FILE: “Full House” actor Dave Coulier launched a podcast called “Full House Rewind,” which has now been put on pause.
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Coulier, who played TV Dad Bob Saget’s best friend Joey Gladstone in the show and its 2016 “Fuller House” sequel, chose to halt the pod due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, as reported by Variety. At this point, only one episode is live, featuring a chat with creator Jeff Franklin about the making of the show and revealing several show secrets.
Coulier, for one, admits in the pod that he has never actually watched the show (his son, on the other hand, watched, calling it “Daddy’s Show.”) His first time seeing it will be for this “rewatch.”
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Franklin talks about purchasing the “Full House” house at 1709 Broderick St. in San Francisco in 2016 for $4 million. He made the buy in disguise, he recounts in the podcast, so they could shoot scenes for “Fuller House” at the same location featured in the original series.
“I was mad,” Franklin says, remembering that the owners wouldn’t let them shoot at the Lower Pacific Heights home. “… And then the house came up for sale, and I think I went up there with a mustache, and sunglasses and a beret or something, and I bought the house.”
Notoriously mobbed by the show’s fans, the house sold in 2020 for less than asking after being on the market for more than a year. Whether Franklin still owns it though isn’t quite clear: A 2020 reconveyance filed with SF Planning shows its ownership returned to a 1709 Broderick LLC that year. But Secretary of State records show that Franklin terminated that LLC in 2016.
Ownership of one of San Francisco’s most recognizable landmarks (after the Painted Ladies, of course) aside, episode one of the podcast gets listeners primed to see the Tanner family again in all their glory. Thankfully, you can stream “Full House” on a number of platforms. Following along with Coulier and his special guests — he’s teasing someone with great hair whose name starts with J for the next episode — will have to wait.
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Technically, because its production company is not a member of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), “Full House Rewind” could continue to drop episodes, Variety reports. For now, the podcast’s producers, PodCo, are asking fans to follow the podcast on Instagram.
PodCo did not return requests for comment in time for publication.