Speaker 1: Hey, they're Fana Ritos.
Speaker 2: Welcome to a brand new episode of How Rude Tanneritos. Today,
Speaker 2: we have a producer and writer from our show who
Speaker 2: many of you are bound to recognize, whether it be
Speaker 2: from the one hundred plus episodes he wrote and produced
Speaker 2: for Full House or his time on other shows like that,
Speaker 2: So Raven, even Stevens, Corey in the House, and so
Speaker 2: much more. We have Mark Warren with us, and we
Speaker 2: are so excited to talk to him about his extensive
Speaker 2: career both on and off our show and all of
Speaker 2: the stories he's accrued from these sets over the years. Everyone,
Speaker 2: please welcome Mark Warren. Yeah, hi, I see you've come prepared.
Speaker 2: You have your full House blanket right the ra there's Emmy.
Speaker 1: I see you've got a picture of an Emmy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got all of you your best moments.
Speaker 1: Oh that what what a talking piece?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Right, I love it.
Speaker 4: Well, just so you know, we we jump right into
Speaker 4: the interviews. So so welcome to the show.
Speaker 5: Mark.
Speaker 4: It is so good to see you. I got how
Speaker 4: long has it been been a long time?
Speaker 5: Wow, it's been a long time. I think I saw
Speaker 5: you at Jeff's house fifteen.
Speaker 3: Years was it?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was it like the twenty fifth anniversary something.
Speaker 5: That we did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was it. Twenty Yeah, so that
Speaker 2: was it, like twenteen years ago, twenty twelve, twenty.
Speaker 5: Fourteen before that, because there was a second one which
Speaker 5: I didn't go to, but it was it was the first.
Speaker 5: It just built his house.
Speaker 1: I think, oh, yeah, then that might be that was
Speaker 1: the twenty fifth.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I feel like it was.
Speaker 5: Wow.
Speaker 1: So yeah a minute.
Speaker 2: Yeah, time doesn't exist in the Full House universe. You know,
Speaker 2: we don't ever age, We don't ever you know.
Speaker 5: You guys, way just really thank you AI.
Speaker 1: It does wonders. It's really yeah, this is not my
Speaker 1: real head.
Speaker 5: So it's the show. And you know, I listened to
Speaker 5: mostly the writer ones like Lenny Rips and Doug between
Speaker 5: the and Hattie commercials killing.
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you so much. Mean it's great.
Speaker 4: And the fact that it's Hundai is great because I
Speaker 4: actually had a Hyundai before we even started doing the show.
Speaker 1: That I absolutely love.
Speaker 4: So I was like, yes, I will wife, Yes, I six.
Speaker 2: And oh oh that's what we that's that's what we
Speaker 2: drove to Vegas.
Speaker 4: Heard that one of the things that obviously you've been
Speaker 4: listening to the podcast. That you know we love to
Speaker 4: do is get to talk to writers and and people
Speaker 4: who have been in this business forever and ask them
Speaker 4: like how they started, because obviously when we were kids
Speaker 4: working on the show, like you know, we weren't sitting around.
Speaker 1: Like, so, how did you get started in a bid?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: But it's fascinating and we worked with so many like
Speaker 4: amazing people in this industry. So from the very beginning,
Speaker 4: what was your what what made you want to get
Speaker 4: into this business or what was your first job? How
Speaker 4: did how did this all come about for you?
Speaker 5: Well, it started Dennis Rinseler, who was you know, you
Speaker 5: know we were We met in college and we bonded
Speaker 5: over bad women's prison movies. So we just started laughing
Speaker 5: about that stuff. And then we both became teachers to
Speaker 5: get out of the draft that was like the Vietnam War,
Speaker 5: and if you taught in a disadvantage neighborhood, you got
Speaker 5: a draft department. So Dennis would teach in the Bronx
Speaker 5: and I was teaching in Brooklyn, and we would call
Speaker 5: each other up at the end of the day, what
Speaker 5: happened in your school? What happened? And it was these
Speaker 5: crazy stories of you know, like stoned out, draft dodger teachers.
Speaker 5: Not not necessarily, but we might have fit a little.
Speaker 5: And we were just, you know, laugh about those things.
Speaker 5: And then at one point we another friend of ours
Speaker 5: who would become a magazine editor, said, you know, you
Speaker 5: guys have such great stories, why didn't you wanted't you
Speaker 5: write some stuff from my magazine, which was it was
Speaker 5: actually a like a High Times type magazine called Rush.
Speaker 5: It was High Times competitor, and at the time I
Speaker 5: was a drug prevention coordinator, which was very ironic also
Speaker 5: at the time, but I would I was supposed to
Speaker 5: teach kids about the dangers of drugs, but what I
Speaker 5: did more was like I wrote plays and sketches and
Speaker 5: things for them. So that's how I kind of got
Speaker 5: into into the writing part of it. And then Dennis
Speaker 5: and I did a parody of the really bad drug
Speaker 5: prevention materials that they would send us, like the OS
Speaker 5: Day don't you Drugs? Like, you know, the kids are
Speaker 5: really going to listen to the Osmonds right right, And
Speaker 5: our friend published it and that got a little bit
Speaker 5: of attention, and then we said, oh, this writing thing
Speaker 5: is it's kind of fun. So we submitted a couple
Speaker 5: of things to National Lampoon, which they accepted. So now
Speaker 5: it's like, well, this is more than fun, this could
Speaker 5: really be something. So we got together when we wrote
Speaker 5: a screenplay about crazy teachers in these in these urban schools, right,
Speaker 5: and we wrote it with this third guy who was
Speaker 5: the magazine guy, and he came out to Hollywood. He
Speaker 5: rented a red Cadillac. He printed it was called chalk
Speaker 5: and he printed it on like a black it looked
Speaker 5: like a blackboard, and he told up the catalog and
Speaker 5: he gave it out to producers all over Hollywood and
Speaker 5: somebody optioned it for thirty thousand dollars.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: We were teachers, you know, and our friend called and said,
Speaker 5: I sold it, got made. He said, but I told
Speaker 5: it what do you want to do and said, we're
Speaker 5: you know, that's it. We're coming out. So it took
Speaker 5: about another year to get everything together. We had to
Speaker 5: quit our jobs and convince our wives, you know, take
Speaker 5: this huge risk, and we drove out, you know, like
Speaker 5: in our in our cars. We packed our cars up.
Speaker 5: My son was four years old at the time. We
Speaker 5: put on the Muppet tape for like, you know, yes
Speaker 5: Revolutions of it, and we came out here and we
Speaker 5: went up to our agent who had said, what do
Speaker 5: you guys need, I'll get your jobs. You can be
Speaker 5: on a sitcom. And he was literally quitting that day.
Speaker 5: He was walking out with a box of his stock,
Speaker 5: and we're like, you're.
Speaker 1: Like, glad we caught you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, really, you promised us jobs. This business is screwed,
Speaker 5: forget it. It stinks. So we're like, we moved out here.
Speaker 5: We're stuck. We have our families. Dan has had a son,
Speaker 5: I had a son, and we just had to start
Speaker 5: to hustle. And they gave us a new agent at
Speaker 5: this was CIA Okay, gave us a guy out of
Speaker 5: the mail room named Rob Rothman who read our stuff
Speaker 5: and believed in us and sent it out to He
Speaker 5: would get down on his knees and beg people to
Speaker 5: give us jobs. Right, We wound up on a show. Well,
Speaker 5: the first show he did was a reality show for
Speaker 5: Scott Baio, which didn't go anywhere. My favorite, our first
Speaker 5: writing job, who was a guest on Full House.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we reviewed, we went over that episode. It was a.
Speaker 2: Thing.
Speaker 5: And then we got a job on the show called
Speaker 5: Madam's Place, which was a early eighties.
Speaker 1: Wait, was it Madam the puppet Madam?
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, Madam scared of me as a kid, Madam.
Speaker 1: I remember watching it on whatever show.
Speaker 5: It was probably what was Matt Hollywood Squares or Solid.
Speaker 1: Goal, solid Gold. It was solid Gold and.
Speaker 4: Madam would come on and I don't know why, but
Speaker 4: Madam scared the crap at it. Well, now it's hilarious,
Speaker 4: but at the time it was something about it. I
Speaker 4: did Madam freak me out.
Speaker 5: Well, this was a crazy show because you only saw Madam.
Speaker 5: You didn't see Whalen. Madam lived in a mansion and
Speaker 5: had her own talk show, and she had a staff
Speaker 5: of servants in the house right wrapped with It was
Speaker 5: a daily sitcom. They shot it like a soap opera
Speaker 5: show a day. We had eighteen writers and we'd work
Speaker 5: in shifts to churn out these scripts. And the poor
Speaker 5: guy's arm, Whalen was he was on a dolly holding
Speaker 5: up his arm that.
Speaker 4: Had right his arm at the right He's got no
Speaker 4: circulation in his hand yet.
Speaker 5: Bob Sagett was on the show because part of the
Speaker 5: show is a talk show. Bob was on the show.
Speaker 5: Saw Me Dice was on the show. You know, had
Speaker 5: to phill fill out this time, and we did seventy
Speaker 5: five episode, so it's in like four months.
Speaker 1: Oh wow.
Speaker 5: There was a crash course in sitcom writing and writing
Speaker 5: and the writer's room.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: There were guys on it from radio, you know, like
Speaker 5: from the Jack Benny Show, and then there were young
Speaker 5: guys like us who really hadn't done anything or you know,
Speaker 5: people who had worked on you know, Laverne and Shirley
Speaker 5: things like that. So we learned so much from from
Speaker 5: that experience and that kind of part us on our way.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's so cool. That's I mean, that's I had
Speaker 1: no idea.
Speaker 5: But so so from there we we kind of wound
Speaker 5: up at Universal with Amy Heckerling and this guy Alan Rucker. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: We did a show called Fast Times, which is Fast
Speaker 5: Times at Richemont High TV version. It was a terrific show,
Speaker 5: single camera. Patrick Dempsey was in it, and you know
Speaker 5: a bunch of bunch of kid yeah yeah, really weren't
Speaker 5: known and we did it was on the wrong network,
Speaker 5: it was on CBS, So the show got canceled, but
Speaker 5: they signed this to a deal at Universal, so we
Speaker 5: had a an overall deal there. We had an office
Speaker 5: we had a secretary we could I mean, it was ridiculous.
Speaker 5: And we're working on a Joe Piscopol pilot and I
Speaker 5: don't know if you know who Joe, Yeah, yeah, from
Speaker 5: you know SNL days. And then there was a writer
Speaker 5: strike in eighty.
Speaker 1: Seven, right, that's the last writer strike.
Speaker 5: Last writer strike. And my son had just my youngest
Speaker 5: son had just been born, and suddenly we were out
Speaker 5: of a job. We were out of our deal. We
Speaker 5: were out of work for six or seven months. And
Speaker 5: we went to a party at Amy Heckling's house and
Speaker 5: we met this guy there named Jeff Franklin and uh
Speaker 5: Amy and her her husband at the time, Neil Israel said,
Speaker 5: you know, you should when the strike's are you should
Speaker 5: talk to these guys because they're really good writers. Our
Speaker 5: show are canceled. And you know, by coincidence, had Don
Speaker 5: Van Adam.
Speaker 4: Yes, we just reviewed an episode that took place at
Speaker 4: Dan out of Junior High.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 5: He was the one of the producers on Madam's Place.
Speaker 5: Now he was on Full House. We have that kind
Speaker 5: of endorsement to Jeff. So when the strike was over,
Speaker 5: they hired us as producers on the show. We spent
Speaker 5: seven years there, and then five more years that Warner
Speaker 5: Brothers doing shows there, and then like it's like eighteen
Speaker 5: years at Disney Channel. Oh wow, so it's yeah, it's
Speaker 5: been fun.
Speaker 4: So all it started as making fun of things and
Speaker 4: now and now you've been in the business forever.
Speaker 5: It was really an excuse to get stoned with Dennis.
Speaker 4: I'd most kind of good writing careers start, I feel
Speaker 4: like is Yeah, it was just.
Speaker 1: An excuse to smoke Pott and then here I am
Speaker 1: running a shot. It is right now.
Speaker 4: The first episode that you produced was season two, right,
Speaker 4: Season two, episode two, Tanner Versus Gibbler.
Speaker 5: Well, we were on season two, right. We came on
Speaker 5: after after the writers strike and that and full House.
Speaker 5: You know, you guys who were kind of shaking the
Speaker 5: first season. Yeah, because there wasn't much TV, there wasn't
Speaker 5: much inventory, they started running it a lot and then
Speaker 5: it got this wave of popularity. So season two we
Speaker 5: came on and you already had a little bit of
Speaker 5: a of a toe hold.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we needed to work out some kinks
Speaker 2: from the Sea Crews episode where it was like the
Speaker 2: Bachelor pad on water, Like, yeah, we needed the full
Speaker 2: house needed to find its footing, and I think by
Speaker 2: season two they finally realized it's a family show, not
Speaker 2: a bat I.
Speaker 5: Think part of what Yeah, Dennis and I brought was
Speaker 5: we were parents.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think.
Speaker 5: The first season, I don't know if anyone was a
Speaker 5: parent on that on the writing staff that I.
Speaker 1: Could probably yeah.
Speaker 5: Maybe Kim Weiskough maybe, I think had a little daughter.
Speaker 5: Exc had a daughter about the age of them, Yeah,
Speaker 5: but you know, other than that, but I had two kids, Dennis,
Speaker 5: Dennis had a son, and we started pitching more of
Speaker 5: the of the parenting stories. I think that helped maybe
Speaker 5: make the shift a little bit into.
Speaker 1: It for sure, well, because it became about this. You know.
Speaker 4: One thing that Full House always, we say, always did
Speaker 4: really well was that the storylines weren't just about the
Speaker 4: kids or just about the parents. It was about how
Speaker 4: something affected everyone in the house. Usually it was it
Speaker 4: was the whole family was involved in whatever was needing
Speaker 4: to be solved, right, And that was I was always
Speaker 4: really proud of that for the show, because so many
Speaker 4: kids just kind of got you know, they were like,
Speaker 4: we'll just include them later when we need something. But
Speaker 4: it was very much a part of Full house and storylines, you.
Speaker 5: Know, complately, and it was finding that balance between the
Speaker 5: adult stories and the kids stories and kid adult stories.
Speaker 5: And then we would almost make flow charts up. Well
Speaker 5: let's see, you know, we have a Stephanie Danny story.
Speaker 5: We need a Joey Michelle's story.
Speaker 1: Different combinations.
Speaker 5: Yeah, to make sure everybody was kind of covered in
Speaker 5: the storylines, and we also had to give everybody and
Speaker 5: the show is very difficult to write. People don't realize
Speaker 5: how hard it was to write, because we really tried
Speaker 5: to weave at least a runner through an arc for
Speaker 5: every character and intersect them, you know, and dovetail them
Speaker 5: throughout the episode. And it was it was challenging.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, especially when we got to like nineteen hundred
Speaker 4: guest members.
Speaker 1: There was a lot of storylines and people, you know, they.
Speaker 5: We love writing Kimmy. We love writing Kimmy.
Speaker 4: Kimmy was so great. I mean, that was such a
Speaker 4: great character to write for.
Speaker 1: We oh man, she's great. I got a joy. I
Speaker 1: was going to say that.
Speaker 4: We recently recapped season three, episode nineteen, which was Those
Speaker 4: Better Not Be the Days, which is where we do
Speaker 4: the flash forward.
Speaker 1: Oh right, yeah, where the three guys or old men. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a Laurie was the old lady. What was what was
Speaker 1: that like writing that show? Do you remember? I mean,
Speaker 1: were they just ridiculous the whole time?
Speaker 5: Specifically other than you know, at some point in the
Speaker 5: season you try to be like their flashbacks. We did
Speaker 5: a couple of flashback episodes and then somebody in the
Speaker 5: writers who play sad, why don't do a flash forward
Speaker 5: and have some fun. Put the guys in old age
Speaker 5: makeup and you know, hire and see what the girls
Speaker 5: would look like. I believe Dave met one of his
Speaker 5: wives on that.
Speaker 1: Yeah Jane, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Jane, Jane, who did look exactly like?
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, it was an episode I think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looked like the actors were having a lot
Speaker 2: of fun.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they just we're having a blast.
Speaker 5: Especially the guys, because you know, when you were kids,
Speaker 5: you guys never complained. I mean, you were total pros.
Speaker 5: But the guys, you know, every once in a while,
Speaker 5: your bitch and Bob Bob used to say, what's my line?
Speaker 5: I walk into every room and I say, what's going on? So, yeah,
Speaker 5: we did it. So we you know, we we try
Speaker 5: to make sure everybody had at least a little something
Speaker 5: to play in every episode, and this was really fun
Speaker 5: for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this one they had.
Speaker 4: All we could think about was that they must have
Speaker 4: how do they get through a scene being the little
Speaker 4: old men, because we know they could They couldn't make
Speaker 4: it through a scene just doing a normal scene, let
Speaker 4: alone drest and make being ridiculous.
Speaker 5: And I think they played it all as like old Jewish.
Speaker 1: They were all right, they were all yeah. It was
Speaker 1: like they all became life.
Speaker 4: They all became a little old Jewish men in the day.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, they became different people. But it
Speaker 4: was great, right, well, I think, but you know what, though,
Speaker 4: as you age that actually does happen, you start going
Speaker 4: why why?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they stand up, that's true.
Speaker 5: Happens.
Speaker 4: Well that I mean that dream sequence was considerably better
Speaker 4: than the one we did a few episodes before.
Speaker 1: Was it, Oh bye bye Bertie.
Speaker 2: Oh Michelle dreams that the adults are like.
Speaker 1: Understand that dream It was.
Speaker 4: Like she was giant and then the and then the
Speaker 4: adults were all little.
Speaker 1: It was terrified always.
Speaker 5: Did later on, which I what was funny. But people
Speaker 5: didn't like when Michelle dreamt that she had giant feet.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's terrib I don't remember that that was, Yes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, she somebody mentioned somebody teases her in school and
Speaker 5: says that she has big feet, and then she goes
Speaker 5: to sleep and she has these gigantic feet in the
Speaker 5: keep growing. I think eventually they explode and like.
Speaker 1: Very Alice in Wonderland growing out of the House sort
Speaker 1: of like.
Speaker 5: I love those kind of shows, but I don't know
Speaker 5: if the fans of that one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what their hit or miss.
Speaker 4: Sometimes sometimes you want you're like, oh, this was funny,
Speaker 4: and sometimes you're like, well, this.
Speaker 1: Is the eighties and nineties when we were doing some
Speaker 1: things where.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so what were some of your favorite episodes that
Speaker 2: you wrote or not, Like, just what are some episodes
Speaker 2: that stand out in your mind writing?
Speaker 5: What I think what people don't realize on most shows
Speaker 5: is at least on Full House and most of these
Speaker 5: shows we've done, is that they're almost a little group written. Yeah,
Speaker 5: so when you ask a writer like what was your
Speaker 5: favorite episode, that you're right, there's a good chance you
Speaker 5: didn't write a single word of that episode, and it
Speaker 5: was It's very collaborative and a very fun process. But
Speaker 5: in terms of I liked I like the Dinis, remember
Speaker 5: the Dinosaur episode when when Michelle was on a school
Speaker 5: trip and all the bones kind of.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that was.
Speaker 5: Fun, I think production wise to figure it was always
Speaker 5: fun when when Dennis and I became the showrunners, like
Speaker 5: figuring out that production stuff was really fun and really
Speaker 5: challenging and what what are production? Yeah, oh my god,
Speaker 5: they did an amazing.
Speaker 4: We didn't do to full House was light on that
Speaker 4: kind of stuff compared to Fuller Fuller it was every
Speaker 4: week was some new yeah, stunt production, costume, but yeah,
Speaker 4: it was we did. We did a few things as
Speaker 4: the season It's got later too, I think we got
Speaker 4: a little more into really going yeah.
Speaker 5: Well they wanted, you know, the budget got bigger, and
Speaker 5: especially Tom and Bob or I go for it, go
Speaker 5: on a trip, you know, go So so that was
Speaker 5: fun for me. That my favorite episodes I think where
Speaker 5: the celebrity was and they weren't necessarily the greatest episodes,
Speaker 5: but I got a chance to meet so many of
Speaker 5: my heroes or people that I had admired, and in
Speaker 5: some cases it was like the little Richard one was crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that was so much fun, Like the energy he brought
Speaker 5: to the standard. If you remember he was ending out
Speaker 5: religious pamphlets and singing and screaming.
Speaker 1: Yeah he was really, yeah he was.
Speaker 4: He was everything the little Richard should be.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he talked to he's telling a story, you know,
Speaker 5: and he's he's like a preacher, right, telling the stories
Speaker 5: that Jimi Hendrix used to be in his band. And
Speaker 5: he was saying, oh that boy he had a horse
Speaker 5: like you've never seen. This is a kid show. What
Speaker 5: are you doing? Like crazy stuff like that. But he's
Speaker 5: at the same time he's handing out religious pamphlets.
Speaker 3: You know it is, buddy, that's hysterically end.
Speaker 4: You gotta cover all your bases, you know what I mean,
Speaker 4: you gotta you gotta be like just in case this
Speaker 4: joke that I told does it go over so well,
Speaker 4: you should also check this out.
Speaker 5: Right, we could say that on this podcast, right, we
Speaker 5: can curse a little bit.
Speaker 1: I mean not sure. Yeah there, yeah, it's true, it's true.
Speaker 4: I mean, look, I have made some definitely inappropriate jokes
Speaker 4: on the podcast, so I don't know if they make them.
Speaker 5: The air, but uh so your stand up now, right, So.
Speaker 4: I mean I try. It's you know, it's uh the writing. See,
Speaker 4: the writing thing is the thing that takes these it's
Speaker 4: really what it is is the sitting down and doing you.
Speaker 5: Know, yeah anything, it's it's hard work. But so the
Speaker 5: other like we met I met Mickey Rooney.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he was.
Speaker 5: This guy was the biggest movie star in the world
Speaker 5: in the forties early fifties, in the world. He had
Speaker 5: relations with the most beautiful women. He was five foot three,
Speaker 5: you know, and then he came on said he was
Speaker 5: this bundle of energy and you I don't know if
Speaker 5: you worked with him, because he was They were locked
Speaker 5: in us. It was John and the and the girls
Speaker 5: and the twins. Did you get a chance to Was
Speaker 5: he in the house at some point?
Speaker 1: He was?
Speaker 4: I think there's one scene he comes into the living
Speaker 4: room or something at the end, because I seem to
Speaker 4: remember there being a thing with where we're all in
Speaker 4: the scene together.
Speaker 5: But he was off the wall. He was crazy. I mean,
Speaker 5: he was pitching me business ideas like what's the one
Speaker 5: soda you never heard of? I don't know Vicky vick
Speaker 5: or soda okayas for that? And he wants to wants
Speaker 5: best and you know, Mickey, Rudy mccaroni and like, but
Speaker 5: it was it was a trip. It was great and
Speaker 5: that's hysterical. He got direction. I think it was Joel
Speaker 5: directed the episode, and he was off the wall and
Speaker 5: he was.
Speaker 4: You know, just like Joel's the only person that could
Speaker 4: handle directing that man.
Speaker 5: When that camera came on, you know, he said, Micky,
Speaker 5: you gotta cry. It's like which I he was. If
Speaker 5: you look at that episode, he tears your heart out.
Speaker 5: You know, he was great, so you can see why
Speaker 5: he was, you know, such a big star.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had some.
Speaker 4: We had some really, I mean we've talked about it too,
Speaker 4: like as kids, we were like, who are these people?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Like now, as you know, as alls, we go back
Speaker 4: and watch, like, oh my god, these were cute. You
Speaker 4: know you said huge stars like really amazing, uh you
Speaker 4: know people in this business musicians and.
Speaker 1: Actors, and it was you had Korean, That's right, we
Speaker 1: had Yeah.
Speaker 5: I remember he came on. I think he wanted his
Speaker 5: kid on. That was the deal right now, said the
Speaker 5: guys have to play basketball, and that's when we found
Speaker 5: out that John couldn't play basketball.
Speaker 4: John is Yeah, yeah, I think there was another episode
Speaker 4: he was like, we're going to play sports and I
Speaker 4: was like the irony of like Danny and Joey being
Speaker 4: the ones that can't play sports when Dave is like
Speaker 4: such an athlete and yeah, John is like I don't
Speaker 4: know what do I do with this? Right?
Speaker 5: But Kareem he you know, like he was my one
Speaker 5: of my idols, and he was an interesting guy. He
Speaker 5: was kind of quiet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember that.
Speaker 5: Then I we met and Wayne Newton.
Speaker 1: Knew the Vegas. Yeah.
Speaker 5: I never smelled a stronger cologne in my life, like overwhelming,
Speaker 5: like but a sweet guy, you know, you know, how
Speaker 5: would I have a chance. You know, I'm a kid
Speaker 5: from Brooklyn, Like, how do I get a chance to
Speaker 5: meet you know, Wayne Newton? Right?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So you know the show great for that, so and
Speaker 5: the Beach Boys of course you know that.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah that was classic.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So did you pitch these ideas in the room, like say, hey,
Speaker 2: let's have an episode of Wayne Newton or Mickey Rooney,
Speaker 2: remember ideas or Mickey Rooney Macaroni in the room and trying.
Speaker 3: To get.
Speaker 4: I'm still so mad and I think I'm gonna make
Speaker 4: it even though he's not around anymore.
Speaker 1: It's a great idea.
Speaker 5: Probably a lot of them probably came out of they
Speaker 5: wanted a stunt cast. Certain episodes, usually for sweeps, so
Speaker 5: it would be like who can we get and you
Speaker 5: will probably start with, uh, you know, Tom Hanks, and
Speaker 5: then we work our way down to Mickey Rooney. You know,
Speaker 5: who is available? Who would do it? I remember there
Speaker 5: was one episode where where DJ had that rich boyfriend,
Speaker 5: remember right right, yeah, very good, very good. You've been
Speaker 5: studying it, I should and uh so he wants to
Speaker 5: bring a big star, so I think he was like
Speaker 5: Boys the Man or something. But they in like the
Speaker 5: early nineties were trying to get somebody really big for
Speaker 5: him to bring and sing a love song to DJ.
Speaker 5: We couldn't get anybody, so we went up with Frankie Valley. Right,
Speaker 5: My generation was great, but you guys were like who
Speaker 5: were like, you know, she was a great actress, so
Speaker 5: she was like Frankie Valley, Oh my god, Nelson, it's
Speaker 5: so wonderful. She had no idea who it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she really had to turn on the actress stills
Speaker 2: for that episode.
Speaker 4: I feel like that was a lot of it, though,
Speaker 4: Like there were definitely a lot of like again now
Speaker 4: actors or entertainers or musicians or whatever that now as
Speaker 4: adults we get like how influential they were, but yeah,
Speaker 4: as kids are like, who are these old people?
Speaker 1: Right? And that's how kids.
Speaker 4: Look at us now, kids look at you like I
Speaker 4: have a.
Speaker 5: My god. Daughter's daughter is twelve years old. She just
Speaker 5: turned twelve. Shout out to Maya, by the way, and
Speaker 5: oh is an obsessed fan obsessed. She knows every episode,
Speaker 5: she knows every detail about it. Her and her friends.
Speaker 5: They're twelve years old, So generation should.
Speaker 1: Host this podcast. They want to take over.
Speaker 5: Why don't she? She actually interviewed me for a school
Speaker 5: thing that Oh, you know, that's so crazy. So I
Speaker 5: love that, you know, it's it's still out there. And
Speaker 5: even though like it was great when it was on
Speaker 5: you know, syndication, it was on twenty times a day,
Speaker 5: but they can still find it's on Hulu now, right, I.
Speaker 1: Think, oh yeah, it's yeah, yeah, all of it.
Speaker 5: So it's it's it's an evergreen. You know, it's amazing.
Speaker 2: What kind of questions do twelve year olds want to
Speaker 2: know from Mark Warren?
Speaker 5: Like? Things?
Speaker 1: Were she most interested.
Speaker 5: In what your favorite episode was? And you know how
Speaker 5: we wrote the episodes? Things things like that, Yeah, what
Speaker 5: for her? You know, so we had to had to
Speaker 5: tell the truth.
Speaker 1: You know, right right, nightmares.
Speaker 5: Just I mean you you were children. It's it's remarkable,
Speaker 5: you know, but over that eight years you grew and
Speaker 5: the whole Yeah, so you grow up. It's it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 5: I don't think any show really did that.
Speaker 4: Yeah no, I mean, no show really ever did that
Speaker 4: what we did with the Michelle where we started with
Speaker 4: the baby and let them actually grow up on air?
Speaker 1: Right all right, fan Ritos. That wraps up Part one
Speaker 1: of our interview with Mark Warren.
Speaker 4: And we had so much fun talking to Mark and
Speaker 4: his extensive career on Full House and a ton of
Speaker 4: other shows. And there's still so much more to unpack,
Speaker 4: So we will be continuing our conversation with Mark in
Speaker 4: Part two of this interview on Friday. So stay tuned
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Speaker 4: Rude Andrewridos. And remember, everybody, the world is small, The
Speaker 4: house is full of Mickey.
Speaker 2: Rudy ah, yes, I love it.
Speaker 1: Small man, but a very low