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Speaker 1: Our guest today is someone I like to call the

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Speaker 1: heartbeat of Full House. He is the man who made

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Speaker 1: a pivot in a pitch room and ended up creating

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Speaker 1: one of the most iconic family sitcoms of all time,

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Speaker 1: and we are eternally grateful to him for bringing together

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Speaker 1: our Full House family. Please welcome the one and only

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Speaker 1: mister Jeff Franklin to the show.

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Speaker 2: How long is? How long do we do? I have

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Speaker 2: to do this?

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Speaker 3: See, we're gonna hold hostage right and the torment has

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Speaker 3: finally turned around. No, we're so excited to have you

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Speaker 3: on this show though, Jeff, I love this.

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Speaker 4: Jeff, Welcome to How Rude Tan Rito's.

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Speaker 2: Did we start?

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Speaker 5: We start?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: It's this is that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just like to jump right in and uh

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Speaker 3: and run.

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Speaker 1: It's a big adrenaline adrenaline rush, just like you're on action.

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Speaker 2: Wow, guys, don't mess around.

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Speaker 4: We don't mess around.

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Speaker 1: But Jeff, the last time we saw you, I think

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Speaker 1: was in Tampa in September for nineties con Is that

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Speaker 1: the last time the three of us were together.

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Speaker 2: I think so. I think so.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 5: And that was September.

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Speaker 4: That was your first fan convention.

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Speaker 6: As I have great pictures of mobs of people in

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Speaker 6: front of everyone else's table, and then my area is

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Speaker 6: like it's like a desert tumbling through. Uh, it's it

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Speaker 6: was pretty funny.

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Speaker 4: Well, I know, just send people over to your table, Jeff.

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Speaker 5: It was.

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Speaker 6: You know, there were a few people, a few people

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Speaker 4: They were very excited.

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Speaker 3: Does it have just said that you were one of

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Speaker 3: the like you were a long lost Olsen or something,

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Speaker 3: and you and and nobody would have known the difference and.

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Speaker 2: Made up something. I was like, cousin, Fred, don't you Yeah, sure.

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Speaker 5: The real fans know who I am.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jeff, are you surprised still that, thirty six years later,

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Speaker 1: we still have such a devoted fan base that shows

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Speaker 1: up to these conventions and listens to these podcasts.

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Speaker 6: It is, It is a little surprising, but it's all.

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Speaker 6: What we had on that show, honestly, was was something

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Speaker 6: that was really captured lighting in a bottle. I mean,

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Speaker 6: it had was It's really a special, special group of people,

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Speaker 6: and and we did something that was never done before.

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Speaker 6: We actually raised an infant on television and no one

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Speaker 3: Oh wow, Yeah, it would skip you'd have like a

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Speaker 2: Like a five years old.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, uh yeah, we actually we did that, and that

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Speaker 6: alone makes the show unique. But the fact that we had,

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Speaker 3: Whose idea was it to do it that way and

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Speaker 3: you like, no, we want to see what happens if

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Speaker 6: Well, I you know, I was just naive. I had

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 6: Now there's there's I think would be good if there's

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Speaker 4: There you go, that's smart.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, so you know, uh and three, that movie

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Speaker 6: And next thing, I know, I've got you know, got

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but no regrets, no regrets about adding kids to

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Speaker 4: So it wasn't always meant to be a family show.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 1: You had a different idea in mind when you went

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Speaker 4: Tell us that story.

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Speaker 2: That's a weird story, how this happened.

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Speaker 6: I you know, for years I didn't really tell the

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Speaker 6: talk about how, you know, there's this myth that every

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Speaker 6: Weren't those kinds of oddball families on television, So you know,

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Speaker 6: wouldn't it be great to have a show that, you know,

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Speaker 6: are they fully supported? So anyway, that was that was

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Speaker 6: the speech I gave. But that's really not how Full

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Speaker 3: But that was the speech you would have given had

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Speaker 2: And well I gave that speech for years. Why I

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Speaker 4: But that was your acceptance speech if we had right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I mean.

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Speaker 3: It was the speech you wrote after, not the heat

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Speaker 2: I just do it night by myself. Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 5: We all have those. Every single person in the world

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Speaker 2: So No. I actually was in a weird dispute with

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Speaker 6: I just had a couple of movies come out, and

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Speaker 6: so we went back and forth, and finally they said,

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Speaker 6: all right, just pitch something, pitch a show for us,

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Speaker 6: and if it doesn't sell, we'll pay you.

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Speaker 2: And fine.

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Speaker 6: So I really wasn't crazy about working for that company.

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Speaker 6: So I had a meeting with Laura More and they're like, Okay,

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Speaker 6: make it a stand up comics. Okay, well, who are

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Speaker 2: What? This is someone professional?

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Speaker 6: So they call me back and they're like, well, ABC

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Speaker 3: Well, and there may be some critics out there that

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Speaker 5: Did through.

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Speaker 1: Mission accomplished in both ways a success.

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Speaker 2: That's so funny.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I've got a big I've got a big drawer

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that proved that.

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Speaker 3: And you and you have and you also have a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, somebody was nice enough to give me some money

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Speaker 3: End of I mean, look, you know what you really like.

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Speaker 3: And I hear this all the time from fans.

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Speaker 5: Though, like you created a show that raised like a

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Speaker 3: Kids of people and like and now has done it

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Speaker 3: Japan was it is incredible?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, my mom. Of course my mom would not

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Speaker 5: But in VHS tapes that I had.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you can't watch those anymore.

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: Oh okay, what's the truth.

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Speaker 6: This is Shirley Temple incarnated incarnated But Shirley Temple is

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Speaker 3: I can go on to set and like remember everything

451
00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:07,159
Speaker 3: where everything was exactly. A mark of this is that

452
00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 3: I cannot leave my house without coming back in at

453
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:13,200
Speaker 3: least two to three times because I left my keys,

454
00:22:13,240 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 3: my phone. I think like it, But on set it's

455
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:18,719
Speaker 3: I am just totally hyper focused and can remember everything.

456
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:20,560
Speaker 5: But I leave there and I'm like, I don't know

457
00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:23,280
Speaker 5: my name. So yeah, so somethings haven't changed.

458
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:24,160
Speaker 2: Vision.

459
00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,040
Speaker 6: After I saw the tape, I'm like, okay, you know,

460
00:22:27,160 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 6: let's offer her the part. And I got nervous, like

461
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 6: I had this vision of you, you know, at four

462
00:22:33,800 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 6: years old, sitting behind a big desk, smoking a cigar,

463
00:22:37,000 --> 00:22:37,840
Speaker 6: you know, reading this show.

464
00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:43,320
Speaker 4: I mean I was, yeah, I started early, two is

465
00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:44,680
Speaker 4: a week, I don't think.

466
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 5: Basically it was the baby from Roger Rabbit.

467
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:49,199
Speaker 2: For me.

468
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,760
Speaker 6: The things you could do at I mean, at age five,

469
00:22:54,440 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 6: there was a show I don't know if you remember

470
00:22:56,080 --> 00:23:02,080
Speaker 6: it really early on where everybody had chicken pox and

471
00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:03,959
Speaker 6: you were trying to sneak out of the house. Yes,

472
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 6: oh yes, And we wrote this. It was like a

473
00:23:09,359 --> 00:23:12,960
Speaker 6: half page monologue for a five year old with all

474
00:23:13,040 --> 00:23:16,239
Speaker 6: these twists and turns in it where you're trying to

475
00:23:16,280 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 6: act like, you know, you're not Stephanie, but you know,

476
00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:24,280
Speaker 6: I'm just sneaking out of the house. And and then

477
00:23:24,680 --> 00:23:27,919
Speaker 6: the whole thing on wines and you see, you know,

478
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 6: you just fall apart and the truth comes out.

479
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:32,639
Speaker 2: I mean it's a whole you know.

480
00:23:32,720 --> 00:23:38,720
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a major piece of act. Yeah, like the

481
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 6: first day of rehearsal, you're off book and had it

482
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:45,879
Speaker 6: and it was just it was I never see anything

483
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:46,840
Speaker 6: like it anyway.

484
00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,960
Speaker 2: Yes, Jody did an audition and then John Stamus did

485
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:50,479
Speaker 2: not audition.

486
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 5: That's why he was so pissed im.

487
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 2: Yeah.

488
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 6: He we just offered him the part. And then then

489
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,800
Speaker 6: I had a we had a lunch together.

490
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 4: Okay, And I'm sure.

491
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,040
Speaker 6: I'm sure you guys read John's book, by the way,

492
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 6: which is phenomenal.

493
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 4: Yes, so great.

494
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,760
Speaker 3: Yeah, we had him on like the week the week

495
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,160
Speaker 3: after it came out, I think, and he was talking

496
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 3: about it and we were just, yeah, I'm so proud

497
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:19,200
Speaker 3: of his journey and his writing.

498
00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 5: It was amazing.

499
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 2: It's just mind blowing how good it is.

500
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 6: Uh yeah, I'm trying to write a book, and now

501
00:24:26,359 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 6: I'm totally discouraged after reading John's book.

502
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 2: It's like that.

503
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:36,040
Speaker 1: He's like, Wow, No, but you're you're an actual writer,

504
00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 1: so like you have the skill and the talent. John's

505
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,160
Speaker 1: was great, I have no doubt about that. But you've

506
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:46,320
Speaker 1: been writing your whole life, and so I think it's

507
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 1: going to do this. You can absolutely do this. Will

508
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 1: be the first in line to buy it, Yeah, and

509
00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:56,120
Speaker 1: get it autographed and give it a there.

510
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:00,359
Speaker 3: Yeah, well not with the lines that fan on that

511
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,119
Speaker 3: you got, you know what I mean? They have that

512
00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:02,960
Speaker 3: done a little better.

513
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 5: It might be given out.

514
00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 2: That's the point.

515
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: So tell me how Okay, tell me the John Posey

516
00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:14,919
Speaker 1: Bob Saggot because Bob Saggat wasn't the original Danny Tanner,

517
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:16,760
Speaker 1: so why not.

518
00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 4: What happened there?

519
00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:24,040
Speaker 6: Well, that's you know, we every all the other roles

520
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:29,000
Speaker 6: fell into place beautifully, and I just couldn't find the

521
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 6: right guy for Danny and I had when when the

522
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 6: show was first picked up. I said to our casting directors,

523
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:39,840
Speaker 6: I said, I have two names on my list. You know,

524
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 6: I want either Paul Reiser, a really hot actor at

525
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 6: the time.

526
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,840
Speaker 2: Great, yeah, that would have been a big get. At

527
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 2: that point, he was thinking about it.

528
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 6: He was he was weighing either full House or this

529
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 6: other show called My Two Dads, which you know that

530
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,480
Speaker 6: was the season of single dads, right right, I.

531
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 2: Just came out.

532
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 6: So there was another show on NBC that's the one

533
00:26:07,880 --> 00:26:10,400
Speaker 6: Paul took. And I called you know, I knew him,

534
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 6: I was. I called him up. I'm like, Paul, what

535
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 6: are you doing? Like three dads are better than two?

536
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,760
Speaker 6: And we got three kids, you only got one, you know,

537
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:19,280
Speaker 6: And it was.

538
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 5: My numbers alone were winning, So ye.

539
00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:24,320
Speaker 2: Can't you see?

540
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 6: And it was it's also kind of an unsavory premise

541
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 6: to that show.

542
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,639
Speaker 2: It was weird, like the mother.

543
00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 6: Had had an accident sleeping with both those guys like

544
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:43,280
Speaker 6: thirteen years ago, and she and so both of them

545
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:46,520
Speaker 6: thought they were the dad, and they decided not to

546
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 6: find out and just moved in together and raise the

547
00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:55,720
Speaker 6: girl together. So yeah, it's a weird. It's a weird promise.

548
00:26:55,920 --> 00:26:57,720
Speaker 3: Well yeah, and it's also one of those things that

549
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 3: now you'd be like, we'll just go to CVS and

550
00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 3: get one of this paternity test and we'll solve this.

551
00:27:02,440 --> 00:27:07,320
Speaker 4: Get twenty three and me right, yeah then yeah anyway, and.

552
00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 5: Wow that.

553
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 2: Anyway.

554
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 6: So, and the other name was Bob Saggott and I

555
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 6: knew Bob from UH. I produced a show called Some Buddies.

556
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 6: Bob Saggot was the warm up guy the audience and

557
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 6: that's how I first met Bob. And uh, you know,

558
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 6: because who else can talk.

559
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 3: For three I'm gonna say that's the perfect It's amazing.

560
00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:35,439
Speaker 3: Once you give him a microphone and there's a brief

561
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 3: pause in action, he is gone, Yeah.

562
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:40,439
Speaker 2: It was really it was hard to get him to

563
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 2: stop talking.

564
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 3: I was going to say, how to actually get to

565
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 3: shooting when he was doing the warm up.

566
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 2: I mean we would turn the bike off.

567
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,600
Speaker 3: And then that's I was going to say, yeah, that's yeah,

568
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,359
Speaker 3: and he'll still go be like it's not working.

569
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh well I'll keep going. He couldn't possibly want

570
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 6: me to stop talking. But yeah, And I even said

571
00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 6: to Bob, I go, you know, one of these days,

572
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 6: you know, I hope we get to work together. I hope,

573
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,920
Speaker 6: you know, I would love to create a show someday

574
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 6: and have you star in it, you know, And he's like,

575
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 6: as long as I still get to do the warm up.

576
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 2: You know, I'm pretty good at this.

577
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 3: Is that why you always took the mic from Bob

578
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 3: Purlough doing our targent.

579
00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 5: He just wanted to be the warm up guy.

580
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,880
Speaker 2: It's his dream job anyway.

581
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 6: So so Bob couldn't do it because he was under

582
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 6: contract to this CBS morning show and he was there

583
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,840
Speaker 6: man on the street guy. He eventually got fired for

584
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 6: being Bob. He was just a little little too risque.

585
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:47,000
Speaker 3: First, I was gonna say, yeah, like I feel like

586
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 3: Bob being given free reign to like, hey just go

587
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 3: up to people on the street and like riff it

588
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 3: just is a lot. No, yeah, we've made a mistake.

589
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 6: So my first two choices were were unavailable. And then

590
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 6: we started reading everyone in town and we're basically out

591
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 6: of time, and I was kind of lobbying to like

592
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 6: maybe wait, like let's not shoot it now, Let's wait

593
00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 6: till we have the right guy at the studio. Was

594
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 6: very nervous, so like sometimes they just pull the plug

595
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 6: and you never get to make it, and you know,

596
00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 6: so we found this guy, John Posey, who was a

597
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 6: dramatic actor. He wasn't you know, he wasn't a comedian,

598
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:36,840
Speaker 6: he wasn't really hadn't done any comedies. Just a likable,

599
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 6: sweet guy and a good actor, and you know, we

600
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 6: just sort of ran out of time and everybody said, Okay,

601
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,880
Speaker 6: let's try this guy and hope for the best. And

602
00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 6: you know, it was fine, It was fine. It wasn't

603
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 6: you know, nothing bad happened that the pilot tested through

604
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,520
Speaker 6: the roof. You know, he was probably he was the

605
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 6: lowest testing character, but that's because the straight basically the

606
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 6: straight man and surrounded my idiots.

607
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:11,160
Speaker 2: So yeah, so you know that was to be expected.

608
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 6: And then the show gets picked up and there's pictures

609
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 6: everywhere of the cast and John Posey's in them. And

610
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 6: suddenly I get this call from Brad Bray, who was

611
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 6: managed Bob Dave and Gary Shandling, like three really pivotal people.

612
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 2: In my life.

613
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 6: And Brad says, hey, you know, so you know, Bob's

614
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 6: around in case, you know, just in case, you know,

615
00:30:38,160 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 6: you want to go reshoot that pilot, you know, and

616
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 6: you know, I knew what he was saying, and saying,

617
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,320
Speaker 6: Bob would really like to do this if there's any way,

618
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 6: And so I arranged for a secret chemistry test on

619
00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 6: the Perfect Stranger stage with Michelle Dall and John.

620
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,160
Speaker 2: And Dave and we shot a se I wish I

621
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 2: had it. I don't know.

622
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's probably somewhere one of my brothers probably hasn't, but.

623
00:31:09,080 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 2: You know, and it was it was fine.

624
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 6: But there were just a couple of moments where Bob,

625
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 6: you know, had this spark, and it makes such a

626
00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 6: difference to have somebody who's really funny things really funny.

627
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 2: You know, Bob had no heat. Bob was not a

628
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 2: star yet.

629
00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 6: You know, he was just a guy, you know, on

630
00:31:30,760 --> 00:31:33,959
Speaker 6: the circuit trying to trying to get going. But uh,

631
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 6: I just felt like he could be one of those

632
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,560
Speaker 6: TV dads you know.

633
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 2: He was he was.

634
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:45,239
Speaker 6: He had this cuteness and sweetness and likability and you know,

635
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 6: he really like clicked all the boxes for me, and

636
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,400
Speaker 6: I just you know, So then I started lobbying. You know,

637
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,800
Speaker 6: I'm like, I know this is crazy, but we got

638
00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 6: to do this all over again. We gotta we got

639
00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 6: to make a change. I mean, we've got to spend

640
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 6: a million dollars. We I mean it was. People looked

641
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 6: at me like I had lost my mind, and I

642
00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 6: just was relentless. I just didn't give up. And it

643
00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 6: sucks because you know, we had to let somebody go

644
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:15,120
Speaker 6: and break their heart.

645
00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 2: And he was.

646
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 6: He's been a working actor for you know after that.

647
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 6: But still, you know.

648
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 3: What a horrible hor Oh it's the worst as an

649
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 3: actor when you're like, yeah, that was almost Did.

650
00:32:31,480 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 4: You have to have that? Did you have the conversation

651
00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 4: with John Posey?

652
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 1: Did you have to fire him yourself or did you

653
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: send a producer to do it?

654
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 2: Talked to his agent and his agent told him no,

655
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 2: that was was.

656
00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 4: Yeah.

657
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 6: Like five years later, I had hanging with mister Cooper

658
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:57,000
Speaker 6: on the air and I actually gave John. I was

659
00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:00,440
Speaker 6: scared of death, but I wanted to do something nice

660
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,760
Speaker 6: for him all those years. It's kind of weird to

661
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 6: have him on Full House, but I had him on

662
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:08,120
Speaker 6: that show. Oh good, sir, It's like I get it,

663
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 6: you know, all good, Thanks for thanks for the three liner.

664
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 2: You know.

665
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:16,040
Speaker 5: Well, fan of Rito's.

666
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 3: I hope, just like us, you want to hear more

667
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 3: from Jeff because we're going to finish it up with

668
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 3: him next week in part two of his interview and

669
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 3: in the meantime, if you want to follow us on Instagram,

670
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671
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Speaker 5: The world is small, but the house is full.

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