WEBVTT - Jodie Sweetin Unfiltered 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:08.080 Welcome everyone to Amy MTJ, and we have a very 0:00:08.119 --> 0:00:11.000 special edition today. If you were a child of the 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:14.640 eighties or the nineties or maybe even later, if you 0:00:14.720 --> 0:00:18.960 love Nicket Knight, you know and love our next guest. 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:20.640 She was the sassy. 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:24.599 Character in a sitcom favorite something I grew up watching 0:00:24.680 --> 0:00:27.240 and even my girls grew up watching because of the 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:31.440 way reruns are these days. But we are talking about 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:38.519 the middle sister in the Tanner's Stephanie Tanner, who her 0:00:38.600 --> 0:00:42.040 catch phrase, how rude. We all know it, We all 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.800 said it, and maybe some of us still say it. 0:00:44.560 --> 0:00:46.600 Jody, how rude. 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:49.680 And actually I want to let our guest say it, 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.640 because clearly she can say it with a lot more 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:57.160 sincerity and just authenticity than I can. But Jody Sweeten 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:59.920 is joining us here on the podcast today, and I'm 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:04.440 so excited because this is a child actor who has 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:08.120 really gone on to become not only an incredible actress 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.280 but a mom and just is a shiny example of 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.840 actually making it in a world that is stacked against you. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:18.240 Oftentimes when you're a child actor. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.640 We hear all the horror stories, and she went through 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.480 her stuff like the like every like so many other 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:27.080 child actors did, but she is. Now, if you love 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.880 the Hallmark Channel like we do, you know, I don't 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.800 know if we've told people this, but we love horror movies. 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:36.040 We've said this, We watched one at least today. I 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.080 actually think that's a true statement, is true. I think 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:40.280 we watch a horror movie a day. Kind of embarrassing 0:01:40.280 --> 0:01:43.399 to admit, but it's true. And to cleanse the palette, 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:49.040 we like to dabble in some lifetime movies, Hallmark movies. 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:51.840 And we're not kidding at all. 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.320 Now, but sometimes someone they do some dark ones too, 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:55.720 like they've. 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:58.919 Got some yes, some detective series or some My Stepfather, 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:00.040 My Killer, that kind of. 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:01.840 Weird stuff they do. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:03.559 They mix it up so we can get a little 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:05.840 bit of horror and a little bit of love all 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.960 in one channel. But Hallmark Plus, I don't know if 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.160 you guys have seen it, but it's kicking off here. 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:12.600 I think it kicked off September tenth. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:15.840 Jody Sweden is joining us now, Jody, you are joining 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:17.040 us from Hot La. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:18.080 It's a little less. 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:22.360 Hot today, Yes, it's slightly less hot today, but we're 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.880 still quite in the heat of summer and fall here. 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:29.000 So yeah, so let's talk about the fall season as 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:32.560 you're sweltering there in LA But no, we're excited because 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:35.120 I got this headline we got to print out, We 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.720 get research about each person we're gonna be interviewing, and 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.440 the first line was she is about to dominate Hallmark 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:42.200 in September. 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:43.600 Is that an accurate statement? 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.960 I mean, I feel like I don't know if it's accurate, 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.960 but if my pr put it together, great job, guys, 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.120 but it's true. I am very fortunate right now because 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:59.320 I have not only a movie coming out on Hallmark 0:02:59.440 --> 0:03:02.120 on the regular Hallmark channel, which is The Arison Handyman, 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:06.960 which will be out this Saturday, September fourteenth, or I 0:03:06.960 --> 0:03:09.320 think this airs Sunday, so it'll have been out last 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.959 night for you guys. September fourteenth is The Aris and 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:16.600 the Handyman on Hallmark Channel, which is a really fun, 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.280 cute wrong com And then on Hallmark Plus their new 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:24.360 streaming service, I have three new Jane Mystery movies coming 0:03:24.400 --> 0:03:28.239 out which lean a little bit more into the detective 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:32.519 the drama, the you know, the the Hallmark murder mysteries, 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.720 and so those are coming out September eighth, tenth, eighteenth, 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.680 and twenty fifth, there's three more Jane De Silva mystery movies. 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:44.120 So yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna say, like dominate Hallmark, 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:48.160 but but there's gonna be plenty of opportunities should you 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:52.880 want to wanta on Hallmark, It's there. 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:55.640 Oh you give us the word You're Jody Sweeten is 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:58.200 not going to dominate Hallmark the words you would you? 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:01.600 I don't know. That sounds so aggressive. So I'm just 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.800 going to be very readily available on Hallmark. Should you 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:05.720 institute then. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.320 Yes, I love it. You're the Hallmark Channels fall into 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.960 Love campaign. What is that? I'm interested? 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.960 Well? The Airess and the Handyman, which is the one 0:04:15.960 --> 0:04:21.599 that's coming out on Saturday, is a fall themed love story. 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.000 It's got all of your it's got a fall fare, 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:28.480 it's got it's got farm animals, it's got apple pie, 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:33.360 it's got an heiress that loses her money, it's got fashion, 0:04:33.560 --> 0:04:35.880 it's got a lot there's it's giving a lot of 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:38.880 things to a lot of different people. So we're very 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.920 excited for that. One is actually really fun. We got 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.440 to work with I had a pig as a co 0:04:44.560 --> 0:04:50.800 star and not Corey Savier. He is lovely, but you 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.000 didn't want Corey to take that the wrong way. But 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:58.520 I had an actual farm pig who was a co 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:01.960 star in this who was so sweet and we loved. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:07.400 But they are not great at reading the script and knowing, uh, 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.560 kind of what they're supposed to do in a scene. 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.280 You have to be thinking the same thing, Jody. Did 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:12.840 the pig have a name? What was the pig name? 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:16.600 Well, the pig's name was. It was it Hercules, No, 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:19.839 something like that, but it was, but it was it 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.760 was Hercules. But but it was playing a girl pig, 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:24.880 so you know, it was. 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.400 A talented pig actress. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:31.560 It's a it's a very fluid pig. Yeah, and it 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.040 just you know, it was. It wore very cute little 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:38.200 headbands and glasses for about fifteen seconds and then it 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:39.160 would knock them off. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.240 So that's the best pitch I've heard from. 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:44.520 You know. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:47.480 Well, the best word is that it's not only about 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.080 me and the post. Okay, I'll give you the actual story, 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.560 which is the heiress and the handyman. I played June 0:05:53.640 --> 0:05:58.279 walt Shire, who is an heiress who is uh, you know, 0:05:58.720 --> 0:06:05.640 the scion of a hotelier family and her parents were 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:08.280 killed when she was younger, of course, because it's sort 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:13.120 of always a piece with no parents, and so she 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:17.359 has all this money. Some very unfortunate things happen series 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.720 of events, she loses all of that money. But her 0:06:20.760 --> 0:06:23.880 aunt Bertie has left her a farm in upstate New York, 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.000 so at least she has a roof over her head. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.480 But apple orchard maybe too, or. 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:34.080 Well not there may be an orchard. But but she meets, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:38.279 of course, the very cute and handsome Handyman played by 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:41.760 Corey Sevier, the neighbor bart who lives on the on 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:45.200 the farm next door, who decides to help teach June 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:48.560 everything that there is to know about winning a fall there. 0:06:48.720 --> 0:06:49.720 That's so convenient. 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:51.920 Yeah, I become an expert at you know, some some 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:56.520 apple pie baking, some some pig wrangling, some flower arranging. 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:01.640 Lot much fun, I have to say. 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:03.960 So. I was doing a little bit of a dive 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.839 about the name of your new movie, as you mentioned 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.520 the heiress and the Handyman. Were you also in a 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.520 flick a year ago called Handyman from Hell? 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:17.720 Yes? 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:19.960 I thought that was so. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:26.400 Interesting that even very different genres both right, we. 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:31.440 Can combine them into some sort of weird mishmash of something. Yeah. No, 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.200 that was a lifetime movie that some friends of mine 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:37.600 who I know from doing comedy actually had written. And 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.680 it was, you know, one of those lifetime Like you said, 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:45.920 the you know, step father to murder or whatever, you know, 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:51.440 leans more into the woman in distress sort of vibe. 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:53.280 So we can watch that. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:55.840 It was really fun. I got to be killed on screen. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:56.680 It was a first. 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:59.880 That's exciting. We can watch. 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.040 You just said that was fun to get killed on screen. 0:08:02.040 --> 0:08:03.320 You say, yeah, it sounds like a good time. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:04.680 What is wrong with you too? 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:08.920 It is not you never I never had that happened before. 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:10.760 They're not you know, they're not killing you off on 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:11.360 Full House. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:15.520 No, but we're stilling with Jodie. That was the first 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:19.120 time you've gotten a chance to be a victim or 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.080 of a murder on st Wow. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:22.000 How do you die? 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.600 I took a I mean, you've got to know. Yes, 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:29.640 I'm a true crime fan. I am. I've I'm with you. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.120 I watch her all the time, and yet I do 0:08:32.160 --> 0:08:32.880 Hallmark movies. 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.079 But no, it makes perfect sense to us. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:38.319 I got shot in the chest with a nail gun 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.559 while while making out with the. 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.240 Handyman while making out. 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:45.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, didn't see it coming. 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.199 You know, Handyman was the one that you'll do. 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:51.240 Yes, well that's why he's from help. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.800 Wait he's making out with your with a handgun? 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:56.640 What he has a nail gun in? 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:56.920 Like? 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:57.680 How did you see? 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.480 We say to my true Crime. We're trying to piece 0:08:59.520 --> 0:08:59.920 this together. 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.040 You got to watch the movie and then you can 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:03.680 and then you can do a full reenactment. 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:06.600 But but yeah, yeah, we can watch Handyman from Hell 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.439 and then cleanse our palette with the Aras and the Handyman, 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:10.400 the Aras and. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:13.160 The handy Man. I think that's a really wise way 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:15.800 to do it. I think I doing the reverse would 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.319 not be as good and not to. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.840 Be outdone by twenty twenty two Jody Swinton starring in 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.839 The Handyman Hunk. Did you see that one? 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:28.600 Well, every Hallmark movie that I do now or any 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:29.640 movie has to have. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:31.920 A hand I feel like that's gonn have. 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:33.559 A Handyman in it. That's somewhere. 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:44.560 Yeah, your podcast is going strong. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:46.040 How has that that's been for you? 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.240 I mean obviously we love you, we know you from 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.400 full House, but to relive it, I mean you are 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.520 you rewatching all of the episodes and then going over 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.560 them again, and what's that like for you? 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:59.360 You know, it's been so much fun. Andrea Barber and 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.760 I are so you were super close. We have always 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.760 been really close, even when we were kids. 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.240 And Himmy from the series right Tommy, Yes. 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:09.720 Kimmy, Kimmy Gibler from the series The Irony Is Steph 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:13.320 and Kimmy were actually very good friends. And so she 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.760 and I I started doing this podcast together because we 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.800 never have watched the show. Well, I've never watched the show. Really, 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.520 I didn't. Yeah, why would I did it? I didn't, 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:23.840 you know. We were like, yeah, you did it as 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:25.880 a kid, Like you didn't care about watching it really 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:29.719 like I didn't. It wasn't I wasn't impressed to like, oh, 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:31.240 I want to see myself on TV. I was like, no, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:32.960 it's okay, just want to go. 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.920 That's kind of way you're telling me. Until the podcast, 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:40.080 you you've never really sat at any point and watched 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.480 like a full episode. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.160 Okay, not none of the episodes. Maybe some of the 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.640 like the bigger ones and the pilot made, but not 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:53.280 to where I remember. There's a lot of episodes that 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.679 I'm like, I don't remember this at all. So it's 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:58.760 been really fun because Andrew is the same way. She 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.240 didn't really you know, watch the episode, and there were 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.120 a lot of episodes she wasn't in in the first 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.960 couple of seasons before she became a regular on the series. 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:09.960 So you know, we're watching these shows and it's like 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:14.120 going back and having these childhood memories that you haven't 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:16.360 thought about in thirty plus years. 0:11:16.800 --> 0:11:19.600 Remind us what was your your your age, you were, 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.880 what to what during the I was five. 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.120 When I started on the show and thirteen when it ended. 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:29.920 Wow, And those are formative years in front of the world. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:33.240 And funny enough, people are still watching you as that 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:39.000 encapsulated version of yourself forever. Yeah, and people think of 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:41.480 you that way, that's got to be a strange I mean, 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.880 people probably come up to you and are confused because 0:11:43.880 --> 0:11:45.920 they think of you as this young little girl. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.000 You know. Before Fuller House, I would say that happened 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:54.200 a lot. And before Fuller House, it would be people 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.800 my age would recognize me, like as an adult, but 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.320 their kids were still watching, you know, the re runs, 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.480 and so an adult would be like, oh my gosh, 0:12:02.559 --> 0:12:06.280 it's the girl from full House and their kids were like, no, 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.559 that's just some lady in the grocery store. 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.840 Like, yeah, she's my age. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.280 Yeah, no, she's like a mom. She's not Yeah no, 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.200 she's not on TV. So I can't tell you. There 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:19.640 were a bunch of times when parents were like, no, serious, 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:23.160 that's and they were like, I think. So it was hilarious. 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.480 But then once Fuller came and kind of everybody saw 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:27.600 us as adults again, and you know, and then I 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.640 started doing Hallmark movies and stuff, I would say I 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:34.200 definitely get recognized more now, you know, as an adult. 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:38.559 But I also, you know, for for not knocking, it 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.640 looked very similar to when I did when I was 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:41.559 about twelve or thirty. 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.800 You do, I mean, you really do look remarkably the 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:46.640 same as you did when you were younger, which is 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:47.520 a huge compliment. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:48.520 If only that could be. 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.800 The whole full House cast. I don't know, I don't 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.679 know it's true what was in the air ducks in 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.720 that sound stage, but we managed to do. 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.960 Okay, yeah, you start listing Lori, Lachlan, John Stamos, I mean, 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.400 everybody like can the Olsen Twins. 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.520 I mean it's yeah, we all managed to We've all 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:09.560 managed to age relatively gracefully, I shall say. 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.679 You know, I mentioned when I first started that obviously 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:18.920 you have continued success and a beautiful family, two teenage daughters. 0:13:18.920 --> 0:13:19.760 I have two daughters. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.880 They're almost out of their teens now, so I'm just 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:24.040 a little bit ahead of you on that. 0:13:24.200 --> 0:13:25.880 But you have a full life. 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:31.200 But so many child actors don't have that outcome in 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.080 the end, you know, and I know you went through 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.360 a lot to get to where you are today. What 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.600 can and I know you don't have another experience to 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:40.600 compare it to, but maybe seeing your children grow up 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:44.240 in a more normalized setting, how would you describe your 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:49.280 childhood and where you ended up immediately after the show ended, Like, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:50.720 how do you handle that as a child? 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.080 You know, it's interesting. I think back on it now, 0:13:55.320 --> 0:14:00.360 and I would have been terribly bored as a kid 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:03.440 just going to school. I was reading at a very 0:14:03.440 --> 0:14:06.480 early age. I skipped a grade in school. I like 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:10.840 I needed a lot of mental simulation. I needed to 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.640 be busy. I loved working, I would you know. I 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:16.080 was very fortunate that the producers let me go to 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:19.040 regular school in the morning and then I would come 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.400 in in the afternoon for rehearsals and then two days 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:24.520 a week I was fully tutored on set. So I, 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:29.240 you know, as a kid who had undiagnosed ADHD, which 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.120 I didn't find out until later, I actually have this 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:36.280 great like hybrid system of class interaction school where I 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.920 constantly got in trouble for talking too much, and then 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.440 I would go to work and have fun and do 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.960 all of that, and then i'd get tutored individually and 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:46.680 really get the intense work and be able to, you know, 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.600 just get through all of my classes and it loved school, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.680 and then kind of do it again the next week. 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:55.680 So it was exactly I think the environment that I 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.600 needed as a kid, and my parents were not pushy 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:02.440 about it. They did they weren't living vicariously through me. 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.880 They wanted no fame or attention or they just knew 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.600 that I loved performing and I loved doing this, and 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.280 they always said, you know, as long as you're having 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.840 fun and you're enjoying this, we'll keep doing it. If 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:19.400 you hate this, we'll figure it out, and we will 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:21.440 that you don't have to do this if you hate it. 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:25.920 But I never hated it, and so you know, I 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.120 look at it now like with my kids, just sort 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:32.920 of living normal, relatively normal lives. I mean, you know 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:38.840 whatever that I guess is, and I I'm really grateful. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.400 I think that I got to do what I did. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.280 And I also think, you know, weirdly, continuing to do 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:50.440 entertainment and acting and performing into as an adult it 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.760 gave me an entirely different perspective on sort of what 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.680 being fake quote unquote famous is because it was just 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.840 it was something that I grew up with I never 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:06.000 really had in a way. I think sometimes beginning, you know, 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.640 getting famous, when you get a little bit older, you 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:12.320 realize what you're going to be missing. You realize that 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.960 suddenly you don't have that anonymity and that ability to 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.960 just do go to the mall or go to you know, 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.320 and not have people know who you are or in 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.880 your business or have you know, or have to worry 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:28.640 about things like that. And weirdly, growing up in this business, 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:32.200 I never had that. I don't remember really a time 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:36.120 in my life where I didn't have a sort of 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:44.880 public facing persona. And oddly enough, now that I have 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:49.200 gotten to come back as an adult, it's been a 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:54.760 really great tool because it I'm not I don't care 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:56.840 what people think of me. I don't care. I mean 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:58.920 that also sort of comes with your forties as a woman. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.640 You're like, tell me something, but I but you know it, 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:06.560 really I I know that I do this because I 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:12.640 love it and I am who I am and I'm 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.800 free to be that. And I don't think had I 0:17:15.920 --> 0:17:19.040 not gone through all of that kind of growing up, 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:21.639 I don't think I would have gotten to that place 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:23.080 as soon as I did. 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:24.119 Did you? 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.119 And I think that's the key to really being successful, 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.840 is to just follow what you love to do, what's 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:33.240 right for you, what works for your life, and who 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.520 cares what the comments are? Like? We you know what 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:40.640 I mean. I I just it's not it's pointless. Go 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:45.160 and make yourself happy, do good, be kind, And that's 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:45.640 really it. 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.840 You know you said the comments keep coming? Are comments 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:53.080 still coming? I'm just curious, like what these days? You 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:56.920 know what what I mean? You still keep an eye 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:57.520 on that stuff? 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:01.800 Oh, I mean not really on I am now with 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.040 social media, I have a very distant sort of relate. 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:07.960 I will post some things and then dip out. I've realized, Uh, 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:12.239 it is a you know, sort of diminishing return. And 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:13.600 I think we all did that, you know, we were 0:18:13.680 --> 0:18:15.760 during the pandemic. Everyone's like, oh, I've got time. I 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.359 got time for that now, and you know, we're and 0:18:17.400 --> 0:18:20.560 then it was like, I don't have time for that anymore. 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:24.119 And and it doesn't mean that I am not still 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.960 very much who I am and vocal in my life 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.160 and all of those things. It's just that I just don't. 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:34.000 I tune out the noise and and it's it's nice 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.399 to just tune it out, you know. And yeah, people 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.520 always want to make you know, crappy comments. I mean, 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.360 that's just that's people, and particularly online, and when it's 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.720 not to your face, and you know, people get real 0:18:46.760 --> 0:18:48.760 brave when they don't have to be confronted. 0:18:48.320 --> 0:18:53.240 With consequences for what are they like, what what is 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.720 the negativity? I'm sorry, maybe I didn't do. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.439 Nstand you know. 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:04.680 My past is like with addiction issues, just that I've 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:07.640 been married a bunch of times, I'm like, like, where 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:09.359 do you think I get my stand up material? I 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:14.800 gotta have something, you know. But yeah, like you know, 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:16.919 people throw that in you know, every face, and I'm like, 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:20.760 that doesn't I wrote a book. 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.679 I already talked about all of this. 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:27.119 You're not breaking any like we already all already know 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:27.760 the information. 0:19:28.480 --> 0:19:30.920 Yeah, and not only that, I just I'm so very 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:36.159 secure in who I am and what guides me that 0:19:36.280 --> 0:19:41.880 I'm like, and none of that it's all kind of irrelevant. 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:49.159 It's funny TJ and I were talking. 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.560 I don't know if it's just by design or if 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.920 it just keeps happening, but when we're talking to folks, 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:58.080 we end up realizing because DJ and I have had 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:02.840 quite the last two years are and so I think 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:05.359 there's a shared experience there. It's not exactly the same. 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.280 But we were joking we should call this podcast safe space, 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.640 because you know, actually, when you start to hear other 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.680 people's stories and people who you look up to, people 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:18.679 who you admire, people who you are entertained by, and 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:21.480 you start to hear you know what they've been through. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:23.159 I think we put people up on a pedestal. We 0:20:23.200 --> 0:20:25.200 love to tear them down, we love to judge them, 0:20:25.640 --> 0:20:29.200 but we're all human beings. So it's always interesting to 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:34.040 hear and going through the tough times, battling addiction, yes, 0:20:34.160 --> 0:20:37.919 having multiple marriages, we get it, and people love to 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:41.439 throw shots at that, but those are those are the 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:43.320 moments when you learn who you are and what you're 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:43.600 made of. 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:46.840 And it also like that's life. Life's messy, it's not. 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:51.600 There's no then weak got an instruction manual? Why do 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:53.919 you think you know just because you're doing it differently cool, 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:56.360 that's you know, it's just I think. 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:00.560