WEBVTT - Janette Kotichas Meets World 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:20.239 UM, I know I I don't normally talk about the 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:22.000 fact that I have another podcast on I Heart which 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.120 is called I Hear Voices christ to Carlson. But we're 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:27.200 doing something super cool that's launching right when this episode 0:00:27.240 --> 0:00:28.880 is gonna air. So I just want two seconds to 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:33.960 talk about it because it's really neat. UM will give you. Okay, 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:38.200 that's it, all right, moving on to other appreciations, other things, 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.040 onto literary distance. UM. Yes, so uh. We talked to 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:45.760 all the greatest voice over actors in the country. We 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.680 love it. I love animation so much. But our number 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:51.760 one goal when we met up with I Heart and 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:53.560 I Heart was like, let's go do it is we 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:58.600 wanted to do an American Idol style contest. We're blanketing 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.560 the country with a contest call all the super awesome 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.760 contests become the next big voice actor. And so it 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.839 is open for everybody over the age of eighteen who's 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.800 a US resident. We are getting everyone who can be 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.640 involved to enter. We are going to find a colleague, 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:17.600 and the prizes are ridiculous. So I just wanted to 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:21.600 what do people have to do, like send in a 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.000 two minute clip that's either video or audio. You send 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.920 it to I hear voices at I Heart radio dot 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.640 com between January nine and February nine, and you could 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.240 do whatever you want your own voices ad reads. If 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.280 you think you've got the good you know in a 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.440 world like whatever kind of voice you can do, do 0:01:39.680 --> 0:01:42.800 that and the prizes are insane. First you get flown 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.160 out to Los Angeles where you have lunch with Christie 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:47.640 and I. You get a thousand dollar spending money. But 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.480 if that's not cool enough, which it isn't obviously, at 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:53.640 that lunch, you also meet with your new agent, because 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.560 you are signing with my voiceover agency C E. S 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:59.240 Day for a year. Like you get a break, you 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.640 get a big break. And then I called my friends 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.080 a Critical Role, which is, you know, obviously a huge 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.360 juggernaut around the world. And you are also getting a 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:12.040 private session with Emmy Award winning director Sam Regal who's 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:13.760 one of the cast members of Critical Role, and Emmy 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.040 Award winning UH Emmy nominated Mary McGlenn, who's the director 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.880 of their new show box Makina. It's really cool. It 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:22.920 is a ton of fun. If you think you can 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:25.239 do voices, you've grown up watching cartoons, you want to 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:28.560 try it. This is really an opportunity. I mean, any 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.720 time I tell an actor you win an actual agent, 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.040 they're like, you've got to be KIDDI makes it's one 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:35.560 of the hardest things to do in this one of 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.400 the hardest things. It's it's such a hard world to 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.520 break into, um, you know, mostly because it's so competitive. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.519 I think a lot of people think they can do this. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.440 You know, it's a heart it's such a difficult art form, 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.400 and but it's it's so fun too, you know, It's 0:02:48.440 --> 0:02:50.519 it's difficult, but it's so fun. And when you watch 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.280 cartoons or you listen to stuff, you're always like, I 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.680 think I could do cool voices, you know, like everybody 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:57.639 kind of has that. Not everybody, but I think a 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.440 lot of people have that in the back of their mind, 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:03.320 like this is fun. That's so enter because we're picking 0:03:03.520 --> 0:03:06.120 sixteen people and then you're gonna go head to head 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:08.480 against each other until we get down to the final 0:03:08.560 --> 0:03:10.600 two where we have a big show and then the 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:13.320 final the finalist you're picked, you win, flown out to 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:15.400 l a, the cut, the agent, the whole thing. So 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:18.800 we're super excited. I hear voices at i heart radio 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.840 dot Com between January nine and February nine, US residents 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:24.200 over the age of eighteen. We can't wait. That is 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:27.240 my selfish plug. If you know anybody who's like at 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.600 your bank, your uncle, your aunt, anybody who's like, oh 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:31.560 they do funny voices, tell them to enter. It's gonna 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:33.600 be a ton of fun. That's it. I'm done with 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:34.960 what I have to say? Can we move on to 0:03:35.040 --> 0:03:39.920 something more amazing? Daniel? Yeah, I I have something I 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:45.760 would like to confess. So for the last like at 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.480 least several weeks, people have been hitting me up about 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:53.800 this very important topic and I'm being tagged in it, 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:57.080 and I I've like not wanted to say anything about it, 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:00.600 but it's recently come to like such ahead that I 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:04.000 just I can't avoid it anymore. And so I would 0:04:04.920 --> 0:04:09.520 like to say that I do, in fact love cush lings, 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:18.280 and I just cush lings are amazing. They have fun 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:21.200 to have pizza parties with, They are fun to go 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:26.039 roller bleeding with. You can eat birthday cake with goush lings. 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:30.240 And they bounce. Can you bounces? Sure you can? Why not? Yeah? 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.440 You can? Some of them are just possibly get framed 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.760 portraits of my cush lings and put them on the 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:41.120 wall in my bedroom. You could, you could, you could 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:46.120 go swiggles n swiggles around my portraits of Mike. I'm 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:49.279 not sure I trust you, Danielle. You you're a little 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.360 thing with the truth. Is there any proof that you're 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:56.320 right there? Right? You know what? Eastern Roll the proof? Wow, Danielle, 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:02.400 you really loves Yeah, Jodia, they're cool. Guess what. Yeah, 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:06.080 there's wild Times. Wait cool, they're's are the same stuff 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:11.799 we are? Yeah, Larissa, let's roll. Hey, he's ticklish, party down, Peter, 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:19.080 Time for some ease wild skateboarding. Tug didn't really want 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:24.960 a wild time. You want wild time, Suisling Wild Times. 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:30.880 I had no idea this thing existed, and you somehow 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.400 came up on our private chat thread. I think Will 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:38.960 found it and Alexa Bliss just being wrestler. Alexa Bliss 0:05:39.000 --> 0:05:41.680 had it up on her Instagram, and I just got 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.840 all I know is that I thought, because Danielle and 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:50.560 I did a inline skating, I have grinders in line, 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:52.960 so do I. I thought that was the most ninetiest 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:58.720 thing ever. But this takes the cake, just unbelievable. Yeah. 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:00.840 I love it so much and had no idea you 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:03.120 did this and then I had no idea Jodi and Larissa, 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.720 like what Jodi, Jody Sweeten is in it with me 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:10.360 and Larissa Olank and and filming this commercial was one 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.720 of the like, honestly one of the funniest days of 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:17.240 my life, because I remember when the offer for the 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.720 commercial came through. It was like, hey, we're getting you know, 0:06:20.800 --> 0:06:23.640 we're hoping to get Danielle, Jody Sweeten and Larissa Olank 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:27.560 together for this wild Time cuch Ling's commercial and uh, 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:31.200 you know, here's whatever the money was. And I don't 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:33.039 I don't even think I really knew what a wild 0:06:33.120 --> 0:06:37.000 times kouch Ling was. It was just like, I don't 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.760 call me crazy, but you know, thirteen years older. I mean, 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:43.400 I think my hair is cut. I'm I'm sixteen and 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:48.160 that my hair is cut. So I remember getting the 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:51.520 offer and and being in solely on the idea that 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:54.159 Jodi and Larissa were in it with me, and being like, cool, 0:06:54.360 --> 0:06:56.320 that sounds great. We'll go have a day where we'll 0:06:56.320 --> 0:07:00.800 shoot a commercial for this product I'm in and and 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.760 didn't get a storyboard beforehand, didn't get anything, just showing 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.760 up on the day, and I remember vividly Jody on 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:10.520 one side of me, and Larissa on the other side 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.680 of me, and the director walking us through the storyboard 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:23.000 for the commercial and being like, what what the koush 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:26.080 lings skateboard down at the skateboard, and and the and 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.760 the dialogue Danye, you're really into Kouchlings, and being like, 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.160 oh my gosh, and and all of us being like 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.760 U huh, and then the three of us walking off 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.640 the stage and just dying laughing like what are we doing? 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.200 This is gonna be a nightmare, And and it was 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.640 just for the rest of the day. We couldn't stop laughing. 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:47.640 We laughed so hard. I have memories of people paying 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.320 their pants and I have been told explicitly that that 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.560 did not happen, so it must just be like in 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:57.680 my head it happened. I'm sorry, So somebody their pants, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.760 is what you're saying, because they were laughing so hard. Yes, 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.200 because we laughed so hard. Well, what for one thing 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:05.840 for sure that happened. Oh my god, I can't wait 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.360 to talk to Larissa too. We need to have Jody 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.400 onto um. I know for sure what happened is one 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.240 of the times we were jokingly making fun of what 0:08:14.400 --> 0:08:17.120 we were doing. Jody did a high kick in the 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.280 like white pants she was wearing, and she was like, oh, 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:21.800 like couch langs and kicked her kicked her leg up 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:26.520 by and her pants ripped, fully ripped, I mean just 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:28.800 and everybody heard it. And she put her leg down 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.320 and she was like, you need to go change my pants. 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.960 Um god, So hold on. I just love that you guys. 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.679 So you guys were because the realities, you're just too 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:43.400 old to be commercial for like six year olds, ten 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:46.920 year olds, and you were teenagers, okay, so you were 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.199 feeling this sort of like oh, this is just the 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.199 weirdest thing we're going to be a part of. But 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.240 you turned that, Like I see, if I had been 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.319 in that situation, I would have like cried and like 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.439 gone to my dressing room and like maybe tried to 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:00.000 get out of the job. Just why I didn't do commerce, 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.920 Like I never did commercial site was so terrified of 0:09:03.000 --> 0:09:04.880 that situation. The fact that you guys were able to 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:07.240 spin it into like let's just have fun and laugh 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:10.960 is so awesome and admirable and like you so much 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:12.839 healthier because like, who gives a crap, Like you just 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.520 do this, you get paid. The people that want couch 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.559 lens are gonna love it, and no one else was 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.199 going to notice until thirty years later when it's on 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.240 the internet, when it's going viral on the internet and 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.280 people are tagging you in it. Yeah. No, I mean honestly, 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:29.000 had I been doing the commercial alone, I probably would 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:30.839 have had the reaction that you're talking about. Writer. I 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.560 would have felt like, this is a career ender. Why 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.599 did I yes? Because I did other projects like that 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:38.440 where I was like what am I doing? How did 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.360 I get here? Um? And this commercial I think because 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.400 Jodi and Larissa were there and we were like, well, 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:46.719 all three of us can't like we've all agreed to 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:49.320 do this. We're all in the same boat, like, let's 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.520 just have fun. We had true, I mean we had 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:52.959 a blast. It was all. It was just one of 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:54.920 those days where you're like, well, we're here and they 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:56.640 paid us, and this is what we agreed to do. 0:09:56.760 --> 0:09:58.880 Let's just do it. Can I ask an important question 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:00.959 and I'd like to say, yes, I still have the 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.920 couch links? No? No, yeah, exactly, UM, And I think 0:10:03.960 --> 0:10:05.800 it needs to be asked and get the bleep button 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.120 ready because it needs to be asked this way. What 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:13.079 the is akusch Ln What you remember balls? Do you 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.719 remember couch balls? There were, but yeah, those are those. 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.400 There were couchh balls with they're like rubber, you know, 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:23.679 hairy thing like don't they're like basically the rubber like 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:26.960 a like a shredded rubber band, so shred rubber band 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.000 with colors. And they became very popular like throw and 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:36.520 toss or I don't know, but yeah, that's all they 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.679 could do. And so it seems like the next evolution 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.960 was to put a face and legs in our where 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:42.880 they do things now, like you saw the one that 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.960 had the was on a skateboard and so it rolled down. Yeah, 0:10:47.080 --> 0:10:49.439 it's a couche link, I said, of just a couchh ball, 0:10:49.520 --> 0:10:53.280 it's perfection. I not speaking for rider, but I watched 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:56.719 it fifty times in a few times, and like I said, 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:58.800 when I when I noticed that there was framed cush 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:02.280 ling photos Danny his bedroom wall, like portraits of couse 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.520 Lan's and then not as if that wasn't enough, they 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:09.600 had added animation squiggles around them like perfection spinning camera 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.880 with you guys lying on the ground that the spinning 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:14.320 camera had me every time like looking up like awesome, 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:16.480 it was the best. But I mean, I know that 0:11:16.600 --> 0:11:18.800 feeling because I remember, you know, we used to do 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:20.880 t J. I have promos and stuff on the set 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.040 constantly where somebody would show up and be like, hey, 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.400 guess here's what we're gonna do. It would always be 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.120 some over energetic director if it was poor job. I'm 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:29.800 sure it was awful to have to like come on 0:11:30.080 --> 0:11:32.800 and tell all these young actors to like stay energetic 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:35.440 and promote this thing. And we would be under contract 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.280 to have to do it, and we would be miserable 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:40.679 and like that feeling of just like one of them 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:45.160 all the time with the jump he jump, Remember that's 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.200 want to jump, but want to jump. Because every time 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:50.240 we get a photo shoot for Boy Meets World, every season, 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.200 we would have to do a new photo shoot, multiple 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.880 photo shoots, I feel like, but they wanted new, fick 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:56.959 pictures of us that because we've gotten older or whatever, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.920 and inevitably they would hand us a globe, either in 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:02.800 inflatable globe, a giant globe would be leaning on a globe, 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.520 so there are so many globe photos it's always and 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:07.280 then Ben and I would always have to do a 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.560 back to back photo at some point you know, oh 0:12:10.640 --> 0:12:13.320 my arm on bench on ben shoulder. I always had 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:16.040 you next. I was the older and you know, we 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.840 would go through these different photographers every year, and sometimes 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:23.600 they would be amazing and nice, and then other times 0:12:23.640 --> 0:12:25.719 they would be very condescending and not know how to 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.240 work with children or just bizarre. And there was one 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.199 season where some guy I just remember he didn't know 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:32.480 what he was doing in the I think he had 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:35.920 a New York accident. At least he has in my if. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.079 We and and we we were joking around, you know, 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.839 basically mocking the entire process that we were in. And 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.679 we were like, what if we all jumped in the 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.360 air and like high five, thinking it was the cheesiest 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.480 thing ever. And this guy overheard us and was like, oh, oh, 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.320 the kids want to jump, all right, the kids are 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:52.320 gonna jump, everybody, the kids are gonna jump. And then 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.960 we ended up doing it like he took us completely 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.360 at phase value. So for years afterwards, we were just 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:01.480 always the kids wanted up quick, quick, figure out how 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.080 we can make the kids jump. This is also exactly 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.800 why that commercial is. It proves why every craft service 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.280 table was just full of candy and soda because they 0:13:11.320 --> 0:13:13.439 try to pump you up on sugar and then get 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.120 you out there. Come on, be be energetic. Oh man, 0:13:16.240 --> 0:13:19.320 that was so that was it was just marvelous, Daniel, 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.640 it was marvelous. You're welcome. Thank you for letting me 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.360 make this admission. I feel much better, So document for 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.760 the ages, so good. Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:37.640 Daniel Fishel, I'm right or Strong, and I'm Wilfred ll Hi. Christy. Hey, well, 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.800 I have some unbelievable news. Oh there's a Kim Possible 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.880 Rounstoppable reunion in the works. No, no, no, that would 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.719 be great, but no, I have other big news. We 0:13:45.920 --> 0:13:48.320 just launched the Super Awesome Contest to become the next 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.520 Big Voice Actor. That's right. We want to give an 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.120 amateur voice actor an opportunity to win a one year 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.199 contract with my voice over agency c s D. They 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.280 are amazing. I've been with them for over twenty years 0:13:58.400 --> 0:13:59.920 and that's not all. 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So today's guest is another 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:51.160 example of us just going out there and becoming amateur 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:56.280 sleuths to track someone down because her her name is 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.600 a name that came up twice during our season one 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.120 recaps and we really wanted to know more about her. 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.520 Um In addition to writing two of our standout favorites 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.920 from the first season, Boys to Mensa and the show 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.480 We shot Last it wasn't the actual finale, but the 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.280 finale we shot last of Boy Meets a Girl, she 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:18.359 also wrote episodes of Webster, Living Single and an episode 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.680 of For Your Love In, but she did not return 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.520 to Boy Meets World for season two, and because her 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.520 episodes are so beloved and really good, we wanted to 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.960 hear from her. So please welcome to the show. Jeannette 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:39.120 could teach us. Hi. Hi guys, Hi, Oh my god. 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:42.520 You guys look so grand so you and you're not 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:48.520 in your pajamas at all. You wonderful. Thanks you too. 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:55.280 You guys haven't changed a bit, well except thirty years. Yeah. Um, 0:16:55.960 --> 0:16:58.520 thank you so much for agreeing to do this. I 0:16:58.880 --> 0:17:00.920 don't know when we to you. When I reached out 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:02.880 to you on Instagram? Did you have any sort of 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:07.439 hesitation about coming on the pod? Absolutely, I'm usually behind 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:11.439 the cameras, um the writer. At one time I did 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:13.800 a show and we all showed all the writers showed 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.359 up as monks with like hoods on. But that was 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:22.080 the closest I came to be writing. Well, thank you 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.080 for being here, and I'd love to start with you 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:27.080 in the same place we start with with everyone we 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:31.000 have on I would like to know your origin story. 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.200 But before we even get to your origin story on 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:36.119 boy Meat's World, I want to talk to you about, Um, 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.520 where did your love for writing come from? And how 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:42.400 did you end up writing in Hollywood? Tell us your story. UM, 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:47.000 let's see. Well, I came across my first play and 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.800 I had written it when I was fourteen. UM, and 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:55.160 it's so cute because I do these little pictures and everything. UM. 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.120 And as I grew up and went through school in college, 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.239 I found that, UM, I could write my way out 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.760 of a brown bag. Like if the three question was 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:11.040 you know what what happened in the Civil War, I 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:14.280 would take the word the and just extrapolate on it, 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:18.840 getting an A in the in the class. So UM 0:18:19.640 --> 0:18:25.240 television came about really coincidentally and synchronicity. I think what 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.480 I really wanted to do was right for the Rolling 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:32.400 Stone because I was a rocker when I was younger. Yeah, 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:35.240 I really wanted to do that. But UM, I ended 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:39.760 up writing a countdown radio show. I don't think they 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.359 have those anymore, but you UM do the top forty 0:18:43.520 --> 0:18:54.280 hits exactly, exactly exactly. And UM I wrote that with 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.960 my best friend. She was producing this show. It went 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.040 out to a hundred and sixty four radio stations across 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:05.440 the United States. Um not Chicago, not New York or 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:12.440 Los Angeles, said Francisco. But you know maybe Yeah, So 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:16.520 when didn't monsec got canceled, and my best friend and 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:19.680 I went over to Lucy's l Adobe across the street 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:24.080 from Yes, and we sat there and we're like, we're 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:31.639 in the entertainment industry. Now got canceled it. Yeah, So 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:35.320 then I was temping all over the place and she 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:38.560 had referred me to a TV show that, wait for it, 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:46.360 April Kelly was producing. Okay, there's my foray into television. Yes, 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:51.920 which show? Remember it was a pilot and it was 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:57.359 it might have been an hour of trivial Pursuit. Okay, 0:19:58.160 --> 0:20:01.760 you remember that game? Of course you'll of course, so 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.959 that game, they did it in a studio and they 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:09.399 had like three or four stars who were from that 0:20:09.600 --> 0:20:13.200 time period who were sitting in a couch while playing 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:15.879 the game. But then they would do all these cameos. 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.359 So we would go out on these cameos shoots. So 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:22.440 we had William Shatner and we had Betty White and 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.600 different people, and they would ask a question and then 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.440 we would like being William Shatner onto the stage and 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:34.320 then he would answer the Star Trek question. She has 0:20:34.480 --> 0:20:38.840 been the funniest person I've ever met. Yeah, we really 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:43.040 connected because we both were pretty um rabby. I guess, 0:20:43.200 --> 0:20:45.280 I don't know. We were we dropped a lot of 0:20:45.400 --> 0:20:50.040 f bombs and just you know, we're making our way 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.119 through as women, and uh. I ended up hooking up 0:20:53.200 --> 0:20:56.040 with her for a couple other gigs. I ended up 0:20:56.080 --> 0:21:00.760 on Webster Great, Great Show Yet and it was the 0:21:00.840 --> 0:21:04.480 last season and another I was a writer's assistant and 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.320 I was working with another prediction secretary and she and 0:21:07.520 --> 0:21:11.080 I just used to hang out at lunch and come 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:14.960 up with story ideas. So we came up with a 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.199 story idea for Webster, and we knew if we ever 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:21.560 got to pitch it, we would have to make it work. 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:26.679 So one night, April's leaving and and she's collecting all 0:21:26.720 --> 0:21:30.320 the story ideas. They were like four or five episodes 0:21:30.520 --> 0:21:35.880 needed for the syndication deal. And she's like, nobody's coming 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:40.080 up with ideas, and Tina goes, let have a Jeanette 0:21:40.080 --> 0:21:43.359 and I have an idea, and April goes, I'll take it. 0:21:43.760 --> 0:21:46.800 I'll hear it. And she gave us a pitch meeting 0:21:47.000 --> 0:21:51.120 and let us pitch it. And she asked all these questions, 0:21:51.200 --> 0:21:53.200 and of course we knew we had one shot, so 0:21:53.280 --> 0:21:57.040 we had figured out every single beat, and so we 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.679 nailed it and we got it and then the network 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:02.760 lie did better than the than some of the others, 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:06.880 so they bumped ours up into first run and put 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:12.200 someone else's story into the syndication. Wow. And so were 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:14.600 you like freaking out at this time, like you had 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.080 just been writing for radio and now you meet April 0:22:18.200 --> 0:22:21.960