Speaker 1: So you know when I was growing up, super quick backstory.
Speaker 2: Growing up, I had my two older brothers, and then
Speaker 2: there was a woman who we always called our sister,
Speaker 2: who grew up across the street from me. Baby sat
Speaker 2: me from like the day I was born, still in
Speaker 2: our lives.
Speaker 1: So she's my sister.
Speaker 2: Her name is Jerry, and she likes to send stuff
Speaker 2: she finds if it has any sort of relation to
Speaker 2: Boyman's World.
Speaker 1: She's a big Boyman's World fan. So shout out Jerry.
Speaker 2: So yesterday from the I'm not on Facebook. I've never
Speaker 2: been on Facebook. I don't know anything about Facebook. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't know how to get on it or any of
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. So she sent me from the
Speaker 2: original TV archive Facebook group. I guess they put together
Speaker 2: the most popular fifty most popular sitcoms of all time.
Speaker 1: Well, this is obviously, this is real. This is real.
Speaker 1: This is basically like, this is very important.
Speaker 2: I'm curious if A, if you think we made the list.
Speaker 2: B if we did, where we are?
Speaker 1: Okay, great question?
Speaker 2: See what then the top ten are and if you
Speaker 2: can get as close to order in order.
Speaker 3: Of what they say order? No, no, I mean first question, First,
Speaker 3: are we on the list. Okay, hold on, hold on, my, my, my, actual,
Speaker 3: because I wish we could do this to you, because
Speaker 3: I feel like you would be the one that would
Speaker 3: actually stand a chance.
Speaker 1: I disagree. I disagree with this list so hard. Okay,
Speaker 1: well that's a hint. That's a huge not make the
Speaker 1: top ten.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know, I would say, let me see, I'm
Speaker 3: writing this down because I want to keep track. Okay,
Speaker 3: I would say, obviously it was a crowd pleasing list
Speaker 3: of people.
Speaker 1: When was this produced? This was on I got.
Speaker 4: It yes writers starting an Excel.
Speaker 1: Sheet, because I was thinking it was I think if it.
Speaker 2: Was like I'm writing this down when the way you
Speaker 2: sent it was twenty hours ago. It's a twenty hours ago,
Speaker 2: and I got it yesterday, so figure forty eight hours
Speaker 2: ago this went up.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 3: So for some reason the way you said it, the
Speaker 3: way you said it was like the Internet archive or
Speaker 3: what did you say, Facebook.
Speaker 1: Teas original TV archive Facebook group.
Speaker 3: Okay, so I was thinking it was like from like
Speaker 3: the Ears or something as I like to go. Okay, well,
Speaker 3: I think friends and Seinfeld are competing for first place.
Speaker 2: Probably Okay, well, wait, I want you want to start
Speaker 2: with the top ten as opposed to you, So.
Speaker 4: Out of the top fifty best sitcoms of all time?
Speaker 4: Did we make the list?
Speaker 1: Did make the list?
Speaker 3: Yes, we made the list, and we are in somewhere
Speaker 3: between twenty five and thirty five.
Speaker 4: Ooh, I say, yes, we made the list, and I
Speaker 4: think we are forty seven.
Speaker 2: You're both correct, we made the list, and you're both
Speaker 2: very close. We're number forty.
Speaker 4: Oh right, all right.
Speaker 2: So now the top ten that they gave it right,
Speaker 2: do you think Friends and Seinfelder competing for one and two?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Friends and Cield are competing for one
Speaker 3: and two. I think probably All in the Family is
Speaker 3: going to be in the top five. I would say,
Speaker 3: can I shoot? I love Lucy? Sorry, I love Lucy's
Speaker 3: top top three?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: Can I can I say something that I think is
Speaker 4: going to bring the whole room down?
Speaker 1: Movies don't like television. I don't television either. I like
Speaker 1: that you've made I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't with it. No, it's not for me, thank you.
Speaker 4: I think that what is happening is that writer thinks, right.
Speaker 1: Tony Danza, Taxi's got to be up there, a different show,
Speaker 1: different think writer.
Speaker 4: It still thinks of Facebook as being his parents' generation. Yeah,
Speaker 4: but what is actually happening is that Facebook is actually
Speaker 4: us now. It's our generation and like maybe just a
Speaker 4: little bit older than us.
Speaker 1: So I you don't think old older shows are They're
Speaker 1: not there.
Speaker 4: I think like Parks and Rec are probably.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, is that considered a sycomore?
Speaker 4: Oh that's kind of that's not going to be a
Speaker 4: syne If that is.
Speaker 1: Then we're yeah, because I mean, but I don't know
Speaker 1: that we are sitcoms multi camera or camera. Maybe that's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: It would be one of the things that Will does
Speaker 4: not agree with.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, well then yeah, Office, Parks and rec, Modern Family,
Speaker 3: those are pretty those are top ten probably.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't.
Speaker 3: I didn't think I thought of strictly multi camera audience,
Speaker 3: live studio audience kind of sitcoms.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, August Parks and Rec.
Speaker 3: What we I just Modern Family, Seinfeld Friends are still
Speaker 3: in the top ten for sure.
Speaker 4: Friends is God, I'm shocked to Friends isn't number one.
Speaker 3: And then you're right, I guess generationally, I Love Lucy
Speaker 3: might just get completely forgotten.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't even think it's on the list. Is
Speaker 4: I love Lucy on the list, of course, oh it
Speaker 4: is yeah, okay, all right, so okay, so it's some
Speaker 4: some olds voted in this.
Speaker 3: Because but also people appreciate I love Lucy because you know,
Speaker 3: like the Nicket Night phenomenon like brought a lot of
Speaker 3: those older shows back less. So all in the family,
Speaker 3: I would say, all in the family, which I was
Speaker 3: thinking would be a higher up if I was thinking
Speaker 3: older people were voting, is probably not even in the
Speaker 3: top ten.
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I will say, so far you've mentioned all in
Speaker 2: the top ten except three.
Speaker 1: Okay. At some point in the conversation, Oh Jesus cheers
Speaker 1: of course, now you've mentioned Fraser one. You're missing one
Speaker 1: in the top ten, and one only.
Speaker 4: The one where lived together, the one where they lived together.
Speaker 3: They lived No company is truly crap.
Speaker 1: There's no way that bade. It's so bad. It's it's
Speaker 1: a more no. No, it is a more modern.
Speaker 4: Oh, a more modern sick Okay, that.
Speaker 1: Ran for a long time. Oh, how I met your mother? Nope,
Speaker 1: same kind of vein though, like hybrid, yeah, is it
Speaker 1: arrested development?
Speaker 5: It is not.
Speaker 1: A hint, yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: The hint is it might be how our universe started
Speaker 2: if our Earth wasn't flat.
Speaker 4: Oh, the Big Bank Therey, of course, there you go.
Speaker 1: Okay, oh right, you've got the top ten. But here's
Speaker 1: the order.
Speaker 2: Okay they have so science number one, Seinfeld being the best,
Speaker 2: the best, okay, number two, Friends okay, number three, the
Speaker 2: Office okay.
Speaker 1: Number four. Mash Mash didn't make it. It did.
Speaker 2: Number five, Cheers, number six, The Big Bang Theory, number seven, Frasier,
Speaker 2: number eight, All in the Family. Excuse me, strike that
Speaker 2: number eight. I love Lucy.
Speaker 1: Number nine, All in the Family. Number ten, Modern Family.
Speaker 1: I feel like we got there. We got Yeah, we covered.
Speaker 1: You're pretty close.
Speaker 2: You were, you were pretty close. There's some things I
Speaker 2: completely disagree with.
Speaker 4: On this id reroute it, reroute it.
Speaker 1: Well, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: The top ten I would and this is a completely
Speaker 2: and totally personal thing. I would not have Big Bang
Speaker 2: Theory in the top ten. But that's just a personal
Speaker 2: thing for me.
Speaker 1: Es.
Speaker 2: Yes, they don't speak my language. No, I just it
Speaker 2: just wasn't my favorite shoe. And so I think I've
Speaker 2: seen a yeah like they have. For instance, they have
Speaker 2: like The New Girl at twenty five and Wonder Years
Speaker 2: at forty.
Speaker 3: Eight, Wonder Years isn't even a comedy really, I mean true.
Speaker 2: I mean yeah, but again, for I look at if
Speaker 2: they're gonna make the list for what they did for
Speaker 2: television and how amazing.
Speaker 1: They were, there's no way.
Speaker 2: The New Girl is twenty five and Wonder Years is
Speaker 2: forty eight.
Speaker 4: What's fifty? What barely snuck onto the list?
Speaker 2: I'll give you one word, Belkie, Oh, Perfect Stranger, Perfect Strangers.
Speaker 2: So Perfect Strangers is fifty, Step by Step is forty nine,
Speaker 2: forty eight is The Wonder Years, the Black forty seven.
Speaker 4: Step by Steven. The Wonder Years are only one place.
Speaker 1: That seems weird to me.
Speaker 2: We're eight spots higher than Wonder Years and we're only
Speaker 2: one better than Taxi Wow. So it goes Taxi Boy
Speaker 2: meets World Right, and then The Nanny, the Dick Van
Speaker 2: Dyke Show. So they're saying we're better than the Dick
Speaker 2: Van Dyke Show, Family Matters, Mad About You, that seventy show,
Speaker 2: Murphy Brown, Blackish, The Wonder Your step by Step in
Speaker 2: Perfect Strangers.
Speaker 1: So all right, well let me.
Speaker 2: I'm just going to throw it a couple for you,
Speaker 2: and I want to see where you think.
Speaker 1: What about the Cosby Show? I mean it's just where
Speaker 1: is where is Cosby Show on the list? In your well?
Speaker 3: I mean, if he hadn't been canceled, right like you,
Speaker 3: in an alternate universe where we did not all have
Speaker 3: awful feelings about I feel like he would be to ten.
Speaker 1: I think it would have been Tom. I think you're
Speaker 1: probably right.
Speaker 3: I think because generation to finding yes and he was beloved.
Speaker 3: It's just that now no one can watch it anymore
Speaker 3: without being creeped out or worried or yeah, so where.
Speaker 1: Do you think it fell on this list? With all
Speaker 1: that probably still around thirty, right, Danielle.
Speaker 4: I was going to say twenty seven, twenty oh, twenty, okay,
Speaker 4: I would like to win out that. I thought Boy's
Speaker 4: World was forty seven and it was forty And then
Speaker 4: I said I thought this was twenty seven and it
Speaker 4: was twenty.
Speaker 2: When whatever comes into your head, yeah, just subtract seven
Speaker 2: seven just.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, quiz me family ties. Oh well, I was
Speaker 4: going to say seventeen, but.
Speaker 1: You know that's not ten. I was going to say thirteen,
Speaker 1: fourteen somewhere in there? Are you sticking with those numbers
Speaker 1: for me?
Speaker 4: I'm going to go with I'm going to go with sixteen.
Speaker 1: Eighteen, Danielle in another direction? You let the other record.
Speaker 2: How about the Jeffersons.
Speaker 1: Gosh, I've never seen the Jeffersons, so I feel like
Speaker 1: I forty two. Danielle is getting very close.
Speaker 2: You're only six off this time now, Danielle, My god, No,
Speaker 2: the Jeffersons was Oh I just lost it. The Jeffersons
Speaker 2: is thirty one? No, that's it's always sunny. Where did
Speaker 2: the Jeffersons go? The Jeffersons left the list?
Speaker 1: There they are thirty seven, there's okay, thirty seven.
Speaker 4: Okay, why didn't I say my thirty seven?
Speaker 1: You should have sticked your thirty seven?
Speaker 2: But they have Mayor Tyler Moore at thirty eight, right,
Speaker 2: and boy meets were forty and we're better than the.
Speaker 1: Dick Van Dyke Show.
Speaker 2: So yes, there's obviously Where do you think happy Days fell?
Speaker 1: I don't think I made the list.
Speaker 4: Oh well, let's see I want to go away. Thirty three,
Speaker 4: twenty eight, okay, happy.
Speaker 1: Day twenty eight. I don't hear anybody the development.
Speaker 3: I don't hear anybody talking about Happy Days ever, except.
Speaker 1: Referenced it a lot. And then you hear the phrase
Speaker 1: jump the shark like and then.
Speaker 3: Maybe people know the Funzie, but like, I don't know
Speaker 3: anybody who's like.
Speaker 1: The Fawns the Fawns. Arelly what it was his little
Speaker 1: trivia fact for you.
Speaker 2: It was Masharelli, but then Mash was such a big
Speaker 2: show that his nickname would have been the Mash, so
Speaker 2: they changed it to Fonzarelli before they shot the pilot.
Speaker 2: And in the pilot, by the way, he was not
Speaker 2: a leather jacket wearing guy. They gave him a regular
Speaker 2: white coat and they didn't like it, and they threw
Speaker 2: him a leather jacket after that.
Speaker 3: Really, yeah, you know, I have an actor friend who
Speaker 3: was who was in The Red Weather whose last name
Speaker 3: is lemp Key. Oh yeah, and I had to tell him.
Speaker 3: I was like, you know, the original Minkus name was
Speaker 3: lemp Key with a P. And he's like, are you
Speaker 3: kidding me? I was like, no, yep, we've I'm assuming
Speaker 3: we've told that story on this podcast, but yeah, there's
Speaker 3: one Stuart lemp Key in all of Philadelphia, so we
Speaker 3: couldn't use the name.
Speaker 1: That's science though we are forty on the list of
Speaker 1: can we.
Speaker 4: Find I want a fifty best pod Rewatch podcasts of
Speaker 4: all time.
Speaker 1: We've been forty probably exactly what I want it. I know,
Speaker 1: we'd probably be top ten. We'd probably be top ten scrubs.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to keep bumping us down the list.
Speaker 4: Please reach out to that scientific Facebook page and ask
Speaker 4: them to create a new list Science. Welcome to pod
Speaker 4: Meets World.
Speaker 2: I'm Daniel Offishal, I'm right strong, and I star on
Speaker 2: the fortieth most popular sitcom of all time, Dading two sites.
Speaker 1: I'm well for Delt.
Speaker 2: This segment is brought to you by Ally Bank, who
Speaker 2: was always there for you for all of life's moments.
Speaker 3: So I've either been making movies or trying to make
Speaker 3: movies since I was a kid.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, your little kid.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And the hardest part will always be raising the money.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 3: No matter how great of a script I write or
Speaker 3: how much of a cool project I come up with, something,
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, movie making is expensive, guys,
Speaker 3: and I find myself constantly, either in meetings or on
Speaker 3: phone calls, asking for money.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I know.
Speaker 4: And the hardest part is that it'd be great if
Speaker 4: we all knew a bunch of billionaires. But like most people,
Speaker 4: don't want to put up the entire amount of money themselves.
Speaker 4: You need smaller chunks of money from a lot of
Speaker 4: different people.
Speaker 2: Yeah, even the studios aren't giving you money to go there.
Speaker 2: Nobody's going here's fifteen million dollars, go make a movie anymore.
Speaker 2: That's just not the way it works.
Speaker 1: Now, No. I mean, if you've noticed.
Speaker 3: Like I mean, you watch the credits before a movie, now,
Speaker 3: you know, it used to be that there'd be like
Speaker 3: one company, like the studio, like Paramount logo. Now you'll
Speaker 3: notice there is usually like four or five companies least,
Speaker 3: and that's because those are the companies usually putting up
Speaker 3: the money, which is why they get the right to
Speaker 3: put their logo. So yeah, I mean I laugh now
Speaker 3: because it's like it's just a never ending scroll of
Speaker 3: company logos that are you know, because they're each putting
Speaker 3: in a couple million dollars or a couple hundred thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: So yeah, getting financing for a film is an art
Speaker 3: forum onto itself.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. There's so many different ways of raising money too.
Speaker 4: You can always you know, host events, do fundraisers. We've
Speaker 4: all been to We've all been to fundraisers and donated
Speaker 4: money to projects that have meant something to us. I
Speaker 4: mean when I started Be Free. Be Free by Daniel
Speaker 4: fishl is a one hundred percent self funded venture. Me
Speaker 4: and my manager went in fifty to fifty financially on it,
Speaker 4: and it was it was it was a risk. It
Speaker 4: was like, I have no idea whether or not this
Speaker 4: is ever going to be successful, especially because the majority
Speaker 4: of businesses aren't successful. And you know, it's it is
Speaker 4: a still a passion project. It's not something that I'm
Speaker 4: making a ton of money doing. I think I've in
Speaker 4: the years since I've had the business, I think I've
Speaker 4: only taken I've taken a paycheck only one year out
Speaker 4: of it, and the rest of the time the money
Speaker 4: is just getting reinvested back into the business and you know,
Speaker 4: finding creative ways of spending and saving and yeah, raising
Speaker 4: money when needed. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I funded all of ADDTV, which Rider was in by
Speaker 2: myself and no one never even saw it. So put
Speaker 2: money in and you hope something happens and it doesn't.
Speaker 1: So yeah, just the way it works.
Speaker 3: Well, you don't want the endless search for big money
Speaker 3: goals to affect your everyday life. And that's why ally
Speaker 3: Bank is crucial. It's the bank that meets you where
Speaker 3: money and life.
Speaker 1: They help you save and spend.
Speaker 3: It's a delicate balance, but knowing you have someone like
Speaker 3: Ally by your side can make all the difference.
Speaker 2: Allybank shows up when real life and money collide with
Speaker 2: solutions to help you meet your financial goals.
Speaker 1: There's no tricks, no hidden fees.
Speaker 4: Banking built for life today, Allybank member FDIC. You know,
Speaker 4: we get a decent number of guest pitches for pod
Speaker 4: meets World. Most are from publicists who have just added
Speaker 4: us to their rounds because we've commonly been a top
Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty podcast and they're just doing a
Speaker 4: good job for their clients. We appreciate it, but we're
Speaker 4: so niche, so it's pretty rare that we connect with
Speaker 4: someone being sold as a perfect fit.
Speaker 1: Nie.
Speaker 4: Sorry, thank you, But this week we are talking to
Speaker 4: a guest who admittingly had an insanely small part on
Speaker 4: Boy Meets World. We actually only hear her voice in
Speaker 4: the season seven episode How Corey and Tapega Got their
Speaker 4: groove back as a reporter on TV reading off lottery
Speaker 4: numbers that Eric predicted while sneezing. Yikes, I mean just
Speaker 4: that isike pretty great? But other than maybe a quick
Speaker 4: memory of hearing Stevie Nicks once. We couldn't imagine there
Speaker 4: would be too much to talk about. Well, then we
Speaker 4: read the rest of the pitch and it goes without
Speaker 4: saying we said, bring her on the podcast. Oh one time,
Speaker 4: miss teenage New York boy means World wasn't her only
Speaker 4: TV credit, having appeared on the Practice. This trailblazing entrepreneur,
Speaker 4: award winning TV host and Queen of Pitch has over
Speaker 4: two point five billion dollars worth of product sales to
Speaker 4: her name. She was a pioneer of the infomercial, having
Speaker 4: one hundred and ninety seven to her credit and having
Speaker 4: been a spokesperson for products like Jack Lelane's Power Juicer,
Speaker 4: micro Grill, Maxi Glide More Furniture Stores, and her own
Speaker 4: exercise device, the spin Jim, which has sold over two
Speaker 4: million units globally. She has delivered two TED talks and
Speaker 4: became so synonymous with selling a fit and healthy lifestyle
Speaker 4: on TV. She was elected to the National Fitness Hall
Speaker 4: of Fame and Museum in twenty ten. I assume near
Speaker 4: your plaque will yes on TV we weren't her only stop.
Speaker 4: She also appeared on twenty four, The Practice, and as
Speaker 4: Stuart Scott's original co host for ESPN's The X Games.
Speaker 4: Her upcoming fourth book is called Pitch Secrets A to
Speaker 4: Z and it will help you increase your influence, impact
Speaker 4: and income in twenty twenty six. But that still leaves
Speaker 4: one question we're looking to answer on the podcast. What
Speaker 4: the was she doing on Boy Meets Wow? Please welcome
Speaker 4: to the podcast The Endlessly Interesting Doctor Forbes Riley.
Speaker 5: Hello, Hi, how's everybody doing you? Oh my gosh, you
Speaker 5: have no idea how excited and happy I am to
Speaker 5: be here.
Speaker 4: Well, first, doctor Riley, you are pranking us, right, You're
Speaker 4: not gonna baba booi twenty times and then hang up.
Speaker 4: Your story is so surreal.
Speaker 5: But you know the crazy thing is that my story
Speaker 5: starts like on your show. How crazy is that?
Speaker 1: Really?
Speaker 5: Did you not see the episode?
Speaker 4: I saw it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but you don't see me because you guys, I
Speaker 5: trust me. I was a little shocked when I got
Speaker 5: to the studio too, going you have a voiceover, I'm like,
Speaker 5: and you're kidding. And I'm billed as a guest star,
Speaker 5: which even really pisses me off.
Speaker 4: I know, a full guest star, but we just hear
Speaker 4: your voice reading some lottery numbers.
Speaker 5: That's how successful I was back then. And I know
Speaker 5: I made you guys really rich and famous. Oh wait,
Speaker 5: one of you tore up the lottery ticket, didn't you? One?
Speaker 4: Okay, let's first address the elephant in the room. You
Speaker 4: had modeled and maybe dabbled a little bit in acting,
Speaker 4: But how did your voice end up on No?
Speaker 5: No, let me Danielle, Let me let me first. Let's
Speaker 5: go back to the very beginning. You were not my first.
Speaker 5: Sorry you want to be, but.
Speaker 4: I want to be your first. I just that's the
Speaker 4: way it works.
Speaker 5: We always move over. We have a whole other conversation.
Speaker 1: Wow, favor done?
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 5: So here's the thing, really quick. I grew up as
Speaker 5: an ugly, goofy little girl. And what do I mean
Speaker 5: by that? When I was a kid, my parents are
Speaker 5: second generation immigrant from Ukraine. They sent me off to
Speaker 5: elementary school. Nobody noticed that my job was really deformed.
Speaker 5: My teeth went in all different directions, and so I
Speaker 5: got slapped with braces. Did you guys wear braces?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 5: Screw all of you.
Speaker 3: Sorry on TV, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: Retainer there go ahead of retain.
Speaker 5: Okay, eight years they took a little girl for eight
Speaker 5: years and put full set of braces headgear. But then
Speaker 5: for two of those years they screwed a thing called
Speaker 5: a tongue thruster into my mouth. At I'm around here,
Speaker 5: I didn't have any friends. I literally had a point
Speaker 5: to communicate. I had a It was very awkward, but
Speaker 5: it allowed me to dream really big, and I watched
Speaker 5: a whole lot of television, and I was very smart,
Speaker 5: graduated a year early in high school and in college,
Speaker 5: and I was going to be a lawyer because ugly
Speaker 5: little girls don't do that. But the funniest thing happened.
Speaker 5: I discovered the art of manifestation. When I was just
Speaker 5: fifteen years old. My dad slipped. He was a printer,
Speaker 5: and he cut off the front of his hand. He
Speaker 5: spent my entire high school in a hospital, fifteen operations
Speaker 5: rebuilding his hand. So now you got this ugly, goofy girl, who,
Speaker 5: by the way, then got hit with the baseball bat.
Speaker 5: I had a broken nose, I had frizzy hair, I
Speaker 5: was overweight, and I had these braces.
Speaker 2: Wait, was it an accident or did somebody literally just
Speaker 2: come up and hit you with a baseball back?
Speaker 5: No, I stood behind somebody and.
Speaker 1: I okay, thank god. Okay.
Speaker 5: So my parents again, they didn't think to fix this.
Speaker 5: It was really weird, and I'm in my dad's hospital room.
Speaker 5: My mother turned to me, she said, kid, oh, we
Speaker 5: have no money for college. That was the only dream
Speaker 5: I had when I was fifteen. And what happened was
Speaker 5: she said, well, there's a Miss Teenage America pageant happening,
Speaker 5: and she looked at my face and she said, that's
Speaker 5: not going to work for us. She didn't mean to
Speaker 5: be mean, she meant to protect me. My dad's doctor, though,
Speaker 5: overheard that. He turned to her and said, you know what,
Speaker 5: wellcuse she said, the Miss Teenage America pageants having a
Speaker 5: scholarship to college. And my dad's doctor said, I'm going
Speaker 5: to fix your daughter's nose for free, the craziest thing.
Speaker 5: And I'm going to find this picture for you, because
Speaker 5: i'd always get this reaction on going, oh my god,
Speaker 5: seriously that happened. And so I woke up the next
Speaker 5: couple of days later, and all of a sudden, my
Speaker 5: eyes were bigger, my nose was cute, my braces were off,
Speaker 5: and I looked in the mirror and I saw a
Speaker 5: girl that I'd always dreamed of looking at. And I
Speaker 5: said to her, We're going to enter this stupid competition.
Speaker 5: We're going to win. And I did. I went. There
Speaker 5: were five hundred girls. The first time I ended up
Speaker 5: on TV with Bob Hope on NBC at fifteen and
Speaker 5: a half years old, representing New York talking like this,
Speaker 5: and it was phenomenal, and it was also devastating because
Speaker 5: I got that. But there I am in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Speaker 5: in nineteen seventy seven with these cute little pageant girls going, yeah,
Speaker 5: I had the funniest accent I never heard. I'm like,
Speaker 5: keeps talking about I'm not an accent. Ione's talk what's
Speaker 5: wrong with it? And so I didn't. I wasn't very
Speaker 5: I understood what prejudice was. I was really hurt and devastated.
Speaker 5: Went off to college to be a lawyer, and something
Speaker 5: happened at college and I decided, no, I've always wanted
Speaker 5: to be an actress. This is not a joke what happened.
Speaker 5: And maybe you'll appreciate this as actress because I don't
Speaker 5: get to talk to other actors a lot. I had
Speaker 5: auditioned for high school plays my whole life, and I
Speaker 5: got Towns Person number three or chorus, and I dreamed
Speaker 5: of being the lead and I never ever got there.
Speaker 5: And so senior year audition for As You Like It,
Speaker 5: Shakespeare's biggest character. Right, wait, here's a fun poot I'm
Speaker 5: going to share with you before I get to that
Speaker 5: part of the story. Now, they took a mold of
Speaker 5: my teeth, and my mother was a bit of a hoarder,
Speaker 5: so she saved the mold. It's nineteen sixty eight. I
Speaker 5: still have it, by the way, same crazy ugly little girl. No, no,
Speaker 5: I see it either. I promise you, if you were
Speaker 5: casting for Ugly Girl, you would have cast her.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 5: The other thing that I dealt with my whole life
Speaker 5: is I dealt with being overweight and being in our industry.
Speaker 5: I was crucified for that. So the point is that
Speaker 5: one of the fun little stories. I'm in college and
Speaker 5: I ended up auditioning for Shakespeare's As You Like It.
Speaker 5: I expected to get Town's Person. I didn't get it,
Speaker 5: and when I looked at the callboard, my name wasn't
Speaker 5: even there. And I thought that moment where you're like,
Speaker 5: I'm not even that I don't even deserve this. But
Speaker 5: the irony. I looked to the sea who got the
Speaker 5: lead Rosalind? And there was my name? And I walked
Speaker 5: into the acting professor who was the director of this,
Speaker 5: and I said, all right, dude, you got to explain
Speaker 5: this to me. Why would you choose me? I had
Speaker 5: some serious bullying issues over how I looked, and he
Speaker 5: sat me down. He said, you're my ideal Rosalind. Here's
Speaker 5: the crazy thing about Professor David Richmond, the guy looking
Speaker 5: at me, he was one hundred percent legally blind.
Speaker 2: Hmmmm.
Speaker 5: He's a blind Shakespeare and director. He couldn't see everything
Speaker 5: that everyone else always saw. And on that belief the
Speaker 5: show was a hit. I was really successful in this.
Speaker 5: I called my parents and said, guys, I love you,
Speaker 5: but I'm going to New York to be an actress. Silence,
Speaker 5: and I said. They said, we can't afford to help you.
Speaker 5: And I said, that's okay. I got this. I auditioned
Speaker 5: for from Backstage magazine. I auditioned for my very first movie.
Speaker 5: What I'm sure you've all seen. It's called Splatter.
Speaker 1: University, Blatter you movie.
Speaker 5: Oh God, when you go look this up, it has
Speaker 5: on Facebook page. Thirty years later, the professor everyone loves
Speaker 5: my character. That movie was crazy. I didn't tell anybody
Speaker 5: about the lead role, and it set my path for everything.
Speaker 5: And I've done about I don't know, thirty five movies
Speaker 5: since I did soap operas, I did commercials. I did
Speaker 5: a Broadway show with Christopher Reeve. I have stories for
Speaker 5: days about wanting to be this actress and communicate because
Speaker 5: when I moved to LA I ended up hosting the
Speaker 5: Laugh Factory for three years. I was the host every
Speaker 5: Friday and Saturday night Cool. I hosted the X Games
Speaker 5: for ESPN. I just kept communicating people, and people are like,
Speaker 5: my agents were really upset with me because they're like,
Speaker 5: you're all over the place. I'm like, no, I'm just communicating. You.
Speaker 5: Guys don't understand. I can talk. That's all I want
Speaker 5: to do is keep talking.
Speaker 2: Well, you're also way ahead of your time, because that's
Speaker 2: what everybody's doing now is they're doing.
Speaker 1: Everything you're they're hosting this, they're doing commercials for that.
Speaker 1: They're not just a yeah stage and so yeah, you
Speaker 1: were way ahead of your time with that.
Speaker 5: Can I share a secret that I never really shared
Speaker 5: until recently? Yes, So there was no me too movement
Speaker 5: when because I'm a little older than all of you.
Speaker 5: I think the age of all you combined.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, you still have a self esteem issue with it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, as I just turned sixty six.
Speaker 4: Okay, congratulations older old.
Speaker 5: And so so I go to I finally get a
Speaker 5: big agent to agree to me with me. I'm very
Speaker 5: excited about this. I go to the hotel where the
Speaker 5: restaurant is only we're not eating downstairs. We're meeting upstairs
Speaker 5: in his room because he ordered lunch and I didn't
Speaker 5: realize I was on the menu, and nobody understood that
Speaker 5: when they were back then was this in the eighties?
Speaker 5: And luckily he was shorter than I was. I'm like, dude,
Speaker 5: you got to be kidding me, right, you know this
Speaker 5: is not happening. And I left kind of unscathed, except
Speaker 5: I love with the fact going more do I do? Now?
Speaker 5: How do I find? Even though I was working? So
Speaker 5: I decided to do something crazy. And again I've not
Speaker 5: told this until recently because forty years later, nobody can
Speaker 5: arrest me. But I got a piece of stationary. I
Speaker 5: created no agency called Creative Management for Artists CNA. You know,
Speaker 5: I hired my own. I hired a woman named z Maxwell,
Speaker 5: and Lindsay was this British woman who was enamored with
Speaker 5: Forbes Riley and truly understood this one word how to
Speaker 5: pitch her. And so for three years I was my
Speaker 5: own manager because I was Lindsay Maxwell.
Speaker 2: So he just made up your own management company and
Speaker 2: then put on a different voice and became your own agent.
Speaker 5: And I got I got booked everywhere. I was my
Speaker 5: only client.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you take ten percent of your own
Speaker 2: for true that I was, That's amazing.
Speaker 1: But Lindsay's kids through college.
Speaker 5: And there was that moment where I wish this was
Speaker 5: an actual film because at some point I'm on stage
Speaker 5: doing something and a producer says, I need to talk
Speaker 5: to your manager. I'm like, I'll be right back, because
Speaker 5: there was it was a pay phone. There were no
Speaker 5: cell phones, right, oh no. And I never shared that
Speaker 5: because I truly thought that I could get arrested for
Speaker 5: like impersonating somebody and having your own business. That's not
Speaker 5: really real. But it launched an entire career. It certainly
Speaker 5: taught me the word pitch, and I was on lots
Speaker 5: of little rolls everywhere. On the Practice, on Pretenders, I
Speaker 5: was on twenty four, I finally got on screen. But
Speaker 5: I did a lot of work. It never quite added
Speaker 5: up to a career that you knew my name. And
Speaker 5: then one day I walk into a studio. There's a
Speaker 5: pen on the desk. It say sell me this pen.
Speaker 5: And I did, but I did something different. And here's
Speaker 5: what's so crazy about it. That was thirty five years
Speaker 5: ago on Saturday. This Saturday, I'm doing a party to
Speaker 5: celebrate my book. In the book, which is full color,
Speaker 5: I have pictures of all the people that I've worked
Speaker 5: with and helped. You don't really read a book in color.
Speaker 5: And in here His Body by Jake, and I tell
Speaker 5: the story all the time about how Jake discovered me.
Speaker 5: And three weeks ago I was in la and I
Speaker 5: filmed Jake telling me that story. It's like meeting your
Speaker 5: mentor a full circle moment where he said I saw
Speaker 5: lots of people, he said, there was only one you.
Speaker 5: He said, I wanted to hire six people. I only
Speaker 5: found you. And it was because there was a pen
Speaker 5: on the table and he said, sell me this pen.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, oh, dude, I grew up broke, I
Speaker 5: don't sell things. So I looked at the camera and
Speaker 5: I said funny thing about pens. My mom when I
Speaker 5: went up to college, I was fifteen and a half.
Speaker 5: I was so nervous and insecure. She used to write
Speaker 5: me long hand notes and I would race to the
Speaker 5: mailbox to get them. And I realized a pen like
Speaker 5: this can reach out and touch somebody's heart. I put
Speaker 5: that down and walked away. He came out from behind
Speaker 5: the camera, grabbed my faceers, you're going to make me
Speaker 5: a lot of money. And for five years I sold
Speaker 5: health and fitness products again, way before my time, way
Speaker 5: before TikTok, fifteen hundred products. He sold that network for
Speaker 5: five hundred million dollars. And that then infomercials happened. And
Speaker 5: I don't know if you remember, but things like the
Speaker 5: Jacqueline Juicer, Montel Williams Health Master. Oh yeah, here's why
Speaker 5: this book is because people don't remember I did. Here's
Speaker 5: the list, one hundred and ninety seven infomercials.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Right, you've seen me everywhere, you just didn't know it
Speaker 5: was me. And I did make a big deal about
Speaker 5: ab in thirock Er, abrock Er, abs of Steel, ab Solo, Abtronics, Advocate,
Speaker 5: Aerobed age Fit, Anthony Morrison, Acquacate all the way to
Speaker 5: ze Is Email, skincare, and Zoo books. You're like you
Speaker 5: did all of those? Like, yeah, guys, I've generated over
Speaker 5: two and a half billion dollars and that was my
Speaker 5: day job because I suck at being a waitress.
Speaker 3: Wait all right, so how does this work? I want
Speaker 3: to know how this works? Like, they don't have a
Speaker 3: script necessarily. You just learned about the product and put
Speaker 3: you in front of the camera and say go like,
Speaker 3: how does it work?
Speaker 5: So there's two things. There were infomercials, which was a
Speaker 5: scripted half hour production, and then there's live QVC or HSM.
Speaker 5: You guys have never done any live at all.
Speaker 1: Daniel's the QVC champ.
Speaker 4: I sell my handcare products on QVC.
Speaker 5: Congratulations, my girlfriend fifteen years there and there's no script,
Speaker 5: is there?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 5: No? You pretty much? And they give you a host.
Speaker 4: That you don't know yep, correct, right, and.
Speaker 5: Then we can talk about what it means to be
Speaker 5: on at seven am or three am in the morning.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 5: That's been thirty five years of my life and it's
Speaker 5: so motor up?
Speaker 1: Did you that sounds obs?
Speaker 4: Look on the list?
Speaker 5: I know I did book I pretty motor Up.
Speaker 1: Motor Up.
Speaker 5: No, what is that?
Speaker 1: Okay? No, it was about again.
Speaker 2: I lived in Amsterdam and one of the only things
Speaker 2: I got at night was was the motor Up commercial.
Speaker 2: So I watched it every single night, and it's how
Speaker 2: I literally memorized it in Dutch, so I couldn't remember
Speaker 2: if that was you or not.
Speaker 5: So that's funny. No, I would have known that I did. Go.
Speaker 5: I finally created my own product. I created thing called
Speaker 5: the spin Jam and this has been around the world
Speaker 5: and I've done this in eighteen different languages.
Speaker 4: So yeah, we'll talk about spin Jam. I don't know
Speaker 4: how that's where anything out, So I'm going to need
Speaker 4: you to sell me on it.
Speaker 5: Oh girl, watch your boobs go up. I'm sorry, but
Speaker 5: it really works your check. No, seriously, it does. I
Speaker 5: have a crazy story. You know, I'm kind of outrageous
Speaker 5: sometimes and I'm really shy other times. Oh, very hard
Speaker 5: to live in this head.
Speaker 4: To writer's point when you don't have the script when
Speaker 4: you have to do a thirty minute infomercial, are you
Speaker 4: or do you know like where it starts and then
Speaker 4: what you have to hit in the middle and kind
Speaker 4: of where it ends.
Speaker 5: So it's ironic that we've never had you guys do
Speaker 5: an infomercial, because you probably should. Infomercials are scripted, and
Speaker 5: the thirty minutes is broken up into seven sec seven
Speaker 5: minute sections, three of them for twenty one minutes, and
Speaker 5: it's you definitely have a script. It's you and the
Speaker 5: co host, and you can certainly improvise. But even between
Speaker 5: all that as a testimonial that call to action, Hey
Speaker 5: but wait, buy more, and you'll see that three times
Speaker 5: as well. So those are very structured. What's cool about
Speaker 5: an infomercial is you shoot it once. I shot the
Speaker 5: Jaqueline Juicer one time. It aired for a years in
Speaker 5: eighty countries and produced a billion dollars on one show.
Speaker 1: I bought one?
Speaker 5: Did you really?
Speaker 1: I did?
Speaker 2: I bought I swear got I bought one, And the
Speaker 2: first time I had to go shopping for all the vegetables,
Speaker 2: I was like, I'm never ever doing this again.
Speaker 4: Okay, I have to know. How did your voice then
Speaker 4: end up on Boy Meets World? You move out, you
Speaker 4: are pursuing a career in acting, You're on things, your
Speaker 4: face is on things. How did you book the Boy
Speaker 4: Meets World job?
Speaker 5: It was my agent? You know it came across her desk.
Speaker 5: I honestly, when I showed up to the set, there's
Speaker 5: a real interesting moment there. I was insanely disappointed. I
Speaker 5: really did not believe that I was not on camera.
Speaker 5: I'm like, there's no way you're just using my voice, OUTE.
Speaker 5: I want to hang with these guys. I love this show.
Speaker 5: And that's the funny thing about your show is that
Speaker 5: people really still love it. There was a warmth and
Speaker 5: a heart to that show, and it was wildly disappointing
Speaker 5: that that's all that I got to do. But I
Speaker 5: got a great billing, and that's what my agent you know,
Speaker 5: back then, And I'm sad that I split my agents
Speaker 5: in my attention. But when this hosting thing happened, literally
Speaker 5: the birth of hosting shows. Ryan Seacrest and I had
Speaker 5: the same agent for a long time. Who's now the
Speaker 5: head of Sean Perry is the head of Endeavor. But
Speaker 5: he was very aggressive, and Ryan was really smart. Ryan
Speaker 5: didn't want to be an actor. He just wanted to
Speaker 5: be a host. I had a really cool career as
Speaker 5: a TV host. I just didn't see myself. That was
Speaker 5: never my first love. So while I got offered e entertainment,
Speaker 5: and I got offered a lot of other shows like
Speaker 5: The View and stuff, not really what I wanted to
Speaker 5: be focusing on. I wanted to be an actress, and
Speaker 5: I believed for a little, probably a little too long,
Speaker 5: that I could be the next Julia Roberts was Sandra
Speaker 5: Bullock and I did a lot of stage work. I
Speaker 5: created some amazing characters. Here's a fun fact. I created
Speaker 5: one woman show. I was doing a play with Ted
Speaker 5: Lambs from love Boat. He was my director, and I
Speaker 5: wrote some monologues and I showed them to him and
Speaker 5: he said, these are brilliant. I'm like, really, I didn't
Speaker 5: like my writing and he said, no, no, no, these are brilliant.
Speaker 5: I'm going to produce this for you. Well, Lily Tomlin
Speaker 5: saw my one woman show, and don't if you know,
Speaker 5: but she did a Tony Award winning show called Search
Speaker 5: for Signs of Intelligent Life, and she cast me in
Speaker 5: the roles, all fifteen of them, so she could rewrite it,
Speaker 5: update it, and then she did it in la And
Speaker 5: I'm like, who spends two and a half hours on
Speaker 5: stage alone playing fifteen characters with no set change and
Speaker 5: no costume change. I think I was as talented as
Speaker 5: I thought I was. I just couldn't get agents or
Speaker 5: whoever you needed to believe in me enough to really
Speaker 5: make that happen. So I got probably a B plus
Speaker 5: level theatrical agent, but infomercial wise, I was the king.
Speaker 5: And then my theatrical agent was like, well, you're making
Speaker 5: all this money here, I don't even need to submit
Speaker 5: you for things. I'm like, oh, so, it's kind of funny,
Speaker 5: and I'll tell you the final story that I'd love
Speaker 5: that you guys will appreciate this. I got the lead
Speaker 5: in a TV series. It's called Fashion House, and I
Speaker 5: played the Alexa Carrington type with all of these gorgeous models,
Speaker 5: and I was running the show and it was an
Speaker 5: hour on my network TV, the Fox affiliate thing, and
Speaker 5: I was gonna run for sixty five episodes and I
Speaker 5: crushed it and you can watch that. I love the character.
Speaker 5: I love who she was. At the eleventh hour, two
Speaker 5: things happened. One they called me President Fox said, your
Speaker 5: name's not famous enough for us to run this entire
Speaker 5: show on. You're gonna recast you. We're gonna recast you
Speaker 5: with Bo Derek.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, right.
Speaker 5: That was hurtful. I mean, her name was definitely big.
Speaker 5: She was not this tough, ballsy actress that I was.
Speaker 5: That probably would have made me as an actress. And
Speaker 5: the next day my agent called and said, hey, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna let you go. And I'm like, I have two
Speaker 5: three year old baby twins. What do you mean you're
Speaker 5: gona let me go? He says, yeah, my son's gonna
Speaker 5: take over the agency. Only once people who are twenties.
Speaker 5: You're already in your forties. And I'm like, but I
Speaker 5: booked the lead in a series. I mean, how often
Speaker 5: you get that car? And I walked out of the
Speaker 5: door and I had a moment that I'll never forget
Speaker 5: because I was mad at him, really mad. I'm like,
Speaker 5: you know this because I'm going to move to I
Speaker 5: know I'm going to Florida, that's where HSN is. But
Speaker 5: I don't get to act anymore, do I? And the
Speaker 5: voice was like not now, No, that's not what your
Speaker 5: path is. And I'm like, but that's what I wanted.
Speaker 5: I've trained it, I see myself on Broadway. I see
Speaker 5: all these amazing so sort of wanted. And he said, no,
Speaker 5: we want you for something else. I'm like really, and
Speaker 5: I moved out to Florida, and I created a brand,
Speaker 5: and I raised my twins. I crushed home shopping. I've
Speaker 5: made a million dollars in a day with this thing
Speaker 5: on home shopping. I've generated billions. I've helped in the
Speaker 5: last iteration of what I've created, we have over one
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty thousand students who are now getting their
Speaker 5: message out their living better lives. They're feeding their families
Speaker 5: because they know how to sell and pitch what they do.
Speaker 5: And if I get to act. I did a movie
Speaker 5: last year. I played a bad girl, the bad girl,
Speaker 5: really bad in an action western called Black Creek. And
Speaker 5: there's opportunities if I want to continue to maybe come
Speaker 5: back to that. And I'm certainly a character right now.
Speaker 5: But I was a little heartbroken. However, I have this
Speaker 5: story to tell that when one door closes or you
Speaker 5: get fired from a job you wanted, just look at
Speaker 5: it as a chapter that closed, not the end of
Speaker 5: the story. Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, once you did your first infomercial, did they just
Speaker 4: keep offering them to you or did you have to
Speaker 4: audition for a few of them?
Speaker 5: You know, that was the crazy thing because I'd been
Speaker 5: doing Body by Jake and back then it was the
Speaker 5: Wild West, by the way, like it is right now.
Speaker 5: With TikTok Shop, I did one video. I don't know,
Speaker 5: have you guys seen the School of Hard Knocks? Oh,
Speaker 5: please write this down and check this out thus because
Speaker 5: he probably should connect to you guys as well. I
Speaker 5: did one video with him. I got twenty one million
Speaker 5: views on TikTok. That just changed my life again. And
Speaker 5: so if I go back there, I didn't because five
Speaker 5: years with Jake, people in the cable industry all knew
Speaker 5: who I was. When infomercials launched and I did my
Speaker 5: first one, I didn't even it was bizarre. You walk
Speaker 5: into a commercial audition. You've all done commercials, right, M Yeah,
Speaker 5: you get that? Hi, that tastes good. I suck it stuff.
Speaker 5: It's so phony for me. I could not be the
Speaker 5: progressive girl. I just could never nail that little short thing.
Speaker 5: I read this script and it's in the book The
Speaker 5: Story of This and it was a five page commercial
Speaker 5: script and I thought, I don't understand, and I'm reading
Speaker 5: it and it's a really cute banter between a guy
Speaker 5: and a girl, and I grabbed a guy in the
Speaker 5: lobby who has got this kind of Mopish Beatles. Look
Speaker 5: about him. He was from Canada, was the newsman, and
Speaker 5: I said, read this with me, and we did. I said,
Speaker 5: I think this isn't as much about the words as
Speaker 5: it is about the chemistry. We go in and we
Speaker 5: book it. That was my very first one. That show
Speaker 5: paid me more money than my entire career all put together,
Speaker 5: because you would get back end residuals, not like movies
Speaker 5: and TV that have to go through a union. I
Speaker 5: got a percentage of sales at one hundred million dollar product,
Speaker 5: and you've got one percent. You don't work again, and
Speaker 5: all of a sudden I learned to go. It catapulted
Speaker 5: me into a world that was very unique. And also
Speaker 5: these things ran all the time. I sa I can
Speaker 5: commercial main infomercial was for a commodities book. This guy
Speaker 5: had analyzed two hundred years. Imagine this now with AI
Speaker 5: two hundred years of trading, created a book that guaranteed
Speaker 5: that eighty percent of the time if you did exactly
Speaker 5: what he said, you'd make money. Two hundred and fifty
Speaker 5: million dollars. This thing was on your TV every other commercial,
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, people like, we want that girl,
Speaker 5: we want that girl. And I didn't have to audition again.
Speaker 1: So wait, you said something really interesting. Do you do
Speaker 1: You normally.
Speaker 2: Get a piece of the product that you're selling for
Speaker 2: these infomercials.
Speaker 5: Only if you're a good negotiator.
Speaker 2: Really, so you're yeah, I mean you're then basically you
Speaker 2: own part of the product in a way.
Speaker 5: I mean you're for as long as the infomercial runs.
Speaker 5: You get paid on a percentage of sales. You don't
Speaker 5: own equity in the company, which is a different negotiation.
Speaker 5: And I will tell you I blew a really big negotiation.
Speaker 5: Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank was just interviewing with me
Speaker 5: and we both had this celsiust deal and the deal
Speaker 5: was one hundred thousand shares of Celsia. Now you might
Speaker 5: want to do the math on this guy. Yeah, it
Speaker 5: was ten cents of share when that offered it to me.
Speaker 5: Levin took the deal. I did not, because my ex
Speaker 5: partner at the time said, oh, there's a big tax liability.
Speaker 5: It's not going anywhere. Don't worry about it. That stock
Speaker 5: is now worth four hundred and fifty dollars a share. Wow,
Speaker 5: some you win, some you lose, right for sure?
Speaker 3: I want to know and I don't think you probably
Speaker 3: can't actually be specific about the product, unless maybe it's
Speaker 3: completely out of business. But I want to know a
Speaker 3: time when you hated something that you were pitching or
Speaker 3: you just thought it was the dumbest product.
Speaker 4: In the world.
Speaker 1: How do you deal with that? Like, what do you do?
Speaker 5: Okay, most of the products I really liked every once
Speaker 5: in a while, I hated one the very first time
Speaker 5: I went to QVC, and Danielle, I don't know what
Speaker 5: your experience was, but I've been doing you know, Live
Speaker 5: to Tape on Body by Jake and informercials, and I'm
Speaker 5: pretty good with cameras. I was given a product called biodeplis.
Speaker 5: I don't know what the hell that means. Don't do
Speaker 5: a product who's name? Ready? No, no, no, it gets gets better.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a disease you catch, all right.
Speaker 5: Who does? It retards the growth of your hair? And
Speaker 5: I'm like, it makes it people thought, I know you're
Speaker 5: not supposed to say these words anymore, right, but right,
Speaker 5: it doesn't stop the growth. And I'm like, I can't say.
Speaker 5: They were on television and not like big Ole. So
Speaker 5: I get to QVC and there's it's a big, big
Speaker 5: thing with like seven cameras and no camera operators. Everything's automatic.
Speaker 5: And I'm like the host, I don't know her, she
Speaker 5: doesn't know me, and I'm like, Hi, where am I looking?
Speaker 5: What am I doing? And I left that moment and
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm never doing that again. That's that was horrible.
Speaker 5: About six months later, I get a phone go going, hey,
Speaker 5: we know that you do this whole fitness thing. I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I do fitness on he'said, well, we got an elliptical trainer.
Speaker 5: It's on QVC. I said, so stop right there. I'm
Speaker 5: not doing that again. So no, no, let me show
Speaker 5: you something. The girl goes there, she does it seven
Speaker 5: six times a year. She makes seventy thousand dollars, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, sixty seventy screw that. I'm going to QVC
Speaker 5: and I show up and I have this crazy affinity.
Speaker 5: My first year, I generated two hundred and ten thousand
Speaker 5: dollars with a product I did, like, so you got it.
Speaker 5: If you don't like the product, don't do it. Nowadays,
Speaker 5: your reputation and with YouTube, if you don't like something,
Speaker 5: it lives forever. Only do things that you love.
Speaker 1: Why would you not want your hair to grow.
Speaker 4: I know I'm trying.
Speaker 5: Not on your legs, not on your head.
Speaker 1: Oh that makes more sense. Okay, I'm like, what like
Speaker 1: your back hair? Oh?
Speaker 5: Oh gotcha? Okay, how's my bald?
Speaker 1: Men?
Speaker 3: Only?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 4: Why would you not want your hair like you know
Speaker 4: all those women that are like.
Speaker 1: Oh, too much hair that it just keeps coming.
Speaker 4: It's just so thick and voluminant of this hair.
Speaker 5: Where are you, guys?
Speaker 4: What I needed you?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 4: Where does the idea of you having your own products?
Speaker 4: When does that idea to play?
Speaker 5: I love you God, that's like the best segue we're
Speaker 5: gonna have to you have to do this again. So
Speaker 5: I did something right to your to you, by the way,
Speaker 5: my son's name is Riker. It's kind of cool to
Speaker 5: your point. I made a decision. I'd had my two
Speaker 5: kids and I raised a little boy from South Central
Speaker 5: who's a little darker than my jacket. And he was
Speaker 5: best man at my wedding. I love mister Dexter. And
Speaker 5: six months after my babies were born, I was living
Speaker 5: in Van Eyes. He was walking from a haircut to
Speaker 5: church and he was gunned down. And my wedding photo
Speaker 5: was sadly on the cover of the La Times. You
Speaker 5: don't want that. And I had a very kind of
Speaker 5: come to Jesus moment where I said, look, mis Forbes,
Speaker 5: righty here, you're not selling anything you don't love anymore.
Speaker 5: No more nudity in movies. And I'm joking. I did
Speaker 5: one or two of those. You'll have to find out
Speaker 5: which one of those are on IMDb.
Speaker 1: Is it Squish University or whatever? There was Splatter Spider
Speaker 1: Slatter you. Okay, you and I.
Speaker 5: Need to go do Squish University.
Speaker 2: With him.
Speaker 4: He's the best.
Speaker 5: No, it was not. I've done a lot of films
Speaker 5: and I started in two films later that you know,
Speaker 5: the love scene. If you're the lead in a movie,
Speaker 5: that's what they want you to do. And I said,
Speaker 5: I'm not doing that anymore, and I'm never going to
Speaker 5: sell a product I don't love with that. The phone
Speaker 5: rings because the universe has a funny sense of humor.
Speaker 5: And they said, hey, you also said I'm not going
Speaker 5: to go to London. I made forty eight trips to
Speaker 5: London because QBC over there made me a whole lot
Speaker 5: of money. Okay, but I was leaving my babies and
Speaker 5: you have to make some decisions in life. But the
Speaker 5: phone rings and say, look, we cannot We're offering you
Speaker 5: a Today's special. You can generate about one hundred thousand
Speaker 5: dollars in one day, keep talking serious money. And but
Speaker 5: you got to it's a treadmill. It's a manual treadmill.
Speaker 5: And I said yes. Then the treadmill shows up and
Speaker 5: it's a piece of crap. And I put this together
Speaker 5: and I'm like, all right, you got a lot of
Speaker 5: integrity here. You can't say no to them. You're going
Speaker 5: to do this one last time, but this sucks. You
Speaker 5: made a promise to yourself. So I fly all the
Speaker 5: way over to London. It starts at midnight and you're
Speaker 5: on for twenty four hours. First time the show ever
Speaker 5: doesn't work. It's terrible. I can't I'm not doing good.
Speaker 5: I go back on at one am. We're still not
Speaker 5: doing good. And now I find myself on my knees
Speaker 5: in my green room it is the green room, and
Speaker 5: hide it on my own saying I got two kids,
Speaker 5: I've lost my parents. Both of my parents died right
Speaker 5: before my kids were born. Dexter's gone, my marriage is
Speaker 5: not working. I don't know what to do. And then
Speaker 5: as if on cue. A guy walks in the door
Speaker 5: at two am in the morning with one of these.
Speaker 5: It's something like this. It's in silver and it's kind
Speaker 5: of like this, and I said, what's that. He said,
Speaker 5: it's an office d stresser. And I pulled on it
Speaker 5: and I said, well, that doesn't do anything. That's really stupid,
Speaker 5: and I gave it back to him. He goes on TV.
Speaker 5: I'm watching the Green Room and he sells a bunch
Speaker 5: of them, and I'm like, it comes back. It's three am,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, I don't get it. What is this?
Speaker 5: He said, Oh, you just wind it up like this
Speaker 5: and you give it a tug. Now, I'm going to
Speaker 5: send one to you. Guys, let me share something with you.
Speaker 5: The moment you tug this thing, your entire body vibrates.
Speaker 5: This thing spins at one hundred and twenty five thousand rpm.
Speaker 5: It's not in resistance bandits. And I'm anything you've ever
Speaker 5: seen before. And I looked at this and I swear
Speaker 5: to God and I'm going to do this on my
Speaker 5: kid's life. I had a vision. I saw me doing
Speaker 5: all of these things with this thing, and I'm like,
Speaker 5: how do I get this? He said, I'll give you
Speaker 5: this one. I said, no, no, no, what's what's the company?
Speaker 5: And I never asked a question like that before in
Speaker 5: my life. I was a hired actress spokesperson. What did
Speaker 5: I know? He said, Well, the company's not doing great.
Speaker 5: I've sold out one hundred thousand in the last five years.
Speaker 5: He said, I'm a corporate magician, and I want to
Speaker 5: go back to this. You want to get chills. My
Speaker 5: dad was a magician my whole life and he's been
Speaker 5: gone at this point. And I'm like, he said, he said,
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what. Mi what he said, I'll not
Speaker 5: only give you this, but I'll give you my entire company.
Speaker 5: If you can sell twenty five thousand in the first
Speaker 5: year and then give me a small percentage, it's yours.
Speaker 5: I go home. Now. I'm a former dancer and a
Speaker 5: pilates instructor, and I downloaded all these Oh my god,
Speaker 5: this is for your triceps, this is for your Oh
Speaker 5: you can punch, you can do your abs, you can
Speaker 5: do your you can I'm like downloading everything. I'm writing
Speaker 5: all of these things and it's magnificent. And then a
Speaker 5: TV series called Discovery found me and said, hey, I
Speaker 5: want to do this reality show with you. We're going
Speaker 5: to put your product on there. We spent five months filming, like, go,
Speaker 5: oh my god, this is like no Rana. I finally
Speaker 5: made it right and I pour my heart out of it.
Speaker 5: I'm like Susanne Summers is to Thie Master, as Forbes
Speaker 5: Riley is to spin Jim, And I'm having the time
Speaker 5: of my life until it airs on Discovery. I have
Speaker 5: all my friends watching this big TV screen and apparently
Speaker 5: they were doing a reality show and I was doing
Speaker 5: my life. The two didn't combine. They decided to make
Speaker 5: me look really bad. In fact, that one moment during
Speaker 5: the filming they said to me, because I made a
Speaker 5: deal with this guy that I would never sell it
Speaker 5: because it's until I got all the rights for less
Speaker 5: than nineteen ninety nine. Not a big deal, right. So
Speaker 5: I'm reading the prompter while they're filming this reality show
Speaker 5: and I'm like, for the chest, it's the best twenty
Speaker 5: nine ninety nine. For the chest, it's the best nineteen
Speaker 5: ninety nine. But guys, I can't say nine ninety nine.
Speaker 5: I'm not allowed to do that. The reality cameras go,
Speaker 5: what do you mean you can't do nine inety nine,
Speaker 5: and I'm like, I can't. Then they said they brought
Speaker 5: me a plastic version of this, and I said, I
Speaker 5: would never put my name on a piece of sheep
Speaker 5: plastic crap that you're selling for nine ninety nine. Edit, Edit,
Speaker 5: you know what America saw. I would never sell anything
Speaker 5: for nine ninety nine. I didn't say that. They did
Speaker 5: that a lot throughout the show, like I don't need
Speaker 5: any help to look bad, and they really went full
Speaker 5: force on me that night. Spingem was the number one
Speaker 5: Google word I was. My n name was the number three,
Speaker 5: and it was not good. Comments like that, greedy witch,
Speaker 5: I would be happy to sell anything for nine ninety up.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, oh my god, what just happened here?
Speaker 5: Five months I'm dreaming of this moment and it crashed.
Speaker 5: My ex husband he's in bed with me at the moment.
Speaker 5: He turns me. He says, what are you gonna do now?
Speaker 5: I'm like, I'm gonna sell spinjems. He said, well, nobody
Speaker 5: wants it. I said they're wrong. He said, well, they
Speaker 5: can't all be wrong, and I said, but they are.
Speaker 5: And I said, he said, but you need money. I said,
Speaker 5: then mortgage this house, Mortgage my kid's education fund. You
Speaker 5: didn't understand this is our future, this is our life.
Speaker 5: I saw it. I'm making this happen, and he did.
Speaker 5: We pushed all of our chips in and then it's
Speaker 5: a little bit longer. But at some point. I launched
Speaker 5: on January ten, twenty ten, and very reluctantly hsaid bought
Speaker 5: five thousand units. Thirty four minutes, we sold out, and
Speaker 5: I then went on to do a million dollar day
Speaker 5: and at the end of the day, I was right.
Speaker 5: I got an apology for mister Steve Beers, who was
Speaker 5: the guy behind Discovery. He said, we were making reality
Speaker 5: TV and you would just leave the object of era,
Speaker 5: you know.
Speaker 4: Wow wow, and then you took over the company of
Speaker 4: the spin. Then he kept his word and you got.
Speaker 5: Well I didn't. Ironically, I created my own company. I
Speaker 5: got the entire product, I got all the IP I
Speaker 5: created my own patent. I've gone full force on this.
Speaker 5: But here's what's interesting. Twenty ten, right or twenty sorry,
Speaker 5: twenty we're all having a moment. I'm a big manifesto. Okay,
Speaker 5: So when I left my husband and I said I
Speaker 5: want someone who looks like you walked off the cover
Speaker 5: of a romance novel to be my next man. I
Speaker 5: just happened to say that, right, Okay.
Speaker 1: There's so few of us out there.
Speaker 5: I adore you. You know. I him around tom So
Speaker 5: and it's pretty funny because I found him because he
Speaker 5: ended up being a fitness model for Spin Jim kind
Speaker 5: of ironically. But uh, I put that out to the
Speaker 5: world that that's what I wanted. And when people say
Speaker 5: to me, so, forb can I see a picture of
Speaker 5: your husband, I simply say yes. But if you don't
Speaker 5: say wow when I show him to you, I'll give
Speaker 5: you each one hundred dollars. Okay, that seems fair. Fair? Yeah,
Speaker 5: I know right. So had one quick second and see
Speaker 5: if I can share my screen that is my husband.
Speaker 1: Jesus ol Wow. Wow.
Speaker 4: I was really thinking, like I'm not gonna say wow,
Speaker 4: but I am.
Speaker 1: It looks like AI generated thank man. Oh my god.
Speaker 5: Yeah no, he is that guy. And now here's the
Speaker 5: crazy thing. So twenty ten, he gets twenty, he gets
Speaker 5: a really bad motorcycle accident I don't know, and he
Speaker 5: loses it all. He then builds it all back because
Speaker 5: he's going to go on and become everything he wanted
Speaker 5: to be in terms of mister Universe and other things.
Speaker 5: But he had to build that body back.
Speaker 4: So now did it all with the spin Jym?
Speaker 5: No, I love it. No, but he does love the
Speaker 5: spin Jim. And that's the crazy thing is he does
Speaker 5: promote it and talk about it all the time. But no,
Speaker 5: I'm not going to lie to you. This man builds
Speaker 5: muscle through a routine that he created. And I don't
Speaker 5: know if we're going to have time for this. But
Speaker 5: last year I ended up at sixty four in a
Speaker 5: bodybuilding competition for the first time. I ended up losing
Speaker 5: thirty five pounds, fifteen percent body fat, and got a
Speaker 5: metal after a really bad car accident with him. I
Speaker 5: got stories for days, got little.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I want to know about a bodybuilding
Speaker 4: competitions on my on.
Speaker 1: My doing this too. I've been thinking about it lately.
Speaker 1: I've been lifting heavier and lifting more.
Speaker 2: I literally did my wife last night, was like I
Speaker 2: might actually start bodybuilding.
Speaker 1: I literally just said.
Speaker 5: That, Well, I will tell you, I will show you
Speaker 5: that photo. But I'm going to back really quick to
Speaker 5: twenty twenty. So what happened was everything shut down. I
Speaker 5: was really sad about him, but it's funny because Clubhouse happened.
Speaker 5: Were you guys on Clubhouse at all? Now? Yeah? It
Speaker 5: was an audio only app and I ended up with
Speaker 5: sixty thousand real followers that would listen to me over
Speaker 5: and over again, and it was an amazing way to
Speaker 5: start a new business. And my daughter came downstairs and
Speaker 5: she said, you know what. She was seventeen at the time,
Speaker 5: and she said, Mom, I've been building websites for your friends,
Speaker 5: and I know you don't know that. I'm like, excuse me.
Speaker 5: She had like Joe Thaisman and Less Brown, and I
Speaker 5: have a bank account that I think you need to know.
Speaker 5: So she showed me your bank account of seven figure,
Speaker 5: six figure, sorry it was one hundred thousand dollars and
Speaker 5: she's seventeen. I'm like, where did you get that money?
Speaker 5: She said, Mom, I've been building businesses and here's what
Speaker 5: I'd like to do with us. Spinjim is not going
Speaker 5: to work right now because it manufactures in China. You
Speaker 5: should teach pitching, you should teach what you know. You've
Speaker 5: got a skill and if you die with it, you
Speaker 5: won't have much of a legacy. And I'd like to
Speaker 5: help you build that. So we sat in a room
Speaker 5: we created a whole training and the next thing, you know,
Speaker 5: we go online. I have twenty five people in a
Speaker 5: room on this thing called Zoom that nobody knew about,
Speaker 5: and and she says, I had I'd always had zero
Speaker 5: in the bank account for that. I had twenty five people,
Speaker 5: and I had one thousand dollar concept. I could teach
Speaker 5: you to pitch for a thousand dollars and you spend
Speaker 5: four weeks with me. I open up our screen the
Speaker 5: next morning and it says something, and I called McKenna
Speaker 5: and I said, Hey, what does the case stand for?
Speaker 5: So what do you mean? Mom? I said, it says
Speaker 5: we earned twenty five K? Said Mom, last night, you
Speaker 5: made twenty five thousand dollars. I'm like, I did what said.
Speaker 5: Everybody in the room bought your stuff. And I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: you got kick me. And that's how this whole business
Speaker 5: started up. Pitching And I did that four times in
Speaker 5: a row, four times twenty five thousand. It's one hundred thousand.
Speaker 5: That's a six figure business. And this little girl promised
Speaker 5: me that if I worked with her and I gave
Speaker 5: up spingem for a little while, she'd make me a
Speaker 5: million dollars. Nine months later, we're getting what's called a
Speaker 5: two Comic Club award because we generated a million dollars. Now,
Speaker 5: that little twenty three year old is the CEO of
Speaker 5: our company, and she's generating a million dollars a month.
Speaker 5: Oh my, talk about So if you go back to
Speaker 5: the where I'm standing outside my agent's office cursing him
Speaker 5: out that I'm not an actor, I don't know many
Speaker 5: actors who are working with their family. My husband and I.
Speaker 5: He's a videographer, we work together. We own a TV
Speaker 5: studio out here, and we're generating more money in one
Speaker 5: month than my father did in his entire working career.
Speaker 5: That's great, and so I'm grateful to However this all
Speaker 5: panned out. And then so that's what. Then that's why
Speaker 5: we're here because I'm talking about pitching. But if you're
Speaker 5: serious about wanting to do a bodybuilding competition, no, wait,
Speaker 5: this is how I started. You got to look at
Speaker 5: this before the accident, that's what that was my body.
Speaker 5: I took a picture of me in the mirror.
Speaker 4: Now, look damn good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I was a little fluffy. I look, I
Speaker 5: go fluffy sixty year old.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right.
Speaker 5: Nine months later, guys, I'm ninety nine days and I
Speaker 5: did a little film about this. I turned into this
Speaker 5: and I'm on stage and I'm competing and I won
Speaker 5: a medal. I didn't win just one. I won three medals.
Speaker 5: And I will tell you that whole adventure of bodybuilding
Speaker 5: waiting after foot, that's one of them. Like it was
Speaker 5: insane what I created, and at the end I ended
Speaker 5: up looking at it.
Speaker 1: Like that and this is all your husband's program.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Wow, three months, ninety nine days. Unbelievable, I will say,
Speaker 5: to be successful, though. The cool thing about saying you're
Speaker 5: going to be on stage, especially if you say it publicly,
Speaker 5: like on a show like this, you make a declaration
Speaker 5: is you don't want to be embarrassed, right, So you're
Speaker 5: going to do everything you can. So a goal without
Speaker 5: a consequence is just a dream. I had a little
Speaker 5: PTSD from the car accident, and I said, this is
Speaker 5: all that I wanted to and I never want to do.
Speaker 5: Before I've been with him for nine years. I used
Speaker 5: to go to those competitions and think they were silly,
Speaker 5: and now I'm like, I'm doing this for my own
Speaker 5: health and fitness, and man, there were days where I
Speaker 5: just was shattered. It was really hard, and I went
Speaker 5: Instagram live every single day so my audience could see
Speaker 5: the mornings where I was crying at five am, going
Speaker 5: this totally sucks. Why did I do this? And then
Speaker 5: the days I'm like, I'm playing this theme song, going
Speaker 5: I rock, I'm closing the gym. I'm a champion, and
Speaker 5: I was a rollercoaster. And then I don't know if
Speaker 5: you can relate to this, And maybe I'm saying this
Speaker 5: because your audience needs to hear this, But on day
Speaker 5: sixty seven, something wicked happen. You know, as an actress
Speaker 5: who'd fought my weight my whole life. See when I
Speaker 5: was coming up and I was on a soap opera,
Speaker 5: I was on As the World Turns, and I'm standing
Speaker 5: between Meg Ryan and Julian Moore. They're both on my show,
Speaker 5: and they're both tweagy. Now here's a funny thing. Does
Speaker 5: this look? What is that? That's a mouse?
Speaker 4: Right, that's a mouse.
Speaker 5: Does the mouse look fat? No, it does when you
Speaker 5: stick it next to a pen. And I was the mouse.
Speaker 5: I was twenty pounds overweight. I was normal, and my
Speaker 5: today's standards, I was just fine. But this made me
Speaker 5: look really and everybody. I was on Broadway, I got
Speaker 5: sent to Overeaters anonymous. So I was fixating on this whole,
Speaker 5: this whole body image, and it destroyed me and I
Speaker 5: could I mean, John Avilson got on the phone with me,
Speaker 5: the director from Rocky Academy, a word winning director, was
Speaker 5: doing this new movie called Neighbors with John Belushi and
Speaker 5: Dan macrid and I was slated to play the leader
Speaker 5: with female and he called me personally. He said, look, day,
Speaker 5: we all love you, but the brass of the money
Speaker 5: people tell me you need to lose fifteen pounds, and
Speaker 5: I think. I hung up and ate a donut. I
Speaker 5: was very I would always yo yo down and I'm
Speaker 5: kind of a gun news one with chocolate on top
Speaker 5: of I don't like the cream one, so oh really,
Speaker 5: Oh my dad liked the cream man. So I would
Speaker 5: get to that weight and I would always sabotage myself
Speaker 5: like a ritual. It was disgusting and I'm like, I
Speaker 5: don't I can't figure it out.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 5: Day sixty seven of my weight loss challenge, I'm sitting
Speaker 5: in the gym and I see a bridge flying at
Speaker 5: my face and I'm like, I'm having visions I'm like
Speaker 5: crying hysterically, and it dawns on me that at fifteen
Speaker 5: years old, when I'm wearing a bikini, I got molested.
Speaker 5: It's on a beach, something crazy that happened. And at
Speaker 5: the end of that day, I was literally fly It's
Speaker 5: kind of a long story, but flying back on a
Speaker 5: small private plane and the guy who did it reached
Speaker 5: over to grab me again while we're flying, and we
Speaker 5: came this close to a bridge. It's all I remember
Speaker 5: seeing in the windshield, and we just missed it by
Speaker 5: this much, being just a crash, kind of like a
Speaker 5: John John history story. They died in a plane. When
Speaker 5: I got out of the plane, my dad said, so,
Speaker 5: how was your afternoon? I'm like, it was fine. I
Speaker 5: went home to my mom should how was your afternoon?
Speaker 5: It was fine. I closed my door and I never
Speaker 5: thought about that memory since until that day when I
Speaker 5: lost all way more weight than I had ever lost,
Speaker 5: and it dawned on me how bad I'd been hurt.
Speaker 5: And then it dawned on me like, oh, you didn't
Speaker 5: want to be seen all these years. You don't own
Speaker 5: a bikini because it's too painful. I never, even in
Speaker 5: my wildest imagination realized that's why I was running my
Speaker 5: life the way I was. That's why I was kind
Speaker 5: of angry at men on some weird level. So I
Speaker 5: did a lot of the things and it all came
Speaker 5: to fruition. My suggested that is, don't wait, don't let
Speaker 5: all those angry memories ruin your life, because you should
Speaker 5: never let your past right your future.
Speaker 1: So wait, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2: Your husband was in a motorcycle accident and then a
Speaker 2: car accident like that?
Speaker 1: Was it? Were they close to each other?
Speaker 5: No, In fact, they were completely five years apart. He
Speaker 5: was in a motorcycle accident right out close to our house.
Speaker 5: He was recovered in last year. This when it's all happened.
Speaker 5: My family might have twins. They're twenty three year old
Speaker 5: boy girl twins. They're beautiful, they're in business, they're fun,
Speaker 5: they're healthy. And we were at spring break in Iceland.
Speaker 5: We had that James Bond moment where on a glacier
Speaker 5: snowmobiling in life is great, man. It was probably one
Speaker 5: of the best days ever. We're on a bus coming home.
Speaker 5: I took a picture of them, and that might have
Speaker 5: been the last thing I ever did. We hit a
Speaker 5: patch of ice. We go flying through the air and
Speaker 5: we crashed down on my side of the bus and
Speaker 5: I wake up and my glass everywhere. But the coolest
Speaker 5: thing is I have my cheek in my eye and
Speaker 5: my face and my brain and my life, my shoulders
Speaker 5: torn up a little bit. We all survived, but it
Speaker 5: was pretty devastating, and no one else really got hurt.
Speaker 5: There were a couple of injured that was got that censured.
Speaker 5: There are a lot of people got injured. Nobody died.
Speaker 5: We all walked away from it.
Speaker 1: Like a full sized bus. Like a bus accident.
Speaker 5: Going to make me find that too, wann't you?
Speaker 1: Oh god, I have pictures of it.
Speaker 5: I have pictures of well, I you know, professionally what
Speaker 5: I love when you were little, just real quick, roundtable.
Speaker 5: What do you want to be, Danielle?
Speaker 4: A waitress?
Speaker 5: Why?
Speaker 4: I don't know. I absolutely wanted to just bring people food.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: That's the sweetest thing.
Speaker 2: Thirty five years of not I've never heard her say
Speaker 2: that out loud, waitress.
Speaker 4: But I wanted to I wanted to go to.
Speaker 3: Die, and you never got to, right, you never had
Speaker 3: I was too successful an actress.
Speaker 5: I didn't get to.
Speaker 4: Believely person who had the dream in reverse.
Speaker 3: No, I I always wanted to work in right now.
Speaker 1: I always wanted to work in a movie theater. Even
Speaker 1: when we were on Boy Meets World. I remember being like, oh,
Speaker 1: I would love to work in a movie theater.
Speaker 4: I wanted to work at Rubies. While we were on
Speaker 4: Boy Meets World. I was like, man, I can't wait
Speaker 4: for Boy Meets World to be over so I could
Speaker 4: be a Ruby's diner waitress.
Speaker 1: I want to Yeah, that's William.
Speaker 5: What do you want to be?
Speaker 1: An actor?
Speaker 4: Okay, that's what I wanted to be. Listen. I need
Speaker 4: you to know you are maybe the most interesting part
Speaker 4: of the Boy Meets World legacy. I mean truly. Doctor
Speaker 4: Forbes Riley, thank you so much for being here with us.
Speaker 4: We are so happy to have been able to chronicle
Speaker 4: your involvement in our show. What a fun little Easter egg,
Speaker 4: and for everyone listening. If you want to learn more
Speaker 4: about Forbes Riley and pre order her upcoming book, The
Speaker 4: Pitch Secrets A to Z, you can check out her
Speaker 4: website Forbesreiley dot com or her podcast, Forbes Factor. It's
Speaker 4: available on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts.
Speaker 5: It's been fun and it was fun going back and
Speaker 5: watching the episode, really was, and I appreciate it when
Speaker 5: you know, next time we do a series is gonna
Speaker 5: have to be a little bit bigger role.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, exactly, camera face.
Speaker 5: We thank you so much. You guys have delighted my heart.
Speaker 5: And I will tell you the reason this has happened, guys,
Speaker 5: is because I took the courage to write a book.
Speaker 5: It took me five years to get this one out,
Speaker 5: and I'm going to encourage all of you to not
Speaker 5: play small the voices in your past, they may haunt you.
Speaker 5: Find a way to work those out, because I'll tell
Speaker 5: you what, you don't get to write a great future
Speaker 5: from from the backseat. Yeah, and thank you all so
Speaker 5: very much.
Speaker 4: Thanks so much for being here. Wow, what an inspiration.
Speaker 4: Nice talking to you.
Speaker 5: Thank you guys.
Speaker 4: By holy Cow.
Speaker 1: I was a tour de force of storytelling.
Speaker 5: Guys.
Speaker 1: It was just like another thing. And then let me
Speaker 1: go back to the time I did this. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was the ups and downs. I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Anytime she started out about how something was awful, I
Speaker 1: was like, well, it's going to get good.
Speaker 3: And anytime it was getting good, I was like, well,
Speaker 3: it's going to get awful again.
Speaker 1: I want to read Pitch Secrets ATAHS. It looks good.
Speaker 4: I am always so impressed by the littlest things, but
Speaker 4: things like when someone goes and then on a Tuesday,
Speaker 4: Jacquel Laine called and he was doing a movie and
Speaker 4: they remember names and what they were working on. And
Speaker 4: I'm like, every time I go to tell a story,
Speaker 4: I go, well, one time, I don't remember who was somebody?
Speaker 1: It was one of.
Speaker 3: Them, you know, they said something that he was a
Speaker 3: big It's such a good point because it's like be
Speaker 3: you know, when she talks about manifesting right, so much
Speaker 3: of that is telling yourself a story and narrativizing your
Speaker 3: own progress. And she is clearly, since the age of
Speaker 3: fifteen or whatever, or even probably before that, been narrativizing
Speaker 3: her own like progress, and so she's always like anything
Speaker 3: bad happens to her, she immediately said, well, I'm at
Speaker 3: a downpoint right now, and I'm gonna come overcome it through.
Speaker 4: What's what's going to teach me? H, this was a
Speaker 4: car accident, glass in my face, take a picture of it,
Speaker 4: a power point.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be in a podcast and I'm going
Speaker 1: to talk about it.
Speaker 5: It worked.
Speaker 1: So I have a pitch. I have a pitch, great,
Speaker 1: a funny infomercial, and then we take over QVC for
Speaker 1: a day to sell the book.
Speaker 4: Oh that is fun.
Speaker 1: I want to see Writer on QBC our book we're
Speaker 1: going to sell. Why don't we just get Forbes Riley
Speaker 1: to sell our book because the fun is going to
Speaker 1: be us. I want to see Riding.
Speaker 3: We're probably going to make it back because she will
Speaker 3: sell the crap out of it.
Speaker 1: I I want to see Writer on QVC. That's the
Speaker 1: that's the the happens.
Speaker 4: It does next to Daniel.
Speaker 1: But she's also one of those people though that you
Speaker 1: really do.
Speaker 2: Or you finished a conversation where her You're like, I
Speaker 2: do want a body built, or I do want to
Speaker 2: sell this, or I could.
Speaker 4: Actually think you work. That you mentioned it.
Speaker 1: Makes you realize. You're like, yeah, you can buy I
Speaker 1: can't go make more money. I can manifest like damn yeah.
Speaker 1: Very positive and funny too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, very so funny, very funny.
Speaker 1: I want to see Squish University.
Speaker 4: You're starring in a squish University.
Speaker 1: We gotta go. We gotta screen that.
Speaker 4: Write your next writing project.
Speaker 5: Squish you.
Speaker 1: It could be so many things.
Speaker 4: Thank you all for joining us for this episode of
Speaker 4: Pod Meets World. As always, you can follow us on
Speaker 4: Instagram pod Meets World Show. You can send us your
Speaker 4: emails pod Meets World Show at gmail dot com. And
Speaker 4: we've got merch.
Speaker 2: There's so many different ways to go with this merch call,
Speaker 2: because it's one of those things where it's like it
Speaker 2: could be Jacqueline merch, it could be merch.
Speaker 1: It's twenty four to seven.
Speaker 2: Hey, if you buy this March, just buy our merch manifest,
Speaker 2: our merch merch.
Speaker 4: After having the world's best seller on you just.
Speaker 1: Just I can't do it. Do it anything from her?
Speaker 5: That merch?
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, if you buy our merch. And then there
Speaker 1: was a guy I don't remember. Stop, stop think about merches.
Speaker 3: If you invest in this merch right now, you hundreds
Speaker 3: of thousands of dollars in a day, in a day.
Speaker 4: You missed it all. What she said was, this isn't
Speaker 4: merch for your body. This is March merch that changes
Speaker 4: your life.
Speaker 1: This is merch for you.
Speaker 4: This is merch for you. When was the last time
Speaker 4: you bought something for yourself? You take care of everyone.
Speaker 1: Shirt that's going to change. There it is there, it is.
Speaker 4: Get in the driver's seat of your merch.
Speaker 1: Of your merch.
Speaker 2: That's yeah exactly. I'm going to end up in those
Speaker 2: tiny little fetos like that guy.
Speaker 4: Merch, and we're going to say wow.
Speaker 1: Wow, wow. Those are the smallest petos I've ever seen
Speaker 1: in my life. By that, I didn't want to say anything,
Speaker 1: but not uggers. You know what they say, the smaller lispeedo.
Speaker 1: U doesn't work, don't know what.
Speaker 4: Podmeetsworldshow dot com writer send us out.
Speaker 1: We love you all, pod dismissed.
Speaker 3: Podmeets World is an iHeart podcast producer hosted by Danielle Fischel,
Speaker 3: Wilfredell and Ryder Strong. Executive producers Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman.
Speaker 3: Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer and editor, Tarasubach, producer,
Speaker 3: Maddie Moore, engineer and Boy Meets World superman Easton Allen.
Speaker 3: Our theme song is by Kyle Morton of Typhoon. Follow
Speaker 3: us on Instagram at Podmeets World Show or email us
Speaker 3: at Podmeets World Show at gmail dot com.