WEBVTT - Storytime Minsode #5: John’s new book 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:18.800 All righty, we're ready. 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:19.400 I'm wedding. 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:20.439 Are we wed? 0:00:20.600 --> 0:00:21.080 I'm weady? 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:22.760 And now I sound like Elmer fudd. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:31.560 Oh boy, here we go hunting rabbits. Yeah, not to 0:00:31.560 --> 0:00:34.880 be confused with mister ed mice, right, mouss. 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:36.400 Nieces. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.000 Oh boy, it feels like I haven't seen you in 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:41.320 all of like twenty four hours. 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.280 I know we recorded last. We have more to talk about. 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:45.560 We have a lot more to talk about. I don't 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:47.519 think we have a lot more to talk we do. 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:49.720 We don't normally do this pre show chatter, I think 0:00:49.720 --> 0:00:52.800 for these minisodes, but we're just so used to just 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:54.680 chatting that we're just chatting. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.040 Is that you gently telling me stop shout and let's 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:57.600 get to the point. 0:00:57.680 --> 0:00:59.160 Yeah, okay, got it, got it, got it, got it. 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:02.040 I know it's been a while since we recorded a minisode, 0:01:02.080 --> 0:01:02.640 so it's all right. 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.080 We're getting back in the swing of things. 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:07.440 I can't wait to hear you attempt the outro in 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:09.680 thirty minutes and uh that's great. 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.160 Now I'm gonna be sweating about it for the next 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:11.759 thirty minutes. 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:16.520 Welcome back to how Rude Tanertos Fana Ritos. I am 0:01:16.560 --> 0:01:20.560 Andrea Barber and I am Jody Sweeten. And today we 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.399 are back with another minisode, which is where we spend 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.040 some time answering a fan. 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:30.360 Question, which is so great. We love reading the question questions. 0:01:30.480 --> 0:01:31.160 They're so good. 0:01:32.280 --> 0:01:37.399 So today today's question is from Marley in Amsterdam, Holland. 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.600 Oh my gosh, that's so cool. 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.560 And Marley says, I read John Stamos's new book, and 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:45.000 I wanted to know if you could share your favorite 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:49.080 memories with him on and off the show. 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.720 Oh. I haven't had a chance to read all of 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.919 John's book yet, but I was sitting I was sitting 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:58.640 here and like, sorry, there's literally some sort of creature 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:00.920 running on my roof and it just here the crap out. 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:02.680 The raccoons. 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.160 Yeah, it was like the fair even squirrels under attack 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:10.720 up there. But I was reading through it and I 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.800 got to the you know, the part about where he 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.200 talks about how he hated the first table read with 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:19.239 me or whatever, but oh, just him talking about like, oh, 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:25.440 just the relationship between him and Bob and like how. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.680 It was they drove each other absolutely. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.359 Crazy and then finally like they just got each other 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.359 and they were Yeah, it's like I just it's taken 0:02:33.400 --> 0:02:36.919 me back to those memories, you know, because I mean, 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:39.160 like we've said, like I was so little, we were 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.600 so little that it's fun to hear it from the 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.680 perspective of of the guys that remember. And I have 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:49.919 so many wonderful memories with John, oh, I really do. 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:54.079 It's really cool reading this book concurrently while we're doing 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.800 these recaps, because you can see the evolution of Jesse 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.559 as a character from like womanizer to loving uncle. 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.800 And you can see it in the book. Yes, yeah, yeah, John. 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.520 Has evolved as a person, you know what. 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:11.200 Like and I've always said this, and I think, I 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.840 really think that the reason that Full House was so 0:03:13.880 --> 0:03:17.040 successful was because what you were seeing on screen was 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:21.800 like an actual reflection of what was happening kind of 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.639 in our lives, you know, like our relationships were very 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.840 real watching John evolve from yeah, like the you know 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.320 the dude that like yelled at the babies and you 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.200 know whatever, and was just like friends sent me some 0:03:35.320 --> 0:03:36.720 video and it was a clip it was like Uncle 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.880 Jesse's kind of a problematic character, and I was like, you, like, look, 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.320 there's a little time at times of it, but like, yes, yes, 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:48.120 in his growth and like like as Jesse starts falling 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.040 more in love with being a family guy, and then 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:52.680 you see it when he has his own kids and 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.040 all this stuff, like and just watching John go through 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:56.880 that same evolution. 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:00.200 Has been so I mean, it's just so cool to watch. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:01.760 It's so special. 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:05.440 It's great, and it's it's such a well written book. 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.120 Like it's so his voice. I didn't know. I didn't 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:10.120 listen to the audio. I want to listen to the audio. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.560 Recording at some point, but even just reading it, I'm like, 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:13.800 this is John's voice, Like. 0:04:13.760 --> 0:04:16.200 It's I can read it and I hear it in 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.799 his voice, like it's like with Bob's book or can't 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.240 like Ken's book, any of the I'm like, I know 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.200 exactly how you're speaking. I know what this sounds like 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:28.400 to you, and I can hear John's just sarcastic sort 0:04:28.440 --> 0:04:36.039 of nah, and god, it just and I just have 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.200 so much respect for him for writing this book, you know, 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:43.279 I I know we've now I think almost all of 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:44.320 us have written a book. 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.560 I think Dave Dave might be the one, the one 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.479 standing one that get Dave. 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:53.400 But Jeff, even Jeff Franklin's right. 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:54.400 Jeff Franklin's write a book. 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.400 But we've all read a book, and it's just it's 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:00.720 neat to to like get to watch the evolution of 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.040 everybody that we grew up with. But do you remember 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:09.200 John's like summer barbecues before the start of the season. 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.760 Yes, the pool party, the pool parties, the. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:18.320 Barbecue parties at his house on Mulholland, which randomly when 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.840 I worked way up in Malibu when I was working 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:27.479 in treatment, and I would drive by that house on 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.200 the way to one of the properties that I worked 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.560 at out there, and I would drive by, and I 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.640 remember it was so weird because the first time I 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.039 did it, I remember turning on like Mulholland at this 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:41.000 weird turn, I was like, this feels familiar. Why And 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:42.440 I'm like driving along and I'm. 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.120 Like, wait, well, I'm like I think John. 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:46.680 Lived out here, But it was like the house that 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.960 he lived in like the first cup few seasons, like 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.960 when I was little, little Yeah, And it's not like 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:52.960 we went out there really any other time. And we 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:57.160 drove by and I remembered the big circular window and 0:05:57.200 --> 0:05:59.520 it was kind of like a very eighties modern like 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.080 Miami Vice sort of vibe, you know what I mean. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:03.960 Yeah, and I was like, oh my. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:08.200 God, there it is. And yeah, so John. To give 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:11.919 a little background, John would have these like back to 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.840 back to work pool parties. And I don't know if 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:21.440 he had one the first season, like like an intro 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:23.520 one or not, or if it started like maybe going 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:24.560 back into the second season. 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:28.440 Probably back into the second season, the second season, but every. 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:31.760 Year, we the whole cast and crew. 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:37.920 And our families, our parents, our parents, John's parents would 0:06:38.040 --> 0:06:41.000 Loretta and Bill were there. Bill was running the barbecue 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:44.920 like he was grilling. Loretta was had her like glass 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:48.120 of white wine and her cigarette and was like talking 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.760 to everyone and all the moms and just being like social, 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:51.440 you know. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.240 Butterfly and his sisters were there. Yeah. 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:59.240 I mean I remember those so vividly because it was 0:06:59.279 --> 0:07:03.159 it was like a big family reunion at the start 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:05.000 of the summer when we would get be getting ready 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:08.640 to go back to work for another season, and it 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:10.760 was such a like oh, hey, you know, we hadn't 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:12.920 seen people. It was like coming back to school, you know, 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.280 you hadn't seen everybody for like three months or whatever 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.480 that you were off over hiatus, and we would all 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:22.040 come to John's house and it was like it was 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:28.280 so the thing I love and I and I really appreciate. 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:33.160 It was not a Hollywood party. 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:38.480 Yes all at all. No, yeah, no, no. 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:42.640 It was not like it was not a bunch of 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.200 people running around being served food that like it was 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.560 like we all brought stuff, pot luck. John's dad was 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:53.200 cooking and Loretta was making stuff, and like it was 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.640 a family. There were tons of kids there, like kids 0:07:56.720 --> 0:08:00.560 and family were always welcome. Oh And it makes me 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.920 like emotional just thinking about it, because like. 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.400 Every year, like we'd go through and you'd see like 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.280 everyone not only just like our full house family, but 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.680 like our crew family change and get bigger, and people 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.920 have kids and bring them with. 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.480 And it was just this awesome family reunion. 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.640 And I'm so grateful for it, and I'm so grateful 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:26.679 that like that, John had such wonderful parents. 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:32.319 You know, Bill and Loretta really really did a great job. 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.840 Raising him, and they were always there and always kept 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:36.920 him grounded, you know, I was. 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:37.480 And it was funny. 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:39.440 I was flipping through a page in the book and 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:41.640 he was talking about how, you know, he'd go do 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:44.400 these car shows signings when he was on General hospital 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.280 or whatever and make money and then come home and 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:46.760 his dad was like. 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:48.560 Yeah, here's the pooper, Scooper, go pick up the. 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.560 Dog and let's you know, and he was like it 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.600 was such a you know, nobody was like, oh my god, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:58.200 you're a big deal and you still had work to do. Yeah, 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.880 And I just I remember I remember that, I remember 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.559 going to I remember going to Dukes, their family restaurant 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.559 in Cyprus, because we lived right there. 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.959 And I went the Orange County Crew, Orange County. 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:11.920 Yeah, and we lived. 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.400 I grew up fiften fifteen minutes from where John and 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.280 his mom lived. We would go visit Loretta, but we 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.120 went to Duke's and John was back. 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:20.920 There flipping burgers. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.400 Wow, that's just incredible. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:27.240 Yeah, and we and like I remember Bill coming and 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:30.520 what you know. It was like just such a real 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:36.480 family event. And I just am always so. 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.080 Grateful that like the adults. 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:44.440 On our in our cast set really did set such 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:51.640 great boundaries at being normal people, you know. And there 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.400 was you know, probably stupid little petty thing. I mean, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.400 even in John's book he talks about him being you know, 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.760 a petty and with Bob and Bobby a whiney asshole 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:01.160 or whatever. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:04.000 But like there was that stuff, but it was never. 0:10:04.440 --> 0:10:06.800 It was never a place that any of us like 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:10.560 hated going to work, and it never felt I don't know, 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:14.040 it just like going through John's book and remembering all 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.120 those really good times and him getting on the drums 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:18.040 at every Rat. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.760 Party, every party that hasn't changed. 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.480 Yes, I have the pictures of the first Rat party 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:27.080 with him on the drums with his mullet and his 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.160 glasses which he wore glasses. 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.560 And nobody knew he had. 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.559 His glasses and his mullet and he was on the 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:38.960 drums and it's a picture of Loretta hugging him while 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:43.440 he's like mid drum. And that was always you know, 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.640 that was always the thing. And we'd be out there 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:50.240 literally Uncle Jesse playing in the band and I would 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.480 be like on the dance floor like I'm never leaving, yeah, 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:54.320 just tearing it up. 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.160 Yeah. 0:10:57.280 --> 0:10:59.520 So it's it's just a what a great memory to 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.600 you know, walk through all of this. 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:04.920 Yeah, it's a great trip down memory lane. And I'm 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.520 so glad he has this in writing for us to 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:11.319 enjoy forever. And yeah, if anything, this book is such 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.040 a love letter to Loretta, Like he's got handwritten. 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.560 Oh she used to leave the hand notes. 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:20.440 I know, Oh, it's just so touching the love he 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.400 had or had he still has love for her, It's 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:25.200 always in his heart. 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:25.520 You know. 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:28.000 It's so sweet how he. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.520 Talks about Loretta and Bill too, but mostly yeah, Loretta. 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:37.280 They oh man, they were his rocks, you know, they 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:42.000 really were, and his and Elena and Janine and you know, 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:45.320 like his extended family and nieces and nephews and stuff 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:47.839 like he's just got such a great, solid family and 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:53.800 we've all been so wonderfully welcomed into that family too. 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.280 Like it's it really is just it's kind of always 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:02.840 been a testament to the Staymos tradition of just how 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:09.440 he included everyone, and like you know, was always you know, 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.440 he could John would get wrapped up in his in himself, 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:16.560 but he always like there was always that incredibly thoughtful 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.040 side that you would like course correct and he'd be. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.600 Like, oh that's you know, like any yeah, what a weird. 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:28.559 Uh normal yet not normal childhood experience. 0:12:28.800 --> 0:12:29.000 You know. 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.240 Well he he talks in the book about how he 0:12:33.320 --> 0:12:35.320 was in those younger years. He's just in his head 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.480 too much. And I would I don't know if i'd 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.040 call it an ego. I mean, he might call it 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.560 an ego that he had at age twenty four, twenty five, 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.360 you know, just in his own he was black. 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.560 In general hospital, women were like throwing themselves. It was 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.640 the eighties and the height of like teen Beat magazine, 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.160 and oh yeah, yeah he was. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:53.800 He was enjoying it. 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.319 He oh absolutely, yeah, absolutely, But you can see him 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:01.040 struggling with those two sides of himself that you know, 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.600 that ego macho I'm right, you know, the coolest, most 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.480 handsome guy on the planet versus this family guy, like 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.920 he really has always been a family guy with love 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:09.920 for the people around him. 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.960 And you're right, the inclusivity of just saying, hey. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:16.280 Bring your mom, bring your bring your brothers, bringever and 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.040 let's all just be one big, happy family. It didn't 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.079 feel like Hollywood at all. No, those it felt it 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.439 was not a Hollywood scene. No. 0:13:23.640 --> 0:13:26.000 I just said, like, I'm literally picturing it right now, 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.040 and it was just it was like a family barbecue. 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.679 Little kid's running around, you know, Ashley, Mary Kate in 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.640 the pool. And the wonderful thing is we have and 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.560 oh got it makes me cry. We have hours and 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.199 hours and hours. 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:40.880 Of footage of all of it. 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:45.480 Because John not only like he is a meticulous keeper 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.839 of things. But his biggest thing is that he takes 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:53.040 photographs and videos of everything, everything, and so we have 0:13:53.559 --> 0:13:57.640 like the entire full house experience basically like documented and 0:13:57.679 --> 0:14:00.520 all of these you know, it's John Hey wave in 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:01.000 the pool. 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.839 Yeah, it's very colous, just like a handheld like yeah. 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.120 And it's just like your uncle going around at the barbecuing, like, hey, 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.640 wave to the camera, you know, in those silly home 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.840 movies that you have, and I can picture them in 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.320 my head. 0:14:16.840 --> 0:14:17.680 I'll never forget. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.720 I think one time Loretta was smoking by the pool 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:22.800 and I turned around and got out and got burned. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:25.600 She felt so good, ash. 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:28.040 I'm so sorry, I'm so I was like, it's okay, 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:30.680 it's okay, but it was, oh my god. But like 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:35.120 it was just so casual, and so I loved it. 0:14:35.240 --> 0:14:38.280 I loved it very very much, and I'm I'm grateful 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:43.440 for that. And then I remember like getting older and 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.360 when we would all get together and we'd go to 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.720 taverna Toni's up in Malibu, yep. 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:52.800 Greek food, of course, food food, yep. 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:54.760 And we'd go for Greek food. 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:57.720 And of course he knew Tony of tavernas you know, 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.640 and it's like a staple place in right. 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:02.760 I always had like a section, a corner in the back. 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:03.880 We would have a corner. 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:08.960 And how many fun and wonderful dinners and. 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:11.720 Get togethers did we have there with all. 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.480 Of us, just hours long dinners and they just kept 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.280 it was like family style eat it is, kept bringing 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.520 dishes like there's more. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.280 Food, right, And but it would be like we'd be 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.680 there for three hours and it would you know, Bob's 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:26.360 kids would be there, and you know, various partners and 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:29.960 boyfriends and girlfriends, and you know, it was just Yeah, 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.640 those were some like magical moments that I'm very very 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:33.280 grateful for. 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.320 A Let's do a reunion trip to uh because I 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:39.480 haven't been here decades. 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:44.520 Yeah, well is it still there? Yeahs is still there? Okay, Okay, 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:46.120 I think, but yeah, we. 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:46.560 Should do it. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:47.920 We'll do a reunion dinner there. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.560 Or I thought you were going to say we should 0:15:50.600 --> 0:15:55.320 do like a reunion trip to Greece, and I was like, 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.000 I absolutely. 0:15:57.160 --> 0:15:58.400 Think this is a great idea. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.280 And I think, uh, John, if you're listening, you should 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:02.640 plan that. 0:16:02.880 --> 0:16:07.160 So yes, John can lead the John can leader with 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.040 the He'll be the tour leader he can dress up 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:10.840 as Stavros. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:12.080 It'll be great. 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.240 Yeah, we can all play the Greek twin versions of 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:20.560 ourselves and dress up in weird and walk around and 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.080 be like, no, I'm not Stephanie and be like I'm yeah, 0:16:23.320 --> 0:16:25.840 and just give ourselves Greek names and that's and that's it, 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.320 and we just go totally incognito because no one will 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.680 ever guess, because I mean, yeah. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:32.640 That won't look awkward at all. 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.000 No, God, no, no. 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.600 And you know what, it won't be the most awkward 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.680 thing we've ever done publicly, beginner group. 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.960 So that's just another Tuesday for us. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:43.480 Tuesday. 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.440 Yeah, Oh, that's so great. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.440 You know what else I noticed about John's book is 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:55.480 the if you notice, the font is very Disney. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:17:00.000 It's very well in his hand His handwriting is very 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.800 Disney like two. And so I'm like, I don't know 0:17:02.800 --> 0:17:05.800 if this was a computer font or if this was John. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:10.480 Writing that the chapter I was doing some like handwriting 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:14.480 comparisons right uh, in my in my spare time. But 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:16.520 he wrote me a lovely message in the cover of 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.879 the book. But then I was like, comparing it to that, 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:22.840 to that font. 0:17:23.040 --> 0:17:27.000 But definitely a tribute to Disney. Oh, for Disney infatuation. 0:17:27.920 --> 0:17:29.920 Does he still have Yeah, he still has the Dumbo. 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.960 Remember he had like a yeah Dumbo. Yeah, the actual 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:34.320 Dumbo from Disneyland. 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.440 There's a picture of all of us. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.960 Oh, there's a picture of of us together at John's 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:48.359 house around the Dumbo the weekend of Bob's service with 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.680 Ashley and Mary Kate and all of us like kind 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:54.000 of gathered around the around the Dumbo. 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.399 Yeah. Yeah, he's got the Dumbo, He's got the snow White. 0:17:59.680 --> 0:18:02.879 He's d to right the d D from. 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:05.560 The Disneyland d D from the front. 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.040 Weird. Yeah he's good. 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:11.240 Sorry, make that weird. 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:13.679 Well, if there's somebody that's gonna do it, it's me. 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:18.760 But yeah, he's got they. I mean he's got He's 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:25.119 just again an amazing collector of things like really cool 0:18:25.280 --> 0:18:29.800 memorabilia and stuff that's important to him. I wish I 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:34.440 had like the wherewithal to document my life and organize 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:35.720 it the way he does. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.359 He's got to put all of this footage together. Is 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.119 it either a documentary or if he doesn't want to 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:41.359 know what? 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.320 You know what? I think he probably someone's done it 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:46.880 for him. 0:18:46.920 --> 0:18:51.160 So I would think maybe I could be wrong. 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.119 John needs a host of screening for I'm going to. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:55.280 John, are you seriously organizing your own? 0:18:55.560 --> 0:18:55.639 Do? 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:56.720 Are you outsourcing this? 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:58.800 Whoever does it? 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:00.000 That's what I'm saying. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.760 Whoever done here? Can we get at this family rate? 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:04.720 Can I what's the family rate? 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:06.920 Don't deal with my stuff? 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:09.440 Which, by the way, for the minisode, for the prop 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:11.960 minnisode coming up, I've got some fun stuff too. 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:12.360 So good. 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:16.480 Oh yeah, But I can't wait to read the rest 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:21.200 of John's book, because you know, I know his life 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.120 from like twenty four and on. But I also there's 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:26.800 a lot, there's a lot of big pieces I don't know. 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.120 Oh my god, did I ever tell you the story 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.159 about how John and Rebecca Romaine came to my my 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:33.520 high school graduation party. 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:37.600 No, they did all the way down to Orange County. 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:42.240 Now, I had a high school graduation party in my backyard. Okay, 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.119 like we didn't live in like some ridiculous you know, 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:47.520 it's like a normal size backyard, yep, yep. 0:19:47.720 --> 0:19:48.920 But I invited a bunch of friends. 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:52.040 I had a DJ who was actually one of John's 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:55.720 best friends growing up, Al Nassar, who I have remained 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.960 close friends with Al through John for decades. 0:20:00.000 --> 0:20:00.240 Away. 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.600