WEBVTT - Pod Meets World: TGI- The BMW DNA! 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:06.560 Have you ever thought about how incredibly complex I spit is. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:11.280 It may only be water, but just aliva isn't simple. 0:00:11.800 --> 0:00:17.440 That remaining one holds incredibly meaningful information that could change everything. 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:21.200 And I'm not just talking about your family treat Hi. 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:24.079 I'm Barrett to day Thurston, and on this season of 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:26.720 Spit and I Heart Radio podcast with twenty three and Me, 0:00:27.320 --> 0:00:31.040 we explore how DNA isn't just about ancestry, it can 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:37.479 also be key to understanding your health. Hey, you, welcome 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.720 back for today's show. We've got all the nineties nostalgia 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.080 you can handle, but going back to the days of 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:45.920 T G I F and hanging with the cast of 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:50.840 the iconic sitcom Boy Meets World. Danielle Fishel Rider, Strong, 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.640 Will Fred dell Or as you might remember them to Panga, 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:56.880 Seawan and Eric are the host of pod meets World, 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.800 a podcast dedicated to revisiting the show one episode at 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.760 the time. But today the gang has taken a break 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:06.759 from their rewatch to talk about their experience with twenty 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.160 three and Me and what they learned from their health 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.440 and ancestry reports. Danielle, Writer, and Will are all blown 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.679 away by the amount of information contained in their reports, 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.199 and each one of them is walking away with steps 0:01:19.200 --> 0:01:21.560 to better themselves. It's almost like an episode of their 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.520 role show. For Writer, his DNA showed a likelihood of 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:29.520 increased anxiety, something he's dealt with for some time. Seeing 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.800 it actually show up in his report has inspired him 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:37.000 to exercise more, a proven way to lower stress. For Danielle, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.640 it was learning she was at risk for type two diabetes. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.560 Having that information top of mind will make her think 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.520 twice next time she's going for her beloved candy or 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:49.880 her next fast food fixed. And for will Well, information 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.160 about his ancestry has inspired him to ask his parents 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:57.560 some more questions. Just like to Panga, Sean and Eric, Danielle, Writer, 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.240 and will are looking to learn from their experience is 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.680 better themselves and grow as adults. Let's listen in and 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.640 hear how twenty three and Me's helping them make that happen. 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:33.880 Welcome to a special episode of Pod Meets World. This 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.120 episode is brought to you by twenty three and Me, 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.200 which you guys have heard us now over almost an 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:44.280 entire season of Boy Meets World talking a lot about 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:47.920 our background actors and how important they were to the 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:50.960 feel of the show to our set environment, how we 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:54.280 were friends with a lot of them. I'm gonna start 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:59.320 right off by saying, spoiler alert, there is no Dusty 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.280 in this episode. I'm really bummed about it. We have 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:06.040 been on a on a worldwide search for Dusty Gould 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.880 see Valley either. Yeah, we haven't heard from see me. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:13.079 By the way that came up. You called her see 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.960 me to her face, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, she knew 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:17.800 her name was see Me. Well, yeah it was. It 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.440 was the people thought that it was like a behind 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:22.560 her back sort of thing. Oh my gosh, yeah no, 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.160 I mean I think there was something a little mean 0:03:24.200 --> 0:03:26.600 about it at first, but then it just became that's 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.000 the problem. We don't remember her name because we always 0:03:29.000 --> 0:03:31.240 called her see Me and she responded to it like 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.800 that's what we did. Um. It was just because it 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:37.360 was the first week of the first season that we 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.160 asked her where she was from and she said, see 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.600 me Valley and um, so we were just like, oh 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.360 my gosh, you're so you're a Valley girl. We'll call 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.240 you see me. Um. But yeah, I would love to 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:51.040 talk to her. Yeah, and Dusty, we're still on a hunt, 0:03:51.160 --> 0:03:53.400 so you never know, but we are going to talk 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:56.240 to a few of our other background actors today because 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.960 it is very important for us and everyone to know 0:03:59.480 --> 0:04:03.440 your back ground, speaking of which I am coming to 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:08.320 you today. So sleep deprived, and I guess it's really 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.280 come to my attention through my twenty three and me 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.720 results that I am less likely to be a deep sleeper, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.039 which are you? Isn't that what it said? Yes? I 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.080 think I think we can say this from your genes. 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.359 Isn't it cool? By the way, another thing that I 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:27.880 think is amazing is that it tells me I am 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:31.080 most I am more likely to be photo sensitive, which 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:33.720 means I might sneeze when looking at the sun. And 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.880 when I tell you I have never once walked into 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:41.200 the sun and not sneezed, it's the exact same way. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.000 But I didn't see that. Where did this say that? 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.400 It's one of your so much to read. I don't 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:50.680 like like i'ven't explored all all the ins and out 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.279 And that's really That's the really cool thing is that 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:56.120 there are so many different reports and some of them 0:04:56.160 --> 0:04:58.599 are just really fun, like finding out you're more likely 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:01.000 to be photo sensitive. I'm also so more likely to 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:05.560 drink more caffeine than most, and that checks right off right. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.880 You probably have that too. I'm less likely to drink 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.720 caffeine than most, and I drink no caffeine. I have 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.320 no caffeine in my life whatsoever. And it says I'm 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.279 less like and I am not likely to be an 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.440 especially deep sleeper. I still don't get you. We were 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:21.800 talking about delta ways or something. Now as I heard 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:27.200 what you're explaining to me, Danielle, I'm a superhero, did 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:32.520 you Did you explain it wrong? That's what's said, Uh, superhuman? 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.920 You have mediclorians or whatever it is, that you're a Jedi. Yes, 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:41.200 first of all, let's not's that's it's in my jeans though, 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:44.440 that apparently due to my sleep patterns. That's because of 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:47.520 the underwear. That's because of the underwear. That too, The 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.760 underwear just makes me lucky twenty three and me is 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:53.760 telling me I'm a weak hold on. Let's talk about 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.560 ancestry just really quick. Did you guys learn anything new 0:05:56.800 --> 0:06:01.280 or yeah? I totally did. So what what was what 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.240 was the story that your family told you and the 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.080 reality of your Well, it's not that my family told 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:08.600 me something that was just we just heard that we 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:15.080 were Dutch and Irish and German primarily. Um, that's what 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.680 I knew. And it come came out that I am 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:27.280 almost Jewish. Nice, I am nine ash can Nazi Jewish. Wow, 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.600 and you didn't know that, no idea whatsoever. And of 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.800 course then when I said that to my my parents, 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:33.960 my dad was like, well, of course my great grandfather 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.400 was jew or something where we were like, well, why 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:39.839 didn't anybody tell about that? Yeah? You know, so that 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.600 was completely I'm I'm I'm nine point eight percent European 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:46.880 and it's mostly northwestern European, so British and Irish. What 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:50.359 we thought, Um, lots of Irish, lots of lots of British, 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:55.479 but eighteen point seven percent as ashke Nazi Jewish. So 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.640 no no idea, no idea whatsoever. I was shocked. Writer, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:03.440 did you learn anything in yours about specifically about health, 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:07.440 anything you're more likely to have or not have? Oh? Yeah, 0:07:07.600 --> 0:07:10.480 it nailed me. In three categories. It said, I am 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:13.720 most likely to I am most likely to have restless 0:07:13.800 --> 0:07:17.120 legs restless leg syndrome, which I've had all of my 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.520 life and just had to deal with. More likely for 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:25.560 increased anxiety, check and severe acne which you guys couldn't 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:30.320 remember from when I was on I had severe acne. Yeah, 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:32.240 and so did my dad. I remember when I when 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.680 you know, when I started breaking out during boy MEA's work. 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.880 I got it A little bit later. I got it 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:41.400 more like at fifteen fourteen fifteen, um, when I had 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.360 the really bad acne. So we haven't gotten to it 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:44.880 on the show, but well we'll start to be able 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.840 to see the the amount of makeup they had a 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:51.120 cake on my face. It was the worst, the worst. 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.840 But yeah, knowing this then about your your d n 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:59.400 A makeup now that like, is there something now you're 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.560 going to change about your life? Will you talk to 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:04.560 your doctor about restless leg syndrome? Is there anything or 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.720 do you take anything for anxiety? Will you start? Yeah? 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.240 Well no, The anxiety thing is really interesting because, um, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:16.000 I've never really thought of myself as as an anxious person. Um, like, 0:08:16.280 --> 0:08:17.680 especially when I was a kid, I was not an 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:22.120 anxious kid. Um, But I do. I have noticed lately 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:26.280 that like I need to exercise, Um, it's hugely important anxiety. 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.400 And what I realized is like if I don't like 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.720 the only the way I manage anxiety and I put 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:36.679 that in air quotes would be like drink alcohol and 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:40.079 that's the worst thing you can do to manage anxiety. Um, 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.560 you know, And especially like during the pandemic, there were 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:45.760 there's these these periods where like there would be you know, 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.800 you're not working, you're not taking your kids to school, 0:08:47.800 --> 0:08:49.520 everybody's sitting at home. It would be like, well, why 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.280 is the day over? Why is it? You know? How 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.240 do we know the days over? We have a glass 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:54.920 of wine and then you know, and we just got 0:08:54.960 --> 0:08:57.240 into the habit of like, oh, that's just it's five 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:00.560 o'clock time to drink um. So I definitely only think 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:02.880 that like being able to recognize that there's in a 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.800 genetic component to like the feelings I have of anxiety 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.160 and that it might just be part of my body 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.400 makes me remember to just move my body to deal 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:13.679 with it in terms of my body, as opposed to 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.120 thinking like, oh, there's something wrong, I need to like, 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.160 uh change you know the way I think, or no, 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.200 it's just part of my body. Is that I get 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.160 these feelings that other people might not have, you know 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.839 that that and I don't need to associate it with 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:31.040 like necessarily things I'm I'm I've done wrong or you know, 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:33.080 I just don't want to. I just don't. I basically 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.720 it allows me to contextualize my anxiety and recognize it 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.160 as like it mostly physical thing, like something that is 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.720 like you know, I'm born with and that I just 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:44.680 have to contend with and it's and you know, I 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.839 just have to find healthy ways to contend with it. Well, 0:09:46.920 --> 0:09:49.800 I mean, you know that I'm anxiety boy, and I 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.280 was hit with this very bad during during Boy. Me 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.720 thrilled like very during Boy. So then you'll see during 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.160 the episodes, you know, the seasons where I come back 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.239 and I'm really heavy, and it's because I was medicated 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:03.600 to even record. And the things I always tell people 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.200 now that I've been dealing with it for so long 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.839 is the three most important things for me that help 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:12.280 more than anything are talking about it, diet and exercise 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.120 and getting off of social media. And the first two 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.040 people are like, I can easily do that, and then 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:18.640 it's like, well, I'm not gonna get off social media. 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:19.840 I need it for work. What what do you do? 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:21.600 I work at a bank. Okay, you don't need your 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:24.240 social media. You're just addicted to it. But it's it's 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.600 those three things where moving your body exactly what you're 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:30.400 saying is just so unbelievably important. And it is. It's 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.000 all genetic. I mean, I found out other people in 0:10:32.040 --> 0:10:34.120 my family down the line. They might not have called 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.840 it that at the time. They might have said, you know, 0:10:35.880 --> 0:10:39.040 in the fifties they had spells or whatever because they 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:41.320 didn't know how to how to diagnose it. But that's 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:43.920 all that it was was it is, it's genetic anxiety. 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.760 And and but that's one of the things about the 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.120 twenty three and me that was so amazing is those 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.560 little markers. For instance, that what it says when I 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:55.280 looked at the thing, your average wake up time, judging 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:59.280 by your genetics, is seven AM. And that's like almost 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.400 exactly every morning when I roll out of bed. Whoa 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:07.800 literally literally almost exactly every morning. Susan gets up before 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.160 me because she's got early clients. I doze in bed, 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:14.320 and by about seven forty to seven fifty I'm up 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.839 and out. And when so when this thing comes out 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:19.640 and it says it's seven forty am, I'm going You've 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.000 got to be kidding me. How is that even possible? So, yeah, 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.680 some of these things are some of them I gotta say. 0:11:25.800 --> 0:11:28.320 It says that I'm not predisposed to being afraid of heights, 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.640 and I'm hugely afraid of heights, but that could also 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.360 be the anxiety part. But there are certain things that this, 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.640 you know, the muscle. Here's the other thing where it 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.040 made me feel like, yes, I am in fact magic. 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.960 Um is it says my muscle composition is common in 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:49.600 elite power athletes with mine. I'm man, thank you, I'm 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:54.480 a stallion. Yeah, me too, me too. I'm also though, uh, 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.679 this is not such a positive thing. I am also 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:02.000 more likely to have to develop type two diabetes. And 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:06.920 as you guys know, I love my sweets, I love 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:11.240 my fast food, and so the good news is I 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:15.040 have generally my upbringing was that of like very healthy 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.560 eating and exercising, so I really try to enjoy those 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.800 things like sweets and fast food in some sort of moderation. 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:24.880 But it is really good for me to know that 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:28.400 um as I age because it's I think it literally 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.640 says like from the time you're forty one, which is 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:33.439 my exact age, up until the time I'm e d 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:38.720 I am like likely so like really it's a worse 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:42.400 than a chance, and so It's good for me to 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.520 know those things because that's something I can stay on 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.520 top of with my doctor. Now, Like, let me get 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.800 regular screenings, let me stay on top of that, let 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:52.280 me make sure I'm watching my diet, and then I'm exercising, 0:12:52.559 --> 0:12:55.600 because maintaining a healthy weight is one way to help 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.800 prevent that from happening. So, I mean, I'm actually really 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:01.520 excited that I know that. The last time writer and 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.360 I were at your house for a party, there was literally, 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:08.120 and I'm using that word correctly, a board that had 0:13:08.240 --> 0:13:10.640 donuts hanging all off of it, and the second you'd 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.800 grab a donut, it would reappear as if by magic. 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:19.959 So I do love doughnuts, donut fan. That's just called 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:22.880 Sundays around here, diner food. But you're a big diner 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:26.360 food fans. At least it's Sundays and not every day. Yeah, 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.880 it's just Sundays. Yeah, No, I I do. I love salty, 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.600 I love sweet, I love fried um. I just like 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:35.600 that kind of food. So first salty or sweet. That 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:37.120 that was the other thing the app told me is 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.079 that is that I prefer salty over sweet, which is 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:42.040 absolutely correct. So it does, and it told me this 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.560 is where the history kind of buff and me loves it. 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:49.040 Told me that I have that I have more Neanderthal 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:54.320 DNA than most of the other people. Yes, yes, we're 0:13:54.400 --> 0:14:01.760 elite power athlete Neanderthal's magical sleep. This is the coolest 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:03.880 app in the world. I'm waiting for my laser vision 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:07.880 which will come. Um, but yeah, this is I was. 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.880 It's so amazed a by how detailed it gets. I 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:15.880 do want to show you guys my ancestry makeup because, um, 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:20.080 look at how almost exactly fifty percent of one thing 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:24.720 I am. Wow you are Yeah, that is my uh, 0:14:24.920 --> 0:14:28.160 that is my um, my Maltese side. That is my 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.560 Southern European side. Wow, look at you. Yeah, that's me 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.600 right there. So I'm I'm kind of all over the place. Yeah, 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:39.920 I am forty nine point five percent Southern European and 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:44.200 fifty point five percent Northwestern European. That's what I'm north 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:49.480 I'm sixty two percent Northwestern European, which is which is interesting. 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:55.760 But I'm also it's like eight percent Italian. I have 0:14:55.760 --> 0:14:58.800 no idea there's Italian anywhere in my family line, Like, 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:03.080 no idea. What's however, that we're partially Italian? So it's 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.520 really really cool kind of getting these breakdowns. But the 0:15:07.160 --> 0:15:10.760 other things where it's just talking about like whether you're 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.600 lactose in tallerant or not, your make your wake up time, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.480 you know, whether you like cilantro, like all those kind 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.240 of things. The breakdown is is really neat. I know, 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.280 it is really fun. Well, continuing to get to know 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:26.680 our background, let us bring in our very first background guest. 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:33.200 So to give you a little background about background actors. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.800 The actor the background actor definition is someone who performs 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.760 in a non speaking role, usually in the background of 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.080 a scene. They helped make movies, TV shows, and other 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:47.480 productions look and feel more authentic and so hospitals, concert 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.960 city streets would be completely empty if not for hiring 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:57.160 background act Criterias, yes, school cafeterias, holy classrooms. So let 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:04.160 us welcome our first background actor, g An Torres. It's 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.520 so good to see your faces again. I know this 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:11.280 is so fun. How did you become a background actor? 0:16:11.360 --> 0:16:14.080 And how old were you? I was I think it 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.880 was eighteen and it was my first year of community 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.720 college and I'm still trying to figure out what to do. 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:25.120 I was creative, Um, I kind of liked filmmaking, editing 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.560 things like that. Um, maybe I wanted to be an actor, 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.280 but I felt a little shy to be on stage. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.040 So I remember talking to my dad and he had said, hey, 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:36.920 why don't you sign up to be a background actor. 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:38.840 You know they can be on set, you can see 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:40.600 everything that they do. And I thought, okay, that's a 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:43.920 good idea. So I went down to the casting agency, 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.440 you know, paid the little fee that you pay, take 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:51.640 a picture, get all your information, sign up, and that's 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.480 how I started. And so it's I don't know if 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:56.720 you guys want me to tell you about how that 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.520 whole process goes, and you already know about it, okay, okay. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:02.560 So the way they did, at least back in the 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:06.359 nineties was that you called a hotline and you listen 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:10.280 for something that maybe you fit. So for me and 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.440 I swear, it's like the only time we're looking young, 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:18.240 like really paid off. I'd always um looked for eighteen 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:21.240 to look younger shows, which, of course Boy Meets World 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.680 was one of those shows. And so you listen to recording. 0:17:24.000 --> 0:17:26.800 If you felt like you fit that, you know, that 0:17:26.840 --> 0:17:29.680 type of those specs that they're looking for, you called 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:34.200 the number and then you gave them your social Security 0:17:34.240 --> 0:17:42.240 number everything. Yeah, apparently like there was no big deal 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:44.520 back then. So you gave them your social security number. 0:17:44.560 --> 0:17:46.919 That's actually how how they had you filed. And they 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:48.800 looked you up and they thought, yeah, you fit good, 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:51.520 you're working tomorrow. Here's your call time, bring you know, 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:55.720 three sets of clothes. That's where you're going, and that's it. 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.840 And then described my stuff pop in the car next morning. 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:02.360 And I'm mama, way that's to me. I'm sorry. I'm 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:03.919 looking at a great picture of the two of us 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.320 together right now. Yeah, I am. I'm looking at an 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.000 awesome picture of the two of us right now. It's 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.040 on on set. That's so cool. That is where were 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.199 you living, What was the what was the commute like 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.240 then from where you were living to where we were shooting. 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:18.280 So I would never do this commute nowadays. But I 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.919 was in South Orange County. I was down in Mission Gate, Okay. 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.960 And I remember called times being about seven thirty for 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:27.480 us in the morning in the morning, and I would 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.000 leave my house at six and that was fine, Like 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:36.200 I could get to the kil A studios by six wow, 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:39.760 And that was okay. Back then. It is not okay. 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.760 Were you were you a Mission Vie? Here? Were you 0:18:43.800 --> 0:18:47.560 a Diablo? I wasn't. I was okay, my wife was 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:53.520 a Diablo. I won't tell you really rivals exactly. Oh 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:55.919 that's so funny. So what other shows were you a 0:18:55.920 --> 0:18:59.760 background actor on? UM? I got booked on two and 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:03.120 oh uh, let's see a Party of five step by 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:08.560 Step with Christine Laken. Yes, there is a few those. 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:11.879 I don't know why those seemed to like stick out. UM. 0:19:11.920 --> 0:19:17.760 A few movies. Babylon five that was really random but cool. 0:19:17.840 --> 0:19:20.359 That was one of the coolest because you actually got 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.200 as an extra. You still got to have makeup done 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:25.399 and I got to look like an alien and it 0:19:25.520 --> 0:19:27.439 was so not me, but it was great. It was 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:30.160 so much fun. That's fun. So okay, So you were 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.119 on season three and four of Boy Meets World walk 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:35.560 people through? Then what would happen? So your call time 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.440 seven thirty am. What happens when you arrived to set? 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.320 What's the process? Like? They arrived a set and then 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.280 the A D would pass out scripts to everyone and 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:47.120 you'd actually go through we probably spend like a good 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:50.360 hour maybe, and we'd go through the entire script and 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:54.000 she would say something like Okay, Jeannie on this line, 0:19:54.000 --> 0:19:56.520 on writer's line, you're gonna go from the top of 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.320 the stairs to locker two, you know, and have a 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.680 conversation with somebody and then you know, let's say, Daniel 0:20:02.720 --> 0:20:05.960 in your line, I was to exit and leave, you know, 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:10.080 walk off set or whatever. So everyone had, um, you know, 0:20:10.080 --> 0:20:13.760 there's blocking. Yeah, different blocking with different crossings. I think 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:15.840 it's amazing. I don't know who put it together, because 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.919 it seems like that would take a long time to 0:20:19.040 --> 0:20:21.840 figure out at least twenty extras and where they were 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:23.640 going and how they're not going to cross in front 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:26.760 of you, and it just it's like I I mean, 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:31.480 it's it's a dance exactly. And so this would have 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:38.600 been Deed, right, Yes, so she was our second second 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.040 stage manager, and so she would have been in charge 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.480 of So yeah, I wonder if Deed mapped out all 0:20:43.480 --> 0:20:45.480 of those moves. I mean, it must we have to 0:20:45.520 --> 0:20:49.439 have dd on, Yeah, we will, we should. Yeah. And 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:51.720 she was so good at it, like she was She's 0:20:51.760 --> 0:20:54.280 just on and she's so friendly. That was one of 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:56.479 the things that I'm sure was like a really you know, 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:58.320 I'm sure, and I don't want to put words in 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.720 your mouth was. Was every ad you worked with on 0:21:00.800 --> 0:21:04.080 sets like wonderful and fun to be around? Or were 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.040 there some that were better than others? She was the best. 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:10.280 I will say she was the best. I think, you know, 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:12.240 maybe because I got the opportunity to come back and 0:21:12.280 --> 0:21:15.840 do more shows. But she was amazing, and Mike was 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.960 Mike was great too. I just I think everyone sometimes 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.399 is in work mode and as you guys know, you're 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:24.719 pressed for time, You've got to get lines done. You know, 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.920 you just gotta really nail it. And I think maybe 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:32.560 some were just like whatever, do this, But with her, 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:34.000 she was I don't know, she was on it. She 0:21:34.080 --> 0:21:37.000 was on it, but still like awesome. And I have 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.520 a question, just because I'm curious. Behind you on your 0:21:41.920 --> 0:21:44.960 your your shelf back there is that say Transformers? Or 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:47.719 am I wrong? You are correct? Thank you? And it's 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:49.440 a G I Joe. Is a G I Joe? Next 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:52.560 to that that is G I Joe. We are absolutely friends. 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:55.280 Which Transformers? Is it? Can I ask from here? Is 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:58.200 not robots and robots in disguise? Is it? No? It's well, 0:21:58.240 --> 0:22:03.040 it's well, the game is for information protocol. It's I 0:22:03.040 --> 0:22:05.240 can't I can't tell American. Sorry, I think it's Bumblebee 0:22:05.280 --> 0:22:07.639 on the cover. They're sorry. I'm just that's actually my 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:11.680 career job, So that is what. I'm a creative director 0:22:12.119 --> 0:22:15.080