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Speaker 1: and I don't take the problem. I don't see the problem. Also, writer,

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Speaker 1: my Yeah, well, welcome to pod Meat's world. I'm Danielle visual,

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Speaker 1: I'm right or Strong, and I'm Before we get into

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Speaker 1: New new Merch. Well, I wasn't expecting. I didn't have

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Speaker 1: have you have this New York vibe that obviously they wanted, right,

426
00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:25,800
Speaker 1: you have this sort of like this cool guy like

427
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 1: dated five in a way, it's like two fifties. Like

428
00:24:28,600 --> 00:24:30,560
Speaker 1: that's why it's so cool that you played Elvin. Of

429
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,399
Speaker 1: course you did, like I see you you had like

430
00:24:33,680 --> 00:24:36,480
Speaker 1: a throwback you know, you did have that James Dean

431
00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 1: like James. It wasn't fake. It wasn't because I feel

432
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: like everybody wants to you know, especially back then, like

433
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,919
Speaker 1: teenagers wanted to achieve that, but they didn't have it,

434
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 1: and you just had it like this effortless cool presence

435
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:53,000
Speaker 1: that you just owned it. It's it's amazing. It took

436
00:24:53,000 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 1: seven takes, But all right, thank you. I appreciate that, Danny.

437
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,639
Speaker 1: Were you basing the character on anyone or was it

438
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,919
Speaker 1: just a character you hadn't you? Yeah, I had a

439
00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:06,919
Speaker 1: little as she as she said, James Dean, Elvis Presley,

440
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: a little Montgomery Clifton there, but little Bobby Tenero. But

441
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: you know, you know that's so true. And so then

442
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,639
Speaker 1: when you book, it was your mom the first person

443
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:26,840
Speaker 1: you called, Yes, yes, oh you finally did a good

444
00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:33,159
Speaker 1: man good you know, yeah, she was really proud. You know,

445
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: do you remember meeting Ethan and Blake for the first time?

446
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: What was the dynamic you had with the with like

447
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 1: the three of you together. Ethan, Ethan had this this

448
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 1: this coolness I just draw to him. You know, he

449
00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:49,360
Speaker 1: wasn't trying to be you know, he was just there

450
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:54,159
Speaker 1: reading his book or just just solid like solid good people.

451
00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,439
Speaker 1: You could you could tell, you know, people who have

452
00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 1: good hearts. And you know, Ethan had this amazing presence

453
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: and it wasn't about being his size, you know, I

454
00:26:04,160 --> 00:26:08,640
Speaker 1: I think he's amazing big, arts, small or anyway, because

455
00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: he's always had that fire, that true fire. And and

456
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: Blake was was a tripper. He was always funny always yeah,

457
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:21,960
Speaker 1: all right, all right, little all right, yeah, okay again

458
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: like their characters. That's the thing. They were like their

459
00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:27,320
Speaker 1: care all of you were. So you just snapped into

460
00:26:27,440 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: that right away, which leads me to believe. I mean again,

461
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, do you think that Michael he knew

462
00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:35,359
Speaker 1: that these characters had a shot of coming back or

463
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: do you think that it was it was just they

464
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: were so magnetic when they got there where I was like,

465
00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 1: we've gotta do we gotta do this more. I think

466
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: Michael Jacobs is an amazing mastermind of so I believe

467
00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:47,479
Speaker 1: that there was a chess board in front of him

468
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 1: and he saw the moves all the right away. But

469
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: he saw the moves and he saw the you know,

470
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: the how people get along and if they're if they're

471
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Speaker 1: good match, and what he said, you know, I had

472
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:03,680
Speaker 1: a floor. You know, Michael Jacobs is amazing like that.

473
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: He just you know, I think for sure he thought,

474
00:27:07,320 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: if I can get the right people in here and

475
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: they have the right you know energy together and their

476
00:27:12,920 --> 00:27:15,280
Speaker 1: energy is what I wanted to be. This could be

477
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: a huge part of the school, a huge part of school,

478
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,600
Speaker 1: which is exactly what it turned into, which I think

479
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: is part of the reason why, like you said, Danny

480
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:23,720
Speaker 1: the chessboard that he had in front of him. I

481
00:27:23,760 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 1: do think it's one of the reasons he cares so

482
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 1: much about every actor he hires and why sometimes he

483
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,960
Speaker 1: lets people go is if this isn't going to be

484
00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:34,240
Speaker 1: something that I can see working for multiple different things

485
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:38,120
Speaker 1: and carrying multiple storylines in the future, then it isn't

486
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:42,960
Speaker 1: gonna it's not worth the exactly exactly, you know. I

487
00:27:43,040 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: just want to say, after watching you guys on the pod,

488
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: I love the first season, you know, and I totally

489
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:53,520
Speaker 1: agree with you, like the drop, shock or star, because

490
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 1: it was like, this must have been traumatic in a

491
00:27:55,800 --> 00:28:00,199
Speaker 1: way because they're coming in on there only this age mean.

492
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: I'm i'm I'm like ten years I think older than you. Danielle.

493
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:08,200
Speaker 1: I'm i'm um. You guys were all younger, even Blake

494
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 1: and Ethan were five years younger. Yeah, you know, you

495
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,400
Speaker 1: guys were really cool, really professional, and you were very

496
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 1: genuinely nice. I was surprised because you know, in case

497
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 1: you're like, wait a second, and did they say hello? Yeah,

498
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:28,240
Speaker 1: they said, you know, of course, you know you're gonna

499
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: give them the distance because you guys were you know,

500
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:33,399
Speaker 1: just the starts of the show, and it's sort of like,

501
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,400
Speaker 1: you know, you come in, you're like, all right, well,

502
00:28:36,560 --> 00:28:38,520
Speaker 1: I want to make you guys look better. You know,

503
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 1: that was my attitude. Blake thought we were faking. That's

504
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: the thing I love is when I went back in

505
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:45,560
Speaker 1: Flakes like you guys are all so nice, I thought

506
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: it was fake. That was disingenuous at first. Yeah, it's

507
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: so funny. Did you enjoy playing a bully? You're such

508
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: a nice guy. It's it's a little bit like Adam Scott,

509
00:28:57,360 --> 00:28:59,600
Speaker 1: Like Adam's got such a nice guy and he always

510
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: ends up playing these like jerky characters. To enjoyed playing

511
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: a like threatening bully, well, you know, not the threatening part,

512
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: but I enjoyed the mental aspect of it, you know,

513
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: because I myself had gone through some bullying as a

514
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: kid myself with the grade school of being left back.

515
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,400
Speaker 1: So it was kind of my way of venting that

516
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: energy and instead of letting it be inside me and

517
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 1: holding inside of me, I was able to release it

518
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:33,440
Speaker 1: into the character and um, you know, like as you know,

519
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: like with Girl Meats World, like when I was on

520
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:39,640
Speaker 1: I tried to go in my Instagram. I tried to

521
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: make it, you know, anti bullying as much as possible.

522
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: You know, it's it's it's it's a hard battle. You know,

523
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 1: a lot of kids are going through today, and you know,

524
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,440
Speaker 1: it's it's we didn't have that when we were younger.

525
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: I mean a page or would have been the only

526
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: way to really reach out, you know, like that wasn't

527
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:01,440
Speaker 1: really up and going, and nowadays kids have to grow

528
00:30:01,520 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 1: up so fast, you know, well, it's one of the

529
00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: things that they talk about, is the fact that I

530
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 1: think we've even addressed it on the pod maybe especially

531
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: with bullying. There was a time where kids could get

532
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,400
Speaker 1: away from it because when they left school, they were home,

533
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: which was a much safer space. And now because the

534
00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: internet and social media is everywhere, they don't you don't

535
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: get the break. The kids that are getting bullied go

536
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: home and they're still getting bullied, and so they never Yeah,

537
00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: you can't ever get away from it. And they're like

538
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,600
Speaker 1: and like with you will with with the social distancing

539
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 1: from um, the internet, I think that's a great thing,

540
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: you know, for for mental I mean I catch myself

541
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:41,880
Speaker 1: you know, on it and it's like wait a second,

542
00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: this whole time is going by. I'm I'm not I'm

543
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:48,680
Speaker 1: not seeing the signs God's giving me because I'm I'm

544
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: glued to my phone. You know, they're scrolling, just scrolling

545
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: in your life, and anybody who deals with with any

546
00:30:56,360 --> 00:30:59,360
Speaker 1: sort of mental health issues like me, I just it

547
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: just made me a healthier person. I mean, it really

548
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 1: truly just made me a healthier person. It's so funny

549
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: because wait, Danielle and Ryder and I talked about how

550
00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: how close we are and how even after thirty years,

551
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: we've gotten closer because of this podcast. And there was

552
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: a time where not long ago, where I was like,

553
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of maybe getting back on social media, and

554
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: both writer and Danielle reach out like, I don't know

555
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: if you should, like I think for your mental health,

556
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 1: I just think it's better if you don't. And they're right,

557
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: They're completely right about it. And so it was also

558
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,640
Speaker 1: having that kind of structure around you, in that support system,

559
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,200
Speaker 1: going I see where you're coming from, but do the

560
00:31:34,480 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: do the benefits outweigh kind of the negative that you're

561
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: going to feel mentally, And they're right, and so there's

562
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: not even just about you will, I mean, we we

563
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: were specific about you in certain ways. But I was

564
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,240
Speaker 1: just I just if I could cut the core completely,

565
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: I would do you know what I mean. I was

566
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:51,720
Speaker 1: proud that that you had already accomplished that I didn't

567
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:53,320
Speaker 1: want to see it because I was like, oh I

568
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: could just I mean I could. I would wish I

569
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: could completely cut it off, and I did. I stopped Facebook,

570
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 1: I stopped some but like, it's really hard, especially because

571
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: we do get a lot of especially with this podcast.

572
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: We have a good community of people online, Like there

573
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: is a lot of support, and I do enjoy aspects

574
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: of it a lot, you know. I enjoy the sense

575
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 1: of community um and and feedback and being able to

576
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: share with that community and and have comments come in.

577
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,840
Speaker 1: But it's it's it's so tricky. And I like the

578
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: free I'm gonna be honest if we have to. But

579
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:27,040
Speaker 1: because you get free stuff when you're on Instagram and

580
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:31,240
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff that you do, I would

581
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,479
Speaker 1: reach out and be like, I love your product. Can

582
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: I have somebody, and well, yes, oh my god, oh

583
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: my gosh, we are that. This is where Will and

584
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: I are the most different. I get sent free stuff

585
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: all the time, and I like just stuff. I want

586
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 1: no stuff. I don't want no stuff. I want no stuff.

587
00:32:51,720 --> 00:33:01,040
Speaker 1: I like zero stuffs. Hey everyone, it's Anglert and Kayla

588
00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,040
Speaker 1: Miller Keys and Jared Heyn. I'm I'm here. I'm here

589
00:33:04,080 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 1: to guys, hosts of the new podcast. Help we suck

590
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: at being newlyweds because I guess we just don't suck

591
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 1: at dating anymore. No, I mean your newly weds. I

592
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,040
Speaker 1: am not a newlywed anymore. I'm curious if I sucked

593
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: at being a newlywed. I don't think so. I mean

594
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: I I made it to the altar, and I am

595
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:23,640
Speaker 1: so happy to be joining you, guys. I can't wait

596
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 1: to talk about relationships, marriage, and just everything in between.

597
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,760
Speaker 1: It's about time we have someone smart to join this podcast.

598
00:33:29,960 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: It's too long between us. This young lady is a

599
00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: broadcast journalism major. She knows what she's doing. I'm so

600
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: excited to be hosting a podcast with my soon to

601
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: be wife and of course, my best friend Jared. How's

602
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: it gonna make you feel working together? Now? You guys

603
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: live together, we're together, gonna get married. Yeah, it'll be interesting.

604
00:33:46,400 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: You going to get tired of each other? Absolutely? Yes?

605
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: Be sure to listen to help we suck at being

606
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: newlyweds on the I Heart radio app, Apple podcasts or

607
00:33:54,360 --> 00:34:02,360
Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts talking about mental health and

608
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: social media and all of that feels like a really

609
00:34:04,800 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 1: good transition to talk about because we talked about it

610
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: a little bit with Blake and Ethan, But we have

611
00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 1: never fully known the story of you. So you came

612
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: to boy Meats World, you auditioned seven times, you become

613
00:34:18,160 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: this incredible iconic character of Harley Kiner, and then what

614
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:24,839
Speaker 1: it felt like to us was that just one day

615
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:29,640
Speaker 1: you were gone. You did seven episodes, and then we

616
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: all have memories of what I actually don't know if

617
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 1: I was there at that table. I don't think I

618
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: was there because I don't have I've heard the stories

619
00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:39,640
Speaker 1: now enough times that you start to think, like, was

620
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: I there? But I don't think I was. But I

621
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: know writer and will remember that a table read where you,

622
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 1: you know, had a difficult time, and you mentioned that

623
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,160
Speaker 1: table reads were difficult for you. Can you tell us

624
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:53,479
Speaker 1: what was going on for you mentally during the seven

625
00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:56,839
Speaker 1: episodes you were Harley Kiner before you know, we brought

626
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: you back in season three three? Your eight right, Um,

627
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:05,400
Speaker 1: I'll try and throw it in a nutshell. Um, bipolar

628
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: illness is, it's a chemical imbalance. And I had dealt

629
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Speaker 1: with it with my mom and I had no it's

630
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: never gonna be me. It's not gonna happen, and um

631
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:20,800
Speaker 1: kind of crazy. I'll just tell you a quick story.

632
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:27,440
Speaker 1: Um My, a psychic walks into my bar and forest

633
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:31,520
Speaker 1: those queens. She says, oh you, you know you broke

634
00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 1: bread with Jesus and you're You're a very special person.

635
00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: You're gonna have a light in this world. So she

636
00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,160
Speaker 1: tells me I'm gonna meet you in Los Angeles and

637
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:44,120
Speaker 1: six months from now and then Sedona, Arizona. And I

638
00:35:44,239 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: was like, okay, lady, you take your medication and I'll

639
00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 1: talk to you soon. Six months later, Um, I'm in

640
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 1: l A. I get a call from her and I

641
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: go to Sedona for this angel workshop and basically I

642
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,920
Speaker 1: went there. It was in a amazing experience. I opened

643
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 1: up so many chakras and I opened up my whole being.

644
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: And when I got back to l A, I wasn't

645
00:36:12,239 --> 00:36:15,879
Speaker 1: shut down enough. I was still open. But within within

646
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:19,880
Speaker 1: that week I booked Why Meet's World and it was

647
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: like this this high that I was coming into and

648
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: I had just feeling like there was this battle between

649
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: darkness and light, and I thought that I could make

650
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,200
Speaker 1: the world a better place by bringing it. It was

651
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: like this, when you're dealing with bipolarist is it's very grandiose.

652
00:36:36,560 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: You have these these outward thoughts and then you think

653
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: you can it's very hard to explain delusions of delusions

654
00:36:45,560 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: of grand exactly well. And that hit me, you know,

655
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 1: And then I wasn't closed down enough. I didn't. I didn't.

656
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,840
Speaker 1: I felt like spiritually I was out there and whatever

657
00:36:58,000 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 1: got in, like astral vampires. There's all kinds of things

658
00:37:02,920 --> 00:37:07,759
Speaker 1: I went through and exorcism, all this crazy stuff. It um,

659
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: it was just very, very difficult. And I was at

660
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:13,560
Speaker 1: the table read and I pull up in my Cadillac

661
00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:18,479
Speaker 1: convertible and for some reason I had stopted a dog

662
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 1: and I brought this dog on set and uh, I

663
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:23,880
Speaker 1: was at the table read. I thought everything would be

664
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: fine and normal, and I just felt this meltdown at

665
00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 1: the table and I remember Blake helped me. I dropped

666
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 1: the script on the floor, picked it up for me.

667
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 1: He was so good. He was like, you could do

668
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,520
Speaker 1: this and just give him a minute, you know, he's

669
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 1: like saying to the producers, like, you know, just give

670
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: a minute. And I remember just winding down and it

671
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:49,400
Speaker 1: was just like I was, I was frozen. I couldn't do,

672
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: I couldn't talk, I couldn't you know, And I knew

673
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: it was like everything was imploding, you know, like when

674
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 1: when you have that kind of stigma on your resume.

675
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: You know, back then, nobody was really breaking down there.

676
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: I think, you know, Britney Spears was still a mousketeer,

677
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:15,319
Speaker 1: you know, that wasn't anybody in the media. There wasn't

678
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: really any discussion about it. So it kind of threw

679
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: my acting career into a very bad tizzy, um until

680
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: they recontacted me for Girl Needs World. So what happened?

681
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: So the table read happens, and and so I know

682
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: you're you're talking about that the you you're using your words.

683
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:38,920
Speaker 1: The meltdown that happened at the table read was related

684
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 1: to I'm assuming you have since been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Yes, yes,

685
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 1: that's that's what happened. And and then they got me

686
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: on the proper medication. At the time, it was really

687
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: just lithium that worked and a few others, but uh,

688
00:38:57,560 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: I didn't really like the medications it was. It was

689
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: just tough. You know, well, were you on any absolutely? Absolutely?

690
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:09,280
Speaker 1: When I so when I had my um my first attack,

691
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:11,799
Speaker 1: they didn't know what it was. It was the same thing.

692
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: And you you know, with anxiety, you're you're convinced you're dying.

693
00:39:14,640 --> 00:39:16,719
Speaker 1: You just it can't be in your mind. It's you've

694
00:39:16,760 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: got cancer, You're having a stroke, you're having a heart attack,

695
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,399
Speaker 1: You're dying. And then so I was on two different

696
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,719
Speaker 1: kinds of medication, which is why I gained so much

697
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,239
Speaker 1: weight towards the end of of Boy Meats World. It's

698
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: because it's the only way I could perform. I mean,

699
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: I could not get out there unless I unless I

700
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,120
Speaker 1: was medicated. And and it was in the earlier days

701
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,640
Speaker 1: of anxiety medication as yours was in the earlier days

702
00:39:36,680 --> 00:39:39,719
Speaker 1: of bipolar medication, where you know, lithium was was what

703
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: was going on. And I have some friends that are

704
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: bipolar that talk about the demons and the darkness coupled

705
00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 1: with the um the sparkles where they say, the entire

706
00:39:48,480 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 1: like everything sparkles around you in the world is the

707
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: most amazing place to be um So, yeah, it was,

708
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:56,760
Speaker 1: And nobody was talking about it. You're right, we couldn't.

709
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 1: You couldn't take a minute and say give me a second,

710
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: I'm having an anxiety attack or I'm sorry, I'm bipolar.

711
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,440
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just no one said anything. You held

712
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: it inside and you died inside. That's just what you did.

713
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:11,480
Speaker 1: So and we didn't know what was going on with you.

714
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 1: We just we and then it was and then you

715
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:16,560
Speaker 1: were gone, Like none of us had a chance to

716
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: even talk to you or or let you know that

717
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 1: we were there. We would have been there to support

718
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 1: you in any way we could have. Um, you were

719
00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: just you just weren't there. So it was. Yeah. So

720
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: the morning of the table Read, you have that meltdown

721
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: and Blake is trying to help you any saying like

722
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 1: give him a minute, give him a minute. The table

723
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:41,280
Speaker 1: Read ends, and what happens, um My sister was visiting

724
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 1: from New York and they called her. She got me

725
00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:49,800
Speaker 1: off the set and she took me to this hospital,

726
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:54,320
Speaker 1: Edgemont Hospital. And what is it like like an e

727
00:40:54,560 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: er hospital or a mental hospital slash dab. But for

728
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 1: never a problem for me, you know at that time,

729
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 1: never like Blake said something about acid, I'd never touched

730
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 1: any anything like that. It was just purely, purely the

731
00:41:13,040 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 1: bipolar roller coaster. You know. Okay, so your sister takes

732
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,320
Speaker 1: you to the hospital and you get checked in. I

733
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: get checked in Disney sent Um. One of their psychologists

734
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: are like, someone to help talk to me, to see

735
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: if they could they could they could get me down.

736
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,360
Speaker 1: You have to get me into to get me to

737
00:41:35,480 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: the show, you know. Yeah, because I left everybody on

738
00:41:39,000 --> 00:41:44,279
Speaker 1: the lurch. That's what I felt like, like, like, you know,

739
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:46,120
Speaker 1: like you guys were kids at the time I was.

740
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,600
Speaker 1: I felt like like I traumatized you at the table

741
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 1: read I was like, oh my god. You know, thinking back,

742
00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: it's like, wow, it must have been difficult for them

743
00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,800
Speaker 1: to see such a thing. You know, it was difficult

744
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:00,439
Speaker 1: for us to see it because we can aired about

745
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: That's why it was difficult to see it. It wasn't

746
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:04,920
Speaker 1: It had nothing to do with oh my god, I

747
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:06,359
Speaker 1: can't believe he's not going to be on the show.

748
00:42:06,480 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: It's that we we really liked you well, I mean,

749
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: we love you, and it was one of those things

750
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: where we we just didn't know. Again, we weren't kind

751
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,000
Speaker 1: of kept in the circle of information of stuff that

752
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,360
Speaker 1: was going on and then it was just kind of

753
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:22,359
Speaker 1: just don't ask um well interestingly, I mean going back

754
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: to the point that that people didn't really talk about

755
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:26,360
Speaker 1: mental health in any of the same terms that we

756
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 1: do now. I don't know if the adults were well

757
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: equipped enough to present the infront of I don't know.

758
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:35,000
Speaker 1: I think if I remember Jeff McCracken was directing, and

759
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,960
Speaker 1: if I remember there was this I just remember being

760
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: Danny's not coming back, but Danny's gonna be okay, and

761
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 1: he just left it at that and and you know,

762
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: my assumption, I think at the time was that it

763
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,520
Speaker 1: was drug related, because that's that's the only way I

764
00:42:51,640 --> 00:42:55,360
Speaker 1: could understand like the notion of you know, acting differently

765
00:42:55,520 --> 00:42:57,239
Speaker 1: or or I don't know, I guess I just you know,

766
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,840
Speaker 1: I had been raised by the Reagan eraw, so you know,

767
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:02,360
Speaker 1: to drugs, you touch a drug, you can go crazy

768
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 1: and jump out a window and have you know, so

769
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 1: any sort of like episode that felt out of character

770
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:09,839
Speaker 1: or different, I would immediately that's where my brain went,

771
00:43:09,920 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: I think as a kid, you know. And and they

772
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 1: didn't explain it one way or the other, so again

773
00:43:13,800 --> 00:43:15,880
Speaker 1: I sort of assumed. But the keeping from us that

774
00:43:15,960 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: Danny had a drug problem? Um was was I think

775
00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: the assumption I made at the time, which it never

776
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: of course, no one ever confirmed that, no one. I

777
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: don't think you everyone ever said that to me, but

778
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,440
Speaker 1: they didn't. They didn't have the capacity to say, this

779
00:43:28,560 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 1: is a mental health issue. It's probably one of these

780
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: three disorders. It's you know, like all the things that nowadays,

781
00:43:33,560 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 1: hopefully they'd be able to communicate. It's also, though hugely Danny,

782
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:39,759
Speaker 1: to your credit, it's amazing that with what you were

783
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,160
Speaker 1: going through, you never did drugs, because the first thing

784
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: you do is you self medicate. I mean, that's when

785
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,799
Speaker 1: you're dealing with any sort of mental health issue. That's

786
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: what you want to do, is what do I have

787
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: to do to not feel this? I remember one time

788
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,239
Speaker 1: telling my doctor when went right at the start of

789
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 1: my anxiety disorder, when it was really bad, and I

790
00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 1: mean there was a time I was bedridden for for

791
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,080
Speaker 1: a couple like a week and a half. I remember

792
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: saying to my doctor, if you told me right now

793
00:44:04,480 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 1: that heroin was gonna make me feel better, I'm going

794
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: to try heroin. Because it was you just want to

795
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: not feel the way you're feeling, So the fact that

796
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,359
Speaker 1: you weren't doing any drugs is incredible that you never

797
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: went down that road of I just I have to

798
00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: self medicated. So that's answer. Yeah, it's a real credit.

799
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: And I kind of knew in my mind that would

800
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: be it. You know, if I ain't got any mushrooms

801
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: or psychedelics anything like that, it would be be a

802
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: death sentence for me. You know, how long were you

803
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 1: then in the hospital leaving the table read you get

804
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:40,319
Speaker 1: checked into the hospital. How long are you there? I'd

805
00:44:40,360 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 1: like to say so for about a month, yeah, just

806
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,560
Speaker 1: to to make sure that the right medication and everything

807
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: got balanced with it. Three weeks, three weeks to a month,

808
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: and uh, yeah, it was. It was really difficult. And

809
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: I was really surprised when Michael Jacobs and everyone reached

810
00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: out and said, you know, we want to have you

811
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: on for you know, for one more episode. You know,

812
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 1: they didn't say it was gonna only gonna be one.

813
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: I thought it was like, oh, I'm gonna be back,

814
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: But at the same time I knew it was like, hey,

815
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a little bit of a different change,

816
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,479
Speaker 1: you know. But it was so great that they brought

817
00:45:21,719 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: me back for the closure. Um, you know, he said,

818
00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: she said, was the episode with Adam and uh, Adam

819
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:34,320
Speaker 1: is such a graceful guy and you know he's he's

820
00:45:34,719 --> 00:45:38,480
Speaker 1: really I'm glad. I'm glad it was somebody like like him,

821
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 1: you know, to replace me, because I could see over

822
00:45:42,000 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: the you know, longevity of time at UH. I don't know,

823
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: there's something really cool about him. That's it. He played.

824
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:51,600
Speaker 1: He played a different part. Dude, nobody could replace you.

825
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:56,120
Speaker 1: We we we proved that. But the other character that

826
00:45:56,320 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: that moved in, UH. To address your point, writer, UM,

827
00:46:01,800 --> 00:46:07,759
Speaker 1: Harvey Harvey is actually Harvey Harley Kiner because his real

828
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:10,800
Speaker 1: name was Harvey. He didn't want anybody to know that

829
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: it would be like, you know, Harvey Air. You know,

830
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: you don't want to He didn't want to be associated

831
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 1: with that that you know, stigma of Harvey. So I

832
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: think then Harley was, you know, the the kicker. You know,

833
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: how did you feel when you came back for that

834
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:30,800
Speaker 1: final episode, Like, what were your thoughts going into it?

835
00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: Were you're were you nervous? What were your feeling. I

836
00:46:33,800 --> 00:46:37,840
Speaker 1: was still a little loopy with the medication, um, because

837
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 1: it just didn't sit well with me at first. UM,

838
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 1: I was just a little little out of it. But

839
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: I remember it was in a different studio. Well, when

840
00:46:48,520 --> 00:46:51,719
Speaker 1: I first was filming one a visa studio, which is

841
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:55,360
Speaker 1: a magical place. It's Disney, you know, that's where Disney

842
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,800
Speaker 1: walked walked down, that's those steps, and that's where he

843
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 1: created everything. You know. That was the magic of it.

844
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,480
Speaker 1: And that was another thing I missed the most. Boina

845
00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: visa studios and pulling up on set and you're like, oh, yeah,

846
00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:13,360
Speaker 1: pulled up to the same thing. Yeah, it's magical, magical.

847
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,040
Speaker 1: So that's third season. So we had moved to ktl

848
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Speaker 1: A then, So that was which were not magical, not magical,

849
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: which was the opposite of magical, most like television, the

850
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: magical part of buildings. Yeah, the magic was not gettingpatitis.

851
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: The spaghetti factory was across the street though, next to

852
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:42,359
Speaker 1: a strip club. Yes, not quite it. You couldn't get

853
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: less Disney than at that point was still there. The

854
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,560
Speaker 1: magic hood was still there. It was just the magic

855
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 1: put in the paper box. And so between obviously season

856
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: two when you are has spitalized, and then season three

857
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,760
Speaker 1: when you come back you said you were still getting

858
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: adjusted to your medication. Your life is obviously now so

859
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: completely different. Once once you kind of felt settled on

860
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: your medication, what were you doing then did you go

861
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: back to auditioning? What did you end up doing? After

862
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World, I moved back to New York for

863
00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: a good while and I got a lot more balanced,

864
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:32,320
Speaker 1: thanks thanks to my mom helping me. And then I

865
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 1: moved to Sedona, Arizona, where it all happened. And I

866
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: wanted to be a healer, like I wanted to learn

867
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 1: how to kill people like sham and you know, fire tender,

868
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 1: like all these cool things like sweat lodges. And I

869
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: got back and I went to UH Massas Therapy School

870
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:56,840
Speaker 1: and I graduated from there and UH and I was

871
00:48:56,920 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: working with the Hopie Indians up on the reservation. I

872
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: was volunteering my time because you have to do clinic

873
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: when you're do the massage. So I volunteered my time

874
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: up on the reservation and worked on these old, like

875
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: elderly people, and they love me so much. They were like,

876
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,280
Speaker 1: We're gonna show you how to dry farm and blue

877
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: corn and all these Hopie dances and cheap dances, and

878
00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 1: I was just I was taken away from all that

879
00:49:24,640 --> 00:49:29,839
Speaker 1: sadness inside and worked through another medium to uh get

880
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:35,320
Speaker 1: adopted by the Hopies, you know, really really cool. You know,

881
00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: I'd love to take you guys someday on a trip

882
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:40,239
Speaker 1: or something, if you ever want to do an experience,

883
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 1: to take you to Sedona up to the Hopie Land,

884
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:48,280
Speaker 1: you know, man, that'd be amazing and massage therapy school.

885
00:49:48,800 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: The graduation rate of actually being able to pass the

886
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: test is minuscule. It's so different. It's one of the

887
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,759
Speaker 1: most difficult tests to pass. It's something like in the

888
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: thirty five percentile actually passed because you're doing entire physiological

889
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: study in like seven months. Gnesiology origin insertion of everybody.

890
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 1: It's like being a doctor basically, first it is which

891
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:19,640
Speaker 1: which was? You know, educationally, I was like a little whoa.

892
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:24,439
Speaker 1: It's it's apparently a very very difficult thing to learn

893
00:50:24,680 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: and to and to pass the test. And like you know,

894
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: New York you need like thirteen hundred and fifty hours,

895
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: but in Arizona only needs seven and fifty. So that

896
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:38,879
Speaker 1: was helpful in a lot of ways. And then um, yeah,

897
00:50:38,960 --> 00:50:41,320
Speaker 1: I just I always thought I had healing hands and

898
00:50:41,440 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 1: I wanted to do something to get back, you know,

899
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: to the world. And that was one of the things

900
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: that I did after after losing the show, just to

901
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:55,479
Speaker 1: bring things back on the night, you know, higher level

902
00:50:55,560 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 1: for me. Well, we were also happy to be reunited

903
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 1: with you on Girl Meets World when you came back

904
00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:08,320
Speaker 1: as Janitor Harley. What you did? Uh? Five episodes of

905
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,319
Speaker 1: Girl Meets World with us? What was it like when

906
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 1: you got that phone call? And yeah, tell me about that.

907
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: I was. I was sitting here in this studio and

908
00:51:19,960 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 1: my buddy Ben wir Um we gotta We got the

909
00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,160
Speaker 1: call from Sally. So he's like, Danny, you know, like,

910
00:51:27,640 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Have you been? And it was like,

911
00:51:30,320 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm all right, I'm doing all right,

912
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:40,239
Speaker 1: you know. And she's like, well, listen, we're gonna send you,

913
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: you know, how would you like to, you know, audition

914
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,799
Speaker 1: for pardon Girl Meets World? And I was like, yeah,

915
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: that that would degree. She sent me the sides and

916
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:51,680
Speaker 1: I put it on tape right here in the studio.

917
00:51:52,800 --> 00:51:55,240
Speaker 1: Next week, I was out there. I think it happened

918
00:51:55,280 --> 00:52:01,440
Speaker 1: on April Fools Day. What man and so? Had you

919
00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: not acted since Boy Meets World? Um? I had done

920
00:52:05,640 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 1: a few things, but more like student films. Uh, you know,

921
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,719
Speaker 1: I loved acting. I love telling a story and making

922
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: people feel good. You know, it's like the old school

923
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: storytellers of Ireland. That's how they used to do it.

924
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:21,600
Speaker 1: You know. During the family they knocked on the door

925
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: and say, hey, have you heard the news about what's

926
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,080
Speaker 1: going on over that? And that saying they're like, no,

927
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,120
Speaker 1: I haven't heard the news. Well I'll tell you for

928
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 1: a place to sleep for the night. And then they

929
00:52:32,000 --> 00:52:36,120
Speaker 1: had this whole whimsical storytelling story that was like my grandfather,

930
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:39,719
Speaker 1: that was my dad, you know, always storytellers. You know.

931
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,560
Speaker 1: Have you been to Ireland? Oh yeah, it's amazing. I

932
00:52:43,640 --> 00:52:46,080
Speaker 1: think my family, my my mom's family is from Kerry,

933
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:48,440
Speaker 1: which I think is close to where you are. Yeah, yeah,

934
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: not far at all. I'm up in the western North,

935
00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:58,560
Speaker 1: the Free Ireland as they say a post. Do you

936
00:52:58,640 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 1: have a favorite episode of a Meets World that you

937
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:03,279
Speaker 1: that you think of all the time, or like any

938
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:07,239
Speaker 1: favorite behind the scenes memories. Well, I think us Serena

939
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 1: was one of my one of my favorites because my

940
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:13,439
Speaker 1: mom came to the taping. You guys were so nice.

941
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: You might not remember it, but you guys were so

942
00:53:15,800 --> 00:53:18,799
Speaker 1: nice to my mom and Betsy Randall was so nice

943
00:53:18,840 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: to my mom. She fed holiday dinner at her house. Really, yeah,

944
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:27,840
Speaker 1: tell me about that. So, Betsy, so your mom was

945
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: in town for Thanksgiving. For Thanksgiving I believe it was,

946
00:53:32,600 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: And Betsy asked you what your plans were? Yeah, what

947
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:37,879
Speaker 1: are you doing? You know? Like, my Mom's like, well,

948
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:42,439
Speaker 1: you know, and she's like, yeah, come out, come out,

949
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,640
Speaker 1: to come out to our house for Thanksgiving, you know.

950
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: So that's just so nice. And I went out. My

951
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: mom had such a nice time, and it's such a

952
00:53:54,000 --> 00:54:03,719
Speaker 1: bet so amazing. Yeah, Hey dudes, I'm David Lasher and

953
00:54:03,800 --> 00:54:07,719
Speaker 1: I'm Christine Taylor, and we host the podcast Hey Dude

954
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: the Nineties called if you all are nostalgic for the nineties,

955
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Speaker 1: We just wanted to make sure you didn't miss amazing

956
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Speaker 1: guests like the Brady Bunch cast reunion, the White Squall

957
00:54:17,920 --> 00:54:21,960
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958
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: got the lead singer of Counting Crows, Adam Durrett's Jerry O'Connell.

959
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:29,919
Speaker 1: We also had a Hey Dude cast reunion, So come

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961
00:54:32,760 --> 00:54:36,040
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962
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Speaker 1: called on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or

964
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:49,920
Speaker 1: wherever you listen to podcasts. So, Danny, you mentioned that

965
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:52,440
Speaker 1: your mom came out to visit for the Serano episode,

966
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 1: and then you know, she was obviously a huge fan

967
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:56,480
Speaker 1: of you and loved watching you on TV and loved

968
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,719
Speaker 1: Boy Meets World. And then we got to see her

969
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: again as adults. We at her at a convention, and Um,

970
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:06,000
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about how you are doing now

971
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: because your mom unfortunately passed away in from COVID, right, yeah,

972
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: she was. We have We had at the time a governor,

973
00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:22,280
Speaker 1: um Andrew Cuomo. He during the height of the pandemic,

974
00:55:22,600 --> 00:55:27,680
Speaker 1: he decided to put sick elderly people back into nursing

975
00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: homes and it was just ridiculous, like within a week

976
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 1: my mom had passed from that decision too. And ever

977
00:55:37,800 --> 00:55:40,880
Speaker 1: since it's been like this void for me because I

978
00:55:41,000 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 1: spent so much time, um taking care of my mom

979
00:55:45,440 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 1: uh in her later years when she was less mobile.

980
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:54,040
Speaker 1: Now I'm just looking for something to fill that void,

981
00:55:54,280 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 1: which I feel like, like will you said with the

982
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 1: things that helped you with your mental health, we're we're exercise,

983
00:56:03,360 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: and there's there's three things you said and then you know,

984
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: to be to be social, to talk about it hugely

985
00:56:10,239 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 1: important and this is helping me a lot, guys by

986
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 1: talking about it to like just now, you know, because

987
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: I know there's somebody out there you need to help.

988
00:56:18,760 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 1: And then how could you not be in today's world

989
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:24,759
Speaker 1: with Turkey and earthquakes and all this stuff. You guys

990
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,920
Speaker 1: are like a rayal light, honestly a rayal lighte for

991
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,000
Speaker 1: for not just your point meets world, but you know,

992
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:34,360
Speaker 1: like your your your symmetry, the way you guys work together,

993
00:56:34,560 --> 00:56:39,680
Speaker 1: your energy, it's it's it's contagious and it's it's it's

994
00:56:39,960 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 1: it's kind of cold. I like the whole world to

995
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 1: catch because you guys have a wonderful way of helping

996
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:52,800
Speaker 1: people don't realize at all, but I'm sure there's somebody

997
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: out there right now that could be, you know, on

998
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,480
Speaker 1: the verge of something, and by hearing our stories and

999
00:56:58,840 --> 00:57:02,920
Speaker 1: by being honest, you know that we can help them. Danny,

1000
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:08,520
Speaker 1: You're you're so quick to turn attention and energy back

1001
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: on other people. You're so quick to say yeah, but

1002
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:13,239
Speaker 1: you guys, and you guys are a ray of light.

1003
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:16,440
Speaker 1: But I really want you to take this in that,

1004
00:57:17,440 --> 00:57:20,400
Speaker 1: you know, you being such a young child when you

1005
00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:23,640
Speaker 1: lost your father and then stepping up your mom shortly

1006
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:26,720
Speaker 1: after that being diagnosed with bipolar disorder at the time

1007
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,640
Speaker 1: they called manic depression, and you knowing you needed to

1008
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:32,800
Speaker 1: step up and and live on your own and and

1009
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 1: start your start working, and then you becoming this iconic

1010
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 1: character that people absolutely love and adore and still to

1011
00:57:41,920 --> 00:57:43,840
Speaker 1: this day. I mean, that's what iconic is. Still to

1012
00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:47,160
Speaker 1: this day people talk about Danny McNulty as Harley Kiner,

1013
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 1: and then you going through your own mental health issues,

1014
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:53,960
Speaker 1: moving back to New York, and then eventually becoming a

1015
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:57,280
Speaker 1: full time caretaker for your mother, who then you lost

1016
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:01,680
Speaker 1: to COVID. Hearing you talk about now needing to figure

1017
00:58:01,720 --> 00:58:04,360
Speaker 1: out what this next stage of your life looks like

1018
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,480
Speaker 1: and what you are going to do as far as

1019
00:58:07,560 --> 00:58:10,880
Speaker 1: taking care of yourself is really beautiful because there are

1020
00:58:11,400 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: so many people who can relate to you, and you

1021
00:58:16,880 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 1: you can have. You have so much to teach other people.

1022
00:58:19,640 --> 00:58:23,720
Speaker 1: And I just want to celebrate you as being a

1023
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 1: phenomenal son MH and just a truly wonderful human being.

1024
00:58:33,640 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 1: I really really appreciate that. It means a lot because

1025
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: you guys are like family to me. Honestly, I missed

1026
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 1: you so much. We miss you too. I'd also like

1027
00:58:42,960 --> 00:58:44,760
Speaker 1: to throw out that in the middle of all that,

1028
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,920
Speaker 1: you then took the time to work with elderly people,

1029
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 1: right exactly. I skipped over that sticks six sticks, skipped

1030
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 1: over working with the Native American elderly population in the

1031
00:58:55,280 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 1: middle there. I mean, yeah, Danny that I don't know

1032
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 1: about that the psychic you met, but you said one

1033
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:02,640
Speaker 1: thing that was absolutely true, which is you are a

1034
00:59:02,720 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 1: light in the world, my friend. Yes, I hope you

1035
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:08,520
Speaker 1: know that. Thank you, guys, I really appreciate that. It

1036
00:59:08,600 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: means a lot to me. Big sign. Well, looking back,

1037
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:17,040
Speaker 1: even with all the hard times that you faced and

1038
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: all of all of that, what are what is your

1039
00:59:20,680 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 1: overall feeling when you look back at Boy Meets World. Oh,

1040
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,320
Speaker 1: it's a dream come true. Everything that I worked for,

1041
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:32,120
Speaker 1: auditions and you know, anything that I did as a kid,

1042
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 1: always dreamed of being on a TV show, you know,

1043
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 1: and uh, it was something that it will always live

1044
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 1: in in my heart, you know, like just just knowing

1045
00:59:43,680 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: that I had done it. And yes, the bipolar happened,

1046
00:59:47,600 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 1: but there were some pretty good times, some pretty good episodes,

1047
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:54,560
Speaker 1: like um, you know that that that that we did

1048
00:59:54,600 --> 01:00:00,240
Speaker 1: together so many Yeah. Also, I mean I I say

1049
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 1: this all the time about Topanga. We can all say

1050
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:03,600
Speaker 1: this about all of our characters. Were very blessed to

1051
01:00:03,640 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 1: be able to say this. But actors literally work their

1052
01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:13,520
Speaker 1: entire lives to be a memorable character even once. How

1053
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 1: many people, how many actors do you know who have

1054
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:19,200
Speaker 1: done hundreds of things, and yet you're like, oh, I

1055
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: can't really I know your face? I don't, but I

1056
01:00:22,280 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: can't really you know, like and that's great, Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: know I know you from somewhere, and that's amazing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that's that's still an incredible career. That's there. I'm not

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Speaker 1: dogging that. I'm just saying that, like you, in your

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Speaker 1: one major acting role that you did left a legacy

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Speaker 1: and an impact on innumerable people. And that's like people

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Speaker 1: spend their whole lives trying to have a career, trying

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Speaker 1: to find a character like that, and you did it.

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Speaker 1: I mean that really means a lot. Yeah. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: couldn't love you anymore, Danny. I we us you are

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Speaker 1: like family to us. We always loved you. And you know,

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Speaker 1: what's another thing we talked about when we think back

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Speaker 1: to that time, like there wasn't self. There weren't even

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Speaker 1: cell phones. It's not like now when something happens and

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Speaker 1: then you can just text somebody and be like, hey,

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Speaker 1: are you okay? You know, tough tough show, tough night,

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Speaker 1: tough day, tough day, will read are you okay? We

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Speaker 1: just didn't have it now. Always it unless exactly and

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Speaker 1: then you unless there was a page code specifically for

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Speaker 1: you didn't know how to do it. Yeah. Well, thank

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01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 1: you for coming on here and telling us in your

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01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: own words your story finally like solving a bit of

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01:01:44,800 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: a mystery for us. And um, you know we love you,

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Speaker 1: we will we would love to have you back. Um.

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Speaker 1: I've already put the word out as far as some

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Speaker 1: conventions that we would love to have you join us. Um.

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Speaker 1: Not that I have you saying that, but I have

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01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:04,720
Speaker 1: started saying to people, hey, have you thought about this?

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01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:07,520
Speaker 1: This would be a good edition, just just throwing it

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Speaker 1: out there. Um. And so let's make three the year

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01:02:12,440 --> 01:02:16,360
Speaker 1: we have another you know, an in person reunion and

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Speaker 1: uh you know anniversary. And I would love to be

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Speaker 1: witness to you receiving the love that you so deserve

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Speaker 1: from our dear listeners and dear fans who rightfully love you. Yep,

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Speaker 1: fansy years, my friend. There's millions of them out there. Uh.

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Speaker 1: And I love each one of them, man, honestly, when

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Speaker 1: they come up to me and it's like, I love

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Speaker 1: I love it. It's just it's such a nice feeling,

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Speaker 1: you know, because it brings me back to everything before

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Speaker 1: everything happened, you know, like that's let's see, they don't

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Speaker 1: know anything else, you know. Yeah, yeah, i'd really love that. Guys.

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Speaker 1: Great Danny, we love you, thank you for being here,

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Speaker 1: all righty oh man, it's so it's so funny that

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Speaker 1: the gentlest human being in the world played the biggest bully,

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Speaker 1: right right? And and is that is that built into

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Speaker 1: the character, Like there's something so great. I think that's

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Speaker 1: part of the reason why it works so well as

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Speaker 1: a character, is that you cast somebody like Danny who,

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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, you're like, but that guy, he shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be a bully, right If you're like, no, he's he's

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Speaker 1: he's he's got going through something that's more, that's more,

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Speaker 1: that's deeper, that's that comes from a place actually honestly

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Speaker 1: of a pain, you know, Like I think Harley radiates

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Speaker 1: a sensitivity and a pain that I think was true

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Speaker 1: to Danny too, Like this struggle that he was you

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Speaker 1: know that he had gone through, and all these things

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Speaker 1: that comes through in his acting so clearly, and that sensitivity,

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Speaker 1: it's beautiful, it's beful and and immediately you're You're like,

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Speaker 1: am I I should be scared of him? But I

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Speaker 1: also kind of want to know more about him? Right? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: What what an amazing feat for an actor and for

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Speaker 1: the writers, it's just great. Yeah, you're right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: had he just been um a bully? You just write

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Speaker 1: that guy off? Don't like that guy, don't need to

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Speaker 1: know more about him. He's just a jerk. And yet

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Speaker 1: that isn't the way you feel about Harley. You want

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Speaker 1: to know more. And yeah, his sensitivity really does shine through.

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Speaker 1: And um, I mean truly nobody is better to their

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Speaker 1: fans than Danny. If you check out his social media,

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Speaker 1: he really does. When he says he loves each and

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Speaker 1: every fan, he means it. I mean, I really do.

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's a single soul on the planet

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Speaker 1: Danny doesn't find love for he's he's so grateful. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know he's also taking you know, most of his

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Speaker 1: life just taking care of other people. Yeah, right, that's

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Speaker 1: what he's done. He's one of those people. So yeah, amazing.

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Speaker 1: And and for everybody out there listening, if you're struggling

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Speaker 1: with your own mental health journeys, ask for help. It's

1134
01:05:04,440 --> 01:05:07,480
Speaker 1: okay to ask for help. It's you should ask for help.

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Speaker 1: There's no weakness in it, there's no stigma behind it.

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Speaker 1: It's okay to say I'm struggling here and I need

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Speaker 1: some help. I did it, Danny did it. Other people

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Speaker 1: do it all the time. It's nothing will help you

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01:05:20,400 --> 01:05:24,000
Speaker 1: on your path more than just raising your hand and

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01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:26,440
Speaker 1: saying I'm struggling here and I need some help. So

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01:05:26,600 --> 01:05:28,400
Speaker 1: please do that if you have to. There's plenty of

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Speaker 1: places out there you can find to do that. Um

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Speaker 1: telling you even just friends, it really changes the whole ballgame.

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01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:37,600
Speaker 1: It does. And to Will's point, if you or someone

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01:05:37,680 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: you know needs help, there is the Mental Health Hotline

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Speaker 1: and the number is eight six six nine zero three

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