WEBVTT - Danny McNulty Meets World 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:22.479 So I ran into UH producer Jensen Carr, husband of 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:25.520 his podcast. It was either yesterday the day before the 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:31.080 day's blend at Target buying what I can only describe 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:37.040 as a ridiculous amount of gummy worms and for Halloween. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:39.960 I don't know he had. He was He looked like 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:42.640 he was on a mission and embarrassed at the same time. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:49.120 If that means there you go, you're already discovered the 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:52.199 issues you've seen your boys cover for him to eat 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:58.560 as much. Basically, so, Jensen loves gummy candies, loves them, 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.560 and my children like gummy worms. And there's this particular 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.160 brand of gummy worms that my kids like that are 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:07.160 you know whatever the version of like healthy? Are they 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:11.279 organic gummy worms? I don't know. Yeah, they're like healthy 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:15.840 gummy worms healthy. I don't know, there's like no dies 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:21.479 or something. It's just you know, there's some like worms, 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:27.520 the organic worms. Um. And so when I have bought 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.959 a bag, I'll say, like, I'm going to get these 0:01:29.959 --> 0:01:32.480 for the kids. Are you gonna want to eat any 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:34.680 of them? Because if you are, we're going to need 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.319 to buy more because our kids are pretty good about 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:39.360 like you can have five gummy worms and then they're 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:41.800 fine with the five gummy worms. Jensen will open a 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.360 bag of gummy worms and then eat a bag of 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.360 gummy worms. And when I mean a bag of gummy worms, 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:47.880 I mean there's like a hundred gummy worms in there 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.280 or something. And so all then go back to the 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.640 gummy worms the next day and be like, where are 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.960 the gummy worms? And He's like, white them, you know, 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.600 they're gone, and I'm like, we've had them. We had 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:04.320 it was a right. So the other day when he 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.680 went to the grocery store, I said, buy the kids 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.040 their gummy worms, and then by whatever amount of gummy 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:13.960 worms you need for you, you will have your stash 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:15.720 of gummy worms and the kids will have theirs. So 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.760 what he bought was three small bags of gummy worms 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:23.640 for our kids and then the humongous monster. You're having 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.560 seven hundred people over to your house for gummy worms 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:30.080 bag of gummy worms. So that's that. And I like 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.040 gummy worms only because they're the best way to catch 0:02:32.080 --> 0:02:36.520 bigger Swedish fish. So that's our that's our favorite thing 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:41.519 about it, because we're big Swedish fish fans. And the Swedish, oh, 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.240 they now have one with their tropical ones. So like 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.160 the front half is one flavor and then the tail 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:50.200 is another flavor. Don't get me started. Well, everyone's like, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:51.600 you need to eat more fish. Well, you need to 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.120 eat more fish. So I have been right. There you go, 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:57.400 and I don't take the problem. I don't see the problem. Also, writer, 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:58.960 I'd like to point out, I don't know what it 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.400 is about your room today, but I've been glancing down 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.080 and it looks at times like you're in a snow globe, 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.600 Like there's just all this kind of fluff floating around. 0:03:09.600 --> 0:03:11.160 There is there is a you know what it is. 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:12.880 I think it's the reflection of his watch. Are you 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.359 wearing a watch? No, that's one, but there's also then 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:20.280 there's also like like fuzzy one just went by, Yes, 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:25.959 so it does again yesterday. That's trying the problem. So 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:31.520 it doesn't look like you're you're the big Yeah, it's 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:35.080 just the way the light hit is hitting. This is 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.880 going to be the game all day. Shake up? Right 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:43.560 there you go? Right? Or your skin looks great. I 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.520 was going to say, have you been using have you 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.040 been doing guasha? No? What did you say? What word 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:56.559 did you just say? Gasha? Well, it's a Chinese um 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.920 a skin thing where you take like either rose quartz, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.000 a rose quartz slate or a jade slate and you 0:04:03.040 --> 0:04:05.560 put like oil on your face. You don't scrape, like 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.560 you're not scraping skin, You're you're just pushing. It's basically 0:04:09.600 --> 0:04:13.080 to help with puffiness and it helps with like lymphatic 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:15.960 drainage and it's really good for you. But it's like 0:04:16.000 --> 0:04:22.080 an extremely natural um way of of bringing blood flow 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:25.160 to your skin and plumping your skin. And I saw 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:26.760 a girlfriend of mine for lunch the other day and 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:29.640 I said, oh my gosh, your skin looks amazing and 0:04:29.680 --> 0:04:32.920 she said gasha, and I was like wow. And right, 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.960 so it's a real thing. It's not like also you 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.280 need wizards or whatever some of that where it's like 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.080 if you lay on these crystals or is a code 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:46.520 for I just had botox? Right, that's that's that's why 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:52.160 my nose looks smaller. No, look it up. You know, 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.160 there's only so much I can do, Like there's so 0:04:54.240 --> 0:04:57.719 much self care. But you know what's funny, it's like, 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.599 do you remember, like I mean, I've I've had this 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.960 conversation like recently where like the word metro sexual had 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.640 to be invented for the very notion that men might 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:10.279 take care of their skin, for their hair. And it's 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.560 like and I remember feeling that way like in the nineties, 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:14.479 and part of it was being an adolescent, but also 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:16.960 so much a part of the culture, uh to just 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:19.960 not give a crap about your face or your body 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.720 or you're like and it's just like now it's you know, 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.719 it's pretty standard, like everybody should probably take care of themselves. 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:27.719 I think then are going to be wearing makeup pretty 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.080 much within the next ten years, like on a regular basis. 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.760 I think I think it's definite time that we take 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:34.919 care of our skin more so, like you should like 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:39.320 wash your face and stuff right where sunscreen that never 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.920 never did and like when I was a kid man 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:45.359 just always sunburned doesn't hurt so much when I go 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:47.440 out of the beach. I wonder why I hate the beach. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:53.039 It's like, like, just never put on sunscreen, right, Oh 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.760 my god, You're like your entire bodies one big sun 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.920 blister always always, Like I just have memories of sleeping 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:00.840 and not being able to sleep because burning up on 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:05.640 my Yeah, well, welcome to pod Meat's world. I'm Danielle visual, 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.159 I'm right or Strong, and I'm Before we get into 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:14.080 our episode with Danny McNulty, which will basically conclude our 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.080 Bully series. We had Adam Scott, we had Blake Sennate, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.320 we had Ethan Supply, and today Danny McNulty. Uh. To 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.839 commemorate this little segment of our podcast, we have something 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:27.400 we haven't had in a while, which is new merch, 0:06:28.400 --> 0:06:30.720 New new Merch. Well, I wasn't expecting. I didn't have 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.440 one chamber for that. You're you're always supposed to be 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.120 ready for new Mary. I didn't have one in the 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:39.240 chamber for that at all. Now March, I got nothing. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.600 That's great, wa way to pick it up? Um And 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.400 so yeah, we've got new March. We've got a new 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:49.919 T shirt to commemorate the very awkward encounter Right or 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:56.080 Strong had Do we call it huggate, embrace gate, Adam 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:02.640 embrace Gate? Adam Scott coined it embrace skate and uh, yeah, 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:04.760 it's been really fun to to ask other people what 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.720 their thoughts were and we may never know the truth. Guy, 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:16.240 big story, whether Adam, Adam Scott, or note the amount 0:07:16.240 --> 0:07:19.400 of text messages I got in my life from people. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:21.320 You know, people hadn't talked to you for a year 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:24.040 or two. Suddenly we're like here, here, Adam Scott. Here, 0:07:24.080 --> 0:07:26.080 you're really weird up. I hugging Adam Scott. It's like, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.400 oh my god, well, I love how Danielle sent how 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:32.600 Adam sent you a text Danielle saying like, so apparently 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:40.160 I confronted you got clipping man like fit was so 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:45.120 it was so uncomfortable. It was like Adam Scott confronted 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:48.840 the cast of about their treatment of him, and it 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:52.000 was like, wait a minute, but anyway, it was hilarious. 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.880 The shirt is phenomenal. It's a very comic book style shirt. 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.640 So if you're interested in some new Pod Mets World merch, 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:02.240 be sure to check it out. So we have been 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.640 counting down the days until we got to this interview. 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:06.480 We actually had to postpone at once, which was very 0:08:06.520 --> 0:08:11.200 unfortunate and uh, our our dear listeners have been asking 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:14.400 for this gentleman for a very long time. He portrayed 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:18.120 Harvey Harley Kiner for eight episodes of Boy Meets World, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.200 mostly in season two, and just so you guys know, 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.520 we do now know that his name will later be 0:08:24.680 --> 0:08:28.720 revealed to be Harvey and watched the show. We know, 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:31.120 it's so weird to be in this position where everybody 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:33.720 listening out there knows more than we do. Yes, everyone, 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:37.280 So it's just a very I remember a lot, and 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:40.120 I do remember a lot. Well, you remember a lot 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:44.400 of behind the scenes stuff. You actually remember no idea 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.520 what that was. Okay. So Danny's first episode was our 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.560 season two opener, back to School, and his last episode 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:54.160 was when he returned in season three for episode four. 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.280 He said, she said, but there's always been a bit 0:08:57.320 --> 0:08:59.360 of a mystery. Um, it's when he came back to 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:03.200 confront Adam Scott's character. Yeah, he came back to like 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:07.120 I remember that dialogue, do you? Yeah? I don't remember 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:09.199 the episode at all, he said. He's standing in front 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.000 of him and he essentially says, I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:13.520 kick your kick your butt, and and Griff looks at 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:16.520 him and says, okay, So then you've thought this entirely through. 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.679 You're gonna kick my butt, You're gonna end up in jail. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:20.480 I'm still gonna be here tomorrow. Like, he goes through 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.840 this entire speech about that, and you see the wheels 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.680 like turning in Harley's mind. I don't know why I 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:26.920 remember that scene. I don't even think, but I do 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.880 remember that. Yeah. Well, there's always been a little bit 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.320 of a mystery around Danny's departure from the show, and 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:34.920 including someone else who appears to have played his character 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.000 who comes back like and plays one episode. Um plays 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.800 Harley for one episode, and then of course later Adam 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.160 Scott took his spot as King of the Bullies. We 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.680 always loved Danny, but as most of us were just 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.040 children living in a time where like mental health issues 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.680 were mostly swept under the rug, we never knew the 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.240 full story. We're very much looking forward to hearing it 0:09:53.280 --> 0:10:03.199 directly from him today. So let's please welcome Danny McNulty. M. Hey, everyone, 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:07.240 it's Bethany Frankel. 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Oh man, it's so good to see you. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.440 Thank you for being here with us. Of course you 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:29.800 know it's an honor. So Danny, let's get started with 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:34.760 how did you How did you get into acting? Um? Well, 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:39.360 I got into acting at a very young age. Um. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.880 Both of my parents are from Doneygall, Ireland, and um 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.040 they came to America to open up an Irish bar 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.160 and forest Tills, Queens. And it was at this time 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.400 where I first got my acting bug. Where I was 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:57.280 serving pints to customers at seven years old. Yes, most 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:01.040 irish thing I've ever had, you know. I had a stool. 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:02.480 As soon as I could reach it. I was like, 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.400 I want to make money out of this and play 0:12:04.440 --> 0:12:06.920 the pac Man machine. And that's what I did. That 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:11.360 was like my main babysitter. And basically, you know, your 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.400 dad really didn't want you to get into acting, right, Yeah, 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:19.280 well originally, um, um, my parents divorced when I was eleven, 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.040 and um then my father he was not into acting, 0:12:24.040 --> 0:12:25.679 you all. I was always trying to get you know, 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:29.800 his his approval, and then um my dad passed away 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.720 when I was fourteen, and um so from there, I 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:36.760 asked my mom if it would be okay if I, 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:40.520 you know, started acting, and she said, yeah, sure, gives 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:44.000 the shot. So I went to h Lee Strasburg, the 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:49.239 Young People's program there. Anna Strasburg got me my first audition, 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:54.199 and uh, I just I just loved loved working with 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.360 with with the the the actor you know, James Dean 0:12:57.440 --> 0:13:01.160 went there. Malin Brando was like this this this feeling 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:05.480 as a as a as a kid, you know, and um, yeah, 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.800 my dad didn't want me to get into acting. I 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:13.079 got into the acting, and from from there I went 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:17.959 to When I was sixteen, I dropped out of high 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:22.079 school because I was left back in second grade and 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:28.600 fifth grade due to an undiagnosed learning disability. And uh, 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.000 it was it was tough in high school. You know, 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.960 I was a freshman, all all my uh all my 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:37.600 friends with juniors, so I just didn't really fit in. 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:41.360 So wait, so I want to ask you a little 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.440 bit more about that. So when you were in second grade, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.480 you get through second grade, you finished second grade, and 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.600 then what happens. They decide not to let you go 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.360 into third grade. You have to redo second grade. You 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:54.079 have to redo second grade, and then see all your 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.080 friends that you were, you know, they go on and 0:13:57.080 --> 0:14:00.960 then everyone else is like, wait, you're in the wrong class, right, Like, 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:05.120 oh no, I'm not. I'm sticking around, you know, I'm here. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:08.360 And my dad had passed away at that time, so 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.040 it was it was a lot going on, you know, 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.920 I'm no kidding. So then you then the same thing 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.160 happens when you go into fifth grade. So in fifth grade, 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.280 you're you know, I think you're about ten right in 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.000 fifth grade, somewhere around their ten eleven years old. So 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.440 it happens again. You go through fifth grade, and then 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.080 at the end of fifth grade they decided they're not 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.120 gonna let you go forward into junior high. You're going 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.560 to stay in fifth grade. So now you're two years 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:34.960 older than everybody else. Yeah, in fifth grade, how do 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:38.840 you think they missed the learning disability for you? What 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.160 were the signs that you were What were the things 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.640 you were experiencing that that were just missed? In second grade, 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.120 I had moved from a public school into a private 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:53.240 school and I didn't meet their um level of learning. 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.280 And then by fifth grade, um, my mom took me 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.560 to a doctor and they realized that I was a slexic, 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:05.040 and um, yeah, it's just like it was really hard 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:08.280 for me, especially with acting, because I'd have to literally 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.840 train my mind to have somebody else speak out the 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.560 lines first, and then I can roll into it like 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:21.280 a table reads for a nightmare. Wow. Okay, so in 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:23.240 fifth grade then you get held back and then you 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:25.080 go forward, which so one of the things I'm thinking 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:28.320 about with that is that it's it's so interesting that, um, 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.640 when we interviewed Blake and Ethan, they were talking about 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.240 this with with of darkness that they had about them, 0:15:33.280 --> 0:15:36.440 and I think it was Blake who pointed out specifically 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:38.760 how interesting it is that all of us, with our 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:42.720 characters mirrored, had so many things in common, like you 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.320 being two years older than everybody in your schools. Actually hard, 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:52.320 actually exactly what hard, Like multiple jokes are like he's 0:15:52.320 --> 0:15:54.920 going to be here for ten years or whatever. Yeah, 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:58.960 that's exactly kind of like my upbringing to where I 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.720 came from, you know. So when I was sixteen, I 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:04.760 dropped out and got my g E D. And that's 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:08.360 where I went. I went to the Neighborhood Playhouse to 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:12.240 study the Meisner technique and that was that was that 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:15.640 was interesting. It's a two year program. Like I only 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:18.120 got asked back, you know, I didn't get asked back 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:21.280 for the second year. So a buddy of mine, Jed Reese, 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:24.880 was working up in Vancouver a lot, and he went 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.880 to school with me in New York and he said, 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.680 come on up to you know, Vancouver, and we'll try 0:16:30.720 --> 0:16:33.160 out a few things. And he got me an agent 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:38.080 and from there I started working like my my first roles, 0:16:38.200 --> 0:16:42.640 like my first role was Street Justice with Carl Weathers 0:16:43.800 --> 0:16:47.640 actually opposite Omar Epps and like sort of a racial 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.280 you know, racially you know, like it was called black 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:55.800 or blue. That was. That was a really interesting experience 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:58.440 just to get it under my belt, to like to learn, 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.640 you know, blocking and you know what the cameras are 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:05.160 and everything. So from there I moved back to New York. 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.560 Did a couple of commercials. My first commercial was an 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:12.879 Elvis Presley stamp commercial. Oh my gosh, pull up in 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.320 a Cadillac. When is the stamp not just the stamp? 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.680 I say, one of rocks man, one of rocks, Elvis 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.080 gear and everything. I think I remember that that was 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:25.520 the that when when the entire question was are they 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.600 gonna put thin Elvis or heavier Elvis on the standard? 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:30.399 It was It was a big Yeah, it was a 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.720 big Everyone said Elvis was finally getting a stamp, and 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.040 it became this big national debate do we put thin 0:17:35.200 --> 0:17:37.119 young Elvis on the stamp or do you put the 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:39.119 older Elvis when he was heavy on the stamp. He 0:17:39.160 --> 0:17:42.160 became this whole thing. There was commercial and fans voted, 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:43.920 and yeah, it was a whole big thing. Who was 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.320 I think it was young Elvis went on the stamp. 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:50.840 I think, right, yeah, young Elvis, And that meant lots 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:52.880 of my mom because my mom was a big Elvis fan. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:57.920 So I was like, oh Jesus, lovely Irish accent, thought 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:03.320 Danny admitt prag. But the whole I mean, for anybody 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:06.760 who is unaware of, uh kind of what it's like 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:08.600 to come up in the business when you are you 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:12.560 go from Strausburg to Meisner, I mean that's royalty when 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:15.199 it comes to acting schools and acting teaching. It's a 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:19.239 very specific style of acting, but it is one that 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.880 is not easy to get into nor easy to sustain. 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.920 So I mean you were trained by some of the best. Yeah, 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.520 it was, it was, it was. It was something that 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:30.600 I you know, if I couldn't do regular school, I 0:18:30.640 --> 0:18:33.119 wanted to go give it, give it my all, and 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:35.239 you know, to do everything I could to make it, 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.919 to make it happen. So you we all know what 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:43.160 an amazingly close relationship with your mother that you you had. 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:44.640 And I want to get into that a little bit 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:48.080 here because you mentioned her and her accent, and I 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.720 also imagine that you know, with your dad passing away 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.720 when you were fourteen, did that just make you even 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:55.600 closer to your mom? Will you tell us a little 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.920 bit about the bond you and your mom had. Yeah. 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:01.400 My mom's name is kat Lean mcdonalfield. As I said, 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:05.159 she's from Donegal, Ireland, just very hard working. After my 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.679 parents split, she took over the bar and had no 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:11.960 idea about business or anything, but she became one of 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:16.439 the shrewdest businesswomen and in all the Queen's to be honest, 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.280 and back then, you know, women weren't really doing that. 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:22.359 You know, they didn't really have a say. It was 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.240 more like you know, what are you doing? You know, 0:19:24.359 --> 0:19:27.639 like who where's your husband? Where's the man of the house. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:33.680 I am the man of the house, and um my mom, 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.760 my mom, I just want to be candid with you 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:40.119 guys for everything, you know, to help other people with 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:43.199 with any struggles that they're going through. My mom was 0:19:43.520 --> 0:19:47.119 diagnosed with manic depression and back in those days they 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:51.359 didn't really have any medications or anything. They just didn't 0:19:51.359 --> 0:19:54.159 know really what it was. When was she diagnosed with that? 0:19:54.200 --> 0:19:58.679 We we know that today as bipolar disorder and bipolar today. 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:06.880 Um that was eighty five six, eighties seven. So when 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.520 she started to get sick, I stepped up and I 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:14.840 was running a bar um for soth queens and I 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:18.000 got my first apartment when I was seventeen, and my 0:20:18.040 --> 0:20:21.199 mom always was very supported, you know, supportive of what 0:20:21.240 --> 0:20:24.080 I was doing. And you know, even though she had 0:20:24.480 --> 0:20:26.800 that going on at the same time when she wasn't 0:20:27.640 --> 0:20:32.639 on a you know, manic. I call it the bipolar 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:36.320 right roller coaster, like you buy a ticket and you 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:39.880 know you don't it just goes round and round, and 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.760 it was really difficult. But at the same time that 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.280 she was so strong, so when she had her power, 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:51.119 it was just amazing what she could do. I wouldn't 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:54.159 ask for another mom if I could just all the 0:20:54.240 --> 0:20:57.400 lessons that I had sort of like school hard knocks 0:20:57.520 --> 0:20:59.600 growing up. I knew there was a reason for it, 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:04.080 that the universe was getting me ready young, you know, 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.280 to experience things so I could help other people in 0:21:06.320 --> 0:21:09.160 the future. So when did you How did you find 0:21:09.160 --> 0:21:13.959 yourself in Los Angeles? I came there right like about 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:19.239 six months, six months before Boy Meets World, and I 0:21:19.280 --> 0:21:23.320 started auditioning. Um got close to a couple of things, 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.080 and uh, just just out of nowhere, I got the 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:31.400 Boy Meets World. Uh audition, you know, the first audition 0:21:31.440 --> 0:21:35.120 I met Sally Steiner. Do you remember your audition? Oh? Yeah, 0:21:35.880 --> 0:21:40.919 I actually auditioned seven times. Seven times, Really, that is ridiculous. 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:43.040 I would have assumed that you walked in the door 0:21:43.080 --> 0:21:46.879 and they were like, well, that's so hard to me, 0:21:47.080 --> 0:21:49.960 Like you just you just you own that character so much. 0:21:49.960 --> 0:21:51.840 It's like there's there's no you know what, we we 0:21:51.840 --> 0:21:53.399 saw it, there's no other way to do it, like 0:21:54.000 --> 0:21:56.800 you had to. Oh my god, that's so funny. Seven 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.720 times that writer. Because I really admire all you guys act, 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:05.080 you're acting, you know, so seven times I'm auditioning. Sally 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:07.040 Steiner was like, come on, whatever, you can do it, 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.520 you know, so kind, so so helpful. I don't know 0:22:10.560 --> 0:22:13.520 if Barbi Block was on the show. I don't think 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:15.840 she was. I don't think she came on until maybe 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:20.560 third season. Yeah, I think that that's right. And yeah, 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:26.280 I just remember seven times for one show. Wow. It's 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:28.399 like you do the one show and then all of 0:22:28.440 --> 0:22:30.720 a sudden you get a script. You're like, oh, this 0:22:30.800 --> 0:22:34.720 is your script for next week, like next week. Okay, 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:36.920 So at the time that you were auditioning, you thought 0:22:36.920 --> 0:22:38.960 it was just going to be one episode. Yeah, just 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:42.679 one yeah, just one episode. Seven times for for a 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:46.240 guest cast for one episode. I believe that it can 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:49.960 audition seven times for Eric well and most of the 0:22:50.000 --> 0:22:53.400 time for especially for for a guest cast, they're doing 0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:56.080 the auditions like the week before. So how do you 0:22:56.119 --> 0:22:59.479 even have seven times the first episode of the season, 0:23:02.359 --> 0:23:04.080 there are more of a run up time to it. 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.239 And I think, you know, I do think that, Like 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:11.640