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[00:00:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Good morning, good afternoon and good evening! This is Comic Con Radio! Coverage of pop culture events from around the globe. Amazing interviews with celebrities. Daily recaps and reviews of popular television. Movie reviews. Everything fandom from around the globe. Comic Con Radio. Get ready to enter our universe. Let's go!
[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Nerds. Did you all grow up watching sitcoms through the 80s and the 90s like we did? Well then do we have a treat for you in this episode of...
[00:00:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Conversation!
[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_03]: This episode's guests were sitcom stars Tracey Gold from Growing Pains and David Faustino from Married With Children. We talk about their careers, what they like to do outside of acting, and what they've been up to ever since.
[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_03]: So show me that smile again because love in the marriage, just like this interview, goes together like horse and carriage. It's...
[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_00]: A Comic Conversation!
[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_04]: From Married With Children.
[00:01:08] Yeah!
[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_04]: And other films and television including Sharknado 4, Mako from Legend of Korra.
[00:01:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Everybody, big, huge round of applause for Tracey Gold and...
[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_04]: David Faustino!
[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_04]: I see David, he's having fun though. He's got a lot of people.
[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:01:48] [SPEAKER_03]: We'll see him in a moment here. Or he might be on his... He's on his way. There he goes. Alright!
[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, before we get into it, I kinda wanna ask a fun question or two like...
[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Sure!
[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_04]: Um, so we have a segment on our podcast called Growing Up Geeky. What did you geek out on as a kid?
[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god, well I, um, I geeked out on meeting Rick Springfield.
[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_06]: Hey!
[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_06]: And I, and I wore like the worst outfit that I regret. I was 14.
[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[00:02:17] [SPEAKER_06]: And I got to go meet him and I geeked out completely. That was pretty cool.
[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm easily geeked out, I gotta be honest.
[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I can imagine that.
[00:02:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I get, I get, I get impressed.
[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Turn this way. You're geeked out.
[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm geeked out!
[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_06]: It's David Founcino!
[00:02:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh my god, David Founcino's here too!
[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm geeking out!
[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_03]: There he goes, the crowd is reacting.
[00:02:43] [SPEAKER_06]: I know, what?
[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Make sure theirs are on real quick.
[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_06]: No, they're on.
[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Sabotage.
[00:02:51] [SPEAKER_03]: No, it's on, I can hear it.
[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Check, check, check.
[00:02:54] [SPEAKER_02]: There we go.
[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Hello, hello, hello.
[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_02]: You mean, you mean I gotta project a little?
[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Give me a little, there you go.
[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_02]: There you go.
[00:03:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Can you hear me?
[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I can hear you.
[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_06]: I have a loud voice, so.
[00:03:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Usually somebody with a mic comes up to me and they're like, whoa.
[00:03:10] [SPEAKER_02]: First thing your husband said when I got here this morning,
[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_02]: he was like, she's got a loud voice.
[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_04]: I do.
[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Alright, for the both of you.
[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_04]: How did you get into acting?
[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_04]: Did you grow up in show business?
[00:03:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Did you, were you both from LA?
[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_04]: I don't...
[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_04]: You wanna go first?
[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, you go first.
[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll go first.
[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Since I'm crashing your panel, you get to do on first.
[00:03:33] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm so glad you're here.
[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Unless you need stalling, then you...
[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, this one's an easy one.
[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_06]: The softball, I got this.
[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_06]: So I started acting when I was four back in New York City.
[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_06]: I was not an actor, there's no attempt for me to be an actress like in my mind.
[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_06]: But my dad back in the day was an actor, a New York actor.
[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_06]: He grew up as like a Broadway kid and loved to be in theater.
[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_06]: And he was going up on a Pepsi print ad.
[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_06]: And I was tagging along with him while he was doing errands that day and things like that.
[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_06]: But it was a print for a daughter and a father.
[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_06]: And they brought me in.
[00:04:11] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't really know the true way I got into the audition.
[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_06]: I was told, I just sort of walked in and they liked me.
[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_06]: And then they get a phone call from my dad's agent saying they want to book me and not my dad.
[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh!
[00:04:25] [SPEAKER_06]: So it all snowballed from there.
[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_06]: And then when I was six, we moved to California.
[00:04:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Let's see, born and raised in California.
[00:04:34] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm a Californian native.
[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_02]: One of us.
[00:04:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Los Angeles native.
[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Shout out Lakers.
[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Weeble wobble, weeble wobble.
[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Sorry about the Warriors tonight.
[00:04:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Lakers are winning.
[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so...
[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_03]: You're in Warriors country right now, man.
[00:04:47] I'm a Laker fan.
[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Similarish story.
[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I got started a little earlier because my siblings...
[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_02]: My father was a costumer.
[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_02]: So he costumed movies from...
[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he's deceased now.
[00:05:02] [SPEAKER_02]: He would have been probably 80 now.
[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_02]: But all the war movies that your parents grew up watching or that you grew up watching.
[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_02]: World War II films, Vietnam films, all the big budgeted films where you'd have Nazi films, all that kind of crazy stuff.
[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_02]: And they were the real wardrobe.
[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_02]: So he was a costumer and a producer came into his office once and saw a picture of my older brother on the wall.
[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_02]: My older brother is just a cute little...
[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_02]: He was the good-looking one of all of us.
[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And then the producer was like, I want him in my commercial.
[00:05:39] [SPEAKER_02]: And then that just kind of snowballed.
[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_02]: My sister got into it after that.
[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Then I fell into it.
[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Then my little brother and all of us siblings have, in one way or the other, been on television, film, commercials, whatever, throughout our lives.
[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Some more than others.
[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_06]: And we have a similar thing where my family then became a real entertainment family where my sister went and did Benson.
[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_06]: My other sister did Wildcats with Goldie Hawn.
[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Your father's a nice agent.
[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_06]: And then my dad is a really well-respected agent in Hollywood for over 30 years.
[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_06]: That's awesome.
[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, he gave up acting around 30 when it wasn't really going his way.
[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_06]: And my mom's like, you gotta do something else.
[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_02]: I like the agent move.
[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_06]: And he went for the agent mode.
[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_06]: But that's a tough thing if your heart is being an actor.
[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_06]: To be an agent, you have to give up being an actor.
[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_06]: It's like you could be a manager and an actor.
[00:06:36] [SPEAKER_06]: You can't be an agent and even be an actor.
[00:06:39] [SPEAKER_06]: You'd be breaking the law.
[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Right, right.
[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a code of ethic type thing.
[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_06]: So you had to really say goodbye to it.
[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_04]: Let me write that down.
[00:06:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Say goodbye to the agent.
[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_04]: And a different mindset too.
[00:06:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Absolutely.
[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_04]: That's how you approach the business.
[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_03]: So we're really just hanging out with royalty right now is what's happening.
[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_03]: What's that?
[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_03]: We're really just hanging out with royalty right now is what's happening.
[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, I'll take it.
[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Right?
[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Who are we to argue with that?
[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_04]: I'll take it.
[00:07:01] [SPEAKER_04]: Alright, since we got both of you, let's keep it moving because we got a lot to get
[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_04]: through now.
[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_04]: Double the amount of questions.
[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_04]: So Tracy, Carol Seaver.
[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_04]: How did you get the role of Carol Seaver?
[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Was it just a regular audition or was there something else in that?
[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_06]: It was a regular audition for sure.
[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_06]: You have to understand when you're a kid actor, like you're auditioning all the time.
[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_06]: In any series that's coming up, you're auditioning for them.
[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_06]: There are so many things that I've auditioned for that I didn't get and that went on the air.
[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_06]: So I got Growing Pains.
[00:07:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, actually, let me start from the beginning.
[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_05]: Nice.
[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_06]: I auditioned for Growing Pains and I did not get Growing Pains.
[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Hey, interesting.
[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_06]: I did not get Growing Pains.
[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_06]: They didn't feel they wanted Carol to be like really like nerdy and really like bookwormy and
[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_06]: that wasn't really who I was.
[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_05]: Right.
[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_06]: So I auditioned a few times, but they eventually didn't get it.
[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_06]: So they end up casting it and they cast another actress as Carol Seaver.
[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_06]: And I remember kind of being like, I was bummed because I had known Kirk.
[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_06]: We had worked together a lot.
[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_06]: We were always cast as brother and sister.
[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_06]: And you know, I thought, oh, that would have been fun.
[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, so there's some things kind of pass on your radar.
[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_06]: You're like, that looks like that would have been fun or some things just go by quicker.
[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_06]: You're like, does it matter?
[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_06]: And I always had a very fatalistic approach to everything.
[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_06]: But then they decided they wanted to, they tested it like they test pilots and Carol didn't
[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_06]: test as well because she didn't feel like she belonged with the rest of the family.
[00:08:28] [SPEAKER_06]: And so they, I was in Chicago at this time while Brandy was doing Wildcats and I, and I
[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_06]: was there kind of vacationing and my dad gets a phone call.
[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_06]: They're recasting Growing Pains and they want to bring back Tracy.
[00:08:39] [SPEAKER_06]: And I'm like, no, I'm not going back.
[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_06]: So they can tell me they don't like me.
[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, like they already told me they didn't like me the first time.
[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't need to be rejected twice.
[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_06]: And my dad's like, at this point, my agent.
[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_06]: And he's like, you got to come back.
[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going back home for work.
[00:08:55] [SPEAKER_06]: You got to come back with me and give this shot for it.
[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Please, please, please.
[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_06]: And I said, okay.
[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_06]: And I wasn't really that argumentative.
[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_06]: I was, I followed his rules.
[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_06]: So I was like, okay, I'll go back with you.
[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_02]: I want to put it out there that, and then I'm not just blowing smoke.
[00:09:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Like that, like Growing Pains was one of my shows.
[00:09:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, thank you.
[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[00:09:13] [SPEAKER_02]: That was one of my shows.
[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, that's, thank you.
[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm honored.
[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_02]: And then I got the chance.
[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I never, I never, I always knew you, Jeremy and Alan.
[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_02]: I never, I never knew, knew, knew, knew Kirk.
[00:09:26] [SPEAKER_06]: That's funny.
[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_02]: You guys never hung out.
[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I must have, you know, in one of the events.
[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, hey, nice to meet you.
[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_02]: But never, never.
[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Interesting.
[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Well.
[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_02]: But anyway, I was one of my favorite shows.
[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you very much.
[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.
[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_02]: What a compliment.
[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_02]: That's amazing.
[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_06]: So then I went back.
[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_06]: I went back when I, when I auditioned.
[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_06]: And I have to audition a few times still again.
[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_06]: Work with the director, John Passman, because I wasn't typically a comedic actress.
[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_06]: And so then I, I get to the Fine Gordon Network, which was the scariest kind of auditioning
[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_06]: you'll ever have to do.
[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_06]: It's about as like all those seats right there.
[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Imagine a whole bunch of men in suits who are trained not to laugh at you.
[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_06]: And you go and you audition.
[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, turns out I got it.
[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_06]: And I was sent to a, the TV guide photo shoot, which some of those pictures are over
[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_06]: there.
[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_06]: I had to buy the Carol Seaver glasses on my way for the photo shoot.
[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_05]: Wow.
[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_06]: Thus, they're not the red ones.
[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_06]: I bought brown.
[00:10:22] [SPEAKER_05]: That's cool.
[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_04]: How cool is that?
[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_04]: So that's my story.
[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_04]: That's interesting.
[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_04]: David, how about you?
[00:10:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I want to, I want to jump in cause she probably doesn't know this.
[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't know this.
[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_02]: We have the exact, exact same situation.
[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_02]: So I went, I went in on and, uh, I auditioned for Mary with children and I didn't even get
[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_02]: a call back.
[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, so they cast, uh, they cast the whole cast except for Christina Applegate and myself.
[00:10:50] [SPEAKER_02]: They hired two other, you know, teenage or teenagers to play the roles.
[00:10:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And in both of us, both of us, interesting.
[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_02]: And those two actors names were, no, I'm just kidding.
[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:11:01] [SPEAKER_05]: I know.
[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_05]: I know.
[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_02]: But, uh, you know, it's, it's, it's, uh, they didn't even remember that I had gone in
[00:11:13] [SPEAKER_02]: on the first place and I didn't get a, that my, my, my, my, my agent just kind of snuck
[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_02]: me back in and then I did better.
[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_02]: And then I got to test with Christina and we tested together.
[00:11:23] [SPEAKER_02]: And next thing you know, I, I, I, this is the days of answering machines.
[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, that's what we had to do when I was growing up and we stopped at 7-Eleven right
[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_06]: downtown.
[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:11:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Like right in Westwood.
[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_02]: And we, we auditioned and I got my mommy, me and my mommy and my, my little brother came
[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_02]: home from the test and, and on the machine said, well, you're married with children's
[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_02]: beeping new client on, uh, you know, on Fox's new show.
[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, wow.
[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a great moment when that happens.
[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_02]: And then I looked at my mom, I said, F you mom.
[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_02]: I need nothing else from you ever again.
[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_06]: How old were you when you got married with children?
[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I was 12.
[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_06]: You were 12.
[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_06]: I just turned 16 when I got growing things.
[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_03]: I love that you guys are answering the questions before I asked them because I was
[00:12:07] [SPEAKER_03]: going to, everything I was going to ask you, you guys just literally asked each other.
[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_03]: We saw the list.
[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_03]: We saw the list backstage.
[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_03]: That's why it makes sense.
[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_04]: They read the script.
[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, growing pains ran from 85 to 92 married with children from 87 to 97.
[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_04]: You're both on the air at the same time.
[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_04]: I didn't realize that.
[00:12:24] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh yeah.
[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_04]: Like the number one and two shows practically.
[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_02]: They were back to back a lot.
[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Always in the top 10.
[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_04]: That's amazing.
[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_04]: So until they weren't being part until they weren't.
[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_04]: Being part.
[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_06]: You were longer than we did.
[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_04]: Of like the most iconic, like TV shows.
[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_04]: I can't remember a better time in TV when it was like the late eighties, nineties.
[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_04]: I agree.
[00:12:47] [SPEAKER_04]: That was like the pinnacle of, of TV.
[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_04]: Especially if you didn't have the internet then, you know?
[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_04]: So it was, those were my shows.
[00:12:55] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, man.
[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_04]: You know, that was awesome.
[00:12:57] [SPEAKER_04]: So what was it like being a kid growing up in that environment, like being on sets?
[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_04]: I love these behind the scenes stories.
[00:13:05] [SPEAKER_04]: So I totally want to ask.
[00:13:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean, being on Growing Pains, like the, the set was just a pleasure to be on.
[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_06]: It was really fun.
[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_06]: It was, especially in the beginning.
[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, when everybody's just so excited to be there and we weren't really like a family.
[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_06]: It sounds cliche, but we were.
[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_06]: And when I was a kid, I mean, I looked forward to going to set on Monday.
[00:13:25] [SPEAKER_06]: I loved it.
[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_06]: And my parents raised me outside of Hollywood.
[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_06]: I grew up in, you know, the suburbs in Chatsworth and in Los Angeles.
[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_06]: And so I always kind of, I went to work and then I went back to like, you know, horse country.
[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Horse country.
[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_03]: I love it.
[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, literally.
[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Wait, what is horse country?
[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_06]: Chatsworth.
[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[00:13:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Or Burbank.
[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know enough about Southern California.
[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm from Northern California.
[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_03]: So.
[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_06]: A lot of people ride horses.
[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_06]: I didn't.
[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't either.
[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_02]: I can't fit on one.
[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I do.
[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_02]: I do, however, do the pony rides at Griffith Park.
[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_04]: I'll do that all day.
[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_04]: I took less.
[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_02]: They won't let you want a pony.
[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_04]: Is it a weight thing?
[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Is it a pony or a donkey?
[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Like you have.
[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_02]: They have donkeys.
[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_02]: They have donkeys.
[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[00:14:13] [SPEAKER_03]: So he can fit on a donkey.
[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_03]: I'll do the donkey.
[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Or someone could ride him.
[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying.
[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_03]: No, you know what?
[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_03]: That's a good idea.
[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_03]: We'll throw that out there.
[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_04]: You gotta make it happen.
[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:14:23] [SPEAKER_04]: So how about you, David?
[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Like what was it like?
[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Child actor, being in that world.
[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_04]: All of a sudden you're instantly famous.
[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, in all honesty, I'll just break it down.
[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_02]: I was always, always a very shy, kind of like insecure dude.
[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_02]: And then Mary with Children came along and then people would like, people would, because
[00:14:46] [SPEAKER_02]: I was so insecure, people would try to give me love.
[00:14:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, hey, oh my God.
[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, that's that Bud Bundy.
[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_02]: And instead of like, me taking that as a compliment, like, I thought they were like, well, you're
[00:14:57] [SPEAKER_02]: calling me Bud Bundy.
[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_02]: And I was so defensive.
[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh.
[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_02]: And it wasn't until I like, that lasted from like 12 to 17.
[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, like, like, like five years.
[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Am I doing the right math there?
[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_02]: And then once you accept the love, then it becomes more fun and enjoyable and all that.
[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_02]: But I, I was very standoffish for so long.
[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't like, I went out with hat, sunglasses.
[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I was just, I was just paranoid all the time.
[00:15:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Hmm.
[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_06]: I was oblivious if anyone even noticed me.
[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_06]: I was like, I didn't know.
[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_06]: I like, I was so kind of like not because my sister had been famous before me.
[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_06]: And then I got, when I got growing beans, it's sort of like, I just, I kind of just,
[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_06]: I not really, I wasn't that aware of it.
[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_06]: And when people came up, it was nice.
[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_06]: And, and I never had the craziness that I had to see like somebody like Kirk have,
[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_06]: you know, like that kind of fandom.
[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_06]: But I, I always liked it.
[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a great business when you're working.
[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_02]: When you're not, when you're not, it's, it's, it's one of the worst businesses in the
[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_02]: entire planet.
[00:16:09] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, that's the thing about being an actor.
[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, you think about like your jobs, like you guys have a job and you go there and
[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_06]: you do it as an actor, your job is always ending and you're always having to find your
[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_06]: next job.
[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_06]: So it's always the hunt.
[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_02]: And my favorite is the accountant who goes, you know, can, can, can you just work out
[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_02]: a budget?
[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_02]: A budget.
[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, this week I might make 50 grand and next two months I may make zero grand.
[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_02]: How can I budget?
[00:16:38] Yeah.
[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_02]: It is a weird world.
[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_02]: It is.
[00:16:41] [SPEAKER_02]: How the hell am I supposed to budget?
[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:16:43] [SPEAKER_03]: It's worse than contract work.
[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:16:46] Yeah.
[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Those guys overcharge too.
[00:16:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:16:49] I'm kidding.
[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, so I've got a fun, fun question for you guys here.
[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, do you guys have any, you guys have any fun Hollywood stories or just anything from
[00:16:58] [SPEAKER_03]: on set?
[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Anything that you guys want to kind of share?
[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll, I'll go first on that one.
[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, tons.
[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Let's go.
[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, uh, my, my, my, my favorite, like, Marywood children memory is we did a, well, it was,
[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_02]: it was, it was three episodes, but they were all, they were all, uh, the Christmas episodes.
[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_02]: One being the one where Santa Claus was supposed to parachute into, uh, Al, Al's mall into the,
[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_02]: and he ends up dead in our backyard cause his parachute doesn't open.
[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And we're like trying to have our Christmas dinner and the coroner's taking the body out.
[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And, and it, it, that was one of my, uh, and then the other one was the, the, the experience
[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_02]: was when we had Sam Kinison, the great and tremendous, wonderful comedian, Sam Kinison
[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_02]: for a two parter, which was also a Christmas episode where he played the angels of death
[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_02]: that, you know, came and instead like in the movie, it's a wonderful life.
[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_02]: The, the, the, the, the ghost show how bad everybody's life would have been if he hadn't
[00:18:02] [SPEAKER_02]: been born.
[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, in our version, like everybody's life was just amazing.
[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_02]: We had money and we loved each other and it was great.
[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_02]: So if only he hadn't been born, everybody would have been happy.
[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Everybody would have been happy without bud.
[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_02]: What's that?
[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_02]: So everybody would have been happy without bud.
[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_02]: But the, the, the point of the story of that whole thing is that Sam Kinison, one of the
[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_02]: greatest comedians and, and, and, and just one of the most loving like people I, I got
[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_02]: to work with on that show.
[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, that's a nice like endorsement.
[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_06]: That's nice.
[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_02]: He was a, he was a, he was a messed up a little bit, but he was a great sweet soul.
[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[00:18:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Growing Pains was a really fun set.
[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, Alan was just a real kind of funny, fun guy.
[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_06]: He was always had making the set really lively.
[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_06]: And the other thing about Growing Pains, we were a constant like place where just up and
[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_06]: coming actors came.
[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_06]: So if you are who's who of you're going to be famous next, you probably were on a Growing
[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Pains episode.
[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_06]: That is so true.
[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_06]: That was fun.
[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_04]: That, that one guy, Leo Leonardo DiCaprio.
[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_04]: Leonardo DiCaprio.
[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_04]: Absolutely.
[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_06]: And who was amazing by the way, if I could say, you know, an endorsement.
[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean, when Leo came on, he was 17, felt younger because he was just so kind of goofy
[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_06]: and kind of like, you know, and he was funny.
[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_06]: And Alan used to always say he's a mimic and I knew how to like mimic so well.
[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_06]: And he fit in so well with our group.
[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_06]: We didn't feel threatened by him coming in or anything like that.
[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_06]: And, but also knew he was probably going to be really famous.
[00:19:38] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_06]: But like, if you say Titanic famous back in the day, I always would have said no.
[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, who can predict that?
[00:19:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Once I saw him in the basketball diaries, I knew he had no chops.
[00:19:51] [SPEAKER_04]: That guy's going nowhere.
[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no.
[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_04]: On a boat to the bottom of the ocean.
[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_04]: That guy.
[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_03]: That guy's not going to, let's say fight a bear.
[00:19:59] [SPEAKER_03]: What's that?
[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_03]: That guy's not going to, let's say fight a bear.
[00:20:03] [SPEAKER_03]: No.
[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_03]: So, David, I have one specific question for you here.
[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_03]: And it's a pretty niche question here.
[00:20:11] [SPEAKER_03]: But we kind of want to hear about your love and contributions to hip hop, man.
[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Just cause, you know, we're looking at some stuff and just-
[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Being a promoter.
[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Platforming artists and getting people on stage.
[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll try to make this as quickly, as quick and as unboring as possible.
[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_02]: I grew up listening to hip hop.
[00:20:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I met one of my idols, Eazy-E.
[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Ooh.
[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_02]: When I was 13, 14.
[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_02]: He just happened to be a huge fan of Mary with Children already.
[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_02]: I have a great shot of the two of us in my studio.
[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_02]: That's awesome.
[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_02]: But I just fell in love with hip hop, man.
[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_02]: I started, you know, people, someone put Mix Master Rock, Miss Master Spade ready to rock on my headphones when I was like a little kid.
[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_02]: And I just fell in love with it.
[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_02]: And Christina actually introduced me, Applegate, and introduced me to the Beastie Boys.
[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Cause I was only about black hip hop.
[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_02]: I was like, who's these white boys rapping?
[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_02]: White boys can't rap.
[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And then, so then I was like, oh my God, License to Ill.
[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_02]: This is the illest album ever.
[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[00:21:12] [SPEAKER_02]: And then, you know, obviously, so I just got into that.
[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_02]: And then that was the writers.
[00:21:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Because, you know, I got into hip hop early.
[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_02]: And so the writers were kind of making fun of me with the Grand Master B character.
[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_02]: It was kind of like their way of like poking a little bit of fun at me.
[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Got it, got it.
[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Which I didn't care.
[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Cause the rappers loved it.
[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_02]: And, and it was, it was, it was a cool little character.
[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Didn't you have run ins with Will.i.am before, before he?
[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, so Will and I are, we're producing a documentary together right now.
[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Will and the Black Eyed Peas.
[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's the first hip hop club on the Sunset Strip.
[00:21:48] [SPEAKER_02]: So when you're asking my contributions, the contribution was,
[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_02]: we started the first hip hop club, all ages hip hop club.
[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_02]: That was not in the inner cities.
[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_02]: You had to come to, it was the first hip hop club on the Sunset Strip.
[00:22:03] [SPEAKER_02]: That was all ages.
[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_02]: And that's where Will met, Appley App met.
[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Who else am I missing?
[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Will App.
[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Who else is in the Black Eyed Peas?
[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Stacy.
[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:22:19] [SPEAKER_02]: Fergie.
[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I can tell you guys are huge Black Eyed Peas fans.
[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_03]: You know what's funny is we were listening to Bridging the Gap on the way here.
[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Were you?
[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm sorry.
[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_03]: Well no, I was telling them because I used to be a break dancer back in the day.
[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah.
[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_03]: And that was, Bridging the Gap was one of those albums that you could play from beginning to
[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_03]: end and just do an entire session on.
[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I mean, Taboo is just a, he's a die hard dancer.
[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_02]: So anyway, this film is called Ballistics.
[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_02]: We're just wrapping it up now.
[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_02]: We're in the final edits.
[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_02]: It's gonna, it'll probably be on Netflix or one of these streaming services.
[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's, I bring that up because Leo was there every week.
[00:22:58] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh really?
[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, yes.
[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_02]: That's what made me think of it.
[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_02]: So Leo was there all the time and so was Tobey Maguire and all these kids that went
[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_02]: off to have these huge careers.
[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_02]: The Alchemist, one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time came out of Ballistics.
[00:23:14] [SPEAKER_02]: So you'll be seeing this story soon and we're really excited about it and I'll shut up about
[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_02]: it now.
[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, no worries.
[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_03]: I always thought Alchemist, well I mean he is from New York, but I mean like I was,
[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_03]: his sound.
[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Like I would always just kind of like, I always gravitated towards his sound.
[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_03]: I love Alchemist.
[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_02]: He's a West Coast kid.
[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, he is.
[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_02]: He's Beverly Hills.
[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Beverly Hills.
[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_03]: Right.
[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_04]: So kind of, Tracy, what's your contribution to hip hop?
[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_06]: I would say absolutely nothing and they're grateful for it.
[00:23:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, right.
[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Now we were actually gonna say, so fast forwarding a couple years, Grong Paine's The Return
[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_03]: of the Seavers.
[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Tell us about coming back to that role, the cast and what that was like.
[00:23:52] [SPEAKER_06]: Well that was really interesting because the truth is when I left Growing Pains, I was
[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_06]: in a really kind of tricky situation in my life because I had had an eating disorder,
[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_06]: anorexia and it kind of became public while I was on Growing Pains towards the end of the
[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_06]: season, the seventh season and I had to go, I had gone into a hospital for three episodes
[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_06]: per Warner Brothers, which turned out to be really per Joanna Kearns got into Warner Brothers'
[00:24:21] [SPEAKER_06]: ear.
[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_06]: And so they let me out or I left.
[00:24:26] [SPEAKER_06]: I was free to come to the last episode and it was a weird time because I was like, I
[00:24:34] [SPEAKER_06]: was leaving Growing Pains very like sad and emotional and like in the last scene in Growing
[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Pains we have to eat like pizza.
[00:24:42] [SPEAKER_06]: So it was very weird for me.
[00:24:44] [SPEAKER_06]: So then to kind of get married, have my, I had two babies by the time we did Return of
[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_06]: the Seavers.
[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_06]: I just felt so much more like I had my footing and things like that.
[00:24:57] [SPEAKER_06]: And so I was grateful and excited to go back, but also nervous.
[00:25:00] [SPEAKER_06]: I was a little nervous because the last season that environment was a little, was not the
[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_06]: healthiest for me.
[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_06]: So, but it turned out to be great.
[00:25:11] [SPEAKER_06]: And I, you know, and I always say whenever I see the cast where we see each other, we
[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_06]: don't have to talk to each other all the time, but we really have such a common bond of going
[00:25:19] [SPEAKER_06]: through that experience that we're all close, you know?
[00:25:23] [SPEAKER_04]: That's family, right?
[00:25:24] [SPEAKER_04]: It's family.
[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Even if you don't agree with each other on lots of things, you use, you all have that
[00:25:29] [SPEAKER_06]: same shared experience.
[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Sam is exact same.
[00:25:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Ditto.
[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Right?
[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:25:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Now, do you all keep in touch?
[00:25:38] [SPEAKER_04]: Is there, cause I, you know, we talked to some guests that we interview and they're
[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_04]: like, yeah, we have a group chat and we're always talking with each other.
[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_04]: Like I think some of the, um, I forgot who it is.
[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_04]: Nevermind.
[00:25:47] [SPEAKER_04]: The Avatar.
[00:25:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Like people who are in Avatar.
[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_04]: They have a group chat.
[00:25:50] [SPEAKER_04]: They're always chatting with each other.
[00:25:51] [SPEAKER_02]: That's funny.
[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_02]: I was on Avatar and I have no group chat.
[00:25:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if Korra is the same way.
[00:25:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Like I don't know if Legend of Korra is the same way.
[00:25:58] [SPEAKER_03]: I think it's like the original cats.
[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_02]: The original Avatar and then the Korra, they were like, forget your group chat.
[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_02]: They're just like, no, we don't want to talk to you guys again.
[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_06]: I will say that Alan was a great unifier of the cast.
[00:26:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Alan was one of the greatest people.
[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_02]: I've known Alan my whole life.
[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Alan, Tracy, Jeremy were kind enough to come do a web show that I produced with Sony and
[00:26:23] [SPEAKER_02]: they were tremendous on it and, and it was just so great.
[00:26:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And Alan has treated me like a God throughout the years.
[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I grew up in that house with Brendan and Robin.
[00:26:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, I know.
[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Exactly.
[00:26:32] [SPEAKER_02]: You know, Robin Thicke as you know, is, you know, Alan's son and, and watching him sing
[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_02]: and dance.
[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_02]: The house in Santa.
[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_02]: By the way, by the way, Robin met Paula, Paula Patton at Ballistics, the nightclub
[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm talking about.
[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_02]: No way.
[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_02]: That's where they met.
[00:26:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Robin's in.
[00:26:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Dude, wait till you hear the stories that come out of this, this, this.
[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_02]: I can't wait to watch it.
[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_02]: It's sick.
[00:26:53] [SPEAKER_02]: It's ill.
[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_04]: That's awesome.
[00:26:55] [SPEAKER_04]: David, how about you?
[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_04]: Any rumors?
[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_04]: I know you did a reunion.
[00:26:59] [SPEAKER_02]: So, so what's going on with the Mary Witch Children reunion is, you know, obviously Mary
[00:27:06] [SPEAKER_02]: Witch Children was a really hard hitting show as far as the humor goes.
[00:27:10] [SPEAKER_02]: And there was some, some, some overtones of racism, not, but all only against the French
[00:27:17] [SPEAKER_02]: for some reason.
[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know why, it was always the French.
[00:27:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, and you know, in or, in order to, to, to have that show be a success today.
[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, they're looking at, at doing an animated version of it instead so that you can get more
[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_02]: of the, the family guy, like, yes, which is the same, same, same writers.
[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, is it?
[00:27:39] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_06]: There you go.
[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_02]: So the, that's what we're doing and, and it has, it's, it's, it's, we've all closed our
[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_02]: deals, but it hasn't been green lit yet.
[00:27:47] [SPEAKER_05]: Wow.
[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_02]: And I think the reason it hasn't been green lit yet is cause we did all close our deals
[00:27:52] [SPEAKER_02]: and they went, how much do we pay?
[00:27:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, we, we, we really struggled in this cause ours was just, we did two movies and before
[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_06]: the reboot world came and everybody's getting a reboot and we really suffered, I think
[00:28:05] [SPEAKER_06]: in that of not having our, our patriarch in Allen.
[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_02]: You know?
[00:28:12] [SPEAKER_03]: I was just thinking about it, like pretty much all the main cast from Married With Children,
[00:28:17] [SPEAKER_03]: you guys have all pretty much done animation since then too.
[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_03]: So yeah.
[00:28:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:28:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Can I bring something up about Allen that I want to make sure this isn't a rumor about?
[00:28:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Did he, did he, he, he did write the facts of life and growing pains?
[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_06]: No, no.
[00:28:29] [SPEAKER_06]: BJ Thomas wrote the growing pains theme song.
[00:28:31] [SPEAKER_06]: He wrote facts of life in different strokes.
[00:28:33] [SPEAKER_02]: So Alan wrote the, the, the, the, the dam for different strokes and facts of life.
[00:28:40] [SPEAKER_02]: Facts of life.
[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_02]: He wrote, Alan wrote that.
[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_02]: They're very musical family, very musical family.
[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[00:28:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I always enjoyed going on with it.
[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_06]: He wrote a couple of game shows too that I don't want to misquote that are famous.
[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:28:50] [SPEAKER_02]: He's a creative dude.
[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_06]: He was always doing that.
[00:28:52] [SPEAKER_06]: The last time I saw Allen, we were at a comic con like this in Chicago and he asked
[00:29:00] [SPEAKER_06]: to borrow my earbuds because he needed to listen to Robin's track that he was waiting for
[00:29:05] [SPEAKER_06]: the feedback on.
[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Feedback on.
[00:29:06] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, that's cool.
[00:29:07] [SPEAKER_02]: That's cool.
[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty awesome.
[00:29:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:29:10] [SPEAKER_02]: He borrowed yours.
[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_06]: He borrowed mine.
[00:29:12] [SPEAKER_02]: I hope you, I hope you gave him a clean out.
[00:29:15] [SPEAKER_06]: That was November and he passed in December.
[00:29:17] [SPEAKER_06]: So yeah.
[00:29:18] [SPEAKER_03]: So kind of like staying in that same kind of vein, you guys have pretty much worked in
[00:29:22] [SPEAKER_03]: everything that exists.
[00:29:24] [SPEAKER_03]: What's your favorite creative outlet?
[00:29:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Like what's, what's, what's your favorite medium to work in between both of you guys?
[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[00:29:30] [SPEAKER_02]: I'll answer that real quick.
[00:29:31] [SPEAKER_02]: I'd like to say voiceover and BS everybody and say, Oh, I love voiceover.
[00:29:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And I do because of the hours and the residuals and all that.
[00:29:38] [SPEAKER_02]: It's tremendous.
[00:29:39] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm so grateful for it.
[00:29:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Look, but you know, honestly, if I, if I'm going to be real, even though it's 12 hours
[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_02]: a day on set, I'd rather be on a big budget film with some big stars making a big
[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_02]: movie.
[00:29:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:29:54] [SPEAKER_06]: And I would say probably my original genre of acting that I'm the most comfortable with
[00:29:59] [SPEAKER_06]: is drama and doing movies and doing really serious work.
[00:30:03] [SPEAKER_06]: I had to, I was almost a square peg fitting into a round hole, trying to do growing pains
[00:30:07] [SPEAKER_06]: and be bigger and all those things.
[00:30:10] [SPEAKER_06]: So, but doing a sitcom is the life.
[00:30:13] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:30:14] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean doing a, the hours and everything, but I'll also say you take for granted how easy
[00:30:21] [SPEAKER_06]: it was when we were younger to be in front of an audience.
[00:30:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Well you take the good, you take the bad and there you have the facts of life.
[00:30:32] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[00:30:33] [SPEAKER_06]: And I forgot that why wasn't I scared of this back as a kid?
[00:30:38] [SPEAKER_02]: Because the older we get, the more terrified we get.
[00:30:41] [SPEAKER_02]: The more terrified we get.
[00:30:42] [SPEAKER_06]: I had no fear.
[00:30:43] [SPEAKER_06]: I was like, I'm so good at this.
[00:30:45] [SPEAKER_06]: But yeah.
[00:30:46] [SPEAKER_06]: But yeah.
[00:30:46] [SPEAKER_06]: Isn't that weird?
[00:30:47] [SPEAKER_06]: It is weird.
[00:30:48] [SPEAKER_06]: But you mentioned the 12 hour days.
[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_06]: He's correct.
[00:30:50] [SPEAKER_06]: They're long.
[00:30:52] [SPEAKER_06]: But if you're an actor, that's what you yearn for is to do the serious work.
[00:30:57] [SPEAKER_02]: And you got a little, nice little trailer to lay in.
[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_06]: And it's not like, you're not digging ditches for 12 hours.
[00:31:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[00:31:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[00:31:04] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:31:05] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm a Diet Coke girl and like, there's always a Diet Coke waiting for you.
[00:31:09] [SPEAKER_06]: So they treat you nice.
[00:31:10] [SPEAKER_02]: But the key is show up on, if you're not 15 minutes early or 15 minutes late.
[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely.
[00:31:15] [SPEAKER_02]: And be point.
[00:31:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Be 1,000, billion percent memorized.
[00:31:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Otherwise you make yourself look like an idiot.
[00:31:22] [SPEAKER_06]: And the other thing I'm going to say about being a kid actor that's different from being
[00:31:25] [SPEAKER_06]: an adult actor is that from my experience, is that adult actors, there's no tolerance for
[00:31:31] [SPEAKER_06]: a kid to like goof around, not know their lines, be silly.
[00:31:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Really, the adults have earned that spot that they kind of be silly.
[00:31:42] [SPEAKER_06]: And the kids, especially if you're coming just new, the kids, you have to be a little
[00:31:48] [SPEAKER_06]: bit more serious because nobody wants to see the kid messing up.
[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_06]: And there was a lot of pressure that like, that's the way my mom raised me.
[00:31:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Not with these woke kids these days.
[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_02]: They can do whatever they want.
[00:31:59] [SPEAKER_02]: That's right.
[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_06]: But I remember-
[00:32:00] [SPEAKER_06]: They can drop lines right and left.
[00:32:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Nobody cares.
[00:32:02] [SPEAKER_06]: Not this generation.
[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_06]: But I remember when I turned 18, I was on Growing Pains and it was the first fall I
[00:32:09] [SPEAKER_06]: went back and I didn't have to go to school on my break.
[00:32:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, wait a minute.
[00:32:15] [SPEAKER_06]: This is what you guys have been doing while I've been in school?
[00:32:18] [SPEAKER_06]: School.
[00:32:19] [SPEAKER_06]: I've been doing two jobs.
[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_02]: It's horrible.
[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_02]: When you're a kid on a set, you have to do three hours a day of school.
[00:32:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Now, obviously that's not the six hours that most children do at, you know, but the three,
[00:32:30] [SPEAKER_02]: those three hours don't include, you know, recess or anything.
[00:32:35] [SPEAKER_02]: It's three hours-
[00:32:35] [SPEAKER_06]: And you're usually one-on-one with like a teacher.
[00:32:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, well, but it's private tutoring really.
[00:32:41] Yeah.
[00:32:41] [SPEAKER_02]: I had a point.
[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_02]: My point was, is that you really have to want to learn though.
[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_02]: Like Alyssa Milano.
[00:32:48] [SPEAKER_02]: So, so when I was doing my show right next, so here was our school room.
[00:32:52] [SPEAKER_02]: And then, uh, what was the show Alyssa was on?
[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Who's the boss.
[00:32:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Who's the boss was, was right next door with Danny Pintero and Alyssa Milano.
[00:33:00] [SPEAKER_02]: And I had the most painful, when I say painful crush on Alyssa Milano to where I see her in
[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_02]: the hallway and like, I was all ready to talk and not-
[00:33:12] [SPEAKER_02]: She was so pretty.
[00:33:14] [SPEAKER_02]: I just fell apart.
[00:33:16] [SPEAKER_02]: And, um, but so it, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's interesting growing up and, and having
[00:33:21] [SPEAKER_02]: a private tutors and, and, and all that stuff.
[00:33:24] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, I mean, we, oh, you can't do that.
[00:33:26] [SPEAKER_02]: No, I'm just, sometimes you can learn more depending on your-
[00:33:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Your effort.
[00:33:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Your effort.
[00:33:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Like Alyssa.
[00:33:31] [SPEAKER_02]: She wanted to learn.
[00:33:32] [SPEAKER_06]: I was like, get me outta here.
[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_02]: Where's the bagels?
[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Where's the coffee?
[00:33:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I know I'm 12, but where's the coffee?
[00:33:37] [SPEAKER_06]: That's how Missy was.
[00:33:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Missy always wanted to go to college and to become a doctor.
[00:33:43] [SPEAKER_06]: So she had, she literally had to, they had to get a more experienced teacher for her because
[00:33:48] [SPEAKER_06]: her classes were too hard.
[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:33:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Then on Growing Pings, they would have, they, at one of the, at a certain point, Kirk and
[00:33:55] [SPEAKER_06]: I had our own teacher and then Jeremy had his own.
[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[00:33:58] [SPEAKER_06]: So we had to share a teacher and then Jeremy had his own because we were in high school and
[00:34:01] [SPEAKER_06]: Jeremy was in elementary school.
[00:34:03] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:34:03] [SPEAKER_06]: And it wasn't, it wasn't conducive for one teacher to teach three kids that.
[00:34:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Well, see my parents, they, they, they realized that, you know, being a child's
[00:34:13] [SPEAKER_02]: star lasts forever.
[00:34:14] [SPEAKER_02]: So I didn't need it.
[00:34:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't need any extra education.
[00:34:18] [SPEAKER_02]: What do you need extra education for?
[00:34:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm an actor.
[00:34:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Damn it.
[00:34:21] [SPEAKER_02]: He's going to be an actor for the rest of his life.
[00:34:22] [SPEAKER_06]: That was my philosophy too.
[00:34:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Totally.
[00:34:25] [SPEAKER_04]: Life education, on the job training.
[00:34:27] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:34:28] [SPEAKER_06]: Growing Pains was my college.
[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Right.
[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
[00:34:31] [SPEAKER_04]: Low lift, literally.
[00:34:33] [SPEAKER_04]: What, what about the other side, like behind the camera work?
[00:34:38] [SPEAKER_04]: David, I know you did like stuff for Crackle and stuff like that.
[00:34:41] [SPEAKER_04]: What acting versus, I guess, directing, producing, writing.
[00:34:47] [SPEAKER_04]: How do you guys feel about?
[00:34:49] [SPEAKER_06]: You want me to go first?
[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_06]: I'll go first.
[00:34:51] [SPEAKER_06]: Um, I watched something really happen, interesting happen on Growing Pains.
[00:34:55] [SPEAKER_06]: Joanna was approaching 40 as Growing Pains was ending and she added smart enough to know
[00:35:02] [SPEAKER_06]: it's really hard as an actress to try and keep this momentum going as these ages are
[00:35:07] [SPEAKER_06]: approaching.
[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to learn to direct.
[00:35:09] [SPEAKER_06]: And she got them to let her direct an episode of Growing Pains and teach her the behind the
[00:35:14] [SPEAKER_06]: scenes stuff.
[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_06]: And she is a really successful director right now.
[00:35:19] [SPEAKER_06]: My brain never worked that way.
[00:35:21] [SPEAKER_06]: I always never thought I could be technical, detailed.
[00:35:24] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm more creative.
[00:35:26] [SPEAKER_06]: And back to what you said, like I was always going to work forever.
[00:35:30] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:35:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, what's the fallback plan?
[00:35:32] [SPEAKER_06]: There's no fallback plan.
[00:35:33] [SPEAKER_06]: What's the fallback plan?
[00:35:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Director.
[00:35:34] [SPEAKER_06]: But I will say, I have in time taken on producing roles.
[00:35:39] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[00:35:40] [SPEAKER_06]: So I created a show for Lifetime called Starving Secrets.
[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_06]: And it was helping women who had eating disorders.
[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_06]: And I sold it to Lifetime.
[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_06]: And I pitched it and all of those.
[00:35:50] [SPEAKER_06]: So it's things like that, that I, that's a strength of mine.
[00:35:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:35:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Not the technical element.
[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_06]: It's the creative.
[00:35:57] [SPEAKER_06]: Anything that's kind of creative.
[00:35:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Personally for me, I like writing.
[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_02]: I wrote the entire season of Starving, which is what you were on.
[00:36:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I directed four of the episodes.
[00:36:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, but I, I, I like being in it if I'm directing.
[00:36:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Like, I like to have like the first AD.
[00:36:14] [SPEAKER_02]: You call action for me this time.
[00:36:19] [SPEAKER_02]: That's a fun one.
[00:36:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Or you know you're a real egomaniac if you have to call action yourself.
[00:36:24] [SPEAKER_02]: And action.
[00:36:24] [SPEAKER_02]: And then get into the actions.
[00:36:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[00:36:27] [SPEAKER_02]: No, I didn't do that.
[00:36:28] [SPEAKER_02]: But, um, I find that if it's a, if it's a congruent piece that you're in love with.
[00:36:33] [SPEAKER_02]: And I think it can all, it can all just gel together.
[00:36:37] [SPEAKER_02]: And it can be a lovely project.
[00:36:40] [SPEAKER_02]: If you have a, a director that's in love with the role that he's playing as well.
[00:36:44] [SPEAKER_02]: Um, I, I just enjoy all aspects of the business.
[00:36:47] [SPEAKER_02]: I, I, I just do.
[00:36:48] [SPEAKER_02]: I, I, I enjoy it.
[00:36:49] [SPEAKER_06]: Well that was a fascinating thing to find out that your, your father was a costumer.
[00:36:52] [SPEAKER_06]: I never knew that.
[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:36:53] [SPEAKER_06]: And that's, I mean to be a costumer back in the day.
[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_06]: I mean that's a huge thing.
[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_02]: I won every single Halloween costume contest from kindergarten, uh, until I left school
[00:37:06] [SPEAKER_02]: at seventh grade to go do my, that cause it was the real, when you go to those, those
[00:37:11] [SPEAKER_02]: costume houses.
[00:37:12] [SPEAKER_06]: Oh, it's, it's, it's, yeah.
[00:37:14] [SPEAKER_02]: It's the real deal.
[00:37:15] [SPEAKER_02]: You're talking real.
[00:37:15] [SPEAKER_02]: It's cosplay before cosplay.
[00:37:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Did you go back to real school when you had hiatus, when you weren't break from?
[00:37:19] [SPEAKER_02]: No.
[00:37:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh.
[00:37:20] [SPEAKER_06]: Okay.
[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_06]: So I had to go back to a college preparatory Catholic high school.
[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh.
[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:37:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.
[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_06]: I know.
[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_06]: It was tough.
[00:37:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I went to, I did go to Catholic school though.
[00:37:31] [SPEAKER_02]: So.
[00:37:34] [SPEAKER_04]: All right.
[00:37:34] [SPEAKER_04]: Hey, real quick.
[00:37:35] [SPEAKER_04]: Uh, if you guys got questions, put your hands up.
[00:37:38] [SPEAKER_03]: Actually, if you want to go ahead and just line up in the middle, I'm going to get the
[00:37:40] [SPEAKER_03]: microphone ready right now.
[00:37:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:37:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Make a line and we'll go make a line down here behind that mic stand.
[00:37:45] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, if you guys have questions for either Tracy or David, uh, and, uh, and you guys can
[00:37:50] [SPEAKER_03]: ask them and we'll get them answered.
[00:37:51] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm just going to grab my water.
[00:37:53] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[00:37:54] [SPEAKER_06]: Have Robbie can do mine too.
[00:37:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Thank you.
[00:38:00] [SPEAKER_04]: So while David's doing that and, and Philippe's doing that, I don't, I don't mean to get heavy
[00:38:05] [SPEAKER_04]: real quick, but I kind of want to talk about like you were on, um, what was that show?
[00:38:11] [SPEAKER_04]: The, the medium show, the, um, Oh, well this is interesting.
[00:38:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Damn it.
[00:38:15] [SPEAKER_06]: Hollywood medium.
[00:38:16] [SPEAKER_06]: I, I'm going to tell you this.
[00:38:19] [SPEAKER_06]: I felt kind of duped by him.
[00:38:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Some dialogue here and there.
[00:38:25] [SPEAKER_06]: And I would say for the majority that was true for our cast.
[00:38:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Also, I think Joanna and Alan probably had more say in things as things went on.
[00:38:34] [SPEAKER_06]: Kirk had a lot to say.
[00:38:37] [SPEAKER_06]: Uh, and, um, but myself, I always am much of like the producers knew what they were doing.
[00:38:44] [SPEAKER_06]: The writers know what they were doing.
[00:38:45] [SPEAKER_06]: If I had a complaint about something, I mean, I've talked about it.
[00:38:48] [SPEAKER_06]: I had a problem back in the day.
[00:38:50] [SPEAKER_06]: Like if they wrote like a mean joke or something like that, like I maybe go to them and be
[00:38:54] [SPEAKER_06]: like, okay, this kind of is uncomfortable to me.
[00:38:57] [SPEAKER_06]: And, um, but they, the, my producers were great, but they were a real boys group.
[00:39:04] [SPEAKER_05]: Yeah.
[00:39:04] [SPEAKER_06]: They're a real boys group.
[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_06]: So was ours.
[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_06]: And so you sort of could not really like get in there that much.
[00:39:11] [SPEAKER_06]: You sort of just had to make it work, but they would also incorporate like if I remember
[00:39:15] [SPEAKER_06]: I, I did this one thing once, like I went, huh.
[00:39:17] [SPEAKER_06]: And like, I can't do it as high now.
[00:39:19] [SPEAKER_06]: And, um, that became kind of a reoccurring thing I did.
[00:39:22] [SPEAKER_06]: So almost sometimes I'm like, should I do that again?
[00:39:24] [SPEAKER_06]: I don't know.
[00:39:25] [SPEAKER_02]: It is too much.
[00:39:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
[00:39:27] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, like you, like you do something before you notice, like in every script.
[00:39:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh huh.
[00:39:32] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[00:39:32] [SPEAKER_02]: I used to actually copy my real, real dad.
[00:39:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Cause he would do these funny things, like these funny faces or like if he got busted
[00:39:39] [SPEAKER_02]: with, he would even go and, and he caught me a couple of times doing that on show.
[00:39:44] [SPEAKER_02]: He goes, you son of a bitch.
[00:39:46] That's mine.
[00:39:47] [SPEAKER_02]: That's mine.
[00:39:48] [SPEAKER_02]: You stole that from me.
[00:39:50] [SPEAKER_02]: That's great.
[00:39:52] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, you should be, he should be like, thank you for making it famous.
[00:39:54] [SPEAKER_02]: I, yeah, yeah.
[00:39:56] [SPEAKER_02]: Not quite.
[00:39:56] [SPEAKER_03]: It's all because of you, dad.
[00:39:58] [SPEAKER_03]: It's all because of you, you know?
[00:39:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:39:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, so we're, we're, we're going to get some wrap questions here.
[00:40:03] [SPEAKER_03]: We just have two of them.
[00:40:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, just because we got to get you guys, get ready for the next, uh, number here.
[00:40:08] [SPEAKER_03]: But, uh, what's your guys' favorite tacos?
[00:40:10] [SPEAKER_02]: You mean there's, we're not, we're not the final.
[00:40:12] [SPEAKER_02]: I wish.
[00:40:13] [SPEAKER_02]: There's someone after us.
[00:40:14] [SPEAKER_02]: If you were the final, we would just have you guys here for three hours.
[00:40:16] [SPEAKER_02]: There's somebody after us.
[00:40:17] [SPEAKER_02]: Turn this table over.
[00:40:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, if I had three hours to just let you guys tell stories, I'd do it.
[00:40:23] [SPEAKER_03]: But, uh, um, but yeah, so what's your guys' favorite taco?
[00:40:26] [SPEAKER_03]: Taco?
[00:40:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:40:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Go.
[00:40:28] [SPEAKER_03]: I like a shrimp taco.
[00:40:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Ooh.
[00:40:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Very good.
[00:40:31] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[00:40:31] [SPEAKER_02]: I like, I like hard shell shredded chicken or, uh, uh, shredded chicken, hard shell and
[00:40:39] [SPEAKER_02]: pork.
[00:40:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
[00:40:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Solid.
[00:40:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Very solid.
[00:40:43] [SPEAKER_03]: How about you guys?
[00:40:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, me, I'm Al Pastor all the way.
[00:40:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Al Pastor all the way.
[00:40:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Al Pastor all the way.
[00:40:48] [SPEAKER_03]: But it's because, um, for, for all the Latinos out there, you guys know that that is our litmus
[00:40:53] [SPEAKER_03]: test.
[00:40:53] [SPEAKER_03]: Of course.
[00:40:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Right?
[00:40:54] [SPEAKER_03]: If you go to a Mexican restaurant, you taste the Al Pastor.
[00:40:58] [SPEAKER_03]: If the Al Pastor is good, you know, it's a good restaurant.
[00:41:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Ah, good to know.
[00:41:01] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, that's a good tip.
[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you.
[00:41:03] [SPEAKER_03]: That's, that's, that's your tip for, uh, that's your Hispanic tip of the day.
[00:41:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And here's your Italian tip from the day.
[00:41:09] [SPEAKER_02]: You go into an Italian restaurant, if the noodles are even just a tiny bit too soft,
[00:41:15] [SPEAKER_02]: you're in the wrong spot.
[00:41:16] [SPEAKER_02]: And this, and the sauce just a tiny bit too sweet, you're in the wrong spot.
[00:41:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:41:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Cause then you know they're using Chef Boyardee and not actually making it themselves.
[00:41:23] [SPEAKER_03]: Cause they what?
[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Cause then you know they're using Chef Boyardee and not making it themselves.
[00:41:27] [SPEAKER_02]: Although Chef Boyardee once in a while on the munchies is good.
[00:41:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh yeah.
[00:41:30] [SPEAKER_06]: I do add sugar to my spaghetti sauce.
[00:41:33] [SPEAKER_04]: Tracy, you gotta have some cooking, uh, recommendations since I mean we're here.
[00:41:39] [SPEAKER_04]: With a champion.
[00:41:40] [SPEAKER_04]: Oh shit.
[00:41:40] [SPEAKER_04]: I did win worst cooks in America.
[00:41:42] [SPEAKER_06]: So I, I did that.
[00:41:43] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a funny thing cause I'm not the worst, I'm not a horrible cook.
[00:41:47] [SPEAKER_06]: I've raised four children still.
[00:41:49] [SPEAKER_06]: And so I cook, but I remember I had to do a zoom meeting and they get on the phone and
[00:41:53] [SPEAKER_06]: they're like, so they get on the zoom and they're like, so you tell me you've, you're
[00:41:56] [SPEAKER_06]: raising children.
[00:41:57] [SPEAKER_06]: You don't cook.
[00:41:57] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, I cook every night.
[00:41:59] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm like, but I have like five meals and like variations of them.
[00:42:03] [SPEAKER_06]: And I am not really that experienced.
[00:42:05] [SPEAKER_06]: And it was enough for them.
[00:42:06] [SPEAKER_06]: And I got there and because my mom is a great cook and I did grow up with cooking and I,
[00:42:11] [SPEAKER_06]: I know good food.
[00:42:13] [SPEAKER_06]: I just really excelled and I ended up winning everything to where I thought to myself, it's
[00:42:18] [SPEAKER_06]: getting too obvious.
[00:42:19] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm going to win.
[00:42:19] [SPEAKER_06]: They're going to, they're going to like pull something on me.
[00:42:22] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not going to win.
[00:42:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Did you, was that for the cooking network?
[00:42:25] [SPEAKER_02]: Food network.
[00:42:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Food network.
[00:42:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Food network.
[00:42:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Did you know that I think I was supposed to be on that episode?
[00:42:29] [SPEAKER_02]: Were you?
[00:42:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I did not know that.
[00:42:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Nobody told me that.
[00:42:31] [SPEAKER_02]: So I was supposed to do the exact same episode she did of worst cooks in America, but they
[00:42:37] [SPEAKER_02]: do these, the food network does these intense, intense, intense, intense backgrounds.
[00:42:42] [SPEAKER_02]: And I had a weird night in Florida, 10 years back where I spent the, the night in the, the
[00:42:53] [SPEAKER_02]: old Daytona County jail.
[00:42:56] [SPEAKER_02]: And they sure as shit found that and said, you're not a part of this cooking show.
[00:43:00] [SPEAKER_02]: Wow.
[00:43:01] [SPEAKER_02]: And I went, you know what?
[00:43:03] [SPEAKER_02]: That's all right with me.
[00:43:05] [SPEAKER_02]: My wife, my wife was so excited for me to learn to cook though.
[00:43:10] [SPEAKER_02]: That was the biggest disappointment.
[00:43:12] [SPEAKER_02]: It was like, I really did want to like, cause I don't cook.
[00:43:14] [SPEAKER_06]: Cause you do learn.
[00:43:15] [SPEAKER_06]: You do.
[00:43:16] [SPEAKER_06]: It's a real thing.
[00:43:17] [SPEAKER_02]: And I wanted to be able to make my wife and kids a couple, you know, but you could just
[00:43:22] [SPEAKER_02]: take a cooking class for that.
[00:43:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Right.
[00:43:23] [SPEAKER_06]: But also the things you make.
[00:43:25] [SPEAKER_06]: I remember when I came home.
[00:43:25] [SPEAKER_02]: But you don't get paid for that.
[00:43:26] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't get paid for that.
[00:43:27] [SPEAKER_06]: That's okay.
[00:43:27] [SPEAKER_06]: My husband was so excited for me to make these meals.
[00:43:30] [SPEAKER_06]: I was so traumatized from the experience because it was so intense and the days were so long
[00:43:35] [SPEAKER_06]: and the, and the meals they made, I made it, but it was so hard.
[00:43:40] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:43:41] [SPEAKER_06]: Like it was like, you just go in there and I get in a competitive spirit.
[00:43:44] [SPEAKER_06]: So overwhelmed.
[00:43:44] [SPEAKER_06]: Like, and I can, I, once I channel myself, like I couldn't win any of the competition
[00:43:48] [SPEAKER_06]: stuff, only the cooking stuff.
[00:43:50] [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah.
[00:43:50] [SPEAKER_06]: The games I wasn't as good at.
[00:43:51] [SPEAKER_02]: Because it's overwhelming.
[00:43:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:43:53] [SPEAKER_06]: The games stuff overwhelm me, but the cooking I could do.
[00:43:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Actual cooking.
[00:43:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:43:57] [SPEAKER_03]: So guys, where can everybody find you?
[00:44:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Where social media or kind of like next steps anywhere.
[00:44:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Anybody can find you on the internet and kind of things.
[00:44:07] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, I guess Twitter, the Tracy goal.
[00:44:09] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm, I'm terrible at social media.
[00:44:10] [SPEAKER_06]: I need, I need to be better.
[00:44:12] [SPEAKER_06]: But, um, the Tracy gold of Twitter is the best to find me and follow me.
[00:44:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Cause I could use when, when Elon Musk took over, I lost like thousands of followers.
[00:44:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:44:21] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't do Twitter.
[00:44:22] [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'm on it.
[00:44:23] [SPEAKER_02]: I just don't do it.
[00:44:24] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm on Instagram.
[00:44:26] [SPEAKER_02]: David.
[00:44:26] [SPEAKER_06]: I gotta fix my Instagram.
[00:44:27] [SPEAKER_02]: I'm at David Faustino on Instagram.
[00:44:29] [SPEAKER_02]: That's all I'm on.
[00:44:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Awesome.
[00:44:30] [SPEAKER_03]: Well guys, we gotta appreciate you guys hanging out.
[00:44:33] [SPEAKER_03]: Now you guys are going to be at your tables for the rest of the day.
[00:44:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Right?
[00:44:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
[00:44:36] [SPEAKER_02]: Uh, if anybody would love to come visit us, we'd love to see you.
[00:44:40] [SPEAKER_02]: You gotta do it now.
[00:44:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Time's a ticking.
[00:44:42] [SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[00:44:42] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes.
[00:44:43] [SPEAKER_06]: All right.
[00:44:43] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, thanks so much guys.
[00:44:45] [SPEAKER_02]: By the way, guys.
[00:44:47] [SPEAKER_02]: So thank you so much for giving us your attention and being here makes a lot of difference for
[00:44:51] [SPEAKER_02]: us to be able to sit up here and have a crowd and, and, and so appreciate your input.
[00:44:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you.
[00:44:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[00:44:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you.
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