May 12, 2025 • 46 mins
Before he was famous as THE Science Bob, Bev, David, and Mack simply knew him as Science Bob, teacher to the stars! See what it was like to learn science in their downtime while filming 7th Heaven.
Sadly, we recorded this episode several days before Michelle Trachtenberg unexpectedly passed. Our deepest condolences go out to her family and friends.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
In today's podcast, I mentioned that I had begun my
early career alongside actress Michelle Trachtenberg, and this was recorded
before the news of Michelle's sudden passing. So we just
wanted to say that our hearts are with Michelle's family
and her closest loved ones who are all still suffering
through this tragedy, and in particular with her mother, Lana.
We know that Michelle will be remembered fondly by everyone
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who had the opportunity to know her, and she'll be
missed dearly by everyone who loved her work.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
May she rest peacefully always. Maybe me do stuff? BEV.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
This is the pre podcast banter section.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yes, so you know all of our you.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Know where everybody is kind of like eavesdropping on our combo.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Nobody has time for this. We have a special guest.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
We do, and we have so much to cover.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
We have a lot going on today, everybody. This is
catching up with the Camdens.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
I'm David Gallagher, your I'm Beverly Mitchell and and I'm
Science Blofelder. I literally am like over the moon. I
can't believe this is happening, Like you are like a superstar.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I'mn't sure how much like you would remember you were
so young.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Like the highlights of like growing up on the shows
you were.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
I would have to say that you are one of
the icons of the set from my memories of being
a kid and being on set. I we so looked forward,
all of us so looked forward to having you come
on every Every time you visited us was like a
special day.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Was the highlight of the day for.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Sure, like highlight of the week, like because I just
remember like it was so I also just remember like
I felt like science was so hard, and when you came,
it was just like it made it so exciting, it
made it fun.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
And like I don't, I don't, I don't think I
like ever.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Knew that I liked science as much as I did
until you came, because I will, I love Cheryl, but
like honestly, like it was.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Not happening, I should shut the stage.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
So. So the three of you were all in school
for most of the series. And and if you are
a child actor, you have to do three hours of
school every day, yep, which if you're a kid, you're like, oh,
only three hours, but you have to fit a whole
day into three hours.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, And a lot of you guys you were enrolled
in a school, you in road program, and I remember
at one point with Jesse like labs were like a
quarter of a grade.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, me too, because we were both at Shramanad.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Right, yeah, and so uh so you didn't have a lab.
There was no science room. You guys were all in trailers.
And so I would come in and we would do
I was like your science tutor. We'd come in, we'd
do all the labs and we do experiments and Mac
we just like do like whatever excited did Mac, which
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was kind of everything.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Yeah, we absolutely have to talk about where we.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Did our science experiments because.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
That was also science pob was how to make an
entrance amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah. Yeah. So my job at the time was basically
that I'd buzz around from from backlot to back lot
and set the set and if there were most of
the nineties kids that were in television, I would science
tutoring them. So so, but you guys were like the
biggest crowdy. You guys were the fun ones and so yeah,
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and so I needed often you'd pull up and you
wouldn't have a place to set up a lab, right,
And so I was like, you know what I need
to do is buy an ambulance and turn it into
a science mobile. And so that's what I did. I
bought a nice ambulance. It was very nice, it was,
and we turned into a little science lab and so
I could just pull up and and we were often running.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
And it was like it was like this greenish color.
It was like it was like a purplish tealisheish.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It was a.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Unique colored ambulance that would pull into the back lot
and then you would open the back doors and it
and all of that space in the back of the
ambulance had, you know, all of your implements and experiments
and and.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Microscopes and everything.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
It was if you were a kid who was into
whose favorite subject was science, like I was.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It was like a dream. It was amazing.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
So it was like we got to be hands on
and and the variety of stuff that we did, I
remember was awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Like we never really like it never felt repetitive. We
were always doing like unique things, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, I remember that, Like that was something was fun
because you guys each had your own interest. So you
might be studying one thing, but you'd be like, oh,
you know, I'm like we were We did butterflies. Do
you remember raising butter That was just like for fun.
And I remember like kissing cockroaches in.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Yes, I had the I had the the madagascar and
hissing beetles. And then we I remember we raised uh
luna moths, which uh I remember distinctly because they're so beautiful.
But we and then I remember doing uh like chemistry
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experiments and I mean it with all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I had to do a lot of chemistry, did a
lot of chemistry.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
We got you through H grade camera.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Yeah, which was started off pretty rough. Yeah, I think, No,
I think I got the hang of it. But like
I like I said, like I didn't. I thought science
was a struggle, and then you made it so that
I could understand and kind of like unlocked a side
of my brain that like was a little bit harder.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Along than others I think.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
And it's gosh, I just it's one of my fondest memories. Like,
I think there's a lot of our time in the
school room. Obviously we spent a lot of time and.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
It's definitely my my favor You were my favorite part
of on set school.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Absolutely don't tell, don't tell Ryl Susie and there.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You know, we didn't hide our excitement when Science Bob
was coming. But it was.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Just even in a in a normal school setting, science
class can still be kind of treated like like other
other classes where it's it's kind of book based and
memorization and and other, you know, the way you treat
a history class or kind of other subjects. But when
you came, it's like it was hands on. We got
to touch stuff, We got to see things, you know, react,
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we got to make things change color and and you know,
see exotic you know, creatures, and well.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I loved Like that's the.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Thing about science that I think it's the reason why
it's hard to bridge the gap with kids is that
you don't get to put your hands on stuff. That's
what makes you love it.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, I like, if you're doing it right, you don't
have to sell science like science is amazing. It's amazing,
and I should set it up for your fans, like,
and I know you've done this a little bit. But
we're in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Right, We're in Cinemonica and they're like.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh, you must be in like is it like Paramount
or Warner Brothers.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
No, we were in it abandoned. Remember it was also factory. Yes,
and when it rained.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
They put out buckets for the rate.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
But there were no offices. There were no school rooms.
Everything was in trail. Classroom was a trailer. And then
it was a bonus when they built the backyard. Although yeah,
and there's no parking. No. But I'll tell you one
of my things that delighted me about working on Seventh
Heaven is I remember coming in and more often than not,
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if I came in during lunch, like there's all these
picnic tables, and I just remember the Camdens were like
eating together, like it was like the Camden like dining table.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
You guys, I mean we didn't we we did and
still do like each other. Yeah, yeah, true, which I
think I guess we've talked about this before, but it
is like it was always shocking to us when we
realized that some casts like didn't enjoy each other as
much as we did. Like we and we we all
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ate together unless like we had like an exciting guest
star that we were like, you know, clamoring up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Well and the crew too. I mean we I always
I'm a set kid.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
I grew up on sets, so I always looked at
the the totality of the cast and crew is like
a big family for a few months, or if you're lucky,
for years like we were on the show, but you know,
for a lot of sets it's more short lived than that.
But you it always felt like the way to be
on set was to was to sit down and treat.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Everyone like big family.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Like big family, yeah, because I'm.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Saying I would always think of it as like I
had a hundred aunts and uncles all around and I
didn't really know any other way too, absolutely, And.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I think that was like the It was funny just
depending on the day, Like if someone had something exciting
happened that weekend, we were like, oh what what you know,
you'd want to sit with them and like find out
what was going on. And it was always just like
so nice and like everyone always felt welcome, Like there
was there was no cool kids table.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Every table was cool.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
And I remember a couple of times I'd be we'd
be doing on something we were doing. I remember we're
doing some plant lesson and we were growing seeds and
we were testing different variables to see how they would grow.
And you'd be in there and then Mac would come
bouncing in to the trailer.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
What are you guys doing, just like Ruthie, Yes, very.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Ruthie, and and David was very you know, big brother
ish and be like we're doing the science lab. You
have to go and you know, and then I remember
getting you through cam and I pictures of you like
in goggles and lab coats and doing titrations and stuff like.
It was pretty It was a it was a hardcore.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Well I was the oldest, so I was the one
who had to like it was like kind of conquering
that level of school. So it was like, you know,
I was like the example of like how are we gonna?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
And I was not. I was not should not have
been that one, because.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
It was it was a lot harder for me. But
I do remember also just being so lucky because when
I'd go back to school, because you know, on those
rare occasions where we had one day where we would
go back to our actual school, I just remember being
so grateful of like what I got to do with you,
because I was to like have that personal one on one,
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like really get that explanation and like really understand it,
where my friends were like completely lost, and I know
that in that environment I would not have done well.
So I was always grateful and knew how lucky we
were that we had you, because you also always made
it fun and you never made me feel bad for
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not understanding. You just would have to like rewire my
brain and be like, well, think about it this way,
And I was like, oh, okay, you know, but like
I think that's also a testimony to how amazing you
were that like it didn't matter what age group you were,
you were able to like break through to all of us.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Well how did you end up doing that?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:47):
And first of all, what an amazing like idea too,
like to like what a problem to solve, you know,
so like to give us this kind of special opportunity
to put our hands on the on the tactile parts
of the science we were learning at school because we
more often than I didn't get that in school experience,
but we got this felt like one of our special
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school perks to be able to do this with you.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And so like, where how did you start? Like Max said,
where did this come?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yea, there was need for this, I had a friend
that was This was before I became like a I
went on to become like a regular classroom teacher and
all sorts of things from there, But this was before that.
And so I had a friend who was a teacher
who was working on a show called Grace under Fire,
and they were like, oh, we have this little girl, Caitlin,
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and she I'm bummed out because she can't do her
science lab. And I was a science nerd. I was like, oh,
I got stuff. I can just come and do the
science lab with her. And I did that, and then
word got out on another show and they're like, oh,
can you come and work with Haley? Oh yeah, And
then so word quickly got out and I was like, oh,
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this could be a lot of fun. And so yeah,
I started buzzing around from shows and movies, and.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Every every kid actor that I knew knew you like
we were all you were. You were famous among all
of the actor kids who were working in town.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Like for sure, Well, when I came to Seventh Heaven,
you guys were pretty out there. You were not near. Yeah,
but except for one other show, because Buffy the Vampire, Yeah,
they were one neighbor. Michelle Trachtenberg.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah, just down the road.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
So you said, after after you did that, you became
a normal science teacher. So who was who was filling
the void of all these four said kids?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
No one has really why would you abandon that?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I feel bad? I feel bad for them.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
But now you are up to amazing things.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
I guess you're allowed to do different things.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Yeah, give us the rest of the stort continued. So
when you stopped working on set? Was that long after
the wait?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Hold, I think maybe we're going to get to this
right after this break.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
All right, so we're back.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
We're back, We're back.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
So you were telling us about how you how you
got started on sets?
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Oh, I also want to know who came up with
the name science Bob.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Oh Jonathan Nicky? Oh, so I was working with Jonathan
up Nicky who is little Kid, and Jerry Maguire and
Stuart Little and so why was his science tutor on
a show called thunder Alley And he was like six,
but he had another tutor named Bob and who was
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teaching him boxing and so little Kid yeahs visual. So
so his teacher would say, oh, Bob is coming to
tutor you today, and he'd be like, oh, is it
boxing Bob or science Bob? And that stuck and that's
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where it came because.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I can't imagine, like you've always been science Bob.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I remember when you came Originally you were science Bob.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, that was why I was Yeah, yeah, so yeah,
it just kind of stuck. So and like even in
when I went to a regular school and started teaching again,
they it was still they all called me science Bob.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
So when did that transition happen from working with the
sets to becoming a teacher and then and then tell
us more about I want I'm very curious to know
about the rest of your journey so much.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You know, yeah, it's kind of a crazy journey. So
so we got through all of the nineties TV shows.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
And which is like literally like all of that.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Oh, it's such a great event.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Did you do like did you go to like Christine
on step by Step?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Did yeah? Step by Step Family, didn't do Family Matters,
but it was like everybody loves Raymond, Grace, under Fire,
Malcolm in the Middle, all those guys. It was great.
And it's interesting because people say, oh, you know, how
many like brat kids did you have? And it's none,
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like there were no kids that just weren't excited to
see you.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I think also in that era in that time though, too,
it's like I think it was a different time, like
all of us were like I think, I mean, I
feel like I I guess I can't speak for everyone,
but I feel like we were all so excited to
work and we were all excited for the opportunity.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
So like, I think like that era of.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Kids that were growing up, like we were all just
like little happy clams, like to be more entitlement, you think,
I feel like than today.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, it was kind of this little golden era when
everyone knew kind of what television looked like. It was
before all the crazy streaming stuff and every channel had
similar kind of programming and so so sets weren't why
the crazy and like crazy budget conscious and all that.
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Everywhere I went, like, people were really happy. And I
don't know if you remember this, but you and I
worked on Richie Rich's a Christmas Wind That was crazy
because that was I remember that because we, uh, we
were at Universal Studios in like the same square. We're
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like back to the Future took place at clock Tower
Square and they set us up in school in one
of the false buildings, which was like the Texico and
from Back to the Future dissecting al pellets or something.
And yeah, yeah, we had a lot of dissections and
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and one of the mac and I did.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You did I bring you into? Did we did we
bring you into Richie Richard was that we did.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Jadler got to come that day as well. You got
a little frog for him.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
So and that was also with Michelle, because Michelle did
that with me, and because Michelle and I grew up
together in the industry. We came we we both come
from New York. We kind of started at the same
time when we were very young. We had the same
manager when.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
We were like first to Michelle Tarckenberg.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
So we kind of, you know, we've known each other,
you know, we knew each other through our whole career,
our early career.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I think there's even a picture in your album that
we were going to have to share. Oh yeah, for sure,
that you took from that I got.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
From the vault.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
In the vault.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
My my mom did some take it in the vault
and she's.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Slowly giving us jam like it's it's a slow progression.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I think the promise is like summertime before that's.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Okay, we can you can send us some like you
can take some pictures because we would love to see.
It's been so much fun kind of reliving and like, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
Well, I mean the dissections were always my favorite thing.
Although you also did convince me that NeSSI was real
and told me.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
He told me that the.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Reason people think the Lochnest Monster wasn't real was because
the guy who took the photos they were put into
the newspaper on April Fool's Day, so everyone thought it
was a joke.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
And I believe that as like fact.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
She still still believe.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
That it was the surgeons photo. All right, well we
can talk about that, but.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
I mean the day.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Yeah, so one time science Bob Day brought two frogs
for us to dissect, one for me and one for
my brother, and mine had a bonus inside it had
a trimarantula and it was so cool, so we did fish.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
It was apparently a slow day or wherever they kept
the frogs, and someone's like, let's throw a tarantula in there. Yeah,
so this bullfrog ate this full sized tarantula, and Mac
and I are just going along and there's the lungs
and the hard and like, oh, here's the digestive system.
She cut her open. There's a full tarantula inside of
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the front.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
I think was a two frog.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Really, I felt like my frog was small, Like, how
come you got such a big frog?
Speaker 6 (20:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I means fair.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
And then we did worm. We dissected worms, we dissected
and then I think everybody came in and we dissected squid.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Wow, so okay, I have another.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
So where is the science mobile? What happened to it?
Did it was it?
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Did it? Was it retired? Or did it meet a
tragic end? So I need to know.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I went from teaching on the West coast to working
at a school in the East coast. So it went
across the country and then it had it had no mission,
and it sat for so long. Yeah, and I held
on to it as long as I could, and then
I called one it ate seven seven cars for kids,
and I said, you can have it.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
It should have been the Peters Museum.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
It should automotive museum. I appreciate that it is a gym.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
It was great. Remember that my very first lesson was
at the church, and the church also didn't have a classroom,
church parking lot. Yeah, and and I forget I think
the lesson was for you, but you were the David
was there and and David was studying his lines or something,
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and I said something about a turtle and that got
David's attention, and He's like, oh, turtle. And then you
had a turtle. I think you had.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Susie who rescues everything like turtles and tortoises.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
She had she had two giant tortoises.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
I'm not sure what with the status of those turtles
and tortoises these days.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I know she still has.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Many animals and is still rescuing animals and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
But that was Susie was she was.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
She had.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I feel like we all like we all adopted this
love of turtles for us because like Susie was your
studio teacher, but she was also my studio teacher prior
to us being on Seventh Heaven. And I knew Susie
since I was like seven years old, and I did, Yeah,
she was on when I did the Children.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Of the Bride series.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
She was my teacher for all of those films.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Susie had a lot of a lot she's.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Been around, but I do remember, I do remember, Like
I also would get excited.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I'm like turtles, Susie, like I was.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
Just like it was the association because you wanted to
talk about Turtles.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Who was Cheryl your teacher the first season? It Susie.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
No, Cheryl wasn't my teacher the first season.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
No, in the very beginning, the teachers around. Yeah, okay
they didn't.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
It wasn't.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
It didn't stick until until we had Susie and Cheryl
and yeah Cladette. Yeah, but in the beginning it was.
It had shuffled from what I remember.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, well, you guys very difficult, just kidding you. Guys
each had very different style, like I. It was each
had different learning styles. So like BEV had two different
learning styles. If you were in between scenes, yeah, you
were very let's get it done, you know, you would
go through, you'd get everything perfect, and then you'd go
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back to set. But if it was the end of
the day, it was like you were like then you
had lots of questions and you loved you loved learning. Yeah,
you really love learning.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I definitely put in like I was the girl who
banked a ridiculous amount of hours, Like I like was
I was the overachievement.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Can you go over your hours so that you can
use which.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Was the opposite of Jess. Jess was the minimum trying.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
To buy those banked hours.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
I think I think there was.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
One time where she was like, can I borrow your
hours and I'll just throw them on the mine. But
I remember, like I like when I graduated, Cheryl even
like had the like gave me my sheet of like
how many extra banked hours I had? Because but also
like why why was like torturing myself?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Like but I definitely was. I put in the time.
But I also have to say though for me though.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Like school wasn't necessarily easy, Like there's some people where
like everything came easy. Like me, I had put in
the work I had. I needed those extra hours for
me to understand.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
What I was Three hours is not, especially if it's
in twenty minute increments. It's really difficult to complete a
high school curriculum in that amount of time, especially specially
you know you get twenty minutes, it takes five minutes
to settle down.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
And then you get throwing ten minutes and you might
have a lot of dialogue and that's gone through your head.
Do you remember your dialogue and you're trying to learn algebra.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Yeah, realistically, it's not even twenty minutes.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Half the time, I would just try to get caught
out talking about like whatever New York Times article interested
her for the twenty minutes.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Now, you were actually very smart. You were like you
would try to yeah, yeah, avoid I.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Want to know what our learning styles were, like, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Very curious. You were super curious, but it was often
not about what was in school. Like so we would
have we would have like a biology unit or something,
but you would have tons of questions about you know,
black holes or whatever. So that was it was just
(25:27):
but I remember you were really curious. You did a
lot of stuff on your own. You'd be like, oh,
we would be doing I remember we were doing what
was it we were doing something on It might have
been like brin shrimp looking at him in a microscope,
and you were like, oh, what if we put him
in this kind of environment? And so your classroom was
full of like little mini aquariums and plant things and
(25:48):
stuff that we would be doing. I got pictures of that.
Awesome mac was such a joy, like because it was
just like you just want to have fun. And so
I still don't pictures of you like making slime and
cool for slime was cool and and I wasn't. I
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don't think you even had for a lot of that
time with science class, Like we were just doing it
for fun.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, that's when we did like the butterflies, we did slime.
We launched rockets. I remember we launched rocket. I remember
the parking lot. I think that's how I think that
was for you for Newton's Law. But like everyone came out,
we all.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, we all did the rockets yea.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
And it was so cool that when you no matter
who you were working with, we were all we all
wanted to know, like what was going on.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Well, it doesn't matter who you were here, there were
clamoring yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so it was It was great.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I loved it. Was a long drive down to Santa Monica,
but I always.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Look forward where we're gonna we're gonna have it, take
another break, and then we definitely want to dive into
what you're up to.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Now, Okay when we come back.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Wait, do you think I convinced you that there is
a lot you did know?
Speaker 8 (27:16):
Well maybe it was years.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Now, that will be the first I.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Was telling you about the fake picture.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
My teacher said, that's It's like, why doesn't have to
be me.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I think we're back.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Yeah, I think we're back.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Please tell us to explain.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Wait wait, wait, so you recall this story about the
Lockness monster differently?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
All right, Yes, if I have, if I have convinced
Mac that my surgery, I have failed you as a teacher.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
No, So there's this, there's these, all these.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Reasons why the luck this monster is not real. One
that it was like it was published, like the famous
picture of the poking out of the walk. This is
our this is the science Lessoned portion of your podcast.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Excellent.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
It was taken by a surgeon, very well respected surgeon,
which is what kind of gave it credibility. And uh,
but it was published long after he died. His son
or his family found it and like, oh, this is
a fun picture of luckness monster. And they gave it
to the newspaper who didn't think they published it as
(28:39):
a joke, and then it took on this whole life
from there. But and it's a very small. The picture
you see is like this big of a picture, this big,
and if you see the whole picture, you're like, oh yeah,
it's just a tiny little thing.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Yeah, isn't the one of the stories about the famous
picture that it's an otter or something like that with
a crooked tale or something.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
No, if if you look at otters the way they
poke out of the water to kind of see the distance,
they look very much like the Luckness Monster picture something
like that. I don't think, I but what I understand,
(29:20):
but like these, I think when you when you talk
about fun fondness of the science lessons, like we would
dive into stuff like this and it would be they'd
just be like cool, Like we could go into directions
like that and just follow whatever you guys were interested in.
Because I'm sure Locknes sponsor is not part of your curriculum.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
I mean it was like six, you know, but it
has had a great impact on her life.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
I've actually spent all my time since then studying the monster.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Written three books based on your observations.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Wait, so what are you up to these days? Because
you're up to some pretty exciting stuff. Because what's crazy
is now that we are all parents, Like my son
knows about you and actually came to me and was.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Like, there's this guy who's so cool.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
His name is sidence, Bob. I was like, stop it
right now.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I and then I was actually cool for about sixty seconds.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
That's a lot of time, and mom, that's a lot
of time.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I was cool for a ten year old, like that's
pretty amazing.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
But I was cool because and he doesn't know that
we're sitting down with you, so he's gonna lose his
mind because you're doing really cool things. And like the
elephant toothpaste, yeah, is like the amount of videos I've
seen of elephant toothpaste is quite a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah, I got three world records.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
That's tell me all about it. Yeah, I have a
seven year old and we don't know, so you get
me in on this.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
So I did the whole studio tutoring thing yep, and
that was great. And I got a little homesick of
the East Coast, so I was like, all right, it
was great. I'm going to go back to the East Coast,
go back to New England, which I did, and I
started teaching in middle school and that was great. And
then I got this call from Jimmy Kimme Alive producer
(31:12):
and they're like, hey, we saw what you were doing online.
Do you want to come in do science on Jimmy
Kimme Alive. And I thought it was I was like sure,
and then I figured I'd never hear from again. And
then they're like, okay, we're booking your tickets and so
so when I thought this whole all the Hollywood stuff
was over, went back to Jimmy Kimme a lot. I
(31:34):
did Jimmy kim Alive and it went great. And then
twelve years later, I've been on there twenty three times.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I've seen a lot of them. They're still cool.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Setting him on the fire, Yeah, yeah, I set him
on fire and all this time, still middle school teacher.
You don't make money from being on talk shows. But
that led to I've traveled all over the world on
speaking engagements. I've done a bunch of different shows. I've
done The Morning Show. I've got invited to the White
(32:08):
House during the Obama years and did a science fair there,
and and then teamed up with Mark Robert, an amazing
YouTuber and science communicator, and he finally said, hey, look
I want you. I want to work with you on stuff,
and we want to build a whole new generation of
amazing scientists and engineers. So I last year moved back here,
(32:32):
say goodbye to my abandoned my students in the middle
of the year. Sorry guys, they were sad.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I think they will appreciate what you're doing for all.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Of all of these their sacrifice.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah, there, we appreciate.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
So now, yeah, a couple of weeks ago, I was
watching a rocket launch which had one of our saddleit,
which we built a satellite for that will take selfies
of you in space with the Earth photo bombing you.
That's the kind of things that we do now. Yeah,
so cool build escape rooms for crows. That was fun one.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
So and so do you guys have a channel that
you guys do together?
Speaker 10 (33:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
So he's got a Mark River YouTube channel. He's got
a line of engineering toys for kids.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah, he's got the build boxes because I can build.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
By the way, the build boxes are like I've hutt
and you get one each month. And what's cool is
like there's no wrong way to do it. It's like
you just there's it's a they give you instructions, but
it's like you can figure it out, like there's and
it's Hutton is obsessed with them, like.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
It's so I can't get make it yours yeah, I
can't wait.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It's so fun.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
It's the like age range that those would be appropriate for.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Eight to twelve and then and those are all you know,
you just build an engineering toy and it's a great toy,
but you're also learning to make stuff and you're gonna
put part son wrong and you'll get frustrated, but then
you'll figure it out and you learn like we want
you to think like an engineer and uh, and then
we get like we need something for older kids. So
then we built something called hack Pack, which is all
(34:13):
a micro controller base. There's a little micro controller robot
type thing but which you can use out of the
box or you can change the code and so there's
a little bit of coding. Fourteen that's like fourteen yeah
to adult a box for really in a box for.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Me, yes exactly.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Yeah cool, Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. So it was it's
a crazy journey that I would not.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
You kind of like just like.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Skimmed over your world records because that's like that's wait,
so you have three.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I have six Guinness World Records for something.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Okay, can we please dive into this.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Tell us about every single one of them.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
We have zero amongst them. Yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Have the record for most episodes of seven te Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
So yeah, I have crazy world records. I have the
world's largest elephants toothpaste reaction. That one has since been eclipsed.
I have the world's tallest elephants toothpaste, which was how
tall and fifty feet?
Speaker 8 (35:20):
Are you going to defend your title at the longest point?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Can you briefly get me up to speed on what
we're talking about?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
ECAs, let's see, this is where we're going to insert
a video or it needs a picture. Everyone look at that.
It's a giant chemical reaction that creates a lot of foam. Okay, cools. Yeah,
I did a version of that where I actually filled
a swimming pool with it. Cool yea. So I have
(35:48):
largest tallest most at once, which was two hundred and
something maybe I forget now. And then I have the
most the most inertia drop experiments, which is like a
(36:08):
little egg drop experiment. You have to go up and
look at that. Then I've got the most or newly
principal toilet paper launchers that Kimmel right, that was actually
on Kelly and Kelly and Mark Show. And then I've
got the most film canister rockets launched at once, and
(36:29):
I think if you guys are up for it, we
might need to do our own version of a film
caster rocket. I could not show up and not have
you doing it.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
We would have cried.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Excellent, because we.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Probably should have like pitched that at the beginning for retention.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
True, we'll do a graphic, right, Jared.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
I can't believe we don't have any world records. You
can't know.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I'm so disappointed.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
That's all right, No, we'll cook. We'll well when I
this is something gold guys.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Because you're like your love of horses has stayed tried
and true.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
It has I like that, Thank you me too.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
It's and what NeSSI NeSSI I thought you said messy
because that's at.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
I was going to say, like that one is definitely true.
Speaker 8 (37:21):
Yeah, no, I start every day with a pitchfork in
my hands except for today obviously.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Nice. Basically it's really exciting chickens.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
One other. I'm curious what because I think I was
with you guys for four seasons. I remember one of
my last days they are was you had pulled in
and you'd just got your drivers, Like, oh, okay, I
don't know what season.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
That would have been, Oh, that's when I was fifteen.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
That would have been no, drive your driver's driver's license fifteen.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
I got my permit on my birthday when I was fifteen,
and I got my license like the day I turned sixteen,
like the day I was eligible.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
I was there.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
I got mine in the twelfth season.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Ye.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
Well, so we started the show when I was eleven,
so that would have been like season four.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah, probably, And I think I came on in season two.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, so four or five probably.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, because I was teaching Jesse too. We got Jesse
through bio. I remember dissecting a heart with her.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
You weren't there when I was like in high school, though,
I don't know which.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
I remember. I came back after I had left. I
came back and you. I came across you beb on set.
I like snuck onto the stage after saying hi to everyone,
and you had a baby and the baby yeah was it?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Like my was it?
Speaker 5 (38:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (38:47):
It would have been.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I was like sure and like, no, Lucy had a baby.
I was like, oh okay, yeah and it was a
very crying baby.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Oh yeah, yeah. We had we had moments.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
And that that baby. Yeah. But so I don't know
what season that was, but that's when I came back
and visited. That was the last time I was on set.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Yeah, and with that will take a break and maybe
we'll dive into some Well I'm just I'm just so
I have to just say, I'm just so happy. You
make me so happy that you're here, and we're absolutely thrilled.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
I mean, it was kind of that funny thing when
I like DMD you, I was like, see he can
remember me. So I was so thrilled.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
And this is just like makes us just so happy
and fills our heart so much to have you here.
And also I want to let all our listeners know
obviously we told them what you're up to, but like,
how how can they follow you?
Speaker 4 (39:49):
What are you?
Speaker 5 (39:50):
How can they support you and all they're doing.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Yeah, I've never monetized, and like that, I don't have
any Why do you have a books here? Actually should
have brought the books. I do have a children's book series,
tell Us tell Us in Tesla, and and I'm kind
of proud of it because we created a genre in
doing it. It's basically about a brother and sister twins
(40:15):
and they're twelve years old and they are spending the
summer at their uncle with their uncle, and they get
into all sorts of trouble and they build gadgets to
get out of trouble. And so what we do is
we give the instructions in the book to build the
gadgets that the kids make in the story.
Speaker 9 (40:35):
Amazing, that is so cool and can we get that
major retailers and yes, it is on on and everywhere else,
and yeah, it's it's done very well.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
It's been translated into eleven languages and yeah, so yeah,
Nick and Tesla, so that that is kind of cool.
And uh, yeah, I'm online and I keep waiting for
all this to end, and it just keeps going.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Well, because you're so cool.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
I mean, we nobody can get enough of you, and
we're just we're so we're so honored to like have
been there at the beginning.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Yeah, it really was. And you know, during the break,
I'll tell your audience that I did. I like I
just sat here and just like looked at all your
faces and just like it made me so happy because
like it was like such a such a great time
and we had so much fun together and you guys
were amazing students and we.
Speaker 7 (41:31):
Did Bob and like you like you had you know
SI and I'm and I know science was my favorite
subject back then, but it is always throughout my life
in my favorite subject. And I'm trying really hard now
as a dad to like impart that love of science
to my kid. And and so much of my love
(41:53):
for the subject and my memories of why I love
the subject have to do with you and your ambulance
and like your present and like all the things that.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
You brought to the set.
Speaker 7 (42:02):
Man, it's it is one of the fondest memories of
like of of the back lot, you know, definitely of
our time, you know, in our private school time that
we had on set.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
I know, I have so much gratitude to you, just
because I also just had I just remember just being
so hard and such a struggle, and you made it
fun and you never made me feel like I couldn't
do it, like I think you always gave us. You
gave all of us such an immense amount of courage
to ask questions, to be inquisitive and to if we
(42:37):
did it wrong, that that was okay. We'll be like, Okay,
that didn't work, let's dry again. Like and I just
like it's amazing. Like, so, I think you've had an
enormous impact on all of us teachers.
Speaker 6 (42:50):
I mean, can make or break a subject for someone.
Speaker 8 (42:54):
And I think, you know, a large part of why
people end up not liking a subject is simply because
they don't understand it or there's like a missing link
somewhere so that the next lesson they always feel confused
and behind. And yeah, it was just incredible. And I
remember like having different teachers for different subject because there
was like one time in my life where I just
(43:15):
loved math so much. I used to create my own
math problems that would be like a compilation of everything
I'd learned so far. It was like a page long,
and it was because I had this incredible tutor, and yeah,
it was it.
Speaker 6 (43:28):
Was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
You're lucky.
Speaker 8 (43:30):
All the kids of the nineties who were on TV
were so lucky you were doing that need And I
just wish that there was someone doing that now, like
for kids, because sucks to.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
Be a kid on TV now.
Speaker 10 (43:42):
Man, I guess, so, I don't know, You're lucky if
you learn a subject from from someone who loves it.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Yeah, and so I.
Speaker 6 (43:55):
You it's contagious, your passion, your.
Speaker 7 (43:58):
Passion for science was contagious, and I'm grateful for you.
Speaker 6 (44:02):
And the Science Mobile was just brilliant.
Speaker 5 (44:06):
I mean, I know, it's just it's just so cool
sitting here with you as an adult, and I just
I'm also grateful that we're given the opportunity to share
with you how much of an impact you've made on
all of our lives.
Speaker 6 (44:18):
Did cars for kids know what they were getting.
Speaker 8 (44:21):
Or did they know what it was?
Speaker 6 (44:26):
Just ambulance?
Speaker 5 (44:27):
You know, maybe you can find it.
Speaker 6 (44:32):
You don't want to used cars coast stripped.
Speaker 7 (44:38):
Well, I think we're going to wrap it up, Bob, Yes,
but before we do, I'm going to have to ask if,
now that we have you your full attention, if we
could maybe get into a little science I would really
love it if we could put our hands on something
and uh, yeah something.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Without doing a little science experiment. Now I heard this
might just be an exclusive.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
Yeah, we're gonna I think you know, we're gonna have to.
Speaker 7 (45:08):
I think we're gonna take it. We're gonna say bye
to you guys from here, but if you want, you
could join us over on our Patreon, where we are
most definitely going to do some science experiments with Science Bob,
so join us over there if you haven't already, and uh,
if not, we'll catch you guys here next time.
Speaker 5 (45:27):
And then also make sure to check out Science Bob's books.
Will also put a link and like us and do
all the subscription things and push buttons and.
Speaker 8 (45:40):
You know, it reminds me of there's a book series
called Flavia de Luce.
Speaker 6 (45:44):
Have you heard of it.
Speaker 8 (45:45):
It's about this young girl who's like, oh sorry, so
she's a chemist. She's like obsessed with chemistry and it's
set in like the Victorian times, and she goes to
live it her uncle, and she does all of these
chemistry experiments and she solves mysteries with chemistry. It's called
this first one is called the Sweetness at the Bottom
of the Pie.
Speaker 6 (46:04):
Anyways, it's all.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Past exactly what it's like. Let it go.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
I love you guys, We love you Bob, We love
you so much. Man. Thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 5 (46:22):
Thank you guys for joining us on Catching Up with
the Camdens, and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Hey, guys.
Speaker 7 (46:31):
Check us out on Patreon for early access to Catching
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Hey, everyone.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
In today's podcast, I mentioned that I had begun my
early career alongside actress Michelle Trachtenberg, and this was recorded
before the news of Michelle's sudden passing. So we just
wanted to say that our hearts are with Michelle's family
and her closest loved ones who are all still suffering
through this tragedy, and in particular with her mother, Lana.
We know that Michelle will be remembered fondly by everyone
(00:23):
who had the opportunity to know her, and she'll be
missed dearly by everyone who loved her work.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
May she rest peacefully always. Maybe me do stuff? BEV.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
This is the pre podcast banter section.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yes, so you know all of our you.
Speaker 5 (00:40):
Know where everybody is kind of like eavesdropping on our combo.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Nobody has time for this. We have a special guest.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
We do, and we have so much to cover.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
We have a lot going on today, everybody. This is
catching up with the Camdens.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
I'm David Gallagher, your I'm Beverly Mitchell and and I'm
Science Blofelder. I literally am like over the moon. I
can't believe this is happening, Like you are like a superstar.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
I'mn't sure how much like you would remember you were
so young.
Speaker 6 (01:14):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 5 (01:14):
Like the highlights of like growing up on the shows
you were.
Speaker 7 (01:20):
I would have to say that you are one of
the icons of the set from my memories of being
a kid and being on set. I we so looked forward,
all of us so looked forward to having you come
on every Every time you visited us was like a
special day.
Speaker 1 (01:36):
Was the highlight of the day for.
Speaker 5 (01:37):
Sure, like highlight of the week, like because I just
remember like it was so I also just remember like
I felt like science was so hard, and when you came,
it was just like it made it so exciting, it
made it fun.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
And like I don't, I don't, I don't think I
like ever.
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Knew that I liked science as much as I did
until you came, because I will, I love Cheryl, but
like honestly, like it was.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Not happening, I should shut the stage.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Yes, yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
So. So the three of you were all in school
for most of the series. And and if you are
a child actor, you have to do three hours of
school every day, yep, which if you're a kid, you're like, oh,
only three hours, but you have to fit a whole
day into three hours.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, And a lot of you guys you were enrolled
in a school, you in road program, and I remember
at one point with Jesse like labs were like a
quarter of a grade.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
Yeah, me too, because we were both at Shramanad.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Right, yeah, and so uh so you didn't have a lab.
There was no science room. You guys were all in trailers.
And so I would come in and we would do
I was like your science tutor. We'd come in, we'd
do all the labs and we do experiments and Mac
we just like do like whatever excited did Mac, which
(03:00):
was kind of everything.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
Yeah, we absolutely have to talk about where we.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Did our science experiments because.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
That was also science pob was how to make an
entrance amazing.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah. Yeah. So my job at the time was basically
that I'd buzz around from from backlot to back lot
and set the set and if there were most of
the nineties kids that were in television, I would science
tutoring them. So so, but you guys were like the
biggest crowdy. You guys were the fun ones and so yeah,
(03:39):
and so I needed often you'd pull up and you
wouldn't have a place to set up a lab, right,
And so I was like, you know what I need
to do is buy an ambulance and turn it into
a science mobile. And so that's what I did. I
bought a nice ambulance. It was very nice, it was,
and we turned into a little science lab and so
I could just pull up and and we were often running.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
And it was like it was like this greenish color.
It was like it was like a purplish tealisheish.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
It was a.
Speaker 7 (04:09):
Unique colored ambulance that would pull into the back lot
and then you would open the back doors and it
and all of that space in the back of the
ambulance had, you know, all of your implements and experiments
and and.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
Microscopes and everything.
Speaker 7 (04:30):
It was if you were a kid who was into
whose favorite subject was science, like I was.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
It was like a dream. It was amazing.
Speaker 7 (04:39):
So it was like we got to be hands on
and and the variety of stuff that we did, I
remember was awesome.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
Like we never really like it never felt repetitive. We
were always doing like unique things, you know.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, I remember that, Like that was something was fun
because you guys each had your own interest. So you
might be studying one thing, but you'd be like, oh,
you know, I'm like we were We did butterflies. Do
you remember raising butter That was just like for fun.
And I remember like kissing cockroaches in.
Speaker 7 (05:11):
Yes, I had the I had the the madagascar and
hissing beetles. And then we I remember we raised uh
luna moths, which uh I remember distinctly because they're so beautiful.
But we and then I remember doing uh like chemistry
(05:31):
experiments and I mean it with all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
I had to do a lot of chemistry, did a
lot of chemistry.
Speaker 3 (05:38):
We got you through H grade camera.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Yeah, which was started off pretty rough. Yeah, I think, No,
I think I got the hang of it. But like
I like I said, like I didn't. I thought science
was a struggle, and then you made it so that
I could understand and kind of like unlocked a side
of my brain that like was a little bit harder.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Along than others I think.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
And it's gosh, I just it's one of my fondest memories. Like,
I think there's a lot of our time in the
school room. Obviously we spent a lot of time and.
Speaker 8 (06:14):
It's definitely my my favor You were my favorite part
of on set school.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Absolutely don't tell, don't tell Ryl Susie and there.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
You know, we didn't hide our excitement when Science Bob
was coming. But it was.
Speaker 7 (06:31):
Just even in a in a normal school setting, science
class can still be kind of treated like like other
other classes where it's it's kind of book based and
memorization and and other, you know, the way you treat
a history class or kind of other subjects. But when
you came, it's like it was hands on. We got
to touch stuff, We got to see things, you know, react,
(06:53):
we got to make things change color and and you know,
see exotic you know, creatures, and well.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
I loved Like that's the.
Speaker 7 (07:03):
Thing about science that I think it's the reason why
it's hard to bridge the gap with kids is that
you don't get to put your hands on stuff. That's
what makes you love it.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, I like, if you're doing it right, you don't
have to sell science like science is amazing. It's amazing,
and I should set it up for your fans, like,
and I know you've done this a little bit. But
we're in Santa Monica.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Right, We're in Cinemonica and they're like.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Oh, you must be in like is it like Paramount
or Warner Brothers.
Speaker 4 (07:28):
No, we were in it abandoned. Remember it was also factory. Yes,
and when it rained.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
They put out buckets for the rate.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
But there were no offices. There were no school rooms.
Everything was in trail. Classroom was a trailer. And then
it was a bonus when they built the backyard. Although yeah,
and there's no parking. No. But I'll tell you one
of my things that delighted me about working on Seventh
Heaven is I remember coming in and more often than not,
(08:07):
if I came in during lunch, like there's all these
picnic tables, and I just remember the Camdens were like
eating together, like it was like the Camden like dining table.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
You guys, I mean we didn't we we did and
still do like each other. Yeah, yeah, true, which I
think I guess we've talked about this before, but it
is like it was always shocking to us when we
realized that some casts like didn't enjoy each other as
much as we did. Like we and we we all
(08:41):
ate together unless like we had like an exciting guest
star that we were like, you know, clamoring up. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Well and the crew too. I mean we I always
I'm a set kid.
Speaker 7 (08:50):
I grew up on sets, so I always looked at
the the totality of the cast and crew is like
a big family for a few months, or if you're lucky,
for years like we were on the show, but you know,
for a lot of sets it's more short lived than that.
But you it always felt like the way to be
on set was to was to sit down and treat.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Everyone like big family.
Speaker 5 (09:13):
Like big family, yeah, because I'm.
Speaker 8 (09:17):
Saying I would always think of it as like I
had a hundred aunts and uncles all around and I
didn't really know any other way too, absolutely, And.
Speaker 5 (09:24):
I think that was like the It was funny just
depending on the day, Like if someone had something exciting
happened that weekend, we were like, oh what what you know,
you'd want to sit with them and like find out
what was going on. And it was always just like
so nice and like everyone always felt welcome, Like there
was there was no cool kids table.
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Every table was cool.
Speaker 6 (09:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
And I remember a couple of times I'd be we'd
be doing on something we were doing. I remember we're
doing some plant lesson and we were growing seeds and
we were testing different variables to see how they would grow.
And you'd be in there and then Mac would come
bouncing in to the trailer.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
What are you guys doing, just like Ruthie, Yes, very.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Ruthie, and and David was very you know, big brother
ish and be like we're doing the science lab. You
have to go and you know, and then I remember
getting you through cam and I pictures of you like
in goggles and lab coats and doing titrations and stuff like.
It was pretty It was a it was a hardcore.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Well I was the oldest, so I was the one
who had to like it was like kind of conquering
that level of school. So it was like, you know,
I was like the example of like how are we gonna?
Speaker 4 (10:38):
And I was not. I was not should not have
been that one, because.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
It was it was a lot harder for me. But
I do remember also just being so lucky because when
I'd go back to school, because you know, on those
rare occasions where we had one day where we would
go back to our actual school, I just remember being
so grateful of like what I got to do with you,
because I was to like have that personal one on one,
(11:02):
like really get that explanation and like really understand it,
where my friends were like completely lost, and I know
that in that environment I would not have done well.
So I was always grateful and knew how lucky we
were that we had you, because you also always made
it fun and you never made me feel bad for
(11:22):
not understanding. You just would have to like rewire my
brain and be like, well, think about it this way,
And I was like, oh, okay, you know, but like
I think that's also a testimony to how amazing you
were that like it didn't matter what age group you were,
you were able to like break through to all of us.
Speaker 6 (11:44):
Well how did you end up doing that?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (11:47):
And first of all, what an amazing like idea too,
like to like what a problem to solve, you know,
so like to give us this kind of special opportunity
to put our hands on the on the tactile parts
of the science we were learning at school because we
more often than I didn't get that in school experience,
but we got this felt like one of our special
(12:10):
school perks to be able to do this with you.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
And so like, where how did you start? Like Max said,
where did this come?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yea, there was need for this, I had a friend
that was This was before I became like a I
went on to become like a regular classroom teacher and
all sorts of things from there, But this was before that.
And so I had a friend who was a teacher
who was working on a show called Grace under Fire,
and they were like, oh, we have this little girl, Caitlin,
(12:40):
and she I'm bummed out because she can't do her
science lab. And I was a science nerd. I was like, oh,
I got stuff. I can just come and do the
science lab with her. And I did that, and then
word got out on another show and they're like, oh,
can you come and work with Haley? Oh yeah, And
then so word quickly got out and I was like, oh,
(13:02):
this could be a lot of fun. And so yeah,
I started buzzing around from shows and movies, and.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
Every every kid actor that I knew knew you like
we were all you were. You were famous among all
of the actor kids who were working in town.
Speaker 3 (13:20):
Like for sure, Well, when I came to Seventh Heaven,
you guys were pretty out there. You were not near. Yeah,
but except for one other show, because Buffy the Vampire, Yeah,
they were one neighbor. Michelle Trachtenberg.
Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, yeah, just down the road.
Speaker 8 (13:35):
So you said, after after you did that, you became
a normal science teacher. So who was who was filling
the void of all these four said kids?
Speaker 3 (13:43):
No one has really why would you abandon that?
Speaker 1 (13:47):
I feel bad? I feel bad for them.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
But now you are up to amazing things.
Speaker 6 (13:51):
I guess you're allowed to do different things.
Speaker 7 (13:53):
Yeah, give us the rest of the stort continued. So
when you stopped working on set? Was that long after
the wait?
Speaker 4 (13:59):
Hold, I think maybe we're going to get to this
right after this break.
Speaker 1 (14:08):
All right, so we're back.
Speaker 3 (14:10):
We're back, We're back.
Speaker 7 (14:11):
So you were telling us about how you how you
got started on sets?
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Oh, I also want to know who came up with
the name science Bob.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
Oh Jonathan Nicky? Oh, so I was working with Jonathan
up Nicky who is little Kid, and Jerry Maguire and
Stuart Little and so why was his science tutor on
a show called thunder Alley And he was like six,
but he had another tutor named Bob and who was
(14:42):
teaching him boxing and so little Kid yeahs visual. So
so his teacher would say, oh, Bob is coming to
tutor you today, and he'd be like, oh, is it
boxing Bob or science Bob? And that stuck and that's
(15:04):
where it came because.
Speaker 5 (15:05):
I can't imagine, like you've always been science Bob.
Speaker 1 (15:08):
I remember when you came Originally you were science Bob.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, that was why I was Yeah, yeah, so yeah,
it just kind of stuck. So and like even in
when I went to a regular school and started teaching again,
they it was still they all called me science Bob.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
So when did that transition happen from working with the
sets to becoming a teacher and then and then tell
us more about I want I'm very curious to know
about the rest of your journey so much.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
You know, yeah, it's kind of a crazy journey. So
so we got through all of the nineties TV shows.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
And which is like literally like all of that.
Speaker 3 (15:44):
Oh, it's such a great event.
Speaker 5 (15:45):
Did you do like did you go to like Christine
on step by Step?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Did yeah? Step by Step Family, didn't do Family Matters,
but it was like everybody loves Raymond, Grace, under Fire,
Malcolm in the Middle, all those guys. It was great.
And it's interesting because people say, oh, you know, how
many like brat kids did you have? And it's none,
(16:11):
like there were no kids that just weren't excited to
see you.
Speaker 5 (16:15):
I think also in that era in that time though, too,
it's like I think it was a different time, like
all of us were like I think, I mean, I
feel like I I guess I can't speak for everyone,
but I feel like we were all so excited to
work and we were all excited for the opportunity.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
So like, I think like that era of.
Speaker 5 (16:34):
Kids that were growing up, like we were all just
like little happy clams, like to be more entitlement, you think,
I feel like than today.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah, it was kind of this little golden era when
everyone knew kind of what television looked like. It was
before all the crazy streaming stuff and every channel had
similar kind of programming and so so sets weren't why
the crazy and like crazy budget conscious and all that.
(17:04):
Everywhere I went, like, people were really happy. And I
don't know if you remember this, but you and I
worked on Richie Rich's a Christmas Wind That was crazy
because that was I remember that because we, uh, we
were at Universal Studios in like the same square. We're
(17:27):
like back to the Future took place at clock Tower
Square and they set us up in school in one
of the false buildings, which was like the Texico and
from Back to the Future dissecting al pellets or something.
And yeah, yeah, we had a lot of dissections and
(17:48):
and one of the mac and I did.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
You did I bring you into? Did we did we
bring you into Richie Richard was that we did.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
Jadler got to come that day as well. You got
a little frog for him.
Speaker 7 (18:00):
So and that was also with Michelle, because Michelle did
that with me, and because Michelle and I grew up
together in the industry. We came we we both come
from New York. We kind of started at the same
time when we were very young. We had the same
manager when.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
We were like first to Michelle Tarckenberg.
Speaker 7 (18:16):
So we kind of, you know, we've known each other,
you know, we knew each other through our whole career,
our early career.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
I think there's even a picture in your album that
we were going to have to share. Oh yeah, for sure,
that you took from that I got.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
From the vault.
Speaker 6 (18:31):
In the vault.
Speaker 7 (18:32):
My my mom did some take it in the vault
and she's.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Slowly giving us jam like it's it's a slow progression.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
I think the promise is like summertime before that's.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
Okay, we can you can send us some like you
can take some pictures because we would love to see.
It's been so much fun kind of reliving and like, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 8 (18:55):
Well, I mean the dissections were always my favorite thing.
Although you also did convince me that NeSSI was real
and told me.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
He told me that the.
Speaker 8 (19:04):
Reason people think the Lochnest Monster wasn't real was because
the guy who took the photos they were put into
the newspaper on April Fool's Day, so everyone thought it
was a joke.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
And I believe that as like fact.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
She still still believe.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
That it was the surgeons photo. All right, well we
can talk about that, but.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
I mean the day.
Speaker 8 (19:25):
Yeah, so one time science Bob Day brought two frogs
for us to dissect, one for me and one for
my brother, and mine had a bonus inside it had
a trimarantula and it was so cool, so we did fish.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
It was apparently a slow day or wherever they kept
the frogs, and someone's like, let's throw a tarantula in there. Yeah,
so this bullfrog ate this full sized tarantula, and Mac
and I are just going along and there's the lungs
and the hard and like, oh, here's the digestive system.
She cut her open. There's a full tarantula inside of
(19:58):
the front.
Speaker 6 (19:58):
I think was a two frog.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Really, I felt like my frog was small, Like, how
come you got such a big frog?
Speaker 6 (20:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I means fair.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
And then we did worm. We dissected worms, we dissected
and then I think everybody came in and we dissected squid.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
Wow, so okay, I have another.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
So where is the science mobile? What happened to it?
Did it was it?
Speaker 6 (20:28):
Did it? Was it retired? Or did it meet a
tragic end? So I need to know.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I went from teaching on the West coast to working
at a school in the East coast. So it went
across the country and then it had it had no mission,
and it sat for so long. Yeah, and I held
on to it as long as I could, and then
I called one it ate seven seven cars for kids,
and I said, you can have it.
Speaker 6 (20:52):
It should have been the Peters Museum.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
It should automotive museum. I appreciate that it is a gym.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
It was great. Remember that my very first lesson was
at the church, and the church also didn't have a classroom,
church parking lot. Yeah, and and I forget I think
the lesson was for you, but you were the David
was there and and David was studying his lines or something,
(21:22):
and I said something about a turtle and that got
David's attention, and He's like, oh, turtle. And then you
had a turtle. I think you had.
Speaker 7 (21:31):
Susie who rescues everything like turtles and tortoises.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
She had she had two giant tortoises.
Speaker 7 (21:43):
I'm not sure what with the status of those turtles
and tortoises these days.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
I know she still has.
Speaker 7 (21:51):
Many animals and is still rescuing animals and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
But that was Susie was she was.
Speaker 6 (21:56):
She had.
Speaker 5 (21:57):
I feel like we all like we all adopted this
love of turtles for us because like Susie was your
studio teacher, but she was also my studio teacher prior
to us being on Seventh Heaven. And I knew Susie
since I was like seven years old, and I did, Yeah,
she was on when I did the Children.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Of the Bride series.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
She was my teacher for all of those films.
Speaker 4 (22:18):
Susie had a lot of a lot she's.
Speaker 5 (22:22):
Been around, but I do remember, I do remember, Like
I also would get excited.
Speaker 4 (22:28):
I'm like turtles, Susie, like I was.
Speaker 9 (22:30):
Just like it was the association because you wanted to
talk about Turtles.
Speaker 6 (22:36):
Who was Cheryl your teacher the first season? It Susie.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
No, Cheryl wasn't my teacher the first season.
Speaker 7 (22:43):
No, in the very beginning, the teachers around. Yeah, okay
they didn't.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
It wasn't.
Speaker 7 (22:48):
It didn't stick until until we had Susie and Cheryl
and yeah Cladette. Yeah, but in the beginning it was.
It had shuffled from what I remember.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
Yeah, well, you guys very difficult, just kidding you. Guys
each had very different style, like I. It was each
had different learning styles. So like BEV had two different
learning styles. If you were in between scenes, yeah, you
were very let's get it done, you know, you would
go through, you'd get everything perfect, and then you'd go
(23:20):
back to set. But if it was the end of
the day, it was like you were like then you
had lots of questions and you loved you loved learning. Yeah,
you really love learning.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
I definitely put in like I was the girl who
banked a ridiculous amount of hours, Like I like was
I was the overachievement.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Can you go over your hours so that you can
use which.
Speaker 5 (23:40):
Was the opposite of Jess. Jess was the minimum trying.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
To buy those banked hours.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
I think I think there was.
Speaker 5 (23:47):
One time where she was like, can I borrow your
hours and I'll just throw them on the mine. But
I remember, like I like when I graduated, Cheryl even
like had the like gave me my sheet of like
how many extra banked hours I had? Because but also
like why why was like torturing myself?
Speaker 4 (24:06):
Like but I definitely was. I put in the time.
But I also have to say though for me though.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Like school wasn't necessarily easy, Like there's some people where
like everything came easy. Like me, I had put in
the work I had. I needed those extra hours for
me to understand.
Speaker 8 (24:22):
What I was Three hours is not, especially if it's
in twenty minute increments. It's really difficult to complete a
high school curriculum in that amount of time, especially specially
you know you get twenty minutes, it takes five minutes
to settle down.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
And then you get throwing ten minutes and you might
have a lot of dialogue and that's gone through your head.
Do you remember your dialogue and you're trying to learn algebra.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
Yeah, realistically, it's not even twenty minutes.
Speaker 8 (24:47):
Half the time, I would just try to get caught
out talking about like whatever New York Times article interested
her for the twenty minutes.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Now, you were actually very smart. You were like you
would try to yeah, yeah, avoid I.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Want to know what our learning styles were, like, yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Very curious. You were super curious, but it was often
not about what was in school. Like so we would
have we would have like a biology unit or something,
but you would have tons of questions about you know,
black holes or whatever. So that was it was just
(25:27):
but I remember you were really curious. You did a
lot of stuff on your own. You'd be like, oh,
we would be doing I remember we were doing what
was it we were doing something on It might have
been like brin shrimp looking at him in a microscope,
and you were like, oh, what if we put him
in this kind of environment? And so your classroom was
full of like little mini aquariums and plant things and
(25:48):
stuff that we would be doing. I got pictures of that.
Awesome mac was such a joy, like because it was
just like you just want to have fun. And so
I still don't pictures of you like making slime and
cool for slime was cool and and I wasn't. I
(26:09):
don't think you even had for a lot of that
time with science class, Like we were just doing it
for fun.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
Yeah, that's when we did like the butterflies, we did slime.
We launched rockets. I remember we launched rocket. I remember
the parking lot. I think that's how I think that
was for you for Newton's Law. But like everyone came out,
we all.
Speaker 1 (26:28):
Yeah, we all did the rockets yea.
Speaker 7 (26:30):
And it was so cool that when you no matter
who you were working with, we were all we all
wanted to know, like what was going on.
Speaker 8 (26:38):
Well, it doesn't matter who you were here, there were
clamoring yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, so it was It was great.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
I loved it. Was a long drive down to Santa Monica,
but I always.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Look forward where we're gonna we're gonna have it, take
another break, and then we definitely want to dive into
what you're up to.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Now, Okay when we come back.
Speaker 3 (27:07):
Wait, do you think I convinced you that there is
a lot you did know?
Speaker 8 (27:16):
Well maybe it was years.
Speaker 4 (27:25):
Now, that will be the first I.
Speaker 1 (27:28):
Was telling you about the fake picture.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
My teacher said, that's It's like, why doesn't have to
be me.
Speaker 3 (27:41):
I think we're back.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Yeah, I think we're back.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Please tell us to explain.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
Wait wait, wait, so you recall this story about the
Lockness monster differently?
Speaker 3 (27:51):
All right, Yes, if I have, if I have convinced
Mac that my surgery, I have failed you as a teacher.
Speaker 8 (28:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
No, So there's this, there's these, all these.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
Reasons why the luck this monster is not real. One
that it was like it was published, like the famous
picture of the poking out of the walk. This is
our this is the science Lessoned portion of your podcast.
Speaker 4 (28:18):
Excellent.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
It was taken by a surgeon, very well respected surgeon,
which is what kind of gave it credibility. And uh,
but it was published long after he died. His son
or his family found it and like, oh, this is
a fun picture of luckness monster. And they gave it
to the newspaper who didn't think they published it as
(28:39):
a joke, and then it took on this whole life
from there. But and it's a very small. The picture
you see is like this big of a picture, this big,
and if you see the whole picture, you're like, oh yeah,
it's just a tiny little thing.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
Yeah, isn't the one of the stories about the famous
picture that it's an otter or something like that with
a crooked tale or something.
Speaker 3 (28:59):
No, if if you look at otters the way they
poke out of the water to kind of see the distance,
they look very much like the Luckness Monster picture something
like that. I don't think, I but what I understand,
(29:20):
but like these, I think when you when you talk
about fun fondness of the science lessons, like we would
dive into stuff like this and it would be they'd
just be like cool, Like we could go into directions
like that and just follow whatever you guys were interested in.
Because I'm sure Locknes sponsor is not part of your curriculum.
Speaker 5 (29:41):
I mean it was like six, you know, but it
has had a great impact on her life.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (29:46):
I've actually spent all my time since then studying the monster.
Speaker 3 (29:51):
Written three books based on your observations.
Speaker 5 (29:57):
Wait, so what are you up to these days? Because
you're up to some pretty exciting stuff. Because what's crazy
is now that we are all parents, Like my son
knows about you and actually came to me and was.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Like, there's this guy who's so cool.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
His name is sidence, Bob. I was like, stop it
right now.
Speaker 5 (30:15):
I and then I was actually cool for about sixty seconds.
Speaker 6 (30:19):
That's a lot of time, and mom, that's a lot
of time.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
I was cool for a ten year old, like that's
pretty amazing.
Speaker 5 (30:24):
But I was cool because and he doesn't know that
we're sitting down with you, so he's gonna lose his
mind because you're doing really cool things. And like the
elephant toothpaste, yeah, is like the amount of videos I've
seen of elephant toothpaste is quite a lot.
Speaker 3 (30:40):
Yeah, I got three world records.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
That's tell me all about it. Yeah, I have a
seven year old and we don't know, so you get
me in on this.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
So I did the whole studio tutoring thing yep, and
that was great. And I got a little homesick of
the East Coast, so I was like, all right, it
was great. I'm going to go back to the East Coast,
go back to New England, which I did, and I
started teaching in middle school and that was great. And
then I got this call from Jimmy Kimme Alive producer
(31:12):
and they're like, hey, we saw what you were doing online.
Do you want to come in do science on Jimmy
Kimme Alive. And I thought it was I was like sure,
and then I figured I'd never hear from again. And
then they're like, okay, we're booking your tickets and so
so when I thought this whole all the Hollywood stuff
was over, went back to Jimmy Kimme a lot. I
(31:34):
did Jimmy kim Alive and it went great. And then
twelve years later, I've been on there twenty three times.
Speaker 4 (31:45):
I've seen a lot of them. They're still cool.
Speaker 3 (31:48):
Setting him on the fire, Yeah, yeah, I set him
on fire and all this time, still middle school teacher.
You don't make money from being on talk shows. But
that led to I've traveled all over the world on
speaking engagements. I've done a bunch of different shows. I've
done The Morning Show. I've got invited to the White
(32:08):
House during the Obama years and did a science fair there,
and and then teamed up with Mark Robert, an amazing
YouTuber and science communicator, and he finally said, hey, look
I want you. I want to work with you on stuff,
and we want to build a whole new generation of
amazing scientists and engineers. So I last year moved back here,
(32:32):
say goodbye to my abandoned my students in the middle
of the year. Sorry guys, they were sad.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I think they will appreciate what you're doing for all.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Of all of these their sacrifice.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
Yeah, there, we appreciate.
Speaker 6 (32:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (32:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (32:46):
So now, yeah, a couple of weeks ago, I was
watching a rocket launch which had one of our saddleit,
which we built a satellite for that will take selfies
of you in space with the Earth photo bombing you.
That's the kind of things that we do now. Yeah,
so cool build escape rooms for crows. That was fun one.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
So and so do you guys have a channel that
you guys do together?
Speaker 10 (33:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (33:12):
So he's got a Mark River YouTube channel. He's got
a line of engineering toys for kids.
Speaker 4 (33:18):
Yeah, he's got the build boxes because I can build.
Speaker 5 (33:23):
By the way, the build boxes are like I've hutt
and you get one each month. And what's cool is
like there's no wrong way to do it. It's like
you just there's it's a they give you instructions, but
it's like you can figure it out, like there's and
it's Hutton is obsessed with them, like.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
It's so I can't get make it yours yeah, I
can't wait.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
It's so fun.
Speaker 6 (33:46):
It's the like age range that those would be appropriate for.
Speaker 3 (33:50):
Eight to twelve and then and those are all you know,
you just build an engineering toy and it's a great toy,
but you're also learning to make stuff and you're gonna
put part son wrong and you'll get frustrated, but then
you'll figure it out and you learn like we want
you to think like an engineer and uh, and then
we get like we need something for older kids. So
then we built something called hack Pack, which is all
(34:13):
a micro controller base. There's a little micro controller robot
type thing but which you can use out of the
box or you can change the code and so there's
a little bit of coding. Fourteen that's like fourteen yeah
to adult a box for really in a box for.
Speaker 6 (34:29):
Me, yes exactly.
Speaker 3 (34:30):
Yeah cool, Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. So it was it's
a crazy journey that I would not.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
You kind of like just like.
Speaker 5 (34:39):
Skimmed over your world records because that's like that's wait,
so you have three.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
I have six Guinness World Records for something.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
Okay, can we please dive into this.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Tell us about every single one of them.
Speaker 4 (34:52):
We have zero amongst them. Yeah, we.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Have the record for most episodes of seven te Yeah.
Speaker 3 (35:04):
So yeah, I have crazy world records. I have the
world's largest elephants toothpaste reaction. That one has since been eclipsed.
I have the world's tallest elephants toothpaste, which was how
tall and fifty feet?
Speaker 8 (35:20):
Are you going to defend your title at the longest point?
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Can you briefly get me up to speed on what
we're talking about?
Speaker 3 (35:27):
ECAs, let's see, this is where we're going to insert
a video or it needs a picture. Everyone look at that.
It's a giant chemical reaction that creates a lot of foam. Okay, cools. Yeah,
I did a version of that where I actually filled
a swimming pool with it. Cool yea. So I have
(35:48):
largest tallest most at once, which was two hundred and
something maybe I forget now. And then I have the
most the most inertia drop experiments, which is like a
(36:08):
little egg drop experiment. You have to go up and
look at that. Then I've got the most or newly
principal toilet paper launchers that Kimmel right, that was actually
on Kelly and Kelly and Mark Show. And then I've
got the most film canister rockets launched at once, and
(36:29):
I think if you guys are up for it, we
might need to do our own version of a film
caster rocket. I could not show up and not have
you doing it.
Speaker 4 (36:38):
We would have cried.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
Excellent, because we.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Probably should have like pitched that at the beginning for retention.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
True, we'll do a graphic, right, Jared.
Speaker 6 (36:53):
I can't believe we don't have any world records. You
can't know.
Speaker 3 (36:56):
I'm so disappointed.
Speaker 1 (36:57):
That's all right, No, we'll cook. We'll well when I
this is something gold guys.
Speaker 3 (37:03):
Because you're like your love of horses has stayed tried
and true.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
It has I like that, Thank you me too.
Speaker 8 (37:10):
It's and what NeSSI NeSSI I thought you said messy
because that's at.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
I was going to say, like that one is definitely true.
Speaker 8 (37:21):
Yeah, no, I start every day with a pitchfork in
my hands except for today obviously.
Speaker 3 (37:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (37:28):
Nice. Basically it's really exciting chickens.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
One other. I'm curious what because I think I was
with you guys for four seasons. I remember one of
my last days they are was you had pulled in
and you'd just got your drivers, Like, oh, okay, I
don't know what season.
Speaker 1 (37:46):
That would have been, Oh, that's when I was fifteen.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
That would have been no, drive your driver's driver's license fifteen.
Speaker 7 (37:55):
I got my permit on my birthday when I was fifteen,
and I got my license like the day I turned sixteen,
like the day I was eligible.
Speaker 1 (38:01):
I was there.
Speaker 6 (38:02):
I got mine in the twelfth season.
Speaker 5 (38:04):
Ye.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
Well, so we started the show when I was eleven,
so that would have been like season four.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Yeah, probably, And I think I came on in season two.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
Yeah, so four or five probably.
Speaker 3 (38:17):
Yeah, because I was teaching Jesse too. We got Jesse
through bio. I remember dissecting a heart with her.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
You weren't there when I was like in high school, though,
I don't know which.
Speaker 3 (38:26):
I remember. I came back after I had left. I
came back and you. I came across you beb on set.
I like snuck onto the stage after saying hi to everyone,
and you had a baby and the baby yeah was it?
Speaker 4 (38:45):
Like my was it?
Speaker 5 (38:46):
No?
Speaker 4 (38:47):
It would have been.
Speaker 3 (38:48):
I was like sure and like, no, Lucy had a baby.
I was like, oh okay, yeah and it was a
very crying baby.
Speaker 4 (38:58):
Oh yeah, yeah. We had we had moments.
Speaker 3 (39:02):
And that that baby. Yeah. But so I don't know
what season that was, but that's when I came back
and visited. That was the last time I was on set.
Speaker 5 (39:10):
Yeah, and with that will take a break and maybe
we'll dive into some Well I'm just I'm just so
I have to just say, I'm just so happy. You
make me so happy that you're here, and we're absolutely thrilled.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
I mean, it was kind of that funny thing when
I like DMD you, I was like, see he can
remember me. So I was so thrilled.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
And this is just like makes us just so happy
and fills our heart so much to have you here.
And also I want to let all our listeners know
obviously we told them what you're up to, but like,
how how can they follow you?
Speaker 4 (39:49):
What are you?
Speaker 5 (39:50):
How can they support you and all they're doing.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
Yeah, I've never monetized, and like that, I don't have
any Why do you have a books here? Actually should
have brought the books. I do have a children's book series,
tell Us tell Us in Tesla, and and I'm kind
of proud of it because we created a genre in
doing it. It's basically about a brother and sister twins
(40:15):
and they're twelve years old and they are spending the
summer at their uncle with their uncle, and they get
into all sorts of trouble and they build gadgets to
get out of trouble. And so what we do is
we give the instructions in the book to build the
gadgets that the kids make in the story.
Speaker 9 (40:35):
Amazing, that is so cool and can we get that
major retailers and yes, it is on on and everywhere else,
and yeah, it's it's done very well.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
It's been translated into eleven languages and yeah, so yeah,
Nick and Tesla, so that that is kind of cool.
And uh, yeah, I'm online and I keep waiting for
all this to end, and it just keeps going.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
Well, because you're so cool.
Speaker 5 (41:04):
I mean, we nobody can get enough of you, and
we're just we're so we're so honored to like have
been there at the beginning.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
Yeah, it really was. And you know, during the break,
I'll tell your audience that I did. I like I
just sat here and just like looked at all your
faces and just like it made me so happy because
like it was like such a such a great time
and we had so much fun together and you guys
were amazing students and we.
Speaker 7 (41:31):
Did Bob and like you like you had you know
SI and I'm and I know science was my favorite
subject back then, but it is always throughout my life
in my favorite subject. And I'm trying really hard now
as a dad to like impart that love of science
to my kid. And and so much of my love
(41:53):
for the subject and my memories of why I love
the subject have to do with you and your ambulance
and like your present and like all the things that.
Speaker 1 (42:01):
You brought to the set.
Speaker 7 (42:02):
Man, it's it is one of the fondest memories of
like of of the back lot, you know, definitely of
our time, you know, in our private school time that
we had on set.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
I know, I have so much gratitude to you, just
because I also just had I just remember just being
so hard and such a struggle, and you made it
fun and you never made me feel like I couldn't
do it, like I think you always gave us. You
gave all of us such an immense amount of courage
to ask questions, to be inquisitive and to if we
(42:37):
did it wrong, that that was okay. We'll be like, Okay,
that didn't work, let's dry again. Like and I just
like it's amazing. Like, so, I think you've had an
enormous impact on all of us teachers.
Speaker 6 (42:50):
I mean, can make or break a subject for someone.
Speaker 8 (42:54):
And I think, you know, a large part of why
people end up not liking a subject is simply because
they don't understand it or there's like a missing link
somewhere so that the next lesson they always feel confused
and behind. And yeah, it was just incredible. And I
remember like having different teachers for different subject because there
was like one time in my life where I just
(43:15):
loved math so much. I used to create my own
math problems that would be like a compilation of everything
I'd learned so far. It was like a page long,
and it was because I had this incredible tutor, and yeah,
it was it.
Speaker 6 (43:28):
Was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (43:29):
You're lucky.
Speaker 8 (43:30):
All the kids of the nineties who were on TV
were so lucky you were doing that need And I
just wish that there was someone doing that now, like
for kids, because sucks to.
Speaker 6 (43:41):
Be a kid on TV now.
Speaker 10 (43:42):
Man, I guess, so, I don't know, You're lucky if
you learn a subject from from someone who loves it.
Speaker 1 (43:53):
Yeah, and so I.
Speaker 6 (43:55):
You it's contagious, your passion, your.
Speaker 7 (43:58):
Passion for science was contagious, and I'm grateful for you.
Speaker 6 (44:02):
And the Science Mobile was just brilliant.
Speaker 5 (44:06):
I mean, I know, it's just it's just so cool
sitting here with you as an adult, and I just
I'm also grateful that we're given the opportunity to share
with you how much of an impact you've made on
all of our lives.
Speaker 6 (44:18):
Did cars for kids know what they were getting.
Speaker 8 (44:21):
Or did they know what it was?
Speaker 6 (44:26):
Just ambulance?
Speaker 5 (44:27):
You know, maybe you can find it.
Speaker 6 (44:32):
You don't want to used cars coast stripped.
Speaker 7 (44:38):
Well, I think we're going to wrap it up, Bob, Yes,
but before we do, I'm going to have to ask if,
now that we have you your full attention, if we
could maybe get into a little science I would really
love it if we could put our hands on something
and uh, yeah something.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Without doing a little science experiment. Now I heard this
might just be an exclusive.
Speaker 4 (45:06):
Yeah, we're gonna I think you know, we're gonna have to.
Speaker 7 (45:08):
I think we're gonna take it. We're gonna say bye
to you guys from here, but if you want, you
could join us over on our Patreon, where we are
most definitely going to do some science experiments with Science Bob,
so join us over there if you haven't already, and uh,
if not, we'll catch you guys here next time.
Speaker 5 (45:27):
And then also make sure to check out Science Bob's books.
Will also put a link and like us and do
all the subscription things and push buttons and.
Speaker 8 (45:40):
You know, it reminds me of there's a book series
called Flavia de Luce.
Speaker 6 (45:44):
Have you heard of it.
Speaker 8 (45:45):
It's about this young girl who's like, oh sorry, so
she's a chemist. She's like obsessed with chemistry and it's
set in like the Victorian times, and she goes to
live it her uncle, and she does all of these
chemistry experiments and she solves mysteries with chemistry. It's called
this first one is called the Sweetness at the Bottom
of the Pie.
Speaker 6 (46:04):
Anyways, it's all.
Speaker 3 (46:08):
Past exactly what it's like. Let it go.
Speaker 1 (46:17):
I love you guys, We love you Bob, We love
you so much. Man. Thank you for joining us today.
Speaker 5 (46:22):
Thank you guys for joining us on Catching Up with
the Camdens, and we'll catch you next time.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
Hey, guys.
Speaker 7 (46:31):
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