520 the stage, and then the hockey guys were like really. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:27.440 And You're like yeah. 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:31.560 And I also have incredible flexibility and endurance because I 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.039 dance and. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.760 One of two straight guys in the entire musical theater department. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:43.440 You killed you killed my friend, yep, yep, good times. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:44.080 I love it. 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.320 Yes, I think I dated every dancer in the dance company. 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:50.000 It was pretty much my entire data. 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:54.240 I mean, I feel like as the like the handful 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:59.080 of straight men in a theater department, that's just the requirement, particularly. 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.839 In college department, the musical theater department. 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.760 Right, That's what I mean. Yeah, the music it is not. Yeah, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.080 your your your odds are good. 0:05:08.400 --> 0:05:10.039 We'll put it in that that's were very good. The 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:11.880 ratio was good, The odds were good. 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.000 I got to be honest, ye, forge and now you 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.520 can sing the music man, you know what I mean. 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:22.880 So it's really winning all around. Yeah, that's so great. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:24.719 Where did you go? Where did you go to college? David? 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:29.799 I went to Emerson College and bo okay cool. Notable 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.400 alumni include Kevin Bright, who was a producer on Friends 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:37.320 and what happened funny enough is they kept Bright, Coff 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.479 and Crane. They were making two pilots at Warner Brothers. 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:44.160 One was Friends and the other was little show called 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.920 The Secret Life of Harry Green, and then they decided 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.280 to cast me as Harry Green. And then they changed 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:52.279 the name's reality Check. But this was like a big, 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:56.080 big this was they actually thought this was had a 0:05:56.080 --> 0:06:00.479 better shot than Friends because we tested so uh like 0:06:00.720 --> 0:06:05.640 huge test scores eighty five, eighty seven. And when I'm 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.560 talking about test scores, of course some time about test 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:10.800 audiences before they released a pilot, and I love it. 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.160 He knows, like sometimes you get the little thing people 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:14.480 are like, wait, you have to take a test to 0:06:14.520 --> 0:06:17.320 become an accurately now sat right? 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:17.599 Yeah? 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:20.040 No, They basically like make people watch your stuff and 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:21.120 then go, so what did you think? 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.520 And then they score. 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:27.600 And so we ranked like the highest Warner Brothers pilot. 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:33.520 It was an unbelievable, unbelievably funny show that starred me 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:37.599 and then my co stars were these little people who've 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:42.000 kind of had decent careers Giovanni Ribisi, Hillary Swank who 0:06:42.040 --> 0:06:46.279 may have won a couple of Oscars. Made my girlfriend, 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:49.360 and my little sister was played by somebody who really 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.000 went nowhere, Killy Coco. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.400 Oh, just her right. 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:56.960 And of course I was a star of this show. 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:01.200 And Fox got the rights to ball Over the Summer, 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.600 and that the last second they pulled us because we 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.200 were going to be on Sundays between Married with Children 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:08.040 and The Simpsons. 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.640 Oh my god, what a slot. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.600 And then they pulled us. Like I was celebrating in 0:07:13.600 --> 0:07:16.240 club bed and I got back. My manager's like, I 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:17.520 don't know what happened. I don't know what happened. 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.520 Oh like the business, this is the business. 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:26.120 Wow, resident of Warner Brothers at the time, Warner Brothers Television. 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.160 He said to me said, look, we're you're we're fans. 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.360 I'm a fan. We're going to put you on another show. 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:33.480 And that's when they put me on Full House. 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.080 Ah. So that was it. Yeah, amazing. 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.000 We lucked out because of that, although I feel bad 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.720 that you lost. What an amazing opportunity and it was. 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:45.360 Such a good show. In fact, if you go on 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.160 the YouTube and you type in reality check David Lipper, 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.720 it'll pop up and you can see the pilot. It's 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:53.520 it's up on there. 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:54.960 Oh okay, oh my god. 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:58.400 It's really actually wild to see a very young Hilary Swank, 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.840 a very young Jewe right, and a really young Kailee 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.720 Coco who's like like twelve or ten. 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.000 That's crazy. It was like when Yeah, I'm in Bob 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:14.440 did the show and bree uh uh, Lawrence lars Larson 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.560 excuse me, bre Larsen, Yeah, played his daughter or whatever. 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:21.960 You know, it's just the weird sort of the weird 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.640 circles that happen and then someone goes and shoots off 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.640 in one trajectory and you know, yeah. 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:30.320 And don't forget back in those days, the nineties, they 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.360 made like twenty five half hours and twenty five hour 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:34.959 pilots for each network. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:40.320 Right, Yeah, it was, and it was the heyday of 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:47.000 great like sitcoms and TV appointment television, all of that 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:51.000 kind of stuff. Yeah, we we got to have the 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.679 fun of that experience in the nineties because it's definitely 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:54.600 it was just a. 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.040 Much more profitable, easier business. In those days you only 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:02.200 had four channels, you know, really forming channels. You had 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.400 most people watching television and not diverted now to social 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.160 media and all these other places, and so the advertising 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:11.679 dollars could really focus on these places and know that, 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:14.640 you know, everyone felt comfortable, residuals were good, like all 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.840 that stuff worked. Now it's tricky, you know, the streamers 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:20.920 and the dilution of content everywhere. You know, there's so 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.480 many platforms, there's so many places to get content right, 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:25.600 really hard to get and it's very niche. 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.160 It's like there's there's a small audience that really rapidly 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:33.120 loves a particular thing and but then maybe nobody else 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:34.680 knows about it, you know what I mean. But it's 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:37.720 very popular with their which is great in some respects 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.640 because you know, we there's so much out there to watch, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:42.200 but it does make it really hard to kind of 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:43.880 be successful now. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.559 I have a question though, David, going back, who. 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:54.040 Was your influence in like theater and sports and were 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:58.800 your parents people that did that like that did theater 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:00.920 and sports or were they like or were you just 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.480 like you know, what I want to try everything, Like, 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:05.560 I'm just fascinated by that because most, but truly most, 0:10:05.800 --> 0:10:09.480 like young guys would be like, if I play sports, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.440 I don't want to do the other thing. 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:13.720 And I just I think it's so great. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:17.480 Was My dad was an athlete football in high school. 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.280 He played basketball in high school and unfortunately his knees went, 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.920 but otherwise he probably would have been a pretty pretty 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.440 good star athlete going through college and went to McGill 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:32.000 where he married my mom in Montreal. My sister also 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:36.280 star athlete, my brother, star student. So I was kind 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.160 of like, geez, what can I do? And I was 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:42.679 a decent athlete, you know, I played hockey all through 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:46.679 high school, tennis, golf, like I do all those things, 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.160 and I'm decent. I was always a good player, good 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.400 enough to make varsity, but never great. You know, there 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:55.760 were always guys a lot better. The one thing I 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.680 could do that for some reason, you know, I didn't 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:00.560 think it was that hard, and everybody else was like, wow, 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.720 that's amazing you can do that was singing and act 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.680 and so I started doing musicals. I think as young 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:09.840 as eight, I did the years, and being a Jew, 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:11.960 it was pretty funny that I joined the church choir 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:14.320 to do the Gondoliers at a church. 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.839 I mean the opportunities where you know, you go where they. 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:20.960 Are non denominational. 0:11:21.040 --> 0:11:21.880 Yeah, yeah, there you got. 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:23.840 So I just went, okay, you just like to sing. 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.319 I like, get them out of the house, go sing 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.480 with people who sing. And that's kind of where it happened. 0:11:30.559 --> 0:11:32.040 And by the age of nine, I think I was 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:35.559 starring in a synagogue production again across the street from 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:39.840 the church, right, and I got these great reviews and like, 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.120 who's this kid who joined you know who? I was 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.000 like the youngest kid ever in this theater group, and 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:49.080 people started started giving me all these compliments. And I 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:52.840 just kept booking the leads in musicals, which I did 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:56.800 all through high school, and just always kept getting great 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:00.480 parts and great reviews and whatever these reviews meant from 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:03.960 these local papers or whatever. And then eventually just said 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:06.200 I'm going to go do this in college, got my 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:10.120 degree in musical theater, and then really just never wavered 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:13.200 from my moving to LA and I'm going to do this. 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.360 And you know, I put a lot of pressure on myself. 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.480 I said I'm going to give it one year. You know, 0:12:18.559 --> 0:12:21.040 I made a deal with my family. You were like, listen, 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.400 you're on your own. You got to pay your own bills. 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:24.040 Good luck to you. 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:25.320 How old were you? 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:28.760 I'm struggling. My dad said, call me go to business school. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:31.880 I'll pay for everything. So I'm like, like, after n 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:34.760 I struggling, Like should I just go get an MBA 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.320 and just be done with this? And then like boom, 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.200 I booked like three things and I'm like, I got 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:42.720 enough money for the next year. I'm staying right, yes, 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.000 And that's it. Never looked back, you know. By the 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:48.600 next year, I'd booked this pilot and then after that 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:49.520 I was on full house. 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.040 How old were you at the sign, David, I moved to. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:55.120 LA at twenty one. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:56.679 Wow. 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.960 Yeah, that's great luck too for someone just starting out 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:02.400 out in LA to book a pilot and then book 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:03.240 a recording career. 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.160 On my audition, here's what happened. I knew one guy 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.280 who had been a counselor at the theater camp I 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:10.920 went to. I went to a theater camp called Stage 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:14.160 Doore Manor in New York in the Catskills, and a 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.120 lot of great people came out of there. Johnny Cryer 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:18.480 came out of there, Josh Charles came out of there 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:25.560 a lot of really talented people, and so I was 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.480 I was already like super focused. This is what I'm 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.640 going to do this, this is how I'm going to 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.600 make it. I didn't realize what was going to happen 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.280 is I was going to shift from musical theater into 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.240 straight acting, and I just kind of said, I'm going 0:13:38.280 --> 0:13:40.160 to go with the flow. But what was so great 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.880 about Full House is I got to do both. And 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:46.000 that's really the last time I had this opportunity to 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:50.120 also do music and also do the acting in one piece. 0:13:50.200 --> 0:13:52.600 And I'll never forget that, and like how special that 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.640 was for me because I could see this trajectory happening 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:58.320 where I think I'd made an album. I made a CD. 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.800 We had CDs back and ordered it on actual tape. 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.160 Yes, we had reels. 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.920 It was an actual physical thing you could touch. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.160 You know, it's on my website by the way, David 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.760 Lipper dot com. But you know, I just could see 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.760 that was not going to be the thing. And acting 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:17.319 was really. 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:21.600 Really as brutal as acting is. To break into music 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:26.120 is like, oh my god, it's. 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.080 It's so hard. And but this one guy who was 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.680 a counselor at this theater camp. I called him up 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.240 when I got to La. I'm here for two weeks, right, 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.760 I got my little Honda Civic and staying at a 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:42.400 family relative house. And this guy Mark Sachs, who was 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:45.600 a big casting director. He goes, listen, I'm going to 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.360 do you one favor because I loved you in Fiddler. 0:14:49.280 --> 0:14:51.120 He said, here's what I'm going to do. I have 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.400 a friend Ted Han who's casting the show called Step 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.960 by Step. I think you're perfect for it. I'm getting 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.320 you a pre read. Don't ask me for another favor. Unbelievable. 0:14:59.320 --> 0:15:01.920 I got a preread. What's a preread? Okay, let's go. 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.800 I go down to by the Way. I just remember 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.640 it was called Laura mar Oh yeah, yeah, that was 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.520 where we yet, right. So I go down. I meet 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:12.200 with this guy is like, oh, yeah, you're you're a 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.960 Mark's friend. All right, let's go. Let's and read. Let's go. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:20.320 And he was like, oh, you're pretty good. Let's let's sorry. 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:21.800 Can we start again, Let's start again. 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.520 It's always great when you go into a casting director 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.040 and they're like, hey, you're going to suck, but go 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:26.400 for it. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:30.720 You're just like Yeah. It's that part of in person 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:34.000 auditions when you're like, wow, I should just I'm just 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:44.960 gonna go. They won't notice whether. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.080 He's staying does not want to see me. But then 0:15:47.080 --> 0:15:50.760 he's like, you're fantastic. I'm like, I keep telling people this, okay. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.760 So he goes, I'm going to bring you to producers. 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.680 I'm like, unbelievable. I don't even know what it means, 0:15:55.720 --> 0:16:00.000 but let's go go to the producers. They're like, I'm 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.280 you're fantastic. I'm like, okay, do I have the part? No, 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.200 you got to go to studio studio. 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:08.800 Yeah. It's like the video game. You just keep increasing 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:09.920 boss levels to fight. 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:11.920 I don't know what's happening. I don't have an agent. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.480 I don't have like and so he goes, look, I 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:18.720 got to get you an agent. I go okay. He goes, 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:20.960 you're going to get some phone calls. My phone starts 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:24.040 going off the hook. Every manager agent's like, we heard 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:26.960 you're testing for this show. And it was already picked 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.280 up because it was a Miller Boyett show. They were 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:34.000 already on for twenty two and I was up for anyway. 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.680 Came down to me and Sasha Mitchell for this role 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:38.960 of Cody, the cousin who lives in the vand right, 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.760 and for some reason it was at Sony and I 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.200 can't remember why made no sense, but anyway, we're at 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.400 the Sony lot, which is a huge lot for those 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:50.320 who don't know, and I go in crush it. Really 0:16:50.360 --> 0:16:52.400 the Viper character is the way I did it, you know, 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.120 the Vinnie Barberina ball cap on. This is like, so 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.080 I already like felt really good about this kind of 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:02.640 character that I that I've been working on. And they're hysterics. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:05.840 They're like, listen, Sasha is still not here. If he 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.679 doesn't show up in five minutes, it's yours because we 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:12.240 absolutely love you. And and it was my birthday on 0:17:12.280 --> 0:17:15.239 top of everything. Was it was August thirteenth, so I 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:18.760 was like, oh my god, okay, it's my birthday. It's right. 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:23.840 This is unbelievable. And at four minutes and fifty seconds 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.320 in Walksasha Mitchell. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:28.399 Oh and he tackle them in the hallway. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.800 Now it's like I got so lost. His place is 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.800 so big. It's like, man, I'm like, I'm not going 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:35.520 to lose to this idiot. Am I in like wait 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.200 a second. The character is an idiot, right, Oh no, 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:42.840 And so then he comes out. They go in, They go, David, 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:45.280 can you come back in? I go sure. They're like, 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:48.000 we love everything you did. There was something about him, 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:50.440 there's a Midwest thing. Could you do the same performance, 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.640 take out the New York accent? And I'm like, oh, 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:57.520 the whole Pinny Babrino thing that I just worked on. Okay, yeah, sure, 0:17:57.560 --> 0:17:59.639 I'll anyway, I do that. We go back, We go 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.080 for it now. As you know, usually they make the 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:06.440 pilot decisions in the room. They took three days. Oh wow. 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.960 Apparently this went back and forth. I think maybe Miller 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.400 and Boyette themselves were at odds on it. I don't 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:16.320 remember whatever happened. It took three days, and then finally 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:19.360 they decided to give it to Sasha, and the casting 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.240 director I'll never forget this, told me the final decision 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.880 was a marketing person who said they thought Sasha would 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.960 sell more lunchboxes and that was the end. 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:28.879 Wow. 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:30.840 So but whatever, I got an agent out of. 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:32.480 It, step lunch box. 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:37.760 Step, step by step lunch lunchboxes. Apparently that was a thing. 0:18:38.280 --> 0:18:41.600 That's ridiculous. That was the deciding factor. A lunchbox. 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.560 I never had a lunch box. I have never used 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.800 a lunch box, but apparently it's a thing. So so 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:54.240 that's how it started. This was two weeks as same 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:58.119 suits that decided Reality Check should be replaced by a 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:00.040 sports show, so they don't. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.520 Well they lunchboxes again. You know, you just keep getting 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:04.879 screwed over by the lunchbox. 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:07.120 And I you know, I had a bag, a paper bag. 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:08.800 That's yeah, you're like, I didn't even carry it in 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:09.160 a box. 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:11.800 Yeah, never got it. So that's what happened. 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:16.080 Wow, what a what an interesting sort of I mean 0:19:17.160 --> 0:19:21.680 circuitous adventure to get I mean, and that's so many 0:19:21.680 --> 0:19:22.000 of us. 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:27.000 Can you spell securities circuituitus see I R C U 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:30.679 I t O U S. I believe that sounds right 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:30.919 to me. 0:19:31.440 --> 0:19:32.960 Every now and then a word I don't. 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:34.200 Know, Yeah, circuit. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:39.119 It means looping and uh sort of not a direct path, 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:43.600 but yeah, like one of these like so like kind 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:46.840 of looping and going around and going all around the 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.360 place that you want to be, uh but not necessarily there. 0:19:50.400 --> 0:19:52.400 Yeah, there you go. There's your vocab word for the day. Guys. 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:56.200 You're welcome. Occasionally I come out with something smart. 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.600 I love it. This is a good word I use 0:19:58.640 --> 0:19:59.240 this word. 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:02.000 Oh I please do give me word credit. I don't 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:05.679 know what that means, but just if you need to 0:20:05.680 --> 0:20:08.639 be like you get at the bottom of the sentence 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:10.399 about Jody's sweetenedn't. 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.320