WEBVTT - Some Time With... Rennie Dyball! 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.599 Hey there, Fana Ritos, and welcome back to How Rude Tanarritos. 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:25.880 Today we have a fun interview for you. We have 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:31.240 interviewed actors, directors, screenwriters, prop masters, and a warm up guy. 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:34.479 But today we are flipping the script and we are 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:38.360 going to interview someone who has interviewed us many times 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:43.320 in the past, celebrity reporter Rennie Dieball. Rennie was a 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.440 writer and editor for People magazine when she pitched and 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.519 scored the exclusive cover story of the Fuller House reboot 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.800 in twenty fifteen. She was the only reporter on set 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.160 when we taped the pilot, and she has so many 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.840 fun stories to share. She is an incredible writer, a 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:03.440 Full House super fan, and now a dear, dear friend 0:01:03.440 --> 0:01:05.800 of ours. Please welcome Rennie. 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:07.880 We're so excited to see you. Rennie. 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.280 You have had such a. 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:15.959 A huge part of the full Fuller Lives. Me Andrea 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:16.720 like you. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.600 You really have such a great connection to the full 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:24.800 and Fuller House cast. I would so you sent ab 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.720 a pitch to be on the podcast, which was amazing, 0:01:27.800 --> 0:01:28.480 by the way. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.240 No other guest has done that. So you are great 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:33.080 to make it happen. 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.280 But you have to tell listeners about it, because you know, 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:41.240 we have we've pretty much stuck to guests, guest stars 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.040 on the show, writers, directors. 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.839 And things, and you're one of the first kind. 0:01:45.680 --> 0:01:50.280 Of outside sources that we've had on the show. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:54.640 But after you hear her pitch as to why she should. 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.720 Be that person, uh, I'm just saying, you're gonna be 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.760 voting for her. So yeah, I'm I'm writing your name 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:01.640 on a fill in ballot. 0:02:01.680 --> 0:02:05.080 So I'm excited we get to interview you today. 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.600 It's like fop in the script, actually very weird, but 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:10.120 I'm looking forward to it. I would rather be interviewed by. 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.400 Well, hopefully we do. Hopefully we do well, because you 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.320 know this is you know how we roll here. We're 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.600 a little unhinged, right prepared. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:22.440 I'm I'm ill, i have no idea what I'm gonna do. 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:23.799 I'm on cold medicine. 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:25.040 That's why we listen. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:27.520 Yeah, exactly unhinged, is right. 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.240 So we described in the intro a little bit of 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:36.040 your background how you were a celebrity reporter, writer editor 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:40.240 for People magazine for fifteen years, but way before that, 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.440 you were a super fan a full house growing up, 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:46.800 so you sort of manifested all of this, your interviews 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.240 with Full House cast, and now your friendship with me 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.840 and Jody. So take us back to the very beginning 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.040 when you were a little girl watching Full House. Tell 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:57.000 us what the show meant to you. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.520 Yeah. Well, the show came out when I was seven 0:02:59.600 --> 0:03:02.760 years old, so I was certainly you know, the target audience. 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:07.679 I watched TGIF every Friday, you know, and as as 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:14.040 you kids don't realize, right, dinner had to be done right, 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:16.200 you had to have your bathroom break, and then it 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:18.600 was taking half time and the only you know, the 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.160 only off time was in between the shows. So it 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:23.680 was it was a fixture in my childhood, the way 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:27.200 it was for so many people. And then when I 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.079 had my first baby, I rediscovered all of you. I 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.320 I in those you know, three am feedings where you're like, 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:35.720 how on earth am I going to stay awake? Yes, 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.160 I was flipping channels and it was like, oh, I'll 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.840 revisit the Tanners, you know. So and now, of course, 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.960 my daughters are eight and twelve and they are obsessed 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.640 with full and Fuller. So you all have been a 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:50.240 part of my life via my TV forever since the eighties. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:55.640 That's so great, Like You've just been preparing your whole 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:57.760 life and now you have two little super fans at 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.520 home too, so they have kids there, gonna have to 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:03.400 introduce uh your grandchildren to full House. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.840 And now Aby is my Joey McIntyre. I think I 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.200 joked to the pitch right that was so great? I 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:13.080 don't can I can I text her how to write? 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.920 Remember Abe? Like I said, I know you have people 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:17.920 who know who you are. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.800 To I know. I was so flattered when you said that. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.880 I was like, really, oh no, you know, Rennie, you 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:26.200 can you text me anytime like whatever? If you haven't 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:28.039 saw me at three am, just text me. I'll be like, 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.600 hey me too. Let's talk about right. 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:33.719 Maybe you'll be like, hold on, I'm bird watching in 0:04:33.720 --> 0:04:34.320 the middle of the night. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:36.000 There's owls. 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:37.080 Let me slip. 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.800 Outside watch on live stream. 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:44.440 Okay, So take us back to I mean, I know 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.760 you have a varied history with John Stamos and and 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:51.320 Bob Saggett. You met them before Fuller House came back 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:55.720 into existence, but kind of set us up for how 0:04:55.880 --> 0:04:59.760 you pitched the cover story for full the Fuller House, 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:04.360 how you got the exclusive bring us back? Tell us 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:05.320 exactly how that happened. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:08.320 Yeah, so my whole career at People, I really I 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:12.719 set myself up as the full house beat reporter because 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.360 I started right after I graduated college in two thousand 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.960 and two and had, you know, loved you guys growing 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.560 up and wanted to cover whatever all of the cast 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.719 members were doing after the fact. So that's how I 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.680 met a lot of you over the years, and so 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.960 being the full house beat reporter, it only made sense 0:05:29.960 --> 0:05:32.800 when there was buzz about, you know, a spinoff to 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.080 put me on it. So I want to say this 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:40.240 was twenty fifteen ish mine to do a story on 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:44.159 Laurie Laughlin and her daughters, not related to Fuller, and 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:45.919 while I was in LA I was living in New 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.919 York at the time. We also made it like a 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.919 pitch mission for me, and I met with Netflix and 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:56.040 WB to sell them on People being the only outlet, 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:00.120 you know at the taping of the first episode, and 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.640 I love to interview people. I'm a writer, I'm a 0:06:02.680 --> 0:06:06.160 homebody and an introvert. I am not a salesperson. However, 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.280 when it came to my favorite show, it was very 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:15.440 natural to pitch my magazine and myself as you know, 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.280 the outlet and the person who should cover it. And 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:21.039 you know, I talk a lot at schools about my 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.760 work as an author, and I end up telling them 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.240 that story because as soon as I put a picture 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.719 on screen of your cast, everybody thinks, I, you know, 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:31.159 I'm worth listening to you. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.400 Up street cred now right right? 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.400 And so I tell them, you know, in those pitches, 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:43.080 and I've just let my real enthusiasm, my authentic enthusiasm 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:46.039 for the show come through. And I think that's what 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.599 did it? I mean, who doesn't want to align with 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:53.560 somebody who is so excited about a project or about actors. 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.120 So I actually think it really worked to my advantage. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.800 And you know, getting out to the set and being 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.080 part of all that, My gosh, it was like a 0:07:04.080 --> 0:07:06.800 lifetime ago now, and yet right I can't believe it. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.880 Uh it's ten years ago. I'm just ten years? What 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.760 ten out of that? 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:17.320 That's crazy? Were I? And that was an overwhelming week 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.480 for me? So I barely remember meeting you, no offense, 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:22.520 but it was just a crazy week. I do remember 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.680 the group cast picture that we took set dressed in 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:28.520 our costume, and you snuck in for one of those photos. 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.760 So were you there the whole week. Were you there 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.920 just on tape days? Tell us about that week. 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.960 It was two days. It was the do you call 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.040 it like a blocking day? 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.800 The day before, oh, like our pre tape day, Yeah, yeah, 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:40.360 tape Yeah. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:43.040 So I was there for that and then the tape day, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.280 and then the next day I met the three of 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:49.080 you with Candae at that Santa Monica hotel that's like 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:53.560 right on the water, looks like a castle. Yeah, yes, yes, yeah, 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:56.920 so it was. It was the best three days. And 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.440 I remember after the taping going back to my hotel 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:02.720 room and like doing a little dance because you know, 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:04.240 I had to be professional the whole time. 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:07.480 I was right like, no, you didn't, No, you really didn't, 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:09.840 not for not on our set. That was that's not 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:11.200 a requirement, right. 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.760 Right, But you know, I let the inner fan girl 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.000 out and I probably said out loud, you know, talking 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.240 to myself, like I can leave people now, like there's 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:21.960 nothing left for me to do. What could I wanted 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:25.040 to do more than this? So it was a very 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.320 special assignment and actually probably the beginning of deciding to 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.600 go out on my own and write books and be 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:34.480 an editor and a book collaborator and amazing so good 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:35.160 turning points. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.120 Well, I still have that People cover hanging up here 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.240 in my office right behind me. I just it's such 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.360 a great picture of everybody. Yeah, I have kept it 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:44.000 hanging up there. 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:45.880 Oh. That was so exciting for us to be on 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.599 the cover of People, right, we were so excited to 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.800 finally get a cover. Yeah, tell us about that first 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.480 that tape night when we were doing the live audience 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:59.000 show for the taping. What where were you sitting? What 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.120 was what were the vibe like? Were people whispering? Like? 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:02.240 What? 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:03.640 Tell us about the atmosphere. 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.800 I mean, I don't know that I've ever been in 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:09.040 a room, in a space with that much excitement. I 0:09:09.120 --> 0:09:12.880 was in the bleachers where the whole audience sits okay, 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:17.400 And I actually, thanks to Aby, have been working on 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:21.199 Jeff's upcoming book. And he writes about the book that 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.520 the applause that happened when the curtain first came up 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:26.640 and it was just the set. None of you had 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.920 made your entrances yet, just the set. It was like 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:35.560 four minutes straight, me and all of us. It was 0:09:35.640 --> 0:09:38.520 just such a visceral emotional reaction, like here's this living 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.280 room that we all kind of grew up in too, 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:43.959 and it's back there back so Jeff writes in the book, 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:46.200 such a funny turn of phrase. He was like, it 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:49.559 lasted four minutes, and they were applauding furniture. 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.280 Right, yeah, exactly, the couch. And it's true the couch 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:55.360 needed its own title card, right. 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:59.319 I remember John Stamo said that that first Netflix preview 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:02.360 where they panned through the set made him cry. So 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:06.800 it's something about that that furniture. You guys, anyway, as 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:09.559 you all you know, came out for the first time, 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.440 I mean that alone probably took an hour, you know, 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:16.880 because you had to write applause for each person, just 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:20.000 the way the jokes landed, and being in a room 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.760 of people who all, I mean, it feels like we 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:24.760 wanted it as much as you all did, you know, 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:27.440 So just to be a part of that energy, it 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.640 was just the most the most special night. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:31.679 Yeah, it really was. 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.600 And I'm so glad that you got to like see 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:36.719 that and be there for it because it really was 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:39.720 like just an incredible energy. 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.280 Yeah, and it's so cool to hear your perspective because 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:45.160 we've talked to each other about that night and some 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.280 crew members, but we've never talked to somebody who was 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:50.840 in the audience. As a fan, you know, that's so 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:52.280 cool to get your perspective. 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:56.080 And as a reporter, you know, you all talk about 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:57.960 how much you love each other, so that's you know, 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.280 it's obvious to see. You know, it's obvious when you 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:03.000 hear it as a fan, but to really see it, 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.000 you know, like when you're in those bleachers, you're looking 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.080 at the set that they're filming at the moment, right, 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.079 there's other sets that you can see. And then you 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:13.040 can also see when actors are sort of just telling 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.960 the fans this not you too. Oh yeah, you can 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:19.760 see like two actors off in the corner like kind 0:11:19.760 --> 0:11:23.000 of chatting while the whole thing's happening. And so to 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:25.800 actually see it, to see the love and to see 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.679 you know, these great friends of so many decades hanging 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.000 out with each other, it was just, you know, as 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:35.160 a fan first before a reporter, it was like, it's true. Really, 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:37.679 it was so special to see. 0:11:38.200 --> 0:11:41.040 Yeah, absolutely, it's yeah, we can't we can't get rid 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.800 of each other. We love each other too much. It's 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:44.360 so true. 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.600 Seriously that yeah, I'm just singing back to that first 0:11:47.679 --> 0:11:51.679 night though, Like how exciting it was and how Yeah. 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:52.800 I think we all. 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.440 Felt like, well, i'll 's speak for myself. I was like, 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:57.760 what have we done? Like, I don't know. 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.440 It was just like this moment of like, oh wow, 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.479 oh boy, yeah yeah. 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:06.200 How often are you sharing a space with people and 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:08.160 everyone and those hundreds of people in the room and 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:12.280 everyone wanted this so badly and now it's happening, right, yea, 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.800 Danny and Jesse are right there in the kitchen like 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:16.480 it just. 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:21.079 That's so cool. I remember feeling very nervous because I'm like, 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:24.720 I haven't memorized lines and decades my script. 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:25.360 I can't do this. 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:29.160 Yeah, I'm sure Jody and I were hanging on to 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.880 our scripts, our binkies as we call that, right, binkis 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:32.839 that we can't let go of. 0:12:33.160 --> 0:12:35.480 Right. We were probably just looking for what drawer. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.800 Bob hid his end so that we could glance at 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:38.920 it while we were in a scene. 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.600 Oh and Jody, your younger daughter was like the star 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.720 of the bleachers. Oh that's right. 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:48.240 B got up and sang that. 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:51.640 Night, singing yep, yep, yep. John like did a little 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:52.480 interview with her. 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:53.600 It was yeah, that's right. 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.400 Yeah, she was fans with us. 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.400 She's very shy as you can tell. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:02.040 It's unfortunate she didn't at any of my enthusiasm or 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.960 love of performance. So yeah, yeah, we're trying to bring 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:09.560 her out of Michelle. You know, no, I do I 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.920 remember that though. I have actually a great picture of that. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:17.679 I'm standing there cheering her on and she's singing in 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.640 the in the audience, and you can see video village 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:25.080 behind me, and you see Bob Boyette who's not looking 0:13:25.120 --> 0:13:30.000 at be but who's looking at me. Oh, and it's 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.960 a really like he's like looking like this, and he 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:34.720 came over to me at the end and he said 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:36.959 it like it was like seeing you all over again, 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:40.120 and it really brought me back. So yeah, that was 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:42.880 I have a really wonderful photo of that moment. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:47.280 Yeah, yeah, that's so special, very full circle moment. Ye, 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.400 right special. Who were you most nervous to interview of 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:52.760 the whole cast? 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:57.280 Good question, Probably Candice, only because she was the only 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:01.560 one I hadn't met up to them come and what 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.160 ended up happening, excuse me with you all is that 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:06.880 I interviewed a lot of you at the very beginning 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.960 of my career and thought this is so easy. Celebrities 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:14.520 aren't the us and I mean everybody, just each one 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.480 of you more than the next. Was so welcoming and 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:21.440 warm and made my job easy that I thought, this 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.400 is celebrities just like you two talk about. You thought 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.240 that your set was all sets right then. I out 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:30.560 there in the world as a people reporter, and not 0:14:30.640 --> 0:14:35.000 every celebrity is as lovely as you all. I knew 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:37.240 that Kantus would be just as lovely, and she was. 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.040 But yeah, I think the nerves were just there because 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:42.080 she was the only one of the crew who I 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.320 hadn't met before and lo and behold, she's just like 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.920 the rest of you and couldn't have made my job 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:48.960 easier or more fun. 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:50.720 Oh that's so great. 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:52.000 I would say. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:56.360 The hardest job of interviewing the cast, particularly when Bob 0:14:56.440 --> 0:15:00.840 was with us, was just trying to wrangle and corral 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:05.880 us into a coherent answer. I'm sure that there was 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.240 a lot of questions asked that never got answered and 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:12.720 got completely sidetracked, and uh, you know, that was probably 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:15.120 the hardest part of interviewing the cast of Full House 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.400 is keeping us on track well. 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.080 On the set of Fuller for those two days. My 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.160 strategy actually having seen this was to separate the. 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:25.600 Guys, and oh, yeah, you have to. 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.280 They can't be They're like like kids in a classroom 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:30.200 where you're like, you guys can't sit next to each other. 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.520 Right, the three women you were easy to speak with 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.520 as a group. You played off each other easy. Those 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:38.760 guys forget it. I think I knew that going in 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:40.840 like this is going to be a one on one. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.520 Kind of smart Yes, you had done your homework, you 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:46.560 knew what hit me right, yeah, right. 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.560 Well, And to that end. One time that I interviewed 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.000 Bob a couple of years before Fuller came to be, 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.720 I saw that distraction in real life, but in the 0:15:56.760 --> 0:16:00.800 sweetest way promoting his memoir. And so I met him 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.040 at a bookstore in DC, where I was living at 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.200 the time, and we're in the back room to do 0:16:06.240 --> 0:16:08.480 the interview. He has yet to go out and meet 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.080 the fans and sign books and stuff like that, and 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:14.680 there's a landline ringing incessantly in the back room with us, 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:16.320 and we're doing our best to ignore it, like an 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:20.040 employee's going to come answer it. Nobody did. So Bob 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:20.800 took it upon. 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.640 Himself and loves to answer a phone that he's not 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:26.000 supposed to do. He's done that many many times. 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:26.320 Yeah. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:28.640 I didn't know that, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.000 I thought he was going to do a bit. He 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:33.000 was just Bob, and he was trying to help the 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.720 caller on the other end of the line find the 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:37.960 book that they were looking for, which was not Bob's book. 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:40.840 And then a manager someone comes in and they were 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.240 horrified that Bob had to answer their phone, you know. 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:45.440 Right right, You're like, I'm trying, really, I just. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.320 Was it about right right? And he hung up and 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.400 he goes, well, I just wanted to help. It was 0:16:49.440 --> 0:16:51.000 so sweet and sincere. 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.440 You know, he's so Bobs. 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:58.920 I didn't know for sure he did, but after the interview, 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.960 I think my sitter might have called my babysitter and 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.720 I like muted it real quick, and I was like, oh, 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.959 I'm sorry, my eighteen month old is home with the babysitter. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:11.119 And the way he lit up and just wanted to 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:15.040 talk about my toddler and his girls, right, I mean 0:17:15.080 --> 0:17:18.320 it was you know, I'd interviewed hundreds of actors and 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.000 stars to that point, and it was just so striking 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.800 that he wanted to have an actual conversation about. 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.280 Yeah, and daughters, Like I got. 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:29.000 A glimpse of that incredible kindness that you all talk about. 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:29.880 Yeah, for sure. 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:35.240 Oh thanks, it's yeah, he's just the best. We love 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.040 him and miss him, and we talk about him all 0:17:37.040 --> 0:17:38.359 the time when we're together. 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.520 It's so crazy though, all of the sort of like 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:52.119 you were talking about interviewing Bob and you know, working 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.880 on Jeff's book and having met John and I mean 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:58.320 you worked on the cover story for People when Zoe 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:01.200 was born, you know, so you and I had met 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:03.760 years earlier. Like there was a lot it was so 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:06.800 nice to have you there, like you said, because not 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:10.399 only were you a fan, but you were familiar to 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.439 a lot of us. It was like we knew that 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.560 you were just as excited to be there as we were. 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:16.200 Yeah. 0:18:16.280 --> 0:18:17.959 Oh that's so nice to hear. Yeah. You know, as 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.040 a baby reporter, you kind of feel like I have 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.679 to be a professional and I can't be a fangirl. 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:26.919 But I mean as an author now, not that I 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:28.600 hear from a lot of fans, but when I do, 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:31.239 there's no better feeling, you know, So I'm sure your 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.399 end of things to have a reporter who's invested in 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.600 your work and really enjoys your work and wants to 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.359 see what you're going to do next, Like why you know, 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:41.560 looking back, why wouldn't that be a good thing? 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.840 So, yeah, well, how do you prepare for a celebrity interview? 0:18:45.840 --> 0:18:47.880 What goes into that? How do you prep? How many 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.640 questions do you prepare? Tell us a little bit about. 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.960 That, so as you do. I'm sure have noticed because 0:18:54.000 --> 0:18:55.679 I listened to your podcast all the time and your 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:59.320 great interviewers. I think that the really good stuff comes 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.800 out of the follow up questions. You know, So you 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.280 go into an interview, certainly with a list of questions, 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:07.480 but as you're chatting, you're actually engaged in that conversation. 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:11.480 You know something that the that the person says is 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:13.280 going to spark a new question in your mind, And 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:15.320 I find I end up finding that that's where the 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.080 really good stuff is. So making it a real conversation 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:21.200 and not just I have to get through my list 0:19:21.240 --> 0:19:25.680 of questions helps a lot. And prep work does too. 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:28.399 You know. It's one thing when you grow up with 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:31.120 a show and you were a teenager when you could 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.800 like read the magazines about those people, like then you've 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.960 got the background down pat But over the years of people. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:38.760 You know, I interviewed plenty of people who I didn't 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:42.000 really know, but I would go home after work and 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:44.640 watch their movies or listen to their music. I mean, 0:19:44.640 --> 0:19:47.359 it was kind of unbelievable sometimes that I was getting 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:49.520