Family Time With… Janice Sweetin

The Tanners may have been Jodie’s sitcom family, but in reality it was her mom, Janice Sweetin, who was driving her to set everyday and changing her own life to accommodate ABC’s newest little TV star. Find out how Stephanie Tanner was ready for the spotlight immediately and which cast members had to be regularly reminded to keep it clean around the kids. And they honor Andrea’s mom, Sherry Barber, another supportive parent that helped make Full House possible. And yes, Janice still hates Sea Cruise.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hello, welcome back. Hi Jody Sweeten, Hi Andrew Barber. How's
it going.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
It's going great. I'm sitting here sweating in the middle
of this heat wave that we're having in la is.

Speaker 3 (00:29):
Very very hot, but I have to say you're looking
mighty cool in your T shirt there, my friend.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
This is one of my favorite T shirts.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Since this is a podcast, I will describe it. It
is a white T shirt with my signature across the
front of it, and it has a very important story
to go along with it, which Andrew BARBERA, would you
like to give a brief synopsis of that story in
the branker that went along with it?

Speaker 2 (00:57):
This is this is great, This is great. Let me
start it all off and then we'll okay, you know,
we'll volley back and forth. Okay, okay. So this was
during the Fuller House days. I don't remember what season,
probably season two, it.

Speaker 3 (01:09):
Might have been last the last season, the fourths, maybe
fourth seasons. Yeah, it doesn't know, it was I don't
know whatever, somewhere in there.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Somewhere in maybe our Fuller House tapings. So as part
of like, as part of the live audience show every
Friday night, we would do giveaways for the audience members.
So we would autograph scripts or headshots or just any
sort of show memorabilia, or if the props department had

(01:37):
extra props lying around, we would sign those. Just any
sort of memento from that week's episode. The warm up
guy in the audience would use it as you know,
bribery or just treats for for the audience.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
And so we would usually sign those items earlier in
the week.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Correct, correct, right, just to prep prep for the for
the Friday night show.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
So earlier in the week.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yes, on one particular day, on a non camera day.
So this was like a rehearsal day. Rehearsal in the morning,
and then we had a run through in the afternoon
for the network and this so.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
Right, that's when all the writers and the executives come down.
A run through is like just a rehearsal day. You've
been rehearsing the script all morning, you're still making writing changes,
all of that, and they come down for a run through,
which is basically no cameras, but you go through the
entire show top to bottom, basically kind of like live theater,
and everyone comes and you see what jokes work because
the joke has to work and then all of all

(02:36):
of that kind of stuff. So but we do the
second day rehearsal, we do full like dress rehearsal with
costumes and things and all of the full props and.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
All of that stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:48):
So that was what was happening on that day was
we were getting ready to do our run through.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Yes, this was about all our props, like five minutes
before run through and we come downstairs. We come down
from our dressing rooms and there's a lot of a
long table filled with props on the table. So Jody's like,
all right, well, I got a sharpie, I'm gonna sign.

Speaker 1 (03:08):
No, no, no, there was there was a thing that said
please sign this anyway something on there to sign, And
then I made the assumption that everything on the table
was included in that sticky note, which really was just
referencing like the one item that's wanting.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
Script or right now.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
I proceeded to sign a white football helmet, a foam fingering,
just everything that was on that table with um, just
my sharpie all over it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and then
walked away and was like, yeah, so our prep.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Prop master Steve, Like God bless Steve. He's just one
of the best humans.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Steve is amazing.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
Yeah, yeah, he's the best. So he comes over. I
don't even know what he said to you, but all
I know, all I remember is you coming over to
me right after run through started, and you're like, I
signed all the props, signed everything.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
So every the entire run through, everything kept appearing, just
the white helmet that like Jackson walks in the front
door wearing, and just my signature on the side of
it for no apparent reason.

Speaker 2 (04:16):
Rarely in my life have I seen Jodie Sweeten legitimately embarrassed.
I can probably count on one hand the number of
times I've seen you, yep, legitimately like red cheeks embarrassed.
And this, yeah is what was it?

Speaker 1 (04:29):
This was one of them, for sure.

Speaker 2 (04:32):
Yeah, And I told her at that moment, I'm like,
you're never gonna live this down. You signed all the props.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
All the everything, and they had to spend like hours
then taking like stuff to clean off said white football
helmet and buy another phone and just I mean all
I've just I'm an idiot.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
I'm an idiot.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
So anyway that then during run through and tape days
the next two days, I would be finding little post its. Well,
and then there was a thing I post I covered
your door in a wall of post its with all
signature a post right, and so then the next day,
after the post it signatures on your door, then you
came back and you were you and Steve were signing

(05:15):
some You had the post its and you'd pull them
and I would go to pick up a mug or
pick something up and look at it on taping by
the way in a live audience, and there would be
my signature at the bottom of it, just on a
post it, and I and like, in the middle of
a scene, I'm like, don't laugh, don't laugh. Uh, but really,
the the the pinnacle of this hall came when you

(05:37):
did this.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
I developed a plan. I was like, I'm gonna pull
the ultimate prank on Jody. So I printed up. I
got Okay, Kim Moffett, who we've referred to her in
previous episodes, our beloved friend Kim Moffitt and Melanie Samuels.
They were breshed an assistance. They did basically everything on
the show except act. They did all the other roles anyways.

(05:59):
So I and I roped them into helping me, and
I was like Okay, I have to do something epic.
I want to take a copy of Jody's autograph and
put it on two hundred and fifty shirts. I want
to dress our cast and crew in Jody's autograph. Yep.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
And so tape day. By the way, on tape day.

Speaker 2 (06:21):
So Kim is like, oh, I have a file. I
have a file which is like a digital fast. I
was like, great, So I ordered two hundred and fifty shirts.
Kim and Melani managed to get the sirt the T
shirt size of every single person who worked on our show,
and then we organized all of it. I ordered the
shirts and then it was like assembly line. We were
just like, okay, we got to go to the you know,

(06:41):
the engineering department. Okay, now we go to the go
to the writers. Now we gotta got to hair and makeup,
gotta go to props everywhere, and I was like dressing
the entire cast and crew. The dog, the dog dog,
the even comet.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
The dog Cosmo had a shirt.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
And then we organized it so that I think you
had a later call time.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
That yeah, I had later call time. And I walk
in and it's silent, like there I could.

Speaker 1 (07:06):
I was like, am I and I'm like dude to
do and I'm like, oh my god, am I am?
I late? Am, I early?

Speaker 2 (07:12):
Am?

Speaker 1 (07:13):
What is happened?

Speaker 3 (07:13):
It was so eerily quiet for a tape day, which
usually there's you know, the beginning of the day, there's
buzzing going on and people and rehearsal whatever. I walk
from my car, walk through the stage and I come
around the corner and in the living room set is.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Nearly all of the cast, nearly.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
All the crew, the full cast, the Dog, the Dog writers,
I mean everybody, boom, operators, operators were upstairs. Everyone Like
I walk in and everyone is seated in the living
room with this shirt with my signature on it. And

(07:52):
it was one of the it was the all time
best prank moment joke.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
It was you you you really you won that one,
a b you won that one.

Speaker 3 (08:05):
And it all documented on your on your YouTube as well.

Speaker 2 (08:08):
You you actually did it is a vog on my YouTube.

Speaker 1 (08:11):
You can look at Dog.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
You can go watch it and you can watch the
whole little episode that she did about it.

Speaker 1 (08:16):
Was absolutely ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Oh the look on your face.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
And I don't think laughed so hard in a very
long time. Yeah, I just I lost it.

Speaker 1 (08:24):
It was great.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I wear this shirt fondly and I think of you.

Speaker 3 (08:28):
I think even didn't even the weird baby stand in
have a shirt.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, weird baby stand in had a shirt. Everybody had
a shirt.

Speaker 4 (08:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (08:35):
And by the weird baby stand in, I mean the
weird doll that we that was like the thing that
we would put in its place, and it was a
very terrifying looking thing.

Speaker 2 (08:42):
It wasn't a human, yeah it was.

Speaker 1 (08:44):
It was not Yeah, it was not a human. It
was a it was a fake. It was a doll.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
It had no it was not real. Did nobody panic?
But anyway, Yeah, that was one of the best moments
and really really solidified your place in my heart. Ab
And uh it's I still have those Jodie sweet and shirts.

Speaker 2 (09:03):
Yeah, it's such a great memory that I hold in
my heart forever and still never let you live down
that you signed all the props.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
I signed all the props.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
I depending on who goes first, I'm signing your earn
or vice versa.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
Yes, you have just got a sharp be ready, like
ready to go. Well today we have I mean big
news today.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
This is huge. This, this is a huge day.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
This is a huge day. On Howard Tiana Rito's we
have a guest, do we have? We have a.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Guest, and you know, because we are in support of
the strike and all of that, we are not having
some of the guests that on the show, uh, such
as actors and things like that.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
But today's guest has all of.

Speaker 3 (10:00):
The behind the scenes info and and knows us pretty well.
It has known us for a very long time. Uh,
you guys, it's my mom, Janice, Sweeten Jane. Welcome to
the show, Ma, Janice, Mama, look at you.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
There, you are there, you are hello.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Hello, Wow, Janice, it is so great to see your face.
I haven't seen you in years.

Speaker 5 (10:30):
Well I think I saw you at the wedding.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Yeah, okay, so it's been a year.

Speaker 1 (10:35):
You Jody, just celebrate it's been a year.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
Her first anniversary. So yeah, okay, so it's been it's
been a year. Yes, yeah, that was a busy day.
It was a great day.

Speaker 1 (10:44):
Yes, but yeah, welcome to the show.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
Mom. I'm happy to be here.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
And and you see I can't see it.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
Hold it up to tip it forward a little bit.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
Oh, it's the picture of all of us and all
of our moms from Fuller.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah, three girls and the three moms.

Speaker 5 (11:02):
Yes, it was my birthday and we all took a picture.
And I wish your mom was here in a day
me too. It would be so much more fun.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
If she was. If she was still here, she would
be on this zoom. She would be nervous. She would
be like, I don't understand this technology. I'm nervous. Do
I have to turn my camera on? She would be
right there.

Speaker 3 (11:20):
It would be yeah, it would be I'd be way
better than just us to Virgo.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yes, right, it is Virgo season all the time with mom.

Speaker 5 (11:28):
She's here.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
Definitely.

Speaker 3 (11:30):
Absolutely well, Mom, I'm so glad that you could join
us today. You know, we have been having fun going
back and watching these original episodes on this show, and
it's so many things that I haven't thought about in
literally decades, because you know, I didn't really ever watch
the show.

Speaker 1 (11:50):
I wasn't.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Did we sit around I mean, that's actually that's a
question I have. Did we sit around as a family
and like watch the show, Like did you and Dad
watch it when it aired? Or because I don't, I know,
I didn't, I didn't really care. I mean most of
the time Friday nights we were anyway, But like, was
it like a thing or were you guys there and
you were like I like me.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Like, we lived it, I don't care to relive it.

Speaker 5 (12:12):
By the time it was done, I had the moms
who were there every day with you girls had lived it, right,
but we still wanted to see it all put together
with the music, add it and all of that. So
Dad and I watched it. You were never interested in
watching anything you did, just aside, I've done it, and yeah,

(12:32):
you know that's fun. That was you.

Speaker 3 (12:34):
That's yeah, still very much like that. It's yeah, I
don't we watched it.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
Dad watches them.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
That's true, my dad.

Speaker 5 (12:42):
My dad is to say, I caught one the other night.
Oh it was Stephanie smoking in the bathroom at school
that g g.

Speaker 1 (12:51):
It all started their mom.

Speaker 2 (12:53):
Yeah that was one.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yeah, that was one of the later ones, right right right.

Speaker 5 (12:57):
That was probably the last final season. Yeah right, but yeah,
we watched them.

Speaker 1 (13:01):
Okay, we were proud.

Speaker 5 (13:02):
It was fun.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
So janis whose whose idea was it for Jody to
become an actress? Like, is this something she talked about?
I mean she started so young at four or five,
so I don't know. Did she have dreams at the
ages of.

Speaker 3 (13:16):
By the way I was telling I was telling the
mom about the tapes that I recently found or that
I had recorded that I haven't given to you yet
actually to listen to again. But the little interviews that
you did with me when I was like two and three, so.

Speaker 5 (13:30):
I kind of think it was it came from you.
You were such a ham and you love performing. You
were in a little dance class, and it just I
think the time. The thing that got me is when
there was a little recital and you fell and the
audience kind of laughed, and who didn't you stood up and.

Speaker 1 (13:48):
It was like, oh I fell, Yeah, yeah, my god,
I didn't remember I fell. Oh that makes so much sense.
And yeah, oh I have control over that, not overfalling down.
I have no control over falling down.

Speaker 5 (14:01):
You kept saying I want to be a modeler. I
want to be a modeler, and I'm thinking, what does
that mean? And people kept saying to me, even your doctor,
you know, she's kind of special. You gotta maybe see
about getting her on TV or doing something. And I thought, well, okay,

(14:23):
you were in pre school, and I thought this will
be a little adventure for us, and we'll see if
we can get an agent and see if she likes it.
We'll go see if she likes it. And so the
first time you actually worked was an Oscar Meyer commercial
and the minute the camera rolled, I swear you lit up.

(14:46):
And there she is. There, she's loving this. And you
always did. Yeah, it always always seem to enjoy it.
And I used to say to you, and I'm sure
your folks said the same thing, Andrea, if you ever
don't want to do this, well stop, you know. I
used to tell you that all the time. Now, I
didn't know what full House would do if they would

(15:08):
let you out of your contract or right, maybe you
have to wait till the end of the season and then.
But I always told you, you know, if you don't
want to do this anymore, we'll stop. But I just
saw you week after week having so much fun, and
you too, Andrea, I could tell you were having fun,
you know, oh yeah, and your mom and I were

(15:28):
having fun.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
So oh oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:30):
It was a sisterhood. Yeah, you guys were a sisterhood.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
We were, really we were.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
Now when being that little, were you ever nervous that
people were going to think like that?

Speaker 1 (15:41):
You were sort of the stage because.

Speaker 3 (15:43):
You're so not and everyone that knows you so knows
that you're not stage moll you know what I mean,
You're very much like I don't want the attention. Was
that ever something that you were like, Oh, I don't
want people to think this is like my you know
what I mean, that I want this or that I
you know, I.

Speaker 5 (16:01):
Didn't really want people to think that. But you know,
you can't control what people think, and they're going to
form their own conclusions. But it's funny because on Full House,
there was not a stage mom on that show, really, no,
you know, we were all there just for the right reasons.

(16:21):
We all took for the good care of our kids,
and we were ever present, you know, Bob and Dave
would and John would, you know, as tested. But yeah,
I just felt like, I know that's the stigma that
will be attached. But I worked very hard not to

(16:42):
be that person, you know, to make sure you were
having fun, you were enjoying it, your needs were being
met you yeah, did you were well fed, you were happy,
you were keeping your grades up at school, you had
friends outside of the show, and we tried to make
it as normal for you as we could, even though

(17:03):
it was very existence for all of us.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
What do you remember from that first season of Full House?
You're just starting out. This is JODI's like first full
time job, Like she's booked as a series regular on
a show that is going to become a massive hit.
Do you what do you remember? Because we've been, you know,
struggling with our memories of that first season. So what
do you remember of little five year old Jody with

(17:29):
the curls on the set?

Speaker 5 (17:31):
I remember making those curls jar dippity dow on my
head as I've heard her, you know, tell about what
I honestly, what I remember was just such pride. I
was just so proud of you, Jody.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
I mean I think MoMA, I mean.

Speaker 5 (17:48):
You were just very special and you still are, but
you just you're comedic timing and just I was, and
I was proud of in a little person, your work ethic.
You got it. This is the thing I tell so
many people who've said to me over the years, you
know about you know, how do you get your kid

(18:09):
in the business or what do they need to have?
And you just got it. You were there and you
knew that this was something bigger than you that was
going on here. And I think all kids who work
in the business successfully have that that they know that
there's something going on here. That's a group, it's a
big it's a big grown up thing, and you, you know,

(18:31):
you have to be responsible. And you just had that
in you and you did too, Andrea. You kids had
that the ability to study lines, to work hard, to
be prepared, and to look at this little person. You know,
I thought, oh, I thought she was, but look at her.
And I just had so much fun watching you and

(18:52):
you were funny, and yeah, that's that's what I thought.
And I, you know, the first season was kind of
it was kind of a roller coaster because it started
out and it looked like it wasn't going to make it.

Speaker 1 (19:03):
It looked like this same we didn't the show.

Speaker 3 (19:05):
We did our first episode and it was like and
then we didn't know if we were going to get
picked up or did we do thirteen shows? Originally no,
we just did the pilot, and then it.

Speaker 5 (19:15):
Was like it might have been eight, but ABC.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
Probably and then eight.

Speaker 5 (19:21):
And I've heard you girls talking about this. They started
off as a buddy show also with kids over here,
you know, kids over and kids were the kids were
props right for the Buddy and it started out like
that and it was flailing. It was not working. They
were not picking up an audience. And and I know

(19:41):
you had more background on us than I, but there
was a change. The last one that was so bad
was Sea Crewise.

Speaker 1 (19:51):
What did I tell you?

Speaker 2 (19:52):
Wait?

Speaker 1 (19:52):
Hold on, what did I tell you? Did? I not say?

Speaker 3 (19:54):
He just did the Secrews episode, And I said, my
mom hated that episode. She talked about how it was
not full house. So I love that you even by
name named it. You were like, it was Seacrews.

Speaker 5 (20:05):
I told this was the one that was the last
one before you felt this change. The dynamic changed. It
was more family focused, it was more kid centric, and
it worked. It worked. That's when the warmth came in
and the love and the humor was just different. And

(20:28):
that's when it became full house and it took off.
And then it went eight seasons, and how many episodes
per season was like twenty two or twenty three.

Speaker 3 (20:38):
Between twenty two and twenty four, we did one hundred
and ninety two episodes total, So that divided by eight
would be a math number.

Speaker 1 (20:46):
Yeah, I that would be a thing.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
Somebody right in until somebody, Yeah, someone.

Speaker 3 (20:53):
Do that math us, But yeah, it was you know
in the days of like network seasons when you actually
spent you know, eight or nine months out of the
year together, right when like you were getting in the
business and all this stuff was there, Like what was
your I don't know that I've ever asked you this,
What was your biggest fear in getting me into that?

Speaker 1 (21:13):
And what?

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Like what were the things that you were most worried
about at the time, Like was it weird because we
don't come from a at all, even a tangentially famously
related nobody.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
You know, I had no idea what I was getting
us into. I mean really, but I just always felt
that we were going to take it, well, here's another show,
one step at a time. But I was going to
take it one step at a time and see how
you did and how we did as a family. And
I thought we were just going to maybe just do

(21:48):
a few commercials. Right then all of a sudden, you
got an interview for Valerie, which then became Good Family,
and I thought, oh wow, and you got it and
you did that one, that one theatrical show, and from that,
the producers of Bullhouse had the show, and what's going

(22:12):
to do with in the next pilot season and pre production,
and they signed you to a deal where you couldn't
go out on other pilots or anything. It was a
holding deal. You're in. Both of your agents, Judy Savage,
I was so excited, you know, Judy super She said,

(22:33):
I've never seen this happen. This doesn't happen anyway. They
signed you to this holding deal to do Full House
in the spring, and we thought, okay, and then the
show you know, you automate, you just got it and
off we went. So it wasn't like we had this
plan where we were going to audition you over and
over again until you've.

Speaker 4 (22:53):
Got a movie.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
This kind of happened, you know, And then we took
it one bit at a time. But I could see
you week to week enjoying that stimulation and enjoying the comedy,
enjoying all the people. And and I'm here and you
girls had a wonderful social worker slash teacher, Adria.

Speaker 3 (23:18):
I think you're gonna I've talked about Adria later on here,
how wonderful she was.

Speaker 5 (23:24):
She was on it. She was always looking up for
your welfare. All I would have to do is say
to her, I'd look at you and I'd see you
doing a little dance, you know, and I'd say, Jody
needs a potty break, Jody has need and she will
go right out I mean no, right out there and
stop whatever.

Speaker 3 (23:42):
And that, you know, that is to her credit because
it is one thing that is really required of, you know.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Teachers slash social workers.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
In this business is kind of you know, having the
ability to go up to a first a d and
be like, hey, after this, uh, we're going to stop
and take a fifty to break because the kids or.

Speaker 5 (24:01):
The clock, they're on the clock and they're done in
a half an hour, so you better figure out what
you're going to do because that takes that load off
the parent. The parent get walked out in the middle
of us scene and say, you know, you've got to
let this kid have a break. She really she was
fabulous and she really looked out for you girls. And
you had wonderful teachers throughout. But that was one thing

(24:25):
I always felt good about. The moms were around. Your
mom and I especially were there every day everything either
be in Jody's dressing room talking to me, or I'd
be in there with you, or she'd be reading, or
I'd be doing something. But we got together all the
time throughout the day and checked in with.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
Each We were both also Orange County people, so that
was we, uh, Andrea and her mom and you and
I made you know, quite a schlap the track the
trek from Orange County did.

Speaker 5 (24:55):
And you know your dad's would carpool up there on
tape nights. I don't even remember that. That's yeah, yeah,
there together.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (25:03):
And then you remember those when we were at Laura
mar or Sony. We went through a period of time
where we would stay up there one night, That's right.

Speaker 3 (25:11):
We would stay at the hotels. The Red Lion. Wasn't
that one of the hotels that we would stay at.

Speaker 5 (25:15):
Not at the time, I can't remember. It was a
Mariotte or.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
Something, didn't I okay, now here's a didn't I get
my head stuck in an elevator or not stuck?

Speaker 1 (25:23):
Per se there?

Speaker 5 (25:25):
Okay, you were getting on the elevator?

Speaker 4 (25:27):
Thank you?

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Please please tell the story because I know it happened
to me. And when I tell people that I got
my head caught in an elevator, they look at me
as though I have three heads, and I'm like, I
swear to you I know it doesn't sound common, but
let me tell you I can pull things off. Wow,
And what happened? How did I get my head stuck
in an elevator?

Speaker 5 (25:45):
I don't know. I don't remember. And I remember the
time you jumped off the elevator. We were all on
this elevator in Las Vegas when we were.

Speaker 1 (25:55):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and you got yeah.

Speaker 5 (25:57):
We were all in there together and you were more
towards the front and open the doors open, and you
got out the door's closing on, yelling, oh my god.

Speaker 1 (26:05):
Oh that's right.

Speaker 3 (26:06):
I was lost in a Las Vegas casino when we
were there shooting for at the Hilton. Yeah, at full House,
and I was wandering, yeah, wandering around, days before cell
phones before everything, just hanging out in the casino. I
won fifteen grand, though, Mom, So you can't be that mad.

Speaker 5 (26:23):
Obviously you were found.

Speaker 6 (26:24):
So Jan wants to set the record strings though obviously
you were found, Like yeah, good time. What was it
like being you know, you mentioned a little bit about
Bob and Dave and John and sort of the you know,
the antics, and you know, I always make it clear

(26:48):
like everyone we all loved each other, and you got
like they loved the parents and you got you know,
but it was you know, it was sometimes you were like, you, guys,
you seriously.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Cannot you cannot do this. What was that like as
a mom?

Speaker 2 (27:04):
Because we thought it was cool as kids?

Speaker 3 (27:05):
We were like, and did you guys have like mom conferences?
Was it like you and Sherry and Barbara or like
you like would go and be like this we have
to see or.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
Like we may have done that from time to time,
or we may have independently song we may might have
seen something and acted on it with you know, but
there again.

Speaker 1 (27:25):
I went to Adria right right right, yeah.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Exactly, and she had to talk to the boys.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Yeah, yeah, the parents.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
The parents are unhappy.

Speaker 4 (27:33):
I took that, you know, right, the heat off.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
Of me, but you know, they tried to be good.

Speaker 1 (27:41):
But yeah, well, you know there's a couple of stand
up comb.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
Especially you know, we've left Bob. But Bob, he just
didn't have control when he really you know, he was
thinking of a joke and he just couldn't hold it in.

Speaker 3 (27:54):
It just I cannot relate to that at all. I
don't know what that is like. Andrea has never seen
me make an inappropriate joke on the set of Fuller
and then shudden suddenly realized to my horror that.

Speaker 1 (28:09):
I'm standing for children. Yeah I really did, I really?
I I yeah, I would say I was like, I've
just taken over Bob's role as being the one to go,
oh god, the.

Speaker 5 (28:20):
Kids are We did try to remind them. I mean,
you know the kids, you know, the kids are here, and.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
Yeah, and they were good, they were They were good
most of the time about it.

Speaker 1 (28:30):
But you know, it's your.

Speaker 3 (28:31):
It's it's fun to have fun and be silly, make
inappropriate jokes. Do you remember one of the things I
remember doing.

Speaker 1 (28:42):
With you that I loved was every well every year,
every couple of years, we would decorate our.

Speaker 3 (28:48):
Dressing rooms, like at the start of every season. Do
you remember doing that?

Speaker 1 (28:51):
Andrea? Did you?

Speaker 3 (28:52):
Did you have like a favorite? Did you ever do
a theme for your room? Or were you too old
for that? Or was it just was it just us
mind that we did?

Speaker 2 (29:00):
I just basic?

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Just god?

Speaker 5 (29:02):
Ever?

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Was there I remember a themes? Though? What themes?

Speaker 5 (29:06):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Yeah, well Mom also likes to interior decorate. But mom,
what we we had a we had a Disney theme.

Speaker 5 (29:12):
I think it was mostly like Mickey and Minnie, wasn't
it or was it all Disney? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (29:16):
It was like Mickey Minnie in Red and we had
like a little day bed in there. We did a
like a tropical theme one time with the you know
we did that.

Speaker 1 (29:25):
I think it was a.

Speaker 3 (29:25):
Paper mache macaw that I had actually from a really
cool art gallery that I wish I still had.

Speaker 5 (29:33):
It was in Boston. We found that thing.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
Yeah, didn't I have there? Wasn't there like a little
paper mache chimp that went with us?

Speaker 1 (29:40):
Also, Oh my god, wow, I haven't thought about it.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
I could remember the name of the artists.

Speaker 1 (29:45):
I do too, Yeah, but yeah, I mean.

Speaker 5 (29:49):
Brian cale Remember Brian Calee.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Brian Klee was our dialogue coach on Full House.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
He recognized the artist right away when he saw those.

Speaker 4 (29:58):
Things, and oh yeah it was some huh.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
But I wish what happened to that monkey?

Speaker 5 (30:05):
Yeah. Yeah. Wanting to make it feel homey for you.
You were so little in the beginning, and I just,
you know, I felt it would be fun because you
had a kind of a little Mickey and Minnie playroom, right.
We had an extra bedroom at home, so we made
it into a room for you to play and hang
out with your friends and yeah, and we did it

(30:27):
with Mickey and Minnie. That theme so kind of felt
like home.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Yes, now, Mom was very you were. You loved to
have a room done with a border, and you were
always made things.

Speaker 1 (30:37):
Look great the queen. Oh, yes, yes you were. The wallpaper.

Speaker 5 (30:42):
Wallpaper was you.

Speaker 1 (30:44):
Know, a thing that very eighties.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Very wallpaper was as eighties as John's mullet.

Speaker 1 (30:50):
It really was.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
In fact, I bet you somewhere out there is wallpaper
with John's mullet on it.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Just it's just a border of mullets.

Speaker 2 (30:59):
Jeans. I know it was important to your family as
it was to mine, to keep your kids grounded and
have as much of a normal childhood as possible while
having this surreal experience of being a full time child
actor on a hit TV show. So how did you
manage to give that to Jody, To give her this
normal childhood and keep her as grounded as she is

(31:23):
you know, which is it's just as generous.

Speaker 5 (31:25):
But yes, she went to public school on the days
that were just rehearsal days. You probably did too. She
went to school in the morning and I pick her
up at lunchtime, and that was always fun because she
never knew what I'd have.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
For her lunch, That's true.

Speaker 5 (31:45):
Donalds at Taco.

Speaker 4 (31:47):
Or yeah, yeah, you know, just whatever.

Speaker 1 (31:50):
Her favorites, Mexican pizza from.

Speaker 5 (31:52):
Tao pick her up. And then we got and the
they had a schedule production out of schedule that the
adults would rehearse in the mornings without the kids, and
then when the kids came in from school, then they
would then they would rehearse with the kids. They had
stand ins for you kids in the morning, and then
they'd slip you guys into the scenes that they had done.

(32:14):
And then so he did that on those days. Then
on camera days, you had to be there all day,
so you couldn't go to your regular school. You did
your school in the classroom on set those.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
Days, right, But so you were going in and out.

Speaker 5 (32:30):
Of both worlds. You were in school with your friends,
and you did get in trouble for talking in class
all the time. But you know, just normally, you know.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
It's nothing has changed there, No, can't shut up.

Speaker 5 (32:41):
You had you had friends, neighborhood friends and school friends.
We would you know, organize things with them to come
over and swimmer or birthday parties or sleepovers or.

Speaker 3 (32:54):
Yeah, like most of my friends that I like played
with and hung out with and stuff like in the
neighborhood and things were had regular kids, you know, just
regular kids. Nobody was was it weird? Did you notice
like other kids be weird to me?

Speaker 5 (33:09):
You know? Really? Not until middle school and then I
started getting I was okay. You know, I felt like
we were in control of the situation. She's on this show,
but we're keeping normal and real. We reminded her, you know,
people treat you special, but they're all special. It's you're

(33:30):
not more special. It's just what you get to do
is special. But everybody has something special about them. And
we did this thing at autograph signings where everybody everybody
got an autograph. She stayed and she did it. Or
if it was a mall or someplace and they were
running out of time, it's okay, then just let the

(33:52):
whole line come through and say hello. At least say hello.
And because we always said, you know, these kids deserve this, Yes,
you know, they are important too, and so this is
we I mean, we instilled this, I think, but middle
school the show ended. I think we had a bit
of an identity crisis at that point.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
It's hard well show it I was like eighth grade, right,
like end of eighth grade, thirteen.

Speaker 5 (34:19):
You're thirteen, and now the show has gone. This thing
for eight years of your childhood was a huge part
of your identity. And now you're in school and there
are kids who are treating you not in a normal way,
not treating you.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Like well, kids were always shitty to me.

Speaker 5 (34:35):
School weren't so bad though.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
No, no, they weren't as bad, but they were. Yeah,
it was just your typical nonsense. Now middle school was
middle school was right, But middle school's just they're just awful.

Speaker 5 (34:45):
I can't it's yes, it's really an ugly.

Speaker 3 (34:47):
Eight They need you the most and they really are
the worst. What was it like for you when that
when the show ended, because it was also you know,
you're saying it was a big identity crisis for me,
Like I know it wasn't necessarily an identi any crisis,
but that.

Speaker 1 (35:01):
Was a lost part of your life too. You know,
I'm sure you were a little.

Speaker 5 (35:05):
Bit lost because we had this routine. You know, it's
like anytime you have a routine or you know, a
rhythm to your life, right, and we were used to it.
Stopping for a few months in between seasons. Then when
it didn't start back up, and I was a little Yeah,

(35:27):
I was a little off, And so that really gave
me more empathy for what you were going through because
we were going through it together in a way, except
I wasn't having to go to school and you know,
try to adjust and live in the world. But yeah,
it was a little took some adjusting. It did in

(35:50):
the beginning, and I was mostly concerned about you, Jody,
because I knew, Oh what an awful age. I mean,
I was thirteen ones, I know, and I just know
it was going to be tough to go into middle
school with that. I thought, oh, let's did not foresee
this when we started out when she was fine?

Speaker 3 (36:08):
Well, right, I mean that's you know, who would have
seen that the show would go until I was in
middle school?

Speaker 1 (36:13):
Middle school scene and you get a pro right mm hmm. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
My senior prom, I uh yeah, I was working the
night have senior prom. So I brought my date. I
put on a tuxedo, I put on a dress.

Speaker 5 (36:27):
We took pictures, you prom pictures on the set.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
Yeah, we promp pictures in the smash club, I believe,
weren't We doing a we were doing a smash club
scene and they let you go early that you had
a heart out and they let you go early and
so you could change and you were like already had
your hair on your bike and you were ready to go.
And your date came there and like the full house family,
we all sent you off like a real prom, like
a real family, except it was just on a set.

Speaker 1 (36:51):
And who was your date?

Speaker 2 (36:53):
That was my boyfriend Ben who that's right. I wonder
why that didn't work out, Like can you imagine like, yeah,
come right, come to my prom and let's take a
picture with the like the audience was watching and cheering,
like the whole thing.

Speaker 1 (37:07):
Were oh my god.

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Yeah it was yeah, but it was great because you
guys were my family.

Speaker 3 (37:16):
So that was It was such a weird family moment.
I've had that moment before where I've introduced people that
I've like been dated or whatever been like okay, so
not only do you have to meet like my actual family,
but you have to meet my other actual family and uh.

Speaker 1 (37:30):
Yeah, so there's like two two.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Sets of hoops to jump through. But oh man, yeah
that's right. Promma.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
So many great milestones that we shared together and are right.
Moms were right there for all of it.

Speaker 1 (37:45):
Did we've run lines in the car? Did you run
lines in the car? Like on the way up?

Speaker 5 (37:49):
Was that?

Speaker 1 (37:49):
Like I forget kind.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Of how we I'm trying to remember. I don't, you know,
as kids were such sponges and it's so easy to absorb,
like you just I think as our memories are better
as kids. So kids just memorized line. It was quicker
now at age forty.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
Every morning there'd be a newscript on the porch. I
always wondered for you, who drives this way out to
Orange County.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
In the middle of the night, Messenger services opened the.

Speaker 5 (38:14):
Front door, it still be dark outside, and there was
a script. And every day it was color coded, you know,
yellow or pink, right, And I'm sure SHERI did this,
but I went through it, and I always I highlighted
your lines.

Speaker 3 (38:28):
We know Sherry did this because we had an original
script from Andrea's audition that Sherry had written it.

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Yeah, she wrote the page numbers and highlighted and doggy
at the page.

Speaker 5 (38:39):
We get our bit to whatever to help you, you know,
And then on the way in you would read we
didn't run lines because I couldn't read with you hiding
the car, right, but you read your lines in the
car you went over them?

Speaker 3 (38:56):
Was there an age I hated just doing that at
some point.

Speaker 1 (38:59):
I feel like when I got into the.

Speaker 5 (39:00):
Middle, when you got towards the end there, uh, you
didn't want to. So I don't know, we.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Didn't want to in front of you because you was.

Speaker 5 (39:10):
Just well and you'll see when you get there how
this works out for you now.

Speaker 3 (39:17):
Andrew, you were older than I was, so like, did
you have that vibe like with your mom too, like
when you were like thirteen where you're.

Speaker 1 (39:24):
Like, oh god, it's.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
Just yes, And I think, okay. You know, it's a
double edged sword because we spent so much time with
our mom, more than the average teenager because most kids
are in school for most of the day and then
they're after school sport. Well, we're our moms are at
our after school sport with us, you know, right there
watching us do our work, and yeah, these are our
most formative years. So yeah, as a teenager, I remember

(39:49):
fighting with my mom and always on a freeway, parked
in traffic on the one oh one freeway. You know,
it's like that's the time that I would choose to
pick a fight with her, of course, because she's a
captain somebody.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
I just think about you and your mom, like, oh,
they always just got along so great, everything was fine,
they were great.

Speaker 1 (40:07):
Yeah, good job.

Speaker 4 (40:07):
No, we've had no clue.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
We would have our typical, typical mother daughter fights, you know,
just about clothing or makeup or curfews, you know, just
the normal teenage things. Yeah, but that's the great. That's
I feel like I was closer to my mom because
of that experience. For as much as fight, as much
fighting as we did in those teenage years, I felt

(40:29):
like we became closer. And I is that the same
for you guys? You or maybe you haven't spoken in
thirty six years.

Speaker 1 (40:36):
Yeah, we haven't spoken. Nice to see you again moments,
but I'm glad we've.

Speaker 5 (40:38):
Spent I just always treasured the idea that I got
to spend a lot of time with her. God, childhood
goes so fast, your kids grow up so fast, and
I just I just treasured every moment that we had together.
I remember when we first started out, you were little
and our car had a bench seat.

Speaker 1 (40:59):
You Yeah, well, okay, can we describe the car that
we had though it was a like a nineteen seventy
eight Mercury Montigo, was it not? Which is huge?

Speaker 5 (41:11):
Right? And she and Jody you would scoot over next
to me. Yeah, and you had just a center lap.

Speaker 1 (41:17):
Belt, just a lap belt. I mean we were lucky
we had that. It wasn't just your arm, you know,
them was all on my arm.

Speaker 4 (41:24):
And go to sleep by my arm. Oh, I was
in heaven.

Speaker 5 (41:29):
I thought, oh my gosh, I'm getting the app Oh
at least had the presence of mind. And no, you
know how lucky I was that I got this extra
time with Jody. But of course then later on when
she hit twelve and thirteen.

Speaker 7 (41:44):
Yeah, you get out of this car, yeah right, right right,
well then you then we had a car that had
a car phone in it, so we didn't have a
bench seat anymore.

Speaker 1 (41:53):
We had a car phone. Yeah, you had to go
drop it off for three days to be installed.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Legendary. Yes, I felt so cool when we got a car.

Speaker 1 (42:02):
We had to have one though.

Speaker 3 (42:03):
We had to have a car phone because when we
were driving back and forth between like school and work,
if there was traffic or something happened. I remember Mom
having to call Adria or I'd have to get the
you know, the phone out. She'd be okay, dial Adria
and I'd you know, dial whatever, like the set number
the you know, and have to let them know like, oh,
we hit an accident or there's going to be fifteen

(42:24):
minutes later or whatever. Or I slammed my Remember when
I slammed my hand in the DORMA was running late?

Speaker 5 (42:30):
No, I don't remember that.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
Yeah, we were running late and it was we were
at Lormar. We were parked in the big parking structure
and we were running late and I slammed my finger
in the car.

Speaker 1 (42:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:42):
See, all your injuries just blend together for Janis because
there were so many.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
And now you're always hurting yourself, slamming yourself in the
head in an elevator.

Speaker 5 (42:51):
Various injuries at school. You broke your wrist.

Speaker 4 (42:56):
Yeah, yeah, I think that might have been the last year.

Speaker 5 (42:59):
But you know, the the only time they had to
shut down production was for you, Jodie. When you've got flu,
some kind of a you're running a high fever, and
you were saying, and this was a mom's nightmare, because
this was what the mom's dreaded because you're you're balancing,
you're balancing the welfare of your child.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
What was that like?

Speaker 5 (43:23):
Knowing how much money it would cost to shut down
production and let all these people down. You really need
to be sure that it's not a sniffle or it's
like you know, yeah, pressure had a high fever and
I took you to your doctor that time. It was
doctor Low, wonderful doctor, and he said, I don't you know,

(43:46):
I don't want her to work. I don't think she should.
I don't think she should be doing.

Speaker 4 (43:51):
So on his he had to tell them he had
to he had to call.

Speaker 3 (43:57):
And then didn't I have to get I had to
get uh inspected. I had to get checked out by
like the set doctor because for insurance. I mean, they
do have insurance for something like that. But I remember
having to go up to Culver City.

Speaker 1 (44:10):
Didn't I That's where he was. Yeah, Yeah, we had
to go to that set doctor and I was like
really down.

Speaker 5 (44:16):
I don't remember for how long, if it was that week,
if they had to like yeah, but I mean there
was that. There were other times when you might be
sick for not feeling well and they would either write
you light or write you out right. But I think
that when.

Speaker 3 (44:32):
I don't think I ever got written out though, but
light Yes, I don't think I ever, but yeah, wow.

Speaker 1 (44:39):
I forgot about that. How old? But what season was that?
How old was I?

Speaker 5 (44:42):
I don't know. It probably was Middle maybe Okay, you
got you.

Speaker 2 (44:48):
Got you remember this? So yeah, I think it was Middle.

Speaker 5 (44:51):
Remember when you got chicken pox?

Speaker 2 (44:53):
Yeah, I don't remember this. You got chicken pox. You
have to quarantine from the rest of the first.

Speaker 3 (45:00):
The first one I got was on my forehead and
I scratched it. I still have a scar and I
had a bigger scar on during the show.

Speaker 5 (45:05):
Do you know what it was? You just something itched? Right?

Speaker 1 (45:09):
Did I?

Speaker 5 (45:09):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (45:09):
What do we have to do? Did I? Did I
give everybody on set chicken box? What did I know?
Or was that in between?

Speaker 5 (45:16):
That might have been one of the times that that
might have been one of the times that they wrote
you why or or something right? And Stephanie got the
chicken pox. That was a cute, right, that was really cute.
Do you remember that one?

Speaker 7 (45:32):
Right?

Speaker 1 (45:33):
The Trench Code episode?

Speaker 5 (45:34):
Have you seen the Trench Code episode yet? Guys?

Speaker 1 (45:37):
We have no, We have not gotten to that one yet.
I think that might be a second season.

Speaker 5 (45:40):
I just remember you trying to sneak out the door
and Uncle Jesse catching you.

Speaker 1 (45:45):
Okay, what was your favorite Full House episode?

Speaker 2 (45:50):
Good question, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (45:53):
Sea Cruise obviously your favorite episode you put any episode.

Speaker 3 (45:58):
I don't even have to ask you which one did
you not like the most, because I know it's that one,
no idea. I mean, it's probably been a while since
you've seen them.

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Time.

Speaker 5 (46:08):
Was that the time when Little Richard smacked?

Speaker 2 (46:12):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (46:13):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (46:14):
I you know, it's funny that you bring up Little
Richard because I, no joke, have had three Little Richard,
not incidents because he's.

Speaker 1 (46:24):
Dead, but three Little Richard.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
I read an article about him this just this morning
and was like, oh, I remember the time that he
backhanded me, So it's so weird that you bring that up.
I read an article about him today, and then like
two days ago, Titus Burgess had posted something on his
page about Little Richard and I started to type something
about the time that he backhanded me, and I was like,
this is not the time nor the place, but it

(46:50):
was just about like wishing that At the time, I was,
you know, probably nine years old, like I knew Little
Richard was a big deal, and I liked all these
music but not realizing the impact of who little Richard was,
and like, just how incredible.

Speaker 5 (47:03):
Here is where we should say that it was an accident.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
Yes, we need to oh yeah, yeah, sorry, I need
to go back.

Speaker 2 (47:10):
And you said three times, a little Richard.

Speaker 1 (47:11):
Back, Little Richard back.

Speaker 5 (47:17):
Right.

Speaker 1 (47:18):
Sorry, guys, this is how my brain. It was right.
They're like, what happened? You know?

Speaker 3 (47:24):
He was on the show and it was everything was fine.
I was standing directly next to him. He was playing
a wonderful piano moment, and then he and did a
thing with his hands and just right, and I just
whacked in the face. He felt so bad. He was
a lovely human, absolutely amazing. It's so talented. But yeah,
but that was the story.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
It was for me.

Speaker 5 (47:44):
When frank and networ on, yeah.

Speaker 3 (47:47):
Oh yeah, yeah, who were your favorite guest stars? Mom, Wait, Frankie, Frankie, Frankie,
what's the same?

Speaker 5 (47:53):
Frankie Avalonnette Fell, Mickey mouse Club and everybody. Well, there
was a thrifty Mart grocery store opening in my neighborhood
and my best little friend and I ran over there
to for the grand opening, and Annette was helicoptered.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
In wowow, and I got her therifty ice cream.

Speaker 5 (48:17):
I was just so excited that I got her autograph.
And then it was so surreal for me when I
was standing on the stage right next to We're a
full house. Wow, that was just a very kind of
whoa moment? Who'd have thought that?

Speaker 4 (48:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (48:35):
That was kind of that was sort of amusing. And
also the Beach Boys, because I grew.

Speaker 2 (48:39):
Up on the Beach Boys legendary. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (48:42):
But so far as like thinking of an episode that
had a moment or something like that, there were just
so many, you know, special moments for all the characters,
but for years for Stephanie.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
What do what do you think made the show a hit?
What do you think was the big or what were
you going to say?

Speaker 5 (49:03):
I was going to comment that I was at the
dentist the other day. It's funny to me how many
things from this show come back to my mind, you know,
when things happen right and what's a spitsucker in my mouth?
And I remember Stephanie.

Speaker 1 (49:19):
And oh right right, which goes the deist time. We
haven't gotten to that episode yet, but we will do that.

Speaker 5 (49:27):
You can think of me as I thought of you anyway.

Speaker 1 (49:31):
And indeed, I will.

Speaker 3 (49:32):
Uh, but yeah, it's crazy like all of the moments.
I mean, Andrea lost a turtle a couple of weeks
ago when we were doing the episode about the lost show. Yeah,
do you bring up Little Richard. I was running it's
something this this, it's.

Speaker 2 (49:48):
Something about this podcast, and this is something.

Speaker 1 (49:50):
About this this.

Speaker 5 (49:51):
Yeah. Yeah, I'm enjoying your podcast.

Speaker 2 (49:53):
By the way, thanks Janis.

Speaker 3 (49:55):
Oh, I don't worry, mom, I have let I've let
Andrea know, Andrea and Kim, I and Jensen and Dania,
everyone knows the Janice Sweetened.

Speaker 1 (50:04):
Reviews are key to the success of this podcast.

Speaker 2 (50:07):
Eagerly await your review each week, Janie.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Yeah, because we know also know that Janice pulls no punches.
You will tell us if something is not good.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
I welcome that. I love it.

Speaker 5 (50:20):
As you must ask, I will not volume you.

Speaker 1 (50:24):
Yes, well we've learned that lesson. I think I.

Speaker 3 (50:27):
Don't ask after forty some right exactly, So don't how
do I think it is? Don't ask if I want
an honest opinion. But how is it, mom? How's it going?
How if you in your honest opinion, you like, what
are your notes?

Speaker 1 (50:40):
Yeah? Any notes or.

Speaker 5 (50:42):
You know two characters that didn't get along and bickered
all the time. As I've grown adults, you really, uh,
you compliment one another nicely. I think I think you
get along and I enjoyed watching you both grow up.

Speaker 4 (50:59):
Thanks mom on Full House, Yeah, I enjoyed.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
The four of us were really close. We've talked about
that before.

Speaker 5 (51:08):
Four of us. Andrea's mom, Sherry, was my closest buddy
on set. She really was. What a great great lady
your mom was.

Speaker 2 (51:19):
I miss her. But we would do a lot of
stuff off campus too. We would go like I remember
going to the mall and shopping for dresses, or going
to Disneyland together because we had annual passes to Disneyland.
Do you remember the.

Speaker 5 (51:36):
Train?

Speaker 2 (51:36):
Yes, I remember the train down to San Diego.

Speaker 8 (51:39):
And then we went on the cruises, the celebrity cruises,
Oh my gosh, the cruises, the celebrity kids cruises, and
we have some amazing pictures of the Barbers and the
Sweetens collective.

Speaker 1 (51:52):
Mom the rest of our Mom.

Speaker 5 (51:55):
Was a saver and a very organized person, and she
would send me from time to time photos that we
all had together, photos she thought would be of interest
in me, or that I would enjoy having. Yeah she did.
She did that a lot. And yeah, she the pictures

(52:16):
that I'd forgotten or didn't even remember it it taken right.

Speaker 2 (52:19):
Yeah, all of that stuff from her garage is now
in a spare room in my house. So she was
the keeper of the thing somewhere.

Speaker 5 (52:28):
It has to go somewhere.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
But thank God for Sherry Barber because she kept things
like the the audition script that Andrea auditioned for Jennifer,
which was the DJ character Jennifer Crawford, like she we
had that oh and oh my gosh, oh, and I didn't.

Speaker 5 (52:49):
Know about because Jody, we never saw that script.

Speaker 2 (52:52):
The cook Yeah, I founded the Full House cookbook. You remember, Janice,
this Full House Cookbook.

Speaker 5 (52:59):
I still like your chicken and rice.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
Okay, do you remember which recipes you recipes plural, because
there were there were a few.

Speaker 9 (53:08):
Well I know one of them was Grandma's chocolate grapes yep,
which is, by the way, for those people like chocolate gravy,
chocolate gravy is not meat gravy.

Speaker 1 (53:18):
I just want to clarify.

Speaker 3 (53:20):
It is like a hot it's it's it's sugar and
condensed milk and yeah, yeah, yeah, And then Hershey's cocoa
powder that you make into a sauce that you put
over hot buttered biscuits, and it's delicious. It's a very Midwestern,
Southern sort of item. But anyway, yeah, the biscuits and
chocolate gravy are amazing.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
I don't know what else did I put in that.

Speaker 2 (53:42):
You put the cheese and beef dip under the appetizer section.

Speaker 1 (53:46):
Okay, cheese and beef dip. You make a cheese and
beef dip that sounds delicious the recipe, yeah, please?

Speaker 5 (53:52):
You ever made chicken arcu?

Speaker 2 (53:54):
No? I think that that's in here though.

Speaker 5 (53:56):
Yeah, they are so good.

Speaker 3 (54:00):
Donnie was one of our stand ins who lovely, lovely
human being. She was a wonderful one on Full House.
She was one of the stand ins. Who did she
stand in for?

Speaker 2 (54:11):
She was Lori or any of the girls?

Speaker 1 (54:15):
I don't know, yeah, any yeah, any of the any
of the girl might have been you for you anyway, anyway,
she was one.

Speaker 3 (54:24):
Of the stand ins. But yes, she Robin. Donnie has
a killer karaoke wing recipe in the in the Full House.
I'm gonna try it cookbook.

Speaker 5 (54:30):
It's really good and they're so easy, so easy. And yeah,
I didn't put the seeds on it.

Speaker 3 (54:37):
Whenever she said, do you remember why we did the
Full House cookbook?

Speaker 1 (54:41):
Was it like a fundraiser or something? Or was it
wasn't it?

Speaker 3 (54:45):
Didn't we like raise funds for something? Was it a
school or were we just making it and giving it?
It was that like a school project? Was it like
a I don't know.

Speaker 5 (54:54):
But I think the office organized that. Uh, the ladies
and they office.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
Okay it It was actually Kim and Melanie. They were
they were babies at the time. They were two years old,
but they were at the age of two were organizing.

Speaker 5 (55:13):
But yes, I still have the cookbook and I still
use it.

Speaker 2 (55:17):
Oh it's great.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Yeah, the chicken and rice has made many an evening
upon it.

Speaker 5 (55:23):
Is there another recipe that your mom did? Oh my
sweet potato?

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Oh yeah, the sweet potato soufle. That's a good dish
for Thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 (55:34):
I make every Thanksgiving.

Speaker 3 (55:36):
That is every Thanksgiving. Andrea your that if there's no
sweet potato soufle. One year she didn't make it, and
I was like.

Speaker 2 (55:43):
This is I'm a full service Thanksgiving friend. Like I
will teach you to Brian a turkey, I will bring
a sweet potatoes to Fley.

Speaker 1 (55:49):
It's true. That's true. A B and I Brian a turkey.
We got a sweet potato.

Speaker 2 (55:53):
Soup on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 (55:55):
You know we've done what.

Speaker 3 (55:56):
We share a lot of culinary history to melt, Mom,
Do you remember A B and her tuna melts?

Speaker 5 (56:03):
I heard you mentioned it, and once you mentioned it,
I thought, I do remember.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
That tuna melts.

Speaker 5 (56:10):
What I remember, Andrea, is you walking around in your
black full house sweating.

Speaker 2 (56:16):
I never took that thing off. And your little black hat,
the Joey McIntyre hate.

Speaker 5 (56:22):
Yes, oh my gosh, you wore that?

Speaker 1 (56:25):
Was that? It was Wait the Joey mcintary hat. Did
he have that on his head?

Speaker 5 (56:29):
No?

Speaker 2 (56:29):
No, it wasn't his actual hat, but he's famous for
wearing a black hat with a hole cut out of
the top where his little boy band mushroom hair would
pop out of the top. Anyways, so I was obsessed.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Wait what.

Speaker 2 (56:43):
This is? It's in like I think the Hang in
Tough video. Because you were always too cool for new
kids on the ball.

Speaker 5 (56:51):
You were not under the boy band.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
That's true. I was always too cool for new kids
on the back. I was never a new kids.

Speaker 5 (56:56):
You kind of missed that.

Speaker 2 (56:57):
Yeah she did. You're a little too young for that
for that boy band. But then my uniform, yeah, the
black I still have that, the the black cardigan with
the full House logo on it, and the black.

Speaker 1 (57:09):
Hat and the hat. Did you cut the top out
of it?

Speaker 2 (57:12):
Oh? For sure? Like I wouldn't be a joey girl
if I didn't do that. Wow.

Speaker 5 (57:17):
And then there was Forever Plaid period.

Speaker 2 (57:19):
Yes, for my favorite musical.

Speaker 1 (57:21):
Oh, that's right, Forever Plaid.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Sure I dragged you to that. I'm sure I dragged
you to that multiple times.

Speaker 1 (57:26):
Yep, yep, we all had to go.

Speaker 5 (57:28):
I enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 (57:29):
It was a key part if you knew Andrea, if
you knew ab during the Forever Plaid phase, it was
a requirement of friendship that you had to make multiple journeys.

Speaker 1 (57:40):
With her to go see the musical Forever Plaid. And
it was a great musical, no, no, not being for
I loved it, But it was how many times did
you see that?

Speaker 2 (57:48):
Andrew oh Man over fifty? Like I kept track until
fifty and then I stopped counting.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
But so it's more than fifty.

Speaker 2 (57:57):
Parents, I know, well they and they always said, well,
you know, she's this is what she's into. She doesn't
do drugs and she doesn't do you know, she's not
off being I do plaid. Yeah, so I'm like all right,
So they're like, fine, we'll just we'll keep taking it
kept me off the streets and out of trouble. So
it was just in the theater.

Speaker 3 (58:14):
Sorry, Mom, I'm sorry. I wish I could have been
forever plaid fan.

Speaker 1 (58:18):
Mom. I really.

Speaker 2 (58:20):
So you should have been into n KOTB and so
much easier.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
What was Oh god, I'm sorry, mom ruined everything?

Speaker 2 (58:28):
Yeah, yeah, oh gosh, such great memories. Oh man, oh man. Yeah,
there's just the four of us and going to Hawaii
and doing the Frog the slint. We were imitating slim,
dead flattened Frog in the road. So we haven't told
that story, have we.

Speaker 3 (58:43):
We haven't told. No, we haven't told the Frog in
the Road story. It was an unfortunate site. We were
in Hawaii shooting and we we were at some I
don't know, some Hawaiian cultural center thing or what. We
went on time off with our families, the barber Sweetened clan,
and we went and we were in the parking lot
and there was this poor frog who had met a

(59:06):
terribly untimely, uh end, but was smashed flat and try
oh oh yeah, yeah, but was like doing the tango
sort of, or like just a little dance like it. Yeah,
And so then that became the slim dance. And to
this day I can see Andrea Barber across the room
and do that at her and she knows exactly that
I'm talking. Yeah, but no frogs were harmed in the making.

(59:29):
Well one was, but we didn't.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
Have a picture of you and I at my wedding
and we're doing the slip wedding gown and we're doing
the slim pose in a wedding picture. It's it's so funny.
That story is legendary. It's lived on all these years.

Speaker 3 (59:46):
You know what, don't say that that frog died for nothing,
because I love that amphibian?

Speaker 1 (59:53):
Is he an amphibian? When Chef's kiss that was perfect,
You're welcome.

Speaker 3 (01:00:00):
I knew I'd bring it back around at some point
because this is Sometimes my brain doesn't do much, but
sometimes it really ties the room.

Speaker 2 (01:00:09):
And when it's right, it is so right.

Speaker 1 (01:00:12):
It's so right. Oh yeah, was it weird mom for
you to like to watch your kid like get famous?

Speaker 2 (01:00:24):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
I mean that sounds so much question, I don't, but like,
was it what was that like for you?

Speaker 5 (01:00:31):
It was? It was challenging because on the one hand, uh,
you know, I knew that there was a big audience
watching the show, and I was happy that that people
loved your character and you know, uh, and we're very

(01:00:52):
excited to see you. But there were also times I
would have to say, you know, you're you're a kid too,
and there was a line to be drawn about your
privacy and your your right, you know, to move about
in the world and go about your business as opposed
to when it's appropriate to say, maybe stop and sign

(01:01:13):
an autograph, And so, you know, it was challenging to
keep keep that balance. Remember when we were at Walt
Disney World and they fell.

Speaker 1 (01:01:24):
Oh, I've told I just told that story to be yesterday.

Speaker 3 (01:01:27):
So were you read about someone following me to the
bathroom and passing a slip of paper under the door
to get me to sign an autograph?

Speaker 5 (01:01:34):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
In the while in the bathroom and mom was there?
And what did mom do?

Speaker 2 (01:01:39):
What you were?

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
Are you out of your mind? What is wrong with you?
You are an adult?

Speaker 7 (01:01:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:01:46):
You were like absolutely not yet I was like, yeah,
Janice is sticking up.

Speaker 3 (01:01:51):
Yeah, I mean you probably handled it better than I would.
I would be yeah, I would have kicked the bathroom door.

Speaker 5 (01:01:56):
Why don't you just enjoy you know, your life and
and the things that has brought you a degree some
like some wonderful opportunities. You know, you girls got to
do some really special things and you appreciate that comes
with it, and so you know, you want to be
grateful to that and grateful to your fans. But as
a mom, it was you know, you always wanted to

(01:02:17):
make sure always that balance of protecting.

Speaker 4 (01:02:21):
You right while you know, letting that right.

Speaker 5 (01:02:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:02:26):
Well, and that you know, again like that was a
testament to what great parents you and dad were, because
that is not the case with every kid in this business.
A lot of the kids that we knew had really
good involved parents because that was kind.

Speaker 1 (01:02:43):
Of who we gravitated towards.

Speaker 3 (01:02:45):
But you, I mean, you definitely heard about, you know,
the kids in the business who had the parent that
wanted it more than more than they did, and that
was yeah, that was just never ever ever the case
with any of the parents on our show.

Speaker 5 (01:02:57):
There were times there were guest stars that came through
and observed.

Speaker 1 (01:03:03):
Right now, Oh my god, you know right right, the
business being what it is today, would you do it
all over again?

Speaker 5 (01:03:11):
No, I don't think so.

Speaker 2 (01:03:13):
Wow, really well, because the business has changed, or because
you know more now than.

Speaker 5 (01:03:19):
Because the world's gotten harsher with social media. It each
you people up. I mean, you know, it's it's so
vicious and people are so mean and cruel, and for
a child to be experiencing that in the world are
in now, I just don't think so. And also, you know,

(01:03:40):
I said to Jody when we started out and she
was five and everything was great, I did not foresee
how hard middle school would be when she got there.
And also the show ended at that time. I had
I foreseen that I might have looked at things differently,
although she was loving it and she was having fun.

(01:04:02):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (01:04:03):
Hmmm, right.

Speaker 3 (01:04:04):
And I don't think any of that necessarily made some
of the challenges that I had in my life. I
think those would have been things that I probably we
all we would have gone through as a family anyway.
But it definitely made certain things more glaring and made people,
you know, pay attention more, I guess, but it's in.

Speaker 5 (01:04:22):
Age thirteen's an age where you're wondering who you are
and where you're going anyway, and you had extra jody, So.

Speaker 3 (01:04:30):
Yeah, you know, yeah, yeah, it's not it definitely it's
not an easy it's not an easy right Andrew, what
was that like for you, Like, because you were you
started the show later, So did you have as much
of that sort of figuring yourself out as a teenager or.

Speaker 2 (01:04:47):
Was it because well, it's like an identity crisis. Almost
the thing that has filled your life so wonderfully and
fully for eight years is suddenly gone, and so you're like, well,
what do you fill that void with? And I was
at a lucky transition in my life because I was older,
I was already eighteen, I was already enrolled in college,
and so I just made college my full time thing.

(01:05:11):
Like I just was like, you know what, I'm going
to be a student and just a student for the
first time in my life, and I'm going to dive
dive in head first. And so I moved into the dorm,
and I joined a bunch of clubs, and I joined
a sorority and just did the full college experience. So
that sort of distracted me from any sort of identity
crisis that or anything, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:05:29):
But like when you were thirteen on the show, was
it where you was it as much of a struggle
for you or because you had it was almost like
a weird, little insular sort of community. It did kind
of feel like a bubble that we were in at times.
But I know for you being older on the show
and being Kimmy and being the one that was like
the weird dresser or the obnoxious neighbor, I'm sure that

(01:05:50):
that was its own for.

Speaker 2 (01:05:52):
Oh yeah, well middle school. Middle school's hard for anybody,
whether we're on TV or not. And kids are me
you know, they'll find the one thing that's different about
you and make it a negative and just needle you
about it. And yeah, being Kimmy Gibbler with the the
neon tights and the crazy hair and you know, they
just just pound me with those you know, Kimmy Gibler,

(01:06:14):
you don't take your shoes off, and right they would bleak,
you know, remember gleaking guy.

Speaker 1 (01:06:24):
It's just I would.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
Try and learn how to do that just so I
could get revenge. And I would just walk around and
be like trying to trying to like spit.

Speaker 1 (01:06:32):
Then and I.

Speaker 2 (01:06:33):
Couldn't do it. Takes a special and then I just.

Speaker 1 (01:06:36):
Take a special skill at right, and I just couldn't.
I was I was a gleek geek if you will.

Speaker 2 (01:06:41):
But that's why our set, our Stage twenty four was
such a refuge, because you know, we could go hang
out with kids like us, like you and I you know,
just yeah, but he knows what it's like growing up
on the set a full house except for you, me
and Candae and Ashley and Mary Kate, you know. So
that was our safe place where it's like, Okay, here's
somebody that I can relate to one thousand percent. And

(01:07:03):
you know, did you did you.

Speaker 3 (01:07:05):
Have that with the other moms too, that you mom
you sort of bond. I mean, I know, like we've said,
you and Sherry were really close. Was like, is that
ever a conversation that you guys had between yourselves as
moms is like what you know, this is what this
is a weird world that we live in, this weird
little full house thing or this.

Speaker 5 (01:07:22):
I don't remember conversation like that, but we talked about everything,
so I bet you know, yeah, we talked about wanting
to keep you girls. I'm sure always wanted to keep
you girls steady and you know, healthy in every way. Yeah,
but you know, yeah we were. It was nice to
have Sherry because also, you know, with out in our world,

(01:07:46):
out in the regular world off the set, you know,
there were other parents who treated me differently also, And
I'm sure really because you know, you're the one with
the kid and the business, and like you said earlier,
they do you judge you or they want to be you.
It's either they you know, they're judging you and they
think that you're doing something wrong or bad, or they

(01:08:07):
want their kid to be doing what your kid's doing.
This is kind of a weird thing. And when you
felt that you met someone who was neither of those,
then you thought, well, now maybe I have a friend
you know that's accepting us, family and me for who
we are as people. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
Well, this has been such an awesome conversation with you, mom.
I really I've asked you questions on here that I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:08:34):
That we've ever really like chatted about. This was great.

Speaker 5 (01:08:37):
I enjoyed it. I enjoyed talking to you girls.

Speaker 1 (01:08:42):
I'm so glad you came on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
And thanks for keeping me as normal as well.

Speaker 2 (01:08:50):
Given the raw material and this is the real MVP.

Speaker 3 (01:08:55):
And yes, yes, and we will have you back one
of these days. To mom, we'll have you backcome to
review one of the episodes. I know you're since your
favorite has already passed.

Speaker 5 (01:09:05):
But yeah, maybe I'll get that a little more thought.

Speaker 1 (01:09:08):
Yeah, give that some more thought.

Speaker 3 (01:09:09):
Let us know, start reviewing, let us know which ones
you are really fun of or which ones you have
some very specific thoughts on. And I would love to
hear some of Jana Sweeten's opinions on.

Speaker 2 (01:09:20):
Just want your strong, unfiltered opinions whatever. Whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:09:23):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right.

Speaker 5 (01:09:24):
Right, this was funya, this.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
Was so much fun.

Speaker 3 (01:09:30):
Mama, Thank you so much, h and everyone, thank you
for joining us again this week on another episode of
Howard Tana Rito's. If you want to follow us on
social media, you can find us how Rude Podcast at
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you can email us at how Rude podcast at gmail
dot com. Uh and next week we will be reviewing

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another episode. So much more fun we're doing Knock Yourself Out,
I believe, uh, Season one, episode seven, the next episode
of Howard tann Reto's.

Speaker 1 (01:09:59):
So thank you so much. Mom, You're amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:10:01):
I love you, We love you. Thanks for everything. Yeah,
we love you. And I know Sherry is here. I
can hear her laugh and she is joining our lovely,
wonderful conversation and probably has taken notes and has a
file on everyone.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
She's wearing a big scarf, big hat, yes, and taking
notes and laughing along with us.

Speaker 7 (01:10:24):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:10:24):
Absolutely Well, thanks for another great episode, ab I will
see you next week, see you next time.