WEBVTT - Danny Strong Meets World 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.439 So I'm wondering if this has happened to either of you. 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:22.920 I got a letter in the mail. 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.720 I have gotten a letter happened recently. 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.160 Bring us in, Danielle, Welcome to POB. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.959 It was a bill for seven dollars and twenty five 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:42.800 cents for me going through the tunnel in Virginia in May. 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:49.680 So apparently a. 0:00:48.159 --> 0:00:51.040 Car that had a license plate that looked like the 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:53.960 plate of my new car, which again I had already had, 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.680 was ticketed. Not ticketed, but like gone through a tunnel 0:00:58.640 --> 0:01:01.200 in Virginia and now they were trying to bill me. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.120 Hold on, so wasn't I thought you meant like you 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:05.040 were in a rental car? 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:05.440 No? 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.880 Or no, this was not I wasn't in No, I 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:09.880 wasn't there. I have no idea. So I'm like, okay, 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:12.200 my first instinct, what do you think nowadays? 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.360 First instinct, this is a scam. 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:15.000 This is a scam. 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:15.280 Yeah. 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.240 Yeah, Like they they want me and there's like a 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:19.000 QR code. I'm like, all right, so I scanned the 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.039 QR code and they you know, and now my genetic material, 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:24.840 they clone me and then I see myself all over 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:25.760 the country something like that. 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:26.600 So I'm like, they get you. 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:28.200 That's how they get to you're not going to do it. 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:31.200 So I'm googling like is this a scam? And then 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.959 turns out to not be, and so I have to 0:01:35.080 --> 0:01:37.520 I'm on the phone for like twenty five minutes this morning, 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:40.199 going I'm in Los Angeles. 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:44.960 See that's what I'm like. Seven dollars and twenty five right, Well, 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.800 here's the thing, and I'm the chief skate of all 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:48.160 of us. 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:50.680 No, if you don't pay it, which I'm not going 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:51.800 to pay it, I wasn't there. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.600 And they start to compound it you would have just 0:01:54.680 --> 0:01:56.280 paid even though you weren't there. 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.560 I like the idea of I hate the phone so much, 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:03.080 the idea and having to explain things to people over 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:03.640 and over again. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.360 My way, we're going to just start feeling you for Oh, 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:09.919 it's gonna be great for seven dollars and twenty five cents. 0:02:09.960 --> 0:02:12.360 I also would have just paid paid. 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:13.840 Even though you know it was I will pay for 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:18.239 parking out rushmore because that's that's yeah, that's really to get. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.120 But this like having to be on the phone like 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:22.880 for forty five minutes, and then when they transferred to 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:24.799 the next person, you have to reattene. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:25.400 That wasn't me. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:26.560 I wasn't in Virginia. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.959 I'm not paying seven dollars and twenty five cents to 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:30.079 say I was in Virginia. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.200 I shan't. But I for seven dollars, I probably just 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:34.920 to get it off my plate. I would have paid it, 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.040 I did. I'm funny you're bringing this up. I just 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.639 got a notification that I had a parking ticket. And 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.679 did you guys know that in LA now they don't 0:02:42.720 --> 0:02:44.720 often leave the ticket on your window. 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:46.480 You just oh, you just get it in the mail. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:50.680 You just get it in the mail. The actually parked. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.720 Correct, I didn't know what how do you argue with 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:57.320 the right? Yeah, exactly. I had parked in a place 0:02:57.320 --> 0:03:00.360 in downtown LA, and I was kind of con used 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:02.320 if it was a parking space or not. I was like, 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:04.239 is this a parking space? I think it looks like 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:06.560 it's a parking space. There was a car parked directly 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.280 behind where I was parked, so I was like, this 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.679 car is parked in a parking space. 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:13.600 They make the signs needlessly confusing, and I. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:16.360 Was like, I'm pretty sure this is fine. And I thought, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:19.280 I'm also only going to be in this place that 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.840 I'm in for no more than like fifteen or twenty minutes, 0:03:21.840 --> 0:03:24.800 So if it's not a parking space, what are the 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:26.360 odds they're going to come by in those in that 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.880 short amount of time? Anyway, So I got a parking ticket, 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.040 no ticket on my car, just sent to my house. 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:36.600 They ticketed me twice within fifteen minutes. 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:40.280 What so I because there's no ticket, so they can't 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:40.920 have no ticket. 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:42.360 So it must have been two different people. 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:44.320 Are you going to call and complain or are you 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:44.880 going to pay it? 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:48.120 They call and complain because they're one of them. Is 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:49.560 like one hundred dollars space. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:52.120 Parking tickets get high, but seven dollars for a toll. 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:53.680 I would just be like across. 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:54.880 The country when I wasn't there. 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:59.400 Well, it's actually your license plate, Like the first. 0:03:59.280 --> 0:04:03.280 Picture of a license plate that then was for my 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:07.280 new car, which I already had in California. 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:08.880 So it's like, well, it couldn't have been that. So 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:09.640 I'm on the phone. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.360 They send me to somebody else who's like, oh, the 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:15.560 cameras get weird in the tunnels, And what happened is 0:04:15.600 --> 0:04:19.000 one of the letters of your license plate, Like it 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.159 looks like your license plate, but when we made it 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.359 clearer on the picture. What we thought was an L 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.480 is actually an I totally our fault to ignore it. 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:28.280 You're good to go, not your license plate. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.839 But all of a sudden, it was like I just 0:04:30.880 --> 0:04:32.840 got a bill for something like you you just get 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:34.520 It's like, wait, this is I. 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:36.479 Think this is the beginning of a cool, scary story 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.080 where it's like you were there, like then they zoom 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:41.719 in and it was like you see yourself driving and 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.800 you're like, wait a minute, how is that? I was 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:46.240 I have to go back and figure out, like what 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:48.800 alternate universe double you have in the world. 0:04:49.160 --> 0:04:51.640 That's great, Yeah, well you know there's a new kind 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.880 of a hayte Ai obviously, but there's this new kind 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:55.600 of thing where apparently it's a prank going around on 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.919 the TikTok machine where you can make it look like 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.159 it's an actual newscast about like a local robbery or something. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.200 But then when they put up the picture of the suspect, 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:08.480 it's like someone in your family, right, right, So it's 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:12.839 people filming like like they think you're watching the local news, 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:14.599 and it's like and here's what the person who lit 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:15.600 the fire looks. 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:17.560 Like, and it's like the nine year old kid. It's like, 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:19.160 kid's freaking out, like I didn't do anything. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:20.240 I didn't do anything. 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.960 So yeah, it's all I never know what's a scam anymore. 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.239 I don't know what's real and what's not in this world. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:30.080 I was teaching it Indie school, and his buddy, his 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.520 best friend, Zev, was part of the thing that I was, 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:34.960 you know, running the program I was running. And then 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.240 he offered. He was so nice because I was starving. 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:38.680 I hadn't eat any lunch, and he was like, do 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.200 you want any of my lunch and he handed me 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:41.880 like some carrots from his lunch. I was like, thank 0:05:41.880 --> 0:05:43.800 you so much, Zev, That's so sweet. And then after 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.320 the whole program was done, it was the screenplayers thing 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.200 that you did before, Danielle. And so after that was 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:49.840 all done and we were clearing out the room and I. 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:50.600 See his lunchbox. 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:51.479 I'm like, oh my god. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:53.560 So I grab it and I take it home. I'm like, 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:54.920 we'll just give it to him. So then I text 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.240 his mom. I'm like, oh, We've got Zev's lunchbox. She's like, 0:05:57.320 --> 0:05:59.719 he's eating out of his lunchbox right now in the 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.920 car next to me. I was like, why does. 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:02.960 This feel like a horror film? 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.400 The call is coming from within the lunch box? 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:07.200 Who's lunchbox? 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:07.400 Do I? 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:07.920 Of course? 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:14.120 Then I check and it has like, oh god, the 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:15.039 beginning of horror. 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.159 By the way, zeb was so kind. 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.240 He gave me some lunch and I have his lunch box. 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:20.960 But he's. 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:34.159 Welcome upon me to world. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.320 I'm Daniel Fischel, I'm righter strong, and I wasn't in Virginia. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:38.520 I'm Wilfredell. 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:54.880 When looking back on the show and recapping all seven seasons, 0:06:55.160 --> 0:06:57.960 we spent to the beginning of each recap detailing new 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.080 guest stars. We gave listeners their names, what other projects 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:03.680 you might know them from, and win applicable a little 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.279 life update. Some of the more interesting check ins we 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:09.159 heard over the last few months actually doctor Forbes. Riley 0:07:09.200 --> 0:07:12.880 has sold two point five billion dollars worth of infomercial 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:16.720 products and has a buff husband. Andrew Levittos is an 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:20.080 acclaimed artist. Marisol Nichols poses as young women on the 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:23.600 Internet to bust sexual predators. And Glenn Merzer thought our 0:07:23.680 --> 0:07:26.880 show was at least better than Facts of Life, which 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:31.400 was important, but it's hard not to wonder who exactly 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:35.920 became the most successful member of our alumni. There's Bill Lawrence, 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.800 a Hollywood powerhouse whose first script was an episode of 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.640 Boy Meets World, and now he has an Emmy filled 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:45.760 resume that includes Scrubs, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and Cougartown. You've 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.880 got Adam Scott, one of television's biggest stars in twenty 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.040 twenty six, arguably making the best work of his long 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:56.760 career in Apple's Severance and the critically acclaimed horror movie Hokum. 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.000 Linda Cardellini has been a mainstay in Hollywood since childhood. 0:08:00.480 --> 0:08:02.720 She went from Velma and Scooby Doo to shows like 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:06.080 Freaks and Geeks, Er Madman, and Dead to Me, while 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:10.480 appearing in other movies like Legally Blonde, Avengers, Endgame, Broke Back, Mountain, 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:13.520 and The Founder. And she will soon star in the 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:17.000 new Friday the Thirteenth TV show called Crystal Lake. There's 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.000 Carrie Russell, Ethan Supple, Minasuvari, Marla Sokoloff, Emmy winning writer 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:25.000 Barbie Adler. The list goes on and on, but this 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.640 week we are talking to a guest star who, in 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:31.280 any debate, would find himself somewhere atop that list. He 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.600 was a child actor whose career began on Saved by 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.880 the Bell The New Class, where he appeared in five 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:40.520 episodes credited as both Stanley and Noogie, and soon after 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.920 he would join us for season three's The Heart Is 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:47.199 a Lonely Hunter, where he played Arthur, Eric's overly qualified 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:51.160 competition for the local newscaster internship. He'd have other stops 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:53.480 on shows like Third Rock from the Sun, Seinfeld, and 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.120 Gilmore Girls, but it was as Jonathan Levinson on almost 0:08:57.200 --> 0:09:00.079 thirty episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that most of 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:03.240 our listeners would recognize him from, and though he never 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.840 fully gave up on acting with appearances on Gray's Anatomy, Madmen, 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:10.199 and Billions, it was behind the scenes that he solidified 0:09:10.240 --> 0:09:13.160 his Hollywood legacy. Hoping to write material for himself as 0:09:13.200 --> 0:09:16.400 a leading man, he opened his laptop and started writing screenplays, 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.760 and his first successful foray into the profession was HBO's 0:09:19.800 --> 0:09:23.160 political drama Recount, which he may not have ended up 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:27.680 starring in, but instead found himself nominated for eleven Emmys 0:09:27.760 --> 0:09:31.280 and five Golden Globes. He followed that up with Game Change, 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:35.240 another fascinating look into American elections, but this time, not 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:38.480 only was it nominated, he won the Emmy for Outstanding 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.320 Writing for a Mini Series, Movie or Drama and also 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.520 a Peabody. He'd go on to write the box office 0:09:44.520 --> 0:09:47.360 smash The Butler for Lee Daniels and Oprah Winfrey, both 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:50.720 parts of the final Hunger Games movie. He co created 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:55.240 the TV series Empire, created, wrote, and directed Hulu's Dope 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:58.920 Sick that was nominated for fourteen Emmys and won him 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:03.840 another peace Body. All while he wrote two musicals, Chess 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:08.600 and Galileo for Broadway, and yet today he is joining 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.280 us to talk about the one week he spent on 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.920 the set of Boy Meets World, the true crowning achievement 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.520 of his prolific career. I'm sure so. Welcome to the 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:24.880 podcast the very talented and not related to writer Danny Strong. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.560 Hey, how's it going? 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:29.319 How good? 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:31.080 How good? Hey? 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:32.720 You guys doing good? 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.640 We thank you so much. We know you do not 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.880 have much free time, and we are so honored that 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:41.080 you gave us some of your time today because we 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.880 claim you as alumni and now we're happy today to 0:10:43.920 --> 0:10:44.640 be able to prove it. 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:46.920 That's right, Yeah, I'm an alumni. 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:51.719 Yes you are I'm so congratulations on your massive success 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:53.840 and this massive hit of a podcast. 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:55.079 It's so cool. 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:59.359 I've been hearing about it for pretty much since it launched, obviously, 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:01.880 but I mean, it's just amazing what you guys have 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:02.920 all achieved here. 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:04.720 So thank you. 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.280 We have harassed you a few times about coming on 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:11.800 the pod and convincing. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.880 I'm also you know, I'm so all in when i'm 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:19.360 when I'm promoting projects, but I kind of feel like 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:22.720 when I'm not, I should just kind of disappear, So 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:26.439 I usually and then I don't know, because I'm not 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:30.240 promoting anything right now, like, and I think Adam Bush 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:30.960 brought it up again. 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:32.960 I'm like, let's do that. I'm just going to go 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:34.240 do it. He's like, do it. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:38.520 Well, thank you, thank you for joining us. I know 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:42.880 you were a Manhattan beach kid, which, despite the first 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:44.960 part of its name, is not thought of as a 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:49.319 big city hub for the entertainment industry. This dream of 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.120 becoming a child actor, how did you convince your parents 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:54.040 to do it? 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:55.520 Well, you know, I don't. 0:11:55.840 --> 0:11:58.880 I don't really view myself as a child actor because 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.360 I didn't have any success as a child. But I 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:04.200 wasn't you know, and I wasn't only auditioning, and it 0:12:04.240 --> 0:12:07.600 was really I was able to get an agent in 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:12.480 high school, but I never booked anything. I booked one 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:15.839 commercial and then and then I was a theater major 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:21.120 in college and had similar lack of success, although I 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:22.760 did book a few episodes to say, by the by 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:26.680 of the new class, okay, it was very exciting. And 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:31.959 then it wasn't until I graduated, or I was about 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.880 to graduate. I actually finished a semester early at college. 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.640 So and then it was in that window, you know, 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.960 before the official graduation that I started to book a 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:47.240 few jobs, Boy Meets World being one of them. 0:12:47.440 --> 0:12:49.199 So how old were you when you were on Boy then? 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.160 Twenty one or twenty two? 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.600 Okay, yeah, we were still in high school, so you 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:55.839 were playing a high schooler. 0:12:56.000 --> 0:12:57.800 I was playing a high school till you know, a 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:02.600 few weeks ago. I literally I was playing college into 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:08.040 my mid thirties. So yeah, but I actually had an interesting. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:09.840 You know for me. 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.040 Booking Boy Meets World was sort of a big life 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.520 moment for me, which I'm happy to explain that please. 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:22.520 So I basically I had been auditioning, Like I said, 0:13:22.520 --> 0:13:25.520 I had an agent in high school and went on, 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.520 but I didn't regularly go on auditions. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:27.720 You know. 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:29.920 It was maybe once a month i'd get an audition 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.880 for something, but I never booked anything. And then I 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.960 was a theater major in college and I never really 0:13:34.960 --> 0:13:38.360 booked anything, as I just said. So then when I 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.560 was about to graduate, and I was in that period 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.200 where I wasn't I hadn't graduated, but I wasn't in 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:48.680 school anymore, right, I started to rethink what I was 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:50.480 going to do with my life. And I got an 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.760 internship for these producers and they actually offered me a job. 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:57.480 So I thought, you know what, I think, I'm going 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:58.360 to quit acting. 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:00.280 And then I. 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:03.560 Went on this what I viewed as my last audition 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:05.240 was first show called Minor Adjustments. 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:05.960 You guys remember that. 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:07.439 I remember minor adjustments? 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.080 Yes, where'd you do minor adjustments? Who doesn't remember? 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:14.599 So I went and for Minor Adjustments and there was 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:17.840 the audition sides, and I guess I didn't get them 0:14:17.960 --> 0:14:20.760 till I got to the audition. And then I thought 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.480 what I had always thought whenever I was auditioning. And 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.200 I don't know if this ever, if you guys ever 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:28.720 thought this, which was what are they looking for you know, 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:29.920 what are they looking for? 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:30.240 Right? 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.720 And then I thought, well, it's my last audition, because 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.800 I was told myself this was gonna be my last audition. Uh. 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:37.840 And I thought, well, I don't care what they're looking for. 0:14:37.920 --> 0:14:40.000 This is my last audition, so I'm gonna do whatever 0:14:40.040 --> 0:14:43.560 I want. And I read the material and I thought, Oh, 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.040 this kid's weird. I should play him sort of like 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:49.960 Kramer from Seinfeld. So then I walked into the room 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.320 and I did the audition, and I walked in the 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.120 room sort of my version of Kramer, and they just 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.000 started laughing the second I walked in. And then after 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.480 all those years of auditioning, I booked the job. 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.600 Oh yeah. 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.160 And so then my agent called me and said, look, 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.560 you book the job, and you have an audition for 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:11.360 Boy Meets World tomorrow. And I was like, and Boy 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.520 meets World minor adjustments is I hadn't aired, I hadn't 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.640 heard of it. Boy Meets World. That was a big deal, 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:18.800 you know. I mean, I'm like, wow, this is that's 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:19.640 a really cool. 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:20.240 It's a real show. 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.640 Yeah, that's a real show. That's a famous show. Right. 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.880 So I went into the audition and and then and 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:28.320 again I didn't get the sides untill I got to 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.880 the audition, and I thought, Oh, what are they looking for? 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:34.840 And then I thought, wait a second, I ignored that yesterday, 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.000 so I'm not I don't care what they're looking for. 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.720 I'm just gonna do what I think is funny with 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.880 the material. And I thought, oh, I'm gonna make the 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:45.040 character very arrogant. I'm just gonna be very arrogant. So 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.160 then I walked in and I did the audition, and 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:49.600 then I got the job. And then the same thing 0:15:49.640 --> 0:15:52.440 happened a few days later, and I booked three jobs 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:56.480 in one week after having not worked for almost seven 0:15:56.560 --> 0:16:00.000 years of auditioning so to me, and Boy Meets World 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:02.120 was and the other show I actually hadn't heard of either, 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:05.960 so that so it was literally but booking Boy Meets 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:09.520 World was like, oh wait, maybe I shouldn't quit, Maybe 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:10.000 maybe I. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:10.760 Should do this. 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:11.400 It's work. 0:16:12.120 --> 0:16:12.760 So that was my. 0:16:12.800 --> 0:16:16.120 Big life moment, which was and it was a huge 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.640 turning point for me, not just as an act but 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.880 just in life. Right, not what they're looking for, but 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:23.760 just bring what you want to bring. 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.200 Okay, So here here's my follow up question. 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.080 Then, yeah, did that play out in the in working 0:16:29.120 --> 0:16:31.000 on the job, Like, did you get to did you 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.400 get to keep doing what you wanted to do on 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.080 the set of Boy Meets World? Or were you then 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.000 immediately told that here's what we're looking for. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:40.840 No, no, no, kind of did what I did. I'm 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.560 glad and everyone was, you know, they really liked it. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.880 It was you know, and then I have to say, 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:50.960 the three of you and everyone was so nice to me, 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.720 and it was so memorable because you know, you're all 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.560 very famous. I've barely done anything except for this episode 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:00.000 of Minor Adjustments, which. 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.840 I actually ended up shooting the day before I came 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:03.240 to Wow. 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.040 Really yeah, it was all booked at the same time, right, 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:08.880 and it was you know, and I was all star 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.040 struck by by the three of you and by Ben 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.639 Savage and it was just, you know, very exciting to 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:14.399 be there, and you. 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:15.520 Guys were also nice. 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:19.240 So it's very memorable to me, a very memorable sort 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:20.359 of life moment. 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:21.200 Wow. 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:38.399 Well, at this point, Quentin Tarantino's employment at your local 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:44.320 video Star Video Archives has become folklore in film history. Sure, you, 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:47.920 as a young person befriended this clerk and talked movies 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:51.879 all day with him. Tell me what that was like 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:56.800 and how his passion affected the way you looked at movies. 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:57.560 Yeah. 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.840 So there was this avant garde video store called Video 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:05.480 Archives where I grew up in Manhattan Beach, and I 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:07.760 was I was sort of a movie buff since I 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:10.760 was five six years old. I was watching grown up movies. 0:18:11.400 --> 0:18:13.000 I used to say, adult movies, and people are like, 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:14.800 you're watching now. 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:15.119 I was. 0:18:16.680 --> 0:18:21.920 Actually, you know, rated R movies, you know, way too young, 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:25.199 But nonetheless, I was just sort of what I was into, right, 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.000 I wasn't into kids movies, and my mom fully embraced 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.240 what I wanted to watch, right, So they opened this 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:34.760 avant garde video store that assorted the films by director, 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:38.240 So there were sections that was this director, this director, 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:42.480 you know. And so I started going there and I 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:44.800 and this was when I was nine or ten, you know, 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:46.640 eleven ish, right, but I. 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:47.840 Looked really young. 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:53.000 And there was this video store clerk that just was 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.800 so much fun and just wanted to talk movies with me. 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:57.879 And he was in his mid twenties, I guess, and 0:18:57.920 --> 0:19:01.439 it was Quentin Tarantino. And I would just go and 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.600 talk movies with him, and you know, he fully embraced 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:08.879