Watch the Full Video: Ike Eisenmann on The Patrick LabyorSheaux
Here is the full thing, straight from Patrick's own show, The Patrick LabyorSheaux. Press play and stay as long as you want. The best parts are spread all through it, so here is a map of what you will find, and why each part is worth your time.
Video: Ike Eisenmann on The Patrick LabyorSheaux with Patrick Labyorteaux on YouTube — embedded from the creator's own show.
There is a special kind of conversation that only happens between two people who grew up in the same strange world. Patrick Labyorteaux and Ike Eisenmann both started acting when they were kids. They both know what a studio lot feels like before school. They both know what it feels like to have strangers watch you grow up. Decades later, they sat down in front of a camera and just talked. No script. No rush. Just two old friends and a lifetime of stories. That talk is the video at the top of this page, and it runs for 2 hours and 8 minutes.
Ike the Disney Kid
The talk starts at the beginning. Ike grew up as a Disney kid, and the early part of the video follows that road: the move to California, the first jobs, and the moment a kid ends up on sets most adults only dream about. There is even a stop at Fantasy Island along the way, because of course there is. That was the 1970s. If you were a working kid actor, you passed through Fantasy Island sooner or later.
Then comes the part every Disney kid of that era gets asked about: Escape to Witch Mountain. Ike talks about what it was like to carry a movie like that when you are still young enough to need a ride to the set. He does not make it sound glamorous. He makes it sound like work, and like fun, and like something he still thinks about. That mix is the whole reason this video works. It is not a highlight reel. It is a guy remembering his life out loud, while his friend listens.
George C. Scott, Star Trek, and the Looping Booth
The middle of the video goes wide. George C. Scott comes up, and so does Star Trek and Kirstie Alley. These are not name-drops for the sake of it. Each story has a point, and the point is usually the same: the people you admire from the audience are just people when you work with them, and the work itself is stranger and funnier than the finished movie ever shows.
Then the talk turns to looping, which is the part most viewers have never heard of. Looping is the behind-the-scenes job of re-recording lines after filming, matching your own voice to your own face on screen. Ike has done a lot of it, and the way he describes it tells you more about acting than any awards speech ever will. It is fiddly, technical, invisible work, and when it is done right, nobody ever notices. That is the job.
Near the end, the format shifts. Patrick sits down for a 1-on-1 segment, and the talk turns to the question his whole school is built on: what is it really like for an actor on a set? Patrick founded Working Actors School to teach exactly that, practical stuff that gets actors work, taught in a way that is fun instead of scary. If you like long, honest conversations like this one, the full Jordan Jensen podcast episode on this site works the same way, two people talking until the real stories come out.
Where Patrick Fits In
If you only know Patrick from one role, it is probably Andy Garvey on Little House on the Prairie. He played Andy from 1977 to 1981, across Seasons 4 to 7, for 43 episodes. He was the Garvey kid, Jonathan's son, growing up on screen in Walnut Grove while the whole country watched.
Then he grew up and put on a uniform. As Lt. Bud Roberts Jr. on JAG, he was a main cast member, and he brought Bud back later on NCIS in 2003, 2016 to 2018, and again in 2022. He also voiced Flash Thompson on Spider-Man: The Animated Series from 1995 to 1998. And the movie list runs from Mame in 1974, when he was a little kid, through Summer School, Heathers, Ski School, and 3 Ninjas, all the way to Yes Man in 2008.
Today he hosts his own show, The Patrick LabyorSheaux, a celebrity and Hollywood-insider interview podcast with 42 episodes, and he runs Working Actors School. That is why a video like this one matters. It is not a reunion special. It is what he does now: get actors talking, and let the stories run long. ChuckleChow has more long videos in the same spirit. Watch Jordan Jensen improvise a whole set live, or settle in for 61 minutes of her best moments.
Where to Watch the TV Episodes
One honest note before you go looking. You will not find a full Little House or JAG episode embedded on this page, because the official channels do not post full episodes that way. They post compilations, clips, and behind-the-scenes pieces. That is how the official channels work, and we only embed official uploads here.
If you want the full TV episodes, they live on streaming. All 9 seasons of Little House on the Prairie stream on Peacock, which the official channel's own video descriptions say. JAG streams on Paramount+, per its listing. Those are plain links to the services, not embeds, and they are the legal way to watch the whole shows.
Keep the Little House Era Going
If the Ike video leaves you wanting more Walnut Grove, here is a second video from the official Little House channel. It is a 30-minute compilation of Charles Ingalls facing danger and trouble, built from seven episodes: S1E20 "Money Crop", S1E22 "Survival", S1E24 "Founder's Day", S1E4 "Mr. Edwards' Homecoming", S1E3 "100 Mile Walk", S1E18 "Plague", and S1E1 "A Harvest of Friends". Fair warning, this one is Charles Ingalls scenes, not a Patrick episode. It is here because it keeps you in the same world the first video keeps talking about.
Video: 30 Minutes of Charles Ingalls Facing Danger and Adversity | Little House On The Prairie on YouTube — embedded from the official Little House channel (@littlehouseontheprairienbc).
That is the whole point of this page. Short clips are fun, but some stories need room. This one got two full hours, and it earns every minute. Watch it, send it to the friend who grew up on Little House, and come back for the next full video.
