Speaker 1: Hey there, Fana Ritos, Welcome back to an all new
Speaker 1: episode of How Rude Tanner Ritos. Today we have the
Speaker 1: back to the Future icon who doubled as Wendy Tanner
Speaker 1: on Full House. It's Darlene Vogel. And though we can't
Speaker 1: have Ginger the Chimpanzee on with her, if you know,
Speaker 1: you know, we will still be asking all the questions
Speaker 1: about that monkey and what that experience was like. And
Speaker 1: plus we can't forget that she was on the list
Speaker 1: of Joey's short lived romances. There's a lot to dig into, folks,
Speaker 1: So please welcome Darlene Ginger the Chimp. Hey, hi, Darlene.
Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome to the shy. Who is your little uh,
Speaker 2: your little dog friend there?
Speaker 3: Oh, this is one of them. This is miss Mazy,
Speaker 3: missus Mazy.
Speaker 4: Oh thank you, look at you.
Speaker 3: She's seventeen. I rescued her when she was fourteen.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, it's like two.
Speaker 3: Other ones and love it. You know, a whole farm
Speaker 3: over here, amazing.
Speaker 1: Big, we're big rescue dog people ourselves and oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: zoom too. So yeah, oh.
Speaker 3: Good, yeah.
Speaker 5: I volunteer at the at the Santa Monk, the animal
Speaker 5: shelter too, so I'm always trying to find people that
Speaker 5: take dogs, which.
Speaker 2: Is very hard these days. Yeah, I wish we could.
Speaker 2: My dog is an only child. We tried once at
Speaker 2: a dog park. We're like, let's to get.
Speaker 4: A note now. The second the other dog came up
Speaker 4: to me, it was a it was a no go.
Speaker 2: She's very possessive of me, which is a compliment, and
Speaker 2: also like, you're ruining your own fun.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we're so good to have you on the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah, it's fun, this is great.
Speaker 5: I mean I did David's show at the Full House
Speaker 5: rewind that was really fun.
Speaker 1: Little blast from the past that must have a little
Speaker 1: mini reunion between the short term mons.
Speaker 3: I know, I know, I go.
Speaker 5: I must have been really bad because I just went
Speaker 5: on a bike ride with him and never came back.
Speaker 2: So they gave Joey no Joey had like what four
Speaker 2: or five single episode girl friends maybe a long yeah
Speaker 2: yeah friend, we just never I never gave the pop
Speaker 2: Eye voice, but.
Speaker 1: The bull yeah yeah, yeah, that's what we got.
Speaker 3: On their nerves after a while. Right, We didn't know the.
Speaker 1: Show would go eight seasons.
Speaker 4: Eight seasons exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, no, so it wasn't you. We That's
Speaker 1: our number one note usually is that Joey never got
Speaker 1: a fair chance at a real relationship.
Speaker 2: So and you remained in the business. We have a
Speaker 2: long track record of also people doing the show and
Speaker 2: then never do anything again, And.
Speaker 1: So the child actions are.
Speaker 4: Jokes.
Speaker 2: They're like, and then they did this and never worked again,
Speaker 2: they left the business.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's kind of like when you went an oscar
Speaker 5: and then they're like, Okay, what that was it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a high point.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, when I won mine, it was.
Speaker 1: A lot easier.
Speaker 2: There's so much to get into regarding your role as
Speaker 2: a primate researcher on Full House.
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna have a lot of questions about
Speaker 1: the money questions.
Speaker 4: There's so many questions.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: In the list of things you can no longer do
Speaker 2: on television, which is have chimps on TV, it's not
Speaker 2: you are no longer Is.
Speaker 3: It dangerous or is it for animal both.
Speaker 2: It's very dangerous for anyone working with chimps, even if
Speaker 2: they like you, and particularly if you're just setting them
Speaker 2: upon people that they don't know. But it's also you know,
Speaker 2: it's not not great for the chimps. So yeah, you
Speaker 2: can no longer. You can't fly kids and harnesses, and
Speaker 2: you can't have monkeys on set.
Speaker 4: So in full house you can do in the full
Speaker 4: house the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, a lot of things happened back in the
Speaker 3: eighties and nineties, right that we can do.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so we're doing that now.
Speaker 5: I remember when the trainer said or someone said to
Speaker 5: me because I was so excited about working with a chimp,
Speaker 5: and some said, you know, darling, they could rip your
Speaker 5: face out.
Speaker 3: And so that's why sometimes.
Speaker 5: I see this seeing like I'm kind of like this,
Speaker 5: you know, like right, and then when I saw that
Speaker 5: he was all over John Stamos, I was like, you know,
Speaker 5: I mean, that's now that.
Speaker 4: I remember John talking about.
Speaker 2: They were very strict with you guys and said, do
Speaker 2: not look it in the eye.
Speaker 4: Do not look it in the eye.
Speaker 2: If you look a chimp in the eye, they take
Speaker 2: it as confrontational.
Speaker 3: Right. I like dogs, I mean, we should stare at
Speaker 3: dogs on the eyes exactly.
Speaker 2: But we're terrifying and yeah, yeah, and yeah, I remember
Speaker 2: John saying like I had to have this monkey crawling.
Speaker 4: All over me.
Speaker 2: But they were like don't look at it, like, don't
Speaker 2: look at it. Try not to be nervous because it'll
Speaker 2: pick up, you know.
Speaker 5: Anyway, Yeah, I know that kind of took the fun
Speaker 5: out of it. I was so excited to about it.
Speaker 5: It's just like I did a movie with baby tigers
Speaker 5: and then when I found out.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, I just go, you know what, we don't
Speaker 3: need to use animals. Animals, it's over.
Speaker 1: You know, just ai them in right right, No more
Speaker 1: ethical that way, Yes, for sure. Now, back in the
Speaker 1: nineties that like Friends also had a monkey as.
Speaker 4: A record, same character. Was it that it was the
Speaker 4: same chimp?
Speaker 2: Probably because by that time, I think by that time
Speaker 2: they were phasing it out and so whatever chimps were
Speaker 2: still working in the business. I think we're allowed to
Speaker 2: continue until they that they passed and that was yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think.
Speaker 2: If I remember, I think it was the same chimp
Speaker 2: because there were only like a couple of them that
Speaker 2: we're still around in that area.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, so.
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably, you know, there's only a few of those
Speaker 5: people that do all the exotic animals and they all
Speaker 5: know each other.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, yeah, they were always on full house.
Speaker 2: I had a lot of really incredible experiences with exotic
Speaker 2: animals as a kid because I was a huge animal lover,
Speaker 2: and so they would bring them over to set. I
Speaker 2: was always hanging out with Comet and his trainers, and
Speaker 2: they knew that I loved animals.
Speaker 4: They would bring.
Speaker 2: Wolves and raccoons and the spiders from Arachnophobia, baby leopards.
Speaker 4: So cool, skunks, all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah it was. It was really cool, but yeah,
Speaker 2: they definitely much anymore. Anyway, enough about the animal portion,
Speaker 2: although we're fascinated with it. We all love animals. When
Speaker 2: did you How were you when you first got into acting,
Speaker 2: and like, did you always know you wanted to do it?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 3: I started in New York.
Speaker 5: I thrown into modeling because I was broke and the
Speaker 5: sky on my Florida f I t was like, do
Speaker 5: you want to try I'm modeling. I was like sure,
Speaker 5: So I started doing that and that led him to
Speaker 5: commercials and then a manager saw me on a Crystal
Speaker 5: Light commercial.
Speaker 3: He was the manager of jewryst.
Speaker 4: Like I know, right, remember powder? Yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: So going God, that was a horrible job and it
Speaker 5: was a paid a lot, but they made me go
Speaker 5: to a tanning salon like every day twice again, and.
Speaker 4: I was like, back in the right here.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, my chemicals and thank yourself.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 5: So anyway, so he the manager, Julia Roberts manager at
Speaker 5: the time, it was, and so he just got me
Speaker 5: into acting and I just fell into it all. I
Speaker 5: didn't know what I was doing at all, you know.
Speaker 5: I was just like, Okay, sure, I'll try this.
Speaker 3: I could do a lot.
Speaker 5: Of commercials in the eighties a lot, and and then
Speaker 5: I moved out to la and uh, Charles in Charge
Speaker 5: was my first half hour and I think Full House was.
Speaker 3: My second, because then I did Back to the Future.
Speaker 5: In between, I did Back to the Future two movie, right,
Speaker 5: and then I think another movie and then I did
Speaker 5: Full House.
Speaker 2: So yeah, because I think they did Back to the
Speaker 2: Futures were kind of like in between.
Speaker 4: Uh do you remember ab r stand in Bobby?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah on the show? Was Michael J. Fox's stand in.
Speaker 1: Bobby's Oh he's so great.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, oh.
Speaker 3: That's so funny. I just saw him at an event.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, if you see him, please some high.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Bobby was one of our stand.
Speaker 2: Ins on the show Lovely Lovely Human Being, and he
Speaker 2: was also Michael J. Fox's standing on all the back
Speaker 2: to the futures.
Speaker 1: Yes, he was that same statue, that little stature with
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, yeah bring that. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I still see a lot of those people. Yeah.
Speaker 5: So that was in like eighty nine, ninety and then
Speaker 5: I did Full House I think in ninety two.
Speaker 2: So and then after that I did ninety one I
Speaker 2: think it was.
Speaker 5: It was a ninety one okay, and then yeah, then
Speaker 5: I did a lot of half hours and just kept
Speaker 5: going and yeah, I mean I still I don't act
Speaker 5: as much anymore because it's I'm suck. I guess that's
Speaker 5: self tapes because I could say, yeah, I can't do it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I work commercially in print wise now. But
Speaker 5: I did one movie last year that was it. But
Speaker 5: I was like, I book a dang job.
Speaker 2: Well, it's not like it used to be where you
Speaker 2: could go into a room and do a scene and
Speaker 2: have them give you notes or whatever and have.
Speaker 4: They go, oh you know what.
Speaker 2: I was thinking that this was what I wanted in
Speaker 2: the look, But actually I.
Speaker 4: Really like this now.
Speaker 2: Now it's like they just they see if you don't
Speaker 2: look like what they imagine, they skip right through the tape.
Speaker 5: A massive celebrities are doing guest stars now, and especially
Speaker 5: when a show's in its second season. I got, all right,
Speaker 5: I'm done. I'm retired from that part of my career.
Speaker 5: But I still enjoy doing it, you know.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there, we'll see. It's such a gusure.
Speaker 2: But Back to the Future was kind of your like breakout.
Speaker 2: That was like a big moment for you as well.
Speaker 5: It wasn't back then, because you know, I just had
Speaker 5: me in this small role. But I guess since social
Speaker 5: media and the Internet, because like when I went to
Speaker 5: a reunion twenty five years later, that's when I realized
Speaker 5: how big that movie was because people came in from
Speaker 5: all over the world. And I didn't even tell people
Speaker 5: I was in the movie because it was so old,
Speaker 5: right and and yeah, and I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3: And now it just keeps going.
Speaker 5: I went to Paris, I'm going to Milan, I'm going
Speaker 5: to Australia. That's the place New Jersey, right, not New Jersey,
Speaker 5: I mean right.
Speaker 4: That's what I mean.
Speaker 2: Again, Like it's so always crazy that something we did,
Speaker 2: you know, thirty years ago, like people are still so
Speaker 2: excited about It's wild.
Speaker 3: That's because of the Internet. Right.
Speaker 5: It brought us all together in that respect. I'm sure
Speaker 5: you guys do all those signings and see people all.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all the cons and it's so fun because people
Speaker 6: are so into it, like they it's you know, they've
Speaker 6: had thirty years to like absorb and reabsorb and they
Speaker 6: just are really committed fans, so nice fans.
Speaker 5: They're always so nice, and they're just so gracious, and yeah,
Speaker 5: it's really fun.
Speaker 3: It's really interesting. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: What was it like to be in like the sequel
Speaker 2: of such a big movie at the time, because I
Speaker 2: mean Back to the Future was was it intimidating it
Speaker 2: all or again? Were you like it's such a small
Speaker 2: part like what I was.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't even know.
Speaker 5: I was just like, I mean, I walked into my
Speaker 5: agent's office, it's like, hey, go on this audition, and
Speaker 5: I go okay, and I go in and just talk
Speaker 5: to the cats and director, and then a month later
Speaker 5: got called in again with my gang members and we
Speaker 5: just improved a scene. And then a month later they said, okay,
Speaker 5: you got the job. It's like for two weeks, I go, sure, okay,
Speaker 5: and then I was on there for two months and yeah,
Speaker 5: so I still get good residuals from it. Yeah, so
Speaker 5: I was just like, this is so cool, but yeah,
Speaker 5: it's just now when I mentioned it to people, like,
Speaker 5: oh my god, when you were in that movie, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, yeeah, yeah, I mean I'm really proud, you know,
Speaker 5: just like you guys, you should be proud that you
Speaker 5: were in this, like I tonic show that's last forever
Speaker 5: and just going and going and going, and.
Speaker 3: For sure it's a positive show to be in, you know.
Speaker 2: I think also like that, you know, the nineties and
Speaker 2: sort of late nineties, all of that era, like it
Speaker 2: was the last era of kind of everybody watching the
Speaker 2: same thing, you know what I mean. Once we started
Speaker 2: into the like mid aughts and streaming and like everyone
Speaker 2: kind of started filtering to their own different things. And
Speaker 2: so I think a lot of the appeal too is
Speaker 2: like you know, Back to the Future, Full House and TGI.
Speaker 4: Have all these things.
Speaker 2: Everyone has that as a common memory, you know what
Speaker 2: I mean.
Speaker 5: And there like a lot of those nineties shows are
Speaker 5: coming back, like they're making Baywatch again, Andy know they're
Speaker 5: doing that stuff, and yeah, I'm just hoping Pacific Blue
Speaker 5: came back.
Speaker 3: I got I think Detective Yes did you have fun on.
Speaker 4: How long were you on Pacific Blue for five years?
Speaker 4: Five years?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, the last two seasons I did half and
Speaker 5: then four because I was moving back east and I whatever,
Speaker 5: and then then I went straight to One Life to
Speaker 5: Live right.
Speaker 3: After that for like two years.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, yeah, that's a grind. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 5: But what was funny was I worked solidly for eight
Speaker 5: years and then when I came back and went to
Speaker 5: casting offices, They're like, Charlie, where have you been?
Speaker 3: And I'm like, I was.
Speaker 5: In the Witness Protection Program, I was on cable and
Speaker 5: on a soap.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, right, you guys, right, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean. It's like the soap bands know who you are.
Speaker 3: I mean for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 5: And the Pacific Blue ones were mainly like people from
Speaker 5: Australia and Norway and overseas, like they still love our show.
Speaker 3: But it's crazy.
Speaker 5: You always know the you know, demographic of the fan
Speaker 5: for the show you're on.
Speaker 1: It's funny, funny, Oh absolutely. What's the number one thing
Speaker 1: that people ask you when they come up to you
Speaker 1: at fan convention or just recognize you on the street,
Speaker 1: Like do they ask you to recite a certain line
Speaker 1: or what's what's wrong?
Speaker 3: It's fly you got no scrot? Yeah that one.
Speaker 5: I mean, how is Michael to work with? How is
Speaker 5: the hupper boards? And the crash scene? And some people
Speaker 5: think it was me who crashed and it wasn't. It's
Speaker 5: my stunt double and you know a lot of the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay, oh man, yeahs so funny. Do people recognize
Speaker 1: you from Full House too or not?
Speaker 5: No one recognizes me that much anymore. I mean I
Speaker 5: was at I was playing pickleball like a few months ago,
Speaker 5: and this guy goes, hey, you were that cup of
Speaker 5: Pacific Blue.
Speaker 3: And I'm like wow, wow. I mean I was like,
Speaker 3: right right, yeah good.
Speaker 5: If I went overseas, I would definitely be recognized for
Speaker 5: Pacific Blue.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, we got to go to Australia. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what a shame you have to go around the world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, tragedy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: But a lot of my friends didn't even know I
Speaker 5: was on Full House until their kids were watching and go,
Speaker 5: oh my.
Speaker 3: God, darling, we saw you want Full House.
Speaker 5: And you know they're you know, because the kids at
Speaker 5: that age, you know.
Speaker 3: They love it. They still love that show.
Speaker 2: Yeah great, yeah, I mean and you were you were
Speaker 2: on just for the one episode character was it too?
Speaker 3: There was a little bit of a second one second,
Speaker 3: one and right because never came back from the bike ride.
Speaker 2: Danny's younger sister Yes, yes, and which was funned younger
Speaker 2: sister yeah, and I.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I go.
Speaker 5: When I went on that audition, I go, I just
Speaker 5: threw it away. I was like, I'm not getting this.
Speaker 5: I don't look like him. I mean, how am I
Speaker 5: going to get this? And I remember Jeff Franklin, right yeah,
Speaker 5: and he goes, that was a really good audition, Darling.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, yeah, right, And I was just walking
Speaker 5: out of the room because no, it really was.
Speaker 3: I go, yeah, right, okay, thanks bye, and I walk out.
Speaker 3: I just threw it out the window.
Speaker 4: That's always the one that you're like, there's no hope.
Speaker 1: You're like, wait, what the ones you carry the least
Speaker 1: about are the ones that you get instantly.
Speaker 3: Exactly that you Yeah.
Speaker 5: My parents came to that taping and they could not
Speaker 5: believe how long it takes.
Speaker 3: To shoot a show. If anyone new how long it.
Speaker 5: Takes to shoot a show, it's just get really.
Speaker 4: They're like, oh, I'm gonna go see a sitcom taping.
Speaker 3: You're like seven hours later, You're like, it's.
Speaker 4: You're gonna be there for like four to five hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just beforehand exactly, yeah, exact.
Speaker 4: A lot of people were really like, wow, so it's
Speaker 4: not a half hour.
Speaker 2: You're like no, no, no, no, no, you have committed a
Speaker 2: large portion of your.
Speaker 1: Large, many many half hours to Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, I remember I was there. I think it
Speaker 5: was around Christmas. And then we got free turkeys or something.
Speaker 1: Dave Dave who gave out the turkey no take, Dave
Speaker 1: gave out lobsters one year.
Speaker 4: Who one year, yeah.
Speaker 1: Abster and a cooler like he gave that out as.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's such as how am I supposed to do
Speaker 4: with this?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it would have been maybe a little more useful,
Speaker 1: but I.
Speaker 4: Was just like, I'm not going to boil it. Like, yeah,
Speaker 4: it was a lot.
Speaker 3: It was the stage manager at the do you remember
Speaker 3: the stage man Richmond?
Speaker 1: Was it an end or Mark Sandrowski?
Speaker 3: Yeah, because they're just always so nice. Everyone was so nice.
Speaker 1: We had a great crew, such a.
Speaker 3: Really you had such a family. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Was that intimidating to come in when we were like
Speaker 1: so tight knit as a family. At season five we
Speaker 1: were well established was that.
Speaker 3: We had always is.
Speaker 5: I mean only because my own reference was Charles in
Speaker 5: Charge and.
Speaker 4: That was probably a lot more difficult set.
Speaker 5: It's funny on that show, I said to myself, if
Speaker 5: I ever get my own show, I will treat everybody
Speaker 5: down to the extra sys family. And when we got it,
Speaker 5: when we did Pacific Blue, we said it was a
Speaker 5: packed everybody. Yeah, every the extras, everybody. We are all
Speaker 5: part of the same show. It's a village and you
Speaker 5: got to treat everybody the same and doing.
Speaker 3: Our part makes a difference.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly, cannot go. It's a it's teamwork. It is collaborating.
Speaker 2: His business is absolutely collaborative and people.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Scott Baale was Scott Baio doing his thing
Speaker 5: with me. I actually met one of my best friends
Speaker 5: doing that show. She was my first friend in l
Speaker 5: A and we were both guest starring together.
Speaker 3: But it was just he was.
Speaker 5: Always trying to flirt with us, and we're like, I go.
Speaker 3: Who would date you? A good time?
Speaker 1: We did an yeh. He he did season three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was on an episode season and everything.
Speaker 3: I know, he was on everything. And then we hung
Speaker 3: out with them once at bar one.
Speaker 5: We were hanging out with him, and Nicole Eggert came
Speaker 5: in and we were all hanging out.
Speaker 3: So it was fun afterwards, Yeah, yeah, it was.
Speaker 4: We are set. We were very fortunate.
Speaker 2: Everyone had a really lovely time, you know, working on
Speaker 2: our show.
Speaker 4: And you looked a.
Speaker 1: Lot like Pam Tanner. The ceased was gonna say, yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, daughter, So I could see, yeah, you don't
Speaker 1: look like Danny. You looked more like Pam.
Speaker 3: No, but I don'tok like the girls.
Speaker 2: I mean, I like, yeah, you could see that the
Speaker 2: girls would.
Speaker 4: I think that was also probably intentional.
Speaker 2: Was like that's yeah, why did these blonde haired girls
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like there's got to be
Speaker 2: some more. Maybe Dani's adopted. He didn't know, who knows,
Speaker 2: Yeah exactly, but I did they just like throw the
Speaker 2: monkey at you and go here, now you act or
Speaker 2: what like? Did it start rehearsal? Did you guys have
Speaker 2: to meet the monkey the week before?
Speaker 5: No, we didn't have to be No, but but I
Speaker 5: didn't meet them on set. But you know, we really
Speaker 5: had this whole thing about don't do this, don't do that.
Speaker 5: When you put them to the couch, just just let
Speaker 5: go of your hand and he'll he'll go to the
Speaker 5: couch and you know, it's just it was. They took
Speaker 5: it very seriously about how to react with the monkey
Speaker 5: and stuff. But no, I met him for the first
Speaker 5: We didn't have a lot of interaction at all.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: They would usually be like.
Speaker 4: You do, they do their thing and then they go.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I remember being at the front door when they first
Speaker 5: meet me. I was just like sitting with them like that.
Speaker 5: It was the first time that I really got to hold
Speaker 5: them and I was just like, oh God, please don't
Speaker 5: rip off.
Speaker 4: I can't not think about it. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and John did have a lot more interaction, like
Speaker 1: physical interaction, like with the petting of the hair. So yeah,
Speaker 1: John must have been his life was in danger with
Speaker 1: that close to a monkey. That's wild.
Speaker 3: And I did my homework.
Speaker 5: I watched the episodes again yesterday and it was my
Speaker 5: episode where you two become best friends with the makeover thing.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, remember when Candice.
Speaker 5: Well what was her DJ was doing the makeover thing
Speaker 5: on you and then you two sided together against her,
Speaker 5: And I was saying, because you were always bickering or something,
Speaker 5: and then came friends and now look you have all together.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was the beginning of the kidney stuff.
Speaker 1: We were even lifelong frenemies and off screen just the
Speaker 1: best test of friends. So it's yeah, that's so awesome.
Speaker 5: I know, I love I have still my friends from
Speaker 5: Back to the Future and from Pacific Blue, and so
Speaker 5: it's it's always nice, you go.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, you are with people when you
Speaker 2: work on a set, when you work on a particularly
Speaker 2: on a show, like you were with these people more
Speaker 2: than you are with your family a lot of time,
Speaker 2: particularly if you're doing season after season, and particularly back
Speaker 2: in the day when it was you know, a season
Speaker 2: was eight months long. Yeah, you were spending a lot
Speaker 2: of time with these people, and they do they become family,
Speaker 2: you really, you go through all manner of things together,
Speaker 2: because yeah, life is still happening while you know, you're
Speaker 2: on set and you're expected to be there no matter what.
Speaker 2: So a lot of times you're going through death or
Speaker 2: loss or divorce or a new baby or an all
Speaker 2: manner of things, and you're going through it with those people.
Speaker 5: So yeah, and you guys were kids, I mean, you
Speaker 5: guys were kids growing.
Speaker 3: Up on set, you know, your.
Speaker 1: Childhood together, Yeah, for sure, and you're normal.
Speaker 4: Well, I don't anyone would say about me. But I
Speaker 4: could appear normal, that's for sure. I've learned how to
Speaker 4: pull that off. No, we are. We're relatively normal.
Speaker 1: And we avoided the curt the child Starkers.
Speaker 2: Exactly avoided it, but I definitely touched on it and
Speaker 2: then jumped out, you know what I mean. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I was sort of like, oh no, but yeah, I uh,
Speaker 2: it's been it's been fun to be in this business
Speaker 2: as long. You have your little friend there that's seventeen.
Speaker 2: What other doggies do you have? You said you had several.
Speaker 5: Oh I have, Oh yes, laying in the couch buddy.
Speaker 5: You can't see him. And Gidget, I think, is I
Speaker 5: don't know where she went? Gidget is another tow I
Speaker 5: always rescue, okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: And then I have two cats, one that adopted me
Speaker 5: from the neighborhood and another one that I gave a
Speaker 5: bath this morning. I mean, try giving a cat at bat.
Speaker 2: My best friend's cat sits in her shower and gets
Speaker 2: angry at her when she turns the water off. Oh,
Speaker 2: he will sit in the sink and turn the water
Speaker 2: on and just lay there.
Speaker 3: It's the straight the strangers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 3: Have that, and then we have a bearded dragon and
Speaker 3: he's outside sin.
Speaker 1: In the sun right now, sun bathing.
Speaker 3: And I do have two children. I do want children.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk to your actually huge two children, you're like,
Speaker 2: and there's also some humans.
Speaker 5: That she's seventeen, big yeah. And then my son's twenty two.
Speaker 5: He just graduated college and he's going to grad school.
Speaker 1: So's eighth. Yeah, I have similar ages. I have an
Speaker 1: eighteen year old daughter and a twenty one year old son.
Speaker 1: So we're right, we're right there. Yeah, it's different.
Speaker 2: And then I'm I'm seventeen and fifteen, so well almost
Speaker 2: fifteen in like a month. But yeah, yeah, the seventeen
Speaker 2: year old, she's at her dad's right now.
Speaker 4: But she's probably still sleeping as well. It's noon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's they love to sleep, they're professional sleepers.
Speaker 5: Yeah that's not normal for her, but I don't know what.
Speaker 5: She must have stayed up late last night watching something.
Speaker 3: I don't know, but you know, at this age, they're
Speaker 3: always in their room. Yeah you know.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, well we just did.
Speaker 2: It's funny because the episode recap that we did earlier
Speaker 2: today before we had you on, was an episode with
Speaker 2: Danny and DJ where she is like, I don't want
Speaker 2: to hang out with you. You're lame, leave me alone, you're snooping,
Speaker 2: like I'm a teenager and now go away.
Speaker 4: And we were just talking about how absolutely relatable that is,
Speaker 4: and like, you know, it's so sad. Yeah it is,
Speaker 4: but it also.
Speaker 2: I don't know, I'm one of those weird people, like
Speaker 2: I love watching my girls kind of become who they're
Speaker 2: going to be and like go out in the world.
Speaker 2: And I don't know, I guess I just I hear
Speaker 2: really wonderful things about my girls from other people, about
Speaker 2: how kind they are, and yeah, god.
Speaker 5: For yeah, you just hope that, Yeah, you pushed them off.
Speaker 5: My son is like after he graduated, goes, don't put
Speaker 5: me out into the adult world. Man, I'm not ready.
Speaker 1: It's a shock, a shock to the system.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I suggested a part time job to my kid this
Speaker 2: for the summer, to like get some gas money, and
Speaker 2: she looked at me like I had I was like.
Speaker 3: You're get me. I told my son, I go, I
Speaker 3: started my career at twenty two.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, yeah, are there a lot I'm like,
Speaker 2: but the look I was four.
Speaker 5: Breaking, right, Yeah, exactly what am I saying yeah, you guys, yeah,
Speaker 5: I know. I mean four, I wouldn't even I mean,
Speaker 5: you know what was funny When I was young, like ten, eleven, twelve,
Speaker 5: I used to go into the bathroom and take like
Speaker 5: a shampoo bottle, read it and do commercials in the mirror.
Speaker 3: Yeah you do. I know that. That's what I was.
Speaker 5: That was going to like, yeah, be one of my
Speaker 5: careers doing commercial I love doing commercials.
Speaker 3: I could do them till I drop.
Speaker 1: Commercials are great, right, great, Yeah I miss that because.
Speaker 3: It's not about you.
Speaker 4: You're just you were the prop.
Speaker 2: The product is the star, and you're just yeah, so funny.
Speaker 5: I mean now I keep doing all skincare stuff like
Speaker 5: I did j Lo, I did Goop, I did jubaderm
Speaker 5: all the fillers.
Speaker 3: Hey, I know, I got free filler and no, I
Speaker 3: don't look weird. Thank god. You can do a killer.
Speaker 4: You know you can't. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: That's when you start at twenty and you start filling
Speaker 2: everything and then you're like, yeah, what happened?
Speaker 6: Yeah yeah, so that's amazing.
Speaker 2: I love that you're you know, still working, still doing stuff,
Speaker 2: rescuing puppies, having family.
Speaker 5: It's you know a lot of pickleball to playing a
Speaker 5: lot of Yeah, pickleball.
Speaker 4: I have never played pickleball, but.
Speaker 3: Don't even start because you'll be obsessed. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I just have one more question, do you because everyone
Speaker 1: asked us, oh, do your kids? Oh yeah, do your
Speaker 1: kids watch you on Full House? Are they impressed? And
Speaker 1: our kids could not be less interested in our career?
Speaker 1: So y, yeah, do your kids react to your work?
Speaker 3: Yeah? When they were young, and if I popped up
Speaker 3: on TV, they'd be like, oh my god, there's mom,
Speaker 3: and you know.
Speaker 5: But if I'm on TV and I'm sitting here and like,
Speaker 5: say one of my Lifetime movies or whatever come on,
Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, look I'm on TV, They're like, uh,
Speaker 5: friends are more impressed.
Speaker 3: They're friends. Okay, look you know, look your mom's on TV.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. And she hates that her friends follow
Speaker 3: me on INSTAGRAE yeah, yeah, I hate that. I can't
Speaker 3: post her.
Speaker 4: That.
Speaker 2: The other day I posted a picture of Zoe she
Speaker 2: got her driver's license and I.
Speaker 1: Was very excited today, congrats.
Speaker 4: I posted a picture and then like a couple hours later,
Speaker 4: she's like, only god, ah, my friends are texting me.
Speaker 4: You posted the worst picture. I was like, is that
Speaker 4: a terrible picture, right.
Speaker 3: It looks stupid.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, well.
Speaker 3: I was, you know, yeah, my son doesn't car.
Speaker 5: He's like, go ahead, post me so it looks like
Speaker 5: on my Instagram page, I just have.
Speaker 3: A son, because yeah, I can't.
Speaker 4: Like my kids have disappeared. I'm no longer allowed to
Speaker 4: post them unless it's a far away shot.
Speaker 3: She's playing soccer. I could do that, you know.
Speaker 2: I was like, do you want to put a sticker
Speaker 2: thing over your edge? She was like, oh, yeah, do
Speaker 2: do that.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh yeah, I get it.
Speaker 3: Oh, Joe Day, I forgot to say that.
Speaker 5: You worked on Be on the Edge and my boyfriend
Speaker 5: Jay was the showrunner.
Speaker 3: Jay Beanstock, Jake Beanstock, tell you, I said, hello, I will,
Speaker 3: I'll see him after this.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, shove them, I said, Hi, give them
Speaker 4: a big hug for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was some show. You were a trooper, man,
Speaker 3: it was intense. That's intense.
Speaker 4: That was Yeah.
Speaker 2: That was probably the hardest thing I've ever challenged myself
Speaker 2: to do.
Speaker 3: Were you weird and you did it?
Speaker 2: I'm so happy I did it, and weirdly, like, if
Speaker 2: somebody were to ask me to do something like that,
Speaker 2: I'd be like, yeah, I do it because I think
Speaker 2: I've just forgotten.
Speaker 4: About how traumatic come are.
Speaker 2: Right, It's like childbirdre You're like, no, I actually think
Speaker 2: it was fun and then you're in it and you're like, oh, wait, no,
Speaker 2: this was not fun.
Speaker 4: But no, I actually loved it.
Speaker 2: I like, uh, I like pushing myself, you know.
Speaker 4: And it was also it was for a great cause.
Speaker 2: It was for you know, for charity, and yeah, and
Speaker 2: everyone was lovely to work with.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Jay was really fabulous to all of us.
Speaker 3: And I know he could be intense.
Speaker 2: No no, no, not to me, because I was just
Speaker 2: as intense back look, pook me out in the jungle
Speaker 2: with no sleep and like no food.
Speaker 4: I was intense. I was like, no, I couldn't do it.
Speaker 5: No ways, I get bit up and I'd be welted,
Speaker 5: like blown up from all the bites.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah it was.
Speaker 1: It was so where was Jay staying while Jody was
Speaker 1: in a tent? Oh?
Speaker 2: Like they were like they had a base camp like
Speaker 2: forty five minutes through the jungle, like kind of more
Speaker 2: towards like a little more towards civilization.
Speaker 4: But it was like they.
Speaker 2: Were like a good thirty forty minutes drive away we
Speaker 2: had an emergency like sat okay okay phone that we kept.
Speaker 4: At night, but at night, and that was it. No, right,
Speaker 4: the only person that stayed.
Speaker 2: We had a snake guy who just made sure that
Speaker 2: at night because it would pour down rain, the snakes
Speaker 2: like to hide under where you sleep, And we just
Speaker 2: were on raised like platforms like maybe six inches off
Speaker 2: the ground, and you know, if you had to be
Speaker 2: or something.
Speaker 4: You'd step right off of it.
Speaker 2: So if we had the snake guy to make sure
Speaker 2: that no one got bit by a snake in the
Speaker 2: middle of night. Wow.
Speaker 4: But other than that, we were out there all by ourselves.
Speaker 3: Yeah, wid Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They started like tents.
Speaker 2: I don't know what they're a common dations were like
Speaker 2: I feel like they were probably pretty comfy.
Speaker 3: I don't remember. I mean I wasn't.
Speaker 5: I didn't know him when he was shooting it, just
Speaker 5: right after so, but I know because he watched Survivors,
Speaker 5: so like he said, they would always be intense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were like a full base camp with like
Speaker 2: you know, food and floors and all of that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: because we would drive by it sometimes like on the
Speaker 2: way out of the jungle, you're like, oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: I have any other shows reached out to you to
Speaker 5: do any other survival shows after that, Yeah.
Speaker 4: But they several have, but I'm like, no, I'm not gonna.
Speaker 4: I would do it personally.
Speaker 2: I don't need to do it for a show again,
Speaker 2: just because I've I've done reality TV and I I
Speaker 2: have my thoughts about reality TV because it's just never
Speaker 2: real right, And I'm like, I don't need to do
Speaker 2: it again. I've done it right, I've done the things
Speaker 2: I wanted to do.
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 2: I did ballroom dancing, and I did the Jungle, and
Speaker 2: then after that, I'm like, no, there's nothing else I.
Speaker 1: Need to You've done it all.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: But anyway, this was such a pleasure to have you
Speaker 2: on Derlin. Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 3: Sorry, it's awesome, so.
Speaker 4: Really really fun.
Speaker 1: I really wish it had worked out between you and Joey,
Speaker 1: Like you would have been the best girlfriend.
Speaker 3: Girlfriend and all the time. How come they didn't bring
Speaker 3: you bed? You're not a fuller house?
Speaker 1: I go, yeah, I mean, Franklin, I didn't you.
Speaker 5: Franklin ended up being my neighbor. I mean it was funny, yeah, funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Here like five years later or whatever, I was
Speaker 3: living right next door to him. I'm like, dude, let
Speaker 3: me back on the show.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, yeah, that's funny. Well, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Where can people find you if they want to find you?
Speaker 2: On socials?
Speaker 3: Darling Vogel on Instagram. Okay, yeah, that's all I'm really on.
Speaker 5: I mean to tell me, it's all I do is
Speaker 5: follow food and pickleball on Instagram.
Speaker 1: Now, so I love that sounds good to me.
Speaker 4: All Right, Well, thank you so much for going on.
Speaker 1: Thanks, see you later. Oh my gosh, she looks great.
Speaker 4: She's doing those skinning care commercials.
Speaker 1: She looks back like I'm ready to go buy all
Speaker 1: of the products. She chills because she looks fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she looks. She was and Shan is super sweet
Speaker 4: and lovely.
Speaker 2: Oh it's just it's such a small world, this business
Speaker 2: about how everyone sort of, you know, cross pollinate.
Speaker 1: It's so true. It's so true, and I'm just so
Speaker 1: bummed they didn't bring her back. She would have been
Speaker 1: a great. She would have been great for Joey.
Speaker 2: To be honest, I forgot that they ever brought in
Speaker 2: a a sister for Danny.
Speaker 1: Well because it was only those two episodes, like one
Speaker 1: and a half.
Speaker 2: Really, so maybe maybe they didn't want to talk about
Speaker 2: the unfortunate accident that that Wendy Tanner how much mention
Speaker 2: Ginger the monkey. Yeah, yeah, I was didn't go well,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, we didn't.
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe it was that she she couldn't.
Speaker 2: She was molded by a chimpanzee and and uh and.
Speaker 4: Just never heard from again.
Speaker 1: So it's a shame. It's unfortunate and unfortunate demise.
Speaker 2: But uh, yeah, she to have her back on and yeah,
Speaker 2: I you know, I'm gonna be honest though, I have
Speaker 2: never seen Back to the Future too.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen Back to the Future too. I've seen one,
Speaker 1: the version one maybe once. Yeah, oh I've seen it
Speaker 1: maybe once or twice.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Classic.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like they shot that over towards me, like
Speaker 1: in Whittier and Puente Hills, like at the mall at
Speaker 1: the Pony Hills Mall, they put out a big sign
Speaker 1: every October twenty first or twenty fourth, whatever the date
Speaker 1: is right, and then people go and take photo ops
Speaker 1: at the mall like it's like they shot it all
Speaker 1: around like northern Orange Country area. So yeah, yeah, yeah I.
Speaker 4: Have I have not I've not watched it often.
Speaker 1: Now you have your homework.
Speaker 2: Now you have your homework. Much one homework, so much homework.
Speaker 2: But thank you guys so much for joining us. That
Speaker 2: is going to wrap up our interview with Darlene Vogel.
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us fan Rito's, We
Speaker 2: love you guys. You can follow us on Instagram at
Speaker 2: how Rude Podcast. You can also send us emails at
Speaker 2: how Rude tan Rito's at gmailed like and subscribe to
Speaker 2: the podcast whatever platform you're listening to it on, go ahead,
Speaker 2: and you know, give us, give us some stars, give
Speaker 2: us some rating, Let us know how you're liking the show.
Speaker 2: Let other people know how you're liking the show, because
Speaker 2: we always would love to.
Speaker 4: Have more fan uritos join us.
Speaker 2: So and also check out our our merch store, Howarude
Speaker 2: meerch dot com.
Speaker 4: And and yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's it.
Speaker 4: Thank you fantos.
Speaker 3: That's it. That's it.
Speaker 2: Oh god, yep, we covered everything. So remember everybody, the
Speaker 2: world is small. The house is full.
Speaker 4: Of chimpanzees, full of them, and you can't look any
Speaker 4: of them in the eyes. You just got it. You
Speaker 4: gotta look down the whole time.
Speaker 1: It can't work, They can't work anymore. In Hollywood.
Speaker 4: We can't know. It's just they're taking up all your
Speaker 4: furniture space.
Speaker 1: They're pettying.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, they're playing all of your poker like it's.
Speaker 4: You know, you know how they do.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of scared of the chimpanzees now. Don't look
Speaker 1: them in the eye.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, don't look them in the eye. Well, if
Speaker 2: you ever actually come in contact with one, don't look
Speaker 2: at video.
Speaker 1: It's not likely. So we have a lot of wildlife
Speaker 1: here there.
Speaker 2: If you were to come and contact one, it'd probably
Speaker 2: be a pretty upset monkey and you should probably not
Speaker 2: be there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll put the binoculars away and run.
Speaker 4: Right, You better slip on those shoes and run.
Speaker 3: Girls.
Speaker 1: See it's it's yes. We're getting off track now, yes, okay,