WEBVTT - Betsy Randle Meets World 0:00:19.920 --> 0:00:23.919 So you guys, I've discovered a podcast. Is it okay 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:28.840 to talk about another podcast on our podcast? Okay? I mean, 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:33.400 I mean yeah, there's this amazing podcast that I've become 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:36.640 obsessed with, and it makes a perfect companion piece to 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:42.760 our podcast. It's called Sixties Songs That Explained the Nineties Wow, 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:46.400 And it's this this great music journalist named Rob Harvilla, 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.640 and he basically every episode he picks one song from 0:00:50.640 --> 0:00:52.839 the nineties. I mean it's everything you like, you know, 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:58.040 top hits from and not only like goes into the 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.520 you know, the song and the meaning and why it 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:03.480 was written, but also the whole history of the band. Um, 0:01:03.600 --> 0:01:06.399 so you know, it becomes an opportunity like for instance, 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.360 you know, I knew the song Hey Jealousy by Jin Blossoms. 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:14.840 Of course, every great song. I had no idea anything 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.399 about why that was written or the tragedy of the band. 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:20.840 It was the guitarist. Was that the guitarist that wrote it, 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:22.200 and the guy who wrote that and their other two 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.880 hits killed himself. Yes, yes, I mean, I mean, unfortunately, 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.480 like a lot of things in the music, like the 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.039 music industry, especially in the nineties, there's a lot of drugs, 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:35.319 a lot of depression, a lot of but anyway, you know, 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.320 for anybody who grew up in the nineties or who 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.720 was listening to music, and especially because you know we've 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:41.800 talked about before or like in relation to our show, 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.959 it was still like a monoculture, right, So everybody was 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.360 listening to the same songs, everybody was talking about the 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:52.280 same songs, and so it's really interesting to dive into 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.400 these um the backstories. And he's just a very funny, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:58.240 witty writer. He usually has guests on and they just 0:01:58.240 --> 0:02:01.160 break out, Like I didn't know anything of Oasis, for instance. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.600 It was like one of those things I just completely missed, 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:05.600 you like I know the story of the brothers and 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:07.840 the history, like I just I knew some of the songs, 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:09.520 of course, So like I went and listened to the 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.880 Wonder Wall episode and it just blew my mind, like 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.880 the crying the back story. There's a great documentary about 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:16.960 Oasis that's out right now, that's like two hours long. 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:20.040 It's pretty phenomenal about their rise to fame and then 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.560 how they broke up. And it was like the brothers 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.600 don't speak anymore. It was over like clothes. It was 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:28.840 Jensen and I were just talking about songs that you 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.400 don't really know the meaning of, and then you go 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:32.000 back and re listen to them and you're like, whoa, 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.800 that's what that was about. Like remember the song closing time? 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:40.680 Of course? Of course? Every okay, right, and that's what 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.079 you think it's about, right, It's actually about watching the 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:50.840 birth of his child. Okay, the baby is out. You 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:53.520 can't you don't you you can't stay here, you have 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.000 to go home. And there's actually no no, you really 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.880 listen to it. There is a lyric, but it's amazing 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.560 calculated also because like I love that, Like every couple 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.560 of years there's just a song about like drinking or bars, 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.360 and it's like so smart. I'm writing Christmas songs because 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.600 it's like it's always going to have a place, like 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.160 exactly five years where you couldn't go to a bar 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.360 until at two am. They would just play close and 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:21.840 be like shots. Remember the song shots? Shots? Oh my god, 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.720 I'm gonna go on record and say that is in 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:32.840 my top ten favorite songs of all time. It is amazing. 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.720 How dare you? How dare you say it is? The song? 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:40.440 It is? It is incredible. I absolutely love it. But 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:41.640 it used to be. It was a song that I 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.600 ran to and that so if you just think about 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:45.680 it as being like, you know, it's the right beats 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:47.920 per minute to like get you going while you're running. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:51.880 That's one of the reasons I'm exactly that right, Okay, 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:56.120 except for those of us who are younger than sorry, 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.720 exactly that's my seventies running song. I have the Tiger. 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:02.240 Thank you, Danielle, if you want to, if you want 0:04:02.280 --> 0:04:04.240 to do an episode that is like you're talking about, 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.440 daniel where you discover what it's really about and so 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:10.680 disturbing is crash into me but just like a beautiful 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:14.200 song help but just like and like you know, I 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.400 was just the right age sixteen or whatever. But you 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:20.160 listened to the six the sixties songs that explained the 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.320 nineties episodes and they like they don't have to go 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.760 very deep. You just actually listen to what he has 0:04:24.880 --> 0:04:30.520 saying it. It's so sexual, but it's a beautiful song. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:31.880 You kind of care, Now do you think this guy 0:04:31.960 --> 0:04:34.159 on his podcast is sitting there going? So I found 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.160 the greatest podcast in the world that is a perfect 0:04:36.160 --> 0:04:41.840 companion's called also Hit Me Baby One More Time. Apparently 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.919 was a double entendre that also had sexual undertones. I 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:51.240 was gonna wear look at my shirt. Yeah, shirt I'm wearing. 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:55.000 I'm wearing my Too Much Shirts writer. I have your shirts. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.960 I have a shirt for Indie. It's an extra small 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.960 I hope it fits him. It maybe very stylishly oversized. 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.760 Well perfect, I have all of your shirts. Yes, of 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.560 course you're you're you're a beast growing up. I was 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:12.000 just called husky, so that will work. Yes, and the 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.240 husky size. Um, yeah, I'm really excited about it. So 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.120 I love my Too Much Shirts shirt. It's the only 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.480 one I've worn. I'm wearing it today. I also got 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.360 the hold the Plane for Maka shirt, but I haven't 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:24.440 worn it yet. But all of you can get your 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:27.560 shirts as well at pod Meats World show um dot com. 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.440 So please go check out the march just very quickly, Danielle. 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.880 I was in Boston at Comic Con this weekend and 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:37.960 there was a plethora of Pod Meats World shirts. They 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:40.560 were everywhere. It was awesome. It was so cool to 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.960 see people out rocking their Pod Meats World shirts. It 0:05:43.000 --> 0:05:44.880 was great. It was really really cool. I haven't seen 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.039 one of the wild yet. Oh yeah, I know they're 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.240 out there, that's and I asked, just for the record, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:51.320 I asked everybody that I met, and there was a 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.560 number of people, I mean tons of people came up 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:55.160 and said they were listening to the podcast. I said, 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:59.279 are we ruining your childhood? For you? And every single one, 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.839 so you know, I had to. I had to. It's like, 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:05.279 are we doing anything that's ruining your experience? And they're like, no, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.719 it's awesome. We love the inside stuff. Keep it up 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.480 because this is totally cool. It's enhancing the show. I 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.239 was like, okay, good, I feel good about that. Okay 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.919 good if that makes us feel good. I also wanted 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:17.800 to give you, guys, just you know, we get thousands 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.279 of emails and some of them, most of them are 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:25.240 really incredible, and we love reading them. Unfortunately, because we 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:27.200 get so many of them, it would be impossible for 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.960 us to write you all back or acknowledge you. But 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:31.479 it doesn't mean that we're not reading them, and it 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:33.200 doesn't mean that they're not special. So I did just 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.000 want to give a couple of little shout outs to people, 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.560 like a shout out to Deanna C who used Boy 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.040 Meets World as a way to get through her hard childhood, 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.440 and she saw the show as an escape. I want 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.240 to give a shout out to Becky Oh, who is 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:50.280 a high school teacher who starts her classes every year 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:55.160 with the episode Teachers Bet Isn't that Yeah? She says 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:58.839 it gets some cringes, but starts some really good conversations too, 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.040 And she said this year the pod cast recap actually 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.080 really lines up with her back to school time, so 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:04.919 it was perfect. So now they get to listen to 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.600 both uh and then I thought this story was so amazing. 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.160 Shout out to Katie H who herself actually works on 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:17.440 Righteous Gemstones and she zooms with her childhood best friend 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:21.400 every single week. They originally met in study hall and 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:25.080 boy meets World in was the thing that bonded them 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:28.040 and made them friends. And now so they used to 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.760 watch the episode together every week and then talk about it. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:34.160 And now thirty years later, they zoom every week to 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:40.720 talk about this podcast. Yes, that's awesome, our podcast, about 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:45.760 our podcast and their friendship and how how we are 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.040 just keeping them friends. What if they have nothing else 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.360 in common, what if it's just us, that's it, that's 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:53.920 all they've got. Oh, man, that's so funny that isn't 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.520 it funny? So uh, Welcome to pod Meets World. I'm 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.560 Daniel Fishel, I'm Strong, and I'm Wilfredell and we are 0:08:01.760 --> 0:08:04.320 edging closer to our first ever live show as Pod 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.640 Meats World goes on the road to San Diego at 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:10.200 the Magnolia on October How many layers of shirts do 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:13.760 you to plan on wearing? Um, not not counting vests 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.120 or hood So I'm gonna I'm gonna haim for fours. 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.480 That's impressive. I'm gonna try to outdo you and go 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.800 for five. Then, oh man, I'm going to be outnumbered. Well, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:23.760 we're going to record a part of the podcast, talk 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:27.120 about specific episodes with audience members, perform a scene with 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.840 one lucky listener, and we will have a special guest 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.600 plays with squirrels. Yes he will actually be there, but 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.439 this time I was talking about someone else and v 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.959 I P packages will get you a meet and greet 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:42.160 and a photo and autographs. Tickets are available now at 0:08:42.160 --> 0:08:44.959 ticketmaster dot com for Pod Meets World at the Magnolia 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:48.319 in San Diego, cohone on October two. Don't miss out. 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.920 It's gonna be yes. I'm bringing this phrase back the 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.719 cat's pajamas. I am so excited. We are all so 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:59.839 excited about today's guest. Uh. She is America's mom. She 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:04.480 is one of the most incredible women actors. She's a 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.599 mom in her own right, She's a wife. She is 0:09:07.640 --> 0:09:12.280 absolutely wonderful and so please welcome to the podcast. Betsy Randall, 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:30.480 Betsy my TV mom. Hi you are How are you 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:34.320 even more gorgeous than the last time I saw you? Well, 0:09:34.360 --> 0:09:39.040 I worked on it this morning. I've lost and I'm 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:41.360 getting getting my A D S hair back, my home 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.800 improvement hair. Oh man, I can't wait to talk to 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:46.599 you about your home improvement hair. Yeah. Well it's a 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.719 big and you know got me this job. Okay, so 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:55.400 I'm talking around. Okay, Yes, we're great. Well look beautiful 0:09:55.480 --> 0:10:02.079 to me. Oh I missed your face gon cry already? 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.120 Oh man? Okay. So to give everyone a little bit 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.599 of a I mean, not that she needs really any introduction, 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.440 but she played Amy Matthews, the matriarch of the house 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.920 for a hundred and fifty eight episodes of Boy Meets World, 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:17.200 the wife of Alan, the mother of Corey, Eric Morgan, 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:29.319 and eventually Yea on the milk Bottle Never Up we did. Wait, 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.920 tell that story, Please tell that story. Okay, I'll interrupt you. Well, 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.160 the funny thing is is that I'm friends with with 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:40.280 the what's her name now, the original Really really you're 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.080 very close. He's not that close, but I've seen her 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:47.199 in place. She's a magnificent actress. Yes she is. So 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:51.439 the crafts, not the craft services, but the tech guys 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:56.600 that you know, you know, just provided us with a 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.320 milk cotton with a picture of Lily on there and saying, 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:05.160 if you seeing this child, actually shoot with that milk 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.800 carton on the thing? You know they did, It's just 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:11.040 they didn't zero in on it, a little scared to 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.040 do that. They probably took a shot of it and went, 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:16.280 oh my god, I'm so curious if anybody can see it, 0:11:16.360 --> 0:11:19.880 Oh my gosh, I'm dying. Second or season second or 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.560 third season? Right? Well? When, yeah, she was, because then 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.760 Lindsay comes in after what like half the season was 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.120 in a fourth season after she hadn't come in until 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.440 like fourth season. Really, is that we went that long 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:34.680 with a couple of years? Yeah, yeah, a long time. 0:11:35.880 --> 0:11:38.600 I thought it was just one season. I thought so too. 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:42.800 There that she was there for wee, No, no that she. 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.440 I think she was there for two seasons, and then 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:47.000 I think she was gone after the first season, really, 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.960 and then I thought he took a season off, and 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:53.760 then at least one I think it was fourth. I'm sure. 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:59.200 I'm sure there are somebody exactly somebody will pop up Easton, Easton, 0:11:59.240 --> 0:12:03.040 actually probably those at all details. I have a grandchild 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.440 who's three turning to four, and I can just picture 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:11.559 her at that age, at four, four to five, going 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.400 I don't feel like doing this. Yeah, I don't want 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.680 to do this. No, I'm not going to do this, 0:12:17.840 --> 0:12:23.560 you know, and you go, yeah, yeah, try explaining contracts 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.839 and work to you know, a four or five year 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:31.080 old like m h. God bless Chris Kire, God bless 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.199 Chris Kier that first couple of a couple of seasons. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:36.160 First Chris Kaire, who is an upcoming guest of Pod 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.360 Meets World. We're very yes, we're gonna have Chris Cairo on. 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:44.320 We're so excited to talk to him. So, Betsy, you 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:49.280 were on Home Improvement before you ended up on Boy 0:12:49.320 --> 0:12:51.760 Meets World. Can you tell us about how you were 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:55.040 cast as Amy Matthews and whether or not Home Improvement 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.920 and your role. There had had a hand in it. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.600 It had everything to do with it. Um. Remember I 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.040 did have big hair. It was this really great big hair. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.840 And the first episode I did what I had auditioned 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:12.560 to play Tim's wife. Okay, I'm home and proves they're 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:16.520 down to three of us. Francis Fisher got cast first, 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:19.360 you know, the Francis Fisher to the actress who was 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:24.000 married to what was his name, the big director actor. Um. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:27.360 And then she was fired because she didn't know how 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:32.040 to be funny as a stint as a backup, you know, 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.080 she didn't know how to be the straight man. So 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.760 and that wasn't working with Tim because he was a 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:40.600 stand up comedian and so on, so that didn't work. 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.800 But there were three of us up forward, they they 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.280 called me back with the last three. So then when 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.760 it came time when they finally cast Pat Richardson, who 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.160 was more of this dry delivery and I was much 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:56.120 more married Tyler Moorish, you know kind of thing compared comparatively, 0:13:56.720 --> 0:14:01.600 and so she uh so, So anyway, they just said 0:14:01.679 --> 0:14:03.920 they brought Deb Barilsky, who was not one of my 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:07.360 best friends who caught me this job. Um said, what 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:11.599 about Betsy for this best friend Pat, who's a feminist 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.960 friend who will make fun of Tim for his tools, 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:20.040 and I seem to nail that no pun intended, No 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:24.560 pun intended. Oh that's right. I didn't even generally no 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:29.360 pun into not that clever, but anyway, sure, so I 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.800 got that part, and it was just such a fantastic episode, 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.680 one of the funniest ones where Tim, you know, nails 0:14:36.600 --> 0:14:40.000 glues a piece of wood to his head and and 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:42.440 it's just one of the funniest episodes that won all 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:46.320 these awards, is the ABC Funniest Episode of the Year 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:49.280 or something. So I happen to be featured in that, 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.200 so that didn't hurt. And then you know, I stayed 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:57.120 on and they liked me a lot. Um John Um 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:01.360 past Flinn was directing at the time. Disney's watching me, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:05.280 They're already And so then they called me in after 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.600 two years at at Home Improvement and said, what do 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.440 you think you want to go for this part? They 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.800 want to see you, and I went, really, I don't 0:15:12.800 --> 0:15:14.600 know if I want to leave Home Improvement. I really 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.720 like it here. You know, I didn't know, and I 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.560 kind of knew in my bones this was gonna be tricky. 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:25.600 For me because I had I wasn't going to be featured, 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.880 you know that the mom wasn't going to be featured, 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:31.960 and there wasn't. It wasn't like Tim and Pat, you know, 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:35.520 it wasn't gonna be just the kids and mom, you know, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.400 or the husband and mom. So it became a mom thing. 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.240 But anyway, I competed with about a thousand people. I 0:15:42.280 --> 0:15:45.520 was told to get you know, at least um to 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:49.000 get this, and I kept I went in three times. 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.680 They weren't sure, and I was like, well, this really 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:56.760 builds my confidence. But it was just one of these 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.880 things where they just wanted me from the beginning. They 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.640 somehow fell in love with me from Home Improvement and 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:05.000 they just went, no, there's nobody better than her, so 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.920 will go with that. And that's true, although I really, 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.720 you know, struggled to get my mind's memorize and stuff 0:16:10.760 --> 0:16:13.480 like that. But do you remember do you remember what 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.560 the audition scene was? Was it a scene with you 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:17.560 and Corey or was it a scene with you? And 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:21.400 it was it was you and Corey. It it was 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:23.560 a scene with me and Corey and I was sitting 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.840 on the bed trying to comfort him about something. What 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:29.560 was I doing and giving him advice about something. Sitting 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.560 on the bed and we're in baggy clothes that were 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:36.160 all my own clothes. They trussed me like a camper 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:40.120 or something. I don't know year and finally they went 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.360 west with her wardrobe and you know, things like that. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:47.080 But they finally snaresed me up a bit. But did 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:49.240 you read with Ben when you screamed like when you 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:54.000 screen tested, did you did you read with him? No? Wow? 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:58.600 Did you ever read with the original Alan? Matt McCoy? No, 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.440 Matt was cast out after me. The only people that 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:07.080 were cast for sure. It was me and Corey and writer. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:12.080 We were for sures and then you came in, but 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:17.040 we changed Matt. We said goodbye to Matt. That was that. 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.960 But there wasn't a lot of you know, I didn't 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.800 know enough. When Rusty came in, it was like a 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:29.120 whole different experience, Like, I know this guy, he's cute, 0:17:29.560 --> 0:17:35.119 you know, cute, he's kind of tough, you know, guys, 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:38.280 guy kind of thing, you know. I know. We talked 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:42.439 about the fact that like Amy and Allen were really 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:48.160 set up to be different parents, like you guys were 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:53.119 not the stereotypical do we be dorky, but of the 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:56.800 joke parents, you guys were cool, and you wore cool clothes, 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.959 and you had hip taste and music, and like you're 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:03.040 relationship with each other was very cool and relaxed. And 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:06.000 the way you guys parented was also a different style 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.080 of parenting than we saw on TV at the time. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.000 And I wonder, like that is very much how we 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.560 see you and Rusty, So we wonder how much of 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:17.240 that was really based on them incorporating and writing the 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:21.000 characters after who you were as people, rather than, you know, 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:23.359 trying to fit somebody else into the mold. You know, 0:18:24.080 --> 0:18:30.120 you're absolutely right, that's exactly what happened. They I. I 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:34.080 just was my being myself. I can be funny, I 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:35.680 can be not funny, I can be said, I can 0:18:35.680 --> 0:18:37.520 pack it personally, I can do all that. But I 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:39.919 was always myself. I didn't never feel like I was 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:41.879 playing someone else. And that's what they said, just for 0:18:42.000 --> 0:18:47.119 your wonderful self. And I went, oh God, what's that that. 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:50.560 I don't know what that is. So it's easier to 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:52.240 be evil. I did a movie where I got to 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.800 be evil. It was Piece of Cake. The thing was 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.560 is that I just think that that's very much what 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:03.960 have and and Rusty and I had a wonderful chemistry 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:07.159 right away. You did, remember we were both studied with 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.600 the Sandy Meisner. We both had from the same background. 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:14.879 I we you know, I was still taking classes and 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:18.040 stuff while I was still getting started, and so he 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:21.679 was just sort of reassuring to me when we saw 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.200 what worked, we went, well, this is why we worked 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:27.800 because we worked off each other. And I think that's 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.960 why we worked with you guys, is because we gave you, 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:37.640 honestly how whatever you did or said. I'll speak for myself. 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:40.879 I think Rusty would call himself more aggressman. I just 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:45.199 take everything personally, took to a detriment, but you know 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:50.320 what it serves me on camera, I think. So one 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.760 of my favorite things that we're starting from from, you know, 0:19:52.880 --> 0:19:55.560 early on, one of my favorite things was you um. 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:57.679 I just I love all these stories that pop into 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:00.480 your head when you talking to somebody. And we were 0:20:00.520 --> 0:20:02.680 we were doing the little um and I've we've talked 0:20:02.680 --> 0:20:05.600 about this on on the show before. We were doing 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:08.520 our opening title sequence, and it was kind of getting 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:10.919 little pops of everybody, Okay, will you go lie in 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:13.000 the bed. Now, hey, look up and smile like you're 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:15.159 doing this kind of stuff. And I was watching everyone's 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:17.040 watching as we were. You were doing yours, and you're 0:20:17.040 --> 0:20:20.040 sitting there with Ben and put the band aid on 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:22.359 his head, and then you walk away and you do 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.240 a big smile, and then they yell cut and you 0:20:24.280 --> 0:20:27.119 walk over me. You're like, that's my please watch our show. 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.879 Smile and I'll never forget that. You always stuck with me. 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:32.800 That's And then the first time we saw it together, 0:20:32.840 --> 0:20:34.320 we were all somewhere we saw the opening town and 0:20:34.359 --> 0:20:37.359 you went, yep, there it is my please watch our shows. 0:20:37.640 --> 0:20:43.200 It is. It's shameless, but we all knew that work. 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:48.080 It worked, work, it was perfect. So was that also 0:20:48.240 --> 0:20:50.920 your first that Like the guys have talked a lot 0:20:50.920 --> 0:20:54.640 about that first photo shoot being their real first introduction 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.600 to everybody. Do you remember the first time you met 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.720 Will and Writer and what your impressions were of all 0:21:00.760 --> 0:21:02.200 of us as kids, and then the first time you 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.800 met me, which was significantly later. Yeah, Well, first of all, 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:09.040 you were also young. I was just watching the episode 0:21:09.040 --> 0:21:11.520 of the Santa thing, like, my god, we were also 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:16.960 my gosh, how the time flies? Um, Well, I met 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:24.679 Ben and writer. Were you coming? Were you at the table? Read? Yeah? Yeah, okay, No, 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.560 I got cast later there was another Eric that's oh, 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:31.439 that's right, that's Harry something very branch. I didn't bond 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:37.080 with him. Oh good good. I can't remember that, but 0:21:37.280 --> 0:21:40.560 I do remember that I met Ben and writer and 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:44.880 then his family. So but anyway, that's when I met 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:48.280 you guys for the first time in this world, uh, 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:52.760 for the first time, and you know, it was sort 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:55.919 of amazing fact that kind of overshadowed everything else. I 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:58.600 don't read and remember reading the script. Didn't we read 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:02.720 the script? I'm sure we did because we all auditioned 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:04.760 for the same material, so I sort of had it down, 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:08.040 you know. Now. You you obviously would have worked with 0:22:08.080 --> 0:22:11.200 the kids on home improvement, um, although I'm sure your 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:13.960 role wasn't necessarily heavily involved with the kids. So was 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.760 Boy Mets World your first time working with a bunch 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:19.919 of kids? And were you nervous? What? What? Did you 0:22:19.920 --> 0:22:25.280 have any concerns going into it? No? None. I mean, 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:27.520 I'm I'm a mom, I have kids, and you know, 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:30.600 there's nothing scary to me about that, just you know, 0:22:31.000 --> 0:22:33.560 but I had great respect for them. It's just that 0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:37.320 I wasn't involved in a lot of dialogue with the kids. 0:22:38.000 --> 0:22:40.520 There was one where I was babysitting and I told 0:22:40.600 --> 0:22:43.720 him the who won the game and I particularly killed 0:22:43.760 --> 0:22:48.199 me kind of things like that, but never really you know, 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:51.080 hands out with the kids. So I wasn't nervous, no 0:22:51.600 --> 0:22:55.879 coming into us. Yeah, I wasn't worried. I just you know, 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:58.080