1 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to Amy MTJ, and we have a very 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:11,000 Speaker 1: special edition today. If you were a child of the 3 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,640 Speaker 1: eighties or the nineties or maybe even later, if you 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:18,960 Speaker 1: love Nicket Knight, you know and love our next guest. 5 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:20,640 Speaker 2: She was the sassy. 6 00:00:20,320 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: Character in a sitcom favorite something I grew up watching 7 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,240 Speaker 1: and even my girls grew up watching because of the 8 00:00:27,280 --> 00:00:31,440 Speaker 1: way reruns are these days. But we are talking about 9 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:38,519 Speaker 1: the middle sister in the Tanner's Stephanie Tanner, who her 10 00:00:38,600 --> 00:00:42,040 Speaker 1: catch phrase, how rude. We all know it, We all 11 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: said it, and maybe some of us still say it. 12 00:00:44,560 --> 00:00:46,600 Speaker 3: Jody, how rude. 13 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: And actually I want to let our guest say it, 14 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,640 Speaker 1: because clearly she can say it with a lot more 15 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:57,160 Speaker 1: sincerity and just authenticity than I can. But Jody Sweeten 16 00:00:57,640 --> 00:00:59,920 Speaker 1: is joining us here on the podcast today, and I'm 17 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:04,440 Speaker 1: so excited because this is a child actor who has 18 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: really gone on to become not only an incredible actress 19 00:01:08,120 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 1: but a mom and just is a shiny example of 20 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:16,840 Speaker 1: actually making it in a world that is stacked against you. 21 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 2: Oftentimes when you're a child actor. 22 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: We hear all the horror stories, and she went through 23 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: her stuff like the like every like so many other 24 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,080 Speaker 1: child actors did, but she is. Now, if you love 25 00:01:27,120 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: the Hallmark Channel like we do, you know, I don't 26 00:01:30,880 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 1: know if we've told people this, but we love horror movies. 27 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 1: We've said this, We watched one at least today. I 28 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,080 Speaker 1: actually think that's a true statement, is true. I think 29 00:01:38,080 --> 00:01:40,280 Speaker 1: we watch a horror movie a day. Kind of embarrassing 30 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:43,399 Speaker 1: to admit, but it's true. And to cleanse the palette, 31 00:01:44,319 --> 00:01:49,040 Speaker 1: we like to dabble in some lifetime movies, Hallmark movies. 32 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 2: And we're not kidding at all. 33 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:54,320 Speaker 3: Now, but sometimes someone they do some dark ones too, 34 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:55,720 Speaker 3: like they've. 35 00:01:55,560 --> 00:01:58,919 Speaker 1: Got some yes, some detective series or some My Stepfather, 36 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:00,040 Speaker 1: My Killer, that kind of. 37 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 3: Weird stuff they do. 38 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,559 Speaker 1: They mix it up so we can get a little 39 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: bit of horror and a little bit of love all 40 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,960 Speaker 1: in one channel. But Hallmark Plus, I don't know if 41 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: you guys have seen it, but it's kicking off here. 42 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 2: I think it kicked off September tenth. 43 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: Jody Sweden is joining us now, Jody, you are joining 44 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:17,040 Speaker 1: us from Hot La. 45 00:02:17,120 --> 00:02:18,080 Speaker 2: It's a little less. 46 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:22,360 Speaker 4: Hot today, Yes, it's slightly less hot today, but we're 47 00:02:22,400 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 4: still quite in the heat of summer and fall here. 48 00:02:26,040 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: So yeah, so let's talk about the fall season as 49 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: you're sweltering there in LA But no, we're excited because 50 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: I got this headline we got to print out, We 51 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: get research about each person we're gonna be interviewing, and 52 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,440 Speaker 1: the first line was she is about to dominate Hallmark 53 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: in September. 54 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 2: Is that an accurate statement? 55 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,960 Speaker 5: I mean, I feel like I don't know if it's accurate, 56 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,960 Speaker 5: but if my pr put it together, great job, guys, 57 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,120 Speaker 5: but it's true. I am very fortunate right now because 58 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 5: I have not only a movie coming out on Hallmark 59 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:02,120 Speaker 5: on the regular Hallmark channel, which is The Arison Handyman, 60 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 5: which will be out this Saturday, September fourteenth, or I 61 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:09,320 Speaker 5: think this airs Sunday, so it'll have been out last 62 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:12,959 Speaker 5: night for you guys. September fourteenth is The Aris and 63 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 5: the Handyman on Hallmark Channel, which is a really fun, 64 00:03:16,720 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 5: cute wrong com And then on Hallmark Plus their new 65 00:03:20,320 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 5: streaming service, I have three new Jane Mystery movies coming 66 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:28,239 Speaker 5: out which lean a little bit more into the detective 67 00:03:28,480 --> 00:03:32,519 Speaker 5: the drama, the you know, the the Hallmark murder mysteries, 68 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:36,720 Speaker 5: and so those are coming out September eighth, tenth, eighteenth, 69 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 5: and twenty fifth, there's three more Jane De Silva mystery movies. 70 00:03:40,760 --> 00:03:44,120 Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna say, like dominate Hallmark, 71 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 5: but but there's gonna be plenty of opportunities should you 72 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:52,880 Speaker 5: want to wanta on Hallmark, It's there. 73 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:55,640 Speaker 3: Oh you give us the word You're Jody Sweeten is 74 00:03:55,640 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 3: not going to dominate Hallmark the words you would you? 75 00:03:58,720 --> 00:04:01,600 Speaker 5: I don't know. That sounds so aggressive. So I'm just 76 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:04,800 Speaker 5: going to be very readily available on Hallmark. Should you 77 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:05,720 Speaker 5: institute then. 78 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:10,320 Speaker 2: Yes, I love it. You're the Hallmark Channels fall into 79 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,960 Speaker 2: Love campaign. What is that? I'm interested? 80 00:04:13,440 --> 00:04:15,960 Speaker 5: Well? The Airess and the Handyman, which is the one 81 00:04:15,960 --> 00:04:21,599 Speaker 5: that's coming out on Saturday, is a fall themed love story. 82 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 5: It's got all of your it's got a fall fare, 83 00:04:24,640 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 5: it's got it's got farm animals, it's got apple pie, 84 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 5: it's got an heiress that loses her money, it's got fashion, 85 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 5: it's got a lot there's it's giving a lot of 86 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 5: things to a lot of different people. So we're very 87 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,920 Speaker 5: excited for that. One is actually really fun. We got 88 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,440 Speaker 5: to work with I had a pig as a co 89 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:50,800 Speaker 5: star and not Corey Savier. He is lovely, but you 90 00:04:50,839 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 5: didn't want Corey to take that the wrong way. But 91 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 5: I had an actual farm pig who was a co 92 00:04:58,640 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 5: star in this who was so sweet and we loved. 93 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:07,400 Speaker 5: But they are not great at reading the script and knowing, uh, 94 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 5: kind of what they're supposed to do in a scene. 95 00:05:09,640 --> 00:05:11,280 Speaker 3: You have to be thinking the same thing, Jody. Did 96 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:12,840 Speaker 3: the pig have a name? What was the pig name? 97 00:05:13,320 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 5: Well, the pig's name was. It was it Hercules, No, 98 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:19,839 Speaker 5: something like that, but it was, but it was it 99 00:05:19,880 --> 00:05:22,760 Speaker 5: was Hercules. But but it was playing a girl pig, 100 00:05:23,279 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 5: so you know, it was. 101 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,400 Speaker 3: A talented pig actress. 102 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,560 Speaker 5: It's a it's a very fluid pig. Yeah, and it 103 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:34,040 Speaker 5: just you know, it was. It wore very cute little 104 00:05:34,040 --> 00:05:38,200 Speaker 5: headbands and glasses for about fifteen seconds and then it 105 00:05:38,200 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 5: would knock them off. 106 00:05:39,279 --> 00:05:42,240 Speaker 3: So that's the best pitch I've heard from. 107 00:05:44,320 --> 00:05:44,520 Speaker 1: You know. 108 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 5: Well, the best word is that it's not only about 109 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:51,080 Speaker 5: me and the post. Okay, I'll give you the actual story, 110 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,560 Speaker 5: which is the heiress and the handyman. I played June 111 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 5: walt Shire, who is an heiress who is uh, you know, 112 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:05,640 Speaker 5: the scion of a hotelier family and her parents were 113 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:08,280 Speaker 5: killed when she was younger, of course, because it's sort 114 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 5: of always a piece with no parents, and so she 115 00:06:13,760 --> 00:06:17,359 Speaker 5: has all this money. Some very unfortunate things happen series 116 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:20,720 Speaker 5: of events, she loses all of that money. But her 117 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,880 Speaker 5: aunt Bertie has left her a farm in upstate New York, 118 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 5: so at least she has a roof over her head. 119 00:06:27,400 --> 00:06:29,480 Speaker 2: But apple orchard maybe too, or. 120 00:06:30,400 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 5: Well not there may be an orchard. But but she meets, 121 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:38,279 Speaker 5: of course, the very cute and handsome Handyman played by 122 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,760 Speaker 5: Corey Sevier, the neighbor bart who lives on the on 123 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 5: the farm next door, who decides to help teach June 124 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 5: everything that there is to know about winning a fall there. 125 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:49,720 Speaker 2: That's so convenient. 126 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:51,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, I become an expert at you know, some some 127 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,520 Speaker 5: apple pie baking, some some pig wrangling, some flower arranging. 128 00:06:58,279 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 2: Lot much fun, I have to say. 129 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:03,960 Speaker 1: So. I was doing a little bit of a dive 130 00:07:04,520 --> 00:07:07,839 Speaker 1: about the name of your new movie, as you mentioned 131 00:07:09,240 --> 00:07:12,520 Speaker 1: the heiress and the Handyman. Were you also in a 132 00:07:12,560 --> 00:07:15,520 Speaker 1: flick a year ago called Handyman from Hell? 133 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:17,720 Speaker 5: Yes? 134 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 2: I thought that was so. 135 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:26,400 Speaker 1: Interesting that even very different genres both right, we. 136 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:31,440 Speaker 5: Can combine them into some sort of weird mishmash of something. Yeah. No, 137 00:07:31,600 --> 00:07:34,200 Speaker 5: that was a lifetime movie that some friends of mine 138 00:07:34,280 --> 00:07:37,600 Speaker 5: who I know from doing comedy actually had written. And 139 00:07:37,640 --> 00:07:40,680 Speaker 5: it was, you know, one of those lifetime Like you said, 140 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:45,920 Speaker 5: the you know, step father to murder or whatever, you know, 141 00:07:46,760 --> 00:07:51,440 Speaker 5: leans more into the woman in distress sort of vibe. 142 00:07:52,240 --> 00:07:53,280 Speaker 2: So we can watch that. 143 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 5: It was really fun. I got to be killed on screen. 144 00:07:56,040 --> 00:07:56,680 Speaker 5: It was a first. 145 00:07:56,880 --> 00:07:59,880 Speaker 2: That's exciting. We can watch. 146 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:02,040 Speaker 3: You just said that was fun to get killed on screen. 147 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 3: You say, yeah, it sounds like a good time. 148 00:08:03,600 --> 00:08:04,680 Speaker 2: What is wrong with you too? 149 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 5: It is not you never I never had that happened before. 150 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 5: They're not you know, they're not killing you off on 151 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 5: Full House. 152 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:15,520 Speaker 3: No, but we're stilling with Jodie. That was the first 153 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:19,120 Speaker 3: time you've gotten a chance to be a victim or 154 00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:21,080 Speaker 3: of a murder on st Wow. 155 00:08:21,280 --> 00:08:22,000 Speaker 2: How do you die? 156 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 5: I took a I mean, you've got to know. Yes, 157 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 5: I'm a true crime fan. I am. I've I'm with you. 158 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,120 Speaker 5: I watch her all the time, and yet I do 159 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:32,880 Speaker 5: Hallmark movies. 160 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:35,079 Speaker 2: But no, it makes perfect sense to us. 161 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,319 Speaker 5: I got shot in the chest with a nail gun 162 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:41,559 Speaker 5: while while making out with the. 163 00:08:41,360 --> 00:08:43,240 Speaker 3: Handyman while making out. 164 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,960 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, didn't see it coming. 165 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:48,199 Speaker 3: You know, Handyman was the one that you'll do. 166 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:51,240 Speaker 5: Yes, well that's why he's from help. 167 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:54,800 Speaker 3: Wait he's making out with your with a handgun? 168 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:56,640 Speaker 2: What he has a nail gun in? 169 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 1: Like? 170 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:57,680 Speaker 2: How did you see? 171 00:08:57,760 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 3: We say to my true Crime. We're trying to piece 172 00:08:59,520 --> 00:08:59,920 Speaker 3: this together. 173 00:09:00,320 --> 00:09:02,040 Speaker 5: You got to watch the movie and then you can 174 00:09:02,240 --> 00:09:03,680 Speaker 5: and then you can do a full reenactment. 175 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: But but yeah, yeah, we can watch Handyman from Hell 176 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:09,439 Speaker 1: and then cleanse our palette with the Aras and the Handyman, 177 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:10,400 Speaker 1: the Aras and. 178 00:09:10,400 --> 00:09:13,160 Speaker 5: The handy Man. I think that's a really wise way 179 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:15,800 Speaker 5: to do it. I think I doing the reverse would 180 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 5: not be as good and not to. 181 00:09:18,240 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 3: Be outdone by twenty twenty two Jody Swinton starring in 182 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 3: The Handyman Hunk. Did you see that one? 183 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:28,600 Speaker 5: Well, every Hallmark movie that I do now or any 184 00:09:28,640 --> 00:09:29,640 Speaker 5: movie has to have. 185 00:09:29,559 --> 00:09:31,920 Speaker 2: A hand I feel like that's gonn have. 186 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 5: A Handyman in it. That's somewhere. 187 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: Yeah, your podcast is going strong. 188 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:46,040 Speaker 2: How has that that's been for you? 189 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: I mean obviously we love you, we know you from 190 00:09:48,400 --> 00:09:51,400 Speaker 1: full House, but to relive it, I mean you are 191 00:09:51,440 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: you rewatching all of the episodes and then going over 192 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,560 Speaker 1: them again, and what's that like for you? 193 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 5: You know, it's been so much fun. Andrea Barber and 194 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:01,760 Speaker 5: I are so you were super close. We have always 195 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 5: been really close, even when we were kids. 196 00:10:04,720 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: And Himmy from the series right Tommy, Yes. 197 00:10:07,160 --> 00:10:09,720 Speaker 5: Kimmy, Kimmy Gibler from the series The Irony Is Steph 198 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,320 Speaker 5: and Kimmy were actually very good friends. And so she 199 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:15,760 Speaker 5: and I I started doing this podcast together because we 200 00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 5: never have watched the show. Well, I've never watched the show. Really, 201 00:10:20,240 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 5: I didn't. Yeah, why would I did it? I didn't, 202 00:10:22,520 --> 00:10:23,840 Speaker 5: you know. We were like, yeah, you did it as 203 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:25,880 Speaker 5: a kid, Like you didn't care about watching it really 204 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:29,719 Speaker 5: like I didn't. It wasn't I wasn't impressed to like, oh, 205 00:10:29,720 --> 00:10:31,240 Speaker 5: I want to see myself on TV. I was like, no, 206 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:32,960 Speaker 5: it's okay, just want to go. 207 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:36,920 Speaker 3: That's kind of way you're telling me. Until the podcast, 208 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:40,080 Speaker 3: you you've never really sat at any point and watched 209 00:10:40,080 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 3: like a full episode. 210 00:10:42,360 --> 00:10:46,160 Speaker 5: Okay, not none of the episodes. Maybe some of the 211 00:10:46,320 --> 00:10:48,640 Speaker 5: like the bigger ones and the pilot made, but not 212 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 5: to where I remember. There's a lot of episodes that 213 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,679 Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't remember this at all. So it's 214 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,760 Speaker 5: been really fun because Andrew is the same way. She 215 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:01,240 Speaker 5: didn't really you know, watch the episode, and there were 216 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 5: a lot of episodes she wasn't in in the first 217 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:06,960 Speaker 5: couple of seasons before she became a regular on the series. 218 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 5: So you know, we're watching these shows and it's like 219 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 5: going back and having these childhood memories that you haven't 220 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,360 Speaker 5: thought about in thirty plus years. 221 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,600 Speaker 3: Remind us what was your your your age, you were, 222 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:22,880 Speaker 3: what to what during the I was five. 223 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 5: When I started on the show and thirteen when it ended. 224 00:11:25,840 --> 00:11:29,920 Speaker 1: Wow, And those are formative years in front of the world. 225 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:33,240 Speaker 1: And funny enough, people are still watching you as that 226 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:39,000 Speaker 1: encapsulated version of yourself forever. Yeah, and people think of 227 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 1: you that way, that's got to be a strange I mean, 228 00:11:41,480 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 1: people probably come up to you and are confused because 229 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: they think of you as this young little girl. 230 00:11:46,920 --> 00:11:50,000 Speaker 5: You know. Before Fuller House, I would say that happened 231 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:54,200 Speaker 5: a lot. And before Fuller House, it would be people 232 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:57,800 Speaker 5: my age would recognize me, like as an adult, but 233 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 5: their kids were still watching, you know, the re runs, 234 00:12:00,480 --> 00:12:02,480 Speaker 5: and so an adult would be like, oh my gosh, 235 00:12:02,559 --> 00:12:06,280 Speaker 5: it's the girl from full House and their kids were like, no, 236 00:12:06,400 --> 00:12:08,559 Speaker 5: that's just some lady in the grocery store. 237 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 2: Like, yeah, she's my age. 238 00:12:11,559 --> 00:12:14,280 Speaker 5: Yeah, no, she's like a mom. She's not Yeah no, 239 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:17,200 Speaker 5: she's not on TV. So I can't tell you. There 240 00:12:17,200 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 5: were a bunch of times when parents were like, no, serious, 241 00:12:19,640 --> 00:12:23,160 Speaker 5: that's and they were like, I think. So it was hilarious. 242 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,480 Speaker 5: But then once Fuller came and kind of everybody saw 243 00:12:25,559 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 5: us as adults again, and you know, and then I 244 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 5: started doing Hallmark movies and stuff, I would say I 245 00:12:29,720 --> 00:12:34,200 Speaker 5: definitely get recognized more now, you know, as an adult. 246 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:38,559 Speaker 5: But I also, you know, for for not knocking, it 247 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:40,640 Speaker 5: looked very similar to when I did when I was 248 00:12:40,640 --> 00:12:41,559 Speaker 5: about twelve or thirty. 249 00:12:41,720 --> 00:12:44,800 Speaker 1: You do, I mean, you really do look remarkably the 250 00:12:44,800 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 1: same as you did when you were younger, which is 251 00:12:46,640 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 1: a huge compliment. 252 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 2: If only that could be. 253 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:50,800 Speaker 5: The whole full House cast. I don't know, I don't 254 00:12:50,880 --> 00:12:53,679 Speaker 5: know it's true what was in the air ducks in 255 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:56,720 Speaker 5: that sound stage, but we managed to do. 256 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:59,960 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you start listing Lori, Lachlan, John Stamos, I mean, 257 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 1: everybody like can the Olsen Twins. 258 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,520 Speaker 5: I mean it's yeah, we all managed to We've all 259 00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:09,560 Speaker 5: managed to age relatively gracefully, I shall say. 260 00:13:09,640 --> 00:13:12,679 Speaker 1: You know, I mentioned when I first started that obviously 261 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:18,920 Speaker 1: you have continued success and a beautiful family, two teenage daughters. 262 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 2: I have two daughters. 263 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: They're almost out of their teens now, so I'm just 264 00:13:22,960 --> 00:13:24,040 Speaker 1: a little bit ahead of you on that. 265 00:13:24,200 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 2: But you have a full life. 266 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:31,200 Speaker 1: But so many child actors don't have that outcome in 267 00:13:31,240 --> 00:13:33,080 Speaker 1: the end, you know, and I know you went through 268 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:35,360 Speaker 1: a lot to get to where you are today. What 269 00:13:35,640 --> 00:13:37,600 Speaker 1: can and I know you don't have another experience to 270 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 1: compare it to, but maybe seeing your children grow up 271 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:44,240 Speaker 1: in a more normalized setting, how would you describe your 272 00:13:44,280 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 1: childhood and where you ended up immediately after the show ended, Like, 273 00:13:49,280 --> 00:13:50,720 Speaker 1: how do you handle that as a child? 274 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting. I think back on it now, 275 00:13:55,320 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 5: and I would have been terribly bored as a kid 276 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:03,440 Speaker 5: just going to school. I was reading at a very 277 00:14:03,440 --> 00:14:06,480 Speaker 5: early age. I skipped a grade in school. I like 278 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:10,840 Speaker 5: I needed a lot of mental simulation. I needed to 279 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,640 Speaker 5: be busy. I loved working, I would you know. I 280 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,080 Speaker 5: was very fortunate that the producers let me go to 281 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 5: regular school in the morning and then I would come 282 00:14:19,040 --> 00:14:21,400 Speaker 5: in in the afternoon for rehearsals and then two days 283 00:14:21,400 --> 00:14:24,520 Speaker 5: a week I was fully tutored on set. So I, 284 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,240 Speaker 5: you know, as a kid who had undiagnosed ADHD, which 285 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 5: I didn't find out until later, I actually have this 286 00:14:31,240 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 5: great like hybrid system of class interaction school where I 287 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 5: constantly got in trouble for talking too much, and then 288 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 5: I would go to work and have fun and do 289 00:14:41,560 --> 00:14:43,960 Speaker 5: all of that, and then i'd get tutored individually and 290 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,680 Speaker 5: really get the intense work and be able to, you know, 291 00:14:46,880 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 5: just get through all of my classes and it loved school, 292 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 5: and then kind of do it again the next week. 293 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:55,680 Speaker 5: So it was exactly I think the environment that I 294 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:59,600 Speaker 5: needed as a kid, and my parents were not pushy 295 00:14:59,640 --> 00:15:02,440 Speaker 5: about it. They did they weren't living vicariously through me. 296 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:06,880 Speaker 5: They wanted no fame or attention or they just knew 297 00:15:07,720 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 5: that I loved performing and I loved doing this, and 298 00:15:11,240 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 5: they always said, you know, as long as you're having 299 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:15,840 Speaker 5: fun and you're enjoying this, we'll keep doing it. If 300 00:15:15,880 --> 00:15:19,400 Speaker 5: you hate this, we'll figure it out, and we will 301 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:21,440 Speaker 5: that you don't have to do this if you hate it. 302 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:25,920 Speaker 5: But I never hated it, and so you know, I 303 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 5: look at it now like with my kids, just sort 304 00:15:28,160 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 5: of living normal, relatively normal lives. I mean, you know 305 00:15:32,960 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 5: whatever that I guess is, and I I'm really grateful. 306 00:15:38,880 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 5: I think that I got to do what I did. 307 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,280 Speaker 5: And I also think, you know, weirdly, continuing to do 308 00:15:45,560 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 5: entertainment and acting and performing into as an adult it 309 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:53,760 Speaker 5: gave me an entirely different perspective on sort of what 310 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 5: being fake quote unquote famous is because it was just 311 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:00,840 Speaker 5: it was something that I grew up with I never 312 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 5: really had in a way. I think sometimes beginning, you know, 313 00:16:06,160 --> 00:16:08,640 Speaker 5: getting famous, when you get a little bit older, you 314 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,320 Speaker 5: realize what you're going to be missing. You realize that 315 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 5: suddenly you don't have that anonymity and that ability to 316 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 5: just do go to the mall or go to you know, 317 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:21,320 Speaker 5: and not have people know who you are or in 318 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:23,880 Speaker 5: your business or have you know, or have to worry 319 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 5: about things like that. And weirdly, growing up in this business, 320 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:32,200 Speaker 5: I never had that. I don't remember really a time 321 00:16:32,240 --> 00:16:36,120 Speaker 5: in my life where I didn't have a sort of 322 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:44,880 Speaker 5: public facing persona. And oddly enough, now that I have 323 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 5: gotten to come back as an adult, it's been a 324 00:16:49,280 --> 00:16:54,760 Speaker 5: really great tool because it I'm not I don't care 325 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:56,840 Speaker 5: what people think of me. I don't care. I mean 326 00:16:56,840 --> 00:16:58,920 Speaker 5: that also sort of comes with your forties as a woman. 327 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 5: You're like, tell me something, but I but you know it, 328 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:06,560 Speaker 5: really I I know that I do this because I 329 00:17:06,600 --> 00:17:12,640 Speaker 5: love it and I am who I am and I'm 330 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,800 Speaker 5: free to be that. And I don't think had I 331 00:17:15,920 --> 00:17:19,040 Speaker 5: not gone through all of that kind of growing up, 332 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 5: I don't think I would have gotten to that place 333 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 5: as soon as I did. 334 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 3: Did you? 335 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:27,119 Speaker 5: And I think that's the key to really being successful, 336 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 5: is to just follow what you love to do, what's 337 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 5: right for you, what works for your life, and who 338 00:17:33,320 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 5: cares what the comments are? Like? We you know what 339 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:40,640 Speaker 5: I mean. I I just it's not it's pointless. Go 340 00:17:40,720 --> 00:17:45,160 Speaker 5: and make yourself happy, do good, be kind, And that's 341 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:45,640 Speaker 5: really it. 342 00:17:45,800 --> 00:17:48,840 Speaker 3: You know you said the comments keep coming? Are comments 343 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 3: still coming? I'm just curious, like what these days? You 344 00:17:53,160 --> 00:17:56,920 Speaker 3: know what what I mean? You still keep an eye 345 00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:57,520 Speaker 3: on that stuff? 346 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,800 Speaker 5: Oh, I mean not really on I am now with 347 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:04,040 Speaker 5: social media, I have a very distant sort of relate. 348 00:18:04,119 --> 00:18:07,960 Speaker 5: I will post some things and then dip out. I've realized, Uh, 349 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:12,239 Speaker 5: it is a you know, sort of diminishing return. And 350 00:18:12,280 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 5: I think we all did that, you know, we were 351 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:15,760 Speaker 5: during the pandemic. Everyone's like, oh, I've got time. I 352 00:18:15,760 --> 00:18:17,359 Speaker 5: got time for that now, and you know, we're and 353 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 5: then it was like, I don't have time for that anymore. 354 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 5: And and it doesn't mean that I am not still 355 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:26,960 Speaker 5: very much who I am and vocal in my life 356 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:30,160 Speaker 5: and all of those things. It's just that I just don't. 357 00:18:30,200 --> 00:18:34,000 Speaker 5: I tune out the noise and and it's it's nice 358 00:18:34,080 --> 00:18:36,399 Speaker 5: to just tune it out, you know. And yeah, people 359 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:38,520 Speaker 5: always want to make you know, crappy comments. I mean, 360 00:18:39,560 --> 00:18:43,360 Speaker 5: that's just that's people, and particularly online, and when it's 361 00:18:43,400 --> 00:18:46,720 Speaker 5: not to your face, and you know, people get real 362 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:48,760 Speaker 5: brave when they don't have to be confronted. 363 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 3: With consequences for what are they like, what what is 364 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:55,720 Speaker 3: the negativity? I'm sorry, maybe I didn't do. 365 00:18:58,080 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 1: Nstand you know. 366 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 5: My past is like with addiction issues, just that I've 367 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,640 Speaker 5: been married a bunch of times, I'm like, like, where 368 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:09,359 Speaker 5: do you think I get my stand up material? I 369 00:19:09,440 --> 00:19:14,800 Speaker 5: gotta have something, you know. But yeah, like you know, 370 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:16,919 Speaker 5: people throw that in you know, every face, and I'm like, 371 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 5: that doesn't I wrote a book. 372 00:19:21,080 --> 00:19:23,679 Speaker 2: I already talked about all of this. 373 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:27,119 Speaker 1: You're not breaking any like we already all already know 374 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:27,760 Speaker 1: the information. 375 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,920 Speaker 5: Yeah, and not only that, I just I'm so very 376 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:36,159 Speaker 5: secure in who I am and what guides me that 377 00:19:36,280 --> 00:19:41,880 Speaker 5: I'm like, and none of that it's all kind of irrelevant. 378 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:49,159 Speaker 2: It's funny TJ and I were talking. 379 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:51,560 Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just by design or if 380 00:19:51,560 --> 00:19:53,920 Speaker 1: it just keeps happening, but when we're talking to folks, 381 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,080 Speaker 1: we end up realizing because DJ and I have had 382 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: quite the last two years are and so I think 383 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:05,359 Speaker 1: there's a shared experience there. It's not exactly the same. 384 00:20:05,359 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 1: But we were joking we should call this podcast safe space, 385 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 1: because you know, actually, when you start to hear other 386 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,680 Speaker 1: people's stories and people who you look up to, people 387 00:20:15,720 --> 00:20:18,679 Speaker 1: who you admire, people who you are entertained by, and 388 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:21,480 Speaker 1: you start to hear you know what they've been through. 389 00:20:21,520 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: I think we put people up on a pedestal. We 390 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,200 Speaker 1: love to tear them down, we love to judge them, 391 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 1: but we're all human beings. So it's always interesting to 392 00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:34,040 Speaker 1: hear and going through the tough times, battling addiction, yes, 393 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,919 Speaker 1: having multiple marriages, we get it, and people love to 394 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: throw shots at that, but those are those are the 395 00:20:41,480 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: moments when you learn who you are and what you're 396 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:43,600 Speaker 1: made of. 397 00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:46,840 Speaker 5: And it also like that's life. Life's messy, it's not. 398 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:51,600 Speaker 5: There's no then weak got an instruction manual? Why do 399 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,919 Speaker 5: you think you know just because you're doing it differently cool, 400 00:20:54,440 --> 00:20:56,360 Speaker 5: that's you know, it's just I think. 401 00:20:56,160 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 4: We we're very quick to have a set idea of 402 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,880 Speaker 4: what we think other people should adhere to, particularly when 403 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,200 Speaker 4: they grow up in the public eye or when they 404 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 4: are someone that we look up to, and you know, 405 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,200 Speaker 4: at the end of the day, like just can't put 406 00:21:12,200 --> 00:21:13,360 Speaker 4: that kind of pressure on yourself. 407 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:16,480 Speaker 5: You're you're a human being having a human experience and 408 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,879 Speaker 5: you're having to do it in front of in front 409 00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,920 Speaker 5: of a lot of other people. And sometimes that's my choice, 410 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:23,760 Speaker 5: and sometimes it's not. 411 00:21:24,080 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 2: That's true, you know, and that's just it. 412 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:29,320 Speaker 5: It is what it is. You know, Hey, I'm a 413 00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:32,200 Speaker 5: human being having a human experience. I bet you are too, 414 00:21:32,760 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 5: and let's laugh about it, you know, instead of being 415 00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,040 Speaker 5: like no, no, no, I'm I'm great. I'm great. Everything's fine. 416 00:21:39,080 --> 00:21:40,560 Speaker 5: I'm great. Yeah, no, I'm not. 417 00:21:42,119 --> 00:21:43,760 Speaker 2: It depends on the day, depends on the hour. 418 00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,200 Speaker 5: Right, Sometimes I'm great, sometimes I'm not, And it's okay. 419 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:49,280 Speaker 5: And I just that's always the message that I really 420 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 5: like try and reinforce on my social media with my fans, 421 00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,320 Speaker 5: with people I interact with, is like, just be where 422 00:21:55,359 --> 00:21:57,160 Speaker 5: you are, in the space that you are. Some days 423 00:21:57,160 --> 00:22:00,080 Speaker 5: it's great, some days it's not. It'll change. 424 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 3: You know, how long will it take you to get 425 00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:03,680 Speaker 3: to that point? Though, because we're all trying to get there? 426 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 3: I didn't get to what you're talking about. Maybe late thirties, 427 00:22:06,840 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 3: early forties maybe, but you know what we're to get 428 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 3: to that point? What did it take for you? And 429 00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:17,200 Speaker 3: is that an ongoing battle or work that you still 430 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 3: have to do. 431 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,840 Speaker 5: It's an ongoing battle and it's work. But I will 432 00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:28,480 Speaker 5: say growing up in a business where at nine years old, 433 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 5: there's a Star magazine article written about how you're a 434 00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,120 Speaker 5: terrible person to work with. It's completely fabricated, and they have, 435 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:36,840 Speaker 5: you know, all of these things, and you read that 436 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 5: about yourself, and it feels so violating at nine years old, 437 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 5: ten years old, that they write this stuff about that's 438 00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 5: not true, and you want to defend yourself and you 439 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 5: want to say, like, but that's that's you know, that's 440 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 5: not right. And so I learned at an early age 441 00:22:55,280 --> 00:23:01,000 Speaker 5: I either listen to who other people tell me I am, 442 00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,480 Speaker 5: or I have to figure it out for me and 443 00:23:04,800 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 5: ignore the rest. And some days I'm really good at that, 444 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,080 Speaker 5: and some days the voices are loud. And when I 445 00:23:12,160 --> 00:23:15,399 Speaker 5: was a teenager, I spent a lot of time trying 446 00:23:15,440 --> 00:23:17,679 Speaker 5: to figure out how I could be the person that 447 00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 5: other people wanted me to be, or be the total 448 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 5: opposite of who people thought I should be. You know, 449 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:27,240 Speaker 5: it just all those things. But I'd say my late twenties, 450 00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,040 Speaker 5: early thirties, really my mid thirties is kind of when 451 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,520 Speaker 5: I started like really settling into it. And I think 452 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 5: that's that's kind of what happens for most of us. So, like, 453 00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:38,359 Speaker 5: you know, all of these young people that are like 454 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,919 Speaker 5: famous and doing all this stupid, it's like, well, like 455 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 5: let them get to thirty, you know what I mean, 456 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,840 Speaker 5: let it like when you're they're gonna hit thirty and 457 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 5: they're gonna go oh, because we all do. And so 458 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,040 Speaker 5: like give like give them the grace, give them the 459 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,520 Speaker 5: allow them the dignity of their own experience to you know, 460 00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,960 Speaker 5: be messy sometimes and like but be able to come 461 00:23:59,000 --> 00:24:01,240 Speaker 5: back from it. You know, I think that's just always 462 00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:05,040 Speaker 5: the hope is that we all no one's perfect, So 463 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 5: like give people the opportunity to change and come back. 464 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:10,400 Speaker 5: Now if they want to keep doing the same thing 465 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 5: and being an asshat, than by. But you know, if 466 00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 5: you want to like change your behavior and do something 467 00:24:16,119 --> 00:24:19,600 Speaker 5: different and be a different person, great, that's the point 468 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:24,680 Speaker 5: of this entire experience. Just grow. You know, I've had 469 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 5: to do a lot of that over the years. 470 00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:27,639 Speaker 1: You did, and you had to do it in a 471 00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: very public way, which is different from most people. And 472 00:24:31,000 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 1: you did it at such a young age. I'm curious. 473 00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,479 Speaker 1: You're there on set with people who are around your 474 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 1: age a little bit older, but you are at the 475 00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:45,120 Speaker 1: height of success. I mean that show was everywhere. Did 476 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,560 Speaker 1: you have support within the cast? I'm just curious, Like, 477 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:51,240 Speaker 1: did that experience bond you all together? I want to 478 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:53,280 Speaker 1: know what those relationships were like at the time and 479 00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:55,600 Speaker 1: how they've evolved over the years. 480 00:24:56,119 --> 00:24:59,359 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean we you know, we were all 481 00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:02,879 Speaker 5: so close. We're such a family. I mean we really 482 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 5: really are. We have, even the adults, we've all grown 483 00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,000 Speaker 5: up together. I mean they were in their like early 484 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,679 Speaker 5: mid twenties when we started this show twenty four or 485 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,520 Speaker 5: twenty five, like they were babies, you know, they weren't thirty, 486 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,800 Speaker 5: so it was you know, we all really kind of 487 00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,080 Speaker 5: grew up together. And the success of the show and 488 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,600 Speaker 5: having it be so popular, it is it's something that 489 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:31,119 Speaker 5: kind of bonds you together because it's it's not something 490 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,879 Speaker 5: that sort of everyone understands. And you know, I always 491 00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 5: say that I'm part of a really neat little sorority 492 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:41,760 Speaker 5: of other people and contemporaries of mine who are around 493 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,280 Speaker 5: my age or you know between like Canvases and Andrea 494 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:48,320 Speaker 5: or Candases in Ashley Mary Kate's age, like sort of 495 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:53,159 Speaker 5: this tenure window of child stars that are some of 496 00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 5: my dearest friends that I've known throughout the years since 497 00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 5: I was you know, four or five, auditioning or doing 498 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:03,359 Speaker 5: different things, and it's it's just a it's a really 499 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:08,119 Speaker 5: wonderful experience to know that people that I joined up 500 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:10,359 Speaker 5: with when I was five years old still support me 501 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:14,080 Speaker 5: and love me, and you know, I was so close 502 00:26:14,119 --> 00:26:17,200 Speaker 5: with everyone in their families. I would go with Bob 503 00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 5: Saget on weekends to visit his girls, Like I would 504 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:22,560 Speaker 5: stay at his house and we you know, he'd make 505 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:25,840 Speaker 5: us blueberry pancakes. I mean, it was it was family 506 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 5: and that's never stopped, you know, and we absolutely love 507 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 5: each other like family. And you know, sometimes it's smooth 508 00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,160 Speaker 5: sailing and sometimes it's not, but it doesn't doesn't change 509 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,119 Speaker 5: the fact that your family and you have thirty seven, 510 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,880 Speaker 5: thirty eight years of history together like that doesn't change. 511 00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:48,639 Speaker 2: You know, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool, and I was, 512 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:49,240 Speaker 2: actually I was. 513 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:53,520 Speaker 1: But you know how we know this how some publications 514 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:57,480 Speaker 1: love to jump on any kind of even seeming like 515 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,919 Speaker 1: like they almost make controversy where it doesn't even exist. 516 00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:03,520 Speaker 1: Like something even as simple as you all you and 517 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,439 Speaker 1: kandas Cameron Raid disagreeing about what you saw in the 518 00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: opening ceremonies of the Olympics, suddenly that becomes headlines splashed everywhere. 519 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,600 Speaker 1: Isn't that remarkable that people still can't wait to pit 520 00:27:13,640 --> 00:27:14,600 Speaker 1: people against. 521 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 5: Each other, Well, they can't wait to pit people against 522 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,680 Speaker 5: each other. They particularly can't wait to pit women against 523 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,880 Speaker 5: each other, as we know that's always the fun thing 524 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 5: is like it's never you know, we don't tear them down, 525 00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:29,080 Speaker 5: but let's make them fight. And we I think it 526 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,679 Speaker 5: have we so many times I read things. I'm like, 527 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 5: where in anything did it say anything about it? You know, 528 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:38,240 Speaker 5: like so many articles you know that you read the 529 00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,440 Speaker 5: clickbait or what, and I'm totally guilty of it. I'll 530 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,399 Speaker 5: be like, ooh, what's going on with you know j 531 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 5: Loo and what? And I hate it? And then I'm like, ah, 532 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,359 Speaker 5: I can't what am I doing? Stop? Don't look, but 533 00:27:47,880 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 5: you know, you look at it and then you're like, wait, 534 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 5: the headline said this, but nowhere in anything did that 535 00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,800 Speaker 5: person get mentioned or did this actually happen or did 536 00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,199 Speaker 5: you know? And I know that about this business? Like 537 00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,440 Speaker 5: fine if people you know, if people want to think 538 00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:04,320 Speaker 5: that so and so said this, and you're like, I 539 00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:08,719 Speaker 5: never even mentioned, never even mentioned anyone, great like I 540 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:10,800 Speaker 5: just That's what I mean, like tuning out the noise, 541 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 5: like it, because you can drive yourself mad by going 542 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 5: back and re engaging and being like, but that's not. 543 00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:20,199 Speaker 6: What I said, but actually I did this. Well wait, no, 544 00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,000 Speaker 6: this okay, but you have to if you start heard 545 00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 6: with this person who no, you know, we all said 546 00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:31,160 Speaker 6: what we said and and bye, that's it. 547 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,439 Speaker 5: I know you guys know the feeling where you're like, 548 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 5: that's actually, you know what, I don't have time for that. 549 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:39,640 Speaker 3: She says that, and it's I guess maybe some wounds 550 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 3: haven't healed completely. But hearing you say that, and you're right, 551 00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,760 Speaker 3: you try to ignore. But us ignoring and not responding 552 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,160 Speaker 3: cost us jobs. It costs us step careers. That stuff 553 00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 3: is so poisonous. Sometimes it does. It can do more 554 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:57,000 Speaker 3: than just mess with your head. It can, actually it. 555 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:04,240 Speaker 5: Can. We are unnecessarily cruel to each other again for 556 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,840 Speaker 5: just living human lives. You know, let's all just give 557 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,240 Speaker 5: each other a little bit of grace to not be perfect, 558 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,360 Speaker 5: and particularly those of us who were in front of 559 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,560 Speaker 5: the camera, like now their cameras are everywhere. You used 560 00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 5: to be like, okay, switch off. Who get to go 561 00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:24,200 Speaker 5: be like a crazy person over you know, No, now 562 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:29,400 Speaker 5: it's everything and everywhere you are, someone's gonna know. And 563 00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:32,360 Speaker 5: that's a lot of pressure. And you know, I'm not 564 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:35,880 Speaker 5: making I don't think anyone should excuse terrible behavior, but 565 00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:39,120 Speaker 5: I think we need to also be able to tell 566 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:44,120 Speaker 5: what really terrible behavior is and what is just people 567 00:29:44,160 --> 00:29:47,360 Speaker 5: trying to make a decision that there's no great outcome, 568 00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:51,000 Speaker 5: because sometimes sometimes you're just doing the best you can. 569 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 1: Yeah you are, I mean, why is beyond your years? 570 00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,320 Speaker 1: And it's been hard earned, I know, and It's funny 571 00:29:58,320 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: because as we were talking about all of this. 572 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 2: I thought, and this is why we like the Hallmark Channel. 573 00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 5: TU like the Homer It really and I like not 574 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:08,680 Speaker 5: to bring it all back around, but it really like 575 00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:14,040 Speaker 5: people love full House, Fuller House Hallmark Channel because they 576 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,440 Speaker 5: can watch something where they go it's everything's okay, everything's 577 00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:21,760 Speaker 5: gonna be okay, this isn't messy. I know we're gonna 578 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 5: it's gonna tie itself up back together and it's gonna 579 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,160 Speaker 5: be happy. And it's and that we need that, we 580 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,840 Speaker 5: need those bits of reassurance, you know. And then we 581 00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 5: go watch a horror movie or a Handyman from Hell 582 00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,760 Speaker 5: or whatever, you know. Then we go watch something and go, 583 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 5: oh yeah, no, there's some scary stuff too. But it's 584 00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:41,840 Speaker 5: the balance, right, It's all the balance. 585 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,800 Speaker 1: I love it because for me, watching a horror movie 586 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: or watching your character get murdered with a nail gun, 587 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,520 Speaker 1: I can say to myself, well, at least I'm not her, 588 00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:53,760 Speaker 1: So there's that we have a horror movie. At least 589 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: I'm always preserved by demons. And then you can go 590 00:30:57,360 --> 00:30:58,040 Speaker 1: back and then. 591 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 2: Watch the Hallmark Channel and be like it's going to be. 592 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 5: And now I can think about it. 593 00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly how low is our bar that? Hey, at 594 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,640 Speaker 3: least I'm not getting shot by a nail gun perspective? 595 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 5: I mean, do you do you want me to answer that? 596 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 3: No? No, no, no, Sorry it was rhetorical, But I. 597 00:31:15,160 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 5: Don't think it's that podcast. That's a different one. 598 00:31:18,880 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: We always talk, We always appreciate perspective, and that is 599 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,200 Speaker 1: what life often gives us, whether we want it in 600 00:31:24,240 --> 00:31:25,000 Speaker 1: that moment or not. 601 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,640 Speaker 2: But ye, Jody, we I'm not kidding. 602 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 1: We are going we have appointment television we cannot wait 603 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,360 Speaker 1: to watch, and we are going to fall in love 604 00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 1: with Jody Sweeten all over again because you're gonna dominate 605 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: because she is dominating Hallmark plus dominating. 606 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:47,240 Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, thank you, Jody. We really appreciate it absolutely. 607 00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:55,120 Speaker 5: Thank you guys so much. Great to talk to you.