WEBVTT - TGI - Episode 109 (“Class Pre-Union”) 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:23.320 How have we gone this long without discussing the gum wall? 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:29.560 Oh man, that's great, the gum wall. That is disgusting 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:34.680 to think about that disgusting. I only remembered it because 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:39.280 I love reading all of the comments from our dear 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.360 listeners on Instagram. And this morning I was scrolling through 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.040 comments and somebody said, when are you guys going to 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:48.680 talk about the gum wall and the candy drawer in 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:53.440 the kitchen? And I thought, yeah, I don't know, but 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.280 I said, I wrote back and I said, oh my gosh, 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:00.440 the gum wall. I forgot about that. Can some please 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:05.640 say what the gum wall was? Writer taking away? Okay, well, 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.040 all I don't really remember because I don't think I 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.039 ever used the gum wall. But so there was a 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:14.440 wall is it behind the kitchen? The stairs the stairs 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:17.200 down from the kitchen or you know, and the technically 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:20.320 from where where Eric and Corey's bedroom is when they 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.880 come down those stairs, so upstairs at that wall, there's 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:28.920 like so listeners, the staircases on sets are very there. 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.479 They go to literally nothing, They actually go to just 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.880 another staircase that goes down on the other sidease that's 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:40.880 usually thrown together exactly doesn't feel exactly safe back there, 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.000 but a lot of fun happens back there. A lot 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.480 of fun happens where you're getting yourself like hyped up 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.120 to go out for your scene, if you're up there 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.360 with somebody else because somebody else has to come down later, 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:52.040 or you're coming you're going down the stairs with somebody, 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.320 a lot of fun conversation happens, and a lot of 0:01:55.400 --> 0:01:58.560 coming and going came from that staircase. And somewhere along 0:01:58.600 --> 0:02:02.440 the line, somebody started sticking their gum that they had 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.440 been chewing that they weren't going to chew on camera 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:09.560 on the wall there, and it just grew and grew 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:15.880 and grew. I definitely more disgusting germs, much may you 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.880 excess to say, much like the bacteria, the wall itself 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:20.800 grew and grew and grew. Well, this is one of 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:24.119 those things once once, like you have a kid, uh, 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:28.400 you know, they start crawling under tables, And Indie started 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.920 commenting on the fact that no matter what restaurant we're in, 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.280 we could be in the nicest restaurant and there's always 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.679 gum under the tables. It's disgust stay. I'm like, who 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.400 are all these people at like, you know, a sushi restaurants, 0:02:42.480 --> 0:02:45.359 chewing gum and sticking it under the table, but without 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.880 Now it's like become a joke. Indie checks every restaurant 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:51.040 we're in. He's like, Dad, three pieces, Oh my god. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.799 He'll go to other tables if they're empty, and he'll 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.480 check under there. He'll like count them up in the restaurant. 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:59.200 And I'm always so baffled by it. But I guess 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.040 we were doing the same thing. I don't remember participating that, 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:09.880 you must we, but I definitely remember the candy drawer. Wait, now, 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.400 going going to the gum wall though, that staircase coming 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:16.640 down into the kitchen, if memory serves before we've had 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:19.240 well yeah, not only that, but wasn't it also before 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:23.919 we had the um student union in the later episodes 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.000 where then we would run out and get introd in 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.600 the student union. Didn't we go down those stairs originally 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.080 to get introd in the very beginning of the show, 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.960 like the first season or two, was like through the kitchen. 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:35.960 Wasn't it to be intro in front of the audience? Okay, 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:37.960 I think you're right. I think that I think it was. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:40.760 I think it was through Yes, I think you're right, 0:03:40.760 --> 0:03:43.200 that that's the way we came down. And then also 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.560 it was probably during rehearsal too. I know I was 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:47.560 I did not start the gun wall, but I know 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.040 I contributed a lot to the gum walls because I 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.840 chewed gum constantly. I was a massive gum chewer. Um. 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.800 So yeah. But and so the candy drawer. Who started that? 0:03:58.280 --> 0:03:59.960 I think that was props, wasn't it. Well? I think 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:03.160 the candy drawer was started in response to the fact 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.800 that our parents asked Craft Service to take sugar and 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.800 candy away from Craft Service? Did they? So? I think 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.560 it was in response, Yeah, I think because you know, 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:13.760 they knew it was a set full of kids, and 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:18.800 on most most TV shows and movies, craft services like crap. 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:23.200 It's just like red Vine red sugar, just tons of 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:27.159 food and nothing things and coffee exactly. Yeah. And I 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.360 think what happened is that the parents on our show 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.240 gathered together and said, please, can we not have candy 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.839 and gum and stuff like that on the Craft Service? 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.760 And so it responds props provided us or maybe it 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.279 was probably for the grown ups first a drawer that 0:04:40.360 --> 0:04:43.039 was like a secret just for the cast that we 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:45.479 could access our own gum and our own candy, and 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.880 then it just I seem to remember it actually started 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:51.039 as a gum slash tic tac to. It was actually 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.360 more like, if you need to freshen your breath, breath, 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:58.000 this is where you go. And then it slowly became like, also, 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:02.479 there's some Reese's pieces and some yeah, and then it 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:05.359 became more and more of a candy drawer. Wouldn't it 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.400 seems like that would be weird for our parents to ask, 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:09.240 because truth be told, our parents didn't really have to 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.039 deal with us for like a solid ten hours out 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.279 of day. It seems like that would have been something 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:18.760 our set teachers may have to take away for us. Yeah, well, 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:22.120 as somebody who has has constantly struggled with their weight, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:26.200 gaining gaining weight on a set is like the easiest 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:29.800 thing to do because you're sitting around all day, you know, 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.400 waiting for your scene to happen, with just tables of 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.240 junk food everywhere. So it is it's one of those 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:36.800 things that it's like, oh, man, and of course I'm 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:40.160 not making the right health food choices. At sixteen or seventeen, 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:42.200 it's like, oh, they put a case of coke in 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:44.760 my in my trailer every morning, and it was gone 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.640 by the time I left. So did like six cokes 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.840 a day. It's a lot more than six. And it 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.880 was a lot more than six. It was like twelve 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.520 to fifteen cokes a day. That was like my water 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.800 will oh it's awful. Well, I mean you were really 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:02.359 running on caffeine and continue it was well, I was sixteen, 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.920 it was time to grow up. Um, So yeah it was. 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.000 But it was true. I mean he would, I'm so, 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:09.960 this is the worst thing in the world. Was his 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:14.520 name Randy? What was our first craft service guy's name? 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.760 Who was like the bigger guy. Craig took over. Craig 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.680 took over in the later seasons from another Steve. Was 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:27.640 it with like the mustache, Yes, the must and he 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.400 was the nicest guy in the world. And he would 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.679 put like a case of coke in in my trailer 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:35.920 every morning, and maybe the whole case wasn't gone, but 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.240 lots of it was. He was. He absolutely was. He 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.279 was my cocca, my coke connection to Coca cola. For 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.240 the record, it is Coca cola. Um, but it was. Yeah, 0:06:45.279 --> 0:06:47.279 so it was you could just gain weight. So and 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:50.839 that's the first talk I had on the set was 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:52.480 I did one scene where I had to hop over 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.760 the fence and Michael pulled me aside and said, we've 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.240 noticed that you're starting to put on some weight. Um 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.839 it was around the time of a season. Was that 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:04.960 wait at first season? Oh? Absolutely absolutely, This was probably 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:09.039 half to three quarters the way through the first season. Um, 0:07:09.080 --> 0:07:11.320 it was. I got my first year. We can we 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:13.400 can tell you're putting on weight. Um. And then I 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.200 don't know if you notice. I came back second season. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.520 I was like thin because if you know which episode 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:19.680 it is, when we get to it, when you see 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:21.520 yourself hop over the fence, will you remember like, oh, 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:23.360 this is the week Michael talked to me. Yes, I 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.440 believe I probably will because you're gonna see my larger 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:29.160 than life frame trying to get over the tiny little fence. 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:34.400 But it was no, I was I mean the disordered 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.720 thinking we have around, Um, it's crazy. But I was 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:40.720 also eating. I mean, I was like living by myself 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.920 with my I was the first time by myself. You know, 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.280 I'm not with my eating, my parents cooking. I'm like 0:07:45.320 --> 0:07:47.960 having to make my own decisions and you're not making 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.679 the proper decisions. When you're seventeen years old, you're eating 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:53.080 all the crap that you weren't allowed to eat when 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.080 your parents are regulating the food you had as well 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:56.840 they should have where it's like you're going to have 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.120 a green vegetable. I was like, I'm never doing that again. 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.320 So to be fair, it's it's a learning curve. You 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.720 don't know how your body reacts to things until you 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:08.360 try it. You're like, you know, because there are some people, 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.600 very lucky people who can eat whatever they want and 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.640 and or they work out a ton, but like find 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.120 that when you when you do live at home and 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.400 somebody else is preparing meals for you and making the 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.880 decisions about what is even stored in the house. Because that, 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.280 for me, is what makes craft service so fun, is 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:26.240 that it's a kitchen slash pantry that I had no 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.559 control over choosing. So to me, it's like it's almost 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:32.240 like grocery shopping. You go, what do you have exactly? 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.920 What's what is that? We got one of those? I'll 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.679 take one of those. I never have nine different cereals 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.480 to choose from at home, So yeah, I mean that 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:43.319 was always like, oh my god, I've never thought of 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:47.320 fruity pebbles and honeynut cheerios together. What a great eleven 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.880 Am snack. You know, that was always how it was, 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:53.120 like Reese's peanut butter cups and Honor pops. Of course 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:57.560 that's a great combo. Yeah it was a coke, good morning, 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:01.600 a coca in a cigarette, good morning. Yeah it was terrible. 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:07.560 It was absolutely terrible. So yeah, well, welcome to Pots World. 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:12.360 I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm right or Strong, and I'm Wilfred l. 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I'm really excited about today's 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.480 episode because you know, a couple of weeks ago, Um, 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:33.880 I guess a few weeks ago, and now at this 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.240 point we had Marty York on and he is very 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:42.600 prominent in this episode, which is such a great episode. 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:47.520 Season one, episode nine, Class pre Union. It originally aired 0:10:47.559 --> 0:10:54.400 November and um yeah, it's Mr Feenie gives an assignment 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.800 to the class to predict where their life will be 0:10:56.880 --> 0:11:00.440 by their twenty year class reunion and core League gets 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:04.280 a little help from Major League pitcher Jim Abbott like 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:08.480 you do exactly. It was directed by David Trayner and 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.959 again it's my breakdown says it was written by Ed Dector, 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:13.440 but I feel like it has to have been Dector 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.280 in Strouss, right, they weren't wrote together, Yeah, I think 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:18.400 with I think some of the IMDb breakdowns they'll just 0:11:18.440 --> 0:11:20.760 take like the first name, But it was Dector and 0:11:20.800 --> 0:11:23.840 Strouss were always a team. That was they were constantly together, 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:29.440 like Laura Reynnolds and remember later we had the great 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.959 female Patty carr Um. You know, they kind of always 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.280 they always kind of wrote together too, so it was 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.320 always like that that dynamic duo, which is great, Um 0:11:38.360 --> 0:11:41.439 Dector in Strouss. Do either of you have any memories 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:48.720 of Jim Abbott from filming this episode? No, you know, 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:51.120 I remember, I mean he was only there one day. 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.400 He was probably only there on tape night. So I 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.520 remember meeting him definitely and thinking he was a super 0:11:56.600 --> 0:11:59.720 nice guy. But was it even tape night. There's something 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:01.320 that makes me think that it might have been a 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.400 pre tape, like he wasn't even there for tape night, 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.360 Like they ran him in for an hour or two 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:09.040 on a Wednesday, and that was pretty long. Applause. I 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.559 thought that that was it's spontaneous and natural, and so 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:14.600 did so did I when when I came back his 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:16.360 plays with squirrels on Girl Meets World, and we didn't 0:12:16.360 --> 0:12:18.880 do that in front of the audience. So okay, this 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:20.280 is this is a good time then for me to 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:23.600 tell you the story. I just recently read an article 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.080 where somebody was interviewing Jim Abbott and they asked him 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.560 about his guest appearance on Boy Meat's World, and he said, 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.360 and I don't again, this sounds crazy to me, but 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:36.640 I have there was no reason Jim Abbott would lie, 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.800 so it has to be true. But he said he 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.200 was invited to set and he thought he was coming 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.160 just to meet the kids. And when he got there, 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:51.120 they basically handed him a script and said just just 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.880 hop in and do the scene. And he was like what. 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:57.040 And he was nervous because he had no acting experience 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:01.560 and he wasn't anticipating doing it and good and he's great, 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:03.920 but he agreed. He was like, okay, sure, I'll do it, 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.080 and he was literally just kind of thrown in. Jim 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.400 had no intention in the bedroom though, So there's no 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.760 way it was that spontaneous. But I wonder if it's 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:17.040 a miscommunication between like his reps or like the MLB 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.520 and him, you know, they're like, just go to make 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.360 an appearance, and he doesn't understand what an appearance means 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.760 because there's like a vacation, you know what I mean. 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:27.360 And so, But of course, as far as the producers 0:13:27.360 --> 0:13:29.920 were concerned, he was guest starring on our show. Guest 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:35.200 starring on the show takes not only that, but the 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.640 whole the whole storyline focuses around the fact that Alan 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.640 is trying to, you know, otherwise than what happens. Alan 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.040 hears that story, he makes that face like hmmm, I'm 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.920 thinking about what I'm gonna do, and then he just 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.160 nothing ever comes of it like it. It was very 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:53.120 obviously written for the Jim Abbott appearance that he doesn't 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:55.240 his memory is that he was just he thought he 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:56.760 was just coming to say hi, and then he ended 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.040 up getting thrown in and and he was really of 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:01.400 us about it because he said, he you know, was 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:04.440 an actor, but he was so good. I still have 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.200 my ball. I still have the ball that he signed 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:08.520 to me, really I do. I still have the ball 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.960 that you can barely see the autograph, but it's there. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:14.920 But I mean, I don't know why I'm surprised considering 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:18.440 you have the invitation to our season one Heck, yeah, 0:14:18.600 --> 0:14:28.760 rap party or something, and he he keeps you I 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:30.880 do I keep. I keep all of my invites in 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:34.160 my invite folder right here, which is full of everything 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:37.080 I've been invited to. Thank you very much, And I 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:38.920 know we'll get to it quickly, but can we talk 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.680 about how the entire episode is about how Corey is 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:43.680 such a Phillies fan and such a fanatic and wants 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:44.960 to play for the Phillies. So they go and they 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.440 get a New York Yankee to come and talk to him. 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:49.480 I mean, it's obvious that they was like they just 0:14:49.640 --> 0:14:53.480 needed like a baseball player. So the last scene, he's 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.760 literally dressed in Laker colors while talking to a Yankee 0:14:57.880 --> 0:15:00.680 about wanting to be a Philly Um it it was 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:03.600 I just sat there watching it, like, Okay, this one's 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.680 it's like you're you're a huge Filie fan, but you 0:15:05.760 --> 0:15:10.720 have a Yankees picture on your wall? I think not. Yeah, 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:12.440 it was so funny, but anyone will get to you know. 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.360 What's funny is that I did notice the Laker colors. 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.640 I don't think they cared about that at all. But 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:26.400 I Lakers for sure, but not like Oh color Cam 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.680 sports ball first and showed up and he gets the 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:37.080 most touchdowns in the nets, right, that guy, he's the best. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:40.440 You got so many goals that you're so many weights, 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.200 so many wickets were scored. Oh my god. I did 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:45.520 think at the end of the episode, when Mincus shows 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.120 up with the basketball and he goes, oh, I realize 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.120 I have the wrong ball, I did think that's writer. 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:55.480 That's right. Writer would have brought Jim Abbott's book to 0:15:55.520 --> 0:16:00.920 sign out of his giant Jean pocket. Can you sign 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:05.680 your unauthorized autobiography? Thank you? It's the first edition. It's 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.000 very exactly I rewrote the prolog. So I hope you 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:14.880 don't like. Okay, So um, I am back in this episode. 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:18.120 I am. I am a recurring cast member at this point. Uh. 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.440 We have some guest cast as well. We have Christine 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.400 Healy as Jane, Marty York as Larry as I already mentioned, 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:29.880 Brittany English Stevens as Stephanie um Morgan's friend Christopher Cayer 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:35.840 did one of the TV voices was our dialogue coach 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:39.480 on Boy Meat's World. For this first season, at least 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.040 and Um. Some of the other voices, Lisa E. Wilcox 0:16:43.160 --> 0:16:46.360 and Matt Kirkwood, they were Matt Kirkwood was one of 0:16:46.400 --> 0:16:49.800 our stand ins for all seven seasons. And Lisa Wilcox 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:55.960 was Jeff Sherman's wife. She was a horror actor and 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.840 she was Jeff Sherman's Elm Streets. Right, She's like she's 0:16:59.840 --> 0:17:03.840 on you. Four and five, Yeah, four and five. Lisa 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:05.800 Wilcox did came and did a couple of things on 0:17:05.840 --> 0:17:07.480 the show, and Yeah, we had Matt Kirkwood, who was 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.000 there for great and Chris Kaier the thing. Chris Kier 0:17:10.000 --> 0:17:12.679 was a great guy and an awesome dialogue coach. He 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.560 was mostly there for Lily, I think at the time, 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:17.560 but it was he was at the time. I don't 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.119 know if this has changed, but at the time he 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:22.119 was the youngest ring master in the history of Barnum 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:25.000 and Bailey. He was like twenty four years old when 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:26.440 he became the ring master and went on the road 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:29.480 and wrote this incredible book about what life on the train, 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.400 because there was like a Ringling Brothers train that would 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.560 go around the country and it was people o ding 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:36.879 and dying and they wouldn't find him for like days. 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:42.920 It was It's a great, it's insane story. Yeah, yeah, 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:47.200 so it was this just this craziness about him being 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:49.119 the ring master at like twenty four years old. Ye, 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:51.160 it's a really cool story. Do you think he thought 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.040 being on the set of Boy Meats World was equally 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.160 as crazy? Do you think it was a nice reprieve? 0:17:56.200 --> 0:18:03.000 It's still wrangling animals, so knows uh. And then of 0:18:03.040 --> 0:18:05.800 course as a special guest star, we have Jim Abbott. 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.640 And so in case you don't know, listener, who Jim 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:12.000 Abbott is. He is like a truly legendary pitcher. He 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:15.080 had a very impressive career with the Angels and the Yankees, 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.080 and but most notably he pitched a no hitter and 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:23.440 was born with just one hand, one hand with one hand. Yeah, 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:25.560 he pitched a no hitter with one hand. He also 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.560 has two hits. Have you ever seen how he does it? 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:32.920 He in one motion, he throws the ball and as 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:36.400 the balls leaving his hand, so he the glove gets tucked, 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:39.000 and he throws the ball and his hand keeps going 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.080 and it's right back into the glove. It's nuts. It's 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.760 absolutely insane to see his coordination. It's it's incredible. I mean, 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:49.760 it is a wild amount of talent and perseverance. So, um, 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:54.159 I can't The no hitter is impossible seeming enough, But 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:58.119 the two hits, which means he batted one handed and 0:18:58.200 --> 0:19:01.480 got two hits, I don't know how. I don't know 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.120 how that talent exists. Um. I just I think it's 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.359 amazing that he's such a legendary baseball player. And people 0:19:08.400 --> 0:19:13.240 are like, but tell us about boy meets World. Okay, 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:22.040 no hit? Y Like, um, yeah, creezy, Okay, So let's 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:25.159 jump into the recap. In the cold open um, we 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.560 see Corey recording himself on a video camera. Do you 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.760 guys remember the video cameras of the of that era? 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:36.800 They were just monstrous? But this was also just kind 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:40.200 of such a new idea, right that, Like, the kid 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:44.399 has control of the camera, isn't it crazy? And I 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.639 remember we did a couple episodes like this. Later on, 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:48.520 we did a whole episode sort of making fun of 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:51.119 reality TV, where Corey's like filming me getting out of 0:19:51.119 --> 0:19:53.119 the shower and stuff. Do you guys remember this? We 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:55.680 did a couple of those. Yeah, is this the invention 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:59.040 of the vlog? That kind of went through my head 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:01.040 was it's like, there a couple of times we've kind 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:03.200 of hit the future without even realizing it. I mean, 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:07.679 it's essentially a kid holding his phone filming himself. Yeah. Well, 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:09.399 but this was a new idea. I mean, I remember 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:11.280 my family was one of the first families to have 0:20:11.280 --> 0:20:14.119 a video camera. Uh my dad got one when we 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.840 were like two and a half, and it's it's part 0:20:16.880 --> 0:20:19.000 of the reason that my brother and I became actors 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.399 is because we were the only family with a giant 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:23.399 video cameras. One of those Not only did you have 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:25.840 a camera that was huge on your shoulder, you had 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:29.639 to carry around a VCR on like in a suitcase, 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.120 a strap that you wore, and it was like this complicated, crazy, 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:35.760 clunky machine. But it was also how we started making 0:20:35.800 --> 0:20:38.680 movies as kids. Um so it was definitely the error 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:42.280 where this was finally becoming accessible and everybody was filming themselves. 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.840 I remember this reminded me also of a TV show 0:20:45.880 --> 0:20:49.199 that I had gotten very close to being on that 0:20:49.320 --> 0:20:51.240 I don't think it ever even aired. It was a 0:20:51.240 --> 0:20:53.960 big TV show I think NBC was producing maybe a 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:57.560 season before Boy Meets World called News at twelve, and 0:20:57.600 --> 0:20:59.520 the whole thing was that a twelve year old was 0:21:00.080 --> 0:21:02.560 did their news report for their household, Like every night 0:21:02.600 --> 0:21:04.399 they would go up to their house or go up 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:06.359 to their room and do a news report at a 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:08.679 newsroom because they had their own video camera whatever. So 0:21:08.720 --> 0:21:12.200 they talked to camera and it was basically this scene 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:16.640 or this structure of this scene as an entire sitcom. 0:21:17.119 --> 0:21:20.040 So funny. Yeah, I remember cameras to Our family also 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:22.280 had one of those huge cameras in the little pack 0:21:22.320 --> 0:21:24.640 you are around, and I love watching all those old 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.439 videos too. So Corey is interviewing his mom, dad, and 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:30.679 sister on their way to Stephanie's birthday party, and Corey 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:33.240 asks why the baby of the family gets better treatment 0:21:33.480 --> 0:21:36.520 and a golden necklace and why does the middle child 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:41.120