Speaker 1: Hey, everyone, Welcome to part two of our interview with
Speaker 1: Larry Blumenthal. We can't wait to hear more about Larry's
Speaker 1: extensive career as a camera operator and director of photography
Speaker 1: and a wonderful composer, plus all the memories he's carried
Speaker 1: from full and Fuller House.
Speaker 2: Here's Larry. One of the things that you are most
Speaker 2: passionate about that you kind of touched on is music
Speaker 2: and composing. And I know you did you minor in
Speaker 2: like music composition in college where you did you kind
Speaker 2: of do film and music and that was your I did.
Speaker 3: I got my film degree of course Sandigo State. But
Speaker 3: I and I was always playing music. And I'm self
Speaker 3: taught really as as far as composition and music theory
Speaker 3: and all that. I did go to college for a
Speaker 3: year and a half under the music program and and
Speaker 3: found myself quote failing basic theory because the the I
Speaker 3: had to take the class three or four times before
Speaker 3: I finally passed. And it was only because the the
Speaker 3: gall that was teaching you know, music theory one A
Speaker 3: whatever was actually it was fifty nine A. I remember,
Speaker 3: was a real tight ass. I mean I saw I
Speaker 3: saw her as being like a Catholic nun that was
Speaker 3: in the wrong.
Speaker 2: Calling right right here, like this is not right.
Speaker 3: Ye, do you know what I mean? She was taking
Speaker 3: notes on like whether you showed up and if you
Speaker 3: were late, and all that crazy stuff and.
Speaker 2: All of the worst things to do for any sort
Speaker 2: of art class. Yeah, no one's going to feel creative
Speaker 2: or beyond time or.
Speaker 3: I suppose supposed to be the rules. These are the
Speaker 3: so called rules music theory. Let's remember it's it is
Speaker 3: called theory. Yeah, And I was bored with that because
Speaker 3: I'd already blurted. I mean, I already knew the intervals.
Speaker 3: I already with a circle of fifths was I already
Speaker 3: knew all that stuff. So you know, it was frustrating
Speaker 3: for me. But I did get through it, and I
Speaker 3: got through the first couple of years. And I always
Speaker 3: was always performing. I played wins, I played especially woodwinds,
Speaker 3: and I still play on my sacks once in a while,
Speaker 3: but you know, I was I played English horn, you know,
Speaker 3: the obo, clarinet, flute, you know, all the woodwinds, and
Speaker 3: then you know, I even fumfered my way through a
Speaker 3: couple of you know, trombone and baritone and even tried
Speaker 3: playing the French ront a little bit, and I never
Speaker 3: could do the trump very well. My mouth is the
Speaker 3: wrong shape or something for the ambishure. But you know what,
Speaker 3: I didn't really focus on performance. I I did very well.
Speaker 3: I was actually won a state scholarship in California back
Speaker 3: in high school as the so called best male musician.
Speaker 3: That's kind of weird, oh wow, you know. And so
Speaker 3: that started my college career. And then I went out
Speaker 3: for a recital. This is a true story. It was horrible.
Speaker 3: I went out for a saxophone recital at the end
Speaker 3: of the I think it was my second or third year,
Speaker 3: and I got a transcription of a flute sonata and
Speaker 3: transferred so I could play it on the saxophone and
Speaker 3: had a companist in the whole thing. And it was
Speaker 3: always really fast, very fasted. I could learn the pedagogy
Speaker 3: for almost any instrument. I could learn to play something
Speaker 3: almost immediately, and I did not do any real practicing.
Speaker 3: And I went out there in front of about seven
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty people in the recital hall, and everybody
Speaker 3: was showing up because that this very guy is really good.
Speaker 3: He plays legitimate music on a sack. If you can imagine.
Speaker 3: And I went out there and I completely went white flash,
Speaker 3: just like you were talking about just before we go
Speaker 3: out to start the show, and I just I couldn't
Speaker 3: do it. I couldn't. I couldn't pull it. I couldn't,
Speaker 3: I couldn't hear it. And I began to start, you know,
Speaker 3: you start cycling.
Speaker 2: Right then you're like, oh my god, what are you doing?
Speaker 2: What are you And You're like, I can't be in
Speaker 2: my head and you're like, but I can't not be
Speaker 2: in my head and it's just you're like a a
Speaker 2: horrible feeling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I looked over at the pianist and I
Speaker 3: looked out at them and I said, folks, I am
Speaker 3: not prepared and I'm very sorry. And I walked it
Speaker 3: to the stage and that was the last time that
Speaker 3: I had played my instrument for almost twenty five thirty years. Wow,
Speaker 3: I was so and I went I went full bore
Speaker 3: into just working in the film business. I'm no good
Speaker 3: as a musician. I'm a loser. I'm completely you know,
Speaker 3: I mean, really, this is what I did to myself.
Speaker 3: The most beautiful thing happened about thirty years later. My
Speaker 3: son was in the thousand Ks high school band and
Speaker 3: the the instructor for his musical groups. His name was
Speaker 3: William Haney Junior, an extraordinary musician, studio musician, virtually deaf
Speaker 3: but able to play with the best of them. Played
Speaker 3: behind Sammy Davis, and you know, you know, I mean,
Speaker 3: just unbelievable talent and just a really intelligent and kind musician.
Speaker 3: He drives to my house and he knocks on the door.
Speaker 3: He says, Larry, go get your horn. So what are
Speaker 3: you talking about. You're coming with me, Go get your horn?
Speaker 3: So I go out find it. You know, my sacks,
Speaker 3: I haven't touched it in years. Didn't know I any
Speaker 3: he reads for it or what got in the car
Speaker 3: with him. He drove us to one of the very
Speaker 3: first rehearsals of what was then called the Gold Coast
Speaker 3: Wind Ensemble, which was a bunch of amateur and professional
Speaker 3: adults that played in a wind orchestra. No string except
Speaker 3: for the string days, but all these instruments, about fifty people.
Speaker 3: And he says, I'm going to play the first part,
Speaker 3: you're playing second. I couldn't believe it. I was like,
Speaker 3: why are you doing this to me? I played in
Speaker 3: that band for about two maybe three years and then
Speaker 3: Bill couldn't do it anymore, and they bumped me up
Speaker 3: to his spot. I'm playing all the solos, I'm doing
Speaker 3: all this. I don't seen for like four or five years,
Speaker 3: and I played in the group for probably seven or
Speaker 3: eight years after that, and I saw him again. And
Speaker 3: the great Frederick Fannell. I don't know if you know
Speaker 3: the history of him, but he basically was the inventor,
Speaker 3: if you will, or discover of the wind or the
Speaker 3: wind orchestra, wind ensemble. He was at Eastman School of
Speaker 3: Music and so forth, and a great arranger of all
Speaker 3: of Suz's marches, clarifier of all of his music and
Speaker 3: so forth. Anyway, Frederick Vanilla is a very very important name.
Speaker 3: He was still a love at the time, and he
Speaker 3: was coming as a guest conductor. And we were at
Speaker 3: the Thousand Oaks whatever they call.
Speaker 2: That, performing arts whatever. Yeah, yeah, and.
Speaker 3: We're playing Lincolnshire Posey, which is by Percy Grainger. It's
Speaker 3: a very important work and there's all these great solos
Speaker 3: in it, you know, for Alto Sacks. And here I'm
Speaker 3: playing and there were Frederick Vanelle and I'm playing this
Speaker 3: and whatever. And it turns out Bill Hayney was there,
Speaker 3: you know, and he comes out and to see me, goes, Larry,
Speaker 3: I knew, I've always known you have the soul of
Speaker 3: a musician, and look at what you did tonight. And
Speaker 3: it was all because he did. He drove up to
Speaker 3: my house and dragged me out and said do this.
Speaker 3: Back at that time, George Bush was running for president,
Speaker 3: not junior, but people, yeah, og the original and the
Speaker 3: Iraq War is about to break out, the very first one.
Speaker 3: So all of the musicians for the Marine band, air
Speaker 3: Force band, or any of those that are official were gone.
Speaker 3: They were deployed. They were on their way into war basically.
Speaker 3: So when he came into a thousand Ogs, the Secret
Speaker 3: Service contacted the high school band there, which of course
Speaker 3: Bill's banned one thousand excellancers. They were one of the
Speaker 3: top high school bands in the in state by far.
Speaker 3: And he says, Larry, I can't do it. I have
Speaker 3: engagements that I hate, can't break. So I give them
Speaker 3: your name and they're going to come talk to you.
Speaker 3: Secret Service comes to my house. They talked to me.
Speaker 3: So I took my sons one hundred and fifty piece
Speaker 3: high school band two the assembly with Pete Wilson and
Speaker 3: all this over at Calkel Africa, the named cal Lutheran
Speaker 3: College in Thousand Oaks, and they played for the everybody
Speaker 3: there just as performance. I was their conductor and then
Speaker 3: we played Held to the Chief when of course the right. Wow,
Speaker 3: this is a story, it's a true story. I'm sorry that.
Speaker 2: What else do we know that's played, that's conducted of
Speaker 2: the orchestra for the president. I don't know anybody.
Speaker 3: They didn't know that was going to happen to me,
Speaker 3: but it did happen. It was amazing. And so I'm
Speaker 3: standing there after he comes in and I had an
Speaker 3: earwork from the from a secret service gave me an
Speaker 3: earwick and so I'm standing there in my suit. All
Speaker 3: the kids are standing behind me in their uniforms, and
Speaker 3: literally two armed stretches in front of me sits the
Speaker 3: President in his chair. He's right in front of me. Wow.
Speaker 3: And I'm supposed to be there. Pete Wilson and all
Speaker 3: these other you know political you know cats are there
Speaker 3: and I'm not part of their party, but you know,
Speaker 3: it didn't matter that he was the president. It was
Speaker 3: just exactly exciting. And it was at that particular rally
Speaker 3: for Pete Wilson. I guess it was that the president
Speaker 3: himself gave the the line in the Sand speech. That's
Speaker 3: where it was, that's what's from there.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: And he gives a speech and then he comes and
Speaker 3: sits back down because everyboy's clapping, and he's basically saying,
Speaker 3: you know, he's telling him that Iam is saying at
Speaker 3: the it's all going to be pretty bad. Well, he
Speaker 3: sits down and you could tell he was kind of
Speaker 3: like pumped from the speech himself, and he's getting bored
Speaker 3: because Pete Wilson's not talking and he's kind of looking
Speaker 3: around the room. And then he turns around and goes
Speaker 3: like this, and he looks right at me. He's looking
Speaker 3: at the band and my son's in the group, so
Speaker 3: I was proud of that. And he looks at me
Speaker 3: and he points his finger like come over here. And
Speaker 3: I've been told, under no circumstances, do right stand there,
Speaker 3: don't do a damn thing, and douce, we tell you to.
Speaker 3: But he's a president of the United States. He's just
Speaker 3: told me to come over there. So I go, I'm thinking, well,
Speaker 3: what can they do? Put me in jail, I guess,
Speaker 3: but he is the president, and out of respect for
Speaker 3: who he is. He's the leader of my country, I
Speaker 3: mean in the whole the you know, known western free world.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna right, I'm busy, So I walked over
Speaker 3: up behind him. I hear, in my your record he's
Speaker 3: going in. He's going in. It's in my ear right,
Speaker 3: and I kind of lean over his left shoulder and
Speaker 3: George he goes, what is this the college band? I said, no, no, sir,
Speaker 3: this is a local high school band. He goes, what
Speaker 3: are you serious? I said, yeah, they're very good, and
Speaker 3: their normal instructor I'm just filling in he couldn't make
Speaker 3: it today. But their instructor is really really great, and
Speaker 3: they're an excellent band. He goes, well, you make me proud.
Speaker 3: They sound better than the Marine Corps band. He says,
Speaker 3: you know what, I want to shake your hand, and
Speaker 3: it turned it over and he grabs my hand and
Speaker 3: I don't know if you can see this visually, but
Speaker 3: the presidential hand. She goes like this. He puts his
Speaker 3: hand around your wrist and then they shake like that.
Speaker 3: I'm sure Secret Service teaches them that, so that should
Speaker 3: should something happen, right, He's got control of a circumstance.
Speaker 3: But you know, I went to shake his he did that,
Speaker 3: and I shook his hand because you're doing a fine job.
Speaker 3: Keep up the great work. This is what America really
Speaker 3: is about. And my estimation of him went up like
Speaker 3: three thousand percent just from his by being real, like
Speaker 3: you know, and and even under all the pressure that
Speaker 3: was going on in the world at the time, he
Speaker 3: was able to look into some high school kids and
Speaker 3: hear the music and or the death of Pete and
Speaker 3: all other silliness, and and he had that connection to
Speaker 3: his soul right that he was to recognize that. And
Speaker 3: so this is the weirdest thing. Then what happened is
Speaker 3: on CNN when the war broke out, because at storm started,
Speaker 3: they were on CNN commonly cut to shots of Tarique
Speaker 3: Disease kissing Santa Museain's ring right right in the one hand,
Speaker 3: and then go to a file video of the president
Speaker 3: from the speech that he took with me standing right
Speaker 3: beside him. So I had my zelleg moment for about
Speaker 3: six months. Wow, it was the freakiest damp thing. I mean,
Speaker 3: the first time happened, I was almost half asleep taking
Speaker 3: a hass I thought, that's me it's me and the
Speaker 3: president two shot over there. You know, I'm over his shoulder,
Speaker 3: and I'm like the weirdest. So it's a weird life.
Speaker 2: It's a weird life in a redemption story.
Speaker 1: From your stage fright in front of seven hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty people in the early days, to standing next to
Speaker 1: the President getting photographed before the chief because.
Speaker 3: Bill Hayney decided to drive a buy one day and say,
Speaker 3: you know what, get in the car well started. I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I to this day am thankful to him for that.
Speaker 3: And he is the one that has given me probably
Speaker 3: the best critique of all the classical compositions that I've done.
Speaker 3: I did my third symphony, which is Slava Ukrainy, which
Speaker 3: is you know about Ukraine, and he did a literally adossiate.
Speaker 3: He broke down. He actually listened to it moment by moment,
Speaker 3: explaining what the transitions were, and this is a csarah,
Speaker 3: and this is a and you did an imperfect blah
Speaker 3: blah blah. You know, you just all these things about
Speaker 3: He just broke it down like some kind of a musicologist.
Speaker 3: And then at the end he says, I'm just so
Speaker 3: thankful you send your music to me because Larry, the
Speaker 3: world doesn't know what you're doing, but I know and
Speaker 3: the world will know eventually you're leaving something important behind.
Speaker 3: And that to me, that's those are my Academy Awards
Speaker 3: when I get that from people that I you know,
Speaker 3: Jody's among them, She's known for years, and she's always
Speaker 3: and I remember resident of really got space. Really you
Speaker 3: got me going again. You do that.
Speaker 2: I try and you I'm I like I always tell you,
Speaker 2: I love when you send me your music, your symphonies,
Speaker 2: your compositions. It's just you know, I I love art.
Speaker 2: I love it. I love creating. And it's something that
Speaker 2: you and I have connected over and andret but like
Speaker 2: just the love of expressing yourself and creating and like
Speaker 2: connecting with other humans through what we get to do.
Speaker 2: And and you were one of those people who you
Speaker 2: know and and I think people will hear it in
Speaker 2: this interview who's so beautifully expressed what it means to
Speaker 2: be a creative spirit in the world, in this in
Speaker 2: this particular world and time. Beautiful And you do you
Speaker 2: really like you are someone who I've always been able
Speaker 2: to have really great, open, honest conversations about creating in
Speaker 2: the world and that's that type of vulnerability. And and
Speaker 2: and I and I never knew the story about you
Speaker 2: walking off the stage and not playing for thirty years,
Speaker 2: which is is incredible to me to hear because you're
Speaker 2: so talented that it, you know. But I but I
Speaker 2: also relate to that where you're like, oh, I suck,
Speaker 2: that's it. I'm never doing that again. And you just
Speaker 2: walk away from something and other people like, what are
Speaker 2: you talking about? Yeah, yeah, we're our own worst critic.
Speaker 2: But but you have always been a yeah, exactly, well
Speaker 2: for then, yeah, but you have always been so complimentary
Speaker 2: and kind and supportive of us, and it just yeah,
Speaker 2: it was so great to always see you, you know,
Speaker 2: out there on BCAM, knowing that we had like family
Speaker 2: out there and and and deb and like these I
Speaker 2: mean again people that have been around forever and ever
Speaker 2: and ever and who were pivotal parts of our life
Speaker 2: and of our you know, at least at least for me,
Speaker 2: of of my sort of creative development, you know. So
Speaker 2: that's those are things that are impossible to measure.
Speaker 3: Well, we have so many things that go on in
Speaker 3: our life, and there's so much pashi and trash and
Speaker 3: background noise, and you know, all that stuff that goes
Speaker 3: on that we wish we could forget. Generally we do.
Speaker 3: But the nice thing is when you can look back
Speaker 3: on your life and there's the color moments and and
Speaker 3: Andrea and you you know, of course Bob bless his heart,
Speaker 3: and Candice was the color moments was a part of
Speaker 3: my color palette of the Larry life, which I can't
Speaker 3: express or explain to anybody, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3: And then there's the associated colors. Does the Patty pass Rellies, Yes,
Speaker 3: you know, and you know, you just go through and
Speaker 3: you can kind of tell who they are. And and
Speaker 3: I always felt that way about Lynn Griffin. I know,
Speaker 3: she's a incredible she's retired also and incredible art director.
Speaker 3: She was amazing and just you know, just in of
Speaker 3: course Greg. You know again, there's there's a sympatico and
Speaker 3: that sympatico is really that is the correct word, sim
Speaker 3: meaning with and pathos, the ability to feel right with
Speaker 3: the same feeling. It's we're all aware that we can
Speaker 3: all visually see slightly different shades with the same wavelength
Speaker 3: coming into our eyes. So one person's blue and may
Speaker 3: be more purple to than somebody else, depending on your
Speaker 3: how your eyes are formed. But there's certain people that
Speaker 3: all see that color that way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, M.
Speaker 3: So special. That's why you want to be on a
Speaker 3: show like that. That's not going to work. That's getting
Speaker 3: excited and going, Okay, I get five in the morning,
Speaker 3: but I'll do it for this, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, You're like, oh, it's you know, a long day,
Speaker 2: early morning this, and then but then you get there,
Speaker 2: You're like, ah, this is great. This is what am
Speaker 2: I doing?
Speaker 3: Pot of coffee and.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, I remember seeing you many a morning by
Speaker 2: the buy the coffee machine. Absolutely yea.
Speaker 3: But yeah, wow.
Speaker 1: What were some of your favorite memories from Full House?
Speaker 1: You know, Jodi and I were so young, and a
Speaker 1: lot of our memories are coming back through this rewatch podcast.
Speaker 3: The worst memory is that I wasn't on that show consistently.
Speaker 3: I was always a replacement cameraman and I hated that.
Speaker 3: And then I also did the DP work on the
Speaker 3: the titles, right, you know, I did your titles usually
Speaker 3: that kind of thing. So my association with Full House
Speaker 3: wasn't as deep as I would have liked it to be.
Speaker 3: I probably shot at maybe a third of the episodes
Speaker 3: for one reason or another. Somebody would leave, you know.
Speaker 3: And I got along really well with Bruce. Bruce, by
Speaker 3: the way, yes I remember, Yeah, he just passed away
Speaker 3: a couple months ago.
Speaker 2: Oh, I you know, it was funny.
Speaker 3: It's just ninetieth birthday by about twenty days.
Speaker 2: Really. I just was looking at that I have, uh,
Speaker 2: you know, this photo collage thing from from the Full
Speaker 2: House days. It was our I think ninety two or
Speaker 2: ninety three season, and I look at it all the
Speaker 2: time because there are so many faces in people. But
Speaker 2: I saw I and I went, oh, what happened to Bruce?
Speaker 2: Oh but wow, almost ninety that's incredible.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, life, My biggest memory are the things that
Speaker 3: really mattered to me a lot was of course Patty Passarelli,
Speaker 3: who was you know, a dear close friend supers Yep, yeah, she,
Speaker 3: you know, the best always was. And and then you know,
Speaker 3: I got along really well with Like I said, Bruce
Speaker 3: is a great guy. Joe's Wick is probably my my brother.
Speaker 3: He's my brother. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Joel has been on the podcast. We had him on
Speaker 2: a few weeks ago.
Speaker 3: Ask you, I didn't know if you have definitely you.
Speaker 2: We know, we definitely we had him on, and oh
Speaker 2: he is I love Joel out of his mind still
Speaker 2: in the best way. I love it.
Speaker 1: It's exactly the same.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Joel.
Speaker 3: Joel is a very special He's He's the uber Regal,
Speaker 3: Royal Blue, ultra violet, whatever you want to call it.
Speaker 3: In my life, He's that part where your your your
Speaker 3: top chakras trying to reach to the heavens and you
Speaker 3: don't get there, but you got to go through Joel.
Speaker 2: Yes, ye, yes, him.
Speaker 3: I mean had moments believe me. Well I'm sure, yeah,
Speaker 3: they were all good, believe me. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, it's the best friends that can you know, kind
Speaker 2: of that can butt heads like that and then be
Speaker 2: like all right, I still love you. You know, I
Speaker 2: just love him to death again. Another like doing his
Speaker 2: when we did his interview. Another just incredible creative spirit
Speaker 2: and career and talent, and you know, we just part
Speaker 2: of the fun of this podcast has not only been
Speaker 2: going back and watching the show because I never watched it,
Speaker 2: Andrey and I didn't really watch it growing up, but
Speaker 2: it really has been getting to interview these amazing people
Speaker 2: that we've known our whole lives as like you know,
Speaker 2: just Joel or Larry or you know, like Lenny Rips
Speaker 2: or you know, but then being like, so tell us
Speaker 2: how you got into this and hearing oh the incredible stories,
Speaker 2: but all of you like this, we were, and I
Speaker 2: just I can't get over it. We were like steeped
Speaker 2: in some of the most amazing, incredible history and people
Speaker 2: of the television business from the start of Full House
Speaker 2: and we didn't even know it. We just were lucky
Speaker 2: that we got to do it again.
Speaker 3: First story, I remember I was working on the Hogan
Speaker 3: Family or was originally Valerie or Valerie's Family or I
Speaker 3: don't remember where they had so many different names.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think it was, yeah, Valerie, but started
Speaker 2: as Valerie's Family, then Valerie, then Hogan.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. And and then you and Jason Jason doing
Speaker 3: that tea party and Jody's four and a half. Oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, look at this cute little blonde. Oh my god,
Speaker 3: she's so adorable. I'm like, I'm like, you know, it's
Speaker 3: such a kid person anyway, I love kids completely, And
Speaker 3: just watching how how Jason was working with you and Jason.
Speaker 2: Jason our listener, Jason Bateman, who was the oldest son
Speaker 2: on Valerie, and he was the first, one of the
Speaker 2: first people that I really ever worked with on television and.
Speaker 3: What a great guy. I mean, I've worked with him
Speaker 3: for years. Me means he's one of those people that
Speaker 3: grew up in front of my eyes between a director
Speaker 3: at eighteen or seventeen and what he's done since then,
Speaker 3: it's extraordinary. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2: It's my goal is to work with him again. Like
Speaker 2: I keep putting it out there, So I'm putting it
Speaker 2: out here on the podcast right now. Jason Bateman want
Speaker 2: to work Welcome to me? So incredible.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and i'd seen and he goes, okay, are you're
Speaker 3: on this show? Yeah? He goes, okay, if this show goes,
Speaker 3: you're directing soon. Just told you know, because every I've
Speaker 3: kind of just said to me so many times. You know, Larry,
Speaker 3: you'd be so good. You know visually what to do,
Speaker 3: You understand actors, your your your quickness of thought, just everything.
Speaker 3: You have a sense about it. And I've directed small stuff,
Speaker 3: but I never never, it never happen. And it's just
Speaker 3: not one of those things that I ever pushed for.
Speaker 3: And I have a big ego, but not it's not egotistical.
Speaker 3: I'm egoistic. There's a difference. And and so I mean,
Speaker 3: if I was egotistic. God would never left that stage
Speaker 3: with the sacks.
Speaker 4: Yes, you're all going to sit here while I get here.
Speaker 4: You would have been terrible and been like I was
Speaker 4: so good, right, Yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 3: Saw on it.
Speaker 1: You're a confident realist. That's what you are.
Speaker 4: You know that.
Speaker 2: I think I find that to be the best type
Speaker 2: is when you're like, yeah, I can do some things,
Speaker 2: but I also know I can suck sometimes too. I'm
Speaker 2: not so good that I can't be shitty, you know.
Speaker 2: So that's a very important skill to know as an artist,
Speaker 2: because otherwise you just Yeah.
Speaker 3: It's like when Rich Carell you're doing a big, big,
Speaker 3: complex shot and something happens and Rich goes, Larry, what's
Speaker 3: going on?
Speaker 2: I said, yeah, okay, never mind, okay, just checking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that guy so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this has been such an incredible journey with you, Larry.
Speaker 2: You know, I can talk to you for hours, but yeah,
Speaker 2: oh my god. Yeah. Well, with the way our brain's
Speaker 2: work going off on random tangents, and you.
Speaker 3: Know they're not random, actually it makes sense.
Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many times Larry and I
Speaker 2: would be having some in depth, heated political conversation right
Speaker 2: before we're talking about the election or this or that
Speaker 2: very much single and we would be like he did
Speaker 2: this and that, and then jump into a scene and
Speaker 2: be like hey, and then go back and then did
Speaker 2: you hear that? The wildest sort of compartmentalization, And you know,
Speaker 2: but that's what we do. And I just I love you.
Speaker 2: You are family and a dear incredible You're just so talented.
Speaker 2: I hope I hope that you know that. And I'm
Speaker 2: glad that I'm glad that you found that horn thirty
Speaker 2: years later and.
Speaker 3: You know, Yeah, and now I'm glad that I'm really
Speaker 3: sitting down and putting these thoughts on the paper. That's yeah,
Speaker 3: been a thing that's important to me. Before you know,
Speaker 3: the grim reaver goes up. I'm trying to make up
Speaker 3: for those forty years I spent doing other things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you are so special to us, and we love
Speaker 1: you and think of you all the time and talk
Speaker 1: about you all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Andrea, Yeah, well, I mean talk about slices of
Speaker 3: cake that you just can't eat enough of both of you.
Speaker 2: Really, it's true. Well, we love you, Larry. Thank you
Speaker 2: so much for coming on the show today. This was
Speaker 2: just a wonderful wonderful interview. We really really honored, truly, Yes,
Speaker 2: thank you. Well, I will be talking too soon and
Speaker 2: I love you and thank you so much for joining
Speaker 2: us today. We love you, Larry, Love you, Larry. Thank
Speaker 2: you bye. Do you know how to sign out?
Speaker 3: Larry, I'm still on the stage. What do I do now?
Speaker 2: Well, get your horn? Here we go.
Speaker 3: Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2: I just love it. He's just the best man. He's
Speaker 2: just such an interesting creator, like truly one of those
Speaker 2: like creative artist spirits that just in his soul, in
Speaker 2: his blood.
Speaker 1: What a wonderful special man that he's also just a
Speaker 1: big teddy bear, wears his heart on his sleeve and yep,
Speaker 1: never hesitates to tell you how much he loves you.
Speaker 2: He's one, he's you know, he's yeah, one of one
Speaker 2: of my very very special ones. Anyway, that was what
Speaker 2: a great interview. Isn't it weird when you.
Speaker 1: Go on other sets and like you don't ever really
Speaker 1: meet the camera people, and this isn't normal for us
Speaker 1: to be so close yes to god, no a camera operator,
Speaker 1: you know, it's like not to on other sets. There's
Speaker 1: a there's a separation between cast and crew, and that
Speaker 1: was never the case.
Speaker 2: On full House. Yeah, like we were always what I'm saying, Yeah,
Speaker 2: they're always one of the same. I always try to
Speaker 2: just be that person anyway, even if it's like not
Speaker 2: my set, I'm like, well, hell, I'm going to be friendly,
Speaker 2: like you know what I mean. I don't know about
Speaker 2: the rest of you people, but I'm going to go
Speaker 2: introduce myself and talk and and it's just makes for
Speaker 2: such a great experience. But yeah, it really you don't
Speaker 2: get to know. You don't go to brunch with your
Speaker 2: camera operators in oh Hi, and you know, you don't
Speaker 2: stay connected with them and tell you them that you
Speaker 2: love them and text them and you know, right, just
Speaker 2: doesn't happen. It really doesn't. It's a very special relationship. Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 2: So thank you Larry, and thank you everyone for listening
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Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Anyway, we love you fan of Rito's. You are the best.
Speaker 2: So thank you for listening. And uh remember in the meantime,
Speaker 2: the world is small, but the house is full. Still
Speaker 2: doesn't sound right? It sounds a little better.
Speaker 1: That sounds a little better.
Speaker 2: That sounded a little better. That sound ends. What did
Speaker 2: sound weird?
Speaker 1: The Yeah the last time you said it?
Speaker 2: Did I say it weird?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean I screwed it up the first time.
Speaker 2: But I know that's just so strange, Like when you
Speaker 2: say a word too many times and you're like, that's
Speaker 2: not a word, it starts to sound very strange.