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Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

John Stamos

Sunday Sitdown with Willie Geist

NBC News

Interview, Society & Culture, Movies, Technology, Celebrity, News, Politics, Tv, Music, Tv & Film, Broadway, Pop Culture

4.54K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode, Willie sits down with John Stamos. They speak about his much-discussed new memoir, those early years as a "Soap Opera Hunk", and the shocking loss of his "Full House" co-star and best friend, Bob Saget.

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0:00.0

Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

0:10.6

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

0:13.0

Got one for you this week that I think you're really going to enjoy

0:16.0

with John Stemos.

0:18.0

He is out with a new memoir called

0:20.0

If You Would Have Told Me

0:22.0

that, well, tells us about just about everything in his life and his

0:26.7

career he grew up in Orange County California dreaming of being famous who's into

0:32.1

magic and puppets and he loved going to

0:34.8

Disneyland to see the shows and all that stuff and he tried to figure out how to

0:38.9

get there. So he started young. He played Blackie Parish for those of you general hospital fans, going back to the 80s,

0:45.8

a bad boy in a leather jacket, and then graduated to comedy in 1987, joined the cast of Full House with the man who would go on to become his best friend

0:55.1

the late Bob Sagett. As you'll hear John wasn't so sure about Full House the show that

1:01.6

really made him a household name when they started with all the kids he thought it was maybe corny and two family friendly and then he began to see why it was going to succeed as it did over the course of eight seasons. Tons to talk about in here the

1:15.5

moment, pivotal moment in his life in 2015 he opens the book with that opened his eyes

1:21.2

and changed his life.

1:22.6

There's a ton in there.

1:23.8

He gets into some of these great Hollywood stories,

1:26.0

talking about his buddies, his upbringing.

1:28.5

I think you're really going to enjoy

1:30.4

The Sunday Sit Down, right now, now with John Stamos.

1:35.0

It's great to see you man.

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