Speaker 1: We are so excited about today's guest, our first castmate
Speaker 1: to join us on the pod. He first captured the
Speaker 1: hearts of women everywhere as Blackie on General Hospital, before
Speaker 1: committing to the role that would propel him to superstardom
Speaker 1: and follow him for the rest of his life Uncle
Speaker 1: Jesse on Full House. To Jody and me, he's just John,
Speaker 1: or Mud, as we affectionately call him. His new memoir,
Speaker 1: If You Would Have Told Me, is an incredibly poignant
Speaker 1: and heartfelt look inside John's life and legacy. I cried
Speaker 1: more times than I can count without further ado. The
Speaker 1: man with the megawat smile and the best head of
Speaker 1: hair in Hollywood. We love and adore him. John Stamos, Hi,
Speaker 1: ladies one, Hey, welcome to how Rude Tannertos. Hello, we're
Speaker 1: so excited.
Speaker 2: Your so excited. First of all, let me say something
Speaker 2: to you too. I love you both so much. I
Speaker 2: am so proud of both of you. You've just turned
Speaker 2: into the kind of people that I hope my son
Speaker 2: turns into. I just love you both. I'm again. You've
Speaker 2: done so much great work in the world. You've overcome obstacles.
Speaker 2: You you you're nice people. Your good mothers and I
Speaker 2: just love you and that's it. Goodbye, everybody.
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us than I love you. That's
Speaker 3: all you need to know is one compliments at any time.
Speaker 3: And then disappeared.
Speaker 2: Ye trying to play. Do you remember when we sang
Speaker 2: to you teddy bear and oh that was Michelle?
Speaker 4: Huh that was Michelle the teddy Bear?
Speaker 2: What did we say?
Speaker 1: Are you playing it right now? Oh, he's got a guitar,
Speaker 1: all right, play us a ballad.
Speaker 5: And go play uh venus?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, watched that episode.
Speaker 5: We just watched.
Speaker 4: The episode was amazing on the mountain.
Speaker 2: Who sang that? Did you? Andrew?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: You and me I sang it. We were the Bengals.
Speaker 4: DJ and Kimmy were the Bengals. And the bracelets thet yeah,
Speaker 4: the bracelets.
Speaker 1: Yes, and you were teaching DJ how to play guitar horribly,
Speaker 1: by the way, or she was not you.
Speaker 2: I've listened to a few of these, and the first one,
Speaker 2: you guys claim that you never watched the show. You
Speaker 2: guys watched the show. I never watched watched No.
Speaker 5: I mean I had seen the pilot.
Speaker 3: I had seen like bits and pieces of clips or whatever,
Speaker 3: but I never watched it when it was on TV.
Speaker 3: I didn't tune into like TGIF or anything. I'm sure
Speaker 3: my parents did, but I was like, it's fine.
Speaker 2: All the other rest of the years, you just never
Speaker 2: your kids. Did your girls watch it? They did not?
Speaker 5: Really not mad. They didn't. Yeah, they were like whatever.
Speaker 5: They weren't really that impressed.
Speaker 4: They're not a pressed with their parents.
Speaker 2: You're You're like, oh god, Billy watches it, but only
Speaker 2: to get stuff to mock me. Like that's yeah, Like, Billy,
Speaker 2: go clean up the toys you get.
Speaker 4: Indeed, right, he does that hysterical.
Speaker 2: He said the other day, he goes. He goes, uh.
Speaker 2: It was after Halloween and he had a whole drawer
Speaker 2: full of candy and he's like, Dad, yes, you know
Speaker 2: my candy drawer. Yeah, because I'm gonna eat all the candy.
Speaker 2: I said, no, you're not. He goes, yes, I am.
Speaker 2: I go, uh, why because I have a secret. We
Speaker 2: don't keep secrets in this house. We don't have secrets.
Speaker 2: He goes, Okay, but I have a secret. I'm like,
Speaker 2: what is it? I saw you kissing another girl and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell mom. I go, was it aunt Becky?
Speaker 2: He goes, yes, I said you're grounded, get in your room.
Speaker 2: And it wasn't a kiss. It wasn't a real kiss.
Speaker 2: He goes, No, you guys were kissing. He's rugging me
Speaker 2: on it. He said, you I saw your lips. How
Speaker 2: could it be not a real kiss?
Speaker 5: That's true. I mean that's very hard explaining that to
Speaker 5: a kid. They're like, I saw it.
Speaker 2: Yeah. How is this podcast going great? I mean, there
Speaker 2: should be a full house podcast for years I've been
Speaker 2: saying it, and you guys did it. Dave has his Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's great.
Speaker 4: Everywhere you look, there's a there's a new full house pod.
Speaker 5: That's true. Everywhere you look.
Speaker 3: We've had a really good time finding weird random things
Speaker 3: in the set that we do remember with strange props.
Speaker 5: Okay, things like that.
Speaker 3: We have a whole everywhere you Look segment where we
Speaker 3: pick up on random little things in the in the background, a.
Speaker 4: K in the alcove. Yes, yes, we've talked about that.
Speaker 1: How you have stolen the couch and read the red
Speaker 1: front door? What else are you holding out on us
Speaker 1: that we don't know.
Speaker 2: That you Today I'm going to I'm going to reveal
Speaker 2: that I have one of the Alsen twins in my garage.
Speaker 2: I can't tell which one, but right, she's got a
Speaker 2: lot of money.
Speaker 4: And she can design clothes for you.
Speaker 2: Right, let's get into it. You remember, I know you
Speaker 2: guys read the book, and I appreciate that. And I
Speaker 2: went back to Andrew's book and listen into it. I
Speaker 2: told you, Andrew a couple of weeks ago, and I
Speaker 2: guess one that came out you sent me one. I
Speaker 2: kind of grazed it and I looked in. But listening
Speaker 2: to it this time, I was really I really felt
Speaker 2: for you. It was really beautiful writing, and you were
Speaker 2: very you know, forthcoming with issues that I didn't even
Speaker 2: know you had, and you know, we sort of all
Speaker 2: lost touch for a few crazy years there. But it
Speaker 2: was really beautiful. And and Jody, I know you've written
Speaker 2: about eighteen books, and.
Speaker 5: No I haven't. I've only written just the one, just
Speaker 5: the one.
Speaker 2: But it was did you narrate it or Britney Spears
Speaker 2: who did the audio of it?
Speaker 3: I actually never did an audiobook of it, I don't
Speaker 3: think because if this was like it came out in nine,
Speaker 3: I mean it was, it came out a long time ago,
Speaker 3: so it was kind of in the era of like
Speaker 3: I don't know that we were doing like as many
Speaker 3: of the audible books and stuff.
Speaker 2: But I found that really the hardest part.
Speaker 4: Did you, Andrew, what was the hardest part for you.
Speaker 2: Doing the audio? Well? Doing the audio really, I mean.
Speaker 4: It was I was saying what part of the book
Speaker 4: was the hardest for you? To write?
Speaker 2: All of it, I'll tell you that about that, But
Speaker 2: the audio I thought was going to be so like
Speaker 2: I was really looking forward to it because I listened
Speaker 2: to audio books all the time, and it was hard.
Speaker 2: It took me, Like, I said, how long would it take?
Speaker 2: And they said, well, you'll have five or six days.
Speaker 2: I took like thirty two days or something, because you're
Speaker 2: cold reading your life, you know, for the first time,
Speaker 2: right right, yeah, And I did this and I you know,
Speaker 2: I rewrote.
Speaker 3: And then you're like, did I I don't want to
Speaker 3: I take all this back? Never mind, just kidding, Right,
Speaker 3: how did you get me and YouTube?
Speaker 2: Jody? Like, wasn't it? It's so I started out to
Speaker 2: write like a hero book, like I did this, and
Speaker 2: I did that, you know, and then it automatically, you know,
Speaker 2: very soon became a human story and I had to
Speaker 2: really dig deep to when I started to tell the
Speaker 2: absolute truth about stuff, and I stumble upon this line
Speaker 2: without anything less than the truth is paralysis, and so
Speaker 2: I was like, oh crap, now I got to go
Speaker 2: by that and it was just uh, cathartic, yes, but
Speaker 2: it was it was hard, right, I mean, what did
Speaker 2: you guys feel when you had to write all that?
Speaker 5: I mean, I'll never forget going.
Speaker 3: Like after I'd written the book and then going and
Speaker 3: starting my press tour and I was.
Speaker 5: Doing the Today Show.
Speaker 3: Uh, and I had this moment and my first interview
Speaker 3: was the Today Show. I think it was Matt Lower.
Speaker 3: That tells you how long that that was, but it was.
Speaker 2: He's a beacon of you know, good solid.
Speaker 3: Well yeah, but uh, it was I remember thinking the
Speaker 3: night before I was like, what have I done that?
Speaker 5: I oh, no, you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: And then it was But then there was a sense
Speaker 3: also a sense of freedom once you kind of step
Speaker 3: off that ledge and just tell the truth and tell
Speaker 3: your story and tell all of your you know, faults
Speaker 3: and everything that you think is so scary, and you
Speaker 3: find that people respond to it really wonderfully and positively
Speaker 3: and supportively, and then you're like, oh, oh, actually, like
Speaker 3: that was terrifying at first, but it was very freeing
Speaker 3: and very yeah, like you said, cathartic.
Speaker 1: It was like therapy for me to write some of
Speaker 1: these innermost feelings that I hadn't really unpacked ever in
Speaker 1: my life. That's what I was forced to by writing
Speaker 1: these deep chapters where you're writing about your difficult times,
Speaker 1: the times when you've struggled.
Speaker 4: I mean, these are really personal moments, and so that's.
Speaker 1: It's cathartic, it's therapeutic and like Jody said, terrifying, you know,
Speaker 1: the night before it's released into the public.
Speaker 2: And then you but then then it goes from that
Speaker 2: to terrifying to like everybody's known your business and they're saying, oh,
Speaker 2: my god, you're so brave and brave, and then it
Speaker 2: goes to my god, you helped me. I had the
Speaker 2: same issue I haven't you know. And there's a couple
Speaker 2: of things that I a lot of. They asked me
Speaker 2: to write a book a couple of times over the years.
Speaker 2: I was like, no, no, no, no, I don't I
Speaker 2: can't write how. I didn't even know. I couldn't even know,
Speaker 2: like where do I where am I even start? I
Speaker 2: know nothing about writing a book. I could rewrite stuff.
Speaker 2: You you guys have been.
Speaker 4: There for that, but many many scenes, I can't.
Speaker 2: I never wrote anything, so I kept saying no, and
Speaker 2: then I thought, oh, the only thing anyone wants to
Speaker 2: hear is you know who I slept with, and I'm
Speaker 2: not going to talk about that, which is only about
Speaker 2: four people. And sure, And so then I became a
Speaker 2: dad and I sobered up. And then Bob died and
Speaker 2: they read the obituary thing that I did in the
Speaker 2: La Times said you're a good writer. I'm like, I
Speaker 2: don't even remember writing that.
Speaker 3: And then I said, well, it's usually the best writing
Speaker 3: is when you go back and you read it and.
Speaker 5: You're like, I don't I wrote that. Yeah, Wow, that's weird.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then I thought, right, yeah. And then I thought,
Speaker 2: I have all these letters from my mom, and I
Speaker 2: know you guys do too, and you probably seen my
Speaker 2: mom's notes and stuff. So I thought, okay, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: I called my sisters. I got all of them, I
Speaker 2: sort of line them up. I said, okay, here's a
Speaker 2: road map, and I and I put the all the
Speaker 2: letters in here as you can see it, of my
Speaker 2: mom's and they I put the actual you know her
Speaker 2: writing and everything.
Speaker 4: I loved that part of Yeah, it was so special.
Speaker 4: It's such a great window into Loretta's love for you.
Speaker 2: And you got let me, let me read this one.
Speaker 2: It's nice, it says, dear son, don't release your memoir
Speaker 2: the same day as Britney spears. Come on, Yeah, you guys,
Speaker 2: you know yeah, well you guys. You knew my mom
Speaker 2: and my dad, and I knew your parents, and Andrea,
Speaker 2: you know we missed your mom. Did you ever talk
Speaker 2: about that? She was she?
Speaker 4: I just told that story, just told that story.
Speaker 2: Of your birthday.
Speaker 4: Beautiful text you sent me.
Speaker 1: I actually read the text and teared up because I've
Speaker 1: saved it. You sent it to me like three years ago,
Speaker 1: just a few months after my mom passed, and it
Speaker 1: was it was the day of your ma, of Loretta's birthday,
Speaker 1: and Billie was asking everyone, you know, when's your birthday?
Speaker 4: When's your birthday?
Speaker 1: It reminded you of my mom, and you sent me
Speaker 1: this beautiful text, and I cried, and I've saved it
Speaker 1: because I just want to read it forever. It was
Speaker 1: so special and loving and what a beautiful gift that.
Speaker 1: And you do this all the time too. You you
Speaker 1: you're like that, You'll just send random text out of
Speaker 1: the blue saying I'm thinking of you and I love you,
Speaker 1: and that's it's very much like Bob.
Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, I think I got that from him. He
Speaker 2: never left anything on the table, and that's you know,
Speaker 2: you guys know, it's it's really his legacy that we
Speaker 2: have to continue, which is like, just tell everybody that
Speaker 2: you love him, you care about him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and tell them that you're busy, tell them that
Speaker 3: you're very busy while telling Yeah, I.
Speaker 2: Talk about him in almost every interview because if I don't,
Speaker 2: it'll weather it gets really bad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he'll want you.
Speaker 3: I have a picture of him hanging over my desk
Speaker 3: up here. That was an actual little painting that somebody did.
Speaker 3: So he's just always he's just always up here. So
Speaker 3: I make sure and make inappropriate jokes just so.
Speaker 2: That he what do you think people want to know?
Speaker 2: I mean, this is so cool that we're all talking together.
Speaker 2: We as you guys have probably talked about and people
Speaker 2: are listening, know that we've we've stayed very close over
Speaker 2: the years. Although now Bob was was the guy who
Speaker 2: kept us all together.
Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, he was the patriarch. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was a nag too. He would call.
Speaker 3: You, well, you couldn't tell him no because you knew
Speaker 3: he wasn't going to give it up and you weren't.
Speaker 3: That wasn't the end of it, you know what I mean, Like, no,
Speaker 3: I gotta be like you'd hear the guilt and the
Speaker 3: thing and you know.
Speaker 2: The two hardest chapters. Oh go ahead, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Andrea, Well, I might be talking about what you're about
Speaker 1: to talk about, which is the last chapter of your book,
Speaker 1: which details the day that you found out Bob passed
Speaker 1: and then the immediate aftermath the weeks following that. And
Speaker 1: I had never I know, I've never talked to you
Speaker 1: guys about that day and how we found out when
Speaker 1: Bob passed. And so that was really cathartic for me
Speaker 1: just to read those emotions and revisit those feelings.
Speaker 4: Learnt, Like what what I didn't know how you found out?
Speaker 1: How you were driving Billy around he was napping and
Speaker 1: then you pulled over and like just fell to your
Speaker 1: knees in the parking lot.
Speaker 2: I got a call a few weeks before from my
Speaker 2: publicist on the weekend, and he was like he called
Speaker 2: and Caitlyn answered, he couldn't get me. I was asleep,
Speaker 2: and Kitlyn answered, he called Kaitlyn and she said, and
Speaker 2: he said it's John okay, And I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: why he's sleepy? You want me to wake him up?
Speaker 2: And he's like, no, no, no, no. Uh. I just
Speaker 2: got a call from TMZ and they said, sources said
Speaker 2: that John went down in a plane crash near San Diego,
Speaker 2: private plane. And clearly their sources were wrong, because.
Speaker 4: You know, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: Two weeks later, Matt gets the same call about something
Speaker 2: about Bob. So he calls, calls me and I and
Speaker 2: I pulled over because yeah, Billy was I was driving
Speaker 2: him around to fall asleep in the back, and I
Speaker 2: pulled over in the commons over here. I talked to
Speaker 2: him and said, is Bobo Camick? What do you mean
Speaker 2: it is Boboka? I don't know. So well, have you
Speaker 2: talked to him today? I said, no, he's on the road.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's fine. He played some show last night. Okay, Well,
Speaker 2: just why Matt? Why?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 2: I got a call sources say, I go, so your
Speaker 2: sources can kiss my ass, because last week they had
Speaker 2: me dying him. Two weeks ago, I said, he said, okay, okay.
Speaker 2: So I called Bob, didn't answer, texted him a couple
Speaker 2: of times, didn't answer. Called Kelly, didn't answer. Then I
Speaker 2: get a text from Candice saying that she got a
Speaker 2: DM from somebody in Florida saying, Hey, I'm sorry to
Speaker 2: have to tell you this, but that Bob died and
Speaker 2: my sister's a cop on the scene. And Candas was like,
Speaker 2: you better not be kidding. She I'll send you the
Speaker 2: police report. So I'm reading this thinking, oh no, this
Speaker 2: is too many, you know, Matt and YZ. So then
Speaker 2: I called Candace and she explained it to me. As
Speaker 2: I'm talking to Candace, Kelly calls me and she's just
Speaker 2: wailing and I just hit the asphalt with my knees.
Speaker 2: I'm like, no, no, yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're the same thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what a gut punch.
Speaker 2: At this beginning of this episode is just like the
Speaker 2: colonoscopy and and mammogram, uh start from.
Speaker 1: That's the one. I think, Yes, hey, we talk about
Speaker 1: everything on this show.
Speaker 4: Nothing.
Speaker 3: It's HRC, which is also hormone replacement therapy. That's the
Speaker 3: acronym of the podcast. That's our target audience, that's our
Speaker 3: target audience.
Speaker 2: So that was the I thought that was gonna be
Speaker 2: the hardest chapter of the Bob And then the first
Speaker 2: chapter when I got a dui and it was this horrific,
Speaker 2: you know, my lowest point in life, and I was
Speaker 2: going to meet Bob at the poem. I thought those
Speaker 2: two the two hardest were the Full House chapters. Really, yeah, because.
Speaker 1: Was it hard to remember or hard to talk about
Speaker 1: those times? Or why was it difficult?
Speaker 2: Because I know how important the show was to so
Speaker 2: many people. I didn't know why. And Jeff was over
Speaker 2: here a couple of weeks ago and he said, he said,
Speaker 2: when did you come He's writing a book to Jeff Franklin.
Speaker 2: He said, when did you come to terms with the Full House?
Speaker 2: I said, when I wrote this, when I actually sat
Speaker 2: down pended paper computer, because I've always you know, my
Speaker 2: feeling of it. It was double edged sword and you
Speaker 2: guys probably had some of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, very very similar where you're like, I love this
Speaker 3: and it gave me sort of the career that I had,
Speaker 3: but also at the same time, like I can do
Speaker 3: other things too, you know, but it's such a special
Speaker 3: place in people's heart.
Speaker 2: Yes, so I wanted to do it justice, and so
Speaker 2: I didn't I get it was the last two chapters
Speaker 2: I wrote. I just kept writing, Bob. And you know,
Speaker 2: it's eight years too, as you guys know, and there's
Speaker 2: a lot of people, a lot of things involved. So
Speaker 2: I started off with the reading of the pilot and
Speaker 2: it was at the it was at the Century Plaza Hotel,
Speaker 2: and I talked about I was, you know, I was
Speaker 2: on General Hospital and worked and I was the big
Speaker 2: star of the thing. And and you know when when
Speaker 2: it was pitched to me, Look, I always wanted to
Speaker 2: be on a Gary Marshall type show. You and Gary
Speaker 2: actually helped me get the get the job. And he
Speaker 2: also told me get a catchphrase. Everybody. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 2: guys know it's the name of your podcasts. Thanks and
Speaker 2: and and Billy. Now he's he's he's asking me about
Speaker 2: catch phrase. He wanted to know everyone's catchphrase and what
Speaker 2: did DJ have one? He said, oh, my lant. He goes,
Speaker 2: what's that? But he his deal is he just puts
Speaker 2: baby at the end of it. I'm going to the bathroom, baby,
Speaker 2: So picking my nose, baby.
Speaker 4: The apple doesn't fall f Yeah, it's weird.
Speaker 2: I wonder where he gets that his humor is closer
Speaker 2: to Bob's then to mine. Wow, sehrty and funny. So uh,
Speaker 2: I thought I was going to be on this show.
Speaker 2: So they told me because it was Millan Braad show,
Speaker 2: Oh this is going to be like Buzz and Buddies,
Speaker 2: but there's three of you and no cross dressing until
Speaker 2: maybe season two or three. And the kids are like,
Speaker 2: you know, kids are back here. You know, Okay, buzz
Speaker 2: and Budies. That sounds fun of comic a musician, right,
Speaker 2: And then they were doing a lot of work on
Speaker 2: the casting of the of you girls, and I was like, well,
Speaker 2: just putting a lot of effort into the kids that
Speaker 2: are going to be in the background. But you know,
Speaker 2: so I walk into the reading like the like, I
Speaker 2: think I'm the big shot, you know, and your your
Speaker 2: moms knew me from General Hospital.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah it's Blacky. It's Blacky.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, can this is mom and sisters? I think?
Speaker 2: And I walk in and so we start the reading
Speaker 2: and I wrote it all pretty cool, did you see?
Speaker 2: Like I actually put the script in the in the book, right,
Speaker 2: And I sit down and I get these big applause
Speaker 2: and everybody, and then we start and you you mainly
Speaker 2: Jody blew the roof off the place, and every joke
Speaker 2: that you got, I slipped a little further in my
Speaker 2: seat like this, and they were laughing so frigging hard
Speaker 2: they couldn't even hear my lines. And I'm like, oh
Speaker 2: my god. And I remember running out to the lobby
Speaker 2: and I had a quarter and I jammed it into
Speaker 2: the phone and I called my managers, like, get me
Speaker 2: the f off this show. It's ropper room.
Speaker 5: You know what.
Speaker 3: It's so funny too, because I remember when you first
Speaker 3: told that story.
Speaker 5: I was like, really I intimidated John.
Speaker 4: At age five age still.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just that story to me, like was
Speaker 3: so funny because it was I was like, wow, I
Speaker 3: had you know, It's just funny to hear the things
Speaker 3: that I don't really remember. I sort of vaguely remember
Speaker 3: the you know, the the table read, but like hearing
Speaker 3: it from the adults around us, what their perspective was,
Speaker 3: like hearing it from you and Dave and Jeff and
Speaker 3: you know, all these bob and what their experience was.
Speaker 5: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Howl did that feeling last of you wanting to get
Speaker 1: the f off of Full House?
Speaker 4: As you result that.
Speaker 5: Eight and a half seasons.
Speaker 2: Actually, well, that's a good question. I mean, first of all,
Speaker 2: it was so I started to but I started to
Speaker 2: get into it obviously, and I knew that you guys
Speaker 2: were your kids were, you know, we're going to be
Speaker 2: huge stars on there. And instead of being like a
Speaker 2: dad on Webster or something, I said, I got to
Speaker 2: get in the middle of this, and you know, I
Speaker 2: nurtured that Michelle Jesse relationship, which just which pissed Bob
Speaker 2: off even more. This first chapter of the full House
Speaker 2: stuff is called your Baby's a Pig, which was.
Speaker 3: Which is one of the lines that we were like, wow,
Speaker 3: Jesse's calling children bigs.
Speaker 2: Yeah no, And I was so worried that you know,
Speaker 2: we're going to steal show what you did. But that
Speaker 2: line was the highest testing line of the whole pilot.
Speaker 2: So there.
Speaker 4: Where credit is due.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2: And Bob and I, you know, we just didn't like
Speaker 2: each other for for a good long time, as you
Speaker 2: guys probably remember. And it wasn't that I didn't think
Speaker 2: he was talented or funny. I mean I thought he
Speaker 2: was a genius. I just wouldn't tell him, you know,
Speaker 2: until years later, right, And he you know. He his
Speaker 2: process was very different than mine, as you guys remember,
Speaker 2: And I came from working with Jack Klugman on the
Speaker 2: show right before and where we'd break it apart every
Speaker 2: scene and we'd talk it out, and Bob just wanted
Speaker 2: to take a fork and stab his penis with it
Speaker 2: and say, I hate my penis, you know right, I
Speaker 2: could just.
Speaker 5: Be an idiot.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, right, yeah Jones, yeah yeah yeah, unfurling your inside.
Speaker 3: I mean, it was just and people are like, what
Speaker 3: is wrong with you guys? You're like, I couldn't explain
Speaker 3: it to you if I tried, and I don't know why,
Speaker 3: but it will always be funny to us.
Speaker 4: It's just Bob. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, you guys missed, so you wouldn't. So we'd have
Speaker 2: notes at the end of the like a couple of
Speaker 2: days or whatever, and you guys missed those those days.
Speaker 2: I should show you know. I was thinking the.
Speaker 4: Kids didn't get to go to the notes.
Speaker 5: Thank god, though.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine imagine notes, because think about notes when
Speaker 3: we did Fuller, I would just be drawing Boobs on
Speaker 3: canvas's script.
Speaker 5: I was I was being Bob basically.
Speaker 2: I was just it was it was terrible, and I
Speaker 2: have some video of it. You know, I know you
Speaker 2: guys don't do.
Speaker 5: This great documentary and that I know we should show.
Speaker 2: We'll get to that. I'll show some stuff that you
Speaker 2: guys maybe have never seen before, and you can use
Speaker 2: it or however you want to do it to make
Speaker 2: this a special episode.
Speaker 4: Love it.
Speaker 2: So, Bob was was that? And and you got in
Speaker 2: trouble a lot from your mother's you know, it's like upstairs, yep.
Speaker 2: But it was all loving and he was pretty good
Speaker 2: around you guys most of the time, although it was
Speaker 2: you have stories. What was the what? What was the
Speaker 2: What's one of the things that really stuck out to
Speaker 2: you girls that you didn't know was going on that
Speaker 2: you found out later from the adults.
Speaker 5: Huh.
Speaker 2: Remember when Dave used to get massages. Before I was
Speaker 2: going to.
Speaker 5: Say I was going to say, I was like, do
Speaker 5: I say this? Do I not?
Speaker 4: My brain is there was there too, It was like
Speaker 4: do we mention it?
Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean, well, I mean here's the thing.
Speaker 3: I don't think we probably knew how much like dating, debauchery,
Speaker 3: et cetera, was going on with you guys outside, you know,
Speaker 3: either with anybody on the crew, or the cast or
Speaker 3: but you know, we were sort of oblivious to all
Speaker 3: of that stuff, creating some of the stories that we heard.
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, I mean, I don't know, like there
Speaker 5: was anybody hooking up with each other or.
Speaker 4: Whatever gens were or not.
Speaker 5: Amongst our cast.
Speaker 3: I'm saying like, I don't know, I feel like I've
Speaker 3: heard stories of like, you know, certain like somebody that
Speaker 3: went out with a stand in or thought they were
Speaker 3: cute or that, I don't know, stuff like that that
Speaker 3: you hear about and you're like, oh my god, Dave.
Speaker 2: You know, we would get massages before the right show.
Speaker 2: I wanted to really be relaxed, and so and we
Speaker 2: had this husband and wife team and husband I think
Speaker 2: usually would do Dave in the way and then they
Speaker 2: were out of town and so somehow somebody got this
Speaker 2: big blonde Swedish me souse to come in instead of
Speaker 2: them and for Dave. And do you remember, I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you guys remember, but you know,
Speaker 2: showtime and Dave's still up in his dressing room.
Speaker 5: That's right, Dave was in and we're like.
Speaker 2: Like banging on the day of day they spt me
Speaker 2: for intros.
Speaker 4: What's that time for introsday.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he was up there with the messeuse.
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened in there, but I did.
Speaker 2: Over here. Uh, I was listening to the doors, like
Speaker 2: can I touch it? I don't know what she wanted
Speaker 2: to touch, but it was I heard that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was, yeah, that was I didn't remember that.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I didn't learn that until thirty years later.
Speaker 2: Tell right, now, do you guys remember that I got
Speaker 2: a death threat? I do.
Speaker 4: I remember that.
Speaker 1: So you were getting death threats that I was probably
Speaker 1: by letters in the nineties. It was not like, oh
Speaker 1: yeah the creative you were getting death threats. So when
Speaker 1: they brought the audience in on that Friday night, like
Speaker 1: they set up metal detectors for the first times, like
Speaker 1: this was this was unheard of back in the early nineties,
Speaker 1: and I could feel like this nervous energy all throughout
Speaker 1: backstage or like uh. And then right before you went
Speaker 1: out for your intro, John, you did the Sign of
Speaker 1: the Cross, and then I think it was Bob, maybe Dave,
Speaker 1: but I think it was Bob who leaned over to
Speaker 1: you and said, can I have your parking spot?
Speaker 2: That's it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it sounds like a Bob thing. I think I
Speaker 4: thing that was about it.
Speaker 2: I had some deranged idiot that was he showed up
Speaker 2: on the lot across the street, you know, the other Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was across from Sony, but it was where they
Speaker 2: had and he told somebody where they said, He said
Speaker 2: where John Stamins And the girl said, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Luckily she didn't say. She said, why is because I'm
Speaker 2: gonna kill him, and then she went to get security
Speaker 2: and then he was gone. And then then he started
Speaker 2: calling the the I had a whole chapter.
Speaker 5: Of this house season three.
Speaker 2: I had a whole chapter of this in my book
Speaker 2: and I pulled it out. So this is a special
Speaker 2: oh whatever, and so yeah, so it was, and he
Speaker 2: was calling the hotline and I had an FBI agent
Speaker 2: with me twenty four hours a day, and I was
Speaker 2: so stupid because I was trying to ditch him, and
Speaker 2: you know, and I got this. I remember when it happened.
Speaker 2: I got this weird you know, summons of it to
Speaker 2: Tom and Bob's office and then I Hi John, John,
Speaker 2: you know, and there was if you remember their office,
Speaker 2: it would look like Willie Walkers getting it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's candy everywhere and these weird little dogs that
Speaker 2: looked at you like you were poorer than them, and you.
Speaker 5: Were because you were absolutely Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah. They were like, John, we don't want you to worry,
Speaker 2: but you got a death threat. I'm like, don't worry.
Speaker 2: What do you mean don't worry? And they and they
Speaker 2: had the security guy there, Gavin de Becker anyway.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah that thing, Gavin.
Speaker 2: A couple of times you did.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it was death threats as a kid, you did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we're death threat letters from men in prison asking
Speaker 1: for specific photo of us as children.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I had someone who was calling the stage, the calling
Speaker 3: the set the stage floor and say and asking for
Speaker 3: my mom and somebody they connected it to my dressing
Speaker 3: room and they were like, do you know where your
Speaker 3: daughter is right now? We have her like really creepy stuff,
Speaker 3: and yeah somebody it was Bob, No, it was it
Speaker 3: was just a break now.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I had a bodyguard was actually Henry Kissinger's for me bodyguard,
Speaker 3: which had I known that now is a whole different situation.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I had a bodyguard in New York because
Speaker 3: there was a guy that the FBI was following was
Speaker 3: trying to kidnap me.
Speaker 5: Weird. It's a weird way to exist.
Speaker 2: I know, I always had somebody that wanted to beat
Speaker 2: me up. Always until now, I think I don't know
Speaker 2: I had a bully.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: When I was writing the book, I was trying to,
Speaker 2: you know, come up with as many relatable Yeah.
Speaker 3: Were you always John Stamos or were you you know
Speaker 3: what I mean?
Speaker 5: You got bullied and you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, well, when I, first of all, I
Speaker 2: was a door key kid. I was my mom. She's
Speaker 2: on a talk show saying it too. I just found
Speaker 2: it recently where she said I was so ugly that
Speaker 2: she covered my face with a blanket when she took
Speaker 2: me home so the neighbors didn't see me. No, someday
Speaker 2: he'll grow into his looks. I think she told him
Speaker 2: that he had pet monkey or something. But I wasn't
Speaker 2: the best. I was a little I wasn't a great
Speaker 2: looking baby. Okay, telling you, I'll show you pictures.
Speaker 5: Everybody got to grow into their.
Speaker 2: Look true, it took me longer than that. Okay, you know,
Speaker 2: looked like Rickles and look at you now. Well, but
Speaker 2: when I was sort of that moment where I was
Speaker 2: coming out of the caterpillar phasing, into the butterfly phase
Speaker 2: or whatever the girls started. You know, I was in
Speaker 2: high school and no girls liked me. Now, nobody was
Speaker 2: interested in me, and then all of a sudden it
Speaker 2: just started to happen. It was so weird. And I
Speaker 2: remember so this I'm in marching band, and this kid says, hey,
Speaker 2: so and so, I know so and so sister, and
Speaker 2: she said that you're really cute and wants to go
Speaker 2: out with you. And I stopped in my tracks and
Speaker 2: trombone guy hit me in the back whatever, and I said, what,
Speaker 2: you can't tell anybody? I said, okay, And then that
Speaker 2: night I told everybody. It was a party, you know,
Speaker 2: block party.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: Turns out that the girl had a boyfriend, which I
Speaker 2: didn't know about, big football player, you know, on the
Speaker 2: football team. And I'm sitting in a car and he
Speaker 2: comes and knocks on it and I rolled the window
Speaker 2: on a high damn black punches me right in the eye,
Speaker 2: really hard, black eye. And I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: this is the most humili and it was. And back then,
Speaker 2: there was no word. Bullying didn't exist, right, and and
Speaker 2: you know, and I was too embarrassed to talk to
Speaker 2: my mom and dad about it. I think they bust
Speaker 2: the saw but so but I was living in fear
Speaker 2: because this guy was always after me, every time I
Speaker 2: would turn a corner. And I'll never forget it. It
Speaker 2: was I walked into the bathroom and on it he'd
Speaker 2: written on the mirror I'm gonna kill you, big nose,
Speaker 2: and I'm looking at my face this black eye, and
Speaker 2: I go, that's it. I've got to do something. I've
Speaker 2: got to do something drastic. I've got to become famous.
Speaker 2: That was what through my head, and I thought, Okay,
Speaker 2: if I become famous, I'll have bodyguards. Then they'll beat
Speaker 2: him up. And to be honest with you, like my
Speaker 2: whole I remember each you know level that I got, Like,
Speaker 2: I'll get a TV show. I'll show that son of
Speaker 2: a bitch, I'm gonna play with the Beach Boys, and
Speaker 2: I'm gonna invite him to the show and I'll come backstage.
Speaker 2: I'll be doing a drum soll and my bodyguards will
Speaker 2: beat him up. And I swear I that was going
Speaker 2: through my mind up until today. But did you guys
Speaker 2: have anything that propelled Well, we have a special guest
Speaker 2: for you, John Oh, come on, I wrote him. I
Speaker 2: wanted to dedicate the whole book to him, but I'm
Speaker 2: not sure he could read so. But I do look
Speaker 2: always forgiven, like we've all. You know, I've moved on, obviously,
Speaker 2: it's it's you know, I got the last laugh. Probably
Speaker 2: I'm happy.
Speaker 1: Did you ever try to find him or tell him
Speaker 1: any of this or give him a free copy of
Speaker 1: your book?
Speaker 5: Maybe?
Speaker 2: I mean right, well, like a phantom limb of a
Speaker 2: soldier in war, it's always naying it may I do
Speaker 2: wish I haven't seen him, but if I do, I
Speaker 2: would I would be super gentleman, say hey, remember me
Speaker 2: black eye. Oh yeah, you don't have to stand up,
Speaker 2: you don't have to clean the toilet, stand up. I
Speaker 2: wanted to tell you thank you. Without you, I don't
Speaker 2: know if I would be where I'm at today. And
Speaker 2: you've you've done everything. You know, you've really propelled me.
Speaker 2: And I know we were kids and it was the thing.
Speaker 2: You know, sorry about that, you know, and I wish
Speaker 2: you the best and walk away. But that I would
Speaker 2: turn around and say, but you know, the girl that
Speaker 2: you was your girlfriend? I dated her for three years
Speaker 2: and she said you were hung like a finch a
Speaker 2: very small place. So and then I would just walk away.
Speaker 2: That's sort of the scene there.
Speaker 3: Sat that rank drop that you've ever thought about that
Speaker 3: ever every night before bed or anything.
Speaker 2: Right, So I tried to find those moments, you know.
Speaker 2: I put in a moment that got a lot of
Speaker 2: attention about I was madly in love with this girl,
Speaker 2: madly in love with her, and she broke my heart
Speaker 2: and she cheated on me. I walked in and they
Speaker 2: were asleep, but I saw four feet in the bed.
Speaker 2: Then I ran out, crying and running down the hall,
Speaker 2: down the driveway. And the reason why I put that
Speaker 2: story in because years later, when we did Full House,
Speaker 2: I don't know if you girls knew this. The show
Speaker 2: wasn't didn't do great the first season.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we were barely.
Speaker 2: We didn't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we were going to pick thirteen.
Speaker 4: Critics hated it.
Speaker 2: Well, the oh yeah, we should talk about that never
Speaker 2: changed the back thirteen though. Before we got that, you know,
Speaker 2: Jeff went into ABC with Milan Boat and they said, well,
Speaker 2: why should we keep the show on because we're thinking
Speaker 2: about canceling and they have dived in the they were
Speaker 2: leaving and Dave Jeff said, I have an idea, and
Speaker 2: then Tom and Bob were like, well, and he showed that.
Speaker 2: He showed this guy. Uh anyway, he showed him a
Speaker 2: scene of me and Michelle and Dave when we were
Speaker 2: feeding her cough medicine. Oh yeah, and it hadn't aired yet,
Speaker 2: and you know, look at the chemistry, look at these guys,
Speaker 2: and you know, and and we're doing something that no
Speaker 2: other show has ever done before. And everybody was like,
Speaker 2: what have you done that no one's done before? We're
Speaker 2: raising a baby on television. And they were like, oh,
Speaker 2: and that's how we got the back nine. But we
Speaker 2: still didn't do great, and so they said, you know,
Speaker 2: we're going to cancel you guys. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 2: but okay, we're gonna try one thing. We're gonna try
Speaker 2: putting you on after one of our hit shows during
Speaker 2: the summer reruns, and if you get an audience and
Speaker 2: it looks like they're gonna follow you, then we'll keep
Speaker 2: for season two. That show was Who's the Boss starring
Speaker 2: Tony Danza, and Tony Danza was the one who was
Speaker 2: in bed with my girlfriend as exactly, so Who's the Boss?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 2: Well, anyway, so those are the things, so what else?
Speaker 2: But then it took me I stopped and thought about
Speaker 2: what the show meant to people. And like you said,
Speaker 2: the critics got in my ear and I let them,
Speaker 2: and most of the time I don't. And they've been
Speaker 2: very good to me for a lot of things. They
Speaker 2: love this book, and you know, and then you know
Speaker 2: something they've not liked it with that's, you know, whatever.
Speaker 2: But they hated Full House and I and you know,
Speaker 2: they didn't think it was sophisticated, right, and it wasn't,
Speaker 2: you know. And there were shows like Seinfeld coming up
Speaker 2: and some of these other shows, and you know, I
Speaker 2: felt like, why am I not on that kind of show?
Speaker 2: What I realized when I was writing this is that
Speaker 2: in lieu of sophistication, there was sweetness and and and
Speaker 2: it gave a chance for the brain to step aside
Speaker 2: and for you to feel the heart, to feel something
Speaker 2: wholesome and good. And the show. Watching the show made
Speaker 2: us made us think about the good in us, in
Speaker 2: the in the viewer right right. And I mean when
Speaker 2: did you guys come to it?
Speaker 3: I mean, like as far as sort of reconciling with
Speaker 3: what the show was, I mean, you know, I'll be honest,
Speaker 3: it took me a while. It definitely took me a while,
Speaker 3: I think, growing up on the show and going through
Speaker 3: all of my awkward phases, and I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: just all of the things that you get made fun of,
Speaker 3: your teeth, your hair, your clothes, your whatever, dance move,
Speaker 3: you know, all of those things.
Speaker 2: Who was making fun of you? There's no social.
Speaker 5: Media, yeah, but it was.
Speaker 3: I mean I'd show up to school and I would get,
Speaker 3: you know, apple's thrown at my head at lunch, and
Speaker 3: get tripped and get pushed, and get stuff written on
Speaker 3: my locker and get you know, and I went to
Speaker 3: public school half the time, so it took a long
Speaker 3: time to kind of just like sort of pull all
Speaker 3: of that apart, right. But now that I've gotten older,
Speaker 3: I think I've i under I understand how special it
Speaker 3: is to have something that taps into that heart, and
Speaker 3: like you were saying, there's not a lot of shows
Speaker 3: that necessarily do that. And I've always said that the
Speaker 3: appeal of this show was the fact that we genuinely
Speaker 3: loved each other in real life, and that the relationships
Speaker 3: you were seeing on screen.
Speaker 5: Were how we actually were together.
Speaker 3: And I've always said that that is why I think
Speaker 3: people really gravitated toward this show because they were watching
Speaker 3: an actual family exist and you know, yes it was
Speaker 3: under imaginary circumstances, but our relationships and love were real.
Speaker 3: And it wasn't until I got a little bit older
Speaker 3: that I could really appreciate.
Speaker 5: The specialness of that.
Speaker 3: And I think that's with most things, right, Like, you're
Speaker 3: in your teens, twenties, this is stupid, this is lame.
Speaker 5: I'm not this, I'm not that, you know, And then.
Speaker 3: You get a little older, you know, you have your
Speaker 3: own family or you just kind of settle in a
Speaker 3: little and.
Speaker 5: You go, you know that heart is actually really important. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's really important. I say that there was.
Speaker 2: No central character on the show. The central character of
Speaker 2: the show is love exactly and family.
Speaker 5: Who's the couch?
Speaker 1: Well, you know that if we have John Stamos on,
Speaker 1: we had to turn it into a two parter. Too
Speaker 1: much to go over. So tune in for our next episode.
Speaker 1: It's our first to be continued more with Uncle.
Speaker 4: Jesse next time.
Speaker 1: You can follow us on Instagram at how Rude podcast
Speaker 1: and you can email us at how rudpodcast at gmail
Speaker 1: dot com.
Speaker 4: And remember the world is small, but the house is full.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah,