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They say vulnerability creates connection. So see the highlight reel for Instagram because when we're among vinyls, there's no filter. It's time to unwind. Here's your host, Kaitlyn Bristowe. Welcome to Off the Vine, I'm your host, Kaitlyn Bristowe, and today's guests. IG Bio describes her as a mom, actress, activist, author, podcaster and enjoy her of this strange little ride through the universe. And I truly don't think I could say it any better myself. Actually, maybe one thing I would add Stephanie Fricke and Tanner. I was not in your bio. I am so happy I got to talk to Jodi Sweden today. She was my little tap dancing idol growing up, and now she's on my podcast. And it's just a full circle moment because a full house, full circle, fuller circle. We talk about Christmas movies, her time filming Full and Fuller House and her lack of coordination when leads to a pretty amazing confession. So I hope you enjoy this chat with Jodi Sweet. I am so excited to talk to you, I can't believe you agreed to come on my podcast. I'm like, what? I'm such a fan. I'm such a thank you. Yes, you're amazing. There's so much to talk about. I was thinking about. I'm like, I don't know where to start, and I'm like, I have to start where everybody starts because it's the most iconic role. Like you were, Stephanie Tanner. I have to talk about it. I'm sure everyone wants to talk to you about that role because it's where you got your start. I mean, I've it has been something I've been known for almost my entire life. So I mean, at this point, like I'm I'm in a lot of acceptance and I love Steph, so I'm it's fine. At least it's not a character that like, I greet you me through it, so I'm fine with it. How could you not? She was my favorite of the whole family. I when I told my sister because I talked to Tamara from Tia and Tamera, from sister, sister, and then I would talk to you and my sister is like, How are you like getting to do this? This is our childhood. We used to sit and watch TGIF with my family every Friday, and like Full House was our obviously, it's still a show that I, if I want to like, get in a good mood and just go back to I'll put it on. It's my niece's new favorite show, like everything. I love that. And so many people talk about how full house is so of that television comfort food for them. Yeah, the thing that like. They just remember, and it's people, you know, my age that are like in their 40s, it's people that are in their 20s that are now at college that grew up with the reruns. It's the kids of the now 30 and 40 year olds that are watching Full House and now Fuller House. Like, it's just sort of this thing that people have always turned to that that feels good. And you know, I think being very aware of what that show is and what it means to people is important. You know, I mean, it was there's a reason we always won the people's choice and never the critics choice. You get on it. We did it. We did it for our fans. And I love what we did because it's made a lot of really wonderful memories. Oh my gosh. So like, like you said, and it's it's not even just a certain age group like it's continued on to their kids and their kids, and it's really is so special. I, my girlfriend and I, one of my best friends, Bree. We went out to San Francisco just like take a picture in front of the house and I at the age of like 30. I think I was 35, was so I was like, Wait, this isn't the real house. This is just the front of the house that was filmed. And like, if it was a whole set, I'm like, Duh, how did I not realize that as well? Let me tell you, having been inside the actual house that is that is photographed those pictures. Yeah. There is no like it is just Narnia. OK. Once you walk through the front door of the set of Full House because there is no way that all of that and all of those people could exist in the house and it's like, right? I mean, including like like film crews and all of that. I mean, the people, I just mean the the characters that lived, really. It's a tiny Victorian home. You go in there and it is only as wide as it is with a front door and the window like, that's true. Walk in there, stairs, there's now. No, there is none of that. None of that, like the actual house is this. It's it's like a little dollhouse. It's like a little girl doll house. And there's no way that like nine people or 11 or however many eventually lived in that house could have lived in there in real life. Well, and it's funny, too, because all the like like family matters full house, step by step boy meets world. But all these shows I remember from that time, they all have the staircase on one side and the swinging door in the middle and the staircase that came down into the kitchen. What's that? Is that just for staging purposes? Yeah, that's for staging purposes. It gives you. It's usually in a living room, which is your most often used set. Yeah, it gives you for entrance and exit points, so you can always have someone coming or going from a different direction. So it's never just sort of the same thing. My gosh, that's so fascinating. It was more interesting. The more ways that someone can, you know, I mean, not in every way, but in sitcoms in particular. Yeah, it's it's usually like that. Yeah. Do you guys have a live audience or was it like the laugh track? We had a live audience and then with all shows, they they do what's called sweetening, which is where they enhance sound and whatever. Make it sound great. And they always fill out laughter in shows because it just it always sounds better. Yeah, I always wish I could go back and be a part of an audience for that kind of show. Like, I just just like you said, comfort food for a TV. I was like, Yes. Do you enjoy sitting for like four or five hours straight and not being able to get up and go to the bathroom? Are you okay with that? I'm OK with Okay, great. OK, then you're fine because that is what setting that is, what a sitcom taping is. It is. People always come in there like that was so much longer than I thought it was going to be. And you're like, Oh, yeah, no, this isn't a play. You don't get this like one time through. Like, we will beat some things to death and you're going to sit there and watch and you're going to sit there, watch it right? So, yeah, yeah, that the experience of it is always very different for people. Is there anywhere on the internet? I just thought of this now where you can find full house bloopers. Oh, yeah, yeah, every year we did, we did a gag rule, but I don't know those were those are only released to like cast and crew and not all cast and crew. I don't think so. I don't know if they exist on YouTube, but they they do exist and I do have them. And as a child, I will tell you which this is going to tie into a later story that I have. OK. I have always been very clumsy. Yes, I just am like three steps ahead of my own body. Anyway, there would be like five to 10 minute segments of me just falling down at the end of each season. And it was and it was everyone else when what did you? And I was like, I don't know. Like, I just I was like, Bambi, I would trip over myself. I was always falling down. Still, to this day, constant clouds always falling like this. Just, I swear you are random bruises on myself. I burned myself on the giving. I like I just am. Yeah, that's so was any part of Stephanie Tanner, who you actually were as a child? Yes, for sure, the dancing. Yeah, I was a dancer and they they really sort of took who I was as a person and and filtered that into staff. And then it was like Stephanie had storylines that were really only applicable to her being a middle child or this or that. But other than that, like so much of her personality was me. Right? You know, truly through the years, I've always thought, like, there's sort of this blurred line of where Stephanie ends and I begin or vice versa. Right, right. And it's because as a kid, you know, they really they paid attention to what was going on with me and what my strengths were and my interests and really made Stephanie, you know, nice shine because of that. So it was fun and it was always fun when I got to dance on the show because all my like, my dance studio friends and, you know, people that I would dance with when I wasn't working, like they would come in and we'd get to choreograph something and I get to hang out with them. So that was why I grew up dancing, too. So that was always part of why Steph was my favorite and I always loved watching because they like the I loved watching you do your jazz dance in and again, because I go dancing and I was like, Yes, I loved it. Like, even even when I remember some of my favorite episodes, it was the ones. Well, actually, my favorite episode is all time when you guys did that like marathon and you guys did. That was one of my favorite episodes. I'm not sure why the marathon went where I do the the is it not Love Shack, but Love Shack, isn't it? Well, oh wait, Love Shack is the one. The sparkly baseball hat, right? Is this the one we're talking? No, not that one, but I love that one to that one. Yeah, because I feel like I don't know that was somehow told. Now this is the one with the sweater. I'm a little kid with the blue leggings. Yeah, it looks like a muppet. Like that one little skinny stick. Yes. And then that is one that we recreated in Fuller House. Yes, with Adam and Boo, who plays Jimmy Gabler. He recreated that entire dance. I mean, when I tell you like. I was on the floor dying, laughing, and it was the week I directed, I directed that episode I directed that all sewed, and so I knew that he was going to be in the costume, but they wouldn't let us see them beforehand. And it was every so oh my gosh. It was everything. It was everything. And he we actually I think Chris Judd came in because he would do a lot of our choreography stuff, and he came in and had watched that video over and over again and then learned the steps and taught it to Adam, who like. Rehearsed and prepped, he was so proud of himself for getting it, and it was so it was Adam. I love him. He was so much fun to work with. But he is giant. OK, when I tell you, Adam is like six, two or six three walks, like he's huge. You'd see him in this little sweater and the side ponytail and he, you know, he has all the grace of someone that's six three. And, you know, so it was like the running man, but the whole like the stage shook. That's amazing. Yeah, I thought it was going to like drag drag grooves through the floor. It was amazing. So yes, so that is also one of my all time favorite and like. Kind of Fuller House. Yeah, the moment full circle, Fuller House moment of your favorite parts. That's amazing. Obviously, you have your life probably revolved around being in that house and on that stage and with these people. Did you were you able because you said you had your friends come in and do choreography when you were dancing to your dance friends? So were you able to like, have a not normal but like a separate life outside of your like family of full house? For sure. For sure. I, you know, the first couple of seasons, it was kind of getting into the swing of things, and so I was schooled completely on set and would be there early in the morning and all stuff. But in later seasons around, I want to stay like second or third grade. We worked it out where because I lived in Orange County, which is like an hour south of L.A.. Yeah, I don't know. I grew up. And at that time, 20, 30 years ago, you could make it from Orange County to L.A. in like an hour. So my mom would actually pick me up from school. I'd go to school in the morning, she'd pick me up from school at around 11:45 12 o'clock. I'd work on my script in the car on the way to set and then do rehearsal in the afternoon so that I was able to keep like one foot in normal life. I went to public school. I just sort of had some like normalcy. Just, yeah, some normalcy. Like none of my friends, most of my friends were in the business. I mean, outside of my work, friends. But like the people that I, you know, birthday parties I went to and stuff like that on weekends and things and people in my class, they were just normal kids. So I had I got to have that experience and I'm always really, really grateful for that because I think. To this day, it like it reminded me that the world is really big and like all, this is fun, right? But that it's not forever and that there's a whole world outside of just what this is. Yeah, that's so true. I always wonder that with like childhood actors that have to do school and all that and like, because sometimes people say their parents made it like really easy for them to, like, create some normalcy. So I always like to hear when somebody gets to have that because you never want to, like, lose out on some of your childhood or the normalcy. And again, it's kind of nice because was the family of full house like, I'm assuming you guys all got along during filming. And my gosh, it was like your other family. It was. It was. Yeah, I mean, they were the people I spent the most time with growing up. You know, even outside of my family, I mean, my mom was, you know, on set with me every day, but I was it and I I had a relatively small family. It's gotten smaller over the years as people have gotten older. But you know, I was an only child, didn't have a ton of cousins, my mom's side of the family like. So it wasn't a huge family. So getting welcomed into this kind of gigantic extended family that was not only the cast of Full House, but the crew too, that worked with us season after season and that we all knew so well. They all became a really big part of my family, and I had a really wonderful experience in this business. It, of course, brought challenges, but of course, I'm really fortunate that I think it was a really great environment for me and. How my brain works. It just kept me constantly stimulated and entertained, and I thrived. Yes, and especially being surrounded by like good humans because I feel like in that business there could be, you know, I mean, every business, it's not just showbiz, but every business has a, you know, like there are people that aren't, you know, good people to surround yourself with. So it's nice that you had that relationship with everybody. Yeah, it was. It just it really came from, you know, the cast from the crew. We all really genuinely loved each other and took care of each other. And the kids were important on the set and their well-being was always thought of. And you know, our moms always knew that they had a voice if we needed something and we knew it to like it, you know, and our teachers, our studio teachers were always there, like there was never a moment when it felt like it was a job. You know what I mean? That it was? I mean, there were times, of course, you're tired or you have to work sick or whatever. But like, I had a really wonderful experience of being very supportive. Hey, there. So I really could use all the extra energy I can get this holiday season, and that is why I drink Spark. It's Abacha's bestselling energy drink mix and I go to right now for extra energy and focus. This time of year will, in all times of the year, really spark has just the right amount of caffeine I need for busy days. 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I feel like the world grieved when when Bob Saget passed away, because we all saw him as like a father figure to us, even if we saw his stand up or as inappropriate jokes, like even if we thought we still thought of him as our TV dad. And so I can only imagine that kind of loss you when you're like. It actually felt like a TV dad, but also a real dad to me in a way, too. Yeah. Bob, you know, I mean, this cast has been more to me than just people I worked with, you know, even. In the time between Full and Fuller House, you never stop being together, you don't stop spending time together. Bob and John and Dave were like, Best, best and Lori, we're all best friends, and Candice and Andrew and I were close and like, you know, like it was, Mary Kate would spend weekends at my house. When we were shooting Pool House, I'd spend weekends with Bob. It's like, you know, we really we all were very connected. And it wasn't only when the cameras were on or only when the show was being shot. That lasted until we got to come back and do it again with Fuller House. So like, I know people are really great, but at the same time, like you feel you could feel that dynamic through the screen, you know what I mean? I've always said that I think that was what made Full House and Fuller House really popular and really resonated with people was that yes, it was super sweet and sappy and family, whatever at times. But the love that you saw between all of us and the hugs and all of that were real and genuine and warm, and it was like watching and you knew you were watching people that really genuinely love each other. Did it feel like, Oh, here they go? You know, I think that was what made people really. Love the show and have it connect with so many people across so many audiences all over the world. It's, you know, it's been an incredible thing to be a part of. Yeah, no kidding. I was that was like my childhood dream. I was like, I want to be a part of full house. Are you guys me like a joke on Fuller House about Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen? Not in there? Do you guys still talk to them or is it like just it's been so long? Oh, nice. Well, it had been it had been a really long time since I had talked to them, and since then, other people talk to them. Bob always stayed in touch because that's who Bob was. Yeah, it's just like the glue. Yeah. And the first time that we actually all. Saw each other and got together was at Bob's passing. Wow, really? At his house before the funeral? Yeah. And that that we were all there and we all of us hate everybody. So that was, wow, that was a big moment that I know. Bob would have loved to have been there for, and I'm sure he was in his own way, but I I'm grateful for it and I was yet again Bob bringing everybody together. So yeah, it wasn't like anything bad ever happened. It was just, no, just we were eight years old when the show starts. So like what? You know, that's their whole life existed after that, like all of their memories. I mean, they're eight years old, how much of your life do you remember before you were eight years old? Like nothing. Not much. Exactly. Yeah, that's so true. You know what I mean? So I always that people like, why didn't they weren't annoyed? Because there were so little like for me, I was five to 13. That was like my formative years. My middle school, my elementary school. Like that was it. That was my growing up. Yes, for them. Like they barely were in, you know, first grade and they were like, Done. So, you know, it's a different I think it's just a different experience and it wasn't like anything bad or having they went off and they've done. When wildly successful fashion designers, they were like, yeah, want to act anymore, like they're like icons in their own way now they like, you know, we've moved on, we don't want to do that anymore. And I think it was interesting how, like hung up on that, people were that like, somehow you're like, you almost had to make a joke about it or it had to be an experience and it was like, No, dude, they quit doing this when they were young and they don't want to do anymore. Yeah, like, that's OK. It was so wonderful to see them and to get to give them a big hug, despite the awful circumstance. Yeah, of course. That makes sense. Yeah, I saw photos and I was like, That must have been such such a special moment. And when you say that, like Bob was the glue and like, of course, he would bring people together and obviously unfortunate circumstances, it still you can find a little silver lining there. So I was looking through your list of roles that you have done, and it's great you've done so much throughout your acting career, from like TV to film to hosting. And I have to talk to you about Dancing With the Stars because I too was on Dancing With the Stars and your partner was Keo who I hang out with. Yes, yes. When I was like, Yeah, he's he's a hoot. And yeah, what was your experience like on that show? Because it was one of the most challenging things I've ever done. It was definitely one of the most challenging things I've ever done. And you know, I have lived in the jungles of Panama for two weeks, so it was, you know, it's still up there. It was a whole other thing. But yeah, Dancing With the Stars was like all of a sudden being thrown into becoming a professional dancer, even for someone like unless you are dancing all the time and like, that's what you do right to go from like, Oh, I can dance to, I am going to be a professional dancer ball in a matter of weeks. Ball, right, is a whole other ball game. And, you know, I was really determined and I loved dance, so I worked really hard. Seven days a week, I practiced every day. I danced, you know, like four to eight hours a day as long as I could. I was like, I will do the max out. Yeah, I did the most amount of rehearsal. They would let me and I loved it. Though Kyle and I were still friends to this day and I became very close friends, I just had a blast. I used to go watch ballroom dancing competitions when I was like young in my late teens, early twenties. I've always loved it. So for me, like that was why I wanted to do that show. I was like, I don't even care. I don't care about winning. I don't care about that. Like whatever, like, I have always wanted to ballroom dance and I want to challenge myself to that. So I was really glad I got to do it. The media was such a fun challenge. I forgot you did that reality show that you and your partner, Artem. Oh yeah, Artem. OK, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we actually won. I'm like, I stare at my Mirrorball like every day and be like, I can't believe I did that. Oh my God, congratulations. I have some. I have something to show you. So some of my very dear friends. Yes, I watch them religiously. And it was our people that worked on our show of people that worked in our production office, and they made me my own miracle. Oh, that's adorable. They may be my honourable. It's your Mirrorball champions, the US and Israel, your bwt as meaning group. Like, as soon as I would perform, I would get texts from this group of friends. Like from the production, I was like, OK, we watch this and this is what happened. But I got eliminated. They beat me my own little Mirrorball, so that's really cute. That's really cute. At the end of the day, it's just a trophy, but you get you can have that and the support of your family, you know, I love it. Yeah, actually, I like my little foil. Yeah, with that. Yeah, it's cute. But I was I was saying earlier about you did that. The Beyond the Edge. It's called right. Yes, you were with Colton, who was from the Bachelor world, of course. That I know was that. What was that experience like? That was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Yeah, I can only imagine Annette and even two weeks. That sounds like easy, but it's I cannot imagine it being easy. Well, you know, people like, Oh, you guys were probably wanting hotels, and I was like, No, no, no. Like Camp Cruz, everybody was like by the on the morning narraway. You know, base camp was whatever. We had an emergency radio in the middle of the night and then it was us and the pitch black and the monkeys and the monkeys would steal our s**t in the middle of the night like you'd wake up. I mean, nope, rain like you've never experienced in your life. Wow. And you just had to not there at all. Soaking wet, no sleep. And then you go run like a Tough Mudder every single day like it was. Yeah, talk about going from zero to athlete like eight and on no food and no sleep and well. And yeah, that sounds like my personal hell. You know, it was really funny when I when they approached me about. Doing it, I immediately was really excited because I like doing weird, challenging stuff where I'm like, Oh, let's like, let's push the limits of something. Yeah. And so I call my mom and I'm like, Oh my gosh, mom, I got to tell you about this thing. Like, I tell her, I'm going to go live in the jungle and it's going to be this and they're going to make us, do you know, my mom was like. Something is wrong with you. Somebody is we're signing up for. That is, why would you do that? Why? Why, why would you ever what that is? That sounds like my worst nightmare, but that sounds really fun. She's like, We have very different ideas. I agree. And and let me tell you, I now. Like. I can eat boiled sea snails, I do whatever I sleep outside in the dirt. I feel like I am a survivor outside of a hut in the middle of the night. Yeah, it's bring it. Let's do this. You know what I mean? So if they ever do like a celebrity survivor, I feel like you would crush it, because that just sounds like it. Now it's up your. I mean, it's basically was. It was very similar. It was the same producers from like survivor and naked and afraid and all of that. So it was the same types of challenges. The same, except what they told us was, you know, this like to get the same amount of content for survivor. Each episode takes like three days to shoot. They have a day of like putting around camp and foraging and doing this and doing whatever a day of doing it and whatever. And ours was like one day, you know, so it was like, Wow, that's that's got to be I mean, physically, mentally, all of the all of the ways challenging you, but you probably come out of it being like, I can literally do anything. Yeah. I mean, every single and we were out there, Colton Ray Lewis, like these guys, Craig Morgan. They were outdoorsman and or professional athletes. And Craig was an army ranger. It was every morning you woke up and you were like, Okay, all right, another day and you knew. And I think something about knowing you were the only one that could. It yourself off like. It was that inner battle of like, oh my god, oh yes, so much pain like I I can't I haven't slept in days. I'm wet, I'm cold, I'm like, Damn, I'm. It's just everything's awful, but I'm going to keep doing it. So yeah, it's pretty cool. That's true. I would. I'm so competitive that I think that sounds like my personal hell, but I'd still get there and try make it to the end because I'm like, so competitive, especially with myself. Let me tell you, I am not an outdoor camping girl. I do not do the outdoors. I don't like bugs. I don't like snakes. I don't. None of that I get. I was who I was before, and now it's still not who I am on a daily basis, but I know that I can do it, you know, I mean, like, I know I can make it through. I know I can do it like it'll be OK. Yeah. And you can always do glamping. There's always glamping. If you would like to like, take your family. My, my husband and I recently went to Zion and we went to a little. We rented a tiny home totally off the grid for like three nights. It was amazing. I love that I can do. Yeah, fine. I love. I love that. I feel like you've done. You've done so much in your life. And it was crazy to me that after being on TV, you know, a lot of people would be like, Well, I made it, and I have money and whatever. But you went back to college, and what did that time look like for you? Because you probably were so known as Stephanie Tanner that time and then you're going to college? I mean, I finished, we finished doing full house when I started my freshman year of high school. Yeah. So I had time in high school. I mean, college was just sort of always something I planned on doing. It was, you know, I just was assuming I would go. I was what I wanted to do. I mean, by that time, it had been a few years that the show was on. I mean, yeah, people would like still, you know, played the full house theme song in the dorm room or whatever. But for the most part, it was fine. Yeah. And you know, it was a small school, so I knew a lot of people and yeah, I loved it. I went back to school. You know, I'm always like going back to school is always the thing that I'm like. Should I go back to school again? I'm really like, Yeah, yeah, yeah. What did you study? I got my undergrad degree in elementary education with an emphasis in our little studies, with an emphasis in elementary education. I was going to be teacher. I worked in some school programs doing like after-school work and stuff like that, and then I had a minor in history. So wow, OK, that's cool. And of course, we're in the thick of the holidays. I was supposed to be in front of my Christmas tree, but I wanted to talk about, you have a couple Christmas movies that came out this year to write, you. I do it like I. You know, it was funny when I was shooting leaves, I was like, I'm peace. Both going to come out this year. Yeah. And they did. And it was awesome. On Hallmark on October 28, a cosy Christmas in came out and that was with me and David O'Donnell and really fun. We shot in Utah last December and it was, Oh, it's gorgeous. Gorgeous, yeah, beautiful. Oh, that's nice. And then the other one is Mary Swiss Miss, which was on lifetime, and I believe you can stream it now on the Lifetime app. But that aired originally on November 5th, and that is with my co-star Tim Rosen, who people might recognize from Schitt's Creek. He was much in s**t. s**t? Yes. Yeah. But Tim and I, you know, the movie takes place in Switzerland, Montreal, but Switzerland. And yeah, I had so much fun. I love doing these holiday movies. I meet some of the greatest people working with them. And I mean, these things, you know, you're shooting them in like. Three weeks, you know, it's madness, yeah. Oh yeah, I love it, it's fun, but it's always in like the most happiest, like little wonderland. And it's yeah, I feel like it's got people. That's it's funny that you filmed in Montreal because I went there one time and I was like, This just looks like so European here that you could totally get away with it looking like that's where it was. Well, we actually did it. So we were we didn't shoot in Montreal, in the city. We were actually like an hour and a half north of there in the Laurentian Mountains, but with like Swiss chalets and a very similar thing. Yeah, but I loved Montreal, and it was like being in French immersion school because I was the only American on set. So I was like constantly just trying to absorb all the French I could. It was fun. I mean, I'm Canadian and I know the word bonjour. Like, I'm like, not I'm like a terrible Canadian hobo. 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All right, guys, so it's officially the holiday season, and OxiClean is here to help. I know that the holidays for me and my fam is honestly just the best, but I'm not going to like it often involves some spills, some messes. I mean, we're trying to eat the best food and drink the best drinks. And sometimes that comes with a little messiness. OK, but a little mess is not a bad thing, especially when you have OxiClean to help you out and remove those stains to OxiClean. Max force is truly a game changer. All year round, but for the holidays in particular, it removes those every day and dried in stains so you can spray it and then forget about it for up to a week. And then when you're ready, you just wash it with detergent. As usual, it comes available in a spray and a gel stick, and you just add it directly onto a spot or stain. Usually, for me, it's a food or drinking stain. If we're being honest, I actually have a stain on my shirt right now. I need to go use this and then you're all set. It's so easy and seriously, it works so well. Don't forget to add max spores to your shopping list, so you'll be ready to spray away stains for the holiday season. Visit OxiClean dot com to learn more. So by the end of the year, I want to talk with us because I was talking again to my best friend Barry, who we went to to see the full house house. Yes. And she was like, Jodi is such a bada*s. I've followed her for so long. I love what she stands for. And I think you do. And I think of this year you were actually shoved to the ground by L.A. police while protesting for abortion rights. And I just feel like so many people, you know, people go to hold a sign or not even do that, but to go as far as you did. I just thought that was incredible and I just wanted to hear more kind of of your journey with activism and what you believe in because your influence is so powerful and I am just aligned with everything that you stand for. Thank you. Thank you. You know, I have always been pretty loud about who I am and what I believe. And, you know, I've never been one to shy away from exactly what that looks like. And so, you know, particularly over the past few years, I have been able, you know, with the pandemic and stuff it was I was able to devote a lot more time to the things that I really am passionate about that I love to do and that I see as being an important change that needs to happen. And so, you know, I've gotten really involved. I mean, I've been out in the street protesting for, you know, a couple of years. But you know, I always say I have seen so many people who this is, this is all they do. This is what they do. They are constantly out there fighting for change, whether it's for the unhoused population, whether it's for reproductive rights, whether it's for LGBTQ family, all of these things. I know so many people out there who devote their entire lives to this. And you know, I the video came out and, you know, I almost didn't share it. But Sean King asked if he could share that. My friend Mike had posted and I was like, OK, because I was like, Let's get whatever's going on anyway. And you know, it was I got a lot of opinions from both sides, of course. Right. And you know, and I'm not sure people have figured this out yet, but I really don't care about most people's opinion. Yeah, yeah. Take a scroll through my page. But anyway, I do, and I for me, it was a matter of like if people are going to pay attention now because the little white girl that they watched every Friday night growing up got shovels in the ground by police fighting for reproductive rights, then if you think that's bad? Let me tell you, you know, I mean, like a that's not the first time that that's happened to me. Yes, but be like that is, you know, the outrage that people felt over. That was something that we should feel all the time, but it's only when it somehow directly relates or correlates. So my most important message throughout all of that was basically like, This is not about me. Like, if this makes you uncomfortable, then go out and do something about it, then take that discomfort and go like, I don't. I didn't. I don't want attention for it or sympathy other than to focus, refocus on what the issues actually were. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's I love scrolling through your page for that reason. I love it. You'll collect people's opinion to be petty and snap back to it. Occasionally, I'll just be like, Oh, you know what? And like, I don't like it doesn't bother me. It's I usually am just like, Why are you here? It'll be like, I am now and you girl. And I'm like, And yet you're here like and commenting, So you got some time, obviously. Yeah. So I always I always kind of get a chuckle out of those kinds of things, too, because it used to bug me. And I've talked about this on so many podcasts where now I like actually find it a little bit like like, I actually find that a part of me feels sorry for them now instead of being like, Yeah, they'll be either be petty or feel sorry for them or laugh instead of being like, Oh, like, Oh, you know, no, there is that. Yeah, sometimes when people are just really extra s**tty, like the air of just condescension, like, I don't care, I really don't like, you can keep going by you. This is funny and sad. Yeah. Like, yeah, it's yeah. Thanks for the chat. And then sometimes I'm like, Oh my God, I don't have like, block the clock. Yeah, that's usually what I don't have the time, you know? Yeah. Well, yeah, bless them and block them with everything else that you have going on. You also have your podcast. Yeah, I never thought I'd say that, which is about parenting, because obviously you're a mom of two daughters. You're married, your cohost is your friend who is also a therapist. I love that. So for people listening, tell them what they can expect if they're tuning into your pod. Well, we just finished. We finished season five this past year and we are going into season six. We're going to be doing a little bit of a revamp. It's going to turn into more of a monthly longer show, etc. But we are also talking about branching off and doing some. Do things but never thought I'd say this really started like six years ago between my best friend Celia Bayyah and I, when we would call and text each other about the ridiculous s**t that goes on when you're parenting and the conversations you have to have, particularly with like little ones and older ones, you know? Yeah, well, of things that you're like. I never thought I'd have to string those words together and that it would make sense, or that I'd have to explain to someone that you can't lick the toilet or that like, no, you can't eat Cheerios that you're using for potty training. Oh, no, you know what I mean? Like things that you're just like, Oh, that's right. As a parent, like, I have to tell you these things because you don't know anything. So, you know, it started as that and it really turned into Celia and I won. We are wildly inappropriate and irreverent as my mom always says, if you don't, if you're not bothered by the F-word, you should have a listen. So I love that. Yeah, and my mom listens. So yeah, either she's not bothered or she's just she's just brown. I don't wow that, you know, there were some episodes. She was like, I can't believe you talked about that. I was like, I forgot I did the game out. My mom does that to me. Do. But you know, it really. We wanted it to be a place for moms and we call it our never nation for people to come and feel totally 100 percent accepted for who they are or how they parent, what choices they make with their kid. Like, you know, we just we are inappropriate. We're like flying by the seat of our pants and we admit to it. And also we have really, really terrible senses of humor. So, yeah, but then I feel like it's like, Oh, get this s**t, you know what I mean? And like doing really, really wild stories. But it's fun and I love it, and it's something that I have really enjoyed doing over the past few years. Some. Well, it's always so nice when mums are like more refreshing and raw and honest about motherhood and parenting. I was like, I don't have any like Etsy tips for you. I don't. Yeah, I couldn't. Now, like we are hanging on by a thread most days and probably running late. So, you know, I mean, like, that's yeah. It's interesting, too, because I feel like people who you know, I like when people who like our celebrities are people we've looked up to can be so real about these moments, too, because we get so lost in the aesthetic of Instagram and the picture perfect thing. Yeah, I make it a point on my Instagram. I don't use filters. I don't edit my photos. I mean, I have like, I have a regular hair, you know? Look, that's just like, I will name them on my Instagram Live sometimes because why not? We all get them. Who cares? I think it's so important for. People, not just not just young women who especially it's important to, but but all all women and all people to see that like that s**t is so not real. Like, I promise you, it doesn't exist, I promise you. Kylie Jenner sides actually touch in the middle like you could not drive a truck through them. Like, it's not fair. So let's just own it. Like, why are we all pretending that we don't get zits and we don't look like hell sometimes and we don't like, you know, it's nice to dress up. It's fun to dress up, but also be able to like, say, like, but that's not my life and don't think that it is because I think people watch and young girls especially watch this life and think, like these women, they're always done like this there and you're like, No honey. They did two days and did 60 Instagram looks, and they're at home in sweatpants right now and they're not doing s**t, but they look super glamorous to hear what you know what I mean? Like, trust me. And they have a whole team of people helping them look like that with filters with everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah. None of it's it's not. It's not real. And you know, look, we all have different privileges and abilities to be able to, like, support that. You know, like I try and eat really healthy. And, you know, when my kids are hurt, sometimes that's really hard because it's soccer in this and I know moms struggle with that. Like, don't beat yourself up. You're doing fine, doing fine. You know what I mean? Like, just going to be OK. None of this is going to end the world. I love that. I feel like I have a lot of moms who listen to this podcast, so I'm excited to send them over to yours if they don't listen already, because that sounds like exactly what every mom needs to listen to and hear. Even if you're not a mom, I'm like, I still feel like it sounds entertaining. You could probably learn a lot. Like, I mean, we have like teenagers that listen to our show like young adults. Like I said, it's mostly just us being stupid as best friends and like inappropriate jokes and things like that with a sprinkle of parenting or like at least a common thread of like, that's what we're trying to talk about. But it goes on. I understand that that's what people want to hear, and I feel like that's what people enjoy hearing, and that's what makes it relatable. So I love that you do that. And I think kind of to end it and tie it into at the beginning when you're like, I have a story about this later. Yes, it's the time of the podcast where I ask you to confess. I confess that I am a klutz, like I'm just not aware of my own face surroundings. You know, one of the first dates I ever went on with my husband's, I like looking really cute. I had like heels on, you know, whatever on movies and we park and we're walking down. And when I tell you it's a little hill, it's not even a hill, OK, it's a slight incline of gra*s. Yes, it's like there's a sidewalk. It goes up a little bit. And then there's the parking, OK? OK. But I was wearing really like tall shoes. Yeah. And I tried to demurely like, you know, take a couple little steps down. I go, ask them teakettle, like just rolling down this thing, hit the sidewalk splayed out almost like completely laid out. I hurt my knee. I'm like my knee, you know, bleeding. And I'm like, Oh my god. But I get up and look up. And it's like. And we so he and I actually had dated and then sort of went our separate ways and then came back together years later. And when we first got together, that was one of the I was like, Do you remember that time that I fell down? And I like my knee was bloody. I was like, I couldn't walk for two days. I was like, I was limping. No, but not during the day. During the day, I was like, I'm fine in these heels. Everything's great. Like, Yeah, you're like, What blood? Yeah. And he was like, I didn't remember that until you brought it up. Now I do. And I was like, Oh my God, I was like, The moment that's been haunting me, like, I look like a complete goon. Like, That's it. I'm just, I just an idiot. Fall down whatever. And he doesn't even remember me. And he was like, Yeah, I had no idea until you brought it up. So I'm glad you remember. And now he's like, Remember that time you felt like, like, I know, I know now he uses it because he's like, Oh, no, no. Now would you do for me other times of me tripping, falling? He's like that now. It's like part of your charm. He's probably like God. So, you know, I and I don't I'd like God. I don't mean to do it to look like some quirky, you know, pixie girl like the young girl. I'm just I'm an idiot and a klutz, and I am. I have ADHD. And so my brain is five steps ahead and my body is buckling. That's fair enough. That's fair enough. I love that. That's so cute. Well, I appreciate your time so much and and everything that you stand for and who you are. And I love the movies and your podcast and every everyone is going to just really enjoy this podcast in conversation. So I appreciate your time and thank you so much. Absolutely. My pleasure was so much fun, Kaitlyn. I'm Kaitlyn Bristowee. I'll see you next Tuesday. Thanks for listening to this week's episode of Off the Vine. Don't forget to rate review and follow on your favorite podcast platform and will see you next Tuesday. 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