Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to Amy MTJ, and we have a very
Speaker 1: special edition today. If you were a child of the
Speaker 1: eighties or the nineties or maybe even later, if you
Speaker 1: love Nicket Knight, you know and love our next guest.
Speaker 2: She was the sassy.
Speaker 1: Character in a sitcom favorite something I grew up watching
Speaker 1: and even my girls grew up watching because of the
Speaker 1: way reruns are these days. But we are talking about
Speaker 1: the middle sister in the Tanner's Stephanie Tanner, who her
Speaker 1: catch phrase, how rude. We all know it, We all
Speaker 1: said it, and maybe some of us still say it.
Speaker 3: Jody, how rude.
Speaker 1: And actually I want to let our guest say it,
Speaker 1: because clearly she can say it with a lot more
Speaker 1: sincerity and just authenticity than I can. But Jody Sweeten
Speaker 1: is joining us here on the podcast today, and I'm
Speaker 1: so excited because this is a child actor who has
Speaker 1: really gone on to become not only an incredible actress
Speaker 1: but a mom and just is a shiny example of
Speaker 1: actually making it in a world that is stacked against you.
Speaker 2: Oftentimes when you're a child actor.
Speaker 1: We hear all the horror stories, and she went through
Speaker 1: her stuff like the like every like so many other
Speaker 1: child actors did, but she is. Now, if you love
Speaker 1: the Hallmark Channel like we do, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if we've told people this, but we love horror movies.
Speaker 1: We've said this, We watched one at least today. I
Speaker 1: actually think that's a true statement, is true. I think
Speaker 1: we watch a horror movie a day. Kind of embarrassing
Speaker 1: to admit, but it's true. And to cleanse the palette,
Speaker 1: we like to dabble in some lifetime movies, Hallmark movies.
Speaker 2: And we're not kidding at all.
Speaker 3: Now, but sometimes someone they do some dark ones too,
Speaker 3: like they've.
Speaker 1: Got some yes, some detective series or some My Stepfather,
Speaker 1: My Killer, that kind of.
Speaker 3: Weird stuff they do.
Speaker 1: They mix it up so we can get a little
Speaker 1: bit of horror and a little bit of love all
Speaker 1: in one channel. But Hallmark Plus, I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys have seen it, but it's kicking off here.
Speaker 2: I think it kicked off September tenth.
Speaker 1: Jody Sweden is joining us now, Jody, you are joining
Speaker 1: us from Hot La.
Speaker 2: It's a little less.
Speaker 4: Hot today, Yes, it's slightly less hot today, but we're
Speaker 4: still quite in the heat of summer and fall here.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so let's talk about the fall season as
Speaker 1: you're sweltering there in LA But no, we're excited because
Speaker 1: I got this headline we got to print out, We
Speaker 1: get research about each person we're gonna be interviewing, and
Speaker 1: the first line was she is about to dominate Hallmark
Speaker 1: in September.
Speaker 2: Is that an accurate statement?
Speaker 5: I mean, I feel like I don't know if it's accurate,
Speaker 5: but if my pr put it together, great job, guys,
Speaker 5: but it's true. I am very fortunate right now because
Speaker 5: I have not only a movie coming out on Hallmark
Speaker 5: on the regular Hallmark channel, which is The Arison Handyman,
Speaker 5: which will be out this Saturday, September fourteenth, or I
Speaker 5: think this airs Sunday, so it'll have been out last
Speaker 5: night for you guys. September fourteenth is The Aris and
Speaker 5: the Handyman on Hallmark Channel, which is a really fun,
Speaker 5: cute wrong com And then on Hallmark Plus their new
Speaker 5: streaming service, I have three new Jane Mystery movies coming
Speaker 5: out which lean a little bit more into the detective
Speaker 5: the drama, the you know, the the Hallmark murder mysteries,
Speaker 5: and so those are coming out September eighth, tenth, eighteenth,
Speaker 5: and twenty fifth, there's three more Jane De Silva mystery movies.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean, I'm not gonna say, like dominate Hallmark,
Speaker 5: but but there's gonna be plenty of opportunities should you
Speaker 5: want to wanta on Hallmark, It's there.
Speaker 3: Oh you give us the word You're Jody Sweeten is
Speaker 3: not going to dominate Hallmark the words you would you?
Speaker 5: I don't know. That sounds so aggressive. So I'm just
Speaker 5: going to be very readily available on Hallmark. Should you
Speaker 5: institute then.
Speaker 2: Yes, I love it. You're the Hallmark Channels fall into
Speaker 2: Love campaign. What is that? I'm interested?
Speaker 5: Well? The Airess and the Handyman, which is the one
Speaker 5: that's coming out on Saturday, is a fall themed love story.
Speaker 5: It's got all of your it's got a fall fare,
Speaker 5: it's got it's got farm animals, it's got apple pie,
Speaker 5: it's got an heiress that loses her money, it's got fashion,
Speaker 5: it's got a lot there's it's giving a lot of
Speaker 5: things to a lot of different people. So we're very
Speaker 5: excited for that. One is actually really fun. We got
Speaker 5: to work with I had a pig as a co
Speaker 5: star and not Corey Savier. He is lovely, but you
Speaker 5: didn't want Corey to take that the wrong way. But
Speaker 5: I had an actual farm pig who was a co
Speaker 5: star in this who was so sweet and we loved.
Speaker 5: But they are not great at reading the script and knowing, uh,
Speaker 5: kind of what they're supposed to do in a scene.
Speaker 3: You have to be thinking the same thing, Jody. Did
Speaker 3: the pig have a name? What was the pig name?
Speaker 5: Well, the pig's name was. It was it Hercules, No,
Speaker 5: something like that, but it was, but it was it
Speaker 5: was Hercules. But but it was playing a girl pig,
Speaker 5: so you know, it was.
Speaker 3: A talented pig actress.
Speaker 5: It's a it's a very fluid pig. Yeah, and it
Speaker 5: just you know, it was. It wore very cute little
Speaker 5: headbands and glasses for about fifteen seconds and then it
Speaker 5: would knock them off.
Speaker 3: So that's the best pitch I've heard from.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: Well, the best word is that it's not only about
Speaker 5: me and the post. Okay, I'll give you the actual story,
Speaker 5: which is the heiress and the handyman. I played June
Speaker 5: walt Shire, who is an heiress who is uh, you know,
Speaker 5: the scion of a hotelier family and her parents were
Speaker 5: killed when she was younger, of course, because it's sort
Speaker 5: of always a piece with no parents, and so she
Speaker 5: has all this money. Some very unfortunate things happen series
Speaker 5: of events, she loses all of that money. But her
Speaker 5: aunt Bertie has left her a farm in upstate New York,
Speaker 5: so at least she has a roof over her head.
Speaker 2: But apple orchard maybe too, or.
Speaker 5: Well not there may be an orchard. But but she meets,
Speaker 5: of course, the very cute and handsome Handyman played by
Speaker 5: Corey Sevier, the neighbor bart who lives on the on
Speaker 5: the farm next door, who decides to help teach June
Speaker 5: everything that there is to know about winning a fall there.
Speaker 2: That's so convenient.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I become an expert at you know, some some
Speaker 5: apple pie baking, some some pig wrangling, some flower arranging.
Speaker 2: Lot much fun, I have to say.
Speaker 1: So. I was doing a little bit of a dive
Speaker 1: about the name of your new movie, as you mentioned
Speaker 1: the heiress and the Handyman. Were you also in a
Speaker 1: flick a year ago called Handyman from Hell?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 2: I thought that was so.
Speaker 1: Interesting that even very different genres both right, we.
Speaker 5: Can combine them into some sort of weird mishmash of something. Yeah. No,
Speaker 5: that was a lifetime movie that some friends of mine
Speaker 5: who I know from doing comedy actually had written. And
Speaker 5: it was, you know, one of those lifetime Like you said,
Speaker 5: the you know, step father to murder or whatever, you know,
Speaker 5: leans more into the woman in distress sort of vibe.
Speaker 2: So we can watch that.
Speaker 5: It was really fun. I got to be killed on screen.
Speaker 5: It was a first.
Speaker 2: That's exciting. We can watch.
Speaker 3: You just said that was fun to get killed on screen.
Speaker 3: You say, yeah, it sounds like a good time.
Speaker 2: What is wrong with you too?
Speaker 5: It is not you never I never had that happened before.
Speaker 5: They're not you know, they're not killing you off on
Speaker 5: Full House.
Speaker 3: No, but we're stilling with Jodie. That was the first
Speaker 3: time you've gotten a chance to be a victim or
Speaker 3: of a murder on st Wow.
Speaker 2: How do you die?
Speaker 5: I took a I mean, you've got to know. Yes,
Speaker 5: I'm a true crime fan. I am. I've I'm with you.
Speaker 5: I watch her all the time, and yet I do
Speaker 5: Hallmark movies.
Speaker 2: But no, it makes perfect sense to us.
Speaker 5: I got shot in the chest with a nail gun
Speaker 5: while while making out with the.
Speaker 3: Handyman while making out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, didn't see it coming.
Speaker 3: You know, Handyman was the one that you'll do.
Speaker 5: Yes, well that's why he's from help.
Speaker 3: Wait he's making out with your with a handgun?
Speaker 2: What he has a nail gun in?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: How did you see?
Speaker 3: We say to my true Crime. We're trying to piece
Speaker 3: this together.
Speaker 5: You got to watch the movie and then you can
Speaker 5: and then you can do a full reenactment.
Speaker 1: But but yeah, yeah, we can watch Handyman from Hell
Speaker 1: and then cleanse our palette with the Aras and the Handyman,
Speaker 1: the Aras and.
Speaker 5: The handy Man. I think that's a really wise way
Speaker 5: to do it. I think I doing the reverse would
Speaker 5: not be as good and not to.
Speaker 3: Be outdone by twenty twenty two Jody Swinton starring in
Speaker 3: The Handyman Hunk. Did you see that one?
Speaker 5: Well, every Hallmark movie that I do now or any
Speaker 5: movie has to have.
Speaker 2: A hand I feel like that's gonn have.
Speaker 5: A Handyman in it. That's somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your podcast is going strong.
Speaker 2: How has that that's been for you?
Speaker 1: I mean obviously we love you, we know you from
Speaker 1: full House, but to relive it, I mean you are
Speaker 1: you rewatching all of the episodes and then going over
Speaker 1: them again, and what's that like for you?
Speaker 5: You know, it's been so much fun. Andrea Barber and
Speaker 5: I are so you were super close. We have always
Speaker 5: been really close, even when we were kids.
Speaker 1: And Himmy from the series right Tommy, Yes.
Speaker 5: Kimmy, Kimmy Gibler from the series The Irony Is Steph
Speaker 5: and Kimmy were actually very good friends. And so she
Speaker 5: and I I started doing this podcast together because we
Speaker 5: never have watched the show. Well, I've never watched the show. Really,
Speaker 5: I didn't. Yeah, why would I did it? I didn't,
Speaker 5: you know. We were like, yeah, you did it as
Speaker 5: a kid, Like you didn't care about watching it really
Speaker 5: like I didn't. It wasn't I wasn't impressed to like, oh,
Speaker 5: I want to see myself on TV. I was like, no,
Speaker 5: it's okay, just want to go.
Speaker 3: That's kind of way you're telling me. Until the podcast,
Speaker 3: you you've never really sat at any point and watched
Speaker 3: like a full episode.
Speaker 5: Okay, not none of the episodes. Maybe some of the
Speaker 5: like the bigger ones and the pilot made, but not
Speaker 5: to where I remember. There's a lot of episodes that
Speaker 5: I'm like, I don't remember this at all. So it's
Speaker 5: been really fun because Andrew is the same way. She
Speaker 5: didn't really you know, watch the episode, and there were
Speaker 5: a lot of episodes she wasn't in in the first
Speaker 5: couple of seasons before she became a regular on the series.
Speaker 5: So you know, we're watching these shows and it's like
Speaker 5: going back and having these childhood memories that you haven't
Speaker 5: thought about in thirty plus years.
Speaker 3: Remind us what was your your your age, you were,
Speaker 3: what to what during the I was five.
Speaker 5: When I started on the show and thirteen when it ended.
Speaker 1: Wow, And those are formative years in front of the world.
Speaker 1: And funny enough, people are still watching you as that
Speaker 1: encapsulated version of yourself forever. Yeah, and people think of
Speaker 1: you that way, that's got to be a strange I mean,
Speaker 1: people probably come up to you and are confused because
Speaker 1: they think of you as this young little girl.
Speaker 5: You know. Before Fuller House, I would say that happened
Speaker 5: a lot. And before Fuller House, it would be people
Speaker 5: my age would recognize me, like as an adult, but
Speaker 5: their kids were still watching, you know, the re runs,
Speaker 5: and so an adult would be like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 5: it's the girl from full House and their kids were like, no,
Speaker 5: that's just some lady in the grocery store.
Speaker 2: Like, yeah, she's my age.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, she's like a mom. She's not Yeah no,
Speaker 5: she's not on TV. So I can't tell you. There
Speaker 5: were a bunch of times when parents were like, no, serious,
Speaker 5: that's and they were like, I think. So it was hilarious.
Speaker 5: But then once Fuller came and kind of everybody saw
Speaker 5: us as adults again, and you know, and then I
Speaker 5: started doing Hallmark movies and stuff, I would say I
Speaker 5: definitely get recognized more now, you know, as an adult.
Speaker 5: But I also, you know, for for not knocking, it
Speaker 5: looked very similar to when I did when I was
Speaker 5: about twelve or thirty.
Speaker 1: You do, I mean, you really do look remarkably the
Speaker 1: same as you did when you were younger, which is
Speaker 1: a huge compliment.
Speaker 2: If only that could be.
Speaker 5: The whole full House cast. I don't know, I don't
Speaker 5: know it's true what was in the air ducks in
Speaker 5: that sound stage, but we managed to do.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, you start listing Lori, Lachlan, John Stamos, I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody like can the Olsen Twins.
Speaker 5: I mean it's yeah, we all managed to We've all
Speaker 5: managed to age relatively gracefully, I shall say.
Speaker 1: You know, I mentioned when I first started that obviously
Speaker 1: you have continued success and a beautiful family, two teenage daughters.
Speaker 2: I have two daughters.
Speaker 1: They're almost out of their teens now, so I'm just
Speaker 1: a little bit ahead of you on that.
Speaker 2: But you have a full life.
Speaker 1: But so many child actors don't have that outcome in
Speaker 1: the end, you know, and I know you went through
Speaker 1: a lot to get to where you are today. What
Speaker 1: can and I know you don't have another experience to
Speaker 1: compare it to, but maybe seeing your children grow up
Speaker 1: in a more normalized setting, how would you describe your
Speaker 1: childhood and where you ended up immediately after the show ended, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you handle that as a child?
Speaker 5: You know, it's interesting. I think back on it now,
Speaker 5: and I would have been terribly bored as a kid
Speaker 5: just going to school. I was reading at a very
Speaker 5: early age. I skipped a grade in school. I like
Speaker 5: I needed a lot of mental simulation. I needed to
Speaker 5: be busy. I loved working, I would you know. I
Speaker 5: was very fortunate that the producers let me go to
Speaker 5: regular school in the morning and then I would come
Speaker 5: in in the afternoon for rehearsals and then two days
Speaker 5: a week I was fully tutored on set. So I,
Speaker 5: you know, as a kid who had undiagnosed ADHD, which
Speaker 5: I didn't find out until later, I actually have this
Speaker 5: great like hybrid system of class interaction school where I
Speaker 5: constantly got in trouble for talking too much, and then
Speaker 5: I would go to work and have fun and do
Speaker 5: all of that, and then i'd get tutored individually and
Speaker 5: really get the intense work and be able to, you know,
Speaker 5: just get through all of my classes and it loved school,
Speaker 5: and then kind of do it again the next week.
Speaker 5: So it was exactly I think the environment that I
Speaker 5: needed as a kid, and my parents were not pushy
Speaker 5: about it. They did they weren't living vicariously through me.
Speaker 5: They wanted no fame or attention or they just knew
Speaker 5: that I loved performing and I loved doing this, and
Speaker 5: they always said, you know, as long as you're having
Speaker 5: fun and you're enjoying this, we'll keep doing it. If
Speaker 5: you hate this, we'll figure it out, and we will
Speaker 5: that you don't have to do this if you hate it.
Speaker 5: But I never hated it, and so you know, I
Speaker 5: look at it now like with my kids, just sort
Speaker 5: of living normal, relatively normal lives. I mean, you know
Speaker 5: whatever that I guess is, and I I'm really grateful.
Speaker 5: I think that I got to do what I did.
Speaker 5: And I also think, you know, weirdly, continuing to do
Speaker 5: entertainment and acting and performing into as an adult it
Speaker 5: gave me an entirely different perspective on sort of what
Speaker 5: being fake quote unquote famous is because it was just
Speaker 5: it was something that I grew up with I never
Speaker 5: really had in a way. I think sometimes beginning, you know,
Speaker 5: getting famous, when you get a little bit older, you
Speaker 5: realize what you're going to be missing. You realize that
Speaker 5: suddenly you don't have that anonymity and that ability to
Speaker 5: just do go to the mall or go to you know,
Speaker 5: and not have people know who you are or in
Speaker 5: your business or have you know, or have to worry
Speaker 5: about things like that. And weirdly, growing up in this business,
Speaker 5: I never had that. I don't remember really a time
Speaker 5: in my life where I didn't have a sort of
Speaker 5: public facing persona. And oddly enough, now that I have
Speaker 5: gotten to come back as an adult, it's been a
Speaker 5: really great tool because it I'm not I don't care
Speaker 5: what people think of me. I don't care. I mean
Speaker 5: that also sort of comes with your forties as a woman.
Speaker 5: You're like, tell me something, but I but you know it,
Speaker 5: really I I know that I do this because I
Speaker 5: love it and I am who I am and I'm
Speaker 5: free to be that. And I don't think had I
Speaker 5: not gone through all of that kind of growing up,
Speaker 5: I don't think I would have gotten to that place
Speaker 5: as soon as I did.
Speaker 3: Did you?
Speaker 5: And I think that's the key to really being successful,
Speaker 5: is to just follow what you love to do, what's
Speaker 5: right for you, what works for your life, and who
Speaker 5: cares what the comments are? Like? We you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. I I just it's not it's pointless. Go
Speaker 5: and make yourself happy, do good, be kind, And that's
Speaker 5: really it.
Speaker 3: You know you said the comments keep coming? Are comments
Speaker 3: still coming? I'm just curious, like what these days? You
Speaker 3: know what what I mean? You still keep an eye
Speaker 3: on that stuff?
Speaker 5: Oh, I mean not really on I am now with
Speaker 5: social media, I have a very distant sort of relate.
Speaker 5: I will post some things and then dip out. I've realized, Uh,
Speaker 5: it is a you know, sort of diminishing return. And
Speaker 5: I think we all did that, you know, we were
Speaker 5: during the pandemic. Everyone's like, oh, I've got time. I
Speaker 5: got time for that now, and you know, we're and
Speaker 5: then it was like, I don't have time for that anymore.
Speaker 5: And and it doesn't mean that I am not still
Speaker 5: very much who I am and vocal in my life
Speaker 5: and all of those things. It's just that I just don't.
Speaker 5: I tune out the noise and and it's it's nice
Speaker 5: to just tune it out, you know. And yeah, people
Speaker 5: always want to make you know, crappy comments. I mean,
Speaker 5: that's just that's people, and particularly online, and when it's
Speaker 5: not to your face, and you know, people get real
Speaker 5: brave when they don't have to be confronted.
Speaker 3: With consequences for what are they like, what what is
Speaker 3: the negativity? I'm sorry, maybe I didn't do.
Speaker 1: Nstand you know.
Speaker 5: My past is like with addiction issues, just that I've
Speaker 5: been married a bunch of times, I'm like, like, where
Speaker 5: do you think I get my stand up material? I
Speaker 5: gotta have something, you know. But yeah, like you know,
Speaker 5: people throw that in you know, every face, and I'm like,
Speaker 5: that doesn't I wrote a book.
Speaker 2: I already talked about all of this.
Speaker 1: You're not breaking any like we already all already know
Speaker 1: the information.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and not only that, I just I'm so very
Speaker 5: secure in who I am and what guides me that
Speaker 5: I'm like, and none of that it's all kind of irrelevant.
Speaker 2: It's funny TJ and I were talking.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's just by design or if
Speaker 1: it just keeps happening, but when we're talking to folks,
Speaker 1: we end up realizing because DJ and I have had
Speaker 1: quite the last two years are and so I think
Speaker 1: there's a shared experience there. It's not exactly the same.
Speaker 1: But we were joking we should call this podcast safe space,
Speaker 1: because you know, actually, when you start to hear other
Speaker 1: people's stories and people who you look up to, people
Speaker 1: who you admire, people who you are entertained by, and
Speaker 1: you start to hear you know what they've been through.
Speaker 1: I think we put people up on a pedestal. We
Speaker 1: love to tear them down, we love to judge them,
Speaker 1: but we're all human beings. So it's always interesting to
Speaker 1: hear and going through the tough times, battling addiction, yes,
Speaker 1: having multiple marriages, we get it, and people love to
Speaker 1: throw shots at that, but those are those are the
Speaker 1: moments when you learn who you are and what you're
Speaker 1: made of.
Speaker 5: And it also like that's life. Life's messy, it's not.
Speaker 5: There's no then weak got an instruction manual? Why do
Speaker 5: you think you know just because you're doing it differently cool,
Speaker 5: that's you know, it's just I think.
Speaker 4: We we're very quick to have a set idea of
Speaker 4: what we think other people should adhere to, particularly when
Speaker 4: they grow up in the public eye or when they
Speaker 4: are someone that we look up to, and you know,
Speaker 4: at the end of the day, like just can't put
Speaker 4: that kind of pressure on yourself.
Speaker 5: You're you're a human being having a human experience and
Speaker 5: you're having to do it in front of in front
Speaker 5: of a lot of other people. And sometimes that's my choice,
Speaker 5: and sometimes it's not.
Speaker 2: That's true, you know, and that's just it.
Speaker 5: It is what it is. You know, Hey, I'm a
Speaker 5: human being having a human experience. I bet you are too,
Speaker 5: and let's laugh about it, you know, instead of being
Speaker 5: like no, no, no, I'm I'm great. I'm great. Everything's fine.
Speaker 5: I'm great. Yeah, no, I'm not.
Speaker 2: It depends on the day, depends on the hour.
Speaker 5: Right, Sometimes I'm great, sometimes I'm not, And it's okay.
Speaker 5: And I just that's always the message that I really
Speaker 5: like try and reinforce on my social media with my fans,
Speaker 5: with people I interact with, is like, just be where
Speaker 5: you are, in the space that you are. Some days
Speaker 5: it's great, some days it's not. It'll change.
Speaker 3: You know, how long will it take you to get
Speaker 3: to that point? Though, because we're all trying to get there?
Speaker 3: I didn't get to what you're talking about. Maybe late thirties,
Speaker 3: early forties maybe, but you know what we're to get
Speaker 3: to that point? What did it take for you? And
Speaker 3: is that an ongoing battle or work that you still
Speaker 3: have to do.
Speaker 5: It's an ongoing battle and it's work. But I will
Speaker 5: say growing up in a business where at nine years old,
Speaker 5: there's a Star magazine article written about how you're a
Speaker 5: terrible person to work with. It's completely fabricated, and they have,
Speaker 5: you know, all of these things, and you read that
Speaker 5: about yourself, and it feels so violating at nine years old,
Speaker 5: ten years old, that they write this stuff about that's
Speaker 5: not true, and you want to defend yourself and you
Speaker 5: want to say, like, but that's that's you know, that's
Speaker 5: not right. And so I learned at an early age
Speaker 5: I either listen to who other people tell me I am,
Speaker 5: or I have to figure it out for me and
Speaker 5: ignore the rest. And some days I'm really good at that,
Speaker 5: and some days the voices are loud. And when I
Speaker 5: was a teenager, I spent a lot of time trying
Speaker 5: to figure out how I could be the person that
Speaker 5: other people wanted me to be, or be the total
Speaker 5: opposite of who people thought I should be. You know,
Speaker 5: it just all those things. But I'd say my late twenties,
Speaker 5: early thirties, really my mid thirties is kind of when
Speaker 5: I started like really settling into it. And I think
Speaker 5: that's that's kind of what happens for most of us. So, like,
Speaker 5: you know, all of these young people that are like
Speaker 5: famous and doing all this stupid, it's like, well, like
Speaker 5: let them get to thirty, you know what I mean,
Speaker 5: let it like when you're they're gonna hit thirty and
Speaker 5: they're gonna go oh, because we all do. And so
Speaker 5: like give like give them the grace, give them the
Speaker 5: allow them the dignity of their own experience to you know,
Speaker 5: be messy sometimes and like but be able to come
Speaker 5: back from it. You know, I think that's just always
Speaker 5: the hope is that we all no one's perfect, So
Speaker 5: like give people the opportunity to change and come back.
Speaker 5: Now if they want to keep doing the same thing
Speaker 5: and being an asshat, than by. But you know, if
Speaker 5: you want to like change your behavior and do something
Speaker 5: different and be a different person, great, that's the point
Speaker 5: of this entire experience. Just grow. You know, I've had
Speaker 5: to do a lot of that over the years.
Speaker 1: You did, and you had to do it in a
Speaker 1: very public way, which is different from most people. And
Speaker 1: you did it at such a young age. I'm curious.
Speaker 1: You're there on set with people who are around your
Speaker 1: age a little bit older, but you are at the
Speaker 1: height of success. I mean that show was everywhere. Did
Speaker 1: you have support within the cast? I'm just curious, Like,
Speaker 1: did that experience bond you all together? I want to
Speaker 1: know what those relationships were like at the time and
Speaker 1: how they've evolved over the years.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean we you know, we were all
Speaker 5: so close. We're such a family. I mean we really
Speaker 5: really are. We have, even the adults, we've all grown
Speaker 5: up together. I mean they were in their like early
Speaker 5: mid twenties when we started this show twenty four or
Speaker 5: twenty five, like they were babies, you know, they weren't thirty,
Speaker 5: so it was you know, we all really kind of
Speaker 5: grew up together. And the success of the show and
Speaker 5: having it be so popular, it is it's something that
Speaker 5: kind of bonds you together because it's it's not something
Speaker 5: that sort of everyone understands. And you know, I always
Speaker 5: say that I'm part of a really neat little sorority
Speaker 5: of other people and contemporaries of mine who are around
Speaker 5: my age or you know between like Canvases and Andrea
Speaker 5: or Candases in Ashley Mary Kate's age, like sort of
Speaker 5: this tenure window of child stars that are some of
Speaker 5: my dearest friends that I've known throughout the years since
Speaker 5: I was you know, four or five, auditioning or doing
Speaker 5: different things, and it's it's just a it's a really
Speaker 5: wonderful experience to know that people that I joined up
Speaker 5: with when I was five years old still support me
Speaker 5: and love me, and you know, I was so close
Speaker 5: with everyone in their families. I would go with Bob
Speaker 5: Saget on weekends to visit his girls, Like I would
Speaker 5: stay at his house and we you know, he'd make
Speaker 5: us blueberry pancakes. I mean, it was it was family
Speaker 5: and that's never stopped, you know, and we absolutely love
Speaker 5: each other like family. And you know, sometimes it's smooth
Speaker 5: sailing and sometimes it's not, but it doesn't doesn't change
Speaker 5: the fact that your family and you have thirty seven,
Speaker 5: thirty eight years of history together like that doesn't change.
Speaker 2: You know, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool, and I was,
Speaker 2: actually I was.
Speaker 1: But you know how we know this how some publications
Speaker 1: love to jump on any kind of even seeming like
Speaker 1: like they almost make controversy where it doesn't even exist.
Speaker 1: Like something even as simple as you all you and
Speaker 1: kandas Cameron Raid disagreeing about what you saw in the
Speaker 1: opening ceremonies of the Olympics, suddenly that becomes headlines splashed everywhere.
Speaker 1: Isn't that remarkable that people still can't wait to pit
Speaker 1: people against.
Speaker 5: Each other, Well, they can't wait to pit people against
Speaker 5: each other. They particularly can't wait to pit women against
Speaker 5: each other, as we know that's always the fun thing
Speaker 5: is like it's never you know, we don't tear them down,
Speaker 5: but let's make them fight. And we I think it
Speaker 5: have we so many times I read things. I'm like,
Speaker 5: where in anything did it say anything about it? You know,
Speaker 5: like so many articles you know that you read the
Speaker 5: clickbait or what, and I'm totally guilty of it. I'll
Speaker 5: be like, ooh, what's going on with you know j
Speaker 5: Loo and what? And I hate it? And then I'm like, ah,
Speaker 5: I can't what am I doing? Stop? Don't look, but
Speaker 5: you know, you look at it and then you're like, wait,
Speaker 5: the headline said this, but nowhere in anything did that
Speaker 5: person get mentioned or did this actually happen or did
Speaker 5: you know? And I know that about this business? Like
Speaker 5: fine if people you know, if people want to think
Speaker 5: that so and so said this, and you're like, I
Speaker 5: never even mentioned, never even mentioned anyone, great like I
Speaker 5: just That's what I mean, like tuning out the noise,
Speaker 5: like it, because you can drive yourself mad by going
Speaker 5: back and re engaging and being like, but that's not.
Speaker 6: What I said, but actually I did this. Well wait, no,
Speaker 6: this okay, but you have to if you start heard
Speaker 6: with this person who no, you know, we all said
Speaker 6: what we said and and bye, that's it.
Speaker 5: I know you guys know the feeling where you're like,
Speaker 5: that's actually, you know what, I don't have time for that.
Speaker 3: She says that, and it's I guess maybe some wounds
Speaker 3: haven't healed completely. But hearing you say that, and you're right,
Speaker 3: you try to ignore. But us ignoring and not responding
Speaker 3: cost us jobs. It costs us step careers. That stuff
Speaker 3: is so poisonous. Sometimes it does. It can do more
Speaker 3: than just mess with your head. It can, actually it.
Speaker 5: Can. We are unnecessarily cruel to each other again for
Speaker 5: just living human lives. You know, let's all just give
Speaker 5: each other a little bit of grace to not be perfect,
Speaker 5: and particularly those of us who were in front of
Speaker 5: the camera, like now their cameras are everywhere. You used
Speaker 5: to be like, okay, switch off. Who get to go
Speaker 5: be like a crazy person over you know, No, now
Speaker 5: it's everything and everywhere you are, someone's gonna know. And
Speaker 5: that's a lot of pressure. And you know, I'm not
Speaker 5: making I don't think anyone should excuse terrible behavior, but
Speaker 5: I think we need to also be able to tell
Speaker 5: what really terrible behavior is and what is just people
Speaker 5: trying to make a decision that there's no great outcome,
Speaker 5: because sometimes sometimes you're just doing the best you can.
Speaker 1: Yeah you are, I mean, why is beyond your years?
Speaker 1: And it's been hard earned, I know, and It's funny
Speaker 1: because as we were talking about all of this.
Speaker 2: I thought, and this is why we like the Hallmark Channel.
Speaker 5: TU like the Homer It really and I like not
Speaker 5: to bring it all back around, but it really like
Speaker 5: people love full House, Fuller House Hallmark Channel because they
Speaker 5: can watch something where they go it's everything's okay, everything's
Speaker 5: gonna be okay, this isn't messy. I know we're gonna
Speaker 5: it's gonna tie itself up back together and it's gonna
Speaker 5: be happy. And it's and that we need that, we
Speaker 5: need those bits of reassurance, you know. And then we
Speaker 5: go watch a horror movie or a Handyman from Hell
Speaker 5: or whatever, you know. Then we go watch something and go,
Speaker 5: oh yeah, no, there's some scary stuff too. But it's
Speaker 5: the balance, right, It's all the balance.
Speaker 1: I love it because for me, watching a horror movie
Speaker 1: or watching your character get murdered with a nail gun,
Speaker 1: I can say to myself, well, at least I'm not her,
Speaker 1: So there's that we have a horror movie. At least
Speaker 1: I'm always preserved by demons. And then you can go
Speaker 1: back and then.
Speaker 2: Watch the Hallmark Channel and be like it's going to be.
Speaker 5: And now I can think about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly how low is our bar that? Hey, at
Speaker 3: least I'm not getting shot by a nail gun perspective?
Speaker 5: I mean, do you do you want me to answer that?
Speaker 3: No? No, no, no, Sorry it was rhetorical, But I.
Speaker 5: Don't think it's that podcast. That's a different one.
Speaker 1: We always talk, We always appreciate perspective, and that is
Speaker 1: what life often gives us, whether we want it in
Speaker 1: that moment or not.
Speaker 2: But ye, Jody, we I'm not kidding.
Speaker 1: We are going we have appointment television we cannot wait
Speaker 1: to watch, and we are going to fall in love
Speaker 1: with Jody Sweeten all over again because you're gonna dominate
Speaker 1: because she is dominating Hallmark plus dominating.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, thank you, Jody. We really appreciate it absolutely.
Speaker 5: Thank you guys so much. Great to talk to you.