Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum - JODIE SWEETIN: Full House Child Stardom, Addiction & Taking Her Life Back

Episode Date: June 16, 2026

Jodie Sweetin (Full House, Fuller House) joins us for a candid and emotional conversation about growing up in front of millions as Stephanie Tanner on Full House, and the identity crisis that followed when the cameras stopped rolling. She opens up about addiction, relapse, public scrutiny, and what it actually took to get sober and stay sober. We also talk about motherhood, boundaries, advocacy, and how returning for Fuller House helped her reclaim her voice. Thank you to our sponsors: ♨️ Head to  https://www.tryfum.com/INSIDE to get your free gift with purchase, and start The Good Habit today! ❤️ This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/inside and get on your way to being your best self 💖 Join Our Community: https://patreon.com/insideofyou __________________________________________________ 💖 Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/insideofyou⁠⁠ 👕 Inside Of You Merch: ⁠⁠https://store.insideofyoupodcast.com/⁠⁠ __________________________________________________ Watch or listen to more episodes! 📺 ⁠⁠https://www.insideofyoupodcast.com/show⁠⁠ __________________________________________________ Follow us online! 📸 Instagram: ⁠⁠https://instagram.com/insideofyoupodcast/⁠⁠ 🤣 TikTok: ⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@insideofyou_podcast⁠⁠ 📘 Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/insideofyoupodcast/⁠⁠ 🐦 Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/insideofyoupod⁠⁠ 🌐 Website: ⁠⁠https://www.insideofyoupodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Just take a deep breath. Let's get into it. All right, let's get inside of Jody Sweeten. Where you get nervous for a role. Oh my God. I get panicked. Do you get anxiety? Yeah, I live with anxiety.

What are you doing? I'm just taking a live picture. I always get nervous, but that's fun. I look forward to it. Let's get everything out of today we can. And how much time do you have? and how are you going to use it well. So come on now.

We would have to do another inside of you. But actually, but that's kind of what you're doing, Michael. I mean, you're on this road, this journey of what's inside of you. Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum was not recorded in front of a live studio audience. I mean, this is a long time coming. Seriously. I mean, I've known you probably for how many years? I mean, since before B was alive and she's going to be 16 in August.

Yeah, so like 20 years. Just about, like 17, 18 years, yeah. How much do you think, I know how much I've changed. I mean, Lord have mercy. How much do you think? What has changed about you in the last 20 years? Oh, my God. Everything.

Everything, but and yet it's, you know, I will say I have become a lot more accountable. I have become a lot more, mostly, become a lot more comfortable in my own skin. Like I just turned 44 in January and I've never, I've literally never like given less fucks in my life. And I have gone through periods where I really did not give a fuck. And I couldn't, there's not one to find. I don't have anymore. I don't, I'm so who I am in every situation. It doesn't matter who I'm talking to or what I'm doing. I'm like, I'm just going to bring me to the situation and whatever I'm doing. This is who I am. This is my past. I don't have, the skeletons are revealed.

Exactly. Exactly. And I feel like you reach a point in your life where you look at yourself and you go, okay, this is who I was. And I have to just accept that. And I'm, I've grown and, you know, whatever it is, I'm kinder. I listen more. I feel more. I forgive. I let go. And I think that's maturity. And, you know, a lot of people still can't let go. They have, they hold grudges. That's true. People hold grudges. And I mean, I mean, I let go. I just, luckily I have ADHD, so I forget that I'm mad at people pretty easily, but I yeah. Looking at me. Right. No, but I, you know, I get to like go through life now and enjoy the experiences so much more and like being my real self and not worrying as much about fitting into some mold or, you know, and it took like making a mess of my life multiple times in multiple different ways and whatever. Like, that's just how I learned shit. I'm messy. I'm a little messy. And, uh, but I'm also really emotionally intelligent and kind and smart and all these other things that like I never gave myself credit for. Well, a lot of people don't see what the causes are

of, you know, certain behaviors. Right. You know, like addiction, like what you dealt with a lot of addiction and things like. And they're like, well, how did that all start? They just see what it is. They don't see, well, at a young age, you went through more than most kids would ever imagine going through. And how do you bounce back from that? And that wasn't even why I had a struggle with addiction, truly. I was adopted when I was like 14 months old. And I both parent, my story I've talked about in my book that came out in 2009. What's it called?

Unsweetened. I just did the audiobook version of it. It just got released this year, the audiobook one, because back in 2009, That is awesome. Congrats. Thank you. You know, I talk about it. I was adopted at like 14 months old. My, my birth mother was in LA County Jail when I was born. My biological dad was in California State Prison at Soledadad and wound up getting stabbed and killed in a prison riot. But both of them struggled with issues with addiction and, you know, depression and anxiety, at least from what I know. I don't know a ton about them, but I do know that that, you know, sort of ran in the family. So I know that was the thing that I drank over, drank at, used at for a long time that really screwed up my ability to have relationships and all these sorts of things. Because you felt abandoned. Yeah, because I felt abandoned and because I felt like, you know, who am I? And then we add on the layer of being a child star.

And growing up in an amazing environment for being a kid star, like we were talking about it the other day with Daniel Fischel and she was like, oh my God. like working, because her first job was on full house. She was like, I never worked on a kinder set. Like I never, it was just so wonderful. No drama. No. Like there was like stupid little family argument drama of, you know, whatever. Someone was being annoying or obnoxious, but it literally was like family shit.

Yeah. So it was, you know, I had this relatively normal experience in, within the world of sort of abnormality. But, you know, I always say that I would have struggled with these addiction issues anyway. It's just that nobody would have known. about it. You know, I grew up in a neighborhood with a kid right around the corner for me who OD'd on Thanksgiving

morning in his parents' shower and I the kid across the street from me went to jail for drugs. The kid down the street got a DUI. Like within my neighborhood. Well, but not even it was surrounding. That's not until their adulthood. What I'm saying is that no one knows them. They don't wind up

on the cover of a magazine or whatever talking about their addiction, but it's just as prevalent and whatever and it's, you know, there's just as many causes for it as there are sort of adding the layer of being a child star. And then finishing at 13 and being like, well, who fuck am I now? And who am I? It was the question I was constantly asking myself anyway.

Because I was like, okay, well, I know I'm adopted. So like, these are my parents, but like, who am I? Who really am I? And on top of that bring up, you know, boredom. Right. You're probably 13 going to what's going on. Well, I was 13. And, you know, now I realized I had pretty severe ADHD and a lot of the same impulse control, all that kind of stuff and loved to be constantly going.

And I had lived that life up until then. And it just stopped. And then it was like, okay. And so that was an adjustment. And I was like, okay, I like this. Like, I like just kind of being able to go to school all the time. But I definitely, you know, I was trying to constantly answer the question of who am I? and also simultaneously ask the question from others

of who do you want me to be and then figure out how to make those two things the same. That's tough. And that was, I think, what I spent a long, long time. Even in well into sobriety, that was sort of a battle that I really had to go back. And, you know, every time you go back to therapy, you're like, ah, ha, ha, we're digging deeper this time.

Yeah, because I think that's true. I think we, We want people to love us. We want people to appreciate. We want people to hire us. We want so it's like a people pleasing. And as a child actor, your entire job is to do what you're told. Your entire job is to listen to the people around you and get the laughs and make it funny.

Whether you're sick, whether you're tired, whether you're whatever, you have a job to do. And like, I loved it. I loved what I did. definitely, you know, there's, there's, you can't help but like have certain leftover things that come from that when, when, when, then it's over and you're like, well, now how do I fill all that space? What do you think your life would have been like if you weren't an actor? Like, do you think the drugs would have happened anyway?

Yeah, for sure. For sure. It had nothing to do with that. It had nothing to do with that. Just like I always say, it sort of added a real nice, you know, icing on the shitcake of, of mental health issues. But yeah, you know, I struggled with depression and anxiety as a kid. I now look back and I'm like, oh, remembering doctor's appointments where I'd go because

I felt like I couldn't swallow, you know, things like I'm like, oh, that's, I had severe anxiety at age seven. Yeah. You know, but you don't realize that until you kind of look back. You think it's just part of you. Right. You're like, this is how everyone feels. I'm just always kind of on and wanting to go and do.

Yeah. Is this enough for you? Is this the good thing? You know, that was always sort of the question. And added to the fact that I am a pretty mellow, easygoing, like, passive person. So conflict was never, I just wasn't a person that wanted conflict. It wasn't really ever me. So combine that with people pleasing.

You're just a dorm. You're like, okay. And you learn that as a kid, that's what you have to do in order to get through your job. But that's not what you should do in order to get through life, is to constantly be. trying to just make everyone else happy and check if you're getting the right reaction. This show is sponsored by Better Help. Boy, I always love talking about Better Help. Because I think I bring it up even when I'm not on this podcast. I bring it up to my friends. I'm like, why don't you get therapy? Why don't you talk to someone? Better help.

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I would pick. I love to pick somebody broken because, you know, or that had things going on. Because you didn't have that. Because I didn't have, it wasn't even that. It wasn't that I didn't have that. It was that I had this weird, I'll say I had this, particularly after the show ended in, like, in high school, there was this strange feeling that I had because everyone assumed I was, quote unquote, a TV star. So, like, you know, the rumor before you would even start it as it was like, oh, she's just that got bitch and none of that.

And so- You want to prove them wrong. I wanted to prove them wrong. So it was like I, in order to be, in order to make myself palatable and make other people feel like I wasn't trying to be better than them, I would try to be worse than them. So like, I don't think I'm better than you. I'll, I'll get more fucked up. I'll do more. Like all she's cool.

She can hang. She can hang. Right. She's fine. Oh, she doesn't think she's all missed, you know, goody, too, she's bubble. blah, blah. And then you keep going. And then that becomes who you are. You know, and I, it was, I spent most of my life through my probably mid-30s being like, do you love me? Do you love me? You don't even know who you were. No. Yeah. I had to make a mess of relationships. I had to, I had to cheat.

I had to lie. I had to get involved with really severely, um, damaged, toxic, uh, scary people. Um, But I had to get through all that. And like, you know, again, the hindsight's always 20-20, but it really has sort of rocketed me all of that into this place where, you know, around my mid-30s, like late 30s, I was just like, oh, way, way, way, way. I think I've been doing this all wrong. And I, you know, went back to therapy and dug in. Yeah, because, I mean, if you're repeating your behaviors and you're, you know, because

you were married a few times and, you know, and, you know, you got divorced. and this and that and you start to see a you either see it or you don't if you don't see it then because some people they go yeah if you if you get a divorce it's like you know it's the other person's fault if you get another divorce it's like it's still their fault no i look i'm the only common denominator here there's something obviously that i am bringing to things or that i am not honoring for myself before i get into these you know what i mean jumping into things right Just again, will you love me? I'm not going to ask any questions about anything, you know, important or that I should probably

know before we do this. But like, hey. Yes, red flags. Please. Tell me about your red flags. Great. Please love a red flag because also I have red flags. So I'm not going to judge you for yours.

In fact, I'm just going to paint them green or take them down. They're not even there. And I did that a lot. Yeah. And then it bites you sometimes because you're like, wow. Because they're not doing the work either. Well, they're not doing the work either. And then, you know, you wind up sort of a progressive.

I'm progressively picking more damaged and toxic people in order to sort of reflect that back at you. And, you know, and I had one. I had a really awful, like, emotionally abusive, terrifying, narcissistic relationship that was awful for several years. And I learned a lot about myself through that. Was that the one that you said, I have to change? I have to, I have to stop. I have to look deeper. Well, it was part of that.

But really it was like I am this, I'm in danger. Like I, this is. Like restraining orders shit. Oh, we had restraining orders. He was after me for like a year and a half, two years. Like we had, I had 24 hour armed security for a year and a half. That's terrifying. Yeah, yeah.

But I can, I can put on a metal plate carrier in under 30 seconds and locked down in my bathroom if you need to know. So. Jesus. So you went through it. So I went through it. I went through it. I went through it. went through it. But I, um, you know, again, I had to be like, why am, what did, what did I choose?

What did I, what did I bring to this and why? And, um, you know, I realize I just like sort of let everyone else make choices for me. Like, okay, what do you think we should do? Okay. Great. That's fine. Yeah. And never really even asked myself, well, what do you want? You know what? That's a common denominator, I think, with a lot of people in general, because especially in this industry, I feel like, you know, your agents really, this is good for you. This is good for you. And you're thinking, I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this. And they get you. And you're like, because you just want to make them happy. You want to make so and so happy. You want to do this for this person. And at some point, you have to start taking care of yourself. Because if you can't take care

of yourself, you're no good to anybody. Right. And so I really, you know, I, I, I, I, I, I'm thankful is the wrong word, but I have found the gratitude in going through a lot of the worst stuff. And I am glad that I was able to look at it, reflect on it and really dig into it and be willing to be like, all right, back to therapy, we go. You know, I guess we're just looking at some other stuff and things you don't want to look at. And then you're like, oh, wait, this actually turns out, this actually feels way better. Like I actually don't. hate myself and I don't feel like I'm trying to be anybody other than me. That's the thing. I think that, you know, I always ask people as like, you love yourself? And people like, yeah,

yeah, I love myself. And I'm thinking, I don't know if I could look in the mirror and say that exactly. Right. You'd be like, it's taken me a long time to just be like, you know, I like some things about you. I don't like other things about you. I love that you care. I love that you want to help. I love that your kind. And then there's some other things, some traits that I'm like, ah, you know, that stems from, you know, childhood or whatever. So, but you have to just learn to be like, okay, we're all fuckups. We all make mistakes and learn to love yourself and accept and be better. Right. And I mean, I think that's, I mean, literally is, you know, all the 12th of the world. That's literally just it. Just like, don't be an asshole. If you are an asshole, go back and be like,

I'm really sorry. And then don't do it and figure out what's going on and try and change that again. And it's not going to be perfect or pretty, but like you can, you know, you can do some things. And I will say like everything else has just sort of fallen into place once I got there. Once I like started really getting into that, I was like, oh, I found the right relationship and I found my self-confidence and I found my ability to like believe in myself. and, you know, all of these things that I never really had cultivated.

And nurture that inner child. Yeah. You know, just be like, hey, I know what you went through. Yeah. And we're making it now. Yeah. We're doing it. We're doing okay.

Yes. I have a little, so I have a little nook under my stairs that has like a cushion and pillows. And I had my husband put a little lamp in there and like a shelf. It is my nook. And I go hide in there. And my little inner child, I will color. I will read books.

I will journal. Like whatever. And it's like, ah, this is, it's my little safe zone. Um, where I go when I just, I'm like,

I really need to be quiet and just be gentle on myself, you know? Yeah. I mean, gentle and not while I'm reading Stephen King. But that's, inside of you is brought to you by Fume. Guys,

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I am... Look around you. I know. I've been here before. But I didn't have all these, did I? No, not here. Not in here. You haven't been here in a while.

I've been here in a very long time. No, I didn't have all of these. What's your favorite horror movie of all time? Let me guess. You're going to say The Shining. No. Exorcist. No.

The thing. It's more recent. One of the ones that I saw that I really, really liked just because of how absolutely left it went was... Weapons? Nope. The one with the Justin Long and you think the movie is a... Barbarian.

Yes. That is one of the... And I'm sure that there's ones that like are my favorite from being a kid. But that one in probably the last 15 years is one of my favorites because I thought we were going in one direction. You know what it is? But it's funny. I love the first half of that movie and I don't like that it changed directions. Okay.

I wanted it to stay where it was and it was intense and I was there in that world and I didn't want to leave it. Right. And we left and I felt like, what the fuck are we doing here? I did have that for a moment, but then I was like, oh. Then you jump back in. Because I feel like most of the time I'm watching a movie and like within 15 or 20 minutes, I'm like, okay, so that's, okay, that's, okay, that's, okay, that's, okay,

we'll get to the end of movie and it's roughly, that movie. I did not know what was going to go. That's true. You got to give them that. And that's the thing is I get, I like, thrillers, horror, whatever, like you get in this place where you're like, okay, I know, kind of. how it's going to go. I want something to shock me and surprise me and like make me completely good than now. I'm going to write something that completely shocks you. Yeah, yeah. That just completely

like takes a left and you're like, oh, I, whoa, you know, again, like when you kill Ned Stark and Game of Thrones, like I want something where you think you're going one way. And then everything changes. You're, you know, because I think that's interesting. Do you like take anything for ADHD? I do. And I just started. I do too. I just started. I just started. within the last few years, probably two years ago now. And I always tell the story that, one, COVID was really rough on me, I mean, on everyone, but I started hitting like perimenopause and anxiety. And I'm pretty sure somewhere in there like a small nervous breakdown.

Sure. Hey, we all have it. And I think we all had one. It was just bad. But after that, I started, I got back and I was like, okay, I, I, I, I, I, This is not going away. Like, this is not just I can get up and I'm feeling like shit. So I started taking meds.

And after therapy and all of this stuff, my therapist was like, have you ever like been evaluated for ADHD? And I was like, no, not really. Then my girls were struggling with it. And I went to have them tested. And I looked at all of the scores. I was like, I would score myself higher on all of these things than I probably would them. It's amazing.

It took you so long. It took me so long. And so I, the first day that I took my meds and an hour later, the constant yelling of like, get up, you're a piece of shit. Why aren't you doing anything? You can't do that. Just that or like, focus. Can't just get up, go do, make the phone call.

No, you can't. You can't. Oh, why. Like that shit constantly of the blame, the inability to motivate. And I don't think people understand the difference between that and lazy. it is like being it's like your feet are frozen in concrete and someone is screaming at you to get up while simultaneously screaming at you that you won't and you're a piece of shit because you can't you know and within an hour of taking my meds that first day I cried because the noise in my head

finally quieted and I could go about my day without without feeling like I'm having to literally haul my body through every thing that I'm doing in order to focus in order to get it done in order to like start something or finish it like I I called my like I was like the next week and I was like oh my God this is life changing I can't even believe that I waited this long like it was what is the what is I take Ritalin it's a very old school one yes but I take a small dose of it by the way just a little uh just because one drug works for someone doesn't mean a Yes, of course. I always say that. And there's so many. There's so many. Luckily, I take V Vance. Right. Luckily for me, it was like that was the first one I tried and I was like,

isn't it supposed to slow you down a little bit? It does. Well, what I realize is, you know, for years, there's a reason that stimulants were always my drug of choice. And there was a reason I could sit in a room and be doing a bunch of cocaine with people and still be, well, no, I was, but I was still like, it was like, you guys, there's nobody at the door. Come on. Like, I could still, like, function and be and, you know. Like, I, by no means endorsing that.

But what I'm saying is, do not do cocaine, methamphetamine. What I realize is, is that was my brain looking for the thing that it doesn't have in all the wrong places. And once, like, that sort of brain chemical issue got handled, it was like suddenly the ability to... Right, I can write now.

I could have a conversation. I can make the call. Yes, I can make a dentist appointment. And I know that sounds ridiculous, you guys. And I, and I, it's hard because oftentimes ADHD people or neurodivergent people, we are so successful in certain areas of our life. And then at the benign shit like... We're terrible.

Feeding myself, remembering to feed myself. calling, listening, recollection sometimes. Oh, none. And it's just like, and I try to explain. I'm like, you know, I'm like, it's just not how my mind works. I don't, I wish I could do better.

I wish I could be better. And I felt, I always feel like I know it sounds like a cop out. Right. Like I wish I could remember people's birthdays. I just, I don't, but I love you. And it doesn't mean that it. When's your husband's birthday? July 31st.

I know my husband, my kids and my parents. That's all you need to know. That's all I need to know. Oh, no. June 17th. Right. Yes, great. I'm correct.

Thank you very much. Ryan, how far off? I should. Eight months. Two months? Okay. Okay. So, you've got to work on my psychic ability.

But I love that it's, it's helped you. No, it's helped me a lot. And I, and it's, like I said, it's just given me the ability to, like, get my brain to the place where I'm like, oh, is this, is this how normal people's brains feel? Yeah. Like, you just, you think about it and you do it and you. Or at least a semblance. I said, yeah, I wouldn't call myself normal.

Yeah, I wouldn't call myself normal. I'd say, now I have a little more, like I think Vivance gives me the ability to focus on you right now, focus on what I'm here for and stay with it. Right. Whereas without it, it might be more difficult. And I might be able to more fatigued and not really, because ADHD just drains you. By the end of the day, I'm like, I go to my little office outside and I'm like, don't fucking talk to me. Don't talk to me. Yeah, I just, I'm like, I need to be by myself.

I need to decompress because I don't realize how much it takes out of me. You played Stephanie Tanner for eight years? I did. Well, eight years on Full House and then another five seasons on Fuller House. Right. We did it when that was. Now, in the beginning, I'm sure they didn't pay you shit. Honestly, I have, I'm not sure it was like stag plus 10.

Well, here's the thing. My parents never told me until I was older, like what I was making. because they were like, you're a child. You're going to have a big mouth and you're going to go tell all your friends at school. And like, that's just your friends don't need to know how much you're making a week. And they're absolutely right. Because as a kid, you're like, guys, guess what? And you don't realize that like that will absolutely make people fucking hate you.

You know what I mean? And you're not doing it to brag even. You're just like, oh my God. Yeah, you're a kid. You're like, oh, my God. Can you believe I made this? It's like, I have a dollar for lunch. Right, right.

Exactly. And, uh, and I wasn't, you know. They didn't touch that money. God note. No, my parents, my parents were really good. You know, my mom was my quote unquote manager, but just because she full time drove me back and forth to set and traveled with me and was always there with me and blah, blah, blah.

So she, you know, I think your parent can take like 10% as a manager. So that was what we had. And then my dad still worked at a gypsom plant down in Long Beach Harbor. He was a superintendent of a gypsy lab. Yes, they are. My dad is 91 and like killing it. Are you very close? with them? I am. They still live in Orange County, so I go see them, uh, you know, not as often as my mother

would like. They stayed by your side no matter what, didn't they? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it was rough. There were definitely a few holidays that they were like, geez, our daughter is fucked up at times. Yeah. Oh, I mean, I got the second time I got married, my parents found out through my agent and they didn't even know I was dating anyone because I'd only known him for six weeks. So like, this is the kind of shit that my parents would call me on the phone and be like, constantly worried. You didn't do this. Or like they would be listed on my bank accounts just from, you know, back in the day, whatever, everybody's name would be on it. And I would go take out like a ridiculous amount of cash. And my parents, like in Las Vegas or something. And my parents were

like, oh my God, she's been kidnapped. Oh my God. Someone like that was and it was a legitimate like. What were you spending money on drugs? Anything. I would just, I, I had lost debit cards so often that the bank didn't want to keep giving me them. So I had to memorize my. account number and I could only go in to like a Bank of America or whatever and write down the account number on the thing and withdraw cash. I did say I got banned from Western Union for too many suspects. What were you spending the money on? Drugs.

Closed. How much do you think? What's the most you spent on drugs in a week? I have no idea. But thousands of dollars. I don't know that I necessarily myself was doing. thousands of dollars worth of drugs, but I was constantly doing something. You know what I mean?

Like every day you were taking something. Oh, every day. Yeah, every day I was loaded. What was the drug of choice? Whatever was there, whatever I could get my hands on. You know, if it, like, I mean, I had a, this is a terrible thing. I, well, it's the past. I'm going to tell it anyway.

So I, back in the day, I had this, like, Waterford Crystal Bowl that I had gotten for my first marriage. And I don't, and I had it in my house in Westchester, which was like where I was getting loaded and just all of the nightmare. And I had this beautiful little blue bowl on my living room table. And whenever people came over, whatever pills you had, you just tossed them in there. And so there would be like a bowl of things. Some of me, you're like, oh, that's a, that's a Danny Bar, that's a this, that's a, but, you know, half the quote unquote fun was just. being like, I don't know what I should just take a couple and see what happens.

You know, insane. And how hard was it to get off all these drugs? Wasn't easy. I would say, though, really the, the harder thing was getting rid of the drugs and, like, being okay in my own skin. You know what I mean? I had that was really anxious. I was crawling out of your skin. Yeah.

And I mean, you know, there came. definitely, you know, I went to treatment a couple times. I, you know, just couch surfed a couple times. But I was always, you know, I had, I had gotten, gone to 12-step meetings and gotten sober one of the first times when I was just a little over 18. And I had some experience. I had almost two years from like 18 to, well, 18 and a half to like a little over 21 of 12-step. So I always knew it was there. And because I also knew that alcoholism and all the stuff ran in my family, I knew from the time I was like 14 or 15, I was like, oh, I'm an alcoholic. Like, I knew it. But now suddenly I was like, oh, okay, all of this stuff was, you know, now in my brain and

it becomes a lot harder to deal with. To deal with. And part of you is like, well, it's DNA. It's in the DNA. Right, right. I'm just going to go with that. Right. And it was a, yeah, it was just all kinds of weird excuses. Do you still think about it ever? Like, God, I'd love to take a bump. No. Oh, God, no. No.

It looks so miserable to me. Like it, I, and people really, like, drinking. I'm like, oh, my God. Exhausting. Just, I look at it and I'm like, I don't, I need like nine hours of sleep now. To function. To function. Yeah.

I stayed up till three in the morning the other night, um, going to the past the mic tour with a friend of mine, which was like all the 90s hip hop and R&B stars. Awesome. And we were backstage for a while and hanging out. And it was like, you know, I'm like, I've got to go home. I'm so tired. And like that wiped me up. The whole next day I was shot.

I felt like I was having an out-of-body experience. I just, I will do late nights. Now anything past 10 p.m. is a late night. Last night, I was like, I got to go. It's like 9.40. Right? Yeah. I was with Ryan.

I go, Ryan, we were at the Funko store celebrating my friend Matthew Lillard's ghost face vodka. Okay. And, and they, is at the funco store. So they gave you, you can make your own funcos. But it was going to take an hour. And I was like, Ryan, he's like, well, I'm waiting for mine. I'll just get yours.

Right. You're a lifesaver. Yeah, you're like, because I don't care that much. I went to bed and I had friends staying here. I fell asleep. My girlfriend's watching a movie in bed. I didn't hear the dogs bark when they came in later. Nothing.

I was out like a light. Yeah. I am like basically a light switch. Like when I'm off. And sleeping, you can't... Earthquake doesn't matter. Yeah. I won't feel it.

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No, because they didn't, you know, I, they didn't really know a lot of what was going on and I kind of was off, you know, being an early 20s fuck up all my own. She'll be fine. She'll figure it out. Well, I mean, it was that, but they, I mean, they didn't know what was going on until it came out publicly after I'd gone to treatment. And then I, you know, then I would see them and then, you know, they would, there were times. They could see me drink and stuff like that. And it was always, you know, the question. But there was, you know, I don't think any of us really had a great gauge on what, what was, you know, good or normal drinking behavior. It's like, what do you do? She's an adult.

But also, they were drinking right with me. You know what I mean? Like it was not as a kid. I want to be very, very, very clear on this. Not as a kid. I was not doing drugs. This is, we're talking like, you know, 22, 23 and, you know, we all get together for dinner. But, you know, inevitably, I have always.

went too far but you know we were I think a lot of people you know John's talked about his issues with sobriety and you know so he dealt with a lot yeah he got sober too you know and um you know he got a huge DUI and it was a really big thing and it was you know almost ruined a lot of stuff for him and you know he and I have talked about that but it you know I think there were definitely warning signs and everyone loved me and cared about me but I don't think I had been spending and as much time with them in order for them to be like something's definitely wrong. They were just like, who are you closest with, you think? Oh, man.

I was really, so kind of everybody. Like, I'm really close with John now. I do a lot of political stuff with his wife too. So I see him a lot. I do my podcast with Andrea, but like Bob and I were always really close. I love Bob. Everybody, everybody loved Bob. Everybody loved Bob.

He was just a wonderful human being. And I was really close with him growing up. I spent, you know, weekends at his house with his kids. He's just like your uncle. Yeah, like he was, he really was kind of the surrogate dad. And he was, you know, my dad is a man of few words and not exactly a stand-up comedian, more of an offensive one. Yeah. And Bob's brain worked like I did, like mine did.

And so I was around someone all the time who was always making jokes about something who couldn't shut the fuck up, who could, you know, like who, and was just going. And I was like, yeah, this is me. This is, this resonates. and I learned, like now I realize I learned so much from him that I now, as I'm doing comedy and as I'm writing comedy and doing stand-up and stuff that I'm like, oh, yeah, I really did, I absorbed so much of it. And he also just was always so kind and sweet. And, you know, as an adult would always tell me, he's like, you had the best comic timing

of anybody I ever knew at five years old. He's like, you beat half the comics I knew. And he just always encouraged me. Oh, that's nice. It was. Where were you when you found out he passed? I had just gotten off my Peloton. And I saw that Candice had called, that I'd missed three calls from her.

And I knew that was not right. And so I called her back right away. And I was literally standing next to my pool by my office door. And I just hit the ground. And I was like, no, no, no, no. and just started crying. And then, you know, obviously the text chains with everybody and Lori didn't know yet. And so I called Lori.

She was getting out of her car. I think like the country club or something. And I had to tell her. And that was, you know, she just like fell over. You know, it was just, it was really, really hard. Do they still know what really happened? He hit his head and had like some, a subdermal sort of brain bleed that he had. He just hit his head.

Slipped and hit his head. They figured probably in the bathroom somewhere. And that was it. It was a shocking moment. I remember going, what? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's just a shame.

Do you remember how many times you auditioned for this show for Full House? I didn't. You got offered? I never auditioned for Full House. I got offered. It was the second TV role that I did. I did one episode of Valerie, which then became the Hogan family.

Yep. And I played the next door neighbor, Mrs. Poole. I played her niece, Pamela Poole. And basically she's watching me for the day. She comes over next door to where the three boys are, which were Jason Bateman, Jeremy Licked, and I could never remember the third young man's name, and I feel terrible.

You think I would have looked it up by now and remembered. But anyway, that was my first gig. I have a great picture of me and Jason Bateman. with a doll, like from my, you know, very first... How old were you? Four and a half. Jeez. And, yeah, and I did that, and it was the same exec producers as Full House was going to have,

and that full house was in development at the time. And Jeff saw that episode. Bob Boyette and Tom Miller were the executive producers and loved me on the show. And I sort of mentioned it to Jeff. and Jeff and Rich Carell, who was also on our show as a producer, they just were like, that's Stephanie. And that was it. That was it.

I was one of the first people cast. I was the first person cast in the show. John tried to quit after our first table read, and he always tells this story. And I didn't know it until like years later. And I was like, really? He was like, oh, yeah, I was fucking pissed at you kid. He was pissed to you. It was pissed to me.

If I could because I could read. I was I was reading by the time I was like four. I still can't read. I'm such a book nerd. But I was reading full books by the time I was four. I was very smart and intelligent. And so I sat at the table reading by myself with my script highlighted and I read at the table read. And I kept getting all the laughs.

And for the pilot, which was a great episode. And John was super pissed because he thought, and I love John. of death. And he'll, he's the one that told the story, so I have permission. He thought he was going to be the star of the show because he had just come off general hospital. And so he goes and he calls his agent and he's like, get me off this fucking show. This kid's going to be the star. And it's not, we're all going to be second banana to this kid. And I had no idea. And then, you know, and then of course, John, I think, realized like, wait a minute. These kids are going to get attention. This is going to go great. Yeah.

Wow. But yeah, it was, you know, I, I, I, I, I, I, I'm going to be upstage by a kid or a dog and that's not going to happen. Yeah, well, we didn't have the dog yet, so it all fell on me. Right, right, right, right. Yeah, and I, yeah, that was me and how me and John started. But he was never, and I, and I, he always tells this joke, you're this story, but he was never anything but, like, lovely and warm and kind. And I just have, I have so many pictures of him, like, walking around holding me. And I actually have a really cute picture of him holding my younger daughter, Beatrix, on set.

of Fuller House. And I have a picture of him holding her in it. And it's almost the same as a picture that I have. And almost the same age, I think she was like five or six at the time. And I was like five or six in this picture that I have. So it was kind of a cool moment to like that. I love that. Yeah.

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People from the cast that you're close with now, John. John for sure. I mean, Dave, Dave, I was really close with and Dave moved to Michigan because that's where he's from and he went and he and his wife, Melissa, who I also love and adore. They moved back there and built like Dave's dream home where he wants to be and retire. He's just enjoying it. He just, he would send his videos of himself. He'd put so much work into this house. Like he was in like the earth movers and the little back hose with the heater on by the lake and he'd send us videos, you know, to the full house. family chat of like him doing shit at like 30 below. Is it true that Alonis Morissette's albums about him? I don't know about the whole album, but there are definitely mentions. Yeah, Alanis used to come set.

I mean, not often, but she, yeah, I've met her. How long were they together? Do you even know? Not, I think, man, maybe through the first second season, something like that. Not super long, I don't think. Might have been a little bit later, though. Maybe second season. Anyway.

That one song's probably about him. You ought to know. You ought to know. I mean, yeah, probably. You ought to know. He ought to know. What daily practices help you stay grounded emotionally and mentally these days? So I started doing this journaling thing.

And it's not like just free writing. It's actually this really awesome woman-owned, South Asian woman-owned company that she started herself called Silk and Sonder. And it is monthly journals. And it's. Every morning there is like a daily ritual of like 10 minutes that you listen to and write and reflect on. And what I found was that doing that 10 minutes in the morning of something, you know, each month there's a theme of belief or acceptance or whatever. And then each sort of daily ritual is about that.

And it's like a, you know, quick journaling thing. And then I found doing that in conjunction with writing out my what I needed to do for the week on like the weekly spread. then on the daily thing, writing by hand, literally what's in my phone, but spending like that 30 minutes of journaling and writing down my day in my journal by hand and marking off like my top three to-dos for that day, it has made such a difference in how I feel when I wake up in the morning. Like the anxiety, the panic of like, oh, I've got, I've got to do this. This dissipates when you do this. Something about one, I mean, putting pen to paper, as we know, always has a very magic power.

But literally sitting in writing and writing out my day, you know, so often I would get up and I'd have, you know, I'd see a bunch of little dots on my phone calendar. You know, and you look and you're like, oh, my God, it's got to scroll. There's like seven or eight things. And you're like, oh, I'm so overwhelmed. And I would just constantly feel like I was running to catch up with my own schedule. And I just didn't, I always felt discombobulated, I guess, for like, I just always felt kind of, you know, not organized with it. And I started doing this a little over a year ago. And I have, I'm, I suck at keeping commitments.

So I've been married four times. But I suck at gaming commitments. And I am especially terrible when it comes to something like this that is slow and requires time. and that I'm doing every morning and that, you know, but I found that like doing this little silk and saundered practice thing every day, I literally, I went, oh, and I've continued it and I like, I love it. I love it. It is changed my approach to my days.

It's changed the way I prioritize what's important to me, the way I like focus on goals for the week, you know? You know, they just did a study. And supposedly that it wasn't what everybody thinks, what you eat, your diet, your, what you drink, what you put in your body. It had nothing to do with it. But the people that lived the longest lives, it showed that they journaled or wrote 10 minutes a day by hand. Yeah. I just read this.

Yeah. And I'm telling you. I started. I did it yesterday. I just wrote whatever came to my mind. Whatever. It's yeah. And it was weird because I'm like, oh my God, my hands hurting. Oh, I, what the problem is. No one writes anymore. Well, the problem is that I've always found that that I struggled with with writing was, and you probably are the same. My brain works a hundred miles an hour. My hand, though, can only go about three. I know. So you get ahead of yourself. I get ahead of myself. And then I'm just frustrated. And then I'll try to. typing it because I can type it, but it doesn't, I'm like, no, it doesn't have the same thing. And then, you know, but now I'm like, no, bitch, slow down. Who, why are you trying to? I've done that. Just right.

Just write the, finish the sentence you're on. Finish the thought you're on. And doing that every day has helped me, it has helped me start slowing down. It has helped me start slowing down in so many other areas. You do it every day. Every day. And if I miss like a day or two or whatever or, you know, okay, I miss those couple days, I will often go back and still write in the day like, what happened?

Or I took my mom to the UK for two weeks and I didn't need to write down my schedule every day. You know, we had all kinds of stuff. But at the end of every day, I would go downstairs to the lobby because also we were staying in the same hotel rooms. So in order for me to not murder my lovely mother, I would be like, I'm going to go downstairs for a little while. And I would go downstairs and I would write. I would find a nice little comfy chair by a fireplace. And I would write. I would do my little daily meditation, but I would write what we did for the day.

And I went back and looked at it just a couple weeks ago. And I realized I have every day these amazing moments and things that even now, a year later, I'm like, oh, my God, that's right. With your mom. With my mom. And I did it. I went with my husband to Hawaii for my birthday about a month ago. And I did the same thing. And I got to write about whales I saw and, you know, whales I saw.

and, you know, peace I found on the beach and whatever. And I just really, I'm telling you, like, it has made all the difference. And the thing I liked about the little Silk and Sonder program, and it's very, that one is very, like, women focused. But the thing that I liked about it and about things like that is that it gave me a place to start. Because what I found was, is just journaling every day for 10 minutes. I would start judging myself and be like, well, you wrote that shit yesterday. Well, that's dumb. What do you think about that?

Don't judge yourself. And I would like, but this I'm like, oh, no, I have, it gets me in the habit of writing without judging myself in response to a question that I'm actually thinking about and like, oh, okay. Like I get deeper into it because it's like, oh, I, yeah, I should have asked myself that question, but I don't slow down enough to do it. I know. And so this has sort of given me that opportunity to do it.

And there's like a community of women that are involved in it. and I love supporting women-owned businesses. And, you know, I'm just like kind of all around. I'm like, it is really, I can say it's like changed my life. The last year for me was a time of kind of going inside. We were talking about in the kitchen that just kind of had to slow down. And then I came into 2026, like, let's go. And it has just been happening.

Ryan, are you going to start journaling? Try it. I'm telling you. I'm telling you. I read about it. And even go, like, ask chat. GPT or or go online. Can I have chat GBT write it for me?

I think that's maybe missing the point. But I'm sure someone is, you know, I was like I finished my writing. I mean, chat GPT did it, but it was great. But finding like questions, finding like prompts of things to ask yourself and across all areas,

career, finance, love, relationships. How do you feel today? So how, right, all of that kind of stuff. Like, how do you feel this week? What's causing you stress? What's causing you?

What's right? ever just start writing what is the goal you have and what is one thing you're doing that to get in the way of it or what is one thing you could change like stuff like that where it's really that's what this thing asks you is like what's you know okay this is what you want but how what's one thing you could change about what you're currently doing in order to get a little closer i'm afraid that and it's terrifying because once you write shit down it's real you're doing this and you're doing this but you don't really even want to do this but why are you doing it?

I guess because of this. Yeah. You know, it's just like. But this is the thing. Like you start, you find out a lot about yourself and about how you. Well, you're being honest with yourself. And like,

and about how you relate in the world. And, you know, you ask yourself things and you get down into places that you're like, oh, yeah. Let's, yeah, maybe you know what?

I don't, I actually don't think I am aligned. Like one of the months was alignment. And a lot of it was talking about where in your life do you not feel. aligned with your values, your, you know, whatever. And there were some things that I had to look at that I was like, oh, I think it, I think that isn't serving me anymore. And that's why I don't like this or that's why I'm feeling this.

This is how I feel today. Why do I feel like this? Let's think about it. Right. I think this is causing this and this is called, this is called shit talking with Jody Sweet. And this is rapid fire. Oh, okay. So you have to answer, uh, these are from my wonderful patrons, patron.

Patreon.com slash inside of you. I love you guys all. And did you have to clear that with like any other strange patrons that might also share the name inside of you but not be a podcast? You know what I mean? I don't think so. I think inside of you. Yeah. No, we're good, good, good. These are my patrons. Here's the question. Rapid Fire. Raj asks, tell me about the first happy memory that pops in your head right away. I remember sitting on a little bouncy horse outside of my grandparents' house in Pismo Beach watching my grandpa roll cigarettes. That's beautiful. First thing that comes to me is my grandfather and I walking down to the tennis courts

in the summer and him and his little white shorts and his collared shirt and me with my swimming trunks on and my tennis racket and my shirt that says awesome and just hanging out with my grandfather. Yeah. Gary F. What's changed you? What's changed for you now versus when you wrote your book? My ability to look at my part in the story.

things a lot more honestly. Like reading my audio book, I went back and I was like, I think I would have told that story a little different. And there were a couple things I left out that I had to do, you know. Yeah. And also going back and you're like, oh, that's actually not that scary. It's terrifying at the time. Right. So yeah. Jeremy C. What has been the most challenging thing about being a mother? Everything. Dealing with small versions of yourself and oftentimes coming into conflict with parts of yourself that are in your children that you might not also like in yourself. Mm, good answer.

Kelly S. What kind of coping skills do you use to calm stress and anxiety? Well, we just talked about that. Journaling. I meditate a ton. I have a really, like, strong connection with something greater than myself. And I exercise. Like, I work out.

I've worked out. Again, about a year ago, I started journaling and working out consistently. And both of those things were an expense that I said, that's literally like therapy. I'm paying for mental health. And it has changed my life. I love it. Linda M., what's changing in your life for the better? Work right now. And hopefully, yeah, yeah, hopefully work is starting to pick up a little bit. You're motivated. Yeah, that's actually it. What has changed is that. that I am, I'm steering the ship now. I know what I want. That's beautiful. Razi border. What is your favorite memory with Bob Sagitt? Oh, God, there's so many. What's the first thing that pops in your head? Well, the first thing that pops in my head is the story that I always tell just because it's so ridiculous and funny. What's another story that you haven't told? Um, him having to drive me back to Orange County after we all went as a cast to the Janet Jackson concert. But before,

that. Our limo got shot at while we were parked in front of Ed DeBevix and I was in the limo with two other people while they were all inside paying the bill and my mom and he had to come tell my mom that yes, we did we did get shot at. It was the early 90s. We were in a limo. Oh, but she's okay. Oh. Well, everything's fine. I want you to know that everything's fine. Always something. You know, Bob took me to laugh factory when I was like nine because I was spending the weekend with his kids and we went home after taping. He was like, all right, I didn't tell your mom this. But you're going to have to. to come in with me. I'm doing a set 15 minutes. I'm like, okay, great. You're just backstage?

I flashed him as light. I sat on top of the speaker with the manager. We went to Greenblats after, got some, you know, deli. It was great. I missed that. Yeah, yeah. And that's a joke that I, or not a joke, but a story that I always tell to people because I'm like, I, when I tell you, like, I literally grew up around stand up and like just sort of absorbing. Funny people. Yeah. Yeah. Monica, thank you for your advocacy on substance use and treatment coming from the lens of relapse being part of recovery, what do you say to individuals that might be going through a relapse? Don't think you can't come back. Because right now, if you're thinking about it, you can.

That's it. Like, as long as you have the ability to think about, I think I'm going to do it again, you can do it. But too often, that ability gets taken away from us, particularly now, because we back ourselves into a corner and think that everyone else will judge our mistakes so harshly that we're not even worth a second or third or 10th or 15th chance. But really, you are. And if you're thinking it, you can make a change. You can do something if you're aware of it. Yeah. What's one thing that you think of or any that a child needs to hear that maybe you didn't get enough of or you didn't, you know something that you always say to your kids or something that you're aware of that

in other words what does a child need oh i guess i would say it's sort of has to do with like you know you you get to have a boundary you get to you get to say no and i think that's one thing i've always really instilled in my kids is like you get to say no and you get to have opinions and that's okay and they might not blend with mine and me you know that's okay my might be my kids are very different people. And I think, you know, one thing that I, you know, that my mom and I always really struggled with was, you know, this idea of like, why can't you be more like me? Why can't you, you know, and I think there was a lot underneath that. So I've always really made it vital to tell particularly my two young daughters like, hey, you, you get to have an opinion and say no

and not do something if you don't want to. I mean, other than, you know, the cleaning your room and all and stuff. But like, you know, no. And if, and if anybody gives you shit and you have used all the other options, I 100% will back you in laying hands on people. If you've done everything you possibly could. That's what I said. I said, use your word. And they have. And I'm, and I was like, I went to school. Like, that's, oh, well. Don't eff with my children. What's the one thing you still hope to accomplish that you haven't yet in your head? to write and create a show because I have a lot of ideas and I have a lot of things that I've pitched and I've a lot of really interesting things that I want to bring to life.

And I now finally think, believe in myself enough that I have earned the right to do that. I think that's wonderful. Yeah. I think for a long time being a child star, you discount yourself because people always see you as like, oh, well, you were just a kid. You just fell into this. You didn't work for it. Yeah. And what I realized is that's not true at all.

And so why do I have to act like I haven't put in 40 plus years in this business? The people still recognize you? Everywhere I go. Everywhere. I went to Italy. Our waiter recognized me. Didn't even ask, though. Literally, we're this really lovely restaurant, Italian waiter, puts all the food down.

And I had ordered some sort of truffle something. And he was like, Miss Sweeten, how much would you? And I was like, did I say, did you say my name? I thought maybe did I put it on the reservation or something? I know. People in Iceland that were at the museum were like, oh my God, we love you. Can we, can we like, yeah. Yeah, I'm surprised sometimes.

I think it's cool. It's like, you know, every once in a while I'm like, there's no way. I don't even think about it because I'm like, you know, I got hair. Well, yeah, that does make a big difference. I'm like, Mr. Rosenbaum. What could I do? I'm like, how do you know my name? It's like, Rosembaum.

Right, right, right. I'm like, you know my life? You know my name? Right. Usually it's like, oh. looks or that guy. Right. I think that's always the things you're like, wait.

And as long as you will be in this business, you'll be like, well, people know me? Like, I still will say that. Yeah. I'm always like, oh, no, I don't want to. I couldn't talk to that. Like, that's not. Like, I met Brian Henson and freaked out. And I was standing over in the corner, like not wanting to bother him.

And his assistant came over. I was like, come, please come meet him. And I was like, I don't want to bother him. And she was like, he wants to meet you too. And I was like, oh, right. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like, you don't.

I forget that I even did anything. I'm just like I still feel like a fan. Well, I just am like I, it's, this isn't, you know, I, I, I, I don't see it as a big deal what I do and, and I never have. And so it's always just weird to me still that people are like, oh my God. Well, last night at the screen thing, I stole one of the funcos. Oh. It's a scream, scream dog.

Okay. I don't know if I stole it. It was kind of it was there. I just took it. I mean, I think that in the legal definition is perhaps stealing. I think it was a promotional thing. I don't know. I'm saying I didn't steal it.

Either way. I didn't steal it. Okay. Whatever you got to tell yourself to sleep at night. But I was like, you know, I'm going to have Lillard sign this. And I'm going to have Kevin Williamson who wrote screen created screen. I'm going to have them signed it. So they signed it.

And I was like, I'm still, you know, I still get excited about that stuff. I don't care. I don't people are like, oh, you get autographs. I'm like, look around you. It's like, who cares when it's all said and done. I'm probably not going to work with these people, most of them. Right. So it gives a shit.

And even if I do work with him. You know the story about me asking Sylvester Stallone to sign my Rambo lunchbox. I didn't give a shit. He's like, how old are you? You got a lunchbox? Right. And you're like, yes. I don't give a shit, man.

You know, I, I, um, I'm a kid. I think that's, I think that's a good thing. I think to keep that. Oh, I am. I am a Lego nerd. You are. I am. And I'm actually, uh, we have a Lego full house set that is at, um, it's not, it doesn't

exist yet. but my friend and I created it, and it is currently under review by the Lego gods in the Lego ideas. Is it all? You take a picture and send it to me. I just want to look at it. I will.

I don't have it. My friend John has it at his house because he goes to like conventions and stuff and would have it out. Yeah, complete with a little breakaway wall and the red car that you can back. They should do that for all shows. Full house.

Smallville. Friends has one. Seinfeld. Friends, Seinfeld has one. Home alone has the house. There's a ton of ones that are Lego ideas where fans have created it. And I was like, well, I'm a fan.

So I was like, let's do it. And I'm really hoping that Lego picks it. Because I think it was the living room, the front porch and the kitchen. That's beautiful. That's awesome. If only for anything, because I want to make a Lego. Yeah. I really want to make the Lego full house.

And also, I think there are a lot of people that would buy a Lego full house set. So like it's financially smart. Lego, if you're listening, just do the right thing. This has been freaking awesome. Absolutely. I had so much fun. I'm so glad I got to see. I was very excited about this.

Yeah. Oh, and what's coming up? Anything that you can talk about? Yes, anything that I can talk about. So I'm doing comedy. I have a show called Smoke Show with Sweeten. We just came back from San Francisco Sketch Fest. We've been doing it here in L.A.

We have a show this Saturday at Bespoke February 21st. I'm not sure when this will air, probably after. After. But we also do, it's a monthly show, and we are moving to the Lyric Hyperion in March. Just go to her Instagram. Instagram. What's your Instagram? Go to my Instagram at Jody Sweeten or check out at Smoke Show with Sweeten. Doing Netflix as a joke. I'm doing some stand-up at the improv in a couple weeks. You're going. Doing some work with Jane Fonda and the committee for the First Amendment. I'm doing co-hosting a lot of like political stuff. Hosting a few things. Yeah, busy.

Good for you. I love this. Yeah. It's like I said, I told 2026 I'm ready and I'm ready to just show up. Keep doing it. Keep writing. Yeah, I will. I will. All right. Love your face. Love your face. Hey, y'all. It's Kelly Clarkson with Wayfair. Ever order furniture online and wonder what if? Like, what if it doesn't hold up?

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We appreciate you. And she's so, so sweet. She opened up and talked about all the things. And there's nothing I like more than when people just are vulnerable and real. Yeah. And just don't bullshit you. I mean, there's probably a sense of like, hey, I got to be my persona in some sort of, in some ways. But I think that that facade that she kind of just stripped it down and was like, hey, this is me.

This was me. This is who I am now. This is what I got it going on. That's, that's, yeah. When you can admit that, that takes courage, you know, integrity. And it's good for you as a person to go, hey, man, I'm putting it all on the table here. So I dig it. Patreon.com slash inside of you.

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