Speaker 1: What's your favorite bad for you food? Will my favorite
Speaker 1: restaurant in the world, And yes, it's a restaurant's McDonald's.
Speaker 1: And that's why I don't eat much restaurant called Mickey
Speaker 1: Donald Mickey Donald McDonald. I love it. I love it
Speaker 1: to death. And I told writer that my favorite burger
Speaker 1: is a McDonald's burger. And writer then told me about
Speaker 1: a place that I have yet to try. But it's
Speaker 1: like the you know, probably way cleaner version of a
Speaker 1: McDonald's burger. Hipster. It's hipster. It's in Silver Lake. It's
Speaker 1: called Burger's Never Say Die, and it's unbelievable. Can I
Speaker 1: ask the last time you had at McDonald's burger? Writer me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've had McDonald's. And my Indie loves McDonald's. So, like
Speaker 1: when we're on a road trip and we have to
Speaker 1: stop for fast food, which is usually when I eat
Speaker 1: fast food, Um, we'll get a McDonald's. I'll do that
Speaker 1: over an in and out. I'm not an in and
Speaker 1: out guy. I haven't in out burgers, but not the fries.
Speaker 1: I don't like the fries. Fries are bad, but burgers
Speaker 1: I get it protein style too. I love the crunch
Speaker 1: of the lettuce. Big fan of that. I love crunchy lettuce.
Speaker 1: I've been really into making sandwiches lately, and just like
Speaker 1: a homemade sandwich. By the way, when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: I don't know how my mom how it was even possible,
Speaker 1: because I've tried to do it now it's not really easy.
Speaker 1: But my mom used to draw a heart in the
Speaker 1: peanut butter. She'd make me a peanut butter and jelly
Speaker 1: sandwich and she draw she draw a heart in the
Speaker 1: peanut butter, and then I think she just very lightly
Speaker 1: put the bread together. But I remember being in elementary
Speaker 1: school and being able to slowly peel apart the sandwich
Speaker 1: to see the port, to see whatever portion of the
Speaker 1: heart was still left in the peanut butter. Isn't that sweet?
Speaker 1: I know? And then it made me think about the
Speaker 1: fact that, like, I don't include enough my My mom
Speaker 1: used to leave me a note in my lunch occasionally,
Speaker 1: and I loved the notes. And so for Adler's third birthday,
Speaker 1: I dropped him off at school and I put a
Speaker 1: little note in there, and I was like, he can't read.
Speaker 1: This is gonna mean anything? What am I doing? Sometimes
Speaker 1: I I I give indie notes every once in a while,
Speaker 1: and back when he was in preschool the teachers would
Speaker 1: read them too. Was just aware that somebody's going to
Speaker 1: read it to him. There's a Simpsons episode where Lisa
Speaker 1: and Bart are coming up at lunch and Lisa says,
Speaker 1: I I Bart says, I think I got your lunch,
Speaker 1: and she takes it over and the note says I'm
Speaker 1: so proud of you. I love you, and she goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I got yours, and the note says, be good. For
Speaker 1: the love of God, be good, and that was great. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm also not going to tell you that when I travel,
Speaker 1: my wife puts together a snack bag and puts a
Speaker 1: note in it for me. My God, that's cute. When
Speaker 1: when Jensen and I were dating, uh and he'd go
Speaker 1: on a trip somewhere I would leave, I would write
Speaker 1: a little little notes, like on a like I post it,
Speaker 1: I'd rip a post it into three and write three
Speaker 1: little notes are just like I love you, and hide
Speaker 1: one in the brim of his hat and one in
Speaker 1: a saw. We awesome. I love doing that stuff. Well,
Speaker 1: writer custom build his wife's wedding rings so exactly tells
Speaker 1: you everything about our relationship, you make the gesture and
Speaker 1: then you forget about it. I mean, I don't minding
Speaker 1: the metal. I don't leave those notes in Jensen's hats anymore.
Speaker 1: I have two children to take care of, and you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like, truthfully, um, marriage right after kids is
Speaker 1: absolutely takes a total backseat to now the children. And
Speaker 1: like the good news is I am not in a
Speaker 1: relationship where Jensen feels like once we had kids, she
Speaker 1: stopped prioritizing me. Like Jensen so totally gets it that
Speaker 1: for both of us, our children right now are like
Speaker 1: the season of life we are in is just very
Speaker 1: kids centric, and there will be a time where we
Speaker 1: get back to like our relationship being in the hierarchy,
Speaker 1: but right now it's kind of like the biggest bonding
Speaker 1: experience we have is playing Octortal before we go to bed,
Speaker 1: and that's about definitely, like, you know, if you can
Speaker 1: have grandparents or somebody watch the kids, I would definitely like.
Speaker 1: Taking taking each other out to dinner is like something
Speaker 1: Alex and I have always made essential. It's like, you know,
Speaker 1: every couple of weeks, at every stage, it was like
Speaker 1: because because we were fortunate enough that my in laws
Speaker 1: are local you know, in l A, no one has grandparents,
Speaker 1: so like all of our friends, you know, they have
Speaker 1: to hire babies that if they're going out or whatever.
Speaker 1: But we're so lucky. My in laws moved from Florida
Speaker 1: when Indy was born, and so we've always been able
Speaker 1: to just have nights out where it's just the two
Speaker 1: of us and it's like so essential. I love that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why it's hard to and I that's one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why kids we love not It's just just
Speaker 1: about us and we like that. I mean, it works
Speaker 1: for us, it's perfect. So well, welcome to Pod Meets World.
Speaker 1: I'm Daniel fish All, I'm right or Strong, and I'm Wilfredell.
Speaker 1: You may know us as to Panga, Sean and Eric
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Speaker 1: we wanted to check in with each other to say,
Speaker 1: how are you feeling. How do you think this is going.
Speaker 1: Moments that have made you uncomfortable, moments that have made
Speaker 1: you really happy? Um, and so that's kind of where
Speaker 1: we are right How are you feeling in this stage
Speaker 1: of our journey. I feel like I jumped into what
Speaker 1: I thought was like a shallow pool and it got
Speaker 1: really deep, really quick. I we I feel like we
Speaker 1: got in over our heads a little quicker than I
Speaker 1: don't know, I guess. I guess. I thought the rewatching
Speaker 1: would take more of a precedence than the conversations about
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. But basically, after we started that first
Speaker 1: episode and the memories just kept coming and the conversation
Speaker 1: kept going in that direction because that is our experience
Speaker 1: right is like we I remember backstage way more than
Speaker 1: I remember the episodes themselves. So we just keep going
Speaker 1: in that direction. And I can't believe how much material
Speaker 1: there is already out there. Um and so I'm I,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm a little overwhelmed. I'm a little like, wow,
Speaker 1: I have I thought I'd processed all of this, but
Speaker 1: obviously not. Um And yeah, so I still have a
Speaker 1: lot of feelings and I'm still figuring it out. I
Speaker 1: think the best part about this has been sharing it
Speaker 1: with my son. That's been super fun and funny and
Speaker 1: already led to interesting conversations about him and our relationship
Speaker 1: that I like. Um not, you know, because what I
Speaker 1: end up playing on the show is I edit down
Speaker 1: from usually like a five to ten minute conversation, so
Speaker 1: it's usually double what is on on this show. And
Speaker 1: that's been super fun. Um but yeah, it's it's definitely
Speaker 1: gotten deeper than I thought quicker. How about you guys, Um, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of feel the same way. I'm really loving,
Speaker 1: first of all, a couple of things, Really loving seeing
Speaker 1: the both of you as much as we I mean,
Speaker 1: we always saw each other, but now that it's like
Speaker 1: a regular thing kind of there's a safety in doing
Speaker 1: this with your friends. Um, so there's something that I
Speaker 1: love about that. I also just absolutely adore bringing all
Speaker 1: the guests back and getting to talk to everybody again
Speaker 1: as adults, and also just the conversations of leading to
Speaker 1: who else are we gonna bring on? Who else can
Speaker 1: we get, who's gonna come? I mean, all that kind
Speaker 1: of stuff is is a lot of fun for me.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I got very real, very quick, very quickly,
Speaker 1: and I'm okay with that. I think it's I think
Speaker 1: it's you know, we one of the things that we
Speaker 1: has talked about was we were going to start this
Speaker 1: show and then we were going to let the show
Speaker 1: kind of dictate what it became. We were gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: just keep it very very loose and see where it went,
Speaker 1: uh and go from there. And once Tony Quinn came
Speaker 1: up with the idea of actually making the show and
Speaker 1: we were able to kind of move he came up
Speaker 1: with it. He was really he came up with it
Speaker 1: after and um, I thank him for it every day.
Speaker 1: And he invented podcast he did, so. Um yeah, so no,
Speaker 1: it's it's been It's been a ton of fun. I've
Speaker 1: I've really enjoyed it. It's I know this sounds ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's been a lot more work than I thought it
Speaker 1: was going to be, if that makes any sense, which
Speaker 1: is mentally draining, mentally draining, time consuming, actual work. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's it's there's a lot of work people are It's like, oh,
Speaker 1: you stead in front of microphone, you talk. Well, now,
Speaker 1: there's a lot that goes on because we want to
Speaker 1: be kind of involved in every aspect of the show.
Speaker 1: So um, but it's, uh, it's it's it's been fun,
Speaker 1: but it's been a lot more emotional than I thought
Speaker 1: it was gonna be. Yeah, I think, um to your
Speaker 1: point will about the time consuming nous of it. I
Speaker 1: think one of the things that I'm surprised by that
Speaker 1: I shouldn't really have been surprised by, is just how much,
Speaker 1: um I enjoy talking about all of the little moments
Speaker 1: for each one of us, and how long we must
Speaker 1: find ourselves endlessly entertaining. I hope you guys find us
Speaker 1: entertaining too, because I am amazed when two hours go by.
Speaker 1: I am truthfully like two hours go by and I
Speaker 1: go I feel like I've been here for forty minutes.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if I wasn't worried about you
Speaker 1: guys listening not wanting to have a three hour episode,
Speaker 1: I could still sit here and keep discussing things. And
Speaker 1: so I am. I'm like that in that sense. There's
Speaker 1: been so much to discuss and I've enjoyed all of it. Um,
Speaker 1: And it is time consuming to watch the episode, write
Speaker 1: the notes, uh, think about the memories, and then you know,
Speaker 1: be present in the conversation and want to listen to
Speaker 1: what everybody else's stories are. Um. I'm I'm selfishly very
Speaker 1: excited to get into some episodes that I'm in because
Speaker 1: I feel a little like, you know, I'm getting to
Speaker 1: comment on on a show that doesn't even feel at
Speaker 1: all like I'm a part of it. Yet. You know,
Speaker 1: I did think in that episode with Will's first on
Speaker 1: screen kiss with Carrie Russell, I thought it was funny.
Speaker 1: I didn't say it in the time when we did
Speaker 1: the episode, but I'm remembering it now that it's funny
Speaker 1: that Corey doesn't even make any mention of the fact
Speaker 1: that he has also kissed a girl, and I that's
Speaker 1: one of the things that makes me think. You guys
Speaker 1: may have reported that episode before that, because he makes
Speaker 1: a joke about Eric maybe what having kissed two girls,
Speaker 1: and I thought I would have almost been funnier for
Speaker 1: him to be like, I've kissed the same amount of
Speaker 1: girls you have, you know, like just but he didn't
Speaker 1: even acknowledge it, So I feel like maybe that was
Speaker 1: even before I was there. So selfishly, I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to getting into some episodes where I'm there, because, um,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to critique myself in those ways. We
Speaker 1: can't wait to critique you either. Oh, it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: Do you guys know? Do you guys want? You want
Speaker 1: to hear something weird? I refused to call myself a
Speaker 1: child actor until maybe like five years ago. I could not. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I intentionally avoided the phrase I was a child actor,
Speaker 1: or I would find ways around it. I would say, oh,
Speaker 1: and I I acted when I was a kid, or
Speaker 1: you know I used to act. I started acting when
Speaker 1: I was young. For whatever reason, I became obsessed at
Speaker 1: post boy Mean's world immediately with not acknowledging my identity
Speaker 1: as this thing, and it was so weird. In college
Speaker 1: I became UM. I became friends with Joshua Waitskin, who
Speaker 1: um is the child prodigy that uh UM Searching for
Speaker 1: Bobby Fisher is based on. He was a chess player
Speaker 1: and he was ach so his dad wrote the incredible
Speaker 1: book It's a wonderful book by Fred Waitskin UM called
Speaker 1: Searching for Bobby Fisher, which then became a pretty good movie. UM.
Speaker 1: But and when we were in college, he mentioned that
Speaker 1: he hated the phrase child prodigy. He couldn't stand and
Speaker 1: I was like, why that's such a compliment, It's so awesome,
Speaker 1: And but I then on the flip side, I had
Speaker 1: to acknowledge I hated child actor, which to me seemed
Speaker 1: like more derogatory. But for him, even child prodigy, which
Speaker 1: I thought of as a compliment, he could only see
Speaker 1: it as diminishing because it was like either he you know,
Speaker 1: he wanted to be a grown up prodigy or whatever
Speaker 1: that you know, you wanted to just be acknowledged for
Speaker 1: doing a thing, and maybe you started it early, but
Speaker 1: it was clear that we were both going through the
Speaker 1: same psychological process for you know, very different reasons. But
Speaker 1: uh yeah, so when we were talking about this show,
Speaker 1: this podcast, it's really something that would have been literally
Speaker 1: impossible for me to think about five years ago when
Speaker 1: I couldn't even say the phrase child actor. Now I'm like,
Speaker 1: I was a kid actor was crazy, you know, like,
Speaker 1: and I can own it. But um so, even just
Speaker 1: like the fact that we're having these kinds of conversations,
Speaker 1: we were really diving deep and being completely honest is
Speaker 1: only possible as a forty plus year old for me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I also avoided child actor. And I think it's for
Speaker 1: a few reasons. One, it's a very loaded um phrase.
Speaker 1: It it also implies somehow, um, possibly you know, messed up,
Speaker 1: possibly a drug addict, possibly you know caught up. Doesn't
Speaker 1: actually that's what That's what's interesting is that it doesn't
Speaker 1: it did to you or does you know? That's what
Speaker 1: you're afraid of, But that's actually not the case. Like
Speaker 1: just it's literally child actor. It's a it's a neutral description,
Speaker 1: but I think what it does by adding the child
Speaker 1: to it, it diminishes that you were an actor, right
Speaker 1: Like it somehow creates an identity that's different than doing
Speaker 1: a thing like you didn't just act, you were a
Speaker 1: child actor. It's an identity that's sort of like handed
Speaker 1: to you, I don't know well. And also then it
Speaker 1: has the feeling of when you are no longer a child,
Speaker 1: it is taken away from you that now you've outgrown
Speaker 1: a thing. Now you're no longer special because you're no
Speaker 1: longer a child. And so you have that feeling of like, well,
Speaker 1: am I not still good at what I do? Or
Speaker 1: am I not still an actor because I'm no longer
Speaker 1: a child? But I do think when people talk about, well,
Speaker 1: how did you know child actor? For a lot of people,
Speaker 1: it is weightier than just the description. I know, the
Speaker 1: words mean you were an actor who was a child fild,
Speaker 1: but it also does have that sense of like, so
Speaker 1: there must be a problem with you because you were
Speaker 1: a child actor, because it does. I don't know, maybe
Speaker 1: that is just me, but I feel like most people
Speaker 1: think of it that way. I never called myself a
Speaker 1: child actor, and and it wasn't it wasn't conscious. I
Speaker 1: was just I was always an actor and that I
Speaker 1: still and then be like, oh kay, really you're an actor. Ye,
Speaker 1: I'm an actor. Oh when did you start? I was like, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I started when I was a kid. I was really young.
Speaker 1: But I was never like and I was a child actor.
Speaker 1: It just I mean, see it's different for you writer,
Speaker 1: because you're not an actor anymore. Where I'm you know,
Speaker 1: I'm still acting, So it was kind of like, I'm
Speaker 1: an actor and it's like, oh, well, well when I
Speaker 1: was young, I was on this, and when I was
Speaker 1: in my twenties and I was on this and I
Speaker 1: do a lot of voice over, like it was never
Speaker 1: I never put it in a category. And I think
Speaker 1: there is kind of like that. We we've we've talked
Speaker 1: about this a number of times, were coming in the
Speaker 1: early nineties who were coming off the eighties child actor,
Speaker 1: which did have that kind of negative connotation around it,
Speaker 1: were that's what you did. You peeked at at seventeen,
Speaker 1: You then robbed the liquor store, you did that. What
Speaker 1: happened when you were, you know, acting in the eighties. Um,
Speaker 1: and I think it we hit a different kind of
Speaker 1: version of quote unquote child actors and the child actor
Speaker 1: in the nineties. I mean, we we just did. And
Speaker 1: so I yeah, I don't know. I'd never referred to
Speaker 1: myself as a child actor. I was always just an actor.
Speaker 1: And then what's funny isn't in the last And my
Speaker 1: wife calls me on this every once in a a while,
Speaker 1: she's like, I wish you would stop doing that for
Speaker 1: the last Like, I don't know, eight nine years. I
Speaker 1: always tell people I do cartoon voices. They're like, what
Speaker 1: do you do for a living? I do? I go, oh, man,
Speaker 1: I do animation or I'm a voice over actor. Like
Speaker 1: that's always what I've called myself. So I have no
Speaker 1: problem for some reason putting myself in that category. But
Speaker 1: I never once called myself a child actor. I don't
Speaker 1: know why. Well, here we are three child actors about
Speaker 1: to go through and talk about some of your most
Speaker 1: frequently asked questions that we've gotten since we started the podcast.
Speaker 1: One of them is a very simple one, which is
Speaker 1: what's the podcast schedule? How many times a week are
Speaker 1: we going to get to hear the podcast? Or maybe
Speaker 1: you're asking stop overloading us with podcasts? I don't know,
Speaker 1: but you want to know, slow down? Why are we
Speaker 1: getting to a week? Um? Our podcast schedule is one
Speaker 1: a week, unless we are lucky enough to have a guest,
Speaker 1: which we've had a lot of guests lately. If we
Speaker 1: are lucky enough to have a guest, then you will
Speaker 1: get two episodes in a week, and UM, that's now,
Speaker 1: we'll give you a third. Um. Will there be a
Speaker 1: YouTube channel for the podcast as of right now? The
Speaker 1: answer is no, maybe somewhere down the line, who knows,
Speaker 1: we could eventually. We are recording this um mostly for audio.
Speaker 1: It's not we're recording it because it's great video of
Speaker 1: us or anything. It's mostly just because it helps us
Speaker 1: with recording audio and we like to have it for
Speaker 1: our social posts. UM. But As of right now, we're
Speaker 1: not recording it for video. It's just audio, so but
Speaker 1: who knows, in the future, maybe we'll we'll leave that
Speaker 1: window open. Now, this is a question for you too.
Speaker 1: I have kind of a boring answer for it, so
Speaker 1: I'm going to go last, But did you keep any
Speaker 1: props or items from the Boy Meets World set? Right?
Speaker 1: And you want to start? Yeah, So I well, we
Speaker 1: we Actually, I think I did end up trading, not
Speaker 1: a bunch, but some clothing at the end of the
Speaker 1: last season. UM Disney would allow. The Disney only cared
Speaker 1: that certain clothes stayed because they would keep them in
Speaker 1: a warehouse for I don't know how many years. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're still there. But they didn't want to
Speaker 1: keep the clothes, but they would never check if it
Speaker 1: was the specific jacket, specific shirt. So our wardrobe people
Speaker 1: let us come in and trade, so as long as
Speaker 1: we brought in a jacket. So I went and bought
Speaker 1: a leather jacket that I had worn that was very
Speaker 1: similar to the Shawn jacket, but it was mine, and
Speaker 1: then I brought it in and traded it for Shawn's
Speaker 1: actual leather jacket. And I did that with some other
Speaker 1: clothes too, But for about two years post Boy Meets World.
Speaker 1: A year and a half post Boy Meets World, I
Speaker 1: had that leather jacket. I wore it in New York.
Speaker 1: But then I was living in Brooklyn and Williamsburg and
Speaker 1: Mike Heart I've broken into. I came out, I came
Speaker 1: out from my apartment and my car's window was broken
Speaker 1: and the alarm was going off, and my jacket was gone.
Speaker 1: So yeah, someone stole the leather jacket out of my
Speaker 1: car in Brooklyn. Um. The other thing I have is
Speaker 1: there's a painting of Robert Nighthawk that was in the college.
Speaker 1: What was it called the main common common room? Okay,
Speaker 1: what was it? I mean I had to have it.
Speaker 1: Actually it had a name. It had a name. It
Speaker 1: was the Oh my gosh, it's gonna dry me. It
Speaker 1: wasn't just a common room. It was there was something else, lounge,
Speaker 1: college lounge. I don't know anyway, the right above, like
Speaker 1: one of like the I think it's right at where
Speaker 1: the pool table was. At some point there was a
Speaker 1: original painting. I forget who it's actually by, but it's
Speaker 1: an artist who does musicians. He paints musicians and with
Speaker 1: their name underneath the student union. Was it the student union?
Speaker 1: Thank you? That's from Easton, thank you east In our
Speaker 1: engineer and okay, yeah, so in the student union there
Speaker 1: was a painting. Anyway, I took that painting the last night.
Speaker 1: I stole it. Um, Daniel, you were with me. We
Speaker 1: were sitting in the stands the last night after the tape,
Speaker 1: after the final tape, and it was you, me, my
Speaker 1: girlfriend at the time, and um Beth who was our
Speaker 1: second stage manager, second second or whatever. Yeah, anyway, I
Speaker 1: threw it in the back of my girlfriend's truck. I
Speaker 1: just I was like, I'm going to take that painting now.
Speaker 1: I would go back and take so much more. Like
Speaker 1: I really wish I had Penbrooke sweatshirts and Penbrook stuff
Speaker 1: because we had that whole student union was filled with
Speaker 1: Penbrooke proms and I didn't keep any of them. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're online to be bought, but it would be
Speaker 1: nice to have an original. I have a Penbrook sweatshirt somewhere.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I kept. By the time the
Speaker 1: show was over, I was so I was just mentally
Speaker 1: not in a good place. I was so burnt out.
Speaker 1: I was like, goodbye show. I don't think at the
Speaker 1: time I had any idea that it was going to
Speaker 1: one be something I was talking about thirty years later. Uh,
Speaker 1: and so I didn't know that. I and I also,
Speaker 1: um unfortunately, have never been much of like I'm not
Speaker 1: sentimental about things. I'm like sentimental about experiences. I'm sentimental
Speaker 1: about um. But like, I'm not a big thing person.
Speaker 1: I like to. I tend to be a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a minimalist and so the idea of holding
Speaker 1: onto something didn't really strike me at the time, But
Speaker 1: I wish I wish I did, because obviously i'd like
Speaker 1: to I'd like to have it now. But that the
Speaker 1: other than the pen Books pen Brook sweatshirt, I don't
Speaker 1: have anything. What about you will? Yeah, I don't have much.
Speaker 1: I am very much a sentimental person, which is surprises
Speaker 1: me that I don't have more from the show um
Speaker 1: where my wife is the same way. She's like, oh, baby, clothes,
Speaker 1: youink and she's throw them away. Um. I have a
Speaker 1: John Adams Athletic Department sweatshirt that I was still when
Speaker 1: I work out. Yeah, it's very cool. And um and
Speaker 1: I have a Doctor Patson signed by Mark Patson. So
Speaker 1: we we've talked about this on other shows where you're
Speaker 1: not allowed to show products and you can't show so
Speaker 1: can't say Coca Cola, can't say pepsi. So we would
Speaker 1: have our prop guy would would have a little fun
Speaker 1: and they would rename uh certain products, whether it be
Speaker 1: cereal or soda or whatever it was. And one of
Speaker 1: the things that he his name was Mark Patson, and
Speaker 1: one of the things we would have Dr Papson instead
Speaker 1: of Dr Pepper. So I have a Doctor Papson signed
Speaker 1: by Mark Papson in my office sitting on the desk,
Speaker 1: and it's year no, no, no, it's totally. It's empty.
Speaker 1: It's never it was empty from the when I got it. Um.
Speaker 1: But other than that, and then I have things that
Speaker 1: I just kept because I never throw things away, Like
Speaker 1: I have probably a hundred different scripts at least, um
Speaker 1: original scripts from Boy and original scripts from Kimpossible and
Speaker 1: kind of old shows back in the day. But I
Speaker 1: have a ton of Boy meets World scripts that I found,
Speaker 1: and um, I mean I have like original videotapes. I
Speaker 1: found the original pilot not too long ago, which I
Speaker 1: gave you guys each a copy of with the original
Speaker 1: Eric and the original Alan oh, and I know this
Speaker 1: is going to be a frequently question. No, it will
Speaker 1: not be released anywhere. We don't have the right to
Speaker 1: do that. Um. But so you know I found that,
Speaker 1: and and but other than kind of big stuff, no,
Speaker 1: we we all did the clothing trade. You know, you
Speaker 1: went in and these jeans for that jeans, and and
Speaker 1: it was crazy to the point where you talk about
Speaker 1: how how um exacting Disney can be. It was a
Speaker 1: good three or four weeks later, I got a call
Speaker 1: from someone at Disney who was not affiliated with the show,
Speaker 1: but with Disney wardrobe overall, asking me for a pair
Speaker 1: of black socks that apparently I had taken. There's a
Speaker 1: pair of black dress socks missing from your character. But
Speaker 1: they really did follow up and I was like, sorry,
Speaker 1: don't have them, and I'm not about to run in
Speaker 1: a pair of black sox to Disney, but they I
Speaker 1: literally got a phone call about a pair of black sox.
Speaker 1: So that I think the Disney Vault is actually like
Speaker 1: kind of a famous thing, because remember the episodes that
Speaker 1: we did where we went back to like the forties
Speaker 1: or the fifties. I'm wearing lucile balls shoes, and that's
Speaker 1: that's why they they keep all the clothes. They keep
Speaker 1: them so that when they do period pieces or if
Speaker 1: someone becomes some massive star or historical you know, there's
Speaker 1: some historical reason to do it, they've got it. And
Speaker 1: then I don't know how long they hold onto it.
Speaker 1: But I mean, we we did that episode where we
Speaker 1: went back to the fifties and like you know or something,
Speaker 1: and I'm wearing lucile ball shoes. I think it's more
Speaker 1: for functionality or like what you were saying, it's more
Speaker 1: about for period pieces. Then there they rarely. I don't
Speaker 1: think they're saving things for sentimental or resale value or
Speaker 1: like sort of historical museum. They also don't don't save everything.
Speaker 1: Because there was a it went viral on TikTok last
Speaker 1: year or the year before where somebody found at a
Speaker 1: thrift store and it's marked Disney and tag Disney with
Speaker 1: the date the quote unquote now famous pink dress from
Speaker 1: My Date with the President's Daughter, which is a movie
Speaker 1: that I did for Disney, And it was like Oliver
Speaker 1: TikTok where the them and was like I have the
Speaker 1: actual address and there's the you know, the name and
Speaker 1: everything on there. So that was what was really cool.
Speaker 1: They have a warehouse where they the giant rose all
Speaker 1: the way up to the ceiling, so from Florida ceiling
Speaker 1: racks of clothes and they divide them in rows by decade.
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember there? Yeah, so I think probably
Speaker 1: what happened is a lot of our clothes might be
Speaker 1: in what is now the nineties ye aisle of this warehouse.
Speaker 1: But I don't think they would have labeled and kept
Speaker 1: it just for you know, the sacred point having it having.
Speaker 1: Do you think they're labeled at all? Though? Like, do
Speaker 1: you think if we went there and looked in the
Speaker 1: nineties thing it would there be a boy Meats world section?
Speaker 1: Or you think they're all just muddled in there with
Speaker 1: you can find a denom, sleeveless denim with what I mean,
Speaker 1: I look for a lot of fun. If they would
Speaker 1: let traded in love to go, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We get video and we put it up on the
Speaker 1: website where it's like so if anybody works in the
Speaker 1: art department of Disney and can give access to one
Speaker 1: of the many warehouses, I just remember the one in
Speaker 1: particular we went to um that would be amazing. Remember writer,
Speaker 1: when they used to. There was the one woman and
Speaker 1: I wish I remembered her name because she was very sweet.
Speaker 1: We would go to her office and she would take
Speaker 1: us down the hall to like the DVD room and
Speaker 1: she would open up the doors and the drawers and
Speaker 1: it was like, take whatever you want, and we would
Speaker 1: walk out with like stacks of DVDs. No, she was
Speaker 1: like an executive at Disney but who had access to
Speaker 1: the whole DVD section and she would be like, take
Speaker 1: because they'd have stacks of all their movies and all
Speaker 1: their shows and all the stuff. And we would go
Speaker 1: in there and walk out with like thirty DVDs each
Speaker 1: of all the new stuff, not any recollections. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it was awesome, totally cool because I don't yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: I used to do do it all the time. I know
Speaker 1: you were with me at least once because you were
Speaker 1: like this is the best. I was like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: is I would have been would have been a lot
Speaker 1: later because DVDs weren't. This was still I think we were.
Speaker 1: This might have even been six or seventh season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but it was great. Yeah. Alright, so, um, will we
Speaker 1: ever get to hear Anthony Tyler Quinn a k A.
Speaker 1: Mr Turner as a guest. Yes, we will already talked
Speaker 1: to Tony. What's funny, very quick funny story. Well it's
Speaker 1: not funny, so much is ironic that we're talking about
Speaker 1: it right now. Um, I'm here in Chicago where Tony
Speaker 1: and his wife have moved, and he's picking me up
Speaker 1: tomorrow night and we are having dinner. Um, so I
Speaker 1: take a picture and send it to us. I will.
Speaker 1: I saw him three weeks ago, right before it, probably
Speaker 1: two days before he moved. I mean they like literally
Speaker 1: just move, just moved, like just moved here. So he's yeah,
Speaker 1: he's coming to the con to to grab me tomorrow night.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go and grab some food and so he
Speaker 1: I we've already asked him. He is absolutely coming on
Speaker 1: the show. He cannot wait. So you will certainly be
Speaker 1: able to hear from from Mr Tony Quinn. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to talk to him. Oh my gosh, please send
Speaker 1: us a picture. I want to see. Probably looks exactly
Speaker 1: the same he does. He looks like as he's still
Speaker 1: in way better shape than any of us could ever
Speaker 1: hope to be. And he's yeah, he's crazy man. Okay.
Speaker 1: Another very frequently asked question is who were our first
Speaker 1: celebrity crushes. I know mine right off the bat. Well, okay,
Speaker 1: so I have to my first celebrity crush is My
Speaker 1: earliest celebrity crush that I can remember was Aaron gray
Speaker 1: on buck Rogers was my was my first ever celebrity crush,
Speaker 1: followed quickly when I got a little bit older by
Speaker 1: um Drew Barrymore. Those are my two. But Aaron gray
Speaker 1: on buck Rogers was like it changed my life. Mine
Speaker 1: was Meredith Salinger in Journey of Natty Gan, a missed masterpiece.
Speaker 1: I love this movie. I actually reasonably watched it with
Speaker 1: my son and it's actually it's it's not great, but
Speaker 1: it's incredibly it's incredible at its recreation of the period. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a great fell Um. Just it should be remade
Speaker 1: big time. Um. But yeah, no, I actually have like
Speaker 1: thought about it would be an amazing limited series because
Speaker 1: it's it's about a girl who like escapes during the
Speaker 1: depression or her dad is works all the way across
Speaker 1: the country and she's in like an abusive situation, so
Speaker 1: she runs away to find her dad across the country.
Speaker 1: So it's her literally moving from one coast to the
Speaker 1: ar if I think it's from Chicago to California to
Speaker 1: find her dad, and it's just her like riding the
Speaker 1: rails and she has a wolf that like hangs out
Speaker 1: with her. And is it fantasy? No no, no, no no
Speaker 1: no no, it's pretty realist, like uh and and that's
Speaker 1: kind of the problem with the movie is that it's
Speaker 1: just episodic. It's just like, now she's in this town
Speaker 1: and she runs into this gang of kids and she
Speaker 1: goes over here, and it's all very like it doesn't
Speaker 1: string together into like a fully functional, good narrative, but
Speaker 1: the beats are wonderful and Merit Salinger is awesome and
Speaker 1: I actually got to know her later on. She played
Speaker 1: my brother's girlfriend in his the pilot I Man Now,
Speaker 1: which we talked about in our first episode. Um Hillary
Speaker 1: Swank played his older sister and the singer was the
Speaker 1: girl he was like waking out with on the couch.
Speaker 1: And I remember my brother and I were both just like,
Speaker 1: oh my good because we have grown up loving like
Speaker 1: having our first crush on Meretith when she was you know,
Speaker 1: like twelve and we were eight or whatever. Her. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's great, she's she's you mean, we actually became friends
Speaker 1: and in our teams. I haven't seen her for years,
Speaker 1: but you know she she married Patton Oswald, Paton Oswald.
Speaker 1: Yeah she'satt Oswald's wife. Yeah she's great. But anyway, that
Speaker 1: was like definitely my first first feelings. So I didn't
Speaker 1: watch a lot of TV as a kid, and I'm
Speaker 1: not sure why because my parents weren't opposed to TV
Speaker 1: or anything. I just don't have like a lot of memory.
Speaker 1: It wasn't important to me. It was like just not
Speaker 1: a thing I was into. I was really interested in reading.
Speaker 1: I loved to read, and I remember my brother being
Speaker 1: really into shows. My brother is four years younger than me,
Speaker 1: and he watched a lot of animated stuff, so like Ninja, Turtles,
Speaker 1: g I, Joe, you know, all of that stuff, and
Speaker 1: so I remember watching that stuff off with him and
Speaker 1: I was like, I was a fan of Sesame Street
Speaker 1: when I was really young, but that was it. I
Speaker 1: didn't have like, Yes, So Kalsar was my first crush, Daniel,
Speaker 1: So my first are you were more of a Kermit guy? Daniel,
Speaker 1: I really like you. My first then celebrity crush was
Speaker 1: actually Jonathan Taylor Thomas because I actually yes, from Home
Speaker 1: Improvement because we worked next door to him and we
Speaker 1: you know, played sports with him, and but this is different.
Speaker 1: That's only a you can't say childhood crush. They know. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's like that's like saying your first Yeah. No, that
Speaker 1: doesn't count. I know what you're trying to do. I know,
Speaker 1: I see you, Danielle. You're trying to slip in a
Speaker 1: school crush or like a very like appropriate age crush
Speaker 1: real life because it happened to be a celebrity. Always
Speaker 1: excuse me, Did I date somebody from in Sincle? Does that?
Speaker 1: Just know you already cet. But maybe that's true. I
Speaker 1: get it, I get it, I got it. But the
Speaker 1: whole point is, did you ever have feelings for somebody
Speaker 1: you didn't know? Like the point is somebody was on
Speaker 1: a screen or in a situation removed from you, and
Speaker 1: you had a crush on them that was basically based
Speaker 1: on it never happening. No, well that's not true. Not no, no,
Speaker 1: that's not true. That's not true. That that's not true.
Speaker 1: After I already had the crush on Jonathan and then yes,
Speaker 1: Jonathan was my first boyfriend when I was like twelve.
Speaker 1: God um, I then when uh Titanic came out. I
Speaker 1: was just beyond for Leonardo DiCaprio. I mean, I mean disgusting,
Speaker 1: like the biggest crush. I just I used to be like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to marry that guy. And and that was
Speaker 1: so you would have moved over and shared the door
Speaker 1: with them, so you both could have survived. Of course,
Speaker 1: of course I would have. Um. So, yeah, I did
Speaker 1: have a crush on Leonardo DiCaprio. But that that feels
Speaker 1: that feels weird to me because it was so much
Speaker 1: like I was. I was sixteen or something at that time.
Speaker 1: It was weird. It was weird time, don't you know.
Speaker 1: That's the way I felt about. My brother was actually
Speaker 1: in a movie. He ended up getting cut out, but
Speaker 1: he was in this movie called fox Fire, and uh,
Speaker 1: Angelina Jolie, a young Andelina Jolia's in it, and she
Speaker 1: is unbelievable and she was great because she's a great actress,
Speaker 1: but she's also so gorgeous. And so when my brother,
Speaker 1: when I saw this movie which my brother got cut out,
Speaker 1: he's still in the end credits you can find him.
Speaker 1: But when I saw this movie, I was like, who
Speaker 1: is that? And I am in love with her? Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Natalie Wood and West Side Story was like that for
Speaker 1: me too. That's another one of mine where it was
Speaker 1: just she was so as Maria just it's incredible predictable
Speaker 1: eminem eminem I went through. I had a little I
Speaker 1: was I was eighteen or nineteen. I had a poster.
Speaker 1: At eighteen years old, I had an eminem poster on
Speaker 1: my on my wall. I was, Oh, my gosh, and
Speaker 1: how can I I just remember this? Do you guys
Speaker 1: remember that in my wall? I used to carry around
Speaker 1: a picture of David Letterman. That's right. I don't know.
Speaker 1: This was something you always said. You were like, I
Speaker 1: think David Letterman is that the most handsome. We were
Speaker 1: always like what and You're like, because he's so funny,
Speaker 1: so funny. So yeah, I actually I had a big conversation.
Speaker 1: I remember being like, La, Danielle has got a thing
Speaker 1: for David Letterman. But totally makes sense. I was twelve
Speaker 1: years old and in love with David Letterman. As a
Speaker 1: matter of that, my first boyfriend, Jonathan Taylor Thomas then
Speaker 1: got to be a guest on the David Letterman Show,
Speaker 1: and he came home with its signed headshot from David
Speaker 1: Letterman to me, and I think it said, dear Danielle,
Speaker 1: be nice to Jonathan of David Letterman a crusher? Was
Speaker 1: that just like admiration for good question? I don't you
Speaker 1: don't know, well, you know what's funny? Similar. I thought
Speaker 1: he was extremely handsome. I thought he was very funny.
Speaker 1: I loved I loved everything about him. Carried around a
Speaker 1: picture of him in my wallet. But David Combs is
Speaker 1: one of the people who actually pointed out to me,
Speaker 1: and it made me a little insecure because I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I said, he was, you know,
Speaker 1: talking about our crushes. And I said, yeah, David Lenderman.
Speaker 1: And he goes, oh, so you're attracted to power and
Speaker 1: then and then just like moved and I was, and
Speaker 1: I was like, I had never thought of I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't don't I'm twelve, I'm I'm twelve, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just know that I like him, um and I so.
Speaker 1: But it always then made me self conscious to like
Speaker 1: say that I had a crush on him, but it
Speaker 1: was it is a weird crush for a twelve year
Speaker 1: old to have. But I guess, but him and Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor Thomas, David Letterman very similar, right, that's what people say,
Speaker 1: but I did. I. I am very attracted to funny people.
Speaker 1: I think I think funny people are just me too.
Speaker 1: I love I love someone who's able to make me laugh.
Speaker 1: And David Letterman, I think probably was like the first
Speaker 1: person celebrity wise, I remember a regularly making me laugh.
Speaker 1: And just I don't know, I just yeah, okay, which
Speaker 1: one of us received the most fan mail? Writer? That's
Speaker 1: what I said. I said it was writer. And by
Speaker 1: the way, the person who sent in this question admitted
Speaker 1: that they sent it was a boy and he said
Speaker 1: he sent a letter to writer as a kid with
Speaker 1: the you went you had a good year or two
Speaker 1: where you were on the cover of like every teen magazine. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was actually on Oprah for being one of the
Speaker 1: celebrities who received like the most fan mail or something.
Speaker 1: At one point it was like thousands of letters a week. Um,
Speaker 1: and so yeah, I ended up being on Oprah. It's
Speaker 1: an awful appearance. If anybody can find it, it's the worst.
Speaker 1: I was so like insecure and talk no, you know.
Speaker 1: I ended up being in Chicago, was visiting my friend Aaron,
Speaker 1: who I just saw last week. Um. Still one of
Speaker 1: my best friends. UM. I was visiting her. She had
Speaker 1: grown up with Ben. Actually that's how I met her.
Speaker 1: Second season, she came out to visit Ben, and she
Speaker 1: and I became best friends and have been best friends
Speaker 1: ever since. UM, but I was I was visiting her.
Speaker 1: This would have been ve I guess I was. I
Speaker 1: went to visit her for like a week or two
Speaker 1: and um Oprah called and I just happened to be
Speaker 1: in town. So they just picked me up on a
Speaker 1: limo and I had to go shopping at the Gap
Speaker 1: and Aaron's mom had to pick out all the clocks.
Speaker 1: I had nothing to wear, so Aaron's mom dressed me
Speaker 1: for the appearance. I'm so uncomfortable, it's awful. But anyway,
Speaker 1: the reason I was on Oprah was because I at
Speaker 1: that point was receiving I don't know how many thousands
Speaker 1: of letters a week, and it was put me in
Speaker 1: the upper category because you know, that's what the team
Speaker 1: magazine is. Basically at the back of the team magazine
Speaker 1: would give out a fan mail, a fan address, so
Speaker 1: for fans to write to me. UM, and you know
Speaker 1: there was I would say, like until the second season,
Speaker 1: I was reading all of them, probably by third or fourth,
Speaker 1: it was getting overwhelmed and I couldn't read them. I
Speaker 1: also started feeling very uncomfortable with how with reading them.
Speaker 1: It didn't make me feel good. You know, at first
Speaker 1: it was like, oh my god, somebody reaches out to
Speaker 1: me because they and then it starts to feel more
Speaker 1: and more alienating, like I'm I'm always going to let
Speaker 1: these people down, like you know, I'm not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to write at a letter back that's eloquent or
Speaker 1: what they really want. They just want a connection with me.
Speaker 1: And I started making me feel very uncomfortable. Um so, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I end I ended up. I'm sure a lot
Speaker 1: of listeners out there have because I've seen people tweet
Speaker 1: this or instagram that there. I started sending out a
Speaker 1: post a postcard, assigned postcard that um you know, it
Speaker 1: was a pre signed thing. It was like there was
Speaker 1: actually a company. You guys remember there were fan mail
Speaker 1: companies that would receive the fan mail for you and
Speaker 1: send out postcards. Um So I ended up doing that.
Speaker 1: So I'm sure a lot of our listeners somewhere. I
Speaker 1: still have one of those postcards me with sitting on
Speaker 1: a stool or an apple box and uh, yeah. That
Speaker 1: that ended up being my response. I remember um somebody
Speaker 1: telling me once and it is always stuck with me.
Speaker 1: They said, when it comes to your fan mail, answer
Speaker 1: them all or don't answer any don't do anything in
Speaker 1: tween um, and I always thought that was kind of
Speaker 1: that was an interesting way to look at it, where
Speaker 1: it's like, I mean, now, you would never get letters.
Speaker 1: You just get emails or tweeted out whatever. I get
Speaker 1: letters all the time. Do you like actual handwritten letters?
Speaker 1: Handwritten letters? Is it a fan site kind of thing
Speaker 1: or no? Is it's your home? No? Thank god? No
Speaker 1: sack stuff to my home occasionally. When when we first
Speaker 1: started getting fan mail, I also read them all and
Speaker 1: then responded to all of them. And I in ninety three,
Speaker 1: so one of the things I did before I started
Speaker 1: acting in So. I started acting when I was ten,
Speaker 1: two years before I got Boy Meets World, and before that,
Speaker 1: I was in gymnastics. One time I called myself a gymnast,
Speaker 1: and my mom looked at me and she said, you
Speaker 1: were in gymnastics. You were not a gymnast, And she's correct.
Speaker 1: I was not a gymnast. I was just in gymnastics.
Speaker 1: But when I decided I wanted to be an actor.
Speaker 1: My mom was like, well, you can't do both, because
Speaker 1: gymnastics was after school, and like, you're going to be
Speaker 1: going to auditions, you have to pick. And I said,
Speaker 1: I definitely want to be an actor. I want to
Speaker 1: go to auditions. So I stopped doing gymnastics. And I
Speaker 1: got a letter in like ninety three from a young
Speaker 1: girl and she included pictures of herself in it, and
Speaker 1: she was in gymnastics, and she wrote me this handwritten
Speaker 1: letter about you know that she was a fan. And
Speaker 1: I wrote her back, and then she sent me another letter,
Speaker 1: and we started this correspondence back and forth, and I
Speaker 1: felt very close to her. And one of the things
Speaker 1: she talked about regularly was that both of her parents
Speaker 1: died when she was young, and she lived with her
Speaker 1: older brother. And at some point maybe in the second
Speaker 1: letter she wrote me, she included a picture of her brother,
Speaker 1: a couple of pictures of her brother, and her brother
Speaker 1: was several years older, good looking guy and um, and
Speaker 1: she was always talking about, like, thank God for my brother,
Speaker 1: because without my brother, like you know, I don't have
Speaker 1: parents and and you know, I don't know what I
Speaker 1: would do without him. And then we started, but she
Speaker 1: included her phone number in one of the letters, and
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, let's give her a call. And
Speaker 1: realize my mom is participating in me writing back. She's
Speaker 1: reading all these letters as well, and she's aware of
Speaker 1: what I'm writing, and she's reading what this girl is
Speaker 1: writing to me. And my mom is like, yeah, this
Speaker 1: girl seems like you guys would be friends, you know.
Speaker 1: So I call her and I get her voicemail, but
Speaker 1: it is not her. It's her brother's voicemail because it's
Speaker 1: his house. They live in an apartment together. But her
Speaker 1: name isn't anywhere on the voicemail. It's just like, Hi,
Speaker 1: you've reached. She doesn't exist. The call is coming from
Speaker 1: within the house. It wasn't until the guy pretending to
Speaker 1: be a girl. Guy pretending to be a girl. And
Speaker 1: the way it all came out is because I kept
Speaker 1: calling her and she then would never you know, and
Speaker 1: I left my phone number and she wouldn't call me back.
Speaker 1: And then we got a letter from her brother saying
Speaker 1: that she had died, and my mom woke up in
Speaker 1: the middle of the night and was like, like, she
Speaker 1: never she never existed. It's always been him. And then
Speaker 1: he started showing up at my school and telling people
Speaker 1: to a fan mail. This is like the first Talker
Speaker 1: dipped your toe in the pool and an alligator bit
Speaker 1: your foot off. Well, this is why you have to
Speaker 1: have clear boundaries. It's really hard. I mean, like, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's such a tricky thing fame and
Speaker 1: and dealing with and even nowadays it must be even
Speaker 1: crazier for really famous people. I mean, I don't you
Speaker 1: just have to create boundaries. It's so hard. I had
Speaker 1: girls calling my house when when I was like eleven
Speaker 1: and twelve. Girls would find my coup was listed in
Speaker 1: the phone book my parents were and so girls would
Speaker 1: call and like, back then, I would like meet up
Speaker 1: with them. Oh god, because it was it was before
Speaker 1: boy Me's world. This is when I was like on
Speaker 1: Home improvement or I had done local plays or whatever.
Speaker 1: Girls would call the house and like I would meet
Speaker 1: them at our arcade play video. Super awkward. Like but
Speaker 1: you know at the time, I was just like, oh
Speaker 1: you like me, you saw me the TV show. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll be your friend. Let's hang out right. More people
Speaker 1: have a crush on YouTube, and in retrospect it's like, no,
Speaker 1: you have to create boundaries. I really I remember going
Speaker 1: out with Ben right during the first season and he
Speaker 1: got recognized, I guess for Little Monsters, and it was
Speaker 1: it wasn't for Boy Meets World yet, but we're at
Speaker 1: the Glendale Galleria, I want to say, or one of
Speaker 1: those early malls in in l a And and he
Speaker 1: got recognized. And I really learned from him how to
Speaker 1: manage that moment because he was so confident. He was
Speaker 1: so gracious and thankful and signed whatever these kids wanted.
Speaker 1: And I remember watching him and being like, Oh, that's
Speaker 1: the way to do it, because at that point I
Speaker 1: would if I got recognized, I'd be like, oh, my god,
Speaker 1: you know me from my TV show. That's so cool.
Speaker 1: What's your name? Do you want to go hang out you?
Speaker 1: I would just not create any boundaries because to me,
Speaker 1: it was so exciting that somebody would recognize me. But
Speaker 1: of course, when you become a professional actor, professional famous person,
Speaker 1: you have to learn how to take in his stride
Speaker 1: and and be like, yes, it's good to meet you.
Speaker 1: It's so nice. I understand you from my show, and
Speaker 1: you know, shake hands and take a picture or sign
Speaker 1: an autograph, but um, you know, it's not, it's it's
Speaker 1: not a chance for you to freak out too. When
Speaker 1: I was when I was eleven or twelve, I had
Speaker 1: a older executive at Nickelodeon scare the hell out of me. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean you remember you know those shows where they're
Speaker 1: like they bring kids into prison and scare them straight.
Speaker 1: Essentially what this guy did to me being famous. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: he sat me down and he said, you know, you're
Speaker 1: gonna start getting letters, and you're gonna start getting calls,
Speaker 1: and you don't know who you're talking to. But it worked.
Speaker 1: Like it worked. We just put up the boundaries and
Speaker 1: we're did the same thing. Had a a friend of
Speaker 1: our family who I had grown up with was her
Speaker 1: mother had retired to Florida and was like, let's let's
Speaker 1: you know, let me take care of your fan mail.
Speaker 1: So we would send out the postcards and do all
Speaker 1: that same kind of stuff. But I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you would get really weird letters. I mean from the
Speaker 1: strangest one. I It was rare though, I mean you
Speaker 1: always say was a blanket. Statements are awesome, Fans are
Speaker 1: incredibly respectful and like, you know, but it's the fear
Speaker 1: of that one in a million that isn't all stable,
Speaker 1: or it's going to lie to your protector that's very sexual,
Speaker 1: like very openly sexual, or I mean again, I had
Speaker 1: the might still say my weirdest one I ever got
Speaker 1: when people because this is a good this is a
Speaker 1: question people always give you, like what's the strangest piece
Speaker 1: of family you ever got? And a woman I was
Speaker 1: probably only second season boy so seventeen eighteen years old,
Speaker 1: had sent a wedding invitation with both of our names
Speaker 1: on at the time and place, with the letter saying
Speaker 1: I'm married now and I have two kids. But if
Speaker 1: you're at this church when you know for for our wedding,
Speaker 1: I will be marrying you and I will be leaving
Speaker 1: my family and like a full printed up like whole,
Speaker 1: like I got a wedding invitation to my own wedding.
Speaker 1: It was very So you can get some strangers, you're
Speaker 1: right of the fans of the fans are amazingly respectful,
Speaker 1: really nice, just love the show. Um, we would love
Speaker 1: to talk and talk to you are really cool people.
Speaker 1: But you you want you worry about the point one person. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I remember David Colms, our studio teacher, being
Speaker 1: the first person to really sit me down because I
Speaker 1: was so confused by being famous, and he was like, writer,
Speaker 1: you you're in their living room every week. There, You're
Speaker 1: part of their family, you know. And I remember being like, oh,
Speaker 1: because I hadn't grown up with TV, and so the
Speaker 1: idea that like when you watch a TV show, especially
Speaker 1: a TV show with a recurring family, uh, and that
Speaker 1: you know, you you do form this different bond that
Speaker 1: you know, than I had up until that point. I
Speaker 1: never understood it. That comforting feeling that people get from
Speaker 1: boy meets World, you know, and we're part of that
Speaker 1: and our faces, our voices, and so when somebody meets
Speaker 1: me that I've never seen before, I never met, they
Speaker 1: have this level of like a media familiarity, and you know,
Speaker 1: and that's just difficult to navigate. It's it's a weird
Speaker 1: thing about media. Yeah. Is there a story behind Corey
Speaker 1: and Shawn's handshake? Writer? Yeah, So we had a day. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was really great, you know. I mean I talked
Speaker 1: about how Ben and I didn't connect the first week
Speaker 1: of the show or the pilot of the show, because
Speaker 1: you know, he was into sports and one on he
Speaker 1: was from l A. Actually he was from Chicago, but
Speaker 1: He was definitely like living in l A at that point,
Speaker 1: probably for three or four years too. You know, in
Speaker 1: my mind, being in Northern California's snob like I was.
Speaker 1: Everything about l A was awful. Um, So I we
Speaker 1: just didn't get along that well. We didn't connect even
Speaker 1: though we were working together until I guess probably right
Speaker 1: around where we're at right now in the shows, like
Speaker 1: right around seventh or eighth episode. For some reason, I
Speaker 1: can't remember why, we had a just school day together
Speaker 1: where the show was shut down, and instead of meeting
Speaker 1: on the set, I don't know why we couldn't meet
Speaker 1: on the set. We had we went and met at
Speaker 1: Ben's house and it was my first time at Ben's house,
Speaker 1: and David Collins, or studio teacher, was there, and we
Speaker 1: finally had like the greatest day ever. We just connected
Speaker 1: and we had so much fun, and I remember laughing
Speaker 1: and telling story. I think we must have we must
Speaker 1: have had to make up hours, so it must have
Speaker 1: been over a weekend. We were making up hours that
Speaker 1: we had not banked or something, so we had to
Speaker 1: do school work together and we just spent this whole
Speaker 1: day together, and at some point during that day we
Speaker 1: created this handshake and we decided it was our handshake.
Speaker 1: It was writer and Ben's handshake. First, it was not
Speaker 1: Corey Seawn. We did not have any intention for it
Speaker 1: to be in the show. Um. And then we did
Speaker 1: that episode I think it's where the uh blender explodes,
Speaker 1: and we just did it during rehearsals. It was not
Speaker 1: in the script. We were like, hey, let's we could
Speaker 1: do our handshake after we achieved whatever it was in
Speaker 1: the scene, and we did it for David Trainer, and
Speaker 1: David Trayner was like, do that. Do that at the
Speaker 1: run through. Don't tell them you're gonna do it, and
Speaker 1: just do it, And we did at the run through
Speaker 1: and it became a thing, and then we probably did
Speaker 1: it three times over the course of the series. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it was aha that we invented. Yeah, yeah, well there's
Speaker 1: you know, I'll try and find video. Robin, who was
Speaker 1: the second e d on Um on Girl Meets World,
Speaker 1: took video of us when we had to do it
Speaker 1: there when we rehearsing it, so they were playing it
Speaker 1: back for us on a screen while you're but we
Speaker 1: are I I can still remember it, I can still
Speaker 1: feel it. Yeah, it was really a fun thing and
Speaker 1: you know that that like doing a little dance at
Speaker 1: the end, like that's classic bend. Like I'm sure he
Speaker 1: came up with that. Yeah, um, yeah, it was our
Speaker 1: it was our real friendship handshake before it became the
Speaker 1: Corey Sean handshake. That's really cute. That like made me
Speaker 1: emotional hearing it, because those are those are the moments that, like,
Speaker 1: I really, um, that are the most meaningful for us.
Speaker 1: That you know, people always think about the moments on set,
Speaker 1: but they're they're it's so rare that the really special
Speaker 1: moments actually took place on set that usually happened at
Speaker 1: some other location, like that one was at Ben's house.
Speaker 1: And so many of our moments actually, um that are
Speaker 1: special to me took place at either Ben's house or
Speaker 1: at your house where my mom would drop me off
Speaker 1: in the morning when you guys were able to drive
Speaker 1: and I wasn't able to drive, and I would then
Speaker 1: be at your house either before or after work. Um,
Speaker 1: and we had all those fun moments. So all those
Speaker 1: awkward driving moments, all those awkward driving moments. She was
Speaker 1: so stressed out understanding fifteen years old learners for you
Speaker 1: in the back seat. Oh my god, my most stressful
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, driving with Ben and Ben's housekeeper who took
Speaker 1: us to work a couple of times and we'd be
Speaker 1: running late and she would drive down the center divider
Speaker 1: and the media. I remember that, panicking, panicking, absolutely panicking.
Speaker 1: And you know Ben is So's he's a lot like Corey,
Speaker 1: but like he's explosive with his body. And I just
Speaker 1: remember him being seatbelted but like levitating out of his
Speaker 1: seat with fear of just like like thinking we ran
Speaker 1: over something. What was that? Was? I just one day
Speaker 1: because I vividly remember that experience, and you and I
Speaker 1: were both in the car. We were car pulling from
Speaker 1: Encino and it was raining and we were late, and
Speaker 1: she just pulled into the median and drove us full speed.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, it was terrifying. But I also other
Speaker 1: times drove with her, um and I I don't think
Speaker 1: you were there, there were she was a median driver.
Speaker 1: She like to drive down the center. Very funny. We
Speaker 1: have so many more of your questions that we want
Speaker 1: to get to, so we are going to take a
Speaker 1: break and come back with a brand new episode of
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