WEBVTT - Kenny Johnston Meets World 0:00:18.079 --> 0:00:22.120 Well, I once again am completely in the dark, and 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.280 therefore you guys are both in the dark as well 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:27.560 about what this opening to our show is going to be. 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:30.880 All I was told just thirty seconds ago, is that 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:36.360 producer Jensen Carp, husband of this podcast, is I found 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:39.360 another clip I think maybe an audio clip, and so 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.599 he is here, he is, He's going to join us 0:00:42.680 --> 0:00:44.680 to share with us another audio clip. 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:46.120 No idea what it. 0:00:46.040 --> 0:00:49.400 Is, Nike will be audio For those who see this 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.160 on or listen to it on Apple podcasts or wherever 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:54.640 you get your beautiful show. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:56.320 It's a video clip. 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:59.680 It's a video on YouTube, and you know, every once 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.720 in a while, I will go searching. It's one of 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:06.040 my skills. It's almost like an archaeologist of sorts trying. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.160 To find the Indiana Jones of YouTube. 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.920 Trying to find fossils of the past. I like to 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:15.760 call him embarrassing fossils you don't necessarily know are on 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:18.640 the Internet. I don't know, just trying my hardest. And 0:01:19.240 --> 0:01:22.080 this one I'm not going to say as a hidden gem. 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.360 I didn't find something, you know, that's just like being unearthed. 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:27.640 Right now, we've gotten emails about it. A couple of times, 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:31.800 but I have never heard this person talk about it. 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.839 Will do you remember rapping about the way movies were made? 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.600 Oh my god, yes, I like to. 0:01:43.600 --> 0:01:47.360 So. Will was a Nickelodeon star before being on Boy 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:49.120 Meets World. And by a Nickelodeon star, I mean, he 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:50.360 was like all over the channel. 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.600 He would like the face of Nickelodeon. 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:53.160 He was. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.280 He was like a big interstitials commercial guy. They sent 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.560 him out to meet celebrities, like I just watched a 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.440 very cute interview he did with Weird Al And one 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:04.919 of the things that I really have taken from watching 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:06.680 these clips of Will is he was like a really 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:12.079 precocious kid, like when he was younger than Boy Mets World. 0:02:12.120 --> 0:02:14.280 When he was like even in his kind of preteens, 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.079 that kid had zero fear. Like it's like it's actually 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:18.640 semi terrifying, like if. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:26.640 A zero and a bunch of nicotine. He was just 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.320 fueled by purples and cigarettes. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.400 Like a celebrity wouldn't even like push back on him 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:34.480 a little bit, and Will would not step down. He 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:36.720 would like to ask the same question again. He was 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:37.760 like a little Heraldo. 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:40.120 He was the coolest kid ever. He was. 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:49.400 He's extremely cool and he was listening too, and I like, 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.560 this clip is so funny to me number one, as 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:54.799 a big rap fan, but like two, it's so crazy 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.040 because like he was on a sketch show. Can you 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:58.480 explain this sort of sketch show. 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.680 Yes, So, so Nickelodeon at the time was looking for 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:06.119 their quote unquote flagship show, so they created something called 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:10.640 Don't Just Sit There, and it was exactly was a 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:12.799 young Saturday Night Live. We had a band, we had 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.080 special guests, we would do skits. And I was not 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:18.240 on the first season, and then one of the hosts 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.079 didn't work out, so I came on I think season two, 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.240 and it was my first on camera job. I was 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:27.240 eleven years old and I got to move to New 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.200 York City. I moved there with my older brother Gary, 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.920 and I went to a studio every day and we 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.560 got to you know, they took us to you can't 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.600 do that on television, and we got slimed and we 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.520 got to know everyone on Nickelodeon. It was like back 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.160 in the eighties. So it was it was pretty awesome. 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:44.440 It looks fun And so one of the sketches on 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:47.880 this SNL like show for kids is that I think 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.480 the theme of the week has to do with like 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.080 Hollywood and making movies. 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:55.080 No, this is actually even worse. So we were moving. 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:59.240 Nickelodeon Studios was Viacom. Nickelodeon was in New York City, 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:04.080 and they moved to Universal Studios in Orlando. And when 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:08.440 you went on the Nickelodeon Studios tour, this was the 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.440 video that played to everybody to show them how movies 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:13.000 were made. 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:19.200 So Will is employed to create a rap about how 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:21.599 movies are made. And you see this in the theme park. 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.120 And so I figured we watched this and play it 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:26.839 and listen to it, and then at certain points we'll 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.719 deposit and just talk about what we're watching, because I 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.960 do think just for our own health, it's worth maybe 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:32.920 checking in on each other. 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.200 My name is Will and now i'm your host. 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:39.880 Charge. 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.080 Do you see shooting in the studio? 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:52.520 Then you bring a picture and we took it. 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.760 Oh my god, he's dressed like a rodeo clown. 0:04:57.040 --> 0:05:00.400 Yes, what are you wearing? It's like what they told 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:00.680 me too. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:02.839 It's so confident. 0:05:02.920 --> 0:05:06.479 Can we talk about the squiggles, the little those nineties. 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.000 We're in the's commercial too. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.040 That is the thing, right that like pseudo confetti look, 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:14.719 I had a mullet, Danielle. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:16.000 It was okay. 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:17.480 The mullet was very cool. 0:05:17.720 --> 0:05:20.479 Wearing my shirt said fresh boy, and that's who I 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.400 was supposed to be wash fresh boy. 0:05:23.000 --> 0:05:24.840 Hey, wait, will do you remember taping this? 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.760 I do, I absolutely do. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:28.680 Were you into it? 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:30.200 Yeah? 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:30.880 Because you know? 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:31.480 So. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.479 Here's the other thing a lot of people don't know 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:33.800 about me. 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.680 Is one of my favorite things to do from the 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:38.520 time I was like eight to twelve was breakdance. 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:39.440 So fun. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.000 So I've never seen you BREAKDANCEDO. 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:44.280 Can you still do it? 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:47.040 Can you have no idea? I'm forty seven. I would 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.880 probably hurt myself. That's a wow. I've never seen you 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.360 dance like that. I never did again. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.000 I think I slow danced at my wedding and after 0:05:55.240 --> 0:05:57.279 a little bit of of the free bourbon bar, I 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.239 might have danced a bit, but I'm not a dancer. 0:05:59.360 --> 0:05:59.600 Guy. 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:00.920 Let's watch the rest. 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.080 Come on over here and dig the a d this 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.159 joy stick in my head. I make the picture go 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.279 go ho and depend on how I could it. That's 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:12.680 the way the story goes. 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:20.320 Wow. Yes, oh my gosh, Well that's spectacular. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.640 You want to know something, I remember every word you. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:27.080 All right, let's do it. Let's do it. Go ahead, start. 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:32.600 Oh god, you can't even know. I can't sorry, why wait? 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:34.040 Give me this, Give me the start, give me the 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:35.520 very start of it. How did it start again? 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:37.000 You think we know? 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.240 But give me the just start to start the video 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:39.640 one time. 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:43.800 Let's say, my ny is Will and now I'm your host. 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.680 I'm the editor in charge of what's called video post. 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.760 You see, shooting in the studio is only part one, 0:06:49.800 --> 0:06:58.560 because then we bring the picture here and we begin off. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:03.479 The spirit of fresh Boy fresh sweating profusely here right now, 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.880 by the way, you still know, now we know what 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:08.400 we have to do at the next live show. 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:09.520 Yes you are. 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.400 You are totally coming on stage as fresh Boy at 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:13.240 the next live show. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:18.440 I want pants. That's one of two rap songs I've recorded. 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:20.920 Wow, bye, guys, I got something to fun. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.160 Exactly sure. 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:25.960 The other one is the ron Stoppable is the Impossible rap, 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.320 which went big in the in the what the late 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:31.320 two thousand or mid two thousands. So yeah, that was 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:33.880 my second rap. So Nickelodeon was so much fun to 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.960 work with. Every week you're in a food fight, you 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:36.560 did something. 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.440 It was great. There was well yeah, so Wow. Thank 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:39.960 you for that. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.080 Producer Jensen Carr, husband of. 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.080 This podcast, husband of this podcast, Thank you for that. 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.600 I will continue to search the internet far and high 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:52.360 and low and high and wide. I will do it 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:53.800 and I will find something for all of you. 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:54.280 Take care. 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.960 Thank you, Please don't no, no, We're happy with this one. 0:07:57.040 --> 0:08:02.280 Thank you. Bye bye. Oh man. That was good will 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:04.320 boy like. 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:07.520 A pig over here. Wow, very impressive. 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:11.080 Welcome to Pod meets World. I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm right 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:11.920 or Strong. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.560 And I'm the editor in charge of what's called Video 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:28.320 Post Fresh Boy Fresh. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:32.520 Now, as you guys have heard discuss many times during 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:35.319 our time on Boy Meets World, we have ran into 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.120 a lot of awkward situations as kid actors. 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.360 But the one most people. 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.520 Talk about, at least now that we've started this podcast 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.400 is what's the deal with the other Harley Kiner? 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:48.240 What is the deal? What is the deal? 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.640 So we had Danny on to tell his story and 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:54.360 he talked to us about how, you know, basically, a 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.480 mental break during a table read hospitalized him and then 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.160 in essence forced him off the show. And of course 0:09:01.320 --> 0:09:03.800 this left production in a little bit of a pickle 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:08.000 because he was in that week's episode and we had 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.640 to come up with a replacement. They could have done 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.560 a bunch of different things, but what they chose to 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:19.640 do was just throw another actor into an already existing character, 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:24.080 and there we have the other Harley Kiner. So, in 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:26.679 one of the stranger decisions by Boy Meets World producers 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:29.920 and honestly ninety sitcoms as a whole, they decided to 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.280 cast a totally different actor, one who did not really 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.280 look like Danny at all, to play the same character, 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.160 Harley Kiner, and they said nothing about it in the 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:41.080 middle of the season, and the actor they cast was 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.520 Kenny Johnston. Now, let's be honest, Kenny walked into an 0:09:45.640 --> 0:09:49.480 unwinnable situation, as we talked about during his one episode 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:51.640 Wrongside of the Tracks, the recap we did a few 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.559 weeks ago. He did a great job, but filling the 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.400 shoes of Danny and doing it surrounded by confusion and 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.520 a bunch of broken hearts was impossible to over for 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.679 all of us cast and ultimately the audience. So he 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.520 did not return, which made way for Adam Scott to 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.240 come in as Griff Hawkins, and that one episode with 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:14.040 that Harley Kiner was never mentioned again, and then Danny's 0:10:14.040 --> 0:10:17.720 Harley does return in season three to close that loophole 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:22.000 a little later. Are so Kenny after Boy Meets World 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:24.400 would continue to act. He showed up on TV shows 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:27.040 like News Radio and Modern Family, and he is still 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:31.040 working today. So we've now heard Danny's story, We've heard 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:34.000 Blake and Ethan's story, We've even heard Adam Scott's story, 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:38.640 and today we hear another story. Let's please welcome to 0:10:38.679 --> 0:10:41.960 the show the other Harley Kenny Johnston. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.920 Hello, Hello, how are you? 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:47.840 I'm good? 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.679 How you doing doing well? 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.680 We were just at Will was specifically just talking about 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.559 He's dying to know which character you played on News 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.520 Radio because Will, we'll probably be able to quote your 0:10:58.559 --> 0:10:59.160 lines from it. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:01.040 Also, which episode were you in? 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:04.640 Oh geez, I don't know. I think it was the 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.360 second season. I played a FedEx guy and they gave 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.280 me a name, which was really nice. So I was 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.960 in like two scenes. Okay, and the man, I haven't 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.040 seen that show in a while. Is it Vicky Thomas? 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:18.520 Who's the girl in at the Redhead? 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:22.240 The Redhead? Oh? Yes, yes, I know, she plays Bat 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:23.559 but I can't Yeah. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.720 Yeah, yeah, So she had a big crush on him, 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.600 and she grabbed the the FedEx guy and took him 0:11:29.640 --> 0:11:30.920 in a room and that was it. 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:36.040 Okay, I do remember this episode. 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.160 Okay, I think my name was it was Danny. I 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:40.120 think they gave me a name. 0:11:42.480 --> 0:11:44.200 It's always a plus when you get a name, right, 0:11:45.440 --> 0:11:51.200 Just give me a name, not FedEx guy. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:52.400 That's so funny. 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.559 Well, welcome, Thank you so much for being here with 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.960 us today. We are really happy that we were able 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.640 to get in touch with you. Did you ever think 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.880 you'd be talking about an episode of Boy Me Toworld 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:05.960 in twenty twenty three? 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:09.840 Never? Never, never, never, never never. But you know, every 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.360 now and then, I actually work part time in his 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.360 school over the years, and every now and then the 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:19.400 students will be like, wait a minute, were you horrid? Yeah, 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.720 and you know the students lit up. So you know, 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.520 the show is really carried over the years. I think 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.000 you know what I mean, through the generations, which is great. 0:12:28.360 --> 0:12:30.839 Yeah, it really has meant a lot to people. We 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:32.920 were actually just talking about this the other night, writer 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.960 and I were saying, no matter what age we have been, 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:38.640 there's always been a seventeen year old who's a fan. 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:40.480 Like, no matter how old we get. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.000 There's still always subwhere there's a seventeen year old who 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:43.600 likes the show. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.079 Yeah, exactly, which is great. But no, I'd never in 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.520 a million years would I thought I'd be doing a podcast, 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.600 which is great. I hear the podcast. You guys have 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.560 like gazillion followers. 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:57.360 I don't know about a gazillion, but we have a 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:01.200 lot of very loyal listeners that we love, who love 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.640 the show and love knowing about every detail. We Actually 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.040 when we first started the podcast, we thought, well, we're 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.480 going to have to figure out how much people actually 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:11.959 care to know, like maybe some of the real inside 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:13.880 baseball stuff they won't care about. 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:16.160 And what we've discovered is that people. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:17.920 Just love it all. They want to know all the 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.920 details they can. And so, as I mentioned in your introduction, 0:13:22.400 --> 0:13:25.360 we have had on Danny McNulty who came on to 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:28.520 talk about his experience playing Harley Kiner. We had Adam 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:30.760 Scott come on to tell his story as Griff Hawkins, 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.360 and we talked to Ethan Sipple and Blake Soaper at 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.000 the time who's now Blake Senate about their roles as 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:40.320 Joey and Frankie. And you are like the last piece 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.720 that's the puzzle, very bizarre puzzle. 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.280 Yeah, that's funny because when they were casting it, I 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:51.320 guess Danny couldn't do do Harley anymore. So I think 0:13:51.360 --> 0:13:54.240 Michael Jacobs said that you're the last piece of the puzzle. 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:55.880 Well that's so funny. 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:58.480 Okay, So that is actually exactly what My first question 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:02.360 for you is, what do you remember from your audition 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:05.720 for Boy Meets World and what was the setup for 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:07.560 how Harley Kiner was coming to you. 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:12.200 Well, I didn't know that much about the script. You know, 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:14.760 I knew about the character obviously, and it was a 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:18.160 great character. And when they were interested in me and 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.000 they brought me back, you know, to the producers and 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:22.920 explain that there's already a character Harley and stuff and 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.280 you're going to be replacing him, and that was all 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.040 I knew, and I was like, I don't want to 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:29.120 know anymore. Let me just focus on the scene and 0:14:29.120 --> 0:14:32.000 stuff like that, and uh and yeah, they just like 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:33.760 what I did, and you know, I was I was 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:35.840 kind of the bad boy character at that point in 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:36.960 my life anyway, So. 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:43.040 There's really much of a stretch. In fact, they saw me. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:44.960 Out on the back lot, you know, beating some guy's 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.120 car up nice perfectly. 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:48.640 That guy. 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:52.400 We need that guy. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.720 Okay, So it was also part of it was a 0:14:53.840 --> 0:14:55.880 choice that they you were like, listen, I don't want 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:57.640 to know too many details because I don't want that 0:14:57.680 --> 0:14:59.600 in my head. I just want to be able to 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:02.400 take this character and make it my own. Did they 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:05.840 try to show you clips of Danny? Did they want 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.720 you to do any sort of Danny imitation? Or was 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.480 it really like, listen, You're just going to take this 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:12.920 character and make it your own, but of course, within 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:14.480 the confines of it needs to be kind of this 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:15.440 bad boy character. 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:19.280 Yeah. They from what I remember, they didn't want me 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.160 to know too much about the previous Harley got, which 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.960 I think I think he played it a little more 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:27.800 straight than I did. I played a little more goofy, 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:32.280 which I think they liked the contrast. So yeah, I 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.120 don't think they wanted me to see his work. 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.640 Here's a question, have you seen his works since? 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:38.000 Yeah? 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:38.440 Or did? 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:40.800 Had you seen it before? Had you seen an episode 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.280 of Boy Meets World with him as Harley? 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:45.880 No? No, I didn't see anything. You know, back then, 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:47.840 we didn't really have you know, we didn't have the 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:50.760 internet at our lecture to just look up all the episodes. 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:52.520 So no, I didn't really know much about it. I 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.000 looked up, you know, I got the TV Guide out 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.520 and did as much research and recorded something on VHS 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:01.760 I think. So yeah, I think I watched a couple 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:05.240 of episodes that I taped, but Harley wasn't in those. 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.520 Okay, great, So they were just regular episodes of Boys World, 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.360 so you were at least familiar because yeah, it's like 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:12.520 part of you want to know, right. 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:14.920 It's little Brother. I'm like, wow, this is great. The 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:15.640 show was great. 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:19.680 So okay, so do you remember your first day on 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.520 set and were you nervous walking into this, this replacement situation. 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:29.200 I wasn't too nervous, you know. Michael was really great, 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.680 and it was everyone was really warm and welcoming, and 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.480 all you guys were really you know, I think, very 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:36.800 accepting of the guest stars and stuff like that. So 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:39.720 I wasn't really that nervous, you know. And that my 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:44.280 two co stars Beneath Kicks, Yeah, they were great and 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:45.960 we I think the three of us hit it off 0:16:46.120 --> 0:16:48.640 immediately and we were heard seeing and doing all kind 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:51.600 of comedy bits, you know. Yeah, so it was fun. 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:52.880 It was fun right off the bat. 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:54.080 Good, okay, good. 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:56.120 Yeah. I'm glad to hear I'm going because it was 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:57.840 such a it was kind of a slap in the 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:00.960 face week for us that, you know, just with Dan, 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:02.720 with everything that happened with Danny in the beginning of 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.040 the week, and and so it was it's nice to 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.159 know that that didn't cause us to slip into a 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.080 kind of like who's this person walking? You know. That's 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:11.399 the thing that I was afraid of, is that you 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:12.600 were going to come on here and maybe be. 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:14.800 Like, yeah, it was you. Guys were nice, but it 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:15.480 was a little bit. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.360 Cold because we had a little bit of a boomerang 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:20.240 effect from everything that happened. So I'm glad that we were. 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.959 We were trying to hold it together a little bit ourselves. 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:25.080 Fright. Yeahs were great. And let me ask you, I 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.720 mean I might have known back Dan some of the details, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:28.639 but what did happen? 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:30.639 Yeah? I was just gonna say, do you know? 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.240 Yeah, I think I don't writer? 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:34.280 You want to you want to take it? 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:34.560 Yeah? 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:40.360 So Danny, Danny had been on already like what seven episodes? Yeah, yeah, 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.560 So he had done seven episodes as Harley, and they 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:44.320 had written this episode, and we showed up at the 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:49.359 table read and he had a real mental breakdown, like 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:52.439 he just did not during the table read. He you know, 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:56.240 he was struggling with mental illness essentially, and and couldn't 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.960 get through the table read, barely got through the table 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.280 read and and had had to go to the hospital, 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.520 ended up in the hospital for multiple weeks. And so, 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.640 you know, we as kids, nobody explained to us what 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.080 was happening. We just were at this table and watched 0:18:11.200 --> 0:18:13.679 Danny not be able to finish the script, like not 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:14.600 be able to say his line. 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:15.440 I couldn't focus. 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.959 I couldn't focus. I mean he had struggled with dyslexia anyway, 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:20.720 so he was just not in the in the right 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.119 mind frame to be able to read the script, like 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:27.320 physically couldn't read. And you know, we I mean, I 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:29.920 think what what we interpreted as kids was that something 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:31.640 had gone on with drugs or. 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.119 We didn't know that he was on drugs. 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.359 We knew was that he was gone. And then you 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:38.280 came in I think even later that day or the 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.040 next day, and it was you know, and we just 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:42.920 no one ever explained it to us. We never saw 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:45.679 Danny and Danny did come back eventually, I think. 0:18:45.520 --> 0:18:50.119 The next season three, but yeah, he came back for 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:50.960 one more and that was it. 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:51.840 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:54.520 So this episode is a very bizarre moment in all 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.520 of our memories, you know, where we have the episode 0:18:57.520 --> 0:18:59.600