Speaker 1: Hey there, fan Rito's Welcome to part two of our
Speaker 1: interview with Taj Maori Marie don't okay, gotta pinch myself.
Speaker 2: Welcome to part two of our interview with Taj Maury.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 2: That's better.
Speaker 1: It's an interview we have been so excited for, and
Speaker 1: now that he's here, we just can't stop talking to him.
Speaker 1: With Taj's extensive career, there's a never ending list of questions.
Speaker 2: To ask, So let's get right to it. Here's Taj.
Speaker 4: I am so impressed by, Like I've watched all the
Speaker 4: like Behind the Street, Sesame Street, Muppet shows. I'm so
Speaker 4: impressed by that because that really truly is you know,
Speaker 4: rubbing your stomach and patting your head, also playing drums
Speaker 4: and writing a cycle.
Speaker 3: They have monit that was there's a lot of firsts
Speaker 3: on that show because it's filmed unlike anything. You know,
Speaker 3: they have monitors everywhere because obviously they have to be
Speaker 3: like this, but looking where they are, so as an actor,
Speaker 3: you're not used to seeing five monitors in front of
Speaker 3: you during a scene. So that was a thing. Our
Speaker 3: sets are built like three to four feet above ground
Speaker 3: to leave room, so like you know, set staircases you
Speaker 3: can very easily fall off, so they're they're marked, and
Speaker 3: you know, they kept us very safe obviously, but there
Speaker 3: was just so many things that you're The first day
Speaker 3: on that show was like like.
Speaker 5: It was like yeah, whoa, Like this is a lot.
Speaker 3: And then you know, you start to get it. And
Speaker 3: then eye line was a trip because you have to
Speaker 3: look at the muppet and not the person speaking, which
Speaker 3: is down there, so that was tricky. But oh, Jody,
Speaker 3: it was just unlike anything, and like you really it
Speaker 3: was cool because I kind of got to know the
Speaker 3: performer and the Muppet, so it's like and they're different,
Speaker 3: they're different people.
Speaker 6: And then what's really crazy is when it's like a
Speaker 6: Thursday at lunch and you're in you know, month three,
Speaker 6: and then they dropped the bomb on you that they're
Speaker 6: also Cookie Monster and you're like, wait, you do that?
Speaker 3: Boy sitting So you're just like it blows your mind.
Speaker 3: But yeah, one of the most incredible things I've ever done.
Speaker 3: Bucket list. So grateful those people are family to me now,
Speaker 3: and to like that, to have to have a character
Speaker 3: that I've played be a part of that universe now
Speaker 3: is just it's awesome.
Speaker 5: How did the character of Moove come about?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 5: How did that?
Speaker 3: It was very quick. It was a very quick process,
Speaker 3: and I don't think I'm thankful because they allowed me
Speaker 3: to sort of I had a little bit of creative
Speaker 3: control and how he you know, he was written on
Speaker 3: the paper, but but he was originally written a little
Speaker 3: bit different and then when I came on board, they
Speaker 3: were like, oh, okay, let's maybe like mold him a
Speaker 3: little bit so it makes more sense. So, you know,
Speaker 3: anytime you could play a character that really wasn't written
Speaker 3: to make sense for you to play it, but then
Speaker 3: you end up playing it, it's just like, Okay, that's
Speaker 3: this is an honor. I'm very I'm very honored to
Speaker 3: be doing this. But yeah, it was very quick process.
Speaker 3: The team over there, I'm up at studios, they just
Speaker 3: are great. It was it was very fast, and then
Speaker 3: the process of leading up to shooting was like not
Speaker 3: fast because it was the first thing that I ever
Speaker 3: did where we did all of the table reads for
Speaker 3: every episode before we even stepped foot on set, right Yeah,
Speaker 3: oh yeah. It was like like I think like three
Speaker 3: two to three months leading up to shooting. We were
Speaker 3: doing zooms of the table reads because it was during
Speaker 3: COVID and so I had never experienced that before. So
Speaker 3: that was a trip.
Speaker 5: But as a COVID you mean, yeah, it was COVID.
Speaker 3: What's Up? So that was that was tricky because it
Speaker 3: was something new, But it was helpful because when you
Speaker 3: got on set, you knew your whole character arc, you
Speaker 3: knew where you were going because we we shot it
Speaker 3: in the in a block schedule, so some days you
Speaker 3: were shooting like three episodes at once, not full three episodes,
Speaker 3: but like scenes from three episodes.
Speaker 5: Right, we need this set.
Speaker 3: Is he more confident? Yeah? Okay, he's a little bit
Speaker 3: more confident now, So I got it right, because.
Speaker 4: It's block shooting for a movie is hard, let alone
Speaker 4: an entire sit.
Speaker 3: It was a very tricky, but it was it was,
Speaker 3: it was. It was great, and Moog was just I
Speaker 3: don't think I've ever loved a character quite like quite
Speaker 3: like Moog. He just And anytime you get to do
Speaker 3: a show where your character is kind of like the
Speaker 3: heartbeat of it is just an honor because it's like
Speaker 3: you kind of you walk into the role knowing that
Speaker 3: you people are probably gonna like your character, which is
Speaker 3: always nice. Yeah, but it's a little.
Speaker 5: You're like built in you have some also, you know, right,
Speaker 5: so very curious, like I know you're gonna like me,
Speaker 5: but I can't.
Speaker 3: So that was that was that was cool for me.
Speaker 3: And I think you know, the way he dressed, the
Speaker 3: way he was, that that all, you know, helped with
Speaker 3: with finding who Moog was and the whole team was
Speaker 3: just incredible. Man. It was just those people will always
Speaker 3: be in my heart and anytime I will drop whatever
Speaker 3: if the Muppets call me, you know, I'm there, right, I.
Speaker 4: Am there if you need an assistant, like if someone
Speaker 4: if someone just needs to stand next to the performers
Speaker 4: and hold a muppet, you know what I mean, like
Speaker 4: I I'm your gal.
Speaker 3: Let me tell you. It was very because since we
Speaker 3: did it during you know, the height of COVID, there
Speaker 3: were so many people that you know, you could have
Speaker 3: brought to set with you, but you just couldn't because
Speaker 3: of you. Just yeah, exactly, it was I'm sure Jody,
Speaker 3: I will remember that and if you know, if they
Speaker 3: call me and Jarrett.
Speaker 4: It is a life dream of mine to do something
Speaker 4: with the Muppets. I have loved them since the beginning,
Speaker 4: since the only time I ever got starstruck was when
Speaker 4: I met Carol Spinney at a convention man who was
Speaker 4: the voice of Big Bird and several others. But like
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my god, my child. Yeah, so
Speaker 4: Muppets all the way, Muppet Christmas, Carol, I will fight
Speaker 4: anyone that it says that is not the best Christmas
Speaker 4: movie and best version.
Speaker 5: Anyway.
Speaker 3: Let it be known.
Speaker 1: Number number one position, always, always, The Muppets are my favorite.
Speaker 3: Always. They have massuses on set. They have.
Speaker 4: Oh that would be because like this all day, because
Speaker 4: you gotta do that.
Speaker 3: They have their own hair and makeup team, wardrobe. You
Speaker 3: gotta fly if animal has a flyaway the whole the
Speaker 3: whole scene again, oh yeah, yeah, it is no very joke.
Speaker 3: It is no joke. And something simple like you know,
Speaker 3: you the writing credit to the writing team, because you
Speaker 3: can't write whatever you want for a Muppet to do,
Speaker 3: because that takes a lot of war, and like they
Speaker 3: have to maybe create another body part that works differently,
Speaker 3: like they can't like pick things up, or like if
Speaker 3: the Muppets like swimming, how are you gonna shoot that?
Speaker 3: You know? Right, So there there were a lot of
Speaker 3: times where you have you know, every now and then
Speaker 3: you'd have a guy in a green suit because the
Speaker 3: muppet has to do something that he can't do regularly, right,
Speaker 3: But all that was cool. It was just yeah, it
Speaker 3: was an amazing experience. Amazing.
Speaker 5: Well, I love that. That's that sounds like so much fun.
Speaker 4: Now, let's you have the singing career as well. How
Speaker 4: what made you want to pivot sort of from acting
Speaker 4: to singing. I mean it's not like it's a huge leap,
Speaker 4: you know what I mean? But I like, it's not
Speaker 4: like you're like, wait and then.
Speaker 3: You became.
Speaker 5: Yeah no, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like what was it? Was that something that you
Speaker 4: always loved to do? Was that like something your family did?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think my mom grew up singing in church,
Speaker 3: so like she would always be singing, my sisters singing.
Speaker 3: So I always enjoyed singing. So there came a point
Speaker 3: in my life and in my career where I was like, Okay,
Speaker 3: I want to maybe do that professionally and not just
Speaker 3: for fun. I'm not I'm always going to be passionate
Speaker 3: about music, but the music industry is just a whole
Speaker 3: nother thing that I didn't find myself loving as much
Speaker 3: as I love my acting side. So for for a
Speaker 3: big part of my life I was doing music, you know,
Speaker 3: in the studio, recording, releasing things. But at the height
Speaker 3: of it, I was also doing Baby Daddy, so it
Speaker 3: was very rushed and it was like, oh, I'm on hiatus,
Speaker 3: I gotta get in the studio and write this like
Speaker 3: thep real quick.
Speaker 5: It was the side project. Yeah, just kind of the
Speaker 5: side as opposed to the mean.
Speaker 3: And I don't. I don't think i've ever like now.
Speaker 3: Like like I said, it's a huge passion of mine.
Speaker 3: If if if that I have to be inspired to
Speaker 3: do anything, I have to, I have to feel the
Speaker 3: itch to want to do that creative outlet, whatever it is.
Speaker 3: And so I don't have that anymore for music, for
Speaker 3: for for the industry. I always love music and I
Speaker 3: always love to sing, but I think now I'd rather
Speaker 3: do it in the acting medium instead of separating them. Again,
Speaker 3: I never never say never. I might, you know, next
Speaker 3: year be like a record album, but like I just don't.
Speaker 3: I'm also very private, and I feel like the music
Speaker 3: industry now is just like they want to know everything,
Speaker 3: and I'm just like ooh, like I'm barely on ig,
Speaker 3: Like is this gonna work?
Speaker 5: I think yeah, I think I'm generation just don't want
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 3: That, but yeah, I love it. I love to sing,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I just it's it's a whole different beast
Speaker 3: and it's like, you know, it's a whole other thing.
Speaker 3: And I just know, like right now, I'm like, you know,
Speaker 3: let me, let me focus on this side. But yeah,
Speaker 3: never never never say never down the road, right. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So it's it's not You're like, I am a character.
Speaker 4: That's ye, but I'm not out there hustling touring doing
Speaker 4: a thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah I don't.
Speaker 5: He's like business is it is. It's a more so
Speaker 5: I think than.
Speaker 3: Actually yeah, oh yeah, without a doubt, and like it's
Speaker 3: just a lot I don't know, it just runs differently
Speaker 3: and it's just like like you can't really trust a
Speaker 3: lot of people and like yeah, it's just like weird
Speaker 3: and I'm just like I don't know if that's like
Speaker 3: my vibe, like you know what I'm.
Speaker 2: Saying, right like that of people? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, you I mean. Adding to the list
Speaker 4: of things that you have accomplished, you also have done
Speaker 4: a ton.
Speaker 5: Of voice acting. Yeah, which is so great.
Speaker 4: I mean probably one of your best known roles would
Speaker 4: be on Kim posses, So like, did you start doing
Speaker 4: that as a kid and then.
Speaker 3: Key you know, yeah, voiceover was It's kind of funny
Speaker 3: because back in the day, you know, when I started,
Speaker 3: you had a voiceover agent, a regular agent. You had
Speaker 3: a dance agent too, right, So like I was doing
Speaker 3: it all, So voiceover was just a part of it.
Speaker 3: When Kim Possible came around, it was during the time
Speaker 3: that it was like the height of like the Disney Channel,
Speaker 3: like you know, the Circle of Life, like Me Shia,
Speaker 3: Hillary Raven, you know, that whole thing. But it was
Speaker 3: also during the time that I took a break from
Speaker 3: like on camera stuff, and it was I think Kim
Speaker 3: Postle we did that for like maybe five years, but
Speaker 3: I think when we started, I was like maybe eighth
Speaker 3: grade maybe, and then like as the show went on,
Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, I want to take a break
Speaker 3: from acting and just be like a high school kid.
Speaker 3: But it was easy to still do because you're only
Speaker 3: in the booth for like an hour once a week,
Speaker 3: and you could show up in your pjs if you want,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. It wasn't bothersome to me,
Speaker 3: and it wasn't that I hated acting at that time,
Speaker 3: I just wanted to just play football. You know. I
Speaker 3: ended up playing football, got a scholarship, played for a
Speaker 3: year in college, and then ultimately was like miss acting.
Speaker 3: So then I went back. But I'm grateful that I
Speaker 3: had that opportunity to step away. But yeah, Kim Possible
Speaker 3: was a huge part of my adolescence. Did multiple seasons.
Speaker 3: We did movies. A lot of people don't know. We
Speaker 3: also did a It was the most extensive recording I've
Speaker 3: ever had to do for anything. But we did a
Speaker 3: adventure walk through at Disney World for Caim Possible, like
Speaker 3: where you, as a Disney guest, would have like a
Speaker 3: communicator and then I Wade would be talking you through.
Speaker 3: But it was like a choose your own path thing
Speaker 3: like before that was like a thing.
Speaker 5: Right, It was like those choose your Own adventures.
Speaker 3: That said I had to record something for every entry
Speaker 3: invent that you had to so I remember the script
Speaker 3: was like it was insane. I was doing that for months,
Speaker 3: but you know, it's it was cool because that show
Speaker 3: kind of spawned multiple things, and then they did a
Speaker 3: live action version, which you know was crazy. Nothing I've
Speaker 3: ever done had spawned and like a spin off of
Speaker 3: it in like a for a new generation. So that
Speaker 3: was cool to witness and you know, meet the the
Speaker 3: kid who was playing the new Wade like that was
Speaker 3: fun for me. But yeah, that was just we had
Speaker 3: so much fun on that show Man. Shout out to Christy.
Speaker 3: I've been praying for I hope she's getting better, but
Speaker 3: she that whole that whole crew was just you know,
Speaker 3: those those those studio days were so fun, especially when
Speaker 3: you got to do them together because, as some people
Speaker 3: may or may not know, when you do voiceover stuff,
Speaker 3: not all the time you're with the whole cast, it's
Speaker 3: just you a lot of amount of so anytime we
Speaker 3: were with each other, with you know, Will and everyone else,
Speaker 3: there was always like a fun time. But yeah, that
Speaker 3: was such a such a great time in my life
Speaker 3: because I still got to keep my foot in the
Speaker 3: industry but also take a break that I needed at
Speaker 3: the same time.
Speaker 4: I think we've all again, we've that's something that we've
Speaker 4: all kind of done. Is like the three of you know, Andrew,
Speaker 4: you really stepped away from the business for a while.
Speaker 5: I had kind of.
Speaker 4: Stepped away from it for a while, Like it does,
Speaker 4: I think when you've been in it since you were
Speaker 4: literally a child that it's kind of you know, you
Speaker 4: step away and get some perspective and.
Speaker 5: Decide like, is this is this still what I love?
Speaker 1: Is this?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 4: And like I think we've all had to ask ourselves
Speaker 4: that question, like I really like this or is it
Speaker 4: just all that I know?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: And it's you know, and then you go do something
Speaker 5: else and you're.
Speaker 7: Like, yeah, that's exactly what happened to be and it's
Speaker 7: I think it's it's it's helpful for your mental health,
Speaker 7: it's it's it's.
Speaker 3: Helpful for growth in general to experience life without the
Speaker 3: glitz and glamour of it all and allow yourself space. So,
Speaker 3: like you said, realize that you are in love with
Speaker 3: it or you're not, you know, but you have to
Speaker 3: give yourself an opportunity to be like, hey, I do
Speaker 3: like this. This is my passion. And like I said,
Speaker 3: I don't like to do anything that I'm not passionate
Speaker 3: about because then I can't give it my all. I'm
Speaker 3: not being true to whatever it is. And I believe
Speaker 3: when people watch things you do, they can feel your
Speaker 3: passion behind it, if you're passionate about it, and then
Speaker 3: they can tell when you're going through the motions, and
Speaker 3: I never want to go through the motions an effort
Speaker 3: in any case.
Speaker 5: So this business, I think it really kind of like
Speaker 5: splits at a certain point with the.
Speaker 4: Kids who either have been in the business and who
Speaker 4: are like, I'm going to go become a lawyer and
Speaker 4: I'm done, and then those of us that are like,
Speaker 4: you know, I think I'm going to keep playing around
Speaker 4: with us, like at some you know, decades.
Speaker 1: Of all the roles you've done, your huge body of work,
Speaker 1: what do you get recognized for the most when you're
Speaker 1: out in public.
Speaker 3: Ooh, It's hard because it depends on the age because
Speaker 3: and then it's also interesting because people know me from
Speaker 3: something and then they didn't even know that I was
Speaker 3: in that. So it's like, I think it depends. So
Speaker 3: it's it's funny because Kim Possible is up there. I've
Speaker 3: been on on the phone and someone was like, are
Speaker 3: you eight? And I'm just like, bro, are you serious?
Speaker 3: Like yeah, but how did you know that? So but
Speaker 3: I mean, it's it's probably between smart Guy and Baby
Speaker 3: Daddy the you know, I think, and then the fans
Speaker 3: of Baby Daddy that age range wasn't familiar with Smart
Speaker 3: Guy until maybe after, but fans of Baby Daddy no
Speaker 3: Full House. So it's like it's like some some skip over,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, And then there's some that
Speaker 3: I'll get recognized just from a film and you know,
Speaker 3: they have no idea but anything else I've done. So
Speaker 3: it just depends. But I'd say the top tour Baby
Speaker 3: Daddy and Smart Guy like without and then full Houses
Speaker 3: is definitely up there. Full House is interesting because, for
Speaker 3: an example, Melissa Peterman, who I did Baby Daddy with,
Speaker 3: shout out Melissa, love you so much. Her son was
Speaker 3: a fan of Full House while we were shooting Baby Daddy,
Speaker 3: and he was so confused when he saw me because
Speaker 3: he was like, wait, you're teddy, but you're not.
Speaker 5: But you're old.
Speaker 3: You're old. You don't look like that like you kind
Speaker 3: of do. But and I'll never forget his face. He
Speaker 3: was like blown away. But it was also cute because
Speaker 3: he was like starstruck but like didn't know if he
Speaker 3: should be and it was confusing for him. And yeah,
Speaker 3: so that's always interesting because shows like that and like
Speaker 3: Smart Guy, you have new generations watching them now because
Speaker 3: I believe Full House is it on Hulu? Yeah, And
Speaker 3: then Smart Guys on Disney Plus and then Baby Daddy's
Speaker 3: also on Hulu. So like you get these new generations
Speaker 3: from the older stuff because the parents are now showing
Speaker 3: their kids that. And then it's always fun when you
Speaker 3: meet a fan who's like a parent and they're freaking out,
Speaker 3: but then they're trying to get their kid to freak out,
Speaker 3: but their kid has no idea who you are. I
Speaker 3: don't know who that.
Speaker 4: Is, right, So yeah, that's it is funny to hear
Speaker 4: how many parents though, like when we you know, do
Speaker 4: the nineties con or just comments and stuff are like,
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, like I was a fan and I
Speaker 4: knew full House, but my kids started with Fuller. Oh
Speaker 4: you went back and watch you know, full House. So
Speaker 4: like the new generation I think has done it almost
Speaker 4: in reverse.
Speaker 3: Such a test to like that to Full House. And
Speaker 3: obviously there's other shows that that can do that, but
Speaker 3: there's very few where they last and you can watch it,
Speaker 3: like you can watch full House now and be like
Speaker 3: this show is fire.
Speaker 4: Like you know what I'm saying, This show Stampower, you
Speaker 4: know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 3: It's just a classic. And so there's very few shows
Speaker 3: that are like that. So, I mean, I'm not a parent,
Speaker 3: but I can imagine as a parent how joyful it
Speaker 3: must be to show your your children something that you
Speaker 3: grew up on. And also you were you know, like
Speaker 3: that's probably so cool, Like it's probably so cool.
Speaker 5: No, my kids were never really impressed. They were like
Speaker 5: that's weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, kids aren't impressed.
Speaker 4: They don't care anyway, something else less interesting. I'll tell
Speaker 4: you nothing more humbling than having children tell you my neverew.
Speaker 3: I don't think that was another thing about muppets. My
Speaker 3: never did I have friends like texting me hyper than
Speaker 3: I was, you know what I mean, my nephew, you
Speaker 3: acting out scenes. I'm like, oh what did you actually
Speaker 3: just like, oh wow, you usually don't watch the stuff
Speaker 3: I'm made. But well, okay, wow.
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's always everyone together.
Speaker 3: You know what.
Speaker 5: I'm voting for a muppet next time. That's what I'm doing.
Speaker 5: That's muppets.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Yes, did you.
Speaker 1: Ever go on the Sale with the Stars cruises with
Speaker 1: your sisters, because I know your sisters did we We did?
Speaker 3: We did two of them. We did two of them, yes,
Speaker 3: I remember. One was to Alaska and then another one
Speaker 3: was to like Jamaica and like the Cayman Islands or something.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the one Jody and I.
Speaker 5: Were okay, yeah, those were the Yeah, there was that one.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was like it was like Saint Thomas and
Speaker 4: like you started in Miami and then what you know,
Speaker 4: when whatever. I do remember when they were gonna do
Speaker 4: the Alaska one though, and we wound up not going
Speaker 4: that didn't go to that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember we had like Mara Wilson and like
Speaker 3: in your Keygan and.
Speaker 5: Like just like oh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, but yeah, those were those were my family.
Speaker 3: We always had fun on those. We always had fun
Speaker 3: on those. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, fun to all hang out together. Yeah, four
Speaker 1: days four nights were.
Speaker 3: Like you know that this was before social media obviously,
Speaker 3: so anytime you could be around your acting peers that
Speaker 3: are going through the same things you're going through, it's
Speaker 3: like a huge It's foreign.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh wow, you could all be dumb together
Speaker 4: right in new ways that are foreign to you because
Speaker 4: you don't write, you're not with other kids all the time.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, start saying. With the starge cruises, we were hilarious.
Speaker 1: It was so much because we got to hang out,
Speaker 1: but we I mean we were working, but we weren't
Speaker 1: really working.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we weren't acting. So it was fun day out.
Speaker 2: Willy the ad come to work like, no, we need
Speaker 2: to hang out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and no school because wasn't it summertime? They always were.
Speaker 2: Summer no school? Yeah, yes, so great.
Speaker 1: I remember the DJs still that I had on Jimmy
Speaker 1: Z Jimmy Z.
Speaker 5: Guy, I won't take pictures with him. They were always
Speaker 5: like I was under nine years old and was like.
Speaker 3: He's the underage. Like clubs that you would yeah, but.
Speaker 5: Then we could go, but it was the regular nightclub.
Speaker 4: It was the regular nightclub that was open until like
Speaker 4: ten thirty for all ages.
Speaker 3: They were like, remember, I'm head to the club real quick.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go to the club.
Speaker 4: I remember me and tatian Alie sweaty dripping dancing to
Speaker 4: Summertime because it had just come out.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, vivid memory of being Yeah, that's that's a.
Speaker 3: Good memory right there.
Speaker 5: That's I'm like vivid. Yeah, I totally.
Speaker 2: Remember that so fun. I remember doing line dances country
Speaker 2: line deck.
Speaker 5: It was just the sentence was going to end on.
Speaker 3: A whole different The safety things also, which were always
Speaker 3: kind of scary because it's like wait, like, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: something bad.
Speaker 1: Can happen, right, yes, So that was just life preserve.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah we need these.
Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, and then you start counting everybody.
Speaker 2: Count life.
Speaker 8: You count the people next, wait a minute, yeah, or
Speaker 8: the wrists.
Speaker 3: I remember the wrist bracelets that would like push in
Speaker 3: in case you were sick, like sea sick or something.
Speaker 3: I remember that, Oh my gosh. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the midnight phase.
Speaker 3: The food. The food, more.
Speaker 5: Shrimp than you know what to do with. I mean,
Speaker 5: just you could you.
Speaker 4: Up with it and just swim through cold shrimp if
Speaker 4: you wanted to everything.
Speaker 3: It's never night.
Speaker 5: I don't know where they keep it all, but it's wild.
Speaker 5: So my dad loved.
Speaker 4: Okay, my dad is My dad is the guy that
Speaker 4: they like. The buffets lose money on him.
Speaker 5: Uh me.
Speaker 4: I get like half a plate and I'm like I'm done,
Speaker 4: and he's like, you know.
Speaker 2: The in you know, I'm getting my money.
Speaker 3: You said you can get right.
Speaker 4: So that was the thing, is like he'd be like,
Speaker 4: all right, I'll sit outside the stupid nightclub and wait
Speaker 4: for you to get out, but.
Speaker 5: Then we're all going to the midnight before after.
Speaker 4: So that was like the trade off you know, it
Speaker 4: was like, fine, I'll get to go dance and have
Speaker 4: phone with my friends.
Speaker 3: Shout out to Sailing with the Stars man shout out classic.
Speaker 3: Oh it was.
Speaker 5: Dosh.
Speaker 2: What are you working on now? Do you have any
Speaker 2: upcoming projects?
Speaker 3: Oh? My gosh. The one thing I'll be careful with
Speaker 3: how I worded. The one thing that's.
Speaker 9: Keeping the one thing that's keeping me very busy right
Speaker 9: now is A I recently uh sold a show, so
Speaker 9: we're in the process of developing the pilot and it'll
Speaker 9: be something it's something that I'll be in and producing.
Speaker 3: So so it's a So it's a it's a very
Speaker 3: new space for me. But I feel I feel like
Speaker 3: I was made for it because I just love it
Speaker 3: so much. But it's a it's a lot of work,
Speaker 3: you know, to be to be involved from the an
Speaker 3: early stage. So but I'm having a blast with it.
Speaker 3: So we're we're we're we're neck deep in all of
Speaker 3: that prep right now. But but it's great that And
Speaker 3: then I wrote a script that I finished last year
Speaker 3: with my writing partner on the film side, which is
Speaker 3: now another new avenue that I I can explore with
Speaker 3: my team and and it'll hopefully it'll that sort of
Speaker 3: avenue will be things that I can direct also because
Speaker 3: that's always been a goal of mine to to write
Speaker 3: and direct something. So that on the movie side, and
Speaker 3: then the other thing that I mentioned first is on
Speaker 3: the TV side.
Speaker 4: So so but yeah, all that free time on your hands, what.
Speaker 5: What do you do? I I like, I.
Speaker 3: Made a habit of when I'm not on set to
Speaker 3: always be creative in some way, which is how I
Speaker 3: started writing. The TV thing is not something that I'm
Speaker 3: I'm writing, but the film side, the film thing is.
Speaker 3: But but just to be active with my creativity when
Speaker 3: I'm not on a set is always fun for me.
Speaker 3: And also I feel grateful that I'm even able to
Speaker 3: do that, you know what I mean. So that's cool.
Speaker 3: I did him film last year that I I'm pretty
Speaker 3: sure it will be coming out this year, which is
Speaker 3: like in the thriller Realm, which I've never I've never
Speaker 3: done that before, so that was really fun shooting that.
Speaker 5: You get to die? Could you get to die? On camera?
Speaker 3: You telling you? It was cool. I'm definitely doing a
Speaker 3: lot of things that I've never done before, Like the
Speaker 3: role is just different. So that was cool. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I stay I keep I keep it pushing over here, y'all,
Speaker 3: I keep it pushing h And uh, yeah, I'm grateful.
Speaker 3: I'm grateful to be consistently being able to do what
Speaker 3: I love to do, and to have creative outlets and
Speaker 3: to uh to have a team that believes in me
Speaker 3: to be able to do that, and and and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, help me set up the meetings that I
Speaker 3: need to set up. Yeah, and all that.
Speaker 5: The administrations. Yeah, I have great ideas.
Speaker 3: So I'm very thankful, very thankful for that. I'm very thankful.
Speaker 4: Where can people find you on on social media? I
Speaker 4: know you said you're on Instagram sort of rarely, right, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't have done that myself.
Speaker 10: I don't have Twitter, I don't have tom I don't
Speaker 10: have the.
Speaker 3: Only thing I have. I have Facebook, but I don't
Speaker 3: really know how to do that. And then my biggest
Speaker 3: one is Instagram. So you could just find me on
Speaker 3: Instagram and I try to post.
Speaker 5: I know I'm in this.
Speaker 4: I once you walk away from it and you're like,
Speaker 4: but it's so and then you go and you're like, oh,
Speaker 4: but this is.
Speaker 3: Such a part of my job, so beneficial to So
Speaker 3: what I do now is I don't keep it on
Speaker 3: my phone and if I if I need to post,
Speaker 3: I'll redownload it again. It takes two seconds post and
Speaker 3: then I get off right after I post.
Speaker 10: I don't, I don't scroll, I don't look at comments.
Speaker 10: I don't because I went down that path and it's
Speaker 10: a very dangerous path and I don't want none of
Speaker 10: that on me.
Speaker 4: Look, we've all had moments where we've been like, I
Speaker 4: think I spent too much time on her now and
Speaker 4: it's just like I think I'm kicking myself.
Speaker 3: You know, you go into this dangerous territory of seeking
Speaker 3: an unhealthy validation through this person that you don't know,
Speaker 3: and then one bad comment ruins your whole day and
Speaker 3: and you're just like, why am I doing so? I don't.
Speaker 3: I redownload post and I'll bounced.
Speaker 5: And we we're the generation that still knows.
Speaker 3: So is it at at TAJ underscore Maury so like
Speaker 3: t A h J underscore m O W r Y.
Speaker 2: It's Moury. It's Maury, not Maori.
Speaker 3: You can say, however, we don't really we know, well.
Speaker 5: Your name, don't be like you can do whatever you want.
Speaker 3: It is Maury. But my but people, my whole life
Speaker 3: especially in the in the in the not even just
Speaker 3: in the business in general, they just say Maori. It
Speaker 3: just rolls off the tongue better. But but but that's
Speaker 3: not how you technically say it's more. Yeah, it's the
Speaker 3: way you can think about it is like Moury like,
Speaker 3: so more's.
Speaker 4: Like like but it's just like Moury, like Maury Pvid.
Speaker 3: Yes, so yes, my whole life people have said Maury.
Speaker 3: So we don't even we don't even correct.
Speaker 4: You're like, look, as long as the check clear, as
Speaker 4: you can call me whatever you like, Maury, Mowy, momy,
Speaker 4: I don't care.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I just yeah, I've been well no, no, I'm
Speaker 8: just I'm shocked that I've It's been thirty seven years
Speaker 8: and I'm just now learning how to But you're.
Speaker 3: Not the only one, and you're not the only one. Yes,
Speaker 3: So don't feel any sort of way about it, and
Speaker 3: know that we don't feel any sort of way, and
Speaker 3: we're not like, oh, they got it wrong again.
Speaker 5: Meetings and they're like, who's mispronounced your name is?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna get off this call and call my team
Speaker 3: invent they got it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Yeah, I'm like I'm never talking to them again.
Speaker 5: Do you know what they called me?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Should do it?
Speaker 3: You know me? I think you could know me by now? Ok?
Speaker 4: Yeah right, yeah, you're like what else?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: Cool?
Speaker 5: Well, it has been such a pleasure to have you on.
Speaker 4: I absolutely love seeing your face and I just it's
Speaker 4: so it's so awesome to watch other young people in
Speaker 4: this business that you've grown up with who are still
Speaker 4: successful and love what they do, and who also had
Speaker 4: a very similar experience to enjoying this business and that
Speaker 4: we got.
Speaker 5: To all be a part of like each other's early career.
Speaker 3: That that's it's very.
Speaker 5: Special that not a lot of people get.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I appreciate you guys. I when I got the email,
Speaker 3: I smiled from here to hear. I was like, oh yeah, because,
Speaker 3: like you said, it's a very special thing. And I
Speaker 3: feel like, even though we don't see each other all
Speaker 3: the time, we have this built in thing and it's
Speaker 3: just you guys. It has been such a pleasure. You
Speaker 3: both look beautiful, pleasure. You're glowing, you look you still
Speaker 3: look young, you know.
Speaker 4: And I'm you know, it's amazing.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 5: We tried, We really try.
Speaker 4: It's a great film. From everything from the neck up
Speaker 4: is not even all right, Thank you so much. We
Speaker 4: love you. Best of luck with everything, and remember if
Speaker 4: you need Muppet friends, I'm here.
Speaker 2: You know, he's gone.
Speaker 4: I'm that's I'm just you know, he's He's so delightful,
Speaker 4: like he is just the energies has been.
Speaker 2: The energy is infectious.
Speaker 4: Love his energy. He has always been delightful. His mom
Speaker 4: was always super sweet. Tian tamer were always lovely, like
Speaker 4: you know, I remember hanging out in the dressing room
Speaker 4: with them and and Darlene or like they'd be up
Speaker 4: to Like I just I remember him and his family
Speaker 4: and they really were kind and lovely and sweet and
Speaker 4: fit in really well with our.
Speaker 5: Crew and how we operated.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, they were so grounded and down to earth
Speaker 1: but hard working at the same time. It was a
Speaker 1: great combination of skills and personality traits.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't seen.
Speaker 4: Him in so long, I mean other than like on
Speaker 4: something that he's doing, you know, but like I to
Speaker 4: see him in person was really lovely, Tanamara over the years,
Speaker 4: but yeah, yeah, yeah, but a great interview that was
Speaker 4: so much fun.
Speaker 5: He's the best.
Speaker 2: He is absolutely the best. Love that guy.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you Tana Ritos for tuning in to another
Speaker 4: fun episode of how Rude Tanner Rito's.
Speaker 5: If you want to follow us on Instagram, you can.
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Speaker 4: our merch website, it is how Rude Merch.
Speaker 5: We've got some fun designs on there.
Speaker 4: We've got turtles and bags and skateboards, and we've got
Speaker 4: full houses and.
Speaker 5: A few other things.
Speaker 2: But pink bunnies.
Speaker 5: Oh that's right, you have been the pink bunnies. How
Speaker 5: dare I.
Speaker 2: Forget the property of Stephanie Tanner. So it's true, it is.
Speaker 4: Well, thank you guys for joining us. We we love you,
Speaker 4: We love doing this show and we love getting to
Speaker 4: see old friends. So remember we'll see you next time.
Speaker 4: The house nope, oh my god, I screwed it up.
Speaker 2: What you can do, world is start again.
Speaker 1: You can do it.
Speaker 2: Take a deep breath.
Speaker 5: The world is small. The house is full of Maury's, mhm,
Speaker 5: full of Maury's.
Speaker 2: And they're the best. They're the best.
Speaker 5: They're the best.
Speaker 1: Maury Moy's, Maur Maury's Maurice.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go practice right now.
Speaker 5: Yeah, me too, Okay, I'll see you next time. Bye bye,