Speaker 1: Do you guys like surprises? Like Adler, It's obviously the holidays.
Speaker 1: We are in full holiday planning mode, and I get
Speaker 1: asked by every member of my family for gift ideas,
Speaker 1: which they're not gift ideas. They're actually saying, what do
Speaker 1: you want to send me the link for it, I
Speaker 1: will buy it, and then this is what your gift is.
Speaker 1: And I'm always like, why are we doing this? Why
Speaker 1: do we do this? I agree, but but you know
Speaker 1: they've done like I don't. Somehow I've read somewhere that
Speaker 1: they did studies or somehow it's better if everybody just
Speaker 1: gives their list and everybody just gives what they want,
Speaker 1: like I've I've read somewhere that that's actually just the easiest,
Speaker 1: best thing to do, but I find it completely unsatisfying,
Speaker 1: like completely like, here's an Amazon link to what I
Speaker 1: would like. Thank you. That's your what I'm opening. And
Speaker 1: by the way, I'm not going to send you the
Speaker 1: thing that I want that I would never buy for myself,
Speaker 1: because that thing is way too expensive to ask somebody
Speaker 1: to buy me or you know, And so I'm sending
Speaker 1: you something that most likely I would just purchase for myself.
Speaker 1: But I'm holding onto it, saving it so that I
Speaker 1: could give it to you as an idea, and then
Speaker 1: in exchange, I'm going to spend that same amount of
Speaker 1: money you spent on me to buy me this thing,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to buy you a thing that you want.
Speaker 1: Why are we doing this? But the flip side of
Speaker 1: that is if you if the other argument is you
Speaker 1: want somebody to really think and come up with something
Speaker 1: and work to have to create, so you're actually asking
Speaker 1: a lot if on the other side of like if
Speaker 1: if you're not saying here's what I want, you're expecting
Speaker 1: somebody to be able to know you well enough to
Speaker 1: predict what you would actually want and to go out
Speaker 1: and get it. If you're expecting a gift, or how
Speaker 1: about just anything you think I might like. It doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be something that like requires a ton of thought.
Speaker 1: But if you see and you think, hey, you know
Speaker 1: what Danielle might like that? Or Writer right like that?
Speaker 1: For example, Writer, I might see a scarf and you
Speaker 1: may not want, or door a pair of jeans with
Speaker 1: huge pockets from book carrying exactly, and I would definitely
Speaker 1: think writer would like that, and it would remind me
Speaker 1: of you and I could buy that thing for you.
Speaker 1: Every year, get about five leather journals. That's the writer's
Speaker 1: struk gift. Whatever. Everybody in my life gets me a
Speaker 1: leather journal. And you know, I I like leather journals
Speaker 1: spot hard enough, but that because of them, I've got
Speaker 1: a stack of them. I get them to want to
Speaker 1: distressed journal every year, right, I do like them, you know,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I would say, and I've tried this every year.
Speaker 1: I float the idea every year. I'm shot down every year.
Speaker 1: It's different with you because you have children. With people
Speaker 1: who don't have kids, I would love to do one
Speaker 1: gift each. That's what we did. This are doing this,
Speaker 1: thank you, and I'm always shot down. Well, but we
Speaker 1: need this, we need that we need and it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: when I was like in my early twenties, we instituted
Speaker 1: that within my family. Uh you know actually by late
Speaker 1: teens even because it was just getting ridiculous. It was
Speaker 1: like why don't we And yet what my parents started
Speaker 1: doing then is making gifts that would take the months.
Speaker 1: They made chess sets, like like they molded the out
Speaker 1: of like the I don't know what material it was,
Speaker 1: this plastic material. They're like foot tall chess pieces, made
Speaker 1: a chessboard with its own like patting or and it's
Speaker 1: like my brother and I was like, the whole point
Speaker 1: of this was to simpler, make it easy. And they
Speaker 1: started and they put it all on a treasure chet.
Speaker 1: We still have it. It's amazing, homemade giant chess sets.
Speaker 1: It was like, you know what, I remember that every
Speaker 1: writer from home Homemade in your family was every year
Speaker 1: on the set of Boy Parents, your grandmothers Andy and
Speaker 1: Delicious Candy. I so finally found a handwritten recipe. I
Speaker 1: keep saying, we have to do it as a family.
Speaker 1: But the thing is, it's such a process. It's like
Speaker 1: you have to you have I mean, I don't even know.
Speaker 1: Like I used to help a little bit, but not.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like weekend. It's like a full weekend
Speaker 1: of like melting chocolate, you know, rolling it out, letting
Speaker 1: it sit. Yeah. She used to make this incredible Yeah.
Speaker 1: And in business it was like she would you know,
Speaker 1: people would order like weeks in advance. Uh. And but
Speaker 1: that's the thing her and my grandpa would have to
Speaker 1: It would take over their entire house in Pennsylvania. They
Speaker 1: would just that that's what they would be doing for
Speaker 1: all of like November and December making candy, and then
Speaker 1: Easter time they would do it too. So yeah, but
Speaker 1: we've been talking about as a family since my mom
Speaker 1: found the handwritten recipe, we have to do like a
Speaker 1: weekend with your family right now. It's so much work
Speaker 1: that would just become the whole weekend, you know, that
Speaker 1: would be we have to do it. It's like, so
Speaker 1: it'll get to it because I want that candy. Whatever
Speaker 1: would take your mind off of a vegan holiday. Yes,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, No, we'd have to be making vegan chocolate.
Speaker 1: I don't know. You wouldn't know they were butter cream chocolates.
Speaker 1: They were so delicious. So I was actually hoping Daniel
Speaker 1: when you said, like, hey, like surprises, it was you
Speaker 1: were going to like reach off camera and it was
Speaker 1: gonna be like Dusty's here or something like like We've
Speaker 1: got a surprise. You won't believe it. We found a
Speaker 1: lost episode of Boy Meets World, but none of you
Speaker 1: were in what's wrong? Is it? Yes? Is it at
Speaker 1: your house or my house? It's at my house? Okay,
Speaker 1: So he's gotten up our listeners, he's gotten up. What
Speaker 1: do you really think of writer? Um? Well, pretentious as
Speaker 1: I'll get out. Oh, man, he talks over people constantly,
Speaker 1: and this is why I love him. Get it? Did
Speaker 1: you find it? I guess my house. I think they
Speaker 1: were making bacon downstairs and burnt bacon. Yeah, we're ruining
Speaker 1: the vegan household. We just we try to make bacon
Speaker 1: and you're kidding. Wait you honestly on Morning one at
Speaker 1: your vegan parents household, you guys are making bacon and
Speaker 1: setting off the firelarm with bacon grief. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: we're such an imposition. Hey, Batman, is the Batman picture
Speaker 1: behind of you and me? Was that put up just
Speaker 1: for the podcast or was that there the whole time
Speaker 1: that's been This is my childhood bedroom, man, Man, both
Speaker 1: of you guys have childhood bedrooms to go back to,
Speaker 1: and my parents moved about a hundred times and I
Speaker 1: have no childhood bedroom. But you have a childhood. I
Speaker 1: know because I'm watching it every week on pod Meats World.
Speaker 1: I do have a childhood, and I have childhood pictures
Speaker 1: and you guys are in almost all of them. Well,
Speaker 1: welcome to pod Meat's World. I'm Daniel Fishel. I'm right
Speaker 1: or strong, and I'm Wilfredell. So, first of all, I
Speaker 1: would love to thank the hundreds of people who emailed
Speaker 1: us to let us know that, in fact, we do
Speaker 1: see Amy and Allan's bedroom in a future episode where
Speaker 1: Eric tries to woo a girl. Can't ask questions on
Speaker 1: the show that is there ever a boy Metworld episode
Speaker 1: where we should As we've said, we much like the
Speaker 1: Llama Pen. We are watching this show essentially for the
Speaker 1: first time, so there are a lot of things that
Speaker 1: we don't remember, but we will remember them, hopefully when
Speaker 1: we get to them. So just bear with us. Uh,
Speaker 1: I also remembered something. I'm sorry, but I just remember.
Speaker 1: They're absolutely right. But Eric doesn't try to woo her.
Speaker 1: She tries to woo him. Oh so thank you very much. Yeah. Interesting,
Speaker 1: why are you going to Amy and Allen's room? Bigger bed?
Speaker 1: Really it's like that explicit Yeah, that's the Marguerite Morrow
Speaker 1: scene where we had to work out, like they we'll
Speaker 1: get when we get to Marguerite. She comes back, not
Speaker 1: just in season two. Is this like a season five episode, No,
Speaker 1: it's a season two episode. I think, Oh no, We're
Speaker 1: not going to be comfortable at all. I think it's
Speaker 1: pairing up. I think that's the next because Marguerite Moreau
Speaker 1: was in the first episode of season two, so I
Speaker 1: think she probably did a couple in a row. Well.
Speaker 1: Also shouts out to Carly p who did the unthinkable
Speaker 1: and she recreated the Matthews house and the surrounding area
Speaker 1: in Simms four, hoping that it would bring the backyard
Speaker 1: sideyard debate to an end. And she also somehow made
Speaker 1: the exterior makes sense, which we actually thought was completely impossible. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, she puts so much work into it and
Speaker 1: it is truly awesome, So it's it's perfect. It's what
Speaker 1: I think. I think it's the lake. I think it's right.
Speaker 1: I think it's absolutely right. This is what I was
Speaker 1: trying to do. I started, I started drawing it up
Speaker 1: by hand, and then I went online and found some like,
Speaker 1: you know, architectural design thing and I got way too involved,
Speaker 1: and I was like, writer, you need to be writing,
Speaker 1: Like stop doing this. A writer, I have. You have
Speaker 1: a career and a son and a wife and a
Speaker 1: podcast with two best friends that you can't let down.
Speaker 1: Don't making this mc housework. I can smell myself. This
Speaker 1: is terrible. Yeah, but yes, Sims is a great idea,
Speaker 1: because I imagine it's somewhat easier to build something in there.
Speaker 1: You know, I should have actually just taken my son's Minecraft.
Speaker 1: That probably would have been a good way to do
Speaker 1: it too, because you can build whatever environments much easier.
Speaker 1: And then it's just the Matthews are all orcs. Well,
Speaker 1: we are going to post those images on Instagram so
Speaker 1: that you guys can all appreciate her effort and her
Speaker 1: work and tell us whether or not you agree that
Speaker 1: it is absolutely the way the house is laid out.
Speaker 1: And then I'd like to say hello to Courtney, a
Speaker 1: listener who is also from Connecticut who wanted to let
Speaker 1: us know she loves the podcast. But also she sent
Speaker 1: us a breaking news story from NBC Connecticut from October
Speaker 1: two about a few cows on the loose on Interstate
Speaker 1: eighty four. It was very important as somebody who grew up.
Speaker 1: So I thank you, Courtney. I love that. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much, Courtney. Uh So, we have done some trivia
Speaker 1: on the show before. You guys are usually the people
Speaker 1: bringing the trivia, but I decided, since we are celebrating
Speaker 1: all things season one, I thought it would be really
Speaker 1: fun to just do a Trivia episode based around season
Speaker 1: one entirely, and I'm I'm going to start the way
Speaker 1: we usually start. I'm gonna like ease us in with
Speaker 1: some easier questions and then I'm going to get to
Speaker 1: some more difficult questions. Are you guys, how do you
Speaker 1: feel about season one Trivia after watching it? I mean,
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good. If we've watched it, we've sat
Speaker 1: around analyzing every episode hours and hours. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess it depends on how nitty gritty we're gonna
Speaker 1: get if it's like verbatim dialogue there maybe some of those, yeah, um,
Speaker 1: but not. I'm feeling pretty good. I feel like, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm all right, I'm nervous. I mean, I told Okay,
Speaker 1: the first question is is I think pretty easy. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna we're gonna say this is where we're gonna start.
Speaker 1: Wait are we going back and forth? Are we go?
Speaker 1: Because I don't want to talk over because we we've
Speaker 1: already established. Ask people that Rider talks over everybody, not
Speaker 1: no one else. You know what, Will talks over everybody.
Speaker 1: Danielle talks over every We never stops talking over people,
Speaker 1: just constantly coming people off. We all we all do it.
Speaker 1: We're all guilty, but um shouts to the people who
Speaker 1: know the truth, which is we do it out of excitement,
Speaker 1: not because we're trying to be rude, which is the
Speaker 1: reason none of us get offended when the other person
Speaker 1: cuts us off, because we're all just excited to talk
Speaker 1: to each other. For some reason, it happened to be
Speaker 1: recording the conversations we normally have exactly. All right, okay,
Speaker 1: First question, back to our trivia. First question, who was
Speaker 1: the most featured background actor in all of season one?
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you mean by featured Dusty who
Speaker 1: got the most looks on camera camera time and was
Speaker 1: the most featured in in season one? I would say,
Speaker 1: seen me because she's right behind writer in the classroom. No,
Speaker 1: it's got to be Dusty because Dusty actually, you know,
Speaker 1: was on camera. Yeah, that's true, and also in the
Speaker 1: in the plays the Thing. He had stuff to do
Speaker 1: in the plays the Thing as well. I'm going to
Speaker 1: agree with you. I'm gonna say it's got to be
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, now, I'm second. Now, I'm second, trying
Speaker 1: to think was there another time? Wait, we saw him
Speaker 1: passing out napkins. He was a napkin passer and that
Speaker 1: one episode. Absolutely, guys, we can't spend this much time
Speaker 1: on question. Trusty Okay, yeah, Dusty Okay. Wow. I did
Speaker 1: start off pretty easy, but you guys spent a long
Speaker 1: time on it. Guess congratulations. You are both right, guys,
Speaker 1: we all stop second. You guys, trust your instinct absolutely,
Speaker 1: trust your instincts. But also I would just like to say, um,
Speaker 1: congratulations for getting that question right. And let's please welcome
Speaker 1: Dusty Gold are you? Oh my god like surprises and
Speaker 1: it will nail this Dusty? What is up? Oh kidding me?
Speaker 1: That's been some time, guys, but I just want to
Speaker 1: say I want to say thanks for finally having me on.
Speaker 1: I came up with the idea for this podcast like
Speaker 1: years ago, so I was hoping you guys would finally
Speaker 1: get in contact with Oh my god, believe this. How
Speaker 1: did this happen? Daniel? How do you? Guys? My heart
Speaker 1: is absolutely racing and I am sweating profusely because I
Speaker 1: have been keeping the secret and I am so excited,
Speaker 1: Like you have no idea this has been we are
Speaker 1: we are very very excited to see your best. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'm incredibly notice myself. My watch was telling me. My
Speaker 1: My heart rate was like a hundred fifty beats a minute.
Speaker 1: And but yeah, let's let's do this, guys, let's do it.
Speaker 1: And started off. So, first off, I want to say,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a backyard or a side yard
Speaker 1: on team flaglot? Okay, right, let's just go flaglots? Right? Um, okay,
Speaker 1: all right, flag loot? What that means? Don't you don't
Speaker 1: know a flaglot? Okay? You know, like when when there's
Speaker 1: a house, maybe you're on a cold sack, and there's
Speaker 1: like a long driveway that goes up behind another house.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, flaglot, because I kind of looks like a
Speaker 1: flagpole with the house up top. We have one of
Speaker 1: those in our neighborhood. And I never knew what to
Speaker 1: call it. It's a flaglots. See, yeah, I live, my
Speaker 1: my house is basically there's a flaglot right behind me.
Speaker 1: So my my backyard is my neighbor's front yard. So
Speaker 1: I was like, maybe that's what it is, right And
Speaker 1: and Will I wasn't out in the wilderness on a loane, okay, No,
Speaker 1: I was packed away with the set pieces as you could.
Speaker 1: Finally went me out of your house. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: how long have you been keeping this a secret? Danielle Dusty,
Speaker 1: how long has it been? Two months? A month and
Speaker 1: a half, It's been like a month or something all
Speaker 1: over a month, month and a half. Yeah, it's been
Speaker 1: a while. So how did how did we track you down?
Speaker 1: Who found you? The Internet's a scary place, so I
Speaker 1: actually I have to shout out to uh when I
Speaker 1: worked with Brittany, who's a wonderful editor and stuff that
Speaker 1: I work with now, and uh, randomly she hit me
Speaker 1: up on my emails and you know, like they're looking
Speaker 1: for you. What do you mean? Right? So from that
Speaker 1: I saw that and then I looked it up and started,
Speaker 1: you know, I found you guys the podcast and Instagram.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big social media person or anything like that,
Speaker 1: so I started. I started looking through it and just
Speaker 1: you know, all of a sudden, my my mind went
Speaker 1: way back and stuff I haven't thought about forever, and
Speaker 1: it was just really cool to go through. And I
Speaker 1: found some old geary. I think I think I brought
Speaker 1: this up because I found like an old head shot
Speaker 1: where I was actually weird. Yes, who did? Of course? Everybody?
Speaker 1: Everybody had to go like a baseball uniform to the
Speaker 1: you know, it's always like the sporty but baseball they
Speaker 1: look it's like they put me how boys in a
Speaker 1: wet suit? Yeah, cowboy hats. That was like the photographer's hat.
Speaker 1: And you're you're changing in a park and after we're
Speaker 1: looking at you like what do you you you're doing
Speaker 1: I'm going to be an actor? Oh my god. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they went you down with a little stuff like look
Speaker 1: like you just came from the beach. I'm like, those
Speaker 1: were the best. We actually should all find our we
Speaker 1: never posted up. We should find our multi picture head
Speaker 1: shots and post them with Dusty's. Uh, Dusty, can you
Speaker 1: tell us how did you? How did you end up
Speaker 1: on boy Meats World? Tell us, like what was going
Speaker 1: on in your life? So? Yeah, my grandfather was a
Speaker 1: silent film actor and my dad was a mine. No way,
Speaker 1: So I'm just kidding. My dad was a mine. Come on,
Speaker 1: I was waiting for some noble rusty rusty show business,
Speaker 1: show business. Everybody knows everybody. Everbody's connecting somebody. I knew nobody.
Speaker 1: I had no connections to anything. Um, I've never done anything.
Speaker 1: All I knew was when I was five years old.
Speaker 1: I was in preschool. I was four or five, and
Speaker 1: my one of my classmates was doing the flint Stones
Speaker 1: vitamin commercials. Remember seeing that, Remember like the flint Stone
Speaker 1: Kids ten million strong and I'm so glad you just
Speaker 1: sung it so I didn't have to, right, So I
Speaker 1: remember seeing that and think that's the coolest thing ever.
Speaker 1: I want to be on TV. Like what kid didn't
Speaker 1: And obviously probably a bunch didn't, But I was one
Speaker 1: of those kids like I want to do that. I
Speaker 1: remember begging my parents like I want to I want
Speaker 1: to do this. I don't know how, I don't know
Speaker 1: what this is or anything, but I want that to
Speaker 1: be me. So I begged him and begged him. They
Speaker 1: just kind of blew me off. You know, they worked
Speaker 1: and they both had had jobs and and didn't have
Speaker 1: time for it, and just thought like, oh, it's just
Speaker 1: you know, it's saying he like xenosaurs. That will change
Speaker 1: in two weeks, so who cares. So then when I
Speaker 1: was eight, my dad, uh, my dad was a police officer,
Speaker 1: um and somehow he got a pook up with a
Speaker 1: security guard that worked at the full Health set. So
Speaker 1: he got us back to go see a taping a
Speaker 1: full house and so we went to I think it
Speaker 1: was the Warner Brothers lot at that time. So we
Speaker 1: go into the Warner Brothers. There's a lot and like
Speaker 1: my eyes are just white, like mine's blown. We go
Speaker 1: and we watch a tape and we got to go
Speaker 1: backstage and meet everybody. And the episode was actually an
Speaker 1: episode called I Think Joey Goes to Hollywood, So it
Speaker 1: was very like meta because it was like Joey's big
Speaker 1: chance of going to Hollywood. So on the set was
Speaker 1: a set, so it's like a set with the set,
Speaker 1: and they had like a whole beach scene and there
Speaker 1: was a net. Funicello and Frankie Avalon were in it.
Speaker 1: They were part of the show that Joey was, so
Speaker 1: I got to meet them and I just remember like
Speaker 1: watching this whole thing go down and think like this
Speaker 1: is this is so cool. And the the the warm
Speaker 1: up guy for the audience brought me up in front
Speaker 1: of everybody at one point, like put a whole group
Speaker 1: of us together and was making jokes. He's like, you know,
Speaker 1: he's like a random kid with a random adult like
Speaker 1: totally didn't fit as a family. And he's like, we're
Speaker 1: gonna pitch this to the producers were calling it Bull House, right,
Speaker 1: So I remember, but at that age, at eight, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking like this is my shot, Like one of these
Speaker 1: producers is gonna see me, and I'm gonna be on
Speaker 1: the I'm gonna get to go on the show, right,
Speaker 1: Like you're a kid, you don't know what's what. You
Speaker 1: just everything. The world's wide open, right. So we go
Speaker 1: and we get to go backstage and meet everybody, and
Speaker 1: everyone was really nice and really cool, and I just remember,
Speaker 1: like it's cemented in my brain at that point, this,
Speaker 1: this is what I want to do. This is amazing.
Speaker 1: And afterwards we even left. We're walking out of the
Speaker 1: sound stage and next door they were filming Hook and
Speaker 1: we got to go in and see the Hook set
Speaker 1: with the Pirate I think I saw some of the
Speaker 1: Pirate ship and some of like I remember the Lost Boys,
Speaker 1: see like the whole house, the whole area with like
Speaker 1: the track that Rufio rolled down everything, like like are
Speaker 1: you like people? This is someone's job is to come.
Speaker 1: This is unbelievable. Right, So again I start begging my parents.
Speaker 1: I want to do this. I want to do this.
Speaker 1: Nothing wouldn't let me. Just never were into it or
Speaker 1: anything like that. And then when I was ten, the
Speaker 1: magic number, as you guys know, right, I was playing
Speaker 1: football and uh, one of the kids on my team
Speaker 1: he his dad was also worked with my dad, I think,
Speaker 1: and they had an agent for extra work. And I
Speaker 1: didn't know what extra work was. I didn't know what
Speaker 1: acting was. I didn't know what any of it was
Speaker 1: other than you want to be on TV. So um, basically,
Speaker 1: they signed me up with that same agent, and within
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks I went and did my multi
Speaker 1: picture headshots and then went out on my first job,
Speaker 1: which was My Girl Too. Remember My Girl Too? Yet
Speaker 1: no one remembers My Girl Too? Right now, there's my
Speaker 1: Girl one. My Girl Too did not have McCaulay Colden.
Speaker 1: But I just remember thaying, like, this is so cool,
Speaker 1: and I get to see another set. I got to
Speaker 1: go on to a set, and I get there and
Speaker 1: we had to go buy a wardrobe. Of course, I
Speaker 1: had to go buy your own clothes and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: So we went and did that and show up and
Speaker 1: you know, we're basically that at base camp and you
Speaker 1: see all the trailers and it's all exciting and it's
Speaker 1: really cool. You see some of the other actors and
Speaker 1: then I get put in a van and taken out
Speaker 1: to like a park here because obviously like that's where
Speaker 1: they were shooting. They weren't shooting right there at Base Camps.
Speaker 1: I remember, we're going this van. We get out of
Speaker 1: this park and then they hand me a jump rope
Speaker 1: like yeah, I go jump rope over there, and so sorry,
Speaker 1: remember okay, and I'm doing I had no idea where
Speaker 1: the camera was, no idea what's seen there were shooting.
Speaker 1: Didn't see a thing like I think they may have
Speaker 1: been shooting like in a house across the street or
Speaker 1: something like. I never saw any set set in a
Speaker 1: van dusty there. Just wanted in a van dusty right. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Some teams was like hey, this kids cute. So so
Speaker 1: like it was kind of like it was my first
Speaker 1: like Hollywood little disheartening experience of going like oh wow, okay,
Speaker 1: so it's not just like all fun and games and cool.
Speaker 1: It's like I thought I was gonna like get to
Speaker 1: see stuff, because you know, I really wanted to see
Speaker 1: how it worked and what the cameras would be and
Speaker 1: how they set up stuff. And it was just you know,
Speaker 1: me and a couple other extras standing out there not
Speaker 1: do anything so it's like, okay, working out right, take
Speaker 1: your so So that that pretty much was like, you know,
Speaker 1: I think one day thing and that was it. And
Speaker 1: then a couple of days later we get a call,
Speaker 1: and um, that was one good thing about being an extra,
Speaker 1: I guess was you didn't have to audition. Is we
Speaker 1: want auditioning? It was horrible, But I just get a
Speaker 1: call for some show called By World, or it may
Speaker 1: not even been named. At that point, you've just been
Speaker 1: like the Ben's average. They don't tell you anything that
Speaker 1: just go here's show up at this place at this
Speaker 1: time and got suits. Yeah, bring your wet suits, bring
Speaker 1: your flannels, bring your hooded stump exactly many cowboys. So
Speaker 1: we basically then my second job ever, you know, my
Speaker 1: second time working on a set other than visiting a set,
Speaker 1: was By World. And I think it may have been
Speaker 1: you guys confused me too with the like, uh, just
Speaker 1: the different order that stuff was shot, and so I
Speaker 1: think it may have been the B Team of Life
Speaker 1: episode because I remember I remember like I didn't know anybody,
Speaker 1: you know, and and none of you guys that were
Speaker 1: there obviously, Danielle, you weren't even on the show at
Speaker 1: that point. I guess, um, you know, no one was
Speaker 1: a star yet, nobody was anybody. Everyone was brand new
Speaker 1: except for mart York from the sand Lot was there,
Speaker 1: and yeah, there's Marty York likes the cool. That's cool.
Speaker 1: So I think that was the first first time I
Speaker 1: remember like actually being able to be on the set
Speaker 1: working and just watching it all happen and starting to
Speaker 1: learn things, and um, do you know how many episodes
Speaker 1: you ended up doing? I don't, like, I know I
Speaker 1: was in the first three seasons. I think I was
Speaker 1: in a couple episodes in the fourth season, but I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I don't remember, Like i'd have to go
Speaker 1: back and try to look. But even then, being an extra,
Speaker 1: can't tell, like be a little blur in the background,
Speaker 1: like what was that mean? Was it not me? But
Speaker 1: you were in the classrooms, so I was in the
Speaker 1: classroom a ton always scenes the cafeteria in the beginning. Um,
Speaker 1: but yeah, season four, because I remember stuff like you know,
Speaker 1: when Danielle had to cut your hair, and it's like,
Speaker 1: but now you know, as an adult looking back, like
Speaker 1: do I just remember that because I watched the episode?
Speaker 1: But then I also remember, like, no, I think I
Speaker 1: remember like I remember like that stress of everybody on
Speaker 1: set and every thing that you guys were talking about.
Speaker 1: So there's parts of where I kind of like, I
Speaker 1: can't my memory shot. I can't remember. But um, how
Speaker 1: many episodes was Matt Matt Lawrence in. It's like sixty
Speaker 1: nine episodes. I I think it goes without saying that
Speaker 1: the main reason we have been searching for Dusty all
Speaker 1: through season one is because of how much we loved
Speaker 1: you and how fondly we remember you, and um, you know,
Speaker 1: you're just You're just one of those people who totally
Speaker 1: stands out to us as being somebody we talked to
Speaker 1: in between scenes and in the classroom, and you were
Speaker 1: you were always there with us, and you were definitely
Speaker 1: featured a lot like you were in um the plays,
Speaker 1: the thing you were in that scene with Marty York,
Speaker 1: the in the Halloween costumes. Oh god, that was great.
Speaker 1: So that was my That was probably my fourth or
Speaker 1: fifth job ever, right, So I think I did. I
Speaker 1: did the one episode of Barians World that I maybe
Speaker 1: did like one other job, and then came back on
Speaker 1: Barings were all this time too. Was like I was
Speaker 1: starting to figure out like, oh wait, being an extra
Speaker 1: kind of like it's not cool, Like I want to
Speaker 1: be an actor, right, I want to? Actually, yeah, I
Speaker 1: want I want to, I want I want lines, I
Speaker 1: actually want performing. Like you know, I was always as
Speaker 1: a kid, you know, um right around that same time,
Speaker 1: my parents were having a rough spot and they were
Speaker 1: going through a divorce. It was kind of like a
Speaker 1: really rough time for me as a kid. Um, but
Speaker 1: being able to go to a set was such a
Speaker 1: great experience and like that escape of like oh, I
Speaker 1: gotta be doing my own thing and have my own stuff.
Speaker 1: And and I remember even back then, like I was
Speaker 1: always trying to bring humor into my home life even
Speaker 1: right like if I could, if I could make my
Speaker 1: parents laugh, if I could do it, Like I was
Speaker 1: always trying to be you know, some of that. And
Speaker 1: then being an extra, it's like okay, I want to,
Speaker 1: I want to have more. And there'd be little times
Speaker 1: where I get featured or they wouldn't even tell you anything,
Speaker 1: but you just the act in a certain way and
Speaker 1: afterwards like oh that was great, You're like you know
Speaker 1: you did that, like okay, cool, Like I'll keep doing that,
Speaker 1: like or tell me what you want me to do,
Speaker 1: ok They'll do those things. But so the Halloween episode
Speaker 1: was my like literally my fourth or fifth time on
Speaker 1: a set, and it was absolutely frightening because I think
Speaker 1: so I was trying to remember it all and like
Speaker 1: I would love to hear Chris kay or if he
Speaker 1: remembers any of it too. So I don't know what happened.
Speaker 1: I actually somehow I found I have a bunch of
Speaker 1: old scripts. I found the script. The lines were actually
Speaker 1: supposed to be for Bet, so it was supposed to
Speaker 1: be like Corey comes in and fools Mr Finie by,
Speaker 1: you know, talking like kind of brown nosing him and
Speaker 1: thinking that, you know, it was the greatest teacher on
Speaker 1: Earth or whatever, and Mr Finie's like, oh, it's Corey
Speaker 1: and left up the mask and it is. But that's
Speaker 1: how it wasn't the script. So at some point they
Speaker 1: changed it, and this was the script I found, was
Speaker 1: like the shooting script. So it was like pretty late
Speaker 1: in the game. I think they changed something, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if they first gave it to Our York
Speaker 1: or somebody else, but something happened and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: I think at one point I may have been in
Speaker 1: some of the classroom scenes, but then I got pulled
Speaker 1: from him, and they put me in a wardrobe and
Speaker 1: they gave me, uh, you know, this Robin hood or
Speaker 1: some sort of costume. And I remember like they didn't
Speaker 1: tell me I was gonna have lines. I didn't really
Speaker 1: tell me much. They get me in costume, put me
Speaker 1: in makeup, and I remember I was completely nervous too,
Speaker 1: because well, you'll appreciate this. I had just I had
Speaker 1: just trans I mean I was young too, I was
Speaker 1: at this point, maybe just turned eleven, probably just kind
Speaker 1: of like transitioned into to wearing boxers instead of like
Speaker 1: little kid underwear. But I had Jurassic Park boxer shorts
Speaker 1: the Jurassic Park logo on them, right, And I remember
Speaker 1: like putting the costume on and you can almost you
Speaker 1: could kind of like see my underwear through the costume,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, this is good. It's like so embarrassing,
Speaker 1: so nervous. Whatever. Those eventually became Park underwear. I was like,
Speaker 1: I got lines on that day. I wore those. I
Speaker 1: gotta wear them to every audition now or whatever. Right,
Speaker 1: So they gave me in in the costume might come out,
Speaker 1: and they gave me a mask. I put a mask
Speaker 1: on and Remember the mask was like this hard plastic
Speaker 1: that was cutting my eyeball every time it was like
Speaker 1: on and like it's literally cutting my eye and the
Speaker 1: prop guy or wardrobe was trying to like cut it
Speaker 1: to make it better, and they just made it sharpers
Speaker 1: Haween costumes, remember, right, So they bring me over onto
Speaker 1: set and Chris Kayer comes up and just like shows
Speaker 1: me a script with these lines on it. And I
Speaker 1: don't think I even got to like physically hold it.
Speaker 1: I think he just like showed it to me, like here,
Speaker 1: we're gonna try to work on this, and here's these lines.
Speaker 1: And and Chris was amazing. He was super sweet and
Speaker 1: really nice, and he's like, okay, let's let's read through
Speaker 1: this really quick, like okay, And again, never act and
Speaker 1: never done anything like this was totally new to me.
Speaker 1: I go through the lines and and I think is
Speaker 1: Michael Jacobs was right there and it wasn't like he
Speaker 1: didn't And and I think, you know, it's being a
Speaker 1: producer now, So like I know the stress of being
Speaker 1: on set and everything, and I don't like blaming for it,
Speaker 1: but I know what you guys have talked about before
Speaker 1: of like that stress and and being so young and
Speaker 1: not knowing, and no one explained anything to me really right.
Speaker 1: They were like, we're gonna do this and you know,
Speaker 1: talk through it, We're gonna rehearse, we're gonna do anything
Speaker 1: like that. I dontally just like, look at these lines.
Speaker 1: I read through him once and and I think Michael
Speaker 1: was right there and he just looks at Chris and
Speaker 1: he goes, he's got five minutes. If you can't do it,
Speaker 1: we'll get someone else. And I'm just like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: let's let's keep going like we got five minutes. Let's
Speaker 1: I can do this. I'm okay, I got it. I
Speaker 1: got it. It's it's a couple of lines. I can
Speaker 1: say these right, so you know, then I'm just completely nervous.
Speaker 1: I think the audience was even in there and whatever.
Speaker 1: Maybe we rehearsed a couple of times. I remember um
Speaker 1: Bill Daniels was he was frustrated, like I think he
Speaker 1: was messing up some lines or he didn't like obviously
Speaker 1: they it's just changed last minute, and he wasn't that
Speaker 1: excited about it. And I was nervous too, because I
Speaker 1: think the first time I ever worked with him, we
Speaker 1: had like a little thing that that happened. That was
Speaker 1: kind of interesting. Um, and I think it was he
Speaker 1: kind of yelled at me. But when it was Bill
Speaker 1: and it was it was it was like I I too,
Speaker 1: was like, who's this weird British guy? He's like, I
Speaker 1: think it was. It was the first It was like
Speaker 1: the first time I was on the set. And Um, somehow,
Speaker 1: without knowing anything, I had learned from watching like movie
Speaker 1: magic and like behind the scenes stuff, like I knew
Speaker 1: what a hot set was. And I think maybe the
Speaker 1: prop guy like as he they brought us on to
Speaker 1: like this is a hot set. We're in the classroom
Speaker 1: and I think I was sitting in the back of
Speaker 1: the classroom and they had laid out my book or
Speaker 1: you know, notebooks and stuff on the on the desk
Speaker 1: and it was kind of hanging over and I have
Speaker 1: no idea what the scene is. We know nothing. And
Speaker 1: Bill has like a monologue as he's walking through the
Speaker 1: class and he's like he's working, he's got his script,
Speaker 1: he's working on his lines. He's walking through and my
Speaker 1: books kind of like blocking his way and he bumps
Speaker 1: into it. It falls on the ground and like throws
Speaker 1: him off, and he's just like this can't be. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, like I was talking about to touch it,
Speaker 1: like I didn't know. You feel like it's your responsibility
Speaker 1: because it's your seat and your book, even though it's
Speaker 1: like it's a hot set, like you're don't touch anything,
Speaker 1: like you know, we want for continue anything. And so
Speaker 1: I was just like petrifying, like like I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: fired like I didn't, and I'm trying, like you know,
Speaker 1: you want to as a kid, you want to explain
Speaker 1: to any other adult, like like I didn't put it
Speaker 1: in right um, but eventually, like after time, like he
Speaker 1: was a sweetheart and he was really nice and he
Speaker 1: would actually some of us that were regulars there, would
Speaker 1: you know he was he would you say hi, and
Speaker 1: he was acknowledging us and and being good. But so
Speaker 1: I could tell already, like when I get these lines
Speaker 1: that he's kind of frustrated about other stuff and what happens,
Speaker 1: I'm just nervous as all hell, right, and they bring
Speaker 1: in the audience. I think we rehearsed it twice. Maybe
Speaker 1: I got the lines down enough. Meanwhile, mask is covering
Speaker 1: my face, So looking back at it's like I didn't
Speaker 1: even need to know the lines. They could have just
Speaker 1: veoed the whole thing. They could have done. They had
Speaker 1: Ben read off because they actually recorded. I remember they
Speaker 1: recorded Ben um and I think beforehand, with the rehearsal
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, they had been kind of making
Speaker 1: a voice. So aside from having to learn the lines
Speaker 1: in five minutes, um, they also wanted me to try
Speaker 1: to mimic Ben's voice a little bit of like that
Speaker 1: he did as a high pitch, like, so I'm trying
Speaker 1: to do that, and we rehearsing, like all right, we're shooting,
Speaker 1: like okay, here we go. So it's funny. If you
Speaker 1: watch the scene, you can actually see Ben like moves
Speaker 1: me into position onto the mark. Yeah, I went back
Speaker 1: to I went back to watch it, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: I got Ben like moved me onto my mark. We
Speaker 1: only do one take, like we may have only gotten
Speaker 1: like one take out of it, right. It was like,
Speaker 1: because why would they use that wise or did they think,
Speaker 1: oh it looks like yeah, you know, it was the
Speaker 1: It was the end of the night. It was so hectic.
Speaker 1: I don't remember all these details, but I just remember
Speaker 1: it being like and everybody freaking out and it's Marty
Speaker 1: York remembers it being chaos, like we were all we
Speaker 1: all have this memory of this like awful, hectic mr experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but so for me it was even. It was it
Speaker 1: was exciting, like I mean it was, it was rough,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't miserable. I was saying, like this is
Speaker 1: my shot, like you know, I've gotta i gotta perform
Speaker 1: and I can do this and I'm going to prove
Speaker 1: to them that that I'm capable and hopefully maybe it'll
Speaker 1: give me lines again sometime. And like all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: right you go right and it's like it was like
Speaker 1: that little, that little taste, that little hit the first time,
Speaker 1: Like now I want that again, Like maybe okay, so
Speaker 1: you keep coming back as an extra thing, like maybe
Speaker 1: I'll get lines again, like next time I won't have
Speaker 1: to wear a plastic mask that stabs me in the eyes. Right, well,
Speaker 1: that was that was the best part. So then I wait,
Speaker 1: I finally see it like it it airs and I'm
Speaker 1: watching it, I'm thinking like, okay, at least I'm gonna
Speaker 1: hear my voice and um, then no, they just used
Speaker 1: the wild lines from Ben so it's not even my voice,
Speaker 1: and like you barely even see me. Then they just
Speaker 1: pulled the mask up. But it's like, okay, that was
Speaker 1: my that was my shot. And then do they give
Speaker 1: me lines? So obviously you say, you said you're producing,
Speaker 1: Now what do you do? I'm just curious, what are
Speaker 1: you doing now? Yeah? I produce some reality shows. What
Speaker 1: it's called road Kill. It's basically all automotive content on
Speaker 1: Motor Trend channel. Yeah, so anything to do with cars
Speaker 1: I produced. I've got four different shows going right now
Speaker 1: between road Kill, Roadkill, Garage Fast with Finnegan, and then
Speaker 1: we've got a holiday Hoopdie Challenge three special coming up
Speaker 1: for the holidays. Yeah, you're like a show runner for
Speaker 1: these shows. You do everything correct. Yeah. Do people in
Speaker 1: your life now know that you were on so many
Speaker 1: episodes of Boy Meats World? How often does it come?
Speaker 1: It's I mean it's I start every conversation with it,
Speaker 1: just people in the grocery store. I mean, I'm literally
Speaker 1: head shot carry my head shots. I wear this. You
Speaker 1: might recognize this face from Eide. Does your son know
Speaker 1: my He does, but not really like when like I
Speaker 1: showed him the you know, the post and the picture
Speaker 1: of you and I Daniel and the first thing my
Speaker 1: son goes as he goes, Daddy, are you gonna be famous?
Speaker 1: As fine? As it's like the same thought that I
Speaker 1: had when I was a kid back then, and like
Speaker 1: every kid has, like, um, so he knows like he
Speaker 1: hasn't really watched anything or or seeing it, Like I'm
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to watching the episodes and going through
Speaker 1: there with him and see if he recognized recognized his
Speaker 1: dad with hair? How old is he he is? Eight? Wow?
Speaker 1: Good time? I mean indy seven, he's just started this
Speaker 1: season one. It's a good time. Yeah, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think so, and and and it's one of those
Speaker 1: things too, like I can't There's there's stuff I still
Speaker 1: remember from the show, like the episode of of Alan
Speaker 1: letting Corey stay up late, you know, and basically almost
Speaker 1: missing school to watch the ball game. And even as
Speaker 1: a kid, I remember thinking like that's really cool and
Speaker 1: someday when I'm a dad, I want to do that
Speaker 1: with my son, and like like I still think about
Speaker 1: it to this day, and and you know, rewatching some
Speaker 1: of these episodes now as an adult, you're it's like, wow,
Speaker 1: I was really touching. That's really cool, and I'm glad
Speaker 1: I remember that, and there's been times where it's like,
Speaker 1: all right, it's a school night, but we'll stay up
Speaker 1: a little like we're gonna watch some we're gonna hang out,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have those moments. Well, your son is almost ten, which,
Speaker 1: as we know, is the age you have to start acting.
Speaker 1: And so would you ever let your son be an actor? Um?
Speaker 1: I I would if he really wanted to. I'd support
Speaker 1: him in anything he wants to do. Right, Um, I
Speaker 1: think as a parent that's that's what you have to do,
Speaker 1: and it's the best thing to do. Uh. I don't
Speaker 1: think i'd be excited by it, really, um, you know,
Speaker 1: but he can be a tiny cowboy or a tiny
Speaker 1: Scooba guy right, a tiny dot. You know, I don't
Speaker 1: see in him the same desire that I had at
Speaker 1: that age, Like I like, that's all I wanted to do.
Speaker 1: And you know, even after being an extra, like I
Speaker 1: was able to get a manager and an agent and
Speaker 1: I went on auditions. I I booked some smaller roles
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. You know, it's always frustrating, like
Speaker 1: the biggest success that anybody would know or that I had.
Speaker 1: I was embarrassed for a while. I was like Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I had. I had lines that weren't really lines one
Speaker 1: time on boring Me's world, right, I don't even know
Speaker 1: how anything works and Moore, I don't think I ever
Speaker 1: knew how any of them. And then looking back, it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: if if you could just zoom in in an audition,
Speaker 1: like sure, buddy, like knock yourself out and go for
Speaker 1: like I'd go and do that. But now, like I
Speaker 1: used to go through driving and like I would have
Speaker 1: to drive for an hour or more. Remember the Thomas Guide,
Speaker 1: Oh I had? Oh yeah, I had the Thomas Guide,
Speaker 1: like I had the thing down. You don't happen to
Speaker 1: feel the exact same way we do about getting changed,
Speaker 1: do you? I do? It's like I still sweat if
Speaker 1: I have to try on clothes. Trying on shoes is
Speaker 1: the worst thing. Like my wife laughs at me, like
Speaker 1: I I literally just become physically like shaken and nervous
Speaker 1: having to try anything. I'm like, what is the deal
Speaker 1: We've unlocked this like secret trauma? Really? Yes, I still
Speaker 1: get nervous trying on close Dusty, do you shoot your
Speaker 1: your shows in l A? Are the southern California based
Speaker 1: like the actual like car stuff or do you we shoot.
Speaker 1: We shoot all around the country. So yeah, for the
Speaker 1: car shows, Uh, one's predominantly out of Atlanta, so I
Speaker 1: traveled back and forth. They're quite a bit, right, and
Speaker 1: then uh, the other one's one one is in California,
Speaker 1: but it's up near like Bickersfield. Um. And then another
Speaker 1: one will just be anywhere. So we travel. We've gone
Speaker 1: almost every state in the US. Um. And and part
Speaker 1: of the show is like taking road trips. So we'll
Speaker 1: start we're starting one place and then travel to another
Speaker 1: place like we've been up to We we did one
Speaker 1: that was amazing. We drove from l A to Alaska
Speaker 1: to Anchorage and drive of a road trip is really
Speaker 1: in muscle cars in in a sixties ranchero. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: within the snow like this was in February. The thing
Speaker 1: didn't have four wheel drive, just put some snow tires
Speaker 1: on it and thing made it all the way there.
Speaker 1: It took a few tries and a few episodes where
Speaker 1: like we absolutely failed. Um, and the show like it's
Speaker 1: completely real. We're we're not a reality show. We're actually
Speaker 1: just real. Like we show all the frustrations, like there's
Speaker 1: enough drama in life. We don't have to make manufacturing,
Speaker 1: manufacture stuff like what happens happens, and that's what we show,
Speaker 1: so it's almost kind of documentary esque. Do you have
Speaker 1: any other, like very specific memories of scenes from Boy
Speaker 1: Meats World that you were in, Like, I just we
Speaker 1: watched the plays of the thing and you were on
Speaker 1: stage with me, and you and I were pushing each
Speaker 1: other and that wasn't right. We got to do stunt work. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: that was amazing. Um. I do remember that one because
Speaker 1: I remember like having to wear tights and being something
Speaker 1: just about that. Um, I remember the I think you
Speaker 1: guys just talked about the um the scuba class, and
Speaker 1: I remember I remember having to get body makeup put
Speaker 1: on for that, Like we all got body makeup, which
Speaker 1: was an interesting experience, and then we got robes and
Speaker 1: you guys, of course, like they told you, like you
Speaker 1: all had to take off your robes and they're expecting
Speaker 1: the rest of the extras and everybody too as well,
Speaker 1: and they're like, well, you don't have to if you
Speaker 1: don't want to, and I'm like, yeah, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: keep mine on. We watched one the other day where
Speaker 1: you were in the background handing out napkins to everyone
Speaker 1: at your table, and I'm curious, what well we're like
Speaker 1: look to look at Dusty back. There's hands handing out
Speaker 1: napkins that like you stood up with his packing napkins,
Speaker 1: like none of your other classmates had brought napkins, so
Speaker 1: you're nicely passing it out to everybody at the table.
Speaker 1: He was giving himself business man, I was having I
Speaker 1: was having business. You're doing doing some acting. My my
Speaker 1: motivation was the same as I think every extras motivation
Speaker 1: as ever, it's like how do I get on screen
Speaker 1: the most? How can how can I be seen? Like
Speaker 1: you never want to be that little blur in the background.
Speaker 1: You want to be somewhat seen in some way. You
Speaker 1: don't want to be the shoulder you want to be
Speaker 1: You're just the back. I mean, I'm sure there's there's
Speaker 1: plenty of just the back of my head and stuff.
Speaker 1: And I remember I learned that early on too, like
Speaker 1: one of the first days being there, like you would
Speaker 1: shoot something kind of and then maybe they might play
Speaker 1: it back and you'd see like oh, I was like
Speaker 1: in the front row of all the chairs thinking like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get seen. This is gonna be great. But
Speaker 1: then you look at it like, oh no, you were
Speaker 1: just four ground elements that were like a camera shooting
Speaker 1: past you. That's a crappy I don't want to sit
Speaker 1: in that seat. I want to sit in the better seat.
Speaker 1: How do you get how do you get in the
Speaker 1: good seat of stage? Back, corner of the classroom, always
Speaker 1: the best? Speaking of that, do you do you remember
Speaker 1: see me? I believe her name was Courtney? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm so glad. Yes. The second he said that, I
Speaker 1: was like, right, okay, we should Yeah, I mean I
Speaker 1: remember she actually, yeah, she lived and see me, which
Speaker 1: was near me. I remember, like I think we car
Speaker 1: pooled to set once or twice like that. Yeah, with
Speaker 1: because I think I don't know if our parents worked
Speaker 1: somehow together. Maybe her dad was a cop too or something.
Speaker 1: Searching for Courtney hashtag to hashtags found Dusty and sound
Speaker 1: Dusty s Now, wait do you do you? I mean,
Speaker 1: what are the chances of this? But are you still
Speaker 1: friends with anybody that you were on the show with? No? No,
Speaker 1: I mean I haven't talked to anybody. Why Why aren't
Speaker 1: you best friends with every single person? Why? Um? No?
Speaker 1: I mean it was I think you guys kind of
Speaker 1: touched upon it before, like we were just kids and
Speaker 1: like back then, like nobody had cell phones, nobody like
Speaker 1: and you know, we all came from different spots in
Speaker 1: different areas, and like we were friends when we were
Speaker 1: hanging out backstage. But it was like it's like those
Speaker 1: school friends that you have that they're friends at school,
Speaker 1: but you never see him outside of school, did you,
Speaker 1: Courtney Date, give us the give us all the deep romances,
Speaker 1: the pranks, Dusty. So I remember, there's there's there's like
Speaker 1: a few times I thought I was gonna get fired.
Speaker 1: And and again like there's a certain point, like I
Speaker 1: stopped doing any other extra work because I was just
Speaker 1: going to be an actor, right, Like the only extra
Speaker 1: work I'd agree to do was like, Okay, I'm still
Speaker 1: doing for Meats World because it's just like steady work
Speaker 1: and it's a thing and it's I was featured, right,
Speaker 1: So I was like I just keep doing that. But
Speaker 1: so and I was always conscious like you know, this
Speaker 1: is like this is this is it's just extra work,
Speaker 1: but this is a cool, cool thing, and it was
Speaker 1: it was kind of a unique experience where not many
Speaker 1: extras get to be on the same show week after
Speaker 1: week after week and keep doing it. But so I
Speaker 1: almost got fired. I thought I was gonna get fired
Speaker 1: when I got the lines and then obviously didn't make
Speaker 1: anybody that excited or happy with it. I didn't. I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna get fired when I upset Bill
Speaker 1: for having my book in his way. Um. And then
Speaker 1: there was another guy, another one of the extras. Um,
Speaker 1: this was probably season two or three. It must be
Speaker 1: season three, I think. And we're in school together, um,
Speaker 1: because obviously you guys had your classroom that was like
Speaker 1: I think we shared a wall. You guys were like
Speaker 1: on the backside, were like the front side of all
Speaker 1: those trailers that were put together, and um, we were
Speaker 1: we were writing notes to each other in class, like
Speaker 1: obviously it was school, but it was three hours, and
Speaker 1: I think you guys had like true actual like teachers,
Speaker 1: Like we had like bring your homework and just act
Speaker 1: busy for three hours. We came to qualified obviously like
Speaker 1: if we had a question or something. There was this
Speaker 1: one teacher I think her name was Pauli. She was
Speaker 1: really sweet. She was really nice and like she was
Speaker 1: actually trying to help and teach you and all that stuff. Um,
Speaker 1: but the rest time, it's just like you know, I remember,
Speaker 1: I just try to act busy and I didn't care
Speaker 1: about school. I wanted to I wanted to, right. So
Speaker 1: we're writing notes to each other one day, and this
Speaker 1: was when like your mama jokes were really big. So
Speaker 1: we're just writing like the dirtiest, most messed up you know,
Speaker 1: we're thirteen whatever, writing he's terrible your mama jokes back
Speaker 1: and forth to each other, just handing him back and forth.
Speaker 1: And then she sees us doing that, she gets it
Speaker 1: and she opens it up her face just like draws
Speaker 1: because they were pretty terrible, right, And I think this
Speaker 1: was back when like remember, right, we were always talking
Speaker 1: about like listening to the jerky boys and stuff, so
Speaker 1: I like whatever was like on repeat that we're right,
Speaker 1: we're right, just like just dirty words, just hold the stuff,
Speaker 1: and she, like her face just goes white and she
Speaker 1: just like takes it and walks out of the room.
Speaker 1: And then later your guys teachers, because it was a David,
Speaker 1: So he comes over and he like everybody else is
Speaker 1: out of the classroom at this point, and he like
Speaker 1: sits us down. He goes cross. Hardy's just looking at
Speaker 1: us and he basically told us, like, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna do anything now, but if I ever see
Speaker 1: anything like this again, you're not going to be welcome
Speaker 1: back here, Like Okay, we're gonna be really good. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry about that. So I thought, you know, rightfully, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, what we were doing was inappropriate. We shouldn't
Speaker 1: have been doing that, but it was like that fear
Speaker 1: of yeah, fired about to do that. So so that
Speaker 1: was like the closest thing to like a prank um
Speaker 1: other than I think the other time where I thought
Speaker 1: I was gonna get fired was from you Will. Oh
Speaker 1: I love this spill I do so you touch his hair?
Speaker 1: What it was? It was I doubt you remember this.
Speaker 1: Obviously you were older, and I was like, I mean
Speaker 1: I was younger than you writers, like I was probably
Speaker 1: one of the youngest ones that I think I was
Speaker 1: even younger than than Lee when he was on, even
Speaker 1: though it was probably about two ft doller than him. Um.
Speaker 1: So one day I walk outside and there's you Will
Speaker 1: and Jason Marston are playing catch with a football. You
Speaker 1: guys are like playing in the alley between you know,
Speaker 1: the sound stages, and I remember, like, you look at
Speaker 1: me and like, hey, catch right, and you throw me
Speaker 1: the ball like wow, like he's he's acknowledging me, like
Speaker 1: this is cool. I man, I'm gonna be part of
Speaker 1: the friends, right. So I catched the ball, and I
Speaker 1: just remember it was like a full size NFL football,
Speaker 1: And at this point I was maybe like eleven, and
Speaker 1: my hand could barely fit around it, like I could
Speaker 1: barely hold it. And you're like going back like okay, crap,
Speaker 1: So take the ball. And obviously it was fully inflated.
Speaker 1: It wasn't a nice Tom Brady to flate. Don't start
Speaker 1: with me. I'm a Patriots fan, my friend. So I
Speaker 1: just like throw this thing as hard as I can
Speaker 1: try to get it back to it slips out of
Speaker 1: my little hand and it just goes flying off. And
Speaker 1: if you remember, like for anybody who doesn't know, if
Speaker 1: a car is parked next to a sound stage, it
Speaker 1: means it's somebody important, important, Like normally there's a normal
Speaker 1: parking up right next to the sound stage like big wigs,
Speaker 1: a directors producers like to do. So this ball goes
Speaker 1: flying through the air and then just nails like miss window.
Speaker 1: But my heart just drops like my I'm about to
Speaker 1: throw up misses the window and just hits the side
Speaker 1: of the car and leaves this big like brown mark
Speaker 1: from the ball car. And we all walk over and
Speaker 1: it's you and Jason, and you guys are just laughing
Speaker 1: so hard, like this is the funniest thing every right,
Speaker 1: And even if even if you guys were to like
Speaker 1: take the heat from this, like you could you could
Speaker 1: afford to like fix it. I'm just like, I'm this kid,
Speaker 1: like I'm making no money, like I'm thinking, like i
Speaker 1: I'm I'm dead, just just run away now. And so
Speaker 1: we walk over and I start trying to like love
Speaker 1: the mark off and see and I just remember it
Speaker 1: was like it was like an Eric moment, I guess.
Speaker 1: So you just look right at me, you come up
Speaker 1: right in my face. You're like you better start licking
Speaker 1: that off. I'm like, I'm done, like I'm never coming
Speaker 1: back here again. And I just like hand of the
Speaker 1: ball back like I tried to clean it up as
Speaker 1: best I could, and just walked away. And then just
Speaker 1: like I remember spending like the next few weeks just
Speaker 1: just waiting for somebody, just waiting for the police to
Speaker 1: show up at your door. I wonder whose car use
Speaker 1: probably Buil Daniels Cars probably is like Jack, I don't
Speaker 1: think it was somebody. It was someone from the stage
Speaker 1: next door, like oh yeah, then we don't care. I'm
Speaker 1: not even gonna say. I think I remember what show
Speaker 1: was filming next door. It wasn't Home Improvement. It wasn't
Speaker 1: Home Improvement. I think it was thunder Alley, American Girl,
Speaker 1: Margaret Show show. That Margaret Show show was was okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: because what I remember specifically about that is pulp all
Speaker 1: allegedly happened. I don't, I don't. I don't know what
Speaker 1: the statue limitations are. But somebody from the Market show.
Speaker 1: They still have a mark there. It was Dusty in
Speaker 1: elligedly it was Will And it's when pulp fiction came
Speaker 1: out because Quentin Tarantino was friends with Margaret Show and
Speaker 1: came to the set to do an episode and Jay
Speaker 1: and I heard about it and went over there and
Speaker 1: met him and he signed like all this stuff for us.
Speaker 1: We had like scripts from Reservoir Dogs and all the stuff.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we went and got all this uh stuff
Speaker 1: signed from Quentin Tarantino. So yeah, they were shootings like
Speaker 1: don't you remember writer, we would talk to you? Was
Speaker 1: the nicest guy in the world. We talked to Beati Wong,
Speaker 1: who was from Jurassicitar. We'd sit there and talk with him.
Speaker 1: There's so many of the actors from that show that
Speaker 1: I never met Margaret Show, but everybody else were just
Speaker 1: like the coolest people. And we'd sit there and we'd
Speaker 1: hang out and we talk and do all that stuff.
Speaker 1: And then that left and we the the show that
Speaker 1: the first show that Tony Quinn was on, moved on
Speaker 1: to that stage with what's her name, and we'd always
Speaker 1: call it girl. We called it Girl Meets World at
Speaker 1: the time, it was um oh, I can't remember. Uh.
Speaker 1: There were two friends. They're still work all the time there, Dabby,
Speaker 1: thank you, and Tony Quinn was on that and we
Speaker 1: would meets World. We're like, okay, that's also they're just
Speaker 1: doing Girl Meets World next door. Um. And that was
Speaker 1: so that was that stage. Yes, you, I'm guessing it
Speaker 1: was Quentin Tarantino's car you destroyed, Dusty. Yeah, that's why
Speaker 1: that's why my career never took off. Is gonna call
Speaker 1: and be like that was my car? That was well,
Speaker 1: it's so funny. I apologize to ever. Oh, that's great.
Speaker 1: You better start licking that off. Yeah, that does sound
Speaker 1: like that sounds like a will thing to say. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was amazing. You did not disappoint. I'm
Speaker 1: so glad we have searched for you. I'm so thank
Speaker 1: you for helping me pull off this surprise. And what idea?
Speaker 1: I had no idea? Neither did I. Oh my god. Well, Dusty,
Speaker 1: I also know that you were at first a little
Speaker 1: apprehensive about coming on the podcast. Dusty is a private person.
Speaker 1: He was a little nervous and uh, and then he
Speaker 1: rallied himself in his email. He was like, guys, I
Speaker 1: hear you're looking for me. It's very sweet. I I
Speaker 1: have great memories of working with you. I'm just not
Speaker 1: sure this is for me. And then now as I'm
Speaker 1: saying it, I think I'm gonna do it anyway. And
Speaker 1: by the time he finished his email, he was in
Speaker 1: I'm so glad. It's so great to see you. It's
Speaker 1: really great to see you. Please don't be a stranger
Speaker 1: now that we found you, don't let us lose you again.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know, if you ever want your son
Speaker 1: to come shadow me on a set as a sitcom director. Um,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure writer would say the same thing with
Speaker 1: ever any of writer's projects, my projects, Will's projects, You
Speaker 1: guys are welcome. My son would would absolutely probably enjoy
Speaker 1: it and love that so much, and I would too.
Speaker 1: So Okay, I can't wait to check out road Kill.
Speaker 1: I mean, as a top Geer fan, I can't wait
Speaker 1: to check out road Kill. So that sounds like a
Speaker 1: great show. Check out Roadkill. And and yeah, good luck
Speaker 1: with the podcast and everything, guys, and it's great. Keep
Speaker 1: doing what you're doing it. I'd love the more you
Speaker 1: guys get into you know, the real stuff behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: Is is really cool to hear and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: just your own experiences and and feelings and everything that
Speaker 1: went on. It's I mean for me obviously I can
Speaker 1: have some other attachments to it and closeness of it.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's impressive and cool to hear. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it was such a magical, magical time and going back
Speaker 1: there is is really cool and really fun. Well, you
Speaker 1: are one of the reasons it was a magical time,
Speaker 1: and you are just thank you so much for everything
Speaker 1: you did for all potentially four seasons, but man, especially
Speaker 1: through season one. Uh, your face you were just such
Speaker 1: a I mean, it just brings back so many memories.
Speaker 1: So thank you for being such a special part of
Speaker 1: our show. Problem hav me back for season two? Okay,
Speaker 1: well we didn't even touch on. Like I never even
Speaker 1: knew this until I started researching for this. I've apparently
Speaker 1: had a name. I didn't even realize that I had.
Speaker 1: I think somebody found from different episodes took like different credits. Well,
Speaker 1: I think at one point Feeny had called me Mr
Speaker 1: Soul then and then Danielle. In season two, you and
Speaker 1: I were supposed to be dates to the dance when
Speaker 1: the guys had a band for Band on the run,
Speaker 1: he called me Jeremy, So all of a sudden now
Speaker 1: had a character. I was Jeremy Sullivan. Jeremy Sullivan. Man,
Speaker 1: all right, listen when Jeremy Salton, when you're my date,
Speaker 1: you have to have you back? Yes, done, Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Dusty was talking, good to see you, man.
Speaker 1: Care guys so fun, so cool. You guys had no
Speaker 1: idea how did roll off? I literally said right before,
Speaker 1: like what was expecting you to pull Dusty into you
Speaker 1: called it and I was like, Okay, this could either
Speaker 1: go real bad that you're onto me, or I could
Speaker 1: be like, oh, man, wouldn't that be great if that
Speaker 1: were the case. I thought for sure you knew are
Speaker 1: we are? We not doing trivia? I studied all night,
Speaker 1: he watched all episodes. I got to season. Just so
Speaker 1: funny is that the trivia the question was so easy
Speaker 1: because it was obviously just a setup that we overcomplicated it.
Speaker 1: We were like, well, it can't just be why why
Speaker 1: would she be asking that ridiculously obviously question you guys
Speaker 1: wanted there was some trick answer. Oh god, even though
Speaker 1: I said three times, I started off really easy. It's
Speaker 1: just a really easy question. So he contacted you like
Speaker 1: months ago. So we made an Instagram post that was
Speaker 1: like a real true searching for Dusty on the pod
Speaker 1: meets World, and somebody DMed us and said I work
Speaker 1: with him, and we were and it was like a
Speaker 1: like a true direct connection. And she said, let me
Speaker 1: tell him that you're looking for him and see if
Speaker 1: it's okay for me to connect you, and so she did.
Speaker 1: She she asked him if it was okay, and he
Speaker 1: was like, no, I didn't know they were looking for me.
Speaker 1: Then he found the podcast and sent us an email,
Speaker 1: and in his email, like I said, he was like,
Speaker 1: I you know, I've just started listen. He listened to
Speaker 1: a few episodes before he even wrote and listen to
Speaker 1: it and was like, man, I really I'm so excited
Speaker 1: about this, but like, I don't know if it's for me.
Speaker 1: And then in his very long email at the end
Speaker 1: of it, he was like I'm in. Like he totally
Speaker 1: worked through all of his emotions and then he was like,
Speaker 1: I'm listening to the podcast. And so we've been We've
Speaker 1: been going back and forth trying to get him as
Speaker 1: a guest. He was actually supposed to be on. We
Speaker 1: were supposed to record with him yesterday and then he
Speaker 1: had a conflict, which is why then we moved the anyway.
Speaker 1: But um, yeah, just I'm so I'm so glad it
Speaker 1: worked out and it was great to see him and
Speaker 1: he's got he looks great. He's got such a great personality.
Speaker 1: He's so funny. Um, you know, he's obviously very successful.
Speaker 1: Like it's just it feels it feels so good, Like
Speaker 1: I'm that was a really great reunion. That's totally cool. Well,
Speaker 1: I have a surprise as well. What we had a
Speaker 1: third little sister. Everybody say, hi, do you Megan Kit No,
Speaker 1: I got nothing. That was great boy. Well, thank you
Speaker 1: all for joining us for this episode of Pod Meets World.
Speaker 1: You can follow us on Instagram pod meets World Show.
Speaker 1: You can email us pod meets World Show at gmail
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Speaker 1: We went over this a little bit, but we have
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Speaker 1: We love you all, pod dismissed. Pod Meets World is
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Speaker 1: Will Fernel and Ryder Strong. Executive producers, Jensen Carp and
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