WEBVTT - One on One: Brandon Barash 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:17.279 I am all in. Oh, let's kiss you. I am 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:20.600 all in with Scott Patterson and I Heart Radio podcast. 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.800 Hey everybody, Scott Patterson, I am all in podcast Miniso 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:29.480 here one on one interview. Uh. I Heart Radios one 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:35.560 of theven productions. And we have Brandon Barash, who appeared 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:41.440 in uh Those Lazy, Hazy Crazy Days, episode one, season three, 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.239 that's when we first seem last time we seems as 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:49.440 Jamie in season four, episode twelve, Family Matter. Welcome to 0:00:49.520 --> 0:00:53.720 the show, Brandon, How are you doing? Heyy, good to 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:57.640 see you, guys. Good to see you, Brandon, So thanks 0:00:57.640 --> 0:01:01.640 for coming on. Of course, thanks for Yeah. Man, you 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:04.880 played the role of Jamie when Gilmore Grows for three 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.039 episodes two thousand to two thousand four, student at Princeton, 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:13.920 Paris's very first boyfriend. Um, you were also So that 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:15.560 was the first time. Last time we saw you was 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:19.280 season four, episode twelve A Family Matter. So we have 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:24.000 that to look forward to from St. Louis. Uh. You 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:30.600 lived in Missouri, Texas, California. Family business is Oh my goodness, 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:33.920 really wow? Damn? What else do you know about? Look 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:40.160 at this guy? Wow? We need to talk. Yeah, I 0:01:40.360 --> 0:01:44.880 know all about that company. Cisco. Yeah, I do. How 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:47.400 do you know about Cisco because I have a coffee company. 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:52.120 We're trying to get in, yes, and we know that 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.760 we know there the beverage, the beverage portion of that 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.880 businesses is quite large. In the coffee slice of the 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.720 beverage business is something I wanted to try to get 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:03.760 a piece of, but it's very difficult to get a meeting. 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.320 So you went to USC you got a degree. Wow, 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.880 you're on the West Wing Criminal Minds, and you've been 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:15.320 on General Hospital two thousand seventeen and two thousand sixteen, 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:18.120 and since two thousand nineteen you've been on Days of 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:22.640 Our Lives. You're working your butt off. You play Jake Demera. 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.800 So let's talk about the first time you got the role, 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.760 and uh, tell us how you got the part? All right? 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.840 So I was, I was fresh out of college, all right. 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:38.440 I had gotten to use a douche industry term, hip 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:43.440 pocketed by an agency from our senior showcase, which for 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:48.920 non industry people basically means they'll kind of see something 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:50.919 in you, but they don't like you enough to say, yes, 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.320 we're gonna sign you and you're gonna take up space 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:56.639 on our roster. Hey, Brad, Brad Pitt was hip pocketed. 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.000 There you go, And so I would get pocketed by 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.240 this agency. And one of the first auditions they sent 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.480 me out on it was Gilmore Girls. I was working 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:10.520 at Nordstrom selling clothing at the time, and drove to 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.400 Warner Brothers on my lunch break, drove back, found out 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.239 when I got back, I got a call back. Cool, 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.680 So the callback was scheduled for a day when I 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.000 was supposed to be in Manhattan Beach on like a 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:28.480 staycation hero. Right. This was before smartphones. Okay, this is 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:30.639 when we still had to take out the Thomas Guide 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:34.680 right and page L four and then continue to page 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.560 like a six point three. And we didn't have ways. 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.360 The point is, so I couldn't gauge how much traffic 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:43.560 there was going to be from Manhattan Beach to Warner Brothers. 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:50.040 I miscalculated, uh really really badly, not in my favor. 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.000 And it was about an hour late to my audition. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.960 All right. Called my manager on the way. I said, 0:03:54.960 --> 0:03:57.080 I'm would be an hour late. Should I just turn around? 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:58.960 He's like, no, I just go. I walked in the 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.840 room and I just started making fun of myself about 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:03.880 how late I was because it was the only thing 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.840 I could think I could do, and made some really 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.800 terrible jokes in the process, and uh walked out of 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:13.160 the audition not knowing what the hell had just happened, 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.240 and was driving home and found out I booked the 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:19.000 part and it was, Yeah, it was. It was the 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.920 coolest feeling ever because I don't know my sad card right, 0:04:22.080 --> 0:04:24.960 So they, you know, taft Hart lead me in and 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:30.000 and it was it's a big set, uh, And I thought, great, 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:34.320 I'm gonna go quit my job now because it's only 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.920 up and up from here. And cut to five years later, 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.680 I was still working in retail, but five years later 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:44.279 I was able to finally quit my day jobs. Oh good. Um. Yeah, 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.400 So what do you remember about your first Dawn set? 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:52.200 I was freaked out, as as is evident by my 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:56.680 brilliant acting um in that first episode in any I mean, 0:04:56.760 --> 0:05:00.680 I was my acting chops were not up for the 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:04.240 television when I did go more girls. But that's okay, 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.920 So I didn't notice anything. You did a fine job. 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:12.360 What are you talking about anyway? You're too kinds, You're 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:18.000 two kinds. You you you you filled the role perfectly. Yeah, 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.120 it was just I couldn't get out of my head though. 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.080 You know, as young actors, like the biggest hurdle that 0:05:23.160 --> 0:05:26.760 we have is to just tell that voice to shut 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:28.840 the hell up, right, you know, the voice is like, 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.200 how's this going? Are they? Like? Am I making senses? 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.360 I don't even know what my scene partner just said, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.320 but I'm gonna say in my line. It was just 0:05:37.480 --> 0:05:40.000 I was so in my head on all the episodes. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:44.960 So you only have you only have one voice, not voices. Well, 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.440 I'm only telling you about the ones I got you yet, 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:52.480 So yeah, so anyway, no, I mean I was I 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:55.560 didn't know, you know, my ass from my elbow on 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.479 a set at usc which is where I went. I 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.200 got my degree in theater, and I could have moved 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.200 to New York the day after graduation and established myself 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.600 as a really great theater actor. They only and I 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.559 think the curriculum has changed since, but they only gave 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.680 us I think two classes um auditioning for the camera 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.960 and acting for the camera. And they were just kind 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:21.039 of thrown in at the end of our curriculum. So, 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.000 you know, hitting a mark, we not not once we 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:26.520 were heard sitting a market. So it was just all 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.360 this new information swirling around in my head. I was 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.680 a nervous wreck. But I guess I made it work. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:36.279 You did, you know? Yeah? You you blended in perfectly. 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:40.479 I mean it was all a good buddy um. Anyway, 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:45.400 so you had what we all described a perfect Princeton 0:06:45.520 --> 0:06:49.520 preppy vibe going, uh, tell us, tell us what you 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.960 remember about that character. I remember in you know, throughout 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:58.080 the audition process, the note I kept getting was young 0:06:58.160 --> 0:07:02.160 Bill Clinton, think young phil It okay. And this is 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.320 of course after the getting on the whole thing. I 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.880 was like, well, which which part about Bill Clinton's life 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.160 in my emulating year? Just to be clear, be careful, 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.400 should I take a cigar into the mission room or 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.480 and so you know, the notes I kept getting were 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:30.040 think young Bill Clinton and speak faster, okay. And so 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:33.600 it was, you know, just trying to negotiate again all 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:37.600 of those things that the cameras, the lights, the booms, 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:43.760 the you know, the the mind splitting silence of a 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.880 TV set or a movie set, right, and so it 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.880 was just, yeah, young Bill Clinton is what I keep 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:58.160 remembering from that whole process. Yeah, that's very interesting, very interesting. 0:07:58.440 --> 0:08:05.520 Um so paris uh fell for Jamie at first. Uh, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.400 pretty hard, you know, pretty hard. She was her first point. 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:13.600 What do you think about the character of Paris. I, well, 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.360 I'm Eliza was great. I'm sure she still was great. 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:20.160 Um speaking about her like she's not here anymore. But yeah, 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.320 she was great to work with. Uh, she was. Paris 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:30.120 was intense and uh I think you know, I think 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.400 Jamie enjoyed that. It was it was a different Uh. 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:36.440 You know, he wasn't used to that. You know, he 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:39.160 was kind of a slower speed kind of guy. But 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.040 he was just along for the ride until we all 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:49.600 know he wasn't we all know what happened there? Um? 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.040 Would you have liked to see that relationship continue on 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:57.640 through the series? My career would have loved that. Look, 0:08:57.679 --> 0:08:59.520 I'm not I'm not an happy worrying might now I'm 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.800 very happy, but back then, yeah, yeah, I was bummed 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:08.160 out for sure when when I found out that she 0:09:08.280 --> 0:09:11.520 had left Jamie for an older man and Jamie's time 0:09:11.600 --> 0:09:15.840 and was it stars hollow? Is that right? Was it 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:25.199 was over? So you were born into the Cisco food business. Um, 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:29.480 did you did? Did your parents support you when you 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.679 were announced you were going into acting or did your 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:35.000 dad wants you to come in uh to that business 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:36.680 so he could teach you that business. Was there any 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:38.960 pressure there? What was the reaction like when he said 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:40.760 I'm going I want to go to USC and get 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.439 a theater degree. It was well, I mean, look, the 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:47.000 food business was was a very important part of my 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:51.760 family's history. They immigrated here from Ukraine, actually a town 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:55.280 called She told me, um, you know back hundred sixteen 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:58.400 years ago when they were doing the same thing they're 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.960 doing now, except they were singling out juice. And so 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.960 they came here and they started. My great grandfather started 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.640 a fruit stand, and the fruit stand, this is a 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:12.880 long story short turned into the biggest seafood purveyor in 0:10:12.920 --> 0:10:16.960 the Midwest. He didn't make the best decisions, you know. 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:20.040 At that point my dad was working with the company 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.400 as well. The company went under. So then my dad 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.760 got offered a great job from H. B. Cisco Cisco 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.240 Foods out in Los Angeles when I was I think 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:29.960 three years old, so that's when we moved out here. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:34.760 So yeah, I come from a very kind of corporate family. Conservative, 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.839 not in like the political sense me no conservative now, 0:10:37.880 --> 0:10:40.520 but conservative and that you know, you should be a doctor, 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:43.920 lawyer or do something corporate. And so when I got 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:46.920 accepted by USC into their b f A program which 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.199 only accepts ten to twenty students a year, and my 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.880 dad said, well, you'd be silly not to not to 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.120 take that UM. And at the time I wanted to 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.079 do Uh, I was really torn because my whole m 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.240 you know, young life, I'd wanted to be a doctor. 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.120 I wanted to be a cardiaco with the pedic search. 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.080 That was like, that was my jam. Science was my jam. 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:11.319 The human body, you know, I just I couldn't get 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:16.560 enough of it. I still can't. But two years, about 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:18.480 a year and a half into college, I was, you know, 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.480 taking twenty two units a semester. I was in classroom 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.760 eight in the morning to ten at night between classes 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.280 and theater rehearsals. And finally, halfway through my sophomore year, 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.560 I thought, Okay, I'm doing fine at both of these things, 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:32.719 but I'm not. I'm not excelling it one. And if 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:37.400 I'm honest with myself, me, you know, going through the 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:43.000 premed motions is now more about what my family wants 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:44.680 me to do rather than what I want to do. 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:47.400 And once I came to terms with that and was 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:51.880 able to say, all right, I'm gonna, you know, put 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.760 all the proverbial eggs in one basket and go for 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:56.960 the acting. I called my dad and I was terrified, 0:11:57.679 --> 0:12:00.560 and he was. He couldn't have been more supple. It 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.040 was awesome. It was it was a game changer. It 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:06.040 sounds like it sounds like a great man, great guy. 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:10.640 He wasn't. Maybe we all have fathers like that. Um right, 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.679 my god, um well, it certainly seems like you made 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:16.480 the right choice. You're making a lot of people happy 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:22.760 in your career. Um. Do you still get nervous? And 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:25.520 this is from me, do you still get nervous going 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:29.280 to auditions? Absolutely? I get you know. I think I 0:12:29.280 --> 0:12:33.280 think nerves are healthy. I think the day, as performers, 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:36.599 the day we stop getting nervous is the day we 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:39.760 should start finding something else to do. I think a 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:43.120 healthy dose of nerves, as long as you know how 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:47.080 to harness them. I think it's good for any performer. 0:12:47.080 --> 0:12:52.480 I really do, any artist. It's uh, yeah, I get 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:55.160 nervous going to auditions. I get nervous, you know. I 0:12:55.200 --> 0:13:01.640 mean I've probably filmed I don't know, between well, episodes 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:05.120 of daytime television, and I still get nervous before I 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:08.679 go on, and it's part of my ritual. I enjoy 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.160 the nerves I I you know, it's more of like 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.600 a surge of adrenaline now whereas before. And I'm sure 0:13:14.640 --> 0:13:17.439 you can relate to this. Any you know actor can 0:13:17.440 --> 0:13:21.480 harken back to their younger days and find a time 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:26.800 where their nerves ruled then, right, And it's a real 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.200 paradigm shift happens when you realize you're in control of that. 0:13:30.760 --> 0:13:34.320 That makes sense, Yeah, Yeah, for me, it was just 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:39.240 all about the level of preparation to write to control 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:43.440 the nerves. Yeah, because if you're prepared, you know that 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.760 you're ready for anything that happens in that room or 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.520 on that set, and you can be loose and you 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:54.760 can play a Preparation is huge, Um, because there's really 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:58.280 two schools, right, it's like not really knowing. I mean, 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.920 you hear the stories of Brando and Jack Nicholson. They 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:03.640 don't want to know. They don't want to repeat their lines, 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.400 they don't want to rehearse. James con never wanted to rehearse. 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.280 I did a film with him, he did. He didn't 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.280 want to rehearse. He knew his stuff. He looked at it. 0:14:10.360 --> 0:14:12.480 Once he knew it, let's just do it list I don't. 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.719 I don't want to make it stale, and we need 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:18.440 to keep it fresh. And so there's but unfortunately, when 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.000 you work in television, you're in these very tight schedules, 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.600 and yeah, you gotta know your stuff called especially in 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.960 soap operas. For God's sake, you guys are covering. You 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.240 guys are doing how many pages a day we do 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:34.840 on average? When I walk in the building, I'll do 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:40.400 anywhere between usually between fifteen and thirty pages. It's crazy, 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.560 that's crazy, and it's nuts, man, But it's it's such 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:49.720 a great lesson in preparation, like we're saying, and commitment. 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.480 You know, you have to walk if you want to 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.480 do good work, and doing good work is important to you, 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:56.800 and being a good scene partner is important to you, 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.360 then you have to walk into that building knowing you're lines, 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.280 knowing your intention, you know, knowing all that right, like 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.880 having broken down the script and knowing the circumstances your 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:10.480 characters walking into because when you you know, at one 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:13.400 o'clock whenever these shows are on, when you turn on 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:18.240 a daytime television show, you're not seeing a fleshed out product. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:21.000 You're just not because there's not time for that. You're 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.760 seeing a rehearsal. You're seeing, you know what You and 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.840 I on Gilmer Girls or any other prime time show 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.880 would spend thirty forty minutes doing while we're blocking, while 0:15:31.880 --> 0:15:35.000 they're calling in you know everybody too, you know the 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:38.120 grips and props and everybody to watch while they're lighting. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:43.920 That's you're watching the first one of those on daytime. 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.560 And so it, yeah, it takes a lot, It takes 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.680 a lot of discipline commitments. So do you have a 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:52.440 system that was learned memorizing your lines? You do? How 0:15:52.480 --> 0:15:54.880 do you do? How do you It's evolved, it's evolved 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.880 over time. I used to, and you're gonna think I'm 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:01.520 a nut. I used to take yellow legal pads and 0:16:01.600 --> 0:16:04.960 write every scene, every single not every scene in the script, 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:06.320 but every scene that I was in. So if I 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:10.160 had twelve scenes that day, thirty six pages, I would 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:13.880 sit and write out, you know, the scene from beginning 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.960 to end, including stage directions. And that helped me get 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:19.760 into the character's said, to help me get into the 0:16:19.800 --> 0:16:22.800 writer's and the directors, so that by the time I 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.600 had to break the script down and actually memorize the 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:29.040 lines they were memorized because you know, pen to pen 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:32.960 to mind for me, happens to work. That's your theater training. 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:37.320 It is, it is and so but then you know 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.640 there were nights it was taken me four hours. Script 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:45.680 can't do it, and you and I can't do like 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:50.480 you can can't do that and so and so. You 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.240 can do it if you're in a play. Oh yeah, 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:54.960 you know you have the you have have the time 0:16:55.000 --> 0:16:56.880 and rehearsal to do that. If you're gonna play. You 0:16:56.920 --> 0:17:00.760 can't do that on serious television's funny, no chance. So 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:02.360 then now what I do. You know, I have my 0:17:02.400 --> 0:17:05.760 iPad and I have which totally I don't know how 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:08.199 if you work from an iPad or you work from paper. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:13.080 I prefer paper. But again, doing the volume of scenes 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:15.400 I do a day, the amount of paper I'm wasting, 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.600 and you know, just ink and everything, and it's great 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.479 to keep everything together on one device. I know, if 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:23.080 I go to work and I have five scripts that 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:25.280 I'm working on that week, they're all in this timy 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.239 little device. So now it's you know, it's on the 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:31.360 iPad and it's just this um I have a system 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:39.480 that I go through. It's much more streamline. Now, well, 0:17:39.760 --> 0:17:44.280 we want to say big congrats on your engagement to Isabella. 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:50.159 Thank you. Photo is that Devotov because one team is 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:55.200 de Voto? Yeah? Uh uh, and we saw that adorable 0:17:55.240 --> 0:18:00.000 proposal on Instagram. How is the wedding planning coming along? 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.200 It's going well. We found a date. We found the venue, 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:07.760 which is like half the battle right, so uh, we're lucky. 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.280 We found the venue that covers a lot of you know, 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.399 the things that you'd have to normally go outside and rent. 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.600 So h the hardest thing, man, is this guest list? 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:28.840 It's right, be careful man. Yeah, people have the humans 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:32.400 have the uncanny ability to make someone else's wedding one 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:44.360 h about them. It's just it's really getting married. Yeah. Um, 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.479 so fans loved, they really enjoyed that your daughter Harper 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.720 was involved in the proposal. Did she help that? Did 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.280 she help you use those nerves when you were popping 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:58.120 the question hunt the please? She eases every every nerve 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:02.000 in my body, that little girl. Yeah, oh yeah yeah. 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:04.720 And it was just as much about her as it 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:09.880 was my fiance. I mean, the reality is I would 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:13.880 not be marrying Lisa without Harper. I mean she led 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.440 me directly to her. Harper was in a Spanish Emergence 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:19.159 summer camp one year, and he said, was one of 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.760 her teachers. And that's how it happened. And you know, 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.479 we got to know her very well, and she started 0:19:25.480 --> 0:19:28.520 spending time around us. And one day, Harper, when she 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.000 was I think five, sits me down at the breakfast 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:35.280 table and she said, Daddy, are you and Lisa friends? 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.640 I said, yeah, nothing was going on, and I said yeah. 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:45.040 She said, you guys should be together. I said, wait, what, 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:48.240 how do you know what that even means? What? What? What? 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:50.879 What do you mean be together? And she explains the 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.280 concept of being together with somebody, being a partner with somebody. 0:19:53.840 --> 0:19:57.600 Where did you get this, bro, And and so she 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.719 has been advocating for this relationship since before it happened. 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:02.639 And then we waited a while. Once it did happen, 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:06.919 we waited a while to tell her because dating as 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:10.280 a single parent it's a minefield, man, And if you 0:20:10.400 --> 0:20:14.840 have your kids best intentions at heart, you're not going 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:17.840 to introduce that kid to every person you did, because 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:23.239 that would just I mean, come on. Yeah, So you know, 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:27.080 we waited, god, almost a year I think, until we 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:29.080 told her, until we knew that it was going in 0:20:29.080 --> 0:20:33.240 a serious direction. Then it became I knew it, And 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:36.800 when is she going to become my step mom? Yeah? 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:40.960 And so you know, and it's just it's great because 0:20:40.960 --> 0:20:44.200 we get along well with with my ex wife, Harper's mom, 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:47.400 and it's you know, they're sure ups and downs, but 0:20:48.000 --> 0:20:52.040 it's um, yeah, Harbor, my daughter is fully on board 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:56.399 and we wouldn't be here without her. So important, isn't it. 0:20:56.400 --> 0:21:01.080 It's so important, so important. Yeah, well, I'm really happy 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:06.800 for you. That's great. So do you have a passion 0:21:06.840 --> 0:21:11.199 for music? M isn't that fantastic? What's the status of 0:21:11.280 --> 0:21:15.480 your band, pork Chuck. The status of my band pork 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.040 Chuck is well, we couldn't perform at all during the 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:23.040 pandemic at least. So what we did to kind of, 0:21:23.119 --> 0:21:27.000 you know, get rid of the bug was we broadcast 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.960 a couple of shows from this great studio in Burbank, 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:34.480 and I think we did that three are so times, 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:37.400 which was a lot of fun. The hard thing with 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:43.119 the guys in the band is that I'm on days. Uh. 0:21:43.320 --> 0:21:47.399 One guy is still in general hospital and to the 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:51.359 other one lives in Nashville, and another one lives pretty 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:55.080 far south of Los Angeles, an one within Sacramento. So 0:21:56.160 --> 0:21:59.760 it's very difficult for us to get our schedules SYNCD 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:03.439 up to say, hey, we're gonna go on tour, you know, 0:22:04.640 --> 0:22:08.480 the third week of October, market out because it doesn't 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:11.960 work for everybody. So we're trying to figure out a 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:13.240 time when we can go out on the road, but 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:16.520 we have full intentions of hopefully doing that. Sometimes do 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:22.000 you have management and the whole thing? And yeah, we 0:22:22.080 --> 0:22:24.040 have booking you know, we have a booking manager. We 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.080 don't have a band manager, but we do have a 0:22:26.280 --> 0:22:28.480 you know, a booking manager we worked very closely with 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.040 and she books us, and you know, she's booked us 0:22:31.040 --> 0:22:34.960 anywhere from like you know, two fifty people person comedy 0:22:34.960 --> 0:22:38.280 clubs to like the Wilbert Theater in Boston and you know, 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:42.000 all venues in between. And so yeah, I think what 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:44.560 we'd like to play is, you know, a house that's 0:22:44.600 --> 0:22:46.720 really no bigger than like four because we know we 0:22:46.760 --> 0:22:49.160 can sell that out and and it's a party. We're 0:22:49.200 --> 0:22:51.080 a cover band and we just you know, we put 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:55.040 our own twist on on classic songs and just have 0:22:55.119 --> 0:22:59.399 a party. Yeah, well that is fantastic. Are you ready 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:02.920 for rapping fire? I'm gonna fire. I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:23:02.920 --> 0:23:04.880 fire questions at you haven't done this in a while 0:23:04.920 --> 0:23:06.960 with the guests, but I'm gonna fire all these questions 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:08.520 that we gotta do. We gotta go through a quick 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:11.200 That's why it's called rapid fire. Ready. Oh, that's that's 0:23:11.200 --> 0:23:13.280 the rapid part of it. This is the rapid apartment. 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.399 You got that part? Okay? How many coups of coffee 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:21.080 you having today? Zero? Are you a team Logan, Team Jess, 0:23:21.080 --> 0:23:28.639 Team Dean? Huh? Exactly? What is your favorite Gilmore girl's character? 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:32.919 There you go? What would you order it? Luke Steiner? 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:35.880 I would order a grilled cheese inside of talks? Would 0:23:35.880 --> 0:23:40.000 you rather go on a road trip with Taylor or Michelle? Both? 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:44.080 Finish the lyric? Where you lead? I will follow dot 0:23:44.080 --> 0:23:51.080 dot dot take me to your leader. Jackson's vegetables are 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:54.680 Suki's baked goods, sake goods every day the week and 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:57.440 twice onthiing there you go. Would you rather listen to 0:23:57.560 --> 0:24:02.760 Drella's harp or the Trooperdour's cover? So songs, songs, children 0:24:02.800 --> 0:24:08.440 prep or Stars, Hollow high Man. There you go. It 0:24:08.600 --> 0:24:11.760 was a pleasure of Brandon. Um, thank you so much. 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:16.440 Good luck with everything. I hope the band gets back 0:24:16.480 --> 0:24:19.480 together and starts touring. I know people love that. UM 0:24:19.920 --> 0:24:23.399 so much fun and uh, it was a pleasure talking 0:24:23.440 --> 0:24:27.639 to you, and uh, good luck with the wedding. Stay safe, 0:24:27.760 --> 0:24:30.679 all the best to you my friends. Likewise, all right, 0:24:30.720 --> 0:25:03.560