WEBVTT - Attorney Gary Friedle Meets World 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:20.360 All right, well, I have to start off by saying 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:23.720 apologies to Ohio, the whole state. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:24.599 The whole state. 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:31.040 You're apologizing to Ohio. I have no idea why. Indy 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.800 has has started a bit and this started like a 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.720 year ago and he has continued it to this morning. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:41.160 He was singing about it that Ohio is the worst 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:44.960 place on the on the planet Earth. What And I 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.320 have no idea, Like as I can't. I've asked him 0:00:48.360 --> 0:00:50.720 so many times, like where does this come from. We 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:54.720 drove through Ohio with him on our road trip and 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.040 he kept the bit going the whole time and I 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:58.880 was like, Indy, we're stopping, We're gonna we have a 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:01.000 we had a great pic nick and he's no, it's 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:01.640 awful here. 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.240 So and part of me. 0:01:04.240 --> 0:01:07.240 Is like wants to like say, Indy, you gotta stop this. 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:08.800 This is it, But then the other part of me 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:12.400 finds it very funny. Yeah, it's like basically the equivalent 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.039 of our Connecticut bit. And it doesn't make any sense. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:18.440 I think the only thing I could think of is 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.120 he somewhere you know, you guys know slender Man and 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:26.120 Last Siren Head. Okay, Well, somewhere along the way he 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.480 decided that all monsters come from Ohio, like all of 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:35.039 those guys come from Ohio. And when I was like, 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:37.240 you know, first of all, those things aren't real, and 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:38.840 the second of all, like, what does this have to 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:40.520 do with this particular state? 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:41.920 That doesn't make any sense? 0:01:42.360 --> 0:01:45.120 Now, it's just and he's never caved, He's never like, 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:46.400 you're right, I'm just joking. 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:47.280 He keeps the. 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.040 Bit, keeps the going. He's committed. 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:50.040 He's committed. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.360 So today he was saying that they wear wooden clothes 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:57.080 in Ohio, wouldn't let the lastic couches that give you 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.920 a rash, That there's a ninety percent chance of getting 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:02.600 hit by a car in Ohio. 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.200 Likes it sounds. 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.520 Like he's making up these statistics as he goes along. 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.800 This doesn't seem like this is Wikipedia or something. 0:02:09.840 --> 0:02:12.239 But then he says, did you know it's illegal to 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.080 buy cornflakes on Sunday in Ohio? 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:15.680 And I'm like, what are you talking about? 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:19.480 And he's like, look it up, look it up, and 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:22.880 and sure enough, on one of these like wacky old 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.040 timey law sites, it says it's illegal to buy cornflakes 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:29.799 on Sunday in Columbus. I then continue, I'm like, this 0:02:29.880 --> 0:02:31.680 cannot be true, and I continue to look it up. 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.160 It isn't true, but it is listed on a series 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:38.400 of websites. So he's sharing and gaining information about Ohio 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.000 with other kids and YouTube. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:42.359 I guess, like the other kids. 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:44.120 Who are allowed searching the web. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.280 Well, that's what I'm trying to get out of him. 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:48.200 I'm like, when are you accent? And when he goes 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.919 to his grandparents' house and I'm like, bo, wait, hold on, 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:54.240 we have a no YouTube rule, and he's like, yeah, 0:02:54.280 --> 0:02:57.000 but this is safari And I'm like, that's the same 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:01.840 thing that's your web browser to search for video, which yeah, 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:03.560 So I don't know. Maybe this is an internet meme 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.400 thing that I don't know about, like. 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:09.120 The internet is. Because we were just in Ohio and 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:13.320 it's lovely. Yes, this was the first time in my life. 0:03:13.320 --> 0:03:14.959 This year was the first time I've been to Ohio. 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.600 I have now been to Ohio twice. I drove through 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.320 on our road trip and then we just had an amazing. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:21.400 Show and it was awesome. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.519 So and we're going back in December. We're gonna be 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.519 in Columbus, Ohio in December. Yeah. 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.840 Yeah, I mean also Skyline Chili is from Cincinnati. 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:34.200 Scinnati is WKRP in Cincinnati. 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:38.000 Also, Aglamsi's Brothers is some of the best ice cream 0:03:38.080 --> 0:03:40.040 I've ever had in my life is. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.200 From Cincinnati Brothers. 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:45.520 Aglamsi's Brothers, and you can order it. I've sent it 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.080 to sou before. You can order it and it ships. 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:50.960 You can get six pints shipped in dry ice. 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.960 Oh that's the one. They delivered it at the wrong 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:57.119 time and it was just melted, massive nothing. 0:03:57.360 --> 0:04:01.080 Yeah, lost it a curse. Maybe it. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:03.360 Was slender Man. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:05.520 Slender Man delivered it. 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:07.520 Slender Man delivered it. That was the problem. Yeah, we 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.760 opened Sue. It was the nicest gift Soe and. 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.080 I love ice cream. Su especially loves ice cream. And 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:14.200 Daniel's like, we have the best ice cream. We're sending 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.000 it to you, and then we couldn't find it for 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:17.960 days and ice cream is like not the kind of 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.440 thing you want to lose for days at a time. No, 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:22.960 And we finally it gets delivered to our porch and 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:24.280 it was just even. 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:28.080 Just it was ice cream. It was an ice cream pool, 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:29.560 a mini ice cream pool. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:30.599 It was sad. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:32.640 It was because it was like she just wanted to 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.200 eat it. She's like, do you think you think I 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:34.640 can eat it? 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.000 I'm like, I don't think the pool of nastiness on 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:38.800 our front porch is something you should. 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.400 Be eating, babe. Sorry, sorry, crazy. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.600 Well, I appreciate Indie's commitment to the bit, but I 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.520 think you need to do a little bit more digging 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:51.880 about where. I think you need to start tracking search histories. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.680 Well no, I mean I think now he knows that 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.280 we're kind of disappointed in this spit, and we also 0:04:58.279 --> 0:05:00.680 find it funny, but we're also kind of like, maybe 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.880 you shouldn't just trust everything on the internet or listen 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.560 to your friends. I mean, we literally were driving through 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:07.880 Ohio being like, Indy, what is wrong with And he 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.120 won't he will never. 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:11.120 Say like, oh it's a joke, Oh it's this. Thank 0:05:11.160 --> 0:05:12.400 he keeps it going. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:15.039 And so now, of course, because we keep laughing and 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:16.400 saying when are you going to stop this? 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:18.440 I don't think it's ever going to stop. 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:20.680 For the rest of his life. The rest of his life, 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.320 he's going to have a thing about Ohio. Kids. 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.480 Man, he doesn't even know like that it's a state, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.520 you know, Like he'll be like, wait, wait is that 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:29.960 a city. 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:33.839 I'm like, no, no, whole state. Do you know who 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:35.600 you're making exactly? And least know? 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:40.720 Oh, Indy, Well, welcome to Pod meets not Ohio. I'm 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:41.880 Danielle Fischel. 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:43.919 I'm Right or Strong, and I'm will Fordell. 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:49.359 Today we have a very special guest. In keeping with 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:54.520 our parents of Boy meets World tradition, Will Fredell has 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.000 somebody to introduce us to. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.400 I do all right, So here we go. So we're 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.719 all doing our own intros. I'm back here in Connecticut. 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.200 In your childhood bedroom, in my childhood. 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.440 Bedroom, which makes it for RO ninety two sticker the 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:09.520 craziest perh ninety two. Of course, I got all my stuff, 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.720 So here we go. I'm going to try to get 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.000 through this. Okay, as I once again sit here in 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:19.760 my childhood bedroom in Connecticut, surrounded by the same posters, hats, 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:21.800 and hockey sticks that have hung on my wall since 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.240 I was a kid, I've racked my brain to come 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.320 up with the perfect way to begin this introduction. I 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.040 wanted to start with a quote about parents. I tried 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.160 to channel my best right or Strong and search for 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:35.520 something by Shakespeare or Chaucer. I looked for words from 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:41.080 Nietzsche or maybe even whoever the hell David Hume is. Sorry, 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:43.960 that's a Podmeats World Live joke, and if you'd like 0:06:44.040 --> 0:06:47.040 to hear more obscure Scottish philosopher jokes, go to Podmeats 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.559 Worldshow dot com for all of our upcoming tour dates. 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:53.680 At the end of the day, the quote that I 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:55.480 thought summed it up better for me than any of 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.719 the others was said by legendary basketball player Kobe Bryant, 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:03.120 who said, quite simply, my parents are my backbone, still are. 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.680 They're the only group that will support you if you 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:09.640 score zero or you score forty. Thanks Kobe, and may 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.680 you rest in peace. This was the perfect quote for me, 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.200 because as amazing as you all are, dear listeners, I 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.320 will never have fans that are more proud, dedicated, or 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.320 supportive of me as my parents. 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:23.600 The three of us all feel that way about our parents. 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.800 We as listeners, loved hearing about how Jennifer Fishel would 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.520 stay up until all hours of the night, crimping young 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.080 Danielle's hair while running lines with her so she could 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:33.920 walk onto the set the next morning ready to be 0:07:33.960 --> 0:07:37.920 that wonderfully weird and nurturing girl that was Topanga we 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.400 were amazed when Lenny king Strong told us they didn't 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:42.800 know where Ryder got his talent, then spent the next 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.080 twenty minutes talking about all the movies that they would 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.840 star in and shoot at redwood Shire, dressing up in 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.400 funny costumes so their two young boys could run around 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:55.480 the majestic Redwoods pretending to be heroes, villains, monsters or magicians. Well, 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.160 now it's my turn, and thus we will learn the 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:02.840 origin story of super fil Free, or more accurately, about 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:06.040 the two people whose absolute and unwavering love helped to 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:10.440 turn me into the man I am today. Unfortunately, my mother, 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:12.680 Patricia's under the weather and won't be able to join us, 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:14.760 but she did ask me to relay a message to 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:18.400 all of you listening. Tell him I'm gorgeous and incredibly smart. 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.400 She said it with the same dry witch she's always had. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:26.560 But she's right, she is gorgeous and incredibly smart. She 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:30.520 went to Simmons College in Yukon undergrad and then Yukon Law, where, 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.840 in a starting class of eighty one, she was one 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:35.200 of only three women still left standing when by the 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:38.000 end of the course half of the class had dropped out. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.120 She immediately went to work for the court and eventually 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.440 rose to the rank of Executive Assistant to the Chief 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.199 Justice of the Supreme Court, and was then promoted to 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.120 Chief Administrative Officer for the Supreme and Appellate Courts in 0:08:49.120 --> 0:08:52.280 the state of Connecticut. When she finally retired, she wrote 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:55.360 and published three historical fiction ya novels with her sister, 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.040 my aunt Janette, about a circle of young friends who 0:08:58.040 --> 0:09:00.520 find themselves pivotal to the events around the birth of 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.480 our nation, and did all this while raising three sons 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.120 and a husband and being there for us whenever we 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.880 needed her. So representing the Frudell parents today will be 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.160 my father Gary. Though few call him that, most call 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.520 him Attorney Fredell or Captain. I will say that he 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.880 is the perfect person to represent my parents because of 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.880 how much he loves people and loves to talk. When 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:23.480 I asked him to do this, my mom said he 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.440 would be wonderful. But she hopes we're doing forty episodes 0:09:26.440 --> 0:09:28.120 with him so he can tell all the stories that 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:32.480 he wants to. Born in nineteen thirty nine in Flushing, 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:34.640 New York, he spent his early years on Long Island, 0:09:34.679 --> 0:09:36.959 where Gary Fridell is only the second person I've ever 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.600 met my life other than my beautiful wife, Susan, who. 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:40.960 Absolutely loved high school. 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:44.880 He was the class president, played soccer, and generally was 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:48.440 the popular kid in college, first at Saint Lawrence, then 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:50.839 at Colgate. He found his first found the first love 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:54.040 of his life, the military, and joined the Army ROTC. 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:56.960 When he transferred to Colgate, he was cruited by the 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:01.440 Air Force and switched briefly to Air Force ROTC. After college, 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.520 he was accepted at Yukon Law School, where he met 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:05.920 the true love of his life, my mom, Patricia, and 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.400 his military dreams were briefly put on hold while he 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.520 finished law school, got married and started a private practice 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.560 in New Britain, Connecticut. Once he'd established himself as a husband, father, 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.400 and lawyer, the military once again came calling, and he 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.320 was recruited by the Judge Advocate General or JAG Corps 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.080 in the United States Navy Reserve. You know that show 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:26.880 JAG where the guy's lawyer but also runs around flying planes, 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:30.000 shooting guns and saving people. Yeah, my dad didn't do 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:33.200 any of that, except for the saving people part that 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.760 he did all the time. Legally speaking, of course, as 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.800 a young boy, I spent many a weekend running around 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.640 the submarine base at Groton, Connecticut, all the time marveling 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.480 that people were saluting my father everywhere he walked. When 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.440 I were to remark about how cool that was, he 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:48.160 was always the first to remind me that they weren't 0:10:48.160 --> 0:10:51.240 saluting him but the rank. It was never about him 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.160 but the country. He served during the First Golf War. 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.120 He was sent to Italy to help with the legal 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.360 aspects of the war, and eventually retired to captain the 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:01.079 Navy after thirty years of service. The Navy, though, is 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.000 the only thing he's retired from. As a matter of fact, 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:07.000 twenty twenty four would be my parents' sixtieth wedding anniversary, 0:11:07.320 --> 0:11:10.559 as well as the sixtieth anniversary of him as a practicing. 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.200 Lawyer at the age of eighty four. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:14.960 He still goes to work every day, seize his clients, 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:16.080 and takes new cases. 0:11:16.559 --> 0:11:19.360 He is, to say the least, a tough act to follow. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:22.160 Like my mother, He's managed to walk and blaze an 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.959 incredible trail all while being the best and most engage 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.880 parents my brothers and I could ever have hoped for. 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.480 I often tell people that I was blessed before I 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:31.480 was ever born and all the rest is just a 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:35.120 wonderful bonus with no insult intended to my mother. My 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:37.640 father is, with no shadow of doubt, my biggest fan 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:40.480 to this day. I can't go anywhere with him without 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.120 him asking everyone who meets whether they've seen Boy Meets World, 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.520 my date with the President's daughter, or if they listen 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.800 to this podcast. Some call him Gary, most call him Attorney. 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.320 I call him simply pop. So, dear listeners, with no 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.360 further guilding of the lily, nor any more ado, I 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:58.480 give you my father, Gary Furdell. 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:02.679 Now I've got to text him, come up. 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.319 Hello, How you doing, Captain? 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.319 I am doing fine. 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.720 Thank you, good to see you again. 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:27.400 It's good to see you guys too, And will say 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:32.640 you're coming to Connecticut next year. Be sure you're seeing 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:33.520 all of you again. 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.720 Oh yeah, we're excited to go back to Connecticut and 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.200 see all the things. Will speak so highly of. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:40.080 Thank you. 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.840 It's an on, running, on running joke between these two 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:47.360 here that Connecticut is Yes, now you've got to face 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:47.920 the piper. 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:49.160 Oh dare you? 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.959 That Connecticut is a little backwards, and that we tend 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:56.760 to ride ride horses and buggies and churn on and 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.600 butter and all that kind of stuff. 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.760 That's true, stuck in the nineties. 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:08.760 Well, I we did. We did say that there was 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.439 once a breaking news report that there were four cows 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.320 on the highway. Do you remember that, Will? 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:16.080 Yes? 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.080 And it was true, wasn't it. That was actually a 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:19.679 breaking news report in Connecticut. 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:20.880 Yes, four Connecticut. 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:25.800 Yes, there were four cows loose on the highways, breaking news. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:26.640 Breaking news, it was. 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.640 Well, yeah, because that's kind of unusual to have four 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:31.880 cows on the highway. 0:13:32.280 --> 0:13:37.840 Yeah, it's usually only two. With four cows, you can 0:13:37.960 --> 0:13:40.840 use the express lane, which is nice. 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:45.680 So I want to start with a very hard hitting question. 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:50.640 Do people often call you Attorney Gary Friedel? 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:58.280 Yes? Yeah, the the very few people ever pronounced the 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.280 name correctly, and it's stale mole because how do you 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:03.480 get tell out of dlle right? 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:03.959 Right? 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:07.440 So yes's that happens more often than not. 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.079 Well, half of our family are the Freedles. 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:15.320 Yes, I mean the family reunion in our Hey, I'm 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:16.120 Bruce Friedel. 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:20.280 Who what really if your family says it freed that's 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:20.920 not a joke. 0:14:21.320 --> 0:14:26.720 No, that's true. The brothers divided on how to pronounce 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:30.000 the name and when we had our first family reunion. 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:33.400 I was twenty eight years old and was introduced to 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.640 my cousin and I said, oh, Bruce Gary Fredell, Hey, 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:39.280 Bruce Friedel, and I just kind of stared at him, 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:43.080 and half of them pronounced the name Friedel and the 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:43.960 other half. 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.760 Is So you could have at that moment just decided 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.680 to change the pronunciation, right. It made it easier for everybody, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:50.360 just gone. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:53.640 With, I don't like Freedel. Isn't that funny? 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.360 You get hooked on your own. Yes, this is in 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.840 my wife's family. They're the Burrettos, and there's a lot 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:02.040 of Retto's in the world, but they all spell it differently, 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:05.480 so sometimes it's two rs to teas, two rs and 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.520 to Te's and it's a huge debate, like, and everyone's 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:10.000 stuck on the way they spell it. 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:10.760 It's so funny. 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:16.280 Yep, we're the Fredell's. They're the Freedoles in your family, 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:17.840 in the same family. 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:18.160 Yep. 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:19.080 Amazing. 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:25.560 So, Captain, what was raising a young Wilfredell like? Was 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:27.760 he always this naturally funny? 0:15:29.040 --> 0:15:34.400 Yes, truthfully, even from when he was very very young, 0:15:34.640 --> 0:15:37.960 he has the ability to make people laugh. And he 0:15:38.120 --> 0:15:42.000 was a very easy child to raise. Actually very well tempered, 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:45.000 good demeanor. Yeah. 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.560 Do you think maybe it's because at eleven years old 0:15:47.600 --> 0:15:49.800 he decided he was just going to wander the streets 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:50.480 of New York. 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:55.760 Oh that. Of course, we found it out later that 0:15:55.800 --> 0:16:00.280 he wasn't always accompanied as at the bus stop, I'm 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.280 was supposed to, and he didn't tell us that because 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:07.760 the arrangement was very clear. The bus driver watched him, 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:12.000 he would get off the bush what was the name 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.920 of that place, port authority, port authority, and the agent 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.480 would meet him as he stepped off the bus. That 0:16:19.680 --> 0:16:24.520 was the plan, and it always go that way. I 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:29.400 still don't know how the percentage of how it was. 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.760 I would say it was it was probably seventy percent 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:34.640 of the time he met me at the bus or 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.080 somebody from the agency. 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.760 Oh that's okay, yeah, And so this is. 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:42.320 Your acting agent that you have that's in New York, right, correct? 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:44.400 So how did you get that agent in the first place? 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.320 How did you guys get Will into all of this? 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:53.960 Actually he had a third grade teacher who had a 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:59.680 contact at the Hartford stage and apparently said to the contact, Oh, 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:03.160 this this cute little kid in my class, and if 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.320 you're ever doing a play involving children, you might want 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.960 to consider him. And then they were going to do 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:14.679 Ibsen's a Dollhouse. And we got a call and I 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.520 remember it because it was one of the weekends that 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:21.240 I was supposed to go away with the Navy on 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:26.879 a slow the flag cruise up the coast, and I said, no, 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:31.840 we'll go to this thing. And we go and is 0:17:31.880 --> 0:17:34.359 what we now know, of course, was a cattle call. 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:36.920 We walked in and there were eight million kids there 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:41.480 and laughing and running around. He said, oh my god. 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.880 Well he goes and he comes out, he says, oh, 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.719 this was fun. We left and that was it. And 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.359 it was the next day or a couple of days 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:54.359 thereafter we had got a call that they had selected 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:57.320 him as to be one of the three kids in 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:01.720 the play, and of course we were dumbfounded and watched. 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.639 Then he went into the auditions, and his mother and 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:07.440 I went to the first night, were soaking wet as 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:10.479 was sitting there watching and with sweat. He comes out 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:16.359 as if he's sitting in our living room with Mary McDonald. 0:18:16.800 --> 0:18:23.919 Uh and David Aaron, Mary McDonald, Jerry Bamman. It was 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.879 Mark Lamos was the artistic director, but actually acted in 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:27.879 the play as well. 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.000 Wow, it was one of those. 0:18:30.040 --> 0:18:31.560 And I still to this day have never seen the 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:36.199 end because if I had to be home before, so 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.679 I left halfway through the play and never got to 0:18:38.680 --> 0:18:40.720 see how it ended. It's ibsen, though I've always said, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:44.040 I'm sure it ended well and it was happy and 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:44.840 it was wonderful. 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.520 Yeah, that was That was it? And then how did 0:18:48.040 --> 0:18:52.879 how did we get from there to meet to finding 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:53.840 the places in New York? 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:59.920 He debug bit him, and he made it very clear, repeatedly, 0:19:00.200 --> 0:19:04.320 very clear, I want to go into acting. Sure, sure, honey, sure, 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:08.600 And I placated him for some period of time, and 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.199 as it turned out, he never gave up to his credit. 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.560 And one of the guys working in my law firm, 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:19.040 he was our billing clerk, I think, was an amateur thespian, 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.680 and he said, I know an agent in New York 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:29.760 if you're interested. Another client, slash Navy colleague, was a photographer, 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:34.200 a Navy photographer. He did his first head shots. So 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:40.720 I think it was August of nineteen eighty eight when 0:19:40.760 --> 0:19:45.399 we sent down the pictures and I said, okay, well 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:48.639 I've sent everything down. There's nothing more. Dad can do 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:53.240 at this point nothing. Six or seven months later, as 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.240 normally I was in the office late, the phone rings 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:00.800 and he says, mister Ferdell, yes, mister Goles Goal from 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.840 New York. I drew a blank. He could tell it 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:11.879 because like, who is this go start talent? Oh, yes, yes, 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.240 we're looking at the headshots now and we really you know, 0:20:15.320 --> 0:20:20.000 we're interested. We'd like to see them. And I thought, oh, okay, 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:24.239 we made arrangements to go down there. We walk in 0:20:24.320 --> 0:20:28.400