WEBVTT - Katie Plus One Has a Full House: Kelly Rizzo with John Stamos 0:00:04.800 --> 0:00:08.000 Hi everyone, I'm Katie Couric and this is next Question. 0:00:12.119 --> 0:00:16.239 We're doing something a little bit different this week, something 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.200 that I'm going to try throughout this season of the podcast, 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:24.680 and that is to do a Katie plus one episode. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:27.960 I am so lucky. I know so many great people. 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:31.840 They're interesting, they're fun to talk to, they're special to me, 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:35.600 and I thought, wouldn't it be fun to invite people 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.800 to join me and be my little partner in crime 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.239 on this podcast. So we're doing it today with my 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.440 friend Kelly Rizzo and Hi Kelly. 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:47.839 Hi Katie. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.440 I'm so honored to be a or plus one and 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:53.960 be your partner in crime. And for the first time 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.520 me being your partner in crime doesn't involve cocktails or cooking. 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.840 That's true. That's true, just talk. 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.320 And I thought maybe we could tell everyone listening Kelly, 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:06.000 how we know each other and we actually haven't been 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.880 friends for all that long. I mean, you're a new friend, 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:11.240 which I think is so important and that's something I 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:14.600 love to do. You know that Girl Scout song make 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:20.160 New Friends? The kiel one is silver and the uh 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.600 now it's around actually, but we're not going to subject 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:25.679 our listeners to that. 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:28.200 It has been a little over a year and a 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:32.280 half that we've been friends. We met right after my 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:35.960 husband Bob passed away, because you had reached out through 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:39.080 a mutual friend, because you had gone through that same 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.640 loss about twenty something years earlier. 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.680 Twenty four years early, yes, exactly. 0:01:46.040 --> 0:01:47.880 You were about the same age that I was when 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.360 this happened, so you know what it feels like to 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.680 have gone through a loss at that time, and you 0:01:52.760 --> 0:01:55.600 reached out, just kind of offering a friendly ear and 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.040 a friendly hand, and you're like, I'm here if you 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:00.800 want to talk, And of course I took her up 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:01.200 on that head. 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.840 I just remember thinking when I was reading about what 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.960 happened to Bob, who I always really liked. Actually, I 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:10.000 had a date with him once, as you know, I. 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:11.560 Really liked him. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:15.359 I found him so cute and funny and amusing, and 0:02:16.080 --> 0:02:18.840 I did think we shared a pretty nice kiss in 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:20.200 the foyer of my apartment. 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.120 But he always thought you were lovely. 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:23.320 What can I say? 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:24.280 He was a big fan. 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:28.079 He adored you, well, not enough to call me again, but. 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.960 That's okay, that's okay, because it all worked out. It 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:33.680 all worked out. He found the love of his life 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:38.640 with you. Oh, okay, And I remember thinking, gosh, Kelly, 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:45.560 I remember those strange, surreal days following Jay's death. I thought, 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.600 I know a little bit what Kelly's feeling right now. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:51.520 I'm just going to say, hey, if you need me, 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.520 I'm here. We had dinner and then we've just stayed 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:58.000 in touch because I've also been very excited about your 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:03.000 career and what's ahead for you and tried to tried 0:03:03.040 --> 0:03:05.240 to give you some advice in that department. 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:06.560 So I'm just thrilled. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:10.160 There's no better mentor to have than you well, and 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.120 I've been so grateful a for your friendship, B for 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.760 your guidance on the personal level, but then see for 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:21.240 your guidance and mentorship on the career side of things. 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:24.519 And I'm just I mean, when Katie Kurk calls you 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.200 and says, hey, do you want to do an interview 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:30.799 with me, you say yes, And especially when it's such 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:32.960 a dear friend of mine as well, which I'm excited about. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.000 That's one of the reasons I thought this would be 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:40.560 very good chemistry. And it was serendipitous that my guest 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.560 today is someone who you know well. I always say 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.400 when people say that instead of who for a person. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:49.240 People make that mistake a lot, by the way, and 0:03:49.320 --> 0:03:52.120 that is John Stamos, Katie. 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.280 If you and I went out instead of you and Bob, 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:56.160 we'd probably still be dating. 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.760 I just, oh, quit it some more, John, quit it 0:03:58.840 --> 0:03:59.400 some more. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:04.360 Out of me Cooier Saggitt. He could have started with me. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.920 Well, you didn't ask John, and I think I don't 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:08.360 think you were available at the time. 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:09.520 Did Bob ask you out? 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:09.880 Yeah? 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:11.440 They were out on a date. He asked her out. 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:12.600 Isn't that funny? 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:16.159 Yeah, I remember, and we talked about it. I think 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:17.480 he was intimidated by you. 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:18.120 Please. 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.240 He was not really good. I used to have to 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.080 to see he or know him, like I would tell 0:04:22.160 --> 0:04:23.720 him what the text and what to say, what to 0:04:23.720 --> 0:04:26.000 do on these dates, and I, god, I wish maybe 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:27.599 I should have gone back to my text and see 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:30.159 because I feel like I was. I was texting him, 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:32.360 don't blow out X smarter on Katie. She's a very 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.839 intelligent woman. She's not just beautiful. Be careful, Bob, and 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.479 you know and yeah, and you guys kissed she. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.520 Did, and as Kelly knows, he was a good kisser. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:47.680 Oh, I know sheosed him and you know, you guys 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.080 had a some cuddles that you've you've cuddled on camera 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.480 and off probably, and you guys joke, you even joke 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:56.839 in your book that you've shared a. 0:04:56.800 --> 0:04:58.960 Bed with him on multiple occasions. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.720 We were like old married couple. We didn't have sex, 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:07.360 and we argued about that. That's funny, John, that is well, 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.039 you know I learned from Bob. Thank you for having 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:11.760 me on this and what a great idea. But isn't 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.719 it called Katie plus one? Like don't you always have to. 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.080 Say the name of the podcast is next question? And 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:20.040 some conversations, honestly, John, lend themselves to sort of a 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:25.200 single person doing an interview, and some are much better 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:28.719 for when there's a connection or someone is passionate about 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:32.080 a topic. So this is really an experiment, and Kelly 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:37.520 is my first person to do this with. And anyway, 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:39.599 when I was going to be in La visiting my 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.200 daughter and I know you both live in La, I thought, Wow, 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:46.000 this will be a great opportunity because I'm excited to 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.360 talk to you about your book and your life. And 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.000 I know what a big deal this is, John, because 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:54.320 I wrote a memoir that came out gosh, now about 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:55.279 two years ago. 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:56.919 I can't believe it, and it. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:06:02.360 Was a very stressful time because you do open up 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.560 your heart and kind of spell your guts on the page, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.239 and it's scary, right. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.240 It was the last thing on my mind. I never 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:12.880 thought about writing a book. It wasn't a goal of mine. 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.479 I didn't think I could do it. Certainly, in my 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:19.360 juvenile thinking, I thought, well, all people would care about 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.279 is you know, talking about who I slept with. And 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.400 I'm not going to say that because it's not that 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.320 many anyway, but you know, so I just I'm never 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.080 going to write a book, and I'd never found my 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.400 I just didn't think it was something that I would 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:33.960 ever do. And then you know, I became a father 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.240 and that kind of you know, maybe you know, people 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.520 were asking that I was now don't know. Then you know, 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.719 then Bob died and I sat down to write that 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.320 obituary type thing in the La Times, and I just 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.479 kind of just poured out of me. And I think 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.120 the agents saw that and they said, oh, hey, you 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.400 should write a book. I'm like, now, yes, it was 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.080 very good writing in that, and I still said no 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:57.920 for a long time, and I just couldn't figure out 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.960 I didn't want to. I didn't think I and I 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.359 didn't know how. I didn't know where to start. And 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.120 then I remembered my mom's letters that she wrote me, 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:10.240 and she wrote these beautiful notes that we've kept over 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:11.840 the years, and I kind of put them together. I say, Okay, 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:15.520 this is a good starting point. But then I wanted 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:17.200 to write a love letter to all the people that 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.440 have been so beautiful in my life, certainly Bob. I mean, 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.080 Bob is a through line through the whole, you know, 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.880 I start with I decided to write I don't know 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.520 where you started in your book, but I started the 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:27.800 two hardest things that I could write about. One was 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.080 this horrific day I was going to meet Bob at 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.520 the palm and I got a dui and you know, 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.680 it was the lowest point in my life. And my 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:37.480 five stages of grief then were you know, sex and 0:07:37.480 --> 0:07:41.000 more booze, and it was terrible. And then this second 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:43.120 chapter that I wrote was the final one, the day 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.680 I found out that Bob died, and I sort of 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:49.480 go through it pretty meticulously, right Kelly, and and my 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.720 five stages of brief there were of therapy and family 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.240 and health, and then I just had to feel in 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.000 the rest of it. But Bob was certainly I don't 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.640 know if I don't know he was interesting. I was 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.000 just thinking, I don't know if I would have wrote this, 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:01.920 because a lot of times when I was writing about 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:03.680 Bob was like, ooh, he if he was a lie? 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:05.800 Would he? I don't think I would have written this 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:09.120 book if if he was still around. 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.440 Wow, I mean clearly, I think a life event like 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:18.400 that has such a profound impact and reminds you of 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:19.360 your mortality. 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:24.880 And yeah, you know you lost your husband. When is that? 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.040 It was in nineteen ninety eight, believe it or not. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.720 So it has been dush twenty five years now, right, 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:33.439 And what. 0:08:33.400 --> 0:08:35.240 Does that feel like? Is it like the more time 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.960 that goes by, the less you feel it. And that 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:38.839 feels shitty. 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:43.800 Too, right, it does actually, But I mean Kelly and 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:47.320 I had a long conversation about that for her podcast. 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:50.080 And you know, I always think if something were to 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:54.120 happen to me, I wouldn't want the people I left behind. 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:56.240 I'd want them to be sad for a little while. 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.560 I'd want them to be very, very very sad, But 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:04.320 I wouldn't want that sadness to overcome them and be 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.360 a through line through the rest of their lives. As 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:10.080 much as you know, I'd want them to think about me, 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.400 But you want you want people to be as joyful 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:18.040 and feel good. You don't want people to feel terrible. 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.160 And Kelly's very much that attitude. 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:22.760 I know Kelly struggled. Didn't you struggle with that? Kelly? Yeah, 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:25.000 you started to feel sort of good and have a 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.720 nice half a day and then you feel guilty. Right, Well, 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:29.120 if mom would be mad, he would be mad. 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.040 But at this point, well that's what I'm saying, John, 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:34.040 Like you know, better than anybody, I've had to differentiate 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:38.040 between earthly Bob and heavenly Bob. Heavenly Bob, of course 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.440 would want me to be happy and would want me 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.079 to enjoy life and to. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:44.920 Maybe meet for someone, right. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.920 But Earthly Bob absolutely not. Earthly Bob would be like, 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:53.480 how dare you? How could you you're smiling? Oh, so 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:55.520 you didn't love me at all? Right, I knew it, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.000 you know, Like that's how earthly Bob would be, And 0:09:58.040 --> 0:10:00.560 so you have to separate them, you know, and you 0:10:00.600 --> 0:10:02.960 know that better than anybody. John, Like how he would 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.800 have been if he could talk about his own death, 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:07.760 but he never wanted to talk about it because he 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:08.920 said he was going to live forever. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.760 All right. You called me yesterday crying and it was 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.800 a you know, I started crying. But what you said 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:17.840 was that that the people that didn't know Bob, when 0:10:17.880 --> 0:10:19.760 they read your book, they'll they'll know the real Bob. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.720 And that meant so much to me because I've just 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:27.160 been struggling with not having him around and and as 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.720 I know you are, but writing the book was it 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:33.120 was my way of getting, you know, being close to 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:36.640 him again and hopefully, and I feel that phone call 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:38.920 made me because I just wanted him to be proud 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.079 of the of the way I wrote about him, and 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.120 you know, you said he would be, so that was 0:10:43.200 --> 0:10:44.080 all I needed here. 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.560 Not only would he be proud, I mean I was 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:51.400 just so touched and blown away by how you portrayed 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:56.240 and depicted your relationship with him. You said things about 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.240 me and there that like I didn't even know or 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:03.400 that I had forgotten. And there were so many parts 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:06.679 of this book that I mean, even myself, as your friend, 0:11:06.760 --> 0:11:09.120 somebody who knows you very well like I did, I 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:12.280 didn't know and it's such like what, oh, my gosh, 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.760 just even stories, stories about Bob, because keep in mind, 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.520 I had only heard Bob's perspective on a lot of things, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:20.400 and you know, and we'll get to this, but you know, 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.079 your relationship with him, even when you guys first started 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:25.600 doing Full House together, I had I knew that you 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.480 guys weren't besties from day one, but you know, I 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.079 only heard Bob's side of the story. So it was 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.199 very interesting to get your side of the story. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.680 Yeah, it was, you know, the two hardest I thought 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.920 that the writing the chapter about Bob or the opening 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.360 chapter was gonna be the harst the hardest chapter. Two 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:44.920 chapters really that were the Full House ones because I didn't, 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:49.320 you know, I know how important the show was to people, 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.079 and people ask if. Jeff Franklin was over here the 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.319 other day and he's writing a book, and he was 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:53.960 asking me like, when did I come to terms with 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:55.960 the fact that you know Full House? And when did 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:57.280 I like it? When do I accept it? And the 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:00.319 truth is not until, really, honestly to myself, until I 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.560 wrote this book, until I put down on paper what 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.960 that show meant to people, how much it influenced the life, 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:09.800 and how it was everybody's family. It wasn't just you know, 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.400 the last key kid coming home. It was her family 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.240 and the widow who turns it up a little louder, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.840 it was his family. And you know, it's become you know, 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:23.040 the new normal, unconventional family. And the central character on 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:26.360 that show was love and it was representing the best 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:28.760 of who we could be. And the critics used to 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:30.760 just drive me nuts, and I finally just let all 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:32.920 that go writing this book and said, this show wasn't 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.840 meant for you, guys, You're not smarter than me. I 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:36.680 get it. It was fast at times, it was silly, it 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:39.200 was big, But what you would you missed is right 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.520 under that when you put gave you a chance to 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:45.080 the brain goes to the side and lets the heart feel. 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.840 And that's what you intellectual dummies didn't get that I 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:50.520 got and the rest of the world got too. So 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.960 we weren't making it for you, but just digging at it, 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:55.760 writing it down and then talking about the relationship with Bob. 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.280 I mean it did start off rough. I came from, 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:00.440 you know, a sitcom with Jack Clug and who was 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:03.640 you know, one of the great television actors, and Gary 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.360 Marshall was on that show and all these brilliant comics, 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.959 and every scene that we approached was from the story 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:13.200 and character and why I would say this, and that's 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:16.120 the way I went into full house. Well, Bob certainly 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.840 didn't work that way. Bob, as Kelly could attest, was 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:21.559 a laugh junkie. He was addicted to getting laughs and 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:24.520 if he couldn't get him from where he's you know, 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:27.480 in the show, it was like going down to skid 0:13:27.520 --> 0:13:29.240 row and getting them. He would make the crew. He 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:32.360 would just go for the lowest you know, not the crew, 0:13:32.400 --> 0:13:34.880 but the type of comedy to make them laugh. And 0:13:34.920 --> 0:13:39.240 it was it was intrusive to my process. So then 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.480 just trying to figure out, like when did we click, 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:46.280 and it really wasn't until his sister got scalaraderma and 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:49.679 Dave's sister had a terrible cancer. Then they found a 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.800 brain tumor and my sister, so the three of us 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.840 were not just sitcom guys that working together. We were 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.839 three brothers that were losing their sisters. And that's when 0:13:57.880 --> 0:13:59.280 we really I think connected. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:05.240 It's been incredibly gosh. I mean, obviously I know Bob's 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:08.439 story well about his sister, and I've gone to events 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:12.480 for this scleeroderma foundation, but for Dave to have his 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.120 sister sick and you John, I know she was later 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.360 diagnosed with MS and it didn't turn out to be 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.360 a brain tumor after all, but to have those life 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.720 and death situations, that must have been an incredibly bonding 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:26.400 experience for the three of you. And it was that 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.320 the moment everything changed. 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.600 I think. So it sort of just said, what are 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:33.000 we doing. Let's put aside our petty bullshit, let's learn 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.120 from each other, Let's all come a little closer to 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.360 your process you come to mind. And we did that. 0:14:37.520 --> 0:14:40.280 And you know what else was interesting just thinking it through, 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:42.880 is that my sister made it, like you said, and 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:46.120 there's didn't. So that that was I felt guilt about 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.240 that too. It was strange, but we just continued to 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:53.400 build our love for each other. And you know, thinking 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.720 about that last dinner, Kelly, I mean, Bob was it 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.240 was just you know, it was everything you wan wanted 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:02.840 in Bob that night. He was just at his to 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.160 me anyway, it was his best and little things that 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:08.960 normally bothered me about him didn't because I too was coming, 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.800 you know, was starting to come around to be like, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.880 you know, not to be such an asshole, and you 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:16.680 know it was. And then he wrote this beautiful thing 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.080 and you know Instagram, and you don't think of the 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:21.960 last time you take a picture like that, to be there, 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:23.640 last time with somebody. 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:26.120 Set the scene for me. John and Kelly, you guys 0:15:26.480 --> 0:15:29.760 run a double date. You were at Noboo in Malibu, right, 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:34.119 and Kelly, do you remember that night being as magical 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:35.080 as John does? 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:36.000 I do? 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.080 And but I'll I'm going to backtrack even one more second, 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:41.880 because John, this is something that now literally this just 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.880 popped in my head. You had said how he was 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:46.760 at his best and you were at your best. But 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.040 I'm thinking back to even maybe just like a month 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:50.880 before that is when you guys, remember you had that 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.800 work trip I think to Florida and you guys were 0:15:53.840 --> 0:15:56.080 bickering like the old married couple the whole time. And 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:57.880 I remember Bob came alone and he was like, oh, 0:15:58.360 --> 0:16:01.200 we were driving each other nuts. John was mean to me, 0:16:01.400 --> 0:16:03.160 and then I'm sure I was mean to him. And 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.360 you know, you guys were bickering, bickering, bickering, and then 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.840 we had this dinner that was the complete and total 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.240 like resolution from that and so there was none of 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.880 that you guys, you know. I mean, I've been at 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.160 many dinners with you guys where even you'll you'll bicker 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.000 like the old married couple, and you guys were just 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:23.880 having the best time. And we truly did have this wonderful, 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:28.520 wonderful dinner that I'm so grateful that you put it 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:33.240 into words and you documented that better than even my 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:35.960 memory allowed. So I'm grateful that I had you as 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:39.240 my like documentarian. So thank you for that and for 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:41.880 kind of restating it so beautifully. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.040 Yeah, it was. It was special. He was you know, look, 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:49.600 I mean it's uh, it's you don't think of losing 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:53.200 someone like this like this so fast, and but we've 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:54.120 we've bummed everybody. 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.920 Hut. Yeah, well you know what I mean. I actually 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:02.760 I think it's beautiful. We'll be back with more of 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:06.320 John Stamos and my date for this podcast, Kelly Rizzo, 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:12.040 right after this. If you want to get smarter every 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.199 morning with a breakdown of the news and fascinating takes 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.320 on health and wellness and pop culture, sign up for 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.520 our daily newsletter, wake Up Call by going to Katiecuric 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:33.640 dot com. We're back with John Stamos, Kelly Rizzo and Wah, 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:36.840 there is a lot more to you, John Stamos than 0:17:36.920 --> 0:17:43.080 Bob Saggatt. And the book is is really while Bob 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.400 plays an important role in is the through line. As 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.400 you said, it's really a love letter also to your family, 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:49.439 to growing up. 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:51.440 So I wanted to ask you about that. 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.400 I mean, you grew up in Orange County in an 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:58.280 extremely close knit family with your parents and your two sisters, 0:17:58.320 --> 0:17:59.399 one older, one younger. 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:02.359 Could fast. You're so great. I haven't seen you do 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:04.520 this in a long time, you know, because you know 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.119 on the morning, it's just hearing your voice, like you 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:10.040 were saying Kenly, like she's so iconic, she's so You're 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.760 so e and smart, but you're also cute and you 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:16.480 have this this likability about you and this smile and 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.240 just to be because I don't think we've done many 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.920 interviews together to be interviewed by you like this. Sorry 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:22.080 to interrupt you, but I just don't know. 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.760 Please don't how lucky am I to so on going 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.560 next to her. I'm just so I feel okay, and. 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.560 You look great. You don't age either, thank you, I 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:33.200 say either, because I'm talking to myself. 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.680 You look damn good. Can I just say, John Stamos, 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:39.160 you look damn good. It looks like Can I just say, 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:42.159 look at that head of hair? What is that? 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.080 I have this very large poster, big like I asked 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:46.960 my sister to get a little thing for the book, 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:48.600 and it's it's like the whole wall. 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:50.439 I think it's fitting. 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.720 I think it's appropriate to you anyway. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:54.720 Sorry interruption, getting back to my question. 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:57.280 Thank you for those nice things that you just said, 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.919 But I want you to just describe your childhood. You know, 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:03.600 it's so fun to hear how people grew up and 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:07.000 how their childhoods made them the people they became. I'm 0:19:07.080 --> 0:19:11.320 fascinated by that. More conversations are going on about, you know, 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.119 how you're raised and trauma and all that stuff, and 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:18.120