okay here in l.a the shoot assembly required with tim allen and richard karn
i'm here on set and it's a little nerve-wracking
with so many people being around but it's very interesting so let's go look around
so the show that i'm involved in is called assembly required and it
aired on the history channel network the the hosts of the show are richard karn
and tim allen you probably are familiar with the names from the very popular show home improvement
i come out here when i get nervous and i love honor the way that the format of the show works
is every single episode starts with three brand new contestants and then all three of them are
presented a challenge a bill to complete in 90 minutes at the end of that 90 minutes one of those
builders gets eliminated and only two advanced to the next challenge which then they have five
days to complete whatever the new challenge is at the end of that five days one of them
is eliminated and one is announced the winner they get five thousand dollars some souvenir
i show up at 7 15 get my hair or my makeup done then my hair and then we start shooting around
eight so the show has two hosts richard and tim and then they were looking for
kind of a sidekick to the two hosts a resident expert is what the role was called
now we go to amy to get my hair done so they were looking for somebody who knew a little bit
or a lot about a lot and so i guess i stumbled across my youtube channel and asked me to do a
chemistry test with both richard and tim to see how it would fare and turns out they liked me
okay put in your tank top your plaid flannel and your overalls
i think flannel over the overalls but we'll see let me check it out thanks
stephanie checks out everything i wear so i don't even have to think about it
maybe you should wear shoes for safe you should wear shoes see that's why i need her
okay now that i'm done with your makeup and wardrobe let me show you the set
so that's my green room this is my own green room i can do green things
that's not funny
this is the main set that you see my set is back that way
and in the morning everybody's just kind of like gearing up getting ready for the day
camera crews they're like talking through what the i guess the entire day is going to entail
so since it's very much during the cove pandemic tim and richard sit here and they're having to
watch the contestants on the television instead of the contestants being here live building their
things so they get to watch everybody through the camera feedback through them in microphones so
the space that we're working in is actually tim's personal garage and all of the vehicles that you
see in here is his personal collection he's a big car guy and yeah this is his actual work workshop
where they've just kind of taken this station in that station and turned it into the actual
set for the show so my station is that one back there this is tim and richards and you'll see in
the show that i walk from back there to up here to interact with them and then i'm like sent back
and then whenever i'm not needed i can leave set completely i have a ferrari in the background of
my set so that's kind of cool so this is kind of like my workstation i'll be over here and i'll be
like tinkering with something they honestly just bring in things that are broken they're like hey
let's see if you can fix it and so this is a coffee pot that i disassembled this is a phone
that i've um played with and i'm not sure what they're going to be bringing out to me today
the first day or actually the first week was pretty it was incredibly intimidating all honesty
it's that feeling i get before tackling a brand new project
that i have zero experience with but that i really really want to do that
same kind of butterfly anxiousness but also bubbling with excitement feeling
so it was it was a lot of new things to take in a lot of new people and routine and just like
mentality on-set mentality is in la is completely different than of course filming in my own shop
so i've never done anything on this scale of production before
of course i do have my own youtube channel so i'm kind of used to talking to a camera
although most of the time it's just myself or now the video my videographer justin
but then i've also done a diy tv pilot once before to where it was like two or three days in a
in a suburb neighborhood and but definitely not in la this one was nla it was full on like set
there was a specific person for every single specific job and it was just an elevated level of
production
you're doing good i mean great i mean considering that this is a
new format for both of us i've done movies to film tv live stand-up uh-huh and you do
youtube but you get you you do it over and over again i can't yes yeah like i'm the
everything so i can dictate the timing how many everything here we're both stuck in a
format that we're not used to so i'd say yeah i'm getting more comfortable day two plus you're
because what you do naturally you probably didn't know we're going to use you for this
where you need your expertise on stuff and you're doing quite well thank you thank you
before you fix it we don't want to we don't want to give me a compliment by
putting him down two minutes we just want to say it was a team effort
i'm about to go out to set my heart always races at this moment i have a
sneaky earpiece and so i'm already on set back here can talk to me while i'm out there so bro
it was good it's getting better i'm getting more and more relaxed with them um starting
to understand kind of like my place and when it's done for me and being able to
understand their personalities to where the the interchanges are coming more and more naturally
so every single day we're trying to shoot two episodes one in the morning before lunch and one
after lunch so that's one down and they'll call me back in later to shoot the other ones so
i think i'm just going to take lunch chill out kind of get my nerves down
and then go back at it this afternoon so after i got done on set then i would just kind of hang out
i really took to the hair makeup and wardrobe people so we would kind of hang out in the living
room kind of area we would play cards or i would read the next script for the afternoon portion
that i would be a part of or maybe get some of my own work done or just watch because we had a
little monitor to where we could watch what was happening on set even though we were backstage
i don't know enough about carpentry but god you know who does know about this our resident expert
thank goodness for april come on in here and help us build a fusion reactor somewhere
oh gosh as if by accident april showed up april thank you and welcome back
the entire crew was very nice my birthday was actually on the
very last day of filming on that on that first set
and they surprised me by saying hey we need all all crew members to come out to the set
everybody started singing happy birthday and they brought me cupcakes and it was a really special
what moment
it's a cupcake
so today is actually the last day of filming we'll film one more episode after lunch
then we'll hop on a plane go back to texas this is the director adam hi hold on a second let me just
sanitize the first time i've taken the mask off but i just want to be safe
safety first show's going great show is going great you are doing great oh thanks there's a
rough beginning there for a little bit um i'm kidding i'm becoming more she's definitely
coming with look you're very knowledgeable and you in the relationship that you have with
tim and richard is is great because you while they are very knowledgeable about uh about things
there is a lot they don't know so your expertise is uh is coming off great and very helpful
and there's a great little playful banter that um that is coming across that i think
is going to be very beneficial for the show fun thanks for having me by the way i it's
not really up to me but sure i'll take it i'll take credit i hired her i didn't i didn't tire
i really hope that you all enjoyed seeing the behind the scenes it was an incredible
experience and i really hope that you can enjoy the show tim and richard were a pleasure to work
with and watching their chemistry and dynamic and how well they can just play off of one another and
then of course getting to see so many makers some within our community and some that i hope to join
putting boundaries around them in a time limit and then saying go excel it was really spectacular to
watch and i loved that i was able to be a part of it but this is where it starts this is what
i'm so involved in and these people these people fix problems but if you had to go out with small
problems inch by inch take it apart how would it look to have people like this
engage in the problems we got and know how to get their hands in there and do it this week has been
absolutely surreal just you know i'm i'm a texas girl i didn't know what i was doing when i was
starting all of this it was just me wanting to share information and to build the things that
i was needing that i couldn't afford and to the fact that it's led into everything that has led
up to this point and now i'm in la filming a tv show with tim ellen and richard karn it's just
it's absolutely mind-blowing i absolutely love my fan base the people who have
of course been with me from the very get-go that saw me announced that i was quitting my
job in the oil and gas industry to tackle making tutorials full-time to the people who just started
following me two months ago and who are just very supportive of the this journey that i'm on
it feels like i actually just got goosebumps it's very i always do it's um thank you guys
i feel very humble to just be blessed with these experiences i can't wait to see what's next
and of course red light buzz lightyear everybody knows that
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