Speaker 1: Guys, we've done it again. We put out the call
Speaker 1: to our listeners and we asked them to send us
Speaker 1: voice memos questions that they have for you guys as
Speaker 1: hosts now that you have finished season six, and I
Speaker 1: will tell you we are hundreds of responses. Again. Really,
Speaker 1: they are the questions you would think this deep into
Speaker 1: the game would slow up, and in real life it's
Speaker 1: the exact same amount we've been getting old questions.
Speaker 2: Are any of them inappropriate?
Speaker 1: I found one to be inappropriate this time. Really it
Speaker 1: was the first time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, was it like inappropriate about one of us?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I thought it was inappropriate. I mean I don't
Speaker 1: want to give that guy.
Speaker 2: His What did they What did they say about? That's
Speaker 2: your wife?
Speaker 1: That's what it was. Yeah, I mean it was just
Speaker 1: like a weird. But we did find appropriate ones and
Speaker 1: I'm excited to pass them along to you. Guys. You've
Speaker 1: been on tour for a while a lot of people
Speaker 1: had questions about those shows. This first person, Olivia from
Speaker 1: Parts Unknown, That's what her question involves.
Speaker 4: Hi, everyone, my name is Olivia and I was actually
Speaker 4: a costume contest winner at one of your live shows.
Speaker 4: I will not say which show it was. Because I
Speaker 4: genuinely would like to know what your most memorable moment
Speaker 4: from past live shows have been on your tour most memorable?
Speaker 2: Oh, I know, hard to beat the proposal. I mean, well,
Speaker 2: hold on.
Speaker 5: That's on stage, like doing Boy Meets World.
Speaker 6: The memories from the live shows are never the most memorable.
Speaker 5: Are not the things that happen on stage.
Speaker 6: They are always the things that happen on our way
Speaker 6: to the shows, on our way back to the show,
Speaker 6: in the backstage rider with the stinky broccoli.
Speaker 7: Wait, why is it just because I opened it? It's
Speaker 7: not like I brought but I just opened the thing.
Speaker 5: You're so offended writer broccoli?
Speaker 7: Okay, hold on, I have not been able to eat
Speaker 7: broccoli since I have Literally this is ruined broccoli for
Speaker 7: me for the rest of my life.
Speaker 3: I'm It's like there's people upstairs going, what is that smell?
Speaker 2: So that was in.
Speaker 6: Aostin for anybody who doesn't know, we have something called
Speaker 6: a writer. Interesting that it's called Any bands that go
Speaker 6: on tour, or comedy acts or whoever, when you go
Speaker 6: on tour, the venues ask you, is there anything we
Speaker 6: can have here for you to help make your stay
Speaker 6: more comfortable and our writer consists of sparkling flavor, water, water, coffee, chocolate,
Speaker 6: peanut butter cups, a fruit platter, of vegetable platter, and
Speaker 6: gummy bears.
Speaker 2: That's it and bears.
Speaker 5: That's the full extent of our writer.
Speaker 8: We need a better writer, better stuff. And you'll put
Speaker 8: Rolex down this time exactly.
Speaker 6: So we we always eat fruit and veggies before we
Speaker 6: go out because we don't eat dinner before the show.
Speaker 6: We don't like to have a full stomach. We don't
Speaker 6: eat end up eating dinner until about nine thirty or
Speaker 6: show or so when the show is over. So we
Speaker 6: always just snack on some fruits and veggies. And at
Speaker 6: this one show, where was it?
Speaker 5: Do you guys remember Austin?
Speaker 2: Are you sure it was Austin?
Speaker 5: Was our first Austin show in Texas?
Speaker 7: It was one of the Yeah, because we did two
Speaker 7: Austin shows. Yeah, pretty sure, our first show, Yeah it was.
Speaker 7: It was in Texas last January.
Speaker 5: So we writer goes to open in the broccoli.
Speaker 6: It's the room we're sitting in is very narrow and long,
Speaker 6: not very big.
Speaker 5: Writer opens the broccoli and.
Speaker 6: Goes, oh God, this smells awful, and Will and I
Speaker 6: are like oh. We like look at him like shocked,
Speaker 6: like wow, okay, We're sitting a little farther away from him,
Speaker 6: and then all of a sudden, it is like.
Speaker 5: A wave of just the worst smell.
Speaker 6: It's like like an outhouse that's never been cleaned.
Speaker 2: Ye, and we're away.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, that's so gross. I'm gonna gag. This
Speaker 5: is awful.
Speaker 7: Our tour manager comes walking in the room just goes,
Speaker 7: oh my god, what what is that?
Speaker 1: What is that?
Speaker 5: People from upstairs go, uh, what's going on down there?
Speaker 5: They came down. We were like, it's the broccoli. But
Speaker 5: also then he spilled it.
Speaker 6: The worst part was that it like got knocked off
Speaker 6: the off the counter and broccoli went everywhere, and it
Speaker 6: was like, oh god, now we have to clean up.
Speaker 2: We put in the garbage can. It didn't go away.
Speaker 2: It was like you put it in my garbage can
Speaker 2: and then it was just still waft and we had.
Speaker 6: To close up the garbage bag, put that in another
Speaker 6: garbage bag, and actually take the garbage out.
Speaker 5: Uh, And we laughed. You won't be surprised to hear this.
Speaker 5: We laughed so hard we all had tears. It was
Speaker 5: so that.
Speaker 6: That's one of my first several reasons Bench and the
Speaker 6: comedy anyone else have another.
Speaker 7: So many you're right, backstage moments are equivalent to me
Speaker 7: as the on stage moments.
Speaker 2: But I don't know.
Speaker 7: I mean like they've been several times where we've gone
Speaker 7: out and for our opening and the audience is just
Speaker 7: so crazy loud and on their feet, and I look
Speaker 7: at Danielle and.
Speaker 2: She's immediately crying. Yeah, and our theme song for the.
Speaker 7: Podcast is playing, and I like feel like I'm gonna
Speaker 7: start crying, and it's just so fulfilling. It's like this
Speaker 7: is madness, like that when we're doing this, that this
Speaker 7: thing that you know, feels often like it's just kind
Speaker 7: of the three of us and Jensen and Tara and East,
Speaker 7: like it's just our small crew thing. When it becomes
Speaker 7: real that there are this many people listening and caring
Speaker 7: about the things we say and engaging with us, it's
Speaker 7: just like it hits you like.
Speaker 2: A human wall of love. It's just insane, like amazing.
Speaker 6: You're right, Like when we went and we did the
Speaker 6: San Francisco show and when our podcast music started playing
Speaker 6: and we all walked out, they gave us a standing
Speaker 6: ovation at the beginning for the show even sucked, we
Speaker 6: might not have earned that standing ovation at all.
Speaker 5: Exactly right.
Speaker 2: I have two.
Speaker 3: Okay, the guy who got up on stage in Philly
Speaker 3: and admitted that he was a New York Yankees fan,
Speaker 3: and the whole crowd just turned you're right, and it
Speaker 3: was just people just drunkenly, right, because we had like
Speaker 3: three thousand people at that show.
Speaker 2: Literally that was a great show in Philly.
Speaker 3: And then the other one is the person throwing up
Speaker 3: in the audience in Boston. In Boston, like before the
Speaker 3: show started, we heard just like this sound people scattering,
Speaker 3: and we didn't find out until later at the at
Speaker 3: the meet and greet that it was somebody right before
Speaker 3: the show had started, had thrown up all over everybody
Speaker 3: in front of them in the show. So yeah, and
Speaker 3: then the nice obviously the one we just had, which
Speaker 3: is the proposal, which was really cool.
Speaker 7: We've had so many great costumes like all these.
Speaker 2: What do you think is the best costume we've had
Speaker 2: so far? Total best overall? I don't. Well, there was
Speaker 2: that one Fieni that just was Phoenie.
Speaker 7: Do you remember that there was a guy who like
Speaker 7: basically just looked like Bill and he just had shaved
Speaker 7: down to a mustache and was wearing a phoenix.
Speaker 2: But that was crazy.
Speaker 3: The two girls who did they want you to take
Speaker 3: the roles that had the.
Speaker 2: Entire costumes perfectly in the earth.
Speaker 5: They were great Feenie and Corey, and the roller was.
Speaker 2: One of the first ones that was incredible.
Speaker 1: I think the person who dressed his writer's friend from
Speaker 1: home a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well there's yeah. There was also the person someone
Speaker 2: dressed as Indie's spelling list.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a couple of pony Yeah, my pony,
Speaker 2: a couple. Susie's a couple.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: The jokes are just the best, like when they're a
Speaker 7: deep like inmate from the audience was one of the
Speaker 7: early ones.
Speaker 1: That Wasling Kushling.
Speaker 2: We just had that at the last show.
Speaker 3: We've had some great ones, so no, there's yeah. It's
Speaker 3: being with the two of you, especially on on the
Speaker 3: road and watching Jensen. I've never seen anybody power through
Speaker 3: saltwater Taffy Jensen and literally Jensen in the first few
Speaker 3: cities were doing constantly having to go to urgent care
Speaker 3: for one thing or the other until we realized part
Speaker 3: of his body was literally dead.
Speaker 2: So yeah, that that too. It's been it's been great.
Speaker 1: We found out it's cheaper to buy a new couch
Speaker 1: than rent one for a venue.
Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, yes, six hundred dollars to rent the
Speaker 6: couch we sit on for the show, or we could
Speaker 6: buy one for from Ikia right jonder bucks.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we had some great We had some great crowds
Speaker 2: all the way through.
Speaker 5: We really yes, we definitely did well.
Speaker 1: Our next question is from Myra in Phoenix. She needs
Speaker 1: an update from our friend Writer Strong for something he
Speaker 1: promised and has slowly let go of What.
Speaker 9: Up Pod meets World.
Speaker 5: I'm Myra.
Speaker 10: I actually met you guys in Phoenix, both super awkward
Speaker 10: and couldn't even look Danielle in the eye because too
Speaker 10: much perfection. So here's my attempt at redemption with the
Speaker 10: non confrontational wall of voice. Note up, So, I really
Speaker 10: listened to episodes of the podcast quite often, and when
Speaker 10: you guys recapped an Affair to Forget, the pre show
Speaker 10: chatter was Writer explaining his talent for identifying rising movie stars,
Speaker 10: which will found an impressive as they are already in movies,
Speaker 10: but Janiell encouraged him to update the podcast with writers
Speaker 10: predictions anyway, and we haven't really gotten any so, writer,
Speaker 10: who are some actors you've seen in smaller projects who
Speaker 10: you think will grow into movie stars? Will do you
Speaker 10: think his prediction counts based on their current at start?
Speaker 10: Hum and Danielle, please mediate the argument, as you so
Speaker 10: often have to be excited to your answers. Okay, thanks,
Speaker 10: love you, bye, wow Oh I love this.
Speaker 1: He also recorded that from a library apparently nice.
Speaker 2: She was so quiet.
Speaker 7: I feel like I sent you guys a couple like
Speaker 7: a month or so after that episode.
Speaker 2: I might have. I can't remember who it was that
Speaker 2: you might have.
Speaker 7: I feel like I went back and forth and and Jensen,
Speaker 7: you like had one or two as well.
Speaker 2: We were both like this.
Speaker 1: Person Keiana Taylor, Tiana Taylor coming up in Paul Thomas
Speaker 1: Anderson movie. I also think Malachai from Zombies four is
Speaker 1: probably on his zac efronway.
Speaker 2: M hm, Tom Cruise.
Speaker 1: Tom Cruise is a good one.
Speaker 3: He's going to be big, probably going to be good.
Speaker 3: A guy named Bradley Pitt, I think is one to
Speaker 3: keep an eye on.
Speaker 5: I think Frey Sky from Zombie.
Speaker 3: Is another one from we've said, uh uh, what's his name?
Speaker 2: Manheim for he's great?
Speaker 1: Where are we just Zombies Peopleffman's kid is all already
Speaker 1: out and about, So I feel like that's a writer pick.
Speaker 7: I would never pick him. I do not think he's
Speaker 7: very good. Unfortunately, I would never pick him.
Speaker 1: Well, if some pop up for Myra, you should throw
Speaker 1: them into the mix of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm trying to look back.
Speaker 7: I'm honestly like scrambling through my letterbox right now to
Speaker 7: see what I've seen recently that.
Speaker 2: Who was the good writer?
Speaker 3: Who was the woman who starred in that awesome You
Speaker 3: and I just talked about this movie, the Predators movie.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, she was great.
Speaker 3: She was great in that movie. I don't even know
Speaker 3: who the name of the actress, but she was. That
Speaker 3: movie was so much better than that any right to be.
Speaker 3: That movie was so entertaining.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I have to make a list because I feel like,
Speaker 7: actually there has been somebody recently. God, I gotta go
Speaker 7: through because it's not on letterbox, because I think some
Speaker 7: some stuff I've seen at festivals lately, I've been like, oh.
Speaker 1: I just found a note I wrote for you. Jack O'Connell,
Speaker 1: he plays he plays Remick in Sinners. He's like a
Speaker 1: big standout.
Speaker 2: I know I've been dying too. I just I literally
Speaker 2: have not at a moment. Yeah, I want to watch
Speaker 2: a movie.
Speaker 7: No, I've been so bad, like I have not watched
Speaker 7: movies all summer. It's crazy, like this whole year has been.
Speaker 5: You've got a sea sinners Okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: Really.
Speaker 1: While we're on the individual specific questions, Julie from Phoenix
Speaker 1: has one for Will.
Speaker 11: This is Julie from Phoenix, Arizona, and I want to
Speaker 11: know what Will's favorite deep cut episode of Seinfeld is
Speaker 11: not like the Soup Nazi, but like a real deep cut.
Speaker 1: Have a good day, guys.
Speaker 2: Excellent question. There's so many good ones, you know what.
Speaker 3: My it's a very early one, but one Sue and
Speaker 3: I quote all the time. My favorite deep cut is
Speaker 3: probably the Pony Remark, which is a great episode where yeah,
Speaker 3: very early, it's like season two or three of Seinfeld,
Speaker 3: but the Pony Remark is great with that and the
Speaker 3: Pen The Pen is another great one where he Jerry
Speaker 3: goes to visit his parents in Flow and the next
Speaker 3: door he says to his next door neighbor like, Hey.
Speaker 2: That's really nice pen, and he's like, don't take it.
Speaker 2: Take the pen. He's like no, I can't.
Speaker 3: He's like, oh God, take it, I insist you take
Speaker 3: the pen, and so Jerry's like, thank you, this is great,
Speaker 3: and he walks out in his family's like I can't
Speaker 3: believe he took that pen, and it blows up the
Speaker 3: entire retirement village, like, so, how's the new pen?
Speaker 2: Jerry, He's like, why does everybody talk? It's hysterical. So
Speaker 2: the pen and the pony remark would be my two
Speaker 2: answers to that good ones.
Speaker 6: We talked about the pony remark recently because it was
Speaker 6: someone we had on the show.
Speaker 3: Had guests started, did the guy, the guy who was
Speaker 3: a standstand the plumber man's future son in row was
Speaker 3: on the pony remark?
Speaker 12: Right?
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, yes, all right, can't leave Danielle out. Emily
Speaker 1: has a question and it involves her child.
Speaker 13: Hi, Pod meets World. My name's Emily. I'm from New Orleans.
Speaker 13: I watch Boy Meets World, Girl Meets World and listen
Speaker 13: to the podcast with my fourteen year old son.
Speaker 5: James.
Speaker 13: We actually saw you guys at nineties Con in Connecticut
Speaker 13: last year, and I'm hoping that you all can settle
Speaker 13: a debate between j and me. It's about Topanga's character
Speaker 13: in Girl Meets World. Augie has a friend named Dewey
Speaker 13: who wants his name to be pronounced Doi, and Tapanga
Speaker 13: refuses to do it, much to Douy's displeasure. Now I
Speaker 13: feel like this is sort of a betrayal of original
Speaker 13: you know, Donut in the Sky to Panga. I think
Speaker 13: Original to Pango would say, if this child's essence is Doy,
Speaker 13: then of course I am going to call him Doy.
Speaker 13: James disagrees. James thinks that even Original to Pango would
Speaker 13: say Doi is so far beyond the pale, so far
Speaker 13: into ridiculousness, that i Am not going to call him that.
Speaker 13: So I'm interested to hear what you guys think. Thanks
Speaker 13: for considering my question.
Speaker 5: Great question. So I agree that early.
Speaker 6: Season one to Panga would have no problem with whatever
Speaker 6: somebody identified as calling them. That Topanga is the person
Speaker 6: who channeled a spirit, you know, made work all made
Speaker 6: weird sounds, red auras vibrationally acceptable, Dewey versus Doy a
Speaker 6: pronunciation thing something, especially a kid really wanted.
Speaker 5: Season one to Panga would have no problem with that.
Speaker 6: Seasons five, six, seven to Panga, the total change in
Speaker 6: character would say, but that's not what it is. That's
Speaker 6: not what she would be exactly like she was in
Speaker 6: Girl Meets World. She was just obsessed with the reality
Speaker 6: of situations and kind of being obsessed with controlling everything
Speaker 6: to the way she thinks.
Speaker 5: It should be.
Speaker 6: So it's a little disappointing that there was no real
Speaker 6: embrace of season one to panga in season in the
Speaker 6: Girl Meets World version of topangas. We did do an
Speaker 6: episode eventually where I see myself in the mirror and
Speaker 6: I have like a little flashback of what I used
Speaker 6: to be like. But yeah, I think the tapanga that
Speaker 6: evolved in the later seasons of Boy Meets World is
Speaker 6: more on par with the tapanga we saw in Girl
Speaker 6: Meets World.
Speaker 5: For Better or Worse?
Speaker 1: Very good. Well, there's another cast member that got a
Speaker 1: specific question and I wanted to make sure this was included.
Speaker 5: Hello, Pod meets World. This is Alyssa from San Diego.
Speaker 14: Love the show, Love the podcast. My question is for
Speaker 14: the lobster lobster on days where you are in two scenes?
Speaker 14: Is it you in both scenes or do you have
Speaker 14: a lobster double?
Speaker 5: Do you do your own stunts? Love you All. Question dismissed.
Speaker 1: That's a good thing, you would think we wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to figure this out, but I was able to
Speaker 1: reach out to the Lobster. Oh the Lobster's answer in
Speaker 1: the form of a voice memo.
Speaker 15: Great, Alisa, thank you so much for the question. It
Speaker 15: means a lot that close to thirty years later, fans
Speaker 15: still appreciate my work without a side of butter if
Speaker 15: you know what I mean, Oh, but dipping sauces aside.
Speaker 15: I took my craft seriously on the set of Boy
Speaker 15: Meets World, and I still do today. You may not
Speaker 15: know this, but I'm a graduate of the Meisner technique,
Speaker 15: and I said to head under h Macy and Mammut
Speaker 15: at the Atlantic Acting School. So if I'm given two
Speaker 15: scenes in one day, you better believe it's me both times.
Speaker 15: Put me on a bookshelf, hide me in a student
Speaker 15: union buffet. Hell, you can put me in a thrupple
Speaker 15: with Amy and Allen if they're even still on this show.
Speaker 15: I'm there every scene because I'm a professional. Leave the
Speaker 15: stunt doubles to Teddy Ruxman and that clown from Poulttergeist. Anyway,
Speaker 15: thanks again for the question, but I gotta go. I
Speaker 15: have an audition for the bear to self tape. I
Speaker 15: think they're going to hide me in a sandwich or something. Okay,
Speaker 15: Lobster dismissed.
Speaker 2: As Wow, why does he sound like he's in a boiler?
Speaker 1: He made two creative decisions. One is the bubble. But
Speaker 1: then I realized this snapping, it must be his.
Speaker 5: He's talking.
Speaker 6: Does heals?
Speaker 2: Of course he's a handful.
Speaker 6: Super fan Eastern Allen as the voice of the Lobster.
Speaker 5: Let's let not let that go uncredited.
Speaker 1: All right, this is a great question from Anthony. All Right.
Speaker 16: I grew up in central Massachusetts, not dissimilar from where
Speaker 16: Will grew up with, you know, lack of electricity and
Speaker 16: all that. But there was a pervasive urban legend where
Speaker 16: I grew up that Topanga, or rather Danielle went to
Speaker 16: Quinnipiac College in Connecticut.
Speaker 3: It was.
Speaker 16: It was a big one. It was on par with
Speaker 16: like the kid that ate pop rocks and drank soda
Speaker 16: from the Wonder Years grew up to be Marilyn Manson.
Speaker 1: It was.
Speaker 16: It was widely accepted that Topanga, again, Danielle went to Quinnipiac.
Speaker 16: Question One, were you aware of this weird urban legend?
Speaker 16: I don't imagine you would be. And two What were
Speaker 16: some of the other ones that you guys heard, if
Speaker 16: there were any about Boy meets World cast or whatever,
Speaker 16: were the urban legend that wasn't true? All right, Thank
Speaker 16: you guys. I love the show, appreciate it.
Speaker 5: Wow, I told I've told you before.
Speaker 6: The rumor of me going to insert any college name
Speaker 6: I have heard more than any other rumor ever.
Speaker 2: Well, have you heard about this college in particular?
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe to Queenpiac I would know if you were Winnipa.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: No, I did not go to Quinnipiac. I have never
Speaker 6: even heard of Quinnipiac until right now. But that, for
Speaker 6: some reason which college I went to was a massive rumor.
Speaker 2: It makes sense.
Speaker 5: I didn't go until I was twenty seven.
Speaker 2: I guess if you grew up with the show, it
Speaker 2: would be like, where did you know she? Once the
Speaker 2: show ended? Where did she go?
Speaker 7: Like the actors must be and like people probably just
Speaker 7: saw a pretty blonde girl from a distance in their
Speaker 7: college and they were like, Oh, that's totally Japanga And
Speaker 7: then that just made it up.
Speaker 2: Because the other one.
Speaker 6: That I hear all the time, the other massive rumor,
Speaker 6: was that I dated someone's cousin So if you ever
Speaker 6: heard that I dated your cousin, I probably didn't Lance's cousin.
Speaker 5: I didn't date Lance's cousin.
Speaker 3: I'm saying, but if Lance's cousin said he dated my car,
Speaker 3: she dated my cousin, sure right.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I will say if if your rumor involves an
Speaker 1: Islands or a Fudruckers in Anaheim Hills, that's true.
Speaker 6: Yeah, if you're I will say, if your rumor involves
Speaker 6: any sort of chain restaurant, pretty much anywhere across the country,
Speaker 6: it's possible.
Speaker 5: It's true.
Speaker 3: By the way, speaking speaking of that, where we were
Speaker 3: just in San Francisco and Sacramento for our live shows,
Speaker 3: and Danielle's mom joined us, and I see her down
Speaker 3: in the I see Jennifer down in the lobby, and
Speaker 3: first of all, the joke worked again because she didn't
Speaker 3: recognize me. She was like, oh my god, she's like
Speaker 3: four c And then I said what are you doing
Speaker 3: down here? And she said, oh, I'm waiting for my
Speaker 3: door dash And I said, what'd you get? She went McDonald's.
Speaker 3: I was like, yep, that's Danielle's mom, So we can.
Speaker 2: See where it all comes from. There you go the
Speaker 2: rumor I've heard several about myself. I kept.
Speaker 3: You know, obviously, most young actors, especially teen actors in
Speaker 3: the nineties, eventually hear they're gay at some point. But
Speaker 3: the other one I heard all the time after the
Speaker 3: show was that I my anxiety got so bad that
Speaker 3: I was a goroaphobic and was never leaving my house,
Speaker 3: which was never true.
Speaker 1: So it's close, I mean it's pretty close.
Speaker 3: It was close, but it was never like I was
Speaker 3: shutting the door on people and like never.
Speaker 5: No, no, nobody was showing up, but you weren't leaving.
Speaker 2: I left every day.
Speaker 3: No, I leave my house every day, like go to
Speaker 3: bo store or something or Blockbuster.
Speaker 1: That was about it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: So okay, So people have other things they want figured out.
Speaker 1: This is James.
Speaker 17: Hey everyone, my name is James Love the podcast, and
Speaker 17: thanks for taking my question. So I am wondering how
Speaker 17: being on Boy Meets World set you up financially for
Speaker 17: your future. Now I'm not looking for any specific numbers
Speaker 17: or wondering exactly how much you made, but for instance,
Speaker 17: did the money you made from the show pay for
Speaker 17: your college or the purchasing of future homes? Did you
Speaker 17: not have to worry about working for many years to come.
Speaker 17: Are you still leaving off your boy Meets World money
Speaker 17: today or has it been gone for years now? Anyways,
Speaker 17: thanks again, have a great day.
Speaker 7: Good question, really, and I've always said that, like, yeah,
Speaker 7: boy Met World allowed me to pay for college. That
Speaker 7: was the I did not have to take student loans,
Speaker 7: and you know, I went to expensive schools. The two
Speaker 7: colleges I went to were pricey at the time, and
Speaker 7: I remember being very proud to be able to you know,
Speaker 7: pay for that and pay for my rent and like
Speaker 7: life expenses, and that definitely you know. I I my
Speaker 7: parents were also very good at telling me to invest
Speaker 7: my money and stuff. So I didn't actually do much
Speaker 7: stock market investing, but my parents directed me to buy
Speaker 7: some properties and that really paid off because they knew
Speaker 7: where to go and I bought. I ended up buying
Speaker 7: a vineyard, or I bought property that I converted to
Speaker 7: a vineyard.
Speaker 2: I you know, so my parents were just very good
Speaker 2: with my money.
Speaker 7: I could see if I had been left to my
Speaker 7: own devices, I probably wouldn't have invest in anything, and
Speaker 7: I probably would have run out of all that, you know,
Speaker 7: sort of like leg up that I had from Boy
Speaker 7: Meet's world pretty quickly. But as it was, my parents
Speaker 7: were very good with you know, helping me and advising me.
Speaker 7: And and then I kept working in my twenties, so
Speaker 7: I was fine. But I never, like, I did go
Speaker 7: through a period of not working when I like really
Speaker 7: kind of quit acting and I downsized my life intentionally
Speaker 7: before I got married. But I wasn't like I don't know,
Speaker 7: I just was spending a lot less like I was renting,
Speaker 7: and but I also wasn't making any money. But like
Speaker 7: I said, the real estate stuff paid off so that
Speaker 7: when I did get married, I could pay.
Speaker 2: For my wedding and buy a house.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yeah, I mean kind of the same. You know,
Speaker 3: both my parents are lawyers, and then my other brother
Speaker 3: worked on Wall Street, so I was kind of investing
Speaker 3: right away. And I bought my cont a narrowhead on
Speaker 3: the on the lake when we were doing boy, and
Speaker 3: then when I realized I wasn't getting there anything, I
Speaker 3: flipped that and I bought my house. So I mean,
Speaker 3: I I have been in my home now for twenty
Speaker 3: five years, and.
Speaker 1: For a year you didn't leave it exactly.
Speaker 2: I never left because I was agoraphobic.
Speaker 3: But no, so I mean I bought my house at
Speaker 3: exactly the right time, and it's obviously a wonderful investment.
Speaker 3: And yeah, I've been I've been very lucky with my
Speaker 3: finances with with you know, I'm I continued to work
Speaker 3: after the show and signed a bunch of deals after
Speaker 3: the show. And when the anxiety really cut my legs
Speaker 3: out from under me, and there was a time where.
Speaker 2: I couldn't audition and I couldn't do anything. I was
Speaker 2: still doing voiceover.
Speaker 3: But you make a lot less money doing voiceover than
Speaker 3: you do on camera, obviously, I mean, you do an
Speaker 3: entire episode of a cartoon. And at the time, it
Speaker 3: was like you got six hundred bucks, you'd get residuals,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't. You weren't making Boy Meets World kind of.
Speaker 2: Money residuals on video games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, So you know, it was one of those
Speaker 3: things where luckily I had been wise with my money
Speaker 3: and listen to my parents and my family to where
Speaker 3: then when you do have the lean years, which happens
Speaker 3: all the time I was, I was comfortable enough to
Speaker 3: maintain my lifestyle without having to worry about losing my
Speaker 3: home or anything along those lines.
Speaker 2: So it was, you know, and again writers.
Speaker 3: Right, there's years where you're making a ton of money
Speaker 3: and then there's years where you're making very.
Speaker 2: Little money, if any.
Speaker 3: So it's you know, that's that's the thing about our
Speaker 3: industry is you've got to when you are making the money,
Speaker 3: you've got to make as much as you can, and
Speaker 3: then you've got to be as smart with it as
Speaker 3: you can.
Speaker 2: You Yeah, going off and.
Speaker 7: Buying sile years where yeah, both Alex and I don't
Speaker 7: have any income, and it's like if we if we
Speaker 7: don't adjust our lifestyle or prepare for that, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: It's a crazy industry in that way. It's all about saving.
Speaker 3: So, yes, I've been I've been very lucky financially with
Speaker 3: saving my money.
Speaker 6: I was the least paid person on the show. I
Speaker 6: don't remember what I started with, but I think it
Speaker 6: was like maybe my weekly salary was like six thousand
Speaker 6: dollars an episode, but I wasn't in every episode for
Speaker 6: that first season. The second season, I got paid a
Speaker 6: little bit more than that, but not significant, like maybe
Speaker 6: seventy five hundred episode. Again, wasn't still in every episode.
Speaker 6: Then season three, I made fifteen thousand dollars an episode,
Speaker 6: and although that would be almost fully doubling. But that
Speaker 6: wasn't the year I doubled. There was one.
Speaker 5: Oh no, that was the year I doubled.
Speaker 6: I went from seventy I think is just the regular
Speaker 6: guest star rate.
Speaker 2: I think that's just the going guest star rate for ever.
Speaker 5: But I don't I think I made less than that.
Speaker 5: But maybe you're right.
Speaker 6: Maybe I made seventy five hundred right from the beginning,
Speaker 6: even from season one. I was thinking there was a
Speaker 6: little bit of a jump between season one and season two,
Speaker 6: but that probably doesn't make much sense. It was probably
Speaker 6: that I started at seventy five hundred a week and
Speaker 6: made that for seasons one and two, and then season three.
Speaker 6: We had a big negotiation and that's the one where
Speaker 6: I didn't wasn't going to show up for a table read,
Speaker 6: and it was a really big deal, and my dad
Speaker 6: and Judy were like, we're not letting you work for
Speaker 6: this anymore. They can't keep telling us that you weren't
Speaker 6: planned to be a part of the show. It's the
Speaker 6: third season. They know to expect you now. And they
Speaker 6: ended up doubling my salary, and so then I made
Speaker 6: fifteen thousand dollars an episode for seasons three and then.
Speaker 6: I have absolutely no memory of what the jumps were
Speaker 6: for four and five or six, but I know that
Speaker 6: by the time the show ended, I was making close to,
Speaker 6: if not about, thirty thousand dollars an episode.
Speaker 5: My dad is very good.
Speaker 6: Similar to writer and Will, my dad is very good
Speaker 6: at investing money. He was investing my money for me.
Speaker 6: I actually truly never saw my bank account, never saw
Speaker 6: I never knew, never saw a total, never knew how
Speaker 6: much money I had, never saw what it was invested in.
Speaker 6: Just fully and completely trusted my parents, and sometimes that
Speaker 6: works out like it did in my case. Both My
Speaker 6: mom was also she had heard so many horror stories
Speaker 6: of child actors finding out their parents were stealing their money.
Speaker 6: My mom had a fear that I would ever think
Speaker 6: that that was possible. She kept every single pay stub,
Speaker 6: she had every single thing organized. Any expense that I
Speaker 6: did have to pay for that was an expense for
Speaker 6: something pertaining to work she had itemized. I never once
Speaker 6: doubted that my parents were doing fine by me, and
Speaker 6: my dad invested my money. So yes, there were then
Speaker 6: many years where I didn't work after Boy Meets World,
Speaker 6: and I was able to live off of that money
Speaker 6: that I had saved, I wasn't smart with it. I
Speaker 6: wasted so much money on clothes and you know, stupid stuff.
Speaker 6: And eventually my parents said what are you doing? Because
Speaker 6: I was also renting, so I when I moved out
Speaker 6: when I was the last season of the show, I
Speaker 6: was able to pay for my own rent. But my
Speaker 6: parents were like, Danielle, you should really buy a place,
Speaker 6: like if you're really you know, if you should buy
Speaker 6: a place. And so I bought my first townhouse with
Speaker 6: Boy Meets World money. My first townhouse was like three
Speaker 6: hundred and nine thousand dollars, so I know, I put
Speaker 6: a sig nificant amount of money down and then had
Speaker 6: a small mortgage. And then when I sold that house,
Speaker 6: I sold it at like the height, and so I
Speaker 6: made a bunch of money on that house and then
Speaker 6: bought another house at the height. And I've been able
Speaker 6: to roll that into the different houses that I've lived
Speaker 6: in over the years. I've now moved a bunch of
Speaker 6: times and owned many different properties.
Speaker 5: Is the actual Like, if I.
Speaker 6: Were to say, are there any remaining Boy Meets World
Speaker 6: dollars left?
Speaker 5: I don't think so it's the answer is.
Speaker 7: No, no, yeah, but if you think about the investments
Speaker 7: you made right.
Speaker 6: The investments, the properties, the things, it was it allowed
Speaker 6: me to buy.
Speaker 1: Comfort to right, like the comfort things, and totally it's
Speaker 1: like being more enrich in some ways, except we were
Speaker 1: born that way.
Speaker 2: We just worked for it.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean, like getting that leg up under
Speaker 7: the age of twenty isn't like having.
Speaker 3: Our support system that we did people around us, right.
Speaker 7: But I completely if somebody tells me that they were
Speaker 7: a child actor, even if they were a series for
Speaker 7: seven years, I can't assume that they have any of
Speaker 7: that much left. No, it's like, oh not, because it
Speaker 7: doesn't audit. It's like you have to have parents like
Speaker 7: we all did, saying like do this, don't you do that,
Speaker 7: put your money here, let it, you know, just be
Speaker 7: conservative about things and also just yeah, don't don't spend
Speaker 7: too much or don't stay it on ridiculous.
Speaker 6: The other thing I would think, Actually, I take it back,
Speaker 6: are there boy meets world dollars left. I do still
Speaker 6: make some money in residuals. It's not enough to live
Speaker 6: off of, let's say total in a year. If I
Speaker 6: had to guesstimate, I would say it's for me and
Speaker 6: residuals are based on how much money you made, so
Speaker 6: based on your original salary. So again, I was, you know,
Speaker 6: one of the lowest, the lowest paid person.
Speaker 5: Maybe I don't know about Lindsay. Maybe Lindsay made less
Speaker 5: than me. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I mean, I'm sure some people just stayed in guest
Speaker 7: star rate the entire time. So yeah, whatever to.
Speaker 6: Say, not enough to live off of, not even close
Speaker 6: enough to live off of. I'm talking like twenty thousand
Speaker 6: dollars a year maybe, but still that's Boy meet that's
Speaker 6: technically still Boy Meets World money that comes in.
Speaker 2: Really you think it's about twenty thousand dollars, that's great.
Speaker 7: I feel like I I feel like I'm like shocked
Speaker 7: when I get, like, I don't know, a five thousand
Speaker 7: dollars check and I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, whoa, this is? Yeah, But I think over the
Speaker 2: year it I think, building know.
Speaker 6: What, you know what I'm wondering, I'm wondering how much
Speaker 6: of it is. Maybe do I get Girl Meets World.
Speaker 2: Residuals because you do, that's what it does.
Speaker 6: So maybe maybe I'm not. Maybe I'm maybe I don't know.
Speaker 6: Maybe it's girl and Boy Meets World mixed together. And
Speaker 6: of course, you know, I was in every episode of that,
Speaker 6: so it's possible it's there. But yeah, I mean, there's
Speaker 6: there's no doubt that without Boy Meets World, we wouldn't
Speaker 6: have been able to have course done the things that
Speaker 6: we did. But also, like you said, will our support systems,
Speaker 6: our parents and family were so instrumental in us being
Speaker 6: able to hold on doo our money and give us
Speaker 6: some security, And it's just a lot.
Speaker 2: Of all over it.
Speaker 7: Our parents had jobs and were secure themselves in ways
Speaker 7: because a lot n't have to pay for them, right,
Speaker 7: That's the thing, Like my dad had and it still
Speaker 7: has an incredible pension from San Francisco Fire Department, which
Speaker 7: is like the greatest post retirement pension you can have.
Speaker 7: And like, yeah, I mean I just think about that,
Speaker 7: like how much of a benefit it was, because I
Speaker 7: see other child actors like our generation, their parents needed
Speaker 7: that money, yes, to even be able to support their
Speaker 7: kid working, you know.
Speaker 2: And like that it was a huge drain on the kids' finances.
Speaker 2: It's a bummery Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Well, here's a production question for Avery.
Speaker 2: Hey, pau meets Brold.
Speaker 9: I'm a big fan and specifically, I really love the
Speaker 9: pre show chatter. Your conversations are always so authentic and
Speaker 9: often hilarious. And I'm just wondering how you decide who's
Speaker 9: going to be kicking off the pre show chatter that week?
Speaker 9: How do you know what you're going to be talking about?
Speaker 9: It's it predetermined? Do you make it up on the spot?
Speaker 9: Do you know what the other person's going to start
Speaker 9: talking about? We'd love to know more about that process.
Speaker 9: Love you guys, Bye.
Speaker 2: Okay, A couple things.
Speaker 3: First of all, how any of these questions are allowed
Speaker 3: about these people telling us exactly where they are and
Speaker 3: if it's safe in their town.
Speaker 2: I will never understand. That's day B. I think here's
Speaker 2: the easiest way to answer that question.
Speaker 3: That's right now as three friends re enact exactly how
Speaker 3: we do this.
Speaker 2: Ready, okay, anybody have a pre show chatter?
Speaker 5: Do you want to talk about anything?
Speaker 2: You got?
Speaker 18: Anything?
Speaker 3: You got?
Speaker 2: Writers got the car ahead and that.
Speaker 1: Is the production. That's the piece of the production that
Speaker 1: takes place right before we go.
Speaker 7: Or sometimes it'll go around for like two minutes of
Speaker 7: like really none of us have anything else, and.
Speaker 1: Then it will The other option is someone jumps up
Speaker 1: and goes I got precore chatter.
Speaker 3: If it's something great that you've been holding on to,
Speaker 3: it's like, Okay, this happened, and I can't wait to
Speaker 3: actually do have a note folder that I keep.
Speaker 1: Do you really?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Because I because, especially when we started doing the tour,
Speaker 7: because we also have pre show chatter for the live
Speaker 7: show shows, and so I just was like, any time
Speaker 7: I would think of something, I would be like, oh,
Speaker 7: I want to talk to Will and Danielle about this.
Speaker 2: I'll write it down. So I have a list that
Speaker 2: I refer to.
Speaker 1: I don't well, here's something that could become pre show
Speaker 1: chatter from a listener of the show named Ross.
Speaker 19: Okay, so this is primarily for Will and write Sorry,
Speaker 19: daniel I just wanted to know if you knew that
Speaker 19: technically Ryder played Bill Daniels's grandson in a different show.
Speaker 19: I'm like Will and that I'm obsessed with sitcom. In
Speaker 19: a while back, I was watching through the Golden Girls,
Speaker 19: and because I am a completist about things, I watched
Speaker 19: all of the spin offs as well, one of which
Speaker 19: was a TV series that lasted for I think it
Speaker 19: was three seasons called Nurses, And on that show, in
Speaker 19: one episode, Ryder played one of the main characters, Hank's son,
Speaker 19: and in a different episode I think like two episodes later,
Speaker 19: Bill Daniels played Hank's father, so basically Ryder is Bill
Speaker 19: Daniel's grandson.
Speaker 2: Anyway, I just was wondering if you were aware of
Speaker 2: this or not. Wait, yeah, that's cool, And no I
Speaker 2: did not know that at all. That's amazing.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I was like a total brat. I kept getting cast
Speaker 7: as like a brat or like.
Speaker 2: A rich to Dennis the Menace look get I guess.
Speaker 7: Because it was like empty nests and nurses, both of those.
Speaker 7: I was like a total wise like little Brady kid.
Speaker 2: Wait, weren't you Also, wasn't Home Improvement? Weren't you kind
Speaker 2: of like a wissas on Home improve Yeah, yep, I
Speaker 2: was like a total punk. So yeah, I was just
Speaker 2: always a brat. I just always the kid you wanted
Speaker 2: to smack.
Speaker 7: And I was always getting like the end of every
Speaker 7: episode of sitcoms that I guest starred on, I was
Speaker 7: always like me, like learning my lesson or being told
Speaker 7: off by someone from the cast. Yeah, but that's so funny. Wow,
Speaker 7: I got to go back and check out nurse.
Speaker 3: That's a great little TV hook right there. That's cool,
Speaker 3: and they did. They tried to spin off ninety three
Speaker 3: different shows from from Golden Girls, who Again, it's a
Speaker 3: different show when you watch it now, knowing that they're
Speaker 3: all supposed to be in their fifties ancient.
Speaker 1: You know. Well, while we're on TV history and trivia,
Speaker 1: this one really caught my attention.
Speaker 20: Hey guys, this is Christian from Kentucky. This question is
Speaker 20: for writer. I meant to ask you this at the
Speaker 20: Columbus Meet and greet, but I was a little too
Speaker 20: stunned to speak. I was there with my wife in
Speaker 20: the underpant shirt. Anyway, The question is, we were a
Speaker 20: fan of your wife's character on The Fosters, and I
Speaker 20: know her character was pregnant at some point, and I
Speaker 20: was just wondering if she was actually pregnant in real
Speaker 20: life with your son, because I thought the timeline might
Speaker 20: have lined up. Also, will the Lizzie McGuire movie Slander
Speaker 20: Will Not Be Tolerated?
Speaker 1: Wow?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 7: They wrote Indie into The Fosters, so she got Yeah,
Speaker 7: she got pregnant in real life, and then they decided
Speaker 7: to write the pregnancy into the show and she had
Speaker 7: to do a car accident scene while she's very pregnant,
Speaker 7: and she was very uncomfortable with it because they it
Speaker 7: was like one of those you know, it was a
Speaker 7: poor man's process, but they were actually like slamming the car,
Speaker 7: like jerking it, and she was like nine months pregnant
Speaker 7: at the time, and she was like.
Speaker 2: They did one take and She's.
Speaker 7: Like, I don't think we can do that again, and
Speaker 7: they were like, actually, we got it, We're fine, but
Speaker 7: she was very yeah, yeah, So and then I think
Speaker 7: I think Foster's might have been the first set that
Speaker 7: India ever came to as a baby. Came a Girl
Speaker 7: Meets World definitely when he was slightly older, but as
Speaker 7: like a really little baby. She I brought him to
Speaker 7: the set of Foster's so he could see his mom when.
Speaker 3: She show yeah, that's really amazing, as opposed to the
Speaker 3: Lizzie Maguire movie, which wasn't.
Speaker 1: Oh he's continuing the streak. We're moving on. This is
Speaker 1: Emily you as a question about how do you see yourselves?
Speaker 21: Okay, so all of you have, at some point on
Speaker 21: the pod or in Q and A's or whatever, discussed
Speaker 21: how being a teen beat heart throb had made you
Speaker 21: very uncomfortable at different points in your life for different reasons.
Speaker 21: So that being said, now that you're all in your forties,
Speaker 21: genuinely wondering, do you still dislike compliments that any compliments
Speaker 21: that are appearance based like you did in the past,
Speaker 21: or now that you're in your forties, have you all
Speaker 21: more or less come to terms with being shall we say,
Speaker 21: objectively hot people.
Speaker 6: First of all, thank you keep it coming again, Jess. No,
Speaker 6: I tell you what. Now that I'm old, I want
Speaker 6: to be reminded.
Speaker 5: As often as possible. If you think I'm attractive, you
Speaker 5: better tell me.
Speaker 2: Well, you have to be reminded. You're old, and you're forgetting.
Speaker 5: You're old, and I'm forgetful.
Speaker 1: Speak up.
Speaker 5: Writers, still bothered by it?
Speaker 2: No, you know what?
Speaker 7: Well, First of all, I don't get it that all.
Speaker 7: I just feel like the whole thing has changed. Like
Speaker 7: back then, it felt like it was something purely physical, right,
Speaker 7: like I was supposed to have the certain hair or
Speaker 7: bed well, to be trendy, and like I just never
Speaker 7: fit like I never liked that, Whereas like now I
Speaker 7: don't know, like I feel like if people give me
Speaker 7: a compliment it's more based on maybe who I am
Speaker 7: like how I dress, like hopefully something about my personality.
Speaker 7: I don't know, but I guess that's kind of evading
Speaker 7: the question. The point is, you know, I'm comfortable with myself.
Speaker 7: I'm comfortable with myself mostly from doing this podcast and
Speaker 7: watching the old show, watching the show and looking back
Speaker 7: and being like.
Speaker 2: You know, I feel good about the acting.
Speaker 7: I feel good about the way I look back then,
Speaker 7: even though I was so insecure back then, I look
Speaker 7: at and I'm like, oh, come on, man.
Speaker 2: You were a cool kid, Like that's cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I just yeah, I just felt out of control,
Speaker 7: and now I feel in control of my appearance now.
Speaker 2: I think like shaving earlier this year was part of that.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 7: It was like why am I because I used to
Speaker 7: always have a beer to try and look older, to
Speaker 7: try and hide my face.
Speaker 2: And when I shaved, and I was like, I like
Speaker 2: my face. I like my face. In all the forums, it's.
Speaker 7: Fine, Like I like, yeah, I feel confident about how
Speaker 7: I look and I'm comfortable with it. I mean, sure
Speaker 7: I could be in better shape and work out more,
Speaker 7: but in general, I feel I feel okay.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm oh, I always hate how I look. It's
Speaker 3: just how I am. I'm very harsh for myself about.
Speaker 5: How I'm so harsh on yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: I couldn't hear you through my fat But the thing
Speaker 3: that I that I like, which we've actually talked about
Speaker 3: on the stage while we're doing the podcast, is that
Speaker 3: it feels different getting compliments from pod Meats World fans
Speaker 3: than it did from just people who watch Boy Meets
Speaker 3: World because they didn't know us. They knew us as
Speaker 3: just Sean Tipanga and Eric that was it, so we
Speaker 3: were characters on a TV screen. We're very two dimensional
Speaker 3: that they knew nothing about us, whereas our fans from
Speaker 3: Podmeats World have gotten to know us as people. So
Speaker 3: I feel like when I'm getting a compliment from one
Speaker 3: of them, it seems and a lot of them, by
Speaker 3: the way, we're Boy Meets World fans that have morphed
Speaker 3: into Pod Meats World fans, so they've gotten to know
Speaker 3: us over the years, and it seems more personal and
Speaker 3: more genuine because it's like, I'm I'm I know you
Speaker 3: and your personalities and I think that's very attractive or
Speaker 3: something like that, and that's it's really sweet to hear.
Speaker 2: So it is I'm.
Speaker 3: Trying to get better with myself and also realize I'm
Speaker 3: almost fifty years old and I'm not going to lose
Speaker 3: weight the same way I did when I was twenty,
Speaker 3: and it is what it is. But yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get less harsh with myself.
Speaker 6: We are trying to help you get less harsh with
Speaker 6: yourself too. Also, all of you who love Peak.
Speaker 2: Will season six, Season six, Peak Will.
Speaker 5: I'm hoping that helps too, because everyone's saying you look
Speaker 5: exactly the same as you did during Peak Will.
Speaker 2: I don't, but that's very soon, okay whatever.
Speaker 1: This is one of our younger fans. Bonnie.
Speaker 22: Hi, my name is Bonnie. I'm eight years old and
Speaker 22: I'm from Havana, Illinois, and I love your sho I
Speaker 22: love your podcast, and I was wondering have you ever
Speaker 22: gotten injured on set?
Speaker 5: Thanks by great question.
Speaker 3: First of all, Bonnie did it right, says her name,
Speaker 3: her age, and where she's from.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Bonnie.
Speaker 5: I have talked about this before. I don't know if
Speaker 5: I've talked about it on the podcast or if I've
Speaker 5: talked about it just in live shows.
Speaker 6: But when we did that Subway episode where we were
Speaker 6: all trapped on the subway. There was a little piece
Speaker 6: of metal way down low between my ankle and my knee,
Speaker 6: like low on my shin that was sticking out and
Speaker 6: I walked by it and it gave me about a
Speaker 6: one inch cut on my leg and it started bleeding
Speaker 6: and it scarred. So I actually have a scar from
Speaker 6: that subway episode.
Speaker 2: I got answered twice.
Speaker 12: Ye.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: One was I think I've talked about was when we
Speaker 3: were playing football or basketball. I fell on my thumb
Speaker 3: and it was the day that Spencer was leaving and
Speaker 3: he was my legal guardian and wasn't supposed to leave,
Speaker 3: but I was like, yeah, go for the weekend. He
Speaker 3: had to go somewhere for work for the weekend, and
Speaker 3: David Combs saw my thumb was swelling up and was like, well,
Speaker 3: we have to take you to the hospital where spend.
Speaker 3: This was now after the show night, so it was
Speaker 3: like nine o'clock at night. Spencer was gone, and David
Speaker 3: was like, Hey, I'm noticing that swelling.
Speaker 2: We got to take you to the hospital. Let's call Spencer.
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, no, it's fine.
Speaker 3: He's like well, and then I had to tell him, hey,
Speaker 3: he's gone for the weekend, and he's like, no, that's
Speaker 3: not okay. They Paige Spencer at the airport. They pulled
Speaker 3: him off the plane and he had to come back
Speaker 3: and sit with me while they went, yeah, you sprained
Speaker 3: your thumb, but I remember it being a big thing.
Speaker 3: And then the other one was I'm not even sure
Speaker 3: I've ever even talked about this. My anxiety had hit.
Speaker 3: It was season seven. My anxiety was really bad, and
Speaker 3: nobody knew about it. I was keeping it very quiet,
Speaker 3: and I had my Adavan, which was my as needed
Speaker 3: pills in my pocket, and I had the whole thing
Speaker 3: of them in my pocket, and I had to do
Speaker 3: a stunt where I like jumped down on the floor
Speaker 3: and I l ended on the pills and the entire
Speaker 3: bottle smashed against my leg and a piece of the
Speaker 3: plastic shot into my leg and a huge bruise that
Speaker 3: took up like my entire thigh formed over the next
Speaker 3: day or two, where my whole thigh turned black and
Speaker 3: I had to pull out like this piece of plastic
Speaker 3: because my Adavan pills smashed into my leg. So those
Speaker 3: are the Those are the two times on the set
Speaker 3: that I got injured.
Speaker 2: I don't think I was ever injured on Boy Meet's World.
Speaker 3: Wait didn't you have Did you have some sort of
Speaker 3: a rollerblading thing which made them stop you rollerblading?
Speaker 2: Did something happen? No, I mean my mom broke her
Speaker 2: maybe I remember that. I think that was before boy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm trying to think I broke my arm rollerblading,
Speaker 7: But that was before boy you.
Speaker 2: Had your toe thing. But that doesn't my toe thing.
Speaker 7: That was David COLEMs being like, you know, because I
Speaker 7: had just been letting this ingrown toenail go and he
Speaker 7: was like, let's go get that fixed now. And then
Speaker 7: I had to work that night on Vicoins.
Speaker 2: But I don't think I ever like hurt myself. It's
Speaker 2: probably gonna come to me another time, but okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, here is Jenny from Boston. She has a
Speaker 1: question that is straight to Danielle's heart.
Speaker 12: Hi, Podmetzworld, this is Jenny. I'm sending you this voice
Speaker 12: note from Boston, Massachusetts. I want you guys to tell
Speaker 12: me if I'm writing guessing your McDonald's order. I know
Speaker 12: Will and Danielle like McDonald's, So here we go. Will
Speaker 12: you're getting a big mac. I know you're getting some
Speaker 12: large fries. A soda, some nuggets with your order. You
Speaker 12: like to splurge when you go to McDonald's. You're also
Speaker 12: getting a double cheeseburger for later, because why not, Danielle,
Speaker 12: I believe you are McChicken girly. If not a mcdouble,
Speaker 12: You're getting a side of fries, a small drink, and
Speaker 12: I think you want to make flurry for later. Writers
Speaker 12: gonna ask you to stop at a local spot because
Speaker 12: he needs to order his vegetarian wrap. He is not
Speaker 12: even ordering a salad for McDonald's, so you got to.
Speaker 2: Make that stop for him.
Speaker 12: Let me know if I am right, and thank you, guys.
Speaker 10: Bye.
Speaker 2: Amazing. Not right for you, guys, Huh, she was right
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 3: The part part of it was right, But it's not
Speaker 3: even close to what I order, which is why I
Speaker 3: don't go to McDonald's. We've talked about this, how I
Speaker 3: invent the fake guy in the car with me because
Speaker 3: I order so much food that I'm pretending I'm buying
Speaker 3: for two people. So my regular order was a number
Speaker 3: one supersized, so that's the big mac.
Speaker 2: Oh, so she was right for a very small part
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 14: Mac.
Speaker 3: And then I would get a double quarter pounder with cheese,
Speaker 3: a double cheeseburger, yes, a double, a double cheeseburger, two
Speaker 3: regular cheeseburgers, and two medium fries, and then I would
Speaker 3: get why not just get one large because in my
Speaker 3: head for them, I was like ordering.
Speaker 2: For other people. So it's like, oh, what does Dave want?
Speaker 2: Dave wants that. This is why I don't go to McDonald's.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, that's a lot of calorie. Yeah, thousands
Speaker 2: and thousands of calories, which is why I do not
Speaker 2: go there. I think that's like nine thousand calories. No,
Speaker 2: it's not healthy. It's not like yeah, no, oh god, no, terrible.
Speaker 3: And sometimes I would break it up into third meal
Speaker 3: and fourth meal where it was like I'd eat half
Speaker 3: of it for dinner and then I'd have a couple
Speaker 3: drinks at night or smoke some weed or something, and
Speaker 3: then at at two o'clock in the morning eat the
Speaker 3: rest of it. So again, I wasn't living what they
Speaker 3: would call a healthy lifestyle.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: This is also you know, a two packs of cigarettes
Speaker 3: a day or pack and a half in Again, this
Speaker 3: is I shaved years off my life one super sized
Speaker 3: meal and pack of smokes at a time.
Speaker 6: So yeah, when I was pregnant. McDonald's was my craving
Speaker 6: and I always got the same thing. It was a
Speaker 6: quarter pounder with cheese, French fries and a vanilla milkshake.
Speaker 1: And I was brought to the hospital and it was.
Speaker 6: The first thing I ate immediately after I delivered both
Speaker 6: my children.
Speaker 11: To me.
Speaker 6: Now and then, since that time, I don't eat McDonald's anymore.
Speaker 6: But since that time, I fell in love with their cheeseburgers,
Speaker 6: just plain cheeseburgers.
Speaker 2: McDonald's. It's recently because we were there not that long ago.
Speaker 6: Yeah, when the last time you and I went was
Speaker 6: probably the last time I eat it.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 7: Yeah, she nailed me in this regard to when boy
Speaker 7: Me's world ended and I drove to New York.
Speaker 2: I moved to New York. My girlfriend and.
Speaker 7: I bought tofu like a pack because we knew we
Speaker 7: would have to stop at like McDonald's to eat because
Speaker 7: there'd just be times. So we bought pre bought a
Speaker 7: bunch of tofu, and then you'd go and order a
Speaker 7: cheeseburger without the meat and then put the cube of tofu.
Speaker 2: That's where I used to eat the McDonald's that tasted
Speaker 2: pretty good.
Speaker 7: I mean you know, because what you like about a
Speaker 7: burger is all the the stuff around it, the sauces
Speaker 7: and when I.
Speaker 2: Like the meat.
Speaker 1: Caitlin who wants to hear more about suggestions this one
Speaker 1: specifically from Daniel.
Speaker 23: Hey, Daniel will and writer. I am so, so, so excited
Speaker 23: to be sending this in I seriously love the podcast.
Speaker 23: I never missed an episode. You guys are the absolute best.
Speaker 23: Quick story before I dumped into my questions, I was
Speaker 23: recently on a flight to Daniel's favorite place in the world,
Speaker 23: Las Vegas, and the guy sitting next to me on
Speaker 23: the plane I noticed I was listening to Pod meets
Speaker 23: World and we completely bonded over it. So I just
Speaker 23: want to let you know that your podcast reaches near
Speaker 23: and far.
Speaker 1: I am sending this.
Speaker 23: Message all the way from Boston, Massachusetts.
Speaker 5: And before you.
Speaker 23: Ask, you did have a little is this how I
Speaker 23: meet my husband moment? But turns out he's Marriats without
Speaker 23: dream died pretty quickly. But anyways, I'm actually considering going
Speaker 23: back to Vegas and the next couple of months, and Danielle,
Speaker 23: if you have any recommendations for me, please let me know.
Speaker 5: Oh that's the end of the question. Question Okay, gosh recommendations.
Speaker 6: I love the soft serve at the font and blue
Speaker 6: upstairs from from Capones.
Speaker 5: It's Capones.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's also a great pizza Miami Slice.
Speaker 1: I in Arcade, we love the pinball arcade.
Speaker 5: Music and ball arcade is great.
Speaker 1: Is really fun, you know, gambling your life away.
Speaker 5: Play some black jack, ride the gondola. You know.
Speaker 6: Listen, I'm trying to find things that other people might
Speaker 6: want to fill their time with.
Speaker 5: I'm just sitting at a table.
Speaker 2: Is it the Venetian is the one where they have
Speaker 2: the indoor adult miniature golf.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure there's more than one of them, but.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's I think it's cool. I think it's
Speaker 3: a cool place in the Venetian. You get some food,
Speaker 3: you can do that, and like inside you can play
Speaker 3: really cool goes like a floor two. So I think
Speaker 3: I think something like that would be fun as well.
Speaker 1: There's a top golf over where that wolf is too.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I do know the top.
Speaker 2: That's that's fun stuff.
Speaker 1: Well, I think Danielle's suggestion here it just involves gambling,
Speaker 1: and she doesn't want to say it exactly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I was trying to come up with
Speaker 6: some things that other people might want to do, but
Speaker 6: I would just walk in and down at a table
Speaker 6: and then leave when my plane leaves forty eight hours later.
Speaker 1: This is a question from Felicia, who has noticed a
Speaker 1: theme in Boy Meets World and wants to know if
Speaker 1: you know anything more about it.
Speaker 5: Hello.
Speaker 3: Name is Felicia.
Speaker 5: I love this show.
Speaker 18: I've been listening since the beginning and you guys are great.
Speaker 18: I've sent an email about this topic before, but not
Speaker 18: really in the form of this question. And so, as
Speaker 18: a foster parent rewatching Boy Meets World, has I've been
Speaker 18: able to see themes of foster care kind of woven
Speaker 18: throughout the whole series. I mean, Sean in many ways
Speaker 18: essentially was a foster kid when his dad left him
Speaker 18: with the Matthews, and then he stayed with you know,
Speaker 18: mister Turner, and then you see the recurring theme with
Speaker 18: Tommy as well.
Speaker 2: Now that we're in.
Speaker 18: Season six, do you know if this was a topic
Speaker 18: that was near and dear to Michael Jacob's heart or
Speaker 18: to the writer's room, or where did that theme come from?
Speaker 2: It's so funny. We were just asked the same question
Speaker 2: at our last live show. Yeah, was that Lauren, by
Speaker 2: any chance.
Speaker 1: Who just asked that, Yeah, that's Felicia.
Speaker 2: Felicia okay, And and I don't know, is my answer.
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if if one of you
Speaker 3: two know, but I don't know if that was a
Speaker 3: thing that Michael was really into adoption in foster care
Speaker 3: or one of the other producers or writers was.
Speaker 2: I honestly couldn't tell you.
Speaker 5: I know, I don't know either.
Speaker 2: No, I don't. I don't think so. I mean, yeah.
Speaker 7: The reason I asked if this was Lauren is because
Speaker 7: we did get an email from a woman named Lauren
Speaker 7: who alerted us that there is a book called The
Speaker 7: Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow, which is by Kristin Martin,
Speaker 7: and it's it's the Dark History of American orphan Hood,
Speaker 7: and it's it's a It talks about representations of foster
Speaker 7: care and orphans in popular television and popular culture, and
Speaker 7: has an entire chapter dedicated to boy Meet's World. And
Speaker 7: so Lauren send us this email. I actually went and
Speaker 7: got the book and read the chapter. I want to
Speaker 7: finish reading the whole book, and maybe we'll do ap
Speaker 7: preciach chatter. We'll talk about it and I'll have you
Speaker 7: guys read at least the chapter. It was really interesting
Speaker 7: the take on Boy Meets World and Sean in particular.
Speaker 7: The author Kristen's take is that Sean is an orphan figure,
Speaker 7: and she sort of compares this to representations of orphans
Speaker 7: and movies and but especially in the nineties. You know,
Speaker 7: it's a it's a really interesting take. It's not super
Speaker 7: positive about Boy Meets World.
Speaker 2: It actually well.
Speaker 7: She comes away saying that that that Boy Meets World
Speaker 7: is very dismissive of foster care or orphanages or any
Speaker 7: sort of social services that would actually exist in America.
Speaker 7: In other words, when Shawn's in trouble, when Shawn is
Speaker 7: nowhere to live, he has to be saved by a
Speaker 7: teacher or a family friend. It's either the Matthews, mister Feenie,
Speaker 7: or mister Turner that swoops in.
Speaker 2: There's no oh, actual.
Speaker 7: You know what would actually be like a social worker
Speaker 7: who comes along. You know, there's no there's nobody reports
Speaker 7: Sean missing to anybody, or that Sean's parents have abandoned him.
Speaker 2: That never gets officially reported.
Speaker 7: And the implication is that you know, these other people
Speaker 7: can sort of step up and help Sean or save Sean.
Speaker 7: And the implication of that is that the social services
Speaker 7: would be worse than that. And I think that that
Speaker 7: kind of is the standard idea, especially in the nineties,
Speaker 7: that yeah, like if you were an orphan and you
Speaker 7: were at this mercy of the state, that would really
Speaker 7: be bad.
Speaker 1: And the implication the punky Brewster syndrome.
Speaker 2: Right right, right, it'd be better to be saved by
Speaker 2: a rich person.
Speaker 7: So it's and you know, and and and Kristin who
Speaker 7: wrote the book is actually an orphan herself. And that's
Speaker 7: why I want to read the rest of the book
Speaker 7: before I really bring, you know, go into it.
Speaker 2: But I'll bring it up.
Speaker 7: But I thought it was fascinating to think of boy
Speaker 7: Meet's world representation of of.
Speaker 2: Of orphans or foster care. But yeah, it does seem
Speaker 2: like a recurring theme in some ways. But even even
Speaker 2: with Tommy, it doesn't seem like it's not super positive
Speaker 2: about the system, right.
Speaker 3: No, I mean again, Tommy is adopted by a loving family.
Speaker 3: They mentioned that they have another adopted child, so it's
Speaker 3: I mean, I guess they're they're showing it to be
Speaker 3: clean and safe the place, and that and that the
Speaker 3: foster care woman is are the woman who runs the
Speaker 3: place is obviously very much cares about the children, right,
Speaker 3: So I mean that's at least shown in a positive that.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And then and and Eric does because if Eric adopted
Speaker 7: Tommy for instance, right, what would that be saying? Because
Speaker 7: the whole point is like the best thing for Tommy
Speaker 7: is for somebody like Eric to swoop in and save him, right,
Speaker 7: And that's not the case there, So that's that's a
Speaker 7: that's a counterpoint for sure to write.
Speaker 3: But they definitely also when they when they come to
Speaker 3: government stuff. I mean, when what's what's her name from
Speaker 3: Jurassic Park, Ariana Richard's character was getting beaten on, it
Speaker 3: wasn't like it was nobody was calling anybody wasn't calling
Speaker 3: protective services, right, And I mean that was part of
Speaker 3: the part of the story, wasn't it.
Speaker 2: No, we end up going to the police. I think
Speaker 2: eventually they that was what you come up with, is
Speaker 2: that you need to call sote.
Speaker 1: That was like the last ditch effort.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So we end on a higher note here. This
Speaker 1: is our last question. And I think it's probably best
Speaker 1: you guys answer quickly on this one, because if you
Speaker 1: think about it too long, I think it kind of
Speaker 1: defeats the reasoning to ask it, but like here it is.
Speaker 24: Hey, everybody, my name is Mackenzie from West Virginia. My
Speaker 24: question is are there any real life scenarios that you've
Speaker 24: had that you felt more prepared for because of the
Speaker 24: storylines and the lessons that were learned on Boy Meets World. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I mean, remember we were just started this podcast and
Speaker 7: we hit the Grandma as a rolling stone episode and
Speaker 7: we've just recorded it, and literally like two weeks later,
Speaker 7: I was texting with you guys about a situation that
Speaker 7: mirrored the episode exactly.
Speaker 2: Or I was like, I don't know what to.
Speaker 7: Tell Indy about this family member and I don't know
Speaker 7: what to say, and you guys, I think one of
Speaker 7: you were like, that's great. I'm always at was, Oh
Speaker 7: my god, you're right. I just need to be the
Speaker 7: Allen in this situation and say basically Alan's monologue to
Speaker 7: it was perfect timing. It was like, oh, this is
Speaker 7: how you deal with this because I don't want to
Speaker 7: bad mouth a family member, but at the same time,
Speaker 7: you know, I want to be honest, and yeah, it
Speaker 7: was perfect.
Speaker 2: It was so perfect. Yeah, it's definitely happened.
Speaker 7: Where things from Boybet's World have echoed in my mind
Speaker 7: and affected the way I think about stuff for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think that same episode The Grandma's a Rolling Stone.
Speaker 6: I think anybody who has family that they don't necessarily
Speaker 6: see eye to eye on everything with can relate to
Speaker 6: that episode where you go, what's if I want this
Speaker 6: person in my life and in my family's life and
Speaker 6: in my kid's life.
Speaker 5: What's the best way for me to handle.
Speaker 6: This, For me to let my kid know that I
Speaker 6: don't necessarily condone the behavior of this person, but that
Speaker 6: we love them anyway.
Speaker 5: And that I think is just a good Oh, we're
Speaker 5: all lesson for everyone. Well, what about that?
Speaker 3: Not that I can think of, But that's not to
Speaker 3: say it hasn't happened. I can't think of anything right
Speaker 3: off at the top of my head because Eric usually
Speaker 3: also has some pretty can have some pretty absurd storylines.
Speaker 1: So I mean, you take care of Bill and Bonnie.
Speaker 1: I mean you feel like that's kind of like in
Speaker 1: line with how you were on boy Met World in
Speaker 1: the storyline.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's that kind of I mean,
Speaker 3: maybe it's it's more relationship be stuff. I think that
Speaker 3: I you know, it's Boy meets World and meeting everybody
Speaker 3: there and the relationships I've had that have lasted. It's
Speaker 3: more about that friendship. I mean, Danielle and Ryder are my,
Speaker 3: Corey and Corey, Sean and Sean however you want to so,
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, there's certainly it's it's there's certainly
Speaker 3: a closeness that develops. But I can't think of any
Speaker 3: specific storyline where I'm like, yes, that really taught me
Speaker 3: how to do X Y or Z.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you and them were born to be together in
Speaker 7: the universe, requited universe, no matter what happens, no matter
Speaker 7: what happens, you stick it out.
Speaker 2: We are with all those other women who keep throwing
Speaker 2: themselves at you.
Speaker 7: Oh it's funny because I do think about the life
Speaker 7: lessons of Boy Meets World, and like all the ones
Speaker 7: that I really appreciate have to do with friendship, education
Speaker 7: and family, like you know, being with your family and
Speaker 7: and and being a kid.
Speaker 2: When you get into the relationship stuff, I just yeah,
Speaker 2: I don't want.
Speaker 7: To take any I know, basically since the Romeo and
Speaker 7: Juliet episode, you know, since the Long Walk to Pittsburgh,
Speaker 7: I'm like all of those like life lessons about Corey
Speaker 7: and Topanga. I just want to throw out the window.
Speaker 7: I don't I don't take those abstract lessons seriously. I
Speaker 7: just feel like they're actually the worst advice.
Speaker 1: Well, our listeners aren't the worst. This deep the best
Speaker 1: into the podcast to continue to send in questions. We
Speaker 1: appreciate your voice memos. We will do this again at
Speaker 1: some point, so if you have your questions, stockpile them
Speaker 1: and then send them in when we were asked for
Speaker 1: on our social media. But thank you guys so much
Speaker 1: for more cues for our race.
Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you.
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