WEBVTT - Some Time With... Debbie Gregory! (Part 1) 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:20.360 Hey there, Fana Ritos, and welcome to an all new 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.919 episode of How Rude Tana Ritos. As you know, there's 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:26.760 an actress who's appeared on Full House more than once, 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:31.600 but as two completely different characters. She was first introduced 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:35.519 as Becky's sister Connie, then came back as Karen, and 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.400 will eventually appear as Connie again. Talk about whiplash and 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:42.480 if that isn't wacky enough, this isn't the only TV 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:48.040 show where she has played multiple characters. What Debbie Gregory 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:50.639 herself is joining the podcast today to tell us all 0:00:50.680 --> 0:00:53.760 about her roles on Full House and how this opportunity 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:57.240 came to be. So please give a warm welcome to Debbie. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:58.200 Do you hear me? Guys? 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.040 Oh yeah, Hi, there you are. 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:02.160 We can hear you. 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:03.960 Okay, can you see me? 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:06.560 I can't see you, but I can hear you. And 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:08.920 Jody just went to do a she went to get 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:11.240 a coffee or find a microphone, one or the other. 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:14.119 I don't know. I already see that cookie jar. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:15.720 Oh I know. 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:18.560 Yeah, I've got all my Full House swag behind me. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:20.720 What do you have? 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:21.959 You have your hat? 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.560 I have a hat. I still have this little fanny pack. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:30.440 Fanny pack. Yes, I have the fanny pack. I don't 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.200 think I have the hat. I am jealous. Where did 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.000 I put that hat? These are wrap party gifts. I'm 0:01:36.000 --> 0:01:38.280 assuming you have a. 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:41.240 Real practical Christmas gift that everybody probably needed. 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:45.759 A messenger bag. Yes see, I like the practical gifts. 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:46.039 You know. 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.680 It's like, there's only so many water bottles you need, 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:49.880 but a messenger bag. 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.720 Love it, I know, and I know it's storage. I 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:58.680 have a denim jacket and a Bomber baseball jacket. And yes, 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.720 it's never gonna die. No never, You're going to have 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.040 it in your heart and in the universe forever. Yeah. 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.000 The fans are the fans are so loyal that they 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:11.720 are just keeping this train going. 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:15.240 We love it. They love it. We're very excited to 0:02:15.240 --> 0:02:16.440 have you on the show today. 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.320 This is so honored and I'm so shocked that you 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:21.400 even want me on the show. That's so crazy. 0:02:21.960 --> 0:02:24.079 Oh no, we were like, do you think Debbie would 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:24.760 come on the show? 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.920 No, it's so funny how everybody makes well. They make 0:02:28.000 --> 0:02:32.320 such a big deal about the two characters, like. 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.720 Okah, this has been a big topic. 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.000 This has been a big topic, and we've only gotten 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:41.440 to your second your second episode of the five you 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.320 were on on Full House, so we just saw you 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:48.720 as Karen in the Greatest Birthday Party, Oh. 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.280 My god, the circus. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.640 I just watched it. Whenever Maddie contacted me, I was, 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.760 I'm so impressed with your whole podcast. I've been listening 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:58.240 since you. 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.320 So I love you. Yeah, it's been it's been really fun. 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:05.200 But yeah it was. We were like, I was like, 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.480 wait a minute, she looks really familiar, and then it 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:12.800 was like, wait that it was. It was one of 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.880 It was a great Full House esque moment, like such 0:03:15.919 --> 0:03:19.480 an eighties nineties sitcom moment in the soap op remote 0:03:19.480 --> 0:03:22.280 where it's like just don't yeah, we know you'd see. 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:23.119 The handle about it away. 0:03:23.120 --> 0:03:26.400 We're gonna yeah. But it was great and definitely something 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:28.840 that the fans UH love to pick up on. 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:31.960 But you know, I think that happened a lot like 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.480 I was on an I was on Hearts of Fire 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.720 with the John Ritter and Market Post and I was 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:42.400 first a guest star in their DC location and they 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:44.760 were going to set me up with Billy Bob Thornton's character, 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:50.120 and then the show moved to Uh, oh my gosh, 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.040 where they moved to. The producers were from I don't know. 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.840 They're from the South somewhere. So they moved moved to 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.000 the newspaper, local newspaper, and then I was their secretary, 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:03.120 so I came back as another character. Got it. It's 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:08.840 so interesting. And then on Full House, I think Jeff's secretary, 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:12.080 Robin was on a few times. 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:13.240 She's she's yeah. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.280 We've seen her once as one of the ripper parties. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.240 She was rocking out with her tambourines. 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:20.919 Yeah, that was like right around the time I was 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:22.599 on the Greatest Birthday. 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:28.200 Yeah, yeah, Yeah, that's exciting. That is so cool. 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.120 Well, we first see you as Connie, who is Becky's sister, 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:36.400 also the mother of Howie, who Michelle gets very obsessed with. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.360 Very fast. I don't know if you I don't know 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:42.120 if you heard the Howie episode I watched. 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:43.120 Oh I heard, yeah. 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.279 Totally, okay, okay, yeah, Howie. 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:47.039 Forty seven times. 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:51.159 Forty seven times Michelle says Howie, Howie. 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:57.279 And I said three words, two of which was probably Howie. No. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:04:59.320 I think I said something like that it's a cute 0:04:59.320 --> 0:05:01.840 couple or something. I have no line. So it's so 0:05:01.880 --> 0:05:05.000 funny that fans would even remember that little part. 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:11.080 Yeah, yeah, the fans are shows over. I mean again, 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.520 we know nothing compared to the fans they are. They 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.839 are guiding us through much of the much of the episodes. 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:21.479 But yeah, they definitely they definitely picked up on that. Now, 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:24.840 how I mean, I'd love to hear your story, you know, 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:32.200 three full house days. I heard that weirdly. Phil Donahue, 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:37.120 who just passed, uh this past week, is he the 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:43.000 person who initially encouraged you to start acting? And yeah, really, 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:43.640 how did that? 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:47.240 Okay, I'll give you a brief. I always wanted to 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:51.279 be a producer and okay, and in high school, Okay, 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:53.960 my best friend to this day, I'm going to see 0:05:53.960 --> 0:05:55.880 you're in San Clemente. Is Karen Miller? 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:57.800 Right? 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.880 Okay, so I know. So we went to high school 0:06:01.880 --> 0:06:05.120 together and then her father was the executive producer of 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.960 The Mike Douglas Show. And then he had to transfer 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.600 from Miami. We lived in Miami, Okay, transferred to Philly, 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.599 and so Karen lived with me our senior year, so 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:17.599 she didn't have to miss being with all our friends 0:06:17.600 --> 0:06:18.040 and stuff. 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.200 So then, of Karen, she's such a Karen Miller was 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:26.080 one of the producers on Full House and has sort 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:28.599 of stayed in contact. I know my mom has talked 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:31.640 to her throughout the years. We you know, followed each 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.960 other on social media and stuff. But anyway, for those 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:37.120 of you wondering who Karen is, she was a lovely, wonderful, 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:38.960 incredible producer that was on the show when we were 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.120 young and was always super sweet and kind as. 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:42.880 Yeah, you should have her on. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.880 We should, Yeah, we should get Karen absolutely. 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:47.920 Okay, that's a great idea. 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:53.039 Dad was in Miami and we almost died. Karen and 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:55.839 I found out that Casey and the Sunshine Band was 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.479 going to be on Michael Mike Douglas show. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.320 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yea. 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:05.080 That's like before your time and you weren't born, so we. 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.680 Know, but I mean I know of Casey and the 0:07:07.720 --> 0:07:08.640 Sunshine Band. 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.560 Yeah, okay, yeah. Well, so we skipped school to go 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.520 to this Mike Douglas taping and got to meet Casey 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:16.960 and I thought I was going to die and we 0:07:17.000 --> 0:07:19.160 took pictures with him and it was just so fun. 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.440 So they college, and I want to be I want 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.840 to do that. I wanted to you know, do TV television, 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:31.800 and so I majored in broadcast journalism at University of Florida. Okay, yeah, 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:35.360 and I I took off my junior year to go 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:38.400 intern at a TV station in Miami called w TVJ. 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.000 So I worked for public affairs down there, and then 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:44.040 I worked for a remember PM magazine. 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.560 I was a little bit like. 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:52.160 A precursor to Entertainment Tonight Act Yeah yeah, okay evolved 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:56.800 into more just you know, pop parazzi stories, but it 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.400 used to have more content. And so then I went 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.640 back to college. Oh when I left, you know, interns 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.600 always get offered a job and they're like, Okay, come 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:08.000 back when you graduate. So I went back my senior 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:12.840 year and worked on everything television, Like I was a DJ. Oh, 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:14.400 I was a DJ for a little bit, and then 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:16.480 I worked at the Tables station and then I had 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.800 a show called Come Together and I reported and produced that. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:26.120 And after I don't know how long, I guess I 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:30.960 was there, like one year, Playboy magazine came and I 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:33.760 went to interview them and they were like, I said, oh, 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.080 what are you looking for? And he's like, oh, blonde 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.040 hair and blue eyes, something like you. And I said, no, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:51.480 I'm not doing it, and so he goes, oh, you 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.920 can be dressed, and I said, all right. So I 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:57.320 was in the Girls of the SEC in nineteen eighty 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:00.679 one and then all I would say, I wouldn't even 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:03.280 give Playboy anything because I didn't want to tarnish my 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:08.560 reputation as a broadcast serious journalist. And all they wrote 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:12.480 is Wie wants a career in broadcasting. And that's the 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.880 way it is. And that's like what Walter Cronkite used to. 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:16.800 End all his right. 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:23.160 So anyway, I digress. I went to Miami produced the 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:28.080 show called Am South Florida Okay, and then that got canceled. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.240 It was in the eighties, and Phil Donahue hired me 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:34.800 to freelance produce for him for two months. He was 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.680 coming down to Florida and he said, oh, I know 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.240 you're out of a job, and so he hired a 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:42.840 couple of us from our show and for two months, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.520 and he couldn't take me back to Chicago. And he 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.679 just looks at me and he's like, you know, you 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:50.680 should really go in front of the camera. And I 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.640 was like, oh, well, what time is it. I don't 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.480 have a job. Okay, I'll try it. 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:56.240 And that's right. 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:02.679 Crazyly how I got in front of the camera so crazy. 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:08.920 I go to California, Karen's there page at CBS and 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.800 I'm like, Karen, you know, can I talk to the 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:14.960 casting director over there about going from behind the camera 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:17.280 to in front of the camera And She's like, yeah, sure, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.120 come in. So it was the casting director for Capital, 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:21.000 the soap opera. 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:21.720 Okay. 0:10:23.840 --> 0:10:26.600 I walked in like on a Thursday and said, hey, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.560 you know, told her my story and she hands me 0:10:29.600 --> 0:10:32.160 a script and says, read that line. And it was 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.920 like one line and she goes, oh, well, you wear 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.920 a bathing suit on television. I'm like yes, And so 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:41.000 on Monday morning, be here and wear a bathing suit. 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.880 And I got apart. I got one line on Capitol, 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:50.800 and so that got me crazily into the right business. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:55.880 Yeah did you do? Like? Was it a repeat on Capital? 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:59.000 Was recurring? It was a recurring part on Capitol. And 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.480 then Young and Less hired me after them, and I 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.320 was somebody's I don't I never really watched the show, 0:11:05.360 --> 0:11:08.680 but I was somebody's light attendant on her private jet 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.880 a blog. I don't know what her character's name was, 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.920 but yeah, So then I did those and then I 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:19.920 got an agent who said, oh, don't you soaps do 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:23.559 like sitcoms and commercials, and so I started doing that. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.480 So many people in this business start off in soap operas. 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:33.680 I mean a lot. Yeah, oh well you you have 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:38.559 me do maybe, yeah, gosh John John Brotherton John. 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:41.280 Yeah. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:46.360 Yeah. Definitely a lot of people in this business start, 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:48.520 you know, in the world of soap operas. And I 0:11:48.600 --> 0:11:51.280 will say, my hats always go off to soap opera 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.720 actors because it's a it is a it's a grind, 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:56.960 it's it's every day. It's a lot of different stuff 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:57.760 thrown at you every day. 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.000 So yeah, it's a great training ground for new actors 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.000 though you know, it's a trial by fire, just throw 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:04.480 you in there. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:08.200 And and sitcoms are right after that. I mean, I 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.760 mean every day, five days of tell, four days a week. 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:15.680 And then yeah, yeah, it definitely is it's it has 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:17.960 its own I mean, you know, I think we always 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:19.960 talk about, like, well, single cam has its own thing 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:23.920 because those days can be like thirteen fourteen hour days 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:26.439 and they're you know long, and you're on location and whatever. 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.000 There's there's nice pluses and minuses, you know, pros and 0:12:30.040 --> 0:12:34.080 cons to each sort of thing. But what how long 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:38.240 did you were you doing that before you then like 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:41.319 kind of got your first sitcom gig. Was it pretty 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:42.680 quick or did you find yourself? 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:52.680 So I moved out there in eighty six and then 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:59.839 I was doing the soaps and I don't know, do 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.200 you want to hear the tea met Jeff? 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:04.520 Okay? 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.360 Right, you can share whatever you you can edit it 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:08.920 out if. 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:10.840 You can always be like that, or we'll be like 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:11.880 I have Jeff here we go. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.960 Yeah, yeah, yeah, go for it. I don't think he 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:16.200 listens to this podcast. 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.040 So you're saying he does sometimes. I went to lunch 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.520 with Hey, yeah he does sometimes, but it's fine, no, 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:22.200 go for it. 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.320 I hope he gives us his blessings. 0:13:24.520 --> 0:13:26.480 You know he will, Oh my god, he does. Jeff 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.040 is yeah, yeah, he loves the podcast. He loves us. 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:30.680 So yeah, it's more all good. 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.320 And I just I just spoke with him a few 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.280 months ago. I know he had a surgery and. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.839 Yeah, yeah he's doing better. I went to lunch with 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.120 him on Tuesday and he's he's doing great. 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:43.240 So yeah yeah, so so. 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:46.880 Yeah, I know we love Jeff, but we know what 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.120 we know Jeff, So what's the tea. 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:52.240 Oh well, so I went with Karen to I was 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.040 on my way to move to New York in summer 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:58.160 of eighty seven. Okay, it takes me to the screening 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:03.160 of his movie Summer School, all right, right, okay, And 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.600 but I was on my way. I was leaving. Uh, 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.560 I had you know, I was in love and I 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.240 thought I was going to marry this guy in New York. 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:14.559 And so whatever I was, nothing really happened, and then 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.480 I had Uh. I flew to New York, only lasted 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.320 there a year, came back. I was in the commissary 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:28.720 with Karen, I think, and we I don't know what happened. 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:30.040 So I had. 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:33.480 I had no idea that you guys met through Karen. 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:36.080 I had. I like I had. I didn't know that 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:38.240 piece of of of the puzzle. 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:40.120 It's all yeah, I didn't either. 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:41.280 It's all her fault. 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:42.760 She's the matchmaker. 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:46.040 Now she wasn't. She wasted the match maker. 0:14:46.080 --> 0:14:48.560 She was just there, Okay, yeah, don't go. 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.840 She was probably like this is a terrible idea, right right, yeah, 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.760 She's like you're gonna go, right, yeah. I've had tons 0:14:56.800 --> 0:14:59.280 of friends like that. They're like, no, separately, you guys 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:00.680 are don't forces. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:06.920 Yeah, but we did. And it was anyway, So I 0:15:06.920 --> 0:15:11.600 think that episode Baby Love was just a weird episode. 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.800 And I was just around and he said, oh, do 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.320 you want to this part? It was like one line. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.400 Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a quick one. 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:23.200 It was was the focus was all on Howie. You 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.720 know what I mean. It was. It was the obsession. 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:29.440 You were just the device which got the legendary Howie 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:31.480 into the building. And then that didn't matter. 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.800 Yeah, it required a lot of training. 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:35.160 Yeah. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:38.680 It did, it really did. It was a lot of 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.480 It was a lot of work. And yeah, and then 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:46.720 and then it turns out Howie what was was. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:52.440 A young one, a young child, twin girls, how I 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:53.640 was played by twin girls. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.920 And then didn't she didn't didn't we say? She came 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:58.280 back to to play something else? 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:01.160 No, No, how he comes back in season four for 0:16:01.200 --> 0:16:04.920 the wedding, but he's recast as male actor as Okay, 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:05.920 got it, That's what it was. 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:07.800 That's what I was. 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:10.920 Yeah, well that how Wee. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:11.960 They were such babies. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:14.680 It didn't matter, that's yeah, No, it didn't matter. It 0:16:14.720 --> 0:16:27.560 totally didn't matter. Had you done other sitcom stuff prior 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.640 to Full House? Or was that your first That was 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:30.640 your first sitcom one. 0:16:33.280 --> 0:16:35.320 I had only done. I did some commercials. I did 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:41.160 a Budweiser commercial and I think a natural turky. No 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:44.800 that was after. Yeah, I did some commercials. Oh god, 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:51.400 I did a cigarette commercial even back then. Yeah, so 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:55.000 I was like, I'm not inhaling, so I hope I 0:16:55.040 --> 0:16:59.160 mean obviously right, Yeah, But that was it between the 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:02.680 soaps and a commercials. And then I had moved to 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:06.920 New York and my agents hated me being there. They 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.240 couldn't cast me in anything, and they said come back 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.120 to LA and I was like, oh good, because it's 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.560 not working out with this guy. So it all made 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:16.199 that come back. And so I was in LA for 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:21.960 ten years, doing sitcoms here and there and commercials. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:24.520 And so at this point, did did you prefer being 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:26.080 in front of the camera or did you kind of 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:28.120 miss being behind the camera As. 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:31.840 A producer, I would have liked to have like figured 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:36.400 out a way to do both. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and. 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.200 Yeah there's appealing parts about each job that you don't 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:40.120 get with the other job. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:41.920 Yeah for sure. 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:49.600 Now, one thing, one interesting thing about Karen is that 0:17:50.280 --> 0:17:54.119 when we we first see her as the aunt to 0:17:54.240 --> 0:17:59.000 a kid, that's that's not Howie. 0:17:59.160 --> 0:17:59.320 Right. 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:03.840 Well, first year as as Connie, whose mom to Howie. 0:18:03.840 --> 0:18:07.480 Then we meet her as Karen, who is the aunt 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.760 to a kid at Michelle's birthday party. Then we see 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:15.320 Karen again in season three. Oh yeah, as the time right, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.480 but this time she's a dance teacher who dates Danny 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:22.919 and ends up being a complete slob. Oh, so the 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.439 story of Karen develops. Karen. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:31.720 Yeah, I don't know if Karen in the in the 0:18:31.800 --> 0:18:34.840 birthday episode is the same Karen even and you know, I. 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:38.440 Ask it's a different Karen. It's a different Karen impersonating 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:44.080 the other Karen because she's already in person Connie is 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:47.679 already impersonating that Karen. And now that Karen has split 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:52.480 and is now impersonating the Karen. That's what I'm saying. 0:18:52.520 --> 0:18:55.560 Soap operas. It was the eighties. Nobody it was like, fine, 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:57.160 it doesn't matter, bring him back from the dead. 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.640 Yeah, and I think that, but we have to ask 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.560 Jack that question. Why. I mean, I'm grateful, and I 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.800 of course, you know, loved being on the show as 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.280 much as I could and so, but you know, I'm 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:14.680 sorry to any fans who are like, so. 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.280 No, this is great. Are you kidding? 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:18.360 Characters? 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.159 They know it's perfect. This is the brilliance of Full House, 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:26.520 and the brilliance of eighties television is that it just 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:28.840 didn't matter. It was like, it's fine, don't worry about it. Well, 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:33.080 you know, because there was so much time in like 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:37.119 a season went, you know, twenty two, twenty four, twenty 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:41.159 six episodes once a week, Like somebody you saw in 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.119 the beginning of season two, they could have come back, 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.479 and you were like that sort of vaguely for whatever, 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:47.119 like it didn't. You're like, oh, I saw him on 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:50.040 another show or something. It didn't. It's not like when 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:51.879 you watch him now, like back to back, you're like, 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:53.440 wait a minute, yeah. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.320 Because back then we would run the show and then 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.920 we would run a rerun maybe in the summer, and 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:02.320 then saw the show again. And now it's crazy And 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:08.080 I have three children. Now you're twenty five, twenty four, 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:11.960 and twenty two, and wow, my twenty five year old 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:16.680 was a baby, a youngster old enough to know right. 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:21.959 I loved watching Full House, except whenever I kissed Danny 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:28.160 rid of any block it so nobody would see his 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:29.600 mom kissing another. 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.560 Man, and oh my god, that's hysterical. 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:34.640 He didn't get it. He didn't. He was like young enough, 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:36.560 he knew I was kissing another man, but he didn't 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:38.000 get it was television and. 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.480 Right right, make believe. 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:43.120 Yes, well, kids, you don't. 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:44.800 You don't want to see your mom or dad kiss 0:20:44.840 --> 0:20:46.680 anybody like each other, anybody. 0:20:47.400 --> 0:20:50.840 You're like, you're not a human. You're like, yeah, yeah, 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:56.080 you're not. You don't have real feelings and people and things. Yeah. Now, 0:20:58.640 --> 0:21:03.240 so did your kids grow up than watching watching Full House? 0:21:03.600 --> 0:21:03.840 Yeah? 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:08.280 Sure, I mean I was. I was a celebrity in 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:09.600 their school. Are you kidding? 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:12.000 And oh, you know, it was really. 0:21:11.800 --> 0:21:17.080 Fun too, because oh my gosh. Okay, so Bob was 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:21.520 great at donating stuff for me, and I reconnected with him. 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.320 I don't know how he remembered this, but we were 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:28.480 at a Broadway show and it was intermission, and so 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.160 I was in the lobby area and all of a sudden, 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.320 some when he comes up and whispers in my ear, 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:40.880 I was rolling your socks while we were kissing. Was like. 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:43.760