Speaker 1: I brought the humidity from Mexico. My gosh, Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: It was so gross.
Speaker 2: Yesterday I was like humid and there was rain like
Speaker 2: little spring whirls and yeah, it felt like waking up
Speaker 2: in uh, like the Midwest somewhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have so much respect.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna say Florida because that's extreme, and that's
Speaker 2: that is. Florida's its own kind of hell.
Speaker 1: But such just uncomfortable though. It makes you feel like
Speaker 1: dizzy and like you gotta drink a ton of water.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's physically uncomfortable to me. You know, you
Speaker 1: could medically. I felt this in Mexico, like I struggled
Speaker 1: on my hike and I didn't feel well afterwards for
Speaker 1: quite some time. So anyways, yet.
Speaker 3: Drink your water.
Speaker 2: I seemed to be okay. I was riding my bike
Speaker 2: out there yesterday, so I.
Speaker 1: Sho to be okay. I was no. I even the shade,
Speaker 1: like there wasn't even sun out it was overcast, but
Speaker 1: I was just sweating profusely. I'm not used to that,
Speaker 1: not used to it's gross. No, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: well look today you got your dark hair.
Speaker 2: I got on It's because I'm going to do someone
Speaker 2: else's podcast, so I wanted to look cute. No, actually
Speaker 2: that is the truth. I'm doing my friend hernandez Is
Speaker 2: podcast podcast called Ghosted. That's like a fun paranormal and
Speaker 2: we look at us in our little.
Speaker 1: B Yes I didn't. There was no memo, but we
Speaker 1: just intuitively no, but we got it anyway. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I actually like showered and blew out my hair and
Speaker 1: put a little bit of makeup, very pretty.
Speaker 2: Plus I wanted to like shower and do my hair
Speaker 2: and all that so that tomorrow I don't have to
Speaker 2: worry about it and I can just be gross.
Speaker 3: You do you get my mouth slice?
Speaker 1: You want to share more about that? Or is I
Speaker 1: think I did last time? Didn't I? Did you? I
Speaker 1: don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Okay, well you don't have did you? Just more?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 3: Just more?
Speaker 2: You know, gum grafting surgery. They got to take it
Speaker 2: from one part of my mouth and sew it onto another.
Speaker 2: So no fun and uh and no talking, which is
Speaker 2: the hardest Part's going to be harder than good. That is,
Speaker 2: I never I fail miserably every time. Everyone in the
Speaker 2: house is like stop talking, like stop it, stop it.
Speaker 1: It's really hard.
Speaker 3: I have a lot to say and then it can.
Speaker 1: So what did do you write on a piece of
Speaker 1: paper and like or do you have a whiteboard? How
Speaker 1: do you communicate with your husband, your kids? And like
Speaker 1: a text?
Speaker 2: You know vigorous uh, hand gestures, sarades, gesticulating, pointing, waving,
Speaker 2: you know, big exes.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like like a like.
Speaker 2: A referee in a World Cup game or like you're
Speaker 2: just like you're playing director. You have flags that I
Speaker 2: wave if I need something to drink, you know, you.
Speaker 1: Know what you need, uh, hydration brain. You need those
Speaker 1: flags that rich Carell had in Japan when we were
Speaker 1: crossing Shibou across right, he was like green, if you
Speaker 1: agree to start acting, if you see the red stop it,
Speaker 1: you can give your who little communications.
Speaker 3: Styling out of a van looking like.
Speaker 1: So obvious. I mean we caught.
Speaker 3: We draw attention anywhere we go.
Speaker 2: Well, yes, but in an extremely homogenized type of culture.
Speaker 1: Uh, a group of.
Speaker 2: Like you know, eleven Americans, we stuck out like a
Speaker 2: sore thumb in cost right in your and we're we're
Speaker 2: dragging luggage like we can't deal with it.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? Like we were obvious that
Speaker 1: was another very very humid experience, like I can, oh,
Speaker 1: these these stay in my brain because it's yeah, very
Speaker 1: very hot. Yeah that's rough anyways, But anyways, how are you, Aby?
Speaker 1: What's good? I am fully experiencing AB five point zero
Speaker 1: this new decade of mine. Who a little bit of
Speaker 1: empty nests?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you've been late twice.
Speaker 1: Hey now, hey, now she's never gonna let it go.
Speaker 2: Last week, So for those of WI that don't, I
Speaker 2: come screeching in at ten or ten oh one every
Speaker 2: time to our zoom.
Speaker 1: The last two weeks, I.
Speaker 2: Have joined at ten fifty eight fifty nine, respectively, and
Speaker 2: AB was not here, and so I am going to
Speaker 2: make fun of her that now that she's turned fifty,
Speaker 2: she apparently just doesn't give a shit.
Speaker 1: So yeah, rules don't have affair to you. I was
Speaker 1: so and I was mortified. I lost track of time
Speaker 1: last week and suddenly I look, I'm like it was
Speaker 1: ten o. It wasn ten o three by the time
Speaker 1: I logged in, and I was modified mortified. That never happens.
Speaker 1: And then today I was on time, but you were
Speaker 1: nearly so hey, I was early last week, you were late.
Speaker 1: So even more there was the differential.
Speaker 2: There was like five minutes, like you went three and
Speaker 2: the other and I went to any other.
Speaker 1: It's like freaky Friday. We've swapped personalities and.
Speaker 3: Now, don't worry.
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna hold I can't keep this up for
Speaker 2: very long. It's it's like any eighty hdear, we like
Speaker 2: do something really well for a little while and we're like,
Speaker 2: I'm so organized, and then.
Speaker 1: The wheels fall off totally. So it'll be fine. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Felicity's spending most of the summer of your dad's just
Speaker 1: because she wants to. There's a pool over there. That's great.
Speaker 1: We live, we don't live far from each other, so
Speaker 1: I still see her a lot, but I don't have
Speaker 1: that daily like hey, you left your dishes out, or
Speaker 1: you're like it's nest, Like it's I gotta get used
Speaker 1: to it. It's nice, but it's weird. I don't know
Speaker 1: how to cope. It's lovely.
Speaker 2: Just start leaving your own dirty dishes there, just to
Speaker 2: make it feel comfortable.
Speaker 3: You know, there's a sink with oatmeal stuck.
Speaker 1: There's a you know, a bold.
Speaker 3: Oatmeal stuck in it in the sink.
Speaker 2: I miss Felicity, you know, I do just dump your
Speaker 2: all of your laundry in the middle of the room
Speaker 2: and be like it's like.
Speaker 1: Old old Well. I don't know if I miss those
Speaker 1: parts of her, but it's nice. Like the kids come
Speaker 1: over and visit me. They're like, hey, Mom, we just
Speaker 1: want to come chat, and I'm like what what You're like,
Speaker 1: what why just to chat like today?
Speaker 2: So like I know, but that's the thing is you're
Speaker 2: immediately you're like suspicious.
Speaker 1: And then that's my Pavlovian response to mom, mom. We're
Speaker 1: just like gracing myself, Mom, mommy. But like twenty minutes ago,
Speaker 1: Tat's like, Mom, Mom, can I come over? And I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm like, I got a podcast, so you
Speaker 1: got to make a quick No. He's he needed some
Speaker 1: adult advice because he's going for a job interview today
Speaker 1: and he's putting there two weeks at his current job tomorrow,
Speaker 1: and so he's a little stressed about it. He's got
Speaker 1: some anxiety. You wanted a little pep talk, and I
Speaker 1: was just like what do I do? And I'm like,
Speaker 1: this is having adult children. I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know how to cope with it. This is amazing.
Speaker 2: Yesterday, Zoe had went to her college and met with
Speaker 2: her counselors, got.
Speaker 1: All of her classes, like all this stuff.
Speaker 2: Now she realized she might have to move some things
Speaker 2: around depending on if she gets this this internship thing.
Speaker 1: But she was like on it. She had all of
Speaker 1: her stuff.
Speaker 2: She was telling me about her classes, like all of
Speaker 2: the things that are available to her.
Speaker 1: Like she was on it.
Speaker 2: And I was like, because you know, all summer I've
Speaker 2: kind of been like, hey, how's are.
Speaker 1: You like registered?
Speaker 2: They haven't got out of the email hasn't come through yet,
Speaker 2: and that you know, we played that game in high school.
Speaker 1: No, the teacher hasn't grown. Oh yes, they haven't put
Speaker 1: it in the portal yet.
Speaker 2: They haven't put it in that. They haven't put it
Speaker 2: in school g yet. So I was suspicious, you know,
Speaker 2: but I'm not. I gotta step back, like this is okay,
Speaker 2: all right, You're gonna do it or you're not.
Speaker 3: And damn did she do it for her?
Speaker 2: And then last night talk about nice interactions with the kids. Uh,
Speaker 2: me and the girls and Zoe's friend Jasmine went out
Speaker 2: to dinner last night.
Speaker 3: We went to one of those places.
Speaker 2: Where they boiled, like the food boiled in the bag
Speaker 2: and then you just eat with your hands like a
Speaker 2: monster like seafood.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, like a crab boil. Okay, yeah, like a
Speaker 1: like seafood boil. Oh my godlious.
Speaker 2: But yeah, it was really fun and like everyone was
Speaker 2: lovely and nice and we had fun and they were
Speaker 2: getting along and like we were talking about.
Speaker 1: Like life, you know what I mean. It was just
Speaker 1: it was it.
Speaker 2: Was that thing where all of a sudden, you go, oh, okay, okay,
Speaker 2: we're coming through the other side, and through.
Speaker 1: That there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
Speaker 1: It's not all just like the transactional parenting thing, like no,
Speaker 1: it's like, right, we're talking about real world stuff now.
Speaker 1: It's it's crazy. It's you should it's the mental shift
Speaker 1: from being a parent to more of a mentor, and
Speaker 1: which is hard because you got to let them make mistakes.
Speaker 1: That's been very hard for me is to just let fail.
Speaker 1: I know, and I'm just wondering, I know, you know,
Speaker 1: bite your fingers, sit on your hands.
Speaker 3: I did a thing.
Speaker 1: The other day that I I.
Speaker 2: Immediately was like, oh my god, Janice Sweeten, I just
Speaker 2: pop out of my mouth and I was such no.
Speaker 2: But it was one of those mom things that your
Speaker 2: mom says to you that.
Speaker 3: When you're on the receiving end of.
Speaker 1: It, you're like, why would you say that?
Speaker 3: I just so came out and she had been up
Speaker 3: with her friends, and I was just went.
Speaker 1: Oh, you look tired. I you, she says, I know.
Speaker 2: And I was like immediately, I was like, I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Why did I say that? Why did I say that?
Speaker 3: And it was like this stupid yeah, just I just
Speaker 3: mom did out you know where.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, let me, let me point out.
Speaker 3: Something that's probably bothering you.
Speaker 1: Have you noticed it? I have? Well, And here's the thing.
Speaker 1: When it's coming from your own mother, it sounds judgmental,
Speaker 1: But when you're saying it, you're saying it out of concern,
Speaker 1: like did you get enough sleep last night?
Speaker 2: If somebody else's mom said that to me, I'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I am kind of do I look at it?
Speaker 3: Am I? You know? But my own mother, I'm like, oh, oh.
Speaker 2: She's judging, always the negative, always right, And I know
Speaker 2: she was like thanks Mom.
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, I didn't.
Speaker 1: You did it? Jane? Shit, I did I did. It's
Speaker 1: not even just a Janis but a real MoMA. You know. Oh,
Speaker 1: you look like you put but why did you say that?
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: You're still single?
Speaker 1: Shut up.
Speaker 3: It was that kind of moment.
Speaker 1: So oh love. Yeah, well, that's.
Speaker 2: The thing that I now have to or walking right
Speaker 2: into their room and not being like, hey, how are you,
Speaker 2: how's your day, being like oh my god, can you
Speaker 2: do this laundry, and then just leaving and being like okay,
Speaker 2: that's yeah, that's that's a hard one.
Speaker 1: That's hard. You gotta bite your tongue. You gotta bite
Speaker 1: your tongue. Oh man. Navigating adult children is a whole new,
Speaker 1: whole new universe, and I enjoy it. It's just very strange.
Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm in a different universe. Yeah
Speaker 1: all the time. It is definitely it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a different universe for sure. But I'm like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I'm I'm liking it. I'm getting used to it,
Speaker 1: and I just have to get comfortable with letting them
Speaker 1: make their own mistakes and a not fixing it for
Speaker 1: them most importantly, but also not telling them I told
Speaker 1: you so, like.
Speaker 3: That's hello, that's yeah.
Speaker 1: I know you're like, bite my tongue.
Speaker 2: I have yeah, because I was right.
Speaker 1: I can't say totally. Shall we get into this very
Speaker 1: important episode, Like one of my chavorites, this is a classic.
Speaker 1: This is one of those I would say, this is
Speaker 1: one of those very important episodes. It's a very important.
Speaker 2: Episode, and it is a we we meet a character
Speaker 2: that is beloved.
Speaker 1: To this day. We ever, yes, so let's oh, let
Speaker 1: me start the show. I'm all out of sorts. I
Speaker 1: don't know what I'm doing. It showed up late.
Speaker 2: I don't know how to start the show now. And
Speaker 2: you can't do you can't even eat your job, and
Speaker 2: I can't fire you because his agent right.
Speaker 1: Terrible Aby five point zero is still trying to catch up.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to how Rude tan Rito's I'm Andrea Barber
Speaker 1: and I'm Jodie Sweetson and I yet again cook.
Speaker 2: A drink while you're saying your name, knowing I don't
Speaker 2: have time to drink, get and swallow it before I
Speaker 2: have to say mine.
Speaker 1: But I didn't do it. It's a habit. It's habit
Speaker 1: because once I way you start talking, I take a drink,
Speaker 1: and then when I start talking, you take a drink.
Speaker 1: So maybe it's just like it's a thing, the thing
Speaker 1: we do. I don't know Anyways, Today, anyway, we are
Speaker 1: discussing season seven, episode five, Fast Friends. It originally aired
Speaker 1: October twelfth, nineteen ninety three, and it goes little something
Speaker 1: like this, Stephanie's new friends pressure her to smoke. Jesse
Speaker 1: and Joey host a radio show called teen Talk or
Speaker 1: is it Yackin' with youth? All right, and we have
Speaker 1: a producer's note here. We have a note from a
Speaker 1: listener regarding this episode from Amy Rosen. This is what
Speaker 1: she says, Fast Friends was easily the most impactful episode
Speaker 1: of television of my youth. I was so scared to
Speaker 1: use the bathroom at school because of this episode.
Speaker 2: Great, Sorry, I caused some serious like bathroom trauma.
Speaker 1: Well, there's several reasons. Furious pathomy, right. She goes on
Speaker 1: to say, I was worried that if I went to
Speaker 1: the bathroom that I would be peer pressured to smoke. Now,
Speaker 1: looking back, I realize in the twenty tens that kids
Speaker 1: were no longer smoking cigarettes. However, every time I had
Speaker 1: to use the bathroom during school, this episode would play
Speaker 1: in my head like a cautionary tale. I wonder if
Speaker 1: others had a similar reaction, and no, I thankfully had
Speaker 1: no health problems by holding it in for years. Okay good. Oh,
Speaker 1: and she also adds a PostScript, but now saying cigarettes
Speaker 1: and east good in the accent Stephanie does when she
Speaker 1: calls into the radio station as older is her favorite
Speaker 1: vocal stem. So thank you. It all worked out, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was.
Speaker 3: I've always been great at accents, what can I say?
Speaker 1: And it's my favorite poor girl, for there was nobody
Speaker 1: in the bathroom.
Speaker 2: She just was like, if I go in there, they're
Speaker 2: gonna make me sew like never ventured in once, but
Speaker 2: that that.
Speaker 3: Was what was going to happen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so this was an impactful episode of Amy.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry well that you couldn't use the bath right.
Speaker 2: She's like, and then I developed anxiety and started smoking
Speaker 2: because of the anxiety because I couldn't use the abumbe.
Speaker 1: She'll send you her bill from her urologists. Don't even worry. Right.
Speaker 1: So this episode was directed by John Tracy. It was
Speaker 1: written by Bob sand a name I don't don't. I
Speaker 1: don't recognize that name. And we have lots of guest stars.
Speaker 1: We have Darren Bennett as the voice of Randy. We
Speaker 1: see him again in next season in episode eight. Ten
Speaker 1: Under the Influence. He plays one of the frat boys.
Speaker 1: I'm wondering if he's related to Bobby Bennett, which is
Speaker 1: my everywhere look who appears in the radio stationer. He's
Speaker 1: primarily a musician and a composer, known for the dark
Speaker 1: comedy film South of Sanity.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, maybe Bob.
Speaker 1: I mean that would make sense, It would make sense
Speaker 1: the having of Bennett's in the pass and it struck
Speaker 1: me as yeah, and so we hear his voice now
Speaker 1: and then we will see him in an episode a
Speaker 1: year from now in season eight, so okay. Next, we
Speaker 1: have Miko Hughes returning as Aaron. We love him so much.
Speaker 1: We have the fabulous Molly Morgan playing Mickey. Check out
Speaker 1: our interview with Molly from last October twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: She has such an eclectic family history and she has
Speaker 1: appeared in a gazillion shows such as Days of Our Lives,
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World, Alien Nation, Big Bang Theory, and we'll
Speaker 1: see here again in seven fourteen. Is it true about Stephanie.
Speaker 1: I don't know what that one's about.
Speaker 2: I feel like I remember that. I think it's like
Speaker 2: Steph's a bad kissers. Oh, somebody starts to rumor about
Speaker 2: that you've got some great.
Speaker 1: Storyline, like now that you're in junior high, like you've
Speaker 1: got great yeah story on junior High.
Speaker 3: We get to mine at her all kinds of things ripe.
Speaker 1: And then we have the fabulous, incomparable Marla Sokoloff as
Speaker 1: Gia Gias. She has arrived. Check out our interview with
Speaker 1: her from February twenty twenty four, and we have her
Speaker 1: coming up as a guest again soon. We're very excited
Speaker 1: to talk to her again now that we are finally
Speaker 1: in the Gia era. I know now that we're finally
Speaker 1: in it, and I have like I'm like, Okay, now
Speaker 1: I've got species. Now our memories are going to be fresh,
Speaker 1: and I can't wait to talk to her. If I
Speaker 1: had an entire hour, I still would not be adequately
Speaker 1: able to cover all of Marla's extensive credits. Most notably,
Speaker 1: she played Lucy Hatcher in the Practice and Joey's sister
Speaker 1: Dina Tribiani in Friends. She's also a writer, a director,
Speaker 1: and an all around awesome human being. Indeed, next we
Speaker 1: have Diana Theodore. She plays Kelly. She appeared in two
Speaker 1: episodes of Seinfeld. One episode of Roseanne, also a Sabrina
Speaker 1: the Teenage Witch and Er. And then we have Marie
Speaker 1: Cole who is credited as Marie Lynn Wise. In this episode,
Speaker 1: she plays Lisa, and she appeared in twenty six episodes
Speaker 1: of the TV series Bust and Loose, and she also
Speaker 1: appeared in the new Leave It to Beaver and Step
Speaker 1: by Step Great. We have lots of guest stars. We
Speaker 1: haven't had guest stars for several episodes, and now it's
Speaker 1: like we got a ton and we got some great
Speaker 1: ones too. We start with the teaser. Michelle is in
Speaker 1: the living room with Comet and the twins. She says
Speaker 1: to Comment, let's try it one more time, roll over
Speaker 1: and Comment sits. Michelle asks the boys to show Comment
Speaker 1: how it's done, and the boys both roll over on
Speaker 1: the carpet. She offers them a cookie and tells comment
Speaker 1: see how easy it is. Then Comet rolls over and
Speaker 1: he gets a cookie too.
Speaker 3: Did she get those cookies out of the same spot?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I think she's feeding everyone the same cookies? Yes?
Speaker 2: Okay, because I was like at first, I was like, wait,
Speaker 2: are they eating the dog treats or is the dog
Speaker 2: eating the kid treats?
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go I'm gonna go with the ladder two.
Speaker 1: Uh, but you.
Speaker 3: Know there's a weird man they'll eat.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm not judge, but yeah, it could
Speaker 1: be either or Okay. So the twins are loving this
Speaker 1: idea and they just they along with comment just go
Speaker 1: back and forth, rolling around on the floor and Michelle shrugs,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna need more cookies. And is this the first
Speaker 1: time there hasn't been an adult actor in a teaser.
Speaker 1: It's like Michelle's carrying this whole teaser. I'm very impressed
Speaker 1: with that. We've ever had one with just the mind
Speaker 1: the little kids on the show, like, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a tall order, So very impressed.
Speaker 2: Well, i mean we leave them alone all the time,
Speaker 2: so wonder we eventually we got to catch this is overdue.
Speaker 1: They need to carry an entire teaser by themselves. You know.
Speaker 4: Hi, it's Jenny Garth, hosts of the I Choose Me podcast.
Speaker 4: This week Monica Lewinsky. Yes, that Monica, the one the
Speaker 4: world tore apart. She's still standing, She's back and done hiding.
Speaker 1: It really felt like it was one of those situations
Speaker 1: where you literally do or die.
Speaker 4: Monica stared down shame and came out the other side.
Speaker 4: And she is here to change what you thought you knew.
Speaker 1: And it's sort of not over until we try it.
Speaker 4: A conversation that will inspire you to choose yourself starting today.
Speaker 4: Listen to I Choose Me on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
Speaker 4: or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1: Next, in the kitchen, Danny is making breakfast and Jesse
Speaker 1: and Michelle are at the table eating breakfast. Michelle asks
Speaker 1: Uncle Jesse if he's going to eat the sausage that
Speaker 1: he is currently bringing right up to his mouth, and
Speaker 1: he pauses and says, no, I was just cooling it
Speaker 1: off for you, and he blows on it and gives
Speaker 1: it to Michelle. Why do you give it to her?
Speaker 1: Eve Been like, yep, you know what I mean, man,
Speaker 1: she can she needs, she can give a guilt trip
Speaker 1: just with her eyes like she is just you know,
Speaker 1: it's I guess she's moved on to savory foods though
Speaker 1: it's not like a pancake or something.
Speaker 3: She's going for the sauce.
Speaker 1: She said, so much cake. She's like, give me some protein,
Speaker 1: Uncle Jesse. She's like, give me some Yeah, yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: take something, So she's a varied diet here. So meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Danny asks Stephanie why she's not ready for school. Stephanie
Speaker 1: has a big problem. She can't decide what to wear.
Speaker 1: She says, do I go post preppy chic or neo
Speaker 1: retro grunge? And she holds up the different How.
Speaker 2: I remember saying neo retro grunge because I think I
Speaker 2: screwed it up a couple of times because it's a
Speaker 2: lot of retro like front of the mouth, sort of
Speaker 2: a lot of complication. I kept saying like neo retro mom,
Speaker 2: like it just did it come out right? But I
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: I remember that line, and I was a nice just
Speaker 1: jogged a memory of a complix Yeah yeah, mumbling something up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Danny remembers when he started junior high, he wore his
Speaker 1: father's shirts and his brother's pants. Jesse suggested it might
Speaker 1: be time to give them back to them, which was
Speaker 1: a great comeback. Danny thinks steph will look cool no
Speaker 1: matter what she wears, but she disagrees. It's been two
Speaker 1: weeks of junior high. She doesn't know anyone, and no
Speaker 1: one knows her. Her homeroom teacher calls her girl in
Speaker 1: the back who grinds her teeth.
Speaker 2: Oh, that was pressy, but I was like, really stuff,
Speaker 2: She's pretty solid. Seemed like the kind that can Yeah,
Speaker 2: she doesn't seem like the kind of person that would
Speaker 2: have or be able to make them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this kind of should have been a week. But
Speaker 1: it's also but middle school is that like?
Speaker 2: And and she does say, like, all my friends went
Speaker 2: the redistrict tea.
Speaker 1: I think it's the shock everybody. I remember that to you.
Speaker 1: Everybody gets split up and goes to different schools, and
Speaker 1: it's like it's very discombobulating. Yes, so Danny reassures her
Speaker 1: that with time she'll make new friends. But Steph isn't
Speaker 1: so sure. I hate redistricting. Why did I get stuck
Speaker 1: at DiMaggio which I don't know anybody? I mean, remember
Speaker 1: there's van Adda Junior High which is named after our
Speaker 1: producer Don Vanada. Did we have a producer named Demago
Speaker 1: or is this just a Joe Demagh?
Speaker 2: They're going, yeah, all right, yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 2: he was from San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not good at the sports or
Speaker 1: the writer. Bob sand maybe just really liked that really player.
Speaker 1: I don't know. All of her friends have scattered around
Speaker 1: town with all three Jennifers at different schools and mill
Speaker 1: Michelle suggests, maybe you'll meet a new Jennifer.
Speaker 2: It was the early nineties. Chances are there were fifteen
Speaker 2: of them.
Speaker 1: That was legitimately such a popular name in.
Speaker 3: The nut Jennifer, Stephanie, Rachel.
Speaker 1: Yes, Rachel's so true, but stuff thinks that they just
Speaker 1: don't understand. Junior High is about clicks, jocks with jocks,
Speaker 1: brains with brains, and that leaves two hall monitors and
Speaker 1: Lester Herbeck, the six year old genius who plays the harp.
Speaker 3: This was the probably owns a tech company in San Francis.
Speaker 1: Accuracy of this, accuracy of this description is just so perfect.
Speaker 1: Just and Danny encourage her to just be cool, not
Speaker 1: push so hard, and don't let them smell your fear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Michelle agrees, wear a lot of perfume. Stephanie leaves to
Speaker 1: get ready for school and says, I'll send you a
Speaker 1: postcard from dorkvilm. Next, we are in the bathroom at
Speaker 1: DiMaggio Junior High. Oh my gosh. Set. This set was
Speaker 1: great with like the little graffiti on the walls and
Speaker 1: the toilet paper.
Speaker 2: I could smell the school bathroom of it, know, the
Speaker 2: mustiness smell of like must erin because it's an old room,
Speaker 2: and and like bleak and some sort of industrial cleaner and.
Speaker 3: Like and and and.
Speaker 1: Uh, spit ball stuck to this. That's exactly it. It's
Speaker 1: like there's never any like proper air ventilation in these
Speaker 1: bathroom It's like there's.
Speaker 2: Never a window, no, no, And I literally can I
Speaker 2: can smell that smell right now. And I don't even
Speaker 2: know what to describe it as other than a middle
Speaker 2: like a like a school.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like the water kind of smells like sulfur. It's
Speaker 1: just like this. Yeah, it's awful. So Stephanie's in the
Speaker 1: bathroom trying to dry her hands, but there are no
Speaker 1: paper towels. She tries the hand dryer and that is broken,
Speaker 1: so she pulls out a roll of toilet paper to
Speaker 1: dry her hands.
Speaker 5: Terrible the toilet paper to dry, especially not at a school.
Speaker 2: And it's gonna it's made out of out of baby's breath, you.
Speaker 1: Know what I mean, Like it would be if your
Speaker 1: hands are wet. It's just gonna descend it. It's so ineffective.
Speaker 1: And the Yeah, Steph, wipe.
Speaker 3: Your hands on your pants, call it a day. The
Speaker 3: way that you're wearing black jeans, you're gonna be all right.
Speaker 1: The way that you're like getting caught up at the
Speaker 1: physical comedy here, where you're like spinning around and getting
Speaker 1: caught up and your feet are caught it's just like
Speaker 1: ohack peak junior high. I love Steph. Oh so Mickey,
Speaker 1: an older girl, enters the bathroom and says, you're in
Speaker 1: sixth grade, right? And uh it says Michelle answers, But
Speaker 1: Stephanie answers, how can you tell? Can you smell my fear?
Speaker 1: And Mickey replies, no, your books are covered. Mickey shows
Speaker 1: Stephanie the trick to make the hand dryer work. You
Speaker 1: have to twist it like a combination lock and then
Speaker 1: pound it and it starts working. Mickey takes Stephanie under
Speaker 1: her wing and decides to show her around school. All right, Okay,
Speaker 1: I like this Mickey girl. She's you know, she's got
Speaker 1: a little lemon edge to her, but.
Speaker 2: She's been this nice little beginning of Steph's like Steph.
Speaker 2: You know, Steph has a little fun. She she goes
Speaker 2: for not the goodie too.
Speaker 1: You've been waiting since Harry Takayama for a good friend
Speaker 1: and like it is overdue.
Speaker 2: Don't worry, Mickey's going to disappear in like two episodes. Wow, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: Steph doesn't.
Speaker 1: We could do a whole like psychological analyzation of of
Speaker 1: Steph and her friendships, but that's okay. Next we move
Speaker 1: on to the radio station where the Rush Our Renegades
Speaker 1: are doing a new teen call in advice segment. Jesse
Speaker 1: and Joey bring in DJ Steve and Kimmy to help
Speaker 1: answer some calls.
Speaker 3: The only teens in San Francis Yes.
Speaker 1: Jesse and Joey are arguing over what to name this
Speaker 1: segment teen talk or yakin with youth? Which camp are
Speaker 1: you in? Team te talk? Yeah, teen talk? This is clear,
Speaker 1: this is clear, Thank you. I just want to jaction
Speaker 1: with Yaking means either like there's the goat type animal yak,
Speaker 1: or it means vomit zack. I mean, it can't mean
Speaker 1: talking as well.
Speaker 3: But backing means there's too what it means.
Speaker 1: There's too many meanings. And when I think of yak,
Speaker 1: I think of a sound you make when you've got
Speaker 1: like a hairball caught in the back of your throat.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't make that noise, but I now will
Speaker 2: think of you every time someone thank you.
Speaker 1: So yep, so Joey thinks that Jesse gets to name everything,
Speaker 1: including Nikki and Alex. Steve, however, is very excited to
Speaker 1: be on the radio. He asks if he should do
Speaker 1: a Darth Vader voice, Luke, I am your father, and
Speaker 1: then he starts breathing into the microphone, but DJ thinks
Speaker 1: his regular voice is much sexier. Jesse and Joey continue
Speaker 1: arguing over the name, improvising theme songs that will go
Speaker 1: with each of their choices. Finally, they get their first caller, Randy.
Speaker 1: Randy asks about paying a friend to do his homework.
Speaker 1: DJ advises him do your own homework, and then there's
Speaker 1: this funny exchange where Kimmy's like, what friend are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Right? Right? Love it well. Jesse and Joey
Speaker 1: step outside to argue about the name of the show.
Speaker 1: The kids are scrambling to fill a dead air and
Speaker 1: Steve decides to go back to his Darth Vader voice.
Speaker 1: It's a wonder of these two have gotten fired.
Speaker 2: I mean, they seem to screw around on the radio more.
Speaker 1: Than they get thinks, I know how they got this job.
Speaker 1: I kept this job. Like they are just screwing things
Speaker 1: up all the time. The teens are now running the show.
Speaker 1: You know, it's they got bigger problems than what to
Speaker 1: name this segment. Next, we're in the kitchen. Aaron is
Speaker 1: visiting Michelle. He is hungry, and he hopes that they
Speaker 1: have better snacks today than that healthy junk they had yesterday.
Speaker 1: Danny asks, how's it going. Michelle thinks he probably are
Speaker 1: he knows. Danny promises it won't be forever. They're just
Speaker 1: watching Aaron until his regular babysitter stops twitching. I would
Speaker 1: have said, no, just sits out a boundary, do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Not available? Sorry I can't.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. There's already nineteen people that live in my house.
Speaker 2: It's we can't fit in one.
Speaker 1: That's a legitimate excuse. Actually, you know, Petitas, he is
Speaker 1: no room. So Aaron is scouring for food. He finds
Speaker 1: no ding dongs, no nutter butters or ho hose in
Speaker 1: the fridge, and he says, what a joke. None of
Speaker 1: those are going the fridge. That's true, that's a good point.
Speaker 1: So pantry f.
Speaker 2: Ding dong cookies hose maybe a ding dong because they're like,
Speaker 2: but no, it drives them out.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's true.
Speaker 3: That's Aaron you're looking's got a lot of.
Speaker 1: Problems, and ho hose ain't one of them. So Danny
Speaker 1: offers raisins, But Aaron is allergic to raisins. Are you okay?
Speaker 3: Yes, it was just a ridiculous statement that triggered things
Speaker 3: in my head.
Speaker 1: Okay. So Danny offers raisins and Eric says he's allergic
Speaker 1: to raisins. They make his lips blow up and then
Speaker 1: he can't talk. So Danny announces raisins.
Speaker 3: It is sneaking in a cookie.
Speaker 1: Stephan Mickey then walk into the kitchen with Stephanie explaining
Speaker 1: just how cute this boy from school is. I can
Speaker 1: smell his gym socks, his locker is so close.
Speaker 3: Oh that would be a that would I've smelled middle schoolers.
Speaker 3: That would not be an.
Speaker 1: Attractive that's repel you know, yeah, a sixth grade boys.
Speaker 1: I don't even think some sixth grade girls like jim
Speaker 1: socks smells. But no, look, nobody's but there's a certain
Speaker 1: there's a certain smell to the sweat of a prepubescent teen.
Speaker 1: That is just it can't be replicated in this universe.
Speaker 1: It's a very distinct special smell yep, where am I?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeh. Danny's thrilled, and he starts talking about how exciting
Speaker 1: this occasion is and that any friend of Stephanie's is
Speaker 1: a friend of his. Stephanie stops him, and he says,
Speaker 1: I can see that my time is up. He asks
Speaker 1: Mickey if he can get her anything, and she responds,
Speaker 1: how about a note to get me out of gym tomorrow?
Speaker 1: But she's kidding. She writes her own notes. Danny is
Speaker 1: growing concerned. Steph explains that Mickey is in the seventh
Speaker 1: grade and showed her how to get free donuts from
Speaker 1: the teacher's lounge. Danny is now even more concerned. Michelle
Speaker 1: invites the girls upstairs to play. Stephanie loudly responds, Michelle,
Speaker 1: we're in junior high. Give me a break. Michelle leans
Speaker 1: in and loudly enough for Mickey to hear, says to Aaron,
Speaker 1: yesterday no one would even talk.
Speaker 2: To her, just because you get all the friends. Michelle
Speaker 2: settled down. You get seven friends that come over all
Speaker 2: the time, the regular yep, yeah, I'm on the rag.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let me have my friends.
Speaker 1: It's always a younger sibling that's saying the exact thing
Speaker 1: you don't want your friend to hear. Like that is
Speaker 1: always classic real sibling. So Stephanie invites Mickey to dinner,
Speaker 1: but she has to leave because it's her turn to
Speaker 1: make dinner for herself and Janet. Danny asks, oh, your sister,
Speaker 1: and she replies, no, my mother, and she leaves. Once
Speaker 1: Mickey is gone, Danny asks Stephanie about Mickey calling her
Speaker 1: mom by her first name. Yeah, isn't she cooled? Danny.
Speaker 1: Stephanie responds, but she can see the look on her
Speaker 1: dad's face and she quickly adds, Dad, did you ever
Speaker 1: call I mean, we called Janice Janis now, but did
Speaker 1: you ever call your mom Janie? I don't think I
Speaker 1: ever called my mom Sherry like ever.
Speaker 2: Only if I was trying to get her attention somewhere
Speaker 2: and she wasn't paying, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 2: it was like that was the only thing, was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's true, especially now and it's now it's Janice Sweeten
Speaker 2: because it's a full name, you know what I mean,
Speaker 2: And it's a very specific thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't call her that to her face. Mom,
Speaker 3: you know mom?
Speaker 1: Yeah, No. I always told my mom mom unless yeah.
Speaker 1: We were in a crowded place with lots of other kids,
Speaker 1: saying mom, Mom, right, So then you got a differentiate.
Speaker 3: Mama was reserved strictly for times when I wanted to.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, mama, Mama, what the moms know the mom's no.
Speaker 1: Stephanie's dad thinks that Mickey might have a bit of
Speaker 1: an edge, and Stephanie says, edge, you make her sound
Speaker 1: like a criminal, but Danny says, no, no, I don't
Speaker 1: think that. Stephanie is getting bummed. She says, I finally
Speaker 1: find a friend, and you hate her. Danny promises he
Speaker 1: doesn't hate her, he just doesn't really know her. Steph
Speaker 1: accuses Danny of judging her new friend and storms right
Speaker 1: up the stairs. Poor step and she's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if this friend is only good. You never like anybody? Yea, yep,
Speaker 1: relatable and I do I feel bad for stuff too.
Speaker 1: She finally gets a friend, She just wants the friend
Speaker 1: to Danny like, just because you're a square doesn't mean
Speaker 1: everybody else is. See exactly this is he has a
Speaker 1: right to be concerned, but just this is not the
Speaker 1: time to express it. Like, give it some time, Give
Speaker 1: it some time. Give it.
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Speaker 1: Now we're back in the bathroom, at DiMaggio Junior High.
Speaker 1: Mickey is sharing her lipliner with Steph and asks if
Speaker 1: she likes the shade, and Stephanie says, sure, I use
Speaker 1: it all the time, and she starts using the lipliner
Speaker 1: on her eyebrowser her eyelids or Mickey chuckles, that's for
Speaker 1: your lips, and Steph replies, oh, yes, I'm just seeing
Speaker 1: if it's sharp, and they both laugh. Good recovery stuff.
Speaker 1: Then a new group of girls walk into the bathroom.
Speaker 1: Mickey introduces Stephanie to Kelly, Gia, and Lisa, the guys
Speaker 1: as she calls them. Stephanie laughs, you don't look like
Speaker 1: guys to me, and the guys think that Stephanie is
Speaker 1: a nerd. She's actually kind of. I mean she's nervous.
Speaker 1: She's nervous. I just want to get a little baby
Speaker 1: Steph a hug and be like, don't tell jokes it.
Speaker 1: Ease into it, Steph. He's into it. So Kelly thinks
Speaker 1: that mister Lucas is a babe and did they see
Speaker 1: that odd.
Speaker 3: Of his that line?
Speaker 1: I don't know why that made me Weirdly, there's a
Speaker 1: couple of moments where yeah, I was like, I think
Speaker 1: it's normal for the girls this age. That's true to
Speaker 1: have a little crush rush male professors. But like, I
Speaker 1: guess now, it's just one of those jokes that you'd
Speaker 1: be like, I don't know that, we won't we're going
Speaker 1: to make that.
Speaker 2: I think it's just although I guess it would be
Speaker 2: weirder if he were making it about Joe.
Speaker 1: This is true. This is a very, very true. So
Speaker 1: Mickey agrees that he's the reason for the first time
Speaker 1: she has stayed awake during algebra works. Then the girls
Speaker 1: pull out a pack of cigarettes and start smoking one.
Speaker 1: They offer Stephanie a cigarette. She declines. She's clearly uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: She says she's trying to quit. Kelly, I think we
Speaker 1: got the names rocking.
Speaker 3: The names are like you mean, Michelle.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the girls are either than offer Michelle one. Now
Speaker 2: that's a scene I'd like to see. Yes, I would
Speaker 2: have loved to have seen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Michelle, you got it, dude, Just light one up.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe that maybe that's what was missing from
Speaker 1: Michelle's life. Yeah, Okay, So the girls are offering cigarettes
Speaker 1: to Stephanie. She declines, and then Gia says that sixth
Speaker 1: graders are terminally pathetic. God, I remember her saying that
Speaker 1: I was stuck in my brain, Yes, terminally, terminally like that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's just delivers that line in such a great specific way. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The bell rings and Stephanie says, oh, we better get
Speaker 1: to class, and then Kelly, Ga and Lisa tease her
Speaker 1: for oh, we've got to get to class. Guys. Mickey
Speaker 1: admonishes that hey, she's a good kid, they should give
Speaker 1: her a break. But Gia is not having it, and
Speaker 1: she tells Mickey that she can go be a good
Speaker 1: kid with her. Mickey's torn, but she ultimately decides to
Speaker 1: stay with the guys and lights up her cigarettes. As
Speaker 1: Stephanie is leaving the bathroom, one of the girls says,
Speaker 1: where did you find that? Dweb, and Stephanie leaves disappointed
Speaker 1: and embarrassed. Poor stuff like that was.
Speaker 2: Those were clothes cigarettes but oh yeah you and Marla,
Speaker 2: Yeah they weren't actual cigarettes.
Speaker 1: They were close cigarette. Yeah, because me and Marla and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, Molly, we'd try and figure out how to
Speaker 1: steal them the proper. So do they taste like they
Speaker 1: just taste like clothes and they close taste like yeah
Speaker 1: or anything? Or I mean closed cigarettes? You don't.
Speaker 3: You're not really supposed to inhale them.
Speaker 5: Deeply, Okay, you just sort of people do, but it's
Speaker 5: really sort of yeah, it's it's for like the taste.
Speaker 1: It's kind of like a cigar. It's like a sweet taste. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, good to know. Good to know that they
Speaker 1: weren't giving the child actors real cigarettes. Thank you for clarifying. No,
Speaker 1: just other things that you know aren't probably great for you.
Speaker 1: We all got now.
Speaker 3: At least it wasn't you.
Speaker 1: God, that would have been Yeah, that was gross. Next
Speaker 1: we are in Michelle and Stephanie's bedroom. Michelle and Aaron
Speaker 1: are playing cards at the table and they invite Stephanie
Speaker 1: to join in. Steph reveals that her life has come
Speaker 1: to this playing with kids, and she sits down at
Speaker 1: the table with the kids. Michelle asks where her new
Speaker 1: friends are, and when Stephanie says she doesn't know Michelle,
Speaker 1: Michelle says she knows exactly where her friends are. Denise
Speaker 1: is at home, Derek is at dance class, Russell is
Speaker 1: at Hebrew class, and stephan rupts her at Michelle, just
Speaker 1: deal deal the cards seriously again?
Speaker 3: You have friends, oh, just a plethora of friends.
Speaker 1: Yes, Michelle asks her to hold her breath and pick
Speaker 1: three cards. When Sephanie rejects the ideas and says, what,
Speaker 1: Michelle says, you breathed, Now you have to sing Happy
Speaker 1: Birthday to the king. Steph is like, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? This isn't even a real game, and Aaron says,
Speaker 1: so what this is the way we play and he
Speaker 1: goes on and he says, uh. Stephanie says to Michelle, fine,
Speaker 1: I capture your queen, and Aaron says, you can't do that.
Speaker 1: That's cheating. Michelle agrees that's cheating, but Steph thinks, so
Speaker 1: she can't cheat. There are no rules to this game exactly,
Speaker 1: there's no rules and even today, yeah, there's a little
Speaker 1: fores shadowing here. Michelle and Aaron brate her with cheater, cheater,
Speaker 1: while Steph sings stupid, stupid. Danny finally comes into the room.
Speaker 1: He has to break up the arguing guys the airport
Speaker 1: just joined to complain that the noise is too loud.
Speaker 1: Steph is all wound up. Michelle invented this stupid game
Speaker 1: with no rules. Danny asks why she's playing the game
Speaker 1: if she thinks it's stupid, and then he wonders about
Speaker 1: her new friends. Steph is annoyed that he's prying into
Speaker 1: her personal life, but Danny reminds her that he's the
Speaker 1: dad and prying is part of his job description. Stephanie
Speaker 1: reports that she is done playing with six year olds.
Speaker 1: Next in the kitchen, she is now playing with toddlers,
Speaker 1: which was a great smash cut, great smash cut. We
Speaker 1: see Stephanie and Nikki and Alex coloring at the table.
Speaker 1: Stephanie tells the boys to stay inside the lines, but
Speaker 1: the boys, of course, are not so great at staying
Speaker 1: inside the lines, but at least they can stay within
Speaker 1: the page. Stephanie picks up a white crayola and pretends
Speaker 1: to start smoking it, and she asks the toddlers what
Speaker 1: they think. One twin responds bad Stephie, and the other
Speaker 1: says it's yucky, and Stephanie responds, preschoolers are terminally pathetic.
Speaker 1: Becky walks in the door and Stephanie immediately drops her
Speaker 1: cran cigarette. And this is my all time favorite part
Speaker 1: of the entire episode. Stephanie waves the invisible smoke out
Speaker 1: the air. It's just classic, classic move.
Speaker 5: That was good.
Speaker 1: That was very good. So Becky thanks Stephanie for helping
Speaker 1: watching the kids. Steph offers to watch them every day.
Speaker 1: Becky wonders allowed if Stephanie would rather hang out with
Speaker 1: her new friends from school, but Steph doesn't want to
Speaker 1: talk about her new friends or school. Becky tries to
Speaker 1: assure Steph. She remembers junior high, it can be pretty tough.
Speaker 1: Steph is relieved to hear this. It was tough for
Speaker 1: you too, and Becky answers, oh, sure, I remember coming
Speaker 1: home crying when I came in second for Winter Princess
Speaker 1: stephan stop with Becky. Everyone's problem, Bey with the good hair,
Speaker 1: stop it you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is not helping.
Speaker 1: Step is annoyed that Becky cried over that, but Becky
Speaker 1: goes on, I had to ride on a tiny float
Speaker 1: with only one snowflake attendant and then Becky find it
Speaker 1: over it. She finally realizes catches on. Okay, so that's
Speaker 1: not a great example. But Becky reminds Steph that she's
Speaker 1: always there for her, and Steph says thanks. At the
Speaker 1: same time, Nicki and Alex say thank you, Mama, and
Speaker 1: she turns around to see them eating cookies on top
Speaker 1: of the table. One of the twins sweetly offers Becky
Speaker 1: an animal cracker. Back at the radio station. It's a
Speaker 1: new day, or at least we're all in new costumes,
Speaker 1: and Jesse and Joey are acting like a couple of babies,
Speaker 1: according to DJ. Jesse agrees that they are. It doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what they call the show anyways. Joey agrees, and
Speaker 1: so Jesse says, great, Yacking with Youth it is, and
Speaker 1: Joey Argustine Talk and they start going back to bickering.
Speaker 1: Steve suggests that it would be easy to settle this,
Speaker 1: and Kimmy agrees, do what we do at the Gibler
Speaker 1: House with masks, tights and a steel death caage, just
Speaker 1: like a you know. Steve thinks that's interesting, but how
Speaker 1: about an even simpler solution, a vote between the five
Speaker 1: of them. Jesse agrees this is a good idea, and
Speaker 1: also that Steve's hair is very nice. So Kimmy and
Speaker 1: Jesse vote for Yacking with Youth, and Jesse thinks kimberly
Speaker 1: saying that he's always liked her from day one. Steve
Speaker 1: and Joey vote for teen Talk, and Joey thinks Steven
Speaker 1: making it a two two tie. DJ is the tiebreaker,
Speaker 1: and she thinks both titles are lame. There's no time
Speaker 1: to clear this up now, though, because they are back
Speaker 1: from commercial. They take a call from a caller identifying
Speaker 1: herself as Olga, a foreign exchange student, asking for advice.
Speaker 1: Olga says that she has new friends that want her
Speaker 1: to smoke cigarette. Olga, as we quickly figure out, is
Speaker 1: actually Stephanie doing a fake accent from where.
Speaker 2: We're not sure it could be. It's could be Russian.
Speaker 2: Olga sounds like a Swedish. It's somewhere in the general uh,
Speaker 2: northern towards the Arctic circle. I'm thinking, I'm thinking Olga
Speaker 2: might be Russian.
Speaker 1: She sounds little Russian.
Speaker 3: It's just in which case she's probably been smoking.
Speaker 1: It's probably Yeah. Anyway, Olga is not American, as Americans says.
Speaker 1: It's not America. It's just somewhere other than here, somewhere
Speaker 1: other than that. Yeah, I mean very specific in my
Speaker 1: in my accent work. So Joey, Jesse and the teenagers
Speaker 1: all chime in with anti smoking advice, and they approve
Speaker 1: of her saying no to cigarettes. But Olga is torn.
Speaker 1: She wants these girls to like her. DJ pipees in
Speaker 1: that if you have to smoke to be their friends,
Speaker 1: they're not real friends exactly. Kimmy agrees, a true friend
Speaker 1: likes you for who you are and how much money
Speaker 1: you have.
Speaker 3: Now we see what Ken is always at the Tanners.
Speaker 1: You know they approve they can do all of these
Speaker 1: renovations on the kitchen wall and base you have. Kyle's
Speaker 1: a cash. Steve says, kissing a girl who smokes is
Speaker 1: like kissing an ashtray. And DJ would like to know
Speaker 1: what ashtray he's been kissing lately, and Steve replies, well, actually,
Speaker 1: my aunt Ethel. She smokes so much. Her Dalmatian is
Speaker 1: all black. Joey warns Olga that she'll sound like Yosemite
Speaker 1: Sam with a cactus caught in your throat if she smokes,
Speaker 1: and he does the sound. Jesse encourages her to stick
Speaker 1: to her guns. Smoking is not cool, and that's that.
Speaker 1: That's the advice. They go back to the music and
Speaker 1: DJ reminds them that it's not important what the show
Speaker 1: is called. What's important is that they helped someone out today.
Speaker 1: Joey and Jesse agree that they're fighting was ridiculous, but
Speaker 1: then the competition continues. After the show Jesse says he'll
Speaker 1: take them for pizza, and Joey responds that he'll take
Speaker 1: them bowling, and Jesse says he'll take them for ice
Speaker 1: cream after bowling, and after that Joey will take them shopping.
Speaker 1: These two just can't quit with their competitiveness, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: can't quit, Steve, gimme and DJ run away from these
Speaker 1: conflicted uncles and uh, yeah, I this was a silly
Speaker 1: b storyline and I still maintain that yaking with you
Speaker 1: with a terrible choice, So yeah's not good. Next, in
Speaker 1: stephan Michelle's bedroom, Danny comes in to check on Steph
Speaker 1: and asks how she's doing. Stephanie is pacing and around
Speaker 1: her room and says easgood in the same accent as Olga.
Speaker 1: Danny realizes what happened. He imitates her accent and says,
Speaker 1: so it was you on the radio. Steph asks you
Speaker 1: heard me, and Danny nods, I'm glad I did. I
Speaker 1: knew something was bothering you, but I didn't know what
Speaker 1: it was. Stephanie confesses Dad, I didn't want to tell
Speaker 1: you about the cigarette thing because I didn't want you
Speaker 1: to be mad at me, and Danny replies, mad at
Speaker 1: you Steph, I'm proud of you. I know how hard
Speaker 1: it is to go against the crowd. Stephanie asks Danny
Speaker 1: if anyone has ever tried to get him to smoke.
Speaker 1: He says yes, but it never appealed to him. He
Speaker 1: figured if he wanted to fill his lungs with smoke,
Speaker 1: he'd stick his head in the barbecue. Stuff feels better,
Speaker 1: but she's still confused. How can she keep Mickey as
Speaker 1: a friend. Danny tells Steph to trust her instincts. If
Speaker 1: she likes Mickey, she should be her friend, and if not,
Speaker 1: that's okay too. He wonders if maybe Mickey is feeling
Speaker 1: the same pressure to smoke that Steph is, and she
Speaker 1: just doesn't feel strong enough to stand up to it.
Speaker 1: Steph wonders whether she should tell Mickey about her feelings,
Speaker 1: or maybe wait until she comes to her, or better yet,
Speaker 1: finish Junior High by mail.
Speaker 3: Oh stuff, at some point that will be an option.
Speaker 1: Yets it will. Danny tells her to hang in there, because,
Speaker 1: believe it or not, it gets easier. Back at the
Speaker 1: DiMaggio Junior High bathroom, Stephanie is brushing her hair in
Speaker 1: front of the mirror when the Gang of girls returns.
Speaker 1: Gia says, so they're letting you go to the bathroom
Speaker 1: all by yourself now, and Stephanie her tarts, Yeah, when
Speaker 1: are you going to start z? Steph talks, She's just
Speaker 1: good stuff, can hold her own. She can talk the
Speaker 1: talk Yep, she sure can. Gia says, ooh, little miss
Speaker 1: big mouth got me good. You want to smoke? Oh
Speaker 1: that's right, you quit.
Speaker 2: I can hear God. I can hear Mark like I
Speaker 2: can hear it. And this big mouth got.
Speaker 1: It's so great. It's just yes, it's just stays with you,
Speaker 1: that voice, that intonation. The she's so she's so New
Speaker 1: York in this episode too. She's like, yeah, she's a
Speaker 1: year old in New York. For a while. Stephanie shares
Speaker 1: that no, no, she's just a big fan of breathing,
Speaker 1: and Mickey bursts into laughter. Geia reacts, what are you
Speaker 1: laughing at? And Mickey says that was funny. If something
Speaker 1: is funny, I laugh. Steph repeats, yeah, if something is funny,
Speaker 1: she laughs. Gia tells Steph to shut up, and then
Speaker 1: she tells the gang sixth graders are a waste of skin.
Speaker 1: Stephanie comments back, you should know you were there for
Speaker 1: three years, zi ze zing get on Steffe. Steph yes,
Speaker 1: trying to get her ground back. Gea come corrects her
Speaker 1: it was two so ha, and then she looks at
Speaker 1: Mickey and says, come on, Mickey, walk me to detention.
Speaker 1: This is so well written, like Gia is so well written,
Speaker 1: all all of these details. Walk me to detention. Not
Speaker 1: realizing that I says a lot about Gia, says yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: The others follow, but Mickey decides to stay back with
Speaker 1: the scrub. Steph starts to leave for class and Mickey
Speaker 1: stops her, asking if she wants to do something after school.
Speaker 1: Stephanie tells her that she would love to hang out,
Speaker 1: but she doesn't want to smoke. Mickey says, you know what,
Speaker 1: She's decided to try to cut down. Steph smiles, this
Speaker 1: has turned out great. They walk off to class together,
Speaker 1: back to gossiping about what mister Lucas is wearing. They say,
Speaker 1: he is so cute and that is our shite to do.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh love A plus. This was a big episode.
Speaker 2: Plus was the introduction of Gia. Steph is starting this wool.
Speaker 1: It was big changes coming, Big change is coming, A
Speaker 1: big episode. I just I loved every part of this episode.
Speaker 1: I loved casting, I loved the writing. I loved like
Speaker 1: you just hit the hit it out of the park
Speaker 1: with your acting. You could feel that cue angst, like
Speaker 1: that indecision of wanting to fit in but also wanting
Speaker 1: to like stay true to yourself. Like this was just
Speaker 1: a plus plus, no, thank you.
Speaker 2: This was This was a great episode and it's definitely
Speaker 2: one of the ones that I just remember, yeah, because
Speaker 2: I remember Marla and Mollie and you know, I just uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: it's it's funny to go back and like watch these
Speaker 2: And at the time we were like, oh, we felt
Speaker 2: so like mature, you know what I mean, we were
Speaker 2: like getting older.
Speaker 3: And then I look back now and I'm.
Speaker 1: Like, oh, look at the little baby. Oh I know,
Speaker 1: you guys look so young. It's so true you are
Speaker 1: so young, but I'm sure and it felt so grow up.
Speaker 3: But no, this was fun.
Speaker 1: And people always, you know, love this episode. They talk
Speaker 1: about it, they're like, oh, this.
Speaker 5: Was such a great episode. And you know, Steph stood
Speaker 5: up for herself and it made me feel like I
Speaker 5: could too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was this was an such a good message,
Speaker 1: such a good message, and uh, I had. I had
Speaker 1: a realization while I was watching this because naturally, you know,
Speaker 1: you think, oh, you know, in what ways do you
Speaker 1: relate to this episode as far as peer pressure or
Speaker 1: anything like that, And I had a realization that I
Speaker 1: actually couldn't relate to this episode and just stick with
Speaker 1: me for a minute where I'm going in that I
Speaker 1: never felt pressured to smell. I was never offered cigarettes,
Speaker 1: I was never offered drugs or alcohol. And that wasn't
Speaker 1: because of some sort of like moral high ground or
Speaker 1: like because I was a good kid. I realized I
Speaker 1: spent the entirety of my junior high and high school
Speaker 1: years on a sound stage, so I wasn't physically in
Speaker 1: situations where that peer pressure would present itself. Because I'm
Speaker 1: just like, what am I missing? Like, Wow, why did
Speaker 1: I miss out on this, like this formative, this formative thing.
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking it's because my career created like this
Speaker 1: protective bubble around me where I was really not faced
Speaker 1: with those types of situations. And so that never occurred
Speaker 1: to me before before this, before watching this episode, and
Speaker 1: that you know, that's not everybody's experience, but because of
Speaker 1: the timing of when I was on the show, from
Speaker 1: from ten to eighteen. I was really protected.
Speaker 2: I think you were so you didn't have to deal
Speaker 2: with kids all the time and be there all day
Speaker 2: or after school or or even Friday nights.
Speaker 1: You were right exactly, No, I was. I was on
Speaker 1: that sound stage, and so I felt I just feel
Speaker 1: very lucky that that I was protected that in that
Speaker 1: sort of way. It was an environmental thing. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make that acknowledgment that it's not
Speaker 1: always just it's not always like that I took the
Speaker 1: higher ground. It's that I didn't have those same types
Speaker 1: of struggles that other kids have right in high school.
Speaker 1: So I just wanted to acknowledge that. So well, there
Speaker 1: you go. Anyways, it was a light I remember, yeah,
Speaker 1: now I remember, yeah, like being this age and everybody smoking.
Speaker 3: Like acting class.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I remember Scott Weininger's younger brother, Todd. Oh
Speaker 2: I think I did I tell the story before on
Speaker 2: the show that we so we were all in acting
Speaker 2: class together as me, Todd, Jesse Beale and uh Chris
Speaker 2: Masters said, I don't know, it's a bunch of bunch
Speaker 2: of kids are some roster and and you know the
Speaker 2: next door had like the older kids, like the seventeen
Speaker 2: to twenty you know what I mean. They were in
Speaker 2: the room next door, but we were in the other
Speaker 2: room that was more like the young teens. And so
Speaker 2: of course everyone would try and go out there and
Speaker 2: like bump cigarettes from them.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: And I and my mom and Scott's mom would go,
Speaker 2: uh to dinner while we were in class.
Speaker 1: Didn't she come back to pick up Todd?
Speaker 2: And he went out and was smoking a cigarette and
Speaker 2: totally uh got in trouble because his mom was sitting
Speaker 2: right there in my mom's car.
Speaker 1: And oh, my gosh, oh things like that that you know,
Speaker 1: you just these are like they are they're the big
Speaker 1: stupid moments of middle school. And yeah, I think I
Speaker 1: think it's very very relatable to most kids of just
Speaker 1: feeling that that pressure of just you know, you want
Speaker 1: to fit in, but you something's holding you back and
Speaker 1: you can't. You don't even have the words articulated at
Speaker 1: that age, right, you know.
Speaker 2: Right, So, and it's the kind of your first time
Speaker 2: you're like venturing out and really making decisions for yourself,
Speaker 2: kind of on your own, Like you're not a little
Speaker 2: little kid anymore. You're you have a little more freedom
Speaker 2: and autonomy, and so you're like, oh, what what do
Speaker 2: I want?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're trying to discover who you are? Yea, what
Speaker 1: do I want? Yeah, that's that's it's critical, it's it's
Speaker 1: great in this episode just was fantastic and exploring all
Speaker 1: of those it is a great episode, a very classic
Speaker 1: full House episode.
Speaker 2: I can't wait to have Marla Han again and uh
Speaker 2: and yeah, and I love that, you know, this is
Speaker 2: how we started.
Speaker 1: And then you see Gia and Steph still friends. It's
Speaker 1: a great full circle moment when she comes back and
Speaker 1: in fuller all those years later. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: talk to her about it. Yes, and everywhere you look,
Speaker 1: what did you? Yes, I think we have the same one.
Speaker 1: The radio station assistant that hands the clipboard to Jesse
Speaker 1: and Joey, Bobby Bennett our stand in.
Speaker 2: Bobby Bennett one of our stand ins, and also Michael J.
Speaker 2: Fox's stand in in Back to the Future. Yeah, he's
Speaker 2: so nice, lovely guy, such a really nice, sweet guy.
Speaker 1: He was on our show for years. He was very Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was that.
Speaker 2: And I noticed that John had a Beach Boys album
Speaker 2: propped up in front of the the soundboard.
Speaker 1: Radio set, and he even says.
Speaker 2: All right, we're coming back with the beach boards or
Speaker 2: something like. He makes a comment. So I wonder if
Speaker 2: it was like they had a new album or something
Speaker 2: that he.
Speaker 1: Was just a little easter eggs and little promo for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I definitely noticed that.
Speaker 1: I was like, beach Boys, that's awesome. I missed that one.
Speaker 1: That's so cool. I love it. All right.
Speaker 2: Well that's where we got for this week, everybody, great
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Speaker 1: And that's it. Yep, and we shall see you next time. Remember, everybody,
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