Speaker 1: This episode was recorded June sixth, twenty twenty three.
Speaker 2: Have either of you ever been to Lego Land?
Speaker 3: No, the greatest place on earth?
Speaker 4: Is it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're taking we're taking to go if you don't
Speaker 5: have kids? Apparently, so I can't go. No, truly, they
Speaker 5: don't let single Apparently they don't. No, I don't believe
Speaker 5: they do. Like, you can't go to Lego Land unless
Speaker 5: you have children. You can't just be a guy at
Speaker 5: Lego Land.
Speaker 2: That's not true.
Speaker 3: I think this is worth a Google.
Speaker 5: I think so right now, Google landing right now?
Speaker 1: I mean, okay for Easton, did just say I believe
Speaker 1: it's greatly frowned upon?
Speaker 6: Well, we have been every year since Indie turned three.
Speaker 6: It's where my goss should go for his birthday. Even
Speaker 6: last year we were like, Indy, you're a little old
Speaker 6: for this. He was like, Nope, wants to go to
Speaker 6: Lego Land.
Speaker 5: Adults eighteen plus must be accompanied by at least one
Speaker 5: child seventeen and under to enter Lego Land.
Speaker 4: A right, wow, school it will I am we am
Speaker 4: VIP very parents like thats not cool.
Speaker 6: But also no, that's partly why it's.
Speaker 2: Partly why it's great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because maybe you didn't it doesn't have like yeah,
Speaker 6: I mean, look, it's an amazing park. What's great about
Speaker 6: it is like because Disneyland with like a three year
Speaker 6: old can be overwhelming.
Speaker 2: Oh, yes it was. I went and I wanted to
Speaker 2: poke my eyeballs out.
Speaker 6: Yes, Like India is finally, like I've talked about Nott's
Speaker 6: Very Farm and Disneyland on this podcast with Indy Now
Speaker 6: is wonderful. Yeah, but like pre six, I don't understand
Speaker 6: why parents go.
Speaker 3: To Disneyland with kids under six.
Speaker 6: It's so wait now it's just hell.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry. Another article says you don't need a child
Speaker 5: to go to Lego Land. All you need is like
Speaker 5: minded pals who will adore every giant minifigure, every bright
Speaker 5: colored model, every brick of Miniland. So yes, you can
Speaker 5: go back.
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 5: It's I don't know, it's too confusing, so I'm not going.
Speaker 6: Well, it's definitely more it's younger, right, there's no rides
Speaker 6: right like that anybody over the age of ten would
Speaker 6: find thrilling in any way. It's very you know, and
Speaker 6: it's also not like there's not a whole lot of
Speaker 6: atmospheric rides the way that Disneyland, like, you know, because
Speaker 6: you know you can enjoy Pirates of the Caribbean.
Speaker 3: It's not like a thrill ride.
Speaker 6: It's just more like an an experience Lego it doesn't
Speaker 6: even really have that so much. It's more just a
Speaker 6: vibe and you get to look at like many Lego cities,
Speaker 6: which is cool, but it's mostly as a parent. It's
Speaker 6: the most relaxing place in the world because you just
Speaker 6: stroll around. It's like the right size so it's not overwhelming,
Speaker 6: and there are kids everywhere. Everybody's having so much fun.
Speaker 6: And then you have to stay at the hotel.
Speaker 7: We are.
Speaker 1: We're staying at the Lego Land Hotel, which one the
Speaker 1: past the.
Speaker 6: Pirate the Okay, yeah, that's where we stayed first, and
Speaker 6: we've since moved to the Castle for.
Speaker 2: The last different hotiers or whatever, but either one is great.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 7: I was just.
Speaker 5: Stepping on Legos the whole time. I'm just curious if
Speaker 5: the entire ow oh got this, why do we get
Speaker 5: this hotel room?
Speaker 6: Like when it was a bummer. One of the coolest
Speaker 6: displays was a Star Wars Lego display, and Disney made
Speaker 6: them pool all of the Star Wars They had like
Speaker 6: all they had recreated scenes, famous scenes from all the
Speaker 6: Star Wars movies in legos.
Speaker 3: They were like the coolest, one of the coolest sections.
Speaker 6: And then when Disney opened up their Star Wars area,
Speaker 6: right they made Lego stop, which is a bummer, but yeah, no,
Speaker 6: it's it's wonderful, and like there's little treasure hunts throughout
Speaker 6: the park and then yeah, they have people dresses, giant
Speaker 6: Lego figures.
Speaker 3: It's it's the best.
Speaker 2: Okay, great, thank you for hyping me up for that.
Speaker 1: Because Disneyland was I was excited to take Adler, even
Speaker 1: though I'm not like a Disney crazy adult. I just
Speaker 1: I was excited to see it through the eyes of
Speaker 1: my child. And then he liked it. But he just
Speaker 1: could not understand the concept of waiting in line for
Speaker 1: an hour and then being on a ride for three minutes,
Speaker 1: and then when the ride would end, other people were
Speaker 1: getting onto the cars and you'd go, no.
Speaker 2: It's a mine.
Speaker 1: He like, he thought he had waited for two hours
Speaker 1: and now he just owns this thing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, Lego Land, you will never wait more than
Speaker 6: like thirty minutes for anything. Yeah, and make sure you
Speaker 6: bring if he has little minifigures. Yeah, characters. You bring
Speaker 6: one and he can trade with any Lego Land employee.
Speaker 6: You can trade your figure for one of their figures.
Speaker 6: They usually have like figures that they have like either
Speaker 6: in their pocket or whatever. So you're constantly trading. And
Speaker 6: I highly recommend before you go you make an agreement
Speaker 6: that you're only going to buy like one Lego set
Speaker 6: because there's multiple Lego stores on the part, and so
Speaker 6: we made the agreement with Indy, like the first time
Speaker 6: we went, We're not buying any Legos until the end
Speaker 6: of the day. We hit the big Lego like the
Speaker 6: main Lego store on the way out, and you get
Speaker 6: one set at r because otherwise, you know.
Speaker 5: Are there bars, are there a lot of Lego drinking
Speaker 5: going on there?
Speaker 6: There is drinking, which is wonderful. You can actually drink
Speaker 6: a Lego Land.
Speaker 3: It's great.
Speaker 6: There's one area where there's like a like you can
Speaker 6: just let them run wild in like a playground area
Speaker 6: with like bridges and slides and stuff. It's great.
Speaker 2: That's pretty cool, all right.
Speaker 6: It's so much better for under six year olds than
Speaker 6: like other theme parks.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Danielle, I'm like you, I'm not a disney freak either,
Speaker 5: but going to Disneyland once every couple of years for
Speaker 5: like a day, Oh yeah, fun.
Speaker 2: Totally, It's pretty.
Speaker 5: And then we were doing We're doing our live show
Speaker 5: in Orlando in September, and we were September seventeenth, and
Speaker 5: we were talking about staying for an extra day or
Speaker 5: two to go to Disney World and check that out.
Speaker 5: And now it looks like we probably won't be able
Speaker 5: to do that because we're so busy in September. I know,
Speaker 5: but it Yeah, that would have been fun. I haven't
Speaker 5: been a disney World in years.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if I would recognize any part
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 2: I don't think I would change.
Speaker 3: James always growing, evolving.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we should though, plan maybe next summer we should
Speaker 1: plan a little like I don't know where writers travel
Speaker 1: plans are next summer, but.
Speaker 2: We should try.
Speaker 1: We could do We should just plan a group family
Speaker 1: trip to Disney World just for funzies.
Speaker 5: I like that, Okay, like that. I also think you
Speaker 5: still need to do the group family camping trip because
Speaker 5: I want to.
Speaker 3: I want to.
Speaker 1: My kids are still I think at least one year
Speaker 1: too young. Keaton is one year too young, but once
Speaker 1: he hits three. I think then I'll be ready.
Speaker 3: Even when was the last time you went camping?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 5: God, man, I camped all the time all throughout high school.
Speaker 5: So probably you know, high school, like early twenties.
Speaker 6: You moved to La.
Speaker 3: Oh no, early twenties.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, yeah, no, when I moved to La it
Speaker 5: was probably probably when I stopped camping, you know, because.
Speaker 3: I had a home. You came up to You came
Speaker 3: up to my parents' house.
Speaker 6: Do you remember going to the urt? Yeah? You had
Speaker 6: the ur song?
Speaker 7: Do you no?
Speaker 6: I want to know the.
Speaker 5: Song.
Speaker 6: You had a whole walk.
Speaker 7: And so my.
Speaker 6: Brother built a yurt. If people know what a yurt is,
Speaker 6: it's a Mongolian tent like structures, like the round tents.
Speaker 6: It's like very very nineteen seventies northern California, And so
Speaker 6: Shiloh built one in the woods when he was sixteen.
Speaker 6: It's still there, and he put he built a deck
Speaker 6: and put it up and he had been living in
Speaker 6: it for a little while. But anyway, you came up
Speaker 6: and visited. I guess boy was still going on.
Speaker 3: Maybe that just ended.
Speaker 6: You and Greg came up and we were just we
Speaker 6: decided to make an adventure out to the yurt at
Speaker 6: like ten o'clock at night, and you were like, let's
Speaker 6: go to the yurt and you started doing this. I
Speaker 6: can't do it because we're a radio. We can't, but
Speaker 6: you did this walk You're like a yurt.
Speaker 5: You just he did this.
Speaker 6: I can't. I have to like demonstrate with my body,
Speaker 6: but you had us dying.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 6: Hell, hanging out with wilfred Ell in the woods is
Speaker 6: one of the funnest experiences.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: It was me and my friend Alyssa was visiting from
Speaker 6: New York, my friend Melissa and so we were all
Speaker 6: we had made it. I just like it was just
Speaker 6: like we went to the yurt.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 6: I don't think we slept there. We just went to
Speaker 6: the yurt and hung out and came back.
Speaker 3: But I was.
Speaker 6: Crying and I still was still singing a yurt song.
Speaker 1: Was it will Fredell or was it fresh Boy who
Speaker 1: came up with the song? That's the question, is rapning
Speaker 1: Welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fischl, I'm right
Speaker 1: or Strong, and I'm Wilfredell.
Speaker 2: Pod Meets World Live. The kids want to jump to
Speaker 2: her is coming to Philadelphia? We are so excited.
Speaker 1: This one is going to be very special. It's the
Speaker 1: thirtieth Anniversary Spectacular on September thirtieth at the Met with
Speaker 1: special guests. Tickets are available now at podmeetsworldshow dot com.
Speaker 2: We cannot wait to see you there. So today's episode,
Speaker 2: the disappearing then reappearing tale of Morgan.
Speaker 1: Matthews is ingrained in the history of Boy Meets World,
Speaker 1: and until we started this podcast, the entire saga was
Speaker 1: a bit of a mystery for fans. It is true
Speaker 1: that at the end of season two, the young actress
Speaker 1: who played the youngest of the Matthews children was relieved
Speaker 1: of her duties, probably something she had hoped would happen
Speaker 1: much earlier, and her absence wasn't addressed at all when
Speaker 1: we came back the next season. That is until a
Speaker 1: completely different young actress appeared as the same character.
Speaker 6: Wellie will shaked a different actor.
Speaker 1: Let's keep it all in, okay, That is, until a
Speaker 1: completely different young actress appeared as the same character thirteen
Speaker 1: episodes later. We weren't the first to do it. There's
Speaker 1: Aunt Viv and Roseanne's Becky. Heck, it wasn't even the
Speaker 1: first time we did it. Never forget Harley and Chubby,
Speaker 1: but this particular switcheroo is one of the moments we're
Speaker 1: asked about most, even thirty years later, and the child
Speaker 1: actress who was once a replacement went on to appear
Speaker 1: in seventy five episodes of Boy Meets World and not
Speaker 1: only to become a fan favorite but part of our
Speaker 1: family in many ways.
Speaker 2: We are thrilled to.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Pod Meets World number two on Wikipedia, but
Speaker 1: she shares first place in our hearts.
Speaker 2: It's Lindsay Ridgeway, what.
Speaker 7: Is up.
Speaker 2: A long time?
Speaker 7: Like you guys are all waiting like we don't know
Speaker 7: what she looks like as a human adult person.
Speaker 6: It's I know, We've done it. You're eleven, absolutely not
Speaker 6: even worse.
Speaker 7: I'll be thirty eight this month.
Speaker 2: My gosh.
Speaker 1: That was something that occurred to me when I was
Speaker 1: figuring out what questions we were going to talk to you, like,
Speaker 1: what we were going to talk to you about.
Speaker 2: You were only four years younger than me.
Speaker 6: But that's a huge difference at that age.
Speaker 2: I know, I fifteen and eleven.
Speaker 7: Yeah, In doing my so full disclosure, I came in
Speaker 7: to today knowing that I was woefully like not purposefully
Speaker 7: did not listen completely to a lot of these episodes
Speaker 7: because I came into the show in season three where
Speaker 7: it was like, already done, everyone's already knowing each other,
Speaker 7: already cool families, there the unit, and then like I
Speaker 7: come in, I'm like, don't know anybody, don't know what's happening.
Speaker 7: I treated this the same way. I'm like, I'm just
Speaker 7: gonna come in and just be fresh, just like not
Speaker 7: not have any context.
Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding, smart, smart, honestly.
Speaker 7: But I did. Honestly, I did listen to the one
Speaker 7: full episode I listened to because I loved it. I
Speaker 7: loved it, loved to love this so much, and actually
Speaker 7: took like a huge amount of janky notes on this
Speaker 7: notepad during it was the group therapy group therapy world.
Speaker 7: I was like, yes, my people, Yes, because as a kid,
Speaker 7: I'm like these guys are older and they know more
Speaker 7: and they're doing all this. But now I'm like, no,
Speaker 7: we all about the same stuff going on. We're all parents,
Speaker 7: step parents, pet parents, aging family members. Now we're all
Speaker 7: just like in the adult mode and it's such a
Speaker 7: different dynamic. Yes, we're all we're all the same age now, Yes, right,
Speaker 7: exactly the same category, right totally, but then the dynamic
Speaker 7: is so different. And I obviously spent like way more
Speaker 7: hours in the school room than you all did, just
Speaker 7: by purely like being cut from the show. Just cut
Speaker 7: scene after scene. We don't need you, We don't need you, Okay.
Speaker 1: I want to get into that, because of course we don't.
Speaker 1: We probably don't have memory of that because it wasn't
Speaker 1: It wasn't us.
Speaker 2: So I want to jump into that.
Speaker 1: But where we start a lot of our interviews, and
Speaker 1: I want to start with you as well, how old
Speaker 1: were you when you first got into acting?
Speaker 2: And do you remember what made you want to start acting?
Speaker 7: It's so interesting because I don't think like at the
Speaker 7: point that I did start, And to be clear, I
Speaker 7: started like on stage as a theatrical performer, so which
Speaker 7: is a whole other thing. And it's so weird because
Speaker 7: I work in that in the live theater industry now
Speaker 7: too as an adult, and so I'm like, it's come
Speaker 7: it's all come back. So performing live as a kid
Speaker 7: was where I started, and then just an agent just
Speaker 7: literally saw me in a in a performance and approached
Speaker 7: my parents about representing me. So I didn't have to
Speaker 7: do any of these weird you hear about it now,
Speaker 7: like well I have to go read, you know, for
Speaker 7: all these people and they have to choose, it's like
Speaker 7: way more stressful. I don't I don't know as an adult,
Speaker 7: as like a teen or an adult choosing to go
Speaker 7: into acting, it would be so much more of a
Speaker 7: weird different experience.
Speaker 2: How old were you then, I was like probably.
Speaker 7: Six sixty years old. Yeah, performing because you know, singing
Speaker 7: it was first and so.
Speaker 2: I remember that about you.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: And then I was in the first my size Barbie
Speaker 7: that was ever made. That was I was in the commercial.
Speaker 7: I was the same height as the Barbie. We were
Speaker 7: both just very similar. I could fitted to the Barbie's clothing,
Speaker 7: which was the whole point of the thing, like you
Speaker 7: can wear Barbie's outfit.
Speaker 5: Also, it seems like something that's going to come alive
Speaker 5: at night and strength.
Speaker 7: About great movie. By the way. I loved it so
Speaker 7: much more more scary and my I know my parents
Speaker 7: will listen to this. They have it like in the garage,
Speaker 7: just like chilling. I'm like, please get this, really, just
Speaker 7: get this out of your home, like I can't, I can't.
Speaker 5: It leaves at night by itself anyway, So don't worry
Speaker 5: about it.
Speaker 7: It's fine, and it probably has my voice somewhere.
Speaker 5: Because I want to wear its clothes.
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know what, that's a whole other true crime
Speaker 7: podcast that we can get into another time.
Speaker 2: Were your parents entertainers?
Speaker 7: No, well, I guess my mom counts us. But she
Speaker 7: was a newscaster on the radio. So she did the
Speaker 7: news in the morning. And actually, like that's the whole
Speaker 7: other thing. My parents they met. My dad read the
Speaker 7: stock report on the news in the morning because he's
Speaker 7: a stockbroker, and then he like proposed to her live
Speaker 7: on the radio and she like cut a commercial. It
Speaker 7: was like super embarrassing for everyone. I know, adorable. You know,
Speaker 7: they're divorced. Now it's great. I talk about it because
Speaker 7: because we all get along as a family and we can.
Speaker 7: But yeah, no, no super performer history. I just used
Speaker 7: to just would would love singing and so it's essentially and
Speaker 7: so yeah, so when and then that parlayed into commercials
Speaker 7: purely of the Barbie variety.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm with you. I also started in barb Barbie commercial.
Speaker 7: Pocket things all that stuff, like we all had to
Speaker 7: do it, and they cared way more about the Barbie's
Speaker 7: hair and makeup and things than the people, because like
Speaker 7: I would just be waiting like that, we need to
Speaker 7: touch up Barbie's hair. Barbie's okay, another reason why it's alive, right,
Speaker 7: will Yes, Barbie is alive? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Does anybody actually know Barbie's last name? Because Barbie has
Speaker 5: a last name.
Speaker 7: She does have last name. I'm forgetting it now when
Speaker 7: you say, I'm gonna yes, Barbara.
Speaker 5: Barbreath, Barbie Roberts.
Speaker 7: Yep, good old Babs.
Speaker 1: I noticed before you made it to Boy Meets World,
Speaker 1: I noticed in your IMDb history you were ten years
Speaker 1: old on a show on a show called Bless This House,
Speaker 1: which was created by Bruce Helford and starring Andrew dis Yeah,
Speaker 1: what do you remember from that?
Speaker 7: So one? Deero? Do I remember about it? Which I
Speaker 7: also completely identified with you, Danielle saying that like some things,
Speaker 7: you just do not remember, like you have no recollection.
Speaker 7: And what I do remember comes from my parents who
Speaker 7: were obviously there all the time. My mom was one
Speaker 7: of those like child labor laws, you can't make my
Speaker 7: kid work. Now I'm out, and I love and trust one.
Speaker 7: I'm thankful for that for that frame of mind now,
Speaker 7: especially as a parent myself, and you know it it was.
Speaker 7: I just remember her saying it was a very volatile
Speaker 7: situation like that, that was very weird. And who was
Speaker 7: the woman that was on it? What was her name?
Speaker 7: Oh gosh, she was in the movie Casper, the one
Speaker 7: who played the mom. What was her name? She had short,
Speaker 7: blond ter and I think, so, I want to say,
Speaker 7: when you say her name, I'm.
Speaker 2: Like, yes, Kathy Moriarty, Kathy Moriarty.
Speaker 7: Was that her? Yes? I think she was the female lead,
Speaker 7: I want to say. And I don't remember a lot
Speaker 7: about it. I just remember that my mom was like,
Speaker 7: we kept you sort of in the school, like we
Speaker 7: kept you in one place until you had to go.
Speaker 7: And that was so short lived too. I really don't
Speaker 7: I really don't remember. I think one of the only
Speaker 7: memories I have of it is the whole walkout right
Speaker 7: where they introduced him for the live audience and you
Speaker 7: just all walk out onto a set like That's kind
Speaker 7: of what I remember. I don't know. I could not
Speaker 7: tell you my character's name, I couldn't tell you what
Speaker 7: I said. I couldn't tell you anything about it, to
Speaker 7: be honest.
Speaker 2: So you were you were very into singing.
Speaker 1: And then also you started with voice acting as well, right.
Speaker 7: I I feel like these were all like around the
Speaker 7: same time. I did a few I did, like episode
Speaker 7: of Sonic maybe the headshot Sonic tune. That other voiceover
Speaker 7: credit that's on my IMDb page is absolutely inaccurate, Like
Speaker 7: I didn't even do whatever.
Speaker 2: Cartoon totally spies. I think it says didn't do that.
Speaker 7: Don't know what that is, don't remember it?
Speaker 6: No, No, because my mom, do you get the residual
Speaker 6: checks for it?
Speaker 7: I don't know. Yeah, that fifty cents comes in handy
Speaker 7: for sure.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you say, your parent, I'm sorry. I'm still stuck
Speaker 5: on the fact that you had kids just one.
Speaker 7: Just one, yeah old. She just turned three in April.
Speaker 7: She was born in April of twenty twenty. You guys,
Speaker 7: it was that was crazy.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I can't even imagine what that hospital
Speaker 1: situation was like for you.
Speaker 7: Oh, my husband couldn't leave to like.
Speaker 2: Go anywhere, like he was able to be there.
Speaker 7: Yes, he was the only one because you know, like
Speaker 7: his family, my first grandkid for both sides of the family.
Speaker 7: So it's like a whole lot of pressure to like
Speaker 7: we're getting there. We're flying and driving by car, boat,
Speaker 7: a train right to get there. Like, yeah, no one
Speaker 7: can see her right now, like one hundred percent you can't.
Speaker 7: So when she was about four weeks old when everyone
Speaker 7: got to finally meet her for the first time. But
Speaker 7: it was Yeah, it was intense for sure. I think
Speaker 7: nothing like it, really, I can't. I know. You guys
Speaker 7: have either older or kid that was born after the
Speaker 7: initial craziness, right, Daniell your second kids twenty one, So
Speaker 7: that's like you had you had a.
Speaker 2: Better Yeah, twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one, if you
Speaker 2: missed the whole Yeah, it was a whole middle.
Speaker 7: Yes.
Speaker 1: So let's get into your audition for Boy Meets World.
Speaker 1: You were eleven when you started in season three. What
Speaker 1: do you remember about your audition.
Speaker 7: And turning eleven my audition, I was told, well, I
Speaker 7: remember it was raining because I had to run across
Speaker 7: the curve and that was very dangerous at the time. Show. Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's like I was in the rain. It was bad.
Speaker 7: It was ragerous on the curb the street.
Speaker 2: It never rained.
Speaker 7: Right falling from the sky. What is this phenomenon? But
Speaker 7: the show that I auditioned for was not going to
Speaker 7: all the sides weren't the script if I was told
Speaker 7: it was a completely different show, Uh, it was a
Speaker 7: guest starring role for a completely made up situation. And
Speaker 7: they're like, yeah, it's just a guest starring role for
Speaker 7: this right, cool read for it. I think I had
Speaker 7: to go back in because this was the time where,
Speaker 7: like I think now they do like video submissions, right,
Speaker 7: you have to leave your house sometimes audition ersu but no,
Speaker 7: like we had a hall to the first audition, you
Speaker 7: had to go home and you're likeep, deep, let me
Speaker 7: a haul back in two days later they want to
Speaker 7: see you again. So I had to go back in
Speaker 7: and I landed it. I got I got the agent
Speaker 7: called and said you got it, and just so you know,
Speaker 7: like it's actually for a recurring role for this show
Speaker 7: that already exists. And so that was like what So
Speaker 7: they lied to me?
Speaker 2: What a what a weird secret super.
Speaker 7: And and I was like is this and I think
Speaker 7: of it now, I was like, was it really that weird?
Speaker 7: Like did they have to completely go covert on this?
Speaker 7: Like you know, there's how do they do that on
Speaker 7: like giant movies?
Speaker 6: You know, because they want to like you know, they
Speaker 6: don't want agents and managers calling and like enough require that.
Speaker 5: Yeah one keeping it out of the press. It's not
Speaker 5: like we were getting pressed for anything anyway, So it
Speaker 5: is and like.
Speaker 7: This is a time where no one followed you around.
Speaker 7: There was no weird like social media people to be
Speaker 7: like stalking you in your daily lives to be like
Speaker 7: what is this for? Huh huh? Is it for a
Speaker 7: boy world? And to me, none of that. So it
Speaker 7: was very weird.
Speaker 6: But would do with the fact that I was replacing
Speaker 6: Lily that to keep.
Speaker 5: Trying to keep it. Maybe really didn't.
Speaker 7: Her family or she didn't hear something about it, or
Speaker 7: something's going to maybe call her and say, hey, why
Speaker 7: why are they auditioning for your role, which which totally
Speaker 7: makes sense. And I feel like she was, I mean,
Speaker 7: she's younger than me, I believe, maybe yeah, for years
Speaker 7: and uh, you know, so I don't know how much
Speaker 7: of that would have affected her to be like hurting
Speaker 7: her feelings, but yeah her and I mean her dad
Speaker 7: would produce it, right, her dad's in the industry still
Speaker 7: and whatnot, So I don't know, I feel like that
Speaker 7: must be the reason why. But I truly coming into that,
Speaker 7: like I had no concept of what had occurred with her,
Speaker 7: what had occurred in general with that role, Like I
Speaker 7: had zero concept of why that was occurring, or why
Speaker 7: they were replacing or aging up the character or whatnot.
Speaker 2: Had you seen Boy Meets World at all in seasons
Speaker 2: one or two?
Speaker 7: I don't think so, no, because when I look at
Speaker 7: those episodes, like I have no I don't even know
Speaker 7: like those and like the thug guys you know, and
Speaker 7: all those like bullies, like they weren't in what they
Speaker 7: they started to like not have those plotlines really anymore
Speaker 7: when I came in the only So, yeah, this morning
Speaker 7: I attempted to watch my first I say attempted because
Speaker 7: like I had this, I was like, I can't watch myself.
Speaker 7: This is per I can't do it. I won't be
Speaker 7: able to listen to this me talking without like cringing completely.
Speaker 7: But yeah, I was watching it, and I was just thinking, like, wow,
Speaker 7: people must have been like really confused.
Speaker 1: We haven't got full disclosure. We haven't gotten to your
Speaker 1: episodes yet.
Speaker 7: So I just watched like twenty minutes of the because
Speaker 7: it's fourteen it's like fourteen episodes into season three. Granted
Speaker 7: we had like way more episodes per season then like
Speaker 7: now it's like what a standard eight or ten one
Speaker 7: of a show and it's like, no, no, you guys
Speaker 7: are here for twenty four episodes, but buckle up.
Speaker 1: So do you remember anybody else or did you know
Speaker 1: anybody else who was auditioning for it? And do you
Speaker 1: then remember the phone call for when you got it?
Speaker 7: My parents got all the calls. I don't think I
Speaker 7: ever like you know, at the time it was, I
Speaker 7: was probably at school and then they probably waited till
Speaker 7: I got home from school and like, hey, guess.
Speaker 2: What you got this?
Speaker 7: So because I went to public school in my hometown
Speaker 7: for the duration that I was on this show, if
Speaker 7: I was not there at the set, I was at
Speaker 7: my school.
Speaker 2: And where did you grow up?
Speaker 7: Your buddy is going to school Riverside, So just a
Speaker 7: little bit outside of where you guys are. Yeah, So did.
Speaker 1: You celebrate, Like do you remember then finding out you
Speaker 1: got the show? Oh guess what, surprise, it's not the
Speaker 1: show you auditioned for. It's a different show. Did you
Speaker 1: guys do anything to celebrate, like it's a recurring role?
Speaker 1: Was it a big deal or was it just another
Speaker 1: day in your life.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Like, no, I'm sure it was a big deal
Speaker 7: at the time. I just feel I I do, and
Speaker 7: I'm and I'm grateful for it. As I say now
Speaker 7: as an adult, it wasn't. I don't think it was
Speaker 7: made to be like the only cool thing going on
Speaker 7: for me as a kid, which I think is good.
Speaker 7: I think it's you know, I'm sure my parents probably
Speaker 7: talked about it after I went to bed and they
Speaker 7: were like, that's cool, Like, oh, kid actually got this,
Speaker 7: you know, But at the time it was probably just
Speaker 7: like okay, and also knowing too, like I'm like I've
Speaker 7: heard well mentioned before, you know, a few episodes, like
Speaker 7: it could go away so fast, you write, So it's
Speaker 7: just like any pilot you could or even any recurring
Speaker 7: guest star whatnot, you could just they could just be
Speaker 7: like now we're gonna kick it, and so you never
Speaker 7: truly know. So I feel like also there's that element
Speaker 7: of like, this is good, but we also don't want
Speaker 7: to bank on this being correct. We're going to concentrate on.
Speaker 5: I have a question for you, uh, Danielle and Ryder,
Speaker 5: just curiously, do either of you remember because I don't
Speaker 5: remember ever being talked to about Hey, we're replacing Lily.
Speaker 5: Do you remember any conversation of we're going to get
Speaker 5: a new actor.
Speaker 6: I think they saved it because I remember we were
Speaker 6: all dying at the table read, like I remember it
Speaker 6: was one of the funniest yes, And I think they
Speaker 6: had saved it as a reveal. Yes, yes, when you came, Yeah,
Speaker 6: because you remember when you enter, you're like, I've been
Speaker 6: in my room for a.
Speaker 2: Very long time on a very long time out. Yeah.
Speaker 6: And so I think I, knowing knowing Michael's flair for
Speaker 6: the dramatic, I have a feeling he probably brought you
Speaker 6: in for the table read and stood up and made
Speaker 6: an announcement about you entering the cast, and then we
Speaker 6: all read it and we I just remember the table
Speaker 6: I just remember. I don't remember that speech. I'm just
Speaker 6: saying that sounds like something because Michael used to make
Speaker 6: speeches before and after table reads and like right, And
Speaker 6: I have a feeling he would have welcomed you to
Speaker 6: the cast knowing that you were you know, and I
Speaker 6: think you know it was a tricky thing because Lily
Speaker 6: had been gone and we all knew that that had
Speaker 6: you been sort of fraught, So you coming in, I
Speaker 6: feel like he would have made a very special announce
Speaker 6: but I don't think he would have prepped us ahead
Speaker 6: of time, because I remember all of us loving your
Speaker 6: entrance and thinking it was so funny that we were
Speaker 6: like commenting on it, you know, and just and then
Speaker 6: I and then I remember you and your mom just
Speaker 6: being like the coolest people ever, Like there was no
Speaker 6: you were you were so confident, Like it felt like
Speaker 6: you were already like a twenty five year old professional
Speaker 6: singer who was like slumming it as an actor, Like
Speaker 6: that was the vibe. You always had that vibe, And
Speaker 6: it's so funny to think about now, like, yeah, like
Speaker 6: you just always seemed like completely confident and in control,
Speaker 6: like you and your mom were like, yeah, we know
Speaker 6: what we're doing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's that's Nolan Michael. That's also another reason I
Speaker 5: bet why they made it a secret audition is he
Speaker 5: didn't want any eight and of our agent's calling going,
Speaker 5: you know, they're recasting, so it's just like we're going
Speaker 5: to keep it completely private. And because it was, it
Speaker 5: was such a good it's it's our Because one of
Speaker 5: the things we've been talking about, especially with now starting
Speaker 5: season three, is some of the entrances of new characters
Speaker 5: aren't great, like the are The entrance of Alex Bezier's
Speaker 5: character was a terrible entrance for his character. It's just right,
Speaker 5: and your entrance is arguably one of the best entrances
Speaker 5: of any cast member of Boy Meets World.
Speaker 6: Well, I think they wised up because you talked about
Speaker 6: the Harley replacement is so weird and awkward and like,
Speaker 6: and I think that, you know, it just finally like
Speaker 6: let's break the fourth.
Speaker 3: Wall and just make a joke.
Speaker 7: And it worked, yeah, right, and and I mean then
Speaker 7: to bring the joke back, it's like on girl having
Speaker 7: both of us in the same room, right, that's Bonker's ridiculous,
Speaker 7: Like you would we even do that at that point?
Speaker 5: It just it doesn't matter. It's just like, yeah, let's
Speaker 5: bring a boat.
Speaker 7: That's fine, like here, you know, I mean if it
Speaker 7: were I thought about it after the fact, like this
Speaker 7: is years after, because this is years ago now, and
Speaker 7: I do remember the producer's reaction to seeing me as
Speaker 7: an adult there too, and they were all just like, ah, get.
Speaker 5: Out, like it's weird, it's weird.
Speaker 7: But I was thinking, like, man, it kind of would
Speaker 7: have been better if it was like multiple scenes and
Speaker 7: we were interchangeable and like not in the same place, right,
Speaker 7: Like that would have been like the ultimate.
Speaker 6: You looked different. What are you talking about it?
Speaker 7: I was just here not sure what you guys are
Speaker 7: talking about.
Speaker 6: From shot shot, I feel like, yes.
Speaker 7: Exactly, Like it's like a jump cut and then jump
Speaker 7: come back and it's a new person like straight, you know,
Speaker 7: like the Haunting of Hill House where they in that
Speaker 7: one shot where they replaced the adults with the kids
Speaker 7: back just like that.
Speaker 1: Do you remember anything about that first week and how
Speaker 1: you felt. You mentioned when we started this podcast today
Speaker 1: that like there was that a little bit of a
Speaker 1: feeling of like, this is already an established.
Speaker 2: Family, And yes, did you do you remember.
Speaker 1: That feeling of like, oh I have to somehow fit
Speaker 1: into this already established group.
Speaker 7: It's a weird. Yeah, it's a weird vibe. And I
Speaker 7: always sort of felt too, like I mean, I was
Speaker 7: obviously the youngest person right a before the new baby
Speaker 7: came on. I was like cool baby boy, and that
Speaker 7: was Mike, that was Michael's son, Right, I'm not remembering
Speaker 7: that wrong, Okay? And yes, so I always felt like
Speaker 7: out of the loop because everyone was like already in
Speaker 7: this loop, you know, and then it's like and I'm
Speaker 7: over here, and you know, even with the even with
Speaker 7: Rusty and and Betsy and everybody like that, you know,
Speaker 7: like they you all had your your thing and like
Speaker 7: writer and Danielle, like I have probably had such a
Speaker 7: little time with you guys, like.
Speaker 6: Did we I was wondering this, did you and I
Speaker 6: ever have a scene together? Like did we ever have line?
Speaker 6: I don't think we to each other all about together.
Speaker 6: You might not have interacted, but you're in big I
Speaker 6: swear to god, I don't think Sean says a.
Speaker 7: Single line, I truly do.
Speaker 6: I think we have to keep it eye for this
Speaker 6: because I was thinking about I was like, I don't
Speaker 6: think like we hung out on the backstage, but like
Speaker 6: we would never I don't think I ever on stage
Speaker 6: looked at you and said a line.
Speaker 7: No, I don't think. I was thinking about that too,
Speaker 7: And like same with Matt Lawrence, right, like I probably
Speaker 7: never had anything with him. And I know the most
Speaker 7: the most scene time I had with with Danielle with
Speaker 7: you with the wedding episodes, which are all like leading
Speaker 7: up to the hardest thing for me ever to film
Speaker 7: on this darn show it. You know, tried to not
Speaker 7: say the cuss word in that scene and rust you
Speaker 7: to cover my mouth at the right time. It came
Speaker 7: out multiple times. I was like, I can't not say it.
Speaker 7: It has to sound natural, right right, and it can't
Speaker 7: sound like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember thrown it out at the table read
Speaker 5: I remember you just like that was the word that
Speaker 5: was like the time I said, and it was Everyone's like, oh, okay,
Speaker 5: I guess we're just throwing there.
Speaker 7: Oh no, well, and it's like, you know, I did
Speaker 7: Ruthless the musical on stage when I was eight and
Speaker 7: had to say like the F word like other things
Speaker 7: on stage, like as an eight year old kid. So like,
Speaker 7: for me, for the sake of the aart, you should
Speaker 7: say it right. You need to be there, like you
Speaker 7: need to have it ready to go. It's got to
Speaker 7: be locked and loaded to be natural. And I just
Speaker 7: and I something I do remember, and like I love
Speaker 7: Rosie Sellers, but I do remember at one point just
Speaker 7: be like, this guy just needs to put his hand
Speaker 7: on my face like he was he was afraid to
Speaker 7: like physically grab my face, which I totally appreciate as
Speaker 7: an adult man. In a scene with a child. But
Speaker 7: at the point I'm like, you just got to yank it,
Speaker 7: just yes.
Speaker 8: I can't say this one more time, right, and then
Speaker 8: what and you know, then night we had like Jacob's
Speaker 8: back there, just like it's bottom you gotta gop and.
Speaker 7: You're like, I can't do it if someone is just
Speaker 7: not going to cover my Actually, that's absolutely the only
Speaker 7: thing I remember about Jacob's all right. Oh, like that's it.
Speaker 7: That's all I remember. And to this day, like my
Speaker 7: mom will still do that. She'll just be like you good,
Speaker 7: but we're like, no, no, we can't bring that back
Speaker 7: into the We gotta keep that back where it belongs.
Speaker 2: We're not bringing that up.
Speaker 7: And I remember thinking when I came for just the
Speaker 7: one single episode of Girl Mes World first, I was like,
Speaker 7: oh my god, Laurie is still here doing the hair
Speaker 7: for the show, Like.
Speaker 2: Right, oh my gosh, I recognize these crew members.
Speaker 7: Oh my god. Yeah. And then I'm like okay, and
Speaker 7: we got like Mark Budskang over here, like we've got
Speaker 7: all these dudes, and then Michael Jason, I like, how
Speaker 7: does he look exactly the same, Like this man is
Speaker 7: a vampire. She just looks like exactly the same, and
Speaker 7: I remember him as a kid, which was very trippy
Speaker 7: because I'm like here, I am looking legit, fifteen years older, right,
Speaker 7: and no one else has said. Everyone's just like, no,
Speaker 7: we've stopped aging here, great caught up books now, thank you.
Speaker 2: Question for you about the schoolroom. Was dand Holmes your
Speaker 2: teacher or did you have I had Wesley?
Speaker 1: Okay, most, that's what I thought. I thought you had
Speaker 1: mostly had Wesley.
Speaker 7: Stay. I do remember David for some time, but it
Speaker 7: was like also they divided them, right like so you
Speaker 7: guys got some and then I but I mostly had
Speaker 7: Wesley as mine. And who had those horrible hissing cockroaches
Speaker 7: and pets?
Speaker 2: Do you remember his cockroaches? I love them, my god?
Speaker 7: No, okay, absolutely not keep them away from me? At
Speaker 7: a whole cast, I.
Speaker 1: Told the story that we left them there while we
Speaker 1: were gone over the summer, and when we came back
Speaker 1: they had escaped and read and they were there.
Speaker 6: And then there are still his cockroaches at ktla'.
Speaker 7: And it is our fault and we have admitted it.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, that's what I do. Remember that and David
Speaker 7: I remember slightly, but I didn't have him. I think
Speaker 7: I don't think I had him as my main teacher.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so when you got there, we were in the
Speaker 6: divided KTLA and we had those two rooms, and Wesley
Speaker 6: became your primary teacher, and I think I was with David,
Speaker 6: but then I must have graduated like that year. I
Speaker 6: think we were only in the school room for like yeah, yes,
Speaker 6: and then I probably probably right, and then David last one,
Speaker 6: and then I think Wesley was there for for d
Speaker 6: and Yell and it was just two yeah, and other.
Speaker 7: Guest stars that came through that like need to be there.
Speaker 7: And then I think at some point they probably had
Speaker 7: like other ones they would bring in if we had
Speaker 7: other guest star well that needed them. But yeah, no,
Speaker 7: and I spent I mean like I spent a lot
Speaker 7: of time in school room like that was my that
Speaker 7: was my jam, you know. And then there would be
Speaker 7: times where we get through because what table reads for
Speaker 7: Fridays and then we would come back on Monday for
Speaker 7: rehearsal block and shoot and whatever pre shoot live audience
Speaker 7: on Thursday. There would be a time like where we
Speaker 7: get to live audience thing on Thursday and they'd be like, yeah,
Speaker 7: well your scene's got So I was just yeah. There
Speaker 7: are some episodes now where I'd be like, oh, man,
Speaker 7: I was supposed to enter just then, so they.
Speaker 1: Would You'd be in the script all week, you'd be
Speaker 1: there all week, you'd rehearse all week, and then sometimes
Speaker 1: right at the last minute, they would just cut in
Speaker 1: for time.
Speaker 7: I assume and or I know. I know that for
Speaker 7: some of them it was a worktime hours issue also,
Speaker 7: like we're gonna lose Lindsay and thirty and if we
Speaker 7: can't shoot it, then it can't happen. And you know,
Speaker 7: credit to my parents, my mom, They're like, no, we're
Speaker 7: not gonna let our ten year old stay here for
Speaker 7: two more hours on a Thursday. You know, like we're
Speaker 7: not doing that. And so yeah, there were instances where
Speaker 7: I know it was time, but then our time, our
Speaker 7: work hours. But then I'm yeah, then it was just
Speaker 7: like I'm always the first person to go, oh my god,
Speaker 7: and it's fine. You know, there comes a point to
Speaker 7: where your name's just on the credits of every episode anyway,
Speaker 7: regardless of whether you're in the episode. So that's cool,
Speaker 7: my name, you got paid, I got paid.
Speaker 2: I got bad.
Speaker 1: The thing is that even if they cut you and
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't end up taping, you still get
Speaker 1: paid for that week.
Speaker 7: So yeah, exactly, it's a week by week basis. But there,
Speaker 7: but when I was a recurring guest or that I
Speaker 7: didn't that, I don't believe it was. I mean, you know,
Speaker 7: there was a time where then I became a series
Speaker 7: series regular. Also, I was watching the first episode I
Speaker 7: was ever in for season three. I have no idea
Speaker 7: what those main titles were. That weird song with like
Speaker 7: the weird colored picture like overlas.
Speaker 3: Yeah, a cool one.
Speaker 5: I had forgotten that.
Speaker 7: Remember that one. I just remember the with the car
Speaker 7: and he's like, come, I'm give it in the car
Speaker 7: and everyone we remember that.
Speaker 3: That's the worst one. That's the worst one. That's season four.
Speaker 3: Must be season four.
Speaker 5: We just kept changing them.
Speaker 6: I think I think we have to recreate that one.
Speaker 6: That we should do a whole photo day created those opening.
Speaker 7: Credits end and then like the side of your mirror
Speaker 7: and then it's just me just like a great shot.
Speaker 7: Love that.
Speaker 5: No, I think you and I worked together more than
Speaker 5: for for this crew, because you were part of the family.
Speaker 5: You and I worked together more than anybody else. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I just remember you fitting in and you were like
Speaker 5: you liked the joke and you could hit the joke
Speaker 5: and you knew the joke. And I remember one specific scene.
Speaker 5: I don't know why this this comes into my head,
Speaker 5: maybe because it was such a pivotal episode, but it's
Speaker 5: you singing loser freak.
Speaker 7: I had to make it up. I had to make
Speaker 7: it up.
Speaker 5: And it was like great and you had and you
Speaker 5: had Ben and I laughing the whole time, and I remember.
Speaker 5: So what I remember is you're coming down the stairs
Speaker 5: singing He's a woman hating loser freak, and you're singing
Speaker 5: it like right in my ear, and Ben and I
Speaker 5: keep laughing, and you came up to us and you're like,
Speaker 5: are you laughing at me? Like am I doing something wrong?
Speaker 5: And I'm like, no, you're making us laugh, Like you're
Speaker 5: actually cracking us up in the scene because you would
Speaker 5: come in and you're the way you were like hitting
Speaker 5: the notes like right in my ear. It was really funny.
Speaker 5: So Ben and I kept losing it and you thought
Speaker 5: we were laughing at you, and you're like, why are
Speaker 5: you laughing at me? He's like, no, you're making us
Speaker 5: laugh with your performance. So it was great.
Speaker 7: It was the episode laughing at me, like still to
Speaker 7: this day, Well now you are.
Speaker 6: But then we were laughing. Right now we're laughing at you.
Speaker 5: You're just not in on this joke because this is
Speaker 5: not even a podcast right now. You don't even know that.
Speaker 7: I've been drunk. It it makes me, It makes my
Speaker 7: adults so happy here to know that maybe I wasn't
Speaker 7: completely out of the circle of trust if you will
Speaker 7: trust and like I and I don't you know, I
Speaker 7: remember more about like the behind the scenes that like
Speaker 7: like like Ryder was saying, we had like that gum
Speaker 7: drawer that was hidden that we would just like constantly
Speaker 7: be chewing gum out of there, and like the stairs
Speaker 7: obviously if you went up too fast behind that kitchen,
Speaker 7: like you were gonna go down like like and also
Speaker 7: is that legal anymore? Can I don't think like a.
Speaker 6: Cliff like and like immediately do a U turn, You're
Speaker 6: gonna into a drum.
Speaker 7: Wall right now? Like a lawsuit pending currently the ocean violation.
Speaker 1: Do you have any like real specific favorite memories from set.
Speaker 7: Definitely the gum drawer and candy drawer because that was
Speaker 7: and then and I would always be chewing gum and
Speaker 7: it's so weird because to this day, like I have
Speaker 7: like a major TMJ problem, and I'm like, it's all
Speaker 7: this gum choy I did as a kid, Like it's
Speaker 7: for real ruin my dram muscle. But I will not
Speaker 7: give it up. I chew gum constantly to this day.
Speaker 7: For you, my dentist is like, please stop. I am
Speaker 7: begging you.
Speaker 5: First of all, you should stop going to the dentist
Speaker 5: before you stop chewing gum. That's the thing. That's what
Speaker 5: we need to know here, important safety tip today exactly priorities.
Speaker 7: This is from will Fredelle personally. Yeah, and I remember
Speaker 7: my mom would have to come like, and Michael Jacob would.
Speaker 9: Be like but I and my mom would have to
Speaker 9: literally come up and and you don't ever want to
Speaker 9: think like cause then you're just like, oh bad, I
Speaker 9: made my mom.
Speaker 7: I made my mom carry my gut. But like the
Speaker 7: stuff I've had to fish out of my three year
Speaker 7: old's mouth, I'm like, yeah, one hundred percent, as a parent,
Speaker 7: that's just what you do. I remember having to spit
Speaker 7: out my gum multiple times. I remember when Jennifer loved
Speaker 7: Hugh it came to the set. I remember that being
Speaker 7: a big deal and lent the biggest, the biggest memory
Speaker 7: I had to because my sister would would come to
Speaker 7: the taping nights. She'd go to school and my dad
Speaker 7: and my sister would call meet us for like the
Speaker 7: live taping nights and things like that, so then she
Speaker 7: would always get to hang out with everyone, which was
Speaker 7: really awesome. And the yes, specifically when you guys did
Speaker 7: the lip syncs to the insinct songs.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, that's a crowd favorite.
Speaker 7: I mean it's good. I mean I wouldn't say that
Speaker 7: it was like great performances from you guys, but like no, kid.
Speaker 5: It was Matt Lawrence. Matt Lawrence was a great performance.
Speaker 6: Lawrence could actually dance, you could Dan, and then the
Speaker 6: other the rest.
Speaker 5: Of the three of us, it was just the backup.
Speaker 7: And I do I do remember, and I think you
Speaker 7: guys mentioned this too that like Ben would always say
Speaker 7: like rubbish garbage things right before they would call action
Speaker 7: to like make everybody try and just completely mess up
Speaker 7: what they were doing. He would just come down and
Speaker 7: just like just go like us, like you pretending to
Speaker 7: talk in your face or bring up a topic that
Speaker 7: you're just like wait what and then they're like Nope,
Speaker 7: we got to start.
Speaker 5: Over four was ridiculous.
Speaker 7: I used to ride the boom mics like down when
Speaker 7: they would roll them. Oh yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 2: That's fun.
Speaker 7: You would jump up there and then just jump up there.
Speaker 7: Also probably highly unsafe.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they probably didn't love that, but they do that.
Speaker 2: I didn't like, that's cool.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I would just be like it was Steve right,
Speaker 7: Steve was the stage, the stage, very tall.
Speaker 2: Having a baby.
Speaker 5: Are you now you were eleven when you started the show,
Speaker 5: ten turning it? Yeah, ten turning eleven, and then so
Speaker 5: you did from ten to you were fifteen fifteen when
Speaker 5: we ended. Okay, yep, that's cool. Yeah, because I remember
Speaker 5: by the end they'd really changed your character where you
Speaker 5: were kind of the sassy one line.
Speaker 7: It was, yeah, well but it is, but like you know,
Speaker 7: self esteem issues rife are rife within this, like remembering
Speaker 7: for me personally, because such negative comments about my character
Speaker 7: from people in the ether, you know, like why they
Speaker 7: make Morgan so rude, I like the only one better
Speaker 7: and like stuff like that, which is so fine, but
Speaker 7: also like again I was a kid doing what they
Speaker 7: were saying, like this is how it's supposed to be,
Speaker 7: Like you were gonna be rude. You're yeah, like come
Speaker 7: down the stairs and act like you own the place.
Speaker 7: I'm like, okay, that's that's what it calls.
Speaker 5: Yeah, very very rarely ten or eleven. As an actor,
Speaker 5: you go in, can we really talk about my character?
Speaker 5: Because I feel we're taking her if you go okay, yeah, exactly, So.
Speaker 7: You're looking dramaturgically at my character right now, I would
Speaker 7: like to say, you know, no, you don't argue with that,
Speaker 7: and then you just continue on that path, and then
Speaker 7: you and then you're pigeonholed into this one thing that
Speaker 7: works for the the you know, the greater good if
Speaker 7: you will of the show, right, and then you're you know,
Speaker 7: you you get into that zone and then it's hard
Speaker 7: to leave that and and and then essentially too, like
Speaker 7: if you know that your lines might not make it
Speaker 7: into final cuts of things, you know too, that sort
Speaker 7: of has a role in how you approach it. I'm
Speaker 7: not sure, like I do not know, like later, you know,
Speaker 7: in the ages of fourteen to fifteen, I kind of
Speaker 7: went into every week thinking like, oh, what's going to
Speaker 7: get sholved this time? Like it was a joke to
Speaker 7: me myself, so I'd be like, all right, whatever, Yeah,
Speaker 7: you want me to wear the tankini? Bye, and I'll
Speaker 7: just wear it fine, I will wear across the top.
Speaker 5: What is a tankini?
Speaker 7: Did you not remember that episode?
Speaker 5: We haven't gotten there yet.
Speaker 2: You don't remember it either, what do you do?
Speaker 7: Well? If you look, just have me come back for
Speaker 7: that one. It's great, Okay, it sounds.
Speaker 6: Like a drink.
Speaker 5: Is that as.
Speaker 7: Exactly he's got correct?
Speaker 5: Of course writer would know it.
Speaker 2: Yes, of course writer's got one on right now.
Speaker 5: Under I heard.
Speaker 7: Lulu Lemonda probably does still tanking news for men, So
Speaker 7: you should go try one on.
Speaker 2: Would you let your your child act if they wanted to?
Speaker 2: She wanted to?
Speaker 7: Dude, it's such a do you guys all get that
Speaker 7: question too? For your kid? Are you?
Speaker 2: Are you right?
Speaker 7: I meant the two, the two will. Congrats to you friends.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on your childhoodious, thank you you have not sunk
Speaker 1: lower beneath.
Speaker 7: No, I I get that a lot too. Like going
Speaker 7: to at, I'm like at. My first reaction is like,
Speaker 7: oh right, absolutely not. Like I want my kid to
Speaker 7: like invent the cool robot that will take care of
Speaker 7: me as an elderly person, like I want her to
Speaker 7: do that cool stuff, right and be part of like
Speaker 7: new things that are going to be another cause for
Speaker 7: success in society. But like, honestly, I can't argue with
Speaker 7: the fact that she is exactly like me and she
Speaker 7: rolls around singing doing all that stuff, wants to take
Speaker 7: dance class and do all those things. But I I
Speaker 7: don't find the need to encourage her in that direction.
Speaker 7: I think that if we do our job as parents
Speaker 7: and we do present things in a realistic way and
Speaker 7: don't idolize certain things over others and just sort of
Speaker 7: keep that neutral ground, that you are setting someone up
Speaker 7: as an individual child, teenager, young adult to make their
Speaker 7: own decision. And you know, I eventually had to get
Speaker 7: to that point too, right where I'm like, you know,
Speaker 7: I don't like this doesn't serve me and my needs
Speaker 7: and what I want to accomplish, and so you have
Speaker 7: to forge your own path if you will. But yeah,
Speaker 7: it's a question. I get a lot. And and I
Speaker 7: think people assume as kids too, that your parents like
Speaker 7: force you into these things, and I don't think that
Speaker 7: that's true. I mean I don't like for me, it
Speaker 7: just sort of went It was like one thing snowballed
Speaker 7: into all these other things, right, and then you just
Speaker 7: find yourself in this path that you didn't quite choose,
Speaker 7: but you also didn't quite stop, and then you're in
Speaker 7: this dynamic right that you have to.
Speaker 2: You're like, oh, I have a career to manage suddenly, oh.
Speaker 7: And I am eight. This is wonderful, right. But I
Speaker 7: can also just say, like, thank goodness for the precautions
Speaker 7: that were put in place for the unfortunate situations with
Speaker 7: child actors in the past that had to deal with
Speaker 7: such terrible conditions, working hours, getting their money taken by
Speaker 7: their parents and their family members. Like these things were
Speaker 7: put in then there were there were things put in
Speaker 7: place for kids like us that didn't have to do
Speaker 7: that go through that and like be subject to those things,
Speaker 7: which I also find a very positive a positive aspect,
Speaker 7: But you know, it's it, I I don't know. I mean,
Speaker 7: I don't want to make put words in my kid's
Speaker 7: mouth and say like no, you're not allowed to do
Speaker 7: that mom orself as well. But I just feel like
Speaker 7: opening opening hobbies and opening you know, your mind to
Speaker 7: different things and exposing them to different things throughout their
Speaker 7: life will make all the difference, you know.
Speaker 1: And when you came and did Girl Meets World and
Speaker 1: you were in that scene with Lily.
Speaker 2: Was that the first time you and Lily had ever met?
Speaker 7: I don't think so. I want to say that I
Speaker 7: probably had seen her at some other point in time,
Speaker 7: because we did, but specifically for like when the DVDs
Speaker 7: were released, we all got together for like commentary and things.
Speaker 7: I feel like there's been other instances in which I
Speaker 7: had met her, but obviay just those younger in the
Speaker 7: younger twenties time. But it's probably we do a photo shoot.
Speaker 5: We did a photo shoot together, like for Entertainment Weekly
Speaker 5: or something to you.
Speaker 7: We all went to a house and yeah, whatnot? And
Speaker 7: and yeah because I because I remember that Bill was there,
Speaker 7: Bonnie and a bunch of other bogues.
Speaker 2: But that was the Entertainment Weekly around the time of
Speaker 2: Girl Meets World, like that.
Speaker 7: What we earlier, I wasn't. Yeah, I was like.
Speaker 3: Two or something time ago somewhere you.
Speaker 7: Were there, Daniel, Yeah, you were.
Speaker 2: I believe you.
Speaker 7: I believe you, believe us.
Speaker 2: I do.
Speaker 1: I just I've given I've given given it over.
Speaker 7: The Entertainment Weekly shoot, you are looking for what are you?
Speaker 6: What are you doing now?
Speaker 7: Me? Yeah, a lot of it. I know what they're doing,
Speaker 7: jedis No, I'm just kidding. Yeah. So I work in
Speaker 7: the nonprofit field, specifically and development of fundraising, so I
Speaker 7: may prefertional fundraiser and as an adult at one of
Speaker 7: the largest regional theaters in the United States currently here
Speaker 7: in Atlanta. That's where I am. Yes, the atl if
Speaker 7: you will. I've people ask you, like where my accent
Speaker 7: is from. I'm like, no, I'm just from so in California. Bro,
Speaker 7: where are you from? My kid just said dude and
Speaker 7: bro this week and I'm.
Speaker 5: Like, yes, keep it up. Nice.
Speaker 7: Yeah. So you know I'm involved in, you know, raising
Speaker 7: money for causes and that I believe in things. I think,
Speaker 7: you know, the arts is it's such an important thing
Speaker 7: to preserve, especially live performance and being as that's where
Speaker 7: I started. I love being able to bring that to
Speaker 7: as many people as possible. Just watching my kid go
Speaker 7: to live theater performances now as a kid and experiencing
Speaker 7: that it's so great, and so I just really want
Speaker 7: to I really want to open her eyes in that
Speaker 7: respect too, because I feel like when we were kids
Speaker 7: and when.
Speaker 10: We were on this show, it was such an elevated
Speaker 10: status right to be on TV, Like anybody anywhere with
Speaker 10: a computer and or phone and or tablet can be on.
Speaker 7: The screen and do whatever they want and get a
Speaker 7: bunch of attention and get a bunch of whatnot and
Speaker 7: go viral for their videos and certain things like we
Speaker 7: didn't have Like that wasn't the case for us, right,
Speaker 7: And so I think it gets it's really easy for
Speaker 7: actual performing arts fields and craft to get lost in
Speaker 7: all of that now, so it's really important to keep
Speaker 7: those align and going. And you know from the like
Speaker 7: the government needs to fund more school arts programs and
Speaker 7: things like that that we should be advocating for. So
Speaker 7: you know, I've worked in nonprofits. I got my master's
Speaker 7: degree also and went to college and got my master's.
Speaker 7: After leaving the show, I was on the mock trial
Speaker 7: team at my high school. After bruthbol that I wanted
Speaker 7: to go to lost cool and then I was like, no,
Speaker 7: that's a lot of stress for me. So yeah, no,
Speaker 7: much like you will, like I have, I have a
Speaker 7: history of straight up panic attacks anxiety really like that.
Speaker 5: Yes, oh godle bond from a darkened room.
Speaker 7: It'll be great, seriously, And it's like debilitating, right, it's
Speaker 7: just like horribly Yeah, and so you know, I'm not
Speaker 7: going to say that this like you know, obviously the
Speaker 7: industry if you want to call it that, it's not
Speaker 7: too blame. But you definitely grow up and in this
Speaker 7: whole other world that doesn't exist. And so yeah, you know,
Speaker 7: I struggle a lot with like my career choices, my
Speaker 7: life path and things, and how people view that. And
Speaker 7: you know, once you're seen as like, well, why wouldn't
Speaker 7: you want to be on TV, you know, it's like, well,
Speaker 7: you know, you don't really have to do that. But yeah,
Speaker 7: so it's interesting. It's an interesting dynamic. What is the.
Speaker 1: Reaction you get now when you tell people you were
Speaker 1: on Boy Meets World or it comes up?
Speaker 2: What's the response?
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I don't normally tell any one.
Speaker 6: Because you can kind of get away with it because
Speaker 6: you look different enough, you were young enough.
Speaker 7: That's my game. Yeah, And it's not from a plant,
Speaker 7: because one I hate sounding like that is a I
Speaker 7: hate bringing that up as a way that people should
Speaker 7: see me in a certain light like that that is
Speaker 7: not like, that's not my vibe. I am.
Speaker 3: I'm a huge part. It's the part of yourself.
Speaker 5: Right right, like you're talking constantly talking about being on
Speaker 5: the high school football team, right.
Speaker 7: Yes, or anything else, or like I was in the
Speaker 7: Olympics one time and then people are only like, cool,
Speaker 7: how's you're running going? And You're like, no, I don't
Speaker 7: see that anymore, Like I did that one time. I
Speaker 7: use the worst sports I do not like jogging or running.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna put that out there. So yeah, I don't
Speaker 7: usually lead with it. It made it people will figure
Speaker 7: it out every job I've ever been to, I've worked
Speaker 7: in schools, I've worked with students, school sites, nonprofit. Everybody
Speaker 7: will figure it out, and then it will come up
Speaker 7: in this weird way of like, so like what was
Speaker 7: it like?
Speaker 2: And I was like what was what?
Speaker 7: Like? Like would you be more specific? And so I
Speaker 7: sort of make other people lead the conversation because I
Speaker 7: don't like assuming what people know about it, or would
Speaker 7: want to assume that they think. I'm just going to
Speaker 7: bring it up and talk about it at will or
Speaker 7: at length. It made like dating as an adult pretty
Speaker 7: hard because you google people now like you meet people
Speaker 7: on apps, you go out, and then it's like it
Speaker 7: sometimes would become the only thing that people wanted to
Speaker 7: discuss and like ask and like and honestly, it's not
Speaker 7: even about me. People would be like, well, what was
Speaker 7: it like where he was Danielle visheral, oh my god,
Speaker 7: you about to hang out with Ryder's start. I'm like yeah,
Speaker 7: but I was ten brute like dude, like what do
Speaker 7: you want me to do? And be like, yes, I
Speaker 7: stared at him all day on the set. I was
Speaker 7: in this score room. Okay. So it's like they think
Speaker 7: of this huge experience and what we actually had was
Speaker 7: just like normal day to day interactions, right, and they
Speaker 7: it's elevated in this way that people who haven't gone
Speaker 7: through it don't understand. And they see that finished product
Speaker 7: and they see the us that is put out there
Speaker 7: and you know, the images that come with that and
Speaker 7: the assumptions that come with that, and then don't really
Speaker 7: think about like, well, yeah, no, Like I drove an
Speaker 7: hour and a half to two hours every day from
Speaker 7: my hometown to get to set in the morning, one
Speaker 7: back and like commuting, yeah one way, you lived in
Speaker 7: Orange County. You know the oh thing, you can't get
Speaker 7: anywhere in Orange County right now for like under one hour. Yeah,
Speaker 7: Like you know, Like so they don't see the grueling
Speaker 7: things as like oh the disappointment of having of having
Speaker 7: your scenes cut, or like oh no, I didn't get
Speaker 7: to go in this week. I went to school instead,
Speaker 7: my regular school, and I'm just a regular person. And
Speaker 7: so all the friends that I have now and continue
Speaker 7: and have had since elementary school, like they one hundred percent.
Speaker 7: And I don't mean this in a bad way, but
Speaker 7: they just don't care. I don't care that I was like,
Speaker 7: they really don't, just like you're just Lendy and you're cool.
Speaker 7: We're your friends that.
Speaker 5: You and yeah, I mean when you look back on
Speaker 5: the show, is it overall a good experience.
Speaker 6: For you, Yes?
Speaker 7: No, And I think that it's because I had so
Speaker 7: much normalcy. And I have said to my family and
Speaker 7: other people that I know, like, out of the casts,
Speaker 7: I believe and this is just from my perspective, I'm
Speaker 7: curious to see if you guys agree with me or not,
Speaker 7: given the difference in our involvement obviously in scene work
Speaker 7: and working in general, because I had less to do
Speaker 7: than you guys on the show. But I think our
Speaker 7: cast as a whole, compared to other casts that exist
Speaker 7: on shows like this was one hundred percent normal people
Speaker 7: who had other parties also and just sort of had
Speaker 7: regular lives also, And I think that makes a huge difference.
Speaker 7: I think when you're surrounded by people who are consumed
Speaker 7: by constantly talking about it or being about it or
Speaker 7: letting people know what's going on, you know, I think
Speaker 7: that makes a difference in how you treat it and
Speaker 7: how you react to it as a human. And so
Speaker 7: I think that all of us are pretty well rounded
Speaker 7: people and how other interests had regular school, family lives
Speaker 7: things like that. You know, we all weren't graduating high
Speaker 7: school or pulled out of school at the age of
Speaker 7: twelve to do this, right, Like, we all finished and
Speaker 7: did those things and had those other things, And I
Speaker 7: think that makes a huge difference.
Speaker 6: We also didn't come with with much ego, right, Like
Speaker 6: we all we all gained ego because of the show,
Speaker 6: but like we didn't. Like a lot of shows are created,
Speaker 6: especially when they're populated by adults, there are people who've
Speaker 6: already been on failed shows or from a you know,
Speaker 6: from a huge hit show, and so when they come together,
Speaker 6: it's like a bunch of clashing egos or fragile egos.
Speaker 6: Whereas like we had Rusty and Betsy and Bill Dangels
Speaker 6: like those are the people who were like the pros
Speaker 6: and they were the nicest most people.
Speaker 7: So yes, yeah, I would say like our probably like
Speaker 7: our drama people or the producers and like the writer folks,
Speaker 7: you know who I didn't have a lot of interaction
Speaker 7: with outside of like the read through and then that shooting. Right,
Speaker 7: So yeah, no, I don't even think Sometimes I think
Speaker 7: I got to leave for notes if they were too
Speaker 7: like to be honest, but.
Speaker 6: I don't like after run through it they'd be like,
Speaker 6: do you have anything for lindsay no, okay, really, yeah.
Speaker 7: You're really But didn't we all sit on the ground,
Speaker 7: like I remember, we all just like sat Night, we
Speaker 7: all had to go like sit on the ground like
Speaker 7: circle time at preschool, and we're like, let's circle time.
Speaker 7: Let's hear some reasons why we were bad today. But no,
Speaker 7: it's like, no, I'm.
Speaker 6: Just anti circle time.
Speaker 11: Let me tell you why you suck as.
Speaker 7: Let me tell you why this line is not working
Speaker 7: for me right now? Yeah, so it's you.
Speaker 6: Know, to range circle time. I love that.
Speaker 3: That's exactly what the notes felt like.
Speaker 7: You know what, trade I'm gonna trademarket you gotta give
Speaker 7: it and yeah, you know, but I and I remember
Speaker 7: specifically like I cut my own bangs at home, like
Speaker 7: and I got in trouble for that, and like someone
Speaker 7: got really mad, like they just like that doesn't fit
Speaker 7: the care. I just literally got home in my bathroom
Speaker 7: just like trot my own bans. Daniel, you have cut
Speaker 7: your own things in your life.
Speaker 2: I haven't. I was always way too afraid.
Speaker 7: No even yeah, I know that's a common thing for it.
Speaker 1: I know that is a common thing, but I was
Speaker 1: way too afraid to have anything to do with my
Speaker 1: hair on my own.
Speaker 7: I remember the episode where you cut your hair and
Speaker 7: they had like fake hair ready to like take back
Speaker 7: on your head to do it again. And I was thinking,
Speaker 7: like this is wild man, this is crazy. What and
Speaker 7: how nervous everybody was. It was like silent.
Speaker 5: It was obsession, hairsession.
Speaker 6: We were mostly cast for our hair. It was like
Speaker 6: hair first, acting second. I was like if we walked
Speaker 6: into that audition room with good air, chances.
Speaker 5: Strong, Yeah exactly, It's crazy.
Speaker 7: And I do like I remember everyone's siblings too, I
Speaker 7: think because I had a sibling that came and like
Speaker 7: hung out because I remember Chris coming, you know, when
Speaker 7: he was just a little kid, little kiddo, and it
Speaker 7: seems to how you guys feel about me. I'm like,
Speaker 7: oh no, Chris Fishel is like thirty something, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna be I thirty eight.
Speaker 6: Oh my yes, yeah, remember him coming?
Speaker 7: Yes, And it completely just alters my reality. And I'm
Speaker 7: like this, this is not a reality that exists for
Speaker 7: me at a step am I in West World? I
Speaker 7: don't understand you.
Speaker 6: Did they did morgane I ever have like friends or
Speaker 6: boyfriends or any characters. So that's that's what's crazy to me,
Speaker 6: is like, see, we all started at you know, maybe
Speaker 6: a little bit older than when you came on the show,
Speaker 6: but we all had each other, We had like other
Speaker 6: kids our same age, and guest stars coming in constantly,
Speaker 6: the youngest person on the set.
Speaker 7: So it is that tank keaty episode that you all
Speaker 7: haven't made it to yet where it's like Morgan's going
Speaker 7: out with a boy and that's why she's dressed that
Speaker 7: way and her parents think she's dressed inappropriately to go
Speaker 7: out on set. And that's the only real instance that
Speaker 7: I can remember having like an interaction with somebody for
Speaker 7: my character that was that same age and in the
Speaker 7: same sort of zone, which is really which is crazy.
Speaker 7: And then obviously the younger sibling came and that was
Speaker 7: you know, then there were.
Speaker 5: Other STI he was a baby, and then three episodes
Speaker 5: later he was like fourteen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, right, which is insane at best. But yeah, I
Speaker 7: mean most of my most of what I remember is
Speaker 7: like there is a scene occurring between you all, and
Speaker 7: then I just sort of walk through and go like
Speaker 7: and then leave.
Speaker 2: It's like, right.
Speaker 7: Exactly. It's never like a hard hitting like Morgan is
Speaker 7: having a mental health crisis and needs assistance from her
Speaker 7: siblings and friends. Asafa, it was purely a sort of
Speaker 7: drive by what I call the drive by comedic situation
Speaker 7: on my way up or down a staircase in the home, Right.
Speaker 5: You really did go up and down the stairs more
Speaker 5: than anybody else on the show. I think, yeah, that
Speaker 5: was what you did.
Speaker 7: Physical fitness. I also teach fitness. That's my second job too.
Speaker 7: I am as instructor too good, and that is what
Speaker 7: I have determined to be my optimal like performing outlet,
Speaker 7: I am like leading a class of awesome people instructing
Speaker 7: them to have a good time.
Speaker 6: On you don't sing anymore?
Speaker 3: You don't sing anymore?
Speaker 7: I well, I do anthems every now and again.
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, because you did a lot of that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I used to do a lot. And I'm actually
Speaker 7: quite sad that I didn't track them with little tick
Speaker 7: marks like jail cells jail cell style, because then I
Speaker 7: could like win some sort of Guinness record how many Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: and I've and I've still done them up until well,
Speaker 7: like before COVID times, because then, like I recorded a
Speaker 7: national anthem for an MLB team that they just like
Speaker 7: played on the jumbo trot to an empty stadium during COVID.
Speaker 7: It was Yeah, it was crazy, and like my baby
Speaker 7: was asleep like in my apartment. We're in a home now,
Speaker 7: but in my apartment at the time, I was like,
Speaker 7: I'm gonna wake up this newborn, like I have psycho.
Speaker 7: Why am I doing this right now? I'm singing at
Speaker 7: full volume in my apartment. We're a four week old.
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Wow, she slept through it.
Speaker 7: It's cool.
Speaker 2: Newborn sleep through a lot. It's pretty remarkable.
Speaker 7: It they do. It's wild. And yeah, and I taught
Speaker 7: my whole I taught while I was pregnant my whole
Speaker 7: my fitness class. Throughout my whole pregnancy, I was waylifting
Speaker 7: and leading and working full time and doing that. And
Speaker 7: when she was little, like a tiny baby, she would
Speaker 7: fall like get crying and wake up, and I would
Speaker 7: play like the hard hitting techno beats that are from
Speaker 7: my class, my fitness class, and she would fall asleep
Speaker 7: to it. She was so used to hearing it, like
Speaker 7: I like all day. She's like, look, I love that.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 1: Well, lindsay, thank you so much for spending your time
Speaker 1: with us today. Thank you for coming back and trying
Speaker 1: to dredge up those memories of those seventy five episodes
Speaker 1: you did.
Speaker 2: Uh many, I know so many. It was a real
Speaker 2: pleasure to see you.
Speaker 1: Congratulations on all of your success and all the wonderful
Speaker 1: things you do as an adult and on motherhood and
Speaker 1: being a wife and all the nonprofit stuff you do.
Speaker 2: You're really selfish.
Speaker 1: Just sounds like you're just a real selfish individual.
Speaker 7: I do my best.
Speaker 2: Well, it was great see you again.
Speaker 7: It's yeah, it's awesome to see you guys too. I'm
Speaker 7: so you know, I feel like this is what every
Speaker 7: every ten ishu years, we all sort of.
Speaker 2: I love it. What's the high school? You do it?
Speaker 2: You do it every ten years, you try to see
Speaker 2: each other.
Speaker 7: My high school hasn't had a reunion because it's like
Speaker 7: our asb really sucks and no one can get their
Speaker 7: act together.
Speaker 2: So you know this, consider this your high school.
Speaker 7: This is it, this is my high school. I am
Speaker 7: now among my peers. Thank you.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you, lindsay you. We'll see you again soon.
Speaker 7: If you need a more episode commentary, you know where
Speaker 7: to find me.
Speaker 2: Thank you in the atl Thank you.
Speaker 7: We'll see it so soon.
Speaker 6: She's all grown up.
Speaker 5: I can't fathom that that was It's like a pod
Speaker 5: person came down.
Speaker 11: And you know what's cool is that she still has
Speaker 11: the e same personality. Got that, Yes she has not
Speaker 11: like she's she was always like just super friendly, uh
Speaker 11: and and full of personality and like positive and.
Speaker 6: She still is, like she's still exactly that same person.
Speaker 1: I know, just now in a thirty eight year old
Speaker 1: woman's like yeah, weird, yeah, I know it.
Speaker 7: She was never.
Speaker 5: Intimidated by the moment though. She walked kind of walked
Speaker 5: down to our set and was like I know I'm party.
Speaker 5: Now here we go, I'm part of it was great.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, no, which is the only way that that
Speaker 6: could have worked, you know. I mean that's like a
Speaker 6: really tough position for an eleven year old to walk
Speaker 6: in to, and man, she was just always undaunted, you know,
Speaker 6: she has real court.
Speaker 5: So, very very briefly, why do you think they recast Lily? Like,
Speaker 5: why do you think the character had to come back?
Speaker 5: Do you think we could have just gone on where
Speaker 5: she just never came back? Why do you think they
Speaker 5: actually brought the character back?
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm curious. Yeah, there has to have been
Speaker 6: a narrative pressure, right, There has to have been a
Speaker 6: storyline or two where they were like, we need to
Speaker 6: bring the family back on a.
Speaker 5: Network for something. Yeah, I mean I don't know. I'm
Speaker 5: just curious why, because they easily could have done, Oh
Speaker 5: I put you know, Morgan to sleep Morgan's that you
Speaker 5: could have mentioned the name and not actually recast, And
Speaker 5: I'm wonderous why they.
Speaker 3: You know, we were a very male dominated cast.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it would have, you know, especially with mister Turner
Speaker 6: coming in and Eli and season and we had all
Speaker 6: the thugs the second season, so like we were dropping
Speaker 6: female care so it could have been a network note like, hey,
Speaker 6: maybe we need to have someone for the girls to
Speaker 6: roof for besides just the love interest, you know, because
Speaker 6: we have all the love interests every week and then
Speaker 6: we have to panga.
Speaker 1: But I still think all so going back to Indy
Speaker 1: finding Morgan hysterical, we were missing. We basically lost all
Speaker 1: the young sibling contingent when Morgan was gone. So I
Speaker 1: think it was also a matter of reaching, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to bring those kids back.
Speaker 2: I love you know.
Speaker 5: He always said that Indy was laughing so hard at
Speaker 5: Morgan that you're right, we the younger kids didn't have
Speaker 5: anything to watch for anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 6: No, when we watched an episode relatively recently, that was
Speaker 6: the first thing that he said, Where was the sister?
Speaker 2: Right there?
Speaker 9: You go.
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Speaker 6: by Danielle Fischel, Will Fernell and Ryder Strong. Executive producers
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