He Said, He Said Q&A

Eric sits with your audience questions and answers them. From filming the wildfire episode of The Rookie this season to time management when it comes to kids, Palm Republic, and acting he answers it all. Plus we get an update from a previous audience member who wrote in seeking advice from Ros and Eric, don’t miss out. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is he said a Yadiho with Eric Winter and
Rodalin Fantas. Welcome back to another episode of He said,
He said, wife, you're still out of town. But this
is an episode of audience questions, which I always love
to answer and be able to somewhat have a conversation
with our listeners, answering your biggest thoughts and questions about

(00:24):
what's going on in my life. And let's see what
we have. First audience questions, Sarah Huck how do you
figure out when is a good time to be alone?
Our kids are always around, and we have not had
any good luck keeping that spark making a lone time
of priority. Oh listen, Sarah, that is a very honest
and true problem for probably every single couple. I'm very

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fortunate because my mom lives close and my mom is
always there when we need her. So if we try
to plan a date night, I know I have somebody
that can step in and we try to have that
time to ourselves to go connect, have dinner talk. You
can have that romantic time, you know, after the fact,
But otherwise, listen, if you can plan a short get
away over the weekend, a single night get away, if

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you have somebody that can stay with the kids. I
don't know how old your kids are. That's always an option.
That's good. Otherwise, if you don't really have someone that
can stay or watch the kids, you're just gonna have
to put the kids to bed and maybe take some,
you know, some coffee so you can get your energy up,
and maybe just do a candle at dinner, you know,

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you and your partner and sit and have dinner together
after everybody's gone to bed. It might be later than usual,
but that's you know, something you could do, or have
a late night drink and just talk that way. It
is hard, but I'm telling you it is a priority.
You have to navigate it and figure it out within
both your schedules because to me, it's the key, It's
the key to everything. So I wish you luck with that.

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I hope you do it the best of your ability. Steven,
do you listen to motivational speakers and who would you recommend?
I listened to to try to keep my mental health. Listen.
I just had a podcast with a great motivational speaker
and Maury Signal Signal with Mariy and Melissa's a podcast
that she has Maury Fontine's and uh, I think it's

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extremely valuable. I mean, there are a lot of great
We have a friend Chris Lee, We've had on the
podcast School of Greatness is a good podcast. These are
things you can listen to to try to find that
pick me up when you're down there. There's so many
resources out there or even a good book that you
can read. I used to be all about self help
books and I would read them constantly. But that's the biggest,

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probably the biggest thing that helped me get through tough times.
But that those would be my recommendations. I hope you
you do find a source because I think it's important
to get, you know, for a pick me up. All right,
Catherine Guzman, how do you manage to juggle your career,
Palm Republic, personal life? Who great questions? That is? Uh, Listen,

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I get yelled at a lot by my kids and
my wife. I'm not perfect because I'm constantly on my
phone and I'm trying to manage all of these things.
But it's all balanced, right. I'm not always working, like
right now, I'm off, I'm not filming, and if another
job comes up, I'll have to, you know, address it.
But at the moment I am. I am free, so
that clears me of that. But I dump a lot

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of time into pond republic. I try to do most
of it during the day while the kids are in school,
and then I dedicate the rest of the time to
the kids and my wife and I and I do
my best to prioritize my family always comes first, even
though I might be doing three things at once. I
need to remind myself. I need to check myself and
understand that the phone and things can wait. And I

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need to be with my kids and be present and
being present to me as everything. So that I hope
that answers that celebrity I want to meet, Oh wow,
I don't know. I don't know if I have a
single celebrity that I really care if I meet one
way or another. I do love if it's Hollywood related.

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I love just talking to people about Hollywood stories, even
if they're just producers or anybody else. I find it
fascinating talking about different actors, their personalities, what it's like
to work with them. I'm a big fan of athletes.
I love, you know. I'd love to meet Rapha and
the doll Or, Roger Federer, that'd be really cool, I'd
have to say, and why simply because I love tennis.

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I love their mental approach to the game. I would
love to know what it was like for them, you know,
throughout their career, the ups and downs. Yeah, that would
be it. How do you and producers come up with
the topics? Well, I gotta say a lot of it.
We juggle. It's almost fit to fifty. You know, a
lot of times Roz and I will totally riff on
stuff that's present in our lives and things that we're

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facing on a daily basis that come just come up
and we'll talk about it openly. And then other times
our producers come up with great topics and questions or
guests and they present it to us and we pick
the ones that we think really eight to us and
we can jump in and give a good perspective on
Lynn Presley, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I just recently recovered from

(05:11):
in the intensity of seven oh eight. Yes, that episode
was wild. Questions to do with the nuts and bolts
of shooting that episode, So this was a big, a
big episode. Let me start by saying this, This La
Fire episode was shot so far in advance from our
actual LA fires, which is crazy to think that this

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could even become a reality, and it was awful to
see how it played out in real life after the
fact and listen ABC and the Rookie. We tried to
be very sensitive to that because this had I mean,
who knew that something like that could happen. But I
will say that tent scene that you're talking about, or
we used to call it the burrito scene because it
was like we were in this foil wrapped breakfast burrito.

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When we first shot the wide, we had an actual
fire proof, you know, blanket type situation, and it was small.
We had to find a way to cram into it
and make it look somewhat realistic. They had to cut
around it because we had you know, it wasn't very big.
It's meant for probably one person. So we squeezed in,
we pulled it around us, they shut the wide. We

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came out of it. A lot of great cuts and
angles to make that look smooth. But what I was
shocked is we were saying, on the day, how can
we even shoot this? For all the dialogue we have
to do in it, how are they going to create this?
And when we got to work that day. It literally
looked like they built a space ship out of aluminum foil.
It was this big sort of pod thing that it
was open on one side, closed on the other. We

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had all these lights around it that would look like fire.
We were on this platform that we had to take
steps to get up on, with dirt on it and
all that to make it look like it was the ground.
And as we would shoot it, the cameras would be
on the one side that was open. We would do
our coverage and they would move it the big rig
that it was on to make it feel like the
wind from the fires were causing all that rustling and

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lights would flicker and there was like a bun you know,
there's a bunch of people around the lights and in
the platform trying to create all that simulation right, the
effect of the fires, and then the camera guys were
just really in tight. It was very intimate and funny
in a way because the camera guys were right there
in that little burrito with us as we would do
the scene, and then we'd flip it and we'd do

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the scene facing the other way, and we thought this
was going to look absurd. I don't know how Mike
goy pulled this off our director, but he cut together
a phenomenal scene, the way that the angles and the
idea of making that whole scene flow. So kudos to
him and the crew because it was it was awesome,
and we just did our acting, you know, accordingly, and
thankfully the scene looked really good because I was concerned

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about it. How did the cast and crew react to
when the alle fires broke out? Listen, we were all
in shock, devastated. We had crew members that lost everything.
It was awful. It was awful. I was glad I

(08:03):
was able to do a fundraiser and be a part
of that telethon to raise money. We shut down production
for a long period of time. I remember going into
work right like the day after it had started, and
the air quality was so bad that you could see
the fires from my house, the Altadena fires, and we
were in work and we started shooting the actually like
one of the biggest scenes of our season finale, and

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we started rehearsing and everything, and then we just had
to We were just told, hey, go home, everybody's going home.
We're canceling production. The air quality is awful. People's homes
are in serious danger. People need to go get their stuff,
and it was it was eye opening. It was really
really sad and wild. So I'm glad we're on the
other end of it. I know a lot of people

(08:46):
are still figuring it out, but it's uh, it's been
a big recovery process in Los Angeles, something I've never
I've never seen, to be honest, Rebecca dan Or, if
the Riders of the Rookie approached you and Sea and
Sebbi and Dil being an episode or episodes, would you
what would you do? Would you give it serious consideration
or shout it down immediately? No listen? If if they asked,

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I mean mckea's daughter, funny enough, has been in an episode.
If they had asked, or maybe even a couple, if
they had asked my kids to be in a scene
for something, I'm sure my kids would be into it.
My daughter would for sure. My son, I don't know
if he would care or not. He might be really
uh freaked out by it, but he does like coming
to set and seeing things, so he might be okay.
He might be okay. I know they were. They did

(09:30):
a little background work in a in a scene for
Roslind's movie, which was fun. But I would definitely entertain
something like that. Why not, It would be it'd be
cool to do something together with them, let's say. Update
from a fourteen year old who asked about dating when
her parents had no dating role. Oh I remember this question.
This is so interesting. Okay, guys, it's Kate with that

(09:52):
question about the boy and no dating role. Thanks for
the advice. Even thought I had, I have a completely
went off tracks. So okay, a lot has happened. But
long story short, we don't talk anymore because I got
so confused with my feelings and realized if I'm having
second thoughts, then that means I don't really like him.
He also did some questionable things that made me feel

(10:13):
different about him. I feel terrible, but I told him
we shouldn't talk until I get my head straight. So
we aren't talking anymore. Okay. So it really came down
to having nothing to do with the parents for this
particular situation. Kate, I'm glad that you were able to
see through any of the nonsense that he might have
been presenting or he may have been presenting, because that
would have been a mess, to be honest, had you

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gotten to your parents then tried to focus on dating
somebody who was really not being the best version of themselves,
and now you're in a bad situation, your strained relationship
with your parents, and now it's a bad situation with
the guy. So I'm glad you were able to put
your thinking hat on and really focus on who the
person is and if it was worth it. So it's
great to hear that, to be honest, But I do
think this opens up a chance for you to maybe

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continue that dial with your parents and see if you
can make any kind of headway and tell them there's
no no particular person you know in the picture, but
you would love to have an open dialogue about what
that looks like down the road. Even more so, you know,
I don't want to get you into a fight with
your parents, but I think it's a worthy conversation at

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least to try to be able to communicate. So I
hope that that helps a little bit, and I appreciate
you coming back and sharing all of your thoughts with me,
so thank you. All Right, another fan question here, a
listener question. Do you or any other actors on the
show refer back to past scripts or storylines then bring

(11:40):
inconsistencies up with the writers. If so, how does that
usually work out? Look at we don't. We don't do that.
I don't think we go back into past storylines. I
mean sometimes it pops into our head when we're on set,
like wait, I don't remember this, tracking this would I
don't think my character would have said this or this
wouldn't come up. And we have those conversations, and often,
to the credit of the writers, they have explanation for it.

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They let us know, this is the journey, this is
the path where we're going. Continuity is a big thing.
You know, we try. I will say, you know, Melissa's
very hung up on continuity a lot I've noticed on set,
and I do as well. But I often rely on
the writers and producers to navigate that more. I don't
put that as my focus a lot, but I do.

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You know, we do catch certain things that we bring
up and often get a solid explanation for it. But
I do know that a fan brought up if they
recall a storyline an outcome that they noticed an inconsistency
with a storyline that Tim mentions a niece to Angela
when they're planning her wedding. However, Tim only mentions one
sibling Jenny and has two who has two boys, which

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we now featured on the show. They've never mentioned the
niece again. I'll be honest, I don't even remember that.
I don't remember that episode. I don't remember saying that.
But if we did, definitely an inconsistency and something that
didn't work, I would love to god, I would love
to see that clip. That would be fascinating to find
out when it happened and how to correct it somehow.

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But thank you for catching it. Yeah, we don't. I
feel like Tim would have noticed that or caught that,
but maybe that was before we Maybe that was before
they even decided if Jenny, you know, Jenny had two
kids one kid, boy, girl or anything. So that's ironic
how that worked out. But again, not something that we

(13:29):
do so many episodes and there's so many moments and
scenes that I can't keep track of it all to really
catch something like that or an inconsistency. But that's a
good one and we need to be on top of it.
It's like, you know, listen, things happen all the time.
You remember that big the Starbucks cup on Game of Thrones,
which was wild that that somehow made it into a cut.

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No one ever saw that on set, and we've had
that happened before, where things have been you know, there's
been a cup, there's been a phone, there's been whatever
in a scene that usually we catch it and we
have to do a take again. I did a whole
scene once totally forgot I had a water bottle in
my back pocket. Long night shoot, everybody's exhausted. We always

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want to get out of there. All Tim and Lucy
had to do was run upstairs in this mansion and
I had a damn water bottle from Crafty in my
back pocket, totally forgot about it. Shot the whole scene
and realized couldn't use any of it because you saw
this damn water bottle poking out of my butt. So yeah, listen,
these mistakes happened all the time, but hopefully you catch
them and that's the most important part. And there's tons

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of bloopers, you know, and things like that that happen
on different shows and movies. But great question. Thanks for
bringing that up. All right, everybody, That wraps up another
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