Family Trips with the Meyers Brothers - JOHN STAMOS Got Chased by a Pack of Cheerleaders in San Diego

Episode Date: October 22, 2024

John Stamos joins Seth and Josh on the pod this week! He talks all about working in his dad’s restaurant, the time Mickey Rourke wanted to kick him out, becoming famous to show up his bully, running from cheerleaders at a stadium, touring with The Beach Boys, and so much more! Go to everydaydose.com/trips for 25% off plus 5 free gifts with your first order. #familytrips #sethmeyers #joshmeyers #johnstamos

Hey Pashi. Hey Sufi. So exciting. I know we keep telling our listeners this is happening before Josh gets married, but this is the last one recording before you get married. Right. When this comes out, I will be married. Right, but there is a forthcoming episode

where we'll actually get to talk about your wedding, and man oh man, that's gonna be the intro of the year. Also, don't be mad, we have a sponsor for that episode. Oh yeah? What's that? Ogilvy and Jones divorce lawyers. And I know you're like, why would you let them? But look, money, money, money, money, money. That's why, money, money, money.

How? I keep feeling like I've asked you so many times, but we're, I mean, why are we recording this like, you know, four days out of the festivities? Yeah, but I feel like we've also, we've tried to do this math a couple times. And like, there was one, it was an intro a couple back where you tried to play it forward. And you were like, you're getting married in five days.

Yeah, no. So just don't worry about it. Just know we're really excited. Poshy's getting married. Everybody's rolling in hot. Yeah, people are excited. Super excited. And I know we're going to try to keep, you know, the location a bit of a secret because we don't want the trippers showing up. Is that what we decided we're going to call them? Trippers? Tripsters? Trippers or Tripsters?

Tripsters. Well, at this point, again, at this point, it's already happened. Right. But if you have time travel, time square, Dave and Busters. Upstairs, private room. The upstairs, yeah, they're not gonna like, they're not gonna riff raff it in the main room.

Upstairs, Skee-Ball, oh my God. So much Skee-Ball at your wedding, it was so cool. Uh-huh. Anyway, can't wait. Yeah, yeah. Speaking of Skee Ball, I was telling you this earlier. I love lawn games and you love lawn games? I love a lawn game.

Mackenzie, my now wife, not as big a fan of lawn games. She likes it on asphalt. She just doesn't, she likes like hanging out and she'll play a game. She's not above playing a game, but I have ordered so many games for this wedding. There's like a Saturday afternoon and I sort of want there to be something for people to do

if they just wanna hang out and sort of be in a place. So my idea is you come to the hotel and we're going to have all these games. So I've ordered, I think I ordered like $600 worth of lawn games that I had sent to mom and dad's house. And dad sent a picture of the living room of all of these boxes and said, rent a bigger van because I'm gonna have a lot of stuff to bring out there.

We're gonna need a bigger van, hashtag draws. So, Mulky. Mulky is in there, yeah. Mulky, for those who don't know, Norwegian, where's Mulky from? I think it's Danish. Malky is a Danish lawn game that Josh, in his great researching of lawn games,

discovered years ago. Yeah. It's an all-timer. If you're looking for a new, if you're looking to switch it up on your lawn games next summer, run, don't walk to your nearest Malky distributor. M-O-L-K-E?

M-O with an umlaut, L-K-K-Y. Okay, Mulky. Yeah, there are a lot of- Mulky? There are a lot of impersonators out there. Yeah. But I go- Like, if it don't got the umlaut, it ain't Mulky.

And check, because some of the knockoffs have three little dots. It's, yeah. And that's not even a thing. Hold your O down on your keyboard and you're not gonna see anything with three dots. Is that how you get a umlaut? You hold your O down?

Yeah. You hold any letter down and you'll get all the variations. Get out of town. Look at me learning new stuff. Learning new stuff on family trips. Get out of town. What a me learning new stuff. Learning new stuff on family trips. Get out of town. What a thing. Everybody's running in hot.

A lot of fun people. Mm-hmm. Can't wait. Speeches. My kids are gonna wear suits. I was a little worried. I think she's recovered. But this weekend was Rosh Hashanah,

Shanah Tova Pashi. That means good year. Yeah. I think Shanah Tova, but. Sure, Shanah Tova Pashi. That means good year. Yeah, I think Shanah Tova, but Shanah Tova to you. Who's Shanah Na? Is that, that's a band. So we were getting together and we went on a walk with our friends

and we had some challah at the end of the walk for the kids. Yeah. And it was like, we went on a nature walk. And so we had a challah. It's a nice bread, nice Jewish bread. Nice Jewish bread. We had honey to dip the challah in,

which of course the kids were very excited about. Addie had so, literally had covered her face in honey. And then what do you think is the worst thing that could happen if you're a kid had so, literally had covered her face in honey. And then what do you think is the worst thing that could happen if you're a kid with your face covered in honey? You fall down in the dirt? No, a bee fully just came over and just sat on her lip and stung her.

And it was like, I was like, the most classic asking for it. She literally was like, it was like she was a bee trap. Yeah. And her lip just ballooned right up. But in a really like, fortunately already back down, we put some ice on it,

but it was a real like balloon animal lower lip. Yeah. And she looked at pictures and thought it was really funny. So it wasn't like she was crying or anything. She liked her balloon lip. I think, I feel like that's how you got to find out if you're allergic to bees, is you got to get stung. You got to honey face it.

Honey face it. I don't know, you got to do that. Honey face it and find out. So she's very excited. Boy's very excited. I'm very excited. Lexi's very excited. We can't believe it.

Can't believe this day is finally upon us. Yeah, Mackenzie's niece and nephew, Grayson and Charlie apparently, or like Mackenzie says is very cute, how excited they are. How old are Grayson and Charlie? They're like 13 and 15, I wanna say, something like that, or 12 and 14, I think 13 and 15. But I love that age because there's going to be no one

that age at the wedding, but they're still excited. Great. So, yeah. I believe you are going to have a day in New Hampshire. One of the things you're planning on doing is rehearsing your first dance with mom. We haven't talked about this, but I think that's in order.

Great. Yeah. Exciting. Yeah. She had suggested something, a song, I don't want to give anything away, but she had suggested a song. She was like, I feel like this is a good song

because you can just like, Frippers your armies around, which means just sort of flail your arms around. And there has to be no planned dancing. And I suggested something else that requires a bit more choreography, but I think we're gonna do well. I will say we're, you know, at the time of recording this, less than a week out,

Mackenzie and I do not know what our first dance is. Really? We've never had a song. We have to decide. We have a great friend, Catherine Burns, who's an Emmy-winning choreographer, and we had great plans of working with her to sort of knock it out of the park, and we will not have time for that.

Why don't you just, is it crazy for, don't be mad for me suggesting, but like should it be the Family Trips theme song? Is that just to get it out there? It's also nice and quick. Nice and short, yeah. Are you just someone who's been in a wedding, if the first dance was just like,

family trips, trips with the mums. Give it up if the first dance was just like, family trips with the mounds. Give it up for the first dance, everybody. Here we go. Yeah, it's not a bad idea. I'll pitch it. Great. Well, can't believe it, my little baby brother. Little baby, plenty old enough brother.

Plenty old enough, but he's still my baby brother. It's a big day coming up. But first we have, because again, let me say something. Marriage is come and go, the podcast never stops. So we do still have an episode for you. John Stamos, everybody. Yeah, he's like a big brother. He is like a big brother.

Smooth and silky voice. Yeah, really. Pretty much so. I feel like sometimes when I talk and I'm thirsty for your affection, that guy is in the pocket. He just sits back and lets it come to him. Yeah.

Are you excited to see me? Yeah, very much so. I just felt like there was like a lull and I felt like that was a good time for you to say I'm really excited to see you. Oh, I didn't hear. There's jackhammering in my building, which you can't hear on the podcast, but it's rough in here right now. They say that's like good luck before a wedding. As if your neighbor is just jackhammering through the walls.

Well, I will say Mackenzie is a huge Aerosmith fan and it feels like the beginning of Dude Looks Like A Lady over here, the video. Oh, that's pretty cool. Yeah. Pretty bad, would be a pretty bad first dance song. Dude Looks Like A Lady might be worst one ever. Yeah, probably. Probably. Yeah.

All right. I love you. I will see you in, this is, I think the listeners will like this. I will see you in four days, which is 17 days ago. They're going to love it. They're going to love it. All right. But first you're going to love a Jeff Tweedy first dance song at Poshy's wedding with 2 McKenzie. Here it is. Picture them dancing while you listen. Ships with the Midas Brothers. Here it goes. What about a gentleman?

Yeah, there he is. Man, you got one. You look like a shock jock. Super talented and one super handsome. And you guys pick who, Sufi or Fufi? I'm Sufi. I'm Pashi. And he's Fufi. How does Pashi, I mean, Pashi I Foofi? I'm Sufi. I'm Pashi. And he's Foofi.

How does Pashi, I mean, Sufi, Pashi I get from Joshi. Yep, yeah. Sufi is from what? Foofi, I mean from? Sufi is from an ancient text. Okay. And no, Sufi is because my mom, it's a long story, but it's because my mom has bad penmanship

and it one time looked like, yay. Yeah, it's actually excellent penmanship. It's just people don't understand how to read cursive yeah. Yeah, it's actually excellent penmanship. It's just people don't understand how to read cursive anymore. Yeah, that's true. You guys are both so talented. Sorry, I'm at Disneyland. Okay, good, that's what we wanted to ask.

Now, were you led to believe that in order to do this podcast, you actually had to be on a family trip? Yeah, that's what we did. And I was upstairs and I just left my, because it's Oogie Boogie night here at Disneyland, so we were late and my kid kid ate a giant bag of candy. I don't know about your wives, but do they, are you married?

Josh, I'm sorry. I'm gonna be married, by the time this comes out, I will be married and as we're recording it, I'm not. I'm getting married in six days. Seth, can we talk, I mean, should we talk to him about it? Yeah, well, I'm happy to talk about, well, if you wanna talk more about sugar and candy, I feel like...

Right, so, yeah, so he, they were up late, and, oh, but no, but the wife always yells at me, like if he stays up, if I bring him home or get him ready like at 7, 10, instead of seven, I'm in big trouble. But we're up till midnight last night with bags of candy, and it's the whole thing has just been great. great, but she didn't fight it. She was okay like basically diplomatic community because he's at Disneyland Because she's at Disneyland. Ah

Right. So I had to scramble to find a room this morning and this is a Disneyland room I will say all the rooms at Disneyland. It looks like you might be in the worst I think I'm in the this is the bathroom and others I know there's a, you can see a toilet and I can see Mickey Mouse. This is very tech heavy. It doesn't look like it's fun for kids. No, it does not. Well, there was a big beautiful, you know, cartoon there.

I thought, okay, this will be good. And it's not. I am so, I'm such a fan of both of you guys. More Josh than the other guys. Sure, sure. That's fair. Yeah, that happens. I've become obsessed, you said, for the last, I don't know, like 10 years.

I was never into politics and then, you know, I was sort of forced into because of, you're a genius. And then I started doing a deep dive on your brother and I was like, oh, that, you're just ripping him off. He's the genius. Yeah, he's the genius. I just, yeah. You, by the way, you sound like, and with your glasses,

you sound like you had the, like, just went hard at Disneyland last night. I don't go hard anymore, I mean. It's just a memory. You had a real, Mr. Toad took you on a wild ride. Wild ride, you had full Mr. Toad last night. No, I'm just saying that you guys are both extremely talented and I'm always, I think, Seth, that you're one of the underrated impressionists.

But then I see your brother, and then that's sort of where you got a lot of it too, right? It is. It is. I'm in a rare case where I learned a lot from a younger brother. I mean, he's both you guys are and the Newsome bit. I didn't realize that that was you. No. Crazy, right? Yeah. I want to do Matt Gaetz. I'm going to text Kimmel. Is it Kimmel you're on or Fowler?

Yeah, yeah. Kimmel, you'd be a good Gaetz. I just need to get slammed in the head, right in this area with this shovel. To be honest, I've got the forehead for Gaetz. You've got the hair. So, how old is your, you have a child at Disneyland who's six? He's six, yeah.

And is it, would you say six is a good age for Disneyland? Is that what you're finding so far? Have you not brought your kids to Disneyland yet? I haven't brought my kids to Disneyland yet. It's child abuse. Well, I don't know. They're not quite, we were talking about doing it this April and they're eight, six, and three.

Okay, okay, okay. All boys, do you have about three boys? Little girl, boy, boy, girl. Six is a great, I mean, did they watch Disney stuff? Like are they into the movies and stuff? That, you know, all the characters around, you're in the East Coast, right? So I would go to Disney World first.

It's been, you know, it's been a, it's a, I grew up near here, I'm in Anaheim. And it was just the most wonderful childhood, you know. I grew, like, this was my backyard, it was Disneyland. And did you go a lot? Oh, all the time, yeah. And it's moments like, I grew, like, this was my backyard, it was Disneyland. And did you go a lot? Oh, all the time, yeah. And it's moments like, I was there last night and I was like,

I looked over at the Matterhorn, I was like, oh my God, like if I could go back to the 13-year-old me standing in line with, you know, more zits than friends, you know, my dad's members only jacket, I was leathered in, lathered in the Aramis cologne that I used, like trying to pick up chicks. Like, John's gonna be okay. One day you'll get a girl too. You won't have to stand in line, you know.

I have the Disneyland sign, the actual sign that was out in front of Disneyland. People just drive by now because there's no sign there. But I have, I bought that years ago at an auction. When you were 13, so when was the first time, did you ever go to Disneyland without your parents? So what age were you doing that? Yeah, that was probably around there.

My friend Mike is a little older than me and he had a 280Z, so as soon as he could drive, we would take that. And I was staying in the Disneyland Hotel yesterday and I remembered my mom, it was the first night we got to spend the night away from our parents. And yeah, I was like 13, it was the first night we got to spend the night away from our parents. I was like 13, he was maybe 14.

And my mom ordered up from room service a big thing of popcorn and two Diet Cokes and that was wow, you know? Like just getting back to that innocence of travel, which you guys talk about a lot here, and that kind of thing. I wish, my son's like, where's the minibar?

Where's the, that's this basket? We got a bigger basket at the other hotel. I was like, huh. Did you, was your friend 14 when he was driving the 280Z around? No, I feel like. Yeah, yeah. He was.

I feel like you guys were living a real like, rebel's life. Oh yeah, out here in Orange County. No, he was probably just 16. His dad had this van, I remember, too. He would take us here and drop us off before he could drive. And on the side of it, it was, um, he had a big frog that said, Ribbit. Oh, nice.

I would say if I saw a couple kids getting into a Ribbit van in the Disneyland parking lot, I would just call the cops. Call the cops, yeah. Back then, they didn't have cops, I don't think. It was just... Yeah, yeah, that's true. I think California got cops later. Were you troublemakers in the park at that age? Like at some point you're not just like little kids,

you know, oogling all the wonder of it all, and at some point you're rapscallions. Yeah, I think our biggest, well yeah, no, I was just reaching puberty and there was a lot of, you know, I think one time, yeah, there was, they had these sky buckets and I don't think they caught us, but we would go into the bathroom, kids don't, well they don't have them anymore, so these sky buckets, you would go, we'd go to the bathroom and steal a roll of toilet paper and we'd get about halfway through and

we would just, and then throw it out, so we were basically toilet papering the Matterhorn. Ah, which was you know highly not cool. It seems like that would be it would be very easy to catch you if you did that. Yeah, right. You think. Yeah, we did get away with that. They do have, I don't think I was ever in it but they talk about Disney jail. When I was, oh no, I remember I was on, I think I was on General Hospital and we, my dad had this El Camino, I think I was on general hospital and we, my dad had this El Camino, I just started and we would come to Disneyland. I'll never forget there was, we were on a double date,

me and my another friend of mine, Phil Bardwell, and there was, we were driving in the El Camino and we had a six pack of beer. We were all underaged, we couldn't drink. No seat belts, cause my dad didn't, you know, your dad had a seatbelt. And there was four. I was, you're pulled over. Cop said, I could, I should arrest you for drinking. Contributed minors. You're all underage. I didn't know that thing. I didn't have my license on me. He said, or, you know,

you can go pour the beer out around the corner and just, you know, get to Disneyland and knock, you know, and it would four people in there. And we didn't even pour the beer out around the corner and just, you know, get to Disneyland and knock, you know, and there were four people in there. And we didn't even pour the beer out. Like dummies, we drank it and then we went to the park. That was about it. Took you at your word. Yep. Hey, we're going to take a quick break and hear from some of our sponsors. Support for Family Trips comes from Airbnb. Hey, Baji.

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Woo, way to go Poshie. Thanks Sufi. I have a question about, you're very young when you're on General Hospital, right? Still 1920? Yeah, I was 19, I think, yeah. Were you, because I'm just trying to think of, like, the people who watch soap operas, like, who was recognizing you

in your early years in General Hospital? Well, that's, but that was the height of it. And, you know, kids were rearranging their college, you know, schedules and, so it was younger. I would do these cars. So it was, that's amazing. Dream, so the dream era to be on a soap. Totally, I mean, there's 35 million people

watching that show every day. And it was like, you know, and it was right as I was, you know, I was going from the caterpillar to the butterfly, so I didn't really even think of myself as good, I mean I wanted girls so bad. I was a nerdy kid in junior high and high school. I wanted to be a stunt man or I did magic and puppets and those things are not chick magnet know, chick magnet type thing.

Yeah, no. Stunt man, okay. Like I would say if you were like, I do stunt man, people, girls would be like, uh-huh, and you're like, and puppets, and they'd be like, oh. The puppets always ruin everything. But I would do the stunts. And so, you know, and there was always someone who wanted to beat me up for some reason, which I just have this

book I did that's coming out on paperback this month and I added a chapter of just people over the years, not people but mainly two that wanted to kill me. There's always someone I wanted to kill. But it started there. I had this bully guy and I was, again, like I was right, maybe it was 12th or 13th, I was just about to graduate. And again, I was just starting to kind of grow into some sort of look, whatever it was. And I was at this block party and it was like,

it was a bunch of houses and I was at the end, I was at this crappy party where the nerd, not the cool, like animal house or whatever. And some guy, this nerdy kid, no, during the nerd, you know, not the cool, you know, like animal house or whatever. And, um, some guy, this nerdy kid, no, during the day I'm, I'm in marching band, which is also, you know, not that cool. And this other nerdy kid said, Hey, this girl wants to go out with you. And I'm like, what? And I remember stop, we were practicing, we were stopping and the

trombones hit me in the, I said, you gotta be kidding me. Yeah. Yeah. And he said, don't tell anybody. Okay. So I'm at this party that night. I tell everybody that this girl wants to go out with me. She was the hottest girl.

And it just goes down each, like a telephone, you know, each house, each house. And by the time I hit the jock area where her boyfriend was, you know, so I'm at the nerd party in a car talking to a friend and knock, knock, knock at the window and he goes, roll the window. I was, okay, roll it down. Bam! Punched me right in the eye. His big black eye. And I was like, it was the most humiliating, awful thing to this day. I can feel it.

And I remember walking into the bathroom and I looked at myself and he had written on there, I'm going to kill you big nose. And I was like, and he had written on there, I'm gonna kill you big nose. And I was like, that's not nice. He wrote it on the bathroom wall, knowing you would then go to that bathroom. Yeah, there wasn't many bathrooms. And it wasn't like, you know. I got credit to a jock.

I feel like that's like a multi-step process that I had. He didn't spell anything right. I feel, but it was, and. Nose was K-N-O-W-S. Yeah. So I was like, oh, wait, I'm... And then I just, I looked at, I said, I gotta do something drastic, I gotta do something.

We didn't have guns back then or anything, but I had to do, and I remember saying, I gotta get famous, I gotta get famous, and that way I'll show him. So to this day, I wanted to dedicate the book to him. I didn't because the publishers wouldn't let me because I was going to call him small wiener or something because I can't remember his name. But, but he, like each milestone in my career, I remember thinking like,

I'm going to show him, I'm going to get on TV and then I'm going to have bodyguards and they're going to, I'm going to play with the Beach Boys. I'm going to invite them to a concert. And in the middle of my drum solo, I'm going to get bodyguards and they're going to, I'm going to play with the Beach Boys, I'm going to invite them to a concert and in the middle of my drum solo, I'm going to get them boys and they would beat them up and I would drive off into the limo and wave at him and that would be that. But that didn't never happen. Well, you know, there's still time. I think you did pretty well. There's still time. And you do, you do, you've got this memoir that you just mentioned, the paperback just came out,

I just mentioned the paperback just came out. If you would have told me, insane reviews on Audible. Like I feel like a book like this is, I mean, if I'm a reader, but I do love memoirs and autobiographies to be read by the person who's written them and you read yours and it's, yeah, I mean, people love it. Now I have a question. You mentioned that you added stuff when you put out the paperback. Were the publishers, did the publishers say,

hey, Johnny, we'd love to put a little more sauce in here for the paperback. Anybody ever try to kick your ass? Like, how did it come up that you added stuff? Yeah, my publisher was Guido. His name was it. Hey, Johnny, hey, Johnny, it's Adam Mutsubuksi. No, I had like two or three publishers.

And by the way, like I know you guys are both incredible writers. Have you written any, probably not memoirs yet, right? You're too young. One day. I would like to write one. But I would like to write Josh's memoir. And it's called? It's called...

He'll write my memoir, I won't read it. But it's going to be called The Best Brother. I Had the Best Brother. I want to get back to what we were talking about, but I just love your relationship. I love your parents on the show. And what did you say? I was like, when you said I want to get back

to what I was talking about, I thought you meant you, but now you're actually being generous. You're being generous about us. I know, but after I talk about you, I want to get back to talking about me. Yeah, yeah, of course. I just love your relationship. I just love the two of you.

I love that you're so close, that you support each other. And I love your parents when they come on the show. And I was very close to my parents too, see how I'm. So that's great. Sufi and- I wanna ask a question, cause I feel like I haven't, look, of the Greek Americans I've met,

Greek people are so proud of you. True or false? Well, yeah, but there's only a few, you know, there's not many. That's what I mean though. We had Vardalis on the show, huge deal in Greece. Yeah, she is. Tina Fey, huge deal. Tina Fey is incredible, obviously you know that. It was Mean Girls Day the other day,

and they were like, you have to do something on social media, but I'm like, why? Well, they talk about you in there. Like, oh, they said I sat next to, and I think it became, but I'm like, why? Well, they talk about you in there. Like, oh, they said I sat next to... And I think it became, because I sat, because I was somewhere with Tina, and I just met her. Maybe Disney, she loves Disney. And I said, you're really pretty.

And so she put in, he sat next to me on a plane and said I was really pretty. Did your dad, was he first generation? Or was he born in Greece? No, second generation. My grandfather was. And you know, Ellis Highland, they cut, it was stomatopoulos. Cut it, and that was stomatopoulos.

Gotcha. But the bully thing, maybe we talk about that real quick. Yeah, we can go ahead and do the bully. I think you would have fun. So no, nobody, they didn't do that. But they were, I had quite a few editors that kept switching around. Because you were too hard to deal with. Why do they keep switching editors?

We're not printing this. Take a walk. Oh, Stanis, please. Well, I didn't think I had a book in me. I'm like, I can barely spell. And various... Because you were too hard to deal with. How did you get... Why do they keep switching the headers? We're not printing this. Take a walk. Well, I didn't think I had a book in me. I'm like, I can barely spell. I'm like the bully guy with... Did they come to you? Did somebody come to you and say,

we do think you have a book in you? Yes. And I said, yeah. And I said, no. And then I, no way. I didn't, first I didn't think I was interesting enough. And second, I just am not, I like to write, but not, you know, not memoirs.

And then I became a dad, excuse me, in my mid-50s. And I thought, okay, maybe that's something to talk about. And then Saget died. And that was it. I just went, I had so much to say. I opened the book the night I went to meet Saget. And it was a little over nine years ago. And I got a DUI and he was waiting for me at the Palm.

I didn't care that I was, you know, almost, I was in a hospital, I was like, where, I go, come on, we ordered the appetizers. So, and I ended it with Bob, so I figured that that was a place, and then I just started, I found that I did have a story, and also, I started out sort of bullshitting my way through it.

I did this, and I did that. And I was like, this is no good. Because I like to read and listen to audiobooks too, and memoirs and biographies. And so I came across this line, anything less than the truth is paralysis. And then I just started talking about it. But the most, and maybe someday you guys will,

I got to talk about my parents, and they're both gone now, and I got to talk about my influences and my mentors. I started with Jack Klugman was my first mentor, and then Gary Marshall and Don Rickles, until the day he died, was like my second father. So I got to say thank you to all those people in this book, not that they're around, but, and it just, that made me really happy

to be able to do that. The new chapter was, they didn't say, did anybody try to kill you, but I written it and then I took it out because it was long, but I had a death threat when I was on Full House. And that was pretty scary. But then I started, I was thinking about, there's always someone like this bully in high school

who I should go find. So I'm at the China club. Do you remember that in New York? I don't know if you guys do. I don't remember that. No. I'm in the China club with King Shriner, who was on a soap opera with me and, um, and, and Ray Liotta for some reason, it was came over and we're sitting at this bar

and in walks Mickey Rourke in his, you know, ripped toilet and he's with some girl that I used to date and she comes over and talk to me and I said, Oh man, you know, ripped toddler. And he's with some girl that I used to date. And she comes over and talk to me. I said, Oh man, you're doing great. Like that guy's really cool. And blah, blah, blah. I'd love to meet him. Oh, okay. He's a little old, isn't he?

Like how old is he? She goes back and tells him that I said this. And so all of a sudden I'm doing, and all of a sudden I hear this, bam, crowd, wow, what's going on? We weren't in, he was like, they were in the, the manager says, you got to leave. I said, why? Mickey Rourke wants to kill you. What's going on? We were in, he was like, they were in the VIP. The manager said, you got to leave. I said, why? Mickey Rourke wants to kill you.

What? Why? I don't know, but he's a hothead and the guy's a boxer. This was in the 90s when he was ripped. And I'm like, I'm not going anywhere. My friend said, I know him. Let me go talk. And meanwhile, Leota, who wasn't on, was before Goodfellas, but he had that maniacal laugh.

He's like, ha ha ha. You know, I know, but stay on us, don't leave. Stand your ground. You could kick his ass, you know, Andy Ma. And my friend comes back and goes, we got to go. I go, I'm not leaving. He goes, he just broke a bottle and he wants to slice your face open. I said, okay, let's go.

So, but for 10 years, this went on. Everywhere I went, Mickey Rourke wants to kill you. Mickey Rourke had a 10 year vendetta against you? Yeah, maybe still to this day, 10 years was just what I came up with, but it could be 25 years. So there was always that, you know, and yeah. Mickey Rourke was the only guest I ever had on the show

where at any point I thought he might just get up and leave mid-interview. He didn't seem aggravated or anything. He just seemed like he could take it or leave it the whole time, you know? And it was, it was, the framing of it was less interesting to him than maybe it was to the rest of us. What was your Gary Marshall? Where did you work with Gary Marshall? You guys are like this because of writers.

My first, I left, I was on General Hospital and it was very successful. And you know, you guys talk about your parents a lot. My dad, I worked at my dad's restaurant and he wanted me to take over the business and go to college. Greek diner? Are we talking about a Greek? No, it was like a hamburger place, like a hamburger, you know, like,

you're setting up friends. So I worked at my dad's restaurant and I was his Sunday guy. But he wanted me to go to college. so I went to sign up but I couldn't find that sign up room at the local college. That usually means you're not cut out for college. I didn't think I was. They say if you can't find the room, the sign up room, it might not be for you. I've seen the bumper sticker. I went, then I just went to Disney instead because it was so close. So I was like, I got to, again, one of those moments,

like I got to get famous. And so I got on General Hospital. I was so excited. I used to call home and I would always go, I got bad news, I got the job. You could hear my sisters and my mom and my dad in the background, you can't work on Sundays. Tell them you're my Sunday guy.

And I went and I got into the hospital. The show started airing and it was like Meteorite Rise. And I was still working at my dad's restaurant. But my dad, I watched him. He treated every, he treated his customer the same way he treated his, you know, the busboy. I mean, he was, that's just the kind of guy he was. And he came to work and saw me talking to a crew guy or something, and we were bullshitting about something. And he said, okay, son, you could quit. That's, you got it. No, you got it. It was a beautiful moment.

When you were the Sunday guy, were you in the kitchen? Were you out front of house, waiting tables? I was, no, I was, there wasn't, it was a fast food place, so people would come up. I was the Sunday guy, but I was the breakfast guy. So I would have, you know, it was, no, I was, there wasn't, it was a fast food place. So people would come up. I was the breakfast guy. So I would have, you know, it was, he had a breakfast special for 99 cents eggs, any style, which, you know, the egg white guy fucked everything up. Can I have egg whites? Get the fuck, shut up.

And then you got, you know, and then, you know, ovaries and all that bacon sausage, either one, hash browns and then we, can I have my hash browns a little well done? No, toast. So it was a whole thing for 99 cents a night. So I was doing that. But girls started coming in and I said,

Dad, I'm famous, can I quit? No. So I worked there with him. Where am I getting, general hospital? I would say nothing would make fame like less interesting to people if they thought you still had to do the breakfast special. Yeah, it was kind of like, can I have an egg over?

Aren't you the guy I... No. It was in Gardena, you know. So I was on the show and I wanted to lead. And it was super popular and the show was very popular. There was this great character named Gloria Monte who ran the show and she changed the face of data. She came in and made it sexy and moved things around. And it was really, she was an incredible woman

and a great influence on me. Tough, but you know, great. And I was, my contract was up and I purposely never re-signed. So I was making $400 an episode and I was getting 10,000 letters a week. And they, so she took me, it was sort of like a mafia, right out of a movie.

She took me to Musso and Frank's, I think it was. We walk in and there's Italian music playing, like in The Godfather or something. And- Do it again real quick. You have a musical ear. Do the Italian music real quick. You guys, give it.

You know The Godfather. D-ling-ling-ling-ling. It sounds like Deliverance, right? I think, I actually think you did the bell at your dad's restaurant. Yeah, that's right. Ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling. One breakfast special, please.

Okay, give me some Italian music. It's good. We're not the ones who teed it up. You're right, but you know, it's supposed to be quick. So anyway, Musso and Frank, the classic Italian music. Dean Martin is sitting. Ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling. Dean Martin is sitting over a couple tables over.

Gotcha. With glasses bigger than your brother's, like gigantic, like Swifty Lazar. Thank you for side burning Josh's glasses. I'm comfortable. What does side burning mean? It means that like you were telling a different story, but you managed to get a tan, tan burn.

Snuck a burn in. Yeah, that's right. This story was not about Josh's glasses, but I hope it's the takeaway. Yeah, it is, me too. So, I'm there and Dean Martin's very tan, kind of almost fake tan like you, Seth. And another sideburn. I used his guy. Yeah.

Who did? Yeah. I used Dean Martin's guy, because obviously, rest in peace. He only has one client at a time. She said to me, this is super, she says to me, no, why, no, dear, why do you want to leave my show? And I said, well, I want to be, I always want to, I loved Happy Days and Laverne and Shirley

and Mork and Mindy and those are my other shows. And they all shot at Paramount and down one row and I would sneak into Paramount and I would, I would go in each thing, there would be a rehearsing and Mork and Mindy would always go really late because Robin was, and so that was my dream. And I said, I each thing, there would be a rehearsing and Mark and Mindy would always go really late because Robin was. And so that was my dream. And I said, I want to be funny.

She's, oh, you want to be funny there? You know, started. And I swear to God, she had a gun under the table pointing right at my brazen balls, you know? And so Dean Martin's over there. And he's sitting at a table meant for two, but no one was ever coming, but it was a table setting so nobody

would sit next to him. He just wanted to be alone. And she said, oh, come, you must meet Dean Martin. Somehow we get over there and Mr. Martin, this is the star of my show, John Stamos. She said, Mr. Martin, tell John the importance of loyalty and when you're on a hit show, you'd never leave. And he goes, come here, he goes, run. Hand to God. Hand to God. So I thought she was going to kill me and she

didn't and she said, well, and I swear she said this, she goes, I was maybe 20 then. She goes, you know, you'll never work in this town again. I'm like, well, I think, no, I probably will. you'll never work in this town again. I'm like, well, I think, no, I probably will. No, I think, yeah. So I got on, I did this little show and then I got on this show with Jack Klugman called Dreams. I'm sorry, you again. Was that a Gary Marshall show, you again?

No, I'll get to Gary. Sorry, Burner. We're gonna get to some trips as well. We might leave Gary Marshall in the dust, yeah. But finish where you are. I took some trips with Gary. So I'm doing this show and Jack would make me sit in the writers room on punch-up night, whatever it was,

in the corners and keep my mouth shut. And it was Gary Marshall and Harvey Miller and Jerry Belson, these great old-timey, incredible writers. And that's how I met Gary. And then Gary suggested me for the role in Full House. And he said, you got to have a catchphrase, come up with a catchphrase. So I'm sure you guys have known him over the years. And he was, God, he was the best. He was like a God, you know, like my... Genuinely the best person I've ever met in show business. Yeah. So that's, that was the Gary Marshall part of it. And he always, he says, you got to meet Julia

Roberts. You guys are the same. You both have great mothers. And I said, okay, you know, and I never met her. And on his deathbed, they called me and said, he's getting ready to go come see him. You know, it was this dark lit, again, right out of a movie, it was dark lit and there was one light kind of shining on him. I was crying and I leaned over and said, Gary, I love you and I miss you and thank you for everything you've done for me. And I could hear this sniffling in the corner and out right into the light, oh, it's Julia Roberts. He goes, hi, Gary, I love you and I miss you and thank you for everything you've done for me. And I could hear this sniffling in the corner and out right into the light,

oh, it's Julia Roberts, she goes, hi John, I'm Julia. I said, son of a bitch, always wanted me to meet you and here we are. Rickles was great. If this is what it takes. Yeah, I'm gonna die. If this is what it takes.

All right, so you two sisters, how much younger? Two years each, two. And we have nicknames too for each other. Oddly enough, the same as you guys. So, Sufi and, no one is, would they call me nonners from John, non, not Johnny, non-y. We'll accept it. Okay.

I said, do we ever, what kind of, do we ever have any bad trips? Like, no, all our trips are great, but I do remember not much more than this, but I just got my license and we had one of those station wagons, you know, with wood paneling on the side. Yeah, sure.

And we're driving to maybe Lake Tahoe, so it was late too, and everybody was tired and my dad saw you. I was bugging, dad, can I drive, can I drive? No, you're not driving. Please dad, please stop smoking and get in the back. And so I was driving and everybody, I was looking back, everyone was asleep

and I got the radio cranking on. And the next thing I realized is like, brrrr, brrrr, brrrr. And I'd fallen asleep and almost killed my entire family in that station wagon. I fell asleep and I was- Yeah, one of those things. Those things would crumple like tin can.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Were you a road trip family or did you ever get on airplanes? We were a road trip family. It was very, it was a very sweet, so we'd go to Lake Tahoe, which was not very far from where we lived in Orange County.

Vegas was a fun one, Tahoe, Vegas. Lake Havasu, we would go water skiing and Lake Havasu. It was all very simple, beautiful memories. And it was, you know, with Disneyland, we would go to once or once in a year, if we were lucky Disneyland, not like my kid who's there every other weekend, you know. Would you stay, when you went to Tahoe,

would you get a hotel or would you like rent a cabin? We were more rent cabin people. Yeah. You guys are big Airbnb guys, right? Or? Well, yeah. Even back when we were growing up, You have cabin people. Yeah. You guys are big Airbnb guys, right? Well, yeah. Even back when we were growing up, we were huge Airbnb. I mean, again, that was obviously, you know.

Cyber. But no, we would sort of rent, like we had rented a condo in Michigan to like go skiing that we would go to and we rented a little cabin. Loved a condo. As a kid, I loved staying anywhere with interior stairs. Yeah.

That's where I felt like I was a billionaire. If we got a place that had like stairs. Did you guys grow up, did your family have dough? Your mother was a teacher, I think, or something? Yeah, we were fine. Middle class, maybe upper middle class. She was a teacher and our dad was a gun runner. Oh, okay.

I feel like we did, we were not, I think as growing up, we did not ever worry about stuff, which is. Yeah, at some point our dad started a business that really crashed and burned, and then we moved from Michigan to New Hampshire. And I feel like it was maybe tight for a little while in there,

but we were so little we never knew. And I really applaud our parents for not letting on to maybe the dire straits we were in momentarily, or maybe more longer than a moment, I don't know. What side hustle, what was it that's specific? It was Beanie, remember Beanie Babies? Yes. He did Beanie adults.

Then didn't go on. They were like full size, they were like the size of an adult filled with beans. I have the Dave Couye, the Joey from Full House, the full doll thing. I got it from your dad. Oh yeah, there you go. Full size, full size dolls. So did you guys, did you and your sisters on a road trip,

did you have any memory of getting along, not getting along? No, we got along great. We, it was a pretty perfect childhood. I was trying to think of this disaster stories. Recently, I did one of those shows where they trace your ancestry. Finding your roots.

Did you do roots or who do you think you are? Who do you think you are? Yeah, got it. Did you do one of those? Have you done one? I did roots. What did you find? So part of it was Greece, which was great.

And then we went to this little village and they go, and this is where your great grandfather was shot. I'm like, oh, this is the moment. Really, he's shot at the thing. And so, when you, back then in this, if your father died, then you were considered an orphan. And if your mom's still alive, but you're still, you're an orphan because your dad's dead.

And so my grandfather was an orphan. He was shot in his village, my great grandfather, and it was the Coelopoulos family against the Stamatopoulos family. So it was like, you know, that was my question. And I'm walking. Coelopoulos got shorted to coulier, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, good. So it must've been weird on that first day on set. Yeah, I was like, what? His great-grand? Oh. Bring the beanie baby out, quick, first day on set. Yeah, I was like, what? His great-grandma. Oh. Bring the beanie baby out. Quick, we'll shoot that. Yeah.

So. So it was, it was, and then we were walking through one of my, with one of my cousins and I was like, so the Coleopolis. Shh. I got it. So it was really beautiful. My sisters then, so they figured orphans. So then it turns out that my great grandmother

was an orphan in Des Moines. So then I said, why don't you guys come on the second part? I'll take Caitlin to Greece, because she's never been there. When you guys come, it was horrific. I mean, everything went wrong. The weather was terrible. We couldn't really do,

they would have to like make up stuff because we couldn't get to the library. So we're gonna have this professor come over and talk to me about that. And then my sister, we got stuck there. And I was on the, we just got out easily somehow and my sisters got stuck. So when anybody gets a raw deal on anything,

we call it Des Moines. Oh, you got Des Moines because- Gotcha. Because who do you think you are? I should say, I did Finding Your Roots with Skip Gates. And that one, you just like show up in a room and they tell you about what they found. But who do they think you are? I should say, I did Finding Your Roots with Skip Gates, and that one you just show up in a room and they tell you about what they found. But who do they think you are?

You actually have to travel. It's like a travel show. So then they just cut out, to be doubly demoralized, they cut out that part of it because it was terrible. But the Greece was beautiful, and so they and my sisters needed to go there. Did you ever go to Greece with your parents? I did.

I got to take my dad there, and he hadn't been in many years and it was one of those magical things and he passed away a couple years after that. Gotcha. Was it just the two of you? Just a father-son trip? No, no. I was married at the time. It was my ex-wife and my mother, the four of us went.

We didn't do a lot of, you know, I remember my dad, my dad loved the horse, the races, and there was a Los Alamitos racetrack near our house. And those were the moments I remember going with my dad. And I remember, I'll never forget just sort of falling asleep on his lap, you know, at the horse track or in the car. And then years later, I realized he was a smoker, and he would, if he couldn't find an ashtray,

he'd just put it out on his jeans and then rub it in. And I was like, that's why you smelt. My face was there, Dad, why would you do that? But I loved, I got in trouble there. So being brought to a horse track as a kid is fascinating to me. Was part, I mean, I'm assuming your dad is not just going to watch horses,

going to gamble on horses, correct? So did it, was his mood up and down based on how that was going? You know, he was pretty even dude, you know, he was, he was a little gruff, but very soft in the inside, you know, sort of a Greek. Yeah. He, no, he, and he wasn't bedding, you know,

he wasn't, wasn't like- He was not large sums. No, it was't bedding, you know, he wasn't like... He wasn't, not large sums. No, it was just his hobby, you know. He was one of the, you know, you think of your dad as a superhero when you're little, right? And like, you know, bigger than life. And then you get to an age where you go, ah, no, he's just a man.

I never got to that point. My dad was always the coolest motherfucker in any room he walked into, and I just idolized him and he was gone too soon. I don't think I've reached that point with Dad. Have you, Posh? No, he's still a superhero. I mean, I would say the difference would be that I've never described him as even keeled. Did he have a temper thing? I would call him like keeled over a teacup.

Is that? Do you have any memories of like a big win? Did your dad ever hit like a trifecta? Or would he point out, hey, we're on the seven horse and would you celebrate, cheer together? I'm assuming that he'd loop you in in terms of what the family was riding on. Not really, but he would, not at us, but yeah, he would get pissed off if he lost.

Okay. He would spend all day touting, as they call it, you know, and he would, this horse, they would check out the jockey, and how tall is he, and how many things did he win and lose, and then they would go and do it that way. When he died, he passed away and it was one of those things in the Greek thing too. It's like, he wanted to be cremated. Okay, so we did that. And we set up this big, you know, he was 65.

So he had a lot of friends, thousands of people shut up. And they wanted him to be, he wanted to have a ceremony in the Greek church. And so we go there and they let go, well, you can't, you got to have the body. You can't have it. You just can't, you know, you can't, we don't do it. If it's crazy.

And I was, Oh God, really? And it's Dr. Handopolis, you know, handout. Opolis was, you know, well, I could see what I could do paying this guy up. Um, so when he, but he died and I was doing this TV show called thieves and we happened to be shooting at that racetrack. And I put his ashes, and it was windy, right out of the window, throw his ashes.

And I was in a white suit, I was playing this thief, you know, I was in this white suit, and I threw his ashes over the finish line, and they blew back on me. So the track was interesting, and he, and I would, that's when I became- And then you rubbed his ashes into your pants. Yeah.

Right out. Put your head down here, Daddy. I got busted there for selling. I was very industrious in the way of, I would ask people for their programs if they left early, then I would sell them for half price, people coming in. Oh, that's a pretty good hustle. And you did get busted though. Yeah.

But the cop chased me like I'm running through the, you know, and my dad had to come pick me up and it was good fellas. All right, I broke the cherry. You ran so fast. You won the 5'10". I went right onto the track and kept going. Yeah. The classic, they all still talk about the day the boy,

the boy beat the horses. The boy came in first. How old were you when you guys went to Vegas, do you think, as a family? We would go quite a bit. It was, I was young, you know, we would stay at Circus Circus, which was this gross, I heard Josh Gad on here talking about it too. Yeah. It was gross. Did you guys ever go there?

No, we never. I feel like we never took a trip as kids to Vegas. No. We went years, years later, like once we were adults, I feel like we were both in LA and our parents came out and we rented a car and we drove out there and we had, I've never felt better in Las Vegas than when I was there with my parents.

We would get up early, we'd have breakfast. I think we played golf maybe a couple of days. We'd come back, we'd have lunch, we'd take a nap, we'd gamble for a little bit, maybe go see a show, have dinner, and then we were in bed by 11. When they're pumping the oxygen in and you're not drinking to get drunk, it's you can feel really good in Las Vegas.

Although I do remember being at an interminably long Cirque du Soleil show with mom and dad. Oh yeah, but that's not, that's not your style also. No. I will like a Cirque du Soleil show and you will roll your eyes, so. Really? That's you Seth? Love? Did you see that show over at the Beatle one?

No, didn't see that one. I think we saw O. We did see O. It was like acrobats in water. My mom loved Vegas till the day she died. And I would go, I would take her and she would stay up all night long and play slots. Boom, boom, boom, boom. And I would try to find her and I couldn't find her. You know how I would find her? If I saw someone with a picture of me that she was, you know, ripping out to people and stuff.

Did you see my, where did she go? Oh, hey, yeah, yeah, she just gave me this postcard. Did you really sign this? Did you, was she a smoker? Yes. Cause as I picture somebody willing to spend all night at a slot machine, it's almost hard to imagine they don't have a cigarette.

Yeah, they smoke, yeah. My dad was so good. He saved, you know, he was very frugal and drove the same car for 20 years, 25 years, El Camino that he gave to me. And I think my mom spent all the money after he died in Vegas. Gotcha. In one night?

In one night, yeah, one big. What, 25 cents at a time? Yeah, yes. Did you ever take any, did you ever get on a plane as a family to take a family trip that was further afield? We probably, I took them to Europe, you know. I really was, oh well here, let me think this could be good, but I you know when I started playing with the Beach Boys one of the first shows I played was in DC in front of a million people and and then I, then we went to Philly. It was Philly was in DC in front of a million people. And then we went to Philly.

It was Philly, it was in the afternoon. And so, and I didn't have a camera, and I said, if you guys want me to keep it, look, it was the thrill of my life to be next to these guys. And it's lasted to this day. But I said, I gotta start bringing my parents. They said, oh, okay, okay. So I would take them everywhere, big trips,

like Australia, Kauai, and these kind of trips. And my mom was, we went horseback riding once, I remember in Australia. She's riding her, she's like, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, my fanny hurts, my fanny hurts. And all the stress, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, what's the matter?

Fanny means vagina here. Mom, stop saying that. Also, you shouldn't, even in places that doesn't mean vagina, you shouldn't say it a bunch. Fanny is a funny one. Did you guys, what's the one of the first things you did for your parents when you guys started making the dore mi?

Did you buy them cars? I'm trying, I'm still trying to decide, but I will, I do think it's a good idea to do something at some point. Get him, I don't know, what is your dad into? Besides being gay? I don't know, he's your dad into besides being gay? He's into golf, but he also, he hates it as much as he loves it.

I would say like access is the best thing we do for our parents. And like we, you know, we take an annual trip to Pittsburgh to go see a Steelers game and like that's, that's really special for them. Yeah. We had a great trip a couple of years ago where Northwestern, where we all went to school, was playing Nebraska in Ireland as the first game of the season. And I bought tickets to the game. Seth bought flights. Our parents bought the hotels. And it was kind of a perfect, like we don't, there's no takeaway other than the memory from this trip. And it was fabulous. Seth, how many millions do you make a week? A week, that's a great way to think.

You know, the parents have to buy the hotel too? That's too much. Let's just say enough that my parents are definitely well within their rights to be like, when are we gonna get one goddamn thing? Hey, settle a bet for Josh and I, Kokomo real or made up? It's a place, you get there fast and you take, it's made up.

It's made up. See, I told you Posh, cause he keeps saying that's where he wants to go for his honeymoon and I'm like, you're in India. It sounds perfect. And every day he's always constantly like on kayak, just like searching for flights. I'm like, it's not, there's no.

There's a Kokomo, Indiana. You guys can go there. That'd be sexy. Oh my gosh. Something to think about. Yeah. Hashi? What was the biggest venue you played with the Beach Boys?

Well, it was one of the first times, the very first time was at a baseball stadium and I just wanted to meet them. And I'd just been broken up with. I caught the first love of my life. I loved this girl so much I walked in and she was in bed with Tony Danza. Anyone else have that story?

Josh? Hey, I guess who's the boss now? I got a good Tony Danza. Oh, John! That sounds like Giuliani. No, no, no. Dude, they're way, I think they're, look. I think on Finding Your Roots, you might find out that they're like Giuliani. No, no, no. Dude, they're way, I think they're, look. I think on Finding Your Roots,

you might find out that they're like third cousins. Giuliani's so good in the lisp that you do with him. Hey, that's it. I will say, as bad as Danza is, it would be worse to walk in on her with Giuliani. Can you imagine? You're right. This isn't what it looks like.

Both? You're right. This isn't what it looks like. So he, I was very depressed and my friend said, I got, and my friend was playing guitar with him and said, come, I'm going to try to see if you can, you can meet the guys. He said, after fun, fun, fun, come backstage. It was a baseball stadium in San Diego, Padre Stadium, you guys are sports. And come backstage. And now it's Petco.

Right? What was it for? Qualcomm. Qualcomm? What was it? Qualcomm. It was originally Jack Murphy. Yeah, there you go.

That's what I was trying to pull. And so, he said, get back there. And there's, you know, they're there for five minutes. Then they go do the encore and then they leave. So you got to get in between. Okay. I've just gone to General Hospital. Then I get down to the baseball thing,

and I hear people screaming, like somebody was getting killed. I looked over and it was like 100 cheerleaders that spotted me. Like, oh shit, and I just started running like an idiot. Now here I'm in like these dread-ass jeans, I look like a dead crow, landed on my head and then died, and I'm running, skinny legs, big, dumb teeth, it was the then died. And I'm running skinny legs, big dumped teeth,

it was the 80s. Then I start running the bases like a jackass, and then, and they're ganging me because I'm a terrible runner and all these girls. And I look up on the Jumbotron, like this, like this, and I, where's the back stage? And I run in just the next time, they slam the doors and girls are screaming,

I'm like, ah, ah, ah. I look over and my idols, there they are, the four, Dennis wasn't there, but Dennis was there. It was all of them. And they look at me like, who is this insane guy? And they hung out with Manson, so that's saying quite a bit. And my friend said, well, that's John Samuels and Michael. I said, what's his deal? He plays drums, he's on General Hospice, good drummer.

Oh yeah, he said, do girls scream for him like that all the time? And he said, yeah. My friend said, yeah, he goes, he's on General Hospice, good drummer. Oh yeah, he said, do girls scream for him like that all the time? And he said, yeah. My friend said, yeah. He goes, get him on stage. And so I played Baran there. And then they said, well, we're doing this big thing in DC on the 4th of July, 1985. We always have guests and they like the way you play that song, so would you come be a guest?

And I'm like, yes. I get to DC first. Day before, my friend's waiting for me in the lobby. He says, come on, we gotta go teach Jimmy what keys we're doing this. Who? Just come on. The smash cut to me standing in the biggest suite

I've ever seen in my life, Jimmy Page walks up. Wow. Slinky kind of, you know, and he's got a big Jack Daniels, bottle of Jack Daniels. This has something to do with travel. And he says, you want this? I said, no, Mr. Pitch, you have it. You know, do you have a light beer? He looked at me like, you know, light beer.

He leaves. Then my friend leaves because he sees these guitars in the next room. And here I am in this giant hotel suite, bigger than I've ever seen any suite. And I'll never forget there was these big blue puffy couches. This is weird. An anvil cases of her. So I go sit down on the couch and in between two anvil cases pops out this goth, like a goth cuckoo clock, this weird skinny girl.

She sees me, she goes, ah, jumps back in, ice cream, ah. And she goes, and then Jimmy Page comes walking out. I'm like, he's got this blue beer. He's got a guitar. He said, what key, what key are we doing?. I doubt it. He's got a guitar. He said, what key are we doing? What song is that? My friend said you're doing Bob Rand.

Okay, what key is that in? F sharp. I got fucking soloing. Screaming at me like I'm coming up with the keys. What else? What's this here you're doing? Help me run it. What key is that in?

C sharp. I got fucking soloing. See, he's screaming at me. So this was my first thing. It was in Philadelphia in the afternoon. And Mr. T, so here's the travel part, right? We're on a train and it's really hot. And Mr. T is like bitching and complaining the heat.

And Carl Wilson, who sang Godly Nose, who was a ethereal gentleman, just one of the most beautiful, he's like, hey T, shut the fuck up. Because he was going on and on. And we're pulling up to the steps at the library. And he's running through the, you know, he had some guy teeing him up. I'll get you, Maboa.

From Rocky. So we get there and it was, that was a million people. We jumped back on a plane, I think, get to DC late, drive on there and that was about 750,000 people. And they were all pushing and the guy says, you, you're on General Hospital, yeah. Go out there and tell the crowd to back up a little better. We're gonna cancel the show.

I'm like, what? Yeah, just go out there. You know, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Blackie. That was the name of my character on General Hospital. That didn't go over great at first. You know, 750,000 people as one go, Black, woo! Then they see me and they go, oh, I'm screaming.

I go, hi. They told me that you guys all have to back up or they're going to cancel the show. Ah! Screaming at me. Let me finish. I told them they could do whatever they want because it's DC Rock, you know, whatever. And then we played this show and that was, and Jimmy Page afterwards, before he was really nervous.

And I said, you know, we were talking, it was like, oh, they're going to love you. And he hadn't played in a long time and they were getting ready to do Live Aid in Philadelphia the following week. And it's just going to be great. And I said, do you see that? They were all like going, Jimmy, Jimmy. and they were getting ready to do live aid in Philadelphia the following week. And it's just gonna be great. And I said, do you see that? They were all like going, Jimmy, Jimmy. He's holding, you know, these,

he said, oh, I thought they were hexing me now, didn't I? I said, no, Jim, they liked you. I do impressions in case you guys ever do some voice work. The great thing, can I say the great thing about this story is how easy it's been to follow? What part confused you, Seth? Just like Mr. T came in and out. He was on a train misbehaving. Then you were in Philly.

Then you were in Philly. No, it started in the first show. There was a million people, then there was 750,000 people. Was it a million in Philly, 750,000? I think it's Mr. T. I think the T in Mr. T might stand for train. I never knew it before. It might have just been Mr. Train. Oh, maybe it was train. That band was opening up.

Oh, it was train. Yeah. No. All right, guys. Sure. The two brothers that seem like they're very sweet and humble. They get an XT night along. Boom, boom, boom, boom. We get out on a ledge and we pull out the curtain. One of my favorite television appearances was on your show, Seth, years ago, where I read a bunch of reviews from Fuller House, I think it was.

And one guy you don't remember. You had a very good sense of humor about it. I still don't. Still don't. Wait, this is... It's just lovely to see you. And can I just say genuinely, it is just, you know, everybody talks about how handsome John Stamos is, blah, blah, blah.

What a voice, Pashi. Yeah. One of the easiest listening pods we've ever done. Hey baby, really? Yeah. I love you guys so much. Seth, again, I've become obsessed with you and then, and now Josh, because I didn't realize you guys were brothers. I mean, you look so much. Seth, again, I've become obsessed with you and then, and now Josh,

because I didn't realize you guys were brothers. I mean, he looks so much alike, but when you're doing Newsome on that, that was so, you're spot on. And then you're really talented. Really talented. And I can see why your brother idolizes you. He's gonna put you,

we'll wait till you read his memoir about how much he loves you. I'll read it, I'm gonna do the voiceover for it. Oh, great. If it's okay. So, you just gotta be like, durr durr. So now, Josh is gonna ask you some questions. All right, here we go, some quick hitters, John.

You can only pick one of these, is your ideal vacation relaxing, adventurous, or educational? Can it be all three? Nope, that's like, you can only pick one. Yeah, but I'm 61, so like, it went over my 20s, it pick one. Yeah, but I'm 61. So like, it went over my 20s, it's adventure. Yeah, but right now, right now.

Yeah, relaxing. Great. There you go. What's your favorite means of transportation? Train with Mr. Train? Plane, automobile, boat, bike, or walking? Mr. P, you can go on a plane with Mr. P. The Mr. or Mrs. of each means of transportation will be there. So which means of transportation do you prefer?

I say mister C, mister car. Well, my wife recently said, let's go take a road trip. I'm like, let's not ever take a road trip. And she talked me into it. And it was hands down my favorite time with my family recently and my son. It was like a few months ago, we drove up the coast to San Francisco, like all the way up to San Francisco, and we went to like, stayed in weird little places.

You guys ever been to the Madonna Inn? Yeah. Right? Is that where you're from? Yeah, I love the Madonna Inn. That's a honeymoon spot, Josh. I don't know about that. Well, but I'm glad we didn't talk about that family trip

in the last. In the last 15 minutes. The biggest parent is at the end when Josh realizes there was like, there were family trips. Uncovered treasure. Yeah. He left treasure on the table. Yeah. You're saying me leaving treasure on the table?

Josh feels like it's his job. He's sort of a family trip prospector and he's blaming himself right now. You guys could do so many different subjects. Brothers would have been great, family stuff, but family trips. Yeah, family trips is what we have. And then Seth's like, when did you work with Gary Marshall? Well, the bummer was I have a really good Gary Marshall

story, but I knew Josh would roll his eyes at me. Maybe tell it on your show. Yeah, that's a good point. Tell it on the show that you have, or one of the other two podcasts you do. Mick, you know what I'm gonna tell it? To burn you, you know where I'm gonna tell the Gary Marshall story? At my wedding?

Yeah, my best man speech is gonna be about how I met Gary Marshall. If you could take a vacation with any family, alive or dead, real or fictional, other than your own family, what family would you like to take a family vacation with? Manson. Great.

Great. Rick? Fun while lasted. The Beach Boys. If you had to be stranded on a desert island with one member of your family, who would it be? Oh gosh, well it would be my dad. Maybe I miss him the most because he's been gone a long time. That's a great answer. I believe that to be true. And you're from, I want to get this right, are you from Cyprus, California? Yes. Would you recommend Cyprus, California

as a vacation destination? No. No. Well, here's the deal. It's very close to Knott's Berry Farm and Disneyland. So if you're an amusement park people family, which you've cleared the Myers are not, I take. I think we are.

We are. This is an important question. And again, you're a genius. Yeah, fire. When did the pulling of the shades come down in the middle of all your closer looks and stuff? I don't know. I do a lot of stupid things, but this is not stupid.

Like, what do you mean by pulling down in the shade? Well, there's no shade there. You do a hand motion and it's almost like a, that's it. Josh, what's he doing? I've always talked with my hands. It's something we inherited from my dad. It's great, but it's a very specific, you guys both look at me like I'm crazy.

Go back, watch the tapes. And it's a- And I do a lot of shade pulling? Yeah, it's great. It was usually the morning, but it's- I think he's probably just centering himself. I don't know. Yeah.

Oh, all right. Go ahead. Yeah. But Cyprus, it's close to some things. It's very close to the North Great Front, yeah. Yeah, maybe not a vacation destination in itself. And Seth has our final questions. John, have you been to the Grand Canyon?

I have not. Do you want to go? With you two? questions. John, have you been to the Grand Canyon? I have not. Do you want to go? With you two? Yeah. Sure, man. Is that the honeymoon? Yeah.

Are you really down? We kind of know people there. Oh, do you? Yeah, we do. I would like to go there, yeah. Okay, great. I know you probably watched the Will and Harper thing. Yeah, I did watch them.

It was beautiful. But they were at the Grand Canyon. What is the catch there? You go and sit on the... What do you do there? Experience it. I would say it famously doesn't have a catch. Well, come up with one right now. The Grand Canyon.

You don't want to fall. I think it's like, it's free to go down. You got to pay to get back up. That would be the catch. Pay. Like that's what they have. Do they have donkeys that take you back up again still? Yeah.

I think they do. And you want to stay away from the edge when a ram is nearby, right? That's true. I was listening to that last night, you guys. I swear to God and I'm walking by, I'm walking back to the hotel, I shouldn't say this because it's Disney, and I'm listening to this thing, Ram, and I was trying to follow that thing,

and it was in and out, and I see a giant, what I thought was a rat, and I go, I was right when you were telling the story about this. And let me see if I have a picture or video of it. And it turns out, I'm not sure if it was a, it was something. I mean, look at this. Is this not, wait, shoot. Wait a minute. I thought, well, wait a minute. Folks at home, sorry, but it is. Can you see this little rat there? Oh yeah. And it was a white one. I was like, I got to show this. He ran

across there, but that's but that's at the hotel. That looks like a little like guinea pig. I think it was, I don't think it was. Obviously this is a podcasting people. John just showed us a video of like a 70 pound rat. Yeah, but don't you guys use video? Some weird chupacabra thing. We didn't really need some of this video to be on

because you guys have all this professional lighting and this beautiful thing. I'm in this, I'm in the bathroom. Yeah, again this professional lighting and this beautiful thing. I'm in the bathroom. Again, you're in the worst room at Disney. The only bathroom. The least magical room. John, this was a delight. Thank you.

We love you. Thank you for making time for us. My pleasure. I will say, I'm kind of like, thanks for leaving your family to be with us at Disneyland, but I think you probably needed a break. Yeah, I was just getting a lot of texts. Billy's awake now.

Okay, well, I'm talking to the boys. Thank you guys very much. I'm sorry I didn't have better family trip stories. No, it's good. I mean, Josh will run you down once you get off, but I don't care. Oh, you guys talk about the guests after they leave? Josh does.

I never got that far. That's a separate podcast that you need to be invited. You need a link. It's called, Who Let Me Down. Special password. Well, you guys have had this podcast for like, what, seven years now. Who's left?

Stamos? Really? Okay. No, it's pretty fresh. Yeah, you too. Thank you guys. I'm very grateful and big fans, both of you. Thanks for having me.

We'll talk to you soon, buddy. Have so much fun at the happiest place on earth. Thank you, I will. Yeah! ["Mis Deimos"] A young John, mis Deimos, wanted to be famous to show girls who dumped him and bullies who had punched him just what they were missing, who they could have been kissing

Uncle Jesse near the gates of Disney was a boy named John Stamos wanted to get the most out of his teenage years the workers were forlorn When he teeth peed the Matterhorn It was the 80's so questionable Styles were worn By non or stamos A heartthrob from ladies they'd see him and go crazy And often the fellas, they get pretty jealous

They wanted to punch him Oh, you know he used to work the breakfast shift But he got cast and thought his dad was pissed Cause he was his Sunday guy Good ol' John Stamos Has so many fans except for Tony Danza