Speaker 1: We got an email that I thought would be something
Speaker 1: that would make you both very happy, but especially one,
Speaker 1: mister writer or strong. I read it, I immediately thought of you,
Speaker 1: and I thought I should bring this up on the show.
Speaker 1: So someone recommended to us that we do a boy
Speaker 1: meets World book club, that.
Speaker 2: We start.
Speaker 1: Reading different books, that we each get to pick a
Speaker 1: book and then we read it and then we talk
Speaker 1: about it. And I thought, Okay, we all love to read,
Speaker 1: but we all have very different tastes in things we
Speaker 1: like to read.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Will's going to make us read two thousand page fans.
Speaker 4: I already know the one. I'm it is small. I
Speaker 4: already know the one. I'm going to make you read
Speaker 4: book one of ten, but you only have to read
Speaker 4: the first.
Speaker 1: One, all right, all right, See that makes me excited.
Speaker 1: I'm interested. I'm very excited about it. So I thought
Speaker 1: we could maybe commit right now to doing a little
Speaker 1: book club.
Speaker 2: And anybody have any suggestions?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 5: Who?
Speaker 4: Okay, Yes, I have a suggestion.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, I don't know if you guys know this,
Speaker 3: but I did a little book club podcast for Disco
Speaker 3: still out there, you can find it.
Speaker 5: I was on it.
Speaker 3: I Will was our Yeah, fantasy sci fi correspondent. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we did this. You know, when you have a podcast
Speaker 3: about books not as popular as a podcast about a
Speaker 3: TV show. No, of course that's facts anyway. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: love this idea and I love talking about books, and
Speaker 3: I want to do something different. So okay, that I
Speaker 3: want to read is a new book. I want to
Speaker 3: read something new, and I think it should be something
Speaker 3: that that that I haven't ready either the books. This
Speaker 3: is my favorite book. So the one I'm going to
Speaker 3: throw is it's called Blob a Love Story by Maggie
Speaker 3: Sue Su is her last name. It's about a I
Speaker 3: think a college age girl who falls in love with
Speaker 3: a blob.
Speaker 6: Oh oh yes, I don't think they like to be
Speaker 6: called that anymore.
Speaker 2: What college age girl.
Speaker 4: American is exactly what I would call it. I have
Speaker 4: been working out. Yeah, it's apparently so.
Speaker 3: I think it has like what you might call magical
Speaker 3: realist or maybe just fantastical or supernatural elements. There's some
Speaker 3: I don't know what level, but I think it's funny.
Speaker 3: But I think it's also about relationships in college. I
Speaker 3: don't know. I'm excited. This is yeah, one more time.
Speaker 2: Blob a Love Story by.
Speaker 3: Who Maggie Sue s U.
Speaker 2: Maggie Sue.
Speaker 3: Yes, I've already bought my copy. I think, yeah, if
Speaker 3: we should, we should.
Speaker 4: It's about it's about an invertebrate American. I'm excited.
Speaker 3: I gotta can't wait. See what's fun about this is
Speaker 3: this happened in literary Disco too. It was the best
Speaker 3: when we hated the books, Like when the books were bad,
Speaker 3: it was actually more fun.
Speaker 1: Like we did an episode some people think are episodes
Speaker 1: when we don't like Boy Meets World are the best.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's so much more to talk about it, and
Speaker 3: we're so passionate about it.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: No, Like, well, some of the best episodes of literary
Speaker 3: Disco when we went back and read like Sweet Valley High,
Speaker 3: hardy Boys and like books that people kind of have
Speaker 3: fond memories, and then you go back and you're like,
Speaker 3: there's there's a lot of date rape in Sweet Valley High.
Speaker 3: You remember peers, they're like, you know, in the nineteen forties,
Speaker 3: They're like it's pretty intense. You're like, why are these
Speaker 3: kids by themselves, these high schoolers like solving crimes?
Speaker 4: Yeah, you remember when we did it with Piers Anthony.
Speaker 4: We read it we were like, what the hell is
Speaker 4: It was like.
Speaker 3: It was written four horny eleven year old boys who were.
Speaker 4: Like boobs, and we're like, wait, I love.
Speaker 3: It's thet series by Peters Anthony. It's like it was
Speaker 3: one of my favorite series of books. I'm like, oh,
Speaker 3: maybe that's why.
Speaker 2: You were eleven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really bad.
Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'm excited to read blahb a Love Story
Speaker 1: by Maggie Sue. That'll be our first official book club selection.
Speaker 2: We hope you join us.
Speaker 1: Well, probably, we have to figure out how long we're
Speaker 1: going to give ourselves.
Speaker 6: I was just going to say, because we also it's like,
Speaker 6: now we have homework for the podcast.
Speaker 4: Come on, were this is a homework Watch World.
Speaker 6: That's not a homework. That's a pleasure. That's what that is,
Speaker 6: my friend.
Speaker 3: We need an excuse story. Like I seriously, like I've
Speaker 3: been such a reader all my life, Like during Literary Disco,
Speaker 3: I was reading so much, and then COVID hit Literary Disco.
Speaker 3: We stopped, we put it on pause, and I just
Speaker 3: stopped reading. Like so it's only within the last six
Speaker 3: months I finally have been reading it.
Speaker 1: The only person I know who gave up a podcast during.
Speaker 4: COVID and read.
Speaker 2: You have too much time on my hands to be
Speaker 2: at home.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna wait, I'm reading.
Speaker 6: No, we did.
Speaker 3: We did like one full year of like hardcore podcasting,
Speaker 3: and then I was just and then we started this one. Actually,
Speaker 3: that was a big part of it too. I was like,
Speaker 3: you know, I'm not like Will. I can't do like
Speaker 3: four podcasts at once.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it.
Speaker 2: But you can read four books at once.
Speaker 4: Which I don't get you reading multiple books?
Speaker 3: Oh god? And then I have audiobooks that I'm listening to.
Speaker 7: No, it's good, it's good.
Speaker 3: It keeps on your toes. I know.
Speaker 1: I actually really do appreciate when My first thought when
Speaker 1: I read the email was do I share this with
Speaker 1: the guys because I am going to be giving myself
Speaker 1: homework when we take this up. But like writer said,
Speaker 1: I'm actually really excited about it because I love to read,
Speaker 1: and my big thing is the only time I get
Speaker 1: to read is right before I go to sleep. And
Speaker 1: knowing that I have like a deadline is going to
Speaker 1: make me go, No, I can't scroll my phone mindlessly
Speaker 1: before bed. I have to take this twenty to thirty
Speaker 1: minutes to read for the podcast.
Speaker 2: So I'm really excited about in.
Speaker 4: The shower reading in the shower. I did that this morning.
Speaker 2: Never happened in.
Speaker 4: The shower, did it this morning?
Speaker 6: Read two chapters of my fantasy novel this morning while
Speaker 6: soap them another's there's nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: I don't ever want to hear just soap in my
Speaker 1: nethers again telling you please talk about a fantasy story.
Speaker 6: No, let's go back to that's me telling you the
Speaker 6: same thing.
Speaker 4: We're in the same story.
Speaker 1: Come on, okay, but seriously, why don't we say homework
Speaker 1: is due in a month one month from now, we
Speaker 1: will do bad.
Speaker 2: That gives us plenty of Yeah, that'll give us plenty
Speaker 2: of time.
Speaker 1: We'll have time to read it, think about our thoughts,
Speaker 1: and then we'll do the episode. All right, So one month,
Speaker 1: one month from now, book Club officially starts Pod book
Speaker 1: Club with Blob, a love story by Maggie Sue.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Pod meets World.
Speaker 4: I'm Daniel Fishl, I'm Writer Strong, and I'm Wilfordell.
Speaker 5: This was a very specific call to our listeners. Uh
Speaker 5: for questions. We've had these q and as now over
Speaker 5: five seasons, and as the guy who fields the emails,
Speaker 5: I knew we needed unique questions because if you don't
Speaker 5: whittle it down to say that, we need to hear
Speaker 5: something original. The question you'll get over and over is
Speaker 5: why did Eric get stupid? Or over the seasons that's.
Speaker 4: Which I've never I've never noticed.
Speaker 3: Or what was your favorite episode?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 3: What's your favorite episode of work on should depend?
Speaker 8: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Another big one is if you could be another character
Speaker 5: in the show, who would it be? Which I was
Speaker 5: surprised how many people send that in.
Speaker 4: We've answered that, I think before.
Speaker 3: I think we have answered that on the podcast.
Speaker 4: I thought we did. Was that a live show? I
Speaker 4: couldn't remember which one.
Speaker 5: Let's keep everyone mysterious, don't answer it. I didn't think
Speaker 5: so this time we asked for new questions, things we've
Speaker 5: never heard before. And I'm very proud of those who
Speaker 5: sent in their voice memos and written emails this time.
Speaker 5: And this is one of our beloved Q and A episode.
Speaker 5: So are you guys ready to start? Just right off
Speaker 5: the bat? God?
Speaker 2: Yeah, give them to us.
Speaker 5: All right. While we're talking about introductions and first things,
Speaker 5: this is Andrew, who has a question that absolutely befuddled me.
Speaker 5: I don't know the answer to it. Here it is.
Speaker 7: Hey guys, this is Andrew from Indianapolis, Indiana. My question
Speaker 7: is about the intro slash theme song for seasons five
Speaker 7: through seven. During the intro for those seasons, it seems
Speaker 7: like it could be you guys as a cast just
Speaker 7: hanging out, or it also seems like it could be
Speaker 7: the characters of Boy Meets World hanging out on a
Speaker 7: street on various days in the Boy Meets World universe.
Speaker 7: So my question is do you think that intro is
Speaker 7: meant to be a part of the canon of Boy
Speaker 7: Meets World or is it just meant to be you
Speaker 7: guys as a cast hanging out and goofing off. And
Speaker 7: I'm curious if you remember when you film that, if
Speaker 7: you're given any sort of direction as to how to act,
Speaker 7: because I could see it going either way with some
Speaker 7: of the faces you make and some of the things
Speaker 7: that are done in those scenes.
Speaker 5: Love the pod.
Speaker 7: Thanks guys.
Speaker 3: I think we talked about this right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you mentioned writer that they were actually recording us
Speaker 1: being us, and we didn't they We knew that we
Speaker 1: were being filmed, but we didn't we didn't know what
Speaker 1: it was for.
Speaker 3: So Jeff McCracken was directing the opening credits. But then
Speaker 3: he had Jody. What was Jody's Winstock? Bin Stock was his.
Speaker 3: She was shadowing him as a training director. She ended
Speaker 3: up directing at least one, maybe two episodes of our show,
Speaker 3: and she's now a producer, I think. But she was
Speaker 3: a running around with eight millimeter camera. So though that
Speaker 3: footage is actually eight millimeter, you can see it has
Speaker 3: a grain to it. The and you know, gets out
Speaker 3: of focus in ways that our normal cameras wouldn't have.
Speaker 3: So it's just us, it's us hanging out. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: what I'm curious is that then we redid the opening
Speaker 3: credits because we and so we must have known at
Speaker 3: that point what it was going to be, and so
Speaker 3: that from seasons six and seven we are being sort
Speaker 3: of our character versions of I don't know, we knew
Speaker 3: that we were basically being filmed all the time that time,
Speaker 3: So I don't know, Like I think it's it's Corey
Speaker 3: with a camera, right, It's I like to think that
Speaker 3: it's in It's in, Uh, it's in boy Meuts World canon,
Speaker 3: It's it's it's our characters, not I.
Speaker 6: Just remember in the second one when we had Maitland
Speaker 6: join us that I missed a button. So like my
Speaker 6: shirt is, I've got like a v of just fabulous
Speaker 6: chest going on where it's like, just what way too
Speaker 6: much chess showing in the six and seven. That's what
Speaker 6: That's what I remember more than anything else.
Speaker 3: But is it Eric or is it you?
Speaker 6: I had too much chess showing, but Eric pulled it off.
Speaker 6: It was just enough, exactly.
Speaker 4: No.
Speaker 6: But I also remember they specifically had we didn't have
Speaker 6: beats in the first one, right, but then they wanted
Speaker 6: us to match the beats in the second one because
Speaker 6: it was like the dumping the water, but they reversed
Speaker 6: to dump the water.
Speaker 4: Daniel You and I did that tongue thing.
Speaker 2: Yes, I know that's very clearly not to Penga.
Speaker 4: No, that's for me.
Speaker 1: That's the thing that makes me. Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 1: there's obviously Corey and Topanga kissing is not Ben and Danielle.
Speaker 1: But Danielle is definitely the one sticking out her tongue, and.
Speaker 2: So is Will. Like those are not Eric and Tapanga moments.
Speaker 4: No, it was strange, so they were doing it.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I actually think it's kind of a fun hybrid where
Speaker 1: they they wanted to get across a little bit of
Speaker 1: both that it was a little bit of the feeling
Speaker 1: of this is that these are the characters you love,
Speaker 1: and here are some of the personalities that bring them
Speaker 1: to life.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and I think we talked about Oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 6: I was going to say, I think we talked about
Speaker 6: Matt Lawrence laughing in the first one because they had
Speaker 6: a fake hot dog cart and he like, they're like, Matt,
Speaker 6: grab a soda, and he grabs a soda and pops
Speaker 6: it open and takes a sip, and it was from
Speaker 6: like three hundred years ago, and so you see he
Speaker 6: first spits the whole thing out, and we cut to
Speaker 6: him right like post spit, and we're all laughing hysterically
Speaker 6: as he's got this, you know, three hundred years Coca
Speaker 6: cola in his mouth.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I remember. Oh my god, wait, what
Speaker 4: did you remember a writer?
Speaker 3: Oh, I was gonna say, I remember when we were
Speaker 3: doing the second one, because my I remember the day
Speaker 3: very clearly. My buddy from back home was visiting and
Speaker 3: we got to do a huge religious debate, like all
Speaker 3: of us were sitting her out back and we were like,
Speaker 3: I was like full atheist skeptic mode, and I remember
Speaker 3: Trina and me going at it and laughing. It was like,
Speaker 3: so if we were going to show behind the scenes
Speaker 3: of like what we were, actually we're actually sitting around
Speaker 3: director's chairs like getting to it. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Fun an opening, Yeah, less friends, like you know, you know,
Speaker 5: we're a crossfire opening. All right. This question is from
Speaker 5: Sarah A. Again another thing that I had no idea
Speaker 5: for the answer. When you guys talked about switching reduction sites,
Speaker 5: how did that work? Did the sets move or did
Speaker 5: they have to be totally rebuilt?
Speaker 3: Oh, when we switched from like one studio to another, Oh,
Speaker 3: they would, they would bring them down. They bring them.
Speaker 3: So the sets are like really flimsy walls. Basically they're
Speaker 3: basically cardboard, but they're just plywood walls. And then you know,
Speaker 3: they put fake brick or whatever the actual what it's
Speaker 3: supposed to look like. So they can fold and fold
Speaker 3: down and fit into base like a couple of trucks.
Speaker 3: You can put an entire stage of rooms and a set,
Speaker 3: so it was very easy to move. Yeah, but I'm wondering, like,
Speaker 3: remember we had all that gum on the back of
Speaker 3: one of our walls. When they move it, they have
Speaker 3: to like do they move the gum too.
Speaker 6: Like the sore that was our collection that was years
Speaker 6: in the making. You can't just scrape away the gum wall.
Speaker 6: I guess it was so disgusting.
Speaker 3: Walls would have been the same walls that were on
Speaker 3: Disney our first season would have come back and yeah,
Speaker 3: they just go into storage when we're not shooting, and
Speaker 3: they go on other shows.
Speaker 6: Have you seen the other there there's clips of like
Speaker 6: them using our hallway on Smart House and stuff like that,
Speaker 6: where right, smart guys, he's a smart guy. I mean
Speaker 6: you can see that they they'll grab the sets from
Speaker 6: other places, and that's why you kind of go.
Speaker 5: I think Smart guys have stolen pilot of from you guys.
Speaker 5: I think that they're not stolen, well.
Speaker 1: They stole the shots on our on our set and
Speaker 1: the entire Yeah.
Speaker 5: I think that during days off because I've watched both
Speaker 5: and it looks like they just used, which they still do,
Speaker 5: by the way, Disney still does it. A bunch of
Speaker 5: a bunch of studios still do it when there's like
Speaker 5: an opening on a set, rather than rebuild, they're just
Speaker 5: like it's a pilot whatever, We'll use some shots and
Speaker 5: using it. And I think that's what that is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I think when Ravens Home was had finished
Speaker 1: a season, they left the set up because they were
Speaker 1: only going to be gone for a couple of months,
Speaker 1: and then I think they shot a couple of pilots
Speaker 1: on the Ravens Home set.
Speaker 2: Makes sense, switch it around a little bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, here is again about sets, so we're staying on topic,
Speaker 5: Hannah Kay. She asks, why does Matthew's house and several
Speaker 5: other sitcom houses I've noticed have two staircases? It's obviously
Speaker 5: not normal in real life, but seen a lot in
Speaker 5: set design. Is it blocking? Why?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, question, Yeah, they do have. You want to
Speaker 3: be able to have ways to get up and down,
Speaker 3: like you just need more entrances and exits as many
Speaker 3: as possible and variety like yeah, but we actually never
Speaker 3: really use it the way we should have, which is
Speaker 3: you see somebody go up the stairs in the kitchen
Speaker 3: and then come down in the living room.
Speaker 9: We don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think we ever do that, but we should. No,
Speaker 3: But it is variety.
Speaker 2: You want variety.
Speaker 1: You also need to, as you guys have seen us
Speaker 1: talk about a couple of times in a jokey way,
Speaker 1: you have a lot of times where somebody needs to
Speaker 1: be saying something that somebody else isn't hearing, but you
Speaker 1: need them to be able to come and go quickly
Speaker 1: because maybe they're there for the first part of a
Speaker 1: conversation and then they're gone for the next part of
Speaker 1: a conversation, and having staircase where you go, oh, they're upstairs,
Speaker 1: I buy if you're upstairs, I don't hear what's going
Speaker 1: on downstairs, Versus if you just turn a corner, you're like,
Speaker 1: where are that? You can't really really quite picture where
Speaker 1: that person is.
Speaker 4: So we saw that with I'm exploding your head, where
Speaker 4: we're like, come on, Phoene's five feet away, like, how
Speaker 4: is he not seen? Whereas if it was upstairs you
Speaker 4: would have bought it.
Speaker 3: But it's also just very simply if you were in
Speaker 3: the kitchen, your only exits would be too, so you
Speaker 3: couldn't have somebody be in the living room and also
Speaker 3: be in the rest of the house, Like you couldn't
Speaker 3: leave to another part of the house, so you were
Speaker 3: stuck basically having to go outside or because both the doors,
Speaker 3: the upstage and the downstage door go to the living room,
Speaker 3: so that was kind of limited. And I'm sure. What
Speaker 3: happened is they were like, well, we need the option
Speaker 3: for somebody to leave the kitchen and not join whoever's
Speaker 3: people are in the living room, right And I always
Speaker 3: love how every sitcom has a swinging door because that
Speaker 3: way it's so easy because you don't have to.
Speaker 10: Pull or push.
Speaker 3: You can just move in. But you still have a
Speaker 3: door because you want to, Like Danielle was saying, have
Speaker 3: people not know what's on the other side. You need
Speaker 3: that for.
Speaker 5: While we're talking about logistics, Caitlin Bee has a very
Speaker 5: good question.
Speaker 11: Hello, Pod Meets World. My name is Caitlin. I'm coming
Speaker 11: from Mesa, Arizona, and my question is about how you
Speaker 11: guys handled being.
Speaker 3: Sick while you were on the show.
Speaker 11: You might be able to hear in my voice. I
Speaker 11: am still battling some laryngitis. But I am a professional
Speaker 11: musical theater performer, have been for twenty years. I do
Speaker 11: some voice over work and I had to call out
Speaker 11: as several shows as a result of this bout of
Speaker 11: laryngitis that I had, and it made me think I
Speaker 11: can have an understudy come on for me. But you
Speaker 11: there couldn't be a new Tapanga or a new Corey
Speaker 11: or a new Sean or a new Eric. How did
Speaker 11: you guys handle that if you were sick? And finally,
Speaker 11: do you have any memories of having to tape while
Speaker 11: you were sick and what were those memories?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 11: Thank you so much for all the work you do
Speaker 11: on the pod, all the work you did do it's
Speaker 11: bringing so much joy to the world.
Speaker 3: Have a good one.
Speaker 4: I have actually two great stories about.
Speaker 2: This, please please, yes, please.
Speaker 6: So the first one was season one and I'd never
Speaker 6: you know, I'm new to the show. I'm new to
Speaker 6: being on a sitcom, and I was sick, had a
Speaker 6: very heavy head cold, and it was kind of the
Speaker 6: show must go on. And I can still hear it.
Speaker 6: It's in the episode where I'm talking to Lily and
Speaker 6: she's sitting in front of me and I'm calling her
Speaker 6: weasel and doing all this stuff, and I can tell
Speaker 6: that I'm I'm sick and I just had to come
Speaker 6: in and you just you work through it again. Voiceovers different,
Speaker 6: it changes your voice on camera. You're fine, you work
Speaker 6: through it. But the other one I remember specifically was
Speaker 6: they would always ask us if we wanted flu shots
Speaker 6: every year on the show, and for.
Speaker 4: The first three or four years. I didn't want to
Speaker 4: do it.
Speaker 6: I remember Bill Daniels one time going like, why don't
Speaker 6: you want to get a shot, And I was like,
Speaker 6: I just don't want to.
Speaker 4: He's like, are you scared?
Speaker 6: I was like, no, I just don't want to get
Speaker 6: the shot. I'm never going to get the flu, literally
Speaker 6: going I'm never going to get the flu. It's never
Speaker 6: going to happen. But don't even worry about it. What
Speaker 6: are we even talking about?
Speaker 4: It was?
Speaker 6: That was tape night I was doing this, like this
Speaker 6: flu is going around. That night, I woke up in
Speaker 6: the middle of the night and my temperature was one
Speaker 6: hundred and four point three. I rolled out of bed,
Speaker 6: literally rolled out of bed, and dragged myself to the
Speaker 6: bathroom and sat in a tepit tub until it hit
Speaker 6: one oh two. Drove myself to the emergency room. I think,
Speaker 6: because I then kind of came conscious again. At the
Speaker 6: emergency room. The last thing I heard before I passed
Speaker 6: out was he's approaching one oh five.
Speaker 4: We need ice, We need ice.
Speaker 10: Wow.
Speaker 6: And I passed out and I woke up maybe two
Speaker 6: or three hours later, and they handed me a phone
Speaker 6: and I called Steve Hayfer and I said, I'm like sick, sick,
Speaker 6: like really sick, and he's like, well, what do you have?
Speaker 4: I said it flu.
Speaker 6: I'm in the hospital right now, and he goes, let
Speaker 6: me get back to you. I went back home and
Speaker 6: he called me that morning and said, I talked to Michael.
Speaker 6: We're pushing the week. So they canceled the whole episode
Speaker 6: that week. We pushed and we had He went to
Speaker 6: a hiatus that week and forced it because I was
Speaker 6: so sick. So they canceled the entire show one week
Speaker 6: because my temperature was so high. I'll never forget those
Speaker 6: two days. So if you have a head cold, the
Speaker 6: answer is, if you have a head cold, work through it.
Speaker 4: If it's something bad. Sometimes they had to push the entire.
Speaker 3: We talked about being ableman to hear in people's voice.
Speaker 3: I can hear it and Bill Daniel's voice in the
Speaker 3: episode and Ben and then I think that some of
Speaker 3: the episodes were on low energy. I'm like, I think
Speaker 3: I was sick. I can tell something's a little off.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But then the only tape night that I ever missed
Speaker 3: was because I was sick, which was season seven. I
Speaker 3: got really sick. I got the flu.
Speaker 6: And Mono when remember that the we have our blooper
Speaker 6: reel and you come out in one of them and
Speaker 6: you are like, you've lost a ton of weight.
Speaker 3: Because I couldn't eat for a week, and so I
Speaker 3: was out. And it's the only the only tape night
Speaker 3: I've ever missed, and it was a bummer because I
Speaker 3: would have had a perfect record. It was right near
Speaker 3: the end of the show and then we just I
Speaker 3: had like three scenes that I had to tape the
Speaker 3: next week. But you guys went ahead and did the
Speaker 3: show without me.
Speaker 6: That when you looked at remember you came back and
Speaker 6: we were all like, oh my god, like you probably
Speaker 6: lost like eight or nine pounds that week.
Speaker 4: It was.
Speaker 6: It was jarring when you came back because you were
Speaker 6: not not a heavy guy, so to lose that kind
Speaker 6: of weight, it was like, Oh, he was really sick.
Speaker 3: I was in my apartment like I was so out
Speaker 3: of it. Oh my god. It was the worst. Yeah,
Speaker 3: got it.
Speaker 2: I remember having colds on boy Me's World. I worked
Speaker 2: through them.
Speaker 1: I never got so sick that I couldn't make a
Speaker 1: show or anything. But I have told the story before
Speaker 1: about being very, very sick when we shot the pilot
Speaker 1: for Girl Meets World. And we shot the pilot for
Speaker 1: Girl Meets World over two weeks. It was a very
Speaker 1: very stressful two weeks, and I remember getting very very sick.
Speaker 1: And I'm not usually a person who gets super sick.
Speaker 1: I get sick and I'm still able to mostly function.
Speaker 1: I maybe don't feel that great, but I can still
Speaker 1: mostly function. And then there are a handful of times
Speaker 1: where I think I'm not going to be able to
Speaker 1: do a long day on my feet all day, and
Speaker 1: the pilot for Girl Meets World was one of those times.
Speaker 1: And that's where I have the very funny story of
Speaker 1: for no good reason at all whatsoever, just assuming that
Speaker 1: musinx was once every four hours, I just was like,
Speaker 1: they aren't they all?
Speaker 2: Even though also the answer to that question.
Speaker 1: Is no, I know other than advil to advil, I
Speaker 1: don't know what you can take this every three to
Speaker 1: four hours, but I thought it was. And I was
Speaker 1: standing in the pharmacy, going mucin X D or MUCINEX
Speaker 1: the regular one. You know what, I'll get both and
Speaker 1: I'll alternate them one every four hours.
Speaker 4: I'll take a hit a crack and then drop some acid.
Speaker 2: And when I tell you that I felt so great.
Speaker 2: I felt so great. I felt so great, and everyone
Speaker 2: was saying, like, oh my gosh, how are you doing it?
Speaker 2: I feel like, yes, what, I don't even really feel
Speaker 2: like sick anymore. I don't have been taking USXD and.
Speaker 1: I've been taking us and it's really not even that
Speaker 1: victim me. I actually feel really good. I also had
Speaker 1: no appetite. I lost like five pounds over two days.
Speaker 1: And it was on the second day that I went,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna shock to see because think I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: take Someone said I don't think you're supposed to take
Speaker 1: those every four hours and I was like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: look I don't think that's a better turn around.
Speaker 2: Oh taking these every four hours.
Speaker 5: She's holding onto the like like the wall.
Speaker 1: She's like, yeah, So anyway, I've never done that again.
Speaker 1: I learned my lesson with that one, but it did
Speaker 1: get me through two tape days.
Speaker 4: There you go, Yeah, I remember a Girl meets World.
Speaker 6: I'm supposed to walk in and pick up Augie and
Speaker 6: go cousin Augie and like give him a kiss and
Speaker 6: put him right. And we rehearsed the whole time, and
Speaker 6: then tape night comes and right before I'm gonna walk in.
Speaker 4: Somebody walks up to me.
Speaker 6: Like, hey, just for the record, he's really sick and
Speaker 6: has horrible pink eye.
Speaker 5: Just be careful.
Speaker 6: And I was like, oh, okay, I've been kissing this
Speaker 6: kid all week, but all right, here we go.
Speaker 4: It's like droopy I and I was like, hey, we.
Speaker 3: Should watch it. I bet you if we put it
Speaker 3: in slow motion, You're.
Speaker 6: Like, slowly, I can't see the plastic sheet I have
Speaker 6: over my first.
Speaker 5: While we're talking about noticing certain things about you guys
Speaker 5: while watching the show. This is from John Jay in
Speaker 5: a past Q and A, I vaguely recall a quick
Speaker 5: mention that by the end of the show, you guys
Speaker 5: were checked out a bit. As we start with season six,
Speaker 5: I was wondering if it's possible to point out roughly
Speaker 5: when that was from each of you.
Speaker 3: Season four for me, basically once I started college. Actually,
Speaker 3: I've noticed that once I started college, like I am,
Speaker 3: it's the end of season end of season four, so
Speaker 3: the beginning of season five for me, really I felt
Speaker 3: the difference in my performance, in my commitment. But also
Speaker 3: it became a Corey to penga show, you know, like
Speaker 3: it really was Corey Sean Show for so many storylines,
Speaker 3: and at the end of season four, like we lost Turner,
Speaker 3: we dropped all of Sean's family stuff, Like, well, I
Speaker 3: guess that's not true because we did have Matt coming in,
Speaker 3: But I don't know. It just feels different to me,
Speaker 3: and I knew. I know that I was going to college,
Speaker 3: like I cared more about philosophy and English lit and
Speaker 3: all the things I was learning. And then my friends
Speaker 3: and people I was meeting in college, I was living
Speaker 3: on campus, like it was just that was my life,
Speaker 3: you know. And I can see that like Boy Meets
Speaker 3: World at that point was already sort of a kind
Speaker 3: of a zombie job, you know, where it's like, oh,
Speaker 3: it keeps going, but for me, it was dead. It
Speaker 3: was like, oh, I've already done this. I can keep
Speaker 3: doing it. And that's going to be interesting to see
Speaker 3: how that plays out in six and seven, because I
Speaker 3: do remember specific episodes, and I remember, you know, caring
Speaker 3: about some stuff, but for the most part, I was
Speaker 3: on autopilot for a lot of that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look for it in season six. I know
Speaker 1: it hadn't happened yet. By the end of season five,
Speaker 1: I think I was still. You know, Corey and to
Speaker 1: Panka were just really firing on all cylinders. I know
Speaker 1: it happens somewhere during season six, So I'm going to
Speaker 1: keep my eyes out for to see if I can
Speaker 1: like spot the episode or if when I watch it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I remember, I remember this being the
Speaker 1: moment where I go, I'm not going to do this anymore.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm going to look for it and see
Speaker 1: and see if I can find it.
Speaker 2: Will was probably never checked out.
Speaker 4: I don't think I ever did. I never checked out.
Speaker 4: I loved every every minute. I haven't make it hard.
Speaker 6: Yeah, No, the last season was specifically hard working with
Speaker 6: the two of you though, because I just wanted to
Speaker 6: be there and you guys were vocally didn't want to
Speaker 6: be there.
Speaker 3: It was like you and I got very close in
Speaker 3: the last season, like we were. It was fine.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, it was fine, but it was it was
Speaker 6: we never none of us really had to talk about like,
Speaker 6: you know, we should be this isn't going to last forever.
Speaker 6: We should It was just it was our what happens
Speaker 6: when you're a kid, you think it's going to last forever.
Speaker 4: It's just you know, we were young, but I just loved.
Speaker 4: I would still be.
Speaker 6: I'd be doing season forty eight A boy Mes World
Speaker 6: right now because just because I love being on the set.
Speaker 4: I love being in front of an audience.
Speaker 6: I love trying to make a joke where there isn't one,
Speaker 6: So it's just the whole process is something I love
Speaker 6: so much.
Speaker 4: But Will be a pretty sad show.
Speaker 5: Will says he has to make call time. He still
Speaker 5: does all I do.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I wake up in the morning and the first
Speaker 6: thing I do is I'm like interior Will's bedroom morning.
Speaker 4: Will stretches and grabs his phone. Yeah you do.
Speaker 5: Let's dive a little bit into writer in college and
Speaker 5: philosophy and reading and Kristen ka as a question.
Speaker 8: Hi everyone, my name's Kirsten. This is a nerd question
Speaker 8: mostly for writer. I love you, Will, I love you, Danielle,
Speaker 8: I love you Jensen, husband of the podcast. I'm sorry.
Speaker 8: How do you feel about Tennessee Williams? And if you
Speaker 8: like Tennessee Williams, would you consider playing Tom or Jim
Speaker 8: in The Glass Menagerie? Because it is my dream as
Speaker 8: a disabled actress to play opposite you and has been
Speaker 8: since I was Corey and Sean's age.
Speaker 3: So I would love to know.
Speaker 8: And additionally, would you consider going back to musical theater
Speaker 8: if you didn't have to sing? This might seem like
Speaker 8: a weird question, but you did say unique questions. Thank
Speaker 8: you so much for your time, Thanks for the podcast.
Speaker 8: I love all of you so much.
Speaker 4: Good night, just not as much as Rider.
Speaker 3: I get it, man, I love Tennessee Williams.
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 3: I've never read The Glass Menagerie though, so that I
Speaker 3: would love to read it. Yeah, I mean Tennessee Williams
Speaker 3: is one of those legends I didn't discover until pretty
Speaker 3: pretty late. I get because not as a teenager. I didn't.
Speaker 3: I read him in my twenties. And yeah, huge fan.
Speaker 3: I've been having this weird experience lately. I've been having
Speaker 3: recurring theater dreams.
Speaker 4: Wait, so I was gonna say so actor dreams, actor dreams, but.
Speaker 3: Also not always actor dreams. That's what's weird. Is like
Speaker 3: I've been in the audience for plays where either I'm
Speaker 3: in the audience or I'm and and I'm messing up,
Speaker 3: like I'm I'm like, okay, there's there's one. I had
Speaker 3: this really intense dream where it was like I was
Speaker 3: upstairs in the balcony in the theater, and they like
Speaker 3: had to move me. Like the ushers were like, oh no,
Speaker 3: you have to go downstairs, and they moved downstairs. And
Speaker 3: when I got downstairs, the way that the set was
Speaker 3: built was that the audience was actually on like folding chairs.
Speaker 3: It was like somewhat interactive, and so I was like,
Speaker 3: oh okay, and we sat down to these interacts and
Speaker 3: these folding chairs, and then as the play went on,
Speaker 3: we like moved in closer when the play moved rooms.
Speaker 3: And then like I didn't move when I was supposed to,
Speaker 3: and the whole audience was like yelling at me and
Speaker 3: the actors were screaming. I like ruined the play just
Speaker 3: by being in the audience. And then I've had all
Speaker 3: these dream I don't know, and it's so funny because
Speaker 3: I've been telling Indy about them, because like he loves
Speaker 3: to tell me about his dream. So I've been like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: I had another dream about being in it, and he's like, Dad,
Speaker 3: you shaved. It's time to be an actor again. Oh
Speaker 3: what are you talking about. He's like He's like, well,
Speaker 3: now that you're you shaved, and you should you should
Speaker 3: you should act again. And that's what these dreams are
Speaker 3: telling you. I'm like, Andy, I don't believe that dreams
Speaker 3: tell you things, you know. So we've been having lots
Speaker 3: of gov but yeah, i've been having like every night
Speaker 3: for the last week, I've been having recurring acting dreams.
Speaker 6: So well, those are anxiety dreams. It's those ones. Yeah,
Speaker 6: You're on the stage and you don't you haven't read
Speaker 6: the script or I can't get the page the thing.
Speaker 3: Ever. Yeah, and a couple of these have been that
Speaker 3: I'm going back to do something I've already done in
Speaker 3: like real life, like the graduat or le mis or something,
Speaker 3: and it's changed, like the script is changed, and I'm like, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: it's different now, and they're like, well, you just have
Speaker 3: to figure it out.
Speaker 4: Go Yeah, no one told you.
Speaker 3: Oh no one told me.
Speaker 4: Anyway.
Speaker 3: So yeah, like you know, but I've always said that
Speaker 3: I would act only if I went back and did
Speaker 3: theater first. That was that's the only way I would
Speaker 3: go back to acting. So yeah, maybe, but you know,
Speaker 3: I would love to. Like it's so weird because I
Speaker 3: still think in terms of roles for like thirty year
Speaker 3: old you know, the last time I was acting, so
Speaker 3: like now, I would have to be looking at characters
Speaker 3: that are older, and I don't know what those characters
Speaker 3: would be like. So yeah, I'd love to read a
Speaker 3: Tennessee Williams play and see if I'm right for a
Speaker 3: part I don't know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, cool, I prefer Mississippi Johnson.
Speaker 10: Who uh.
Speaker 5: While we're talking about reading, let's ask this question for Monica.
Speaker 5: When I was a kid, my dad read the book
Speaker 5: Chicken Soup for the Kid's Soul to me. I recently
Speaker 5: realized that Danielleen Writer wrote stories in it. Did you
Speaker 5: really write them? Danielle's story is called a Friend, and
Speaker 5: writers is called my Grandfather's Gift.
Speaker 1: I don't remember the process. I mean, I remember doing it,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember the process of what I did mine,
Speaker 1: though I looked it up. Mine is called a friend
Speaker 1: and then it says by Danielle Fischel and Friends.
Speaker 5: What okay?
Speaker 3: You don't remember what it's about or what I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't remember what it's about.
Speaker 1: And if I have a feeling that it's about my
Speaker 1: friend Jessica and it might be so no, I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I'd have to read it and then I could tell
Speaker 1: you for sure whether or not. I wrote it, but
Speaker 1: I don't remember the process. I don't remember how that
Speaker 1: opportunity even came about, but I do remember that I
Speaker 1: that I did it, and I think, did you do
Speaker 1: the audio.
Speaker 2: Narration for yours writer?
Speaker 3: I don't think so.
Speaker 6: No, Okay, I feel like I did that for teenage
Speaker 6: Soul and blurb at the front, but I never did
Speaker 6: a story. But we all had something to do with
Speaker 6: the chicken soup work.
Speaker 3: I remember it very well. They asked me to contribute something,
Speaker 3: and I had just written my college essay to get
Speaker 3: into Occidental. So it's a version of my college essay,
Speaker 3: which was about a poem my grandfather used to recite
Speaker 3: from memory, and then we had found the poem, or
Speaker 3: my cousin had found the poem, because it was like
Speaker 3: this kind of obscure poem about smoking your first cigar
Speaker 3: by the way, that's the pump. It's about like it's
Speaker 3: from a kid's point of view smoking, and my grandfather
Speaker 3: used to recite it whenever we would go camping or
Speaker 3: have storytime or whatever, and so I had like memorized
Speaker 3: the but he couldn't remember past a certain point. So
Speaker 3: when we found it, he got to hear the rest
Speaker 3: of it, and I don't know. I somehow wrote an
Speaker 3: essay about it for some reason as my college application essay,
Speaker 3: and that right at the same time the chicken soup
Speaker 3: people asked for something. And I remember because David Colmes
Speaker 3: was helping me write my college essay, and I remember
Speaker 3: talking about it with him and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: that would be good, but in retrospect, it's really not
Speaker 3: good because it's about smoking, like for a kid's real
Speaker 3: self help book or whatever. But they took it and
Speaker 3: but then they made me rewrite it to take out
Speaker 3: big vocabulary words, and I remember it was a big debate.
Speaker 3: Like I I was upset. I was like, no, the
Speaker 3: whole point is like kids should look up words that
Speaker 3: they don't know. Yeah, Like I was of the mind
Speaker 3: that you don't change and they were. They went. We
Speaker 3: went back and forth, and I remember talking with David
Speaker 3: Combs about it and like, yeah, they made me change words,
Speaker 3: and I guess I caved because I, if I remember correctly,
Speaker 3: I ended up caving and like it's it's you know.
Speaker 3: My my college essay was a little a little more
Speaker 3: eloquent and had bigger words than what ended up in
Speaker 3: that book, but I know I'd love to reread it.
Speaker 3: But they actually found they actually published the poem too.
Speaker 3: They published my piem that my grandpa liked to pitch something.
Speaker 5: Yeah, bonus episode where we go over them Sure, okay,
Speaker 5: okat okay, and soup for the podmet World. While we're
Speaker 5: talking about picking words and selecting vocabulary, Cliff has a question.
Speaker 12: Hey guys, my name's Cliff. I'm from Raleigh, North Carolina,
Speaker 12: and my question is this. We all know that Boy
Speaker 12: Meets World was a family friendly TGIF show, but let's
Speaker 12: imagine for a moment that it was actually rated TV fourteen.
Speaker 12: If you could go back and insert one F bomb
Speaker 12: into any moment from the show, what moment would it be?
Speaker 4: Wow, that's a great question, fun question. Good, Wow, that's tough.
Speaker 4: Where would you where would be the most? It would
Speaker 4: get your most bang for your.
Speaker 6: You know what?
Speaker 3: I just thought about the moment when Lauren shows up
Speaker 3: and I go good out. Yeah, if we just turned
Speaker 3: around and actually Corey just it was like she's wearing
Speaker 3: a Laura outfit and then turned around with what they
Speaker 3: so because that's such a funny moment. And if you
Speaker 3: just like turned from the like to know, Ye, this
Speaker 3: can't happen.
Speaker 1: Mine definitely would play in somewhere into the Lauren storyline,
Speaker 1: like for sure it would be somewhere in that storyline.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, I don't know, Will.
Speaker 3: Or maybe chick like me when I reviewed what I
Speaker 3: what I right before I punch you?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 6: To me, it seems like and I don't know how
Speaker 6: this would work organically, but it seems like the thing
Speaker 6: that would make it just magical is if it was Phoenie.
Speaker 6: Oh yes, if somehow Bill just drops an F bomb
Speaker 6: out of no it just.
Speaker 3: What would be the most? What was the most like
Speaker 3: so far? What has been the most? Like Phoenie completely
Speaker 3: over over whatever's happening in front of him. You have
Speaker 3: to be something Eric does He just says what the act?
Speaker 3: The actual actually is so funny.
Speaker 5: We watched with Writer with you and Ben and you're
Speaker 5: explaining something to him and he's so mad at your
Speaker 5: stupidity in it lockers like that, I think is when
Speaker 5: he's just like I want That's where I would put
Speaker 5: the FB.
Speaker 2: Something like that would be so funny.
Speaker 3: We have to figure out the Feenie.
Speaker 4: Or or give it to Lily or lindsay right, that
Speaker 4: could work too.
Speaker 5: Good question. That's this question for Matt m If Lego
Speaker 5: was to release something based on one of your sets
Speaker 5: from the show, like they have for Friends or Seinfeld
Speaker 5: or The Office, which would you like to see?
Speaker 2: Wow, I love this.
Speaker 3: That's such a great question.
Speaker 4: There's so many can give us, so many possibilities.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the classroom. Yeah, I think we need
Speaker 1: to do the final scene Bill Daniels in the classroom.
Speaker 3: I would love to be able to build a little
Speaker 3: Lego set of the if it was like fully accurate
Speaker 3: as far as all the little props in the background,
Speaker 3: the Shakespeare bust and like all this stuff.
Speaker 6: Chubbies would be good too't there forever but Chubbies are
Speaker 6: be good too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Chubbies would be better because it would be able
Speaker 3: to include like all the characters, like you could have
Speaker 3: the parents, you could have every.
Speaker 1: Usually that many characters in them though they have yeah
Speaker 1: they don't they they stick to like yeah. So that's
Speaker 1: why Chubbies would be hard.
Speaker 3: If you and the Hallway.
Speaker 6: I got screwed out of a pop so I'm not
Speaker 6: getting screwed out of a Lego set.
Speaker 4: So it can't just be something with.
Speaker 3: The kid just.
Speaker 1: The classroom, the classroom, though if we did the last
Speaker 1: it's you, it's the four of us.
Speaker 3: I would want to do Turner's classroom in the hallway
Speaker 3: from the second and third season, because that would be
Speaker 3: that hallway that could be each and you could have
Speaker 3: the Bullies, you could have Eric, you could have that's
Speaker 3: true to any coming from the Turner. You could have every.
Speaker 4: Tiny little feenie weenie door like you see where.
Speaker 1: It'd be great if we did the whole, the whole thing.
Speaker 1: But I don't think they don't do those. We have
Speaker 1: to actually think of one that they do. I mean
Speaker 1: they do have twelve season two and three twelve We're gonna.
Speaker 3: Have you fine, the scream episode classroom.
Speaker 4: Okay, that's so good.
Speaker 2: That would maybe maybe Phoenie peeking in through.
Speaker 3: The Yeah, feeni dead with scissors out of his back.
Speaker 2: That's a really good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 5: Let's do.
Speaker 4: Let's I that can sounding leg.
Speaker 2: Scream episode with Phoenie with scissors in his back.
Speaker 4: Great, good one, good call.
Speaker 5: I want to chub you so bad because I wanted
Speaker 5: a little O. J. Jersey. All right, here is Charlotte.
Speaker 5: She has a question about location and your work in
Speaker 5: in that place.
Speaker 13: Hi, I have a question about excents on Boy Meets World.
Speaker 13: I know that Matt Lawrence is originally from Philadelphia, but
Speaker 13: I was wondering if any of the three of you
Speaker 13: tried to do a Philadelphia accent at any point on
Speaker 13: the show, and if not, maybe you could do one
Speaker 13: for us.
Speaker 4: Now, first of all, that accent was fake. Let's be honest.
Speaker 3: Is that New Zealand was that?
Speaker 4: Or South Africa was in New Zealand?
Speaker 3: New Zealand, New Zealand. Yeah, I can't do Philly. I've
Speaker 3: tried because my family's for Philly, and it's like the
Speaker 3: O sound, it's like the certain Actually that's less Philly.
Speaker 3: I mean, Pennsylvania has a very specific O sound. You
Speaker 3: can't do it.
Speaker 4: Well, I thought, I know, not at all.
Speaker 3: You know, I can't do it. I can't.
Speaker 4: I don't even know.
Speaker 3: I know when.
Speaker 5: Did it ever come up? Did it ever come up?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: No, we barely even barely acknowledged like, yeah, Philly.
Speaker 3: The sports teams we never talked about, like where we were.
Speaker 3: It always felt like Jersey, New York based on the accents,
Speaker 3: like everybody was doing a New York accent constantly. Yeah, mister,
Speaker 3: but yeah, I never can.
Speaker 6: By the way, who for some reason has from Westport,
Speaker 6: Connecticut yet somehow truly, mister Turnament, really you should sound
Speaker 6: like like Charles Emerson Winchester for God's sake.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's stay international with Jamie.
Speaker 14: Hi there, this is Jamie coming to you all the
Speaker 14: way from just outside of Chichester in West Sussex, UK.
Speaker 14: I absolutely love the podcast, cannot wait to hear more.
Speaker 14: And I'm sure you're already aware, but there is quite
Speaker 14: a fandom for Boy Meets World here in the UK,
Speaker 14: and I've often wondered, when any of you have traveled
Speaker 14: outside of the US, what is the most bizarre moment
Speaker 14: of recognition that you've ever had from somebody. Thank you
Speaker 14: so much once again for the podcast, Bye bye for now.
Speaker 1: Great questions, awesome question here you okay go for a
Speaker 1: wealthy because it was so inappropriate.
Speaker 4: I got. I had a group of.
Speaker 6: Kids screaming at me in the middle of the and
Speaker 6: Frank House in Amsterdam, like learning about.
Speaker 4: This this girl's horrible.
Speaker 6: Life and how you know, and then oh my god, yeah,
Speaker 6: and I'm like not the place, not the place, and
Speaker 6: just screaming can we take pictures?
Speaker 4: All that stuff middle of the n Frank House in Amsterdam.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not that's memorable.
Speaker 3: I've told my story on the podcast, right, I don't know,
Speaker 3: which was a live show about being in Spain. I was, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I definitely have told I don't know I wrote about
Speaker 3: it when we when Girl Meets World wasn't out because
Speaker 3: I don't anyway, so this has probably been out there.
Speaker 3: But I was in Spain right after boy Me's World ended.
Speaker 3: So this was two thousand. I was doing a I
Speaker 3: was doing a summer course in Salamanca to learn Spanish
Speaker 3: and screen tested for a movie and had to go home,
Speaker 3: like leave and I had to leave my friend and uh,
Speaker 3: you know, it was a it was a screen test.
Speaker 3: I had to do it, and so I like got it.
Speaker 3: I didn't know how I was, you know, back then,
Speaker 3: he didn't have like easy communicator. I was on a
Speaker 3: pay phone with my manager. I was like, Okay, I
Speaker 3: got to get back to the United States. It's in
Speaker 3: the next like twenty four hours. So I had to
Speaker 3: like wake up at like two in the morning to
Speaker 3: catch a train from Salamanca to you know whatever. So
Speaker 3: it was a crazy stressful time and I'm like all
Speaker 3: freaked out, and I'm on this train at like four
Speaker 3: in the morning and some guy like nudges me awake,
Speaker 3: and I don't speak Spanish, obviously that's there to learn it.
Speaker 3: And he's like trying to talk to me, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm so sorry, and he's like, I'm like,
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. He's like and then he takes a moment
Speaker 3: and he looks at me and he goes Benga and
Speaker 3: then he's like, yeah, you get his autograph and that's
Speaker 3: all he wanted.
Speaker 12: Cool.
Speaker 3: See, it was like the international language of boy and
Speaker 3: I know what you're talking about because it's called in
Speaker 3: Spanish it's Me and the World. It's like that it
Speaker 3: translates to like I am the world or I'm I'm
Speaker 3: meeting the world as as anyway we could not, but yeah,
Speaker 3: so Tapanga is the It was great. It was such
Speaker 3: a fun Like really, I was so hardressed. No, you
Speaker 3: actually helped me. I remember I got sick and I
Speaker 3: showed up on Shiloh's couch. You came over and you
Speaker 3: you helped me prepare for this test. Matt Lawrence got
Speaker 3: the part. Matt Lawrence got a part in the movie
Speaker 3: you not the same part, but oh, is it hot chick? No,
Speaker 3: it was called It was a very funny script that
Speaker 3: I don't think turned into a good movie, but I
Speaker 3: loved The director's name was Andrew Something. It was called Cheaters.
Speaker 3: It was about kids who cheat at school. I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was a it was you know, it was a movie.
Speaker 3: And at the time, I was like, Oh, I got
Speaker 3: to come back from Spain to do it.
Speaker 6: Geez.
Speaker 1: When we went to Malta when I was eighteen, I
Speaker 1: graduated graduated from high school, and one of the things
Speaker 1: I wanted to do as like my celebration for graduating
Speaker 1: from high school was take my family to Malta. And
Speaker 1: so that's where my grandfather and my grandmother are from.
Speaker 1: And so we all went and and my grandfather's brother
Speaker 1: owned a bar in Malta, and I was sitting in
Speaker 1: the bar and they were playing Boy Meets.
Speaker 2: World at the bar. But it was reruns.
Speaker 1: It was like they had also it was reruns for
Speaker 1: where we were in these states, but I think they
Speaker 1: had just gotten Boy Meets World, so for them it
Speaker 1: was like a new show. And so I was on
Speaker 1: the screen at twelve. It's like season one and there's
Speaker 1: a drunk guy sitting next to me, and I'm just
Speaker 1: sitting there kind of watching the show, like, man, this
Speaker 1: is so weird. Here I am eighteen with my family,
Speaker 1: my first time ever going to Malta, and here we
Speaker 1: are and my family's bar and wow, look at that.
Speaker 2: And the guy's like looking at me, and he's looking
Speaker 2: back up.
Speaker 3: At the TV.
Speaker 2: He's looking at me, he's looking back up at the TV.
Speaker 2: And then he goes, you could be her older sister.
Speaker 2: I went, yeah, yeah, I could shoot. Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 2: I really could. It was very funny.
Speaker 1: That's that's my favorite international.
Speaker 4: Do you remember the two of us sitting in the
Speaker 4: hash bar in Amsterdam and having a conversation, one of
Speaker 4: our many conversations, and then hearing our voices and going
Speaker 4: what the hell and then looking over the bar and
Speaker 4: on the screen there's a Boy meets World playing.
Speaker 8: Are you.
Speaker 6: I'm pretty sure, but that was another moment where we're like,
Speaker 6: oh my god, this is surreal.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was very strange.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's stay in public for Amy H's question. If
Speaker 5: you're at a Starbucks and the barista calls out Sean
Speaker 5: to Panga or Eric for an order, would you look
Speaker 5: up out of habit.
Speaker 2: I answered to Panga, like, it's my actual name.
Speaker 5: So yes, every other day. Yeah, sure, of course our
Speaker 5: friend's wife. This is actually kind of crazy. I have
Speaker 5: a good friend whose wife once and I had known
Speaker 5: him for like a decent amount of a show, ran
Speaker 5: up to us and was like, Jensen, great show to Panga,
Speaker 5: good to see you.
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 2: He's like, crazy, Yeah, I seen.
Speaker 3: I have total sympathy for somebody accidentally calling me that,
Speaker 3: you know, but I get annoyed when people do it intentionally. Agreed,
Speaker 3: like yelling out, I will purposefully ignore people. I actually
Speaker 3: kind of keep my head down even people yell out Rider,
Speaker 3: which has been a problem for like friends who are
Speaker 3: actually trying to get a hold of me. But like
Speaker 3: you know, obviously, I just like, uh but but Sean
Speaker 3: for sure bothers me. When people are like and you
Speaker 3: can hear it the way they're doing it, it's not
Speaker 3: like Sean, Hey you Sean. It's like they're trying to
Speaker 3: get my attention by saying that thing that's annoying. But no,
Speaker 3: like borist doesn't stuff. I actually am more insecure about
Speaker 3: saying the name Rider. I will use my wife's name,
Speaker 3: because you know, if we're like, you know, I'll just
Speaker 3: say Alex because it can be either gender, and I'll
Speaker 3: just use her name because rider gets confusing, or that's
Speaker 3: when people look up and they're like, oh, you're the guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'd rather just not deal with it, so I just
Speaker 3: say Alex.
Speaker 4: I don't get Eric A lot. I get Eric some
Speaker 4: What I get mostly is people doing the Phoenie call.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I get people yelling Fhoenie at me, which is
Speaker 6: odd because I didn't play mister Phoinie.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you writer.
Speaker 1: If somebody yells out topango, I'm not gonna I'm most
Speaker 1: of the time, I'm not going to turn around, although
Speaker 1: lately I've just started turning around to that because nine
Speaker 1: times out of ten they're going Topanga and I turn
Speaker 1: around and they're like.
Speaker 2: What up, and I'm just like hey, and then and
Speaker 2: that's it.
Speaker 1: Whereas you know, it used to feel more insulting for
Speaker 1: someone to like they yell at you, yeah.
Speaker 3: Because we were younger in the twenty in your twenties.
Speaker 3: If you were like it meant that they were probably
Speaker 3: coming out of a bar or you know, it's that
Speaker 3: certain tone, like you didn't want those encounters. Now, yeah,
Speaker 3: people are in their thirties forties, even if they're saying
Speaker 3: that they're usually pretty cool and they they don't.
Speaker 7: They don't.
Speaker 2: They just want to be like and it's.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's totally fine. I know it's changed, it's easier.
Speaker 4: You just don't get recognized anywhere else. That's the.
Speaker 5: Yah I got for the first time the other day
Speaker 5: at Danielle Danielle and I spend.
Speaker 1: I knew it was not someone I knew and kept
Speaker 1: going and Jensen was like, that person's trying to get
Speaker 1: your attention.
Speaker 5: First time in years I've ever been. He goes over
Speaker 5: there and it was not someone she knew. Now, okay,
Speaker 5: let's move on. This is Joseph and he mentioned something
Speaker 5: and wants to know what you know about it. Hey, guys,
Speaker 5: congrats on doing five seasons with The boy Mes World,
Speaker 5: But you missed the secret.
Speaker 7: Episode that I don't think many people know about.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 5: Do you guys remember the time in nineteen ninety four
Speaker 5: where ABC had you guys host the Saturday morning cartoon
Speaker 5: preview special.
Speaker 7: You guys have to review that.
Speaker 4: Also, when are we getting a review of Grinders?
Speaker 3: Let's do it I'm totally Yeah. The Saturday Morning we
Speaker 3: talked about, I think such a weird experience. I hated it,
Speaker 3: but yes, I would love to review that because it
Speaker 3: is painful. I remember trying to rewatch it when we
Speaker 3: started this podcast and like, it's so poorly written and
Speaker 3: we are so uncomfortable. Will are you in? I don't
Speaker 3: think you're in the Saturday Morning preview things.
Speaker 4: I honestly don't remember.
Speaker 6: It's just to me, it's like it's the Boy meets
Speaker 6: World equivalent of the The Wookie Christmas first Star Wars.
Speaker 3: Star Wars Christmas is so good though similar.
Speaker 5: I watch a little of it. It is kind of
Speaker 5: your Star Wars Christmas.
Speaker 3: We have to do it.
Speaker 4: Am I in it? I don't even remember.
Speaker 3: I don't think you're in it. Yeah. I think it's
Speaker 3: like Lily, No, I.
Speaker 6: Am, And we did see part of this. I do
Speaker 6: because I'm sitting down with her with Lily. It's like
Speaker 6: Lily and watching, yeah, watching the thing. So yes, it's
Speaker 6: and Grinders. I would still love to see grinders. It
Speaker 6: still sounds like a gay porn to me, but I'd
Speaker 6: love to see it.
Speaker 3: Grinders and the centers in a line. You know what
Speaker 3: I'm talking.
Speaker 5: Abouts here's seth. He wants to know. Was there ever
Speaker 5: a time on the show where you guys got into
Speaker 5: really stupid arguments or fights where you look back now
Speaker 5: and just think, man, we were stupid teenagers.
Speaker 4: Every we.
Speaker 3: Still do it. We still Actually we've gotten better the
Speaker 3: last couple of years. I feel like because we do
Speaker 3: the podcast, we don't get into many ridiculous Yeah, because
Speaker 3: we just see each other more often, but like.
Speaker 4: Less time together drinking too, which was helpful.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. But when we were on the show,
Speaker 3: we used to get into it, like really inane arguments.
Speaker 3: I mean sometimes it would be political, uh and I
Speaker 3: still remember them. But also it would be really a
Speaker 3: nand stuff. I remember, like little things that we would
Speaker 3: just be like, no, you only I don't know what,
Speaker 3: like drink coffee this way, or it would be like
Speaker 3: stupid and we were just strategy.
Speaker 4: I mean it was just like we were just had.
Speaker 3: No yeah, yeah, or like what's a good book or
Speaker 3: a bad movie or whatever. We would just get into it.
Speaker 4: We would we would do that.
Speaker 6: That was that was constantly, and if it wasn't us,
Speaker 6: it would be other people on the show.
Speaker 4: Yes, we were kids. We were kids and like a
Speaker 4: little family. So yeah, we were bickering all the time.
Speaker 2: Of course, yeah, of course Ben and I.
Speaker 1: Ben and I got into an argument once and and
Speaker 1: we weren't We were like not looking at each other,
Speaker 1: and it was apparently showing up on on not only
Speaker 1: in our run throughs, but then on screen, look like.
Speaker 4: They hate each other.
Speaker 1: And Michael called us into his office and he was like, guys,
Speaker 1: you're not leaving here until we work this out. I
Speaker 1: can't have Corey into Panga not making eye contact with
Speaker 1: each other. And we talked it out, and I found
Speaker 1: out why he was upset with me. I apologized. I
Speaker 1: didn't know that that's why he was upset. There was
Speaker 1: a misunderstanding something I'd said that I should not have said.
Speaker 1: And I apologized. And then even after I apologized, I
Speaker 1: went home and I wrote him a letter apologizing and
Speaker 1: gave it to him.
Speaker 2: And that letter really meant a lot to him.
Speaker 5: And I know that they put chicken soup for the soul.
Speaker 2: That's what I wrote.
Speaker 1: No, it's I know that meant a lot to him,
Speaker 1: because I'm pretty sure we talked about it maybe then
Speaker 1: during Girl Meets World and sometimes we were talking about
Speaker 1: the kids, the kids getting into little arguments, and I
Speaker 1: used it as an example of like, look, you know,
Speaker 1: Ben and I also got into fights. And I told
Speaker 1: them that story and Ben said, and I still have
Speaker 1: that letter you wrote me sweet.
Speaker 11: That sweet.
Speaker 6: The fights were never knocked down, drag out. They never
Speaker 6: got physical or even close.
Speaker 4: We were just we have like magine if they did. Oh,
Speaker 4: have you ever been on sets where you've had actors
Speaker 4: pulled apart. It's been on sets where it's like you
Speaker 4: have actors pulled apart.
Speaker 6: Sure, and you know it's a bunch of actors getting
Speaker 6: into something.
Speaker 2: And yes, I think of actors as being like boxers, I.
Speaker 4: Know, but they're emotional.
Speaker 6: You were emotional people, so you can get your take
Speaker 6: it too far or something like that in a shove
Speaker 6: or something.
Speaker 4: No, it was never like that. So it was yeah,
Speaker 4: but we'd always God.
Speaker 6: There was some political religious literature, I mean something we
Speaker 6: talked about.
Speaker 1: We talked about our situation with writer too, where I
Speaker 1: said something about astrology and Writer made one of his
Speaker 1: very ride or comments about how actually I haven't.
Speaker 3: Talk about that on the podcast. We talked about a
Speaker 3: live show. Yeah, when you told that alone.
Speaker 1: You want to tell for us to tell it here, thankfully,
Speaker 1: because Mercury is in retrograde.
Speaker 4: Can't talk about it now.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was Danielle and d ed
Speaker 3: mates we're making some comment while we were shooting. I
Speaker 3: think it was like the wedding it was later. It
Speaker 3: was like the wedding episode was like season six or seven,
Speaker 3: and yeah, and and and I made some sort of
Speaker 3: Actually I don't even think I said anything. I think
Speaker 3: I just rolled my eyes and like, Rod, you walked away,
Speaker 3: and you just turned to me and you said, you know,
Speaker 3: for somebody who thinks that they're open minded, you're the
Speaker 3: most judgmental person I've ever met. And it just just
Speaker 3: floored me because you were right. And and then I like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I just was so devastated. And I remember because my
Speaker 3: girlfriend at the time from who was dating from college,
Speaker 3: was there and I just started crying backstage and I
Speaker 3: was like, I need to I need to go make
Speaker 3: this right. And so I pulled you and Ben aside,
Speaker 3: and I remember sitting out inside of the Kate the
Speaker 3: CBS Radford, the smoking section where will we have smoked
Speaker 3: the smoking and I remember I just went, I went
Speaker 3: and sat you guys down and I just was like, hey,
Speaker 3: I really I feel like I've been you know, just
Speaker 3: not and I really, yeah, judgmental friend. And I really
Speaker 3: care about you guys, and I don't want you to
Speaker 3: feel like you know, I think I think we're going
Speaker 3: to be in each other's lives forever, and I want
Speaker 3: to make sure that we always love each other and
Speaker 3: have respect. And yeah, and I just remember crying and Danielle,
Speaker 3: you were so gracious and like forgiving and we talked
Speaker 3: about it and you know, yeah, been able to stay
Speaker 3: friends ever since.
Speaker 2: And look at that.
Speaker 5: So yeah, all right, let's move on to Melissa V.
Speaker 5: Which person on the Boy Meets World set had the
Speaker 5: most influenced or impact on your life during the run
Speaker 5: of the show and which person had the most influence
Speaker 5: after the show ended? So these are both people from
Speaker 5: Boy Meets World.
Speaker 3: Okay, such a hard question.
Speaker 4: It is a really hard question. So different people for
Speaker 4: different reasons, that's the thing.
Speaker 5: Well, you are forced to pick one of each.
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's easiest for me to say post
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World writer and will because I'm we have
Speaker 1: I mean, look at this podcast, like as far as
Speaker 1: influential on our lives and helping me look back over
Speaker 1: the course of my time on the show and unpacking
Speaker 1: a childhood, Like who's been more influential than these two
Speaker 1: who we've gone on this journey with. So I think
Speaker 1: I think for post Boy Meets World, you too, now.
Speaker 3: That we should take that off the table because that's
Speaker 3: too obvious.
Speaker 15: Okay, let's take let's take synergy. Okay, you know what
Speaker 15: I've been Okay, I would say David Calms during during
Speaker 15: it was like, you know, he changed my life as
Speaker 15: far as opening my mind to all the things. I
Speaker 15: still care about it so much in an academic sense
Speaker 15: and intellectual and artistic. And then post Boy Meets World,
Speaker 15: I would say I've realized Jeff McCracken was a huge,
Speaker 15: huge hero of mine, and I don't think I quite
Speaker 15: knew it because he was so humble. Yeah, the man
Speaker 15: never tooted his own horn, never let me know that,
Speaker 15: you know, but he just inspired me.
Speaker 3: And like I've followed in his footsteps. I still think about,
Speaker 3: you know, how he treated us, and like when I
Speaker 3: went on Girl Meets World, he was my guiding light
Speaker 3: as far as how to talk to the kids and
Speaker 3: how to be and like, yeah, so Jeff has turned
Speaker 3: out to be a huge influence on me that I
Speaker 3: didn't quite realize at the time. If you had asked me,
Speaker 3: I'd be like, oh, I love Jeff, But I don't
Speaker 3: think I would have said like, oh, I want my
Speaker 3: I want to be a director. I want to be
Speaker 3: able to work with actors the way he does, and
Speaker 3: like the way he, you know, brings people together and
Speaker 3: cares about story telling, Like that's just who I've become.
Speaker 3: And then teaching too. You know, he taught at Chapman.
Speaker 3: Now I teach a Chapman. I'm like, oh, my god,
Speaker 3: I've become Jeff McCracken.
Speaker 11: Just sure.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you couldn't couldn't really have a better
Speaker 4: role model.
Speaker 6: I mean, my god, he's just a great guy and
Speaker 6: super talented, and for me on the show, if I
Speaker 6: have to take both of you out of the equation,
Speaker 6: for both of them on the show, I would say
Speaker 6: Bill Daniels was probably my biggest influence all the way around,
Speaker 6: sometimes in talking and spending time together, sometimes in just
Speaker 6: watching how he conducted himself.
Speaker 4: I mean, to this day, I still am never late.
Speaker 4: I you know, know my life.
Speaker 6: It's like there's a professionalism that the man had that's
Speaker 6: amazing and I emulate as much as I can, so
Speaker 6: I would say Bill afterwards.
Speaker 4: McCracken's a good one too.
Speaker 6: I would throw Sherman into the mix because Jeff and
Speaker 6: I have spent a lot of time together. We've we've
Speaker 6: worked together, We've written projects together. Jeff Sherman has been
Speaker 6: somebody I've I've had a lot of fun with. God,
Speaker 6: just picking one is very hard. Obviously did not have
Speaker 6: the same relationship with studio teachers that you both did
Speaker 6: because you were in school for most of the time
Speaker 6: that you were doing the show, where I just did
Speaker 6: the first year. Tony Quinn is another one that he
Speaker 6: and I were very close and still are.
Speaker 4: And so, yeah, picking one is just going to be
Speaker 4: too hard for me.
Speaker 6: There's been David Kendall, There's been I mean, there's been
Speaker 6: a lot of people that I've I've spent time with
Speaker 6: post show that have helped to kind of shape the
Speaker 6: person that I've become.
Speaker 4: There's a lot of them. Unfortunately, I wish I could
Speaker 4: just pick one, but I can't.
Speaker 1: I feel like during the time on Boy Meets World,
Speaker 1: I would love to say David Combs and Wesley they
Speaker 1: were both you know, my teachers and were very influential
Speaker 1: on me. But I also was just as a high
Speaker 1: school student, wasn't that into school, and so they tried,
Speaker 1: and certainly by the time then I ended up going
Speaker 1: to college when I was twenty seven late in life,
Speaker 1: I was very much like I can feel the David
Speaker 1: and the Wesley like I can feel them, and I
Speaker 1: feel all the things they said to me about why
Speaker 1: I should care about this and why I should pay attention.
Speaker 1: I feel it very much now. So I think their
Speaker 1: influence hit me later. But I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: way around me saying that the most influential person on
Speaker 1: my time on Boy Meet's World was Michael Michael Jacobs.
Speaker 1: I you know, I it would almost feel disingenuous to
Speaker 1: say I cared about anybody's opinion as much as I
Speaker 1: cared about Michaels. I never questioned whether or not what
Speaker 1: Michael said was right or wrong. There was no it's wrong.
Speaker 1: I thought everything he said was genius. I thought everything
Speaker 1: he said was correct. I thought I lived on Yeah Gospel.
Speaker 1: I lived on every word he said. And when he
Speaker 1: said we were not doing a good job, I believed him.
Speaker 1: And when he said that we were killing it and
Speaker 1: things were great. I was constantly chasing that. So my
Speaker 1: time on the show, Michael was the most influential person
Speaker 1: for me. And then post Boy Meets World, I feel like,
Speaker 1: similarly to what writer said, Jeff McCracken as a director.
Speaker 2: Now I think.
Speaker 1: About Jeff and the way Jeff led us and talked
Speaker 1: to us and his style, and I think about him
Speaker 1: all the time, and he's still in my life and
Speaker 1: he's the type of leader I want to be. He's
Speaker 1: the type of he's the type of man I want
Speaker 1: to be.
Speaker 2: Frankly, I.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I want to be Jeff McCracken.
Speaker 1: And so I would say I have gone back to
Speaker 1: conversations and moments and times with Jeff, so though I
Speaker 1: think it would be Michael Jacobs while I was on
Speaker 1: the show, and then post the show, Jeff McCracken.
Speaker 5: While we're talking about people you worked with and what
Speaker 5: you feel about working with him. Here Shelley from down
Speaker 5: Under Good.
Speaker 13: Eye, Guys, my question is, out of all accost who
Speaker 13: is most like their character and who is least similar
Speaker 13: to their character?
Speaker 7: That's the short and sweet cheers guys.
Speaker 2: Hmm, that's a good question.
Speaker 3: Good question.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, obviously Eric being a total Dodo bird is
Speaker 1: not at all like Will. Will's very very smart, but
Speaker 1: how funny Eric is, But.
Speaker 3: Eric's not intentionally funny the way that Will's intentions you're
Speaker 3: taking the experience of being around Will is similar to
Speaker 3: the experience of watching Eric yours, but that's a completely
Speaker 3: different you know, like, yeah, no, I was thinking that
Speaker 3: through too. I was like, well, but it's that's just
Speaker 3: the energy and the experience that's not the person.
Speaker 1: So I think Will is least Will is least like Eric.
Speaker 3: I'm probably the most like.
Speaker 4: I think you're pretty pretty a lot.
Speaker 3: You're a lot like Sean, super sensitive, overly dramatics everything personally, Yeah,
Speaker 3: likes poetry.
Speaker 2: Likes poetry. Yeah, you don't come from a broken family.
Speaker 4: No, that's true.
Speaker 6: And in all fairness, they started to write to you
Speaker 6: like like you were nothing like Sean at the beginning,
Speaker 6: you know, but.
Speaker 3: That's the thing. I mean, yeah, a lot of like
Speaker 3: Sean or Sean like like you. Sean's like me, I think, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, you know, you know who's actually uh interestingly
Speaker 3: Rusty is very Allen and that he's like a stable
Speaker 3: like sort of you know, like uh, not aggressively but
Speaker 3: simply masculine force and like no posturing, but very like
Speaker 3: grounded and just like powerful and like I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, only honest moments like us.
Speaker 3: A little like cooler. Yeah, Alan, you know, Rusty's got
Speaker 3: like a style that's like Alan's a little more like
Speaker 3: suburban that Rusty's not. But they're very similar energies and
Speaker 3: like same source of like good conversation and like advice
Speaker 3: without being uh didactic, like just sort of like hey,
Speaker 3: this is the way it works and let me help
Speaker 3: you out here. I don't know, like I would say
Speaker 3: they're very similar vibes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Betsy's very nurturing, like Amy's very nurturing.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 6: Yeah, but we didn't get to know Amy enough to
Speaker 6: really know how how similar she is to be frankly,
Speaker 6: Rusty's Rusty's actually kind of a good call.
Speaker 4: That's that's kind of a good call. And then who's least.
Speaker 1: Twelve twelve year old to Banga was nothing like early Topanga.
Speaker 1: Later Topanga also being like extremely type A and very
Speaker 1: smart is not at all like high school Danielle.
Speaker 2: But this is very much like a don't.
Speaker 4: And yeah, you grew indeed, your character come.
Speaker 1: To Panga I did. Yeah, my mid twenties. All of
Speaker 1: a sudden, I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 5: I'm.
Speaker 3: Gosh, that's actually true. You are very similar to Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am.
Speaker 5: That's why. That's why when you guys played exaggerated versions
Speaker 5: of yourself and Eric Hollywood, I was like, what is this?
Speaker 2: Like, I didn't you didn't know that person?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah No. Danielle back then was very much like I'm
Speaker 3: kind of like that, yeah, like everybody's best friend and
Speaker 3: like do do do do?
Speaker 2: And like social freely extroverted.
Speaker 3: Extremely extroverted, like everybody's best friend, and like unting on
Speaker 3: your lap like exactly. I remember the take being like, oh,
Speaker 3: she doesn't care about she just does that to everybody.
Speaker 3: Like she's just loving to everybody. She's everybody's friend.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 5: Everyone.
Speaker 2: Now, I just want to live alone on an island,
Speaker 2: me alone.
Speaker 5: There's a bomb direct from there.
Speaker 3: There you go. You just want to be on an
Speaker 3: island with a bullhorn telling everyone else where to go.
Speaker 3: Let's go over here, let's go over here, let's age
Speaker 3: it from the top.
Speaker 5: Okay, So if this is a question a lot of
Speaker 5: people had, and this is our last few here Missy
Speaker 5: l If you could have chosen any well known nineties
Speaker 5: kid actor to have joined the show in a reoccurring role,
Speaker 5: who would it have been.
Speaker 2: Oh, that's a good one.
Speaker 6: I just popped right into my head, just because we
Speaker 6: loved working with him and he was so much fun.
Speaker 4: Was it?
Speaker 6: Was it John which Jackson was in Scream Jeremy Right?
Speaker 2: Was it Jonathan Jonathan Jackson, John Kenny Kenny?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Remember we had a ton Let's be somebody who we
Speaker 3: didn't work with.
Speaker 4: That's fair, that's fair, that's fair energy.
Speaker 3: I was gonna say Mac Mac with him in New
Speaker 3: York after a boy and you know, became friendly and
Speaker 3: he was the coolest guy and very smart, and I'm like,
Speaker 3: we would have had a lot of fun. And I
Speaker 3: remember being like, I had no idea that you were
Speaker 3: this interesting and like cool, and he was like, yeah,
Speaker 3: I always thought of you as just like a TV kid,
Speaker 3: because back then it was like there were movie stars
Speaker 3: and there were TV And like, he would have been awesome.
Speaker 3: It's just really fun.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Elijah Wood would have been great too, like that.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Jonathan Taylor Thomas could have been an interesting addition
Speaker 6: to the shows. Another sitcom like fellow sitcom.
Speaker 1: Kid didn't happen to be We wouldn't have been able
Speaker 1: to handle all that hair, all the hair between Will
Speaker 1: and Ryer and me and Jonathan.
Speaker 2: And it's too much hair.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of hair, all right, So let's go
Speaker 5: to uh kayleas c. Was there ever a time your
Speaker 5: character had to do something and you felt in your
Speaker 5: gut that your character would never have actually done this thing?
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: This is the person who's not familiar with Eric.
Speaker 3: I mean the legendary version of this was Ben not
Speaker 3: wanting to and just making it a push off camera
Speaker 3: because originally punched him in the face, which it's just
Speaker 3: a but.
Speaker 6: It comes through, it comes through the door. I don't
Speaker 6: think you you I don't know if you actually see
Speaker 6: the push.
Speaker 4: You just see.
Speaker 3: Him fly through the door. It was like off camera,
Speaker 3: it's like in the background because Ben was like, I'm
Speaker 3: not Corey would never hit somebody. And it was a
Speaker 3: big remember it's huge debit and TV Guide was there
Speaker 3: that we that was like the one we had TV
Speaker 3: guy Did they write an article about Yes, and they
Speaker 3: like mocked Ben for being this child actor who's trying
Speaker 3: and I remember, I don't remember I can't find the
Speaker 3: article online. I don't because I actually look for it
Speaker 3: because I feel like we've talked about it. I've been
Speaker 3: like where is that. You can't find it online?
Speaker 4: It somewhere, but it's not.
Speaker 3: It's it's unfair because it's like, you know, and they
Speaker 3: even interview Michael, and Michael's like Ben has his opinion,
Speaker 3: like he's for you to do it, like he's the
Speaker 3: star of this show. But the way the article made
Speaker 3: it sound was like look at this cute actor trying
Speaker 3: to be Paccino and like shaking over his show. And
Speaker 3: it's like, no, we were having and it was one
Speaker 3: of the few times actually that Ben really stood his
Speaker 3: ground on something because creatively, as far as like what
Speaker 3: his character would or would not do.
Speaker 4: I remember that note session. That was a big thing.
Speaker 3: It was supertense. I mean, for yeah, I don't, I
Speaker 3: don't really.
Speaker 8: Eric.
Speaker 4: Eric would do anything changed every week.
Speaker 6: So it was just I mean, it's true if you'd
Speaker 6: say no.
Speaker 3: I mean for me. The poetry thing was was when
Speaker 3: I was like no this, you know, I ended up
Speaker 3: writing the poetry, but in retrospect, it was less about
Speaker 3: the poems. It was more about like this whole thing,
Speaker 3: like why is Shawn a poet? And like watching the
Speaker 3: show now, I'm like, yeah, that's so out of character.
Speaker 3: Like literally have episodes about how dumb poetry is to
Speaker 3: Shaan in the first four seasons or five seasons, so
Speaker 3: for him to then suddenly you know, yes, this doesn't
Speaker 3: make any sense.
Speaker 1: I think there are going to be moments coming up
Speaker 1: that I remember going like, oh, yeah, this feels very
Speaker 1: out of character because I don't remember. I know, I
Speaker 1: don't remember a lot of six and seven. If you
Speaker 1: thought I didn't remember a lot about one through five,
Speaker 1: just wait, but.
Speaker 3: I need to Yale, right, I mean, even that we're
Speaker 3: getting married at that age or any of that.
Speaker 4: Kind of stuff, seems it would go to Yale, But
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I remember also at the time thinking like, yeah, there's
Speaker 1: nothing to Panga has made more clear than the idea
Speaker 1: that Corey is this she puts his love and their
Speaker 1: relationship above everything else. She walked, she walked from Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: She's so like deciding to propose and not going to Yale.
Speaker 1: At the time, I think felt very much like I
Speaker 1: thought Danielle thought it was romantic and that Topanga should
Speaker 1: and would say no, this is my I'm man, and
Speaker 1: even and not not understanding that it.
Speaker 2: Didn't it didn't need to choose that way.
Speaker 3: It is the defining It's the moment that defines the
Speaker 3: Panga in some way, like it is she is a romantic,
Speaker 3: she is a person.
Speaker 1: There's something that comes up with something pertaining to the
Speaker 1: prank War.
Speaker 2: There's something about that prank.
Speaker 1: War episode that also sits sits with me as being
Speaker 1: I don't remember the details of it, apparently I interacted
Speaker 1: with a bear, but also that sits with me as
Speaker 1: being the moment I checked out. There's something about that
Speaker 1: that episode that I have a feeling as being like
Speaker 1: we we've lost we've lost it, We've officially.
Speaker 4: I wonder if it was the Maitland thing.
Speaker 6: I wonder if it was putting up a giant picture
Speaker 6: of Maitland in her neglige in the thing, because I
Speaker 6: remember specifically, there's then Topanga has a line where it's
Speaker 6: like Corey and Sean do that, and because it's Corey
Speaker 6: and sew and Tapanga are are on one team and
Speaker 6: and Maitland are on another team, and so one of
Speaker 6: the things that then Corey and Sean go and do
Speaker 6: is they find a sexy photo that Maitland took, that
Speaker 6: Rachel takes and sends to Matt's character. It's it's then
Speaker 6: stolen by Sean and Corey, who blow it up full
Speaker 6: size and plaster it in the the.
Speaker 4: It is to the point where the joke is.
Speaker 6: Then when Matt goes, I can't believe you did this,
Speaker 6: and he rips it down, there's three or four more
Speaker 6: underneath it where he keeps ripping it down and it
Speaker 6: keeps being her picture in the like the lingerie. So
Speaker 6: I wonder if that's where it was kind of because
Speaker 6: it was straight up revenge porn. I wonder if it
Speaker 6: was that remember that Maybe no, yeah, this is because
Speaker 6: it was so kind of out of character for everybody
Speaker 6: where it was just like, oh that's that's a that's
Speaker 6: a bad one.
Speaker 2: That maybe it was that Wow, maybe maybe So I'll
Speaker 2: let you know.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I that I've seen one with
Speaker 1: Tepega yet that I'm like, no, she would never have
Speaker 1: done that, But I know that they're coming.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what about the trap? You don't think.
Speaker 2: Again, I don't think it was.
Speaker 1: I don't think she meant I don't think she meant
Speaker 1: to trap him. I don't think she meant to trap him.
Speaker 5: Also off the table, Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and by the way, I want And even if
Speaker 1: even if it was a trap, you're allowed, she's allowed,
Speaker 1: she's allowed to say go and do it, and then
Speaker 1: when you do it, go I don't like the fact
Speaker 1: that you had to do it. Nothing wrong with that,
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with changing your mind when your boyfriend's cheated
Speaker 1: on you and you're trying to within a few seconds
Speaker 1: make a decision about whether or not it's okay.
Speaker 2: Wasn't a trap on?
Speaker 5: This was another episode with the audience. This last question,
Speaker 5: the last real question, at least I have one to
Speaker 5: end it all. This is from Laura. L If you
Speaker 5: could spend the day with your character in the real
Speaker 5: world for one day, where would you go and uh,
Speaker 5: what would you do?
Speaker 2: Hm?
Speaker 3: Oh Sean?
Speaker 6: Fortunately you can visit Sean every other weekend for an
Speaker 6: hour at the prison that he's in.
Speaker 3: So oh.
Speaker 2: Had a poetry reading.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I don't know. I think. Yeah, I would go.
Speaker 3: We'd go on a hike, we go backpacking, go to
Speaker 3: I can see that.
Speaker 1: I'd take to Penga, back to something she would have
Speaker 1: loved in the early days.
Speaker 2: I'd bring her back to her roots. Maybe we'd maybe
Speaker 2: I do yoga, a.
Speaker 1: Yoga, I do yoga and uh and ayahuasca.
Speaker 3: You're doing ayahuasca.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm gonna doyasa.
Speaker 5: Probably set that up.
Speaker 6: Enough ayahuasca and it's gonna be LIKELF anyway, that's awesome.
Speaker 4: I would I would take Eric.
Speaker 6: I don't know, maybe skydiving because it scares the hell
Speaker 6: out of me. Already done it, so maybe i'd go scot.
Speaker 4: You know what I would do.
Speaker 3: I would let Sean take me to Philly. That's to
Speaker 3: show me around Philadelphia, so I'd get this cool city
Speaker 3: experience that like Sean hasn't something.
Speaker 5: To do with.
Speaker 2: There'd graffiti someplace, you see them.
Speaker 3: We joined the mob.
Speaker 4: We tried to deliver drugs.
Speaker 3: You know, we'd figure something out totally.
Speaker 2: You'd howl like a dog and the moon.
Speaker 5: That's great. Our last question here. First, we should thank
Speaker 5: everyone as always for something. Thank you emails and voice
Speaker 5: memos we got again, so many and it was a
Speaker 5: very short window we allowed people to send it in,
Speaker 5: so we appreciate it and we'll do these again as
Speaker 5: things come up. But here's Catherine, very timely for where
Speaker 5: we are in the episode, she has a question for Will.
Speaker 9: Hi, this is Kathy calling from the motherland of Philadelphia,
Speaker 9: and I had a question for Will. Could you please
Speaker 9: settle a marital dispute for me? My husband and I
Speaker 9: have been debating whether you brainstorm the way you're gonna
Speaker 9: say merch while you're watching the episode for the week,
Speaker 9: or do you make them up on the fly while
Speaker 9: you're on the pod. Thank you so much, and thank
Speaker 9: you to all three of you for producing my favorite podcasts.
Speaker 1: Love you good question. I want the answer to this too,
Speaker 1: but I think I already know the answer.
Speaker 4: I make it. What Yeah, you make it?
Speaker 8: I make it?
Speaker 6: And sometimes what's funny is literally until Danielle says and
Speaker 6: we've got I'm like, oh, I don't have an I.
Speaker 3: Can see it. He like looks off to the side.
Speaker 3: He was like, OK, can we do a super cut
Speaker 3: of that moment and can kind of go back through
Speaker 3: old episodes and we could see a super good of
Speaker 3: just when she says and ned you could watch will go.
Speaker 2: I want a supercut of that.
Speaker 1: And before this show concludes, before Pod meets World, says
Speaker 1: good night and goes off into the sunset.
Speaker 2: It'll come back with a new Dawn.
Speaker 1: But but when we're done recapping the episodes, I want
Speaker 1: every merch call as its own episode, all of them.
Speaker 2: Of just all of them, everyone one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2: It'd be one hundred and fifty. Oh no, well you double.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: The interviews, I want every.
Speaker 5: One hours of hearing the merch.
Speaker 2: That's what I want.
Speaker 3: Oh god, yeah, We'll just started out as you just
Speaker 3: saying merch the same way every time, right.
Speaker 2: That's wheah.
Speaker 4: That's because that's what I want to hear. Because Dan,
Speaker 4: you said, and we have March, it is March, and
Speaker 4: then you.
Speaker 3: Did something, you were doing it the same every week,
Speaker 3: and I was like, you can't stop it.
Speaker 12: And then.
Speaker 1: I want to hear the evolutions, Guys, I want to
Speaker 1: hear it. I want to hear the evolution born.
Speaker 5: A couple more bonus episodes. We will have the Chicken
Speaker 5: Soup for the Soul, we'll have the Saturday Morning preview,
Speaker 5: and we'll do grinders inline.
Speaker 14: Correct.
Speaker 3: Love it.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys again for sending in your questions. You
Speaker 1: never fail to deliver always.
Speaker 4: Yeah awesome.
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