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Jodie Sweetin · Untraditionally Lala

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  Speaker 1: What is Up My loves It is a La La
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  Speaker 1: Kent on like Give Them Lala podcast with Randall. Here
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  Speaker 1: we are. I can't believe that we have a legend
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast today. She is best known for her
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  Speaker 1: role on full House and then Fuller House, and she's
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  Speaker 1: also a part of my little tribe in sobriety. So
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  Speaker 1: we're going to keep this intro very short and sweetened.
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  Speaker 2: You just gave it away.
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  Speaker 1: It's my mom joke. We have Jody Sweeten. Yes, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna deep dive into all things Jody. I can't wait
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  Speaker 1: to pick her brain, know what it was like to
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  Speaker 1: be a child star and what her journey has been
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  Speaker 1: in sobriety and helping others.
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  Speaker 3: So we have Jody Sweeten on today, which we're both
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  Speaker 3: excited about because Fuller House and full House was full
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  Speaker 3: House was my generation and Fuller House is your generation.
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  Speaker 3: Did you ever see full House when you were younger?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course you saw full House? Oh yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: you got to be like zero or two years.
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  Speaker 1: I think it came out before I was born, but
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  Speaker 1: I've definitely seen it. I'm a huge Olsen Twin fan.
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  Speaker 3: So well, we are very excited to have Jodie Sweeten today,
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  Speaker 3: she is a total legend on every level. I think
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  Speaker 3: how old was she when she was on the original?
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  Speaker 1: I think she may have started at four or five,
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  Speaker 1: and now she is definitely.
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  Speaker 2: Young, and today she is.
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  Speaker 1: Probably damn I think she might be like in her
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  Speaker 1: late thirties, thirties.
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  Speaker 3: You know, what's amazing to be on a TV show
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  Speaker 3: that was one of the biggest hits in television for
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  Speaker 3: whatever amount of years as a child, not even being
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  Speaker 3: able to remember it, you know what I mean, because
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  Speaker 3: at four or five, what do you remember? And now
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  Speaker 3: being again like reinvented in the same show. I don't
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  Speaker 3: has that ever happened before.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's really hard to to recreate a show
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  Speaker 1: that has already existed and kind of do some sort
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  Speaker 1: of sequel to it. So when I saw Fuller House,
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  Speaker 1: I was actually shook how good it was, how cute.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't even see it's that good fun.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely cute.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm excited to have her on.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to have this podcast today and to just
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  Speaker 3: celebrate your sobriety and her sobriety because this week is
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  Speaker 3: your three year sobriety.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, I'm gonna go with my girlfriends to celebrate three
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  Speaker 1: years on Friday.
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  Speaker 5: Again.
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  Speaker 1: It's I love one day at a time, but I
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  Speaker 1: fully intend on celebrating on Friday my three years of sobriety.
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  Speaker 1: I've come a very long way. Tonight, I'm finally getting
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  Speaker 1: to do the signing of my book Give Them Lalla,
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  Speaker 1: which is huge. I'm gonna thank you. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: have a little get together after with my girlfriends.
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  Speaker 2: Just it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a week of really celebrating you the cool shit
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  Speaker 1: I've done.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to.
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  Speaker 3: Say something about your book. The fact that you launched
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  Speaker 3: your book in a time of a pandemic where there
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  Speaker 3: was no you know, like interaction with your fans. I
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  Speaker 3: give you a lot of love and a lot of respect,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm really proud of you. So kick ass tonight
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  Speaker 3: with your book signing party.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a big night for you. So
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  Speaker 2: you deserve it. Yeah, So I take off my hat
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  Speaker 2: to you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: I'm very excited.
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  Speaker 1: I hope everyone enjoyed last night's episode of vander Pump Rules.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to cut to a short break and we
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  Speaker 1: will be back with Jody Sweeten.
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  Speaker 4: We are back with Jody Sweeten. Oh my gosh, Yes,
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  Speaker 4: I'm Randall loves the Goods. So I have to say
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  Speaker 4: you obviously I grew up watching you on TV. And
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  Speaker 4: it's so crazy that my hold on, hold on, no,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna jump in, but I have to tote I
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  Speaker 4: have to toute my guest horn before we move on, because.
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  Speaker 5: Well tuned away my friend to any Day.
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  Speaker 4: So then my two step kids, not only are they
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  Speaker 4: obsessed with full House, they're obsessed with Fuller House. Is
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  Speaker 4: it so crazy that you have a show that stands
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  Speaker 4: the test of time?
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  Speaker 5: You know, it really is.
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  Speaker 6: I know there have been a ton of reboots, and
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  Speaker 6: you know, some have been super successful and some kind
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  Speaker 6: of came and went, but Fuller House was really one
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  Speaker 6: of the first of those, I think.
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  Speaker 2: And it was really taken a chance.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 6: We've pitched it to a lot of places and they
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  Speaker 6: were like, you know, we think there's an audience for this,
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  Speaker 6: and we we knew it as as cast members. We
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  Speaker 6: were like, you guys have to tap into this, Like
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  Speaker 6: there's such a huge audience out there.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm so.
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  Speaker 6: Grateful that something that I love to do, that I've
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  Speaker 6: had so much fun doing that has been such a
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  Speaker 6: wonderful part of my life has connected with people in
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  Speaker 6: the way that it has.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Full House is something.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I'm so grateful for the fans and that
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  Speaker 6: I got to come back and do this as an adult.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I had sort of walked away and was
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  Speaker 6: a normal person land, you know, I was, I had
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  Speaker 6: a normal job and was just doing my deal, and
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  Speaker 6: then this opportunity came along. So it's been it's been
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  Speaker 6: quite a wild ride.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: So when you say you had a normal person job,
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  Speaker 4: what was that.
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  Speaker 5: I was working in treatment. I worked at several treatment centers.
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  Speaker 6: I was a director of operations, so I had you know,
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  Speaker 6: gone back to school and gotten my certificate for drugon
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  Speaker 6: alcohol counseling. I was working in drugon alcohol treatment and
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  Speaker 6: I really thought my plan was going to be more
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  Speaker 6: moving into case management and becoming a therapist, which is still.
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  Speaker 5: That's the thing that I would probably love to do,
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  Speaker 5: you know, other than my acting.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 5: But I was a director of operations.
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  Speaker 6: I had you know a big staff of people under
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  Speaker 6: me and was trying to run the daily operations of
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  Speaker 6: a lot of recovery houses.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, it was fun.
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  Speaker 6: And it was a challenge and it was something that
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  Speaker 6: I had never done before.
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  Speaker 5: And then you know, I'll say when I.
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  Speaker 6: Was directing, I got to direct an episode of Floorhouse,
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  Speaker 6: I realized how much more confidence I had because I
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  Speaker 6: had been in a position of kind of running something before.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was like, okay, there's just a.
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  Speaker 6: Lot of moving parts, like I can do this, and
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  Speaker 6: it really it was amazing to me.
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  Speaker 5: I was like, oh, I'm so grateful for that period
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  Speaker 5: of my life.
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  Speaker 4: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 7: I just want to say it. First of all, you
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  Speaker 7: said you grew up on that show. Yes, I am old.
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  Speaker 7: I grew up on your show.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: She was like zero. Okay, Now I know she's a
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  Speaker 7: fan because she does watch. She does watch with my
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  Speaker 7: with with her step kids. She does watch it religiously
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  Speaker 7: like she is in there. She educated them and by
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  Speaker 7: the way, I never thought like my nine year old,
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  Speaker 7: my sorry, my my.
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  Speaker 2: Seven year old year old and my eleven year old
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  Speaker 2: would ever and then they come home like we're watching
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  Speaker 2: full House with La La.
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  Speaker 4: And it was when I had to educate them and
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  Speaker 4: show them that it was a show before, and then
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  Speaker 4: they became obsessed with that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, it's got to get a little bit of
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  Speaker 5: the history.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, the thing about older that was sort of
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  Speaker 6: nice that we tried to do was like you could
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  Speaker 6: just start watching.
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  Speaker 2: That show anywhere without anywhere.
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  Speaker 6: Necessarily, like it helps to have the background in the
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  Speaker 6: first eight seasons, but it wasn't necessary, right, only field.
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  Speaker 7: But yeah, But what I like about law is that
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  Speaker 7: she really does love like old school shit. She loves
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  Speaker 7: so the fact that my kids are even educated now
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  Speaker 7: is just the coolest thing.
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  Speaker 2: But I did grow up on your show.
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  Speaker 7: And in nineteen eighty seven, I was, you know, rocking
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  Speaker 7: at like sixteen years old, seventeen years old, so I
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  Speaker 7: was in it to win it when you like were
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  Speaker 7: what zero, like.
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  Speaker 2: Three on that show? How old were you when you started?
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  Speaker 5: I started? I started that show when I was I
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  Speaker 5: just tried to find five.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I thought five.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, So tell me tell me because obviously I've been
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  Speaker 7: in the business a long time now, not not from
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  Speaker 7: when I was five. What is it like to be
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  Speaker 7: on a show for eight years or whatever it was
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  Speaker 7: and then another five years? Like when you walk down
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  Speaker 7: the street at that age, do people know you everywhere?
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  Speaker 7: Was it like that kind of mayhem of celebrity?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: When I was younger, Like when the show I'm saying,
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  Speaker 6: like the fifth sixth season, it got really like it
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  Speaker 6: was everywhere, and when you know, when Fuller House came out,
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  Speaker 6: I mean we did such a huge launch. We were
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  Speaker 6: traveling all over the place. And then you know, subsequent
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  Speaker 6: seasons we traveled to Japan and we did you know,
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  Speaker 6: we did.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of stuff, and it's it is crazy and
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  Speaker 5: it's crazy. It's crazy to go to a foreign country.
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  Speaker 6: And get in a cab in Japan and watch you
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  Speaker 6: as yourself on the TV in the cab dubbed over
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  Speaker 6: in Jeopanese.
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  Speaker 4: Wow, that would be crazy.
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  Speaker 6: And like literally sleeping at your hotel like it's you know,
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  Speaker 6: that kind of.
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  Speaker 5: Steps me is wild when I think about it.
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  Speaker 4: Of course, I don't live like.
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  Speaker 5: Some fancy crazy see life. I like my my normal
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  Speaker 5: life totally, and so it's just funny to me. And
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, oh my god, people who land that's so weird, right,
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  Speaker 5: Like you.
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  Speaker 4: Have kind of an out of body experience and you're like,
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  Speaker 4: what is life? I'm really confused. So at five years
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  Speaker 4: old you start on this show, you know, at that
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  Speaker 4: point in time, that's when most kids, I would say
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  Speaker 4: five is when they like start playing teacher, you know,
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  Speaker 4: whatever they've seen. They play dolls. When did you know,
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  Speaker 4: like I want to be creating characters and be on TV,
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  Speaker 4: like did it just fall in your lap?
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  Speaker 6: I was like three years old when I told my
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  Speaker 6: mom I wanted to be on TV. I used to
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  Speaker 6: call the people on TV modelers and I would say, Mommy, I.
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  Speaker 5: Want to be a modeler. I really want to be
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  Speaker 5: a modeler.
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  Speaker 6: And I was, you know, I was the kid that
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  Speaker 6: you know, would run into the room of adults with
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  Speaker 6: a harmonica and start playing some little made up song
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  Speaker 6: and sing for everyone and then be like, hen, thank you,
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  Speaker 6: and you know, exit the room.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I pushed my way to the front of
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  Speaker 5: my first dance recital because apparently I thought that the
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  Speaker 5: girls in the front were just not bringing me to
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  Speaker 5: stuff to stuff.
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  Speaker 6: So you know, if my mom saw things like this,
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  Speaker 6: and she saw you know, I was extremely luckily bright
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  Speaker 6: for my age.
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  Speaker 5: I mean I was reading, fully reading by the time
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  Speaker 5: I was three years old. I had read books. I
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  Speaker 5: could do all that. So you know, when I was
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  Speaker 5: auditioning and stuff, I was the four year old.
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  Speaker 6: We could walk into a room and all the people
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  Speaker 6: script and read it, and you know, there were not
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  Speaker 6: many kids at that age that could do that.
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  Speaker 5: So I loved it from the beginning. It was always
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  Speaker 5: something I wanted to do.
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  Speaker 6: I loved to perform, and being somebody whose brain works
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  Speaker 6: like you know, in hyperdrive most of the time, I
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  Speaker 6: needed a lot going on.
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  Speaker 5: I loved excitement and change and creativity and all of that.
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  Speaker 6: So it really was, I think, for me, the perfect
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  Speaker 6: place to come of age. And you know it brought
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  Speaker 6: with it its difficulties too. You're like the normal existence.
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  Speaker 7: But when you were ten eleven and you're at the
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  Speaker 7: height of your fame for that show, which I assume
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  Speaker 7: is like ten to twelve, you were like thriving.
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  Speaker 2: You want that? I mean, where are the Where do
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  Speaker 2: the difficulties lie there?
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  Speaker 7: Because being a ten year old, like for my daughter
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  Speaker 7: being an eleven year old, you know, we go to
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  Speaker 7: the mall and the biggest conflict she'll see or the
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  Speaker 7: biggest weird initial see is people will come up to Lalla,
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  Speaker 7: or they'll come up to me and say, oh.
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  Speaker 2: My god, we like you, or fans of that show
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  Speaker 2: or whatever.
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  Speaker 7: But to be the person at eleven years old where
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  Speaker 7: they're coming up to you that's got to be just
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  Speaker 7: awkward on every level, is it not?
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  Speaker 5: Or yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 6: I you know, it's funny because as outwilling as I am,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I definitely can be an introvert. I definitely, Like,
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  Speaker 6: you know, growing up, there were times when it was like,
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  Speaker 6: oh my god, I wish like I just want to
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  Speaker 6: blend into the wallpaper.
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  Speaker 5: I just want to be right in the.
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  Speaker 6: Back round, you know, because every new class that I
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  Speaker 6: went into, or a new school that I went into,
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  Speaker 6: or you know, went to the mall, it was like never,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I can go You can't go out to
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  Speaker 6: eat with your family and not.
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  Speaker 5: Have someone interrupt you while you're in the middle of kin.
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  Speaker 5: You know. The thing was as a kid, it was
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  Speaker 5: really hard because I.
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  Speaker 6: Didn't I don't know, and I guess even as an adult,
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  Speaker 6: like I said, I just I'm like relatively ambivalent and
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  Speaker 6: sort of unimpressed.
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  Speaker 5: By celebrity and and fanciness and all of that.
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  Speaker 6: So like it's just so crazy to me when when
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  Speaker 6: people come up and I'm like, oh my god, like
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  Speaker 6: it's it's weird. And as an eleven year old kid,
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  Speaker 6: and I don't think you can really process sort.
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  Speaker 5: Of that loss of privacy.
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  Speaker 6: But I will say I am forever grateful that I
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  Speaker 6: grew up in the era before smartphones, as I hated
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  Speaker 6: as a kid. It was one of the things and
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  Speaker 6: still is in this day when papassey. One of the
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  Speaker 6: weirdest things is when someone's taking your picture when you're
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  Speaker 6: just trying to exist, yeah, and it feels so invasive.
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  Speaker 6: And I remember feeling like that as a kid, feeling
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  Speaker 6: like there were times when I was like I don't
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  Speaker 6: want to be on you know, right, but also knowing
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  Speaker 6: and being so incredibly grateful for those people and hearing
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  Speaker 6: those stories and seeing people that this show meant so
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  Speaker 6: much too. I felt that as a kid, you know,
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  Speaker 6: being a very impacted, sensitive kid.
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  Speaker 5: Like I took that on.
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  Speaker 6: So I knew almost that there was like this big
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  Speaker 6: responsibility of what this show meant to be, and I
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  Speaker 6: was so grateful for that.
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  Speaker 5: But I also had times when I was like I
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  Speaker 5: just want to like walk into a.
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  Speaker 4: Room and like slip it and not have every kid
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  Speaker 4: in the room go like oh right, Like what a
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  Speaker 4: conflict to battle as an eleven year old where you're
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  Speaker 4: like I just want to be normal, But then you
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  Speaker 4: have people that are like your show is changing my life.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, and you want to be able to say
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  Speaker 4: I don't want all of this. That's cut, Like, I
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  Speaker 4: just want to.
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  Speaker 2: Do my art right.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, I don't know that at that age
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  Speaker 5: that it even felt like that.
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  Speaker 6: I think sometimes it too, is almost more reflective when
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  Speaker 6: I think about it.
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  Speaker 5: At the time, right, you were just in it. You
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  Speaker 5: were in it at the time. It was just my existence.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't you know, for me, five to thirteen was
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  Speaker 6: when I was on full House, and so that was
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  Speaker 6: like my formative years, right, that was all of.
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  Speaker 5: My corentry in middle school years. So I don't really
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  Speaker 5: have a whole ton of life and.
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  Speaker 6: Memories before these people were in my life, and before
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  Speaker 6: that was just sort of what I did.
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  Speaker 2: And when you left was really.
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  Speaker 5: Until I was an adult.
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  Speaker 6: But I was like, oh, I see those feelings and
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  Speaker 6: seeing where that like and pleasing and you know all
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  Speaker 6: that kind of stuff. You know, I can talk to
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  Speaker 6: you guys about this and you know this journey of
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  Speaker 6: of getting through life and sobriety and all that kind
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  Speaker 6: of stuff. But I think as an adult you reflect
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  Speaker 6: on and you're like, oh, I see where this desire
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  Speaker 6: to I just want to make everyone happy because that's
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  Speaker 6: my role, that's you know, my job where that came
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  Speaker 6: into play. And at the same time, like having an
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  Speaker 6: awesome childhood. You know, I was surrounded by love. Our
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  Speaker 6: past was amazing. Let's go to the White House formations, Bob.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it doesn't get any.
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  Speaker 5: Better by side, Like I really, I have these amazing
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  Speaker 5: things too.
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  Speaker 6: So it wasn't like somehow I hated it and just
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  Speaker 6: like plugged through it. It was what made me feel alive.
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  Speaker 6: And I never feel more at home.
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  Speaker 5: Than I do when I'm on set. When you when
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  Speaker 5: you realize, like, oh yeah, not everybody went through that it,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you realize you have a very different perspective
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  Speaker 5: of life.
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: Yes, when the show, when the show ended, this is
• 15:43
  Speaker 7: the question when you're thirteen years old and you've been
• 15:45
  Speaker 7: in this crazy machine, you know, big publicity machine.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Bit.
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: You know, you're at a studio every day taping. You
• 15:53
  Speaker 7: know your life is the farthest thing from normalcy, but
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: it was your normal.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: What happens when it.
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: All gets quiet for a minute, you know, when you're
• 16:01
  Speaker 7: thirteen years old, I mean, is it easy to adjust
• 16:04
  Speaker 7: into the next press?
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: I mean, there's definitely an adjustment period. But I think
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: at that point, you know, I was just starting high school,
• 16:11
  Speaker 6: and I was really fortunate in that our producers worked
• 16:16
  Speaker 6: with us as kids to make sure that we were
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: able to if we wanted to attend normal school. Oh
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: and it also worked out really well for me because
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: I grew up in Orange County, so we had a
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: bit of a commute. So the producers were like, look,
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: we can't work the kids that long anyway on rehearsal days,
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: just come in.
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: It'll you know, at noon, it'll be less traffic. We'll
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: get here at one, we'll rehearse the kids season, then
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: you go home.
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: So I was fortunate in that by the second season
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: when we moved, or the third season when we moved
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: to a forty work week, I was in school all
• 16:49
  Speaker 6: day Mondays, and then half days Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: then Thursdays and Fridays. I was school exclusively on set
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: for tape days, but I still had I got to
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: do a lot of the normal pieces.
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: So I'm always grateful for that because I do know
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: that again in that regard, I had a different experience
• 17:08
  Speaker 5: than a lot of kids in.
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: This business in that they had no access and kind
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: of quote unquote real life experiences.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: I had a little bit of both, and I'm always
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: so grateful for that because I lived a really grounded
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: normal life in that regard.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: It wasn't I never was was, you know. I just
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: I grew up around normal people and I liked it
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: that way.
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: Were either of your parents in the arts?
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: No?
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: No, my mom, you know, she was stay at home
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: mom with me, but she had been gosh everything from
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: a you know, school bus driver to secretary you know,
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: down in Lomby Tarbor. My dad was a superintendent of
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: a gypsum plant, which is where we get drywall from.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: He worked there for like forty seven years. But that's
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: quite older. Has U has adult children as well.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: But yeah, he was a.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Blue collar worker worked down at Long Beach Harbor that
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: came from Oklahoma post Depression era, like was a migrant
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: farm worker.
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: At yeah thirteen, This this kid with a huge personality
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: from a real normal family, and I'm so grateful for that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: I learned a hell of a work ethic too, of course.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: So so how soon after you know, you you wrap
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: filming this show that has been a huge part of
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: your existence. And did you turn to if you don't
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: mind me asking drugs and alcohol?
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: I mean I think it was.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: You know, look, there was this convergence also of like
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: all of the peak things of early teenage trip coming together, right,
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: which was.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: Hormones, which was, oh my god, I've been high school now. Yeah,
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: you know, sorry, I don't know if I.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Can tell you.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, but you know, you're like, fucking cool man.
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: Here we go.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna I know everything now, and you're thirteen, And like,
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: now that I have a thirteen year old, I'm like,
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: oh my.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: God, I knew nothing. I was such a fucking child.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: That combined with the normal identity crisis of most thirteen
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: year olds, which is who do I.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Want to be?
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: Let me try on these different personas and people and
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: friend groups and all of that.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: And then I had something that most kids don't have,
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: which is I lost my job.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: I lost my everyday routine existence for eight years in
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: a rather sudden way. You know, Full House we didn't
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: have very long. I think it was like the last
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: three weeks we knew we were getting canceled.
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: So we didn't even go into the season knowing it.
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: We thought it was going to get picked up, and
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: it didn't, and there was back and forth maybe W B.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Wood.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: So it was kind of a sudden loss, but it
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: was also the same.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: In time, like I can just start this new chapter.
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: But what I soon found was everyone expected.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Me to be Stephanie Tanner.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and so I was like, well, let's just be
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: the least Stephanie Tanner like.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: That we can to prove a point, you know. But
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: it was kind of the same ship as everybody else was.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Doing because you were in high school. You were in
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: high school. You were in high school. So it was like,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: like you said, the convergence was like it was just
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: a perfect timing.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: Of lost your job, the normal ship that starts anyway,
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: and then to add on like this extra layer just
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: a real interesting life shift for someone who doesn't have
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: the emotional capacity to really even think about.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: It at that age.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Correct, So you start, you started this rebellious phase of
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: like I'm not fucking Stephanie Tanner. I'm Jody I And
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: it was.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: It was like I'll be just as bad as you
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: all do the same stupid shit you do.
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: But you know, it's different when when it's you, you know,
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: and I remember my mom always saying like people will
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: always be watching, people will always be watching, and that's
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: like kind of a shitty mentality to grow up with,
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: although I think now in the age of social media,
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: I can spill that way anyway. But you know, it was,
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: it always was different. It wasn't just like oh that
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: you know, freshman girl got drunk at a party.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: Was dude, did you see Julie Sweeten, the Gold of
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: the Stephanie Tanner get drunk at that party?
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: Totally?
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: You know, it was a thing.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: And so I think I found that thing that just
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: made me feel like I didn't give a shit.
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: Okay, alcohol.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: I finally was like, oh wait, here's the key to
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: where I can feel like I don't give a ship.
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: I don't you know, nothing matters, I don't care about
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: your judgment of me, you know, all that kind of
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: stuff that. Thank god, at thirty nine, I now have
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: you know, I worked through a process and actually have.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: But yeah, thirteen it was, you know, that was the thing.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: So when we started drinking at thirteen, when I mean
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: full alcoholic at thirteen fifteen, when did it get to
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: the point where it.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Is I mad?
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: I can say I was by fifteen or sixteen.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: I do remember at one point there was a moment
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: when I said to my mom was like, I think
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: I'm an alcoholico. And of course at fifteen or you know,
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: sixteen minutes, and I was drunk when I'm saying it, so,
• 22:23
  Speaker 6: you know, like I think my mom was probably like.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: The fuck you are?
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: You're just being an idiot, you know. But I think
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: at an early age I always knew, and I know
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: so many people in spiety talk about this. You know,
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: alcohol did something.
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: Different for me than it did for other people. I
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: didn't react to it like my friends would get drunk
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: and then they're like, oh, I'm that's it.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: That's like me. That's like me.
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: That's like, yeah, when I'm done, I'm like, you know, Saturday,
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: I wake up, I'm like I never need a drink
• 22:55
  Speaker 7: for like.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: Months, you know me, I would wake up and I'd
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: be like, where are the bloody Mary's? Where our eyes
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: are open? Why are we not drinking?
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: You know?
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: So, at what point did it did it it spiral
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: into something? Fifteen sixteen is when it spiraled into something more.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Getting worse than I got sober the first time.
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: When I was eighteen, I started I started college and
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: I did not get off through great.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Start that semester. Can I talked about it in my book.
• 23:25
  Speaker 6: I had a point nine GPA, which, oh my god,
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: really hard to get under a one point zero, but
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: I did it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's just like I didn't do anything.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: What school? What school?
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: Drink and party? Like I all of a sudden had
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: this freedom and I have my parents knew this about me,
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: you know, like you have to come home on weekends.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Okay, I'm home on weekends.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: So I was like, well, shit, that really cuts into
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: my partying time. But now I've got Monday through Thursday.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: And like that was so we really got to live
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: it up Monday through Thursday. Wow, And what school at
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: this time or whatever?
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: You know, And and then I knew at some point
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: like it just got to a place where I was like, oh,
• 24:08
  Speaker 6: I'm in trouble, like it really, you know, I was eighteen,
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: and I was like, yeah, I am not like most of.
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: These other people here drinking, Like this is getting serious,
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: and you know, it wasn't easy to get sober at eighteen.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: Starting college.
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: I remember rushing a sorority and then I was like,
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: what am I doing? One I don't like hanging out
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: with like these kind of people on too, Like the
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: fuck am I going to do in a sorority? It's
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: all they do, you know, and it's not all they
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: but like that, that's part of it, right, It's part of.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: That college experience. And I was like, I don't want
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: to do this. I was really uncomfortable.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: So you know, it was a struggle and and there's
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: been lots of back and forth in my in my
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: sobriety journey, but I always say, like it started for
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: me then, and I'm so grateful because it planted those
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: seeds of a thought in my head that it could
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: be different. Every time I would go back out to
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: do more research or say bucket and go get voaded.
• 25:09
  Speaker 6: If those those things and those people were always in
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: my head of like okay, well you know that's you
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: do that, but like just remember this, you know totally.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: When was your last when when was your last time out?
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Were you that was it?
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: Oh gosh?
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: Well my last drink was oh god, it's been eleven
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: years now?
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Oh wow?
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: No, no, has it been eleven years? March twenty ten
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: years March twenty eleven, So that was my last?
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: So well, I had had my last drink long before then,
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: but like I had gone out on Soma's at one
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: point and was.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: For like three weeks.
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: It was like I got in a car accident, things
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: went bad. I did that and then I was like,
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: oh wow, this is fucked up. So yeah, so that
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: was you know, I this is something changed for me
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: at that point where it was like, Okay, this is different,
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: and you know, and the journey of sobriety for me,
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: it's like not about anymore about arriving at this destination
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: of life.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Here I am. Now, it's like, oh, this is just
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: the constant work, right, the totally questioning ourselves.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Of course I am approaching. Of course, it's always one
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: day at of time. I'm approaching my three year birthday.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: And you know, there's so many moments where I think,
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: what did I do right in the time that I
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: was drinking for my rock bottom to look so differently
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: than a lot of people that I sit in rooms with,
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: and you know, they do the work every day and
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: you know, some of these people have twenty four hours
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: under their belt. Some of these people have twenty four
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: years under their belt. And you know, to me, it's
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: so humbling because it's it's the same. We are all
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: one drink away from having everything go wrong.
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: So I look at you like I always you know,
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: people were like, hey, you want to drink. I'm like, no, no,
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: I don't think anybody here wants to get Arrested's nice.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: I'm like, if you want your restaurant burned down.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: Were I to start drinking now, it would be balls
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: like it would be, you know, because I was looking like,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: what's the point of a glass of wine?
• 27:31
  Speaker 5: I want a bottle. I'm like, oh, most people like that.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Most people don't think like that.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: I don't think no.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Normal people are like, had a stressful work day, they
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: have a glass of wine, they go to bed. Me
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: we are off to the races, and oh yeah, we'll.
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: Winding up somewhere is Miami. Who knows, you know, Like,
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: I mean, I've done one way tickets to places, and
• 27:53
  Speaker 6: when are you going?
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't know who knows? Who does that?
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: You know?
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: It was the constant chase, and I think throughout my thirties,
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: I also and the pandemic too.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'll be really honest. It was awful and
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: it was really.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: Hard, but in some ways it forced us all forced
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: me particularly to slow.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Down totally yep, and start re evaluating.
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: Me and the pieces of me and what pieces of
• 28:22
  Speaker 6: me are at the forefront, and what my priorities are
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: and all of these things that I realized.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: You know, sometimes when I stay busy, I can just
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: distract myself.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: From y Yeah, you get to you get to have
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: time by yourself, what's working, what's not working? You know,
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: we were stuck by ourselves, and so I had a
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: similar It was really there's so much going on, so
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: much going on, like a freaking roller coaster, Like you
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: just talking yourself into all of these thoughts. So I
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: can relate to you saying that during quarantine. So then
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: flash forward to you pick up when you said your
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: oldest is fourteen.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Correct, she just turned thirteen in April.
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and then you're cool teenager and my younger daughter,
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Beatrix is she just turned eleven.
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: So that's got to be So first of all, you
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: just said you were how old did you say you were?
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: You dropped it thirty nine that I'm shaking in my
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: nikes because I like you. You look like a child.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: You look good girl, Good for you. I mean you
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: look amazing, Like I literally.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: Like showered, I clip no makeup on I apologize. It's
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: you know, just be in the face.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: No, never apologize. So I mean, what are your like,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: what have you done for your skin?
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't know.
• 29:40
  Speaker 6: I smoked for years. I did a lot of hard drugs,
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: Like don't wear sunscreen.
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: I like, yeah, gramatics.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: What what do your kids think about? Like do they
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: watch your show? Like, what do they think about this?
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: I'm so curious. No desire.
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: Kids are for the most part, relatively unimpressed with the
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: fact that I'm on a show.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: I think really the thing that they like most about
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: comings is set was craft service. The shit about what
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: I was doing?
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: Right, They were just like, oh, sushi on a Friday, Well,
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: I'd be impressed by that. Craft services too, I usually
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: see bananas and Julida.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: They enjoyed the person it sometimes for sure, but it's also,
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: you know, at the same time, it's hard.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: For them when I when I have to travel.
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: My younger one, you know, when I have to go
• 30:22
  Speaker 6: away for three weeks to do a TV movie or whatever,
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: she hates it.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: It's hard.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: But they, you know, they're just like, oh my god,
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: this is It's so weird, but it's also always been
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: their existence.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: Well not entirely because most of the time that I
• 30:40
  Speaker 6: have you know, I have my kids, So they were
• 30:42
  Speaker 6: pretty young when I started back to Fuller House and
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: doing all of that, so you know, they had some
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: experience of like just normal life, you know, the four
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: bedroom apartment we're all sharing. Yeah, and you know, now
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: they've gotten to see some of the fun perks of this,
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: so I think they like that for sure.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: But at the you know, at the end of the day,
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: I'm mom. I have rules.
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: I yell at them like I'm so not cool. It
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: doesn't matter, like blah blah blah. You just told me
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: to pay my room.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: I hate you, so right, Yeah, that's mostant.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this.
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: So five years you come back, the show comes back.
• 31:15
  Speaker 7: Everybody's older, everybody's more grown up. Now, it's Bob said,
• 31:18
  Speaker 7: it's a friend of mine. It's just the whole thing's awesome.
• 31:21
  Speaker 7: I mean, I just think, you know, I have a
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: show Power on Stars and a lot of spin offs,
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: and you know, we've never come back.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: We're just still doing. But I've just tried it before
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: you came on. I try to think about, like, wow.
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: Fast forward seven, eight, nine years, how exciting that has
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: to be to bring back the family and go back
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: and do it again. What is the most fun part
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: about you being back besides the fact that you're old
• 31:44
  Speaker 7: enough to appreciate it, probably now, what else is fun
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: about it?
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I appreciated it when I was young.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: But I think having like, had things as a kid
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: and build up that, and then not having things and
• 31:58
  Speaker 6: being like, you know, like I said, one.
• 32:01
  Speaker 5: Veteran apartment with two kids, and you know, trying to
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: figure it out and do all that, like, and then
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: being able to kind of come back, and then being
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: in a pandemic.
• 32:09
  Speaker 6: You know, all of those things have given me perspective
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: that I wouldn't have had had it been difficult or
• 32:17
  Speaker 6: not difficult rather but coming back with all of these
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: people who we've stayed friends. I mean, we've all been
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: super close thirty five years.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Oh my wow, that's what I mean.
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: Other than my parents, I don't have a lot of
• 32:33
  Speaker 6: memories with anyone else in my life.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: Do the Fourhouse cast, And we've always.
• 32:39
  Speaker 6: Stayed in touch, you know, sometimes we're together more than others,
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: but we've always done dinners on a regular basis. We've
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: always talked to each other. I mean, Bob and John
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: are like brothers. Literally, Dave involved knew each other since
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: they were nineteen. I mean, look, you know, it's just
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: there's so many there's so much love in that family.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: And I mean back was like a reason you need
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: to come back and have fun and like play with
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: our friends and make a show and do this all
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: over again.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Now you get to see you have new kids that
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: are a part of the show, where you know they
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: are where you once were.
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I was really close with Elias that played mass
• 33:23
  Speaker 6: yeah show because he was about my age. He was
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: the one that was the middle kid about my age
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: that I was when he started and thirteen when you
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: know all of that, and he and I just connected
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: and I really understood that, and it is it's such
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: a different thing to be the adults in the room
• 33:41
  Speaker 6: now and be the one that, you know, along with
• 33:44
  Speaker 6: Cannas and Andreas sort of felt like we're responsible for
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: the tone of this set and how this works and
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: how these kids are treated, you know, and how we work.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: And he just brought that family of full house right
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: to that and to those kids.
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: The kids were a part of the family. You know,
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: I missed them went off at college.
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: It was you know, oh my god, did you film
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: at a tape or whatever film tape in the same
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: studio that you did the original?
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: We did?
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Oh we we well.
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: The first six seasons of Full House we were on
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: the Sony lot in Culver City.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: Then the last two years we moved over here to
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: Warner Brothers.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Okay, and.
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: We were on.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: Stage twenty four for those last two years.
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: Wow. And when we first the first season of our show,
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: we were on a different set. Actually we were on
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: a smaller one and we had was outside. So the
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: second season we got to come back and we came
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: back to Stage twenty four to the dressing rooms, like
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: the little two story apartment dressing rooms that they had
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: built on set.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: We were the first ones in them.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: Wow, Now you know I had Dave Coulier's old room,
• 35:03
  Speaker 6: Canvas had Bob's old room.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, so amazing.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Elias had my like the school room was now this.
• 35:10
  Speaker 6: But we knew, I mean always, I knew every inch
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: of that set.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: I could walk it in my sleep. That's so Coolam
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: there again? And then and also getting to say goodbye
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: on that set again.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Wow, Wait, tell me about the tell me about the
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: season finale. What was that day like and what was
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: that final bow like?
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: You know it was. It was hard, but in a
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: way it was easier for me the second time, only
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: because the first time, as a thirteen year old girl,
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: I had this fear that I'd never see these people
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: again and that this was it and that that family
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: was done and I had no connection to them anymore.
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: This time I got to say goodbye to my family
• 35:59
  Speaker 6: of thirty five years in a way that was like,
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: we did it again. I'll see you guys soon, you know.
• 36:06
  Speaker 6: But it was also heartbreaking because again we had built
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: another family of you know, it's not just the cast,
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: it's your crew. And our crew was so amazing every department.
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: I loved them all. I was friends with them all,
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: Like I dearly enjoy being with these people so much
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: of my life and it's hard to.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: Say goodbye to that. But it was just a different
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: perspective of like, I'm just in shock that we got
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: to do this again in five years, you know, amazing.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: It's like it's like it would feel like hitting the
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: lottery twice, you know, because it's hard enough to have
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: a show on the air for a year.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Let alone, I hit epic show that stands at time twice,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: it comes back twice. It's like hitting a lot of twice.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: But so I could tell it you're the way you
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: talk about it, you have such an appreciation.
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: And then the second time around, it's like I really
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: got to like because as a child, you might have
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: never got to understand the level.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean, except you got to do
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: it as a just in your existence.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: It's the only one you've ever known. You're normal, You're like,
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: this is just this is what it was like.
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: I get up, I go to half day school, I
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: you know, get lunch in the car, I work on
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: my lines, and I show up.
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: To my job and home to homework in the car,
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: and you know, but this is normal.
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: But this time, this time, I could tell you really
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: soaked it all up the five years, and I think
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: that's really neat.
• 37:28
  Speaker 5: And I really did I really, I really really did
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: you know? I stood in that.
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: I remember walking onto I remember walking onto the set
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: the very first time and looking at the house again
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: and it was exactly like walking into your old house.
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: That you grew up in.
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: Wow, and you noticed the little changes. You're like, Oh,
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: the alcove's bigger. Oh that's different.
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: Oh they put a laundry room there when that was
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: just an exit. Oh they did that. You know, Oh
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: this this counter wasn't this big like the things that
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: you absolutely.
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: Know about your childhood home and walking into that again,
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: it was like, it's a really incredibly emotional moment and
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: the past went.
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: Over there together.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: Oh wow, for the first time right after our very
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: first table read at Warner Brothers, and we all decided
• 38:20
  Speaker 6: to walk over there together as a group.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: And it was like we all had tears running down
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: our face back in the home.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, who is who is the Who's the softest of
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: the cast? On the last day, who who?
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I mean?
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: I know you all were like who lost it? Who
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: lost it the most? Like who I did?
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Wow?
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: It was It was really interesting because.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: I'm not across you come across. You come across tough,
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: so like but you and the song.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: For sure, I am not like I'm not an emotional person.
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: I'm not like I'm a tough not to crack in
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: that regard, Like it's not I'm like, oh that's too.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: Bad, you know what I mean.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: Like, but at the same time, incredibly empathetic. Yeah, and
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: like I feel stuff really deeply, so I think it
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: comes out.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: Because I'm like, n this is I got to keep
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: it all.
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: Yeah, not too much.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: But Cannice had been crying.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: Like the two weeks before, Andrew was crying all that
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: week like, and there were moments for sure that we
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: got like emotional together during that whole week. But man,
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: when I went out to shoot that last scene, I
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: could barely say my lines and I just I just sobbed.
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: I really cried.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: And I remember Elias. I went right to him because
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: he was just a wreck.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: I remember that.
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: I remember that as a kid, and I just stood
• 39:39
  Speaker 6: there and hugged him and held him, and you know,
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: I just sobbed and cried, like I've all the pictures
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: from that.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Man, I'm just.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: And it was it was.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: It was sadness that I'm not going to get to
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: do this every day because I just again, I loved
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: the routine of it.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: I was so happy there. But it was also just
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: this immense wave of gratitude.
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: That I got to do that and experience that, and
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: travel with this family to Japan.
• 40:16
  Speaker 5: And go do that, and travel with them here and
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: go you know, I just was. I was crying because
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: I thought, Wow, what a life.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: You know, every time that I think I know how
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: it's going to be and this is going to be
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: what it is forever, it is, right, And that's a
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: great thing.
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: And it's also a painful thing, right, is that you know,
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: the only constant in life has changed. But standing there,
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: it just I felt so much.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: And my kids were there, and my parents were there,
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: and you know, Candice's family, and Andrew's family, and these
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: parents and and and you know, aunts and uncles in
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: the original cast and people that had grown up with
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: us now with my kids now, with our kids now,
• 41:03
  Speaker 6: with our parents like it generational.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Right moment, Oh, I would have lost in my mind too.
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: And I think I would be hard pressed to say
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: that there are very many shows like that.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: No, I'll agree with you, doesn't exist anymore. I mean
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: it's rare. It's rare.
• 41:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah. And and to have a set where it's you
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: literally have three generations of family that all know each other, Bob.
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: You know, they all know my parents and Andrew's and
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: Kannas's parents and our kids and you know, it was
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: like the family reunion every Friday night on take nights.
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: Everybody's husbands and kids and this and that.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, that sounds so fun.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: That was that was what I loved. That energy. It
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: was wonderful. It was wonderful to watch and a really
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: special thing to be a part of. And I knew it.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: But you know, it's it's even on my movies, all
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: the things you just discussed.
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: I get like a little feeling of that every movie
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: I make, Like you know, you're you know, three months
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: of pre production, three months of shooting.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: It's like an eight month thing. Yah. Right, But what
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: you're talking about is.
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: Decades of friendship, of growing up, of evolving and with
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: your movies.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: Sometimes you know, it's like you don't shoot with the
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: same people every day, and this was a cast that
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: they were shooting together.
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: You create this little this business. You know, I love it.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: We're a bunch of.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: Carnies, by the way, Jody, I say that to everybody.
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: We are exactly that.
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: We come into town, we set up the tents, we
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: put on the show, and then it's over and it's like,
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: you know, sometimes you get to go back with the
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: same people, but not always where your situation. You're talking
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: about decades of friendship, of growing, of seeing each other
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: have families, and then getting to do it again for
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: five more years. That is a blessing at the highest level.
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: I really, you're a lucky, lucky person.
• 42:53
  Speaker 5: For many many reasons, and.
• 42:57
  Speaker 6: I don't forget it, you know, gratitude, like and in sobriety,
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: but just in general, like looking around and being grateful
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: for what I have and then turning that into.
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: The fight and the passion that I have for others.
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: You know, I really, I know I've been really lucky
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: in a lot of ways, and you know, I don't
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: take that for granted any any at any moment.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: You can definitely tell you you are amazing to talk to.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: I'm so appreciative that you took time to be on
• 43:26
  Speaker 4: our podcast.
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: Very absolutely. My pleasure is so nice to talk to
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: you guys.
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, this was great. I really enjoyed it.
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: And I think that people were all fans of this show.
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: Whether you're old like me and you're fans of both versions,
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: or you're nostalgic like Lala, you're fans of both versions.
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: Rights you know, it's the nineties.
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: Kids.
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a nice I'm a nice.
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: My boyfriend's older than I am.
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: He's fifty one, and so we have that say there's
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: like just enough of a gap sometimes where he's like, yeah, no,
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: I wasn't into that.
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: I'm like, you know, my god, that was everything, and
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: he's like.
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I'm just kind of old for that's like.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: Your age is showing. Yep, there's the gap. Didn't realize
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: it until something.
• 44:11
  Speaker 5: From like Nickelodeon, Are You Afraid the Door Called? Like
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: I was like twenty one already at drinking and you're.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: Like, oh, that's amazing.
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: It was such a pleasure to talk to you. We
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: hope to talk to you soon. You You're awesome.
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: Thank you, my love, thank you absolutely, thank you you guys.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: It was a pleasure.
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: Bye me.