John Stamos on Lori Loughlin’s Divorce, Sobriety, and His Full House Legacy

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It's supposed to help with inflammation.

Did it work?

No, it didn't work.

Muslim warns, welcome back to the Good Guys Podcast.

We're here with John Stamos talking about inflammation.

Yeah.

Well, what did you do?

I took a liquid gold shot from Erwan, and let me tell you, it burned a hole in my esophagus.

I was Erwan once.

I had to sell an expensive guitar just to pay for the build.

Yeah, it's very, very expensive.

It all looks fantastic.

It's like kind of like models.

There's no depth.

They look beautiful.

There's no depth there's nothing in it i wouldn't taste like you want to find out for yourself though right what but you know with the models you wouldn't take i don't know you haven't had a conversation i'm just talking about chatting like chatting with models yeah i'm married to a beautiful model who's probably deeper than you

that's hard to do

am i allowed to say your wife is very beautiful with thank you with deep respect

you should be asking page but oh sorry paige

my wife is very beautiful your wife is very beautiful look i was very three lucky marriage.

Before I met Caitlin, we were doing a gig at some arena.

Remember, you were wearing a wig and what was that for?

A child's choice choice.

You were hosting, I think, right?

And you were great.

And I remember looking at you and Paige going like, why can't I find someone like Paige?

Like, why can't I be in a relationship like that?

It was so, you know, I just love the way you guys were there.

I love the way she was supporting you.

I love, she was so beautiful.

She is so beautiful.

I was like,

what has he got that I ain't got?

Why can't I find someone like that?

And I ended up finding something, Caitlin.

And then the two of them became good buddies, which was beautiful.

And Caitlin was at your house yesterday.

It's an interesting path, right?

Because we both got married within a year of each other.

We had our first kids within a year of each other.

You moved away from us, so we don't get to see you as much.

It's horrible.

But I get it.

Moving near your in-laws and stuff, that was a smart move.

Being near the family.

Right.

How did you and Caitlin meet?

It's a good story.

Yeah, it is.

So I did an episode of SVU Law and Order.

Heard of that.

Have you seen the show?

Did you ever do anything?

It's my dream.

Ratten a Hallmark movie.

We'll get into that later.

Hallmark movie you can do.

Well, I know.

You have an idea for the team.

He has a very specific idea.

They keep offering them to me when I'm having a kid or when I'm working with Christopher Nolan.

Yeah, I need it now.

I'm ready.

Last of Us.

Yeah.

Killed at that, bro.

I'm ready to go.

Yeah, but you can't go back to Hallmark.

You're above.

Says you here.

You know what?

This was a segment for later, but let's do it now.

I think we both know our end game is Hallmark.

So

maybe me sooner than you.

Should we have ChatGPT write us out a scene from a Hallmark movie?

Lori Lachlan, because she's in love with Hallmark.

Okay.

Josh Peck,

John Stamos, and Lori.

Do you have ChatGP Talk?

Do you ever know?

I don't have the corporate account.

I'm too cheap.

I do.

Do you?

Yeah, that's better.

You're going to talk to me.

This is an audio thing, you know.

Grace.

Okay.

So.

What do you want me to say?

Let's pick out two or three prompts for sure.

Hanukkah.

It's a Hanukkah.

Hanukkah meets Hanukkah Greek Christmas.

Like a Greek Christmas.

Hanukkah holiday.

I like that.

You're goy.

Goy.

Goy is boy.

Goy.

Goy is boy.

What's going on?

Goyam is plural.

Multiple.

Ben says Goyam and Candace Owen starts taking notes.

She's starting to make sense now.

So is it the thing?

Marjorie.

Marjorie's good.

She's done a couple of flowers.

I love her.

She's great.

We said the laser meetings.

We said at the laser meetings.

We were going to give her her flowers.

No politics.

John Samos, Josh Beck, Lori Lachman.

Okay.

Hallmark movie.

Give us

Greek Christmas.

What's the location?

The North Pole.

Love it.

Great.

Or does it need to be like in Israel?

Could be Egypt.

Egypt?

Maybe it's...

Egypt.

It's a Passover story.

Utah.

Utah.

Somebody Mormon?

Maybe that's where you get your wives, all the wives.

By the way, if you guys watch, I don't watch reality television.

I watch all true crime only.

But have you watched the Mormon wives?

I have.

Have you not?

This is a good show.

I'm surprised, Josh.

I'm shocked at you.

Yeah, it's a good one.

Anyway, so that's how you can end it killing it on Dancing with the Stars.

I don't know if she's on it.

Two of them are.

Whitney and the one that said that she was going to Ben Affleck, but she is.

Oh, she's cute, too.

She just had a baby.

Jan Affleck.

Yes.

By the way, they're doing Dancing with the Stars eight weeks postpartum.

How amazing is that?

Unreal.

Unbelievable.

Yeah, great show you should watch.

So should I say, do you want to put polygamy in there?

That's what I was getting to.

Sure.

And the script.

Hallmark might.

They might not go for that.

Yeah.

Yeah, maybe not.

So you want a legitimate story?

Yeah, I think that's a winner.

Greek Christmas, Hanukkah Hybrid, The Three of Okay, so I'm

in Utah, because it's just pretty.

Why Utah?

We'll make it in Colorado.

Olivia.

Colorado is good.

Make it in Colorado.

That's good.

Naked in Colorado.

Naked.

Good.

That's a great title.

Naked in Colorado.

All right.

I like Colorado.

I like Colorado.

Here we go.

All right.

Hi, can you create

a TV movie for

Hallmark?

I can't even say it.

Starring Jon Stamos, Josh Peck, and Lori Lachlan.

And it's a Christmas movie, so it's half Hanukkah and half Christmas.

Greek Christmas.

Greek Christmas.

And make it in a beautiful location.

You choose.

But give me the storyline of what a movie like that would look like.

And one scene.

And write one scene that Josh and I can act out, and Ben will play Lori.

Please.

please, be nice to the AI.

No, they say, Don't say please, it wastes the energy.

Absolutely, that sounds like a blast.

So, let's imagine this Hallmark-style holiday movie set in a gorgeous Greek island village.

We'll have the tangly lights, a little bit of Mediterranean charm, and of course, a mix of Christmas and Hanukkah traditions.

Movie title: A Greek Holiday Miracle.

John Stamos plays Nick, a charming Greek American chef.

Is your AI voice Chanel West Coast?

Sorry, continue.

Haha, no Chanel West Coast here, but I'll keep that same fun energy rolling.

All right, let me dive back in.

So we've got John Stamos as Nick, the warm-hearted Greek American chef.

Josh Peck plays David, a slightly goofy but lovable travel writer who's come to the island to do a holiday feature on unique Christmas celebrations.

And then we have Lori Laughlin as Elena.

the island's event planner who's orchestrating this big combined Hanukkah Christmas festival for the first time.

So the plot is basically about these three characters coming together, mixing traditions, and of course, finding a little bit of holiday magic along the way.

Okay.

Thank you.

She'll keep going.

We need to.

It's quite the pitch.

We got away.

So you met your wife on the set of Law and Order SVU.

Yes.

I was playing a serial, like he was so egotistical that he, he was, he was impregnating as many women as he could because he wanted to spread his progeny.

And so, and he had money, so he was taking care of all of them.

But these women were getting pregnant unbeknownst to themselves because he was poking holes in condoms and like conning them into.

I've seen this episode.

It's a great one.

Thank you.

And

so in watch Caitlin, who was working for the day, and she was playing.

We're in a hotel room and she's in her like her bra panties and iced tea.

And the other guy like kicked the door down and she's like holding herself.

She's in there.

And I'm in there and I got my glasses.

That's the prop guy.

I go, give me some reading glasses.

I got some reading glasses and a pin and a condom.

I'm like,

they kick it.

What are you doing?

And so I didn't get her pregnant then, but I waited about seven years and then it, you know, it happened.

She, so, so here's the deal.

So I saw her and I go, oh my god, I'm going to marry that girl.

Like, I just, I'm in love with her.

She loved Disney, she loved theater, she loved all this.

She thought I was gay.

She tells everybody,

sure.

Who is that?

Right.

Who isn't?

You're on the right podcast.

Who isn't?

I don't know.

This is your

coach.

I brought that from home.

You did.

so so i was like i said this is it so i i was gonna walk in and get her phone number and as i walk into the makeup trailer we were we were at pier 51 or whatever that is in new york and um as i walk into the makeup trailer she's like okay and then i'm getting married over there at pier 51 and then we're gonna have the reception here that's how she talks but she doesn't think she talks about it and uh i'm like oh

and i just blurred out Why are you getting married?

Like an asshole, you know?

And she's like, well, because I'm

whatever.

But we exchanged numbers and we texted once in a while as friends, you know.

And

then at one point she said, I can't text you anymore.

My husband, my fiancé doesn't dig it.

You know, I told him you were gay, but you know,

he knew better.

And I said, okay, whatever.

And then she kept texting me.

She says she didn't, but I think she did.

But then it went silent for a long time.

And

I was stalking her on Instagram and she,

no, I didn't stalk her yet.

So I I walk into the set of Fuller House.

It was one of the first episodes.

And I was producing it.

Josh was on there.

And I wasn't in that episode, but I walked out and I see her sitting in the audience, some guy.

And I said, oh, hey, came here to see me.

And she goes, don't flatter yourself.

My friend's in this episode this week.

That's how she talks to me.

And that's why I married her.

And then

I said, oh, is this your husband?

She goes, no, I got divorced.

This is just my boyfriend.

Just a boyfriend.

I could maybe work through that.

I started stalking her on Instagram boyfriend boyfriend boyfriend boyfriend

no boyfriend no boyfriend

dog dog no boyfriend no boyfriend

working on myself right that's the that's when you know that the relationship's over when they start doubling down on like getting back into yoga yeah there was some yoga pictures girl's trip you're like he's gone yeah he was out he's out and then i We said, let's, you want to want to, so I said, I'm having a pizza party.

She tells the story this way.

And the pizza party was just Pat, and then he left.

It was just the two of us.

Yeah.

But that's how it happened.

Wow.

Beautiful love.

It's never been better.

Well, we're going on close to 10 years, right?

Are you guys

nine years?

We've been together 14.

Oh.

And but married, yeah, eight, eight years?

Eight or nine?

Eight or nine years.

Yeah, yeah.

For eight years.

It's wild.

You were at my wedding.

I was at yours.

Look at that.

No one.

Come on.

He's been married since.

Do you have kids, Ben?

Close.

One, four and a half months.

Oh, really?

Congratulations.

Yeah, and we brought him to L.A., and let me tell you.

I'm not trying to brag.

He didn't cry on the plane.

He's already adjusted.

I'm not L.A.

Is he an LA kid already?

Like, so blessed.

Yeah, he is.

He's so spoiled.

My God.

With love.

He's an exceptional boy.

Josh met him.

Beautiful temperament.

Beautiful boy.

Ruby.

The great Ruby.

I like it.

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I've been meaning to ask, and since you were on the pod last time, which was just a paramount episode, it was a big time whatnot.

I got a lot of flack for it.

They can't get over the fact that you fired the Olson twins.

Yeah, I know.

So when you did that,

did they

sound like you sound like

what's Marty Shorts character?

Jiminy Glint.

Yeah.

So,

so, John,

when you, yeah, um,

were they a second?

It was like a day, you know, it was like, it really wasn't any big deal.

They were, it was just a lot of crying.

And I just, I just, honestly, I didn't think they wanted to be there.

Before or after they got fired, there was a lot of crying

the whole time.

No, they just weren't into it, you know.

And I just said, do we have any other kids?

And there were other, there were other twins around, you know.

And then we tried these other kids and they were, they didn't work out.

And so,

get the old centrines back.

It was like a couple hours or whatever.

And did you hear anything back?

Like, who had to break the news to them?

I don't know.

Jeff Franklin, maybe, or Bob Boy.

It was, we were doing this scene and the scene

one of them ended up in the show where it was changing Michelle's diapers.

And it was, you know, look, she was whatever, eight, nine months old.

And Dave and I, that, you know, we're running up and downstairs and we're wrapping towels around her.

We're squirting water at her from the sink.

You know, I mean, I don't blame her.

She was screaming.

Sure.

And we had to go back and loop a lot of it.

And it just felt like we're,

you know, we're, we're, this kid doesn't want to be doing this.

Yeah.

Well, so that was

and honestly, look, I went in there thinking, like, okay, I'm the big, you know, I just came off a big sitcom with Jack Klugman, you know, and this is my thing, you know.

And the reading was very funny.

I don't know if I, I remember walking in like like the big, like the

what do you call it?

A machine.

Yeah.

And, you know, and I wasn't.

I mean, I was, I wasn't the, you know, like the mothers were, oh, he was on general hospital and that kind of thing.

And it was, you know, sort of, I was starring in the show.

And we, we, we start the reading, and it

Jodi and the kids, mainly, but mainly Jody was just like

knocking it out of the park.

And I said, I'll get him with this line.

I save my line.

It was like a tepid laugh.

Then Jody comes in,

and I'm just like slowly slipping

like this, like this.

And I'll never forget it.

We were at the, it was in Culver City at whatever hotel there.

And I ran out of

the reading and it was back.

And I jammed a quarter in the thing.

I was like, get me off this fucking show.

You know, I was wrong.

Who talked you out of it?

Or it just comes?

I didn't really have a.

Yeah, I mean, it was that.

But I,

you know, it's interesting.

Does your kids, does your son watch, has he watched any of it?

Bullhouse?

Yeah.

Not yet.

Billy watches it mainly to mock me, I think.

You know, you got it, dude.

I'll do my catchphrases.

Dad, I need a catchphrase.

But, you know, it's taken me this, to this point to go,

I get it.

And

I'm not trying to get away from it anymore.

I've been on Broadway five times.

I've done everything.

ER was a great run.

I think if people call me Uncle Jesse, great.

I don't care.

To me, I've proven myself legitimate.

I have a movie coming out too.

I'll tell you about it in a minute.

But

You know that feeling, Josh?

I mean, you've gone through the exact same thing.

You're in the last of us talking about jerking off and stuff, right?

I mean, you did it.

It's just so interesting, though, because you both have the same feeling towards those two shows, Drake and Josh, The Full House, when as the viewer, it's like, you guys were fucking amazing in those shows.

Like, why aren't those legacy builders?

Because they're not.

They're not big enough.

They were enormous.

Like,

I understand that it's defining and I know your position on it.

But have you come around to it more like I have?

Yeah, I mean, it's totally separate.

It seems to me from the outside, Full House is a different thing, A, because you guys made a killing and B, what we've come to know of Drake and Josh is that there was a very legitimate, horrible, dark cloud that surrounded the whole thing.

And yet, when people come up to you and have come up to me over the years about Drake and Josh, it's not my job to sully their great memory of enjoying it with, and so in that way, I've grown a love for it, to enjoy it through other people, to see what it means to people.

Right, right.

And I've learned from you and when we were working together that you embraced it so beautifully, that you knew you had this other side of you that had done things, that challenged you and pushed you in different ways artistically, but that there was this one thing that people absolutely loved you for.

Billy will watch it in the car sometimes and I'll listen and I'll be like, some of the jokes are corny, some of them didn't hold up, but the central character was love.

And

it's lasted the test of time, that show.

And every three or four years, there's a new full house fan born.

You should have your son start watching now.

Ruby will love it.

It's a hard show, you know, you don't have to think about the same with Drake and Josh.

Yeah.

And I think, you know, so I, again, like, why Sully?

But our show was, you know, it was magical all the way through eight years.

I mean, you know, we had our, Bob and I, you know, didn't get along great in the beginning.

I think maybe we talked about this.

It was like you were real brothers.

Real brothers, yeah.

Did I tell you the story about working with James Earl Jones last time I was on?

I don't think so.

So I was doing this.

The last thing I did on Broadway was with James Earl Jones and Angela Lansbury.

It was called Best Man, a Gorby at all play.

Three, three act, two intermissions.

It was like standing ovations every night.

And, you know, James Earl Jones, arguably one of the greatest actors of,

you know, passed away, rest in peace.

But

he kind of took me under his wing and called me Little John.

I called him Big Daddy.

And

talk about an actor.

What's that?

Big Daddy.

Is that you?

What do they call you in the gay meeting?

Oh, 100 P.

They call me all the time.

That's what they call him in the Rambles.

What's the Rambles?

You know, George Take on Howard would say.

And then, oh, my.

He goes, then I would sneak off to the Rambles.

I think it was the gay meetup spot in Central Park.

Big Daddy Bear.

Yeah.

I don't know about that one, but I do.

You did know that.

No, we're extra gay today.

You're right.

There's nothing wrong with it.

I just officiated a gay wedding this week and it was so beautiful.

It was so happy to see

you guys in the desert.

Beautiful.

Beautiful.

What does it matter where?

I did one in my backyard, too.

For the great Neil Marin.

Yeah, that's right.

Beautiful.

One of the great.

Great.

So I'm on Steph James Will Jones.

And, you know, talk about an actor.

Like, he would, he would, he would,

sometimes we'd do the curtain call.

He's a little John.

Let's go work on that scene.

and we the curtain would go back you know the curtain would go down people would leave the theater curtain would come back up and we would go go back to the set and work on it one moment now i he was he always said it was his moment but i think it might have been my he was trying to fix what i was doing but that's just how great he was yeah

the show closed on a sunday it finished

saturday night after

curtain call.

I said, let's go work on that scene.

I have more chance to do it.

So I'm walking across the stage.

It was

Sunday at a matinee.

I'll never forget it.

We're walking across and they're taking the set down and everything.

And I said,

Big daddy, I said, you, you,

I said, you, you did something for me that nobody's done.

You've given me a real sense of legitimacy.

To stand toe-to-toe with you, and a lot of it was, him and I were like this.

Stand toe-to-toe with you on a Broadway stage, a gorbit-doll political drama, you know.

people will look at me differently for the rest of my life.

I mean, people have, you've changed people's perception of me and I'm so grateful.

Okay.

Stage door opens opens and there's all the fans outside.

Uncle Jesse, Uncle Jesse.

And I'm like, say have mercy, say have mercy.

I wanted to, my face turned red.

Yeah.

I wanted to crawl under the legs and just run down Broadway and never come back.

I was afraid to look at him, but I hear or hear someone in the crowd go, hey, James, James.

And he had a phone.

He said, will you say, Luke, I am your father?

Into my phone.

Right.

And we looked at each other and just started laughing and laughing.

Fuck it.

Fuck it.

Yeah, you don't get to choose choose what triggers the zeitgeist.

Like what becomes a part of the lexicon.

It's funny.

I was talking to Glenn Powell about that.

And I said, make sure whatever your thing is in the beginning, he didn't understand.

And I don't even think I made a clear thought of that, but it's like, you don't have control of it.

If I could go back,

like I wanted to be on science, I wanted to be on, I love sitcoms, but I wanted to be on something that was a little more well-reviewed, you know, more.

I mean, you know, they said Full House wouldn't last till Thanksgiving when it came out.

They didn't say which Thanksgiving.

And then when Fullerhouse came out, they compared it to necrophilia.

Oh, my God.

That's necrophilia.

You know, it was

taking up with the dead.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What does that have to do with Fullerhouse?

What did it have to do?

I don't know, but it's what he compared it to.

I can't remember the guy's name, I'd say it.

So, you know, going through that.

But then all of a sudden, you get great reviews on something else, you know, like you did on

your movie.

But like with, if you think of even people people who've attained crazy heights, like Steve Carell, right?

Like are people going, we loved you in Fox Catcher or talking about the office?

Right.

I think the people for Steve Carell are talking, they're definitely talking about the office.

But that's his thing.

And then he did 40-year-old fortune and so many great things.

But I think the office.

But you and I are great examples.

Like we got to, you got to, you know, Oppenheimer, I mean, come on.

Like that, how do it doesn't get any bad?

That's enormous.

That's better than anything.

That's why I keep myself humble.

Hallmark.

Balance it out.

You can't figure me out.

Balance it out.

I went from the set of hump and ivory to iCarly.

I don't give a fuck.

And I'm sober.

I have no drug habits I pay for.

I just have a scarcity complex and dad issues.

You've been very helpful with my sobriety over the years, I think.

I wouldn't be there without you.

You helped mine.

It's the beauty of what we do.

Yeah, right.

We have to.

Ben, your turn.

I was going to say, have we had any benders

together?

Yeah.

No.

Oh, I had one before I really sobered up and we went to Jimmy Kimmel's house.

Do you remember?

Oh, yeah.

Well, I thought you were thinking of another one.

What was the other one?

On the private plane to Vegas.

I don't remember that.

These were good stories.

That was a bad one.

That was a toughie.

I remember Rob's hammered, right?

Did I pass out or something?

Fall asleep?

We did the pilot.

It got picked up.

I'm in Northern California with my wife and her family, and it's like 10 o'clock at night.

And I get a text from my friend.

And he said, sorry, bro.

And he sent the article that you had gotten.

And I was like, oh,

oh, man.

And I read through it.

And thank God you were okay.

And everyone was okay.

And,

but I kind of didn't know what was going to happen with the show or whatever.

And then we had to go and it was right before you had sobered up and we had to go do this press thing in Vegas.

It was in between like that and going to rehab.

Yeah.

All right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I remember we were on a plane to Vegas to do some big press thing, and you were hurting.

Yeah.

And I think I got home from that.

I was like, they take me away.

Take, take, let's get,

let's get.

And I also did my big fat Greek wedding three during that time.

And I don't remember.

What a franchise.

I don't remember being there either.

Really?

Those are fun.

You know, whatever.

This is my daughter.

I'm going to marry Ian Miller.

Sounds funny.

My big fat Greek wedding.

Do you remember?

John's never seen it.

I did the reading of the first one.

I remember going to Playtone and Tom was there and everybody.

And I was reading the, I guess it would be the Joey Fatone part or something.

And it was funny because Joel Zwick, who was a director on Full House, was directing this movie.

Nobody knew it was going to be what it was, right?

And Ian, I mean, and Nia and Ian at the time, but they were fans and they wanted me to be part of the movie.

And so I read the part and I didn't end up doing it.

And Joel told me that they thought I was too old for the part.

For years go by, I become really good friends with Nia and somehow we talk about that.

And she goes, I never said that.

I wanted you in this movie so bad.

They told me that you turned it down.

We have fucking Joel's movie.

Shit.

I did this indie movie with Michael Rappaport years ago when I was like 17 years old.

And I'll never forget just, you know, the idea of like sometimes we have a couple of movies we don't totally remember.

I was 17.

Yeah, let's talk about some of your hammered stories, kid.

I got plenty.

I got plenty, but I wasn't.

He was.

No, we were, we were in this car.

We're in this car shooting this scene and we had gotten all of Michael's coverage and he's sitting in the back seat and it's me and my brother in the front.

And so it's like late night.

And like now he's literally just like a background actor in the scene because now it's the camera's on me and my brother in the front seat.

And so I think he just smoked a little weed, relaxed was like i'm just in the back seat but he had to say this line where he sees something out the windshield and goes like hey stop like stop now we have to talk to him and that scared me well in the first

really good stop it like

yeah well this was mike after he smoked up a little on take one he goes yo stop

yeah

very kind babes very kind to me very good

i don't blame him we made it through yeah yeah we're the lucky ones we are the lucky ones it's um

you know and it's hard to see some people around you you know that are not getting it right sometimes i mean you must have felt that with me but um

yeah listen you've always even through all your mishagas and we all have it you have always been the kindest greatest to everyone that's

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Wait, so you were talking about Broadway before and I'm dying to hear about this because you recently did Jesus Christ Superstar at the Hollywood Bowl.

You stepped in for Josh Gadd with 24 hours notice.

Yeah, something like that.

I was flying home from Spain and I'm not a guy that learns stuff fast.

I was on Glee, right?

And I, and these kids would, you know, you would, they would do a song and they would, the choreographer would be in there, Fossy, Fossy, one, but, baby,

and they would all give him.

Just be Rochelle.

I give him so much shit.

Luckily.

Oh, you do?

Okay, good.

Don't tell me not to live.

Just sit and put her.

He's a good singer.

He has a nice voice.

If I close my eyes, I would thought that was Leo Michelle going.

It was.

Do it again.

Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter.

That's really good.

Do the last one.

Don't tell me not to.

What is it?

Rain.

Something.

No, there's a word.

Rain on my parade.

He's a good singer.

Beautiful vibrato.

Thank you.

Very much.

I was a canther in a past life.

That was good.

Thank you.

I saw her do that on Broadway.

She was pretty.

I saw her do that on Broadway too, and she was amazing.

How many times did you see her?

How many Broadway shows have you done?

Let's see.

But I should.

Do you love it?

She's like, I love it.

I love Broadway.

What's your favorite show?

I think Deer Evan Hansen was my favorite show.

That's good.

We saw it a lot.

Did you, yeah, yeah.

And he was

Ben Plant was incredible in that.

He really was.

He would, and I told him afterwards, like, how do you get those, like, you, your body, you control your body into such an interesting way to get those notes?

And I don't think he thought that was a compliment.

No, but it was, but he's like,

you know, like, do you think he hates DeR Vinhanson?

Like, the way that you guys are talking about that core thing, like,

I don't hate Drake and Josh.

Okay.

But I know.

I don't hate Full House.

It gets a, you're saying fuller house.

Do you think that he hates when people come up to him and are like, I loved you in Dear Vinhanson, as opposed to, oh, I loved you in your most recent, he went on tour or, or sorry, his is probably Pitch Perfect.

I can't speak for him.

I loved you in Pitch Perfect because that's when I found him first.

Do you think he hates that?

I can't speak for him, but I do know that he did this big tour and didn't do one song from Dear Evanettes.

Yeah, I think.

Don't

pelt me with shit like the Olsen twin firing of Jesus Christ.

Which, by the way, come on.

Why are we pelting you?

It doesn't make any sense.

It's nothing to pelt.

Eight-month-old.

People are going to come after me for comparing babies to dogs.

But if you have a barking dog on set, you get a new dog.

What?

No?

You're like, am I going to get you?

so i was like i want no part of this am i in ayahuasca

you did you did lick a frog on the way in

um where am i oh i have a funny story about it so uh

i'm flying home from spain with the beach boys and yes you tell your wife i do play with the beach boys oh she knows she knows it's just wasn't in our zeke it wasn't in our uh

but that she played for 40 years with the

i get it yeah that no that was a miss on no that's a that's egotistical a lot of people don't know and that that makes sense it's super cool It's my greatest, next to my wife and my kids, my greatest accomplishment.

I think, yeah.

Um, and

you tour, it depends, but I've been doing a lot this year.

We just played Riot Fest a couple of weeks ago, and it was like 50,000, 60,000 people under 50 probably, just loving the beach.

I'm so proud to be playing that music now because it's so needed.

Optimistic, positivity.

Wouldn't it be nice?

Good vibrations.

There was a mosh.

Someone sent me a video right in the middle of a mosh, but I'm so only thing I regret at that concert was not jumping into the crowd and having them pass me around.

Yeah.

Can't have anything in the pockets.

Is that what it is?

Yeah, you're going to get pickpocketed for sure.

Oh, Wiener grabs too.

We hope.

I don't want to lose an iPhone.

It's our team.

So cool.

I've moshed Emo Night.

I've told you that story.

There was this.

Not even kidding.

There was this moshed group of...

You moshed it Emo Night?

Yeah.

Emo Phillips.

Yeah.

You think just like some 41 fat lip, me and just like a bunch of guys running in a circle, bashing into each other?

Yeah, and then they picked me up like I was their fearless leader.

Wow.

It hurt their backs.

Yeah.

What's the point of it?

What's the point of

it?

They're in the hospital.

Kidding.

You're not a baby.

You're a big guy.

What's the you lost weight since the last time I saw you?

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

I'm actively on the newest GLP.

You pick it.

First it was Ozempic.

Okay.

And I went off.

Now I'm on Zepbound.

How much have you lost since the last time I saw you?

Maybe like 10 pounds since I saw you.

You look great.

You look

very much.

You too.

so

you're going back from Spain.

So flying back from Spain, and I get a text from Neil Marin.

And luckily, you know, I had Wi-Fi.

And he says, you want to be a hero?

I'm like, no.

And he says, well, Josh got COVID, and this was a Wednesday night.

And

we want you to come to Jesus Christ Superstar and replace him.

Hold on a second.

What songs?

Did some of his songs?

I Googled the songs.

It's a lot of talk.

I could talk through a lot of it.

Did you know the songs?

Not at all.

Wow.

And, um, or the choreography.

And so I land on late, late Wednesday, middle of the night, Wednesday, Thursday, I get up, I go, I can't do this one, my dad.

I'm insane.

Cynthia Rebo,

who else was in it?

Adam Lambert, like just great, you know,

and I didn't know the show that well either.

But anyway, so I'm taking a pee in my bathroom.

I have a Broadway bath.

You should come over, Ben.

You would like it.

Love.

I have some posters and stuff.

And the great Liza Minelli, who's ever dropped Liza Minelli's name on this podcast, by the way?

Anybody?

Another great.

And she signed my Bye-bye birdie script and said,

to John, take no prisoners and fuck the wounded, Liza May.

I said, I got to do this.

We go to the bowl early that morning, get mic'd up, teleprompters fired up, and I sing it.

I sing the shit out of the song.

It's great.

Choreography, everything, boom.

That's great.

So they're doing a run-through at 11 and they're letting about 500 people from the kids for free to come in and watch the dress rehearsal.

I'd met Cynthia and Rebo like a long, long time ago, but I didn't know her.

So I could say hi.

I didn't know Adams.

Hi to everybody.

Bye-bye.

So we go through.

So they start dress rehearsal.

And now I hadn't seen any of this stuff, but I'm watching on the monitor and I'm like, oh my God, this is Cynthia.

She got a standing ovation, a five-minute standing ovation in the middle of the show.

She's finished this song and she looked in the cameras and she's sweating and crying and people are just going crazy.

I go out to do my song feeling pretty confident.

Now I have my full outfit on.

I got a big afro wig and glasses and gold.

And the way the sun is at this point, it's shining on the teleprompters and I can't see a fucking word.

I got Cynthia two feet in front of me and I'm singing to her.

Oh, so you're the great Jesus Christ, the great Jesus Christ.

The whole song is to her and she's laying on the floor and I'm going,

Jesus cry thing.

And she's looking at me like this.

And the people are looking around.

And I just can't see the prompter at all.

And she's mouthing the words to me.

And I just kind of stumble through it.

And I run off stage.

And they finish the show.

I don't come out for curtain calls because I was, I was just disoriented.

I was like, what the fuck?

She leaves.

Sergio says, John, come back, come back.

Let's fix this.

Let's move the teleprompters.

Let's get it right.

Blah, blah, blah.

I do it.

I'm knocked out of the park.

Everybody's okay, great.

Meanwhile, Cynthia had not seen Jesus.

Right.

She gets on the phone.

I don't care how sick Josh is.

Get him back.

No.

Yeah.

Wow.

And

Adam, I think, felt the same way.

And I don't blame them.

If it was me watching some new guy come in and stumble through this important song, it was an important, you know, part of the play.

Are you at that point?

Do you want to quit?

Do you want to run in and reassure her?

Be like, I swear to God.

There was very little time.

And I just sort of heard this through the rumblings of

the, that Pat was with me.

And I don't know why I was kind of so jet lagged.

It didn't bump me.

And I was like, I'm going to show every motherfucking person in this place that I can sing the shit out of this song and I'm going to go out and do my best.

My wife was petrified.

My singing coach was petrified.

Pat.

who's here was so they were all right i mean everybody was very afraid i know i know it worked out and i'm terrified

right yeah

is it a crazy story yeah so

so it's me watching oppenheimer i'm like do we win yeah

right right right yeah and so he uh

pat says don't worry boss i got this i got it

and uh he goes out they get the prompter set up he goes i'm gonna make sure you can see these now

Before the show started, we were out there trying to figure it out.

They brought the prompters out, realized that they're in front of, there's tables, people sitting in front of them.

I go, Pat, what if they get the prompt and people are sitting?

Oh, don't worry, Boss, I'll move out of there.

Then they put flowers like about this big in front of,

don't worry, boss, I got this, I got this.

So he goes out, they put the prompters out during intermission, was it?

Or, and

yeah, and he talks to the people.

He says, Look, John's got to see these.

Do you mind?

Oh, Mr.

Oh, oh, I didn't know John's.

Yes, and they move out of the way.

Everybody moves out of the way.

I get, I walk out to go on, and I could see through the stairs through the set that I could see them bright and clear.

It's great, Jesus Christ.

Like, I got this.

I went out there, boom.

And everybody came running to me backstage.

Like, oh my God, you were saying that was good.

And her Lord Weber is in the

box right in front.

He comes back and says, that's fantastic.

I can't believe he pulled that off.

When I see Cynthia Revo sing, it's like...

It's just like God's talking.

You know, what's that like in person?

Does it seem as effortless as it looks?

What's What's her process like?

Yeah, she's very quiet.

You know, she's very, you know, very focused.

And, you know, you learn that from the greats when you were on the set, you told me, I said, what's Matt Damon?

What was Robert Downey Jr.?

Like, they're super focused, right?

Yes.

And then, you know, obviously the director and stuff.

So it's hard for me.

I've gotten better, as you probably know, but it's hard for me to not joke around and not goof off and stuff.

It's just my nature.

But sometimes you just, at the risk of not being the most friendly guy on the set, set, you know, you got to put it into the, and I think that she was that way.

She was very sweet after.

And she, and Billy was there, my son, and he's into theater now.

And Kristen Chenoweth and Cynthia were kneeling down to say hi.

Well, Kristen wasn't, but Cynthia was kneeling down, you know,

smaller, probably.

They're both little.

And they were talking to Billy about theater.

And it was, you know, just

made me, I was so proud.

And Billy was talking about, to me, he was like, dad, I really love tech.

I said, Billy, tell me that you love tech.

Do you love tech?

Like the lights, and yeah, when you have to like stand there, I love that.

I used to tell my mom I want to be the lighting guy for the school plays, and my mom said, Not you

over my dead body.

She said, You think I'm gonna get in a taxi to see you run the curtain?

You're Tevia,

put on your dancing shoes and warm-up,

Joshi, after me, la la la.

Did you do theater as a kid?

Yeah,

did you?

Oh, no.

So you have another big Hollywood Bowl theater performance coming up, Nightmare.

Night Before Christmas is coming the 25th and 26th of October.

Yeah.

Huge.

Go check it out.

You know, you awesome.

Josh Gadd was out.

So they, what's the next logical choice?

Stamos.

Pee-Wee Herman passed away.

Rest his soul.

So he can't do Nightmare Before Christmas.

Next logical choice, Pee-Wee, Stamos.

And so I'm doing that.

I'm actually,

I'm trying to learn the words to this song.

Do you know the movie?

We need more people to get sick and die.

That's what we need, right?

Who else?

I don't know.

Who can we wish ill on?

But you get to do these things.

And I don't know about you, like, what's the have you played in front of a big crowd?

Not really, huh?

Not really.

Yeah.

Penn?

I was going to say, we did the

Rosen Shingle.

Yeah, we did

a Jewish youth conference.

No, yeah, we did a live podcast at the U.S.

Open.

That was pretty cool.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

He was there.

We were pretty cool.

Yeah.

But it's like, I don't know, like doing like

hosting the Teen Choice Awards.

Right, right.

Doing that kind of stuff.

Yeah, I think I'm nervous, but I'm always nervous.

You're nervous right now.

I'm just going to buy sparkling water.

So I'm dying to hear about, speaking of getting to work with some greats, you also have a new show coming out on Apple.

Very exciting.

I'm not my show, but I'm in the second season of Pom Rail.

Did you ever watch that?

I haven't seen the show.

I'll watch it when I get home.

It's one of those shows where, like, you get up and you go to work one day.

And I met, um,

I'm working with Kristen Wigg.

I play kind of her love interest for a minute there.

Cool.

I play a lawyer/slash gynecologist.

And that fits.

And how do you start the friendship with her?

Do you go now?

As soon as COVID hits, is it your idea to do the song?

Remember this?

Imagine all.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God.

Do I remember?

Who's your idea?

Whose idea was that?

You know what's funny?

It's easy if you try.

The hospitals are overcrowded.

Yeah, that didn't go over well for me.

But look, it started with, we're in the makeup trailer, and we're talking about somehow, I guess it was around this time.

We can talk about this if you guys want to.

It's funny.

I ended up at Mar-a-Lago, right?

Oh, yes.

And somehow we were talking about this, and I was sort of telling my side of the story.

And she was like, oh my God, yeah, I know.

That's too bad.

She's the greatest, by the way.

Like, you want to talk about like someone who's as talented and nice as her.

Like, it doesn't, she was the best.

And I got most of my stuff was with her, you know.

So I said, well, you never dealt with any of that kind of, you're, you're like, you have a clean record.

Nobody's ever.

She goes, well, I did that song.

I was like, oh, yeah.

But I think I felt like Wonder Woman got more of the hit for that than say a Christian Wigg, right?

What's her name?

Yeah, I think everybody got a hit for that.

Everybody who was in pretty much got

like, you know, like, come on.

Like, I mean, I can't defend that.

I don't know that story very well.

But

it's easy to people are annoying.

The truth is, it was obviously made to just like

have some levity.

And people are just the worst.

And they're like, this is going to make us feel better about people dying.

No, that wasn't.

That probably wasn't the intention.

Mar-lago is doing a benefit.

they moved locations not at the last minute but you know halfway through mar-lagos no you

i was doing a benefit for nurse for the for the health care in in florida which i thought was great right and i got to which is the more interesting part of the story i spent the day with howard um the day before because he loses yeah howard sorry and it was one of those great days where it was just the two beth was there we had a great lunch and then him and i just sat and played guitar for an hour and talked and like it just that hasn't happened in forever you you know, just the two of us.

And it was one of my favorite afternoons ever.

I just love the guy, I know you do too.

Yeah, at his little shanty in Palm Beach, yeah, a little shack.

Um,

but uh,

so that was part of it, and then they moved it over there.

And I thought, well, he's not gonna be there, and you know, half of my fans are Republican, you know, which is fine.

They moved the benefit from the venue, so I just imagine what's being like, so it's not at the Ramada, yeah,

tomato with the Ramada, yeah.

Um, it was at the, I think it was originally at Breakers or something,

but it was there in Palm Beach.

Anyway, I thought, well, you know, somebody gets a picture of me.

And I think what busted it out was that somebody's hitting, so he happened to be there that night, Mr.

Trump,

Mr.

President,

and

he

was, it was a fundraiser or something.

So someone said that I was there raising money for him.

You know, and then you're caught in the middle.

It's like, you know, I'm not MAGA.

People sh know me, know, you know, where my beliefs are.

The common theme here is that people are really annoying.

Like, that's it.

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Are we back?

I've been with dudes, Dog.

We're not back here.

We're going back.

That was a Charming Sheen documentary.

It was interesting.

Did you watch that?

I loved it.

It was so good.

It was great.

Oh, you watched it.

So good.

That was a great.

That did come off charming and you loved him at the end of the day.

And his relationship with his drug dealer, the drug dealer saved his life.

It's the best story I've ever heard.

That's a hallmark.

But who has a fat drug dealer?

Like, he's this guy was a heavyset guy.

God bless him.

But you know, he didn't partake, I guess.

No, he partook.

That's how you know you're really good at doing drugs.

Yeah, when you realize you can eat through uppers.

What do you know about being fat and doing drugs?

No, nothing.

Can we go back to the first great woman that you worked with?

First or second?

Tony Geary.

Lori from Luke and Laura.

Aunt.

America's aunt.

Oh, back.

Becks.

Aunt, aunt.

Aunt?

Lori.

Laurie.

You love Lori, don't you?

Lori Lachlan.

Here's somebody 40 years I've known her.

And

I, you know, you can see through people after a few years.

This woman's a saint.

Like, she has never,

you know, it's just hard to see her going through.

I'm just heartbroken for her right now.

I feel that's what you're going to ask about.

Would it be okay?

She gave me permission.

I mean, look,

all I'm going to say is that

I've really tried to be there for her during this time.

And also with the collar scandal, I mean,

I'm not going to debate whether she had much to do with it or not.

I know she didn't.

I know that she took a lot of the heat that her husband brought to that family.

Massimo.

Never been a big fan of that guy.

I mean, he dragged her through that.

Maybe she saw something.

I don't know.

But the reason why I know,

I get a text around 5 a.m.

from my friend Roger Lodge, who's into the, you know, and he said, is Lori okay I was like I kind of woke up and

because when you get a is Lori okay yeah so scary yeah I said I thought what what happened he said well no nothing she's okay but I guess she's involved in some college getting her kids into SC I don't know anything about that so I start I stay up I start googling it and I catch a few things

couldn't really understand it it was complicated you know that somebody they went to this guy Rick Singer and he

He was trying to get their kids into the school.

And, you know, I wouldn't know anything about college because I didn't go.

You

graduated.

Did you?

Yeah.

But what I'd say is this is a pretty normal thing, by the way.

Paying money to donate things to help potentially influence admissions

is a very common practice, which is,

again, I'm probably going to be on the wrong side of this in the comments, but it was so, in my opinion, completely overblown.

Like, if you're going to take, she was just like the...

She was the poster child.

She was the poster child for something that's been happening forever.

But But you know, the reason that there are wings named after people is because they gave $25 million.

You know, ooh, just by chance, everyone in the family goes.

Right.

Like, that just is what it is.

Yeah, they get a white president, like everybody.

I could still understand people being upset that their kids got great grades and they didn't get a burden.

But I don't think, Laura, I honestly, I know because so I called her then.

She was in Canada doing something for Hallmark.

You'll see me soon.

Yes.

And she, and I said, I said, are you, are you okay?

She goes, yeah, why?

I said, well, it's this college scandal.

I don't understand what it was.

She goes, yeah, I saw, you know, recently I saw a couple emails come through about it.

This was the morning of when it broke.

And she's not a liar, you know, she's a saint.

And she, and I said, oh, well, I,

I guess there's some,

some stuff going on about it.

And she goes, I don't know, Massimo handles all that stuff.

And, you know, and then I hear these kind of beep.

I said, did you hear that beep?

She goes, yeah, i think my phone might be bugged i'm like i'm sorry i'm going through the candy

hand to go

and so john's like wait did i relapse what

people in the bushes yeah

and so uh i turn the tv on and then this press conference hits and and um

you know it hits hard this guy's up there saying lori and moslam they've felons and um i texted her back i said are you watching this press conference?

And I had the text.

I could show it to you.

She goes, what press conference?

I said,

the one about you and your husband and this college scandal.

She goes, no, what channel is it on?

I swear to God, it hit all caps.

All channels, every channel.

And then it broke.

And that's the last I heard from her for a while, you know?

And then

I think right around that time, they busted in and got Massimo out of their guns and stuff.

She goes to fucking prison for this asshole for three months, right?

And he goes for whatever.

And in typical Lori fashion, I said, how was it?

She goes, you know, I met a lot of nice ladies in there.

We have a good club.

That's her, you know.

She didn't deserve to be dragged through that.

I don't know.

I, you know, I believe that she really did.

I know for a fact it was, it was all him.

And I think even the girls, you know, they were like, okay, you know, I know you knew Olivia.

Girls are awesome.

Good people.

I don't think, I don't think Olivia wanted to go to college.

I can't speak for her, but it seems like she was doing great with her YouTube and Mega Mega.

So now this thing comes up, you know, all of a sudden they're split up.

And

I know

she's just devastated.

And for a girl who, you know, has lived her life really well, a good person, a good mother, a good wife, I know all this for a fact, to be thrown into now this separation and, you know, exploding, blowing up her family this way.

And I just hate to see her go through this.

I really do.

And I just.

How do you and your wife, caitlin like how do you guys how do you offer support it's it's not in a clear thing all the time with something like this right yeah she lives out she lives in my neighborhood lori yeah um and so you know i was over there a lot and she come came to our house you know a couple times and caitlin's been

you know good about it it's it's tough because you know this is a friendship and there was never you know a lot of people were oh you guys were romantic or you know i i happen to say she was the one that got away in something and you know it was i think it was before i met caitlin and you know it was an interesting thing.

I wrote about it in the book.

There was very little, there was a very small window of the two of us being single at the same time, you know.

And, you know, I was more, and the way I don't mean to belittle or

pare it down to

Greece, but

Lori was Sandy, you know, Sandy, you know, before the, before the leather and all that stuff, before that song.

And Rebecca Romaine was Sandy in the leather and the tell me about it stud, you know, and I, and I really, there was a moment where there was, I had the choice, I think.

And I was more into, you know, the, the rebellious, Lori was so sweet and I loved working with her, but it was just too, she was too nice for me.

Sure.

And I said, I'm going to go down this path.

That's sort of what happened.

And that was, that, that was it.

There was never, I always thought that we made out on some ride at Disneyland.

I've known her since the early 80s.

You'd remember.

I remembered.

She said it didn't.

I think she said it didn't happen.

So I don't know if it's just something I made up in my mind.

You know, some kind of fancy.

That's what I made out with Jennifer Love Hewitt in the early 2000s.

You did?

Yeah, I was probably at Popeyes ordering an extra biscuit

in my mind.

Right.

And

she was God I was in love with her.

Sweetheart.

She still looks great.

But like, we never, you know, it was always platonic.

And there's no, you know, now that she's, you were asking, what did you ask earlier?

Like, now that she's single, you know, oh, yeah, would you bring her into the fold?

A lot of, I asked, like, do we have questions for John Stamos?

First, the biggest question was, come on, Aunt Becky, bring her in, bring her into the fold.

You would be a polygamist.

That wasn't what they asked.

They asked if you'd leave your wife for her.

We're not doing that.

Of course, would you bring her into the fold?

No fucking way.

No, but

as a friend,

I'm not Mormon.

Okay.

Do you do that with your wife?

Are you a singing?

I don't.

I don't.

He's blinking.

We're singers.

We're not swingers.

We're singers.

Just in general, like, have you seen other couples who've tried to sort of have these?

It never works.

It never does.

Yeah, I don't, I can't think of anything specifically.

I mean, actually,

I guess I have a, I actually have a couple friends.

I have two or three sets of friends that are swingers and they somehow make it work.

Yeah.

Weird.

But

they both have to want to swing.

I feel like the problem is more often than not, one person really encourages the other.

Like, yeah, I think this is a good idea.

Let's try it.

And the other is so into me.

It's never better.

It's never, the grass is never greener, you know um yes i'm telling you oh i know but it's you know it's it's um i just hate it's heartbreaking and you you have you know we've been there for her and obviously and um you know she was married 27 28 years and her kids you know they're they're good girls as as as we spoke and she's been a beautiful family but you know i told her i said look look like all the whatever negativity or hard hardships that you've been through your life is connected to this guy you know like i mean and this guy's he's supposedly not a very good guy like Like, I think he cheated on her.

I, you know, I'm taking the fifth on that, but I, but, um,

I, it, whatever he did to her, it busted her up to the core.

Yeah.

And, and she put up with a lot over the years of this guy.

Um,

and, you know, again, I'm not going to get into the relationship.

It's not my business.

I mean,

you know, I know a lot and I was by her side through a lot of it.

She is an angel.

And she, she always made things better.

She cleaned everything up.

She made he said, look, he's, he's a very successful dude.

You know, I, I will never talk to him again.

He has, he's a terrible narcissist.

And I don't think you ever

get out of that unless you're, you're able to.

And, and, and, you know,

I know a little about his history, you know, his family a little bit.

Um,

I think that, uh, I,

I think when you have

a wife like that and a

family, like, how do you do that?

how do you

you know how do you bust that up and and and he you know never has to do with the other person it's always something in you right when people throw away such a beautiful life person it's always

because nothing can fill that god-sized hole and here's say again nothing can fill that god-size hole right see where your mind's going but it's true no a hundred percent and and you we've been there and and we pulled out of it because kicks keep getting harder to find yeah when you've done everything and you've accomplished every, I had a list.

And of course, you know, when I was drinking a lot, the list didn't include having a beautiful wife and a child, you know, but it was like, I've done everything.

I'd play with the beach boys.

I've had sitcoms.

Fuck it.

I remember thinking very clearly that if I die, it's okay.

I've done it all.

I didn't want to kill myself, but if I die tomorrow, I did it.

I did everything, which I didn't.

That's such a selfish bullshit.

It was believable when you would say that before you met Caitlin.

You said it to me like, some guys say it, and I'm like, you work at H ⁇ R Block.

What did you do?

Like, you know,

you did all the spreadsheets you're going to do.

And then you would say that, and

it was almost like a little,

not menacing, but it had an air of like, oh, I hope that doesn't happen.

Cause he's kind of right.

He had, you had done everything to an extent.

And you have too now.

And I have too.

And you just.

you have to go inward and you have to stop trying to fill that hole that that that kick you know uh you you it's it's an addiction that you have to control just like all our other addictions and i and i here's what i here's what the honest to god truth i pray for this guy i pray that he gets a hold of his whatever hole that he's trying to fill however he's trying to fill it i pray that he realizes that what he had was was everything that anyone could ever hope for and that he gets some help i think this guy needs help yeah and and to lori's credit you know we've been to so many lovely gatherings at your house with beautiful people that you have that surround you, but there's always going to be people there that are sort of

interested in sort of the fame and notoriety of the kind of people that can sometimes be at these parties.

And Lori always made it her business to like take time with me and my wife and really wanted to know us.

And my wife, who's such a great gauge of bullshit, was like, that lady reminds me of a friend of my mom's.

Like that's someone who I would go over to their house and she'd be like, what are we having for dinner, girls?

That's her.

Yeah.

And what did Paige think of Massimo at that party?

Not sure.

I don't think, honestly, I don't think either of us have spent barely any time with him.

Should we get to our what are you nuts?

Yeah, our what are you nuts moment?

Gripes with people, places, and things.

Well, you were walking here.

You looked at somebody like, what are you nuts?

What are you nuts?

Have anything?

Me and Saga used to, I think it was Dave, it's like, you're nuts.

Let me finish in this light.

Look beautiful.

You know, it's like, what are you nuts?

Hanging out the window or something.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We were doing so good with this podcast.

And then we go to the questions, these silly questions.

This is how we end it.

People love this segment.

This is the segment.

We'll start all.

We'll give you a second.

This is the segment.

All these podcasts are so great.

You get the deepest, most heartfelt, beautiful conversations.

Okay, quick.

What's the 10 sugar things?

What's the sweetest thing you've ever eaten?

You know, it's like,

I don't care.

John, I just poured my heart out.

John Cox playing someone who listens to podcasts is so cute.

If it's true crime, I listen to true crime podcasts.

Okay.

We should start doing a true crime segment.

My wedding notes moment.

I land in LA.

Waymo, you know this Waymo.

I look to the left.

There's nobody driving the car.

We don't have this in New York.

And let me tell you, somebody, have you guys taken Waymo?

Should we take a Waymo?

Oh, yeah.

It's taking Waymo.

It's excellent.

It's one of the scary.

You need it.

Why are you taking Waymo?

Oh, because I don't want to have to do this.

Hi,

Rick.

You turn the music down.

It's a little Rick.

Ricky.

Yeah, exactly.

I'd much rather talk to Rick, you think, than have a driverless car, a complete what are you nuts?

I'm sorry, maybe this in 10 years somebody will show me this and like, Ben, you're nuts.

No, what if it

goes off the rails?

Let me finish.

I don't want it.

What are you nuts?

It was originally called John Waymos.

Swaymost.

Swaymost.

I like that.

But I changed it to Waymos because.

Okay, John's Waymos.

I had a guy, you know, you're talking about like when people, you know, just being shitty and they see a good good guy or whatever and they want to take the piss out of us like people have done with us.

Not you, Ben.

No, they've come for Ben.

They'll come for you after this.

No, they come.

It's okay to pay your way into a college.

Don't worry, they come.

You know,

as long as you got money,

who cares?

Bye-bye.

You fuck the kids that have started.

You work so hard.

You're just on TikTok.

He did say you.

But I swear to God, this happened last, I think it was last night, the night before.

I'm out.

It's really dark.

We have a lot of Halloween things.

And it was a party going on in our neighborhood, a bunch of kids, and it was very dark.

And I'm outside.

I just walked out and I was putting up doing a Halloween thing.

And these group of kids come walking down the trail.

And I hear someone go, oh, hey, John Stamos lives there.

And one of the other kids says, you mean John Lamos?

That's a good one.

That's a good one.

That's a good one.

That's a good one.

And, oh, it's a good, okay, what do you have?

And,

and I went in and I was laughing about it.

And I told Caitlin and Pat, and they were like, oh, my, Caitlin was so felt.

I go, fuck them.

I'm John Stamos.

Look what I come home to.

I got a career.

I got a beautiful wife.

I got a beautiful.

And that's sometimes you have to say that to yourself, right?

Josh is like, go ahead and make fun of me all you want.

I'm me.

Like, I can't play with the Beach Boys.

Yeah.

Like, I'm still relatively, you know, relative, like working with great people.

Like, I got the most beautiful wife and kid at home.

Call me Lamos.

Call me whatever the fuck you want.

Call me something.

They're calling you something.

Well, I don't, maybe not.

Lamos.

No,

at least it's still Greek.

It's a bit of a glamos.

My woody nuts is

people getting a massage in the middle of the mall.

It's such a private thing.

And it's a private thing.

And there are these chairs.

I literally, I was walking in the mall the other day with both my sons.

And this woman goes, you want to massage?

And I go, and where will they go?

Yeah.

What are they going to do?

Are they going to watch?

What are your nuts?

Yeah.

What are you nuts?

But she's like, no, no, we got the chairs.

And so you took your pants off and did it.

Yeah, it was wonderful.

Kids stand by.

Oh, my God.

I always thought, like,

Josh, Josh, here's a secret about the two of us.

You guys might like this.

Years ago, we used to sneak away to a tanning booth, Josh.

It was a fair.

We didn't tell anybody it was taking.

Suntans to go in the valley.

And we would text each other like pictures of our feet.

And it was great.

And John would just write me, I'm in our secret place.

That's what we call it, the tanning booth.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

And the guy who worked there would be like, yo, Stamos was just here.

Yeah.

We try to be so quiet.

And he'd be like, he gave me 20 bucks.

Yeah.

And Josh, oh, my boy, Josh.

And that's how we found out we both were going to the same tenant booth.

They were telling.

I was like, do you go to a tenant booth?

Of course.

It's so funny.

But I was saying, like, you can't take your kid to that.

What are they going to do in 10 minutes?

Not fun.

Right now.

Give it to you, dude.

Thank you for doing that.

I love you guys.

I'm really very proud of you.

And

I'm so excited that you got a three-year contract.

I don't know if you've talked about that yet on here at Nausea, but I'm here to announce Good Guys has been picked up for three years, and it's because they are good guys and they're talented and they're interesting and they're funny and they're cute and they're good singers.

And I love them both.

God loves you.

One a little more than one.

Great John Stamos.

The great John Stamos.

Folks, this episode is five stars.

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