WEBVTT - Justin Cooper Meets World 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:23.280 I have an announcement to make. We have exchanged our 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:26.119 Christmas gifts. I want to get it out there because 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:32.959 the questions, the questions have not stopped, the emails, the comments. 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:34.680 You guys, I've never. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:41.240 I so appreciate your dedication to Will, especially getting his gifts. 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.239 They really felt for Will. Everyone felt very bad that 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.800 Will was. It had just he had not gotten his 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.280 gifts from Writer. So I want to tell everybody, Will, 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.320 why don't you tell everyone what your gift from Writer was. 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:01.600 I got an incredibly thoughtful and progressive but in a 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:05.720 way you're not going to think progressive in size correct 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:08.280 and that sounds very strange. So Writer and Danielle have 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:12.280 often Uh. I won't say it made fun, No, but 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.520 poked fun in a lovely way. 0:01:14.680 --> 0:01:17.440 No, I've directly criticized. You know you criticized Judge. 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:22.640 Yes, I know of my quote unquote George Costanza wallet. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.199 It is literally. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:30.760 People, you must have back problems. I need everything. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:33.640 I need everything in it and his priorities and I 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:34.000 need it. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:38.679 Doesn't everything everything? 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.720 Oh my god, he's credit cards. He doesn't even remember 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:41.520 opening it. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:46.160 Still has his uh Blockbuster card, Blockbuster. 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:47.680 Yeabuster Blockbuster. 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.920 I'm married because I exactly because you're married because of 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:55.760 block in your wallet, your wedding ring to remind yourself 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:57.240 of the Blockbuster card. 0:01:57.440 --> 0:01:59.280 Half of the time, I don't remember that I'm married 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:00.960 unless I my Blockbuster card. 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:02.720 Okay, even Susan knows. 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.200 That your memory for the It's great. 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:09.680 A lot of debates, you know, when we're around the table, 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:10.840 doesice matter? 0:02:11.840 --> 0:02:14.839 Let's be honest, That's what the conversation is about. I'm helping. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:16.200 I'm trying to help you streamline. 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:18.200 I had a friend when I was like eighteen, take 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.079 my wallet and just start throwing everything away, and I was. 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:23.679 Like, it ended up being very because I don't even 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.840 care anymore. That's no Soper. 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.640 Has on the back of his phone. Writer has a 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:30.600 thing where you can slip a few cards in your idea, 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:31.640 and that's all that writer. 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:32.760 Takes with him. That's always got. 0:02:32.760 --> 0:02:35.200 Whereas I, you know, if I'm at an Orlando area 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.560 Exon station and I want my free Save the Tiger poster, 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.639 he's got. That's a direct quote from Seinfeld. By the way, 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:42.560 and George's wallet, no. 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:45.480 So Rider bought me three sizes of wallet. 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.079 I've got the Ultra slim where you can fit about 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.079 twenty five cents and maybe one card, the next one 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:54.359 where you can fit three point fifty and maybe four cards, 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:56.919 and then a big bulk wallet that's an actual human 0:02:56.960 --> 0:02:58.400 sized wallet where I can fit in all the. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:02:59.400 Stuff I'm going to need. 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:01.959 It's I was going to get him like a sleek, 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:04.400 thin wallet, but then I was like this, you know, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.200 am I really going to convert him? So ill for 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.640 that as an option, and then I'll give him some 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.320 more options, progressively. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:12.920 Getting bigger until he has like the giant wallet. If 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:13.480 that's what I did. 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:15.680 So I got my I got three versions of wallet, 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.400 which is phenomenal because I'm going to put them all 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:20.040 together and make one big wallet that I can then 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:21.160 carry in my back pocket. 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:23.280 Danielle, what ad writer give you? 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.160 Well, I have mine right here that I'd like to 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:34.000 show everybody. Writer got me a Jordan one candle, so 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.960 anyone who knows me knows that I'm a big sneaker 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:43.240 head and the Jordan one silhouette up until very recently 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:47.720 was my absolute all star favorite. It's still way up 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:50.200 there for me, but the Jordan fours have actually taken 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.440 over the silhouette as being my favorite. But look at 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:58.640 the beautiful detail. It's amazing this shoe, it's phenomenal. It's 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:02.920 by davy Oachho and it was hand poured in Venice, California. 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.480 It's made with beeswax and soy. You can see them 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:10.960 at davy Ocho Candleco or davy Ocho da v I 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:14.680 e oho dot com. And it's this incredible, it's this 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:15.560 incredible candle. 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:18.800 Can we alre talk about why it's how amazing it 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:21.880 is that it's still this detailed For a very specific reason. 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:23.640 Yeah, because I left it in my car. 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:26.640 For how long this temple? Since Christmas? 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.240 No January. We were meeting up in January. 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.880 Oh, big difference December twenty fifth to January. Thank you 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.479 for correcting me on that. I'm so happy you explained it. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.560 It's only since January, not since December twenty. 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.920 Fifth, January, February, March, April, four months in the back 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:42.600 of a car. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:43.440 Didn't melt. 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:43.680 So. 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.560 One of the other amazing things about davy Ocho candles 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:50.239 is that they apparently the hot cars, they last forever. 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.400 They or they're very well packaged. But anyway, we talked 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.320 about whether or not I would ever actually light it. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.039 The thing I think that would make it very cool 0:04:57.120 --> 0:04:59.000 is that the wick is at the part where you 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.120 put your foot in. So I think the wick would 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.000 I think it would just burn straight down and I 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.400 would still have the perfect silhouette of the shoe. And 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:07.479 I think maybe it would just light from inside once 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:09.440 the wick got down, and I think it would actually 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:09.960 look very cool. 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.039 But it melt down, it melts down in the middle. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:14.640 Does it become an actual sneaker? Can you wear it? 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:15.200 Oh? 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.280 What like if you get a pair of them? Can 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:20.320 you just slosh around in your way? Is Danielle's size 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:20.719 it is? 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.479 We held my foot up to it. It does look 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:24.839 like my size, maybe half a size too small. This 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:26.320 might be a size six and I am a six 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:28.680 and a half, but my foot it did kind of perfect. 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.640 Look at my foot. Yeah, we'd have to see. But anyway, 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.400 thank you guys for being so concerned. We have officially 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:39.520 exchanged gifts and yeah, so we love you all. Thank 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.000 you for your concern. We will try to exchange gifts 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:45.880 this upcoming Christmas, which is only about seven months away. 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:47.400 Maybe we should do. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:49.080 It ahead of time. Maybe we should get together. 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.040 I got books for Adler and Keaton too. 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.280 Do you guys open, Oh we did, and we love 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:58.520 mister Tiger Goes Wild. Wow, and ten minutes till Bedtime. 0:05:58.160 --> 0:05:59.960 Ten minutes of bad times, the gift that keeps giving. 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:02.599 Every time you read it, you find new details. It's 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.360 so fun, it's so cute. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:08.400 My kids absolutely loved them. I love mister Tiger Goes Wild. 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.880 My kids. Can I complain about my kids for a second, please? 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:16.400 They they don't like hardbacks with the paper on them. 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.520 Adler literally goes, oh, get this paper off of here, 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.640 and he insists on throwing away. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:23.960 Oh the dust cover. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.400 They I know what you meant. 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.240 I was like, yeah, no, I get that they're annoying. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:33.320 I do kind of you can't stand it, And I'm like, okay, 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.039 but I first of all, mister Tiger, unlike a lot 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:38.880 of like a lot of hardcovers, have the same print 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:42.040 on the hardcover, so even without it, you can read this, 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:45.279 you know, siding and whatever mister Tiger does not it's 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:47.800 just striped. And he insisted on throwing it away. And then, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:51.440 of course, whatever Adler does, Keaton needs to do immediately after. 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.560 So he decided ten minutes till Bedtime had to be 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:56.120 ripped up. But they love the books. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.400 So that's a collector of anything that hurts my heart. Yeah, 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:00.520 taking off the US Jackie. 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:00.800 Yeah. 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:02.040 Yeah. 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:05.440 And I did not get Indie books. I got him 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.400 keeping with Indy's very cool dressing. Unfortunately he was too 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.880 big for the pants I got him, but I got 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.520 him an outfit in his He dresses like a nineteen 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.080 what would you say, nineteen thirties? Yeah, like a newsboy, 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:24.679 like a newsboy, so cute an actually Indians exactly. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:26.720 But then you also recently got him. I don't know 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.480 if this counts. Is christ Ohio shirt that was amazing? 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:29.880 Yeah. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.400 It says things to do in Ohio one leave. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:34.680 Yeah, and he loved it, love it. 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:35.600 He's wearing it today. 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.120 We were hanging out all of us not too long ago, 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.239 and Indy was trying to explain to me the entire 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:44.120 language of Ohio, which is a completely different thing. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.120 So he was teaching me different phrases. 0:07:46.800 --> 0:07:50.520 In Ohio, songs in Ohio, the handshakes, there's everything, So 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:55.160 it is an entire song U Alpha City, skimm yes, 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:56.880 skimmey toilet. 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:02.040 By the way, I left Adler and Heaton walkie talkies. 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:03.480 I'm curious if those ever got used. 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:04.960 Yes, I forgot. I hid them. 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:08.520 I love getting loud things that are annoying, so I 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:10.000 was going to get a drum set. So you're lucky 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:10.440 I got them. 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:11.360 What happened? 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:12.480 You loved the drum? 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:15.400 Yeah, no, here's the thing. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.080 So I hid them because we in the past had 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.160 had walkie talkies when they were a little younger, and 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:25.080 Keaton could not figure out that he had to hold 0:08:25.160 --> 0:08:27.960 it down only while talking. The walkie talkie for Keaton 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:30.280 was still difficult. Adler had figured it out, but then 0:08:30.280 --> 0:08:33.560 they would get very frustrated, and Adler would be mad 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.040 at Keaton and it caused fights. Yeah, so I saw it, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.520 and I thought, we're close. We're very close to Keaton 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:43.360 being able to figure that out. We're maybe only like 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.719 four months away. So I have them hidden off to 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:49.319 the side. For the I usually bring out. This is 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:51.400 what I do in general with Christmas gifts for my kids. 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.040 They get too many things because we have too many 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.400 people who love them and want to buy them things, 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.760 and despite my insistence that everybody only buy them one thing, 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:01.960 our grandparents go nuts and we end up with too 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:05.040 many things. So I take half of the gifts, store 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.719 them away in a closet, and then halfway through the year, 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.240 when it's time to take away the smart switch out, 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.559 get out some of the gifts there they've become bored 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:16.319 of and bring out a whole new set of gifts. 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:19.840 So they're in the running for that. Okay, all right, 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:22.320 thank you very much, and they will. They will enjoy 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.680 it for sure. So I'm happy to give you guys 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.600 that update now only only end of April to exchange. 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:34.120 Start the welcome to Pod Meets World. 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Well, how about this one. 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.360 It's got Jim Carrey in it, and you loved him 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.280 in Ace Ventura, an even cable guy, which people seemed 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.640 to hate. This one is called Liar Liar, and you'll 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.880 remember it for the next twenty five years. It's hilarious, 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:46.160 one of the better comedies of the decade, and not 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:49.319 just because of Jim Carrey, but because of the adorable 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:52.800 little boy who played his son. The bowl cut, the claw, 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:56.119 the sadness when he heard the truth, but the heartwarming 0:11:56.280 --> 0:11:58.880 ending where the family came back together. It was a 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.000 perfect movie to get Jim Carrey back atop the box office, 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.280 and today's guest was a major part of that success. 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:08.360 We know that kid is Eric's potential step son in 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.120 Uncle Daddy, just as cute and just as scene stealing 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.000 as he'd be that same year in Liar Liar. As 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:17.520 a kid, you'd also see him on Full House, Er 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:21.120 General Hospital, and as Dennis the Menace in Dennis the 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:24.480 Menace Strikes Again. He since retired from acting and found 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.720 himself succeeding in the world of sports radio. But today 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.000 we're going to hone in on that one time he 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.719 almost did the unthinkable and made a dad at a 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.840 will please welcome. 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:37.520 To Podmeats World. 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:41.880 Someone we are very excited to catch up with, Justin Cooper. 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.760 Justin, how's it going good? 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:48.480 What's happening? 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.320 Oh my gosh, it's so good to see you too. 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:58.160 It's been a few weeks, I know, just a little while. 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.960 So first we know that your job is now producing 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:05.000 sports radio, so I wanted to make you feel right 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.720 at home. So my first question is, can Aaron Rodgers 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:10.480 actually help the Jets next season? 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.319 I have no idea what's happening, what sport is that. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:15.640 I don't even know what sports is. 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.079 He doesn't have If he doesn't get hurt in the 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.200 first game, I mean, come on, if that knees better, 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:24.880 the acl is better, I think he's got a shot 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:26.760 that Justin think. 0:13:26.960 --> 0:13:30.200 Oh sorry, I mean he's definitely going to help the Jets. 0:13:30.240 --> 0:13:33.600 He's better than what they've had. But I'm a Broncos 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:36.040 fan and we just got their old quarterback yesterday, so 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:37.160 I'm not too happy. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.000 About That's too thrilled? 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.719 All right, So now that you're comfortable and writer is 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:47.360 completely out of his element, let's get into acting. You 0:13:47.880 --> 0:13:51.360 started much younger than we did. You were five years old, right, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.199 how did that happen? How were you brought into the business? 0:13:55.160 --> 0:13:58.760 I think I don't know. I was a very personable 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:02.640 little kid, and so my mom just, I don't know, 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:05.640 took me to take headshots and then sent those out 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:10.320 to agents and then got one and then went from there. Wow. 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:14.439 So you didn't have any like connections. It was really just, hey, 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.080 we've got a cute kid with a great personality. Maybe 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:18.200 he should be in entertainment. 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:19.240 Yeah, pretty much. 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.240 Were you did you grow up on the West Coast? 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:26.240 Were you in Los Angeles at the time or okay, okay, yeah. 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.120 Did people used to stop you guys in the street 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.280 and ask like you should get it? Tell it, like, 0:14:31.360 --> 0:14:34.040 tell your mom you should get him into the TV business. 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.120 Yeah, stuff like that happened. Like I'd be waiting in 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.440 line at like Disneyland for a ride and I'd be, 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:45.800 you know, hamming it up, and people would just be like, oh, yeah, 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:47.880 you should you know, you should start him in acting 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:50.760 or something, and yeah, that's how it happened. Wow. 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.760 Did you go right into on camera work or did 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.360 you ever do theater or acting classes or was it 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.000 just right into the deep end. 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.760 That's funny. So I've been thinking about this, because you know, 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.760 I've you know, started I started rewatching Boy Meets World 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:07.640 with my wife, who's a little bit younger than I am, 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.720 and then started listening to you guys' podcast, and I know, writer, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.120 you did a lot of theater, and I remember thinking like, man, 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:14.880 I hated theater. 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:17.280 Will the same way? 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.720 Yeah, I did it like one time, and I was like, 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.040 you know what I like being able to do multiple 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:27.440 takes right. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.760 In the same way of exactly the same way. 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.160 So what I mean when you started, the route that 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:35.520 a lot of especially young actors take if you're not 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.360 going to go theater is commercials. Yeah, so were you 0:15:38.480 --> 0:15:40.680 Do you remember kind of being on the commercial circuit 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:41.280 back in the day? 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:47.000 Oh for sure. My first job was a Domino's pizza commercial. Yes, yes, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:53.080 and then did a bunch of commercials before landing you know, 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:53.920 anything major. 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.760 So after the Domino's commercial, you said you did a 0:15:57.800 --> 0:16:00.880 few commercials. Was your first TV show full House? 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:01.680 I believe? 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:06.040 So yeah, yeah, made the rounds of the ninety shows? 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:07.280 Oh yeah, for sure. 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:11.040 Yeah, you did Full House er and then your first 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.160 series regular was on a show called The Boys Are Back. Yes, okay, 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.040 So what do you remember about that show. 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:18.960 That's what I was going to do you remember any 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:21.160 of this? Do you remember being on Full House? 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.440 I do not remember being on Full House. I do 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:30.320 remember The Boys Are Back though Kelsey mulrooney was a 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:35.720 coaster on there Rest in Peace, but she was like 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:37.920 my first girlfriend. 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:40.520 Then. 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.320 I don't know, like five thigs. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.200 Okay, still so young. 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:49.640 You booked all of these like within your first couple 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.800 of years of being yeah. 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:52.400 Yeah. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:55.200 What did your parents think of all of this and 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.080 the success that you had right off the bat? 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:01.480 You know, I think my I remember, if I'm thinking back, 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.000 like my dad was sort of like, oh, that's cool, 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.359 you know, like kind of like indifferent about it. But 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:12.520 my mom was very much you know, the like she 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:14.399 was into it, like her kind of I think her 0:17:14.520 --> 0:17:18.000 dream was to be in you know, show business, and 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.520 so then you know, I was doing it and was 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.800 getting successful at it. So I think she was very excited, 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.080 but you know she was she was a great studio mom. 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.480 What did your parents do for a living. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:35.400 Well, it's so my mom at the time, I guess 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.840 before she had me, she worked at Laura mar and 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:42.880 that's where she met my dad, and my dad ended 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:45.720 up working at the grounds department at Paramount Pictures and 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:48.399 he just retired last year. 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:50.600 So wait, he worked at the grounds department at Paramount 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:52.600 Pictures for what like forty years? 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:55.120 The yeah, thirty something years. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:56.520 Yeah, that's amazing. 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:57.680 Yeah. 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.600 So do you remember anything about trying to memorize your 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:05.359 lines as a kid. Did it come very easily to 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.159 you as it does to most kids. What do you 0:18:07.240 --> 0:18:08.720 remember about memorizing your lines? 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.199 It did, and I do remember like it was kind 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.000 of annoying to some of my co stars sometimes because 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.119 I would just I remember my lines, I remember their lines, 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.080 and then you know, they'd be like pausing and then 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:24.879 I'd say their line and they're like, oh. 0:18:24.840 --> 0:18:26.160 You know, that's good. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.960 Kid's memories. Kids actors are like that. You somehow absorb 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:35.040 everybody's lines around you. I plastic, it's just fun. You'll 0:18:35.040 --> 0:18:37.359 get everything in at that point. And so I remember 0:18:37.400 --> 0:18:37.919 the same thing. 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.119 You're eight or nine on a set, ten years old 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:42.320 in the set and it's like, I know everybody's line. 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.679 I wonder, now if we all tried to memorize lines, 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.840 which you know, it's a muscle. It's one that if 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:49.480 you haven't used in a while. I haven't had to 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:53.480 memorize dialogue in twenty years, fifteen years. I wonder if 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.480 we could all snap right back into it again. 0:18:55.640 --> 0:18:56.600 Yeah, it's a good question. 0:18:58.119 --> 0:19:01.120 I know track as a director. 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:07.520 I I I know everybody's lines and yeah, ok, because 0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:10.040 for me, it's all linked to camera shots or or 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.720 blocking moves that I want to remember, and so I'll 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.360 be like, that's not your line. This is your line, 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.400 and you're supposed to cross on it. So I think, 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.439 you know, I've just never stopped using it than as 0:19:21.640 --> 0:19:25.160 a director. So, okay, after you did The Boys Are Back, 0:19:25.600 --> 0:19:29.040 you found yourself in a very familiar spot for kid actors, 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:31.960 which is on a soap opera. Right you were you 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:33.680 were recurring on General Hospital. 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:34.879 Do you remember that? 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:37.440 Oh yeah, very much so, And did you enjoy it? 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:38.080 I did? 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:38.399 I did. 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.840