Speaker 1: Welcome back, Thank you for your patience, Happy to have
Speaker 1: you here. Welcome to part two of Q and A's
Speaker 1: for season two. Here we go. What were some of
Speaker 1: your tricks for memorizing lines every week? Did you guys
Speaker 1: have any never has a problem, Just they're just in
Speaker 1: my head exactly, young brains that were sponges naked them
Speaker 1: up and by the time show night came around, you
Speaker 1: just they were just in your head absolutely the next
Speaker 1: day and filled up with new ones. Do you guys
Speaker 1: remember being baffled by people thinking it was hard? Yes,
Speaker 1: it was like yeah, and I will never be one
Speaker 1: of those people, like, I don't know if it would
Speaker 1: be hard now I haven't done it, and so but
Speaker 1: like I imagine it would. It would kind of come
Speaker 1: back if I practice. But like I remember as a
Speaker 1: kid actor just being like, why are these people think
Speaker 1: this is hard? Yeah, it's muscle memory after a while,
Speaker 1: or just that's what it was. That was part of
Speaker 1: your job. So in the later seasons, Sean Hunter's poetry
Speaker 1: comes up and this person said, I remember I saw
Speaker 1: in the credits that it was actually written by writer.
Speaker 1: I've always wondered how this came about. Was it easy
Speaker 1: for you to share your writing and have it be
Speaker 1: a part of the show. Didn't we tell the story
Speaker 1: we may have with you? I don't know that we
Speaker 1: told the story of how the how? I mean I
Speaker 1: talked about it. Yeah. Interesting, I thought I told the
Speaker 1: story on the podcast. But maybe you know, also we've
Speaker 1: done Q and A's right, so I might I might
Speaker 1: be confused. Um, yeah, so they had done. They had
Speaker 1: written the script based on the fact that I really
Speaker 1: did write poetry in real life. Um, and thanks to
Speaker 1: David Colmbs, the studio teacher. I you know, and I
Speaker 1: know Danielle you feel the same way that poetry was
Speaker 1: basically introduced to your life at a very young age.
Speaker 1: It's still a huge thing. Like Danielle and I were
Speaker 1: texting each other, you know, a few months ago, but
Speaker 1: like something about some favorite poems and I was like,
Speaker 1: you must know this poem because David probably taught to you.
Speaker 1: And She's like, I've got my addition, it was a
Speaker 1: John Keith's poem. Yeah. But then we were also we
Speaker 1: read contemporary poetry. You're sharing Ada Lemon poems with each other,
Speaker 1: and I just I love that. That's a huge part
Speaker 1: of my life because of David and yours too. Um So, yeah,
Speaker 1: so I got into writing poet, reading poetry, and then
Speaker 1: were eventually writing poetry. And somehow the writing staff found
Speaker 1: out about this decided, which now I see that we're
Speaker 1: in the second season, poetry is always kind of a
Speaker 1: backphone appoint meets world interestingly. Um so, I guess it
Speaker 1: was part of Michael Jacobs, you know, I think he
Speaker 1: likes poetry and loves literature obviously as you see throughout
Speaker 1: the show. So they decided to take this aspect of
Speaker 1: my real life put it into Sean and part of
Speaker 1: his storyline, and um, I was really upset. I was
Speaker 1: u I they had written it into the show. At
Speaker 1: this point, they were already taking a lot of things
Speaker 1: from my life. I wasn't comfortable with it always, and
Speaker 1: this one really upset me. And it was David Colmbs
Speaker 1: who sat me down. He was like, why are you
Speaker 1: so upset about this? And I said, well, I just
Speaker 1: feel like I don't know, I didn't say it this way,
Speaker 1: but I think I felt exploited to a certain degree,
Speaker 1: like I felt like, you know, And what I said was,
Speaker 1: I feel like they've taken a part of me without
Speaker 1: actually taking it, Like because they had written poems in
Speaker 1: the show that weren't obviously not written by me, and
Speaker 1: so David said, why don't you just go meet with Michael?
Speaker 1: And so I did. I called a meeting with Michael
Speaker 1: and I sat down and I didn't know what I wanted,
Speaker 1: but Michael offered. He was like, do you want to
Speaker 1: write the poems? Would that make you feel better? And
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, why don't you give me a chance
Speaker 1: to write the poems and if they work, you know, great,
Speaker 1: you can use them. And if they don't, then we
Speaker 1: can just use whatever is already in the script. So
Speaker 1: I wrote two poems and and Michael loved the first one,
Speaker 1: and then I started getting notes on the second one,
Speaker 1: and I just said, yeah, I really like the second one.
Speaker 1: I don't want to change it. So if you don't
Speaker 1: want to use my poem, don't. And it became like
Speaker 1: a big thing, like I remember in front of the audience.
Speaker 1: We were like having all these meetings and Michael kept
Speaker 1: trying to change the actual content of my poem and
Speaker 1: I was like, just don't use it, right, like, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to change like I you know, he wanted
Speaker 1: it to be more accessible, he wanted the poem to
Speaker 1: be like, I don't know. I guess it's more I
Speaker 1: think that he had a hard time. He thought the
Speaker 1: vocabulary was too complicated, the audience wouldn't get it, or
Speaker 1: I don't know, And I was like, look, I get it.
Speaker 1: I know what you're saying. But if you want to
Speaker 1: use my poetry, this, I like this poem. This is
Speaker 1: personal to me. I had written it, you know, for
Speaker 1: the episode, but I had based it on my real life.
Speaker 1: And if you don't want to use that, then don't
Speaker 1: go back to the poem that you already had. And
Speaker 1: it became kind of a face off, and then they
Speaker 1: ended up using my poem without changing it. And then
Speaker 1: you know, I that's the one that I get the
Speaker 1: most emails, and the first one, which I actually think
Speaker 1: now is kind of a better poem. People don't comment
Speaker 1: on it that much. But the Top of the World
Speaker 1: poem is the one that I get the most feedback about.
Speaker 1: People love it. So what was the name of the
Speaker 1: other one? An unpublished manuscript for JD. Salinger? Okay, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we all know that Corey sees himself as Celery, but
Speaker 1: what food would your characters describe themselves as being a
Speaker 1: great question, so fun. Wow. Um, you know. The first
Speaker 1: thing that popped into my head and it has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with it's just because of what Eric was
Speaker 1: and became and was tofu Oh, just because he took
Speaker 1: on the flavor of everything that was around him. He
Speaker 1: just became whatever you had to become. No, it didn't
Speaker 1: have its own thing, it just had I mean the
Speaker 1: other thing I would say was just Eric seems like
Speaker 1: a big old, happy slice of pizza or like yeah,
Speaker 1: like a or like a pot pie, like something like
Speaker 1: something warm, food, cozy and comfort foodie that at the
Speaker 1: end of the day is probably not great for your heart,
Speaker 1: but it's really good for your heart. Oh yeah, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I have to talk. I did have
Speaker 1: this question ahead of time. I still didn't prepare anything.
Speaker 1: I think anything I feel like Topanga would have to
Speaker 1: be something that's like a little too difficult to make,
Speaker 1: like something that you're like, I'm not gonna make that,
Speaker 1: like um, like three day Ramen, where it's like you've
Speaker 1: got to first make the bone broth and everything. It's like, oh, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: I do feel like something like that, something where you're like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fine, but you really have to work for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's great. Nice, Yeah, nice. I feel like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Sean's got to be like, uh, like a
Speaker 1: like a TV dinner, but like with a twist, right,
Speaker 1: Like it's got to be something that would be served
Speaker 1: in a trailer park. It's probably got mayonnaise, but then
Speaker 1: it's got like a new it's like, um, oh you
Speaker 1: know what it is. It's like a casserole dish, but
Speaker 1: like with the cheese that's crumpled on top. I gotta
Speaker 1: say I could also see just bologna and cheese on wonderbread.
Speaker 1: You know, just that old school kind of sandwich. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of mayo. Yeah. Miracle Whip, Miracle Whip.
Speaker 1: Which character from the show do you would think do
Speaker 1: you think would have had the best spinoff? They talked
Speaker 1: about doing an Eric and Eric and Jack show. I
Speaker 1: think that probably would have been pretty good. But for
Speaker 1: the record, you and Ben did kind of have a
Speaker 1: spin off. I mean, you know, it was more like
Speaker 1: a sequel show. Yeah, yeah, but still I'm but no,
Speaker 1: there was so I was going to talk about this
Speaker 1: as we got closer, but I was going to leave
Speaker 1: the show at one point. Um, I mean to the
Speaker 1: point where Michael and I had had meetings. We had
Speaker 1: meetings with ABC. He'd already written to it. Well, we'll
Speaker 1: get to certain scenes where there's a scene where Bill
Speaker 1: actually says, do you know what you're going to do
Speaker 1: in life? And I talk about no. But and it
Speaker 1: was because there was a a good chance I wasn't
Speaker 1: going to come back the following season because Michael and
Speaker 1: I what was all Michael had, But I was in
Speaker 1: on the pitches, pitched an idea to where Eric moves
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles. This was not the seventh season. This
Speaker 1: was between This was season four, season five, and we
Speaker 1: met with ABC, we met with Disney. He had the
Speaker 1: pilot all set up. I remember it was Eric was
Speaker 1: driving his car and the start was going to be
Speaker 1: he jumps the ramp at Santa Monica, at the Santa
Speaker 1: Monica Pier and just the car slams into the beach
Speaker 1: like this. Eric stumbles out and just walks into the ocean.
Speaker 1: And that was going to be the start of the
Speaker 1: start of the episode. And it was gonna be like
Speaker 1: a young friends and he was going to have meet
Speaker 1: all these people in Los Angeles. So he actually, I mean,
Speaker 1: we not only had meetings and talked about it, and
Speaker 1: he was writing the pilot, but he wrote to it
Speaker 1: on Boy. So you can actually see a time where
Speaker 1: it was like, oh, they're writing me off, and it
Speaker 1: was because Eric was gonna have hispen off. Wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's so cool. Yeah, I'm I'm not even sure why
Speaker 1: it never happened, to be honest with you, I never
Speaker 1: got I just never left boy. I never got a
Speaker 1: reason why we didn't. We didn't do it well, I
Speaker 1: didn't go forward. Yeah, I mean, based on what we've
Speaker 1: seen so far, I would love a t K spin off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the bullies in general, all the bullies and
Speaker 1: have their own little like version of Boy. That would
Speaker 1: have been really fun. I think what could have been
Speaker 1: really interesting too, would have been a UM Alex daysera
Speaker 1: Tony Quinn spinoff. Could have been like a Young Teachers.
Speaker 1: See I love Alex, but I don't remember what his
Speaker 1: role of the show was at all Teachers, so like you,
Speaker 1: a young faculty. But I mean that could have That
Speaker 1: could have been an interesting kind of show too. You
Speaker 1: get kind of friends aspect and all that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff that could have ye. Yeah, writer, can you still
Speaker 1: do a handstand slash? Walk on your hands. Uh yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: I haven't done. So somebody asked if I could explain
Speaker 1: to Penga's cross necklace that I wore slash she wore
Speaker 1: in the later seasons. Was it a choice by producers
Speaker 1: or wardrobe in support of waiting for marriage? And it
Speaker 1: was just my necklace. I over the course of my
Speaker 1: life have been on a roller coaster of trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what I think about religions. And when I
Speaker 1: was young, I was raised Catholic, and then we moved
Speaker 1: to Calabasas and we couldn't find a church we like,
Speaker 1: so we just stopped going to church altogether. And then
Speaker 1: in the later my later teens, I, through different friends
Speaker 1: in different avenues, started going to church again. And for
Speaker 1: my eighteenth birthday, I asked my grandmother for a diamond
Speaker 1: cross necklace and she got it for me, and it
Speaker 1: was just a gift from my grandmother that I wore
Speaker 1: basically all the time, and I just started wearing it
Speaker 1: as part of my wardrobe and nobody complained. So it
Speaker 1: just kind of seems like the jewelry was mostly ours.
Speaker 1: It was. It seems like the jewelry was our choice.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, which is interesting because then later
Speaker 1: we'll talk about it, of course. But you know, Will's
Speaker 1: already mentioned he had to ask permission before he got
Speaker 1: a tattoo, and I did not ask permission. I just
Speaker 1: went and got a tattoo, and then we showed it
Speaker 1: in the final scene of BOYD And my goal was
Speaker 1: man so interesting that like our jewelry, nobody really cared
Speaker 1: too much about, but any sort of like body jewelry
Speaker 1: stuff was not really supposed Yeah, we weren't really supposed
Speaker 1: to do that. You got it removed, though, didn't you?
Speaker 1: I did. Yeah. I had two tattoos and they're both gone,
Speaker 1: and can you tell it all? Because I'd like one
Speaker 1: of mine a very little bit. But I also stopped, like,
Speaker 1: didn't finish my cycle of removals, and also I got
Speaker 1: mine removed on the earlier side of tattoo removal. They've gone,
Speaker 1: They've come a long way and they're better now. I
Speaker 1: actually just recently bought another package to go and have them,
Speaker 1: like I want them gone gone. So um, we can
Speaker 1: go together if you'd like. I just need one. I
Speaker 1: want to keep my others, but there's just one that
Speaker 1: if it's like that's stupid. So yeah, yeah, well there's one.
Speaker 1: There's one really close to us, so we can go
Speaker 1: have it removed. So, um, where's the weirdest place you've
Speaker 1: ever been recognized? Oh? God, the Anne Frank House and Amsterdam.
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I know, but it was it was somebody going,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I love you, and I was like, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: not appropriate here. I'm not an appropriate place to be
Speaker 1: doing this right now, so please like wanting to take
Speaker 1: pictures and everything, and it's like we're essentially in a
Speaker 1: Holocaust museum, like we're not going to be taking Boy
Speaker 1: Meets World pictures here. I'm sorry, we're just not. So
Speaker 1: that is the one that instantly jumps into my mind.
Speaker 1: And then being strip searched, um, coming out of Lax,
Speaker 1: coming from Amsterdam, and essentially being in my underwear as
Speaker 1: the cop says to me. The police officer says to me, hey,
Speaker 1: aren't you the guy from Boy Meets So those are
Speaker 1: my those are my two writer I went. I was.
Speaker 1: I was at a bachelor party and it was one
Speaker 1: of these bachelor parties. I hate these things where strippers
Speaker 1: were involved and they're so uncomfortable, if so uncomfortable and all,
Speaker 1: you know, but you know, whatever you're at a friend
Speaker 1: of course, of course, and somebody paid for me to
Speaker 1: get a lap dance. And this is like not even
Speaker 1: in a strip club. This is like one of those
Speaker 1: situations where it's like strippers were brought to us, um
Speaker 1: and yeah, sure enough, this this stripper was like, you know,
Speaker 1: in my lap being like I grew up watching your show. Okay,
Speaker 1: I guess maybe I just felt so you know, that
Speaker 1: was by far like the just not wanted to be recognized,
Speaker 1: like please, okay, okay, I think it's less uncomfortable to
Speaker 1: just tell your friend I love you, but this isn't
Speaker 1: for me. I was twenty years twenty one now I
Speaker 1: was having New York. Yeah, this is when I was
Speaker 1: moving to New York. So I was only twenty. It
Speaker 1: was between twenty and twenty four, and it was just yeah, no,
Speaker 1: now I would just be like please, that's how we
Speaker 1: ever put me in this position again. Yeah, I also
Speaker 1: think you know, things have changed. This was two thousand
Speaker 1: and something, right, right, right, two thousand and two or whatever,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would be way different about my approach
Speaker 1: to that situation. Yeah, I've always been the person that
Speaker 1: was like, if that's what you want to do totally fine.
Speaker 1: I'm just let me know when they're coming. And I'm
Speaker 1: leaving and I have I've just been landing. I'll just
Speaker 1: go put myself in the bathroom. I'm just going to
Speaker 1: excuse myself from the situation I have. I'm not judging
Speaker 1: you at all. You do you, but not for me,
Speaker 1: Not for me, Not for me. I actually I have
Speaker 1: similar stories. I've been recognized, you know, in uncomfortable places,
Speaker 1: but I just I have one very recently, so I'll
Speaker 1: use that one. I was my just absolutely beloved grandfather,
Speaker 1: who was my biggest fan, you guys. No, Papa, my
Speaker 1: mom's dad passed away two and a half weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and he was ninety nine, ninety nine and a half really,
Speaker 1: and he passed peacefully in his sleep. And it's, you
Speaker 1: know what, how much more can you ask for than that?
Speaker 1: A long life, lived to be extremely healthy until he
Speaker 1: was like ninety seven or ninety eight years old, and
Speaker 1: only then was then diagnosed with COPD and congestive heart failure,
Speaker 1: but otherwise incredibly healthy his entire life. And we just
Speaker 1: had his memorial and as I walked in, I said, Hi,
Speaker 1: you know, we're here for the Joe CARBONI memorial and
Speaker 1: the woman said, oh, I don't know if the family
Speaker 1: is you know, ready yet, and I said, oh, no,
Speaker 1: I'm family. And she goes, oh, excuse me, are you
Speaker 1: are you? I think you are? And I was like yes,
Speaker 1: and she's like, oh my gosh, I love that. And
Speaker 1: I just thought, okay, it's just I love it, love you,
Speaker 1: and let's let's just calm down a little. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: just told you I was family. Like I just told
Speaker 1: you exactly now. To her credit, she didn't ask to
Speaker 1: take a picture. She didn't ask me to sign the
Speaker 1: prayer card. But there are times when yes, it's it's
Speaker 1: a little bit of a feeling of like, you know,
Speaker 1: for them. For her, it was just her day at
Speaker 1: her job, like that was just her place of work.
Speaker 1: So anyway, there's an infamous story too that I might
Speaker 1: as well tell, just because people probably have heard rumors
Speaker 1: about it. But I was shooting cabin Fever and we
Speaker 1: were shooting at an old boy scout camp in North Carolina, UM,
Speaker 1: and we had the camp for the most part to
Speaker 1: ourselves while we were shooting UM. But at one point
Speaker 1: I was covered in blood because we had been shooting
Speaker 1: the scene where I'm like covered in blood. And then
Speaker 1: we took a long break or they went to go
Speaker 1: shoot something else and I had to stay in the
Speaker 1: blood makeup. And I was sitting in my trailer reading
Speaker 1: and I was like, is it gonna be a while?
Speaker 1: They're like, yeah, we've got a couple of hours. So
Speaker 1: I said, okay, I'm going to take a hike. So
Speaker 1: I took a hike into the woods by myself and
Speaker 1: ran into a troop of kids for my boy Scout,
Speaker 1: and so I'm walking. I was walking back from my
Speaker 1: hike when I ran into it and I saw him
Speaker 1: coming up and I was like, oh god, I'm going
Speaker 1: to scare the crap out of these kids because I'm
Speaker 1: I literally have dripping down my face and I was
Speaker 1: like trying, and so they started freaking out seeing this
Speaker 1: bloody guy coming out of the woods, and then they
Speaker 1: all recognize me as riot or strong and then they
Speaker 1: started screaming about that. So it was like this weird
Speaker 1: rip as I'm like passing all these kids on this trail,
Speaker 1: like one kids looking at the other like wait, is
Speaker 1: that is that? Is that? And then like by the
Speaker 1: time I was running back to my trailer because they
Speaker 1: were all like freaking out. Oh my god, pretty weird experience.
Speaker 1: And you say people may have heard rumors about it.
Speaker 1: Did that story make its way to the internet, that
Speaker 1: I saw Wright or Strong covered in blood? Yes? Well,
Speaker 1: I think what happened to Eli Eli Roth, who was, like,
Speaker 1: you know, the director of a notorious storyteller. He just
Speaker 1: loves so he told this story like every Q and
Speaker 1: A he would ever give, you know, when the movie
Speaker 1: first came out, because he just thought it was hysterical.
Speaker 1: So it's made it to the to the internet, I
Speaker 1: think through him. I'm not sure if any of the
Speaker 1: kids actually wrote about it, but oh that's so funny. Um.
Speaker 1: What was it like for us to have animals on set?
Speaker 1: The only time I really remember it is when we
Speaker 1: had the little pigs. Do you remember that the bear
Speaker 1: about the bear? I don't think I was in the bears.
Speaker 1: Yes you were, You're in the scene with the bear. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't remember. Then it was terrified, really, yes, we
Speaker 1: get covered in honey in front in front of the bear.
Speaker 1: I have such a fear of bears, and it was
Speaker 1: we had a bear on set had a chain around
Speaker 1: its neck, and then we had a bear A couple
Speaker 1: times on the set at that time was with you guys, yes,
Speaker 1: and they put a wire, an electric wire between us
Speaker 1: and the bear, like in the doorway because the bears
Speaker 1: in the doorway, and um, we are sitting in the
Speaker 1: in the in the classroom, the college classroom. And the
Speaker 1: joke was that that morning when the bear showed up,
Speaker 1: they handed out pamphlets to everybody on set saying do
Speaker 1: not have food, and do not around the bear, and
Speaker 1: do not move quickly. And then our scene is us
Speaker 1: getting covered in honey and running away from the bar,
Speaker 1: and I remember being like, but we have since the
Speaker 1: opposite of what we were told following any of that
Speaker 1: was you guy, oh yeah. And then we had another
Speaker 1: one in the in the Wilderness Store that again they
Speaker 1: apparently used if I got the story right, and please
Speaker 1: send all your emails to Daniel Fishel if I didn't. Um,
Speaker 1: But they the bear they used in the Wilderness Store
Speaker 1: that we did one time with Lonnie was also used
Speaker 1: in a Will Farrell movie Semipro with the basketball thing.
Speaker 1: And that bear on another set ended up killing somebody.
Speaker 1: That same bear, yes, that same bear that we had
Speaker 1: on later ended up like killing somebody on a different sounds.
Speaker 1: It sounds through the hiker. What are the chances of
Speaker 1: that happened? Have you heard about somebody dying on a
Speaker 1: film set from a bear attack? Doesn't? Like that would
Speaker 1: be a famous story. We would all know on Google.
Speaker 1: I'm googling. I know. Bart the bear was the most
Speaker 1: famous bear actor for years. And that's the one fall. No,
Speaker 1: that's like the biggest, most incredible grizzly bear. This guy
Speaker 1: had trained it to fight with him, so he could
Speaker 1: actually fight a full grown grizzly bear. So it's the
Speaker 1: baron the bear. Um, it's the baron legends of the fall.
Speaker 1: So like whenever you see a person actually fighting with
Speaker 1: the uh summer rental, I want to know, what is
Speaker 1: the John Candy movie with a bear? Great Outdoors? I
Speaker 1: think anyway, Bart was like the famous bear for years.
Speaker 1: Nev Campbell survived a bear attack on set, okay, and
Speaker 1: Jensen said he did kill a person. He killed his trainer,
Speaker 1: thank you yep. While filming a promotional video, Miller was
Speaker 1: killed by a five year old grizzly bear name Rocky Rock.
Speaker 1: He was a He was a bear actor who had
Speaker 1: been trained to wrestle human guys. I knew I was right.
Speaker 1: We had prisoners in our audience. Damn it. Ry. Why
Speaker 1: do I remember trust being covered in Honey Bear? You
Speaker 1: know why? I can tell you remember that. I can
Speaker 1: tell you why because yeah, that's why it was right
Speaker 1: towards the end of the series. This was this was
Speaker 1: the first second episode of the war episode what is
Speaker 1: the War? This plays with squirrels episode where we are
Speaker 1: fighting each other, so we keep like doing escalating pranks,
Speaker 1: and that was the it's the old cast versus the
Speaker 1: new cast. Yeah, and you me and Ben where we're
Speaker 1: the old cast has like gotten the bear. And I
Speaker 1: can remember you writer, could you know what I remember
Speaker 1: about that scene? I remember that you're sitting in this
Speaker 1: in the chair and Trina comes up to you guys
Speaker 1: want to kiss, and everybody's booing on your side, like
Speaker 1: Corey and to Pangra booing like you can't kiss her.
Speaker 1: She's part of the enemy. And so you guys put
Speaker 1: your hands up like this and you lean in to
Speaker 1: kiss each other like you're both That's like that, I remember,
Speaker 1: and then you back away and then the bear ends
Speaker 1: up showing up. Yeah, like I remember, we had a
Speaker 1: big there's an episode with a big dog. That I
Speaker 1: like am friends with and I remember love Bernard and
Speaker 1: I fell in love with your friend. You're like still
Speaker 1: friends with this dog. No, I'm friends with Sean. I'm
Speaker 1: doing it in the present tense. Sean becomes friends with
Speaker 1: a dog somehow I don't know, but like I'm carrying
Speaker 1: a dog around the college set. I just remember that,
Speaker 1: And I remember I actually loved this dog. Was a
Speaker 1: big Saint Bernard I think, or a big dog, and
Speaker 1: I remember like hanging out with it and like laying
Speaker 1: on it behind the set the scenes like this love
Speaker 1: he was he was on Eric there because there's one
Speaker 1: scene where I'm lying on the couch and you don't
Speaker 1: know I'm supposed to be there. There's just a giant
Speaker 1: dog and then I'm like and the thing moves aside
Speaker 1: and I'm there. Yeah. I remember having the little pigs,
Speaker 1: and the little pigs were really loud and and not
Speaker 1: and we were really Yeah. Monkeys are always the worst
Speaker 1: to work with. Yeah, we had we had the monkey.
Speaker 1: We had the same monkey they had on Friends. Yeah
Speaker 1: that will remember accused of someone, but there was there
Speaker 1: were animals on the same all right, Well, we only
Speaker 1: have two more questions. One I remember there being an
Speaker 1: online vote if you wanted Corey into Pengga to get
Speaker 1: married or not. And I remember voting. No one else
Speaker 1: I've ever talked to my age remembers this. Do you
Speaker 1: know or am I remembering completely wrong? You're right? There
Speaker 1: was a website, Yeah, and you could go to the
Speaker 1: website and you could place your vote for whether or
Speaker 1: not Cory into Penga should get married. And they promised
Speaker 1: that they were going to like honor it, and apparently
Speaker 1: overwhelmingly people wanted Corey into Penga to get married. Um,
Speaker 1: And then there was on that website there was like
Speaker 1: a the date of the wedding, like it turned into
Speaker 1: like a whole thing. Do you think they should have
Speaker 1: gotten married? I mean, I'll have to watch the show.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it's very young to get married.
Speaker 1: With that said, similarly to the way my mom raised
Speaker 1: me about like wanting to make decisions based on the
Speaker 1: individual people, based on the individual couple, I don't think
Speaker 1: I would ever recommend to somebody to get married, but
Speaker 1: under certain circumstances, depending on the individual people, I could
Speaker 1: see saying, if this is the decision you really want
Speaker 1: to make, and you've thought it through, and we've had
Speaker 1: these conversations and you've really thought about this that I
Speaker 1: would give you my blessing. But overall, no, I would
Speaker 1: say no one should get married at eighteen nineteen years old.
Speaker 1: I don't care if you've known each other since you
Speaker 1: were three, And that doesn't mean that your marriage isn't
Speaker 1: going to work out or that you're not that there
Speaker 1: aren't people who have happy marriages if they've done that,
Speaker 1: But I overall, ninety eight percent of the time, that's
Speaker 1: going to be a catastrophic failure. I agree. I also
Speaker 1: think I think the better way to have gone would
Speaker 1: have been Corey saying we're meant to be together, since
Speaker 1: that's the way they did it, to almost a creepy way.
Speaker 1: We're meant to be together. We're to survive your four
Speaker 1: years go to Yale. Yeah, that's like you figure, that's
Speaker 1: what you want for your partner. It's like, go do
Speaker 1: be the best you you can be. I'm not going anywhere,
Speaker 1: right and it distance or whatever breaks us up, then
Speaker 1: we're supposed to be together. It's supposed to be together, exactly.
Speaker 1: I think that's there's two different ways to approach this question, though,
Speaker 1: right there's the question like the way you answered it, Danielle,
Speaker 1: and you will too is like sort of how you
Speaker 1: would feel about this situation where real life, right, But
Speaker 1: there's also the sort of cultural question of was it
Speaker 1: good for boy Meet's world to have these two given right,
Speaker 1: you know? And and what message does the show end
Speaker 1: up reinforcing or stating by having that be the main storyline?
Speaker 1: And it's it's it's it's an interesting question, like I,
Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't have written it that way, Like
Speaker 1: I don't, you know, but I think that it's such
Speaker 1: a defining characteristic of the show that at this point
Speaker 1: it's almost a moot point, like yeah, it's almost like people,
Speaker 1: especially the people listening to our podcast right now, probably
Speaker 1: are fans of Wyman's world, and if they are, part
Speaker 1: of that is loving the Corey Tomanga relationship. It's almost
Speaker 1: like it's inseparable um and and accepting the world view
Speaker 1: of their destiny for each other is kind of part
Speaker 1: of the deal. Like yeah, you know, there's a whole
Speaker 1: other element that we're not discussing though, which is also
Speaker 1: the fact that Tapeango was waiting for marriage, and there
Speaker 1: are a large there's a large percentage of people who
Speaker 1: not only choose to do that, but think religiously it's
Speaker 1: something they're supposed to do. And so there's there's so
Speaker 1: many elements to yeah, why people choose to do that,
Speaker 1: um and regardless, and so I try to be very
Speaker 1: non judgmental about all the different reasons for why people
Speaker 1: choose to do that, because that's up to every person
Speaker 1: to decide for themselves. But as a general rule, my
Speaker 1: advice would be that you should wait to get married
Speaker 1: until you, like, truly know yourself. And I do not
Speaker 1: think you even have scratched the surface of who you
Speaker 1: are by the time you are the age that they are.
Speaker 1: And even though Corey and Topengo were the same from
Speaker 1: you know, we believe, we believed as the characters. Oh,
Speaker 1: these people are who they are, They're the That's kind
Speaker 1: of the whole point of the show is like Corey's
Speaker 1: always Corey and Topenga is always Topengga. Sean's always Sean.
Speaker 1: But the truth is, look at us thirty years later
Speaker 1: and how many changes, oh man, we've all gone through. Um,
Speaker 1: And so that is more. I don't think you're grown
Speaker 1: up until you're twenty five, twenty six Oh, I think it's, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's I think like it we have such
Speaker 1: a weird idea of adulthood in this country that's based
Speaker 1: on eighteen eighteen twenty one makes sense. There are Martuary
Speaker 1: numbers that are just grown out there. Yeah, well no,
Speaker 1: I think it's honestly, I think it's because of the military. Military.
Speaker 1: I think it's because we want to convince children to
Speaker 1: go fight for us, and so we take advantage of
Speaker 1: what they can't have a beer, right exactly. I mean
Speaker 1: it's like, you're not you're you're you're You're definitely old
Speaker 1: enough to go and fight for your country, but have
Speaker 1: a beer? You really enough to make that decision? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like waits what so? Yeah, it's crazy. No, let's
Speaker 1: talk about politics. Oh no, okay, last last question. Will
Speaker 1: For whatever reason, this is the person writing it. I
Speaker 1: have a recollection of a teen Magazine photo spread of
Speaker 1: you and Jennifer Love Hewitt washing a car. Do you
Speaker 1: have any memory of this? I don't. That is not
Speaker 1: what you Love been doing teen magazine. Oh yeah, we
Speaker 1: did stuff to teen Magazine's teen People Vogue, like teen Vogue,
Speaker 1: We did all that kind it was mostly her. It
Speaker 1: was like her pulling me to something and then I'd
Speaker 1: kind of be blurry in the background and close. It
Speaker 1: didn't fit, um, but it was. But yes, I'm sure
Speaker 1: there was some kind of something. Oh that's hilarious. I'm
Speaker 1: actually googling it right now to see if I can
Speaker 1: find it. But no, I can't find it. Doubt it.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of that stuff existed only in
Speaker 1: print back then, right, Yeah, you know, so uploaded their
Speaker 1: Sure there's something somewhere. We were for you know, we
Speaker 1: were that it couple for the six months or whatever.
Speaker 1: We were together for like almost two years, but for
Speaker 1: like six months we were everywhere. Yeah. She was still
Speaker 1: one of the hardest working people I'd ever met in
Speaker 1: my life. She knew what she wanted and she worked
Speaker 1: her butt off for it and was constantly at a
Speaker 1: mall singing or recording something, or doing photoshoots or filming something.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was a hard working woman. She really was.
Speaker 1: I think she still is. I mean I haven't seen
Speaker 1: her in twenty five years, but back in the day,
Speaker 1: she knew what she wanted and she went after it. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you guys for answering so honestly and as always
Speaker 1: a fun little trip down memory Lane. Thank you guys
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