Speaker 1: Okay. So I'm back here in Connecticut and my parents,
Speaker 1: because they're older people, has still have a landline. Great.
Speaker 1: So the phone rings today and I pick it up
Speaker 1: because I'm here. Uh it's a local number, and we hear.
Speaker 1: I hear sobbing on the other end, just horrible, pained,
Speaker 1: emotional crying, and the person cannot get anything out. And
Speaker 1: I hear, it's Greg. It's Greg. It's Greg. It's my brother,
Speaker 1: it's Greg. It's Greg. I've I can't even talk. I'm
Speaker 1: getting arrested. I've been in a horrible at talk to
Speaker 1: the police. So I hear, high, my gosh, it's a scam.
Speaker 1: It's a scam. I'm weren't expecting you to answer your phone.
Speaker 1: They thought it was going to be your parents. They
Speaker 1: know his you're their son's name, and they were going
Speaker 1: to try to get money to get him out of jail.
Speaker 1: I know this, dam because all of my grandparents have
Speaker 1: fallen for it. Dude, this happened, Yeah, this happened, dude.
Speaker 1: Alex's grandmother that the guy, the actor playing Greg, I
Speaker 1: want to find this person and signed them because he
Speaker 1: want a resonance. Sounded right, and they're sobbing, so much
Speaker 1: that you can't figure. Then the police, the police officer
Speaker 1: quote unquote gets on the phone, all right, sir, don't
Speaker 1: your your your son is okay? He or he said
Speaker 1: your brother because he knew it was me. It was okay.
Speaker 1: He hit his face, but unfortunately he was on his
Speaker 1: cell phone at the time. He was taking a left
Speaker 1: he slammed into a car, and a woman who was
Speaker 1: seven months pregnant has been very hurt. He's been arrested
Speaker 1: for vehicular Oh my gosh. So we're all now shaking.
Speaker 1: Oh right, you're gonna get a call in about five minutes,
Speaker 1: he's all I said, let me speak to my brother again. No,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. He's in the back of the wagon. He's
Speaker 1: already handcuffed. You'll get a call with the case number
Speaker 1: blah blah blah. So we're going, oh my god, what
Speaker 1: the hell's going on? Call two minutes later from somebody else,
Speaker 1: and right as he started talking, I knew it was wrong,
Speaker 1: Like I just went, something's not right. He said, Well,
Speaker 1: the bond's already been set. It's for twelve thousand, five
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, but we've got it reduced for five hundred
Speaker 1: now from from fifty thousand. Now he doesn't know that
Speaker 1: both my parents are attorneys for three hundred years, and
Speaker 1: so they're looking at each other. I go, can you
Speaker 1: hang on a second? And I mute it and I go,
Speaker 1: this is a scam. My dad's like, there's you wouldn't
Speaker 1: have a bond already if he's in the back of
Speaker 1: the van, like, what what's going on? So as it's muted,
Speaker 1: the guy hangs up. We call my brother. Obviously there's
Speaker 1: a big snowstorm here. He's like, I'm shoveling off the driveway.
Speaker 1: What's going on. We're like, oh my god, we just
Speaker 1: got this call. We tell him this whole thing. As
Speaker 1: this happens, we hang up. I'm on the phone with
Speaker 1: my wife telling the story, and the guy calls back, Oh,
Speaker 1: it tries a kiss, So now he knows it's a scam.
Speaker 1: So now I get to play right. So the guy
Speaker 1: calls and says, you know, this is the sergeant again.
Speaker 1: We're checking to see did the lawyer call you? And
Speaker 1: I turn it on. Yes, he called. I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: so sorry. I'm so nervous right now. Can I please
Speaker 1: talk to my brother? I need to talk to my
Speaker 1: brother I'm sorry. He's now we've we've transported him. He's
Speaker 1: in the holding pen. I was like, oh, okay, you've
Speaker 1: got to get a message to him. And I said, okay,
Speaker 1: he goes to Okay, what is I said, the gold
Speaker 1: statue that my grandparents sent. We're having it melted down
Speaker 1: as we speak. We're turning them into gold ingots that
Speaker 1: are being polished. We are then sending them to a
Speaker 1: small tribe that is going to turn them into blood
Speaker 1: to get them to the vampire tribe that is going
Speaker 1: to release him from prison. My brother, my brother, and
Speaker 1: yelling in the room, my brother, Oh my god. And
Speaker 1: so there's dead silence on the other end, but the
Speaker 1: guys obviously still on the phone. I went, did you
Speaker 1: pick up that we got? It's a scam? Do you do?
Speaker 1: You know that? And then after that you just heard
Speaker 1: the click. But it was thirty to sixty seconds of
Speaker 1: just having so much fun. At this point, I thought
Speaker 1: you were going to start like asking for a badge number,
Speaker 1: or like just keep keep pushing him to go. But
Speaker 1: I love it. You just made it your a chance
Speaker 1: to shine. But you watched the color drain from my parents' face,
Speaker 1: and you're thinking these horrible scam artists that are out there,
Speaker 1: These are horrible, horrible human beings. I mean, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: my my human being. My wife's grandmother before she passed,
Speaker 1: got scammed by one of these and sent hundreds of
Speaker 1: dollars off to who she thought was her grandson because
Speaker 1: he was in trouble and needed money and da da
Speaker 1: da da da, and she just didn't know. You know,
Speaker 1: it's playing on your love for your family, like we're
Speaker 1: playing love for your family. It's it's awful. It's awful. Yeah.
Speaker 1: My grandmother rest in peace, fell for it as well,
Speaker 1: and I think twice, I think two times, sent thousands
Speaker 1: of dollars, like twenty five hundred dollars the first time,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately we didn't know it the time necessarily, but
Speaker 1: she was battling some dementia and so then it happened
Speaker 1: a second time and she didn't like remember that the
Speaker 1: first time it had turned out to be a scam
Speaker 1: and you know, oh man, it's just unbelievable. And they
Speaker 1: did it to my other grandfather as well. You people,
Speaker 1: whoever you, you're probably not listening to pod Meat's world.
Speaker 1: If you're if you maybe well taking of your parents
Speaker 1: who are not listening to Pod Meat's World. Yeahparents, this landlines,
Speaker 1: all right, it's always if you have a landline, they
Speaker 1: can look up and they will know everything. Like in
Speaker 1: this situation, they knew even Will was his brother, and
Speaker 1: they knew Greg's name and like, so make sure your
Speaker 1: parents and your grandparents know that this scam is going
Speaker 1: on and that you will never call them if you
Speaker 1: need money. And then just don't never call them if
Speaker 1: you need money. Then this is going to backfire big day,
Speaker 1: bad idea. But just make sure they know this scam
Speaker 1: is going on and they verify that you need it
Speaker 1: two times two so terrified. Oh my gosh. I also
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you had that experience, Will, But I also
Speaker 1: want to just talk about highlight some emails that we got.
Speaker 1: It's been a while since I called out some shout
Speaker 1: outs for some emails that we had. Lucy f email
Speaker 1: just to point out that during her rewatch that she's
Speaker 1: been doing with us, she noticed that the Matthews kitchen
Speaker 1: table only has four placements and four chairs for eating,
Speaker 1: and she knows exactly who probably isn't eating with the
Speaker 1: rest of the family. And then we have to give
Speaker 1: a shout out to ABBYG who binged the whole podcast
Speaker 1: in five days. Wow, very impressive. She is twenty two
Speaker 1: years old, a little younger than our imagined demographic, and
Speaker 1: she said some very nice things about the show and
Speaker 1: most importantly us, So hello, ABBYG, who's probably so sick
Speaker 1: of our voices. Yeah, and then another one. Okay, we
Speaker 1: got a lot of emails agreeing with you two about
Speaker 1: the painful experience that is Goofy Sky School. But shout
Speaker 1: out to Eileen, a rare voice of defense for the ride.
Speaker 1: She admits to the fear of it all and that
Speaker 1: while on the ride, the idea of sweet sweet sleeps
Speaker 1: does flash right before her eyes. But she says if
Speaker 1: Goofy Sky School is wrong, she does not want to
Speaker 1: be right. That I'm never going that right. Did you
Speaker 1: ride or did you read? The one theory which is
Speaker 1: very interesting that the first time you see Sean wearing
Speaker 1: the jacket, he's wearing it at the Matthews house, so
Speaker 1: he actually stole it from Eric or borrowed it. Perfect
Speaker 1: he stole it, so that's the first time you see it.
Speaker 1: That's I love that theory. It makes perfect sense. And
Speaker 1: then which maybe he just then Eric never noticed, but no,
Speaker 1: that was the thing. I think it was a woman.
Speaker 1: I apologize if I'm wrong, but what she said was
Speaker 1: this was an Eric was going into his preppy phase,
Speaker 1: so he was over it anyway. So he was like, take, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's cool. I love that theory. He got trusted up
Speaker 1: for the band show, right, and we're on different clothes
Speaker 1: and I put on Eric's jacket. You put on Eric's
Speaker 1: jacket and that's it. There you go. I like that,
Speaker 1: very very cool. And you guys have been so wonderful
Speaker 1: and supportive of our Harley shirt. We only have two
Speaker 1: weeks left that we are offering it, and we have
Speaker 1: raised so much money for Danny McNulty and Namium, which
Speaker 1: we are just so appreciative of. So if you guys
Speaker 1: do not have your Harley shirt yet, I got mine.
Speaker 1: I love it. Uh. If you guys don't have yours
Speaker 1: yet and you were interested in getting one, you've got
Speaker 1: two weeks. Danny murch all right, well, welcome to pod
Speaker 1: Meet's world. I'm Daniel Fishel, I'm Rider Strong, and I'm
Speaker 1: Wilfred ll Well, gentlemen, if you think we get recognized
Speaker 1: out in public as, aren't you that person from that
Speaker 1: show or that thing. Our guest this week most definitely
Speaker 1: has us beat. With over one hundred on screen credits
Speaker 1: to his name, he has appeared in some of the
Speaker 1: funniest and most iconic movies and TV shows of the
Speaker 1: past three decades. He's most recognizable as a regular in
Speaker 1: Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Universe. You have seen him in
Speaker 1: The water Boy, Little Nikki, Fifty First Dates, Joe Dirt,
Speaker 1: Mister Deed's Grown Ups, Huby Halloween, and many more. Oh
Speaker 1: that's not good enough for you, Okay? Sure. On the
Speaker 1: movie side, he's also in The Mask Toys, Ladybugs, Leatherheads,
Speaker 1: and he replaced Jim Varney as the voice of Slinky
Speaker 1: the Dog in Toy Story three and four. Well, guys,
Speaker 1: how about just some sitcoms? He has those two New
Speaker 1: Heart Facts of Life, Give Me a Break, Who's the Boss,
Speaker 1: Roseanne Coach, The Drew Carey Show, and twenty three episodes
Speaker 1: of Home Improvement But Will. Most importantly, this man appeared
Speaker 1: on mash Yes he did he wash. Yeah, I knew
Speaker 1: that's all you'd care about. All we're talking about for
Speaker 1: the next hour. I'm sorry to everybody else listening when
Speaker 1: we're talking about him on match episode A couple. Well
Speaker 1: we'll find out, because right we're talking to take our
Speaker 1: headsets off. I'll go get a cup of coffee. But seriously,
Speaker 1: who cares about all that stuff? He is here today
Speaker 1: to talk about his time as the alcoholic trouble dad
Speaker 1: of Sean chet Hunter, who appeared in twelve episodes of
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World and did one return cameo eventually for
Speaker 1: Girl Meets World. Let's please welcome character actor Royalty. This
Speaker 1: is Blake Clark. I see the top of Blake's head
Speaker 1: and a moose. I think you just keep it on
Speaker 1: the moose school right there, bless of me? You see
Speaker 1: them better? Your hair looks great? Oh and so um well,
Speaker 1: let's still have it. It's it's one of the only
Speaker 1: things I still have. Oh he was a beard. Look
Speaker 1: at you? Oh yeah, you look great. You look great.
Speaker 1: Play old Blake. Look at that. Look at how well
Speaker 1: you guys have age? Oh my gosh, we're all old too.
Speaker 1: Now age? How old are you? Writer? Thirty seven? Are
Speaker 1: you kidding me? Forty three? Get the hell out of here.
Speaker 1: No man, wait, I gotta go start my heart. I
Speaker 1: remember one time I was playing this was years ago.
Speaker 1: I was playing, Oh did you guys want to talk
Speaker 1: about something? You just want me to go? I was
Speaker 1: playing this club in Detroit, and after the show, this couple,
Speaker 1: young couple, early twenties came up to me. Oh, I
Speaker 1: didn't know how old it were. Then I just killed
Speaker 1: the damn. I haven't done stand up, but it wasn't No,
Speaker 1: it's gotta be your bowl anyway. So they said, you're
Speaker 1: on one of our favorite shows, and I thought probably
Speaker 1: Home Improvement, you know, I said, oh, yeah, which one?
Speaker 1: They said, boy Me Swirrel? I went, should you be
Speaker 1: in here? They said our twenties? And then oh my god,
Speaker 1: yeah that was that was twenty years ago. So those
Speaker 1: people probably forties and divorced. Yeah, well, how old were
Speaker 1: you when you were on boy Me's World? You were
Speaker 1: probably my age, right, you were probably forties? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: I didn't even move out here until I was thirty four. Wow.
Speaker 1: All these guys, you know, all these guys that I
Speaker 1: was friends with, comedians, they were all in their early twenties.
Speaker 1: So I'm not even that there and I was thirty four.
Speaker 1: Well one year was that that you moved out to
Speaker 1: La nineteen eighty? I've been here forty three years. So
Speaker 1: were you there with all the old school comedians like
Speaker 1: a like Andy Kaufman and kind of that whole crew.
Speaker 1: Did you know all that? Notauman? I was Leno and
Speaker 1: Arcineo and Seinfeld and Riser and uh geez, you name them.
Speaker 1: They were there. Letterman was already back in New York
Speaker 1: doing his job doing his show. Um prior was there, Robin?
Speaker 1: I mean I didn't, Uh, Robin. We became kind of friends.
Speaker 1: When he got Good Morning Vietnam, he wanted to know
Speaker 1: some stuff about it, so he you know, we hung
Speaker 1: around for a while and told him stuff, and he said,
Speaker 1: did you did you remember Adrian Cronarland? No, he was
Speaker 1: gone by the time I got Dude, they had a
Speaker 1: they had a Armed Forces radio, but it was Armed
Speaker 1: Forces radio. Right? How did you How did you go
Speaker 1: from Vietnam to doing stand up comedy? Well, it was
Speaker 1: it was a long trip. When I got home from
Speaker 1: When I came home for Vietnam, I met Sharon, who's
Speaker 1: my wife now? And uh, she didn't shoot at me,
Speaker 1: so I asked her married me? And then I did
Speaker 1: a bunch of I coached football in high school for
Speaker 1: a while. I had my own wine and Chief store, which,
Speaker 1: in making Georgia was not a good idea should have
Speaker 1: gone from moonshine. If I have sold Boone's farm in
Speaker 1: bell Vita still be there. Yes, I tried. I tried
Speaker 1: to bring a little sophistication to a very rich yeah,
Speaker 1: and it didn't. It didn't work. And then I had
Speaker 1: a bunch of other jobs that worked for a beer
Speaker 1: company delivering Uh it's funny. I lifted weights for like
Speaker 1: eight years. I got a little bit bigger, a lot stronger,
Speaker 1: but just a little bit bigger, and quit working out.
Speaker 1: When I got this job with them Miller Beer people,
Speaker 1: delivering kegs of beer in like six weeks, I was huge.
Speaker 1: So you know, working out doing work makes you bigger
Speaker 1: or kills you. Yeah. I did a couple other things
Speaker 1: here and there, and I started doing some somebody's wanted
Speaker 1: me to do this play and uh it was cold.
Speaker 1: Norman is that you? And Uh it's funny too because
Speaker 1: the two guys that wrote Norman is that You? I
Speaker 1: ended up they wrote a pilot for me. I ended
Speaker 1: up doing a pilot with them for NBC. They didn't
Speaker 1: get picked up anyway. How weird is that Ron Clark
Speaker 1: and Sam Bobrick ron Clark and Sam Bobrick. Ron Clark
Speaker 1: was from Kennedy, Sam Bobrick and Sam Bobrick was Jewish
Speaker 1: guy from New York and he wrote Andy Griffiths. You
Speaker 1: know Andy Griffin was Southern, is it anyway? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: uh yeah, so uh. I tried doing some community theater
Speaker 1: and I really liked it. So I figured, what the hell,
Speaker 1: I'll try this. And then so it was acting first.
Speaker 1: It wasn't comedy. First, it was acting. And then I
Speaker 1: started doing a little stand up. Somebody said, why don't
Speaker 1: you come guy a guy who ran a bar and
Speaker 1: making making Georgia That's where I was born, and raising
Speaker 1: making it. And I thought, and vietnamous like being punished
Speaker 1: for the same thing twice I used. I used to
Speaker 1: have flashbacks in Vietnam that I'd wake up in the
Speaker 1: middle of the firefight and be thank God, I'm not
Speaker 1: making anyway. You know what's funny too, is uh I
Speaker 1: think we were on Disney locked because we moved. You
Speaker 1: guys kept moving around, but I'd find you. You'd always
Speaker 1: find us. Move. Let's move quickly quickly. Oh, we gotta
Speaker 1: do some big discussion about the second Amendment. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: And so I was spousing all this stuff about this,
Speaker 1: that and the other, and then everybody got real quiet,
Speaker 1: and that Rider was there. I don't remember if anybody
Speaker 1: the rest you guys there, and Rider was just kind
Speaker 1: of looking at me, kind of gently shaking his head.
Speaker 1: Just shut up, just shut up. From there? You don't
Speaker 1: remember this right? Sounding familiar? Yes? From then on whatever,
Speaker 1: I got a script on any show, I wrote STFU
Speaker 1: on it because I was not every conq shut that.
Speaker 1: I still do that I get, I get a script
Speaker 1: and on the front, I write STFU on it because
Speaker 1: I figured, I just thought, everybody, this is probably last
Speaker 1: Boy Meat's World I'm gonna do. But oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: do you remember auditioning for boy Meat's World? Yes, yes,
Speaker 1: it was on Disney. I know that was on Disney.
Speaker 1: And in the animation uh studio ANIMI building. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I went in there and uh uh, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I just uh had played a character. You know, well,
Speaker 1: I'm my dear man. I did all that stuff, you know,
Speaker 1: I put up bit bit bigger than life and let's
Speaker 1: Simon as our watchers. Yes, and then I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, I got the part. But then I was
Speaker 1: doing I was doing movies. I was one night one
Speaker 1: week I was on on the ABC show every night
Speaker 1: because I had a recurring role on your show, on
Speaker 1: your guys show, on Grace under Fire, Yeah, uh uh,
Speaker 1: home Improvement and they show there was one week I
Speaker 1: was on this. I was on the network every single night.
Speaker 1: And they thought, and they were saying, we don't know
Speaker 1: if Blake Clark can carry a show. Put me, put
Speaker 1: me on the They were gonna do a spend off
Speaker 1: with the hardware store, and they said, Blake Clark, this
Speaker 1: is true. They said, Blake Clark is not a romantic
Speaker 1: leading hardware. And then you were doing Jamie FOXX during
Speaker 1: our show, huh. And then you were on Jamie Fox's
Speaker 1: show while we were on doing our ship. You were
Speaker 1: on everything. You were just non stop, I know. And
Speaker 1: then I was doing movies with Standler. Yeah a lot
Speaker 1: of times, you guys, but you know I wasn't available
Speaker 1: to do Yeah Orlando doing Waterboy. Were you did you
Speaker 1: know Sandler from Stand Up No Maddim on a show
Speaker 1: called Shakes. The knew I was gonna say Shakes the
Speaker 1: clown because I remember I remember talking to you about
Speaker 1: your career, and you're being like, you want a weird movie.
Speaker 1: You want to you want to know you know what
Speaker 1: you'd like. Writer. I guess you just knew I like weird.
Speaker 1: You were like, you know what you'd like, writer, Shakes
Speaker 1: the Clown, and that's what you should watch. And I
Speaker 1: remember getting it and be like, this is the craziest thing.
Speaker 1: I also told you about the Confederacy of Dunces. Yep, yes,
Speaker 1: that's right. The first person told me you have to
Speaker 1: read the Versay of Dunces, and you did the same
Speaker 1: thing I did. About two thirds to the way through it,
Speaker 1: you went, I've lost interest. Yeah, I don't know what
Speaker 1: it was that, you know he did. He died before
Speaker 1: it was ever published. He won a posthumous Pulitzer. But
Speaker 1: it should have needed a rewrite, as did Shakes the Clown.
Speaker 1: If he had a couple of rewrites, it would have
Speaker 1: been a good movie. You know, it's a good movie,
Speaker 1: great movie. It was a movie. I got some stories
Speaker 1: about that book. Oh I was doing, uh, doing that movie.
Speaker 1: That's where I met Sandler and he got he had
Speaker 1: not gotten Saturday Night Live yet and we were doing
Speaker 1: the movie when he found out he got Saturday Night Live.
Speaker 1: So I called up fred Wolf, a friend of mine
Speaker 1: who was a writer on Saturday Night Live, and I said, hey,
Speaker 1: this is Adam. Take care of him. And they talked
Speaker 1: on the phone. This is before cell phones, you know,
Speaker 1: it was like a real I don't know it was.
Speaker 1: I don't even know where the phone I think it was.
Speaker 1: I think we may have had a flip phone. But right,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Hi Christy Carlsson Romano, Hi Wilfredell. How are
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Speaker 1: hear voices on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever
Speaker 1: you listen to podcasts. Now I have to ask, because
Speaker 1: we're talking about all the old stuff he's done. Now,
Speaker 1: I am a Mash fanatic. Yeah, so can you tell
Speaker 1: did you have any stories from Mash that I could hear?
Speaker 1: Because I'm just it's my favorite thing ever, just that
Speaker 1: I well, I was here. You know, the the last
Speaker 1: episode was like two hours long, I think, yeah and
Speaker 1: half hours long, and they had to bring back a
Speaker 1: lot of people that they you know, had used that
Speaker 1: were not killed or wounded or gone home or whatever.
Speaker 1: So it was they didn't have that many roles that
Speaker 1: we hadn't already been done. So I got the roles
Speaker 1: of this MP, and uh, I screwed up the line
Speaker 1: I was. It was supposed to be once the ceasefire
Speaker 1: is signed, then we have to swap prisoners. And I said,
Speaker 1: once to see CeaseFire's over, well that would go back
Speaker 1: to work. So I had to go. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: nobody said anything then, and you know I was out
Speaker 1: there in Malibu and or doing the doing the thing,
Speaker 1: and I had to miss the we were It was
Speaker 1: around Christmas because Charles eigen Steers David he had like
Speaker 1: pneumonia or something, so they had to postpone the filming
Speaker 1: of it. And I had booked this comedy club in
Speaker 1: Atlanta and we were going to go home to make
Speaker 1: and to see my mom, uh for the first time.
Speaker 1: But I had to miss the first night of that
Speaker 1: show of that week because I had to stay there
Speaker 1: in film match. So anyway, I screwed up the line.
Speaker 1: I go back in later and Ellen Alder is the director. Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: I'm still just some I'm hick from Georgia. You know,
Speaker 1: I've done I've done. The tonight show is stand up.
Speaker 1: But uh yeah, I had to do due to voiceover.
Speaker 1: There was no way yeah over over, so doing it,
Speaker 1: kept doing it, kept doing it, and I went, I'm
Speaker 1: really sorry about this. And then he went and told
Speaker 1: the producers you know this Clark guy, And I said,
Speaker 1: because I went back for a show called after Match,
Speaker 1: of course, of course, yeah, I went in for that.
Speaker 1: And they said, you know, Alan all are never bad anybody,
Speaker 1: but Clark was a problem. And I went, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: it was my first time I've ever done a voiceover.
Speaker 1: I've done it's Oh it's voiceover, and I went, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was voiceover, and I had you know, I was
Speaker 1: having a little try getting it. Oh, okay, fine, and
Speaker 1: so they cast me in that. Oh it's great. But
Speaker 1: you know that's the word was out because it was
Speaker 1: a problem. I was the problem before. Well I was
Speaker 1: a problem in the military. But that was my choice,
Speaker 1: right that the Smith could be a problem in the military.
Speaker 1: A little known fact for our Boy Meets World fans
Speaker 1: out there, which they might not have known this or not,
Speaker 1: but we've talked about on the show how Bill Daniels
Speaker 1: quit or was or threatened to quit after the pilot
Speaker 1: because he just didn't like the character. He couldn't find it.
Speaker 1: So Michael Jacobs had to go if Bill was going
Speaker 1: to leave, find another actor to play mister Feenie, and
Speaker 1: he had on the hook David ogen Stiers, who played
Speaker 1: who played Charles Emerson Manchester our mash was the one
Speaker 1: who was going to play mister Feenie if if Bill
Speaker 1: Daniels left. Yeah, I didn't know that at all. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So bringing us back to Boy meets World. Do you
Speaker 1: remember then the first time you met writer and writer?
Speaker 1: Do you remember the first time you met Blake? It
Speaker 1: was it was the when the guy from the Monkeys
Speaker 1: came who played your dad? I think, right, Peter Tork
Speaker 1: ye ye, yes, okay, we would get we were supposed
Speaker 1: to talk to the class, right. That was the first
Speaker 1: episode I did. That's when I said I'm a idea man,
Speaker 1: you know, right, just took over the scene. Yeah, so great, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and well that's what they told me to do. I
Speaker 1: just you know what they said and chet Network News,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, I was just you know, real. I don't.
Speaker 1: I'm not. That's a I don't know if it's an
Speaker 1: attribute or or or deficit. Uh, I don't come on real,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm I have respect for people, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I don't come walking in there
Speaker 1: like I owned the place, you know. I look at
Speaker 1: it like I'm a lieutenant and all you guys are colonels.
Speaker 1: So I don't go in there and go, hey, how
Speaker 1: you doing My character would do that, but I don't,
Speaker 1: you know, I kind of come in and hey, how
Speaker 1: you doing it? And uh, I'm real? Uh. In fact,
Speaker 1: one of the first auditions, I went out. I didn't
Speaker 1: remember what it was for. I went in and the
Speaker 1: woman was on the phone. The casting director was on
Speaker 1: the It was over at CBS Radford. Yeah. I go
Speaker 1: in there and uh, it's in her office and there's
Speaker 1: a long walk you come in, and then she's her
Speaker 1: desk is way over there and there's a stack of
Speaker 1: scripts on her desk. And I came in and she
Speaker 1: was on the phone. So I just stood there and
Speaker 1: she motioned for me to sit down in a chair.
Speaker 1: So I sat, didn't say anything, you know, and then
Speaker 1: she h hung up the phone. I'm sorry, da dada, dada,
Speaker 1: that's okay. And then we did the did the reading,
Speaker 1: did the audition. Then I left. She tells my agent
Speaker 1: I had an agent at that time. There's my agent.
Speaker 1: Or he came in with low energy. He did the
Speaker 1: reading fine, but then he went back to low energy
Speaker 1: and I went, hell, that mean I was being colite.
Speaker 1: She was damn, I am come in there and interrupt
Speaker 1: her phone coup. She should have had me coming in
Speaker 1: at the time she was, you know. So I said,
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe I'm not right for this acting gouff.
Speaker 1: So like when I did the first Tonight show. I
Speaker 1: didn't even have an agent. I had no It was
Speaker 1: like the uh I think I did another one that
Speaker 1: was the doorman at the comedy store as well as
Speaker 1: a comedian. I did the first Tonight show on a
Speaker 1: Wednesday Thursday night. I was back on the door. So
Speaker 1: I got an agent after that. How did you get
Speaker 1: the Tonight show without an agent? How did it get
Speaker 1: to you? I was the dormant as well as MC
Speaker 1: and I. You know on Thursday nights or Wednesday night
Speaker 1: said were big showcase nights. So all these people are
Speaker 1: dead now. A guy named McCauley. Uh him, well with
Speaker 1: McCauley first name, Yeah, what Jim, Jim McCauley. He was
Speaker 1: the pallet coordinated for comedy. But he would come in.
Speaker 1: I'd always make sure he got his seat and I'd
Speaker 1: give him a you know, he get his drink for
Speaker 1: him and all that. Take good care because that's the
Speaker 1: way I am. It's the way I was raised. I'm
Speaker 1: from the South. I was in the army. I was
Speaker 1: in the military. I was a frigging lieutenant. You know,
Speaker 1: I know how to treat people that are high ranking
Speaker 1: with the with the respect and uh, so uh he
Speaker 1: saw me, do you know I was him seeing So
Speaker 1: he saw me do this material about Vietnam, and he said, uh,
Speaker 1: you know you should do the show? What the show
Speaker 1: as the standout? You're kidding me? He goes, No, put
Speaker 1: together six minutes in a showcase for me. So I did, well,
Speaker 1: I didn't go that. Well, you know it was like, okay,
Speaker 1: well there goes that and then uh, I don't know
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks, three weeks later, he comes back
Speaker 1: to see Saint Paul Riser and you know, everybody would
Speaker 1: always show him their material at the comedy store or
Speaker 1: the umbro. See. He comes back and there's uh there
Speaker 1: I am. I go, uh, I got your table over here.
Speaker 1: Because they knew who was coming, they would have this list.
Speaker 1: And he goes, when you going to showcase for me again?
Speaker 1: You know what I thought? You didn't like me? He goes,
Speaker 1: I didn't like your choice of material. Get different material
Speaker 1: and showcase. I went, okay, So I did. I got
Speaker 1: the part, and then like I mean, I got the
Speaker 1: tonight show and I did it. Jeez, didn't you do
Speaker 1: huh you did him? Didn't you used to do a bit?
Speaker 1: I remember it wasn't one of your famous bits about
Speaker 1: having a camouflage wallet. Yes, that was my That was
Speaker 1: a bit that was real life, like what brother, you
Speaker 1: drop it? Yes, that's right he had, but he had
Speaker 1: an orange cattle. The wallet he kept in his pocket
Speaker 1: was a camouflage The hat he wore on his head
Speaker 1: was orange. How do you have a camouflage wallet? And
Speaker 1: he goes, I, huh, yeah, you hunt? You drop it
Speaker 1: out here. You're gonna hunt. You're gonna hunt bread And
Speaker 1: I what about what about your hat? He went, oh,
Speaker 1: my god, you that stupid. And I went, well, the
Speaker 1: same jeans that went into that brain of yours went
Speaker 1: in the mind. So you made a judge. He goes, dear, dear,
Speaker 1: as everybody knows her color blind, and so he went, well,
Speaker 1: that's really explained to the knee for a camouflaged wallet.
Speaker 1: I do remember that. Gosh, oh my gosh, writer, do
Speaker 1: you remember it feeling like a big deal that you
Speaker 1: were getting to meet your dad on the show. Yeah?
Speaker 1: I remember. I remember because you know, we had built
Speaker 1: up Sean's family, so watch obviously, as we've seen now
Speaker 1: watching the show, it was such a you know, it
Speaker 1: was a legendary thing. And then of course bringing in
Speaker 1: and I don't know when. I guess it happens second season, right,
Speaker 1: is Blake Blake on Zo? Yes, yeah, so we haven't
Speaker 1: we haven't seen the episode yet, Blake. So I'm just
Speaker 1: going off my memory because I, as we've talked about
Speaker 1: on this, I've never seen Boy Meets World. So I'm
Speaker 1: watching this for the first time and never sort of no, no,
Speaker 1: so this is you know, I'm learning about the show
Speaker 1: as we go. But so what I remember is that,
Speaker 1: you know, there was a sense of like, we're gonna
Speaker 1: bring in your dad and it's gonna be a thing.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be you know, And and this that classroom
Speaker 1: scene just killing. Like I just remember it being like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is so funny and this is so um, you know,
Speaker 1: Blake just Blake, like he's just he is who he is,
Speaker 1: and and and you brought so much life and charm um.
Speaker 1: But then that sort of was just on the surface.
Speaker 1: I feel like immediately you and I just bonded off camera,
Speaker 1: like I just there was I don't know what it was.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think it was. You know,
Speaker 1: you meet a lot of performative people who are funny
Speaker 1: and can be but they are frankly pretentious or always
Speaker 1: on and exactly like you're describing about yourself, you just weren't.
Speaker 1: You were saying you are so down to earth and
Speaker 1: so not pretentious and so willing to just be yourself
Speaker 1: and talk about your real life, and that that's what
Speaker 1: really bonded me to you. Like I just started immediately
Speaker 1: wanting to sit and talk and hear about stories, you know.
Speaker 1: I I remember talking about Vietnam. My dad was a
Speaker 1: VET from Vietnam, and I remember we just we just
Speaker 1: immediately connected, and it was like, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: I always kind of felt a little like the like
Speaker 1: out of place a boy meets world, and I feel
Speaker 1: like maybe you kind of felt a little out of
Speaker 1: place in Hollywood in general, and we just kind of
Speaker 1: had each other. Like I just remember sitting around and
Speaker 1: wanting to take notes and hear stories constantly, like there
Speaker 1: was a sense of like, you know, and then as
Speaker 1: the show went on and got more dramatic, it got
Speaker 1: even better because then I felt like we both kind
Speaker 1: of bonded as dramatic actors in the middle of a comedy,
Speaker 1: like you know what we were able to Oh, you
Speaker 1: guys were so nice and so welming, welcoming and so
Speaker 1: kind and warm and no egos, and you just, you know,
Speaker 1: you don't you don't know how impressive it is that
Speaker 1: for a man like me to see these these keen
Speaker 1: idols that you guys were, and the audience is going
Speaker 1: nuts and you just throw it off my others. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: you know, you know it never affected you guys. And
Speaker 1: I remember one time, I don't know how old you were,
Speaker 1: daniel maybe fifteen fourteen, yeah, and I was playing the
Speaker 1: club and oh god, where was it? Oh, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter South and uh one of the other comics said, hey,
Speaker 1: could you give me Danielle's an autograph? And I went,
Speaker 1: you're a grown man. I don't know if I feel
Speaker 1: good about doing it. Just more autograph atograph picture. You
Speaker 1: remember Scream and I think I ended up hell and
Speaker 1: you I think he did. Yeah, yeah, you know, the
Speaker 1: guy's like thirty four years old whatever. I honestly used
Speaker 1: to it. Yeah, yeah, unfortunately I was. I was used
Speaker 1: to it, so I probably was like, that's a big deal.
Speaker 1: It's all you guys just kind of took it all
Speaker 1: in stride, you know, it was. I think a lot
Speaker 1: of it had to do with Michael Jacobs because he
Speaker 1: was so caring and he took looked after you guys.
Speaker 1: And I remember one time we were getting notes and
Speaker 1: uh he said something and and I stood up and said,
Speaker 1: Roger derbre does history, which was from the producers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and he laughed. But you guys hadn't seen it yet,
Speaker 1: like fifteen. So he said, all right, that's it. Next
Speaker 1: week we're gonna you guys are gonna watch the Producers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember that. I remember that. Yeah, no, no, he
Speaker 1: I remember. He was so upset that we didn't know
Speaker 1: the producers. It was one of the like I remember
Speaker 1: him going off on all of us, like what you
Speaker 1: don't know the producers? This is crazy? How can you
Speaker 1: be in the entertainment industry? Not the We were like,
Speaker 1: oh god, I'll probably think a way to go blank. God.
Speaker 1: We were We were used. We were used to hearing
Speaker 1: that we were out of line for not knowing stuff
Speaker 1: because Michael Michael used references all the time that we
Speaker 1: didn't and we would never understand them. And surprisingly, Will
Speaker 1: has become the Michael Jacobs contest. Will has references from
Speaker 1: things that were like, what what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: He knew all this stuff when he was teaching me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's crazy what Alan Smithy film was that will Yeah,
Speaker 1: he remembers movies before they were talkies. I do. I do. Well,
Speaker 1: that's because they're great before they were made. No, Michael
Speaker 1: kept that. One thing Michael was very very good at
Speaker 1: was he kept us all grounded. He really made sure
Speaker 1: that it never went to our head. I mean we've
Speaker 1: talked about this where he would gather us and say,
Speaker 1: I just want you all to remember this ends, yep,
Speaker 1: this could end tomorrow and at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: You've had an amazing experience. And he just he really
Speaker 1: made sure that we we never we like, ego just
Speaker 1: wasn't a thing on our set. We just were not
Speaker 1: allowed to have it. Yeah, No, it's true, it's he was.
Speaker 1: He was really really good at that, he really was.
Speaker 1: I wish we could work together more, Blake, You and
Speaker 1: I didn't get a chance to work together all that much,
Speaker 1: which is because the characters were kind of in different
Speaker 1: worlds by the point he came on. Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: never really got a chance. Yeah, unfortunately. But we hung out, yeah,
Speaker 1: which was nice. And I learned the left like I
Speaker 1: didn't know who I remember not knowing who Deno Rio was,
Speaker 1: and you were okay, chilly, yeah, yeah, the guy in
Speaker 1: the Edgar Edgar and many black Yepsen Ao, he was
Speaker 1: the same guy in full metal jacket. And I wasn't
Speaker 1: yet and I went, no, no, no, and I went
Speaker 1: and looked it up because I didn't he can't be
Speaker 1: and he was. He was. Yeah, Blake, do you have
Speaker 1: when was the last time you saw an episode of
Speaker 1: Boy Means World? Or uh, I wouldn't know that. I
Speaker 1: don't know when the last time I watched TV last night?
Speaker 1: I don't. He's been a while. It's been a while.
Speaker 1: I don't. I used to not like to watch myself
Speaker 1: right because self conscious, you know, cover my double ten
Speaker 1: or bit, you know, can't Hey, okay, why you saw
Speaker 1: don't watch yourself? Oh yeah, okay, So I have a
Speaker 1: I have a question then, So as as the resident
Speaker 1: television fanatic, take boy me trolled out of the equation.
Speaker 1: But you have been in some of the greatest television
Speaker 1: shows in the history of TV. Is yeah, yes, you have, Blake,
Speaker 1: we go through your rest osane. So my question is
Speaker 1: is there one that stands out to you? Is there
Speaker 1: one show that you were on that you you were
Speaker 1: like that that's the show, that's that's the show that
Speaker 1: really mattered to me, or what the experience was amazing,
Speaker 1: or you just loved the show. I mean there's family
Speaker 1: Ties and mash and you name it. You were on it.
Speaker 1: So what which one pops out to you. That's a
Speaker 1: hard question, geez, I don't know. Um there's still boy.
Speaker 1: Twirl was very important to me. And one of the
Speaker 1: things that that that I because the boy MutS were on,
Speaker 1: because of Home Improvement and because of Sandler movies, I
Speaker 1: had you know, pretty wide uh I won't say following,
Speaker 1: but they knew who kind of knew who I was,
Speaker 1: you know, like those kids in the club in Detroit,
Speaker 1: you know, and then older people that like when we
Speaker 1: were doing water Boy and in Orlando, we were at
Speaker 1: this old we were it was a night shoot. We
Speaker 1: were in this whole trailer park for old people, retired
Speaker 1: people you know that ain't dead yet, we're getting ready
Speaker 1: to be dead whatever kind of like it is down
Speaker 1: there now. And I don't understand this country and it
Speaker 1: is you know, if I could go back to Noam
Speaker 1: and I know what no one I go now, I
Speaker 1: think I would have surrendered let's get here here in
Speaker 1: my weapon. You guys got it right, but uh so
Speaker 1: this really frosted Snyder's uh cajonis uh in spades. These
Speaker 1: old farts were out there that way. I don't know
Speaker 1: who those guys. I know that guy, he pointed me.
Speaker 1: He's on that Yea. So they old people knew who
Speaker 1: I was, and you knew who I was, but the
Speaker 1: vast majority people in the middle had no clue. No anyway,
Speaker 1: Oh that's awesome. Yeah, so I it would be I
Speaker 1: don't know if it would be a television show. Maybe
Speaker 1: I guess the last episode of Match because it most
Speaker 1: washed episodic TV and history still is. And uh or
Speaker 1: it could be water Boy as a movie because that
Speaker 1: kind of put me on the map. Oh, everybody where
Speaker 1: you all of a sudden, you were to the point
Speaker 1: were you know, you'd walk out for Halloween and every
Speaker 1: other person was dressed like you for Halloween. I mean
Speaker 1: it was like it you became such a such an
Speaker 1: iconic character that it was just it was everywhere. That's
Speaker 1: so cool. Yeah. I told Sandler this, and and fred
Speaker 1: Wolf in Spain and all those guys. They said when
Speaker 1: I went to Iraq in Afghanistan with Robin. I'd start
Speaker 1: my show by going amount of time Babu Jana Field
Speaker 1: and they go nuts. They and you know, three thousand
Speaker 1: troops with weapons. They didn't want to piss them all.
Speaker 1: They had laser sights. That was a big world. We'd
Speaker 1: had that stuff anyway, and the night vision stuff to hit, yeah,
Speaker 1: and the como and the satellites. I never knew where
Speaker 1: I was in Vietnam. I was really hardly of a
Speaker 1: new world. Was in Georgia. But wasn't that important then?
Speaker 1: But so and then I do my little silly stuff
Speaker 1: and then at the end I would say, yeah, this
Speaker 1: place is uh dusty, and it's dirty and it's hot
Speaker 1: and it's dangerous, but just remember this, guys, holy way
Speaker 1: you make it. And they would go nuts again. So
Speaker 1: I told Adam that and told Fred Wolf who wrote
Speaker 1: show Dirt, and he loved it. I'm still doing boys.
Speaker 1: I still do Slinky Dog, what time I know La,
Speaker 1: I still do that the voice over stuff. So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm seventy seven years old. There were times when I
Speaker 1: thought I'd never seen the next day, and that was
Speaker 1: why I don't play tults anymore. But now there were
Speaker 1: times when I was pretty sure it was over and
Speaker 1: whatever happened happened or didn't happen. Most of them didn't
Speaker 1: because they would say, go tack that hill moment. I
Speaker 1: don't really want let's take that hill. I don't want it.
Speaker 1: I really don't. I don't want to be up there
Speaker 1: with with weapons, and they seem to want it. So
Speaker 1: I think we should let him have, yeah, some kind
Speaker 1: of time share with him. I want to I want
Speaker 1: to ask you another question about boy Meat's world because
Speaker 1: later in the seasons, uh we we brought in Matthew
Speaker 1: Lawrence and he played Jack Sean's half brother. How did
Speaker 1: having matt there change the dynamic between the two of
Speaker 1: you with father and son? How did that change everything? Well,
Speaker 1: I you know, I had two sons. Oh still do,
Speaker 1: and you know, so I kind of took that. I
Speaker 1: use that as a template. Whereas Ryder was you know,
Speaker 1: I guess my I guess he would be my favorite,
Speaker 1: but I knew him better. I didn't really know the
Speaker 1: other kid, you know, or a character was Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I don't I know Matthew. I mean, I had done
Speaker 1: give me a break with Joey and Matthew, you know,
Speaker 1: but he was just a little kid. Yeah, little toddler.
Speaker 1: So I've known him for a long time, and I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think it kind of worked out right
Speaker 1: because I think it called for me and writer to
Speaker 1: kind of bond closer, and he was almost we almost
Speaker 1: treated him like an outsider until he kind of said,
Speaker 1: you're treating me like an outsider, and then we tried
Speaker 1: not to so the characters and uh, you know, but
Speaker 1: I don't know. I just kind of let it play
Speaker 1: out that this is the kid I know. The other
Speaker 1: kid I don't, but I've learned to know him. I
Speaker 1: fist he is my son. Yeah, did they ever did
Speaker 1: Did they give you a heads up that they were
Speaker 1: going to do a whole chet die see episode? Or
Speaker 1: was that just out of nowhere? Jesus, they can't mainly
Speaker 1: said you're dead? Okay? Are we the only show that
Speaker 1: had you die and then come back? Come back? A ghost?
Speaker 1: Couple of things, A couple of things. He's done so
Speaker 1: much work he's done at all. Oh my god, that's
Speaker 1: that's my specialty. It comes in and now put ghost
Speaker 1: work and your special skills, right. I think it was
Speaker 1: more as a ghost than I think that's true. You
Speaker 1: did end up doing like three or four episodes after
Speaker 1: you die girl yea with a cast on my leg. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right, that's right. Things. Ain't you better when you
Speaker 1: get you still get injured? Jeez, Oh my gosh. What
Speaker 1: do you remember about coming back and doing Girl Meets World?
Speaker 1: What do you remember most from that time? Um, that
Speaker 1: I was in the Cats sounds about right. And it
Speaker 1: was so nice to come back and everybody was so
Speaker 1: nice that oh well, you know, they really acted like
Speaker 1: they were happy to see me and and everything, and
Speaker 1: and uh, it was just it was really cool. And um,
Speaker 1: I was just it was like coming home to a
Speaker 1: family reunion, you know. Always I always mentioned you guys,
Speaker 1: and that you're like a family to me. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm like a distant uncle who who your mother says,
Speaker 1: don't listen to your uncle. But yeah, you also know
Speaker 1: you're gonna have the best dinner when I was telling
Speaker 1: you the damn truth exactly. Oh my gosh. Uh. Now
Speaker 1: this is Boy Meet's World, premiered thirty years ago, Yes,
Speaker 1: thirty years ago, this year, clear night. Do people still
Speaker 1: to this day come up to you and ever mentioned
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World the time? Oh? That show was you
Speaker 1: know that I grew up on that show. That show
Speaker 1: raised me and these wonderful people who it was a
Speaker 1: part of their life. Yeah, you guys raised a generation
Speaker 1: of Americans. They've talents, were either working or in jail
Speaker 1: and they are both. They you know, they because boy
Speaker 1: always had a good always had a good message. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do you get recognized just for your voice? Sometimes? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can imagine, like as I mean, for me, it's
Speaker 1: obviously so a part of my life. But it's like
Speaker 1: the second I can imagine if the supermarket somebody hears
Speaker 1: you three aisles all right, they're gonna be like, wait,
Speaker 1: I know that. Now. They'll go, uh so they'll ask
Speaker 1: me a question and I'll answer it and they go, hey, wait,
Speaker 1: yeah you're that guy. You know, it depends on who
Speaker 1: that guy is. Guy, are you who I thank you?
Speaker 1: And then who you think I am? You can't say yes, sure,
Speaker 1: I'm the guy, and then you know, find out that
Speaker 1: they owe you money, you owe them money or something
Speaker 1: or worse. Did you do a Jim Varney impression before
Speaker 1: you were Slinky Dog or did you Yes, that's how
Speaker 1: I got it. He used to do stand up and
Speaker 1: he was he was just funny as hell, very original. Well,
Speaker 1: he did this character. He'd lay on the he said,
Speaker 1: he'd lay on the on the couch with a stack
Speaker 1: of magazine, scratching his back on are you are you
Speaker 1: cooking beans? What time is it is? Zar? The yelling
Speaker 1: of his mother in the kitchen is zoro? What happened? Bro?
Speaker 1: Why don't you make some fudge? What happened was that ernest?
Speaker 1: Well it was sort of no, it was a character
Speaker 1: or a kid, and the Ernest kind of came out
Speaker 1: of that, came out of that. Okay, Yeah, he did
Speaker 1: the earnest character for a long time. He couldn't do
Speaker 1: it on stage and stand up because the whatever company
Speaker 1: was that did own the character. Oh crazy didn't do it.
Speaker 1: You know. He couldn't go on the road do it.
Speaker 1: At least that's what he said. Maybe he just didn't
Speaker 1: want to. But he was a character. It is very smart.
Speaker 1: And he was a Civil war and Revolutionary war h Buffonado.
Speaker 1: And he'd go ahead, tell me, give me a date.
Speaker 1: I don't tell you what happened, okay, May twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: seventeen seventy four. And if he didn't know anything, he'd
Speaker 1: go he'd say, you know, you picked the one day
Speaker 1: in history. What nothing happened? I did he know that
Speaker 1: you did an impression of him? Yeah? Oh yeah, everybody
Speaker 1: did an impression of the army. What We did a
Speaker 1: movie together called Fast Food, which was a terrible movie.
Speaker 1: It made shakes shakes. The clown looked like Shakespeare. That's
Speaker 1: that's another funny thing. That was one of the agents
Speaker 1: at Triad at the time. It was Triad and uh
Speaker 1: they represented Kenneth brown Yeah yeah, and also me. So
Speaker 1: I had to call up because they were the company
Speaker 1: that did shakes. The clown was trying to get us
Speaker 1: to work for free. So I said, all right, I
Speaker 1: don't do it. Is everybody, what are we gonna do?
Speaker 1: What are we gonna do? We should complain though, and
Speaker 1: oh all right, damn, I'll do it because you know,
Speaker 1: I was like the lieutenant and and now I'm when
Speaker 1: we were out in the bush and go they're always
Speaker 1: into this, into the ship they'll do you know, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll talk to them. So I had to go and
Speaker 1: talk to her and I and I said, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you represent one guy who does Shakespeare and another guy
Speaker 1: who does sha yeahwood, yeah, yeah, cheez. Kenneth Browner unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had to say agent, oh my gosh. Well, I mean, Blake,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here. Writer. I feel
Speaker 1: like this is I really do feel very close to
Speaker 1: Blake for you, writer, Like I feel very much like
Speaker 1: this kind of emotional swell of like fatherhood in this room. Well,
Speaker 1: you guys really dead and and uh, you know, it's
Speaker 1: like I told Matthew, I said, you know, I'm honored
Speaker 1: that your your fathers. You had Steve Martin as a
Speaker 1: found Robin's father and pretty good company there. Yeah that's right.
Speaker 1: And what's Tony Quinn? Yeah? How's he doing? Great? Great rate? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had him on the pot if you weeks ago?
Speaker 1: Where really next time you have him on down? I said, huh,
Speaker 1: will I tested his patience? Oh? I think I can
Speaker 1: imagine why. I'm a bit of an iconic class. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't adhere to too many religions, right, so we
Speaker 1: got to do a lot of That's when I started
Speaker 1: writing you. I mean, I think that speaks to something
Speaker 1: that was true. We would get into it on point before.
Speaker 1: I remember sitting around backstage. But yes, yeah, yeah, well, Blake,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for being here and taking time
Speaker 1: out of your schedule, and just thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being with us and being a part of our
Speaker 1: most formative years and sharing in some of our greatest
Speaker 1: memories and making us laugh. Thank you from being a
Speaker 1: part of my life and informative for me. And you
Speaker 1: all look wonderful, don't you out of you age for
Speaker 1: God's sake, Not true, we're at all, but thank you
Speaker 1: feel it. But I don't have a glass exactly. We
Speaker 1: love you by bye. Oh my gosh. Wow, it's just
Speaker 1: like I remember. I was, just like I remember, just
Speaker 1: the same. It's so funny, you know, you because the
Speaker 1: show ends because you move on. You just but every
Speaker 1: time I get I'm in a room with Blake, it's
Speaker 1: like exactly the same. Everyone. I'm laughing, we're telling stories
Speaker 1: and yet you know, and and he's very he's very funny,
Speaker 1: and he makes you know, sort of little jab jokes,
Speaker 1: but he's never mean, and he's super likable and smart,
Speaker 1: and just I remember he would he would take these stories,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them were about Vietnam, and and
Speaker 1: he would be telling something that was so unbelievable, something
Speaker 1: that just my generation didn't know anything about until the
Speaker 1: first golf war and still nothing compared to Vietnam. But
Speaker 1: it was just and then he would turn it around
Speaker 1: to make it this life lesson and then turn it
Speaker 1: around into a joke. Yeah, and it was. You were
Speaker 1: on this roller coaster with him as he was telling
Speaker 1: these stories that were just so engaging and so engrossing.
Speaker 1: It was awesome. It was awesome. He's also one of
Speaker 1: those people who you ask him a question about one thing,
Speaker 1: and then in getting to the answer to that, you're like,
Speaker 1: I have now seventy five more things I need to
Speaker 1: ask you because you have one little sentence about something
Speaker 1: else that I go, well, next, we need to talk
Speaker 1: about that. And by the time he's done, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: how much time do you have because I have to
Speaker 1: ask you about all these things. Yeah, you can do
Speaker 1: an entire show just about being a comedian in the eighties.
Speaker 1: You could do an entire show just about being in Vietnam.
Speaker 1: You could do an entire show just about growing up
Speaker 1: in the South when he did I mean, you name it,
Speaker 1: and it's just the shows he was on, just the
Speaker 1: movies that he did, just that we didn't even touch
Speaker 1: on the fact that he performed overseas with Robin Williams.
Speaker 1: But I know how to blow by those things because
Speaker 1: there's so much to talk about. He's just in insane league.
Speaker 1: And I love that his wife Sharon was just right
Speaker 1: off and has heard all these stories and he was
Speaker 1: just really world so great. She came with him to
Speaker 1: Girl Meed's world like and like people people in general
Speaker 1: don't bring their spouses to seth like that's sort of
Speaker 1: like a but he they're just so down to earth
Speaker 1: and comfortable and it's just like you. Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: Well and to the to the credit of Michael Jacobs
Speaker 1: and those sets he creates. He wants you to bring
Speaker 1: your family, bring you, bring your spouse, bring your children,
Speaker 1: bring you up, bring bring like he wants. He wants,
Speaker 1: very very rare and and that was highly encouraged. Um.
Speaker 1: Now I have a I have a quick question which
Speaker 1: we might not know other than you, Danielle, who I
Speaker 1: know you started at the beginning and we're quote unquote
Speaker 1: a guest cast, but nobody considers you a guest cast.
Speaker 1: Who do you think as a guest cast? Reoccurred the
Speaker 1: most because you said he did what twelve episodes Danny
Speaker 1: did eight? Right, who do you think did did the most?
Speaker 1: Twelve's got to be up there. Well, Ethan and Ethan
Speaker 1: and Blake, didn't we say sixteen? Were they sixteen? Is
Speaker 1: that what I h They were hired a lot higher
Speaker 1: than Danny because they stuck around. Yeah, probably because there
Speaker 1: were definitely episodes that Ethan was in that Blake was not.
Speaker 1: Blake wasn't okay to hold the quote unquote record of
Speaker 1: the guest guest cast who was there the longest? Right? Okay, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: just curious, man, what a guy? What a guy? What
Speaker 1: a what an interview? I'm just yeah, I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: was a voice over actor. What a voice I know?
Speaker 1: I know. Like Ryder said, I was thinking as he
Speaker 1: was talking, you'd never be able to make a phone
Speaker 1: call and ask for a reservation or do anything like,
Speaker 1: you know, even just try to like get into an
Speaker 1: argument with somebody on the phone, like over a credit
Speaker 1: card thing or like something and not know immediately who
Speaker 1: you were talking to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty pretty incredible. Well,
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