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Speaker 1: Hey there, Fana Ritos, and welcome to an all new

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Speaker 1: episode of How Rude Tana Ritos. As you know, there's

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Speaker 1: an actress who's appeared on Full House more than once,

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Speaker 1: but as two completely different characters. She was first introduced

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Speaker 1: will eventually appear as Connie again. Talk about whiplash and

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Speaker 1: if that isn't wacky enough, this isn't the only TV

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Speaker 1: show where she has played multiple characters. What Debbie Gregory

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Speaker 1: herself is joining the podcast today to tell us all

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Speaker 1: about her roles on Full House and how this opportunity

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Speaker 1: came to be. So please give a warm welcome to Debbie.

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Speaker 2: Do you hear me? Guys?

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Hi, there you are.

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Speaker 2: We can hear you.

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Speaker 4: Okay, can you see me?

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Speaker 1: I can't see you, but I can hear you. And

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Speaker 1: Jody just went to do a she went to get

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Speaker 1: a coffee or find a microphone, one or the other.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I already see that cookie jar.

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Speaker 2: Oh I know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've got all my Full House swag behind me.

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Speaker 2: What do you have?

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Speaker 3: You have your hat?

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Speaker 4: I have a hat. I still have this little fanny pack.

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Speaker 1: Fanny pack. Yes, I have the fanny pack. I don't

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Speaker 1: think I have the hat. I am jealous. Where did

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Speaker 1: I put that hat? These are wrap party gifts. I'm

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Speaker 1: assuming you have a.

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Speaker 4: Real practical Christmas gift that everybody probably needed.

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Speaker 1: A messenger bag. Yes see, I like the practical gifts.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's like, there's only so many water bottles you need,

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Speaker 1: but a messenger bag.

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Speaker 4: Love it, I know, and I know it's storage. I

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Speaker 4: have a denim jacket and a Bomber baseball jacket. And yes,

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Speaker 4: it's never gonna die. No never, You're going to have

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Speaker 4: it in your heart and in the universe forever. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The fans are the fans are so loyal that they

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Speaker 3: We love it. They love it. We're very excited to

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Speaker 3: have you on the show today.

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Speaker 4: This is so honored and I'm so shocked that you

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Speaker 4: even want me on the show. That's so crazy.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, we were like, do you think Debbie would

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Speaker 4: No, it's so funny how everybody makes well. They make

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Speaker 4: such a big deal about the two characters, like.

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Speaker 3: Okah, this has been a big topic.

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Speaker 1: This has been a big topic, and we've only gotten

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Speaker 1: to your second your second episode of the five you

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Speaker 1: were on on Full House, so we just saw you

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Speaker 1: as Karen in the Greatest Birthday Party, Oh.

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Speaker 2: My god, the circus.

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Speaker 4: I just watched it. Whenever Maddie contacted me, I was,

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Speaker 4: I'm so impressed with your whole podcast. I've been listening

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Speaker 2: So I love you. Yeah, it's been it's been really fun.

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Speaker 2: But yeah it was. We were like, I was like,

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Speaker 2: It was a great Full House esque moment, like such

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Speaker 2: where it's like just don't yeah, we know you'd see.

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Speaker 3: The handle about it away.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna yeah. But it was great and definitely something

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Speaker 4: But you know, I think that happened a lot like

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Speaker 4: I was on an I was on Hearts of Fire

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Speaker 4: and then the show moved to Uh, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 4: so interesting. And then on Full House, I think Jeff's secretary,

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Speaker 1: We've seen her once as one of the ripper parties.

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Speaker 1: She was rocking out with her tambourines.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that was like right around the time I was

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's exciting. That is so cool.

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Speaker 1: Well, we first see you as Connie, who is Becky's sister,

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Speaker 1: Forty seven times Michelle says Howie, Howie.

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Speaker 4: And I said three words, two of which was probably Howie. No.

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Speaker 4: funny that fans would even remember that little part.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, the fans are shows over. I mean again,

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Speaker 2: But yeah, they definitely they definitely picked up on that. Now,

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Speaker 2: how did that?

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'll give you a brief. I always wanted to

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Speaker 4: my best friend to this day, I'm going to see

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Speaker 4: you're in San Clemente. Is Karen Miller?

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 4: Okay, so I know. So we went to high school

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Speaker 2: So then, of Karen, she's such a Karen Miller was

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you should have her on.

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Speaker 4: Dad was in Miami and we almost died. Karen and

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yeah. Well, so we skipped school to go

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Speaker 4: and so I majored in broadcast journalism at University of Florida. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 4: A precursor to Entertainment Tonight Act Yeah yeah, okay evolved

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Speaker 2: End all his right.

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Speaker 4: So anyway, I digress. I went to Miami produced the

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Speaker 4: Crazyly how I got in front of the camera so crazy.

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Speaker 4: I walked in like on a Thursday and said, hey,

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Speaker 4: you know, told her my story and she hands me

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Speaker 4: And I got apart. I got one line on Capitol,

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Speaker 2: Yeah did you do? Like? Was it a repeat on Capital?

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Speaker 2: So many people in this business start off in soap operas.

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Speaker 2: I mean a lot. Yeah, oh well you you have

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Speaker 2: me do maybe, yeah, gosh John John Brotherton John.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know if Karen in the in the

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Speaker 2: Ask it's a different Karen. It's a different Karen impersonating

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Speaker 2: Soap operas. It was the eighties. Nobody it was like, fine,

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Speaker 4: I loved watching Full House, except whenever I kissed Danny

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Speaker 4: He didn't get it. He didn't. He was like young enough,

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Speaker 3: Right right, make believe.

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Speaker 2: You're like, you're not a human. You're like, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I said that to him, and oh, okay, well we

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Speaker 2: And oh, that's amazing.

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Speaker 4: It worked so fine, and he was he roasted me,

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Speaker 4: I never I never even touched I mean nothing.

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Speaker 2: Comics and I loved it.

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Speaker 2: as they come out. Oh remember, everybody. The world is small,

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