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- 0:04Speaker 1: Welcome back to artists on Artists on Artists on artists.
- 0:08Speaker 1: Ding ding ding, that's the school bell. It's time for
- 0:11Speaker 1: on set teachers.
- 0:13Speaker 2: If you're familiar with child labor laws, which I know
- 0:16Speaker 2: you are, on set children can only work for a
- 0:19Speaker 2: certain amount of time. The rest of the time they
- 0:22Speaker 2: got to be in school. And who better to teach
- 0:25Speaker 2: them but teachers.
- 0:26Speaker 3: Today on the show, we gather some of Hollywood's most famous, important,
- 0:32Speaker 3: and awesome on set teachers.
- 0:35Speaker 4: So grab your pencil, make sure to bring an apple,
- 0:38Speaker 4: and take a seat. Let's listen in no, oh, gosh,
- 0:47Speaker 4: did you get something from set? My kids are always
- 0:50Speaker 4: bringing something into set. My kids are always bringing something
- 0:53Speaker 4: when you work with kids.
- 0:54Speaker 5: That's my wife.
- 0:58Speaker 4: Friend's a nursery factory. Back on again, my wayfriends and nursery.
- 1:08Speaker 4: She's always bringing something at home. Is what I was
- 1:10Speaker 4: just gonna say.
- 1:12Speaker 2: No, it's it's totally, it's it's it's so true. These kids,
- 1:16Speaker 2: they are like vessels. I always say, these these kids
- 1:19Speaker 2: are vessels for both talent and germs and germs and
- 1:22Speaker 2: the common cold.
- 1:23Speaker 1: Don't get me started on these kids with their germs.
- 1:26Speaker 1: Don't get me started. It is rough for me. I
- 1:30Speaker 1: I don't like germs. I barely like kids. But I'm
- 1:34Speaker 1: here and I'm excited to talk to some of the
- 1:37Speaker 1: other professionals in the industry.
- 1:39Speaker 6: For sure, it's awesome. It's really awesome to be here.
- 1:44Speaker 3: I guess we should all just go around because I
- 1:46Speaker 3: know you from just you know the lot, Yeah, yeah,
- 1:52Speaker 3: of course.
- 1:54Speaker 6: The school yard.
- 1:57Speaker 3: Don't you wish they had a bell because I come
- 1:59Speaker 3: from this school system. I don't know if you guys
- 2:01Speaker 3: just your got your stuff before or after, but I
- 2:05Speaker 3: was I came from the school system first. And sometimes
- 2:09Speaker 3: I'm waiting for the bell to ring on the set
- 2:12Speaker 3: of The Conners.
- 2:12Speaker 4: So we do have bells, especially on multicamps. They have
- 2:15Speaker 4: bells when they go off, and I.
- 2:17Speaker 3: Know, but I mean bell's for mell bells when I
- 2:19Speaker 3: know I'm done teaching math and it's time for social
- 2:22Speaker 3: not to be on.
- 2:22Speaker 4: The side of the studio. But I do think it
- 2:23Speaker 4: would be difficult if they had bells just for you.
- 2:25Speaker 6: Because they would, and that's why I think it's so funny.
- 2:28Speaker 5: I wish they would.
- 2:28Speaker 2: Well, they should have one at a frequency only teachers
- 2:31Speaker 2: can hear, because as we know, like there's some things
- 2:34Speaker 2: only we pick up on there's something on their app.
- 2:37Speaker 6: There's apps for everything.
- 2:38Speaker 4: Sure, So I'm saying if the bell sounded exactly the same,
- 2:42Speaker 4: it would just be difficult to know what the bell was.
- 2:44Speaker 6: It would be like a who's on first?
- 2:46Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly exactly, it would be a who's on first.
- 2:48Speaker 2: My name is Louise MacIntyre. I am a on set
- 2:53Speaker 2: teacher on the Nickelodeon show Boys in the Yard, and
- 2:58Speaker 2: I teach six crowdy ten year old boys and it
- 3:03Speaker 2: is a blast. These boys keep me on my toes,
- 3:06Speaker 2: always looking for them, always trying to get in those
- 3:10Speaker 2: little heads. And man, uh, there's a stereotype out there
- 3:14Speaker 2: that child actors aren't fast. These kids are fast.
- 3:18Speaker 1: It's such a stupid stereotype that people have. I don't
- 3:22Speaker 1: know how it started. I know how it's started.
- 3:25Speaker 7: When it started.
- 3:26Speaker 4: It started in the twenties when in the n GM,
- 3:28Speaker 4: when they were feeding those kids painkillers all the time. Yeah,
- 3:31Speaker 4: that's why the kids were so slow.
- 3:34Speaker 2: Their cheerios, and so everyone thought, oh, it's they're innate
- 3:37Speaker 2: inability to run fast, but no.
- 3:39Speaker 1: It's just it's what we're trying to teach. We're trying
- 3:42Speaker 1: to break stereotypes. And one of the major stereotypes we're
- 3:45Speaker 1: trying to break is that set kids are not fast
- 3:48Speaker 1: because they're wiley and they're fast.
- 3:50Speaker 2: And I would also say they're all on adderall now,
- 3:53Speaker 2: so they're quite even.
- 3:54Speaker 5: They're more direct with their speed.
- 3:56Speaker 1: You used to get a kid riding around in circles,
- 3:58Speaker 1: you could grab them because he doesn't know where on adderall.
- 4:01Speaker 5: It's almost like they're a missile.
- 4:02Speaker 1: Yeah, you know exactly where they're going and they know
- 4:05Speaker 1: the shortest route they to learn its actions.
- 4:09Speaker 5: So, Louise, Louise, you are working with ten year olds,
- 4:11Speaker 5: six ten year olds?
- 4:12Speaker 7: Yes, yes, six ten year old.
- 4:14Speaker 5: You're in the third fourth grade curriculum.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Yes, well, I gotta be honest. A couple of them
- 4:18Speaker 2: are have had more successful careers. They're at about a
- 4:21Speaker 2: second grade level, so it's hard to get them all
- 4:24Speaker 2: on the same thing.
- 4:25Speaker 1: This is so true, which is not a stereotype, but
- 4:28Speaker 1: it should be. The more successful you will talk about.
- 4:31Speaker 7: Stereotypes that should be I don't think we do that enough.
- 4:35Speaker 2: Let's stop writing talking about what stereotypes we shouldn't say.
- 4:39Speaker 4: We just started guys, Look, and I don't want to
- 4:42Speaker 4: teach the class because you guys are teachers. But before
- 4:44Speaker 4: we get to dream stereotypes, let's maybe introduce these are said,
- 4:48Speaker 4: that's so true.
- 4:49Speaker 3: We talk about what are the stereotypes we should be
- 4:51Speaker 3: aiming to, right.
- 4:56Speaker 7: But yeah, I agree, let's go around.
- 4:58Speaker 1: Yeah, let's definitely go our. My name is Eugene Frank.
- 5:04Speaker 6: You talk like a Eugene Frank.
- 5:06Speaker 7: And you tremble like one too.
- 5:08Speaker 5: I don't know what that means.
- 5:10Speaker 1: I'm sure that's pretty rude for Eugenes everywhere.
- 5:15Speaker 5: You know what, I'll say, Eugene Frank.
- 5:17Speaker 4: It feels like you're used to your last name being screamed,
- 5:20Speaker 4: like like the kids come.
- 5:22Speaker 5: In and scream Frank.
- 5:23Speaker 1: I try to introduce myself as mister Eugene Frank, and
- 5:28Speaker 1: every time it just turns into these little kids screaming Frank,
- 5:32Speaker 1: because most.
- 5:33Speaker 6: Of them don't.
- 5:33Speaker 2: You don't normally provide your first name willingly to kids.
- 5:37Speaker 5: Right, No, but I would.
- 5:39Speaker 1: I'm trying to because I've got two first names as
- 5:42Speaker 1: a name, so it's not always easy. And I've caught
- 5:46Speaker 1: onto it too. When they're screaming Frank. It's I've started
- 5:49Speaker 1: introducing myself as that because it's just easier sometimes.
- 5:54Speaker 5: Well, as teachers. We've probably all experienced this.
- 5:56Speaker 4: Sometimes you fall into the profession and you realize, oh,
- 5:59Speaker 4: I have an that's fun to scream, absolutely, and it's tough.
- 6:02Speaker 4: It's tough as a teacher.
- 6:04Speaker 2: Indeed, that's the number one mistake you got a lot
- 6:07Speaker 2: of kids need stage names.
- 6:08Speaker 7: Teachers need their own stage names too.
- 6:11Speaker 5: That is such a good point. I knew a friend name.
- 6:14Speaker 1: His name was doctor Tony Neeebuckle, and these kids would
- 6:19Speaker 1: buckle his knees every single time they go, Oh, knee buckle,
- 6:23Speaker 1: knee buckle.
- 6:25Speaker 6: What a nightmare for that guy.
- 6:28Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, I can imagine screaming at knee buckle.
- 6:32Speaker 6: How what a nightmare?
- 6:33Speaker 5: What cent are you on, my friend? Right? Okay, don't
- 6:37Speaker 5: be like rag thank you? I am on.
- 6:43Speaker 1: Uh thank you.
- 6:47Speaker 4: You have been warped by these kids. You're thanking us
- 6:50Speaker 4: for ridiculing you. What set are you on, my friend?
- 6:54Speaker 1: So I am on the set of the new HBO
- 6:57Speaker 1: show Mystery Kids. It's a dark, gritty show filled with violence,
- 7:03Speaker 1: set in a fantasy world, and these kids are really really,
- 7:07Speaker 1: really you know, kind of messed up. So it's another
- 7:11Speaker 1: thing I need to approach with my teaching is both
- 7:14Speaker 1: teaching the math and also working through some of the
- 7:17Speaker 1: trauma that they experience on set.
- 7:19Speaker 2: Yeah, so you're kind of a psychologist as well.
- 7:23Speaker 1: I have to be a sort of therapist for these kids,
- 7:26Speaker 1: and I'm not good at that.
- 7:28Speaker 4: Did you set any sort of class agreement or expectations
- 7:32Speaker 4: for the beginning of school, because it must be difficult.
- 7:35Speaker 4: I mean, were you told you have to address these
- 7:38Speaker 4: kids trauma in class because most teachers say that's what
- 7:40Speaker 4: the counsel is now.
- 7:41Speaker 5: No, not have counselors on set now.
- 7:43Speaker 1: Nobody told me, and I just realized it on day
- 7:46Speaker 1: one when these kids walked in and they play their
- 7:49Speaker 1: show as kind of they form sort of a revolutionary
- 7:52Speaker 1: squad to take down some of the leaders of this
- 7:56Speaker 1: really messed up world. And that's what happened in class.
- 8:00Speaker 1: I said, we're going to be going over fractions calculus.
- 8:03Speaker 1: They're young, what we're jumping to calculus.
- 8:06Speaker 7: You have a lot of faith in these kids.
- 8:08Speaker 5: I really do.
- 8:09Speaker 1: And they turned on me quick. They unionized in a
- 8:11Speaker 1: way I haven't seen. They've ganged up.
- 8:13Speaker 5: They're mean.
- 8:15Speaker 6: So yeah, it do seem so tortured.
- 8:19Speaker 3: No, thank you, hurt man, listen, hurt you and tell
- 8:24Speaker 3: them to go get back and get their sad card.
- 8:27Speaker 5: I will say, so, I.
- 8:29Speaker 4: Have a I have a one of my kids, Joni,
- 8:33Speaker 4: I think is on yours during the day because I
- 8:35Speaker 4: do night shoots right yours during the day. And she
- 8:38Speaker 4: told me that you have a very unique way of
- 8:41Speaker 4: teaching where you incorporate the trauma into the math problems.
- 8:44Speaker 5: Exactly.
- 8:45Speaker 1: I found it's the only way to break through these
- 8:47Speaker 1: kids big walls that they've put up, is I incorporate
- 8:51Speaker 1: their trauma.
- 8:52Speaker 4: Yeah, do you have there's that one she showed me.
- 8:53Speaker 4: It was it was Derek has seven attachment styles.
- 8:58Speaker 1: Yes, So in order to do it, in order to
- 9:00Speaker 1: deal with trauma, we always want to talk about attachment styles.
- 9:05Speaker 4: You begin, and but you say, like, if this person
- 9:08Speaker 4: has seven attachment styles and this other person has four
- 9:11Speaker 4: healing techniques.
- 9:12Speaker 1: Yeah, how many attachment style? How many holes in his
- 9:15Speaker 1: heart are left over? That He's like, you can three
- 9:19Speaker 1: very good, good, But that's enough about me. So yeah,
- 9:25Speaker 1: just to summarize, Eugene Frank teach fucked up kids with therapy.
- 9:30Speaker 5: Okay, go ahead, Well, my name is Bertie.
- 9:33Speaker 4: Have alococcus and I have It's not as easy to scream.
- 9:40Speaker 6: To set.
- 9:41Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm having theacccus and I teach night shoots. As
- 9:46Speaker 4: I mentioned, Uh, my primary expertise is waking those kids
- 9:51Speaker 4: up when they have to be on set all night
- 9:54Speaker 4: and I we have to go to school at three
- 9:56Speaker 4: in the.
- 9:56Speaker 5: Morning and I have to teach them.
- 9:59Speaker 4: I am currently on set for The Swamping, which is
- 10:02Speaker 4: a show about horrifying children that drowned in a swamp, terrorizing.
- 10:09Speaker 6: I love that show.
- 10:10Speaker 7: I love that show. You're on what season three?
- 10:12Speaker 4: Now? We're on season three and we've just been greenlit
- 10:15Speaker 4: for fifteen more seasons.
- 10:16Speaker 6: Oh gosh, first time that's happened in the industry.
- 10:20Speaker 4: It's the first time they said we need fifteen more
- 10:22Speaker 4: years in The Swamping.
- 10:23Speaker 6: They didn't even do that for Big Bang Theory.
- 10:25Speaker 4: Well, these kids are aging fast because you know, as
- 10:27Speaker 4: you have, you noticed on TikTok On they're always mentioning
- 10:30Speaker 4: on that Gen Z is aging faster, Gen Alpha aging
- 10:33Speaker 4: even faster, and that goes that goes.
- 10:36Speaker 3: With that stereotype that we're trying to get rid of.
- 10:39Speaker 4: Nine Still, yeah, I have I have a six year
- 10:41Speaker 4: old with a comb over, like a balding comb over,
- 10:43Speaker 4: and it's embarrassing to see him trying to cover he's
- 10:46Speaker 4: losing it. I'm telling him, man, I'm sorry, buddy, you're
- 10:48Speaker 4: losing it, you know.
- 10:50Speaker 1: I mean, fifteen seasons in a row is such a
- 10:52Speaker 1: good idea because at that age you need to lock
- 10:54Speaker 1: them down like that.
- 10:55Speaker 4: Well, yeah, we're shooting this year for twenty years from now,
- 10:58Speaker 4: you know what I mean. We're just we're just constantly
- 11:00Speaker 4: and it's good because we can just power through with
- 11:02Speaker 4: these swamp kids.
- 11:03Speaker 6: This is what.
- 11:04Speaker 3: Happened to Chester on You guys know Chester, he does
- 11:06Speaker 3: Stranger Things right, and he's been there for years.
- 11:10Speaker 4: Well he's had to switch the I know, the onset
- 11:12Speaker 4: teacher for Stranger Things has because the kids have graduated
- 11:15Speaker 4: past when they would still be in school, but they
- 11:17Speaker 4: still have to go to onset school and I know
- 11:19Speaker 4: he's teaching them would working now.
- 11:21Speaker 3: Yeah, poor Chester has gone from toddler work all the
- 11:24Speaker 3: way to college level.
- 11:26Speaker 5: Classes, trade school, I heard general trades.
- 11:29Speaker 6: He's teaching one of them makeup.
- 11:31Speaker 5: Yeah, one of them. We won't tell you.
- 11:35Speaker 7: That's a hip of thing.
- 11:36Speaker 2: We can't tell you which kid is learning makeup.
- 11:40Speaker 1: And also for me, it's always strange that the makeup
- 11:42Speaker 1: artists didn't just teach him makeup.
- 11:44Speaker 6: He's a teacher.
- 11:45Speaker 5: Well, and I will say, speaking of makeup, you know,
- 11:47Speaker 5: the swamping.
- 11:48Speaker 4: The biggest challenge for me when I'm teaching is these
- 11:51Speaker 4: kids are horrifying looking.
- 11:53Speaker 5: They are so scary. Oh, they're spooky to makeup.
- 11:57Speaker 4: They're covered and just they're just covered in moss and
- 12:02Speaker 4: they look so scary. And sometimes I imagine hearing about
- 12:07Speaker 4: what I'm doing ten years ago and like just getting
- 12:09Speaker 4: a screenshot of exactly what's happening in my life, and
- 12:13Speaker 4: I see myself, you know, with the the specifics of
- 12:16Speaker 4: the Declaration Dependence of Independence on the board, and then
- 12:19Speaker 4: just a pan of like twelve of the spookiest kids
- 12:23Speaker 4: in the world at three am. Yeah, it's like I'm
- 12:25Speaker 4: it's like I'm trying to get my paralysis to evens
- 12:27Speaker 4: to learn something. It's really fucking weird.
- 12:30Speaker 3: Oh isn't there that picture of you teaching that kid
- 12:33Speaker 3: who's covered in fake egzema?
- 12:35Speaker 6: Yeah, but it looks like and you have a ruler.
- 12:37Speaker 1: One of them, then your spookiest things a kid can
- 12:39Speaker 1: be covered in it's fake.
- 12:41Speaker 3: Well no, it's like it's like the swampening ezema. So
- 12:43Speaker 3: it's like very heightened.
- 12:44Speaker 4: It's yeah, egg it's literal eggs. It's it's eggs popping
- 12:49Speaker 4: out of someone's collar.
- 12:50Speaker 3: Yeah, and you're like holding the ruler and it looks
- 12:53Speaker 3: like you're touching his skin a little bit, but it's
- 12:55Speaker 3: just the picture.
- 12:56Speaker 5: Yeah, they tried to get me on that way.
- 12:57Speaker 6: They tried to get your ass.
- 12:58Speaker 4: So it's an anonymous person on set this training to
- 13:00Speaker 4: get me and I don't know who it is. And
- 13:03Speaker 4: they're very good at covering their tracks. They won't get
- 13:05Speaker 4: me a gossip.
- 13:06Speaker 6: Girl if you will, I think, does your set up
- 13:09Speaker 6: a gossip girl?
- 13:10Speaker 1: Oh?
- 13:10Speaker 2: Set gossip and it's really interesting. I think it's one
- 13:14Speaker 2: of the boys, which is interesting, but I can't tell.
- 13:16Speaker 7: I can't tell.
- 13:18Speaker 1: We've got a gossip grip. It's a mess gossip cool.
- 13:23Speaker 7: That's a gossip grip.
- 13:25Speaker 1: Because they're everywhere and nowhere. You never know where a
- 13:28Speaker 1: grip is it is it. They could be up in
- 13:29Speaker 1: the rafter, you could be talking they here, so we
- 13:32Speaker 1: don't know which grip is the gossip grit. But it
- 13:34Speaker 1: has ruined the set life. It is absolutely destroying because.
- 13:38Speaker 2: A big part of set is swapping secrets. But it's tough.
- 13:41Speaker 2: It's tough.
- 13:42Speaker 7: The grips are everywhere.
- 13:43Speaker 5: It's awful.
- 13:44Speaker 3: Hi guys, my name is Sarah Beeth Tiner, Sarahbeth Tiner,
- 13:50Speaker 3: and I am the Ripe Age of twenty one.
- 13:54Speaker 6: Just turned twenty one. Thank you so much.
- 13:56Speaker 3: I'm one of those kids that just like ripped through
- 13:58Speaker 3: college in high school my high school years, and I
- 14:01Speaker 3: just wanted to teach. But I also like kind of
- 14:04Speaker 3: love the industry. I love the lights, I love actors.
- 14:10Speaker 6: I think they're amazing.
- 14:11Speaker 3: So I immediately wanted to go into teaching, but I
- 14:13Speaker 3: wanted something a little more exciting. So I am a
- 14:16Speaker 3: onset teacher for TLC, an exclusive agreement. So I did
- 14:23Speaker 3: I do?
- 14:23Speaker 6: I jump between a bunch of them.
- 14:25Speaker 3: Most recently, I did the eighteenth season of John K
- 14:29Speaker 3: plus eight.
- 14:29Speaker 6: Did all the kid us.
- 14:32Speaker 7: They brought him, they brought him back.
- 14:34Speaker 6: Well now they're having grandchildren.
- 14:35Speaker 3: So if you pay attention, yeah, and sometimes I'll do
- 14:38Speaker 3: I'll even do like home improvement, not home improvement, extreme
- 14:42Speaker 3: home making.
- 14:43Speaker 6: Extream home makeover. I do kids that I'm meeting just
- 14:46Speaker 6: that day.
- 14:46Speaker 3: Usually sometimes someone will bring on their kids and by
- 14:50Speaker 3: law people don't know this, but by law they have
- 14:52Speaker 3: to come into school. Even now, some some teachers they'll
- 14:56Speaker 3: have they'll be a kid's teacher for the full season, right,
- 14:59Speaker 3: and that more emulates what a school looks like. But
- 15:02Speaker 3: there are one off episodes and no matter what, if
- 15:04Speaker 3: a kid is on set, he has to go to
- 15:06Speaker 3: school that day.
- 15:07Speaker 4: And that's a bummer because especially on Extreme Home Makeover,
- 15:10Speaker 4: you know, usually it's this family with these five kids
- 15:13Speaker 4: and they're getting this completely new house. Usually while the
- 15:16Speaker 4: house is being renovated, they send them to Disneylands, and
- 15:19Speaker 4: I know that you go with them on their vacations.
- 15:22Speaker 6: Absolutely discussing.
- 15:23Speaker 3: That's the one show at TLC we go, oh no,
- 15:26Speaker 3: because you have to go to Disneyland and you have
- 15:28Speaker 3: to get them to do so many vocabulary sheets. You
- 15:31Speaker 3: just have to get those sheets done, and you turn
- 15:34Speaker 3: in the homework. People don't tell you this. You turn
- 15:36Speaker 3: in the homework directly to the law, so you.
- 15:38Speaker 2: Have to show yes, we as on set teachers turn
- 15:41Speaker 2: in the homework to the police.
- 15:43Speaker 6: Yes, yes, because they want to make sure.
- 15:44Speaker 5: I hate the police roundups at the end of every week.
- 15:48Speaker 3: And they don't tell you that the police are spending
- 15:50Speaker 3: so much unnecessary time.
- 15:52Speaker 1: Collecting work, so many funds that they send the detective
- 15:55Speaker 1: in sometimes to see if there's any cheating mayor.
- 16:00Speaker 5: I mean, it's just a complete misuse of fun.
- 16:02Speaker 2: It is a gross misappropriation. And I would argue that's
- 16:06Speaker 2: not their jurisdiction. No, I would argue that that's not it.
- 16:10Speaker 6: I'd argue it too, they shouldn't be doing that.
- 16:13Speaker 3: But we do buy law have to show that every kid,
- 16:15Speaker 3: no matter what, even if on set.
- 16:17Speaker 6: Even if on set is taking them to.
- 16:18Speaker 3: An excursion, which is maybe a trip or a Make
- 16:22Speaker 3: a Wish Foundation trip to Disneyland.
- 16:23Speaker 6: They still have to be in school.
- 16:26Speaker 3: So that at TLC we we are run and go
- 16:30Speaker 3: as we say it.
- 16:31Speaker 6: I have a whiteboard, I have a whiteboard. T shirt.
- 16:33Speaker 6: Oh so do you.
- 16:35Speaker 7: Draw on the T shirt?
- 16:37Speaker 5: Yes, And.
- 16:39Speaker 3: It's just it's less work than bringing around a desk, right, totally,
- 16:43Speaker 3: because I'm on the gup.
- 16:45Speaker 5: So just correct me if I'm wrong.
- 16:47Speaker 1: But you're you're you're teeners, miss tiner, So just correct
- 16:54Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong on your shirt in front of
- 16:56Speaker 1: little kids, you're drawing just right kind of on your
- 16:59Speaker 1: chest area.
- 17:00Speaker 6: Or they can drop.
- 17:01Speaker 7: Okay, so they come up and they.
- 17:03Speaker 6: Had it would be hard for me to write on
- 17:06Speaker 6: myself and not to.
- 17:07Speaker 7: Get too crass. But how thick is the T shirt?
- 17:10Speaker 5: That's crass.
- 17:12Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm sorry for getting crass. I'm around all
- 17:15Speaker 2: these boys all the time. I think like a boy.
- 17:18Speaker 5: You think like a boy.
- 17:19Speaker 7: I think like a boy.
- 17:20Speaker 6: That's crazy.
- 17:23Speaker 7: I know a woman and I'm thinking about monster trucks
- 17:26Speaker 7: like a little boy.
- 17:27Speaker 5: What kind of other boy things do you think of?
- 17:29Speaker 5: What do you think about? What's your favorite kind of food?
- 17:31Speaker 7: Oh, my god, nacho cheese, cheese talkies?
- 17:34Speaker 6: What's your favorite makeup brand?
- 17:36Speaker 7: Auntsy?
- 17:37Speaker 5: Don't that's not fairy boy? What a little boy would say?
- 17:41Speaker 7: Though exactly they wouldn't know what it is.
- 17:45Speaker 4: That that that isn't the makeup brand of a little boy,
- 17:47Speaker 4: But that is the make up brand of a woman
- 17:49Speaker 4: at odds with her own brain.
- 17:54Speaker 5: Middle ground.
- 17:56Speaker 2: There are still points where I could lock into a
- 17:59Speaker 2: woman who's totally lost.
- 18:01Speaker 5: But that was such a time.
- 18:02Speaker 7: I have the monologue of it.
- 18:04Speaker 2: I'm a little boy, I'm thinking plant T shirts?
- 18:09Speaker 7: What are we talking about?
- 18:10Speaker 4: I have a question, actually, for all the on set
- 18:12Speaker 4: teachers right here. I get frustrated because a lot of
- 18:16Speaker 4: people think that what we do isn't teaching. A lot
- 18:18Speaker 4: of people think that we're just babysitting. But I know
- 18:21Speaker 4: for a fact that I've gone through some teaching breakthroughs
- 18:24Speaker 4: in my classroom.
- 18:25Speaker 5: It's pretty amazing.
- 18:26Speaker 4: And and I wanted to see if you guys have
- 18:29Speaker 4: any teacher breakthroughs.
- 18:31Speaker 5: You remember the one that you went through. Well, the
- 18:35Speaker 5: one that I went through.
- 18:36Speaker 4: Is that I really got to the heart of getting
- 18:41Speaker 4: people to understand that Thomas Jefferson was just kind of
- 18:45Speaker 4: a normal guy.
- 18:46Speaker 5: You know that he was chill, he had flaws, he
- 18:52Speaker 5: was he was you.
- 18:52Speaker 7: Know, pretty big flaws, I would say.
- 18:55Speaker 1: So I guess, yeah, we're the students coming to kind
- 18:57Speaker 1: of bringing up all the immense flaws that Thomas Jefferson.
- 19:01Speaker 5: No, they weren't bringing up the flaws. They were idolizing.
- 19:04Speaker 4: For some reason, my kids thought the Founding fathers were gods,
- 19:07Speaker 4: and I think they have conservative parents or something was
- 19:09Speaker 4: going on.
- 19:10Speaker 1: So it might just be because they're shooting at night.
- 19:12Speaker 1: It all feels like a dream. And you were saying
- 19:14Speaker 1: that you were doing.
- 19:17Speaker 7: Brushmore at night, must be like.
- 19:21Speaker 6: Women's women's history at night.
- 19:25Speaker 4: Feel like a dream for those kids. And sometimes they'll
- 19:29Speaker 4: come in and they'll say, wait, you're real, and I'll
- 19:31Speaker 4: say yes. They're like like they get so surprised. And
- 19:36Speaker 4: one time I saw one of them at the grocery
- 19:37Speaker 4: store during a hiatus, so awkward I saw, yeah, but
- 19:41Speaker 4: they ran they ran out because they thought they were
- 19:44Speaker 4: scared of me. And I'm like, you're scared of me.
- 19:45Speaker 4: You're a fucking ghool. You're goold in my classroome, you
- 19:48Speaker 4: have partacles on your eyes.
- 19:49Speaker 7: I don't know if you're me.
- 19:54Speaker 6: I'm scared of you because I'm not used to you
- 19:55Speaker 6: with a normal nose. I'm used to you with a
- 19:57Speaker 6: swamp nose exactly.
- 19:59Speaker 5: That's what are nasty.
- 20:01Speaker 6: They're fish.
- 20:03Speaker 1: That sounds really hard, especially for a little kid having
- 20:06Speaker 1: a paralysis sleep paralysis.
- 20:08Speaker 5: Demon that looks and sounds like you. I mean, what
- 20:11Speaker 5: do you mean?
- 20:12Speaker 1: I would I think if that was my sleep paralysis demon,
- 20:15Speaker 1: I would be so deeply affected because you're such a
- 20:17Speaker 1: normal person, right right, right.
- 20:19Speaker 7: But it's just kind of makes you wonder, like, what's
- 20:21Speaker 7: wrong with me?
- 20:21Speaker 4: And it probably probably makes them think. There's a lot
- 20:24Speaker 4: more sleep paralysis demons.
- 20:25Speaker 6: Out there there everywhere.
- 20:27Speaker 4: And I'm a septuplet too, so there's identical identical stept tuplets,
- 20:33Speaker 4: and so it is scary for them because and that
- 20:35Speaker 4: is scary. I was shopping with my three brothers for
- 20:37Speaker 4: a Super Bowl party. So when this kid saw me,
- 20:41Speaker 4: he's only seen me during the night. He saw four
- 20:43Speaker 4: of me at once. That was weird for him.
- 20:46Speaker 1: Probably, Yeah for me, you were leaving out crucial details of.
- 20:50Speaker 2: That story because you didn't tell us that you were
- 20:54Speaker 2: one of the Time Magazine's Fantastic Seven. Yeah, when they
- 20:58Speaker 2: all seven boys identical, Well.
- 21:01Speaker 5: Look they were having that was a light news week.
- 21:05Speaker 4: And not to humble myself, but the fact that the
- 21:09Speaker 4: Fantastic seven.
- 21:12Speaker 2: Was such an I'm sorry, an attention hog. She loved
- 21:16Speaker 2: the camera. She had such a personality for it that
- 21:19Speaker 2: I could see it's as a If I were a reporter,
- 21:21Speaker 2: I'd be like, I want to milk that that mom
- 21:23Speaker 2: is dancing after having seven identical boys.
- 21:26Speaker 7: Yeah, I want to I want to cover that.
- 21:27Speaker 6: And they wrote it.
- 21:28Speaker 3: They wrote it in the week between Christmas and New
- 21:30Speaker 3: Year's Eve when nothing's.
- 21:31Speaker 4: Happening, and three is before Hurricane Sandy, and.
- 21:35Speaker 6: Then the last five.
- 21:40Speaker 3: But what you said is so interesting because people don't
- 21:43Speaker 3: realize that the kids were working with are just so different.
- 21:45Speaker 6: They're not.
- 21:46Speaker 3: Of course, they're kids, and we have to remember that
- 21:48Speaker 3: they're kids, right, But like you're saying, you week with
- 21:50Speaker 3: them overnight during night shoots. We're used to kids drinking
- 21:54Speaker 3: big coffees. We're used to kids taking smoke breaks. I'm like,
- 21:59Speaker 3: it's it's a different version of a kid, right, because
- 22:02Speaker 3: these kids have they've been jaded by them by the industry.
- 22:05Speaker 1: I mean, they're barely kids. They're talking to you like
- 22:07Speaker 1: they're trying to make small talk at a cocktail party.
- 22:10Speaker 1: Most of the time, it's kind of awkward.
- 22:12Speaker 2: No, I'm trying to teach them vocabulary words and they
- 22:14Speaker 2: keep asking me if I want to get lunch, and
- 22:16Speaker 2: it's like, I don't think you should know that phrase.
- 22:20Speaker 1: My least favorite thing is when a seven year old
- 22:23Speaker 1: asked me, do you want to get lunch?
- 22:24Speaker 5: Let's go grab a lunch. I'd love to. They look down.
- 22:27Speaker 2: Your phone and they can't schedule it because they're schedules full.
- 22:31Speaker 2: And then you feel like a loser because you're not
- 22:33Speaker 2: as busy, and I'm.
- 22:34Speaker 4: Like, you should be given lunch. Kids should be given lunch.
- 22:37Speaker 4: They shouldn't be getting lunch, you know what I mean.
- 22:39Speaker 4: That's what's kind of messed up with our industry.
- 22:40Speaker 7: You know what's even worse is doing lunch.
- 22:42Speaker 5: Oh when they say we should do.
- 22:44Speaker 3: That breaks my heart. That means they've been in it
- 22:46Speaker 3: for a long yeah. Or when a kid asks me, like,
- 22:49Speaker 3: what projects am I working on lately? Right in the
- 22:51Speaker 3: middle of like, I don't know, we're breaking down geography,
- 22:54Speaker 3: and I'm like, honey, we could just work on what
- 22:56Speaker 3: the size of Louisiana is.
- 22:57Speaker 2: Yeah, I got a literal group project for you right now,
- 23:00Speaker 2: and then you should be turning in.
- 23:02Speaker 5: Let's work on what the size of Louisiana is.
- 23:04Speaker 6: Let's work on the size of it.
- 23:06Speaker 5: Are you having them kind of measure a map?
- 23:08Speaker 2: You?
- 23:09Speaker 1: What is this twenty year old doing a geography measuring?
- 23:13Speaker 3: She's doing it on my chest, remember, and we're in
- 23:16Speaker 3: line for Splash Mountain and I go, okay, quick, size
- 23:21Speaker 3: of Louisiana And I took my chest out.
- 23:23Speaker 2: So do you have a memorized capitals or or or
- 23:26Speaker 2: is it more of a cartography thing where they have
- 23:28Speaker 2: to draw the line.
- 23:29Speaker 3: I find that as I finished the school system only
- 23:33Speaker 3: many a few years.
- 23:34Speaker 1: Ago, and I find me, what was twenty one? You
- 23:36Speaker 1: probably just maybe having even graduated college.
- 23:39Speaker 3: I finished No, I did it early, but I'm saying
- 23:41Speaker 3: like I finished it all really fast. And the most
- 23:44Speaker 3: unnecessary knowledge I found was capitals. Why do we need
- 23:47Speaker 3: to know? I'm sure what I wish I knew the
- 23:49Speaker 3: size of states. I thought Rhode Island was huge?
- 23:53Speaker 7: How big is it?
- 23:54Speaker 6: It's small? How many dead? I don't know?
- 24:00Speaker 7: That's really small.
- 24:02Speaker 3: But I'm saying like I'm a little off the off
- 24:05Speaker 3: the cup. Sometimes I make my own syllabus. We should
- 24:06Speaker 3: talk about syllabus is here, But sometimes I add my
- 24:09Speaker 3: own things. I do my own things to the curriculum
- 24:11Speaker 3: because sometimes I'm like, you don't need to know that
- 24:13Speaker 3: Sacramento is the capital of California.
- 24:16Speaker 6: You need to know that California is big.
- 24:19Speaker 1: So you're more talking about just general sizes.
- 24:24Speaker 2: Big medium have to know the numbers. They have to
- 24:28Speaker 2: know your system of the adjective you would.
- 24:30Speaker 5: Used to big media.
- 24:32Speaker 1: And then and you gave away some interesting information when
- 24:36Speaker 1: I dive into small Rhode Island is ten, Well that's
- 24:40Speaker 1: all I think.
- 24:40Speaker 6: I got confused in my brain. It's ten, but it's small, right.
- 24:44Speaker 5: Oh, you have synesthesia? You think in number?
- 24:46Speaker 6: Yes, I do that's why I graduated so fast.
- 24:49Speaker 2: But I but anyway, that's another stereotype that I think
- 24:55Speaker 2: we should abutment. These people with synesthesia graduate fast.
- 24:59Speaker 6: Yeah, I think it should be a bigger stereotype.
- 25:02Speaker 5: It should really be need something.
- 25:05Speaker 6: They need something on the list of things we gotta do.
- 25:08Speaker 6: But anyway, well, let's talk about syllabus.
- 25:10Speaker 5: I would love the idea of talking about a syllabus.
- 25:11Speaker 5: That's such a good idea. Yeah, yeah, I.
- 25:14Speaker 2: Have a I have a tough time putting a syllabus
- 25:16Speaker 2: together because I've found that I can only corral the
- 25:19Speaker 2: boys for about uh six and a half minutes at
- 25:22Speaker 2: a time, So I gotta use those minutes and really
- 25:26Speaker 2: cram them in. And the rest of the time I'm
- 25:28Speaker 2: wheeling out a TV to watch uh uh a Nicholas
- 25:32Speaker 2: Cage movie because that's what they're really in truth, they're
- 25:35Speaker 2: really into that, and we do, you know, I try
- 25:37Speaker 2: to make it fun. We do nerf gun fights. I mean, honestly,
- 25:42Speaker 2: half of my syllabus is talking about the different methods
- 25:45Speaker 2: I'm gonna use to wrangle the boys, right, so just FYI,
- 25:48Speaker 2: right off the bat, I'm gonna use a lasso. I'm
- 25:51Speaker 2: gonna be using half my arm to scoop. I'm gonna
- 25:54Speaker 2: be using big magnets to sort of reel you guys.
- 25:57Speaker 2: And that's just something I'm gonna have to be doing
- 26:00Speaker 2: so that I spend a lot of time in the first.
- 26:02Speaker 1: Time, you talk to the costume designer about adding a
- 26:05Speaker 1: magnet into their costume so you could suck them back in.
- 26:08Speaker 2: Like they don't like, they don't like me over there,
- 26:11Speaker 2: but but they understand, they understand the predicament. We sort
- 26:14Speaker 2: of had to work around that because they were running
- 26:17Speaker 2: into every department just wreaking havoc.
- 26:20Speaker 6: That makes sense.
- 26:20Speaker 3: Let me tell you, I watch an episode of Nickelodeon
- 26:22Speaker 3: the other day and those kids are in puffers. They're
- 26:25Speaker 3: dressing those kids like like the leggering going on with
- 26:28Speaker 3: those kids because it.
- 26:29Speaker 2: Slows them down because they get all hot in the
- 26:31Speaker 2: studio and so they don't find us fast.
- 26:33Speaker 5: Classic move a kid. I had one of your boys
- 26:37Speaker 5: guest star.
- 26:38Speaker 7: Oh was it Gavin?
- 26:39Speaker 5: Yeah, he played a toad creep.
- 26:41Speaker 6: Right, Gavin is booking like a library.
- 26:43Speaker 2: Let me just say, Gavin is booking like a library,
- 26:45Speaker 2: and he's starting to learn some swears he shouldn't wear.
- 26:48Speaker 7: Becoming a problem for you.
- 26:49Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. He was saying some really gross words.
- 26:52Speaker 7: Really, but he doesn't really have a handle on how.
- 26:55Speaker 2: To use them yet, like no, no, Like he'll say,
- 26:58Speaker 2: like you mother a yeah, you mother ass, and I
- 27:02Speaker 2: think he means mother.
- 27:03Speaker 5: He called another girl tit lip the other day.
- 27:05Speaker 8: What do you mean by tig over here? That's after
- 27:10Speaker 8: the kids, right, you can't laugh, draw Louis. And it's
- 27:14Speaker 8: so big it hits my tip lip?
- 27:16Speaker 5: Oh okay? Oh?
- 27:17Speaker 7: Is that what you referred to as a nipple? So sorry,
- 27:20Speaker 7: excuse me, that was very crass.
- 27:22Speaker 4: I'm sorry. I no, tit lip is not. I don't
- 27:24Speaker 4: think a nipple is is the lip of a tip?
- 27:27Speaker 7: Well, then what else would it be.
- 27:30Speaker 1: The way it is, I guess the ariola would be,
- 27:34Speaker 1: and so is the teeth.
- 27:37Speaker 6: Let's go around.
- 27:39Speaker 5: Okay wait.
- 27:40Speaker 4: I wanted to bring up though, so I was trying
- 27:43Speaker 4: to show him a Nicholas Cage movie because we we
- 27:45Speaker 4: they had just completed their assignment. I was really proud
- 27:48Speaker 4: of my said, let's watch uh National Treasure. And I
- 27:50Speaker 4: was showing them and he said, hold on a minute,
- 27:52Speaker 4: this is the right version, and he said, usually Nicholas
- 27:55Speaker 4: Cage talks about long division, and I realized, are you
- 27:59Speaker 4: pumping in?
- 28:00Speaker 5: And I are you over? Are you aiing?
- 28:03Speaker 2: I wish I was aiing. No, I haven't figured out
- 28:06Speaker 2: quite how to do that. So I am doing a
- 28:08Speaker 2: live dub of Nicholas Cage movies.
- 28:12Speaker 7: I'm behind a sheet with a microphone.
- 28:14Speaker 5: Oh, you wizard devasit.
- 28:19Speaker 2: The National treasure where so they'll say, I'm going to
- 28:22Speaker 2: steal the Declaration of Independence which was signed in nineteen
- 28:26Speaker 2: seventy six.
- 28:26Speaker 7: And I sort of paused the screen.
- 28:28Speaker 5: Nineteen. That's not good information at all. This is so
- 28:33Speaker 5: much work for you.
- 28:35Speaker 7: I know I am. I am in way over my head.
- 28:38Speaker 6: You're grabbing them.
- 28:38Speaker 3: By magnets, put them in front of a tee.
- 28:44Speaker 5: Give me.
- 28:45Speaker 2: I got a huge tool belt around my chest just
- 28:48Speaker 2: carrying all these objects to sort of get these boys in.
- 28:52Speaker 7: And I'm shocked.
- 28:52Speaker 2: These boys do not have good media literacy because Nick
- 28:55Speaker 2: Cage will be frozen on the screen for five minutes
- 28:58Speaker 2: while I talk about history and they don't seem to
- 29:00Speaker 2: know a thing.
- 29:01Speaker 7: They're twittering on their phones. Yeah, we got to talk
- 29:06Speaker 7: about the phone.
- 29:07Speaker 5: The phones.
- 29:08Speaker 3: There are so many apps these days, I know, I said,
- 29:13Speaker 3: relation to the kids.
- 29:14Speaker 7: You just think phones are crazy in general.
- 29:16Speaker 5: Those phones.
- 29:18Speaker 6: I'm a twenty one year old woman and I'm like my.
- 29:20Speaker 4: Phones, Frank, what do you do? I mean, I feel
- 29:22Speaker 4: like you're the oldest person here by far.
- 29:24Speaker 5: Oh yeah, well, how old are you, guys?
- 29:27Speaker 4: I'm twenty eight, I'm thirty two, thirty one, I'm older
- 29:34Speaker 4: and that's okay.
- 29:36Speaker 5: So what was the question, Frank? What's your phone policy?
- 29:41Speaker 5: So I have a very interesting phone policy.
- 29:44Speaker 1: I actually try to put all the phones at the
- 29:48Speaker 1: beginning of the classroom into a bucket, and I put
- 29:51Speaker 1: my phone in the bucket too, in a sense.
- 29:54Speaker 7: Of solid bad idea.
- 29:57Speaker 5: So it's a bad idea. It's a media.
- 30:02Speaker 7: You don't need to you're the adults in this situation.
- 30:05Speaker 5: It's a bad idea.
- 30:06Speaker 1: So what happens, Well, there's a bunch of different scenarios
- 30:09Speaker 1: that end up happening. One, they steal my phone from
- 30:12Speaker 1: me in the bucket. Two, because I don't have a
- 30:16Speaker 1: way to contact anybody, they lock the classroom down and
- 30:18Speaker 1: it turns into sort of a Lord of the Fly situation.
- 30:22Speaker 1: Three there's another situation where they start pelting the phones
- 30:26Speaker 1: at me.
- 30:27Speaker 5: Four that it actually works.
- 30:30Speaker 7: So did they have control of the bucket. Where does
- 30:32Speaker 7: the bucket go?
- 30:33Speaker 5: I put the bucket in the middle of the room.
- 30:35Speaker 1: You should do that as a sense of unionization, and
- 30:40Speaker 1: we are all equal and one, and all of our
- 30:42Speaker 1: phones are in the middle in the bucket. Yeah, it's
- 30:46Speaker 1: a good idea first on paper, but it doesn't work
- 30:50Speaker 1: in practice. But the fourth time, every once in a
- 30:53Speaker 1: while talking about your breakthroughs, the kids will leave the
- 30:55Speaker 1: phones and we'll sit around and will actually open up
- 30:59Speaker 1: our textbook and open up our hearts.
- 31:02Speaker 4: It reminds me sometimes when I am dealing with kids
- 31:05Speaker 4: who don't have their phones. It reminds me of those
- 31:06Speaker 4: videos I've seen of people with Alzheimer's hearing a song
- 31:09Speaker 4: from their twenties and then they they come alive again.
- 31:12Speaker 4: It's like the magic of memory, and you like realize
- 31:14Speaker 4: there are kids behind these kids.
- 31:17Speaker 1: You realize they have to do and they don't have
- 31:20Speaker 1: their phones, and we figure out how to get in
- 31:23Speaker 1: that zone. You see them drop their acting personas there,
- 31:28Speaker 1: let's do lunch there, I've got to get into makeup. There,
- 31:32Speaker 1: my manager, I'm thinking about dropping my manager, and they
- 31:35Speaker 1: just start talking about roadblocks.
- 31:37Speaker 5: It's amazing.
- 31:39Speaker 7: That's gorgeous. Got to break it through?
- 31:41Speaker 3: Can I Can I confess something to you guys that
- 31:43Speaker 3: I do with the phones. Yeah, instead of teaching language,
- 31:46Speaker 3: I've downloaded I've downloaded.
- 31:49Speaker 7: Do a Lingo onto their phones.
- 31:51Speaker 6: Yeah, and then I just take a smoke break.
- 31:53Speaker 5: So you just hope that they're doing Dui Lingo. And
- 31:56Speaker 5: that's what I heard.
- 31:57Speaker 4: So that's different than do olingo, right, because that's du
- 31:59Speaker 4: alipa new language. Ay du a lingo?
- 32:05Speaker 5: Du a Lingo is so I hear is doing it?
- 32:09Speaker 2: Well? Yeah, it's a huge long I've been learning Hot
- 32:12Speaker 2: English on it. It's sort of like a type of
- 32:15Speaker 2: English that's used by like sexy bisexual women, and it's
- 32:19Speaker 2: it's been it's revolutionized my life.
- 32:22Speaker 4: Oh wait, my mom was a sexy bisexual woman. I
- 32:24Speaker 4: grew up learning Hot English. I'm fluent. Do you guys
- 32:26Speaker 4: want to speak it?
- 32:27Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah, you should do it?
- 32:29Speaker 6: Yeah, Harry Styles, you're so funny.
- 32:34Speaker 7: Macha.
- 32:36Speaker 5: What's your name? Zepilon? What's your name? You don't even know?
- 32:42Speaker 4: Darling, Oh my.
- 32:43Speaker 5: God, I'm so tired. Are you always tired? Darling? What
- 32:49Speaker 5: is that in your hair?
- 32:50Speaker 4: Darling?
- 32:51Speaker 7: Oh my god, Moose, what's in your hair.
- 32:54Speaker 5: It's sticking up.
- 32:55Speaker 6: Glita Darling, No way, glitter. I have no idea what
- 33:01Speaker 6: they're saying about that.
- 33:01Speaker 7: We were actually just we were just we were talking
- 33:03Speaker 7: about math. Yeah, we were talking about math.
- 33:07Speaker 4: We're just talking about general ideas on math. We were
- 33:11Speaker 4: talking about the Fibonacci s.
- 33:12Speaker 5: I gotta say, you guys are yes.
- 33:14Speaker 2: I love the Fibonacci secrets, those numbers and the way
- 33:16Speaker 2: they line up so interesting.
- 33:18Speaker 1: Fibonacci sequence is the best thing to ever happen to
- 33:20Speaker 1: mathematics in the world. It's got me so excited, and
- 33:23Speaker 1: nothing you'll ever get me so excited as Fibonacci sequence.
- 33:26Speaker 5: It's the perfect golden symmetrical rule. We don't talk enough
- 33:29Speaker 5: about the Fibonacci sequence.
- 33:31Speaker 1: Talk about it, and that's a stereotype. I would like
- 33:34Speaker 1: to add.
- 33:35Speaker 6: Is the Semonaci love.
- 33:38Speaker 1: The Fibonacci sequts. So can I ask a question? Because
- 33:43Speaker 1: I am running to this in my own life a
- 33:45Speaker 1: couple of times? Okay, I'll try. I thought this room
- 33:49Speaker 1: was receptive, but that felt give it a shot.
- 33:52Speaker 5: What you guys do when one of your kids is canceled?
- 33:56Speaker 7: Oh god, because it's.
- 33:57Speaker 5: Probably happened to all of us.
- 34:00Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, yes.
- 34:01Speaker 5: When one of my kids gets canceled.
- 34:02Speaker 4: Actually, I have a protocol from high ups, which is
- 34:04Speaker 4: don't let them cry because they've been in makeup for
- 34:07Speaker 4: twelve hours. So I have to talk them out of
- 34:12Speaker 4: it from being sad. I think that's the hardest thing,
- 34:15Speaker 4: because we can't lose the we can't lose the seaweed
- 34:18Speaker 4: that's on their face.
- 34:19Speaker 1: It's tough to watch all the other kids start turning
- 34:21Speaker 1: on that one kid too.
- 34:23Speaker 4: That's brutal too, because it becomes this hierarchy thing, right
- 34:25Speaker 4: where they're like, well, we're better than you because we
- 34:27Speaker 4: haven't been canceled.
- 34:27Speaker 7: But they know too much.
- 34:29Speaker 2: It's like you say something stupid on roadblocks, it never
- 34:32Speaker 2: goes away, right, it never goes away.
- 34:35Speaker 1: That kid, Yeah, that kid and Tyler he said Hillary
- 34:40Speaker 1: Clinton twenty twenty four right on roadblocks, and it just
- 34:42Speaker 1: ruined his quarta.
- 34:43Speaker 2: He did, he did, but he sort of he said
- 34:46Speaker 2: it in a he said it in a mocking way
- 34:49Speaker 2: that sounded just so so rude, and nobody knew it
- 34:53Speaker 2: really offended both sides and right, and so he was
- 34:57Speaker 2: canceled by both you know, Hillary lovers and Hillary haters
- 35:01Speaker 2: because neither one could decide in which way he was saying.
- 35:05Speaker 6: An awful place to be.
- 35:06Speaker 5: They said, we don't know what to do with this,
- 35:07Speaker 5: and it pisses me off. Yeah, this is just yu And.
- 35:10Speaker 6: That's the only NIOLA does not mess with the Clinton No.
- 35:14Speaker 2: And that's part of the thing that I try and
- 35:16Speaker 2: teach in my in my initial class is, you know,
- 35:21Speaker 2: don't get political on roadblocks. Don't get political nothing ever ends. Well,
- 35:26Speaker 2: if you want to get political, I have a film
- 35:28Speaker 2: I can pop in and uh and uh, twenty seven
- 35:33Speaker 2: Dresses is going to teach you all about that.
- 35:36Speaker 3: All those dresses National Treasure to Catherine Heigel's twenty seven dress.
- 35:44Speaker 7: Well, here's the thing.
- 35:45Speaker 2: I don't give them the full cut of twenty seven Dresses.
- 35:47Speaker 2: It's only the James Marsden scenes. I love that when
- 35:50Speaker 2: they say and the jets, they actually really respond to him.
- 35:53Speaker 5: I can see that's you're trying to count up to
- 35:56Speaker 5: twenty seven I can.
- 35:57Speaker 4: I ask you, so when you put the sheet, is
- 35:59Speaker 4: the sheet hung up in another side of the classroom or.
- 36:02Speaker 5: Do you go for yourself?
- 36:03Speaker 6: But aren't you in a trailer explain this?
- 36:06Speaker 2: So I'm doing both, right, I have the sheet up
- 36:08Speaker 2: and then for extra measure, I'm doing Charlie Brown sheet
- 36:12Speaker 2: Ghost just for safety, okay, and a sheet. I'm doing
- 36:17Speaker 2: two sheets so they'll never find out.
- 36:19Speaker 6: Where they're remote in one hand and a mic in
- 36:21Speaker 6: the other.
- 36:21Speaker 2: And a ramote in the one hand and the mic
- 36:23Speaker 2: and the other. And sometimes it's hard to see in
- 36:25Speaker 2: the double sheets, and so I do trip and sometimes
- 36:27Speaker 2: they'll hear a lot of like ah.
- 36:28Speaker 7: Boo boom boom boom boom boom boom.
- 36:30Speaker 2: And that's because I do it right before the stairs,
- 36:32Speaker 2: so they don't know, and so I do hear them sometimes.
- 36:35Speaker 7: Going is this a real movie?
- 36:38Speaker 2: Uh?
- 36:38Speaker 7: And that's the only time it breaks the illusion.
- 36:40Speaker 5: Well, when Gavin was in my class, he thought it
- 36:42Speaker 5: was real. So, oh, that's good.
- 36:44Speaker 7: That's good.
- 36:45Speaker 2: Heartbreaking when the kids find out about Santa. Heartbreaking when
- 36:48Speaker 2: the kids find out about the sheet.
- 36:50Speaker 5: Oh, must just absolutely destroy their world.
- 36:53Speaker 7: It really does.
- 36:54Speaker 2: And then it's so hard on the show you can
- 36:56Speaker 2: tell their hearts aren't in it as m.
- 36:58Speaker 3: Also heartbreaking the sea when you see them. I know
- 37:02Speaker 3: this before I did TLC stuff a lot more. Uh uh,
- 37:06Speaker 3: real actors instead of you know reality. But you see
- 37:10Speaker 3: when they have to learn that their agents and their
- 37:12Speaker 3: managers aren't their best friends. Oh that's so hard because
- 37:15Speaker 3: they think it's like fun mommy and fun daddy. Right,
- 37:19Speaker 3: it's the it's the managers and the agents that are
- 37:22Speaker 3: gonna like give them candy, right and meet them in
- 37:25Speaker 3: on set and walk them to the Nickelodeon after party.
- 37:28Speaker 3: And I think a lot of them think that their
- 37:31Speaker 3: reps are like their fun fun.
- 37:34Speaker 7: Mom Yeah right, no no.
- 37:38Speaker 6: And it's so sad to see them see that slowly.
- 37:41Speaker 5: Have you guys ever lost a kid, meaning they left
- 37:44Speaker 5: the industry?
- 37:45Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, there used to be a seventh boy. Yeah,
- 37:49Speaker 2: it was pretty devastating. He uh really, he said he
- 37:53Speaker 2: wanted to learn at school, so he lost them to
- 37:56Speaker 2: the public school.
- 37:57Speaker 6: Systems and with your system, he's not gonna no.
- 38:00Speaker 7: Yeah, he had to go somewhere else. And it's really tragic.
- 38:03Speaker 2: But it's interesting you brought up agents because I think
- 38:05Speaker 2: another thing that we might struggle with as on set
- 38:08Speaker 2: teachers is relating to the stage parents.
- 38:11Speaker 7: And the kids' reps.
- 38:14Speaker 2: And I'm wondering how that experience is for you guys,
- 38:17Speaker 2: because it's it's tough because the parents also feel that
- 38:21Speaker 2: they can teach and they also want to watch you.
- 38:23Speaker 2: And I do have some parents teach sitting in on
- 38:26Speaker 2: the lessons, and they're harder to fool, for sure, harder
- 38:29Speaker 2: to fool.
- 38:30Speaker 7: So has has that ever? Has that ever been a
- 38:32Speaker 7: problem for you guys?
- 38:34Speaker 1: Well, I have this one parent who just sits the
- 38:37Speaker 1: lessons and yells, no, poor thing, he disagrees, He disagrees
- 38:44Speaker 1: with everything.
- 38:46Speaker 6: Poor thing.
- 38:47Speaker 7: What does he take umbrage with?
- 38:48Speaker 5: He just takes umbradge with either my fool he's.
- 38:51Speaker 7: Taking umbrage with these days. I want to ask that later,
- 38:53Speaker 7: but go.
- 38:54Speaker 1: Ahead, takes umbradge with basically how I'm teaching. I'll say, okay,
- 38:58Speaker 1: we're going to do a multiple k. She goes no,
- 39:01Speaker 1: I got okay, Well we're gonna push through. Let's do
- 39:06Speaker 1: twelve times twelve and the kids go one hundred and
- 39:09Speaker 1: forty four.
- 39:09Speaker 5: He goes, nah, it's just tough. It's not fun.
- 39:13Speaker 4: I mean, that's what's hard about the set, and in general,
- 39:16Speaker 4: it's not the kids. It's always the parents, right, Because
- 39:18Speaker 4: when you're seven years old, you can stick a kid
- 39:21Speaker 4: in a car and say this guy is gonna teach
- 39:23Speaker 4: you something, and then the kid will believe.
- 39:25Speaker 5: You let's and let's try not to do that.
- 39:27Speaker 1: I think, let's try not to stick a kid in
- 39:29Speaker 1: the car and say it'll chant you something.
- 39:31Speaker 4: And the guy in my example, by the way, it
- 39:33Speaker 4: was Albert Einstein, so it would have been fine.
- 39:36Speaker 5: Woa, okay, I'm sorry.
- 39:38Speaker 7: I'm just trying to do the math on this.
- 39:40Speaker 5: Albert in the car.
- 39:42Speaker 4: Somebody sticks their kid in a car and they say,
- 39:44Speaker 4: this guy's gonna teach you something.
- 39:45Speaker 5: The guy in the car, it's Albert Einstein.
- 39:47Speaker 6: And this is all an example.
- 39:49Speaker 4: I'm just saying no funny business in that example. I'm
- 39:52Speaker 4: just saying there was no funny business.
- 39:53Speaker 7: And is this based on a historical manner? Is this
- 39:56Speaker 7: just some course letter a letter?
- 39:59Speaker 5: Yes, that's fair.
- 40:01Speaker 1: I thought that was a funny business example.
- 40:03Speaker 4: And learn I teach the kids on the last day
- 40:07Speaker 4: because it's just just showing how impressionable kids are, you
- 40:10Speaker 4: know what I mean. So if a parent stops and
- 40:13Speaker 4: changes that opinion, that's where things get a little screwy. Oh.
- 40:17Speaker 3: Yeah, I've had I've had children of divorce, well, parents
- 40:22Speaker 3: of divorce. I've had, like some moms be like, will
- 40:25Speaker 3: you tell my kid that dad's a bad Dad's bad?
- 40:29Speaker 5: Wow. Wow, do you.
- 40:31Speaker 7: Put that in the lesson plan? Well, I mean my.
- 40:33Speaker 1: Lesson plans on the go your whiteboard, yeah, I heard
- 40:37Speaker 1: with you. Also, the dads are constantly trying to draw
- 40:39Speaker 1: on your whiteboard as well, and I.
- 40:45Speaker 3: Haven't figured that out yet because I really welcome everyone,
- 40:50Speaker 3: because sometimes they'll send the kids to school right and
- 40:54Speaker 3: like you're you're you're talking about on Home Extreme Makeover
- 40:58Speaker 3: and they send the kids are in school with the
- 41:01Speaker 3: dad there right, with the mom there, and yeah, I
- 41:03Speaker 3: had a whiteboard on my ass too and.
- 41:07Speaker 6: I had to get rid of that because it was
- 41:09Speaker 6: just not fun. But on my chest.
- 41:11Speaker 3: Yeah, it's happening a lot, but I'm figuring it out.
- 41:14Speaker 3: And also the people at Disneyland have been so nice.
- 41:16Speaker 5: Oh good, oh good.
- 41:18Speaker 7: I'm glad they're nice. I'm glad they're nice. They're good
- 41:21Speaker 7: people over there.
- 41:22Speaker 4: You're like when you go to Disneyland, you're like when
- 41:25Speaker 4: those old men come up to the little girls and
- 41:27Speaker 4: they're like, oh, when the girls dressed as princesses and
- 41:29Speaker 4: they're like, can you send my autographed book? There's like
- 41:31Speaker 4: those Disney cast members, Oh yeah, I heard they come
- 41:34Speaker 4: to you and they say, can I sign your autograph.
- 41:36Speaker 6: Yes, and I go yeah, yeah, yeah, and I go
- 41:38Speaker 6: that's wheree Island.
- 41:40Speaker 7: I'm away like flies.
- 41:41Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's crazy. I mean, do you guys? Do
- 41:43Speaker 6: you guys deal with your kids sometimes being super famous
- 41:47Speaker 6: and then people around you know you're.
- 41:49Speaker 1: So just to go back to beautiful, full moment story,
- 41:52Speaker 1: we were talking about stereotypes that should be true. One
- 41:54Speaker 1: stereotype I would love to push is that the more
- 41:57Speaker 1: famous you are, the lower end grades you are. So
- 42:00Speaker 1: if you're tenable fame, you might still just be stuck
- 42:03Speaker 1: in second grade.
- 42:04Speaker 5: I would love to do that.
- 42:05Speaker 7: I would love to push that.
- 42:06Speaker 4: Where I went to high school, if you didn't pass
- 42:09Speaker 4: your classes, you couldn't do extracurriculars.
- 42:13Speaker 5: And that's just not true on set. I do wish
- 42:16Speaker 5: that well, because they're extracurriculars are is why they're there.
- 42:20Speaker 2: No, but it should be a system like, uh, you
- 42:23Speaker 2: should get a line from your scene deducted for every
- 42:26Speaker 2: problem you get wrong.
- 42:28Speaker 7: That's some legislation I'm trying to push that.
- 42:30Speaker 4: I tried to hold back this girl who was playing
- 42:31Speaker 4: a firefly ghoul and she uh got me fired for
- 42:36Speaker 4: a day. I said, I said this, this girl doesn't
- 42:40Speaker 4: know how to read, she doesn't know how to write.
- 42:42Speaker 4: She actively chooses not to learn in my class, and
- 42:46Speaker 4: and we really shouldn't have her on set if she's
- 42:48Speaker 4: not going to learn. And they said, well you're out
- 42:50Speaker 4: of here, and that was it.
- 42:51Speaker 7: That's really wow, that's devastating. How'd you get how'd you
- 42:54Speaker 7: come back?
- 42:56Speaker 4: They they could no, I didn't beg They couldn't f
- 42:59Speaker 4: anyone else to do to work nights.
- 43:01Speaker 5: The night teachers are just a very different type of person.
- 43:03Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're they're a freaky bunch. You're the one
- 43:07Speaker 2: of the more well adjusted ones. I've met a lot
- 43:09Speaker 2: of them. You ask them a question and they go.
- 43:11Speaker 7: No, right, no, no, no, no.
- 43:12Speaker 4: They always have big lanterns. I don't I don't use
- 43:15Speaker 4: the lantern. I use the light on my phone.
- 43:17Speaker 6: That's honestly really cool.
- 43:19Speaker 1: They don't provide lights for you, Yeah, because people don't
- 43:22Speaker 1: know on night shoots when they're like, oh, you have
- 43:24Speaker 1: to go with the teacher, usually you have to have
- 43:25Speaker 1: a big lanswer and you say come with me, kids,
- 43:27Speaker 1: and they follow you to the portable.
- 43:29Speaker 6: Why don't you just put it on your chest?
- 43:30Speaker 4: Oh I don't want to wear a light on my chest,
- 43:33Speaker 4: and I just don't use my chest for stuff like that.
- 43:35Speaker 6: Weird.
- 43:38Speaker 1: I guess in summation, maybe what we should go around
- 43:41Speaker 1: and do is give kids advice.
- 43:45Speaker 5: Great.
- 43:45Speaker 4: Great, if you want to be in the industry, here's
- 43:48Speaker 4: the advice from the onset teacher.
- 43:50Speaker 7: Here's what we do.
- 43:51Speaker 1: Do that.
- 43:51Speaker 6: Okay, good acting advice and industry advice.
- 43:54Speaker 5: You mean anything at all. It's your your call.
- 44:00Speaker 6: Make it in this industry.
- 44:01Speaker 7: Let's see how to make it. How to make it?
- 44:04Speaker 3: How to make it your set teachers, you're telling you
- 44:07Speaker 3: in the street industry.
- 44:10Speaker 7: Let me see.
- 44:10Speaker 6: Yeah, well, it's interesting.
- 44:12Speaker 2: I guess I never really thought about what happens before
- 44:14Speaker 2: they get to set.
- 44:16Speaker 5: Yeah. So, yeah, I guess I don't have any advice
- 44:18Speaker 5: on how to make it in the industry.
- 44:19Speaker 7: Yeah, I guess I can't help you.
- 44:21Speaker 5: I guess I certainly have to say to you. I'm
- 44:24Speaker 5: just here to teach you.
- 44:26Speaker 2: Well, okay, uh I and I would say on set,
- 44:30Speaker 2: slow down. Life is Life is a marathon. It's not
- 44:35Speaker 2: a sprint. You don't need to be running around doing
- 44:38Speaker 2: donuts on your little children's mini car. There's so much
- 44:41Speaker 2: more life left to live, and you're knocking over grips
- 44:44Speaker 2: and they're getting pissed off. So let's just try and
- 44:46Speaker 2: stay away.
- 44:46Speaker 6: Those grips are gossip grips.
- 44:49Speaker 4: Sometimes, Oh here's one on set. Eat your gummies before
- 44:53Speaker 4: you shoot, not before you come into my classroom.
- 44:56Speaker 3: Really good, Yeah, I got one. Bringing your report card
- 45:01Speaker 3: to the audition is going to do nothing. We have
- 45:03Speaker 3: no power. We really can't do anything for you.
- 45:09Speaker 5: You'll have to bring it to the cops. That you're
- 45:10Speaker 5: going to have to bring it to the way.
- 45:11Speaker 4: The amount of people that call me and say, hey,
- 45:13Speaker 4: my kid has the best grades, he should have a
- 45:15Speaker 4: role on this, I say.
- 45:17Speaker 5: I'm actually not here for that. I am not away
- 45:20Speaker 5: in Yeah, you're.
- 45:21Speaker 6: Like, does your kid look good in prosthetics? Then call me.
- 45:23Speaker 4: I'm a way out of labor laws for the set,
- 45:26Speaker 4: you know what I mean. Like, I'm not here. I'm
- 45:27Speaker 4: honestly there for the studio. I'm not there for the kids. Yeah.
- 45:30Speaker 1: Absolutely. My advice would be just just watch out it.
- 45:35Speaker 5: Just don't.
- 45:36Speaker 1: You can be nice to your teachers. I think you
- 45:39Speaker 1: can be nice to your teachers. It's not a problem.
- 45:41Speaker 1: We're not here to fight you or not against you.
- 45:44Speaker 1: Where your allies on set? So the teaching time is
- 45:48Speaker 1: not the rebelling time to get over whatever you're feeling
- 45:51Speaker 1: from set.
- 45:52Speaker 2: I would say it's difficult for you because, unfortunately, you
- 45:55Speaker 2: do just sort of have a vibe that if I
- 45:58Speaker 2: were a child, I would want to attach at you feel.
- 46:01Speaker 6: Like someone I just want to tip over.
- 46:02Speaker 1: Absolutely, I've gotten this my whole life, and thank you.
- 46:05Speaker 1: It's a vibe that if you push me, I will fall,
- 46:10Speaker 1: If you touch me, I will crumble, if you pinch me,
- 46:13Speaker 1: I will say, oh, come on.
- 46:16Speaker 5: So I'm easily bullied.
- 46:17Speaker 1: It's been a probably my whole life, and kids love it.
- 46:20Speaker 1: I'm like reverse Barney in a way.
- 46:23Speaker 6: Ye poor thing.
- 46:24Speaker 5: Yeah. Kids don't want to hug me. They want to
- 46:26Speaker 5: kick me.
- 46:27Speaker 7: Can we kick you just once? Can we just kick
- 46:30Speaker 7: you once?
- 46:31Speaker 5: You you got yourself in a situation. Foot come on, please.
- 46:44Speaker 1: Sout bump your left foot is one big expoe.
- 46:51Speaker 6: Barker kids to use on my breas.
- 46:53Speaker 5: Okay, now I gotta see this.
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