WEBVTT - Conversations with Jodie Sweetin 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:06.680 This is Conversationous with Olivia Jade and I Heart Radio podcast. 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.720 Hello everybody, it's Olivia Jade. Welcome back to another episode 0:00:10.720 --> 0:00:15.240 of Conversation. Today's guest is somebody very special and somebody 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:18.720 who I've known probably since I was a baby, because 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.320 she was on Full House with my mom. She has 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:25.160 such an amazing story and has been through so much. 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:28.400 And I'm sure some of you know and are familiar 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:30.280 with her, and maybe some of you know who she is, 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:32.640 but don't know what she's been through and the strength 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:37.159 she carries. So I am really excited to interview her today. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.440 And with that being said, please welcome miss Jodie Sweeten. 0:00:42.479 --> 0:00:46.519 Thank you so much for coming on. Absolutely my pleasure. 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:49.599 Olivia's good to be here. I'm so excited to have you. Obviously, 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.000 I feel like I've known you forever just through my 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:54.840 mom and stuff. But and I know so many people 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:57.080 who listen to this podcast know who you are and 0:00:57.120 --> 0:00:59.240 grew up watching Full House and are such big fans. 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.440 But maybe for those who don't know who you are, 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:04.000 which is probably a very small percent of people, but 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:08.119 maybe you could explain a little bit about yourself. Um, yeah, 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:12.919 I have been best known as Stephanie Tanner on full 0:01:12.959 --> 0:01:16.600 and Fuller House. Um. I have played the character since 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.959 I was five years old and then got to come 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.560 back and do it on Fuller House for five seasons. Um. 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.280 I'm also a mom to two girls, Zoe who just 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.360 turned fourteen yesterday and Beatrix who was eleven and a half. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:34.520 And um, yeah, busy working and doing holiday movies and 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:36.240 all that kind of stuff too. So there's a few 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.959 places you can find me my podcast as well. You know, 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.480 I'm kind of all over the place. I love it, 0:01:41.640 --> 0:01:44.600 So I obviously I just know who you are through 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.839 my mom and through Full House and growing up around 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.960 all this. But then I also went before coming on here, 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.600 I wanted to do my research and have some facts, 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:54.920 um what I thought was really interesting. And I was 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:57.400 listening to another podcast you did actually, and you were 0:01:57.400 --> 0:02:01.280 talking about being adopted and how later in life you've 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.760 kind of accepted that now and you're like, it's it's 0:02:05.040 --> 0:02:06.800 it's a positive to you, but maybe when you were 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:08.600 a little bit younger, and for other kids that have 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:12.720 been adopted, like feeling like, I don't know if unwanted 0:02:12.840 --> 0:02:14.880 is the right word, because obviously I'm not adopted, so 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:17.880 I don't want to put into your mouth. No, it's 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:20.960 a it's a definite it's a it's a you know, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:24.320 this weird feeling of rejection that you that you oftentimes 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.880 can't heal, that you can't find you know you you 0:02:26.919 --> 0:02:29.880 don't know the reason you can't find the person. Sometimes 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:32.040 that beginning of your life is sort of a mystery. 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.080 And I think for everyone that feels that would feel 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:38.480 really strange just not know, you know what that little 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:42.600 beginning period of your life really was. Um. But for me, 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:45.720 like coming through that and and becoming a mom myself, 0:02:45.760 --> 0:02:48.680 and like figuring out that just because you become a 0:02:48.720 --> 0:02:51.919 mom doesn't mean you'd stopped becoming a human who has 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:55.200 to make really tough life choices for themselves. Um. It 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.079 just changed a lot of things for me. And how 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.720 old were you when you were adopted? You were really Yeah, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.120 I was like just around a year old, So it 0:03:03.240 --> 0:03:05.680 was you know, I don't have like a long history 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:09.080 of life without my parents that I know. Um, but 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.520 you know, there is there's a lot of stuff that 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:15.040 I just will never know, right, And you're okay with 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.160 that now, Like, yeah, I mean I I've gotten to 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.320 the place where I'm like, you know, what if for 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.200 some reason information falls in my lap or I find 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.120 out something cool, but I no longer feel like I 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.919 don't know who I am. And I think that's really 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:32.080 what it was, is I once I really started getting 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:34.560 more secure and who I was, it was no longer 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:38.920 the search for what external thing made me who I was. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:41.800 It was more like, oh, no, I know who I am, right. 0:03:42.040 --> 0:03:43.720 And so my mom actually, when I told her you 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:45.680 were coming on the podcast, she was explaining to me. 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.600 She was like, Jody has a really act, a very 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.760 interesting story, and she was explaining to me that you're 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:53.920 somehow your your your parents, the people that have adopted 0:03:53.960 --> 0:03:57.080 you have some correlation to your birth parents. Is that 0:03:57.120 --> 0:04:00.280 corre Yeah? Yeah, yeah, well my so, my my add 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:07.200 sam Um. I adopted Dad his ex wife who he 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:11.200 had three adult kids with, uh W. When they adopted me. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:21.520 She was my biological father's aunt, and so I've come 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:25.520 to stay at her house. I was staying at Rose's house, 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.640 my dad's ex wife, and and he would go over 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.279 there to check on her and check on the house that, 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.919 you know, make sure things were working right or whatever 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:36.520 is still around that family. And Um saw me there 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.119 and my parents really wanted to have kids, and um, 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.200 they were having some struggles and and so you know, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:44.719 it wound up that they were able to adopt me 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.360 through sort of through that chain. So yeah, it's an 0:04:47.400 --> 0:04:50.880 interesting story and I think actually is a story that 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.480 happens a lot, but people don't really talk about it 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:56.760 because I think there's like this weird sense of shame, 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.640 um if there's like an inter family a option. But 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.640 I think, you know, I think that in her family, 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:06.080 adoption happens a lot. So I like sharing my story 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.599 now because I think more people were like, oh my gosh, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:11.280 me too, and it doesn't feels isolating and weird and 0:05:11.360 --> 0:05:14.839 like outside of the norm totally. And then so you 0:05:14.839 --> 0:05:17.080 were fourteen months essentially when you were adopted, and then 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:19.400 at what age when you could talk, did you know 0:05:19.480 --> 0:05:21.400 you wanted to be in like the show business world 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:23.680 and in this industry or how did that come about? 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.839 I mean, I really did. I grew up. I was, Um, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.680 I was a pretty bright little kid. Um like you know, 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.080 not to be like obnoxious about and stuff. But I 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.560 was like reading full books. By the age of about 0:05:35.560 --> 0:05:37.680 three and a half. You could set pretty much anything 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:39.200 in front of me and I could. I could read 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:43.120 just about anything. I loved reading. I was a voracious reader. UM. 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:48.040 Memorizing dance music, all of that was what I absolutely loved. 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:50.799 And I would tell my mom that, Um, I wanted 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.320 to be a modeler, which was what I called people 0:05:53.360 --> 0:05:57.280 on TV. UM. And so I started doing like little 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.560 print work, you know, in Orange County, down in like 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:02.680 South l A where we lived, and um, I was 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.960 in dance recitals. But like I remember being in my 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.120 first dance recital dressed as a cabbage patch kid. Just 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:15.000 picture that form, gigantic bonnet, very eight oh so so 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:20.120 eighties dance moms like sparkly. It was just amazing. Um. Anyway, 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.520 so our dance recital, I was in the second row 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:26.960 and the girl in front of me. I was like, 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.360 she's just not doing it right. So I sort of 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.240 wedged my way up into the front, was like this 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.200 is how it's done. And I think it was that 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.520 moment that my mom was like, you know, maybe she 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:41.400 likes to perform. I think maybe she can handle it. Yeah, 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.200 And I started doing like commercials and little things like that. 0:06:44.279 --> 0:06:48.600 But because I, you know, I could pick things up 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.720 really quickly. UM, I just started working a lot, and 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:53.520 I was doing a ton of commercials and stuff, and 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:57.600 then I did, um, Valerie. I did an episode of 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.480 Valerie and then got cast as Stephanie. Because the producers 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.120 on when you were on Valerie weren't the same producers 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.840 on Full House, right, Yes, they were Bob Boyette and 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:13.600 Tom So Miller Boyette and also Rich Correll, who wound 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:15.840 up directing a ton of Full House episodes, who I'm 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.360 very dear friends with. Um, he was a producer on 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.120 Valerie at the time. You know, there was a lot 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:23.280 of people that I've known since I was four years old, 0:07:23.320 --> 0:07:26.880 and I did that Valerie appearance and that was how 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.200 I got cast to Stephanie. I never auditioned or anything. Um, 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:32.800 it just sort of fell in my lap and and 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.720 the rest is history. So I also feel like you 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.120 can tell just from Full House and your rolling like 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.840 as Stephanie, you were definitely a very bright child because 0:07:41.880 --> 0:07:44.160 you were so like just the way you talk at 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:46.520 such a young age, literally like five years old, you 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:50.480 can tell you're so so bright. Um. Yeah, of course, 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.040 I mean that's just I feel like a given to 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.520 anybody because it's such a loved character obviously, but also 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:55.920 I feel like you can see like a little bit 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.200 of your personality as well, because when you're that young, 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:00.480 I feel like naturally part of you half to shine 0:08:00.520 --> 0:08:03.640 through absolutely, Like I you know, there are definitely times 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:06.040 when I look at, particularly getting to come back and play, 0:08:07.040 --> 0:08:10.600 you know, Stephanie as an adult, where I was like 0:08:10.680 --> 0:08:14.720 the line between Stephanie and me is, you know, is 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.160 very fuzzy sometimes because I'm like, she has so much 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.200 of me in her, or is it that I have 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:22.560 so much of her in me because I became her 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:26.400 at five? Like I don't know, but we're definitely like intermeshed. 0:08:42.360 --> 0:08:46.960 Do you like being known like best known as you know, 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.160 Stephanie from Full House? Because I remember when my mom 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.040 was doing a lot of homework stuff, she was never 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:53.719 upset if anybody would come and be like, you're in 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:55.880 Packy from full House. But when she was doing the 0:08:55.880 --> 0:08:58.199 Hallmark movies, I remember She's like, damn. I wish like 0:08:58.240 --> 0:08:59.959 people would say, like you're on one calls the heart 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.520 or whatever it is, right, I mean, you know the 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.640 there there, It's it's a blessing and a curse. And 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.400 I think in a way I've grown through it and 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.920 grown to accept it. I think at some point when 0:09:11.920 --> 0:09:14.400 I was young, there was some resentment about it and 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.200 like absolutely wanting to shed that image. UM, and I 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.920 think sometimes I did some really self destructive things to 0:09:20.960 --> 0:09:23.680 do that, and as I grew up and like grew 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.560 out of it. Like I had an experience the other 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:29.640 day walking down the street over here with my fiance 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:33.200 after lunch, and this girl a little younger than me 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.840 stopped me and she just said, Oh my god, I 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.360 have to tell you what an incredibly important part of 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.360 my life you are. Like you are so I I 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.480 grew up watching you. You were always my favorite, Like 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.440 I watched it with my mom and my grandma. You 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:47.080 have no idea what you mean to me, and like 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:49.360 I follow you, I look like, thank you so much 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.400 for just like what you do and who you are. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:55.520 And it was the I was taken aback, Like I 0:09:55.559 --> 0:10:01.400 was incredibly moved by this experience, And it had to 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.520 do with the fact that I'm so well known for 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:06.120 this character that like people have watched it their entire 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:11.640 lives and it means something incredibly important. And I've now 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:16.640 come to this place where I really appreciate that. Um, 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:20.000 I'm glad that that I get to bring that to somebody, 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:22.480 you know, and now do I wish I had other 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:25.920 opportunities or that people may take me seriously as doing 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.240 something else? Absolutely, I know I can do a lot more, um, 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.000 but you know, sometimes I just have to make the 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.520 choice of like, okay, but what you know, what do 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.040 you want to do? Do you want to like fight 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.319 and you know, only try and do what you want 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:41.679 to do, or do you want to just lean into 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:43.920 the fact that you make people happy with me in 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:48.080 this person? So? Yeah, yeah, it is such a big blessing. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.000 And you were So you started out five on Full 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:52.560 House and then how long? How long did Full House run? 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.760 We had eight seasons? So how many years? Is that 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.319 eight years? Well? Roughly? Yeah, roughly eight years because we 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.960 would shoot like nine months um out of the year 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.559 and then we usually have like a little bit of 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:07.800 spring and early summer off and then we come back 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.640 like around July. Got it. So when you were done 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.600 with Full House? Was that like a really weird transition 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.200 period because I can only imagine being that young and 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:21.560 being around the same people so often and like building 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.880 these relationships with producers and like not being a completely 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:26.920 normal kid where you have kids around all the time. 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.120 In a normal school, like you're hanging out with like 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.680 Bob and John and my mom and Canvas, and like, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.679 what was that like when it was over? You know, 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:39.000 I look at it now and I realized it was 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.400 a big loss. You know, at the time, I think 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:46.280 it I didn't realize, and I don't think I considered 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:50.920 or gave myself enough credit for UM going through such 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:53.040 a big loss at that age. It was the loss 0:11:53.080 --> 0:11:56.320 of everything I'd really known growing up. I mean, I 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:03.000 don't have many memories from before doing Full House and 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:05.240 before these people were in my life, and a lot 0:12:05.280 --> 0:12:08.560 of my memories have to do with traveling with them, 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.080 being on set with them, going to events with them, 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:16.320 like they are so they are my family because they 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:19.160 are what I knew growing up, Like they surrounded me. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:24.760 And so it's like, it's such a weird experience to 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:29.360 um to have that and then suddenly lose it. It's 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:33.000 like being separated from your entire family, and you know 0:12:33.120 --> 0:12:36.080 that I could only imagine what that's like, but it 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:40.000 was like a sudden disconnect. Did you and roll in school? 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.360 I actually went to school. I went to school in 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.480 the mornings and then rehearsed in the afternoon and then 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.440 we because we worked four day weeks, I would have 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.720 Monday off all day, I'd go to school. Um, Tuesday 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.800 and Wednesday I went to school and tell lunch, and 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.960 then I would drive my mom would pick me up 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.360 because I've lived in Orange County and drive to Set. 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:00.960 I've learned my lines in the car and then like 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.680 do homework in the car on the way home. Um. 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.600 And then Thursday and Friday I was schooled exclusively on SET. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:10.080 So I did have like a foot in normal life, 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:14.400 So it wasn't quite as much of a shock. Um, 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.400 but you know, it felt like it just felt really 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:21.040 different all of a sudden, and and you certainly didn't 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.280 just blend in, you know what I mean. And so 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.000 I think it was it was this weird time in 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.800 my life of trying to figure out who I was, 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.600 but also to just blend into everyone else completely because 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.920 I just wanted to be normal. Yeah, you know, so 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:37.600 it was it was hard, It was no, it was 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.000 a it was a big loss. But um, like coming 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.760 back to Fuller House and getting to do that again 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.480 as an adult and getting to understand it in a 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:51.600 different way was like such an incredible gift. So yeah, 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.680 I feel like that's also such a testament to like 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.840 how impactful Full House was, the fact that like, like 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.600 shows don't come back that often. And I remember when 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:03.040 it came back, I said to my mom, because I didn't, 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:04.840 I don't think, well, obviously I wasn't alive when you 0:14:04.840 --> 0:14:06.600 guys were all filming full House, and then I don't 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.480 think I ever really had an understanding of like how 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:13.439 big the show was until I started my YouTube channel 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:16.280 and I knew a lot about like YouTube views, and 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:19.120 I saw the fuller House trailer come out on YouTube 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.040 and I saw the views it had, and I ran 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.160 into my parents room and I was like, wait, mom, 0:14:23.280 --> 0:14:25.400 was full House like a massive show? Like why does 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:29.120 this new trail so many views? Yeah? And she was 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.800 like laughing, She's like, yeah, that's a pretty big show. Um. 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:34.040 And speaking of that, actually, I kind of want to 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.920 know because obviously, when you guys were filming full House, 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.200 there wasn't social media. It was a completely different world, 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.920 Like people didn't see into your personal life. People felt 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.640 so connected to your character. But do you think there 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.200 was like when you guys were out and about, was 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.280 it like mayhem where people were coming up to you 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.360 and it was a crazy, crazy thing at the time, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.200 or is that like, yeah, yeah, it was wild. I mean, 0:14:57.360 --> 0:15:01.120 and I think, you know, as a kid did it. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.760 That's like a weird way to grow up, you know, 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:06.680 people following you into the bathroom and passing a note 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:08.200 under the door to be like will you sign this 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.520 for me? And you're like, this is really kind of 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:13.400 a bad time for me. I don't get touching your 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.400 pen right now? Bro? What is wrong with you? You 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:20.360 know what I mean? Um? And so growing up with 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.480 that spotlight I mean and that you know, Yeah, there 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.240 were times like I go to the mall. I'll never 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.160 forget Oh my god, this was such a great one. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.120 I'll never forget it. I was probably nine or ten 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:33.160 years old and someone came up to me in a mall. 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:34.960 I think it was like a meat and Greek thing 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.160 that you know I used to do all appearances or whatever, 0:15:37.960 --> 0:15:42.120 and they came up and they just touched me like 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.320 that and they were like, oh my god, you're real, 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:51.400 Like it was what out what? What? What? What do 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:55.640 you expect? Like? And it was just a real moment 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.720 where I was like, oh, people see me as this 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.800 thing that exists only here, but like me as a 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:08.000 person is doesn't really exist for them and it was 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.600 just like a weird realization. So yeah, but it was 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.880 it was crazy. I mean I had to get snuck 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:16.280 out of a mall in Iowa once because um, a 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:20.240 mall appearance attracted too many people and um, it was 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:24.360 a mess, so wild. I think. Also, what's so special 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.600 about Full Houses? Like how close the whole cast was, 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:31.480 like genuinely and even being at Bob like Bob's memorial recently, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.880 it's like the love like that fills the room when 0:16:34.880 --> 0:16:38.720 it's all of you guys together is so genuine. Why 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:41.080 do you think that was? Because I feel like most 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.040 shows and even friends that I have now that are 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.440 on TV shows with other cast mates around their age 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.480 and stuff, it's not like that. Like what made that 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:54.160 so um special? I don't I truly, I know it 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:57.440 was the people, But the fact that those people all 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:01.160 came together at that time in their lives is amazing 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.040 to me. I mean, there I always say like there 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:07.879 was some sort of magical thing that happened with Full House, 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:12.720 with the cast, with the crew, with our producers. It 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:16.639 was more than just a show. Um, it really was 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:20.760 a family amongst all of us and you know, in 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.919 in large part that was do we we had a cast, 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:29.040 and we had adults on a cast who included the kids. 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:36.119 We were not just these like, you know, annoying things. 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:40.359 We were the kids that they joked around with in 0:17:40.400 --> 0:17:43.239 between takes. And you know, I would spend time with 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:47.720 Bob's family on weekends and they were, you know, changing 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.680 the twins diet like somebody would change the twins diaper 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:54.160 my mom or you know, our teacher. Like it was. 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:58.280 It was just a family unit. And I am so 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:03.560 incredibly grateful for it, becaus I just gained this huge 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:07.600 family of people that I know love me like no 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.920 matter what, you know, no matter whatever happens, our differences 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.919 are whatever, Like we just genuinely love each other and 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.000 no matter what happens, we will always show up for 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:18.720 each other. Yeah, it's so true. And you have two 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.639 kids now and Bob obviously playing your dad on the 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.359 show and having like John as the uncle and Dave 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:26.280 and everybody around that was a bit older. Do you 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:29.479 feel like you not like maybe learned parenting tips, but 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:31.480 like do you feel like that is like something that 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.359 you remember and like it connects to how you parent now? 0:18:35.200 --> 0:18:39.160 You know, um, in a way like when I think 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:43.879 back on it, like I remember, I remember Bob just 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:48.240 being really inclusive of his kids, like they he and 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.320 he didn't talk to them like they were idiots like 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.639 he really and he and he did the same with me, 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:57.159 like he treated me with respect, um as a young person. 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.560 And so did John and David, Like I under stood that, 0:19:01.080 --> 0:19:05.080 you know when I had kids, like you can joke 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:07.679 with them, you can have real conversations, and I, you know, 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:09.760 my my mom taught me that too, like I and 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:13.120 I think, I don't know, I just think they they've 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:18.120 also brought a level of humor to my parenting. Um 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:20.720 that my kids are also inheriting, which is you know, 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:27.119 both good and bad. Uh. Yeah, it's uh, it's definitely 0:19:27.119 --> 0:19:29.879 a challenge. Sometimes I'm like, not in front of Grammy, please, 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.320 oh my god, don't do that. But yeah, I learned. 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.199 I learned a lot from them, and I and I 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:38.679 continue to. You know, Dave is an amazing dad and 0:19:38.720 --> 0:19:41.119 his son, I mean, Luke is so successful in what 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.040 he does. And you know, it's all of our extended 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.680 family too, like those are my you know, my my 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:48.960 nieces and nephews and my cousins and my you know, 0:19:49.800 --> 0:20:07.840 but I grew up with Do you have any like 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:11.480 funny stories on set that stand out? I mean I've 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.240 heard a million and the thousand. Every time I'm around, 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.160 somebody always has something to say. But anything you can 0:20:16.160 --> 0:20:17.439 think of off the top of your hat, and then 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.760 we can move on from Full House. Okay, there is 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:23.880 there's one story, and I know we've told it before. 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:25.719 I don't know if the guys have told it. But 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.439 we had this director, joel's Wick, who was fantastic and 0:20:30.440 --> 0:20:33.520 directed a ton of episodes of Full House, but he 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:37.439 was tying of like a small statured man, and he 0:20:37.480 --> 0:20:41.159 would get really frustrated and like he was great until 0:20:41.160 --> 0:20:44.879 he just lost it. And you know, Bob and John 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:50.040 and Dave would push things. Particularly Bob and Dave would 0:20:50.119 --> 0:20:52.600 push and push. They were the kids that just wanted 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:54.600 to test the boundary and like keep going and keep 0:20:54.600 --> 0:21:04.040 sucking around and what um So anyway, uh that was there. 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.399 There was a time, an incident whatever the guys were 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:10.600 screwing around and Joel lost it and was like that's it. 0:21:11.080 --> 0:21:13.320 Everybody up to the green room. Everybody up there. And 0:21:13.400 --> 0:21:18.040 so everybody went up there, like the kids, the adults 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:19.639 and we're all like sitting around the stable and he 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:21.800 walks in and he's like, hey, it's not the kids, 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:24.679 they're actually doing well. I'm talking to the adult. And 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:26.400 it was like we got kicked out of the room 0:21:26.440 --> 0:21:30.840 so that the adults could get in front. Like I 0:21:30.920 --> 0:21:35.040 was just like, wow, okay, jeez, got you know, like 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.760 it was just really funny, um when the adults were 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:43.720