Adam Scott Meets World

The world’s most surprising Boy Meets World guest star has entered the chat! Adam Scott might be a recent Emmy nominee, but he’ll always be Griff in our hearts. Adam clears the air on his abrupt entrance in, and exit from, the show and finally addresses an awkward on-set incident that has quietly haunted him for almost 30 years. And Danielle analyzes a message board post Adam saw in the early days of the Internet.

 

And as a bonus, Adam shares details on ‘Severance’ and how a nice guy like him can always play a jerk.

 

Season 2 is off to quite a start as another blockbuster guest brings their A game!!

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
So I have COVIDH again, and this time I bit
the bullet. And that's going to be an apt metaphor.
When I talked about what I want to talk about
and I took the packs, Loavid, and I want to
play a little game show with you both, if that's
all right, And the game show is going to be,

(00:39):
what's the weirdest side effect from a medication you've ever had?
Right or strong? Daniel fish will come on down? So
on the packs, Loavid. A side effect that everybody has
talked about, which I've now I'm in day three of
is it's just constantly like I'm sucking on a giant battery.

(01:00):
Was what I though, you're gonna say, a giant lemon?
And I was like I would have been. It's this
metallity acidity not which again I've been reading about. Apparently
everyone has it on this stuff, and it's just it's
never ending, it's all and it's very odd, and I'm

(01:21):
just curious. Can either of you remember anything you've taken
that's given you any bizarre side effects? No? I mean
I feel like we have to tell the story of
when I was on drugs the first time. It's one
of my favorite memories from world altogether. It's just you
leaning up against the locker in the in the school hallway,
having absolutely no idea what was going on. And I

(01:43):
was like, I had had a really bad ingrown tone
nail because I have wide feet and I used to
cram them into boots and choose that I shouldn't have
been cramming my feet into and I let this ingrown
toneenail get incredibly infected and it was awful and painful,
but I just ignored it because the show must go
on and on tape night or actually was probably a Wednesday. Well,

(02:06):
we definitely had an audience because so I went and
got this toe dealt with, you know, went to some
surgery basically surgery like they cut you know, they actually
cut your toe open, and they gave me pain medication,
which I had never taken anything. I had never taken
biking in or whatever. And yeah, I remember being in
the classroom, sitting there and just completely missing my cue

(02:28):
and going I just remember in front of the oh
wait that's me, and the audience just lost it and
we're and you guys were look what is wrong with you?
I was just so dopey and I wonder if we're
gonna be able to tell what episode it was because
I have no recollection. But you remember me by the
lockers to writer, you and I were standing next to
each other. You were leaning against the lockers, and it
was one of those times where like you were supposed

(02:49):
to say something and you didn't say anything, and I
was like, you were like, oh, that's me. And then
in between you looked at me and you were like,
I'm so out of it, like what's going on? And
you were like I was like, oh man, I had
never seen you like that because you were basically straight
edge anything. I didn't drink or anything drink, so you

(03:14):
were just like I was like, wow, this is this
is interesting. Um I can't. Any time I think of
medication stories, I think of the During the pilot of
Girl Meets World, I got very sick. It was no surprise.
I got very sick. And I did not know that

(03:35):
um musin X was a one pill per twenty four hours.
Did yeah, yeah, and that's the one I was taking.
And I thought, I talk about a terrible assumption. I
assumed it was like advil or something, or maybe I
don't even know if adills this way but I assumed
it was one every four hours, and I was very,
very sick and we had to be shooting and it was,

(03:56):
you know, one of those days. And so I woke
up and I took one and it made me feel better.
I was like, Wow, this is actually working. I feel great.
And then four hours later I was like, coming, take
another one, and I took another one. And I did
that throughout the course of the day. And when I
tell you, oh, it's like a speed thing. I was racing.
You needed Michael Jacobs to tell you to slow down.

(04:16):
It was like going back to being twelve years old
and being told to someone was like what are you
What are you taking? And I was like, music next,
you know, music next. They were like, oh, yeah, one
every twenty four hours. I was like, I'm that and
I was thirsty. I was so thirsty. I was like

(04:39):
my lips were sticking to my teethet he well, welcome
to Pod Meets World. I'm Daniel Official, I'm right or Strong,
and I'm Wilfred l So listen. We have had a
lot of truly incredible guests during our season one, and
we have had so many incredible guests and I and

(05:00):
say we are so excited about our guest today. Well,
half the time, that's a lie. Uh, just kidding, It's
really never a lie. But this time I'm going to
have to come up with a better word than exciting,
because this is like way more than exciting. We've been
bubbling about this and and talking about this guest, and
I am just absolutely thrilled to have him. He's arguably

(05:21):
the most successful actor that wasn't the voice of Kit
from Night Writer to ever come out of Killed History,
and from his standout role in Step Brothers to the
cult classic Party down to my personal favorite Ben Wyatt
on Parks and rec He is obviously an extremely prolific
comedic and now a dramatic actor who was just nominated

(05:43):
for his first Emmy celebrating his work on the brilliant
show Severance. But today we are only interested in his
role as Griffin Griff Hawkins on three episodes of Boy
Meats World, So please help me. Welcome to the show,
Adam Scott. Yeah, guys, Hello, I haven't seen you in

(06:05):
a long time. You ever forever? Do you guys even
remember me? Ye? Around? Course of course we did, of course,
but you were you were definitely one of the older
guys though, because you're you're like you know, I mean,
you were like five years older than Will maybe or whatever.
But the difference when you're seventeen and twenty three or whatever,

(06:28):
it was huge. The golf was huge. So yeah, but
I mean we definitely remember you for sure. Yeah. But
he started, I mean we were even younger because he
started in season two O two, so we were fourteen
years old. Were writer? You were four teen and I
think you may have been eighteen. Well that's the thing
that that's so that I've been thinking about the past
few days is like back then, like now, our age

(06:52):
difference is not somewhat negligible, like like whatever world grown ups,
middle aged grown ups. But then I was an adult
and you guys were like little kids. Will you you were,
you know, teenager or whatever. But yeah, it's like you
were like younger than my kids now walking around. Um yah,

(07:15):
and I was I think I was twenty was it
nine four? Yeah? Yeah, I was twenty one and twenty
two around there. You're an adult. So it's so I
could vote, you could drink very and I could do

(07:36):
not none of those. We were still going to studio school. Yeah,
we were like nice to meet. We got to go
get our three hours. And because that is the thing,
is that my memories of you are all like seeing
you in passing or at the rap party, like I have.
I have a memory of of like everybody dancing together,
and I have a great picture of us like in
a conga line or something from a holiday party. And

(07:57):
that's it, Like that's the only time I really got
to hang out with you. I remember the one rap
party I went to was at like a western bar,
way out in Western You know what, we're not doing
the congo, We're doing a Western dance. It was called
Oh my god, I just remember the name of it.
It was called Denim and Diamonds. It's the place we

(08:21):
went to. It was called Denim and Diamonds. And I
can't remember going up to say hi to Michael Jacobs,
and I think this is the moment he decided I
wouldn't be coming back, because I came up to say
hi to him and he was wearing like West Like
it was a Western bar and everyone's just in regular clothes,

(08:43):
but he had like cowboy boots and like iron jeans,
like he looked like he was ready to line dance.
The ironed jeans were part of the regular uniform. Was ok,
it was just the cowboy? Was he just scared out
of me helve in to the club's that's pretty par

(09:04):
for the course. I mean, I have so many questions
going to the go. Let's start at the beginning, because
I was just going to jump right into those kinds
of stories. But I want to jump into You actually
started on Boy Meats World as a totally different character.
You were a guy named Senior and you asked Corey
to hold your guitar. That's right? And so did you

(09:26):
audition for that part? Did you have a connection to
Michael Jacobs? How did you end up as Senior? No,
I that's like one of I think that might be
my truly my first job, certainly my first job on TV.
I think. No, I think you had done two other things,
but maybe your first TV job. Let Daniell tell you

(09:47):
what you've done with your where you had done? You
had done dead at twenty one and e R Okay, yes, um, yes,
Debt twenty one was an MTV pilot. That was my first.
But but but that was my first job ever, which must
have been like six months before I got Senior on
on borne Meed's World. Uh, and Senior was that in

(10:10):
season two as well? That was like the beginning of
and then Griff was the end of season two, correct, right, Yes,
so so Senior. Yes, I auditioned for it because I
was doing like background work and stuff and then got
started getting like speaking roles and stuff and and and
so this was I definitely auditioned for it and then
came back an auditioned again later. For you did it

(10:32):
wasn't like you were just upgraded. You had to actually,
that's right, but you made the jump from background actor
to actor. Yeah, I mean it only took thirty years.
So were you you weren't technically a child actor or
were you a child actor? No. I started when I

(10:55):
was twenty because I went to acting school and it
was like a two year program. So I graduated when
it was twenty and then moved to Hollywood and just
started like you know, trying to you know, trying to
you know, I didn't know anyone. So I was doing
background work and like I had a manager that I
paid a fee to every month, but she got me auditions.

(11:17):
So that's where I started getting my jobs, Like like
Boyan's World is she that's how you know they're reputable.
By the way, Adam, when when they charge, that's how
you're in the right place. You know they're worth it.
When they asked you forty dollars a month, which is
what it was. It was forty a month. That's kind
of a bargain. Okay, so you got the role of senior.

(11:42):
I also want to know, do you remember seeing the band?
So that was in the episode Band on the Run,
and I we have not gotten to that part yet
where we watched that episode. We've just started our rewatch
of season two, but I have seen the images. It
is the monkeys, Ricky Dolens was walking around, yes, but

(12:05):
also the band. It's like where Alan shows like he
used to have a band, and then the guys all
come back and they play and there are four guitarists. People,
you have to have four guitars, like not even like
Leonard skinnerd had four guitars. They had too and it

(12:27):
was and they thought it was too many. So yeah,
Eastern has the image. Oh yeah, there we go. That's
a very specific sound. So the guy on the roll
of sound, I forget his name, but the guy on
the right was the lead guitarist for Cheap Trip Trick, Yes,
and then Alan and this was somebody to the guy

(12:50):
on the left was somebody too, Yeah, and I can't
remember who. I'll figure it out. I had it, I
did have O'Neill and this he doesn't. But it was
one of those things where it was like they came
in and told us who it was, and everybody under
the age of thirty five was like hunt and everyone
under the age of thirty five was like, wow, really

(13:11):
you got that guy. So it was um, yeah, I
still don't know who who that is. But the Cheap
Trick guy was very um not to ruin it before
we get to the rewatch, but very inappropriate in front
of the audience. That's remember really most about him saying
things that were just was like, oh, they're nine in
the audience. You probably shouldn't be saying stuff like that. Yeah,
and you're not playing Buddha con right now. This is

(13:33):
like a studio at seven thirty at night on a Thursday. Um.
So yeah, Oh that's so funny that this was your
first episode, Adam, was your first time doing a multi
camera show like in front of a live audience. Totally.
Not only that, but it was my first time being
on a real set where it's like built on a stage,

(13:54):
and so I remember, and when I came back later,
it was the same thing where I just couldn't believe
how like perfect everything was and the air was this perfect,
like crisp cool temperature all the time, and there was
food everywhere. Everyone was so nice, so and so I
just you know, had no idea how I'm how I

(14:16):
was supposed to behave or you know, it was a
completely alien environment. I was just so nervous and freaked
out the entire time, but at the same time thought, wow,
this is really uh like high living, like this is
all just feels composed and perfect. Um, yeah, it was.

(14:37):
It was. I remember a lot of it really vividly
because it was such a brand new, brand new environment.
I have to know, what did you play on the
er Oh, I played the same character as I played.
I played Senior on the guitar, you know, hurt him

(14:57):
he had to go to the e R. It was
electric shock. I just played a guy who got into
a car accident and got like wheeled around. I do
remember it was a one or it was like a
long like being wheeled all the way down the hallway
by Noah Wiley and and uh mingna mingna when uh

(15:22):
but they were wheeling me down the hallway and there
was a camera on me, and it was like a
three minute one of those shots. And I remember at
one one point we did the whole shot and I
had forgotten to to put the oxygen thing thing back
in my nose and and they got super pissed at Man,
that's like, you've burned so much film that day it

(15:42):
was on you. So that's yeah, you went from pissing
off the set of the Yard pissing off Michael Jacobs.
Apparently you go there you go. Oh man, God, I
can't even imagine. I can't even because those eight seven,
eight nine years that we're talking about an age difference.
When you when you're thirteen fourteen, twelve, thirteen fourteen, it

(16:04):
must be so so much to carry, um all of
that pressure, but also all of these grown ups around
all the time, kind of telling you what you should do,
how things are supposed to be, and kind of defining
this world for you, and um, as you go along
you might kind of start to see things differently. It

(16:25):
just must be really confusing. I can only imagine yeah,
it's Uh, it's one of those weird situations where now
as adults, we realized that like, oh, no one has
any idea what they're doing. Ever, no one ever knows
what they're doing, right, We're all just faking it. We're
all pretending like everybody else knew what they were doing,
and we just were trying to keep up. And people,

(16:46):
We've realized everyone thinks we knew everything that was going
on and that we were being filled in on what
was happening, and we knew nothing. No one was telling
us a single thing. And so it was a instantly
changing environment where we thought, well, thank goodness, these adults
are in control and know what's going on, and we

(17:07):
just have to go with the flow. And you also,
as a kid, especially at fourteen year old, kid wants
so desperately to be taken as an adult. I'm wanted,
I'm up here, Please treat me like an adult. And
you are in a work environment, so people do kind
of treat you like adults, and and that feels good,
and you pretend to act like an adult, and then
when you are an adult and you look back on it,

(17:27):
you go, what the hell were they doing? Why were
they treating as like adults. We were an adults. It's
very strange but so bizarre trapped in the middle. That's
that's why. One of the things that was interesting, I
remember when you came back as Griff. So when you
came back later and um, Harley, the Harley Kinder character
has gone. They brought Griff back, and then they put

(17:48):
you with Ethan and Blake. Ethan and Blake to me,
they were the cool kids in high school and kind
of never let me forget that they were the cool
kids in high school. Interesting, so they instantly put you
in the camp of he's already I don't even know him,
and he's already too cool for me to hang out with.

(18:09):
That's so it was when you came you were instantly
part of the gang. That kind of let me know
that I wasn't invited to the party. So my god,
I look back at it, like, um, yeah he was.
He was too cool for me to even walk up
to and be like, hey, welcome to the show. So
it was more like, oh, and then you played such
a cool character right that it was It was more

(18:29):
just like I'm gonna go over there and play ping
pong and you guys kind of do. But yeah, Blake
and Ethan they were super nice, but they kind of
just like they actually were really cool, right, Like they
were hip like even like in real life, were like
l A hipsters in a lot of ways, like Blake
was already a musician and yeah, like I remember, yeah,
they were like I uh friends with DiCaprio, and like,

(18:50):
I just remember feeling very like, oh, they're like the
cool l A people that like we're going to grow into,
which never happened. But I was definitely intimidated by them
in the exact same way. It is so funny because
I know that when I kind of came in later
uh as as Griff, they were the first ones to
sort of walk up and talk to me. And they

(19:12):
were like fellow guest stars, so I felt more comfortable
like talking to them because it was like lower stakes.
And I do remember being way too nervous to go
up to you guys and talk to you. And I
know I know that will and and and I mean
Ethan and and Blake felt the same. I know that

(19:35):
they were also like more kind of nervous and watching
themselves around you guys. I know that I just because
we were the regulars. We were the show. I mean,
that's the thing. But from our perspective, it was like
completely inverted because your kids looking at more adults, so
it's just they're the cool people, and that the adults

(19:57):
are looking at the kids like you're the stars of
the show. And the one thing this pot doing this
podcast this showed me is it's just like if we
had all just had conversations back in the day, I
know it would have been so much better. But I
also remember, Adam, I remember you coming in and just
being super funny and super confident. It was part of

(20:18):
it was part of your character obviously to be this
sort of like cool guy, like ladies man, whatever, but
you actually had that air about yourself to like that,
Like the fact that you were nervous is just mind
blowing to me because like what I remember, because it
was it was a bizarre situation because you were sort
of replacing Harley Danny Dicnolti had left the show, and
we're gonna have him on the show and we're gonna

(20:38):
talk about what what he was going through and why
he left the show. But it was actually somewhat traumatic
for us as kids, Like he had a he had
a bad table read that did not go well, and
we replaced him midweek. Um, it's a crazy And then
and then so they replaced him midweek with another actor
playing like Harley. The name him Harley, or they just

(20:59):
renamed brought him in. I don't think it was one
of those weird They just oh, we have to we
have to do the script as it's written, so we'll
just get a new actor in here. And it was
a very uncomfortable week. And then a couple of weeks later,
I guess they had already written scripts with Harley and
decided to rewrite them by creating a new character, which
was Griffin. And you came in and you were just

(21:21):
and so it was as it was all. I didn't
know any of that. I knew that there was a
character before me named Harley who was um because they
mentioned him in my episode where it's like we're gonna
be your lack. He's just like we were for Harley.
That's the extent of what I knew. I just figured,

(21:42):
like this person didn't want to do the show. I
I had no clue. I had no idea of any
of this. It's a crazy story that Danny that we
can't tell it's Danny story. And I know he's gonna
tell it when he gets here. But um, because then
you did an episode with Danny that's right where we
like face off. Yes, I remember, that's where the con

(22:02):
That's where I saw the confidence, because again, Danny was
in my head forty two years old. It was the cool,
amazing guy. And then you instantly walk onto the set
and the scene was getting into his face and he's
like's gonna kick your ass and you you'd already thought
ten steps ahead. You're like, all right, I got I
can't believe these lines are coming back to me. You're

(22:23):
I do because you say, you're like, all right, well,
I know you thought it all the way through. Then
you're gonna beat me up. You're gonna end up in jail.
And but and then you see his mind start to work,
and I remember watching the scene going like, oh, he's
so confident, Like you just walked on and you owned
it all and we're still fun. We're like eight episodes
in now and still fumbling our face. Homember. It was
by this point, I mean that one was season three, right, yea,

(22:47):
that was the one episode you did in season three,
And then we never saw great and so I want
to ask you about that. Did you what was the
situation with why you disappeared and then never came back.
What did they tell you? I don't, I don't know.
I don't think they ever told me anything. And I
just as like a h an kind of self hating actor,

(23:09):
like I just figured, oh, they finally figured out that
I can't do this and just never asked any questions,
like I don't blame them, like this is the way
it should be. And I kind of felt like that
episode was Harley and Griff facing off and him sort
of uh dominating and me sort of fading into the background,

(23:30):
right because didn't he continue on and do do don't?
By the way, you don't you don't have to say
self hating, you can just say actor. The other and
the other part is completely it's completely in there, which
never goes away. By the way that it doesn't matter
no matter how many nominations, even if even if one

(23:52):
of us gets to half of your status at some point,
that never goes away. It doesn't. Yesterday we were shooting
and I was the same exact feeling was there. I
was like, what what what am I doing? Why? Am I?
Why am I here? You know? Well, the one thing
Daniel did not mention at the top, which I'm not

(24:13):
going to gush about, but I thought was one of
your more underrated performances because I loved the film all
the way around was Secret Life of Walter Middy. Oh thanks.
The whole thing was just that I loved that film.
I loved you and that felt. Yeah. I can, I'm sorry,
I can gush all day. I'm trying to be cool
like I was when I was eighteen and I first
met you. Um No, I love that movie too. I

(24:34):
I obviously Ben still directed that and he directs a
lot of Severance as well, and and watching him, uh
direct Walter Middy and also star in it, and just
like how he built that world and everything was just
sort of one of those life changing just sort of
shifted my idea of um of of making stuff and

(24:59):
what's a bowl and what you can? I mean, it's beautiful,
it was really beautiful. That's incredible. Is that what led
to Severance? Is that it was the connection with Stiller
from MIDI what brought you into Severance? Or yeah, I
just met him once at um at a premiere. Uh.
I forget what movie it was. It was like one
of the like Apatao World premiers. I wish I could

(25:20):
remember which one it was, but I just met him
and he came up and talked to me. I couldn't
believe I was talking to Ben Stiller and he was
he liked step Brothers and so he was like talking
about and then like a year or two later, he
just asked me to to be in uh In Walter
Middy and and so that's sort of where where yeah,
where that connection started. And so I'm sorry, just to

(25:42):
go back very quickly. You had to audition twice for
Boy Me Tworld. That's right, were an asked, that's right,
just making sure I have the crinology correct as we
moved forward. That's perfect. That makes perfect sense. Okay, So

(26:09):
I have to talk to you about this one particular
episode that you were in in season two. You are
in an episode called Thriller and Phila where you set
up a wrestling match between Corey and Joey, and that
involves cameos from Vader, Robert Goulay, Jasmine Belief not according

(26:32):
to her, she's playing herself, and you made out with her. Yeah,
this was one of the things where one of the
situations where I was like, wait, what what do I do?
I hope we all were that episode. That episode was
so insane. That was nuts. And writer, didn't you like

(26:53):
get in the ring and wrestled like that? Dude? I thought,
I thought, Vader, that's what I thought, Vade Vader where
he's lifting me up by the neck and throwing me
off the thing, and god, God, But the joy of
that to me is apparently I'm glad you remember Yasmine
Bleith was there too, because in the fact of actually

(27:14):
taping it and it being on television, she apparently denies
being on the show. What what we've heard is that
she's like, I was never on And you want to
say to her, like, the cameras were there, there's footage.
I have the receipts on YouTube exactly. You can you

(27:34):
can google it. Yeah, but they're they're all in the
same scene, all those crazy guest stars are in the
same scene. And so what I remember about that day
was that we shot it all in like an hour
and a half, Like it was. Robert was here from
three pm to four pm, and it was just like
and I remember sitting around craft Service and it was
just a circus, like literally a circus, and he's like,
you're just waiting for the elephants and the lions to

(27:56):
like go by, and then we're all just like get
in the ring, do the scene. And you can feel
that energy when you watch it, because well, we watched
it for the DVD commentary. It's one of the few
episodes I remember watching, so we watched it with Michael
Jacobs on the DVD commentary. We cut it out from
the DVD because we watched that episode and did commentary
for it, and at the end of it, Michael was like,

(28:17):
can we gonna we need a better episode. We're not
gonna do that commentary because while we were watching it,
we're all like, what what has happened? Like we could
see Michael just n rallies like we need a different episode.
It's not on the commentary he fired. He fired his
own commentary, Why do you remember about that day? And
like working with Yasmine and what was that too? Because

(28:38):
I'm assuming she was just there for that one day,
so there was really like no rehearsal, No, no, she
was there for I don't remember. I'm sure she was not.
I just don't we must have had like a stand
in come in when we were rehearsing her right as yea,
But I just remember her being there for like fifteen
minutes or something. Seemed like she was in and out.

(29:00):
Had do have you ever need had you ever needed
to kiss anybody on camera? Was that your first on
camera kiss? Oh? You heard it here first. I've never
actually thought of that before. My first on Screaming Kids
was with Yasmine Leaf. It was it was a huge deal.
And you know what, this was an early lesson in

(29:21):
show business for me because I think since it was
so early on, I always figured if you're doing something
crazy like that with all of these big famous people
and you're in the middle of a ring like announcing
something and on on TV. I remember that that episode
airing and me being like, I'm on TV with with

(29:43):
Yasmine Bleef and Robert It was this this huge thing
at the time, this was such a huge deal. But
still I'm in a studio apartment and I can't get
my agent to like and yeah, exactly, like, oh, doesn't
really matter that much. Well, you still owe your manager

(30:05):
for that straight together fourty dollars to pay my manager. Um,
it's you know will before I forget, I do I remember?
Just so you know, I was how like nervous we
were to talk to you guys. I remember distinctly talking
to you about Spider Man. Um uh once. Do you

(30:28):
remember this? I'm sorry, I don't. Yeah, talk to so
many nerd I have so many nerd conversations. I'm surprised
I didn't bond. But like in like I just or five.
I can't believe I remember a conversation about Spider Man
with you because I think at the time it was
rumored that James Cameron was going to make a Spider
Man movie or something and and uh and and so

(30:51):
I remember really distinctly. I think I'm assuming because it
was a big moment to get to like have an
actual conversation with with one of the stars of the show.
So anyway, just so you know how we talked about.
Do you remember what we talked about? I think we
were talking about how you were perfect to play Spider Man.

(31:13):
Was that I don't know. It wasn't like like you're
feeling like it should happen for you were just like,
oh my god, can you imagine how amazing that would be?
And feel like I'm perfect for Peter part you know stuff.
I was letting my nerd flags fly out anyone that

(31:34):
would listen, and you were perfect for it. In that
same vein I have heard I've read you have told
this story before, but I would like for you to.
I would like to hear you tell it here, because
it's when I read it the first time. I was like, what,
can you please tell us the story about the message

(31:56):
board you stumbled on after you had after you were
off of boy Meat's World. I don't know about this.
This was I think this was. It must have been
after I was on boy Meats World. Um, first of all,
I have to talk about two different, h awkward interactions
that I had on on This all kind of goes

(32:22):
to show just how little I knew about how you're
supposed to behave and basic human interaction. I felt there
were the laws of gravity were completely flipped when you're
in this perfect air conditioned world. I just had no
idea how to behave. So I remember, you know, Blake
and Ethan had kind of taken me under their wing

(32:45):
early on, and and uh, we're kind of they were,
like you said, they were like the cool guys. And
so I remember one day I got to work and
I told Blake and Ethan super dirty joke. I don't
remember what it was. And I didn't really know many
people yet, and they were like, oh my god, that's hilarious.
They were laughing. They're like, you know who would love
this joke is Tony Quinn. He would think it's just hilarious.

(33:11):
You have to tell him right now. And I was like, okay,
cool friend, Oh they set you up. Yeah, And so
I went over to Tony was the sweetest guy, and
but I didn't know him, and I told him this.
I don't even remember what it was. I just remember
it was like Tony very Christian, very conservative, that's right,

(33:34):
very clean cut guy, unbeknownst to me, and I just
remember hitting like the punch line. I remember we were
standing the the bleachers for the audience were behind him,
the empty bleachers, because we were like in the middle
of a day, and I remember him just being stone
faced looking at me after the joke and just being like, well,

(33:57):
it sounds like those people need a lot of help.
Like whatever, the joke was right, and then they walked
away and I was like, huh and E were like,
just that was great. God, that is a classic that
describes their dynamic to a t. That is, I do

(34:18):
I just see you standing in front of Tony hitting
the joke going like and they called themselves the aristocrats.
That's kind of a great prank. Who do you think
about it? Pretty funny? Yeah, so that was one. The
other one is something that has been bothering me for

(34:39):
twenty was it twenty six years now? Jesus Christ? Right? Yeah, okay,
this is And I don't think I've ever told anyone

(35:01):
about this except recently since I've known I'm coming on
the show. I told uh, my friend Zach about and
I told my family about it. Like I get to
finally ask writer about this thing. I don't know if
you remember this, writer, probably not. Okay, it was the
I am on the edge of my yeah, yeah, literally,

(35:25):
this has been tugging at me for twenty nine years.
According to Daniel Um it was the season finale of
season two. As it turns out, one of my episodes
was the finale, so we're kind of off to the side.
I don't remember what There was a scene going on,
which was the last scene that that would be shot

(35:46):
for the for the season. We were off to the
side watching. I was with Blake and Ethan. Writer, you
were there with a different group of people, but we're
all sort of standing around. Everyone's kind of gathering around
knowing that the last scene was about to was about
to finished, and the scene ends. Again, I'm just like, okay,
I have no sense of accomplishment here. I'm not really

(36:07):
a part of this, but I can tell something's about
to happen. The scene ends, everyone just erupts and starts cheering.
End of the season. Blake and Ethan high five and hug.
They come up to me, high five and just cheering.
And again I'm like, okay, sure, let's this is great.
Sure um. And then Blake and Ethan go up to

(36:27):
you writer and they give you high five and hug you.
And and then after they do that, I'm like, hey, congratulations, buddy,
and I give you a high five, and I and
I go in and hug you, and as I do that,
you push me off and you give me this look
like wait a second, who the are you? And then
you run away? Are you serious? Yes? Why would I

(36:51):
do that? Do you do? You not? Do not at all?
So glad you don't remember that because to some extent
that means it wasn't a traumatic experience. But I remember
just being like, no, I'm sorry, what just happened? What
did no? No? No, my god, okay no. And it

(37:16):
actually doesn't sound like me at all because I was
generally hugger. He's such a hugger, but he was a
little kid and I was the stranger, grown up getting
I again had no idea what I was supposed to say.
It like we were supposed to all be joyous and
hug each other. Oh god, it was horrifying. No, no recollection.

(37:40):
And like I said, that totally doesn't sound like me
at all. Something something going on there, honestly, because writer
is such a hugger and a total stranger. It was
the end of season two. We obviously worked with you
for at least four episodes, and because you include Sword
of Yeah, okay, okay, so that's such again, my god
nine uh yes. And I remember being surprised when I

(38:07):
got the call to come be in UH three a
few months later because because because of that, um, it's
so it's so funny you read on the message, Okay,
So then I read uh some message board because this
was like early days of internet. Obviously it was like right,

(38:30):
So I there was some message, but I do not
a o l probably and I remember going on there
and just being so thirsty for any recognition or anyone
even uh knowing that I that I was on on
television and I think I read somewhere they said someone said,

(38:51):
well I heard that to Panga doesn't like Griff. What
is that? What the story? I think what you heard
was that I told someone that no one likes you.
This is someone that someone wrote on a message board. Well,
I know someone Danielle like goes to school with. I
know someone who knows Danielle, and she says that nobody

(39:14):
likes him. That's what I can guarantee you is not true.
Because there's there's two ways for one thing, that just
wasn't true. Nobody didn't like you. That was just not
That was not the situation. The second reason is because
I didn't talk about boy Meets World at school Boy
Meat's World. I mean, if somebody asked me a question,

(39:34):
I would, But like, it wasn't super cool to be
gone from school all the time, and I was at
a new school. I would have been in like seventh
grade at that time, and so I wasn't at school
being like, well, we've got this new guy, Adam Scott.
Nobody really likes him, so I'm not sure what his
future looks like. Is we move into season two of
Boy Meets World, Like, I'm not having those conversations as
a thirteen fourteen year old in junior high. That's not happening. Well, yeah,

(39:58):
I also have to say that reading that, I was
just like but also at the same time I was
there was a little bit of a thrill to it
because I was being talked about on the internet in
reference to the show. I was telling everyone, God, we
didn't like you. But that was just me that I

(40:18):
didn't write it anywhere that would have been rude, but
I was telling everyone I could. I still am just
picturing Rider shoving, you know. I wonder what was going on.
Maybe you could also have been kind of built up
and over dramatized over these last you know, twitter nine years.
Who knows, but I can see it. I remember it

(40:42):
so badly. It's just so crazy. It's a great story. God,
that's so funny. How long has it been since you've
seen one of your Boy Meats World episodes? Would you
like to watch one right now? Yeah? You know, I
I've seen clips and stuff on like on Twitter sometime. Um,

(41:02):
I think I've seen some. I think my daughter found
like a compilation She's Sport Team now, like when she
was like twelve, she was like, what's this and played
it and then started watching the show and getting into
the show and got into Girl Meets World as well.
Uh So in the past few years, I've seen like
clips and stuff, but to sit down and watch an

(41:24):
entire episode, it's spent a long time. You got to
do some really great scenes where you played like, for
lack of a better word, a total jerk to like
Mr Feenie. Do you remember what are your experiences working
with Bill Daniels, What do you remember about him? Incredible?
I He's the graduate, Red's the guy has been in
so many incredible movies, such a great actor. And he

(41:45):
was so kind to me because I was, like I said,
I was really nervous. And there was like that scene
where I'm in his office and I like, uh, flirt
with his with his his assistant who comes in. And
I think that might be the first Griff episode where
that was because I think it was one of my
first scenes generally, and I was really nervous and and

(42:09):
and as we were doing it, um we would do
a take and all the producers and writers would like
flock in around me and start giving me notes, changing lines,
all this stuff. And so I immediately, just as I
do today, if that happens, it's like, oh what am
I doing wrong? Okay? And but then I couldn't really

(42:30):
handle it, and so I started trying to um play
these notes that they were giving me, and it was
like all over the place. And I just remember after
a few times of that habit kept, they kept kind
of coming in and tweaking what I was doing. Bill
just leaned into me, just whispered, He's like, don't listen

(42:50):
to any of them. Just do something like something like that.
Like he used a curse word, which was super cool,
so cool, and he was just like, forget what, forget
it all, forget what they're telling you. That's so great.
And he would just give you those little nuggets of
Oh yeah, I'd assume he did that for you guys too.

(43:11):
He didn't. Absolutely. Now I have a question for you,
because you're you were so nice back then, by all accounts,
you're so nice. Now, why do you think you're always
cast as kind of the dick. I wanted to every
movie kind of play this guy, which you know, I
don't know you well, but seems to be just essentially.

(43:32):
I mean, you are universally beloved. Everyone says you're the
nicest guy ever. So why like, why do you think
you're constantly cast as kind of the jerk all the time. Uh,
that's that's funny. I think that. Um. I think it
started uh um with step brothers and uh that was
just a total fluke. Um. I didn't think I had

(43:56):
any chance of getting the part, so I just sort
of went in and for it. I think that like
douche bags and are really funny, like over confident don't
are really really funny, and I love watching them, like
in real life. I love seeing someone who's who thinks
they're amazing and they're I think it's really fun. Um.

(44:20):
So I don't know. I guess you know, like I
remember as a kid loving William Atherton and I have
ghostbusters like wow, he's great, Like who's that guy? Uh?
So I don't know. I always just a how's it going?
Keep quoting all that time. My whole life is quote,
so I always do the I lathered up with Keels

(44:43):
in the shower by the way, by the way well,
or those VHS tapes behind you, or those books. No,
those are books. Okay, those are books. That's the fan
of that's the one half of the Nerd Fantasy collection.
On that scene, I wish they were VHS. I have
VHS's as a writer, and Danielle know I keep everything,

(45:05):
so yeah, I've got all that stuff. What was it
on one episode you guys said that they would give
you vhs is at the end of the season for
the families with out hundreds of dollars from three and
we got six or maybe it was even seven VHS

(45:26):
tapes that held four episodes per tape. That's crazy and
we paid for them and uh yeah, we again the
same that when the show ended, called me two weeks
later to ask where a black pair of socks was.
Oh my god, yeah that's what we got. Jesus. You

(45:55):
touched on it a little bit talking about writers descending
on you probably during a tape night to change things,
and you know, do you remember the notes sessions? Do
you remember? God? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. And I
hadn't remembered that till hearing you guys talk about it,
and then I was like, oh my god, of course,
like after a scene, correct me if I'm wrong. This

(46:16):
is what I remember after like a scene or after
a run through of an ever run I guess it
would be we would all go and find a seat
and Michael and the writers would give notes publicly in
front of everyone, scene by scene by Oh my god, yeah, yeah,

(46:36):
we would. We'd sit in the living room set, so
we'd all find our places on the couch or like
little side steps or wherever we could squat and sit.
And then he would sit in a chair facing us solo,
with the writers behind him, like it was like creating
an audience behind him. And then he would sit alone
in a in a director's chair in the center and

(46:56):
go page by page and shin us and shred us.
You just tell us what we were doing wrong? Yeah,
every every week, twice a week, that normal, Adam, Have
you not had that on other projects? It seems like
they didn't do that on there, you know, you know,
you see that here and there. But you come to realize,
like I'm sure you guys have, particularly with kids, that's

(47:21):
not how you're going to, like, you know, get the
best out of them, right, I'm sure it was terrifying
for you guys. It was horrifying. It was there was
a sense like when when writer just described it, and
I had a visceral memory of the feeling of all
of us being huddled together on the couch and wherever
you could, and they're really being a sense of we're

(47:41):
all in this together, Like yeah, where for guest casts
that would be not the feeling. Often, like I remember
watching guest casts fall apart because invariably we you know,
there would be a run through. We'd all get a
pass because it went well for us, but because somebody
came in and you know, did their best, but it
didn't land where Michael wanted it that person. You know,

(48:03):
I remember having to have conversations post notes with guest
cast all the time, like having to be like, it's okay,
this is totally normal, it's not don't take it personally,
do it up, because they would just be like, what
did I do? What? You know? How did I You know?
It was so I can imagine from your position, Adam,
like it's even more intimidating than it was for us,
you know, like, yeah, and you're sitting You're not sitting

(48:24):
on the couch on the on the living room set,
you're like on the outskirts, like, yeah, exactly, No, there
was there was a sense of we're all in this together,
much like the passengers of the Titanic, right, Um, so
it was I mean we did we had that. Those
were and I think you're right, we got used to them,
and then you get jaded. You know, you're now at

(48:46):
twenty or twenty one. By the time I was the
show was ending, it was like, I'm old hat at this,
and then you start to forget that there's guest cast
there that are going through this horrible nous. You know,
I think it's more than than it's old had it's
Stockholm syndrome. We act actually start to be like this
looking forward to it, like looking forward to note session
where we wouldn't get notes and being like, it's an accomplishment.

(49:09):
I made it through this week. Yeah not yes. That
became That became the addictions, Like, you know, he did
something great. I was going to ask did he throw complement?
Occasionally he would praise it would be and when he did,
it was like, oh my god, can you believe what
I just heard. That's the coolest thing in the world. Yeah,

(49:30):
it was a little it was a little more. I
do remember for the first time experiencing that multicam rhythm
that you have to get and how and not knowing
the language of it at all, and not knowing how
to hit those things. But that's where I sort of
started to learn that the music of how to get
a laugh in a multicam, it's a real skill and

(49:52):
a real like talent of its own, where you say
a line a certain way and the audience just doesn't
react act then you just hit a particular word and boom,
they're there. That was terrifying to me too and kind
of put me off from multi not that I would
had any opportunity to be in multicamps even if I

(50:17):
wanted to, but it made me frightened of them for
for years. Was the kind of high wire act of
trying to and knowing that, uh, they're all watching and
they'll take your line away if you don't hit it
right and stuff. That's something that you guys lived for
years and years. But I kind of felt a little

(50:38):
bit being there. I am I love that. I love that.
That was my That was my favorite part was reading
the audience, like reading the acause you know. It's the
way you just said it is is so true. I
always equate especially Sitcomb to music and when you hit
that perfect beat and that tuning fork rings, it is

(50:58):
it is like the dopamine in your brain. It really is.
It really is. I know it more from theater than
from from from multi camps because I think the only
multi camp I've ever done is Boy Meets World? Is
it really You've never you never did even an episode
of anything else. I did an episode of a show
called The Closer Tom Selleck Show, but the scene was

(51:21):
was cut out and it was just like one scene.
So Boy Meets World was was it? Um? But but
you're right that when you have the audience um with you,
it really is a rush kind of like well we've
talked about on this show, like you know, when the
audience does, they're like oh's and oz and the last
It's almost like you're in a conversation with them, right,

(51:42):
It's like they're a scene partner. And that's so much
part of multi camp is this like you're riding this
wave and then enticing them and then going you know,
it's like this it's like a call and response almost,
It's it's weird, and it definitely is. It's a musicality.
It's almost like a jazz performance or something. It's a
very bizarre it's a very bizarre form, you know. And
I think I think that's why it's kind of aged poorly,

(52:03):
is that, you know, kids don't grow up with it anymore,
so they don't necessary their brain doesn't automatically go into
it the way that like I think we've you know,
at the seventies and eighties, children like it was so
natural to us it made sense. Now it feels kind
of archaic, right. I think that there's like an oddity
to the form, which is odd. It's weird form. It
is weird. It's it's all kind of rooted in uh

(52:24):
in vaudeville and all of the you know, that's where
it that's you know, like you watch like I remember
growing up in my grandma would watch Lawrence Welk Do
you guys yea and kind of growing up with that
and looking back on those variety shows, those were all
from just a time before television kind of leaking into television,

(52:44):
and multicams are part of that. I really miss seeing
great multicams. I think they're really fun and when done correctly.
There's it's it's really great and as a job it's
kind of perfect because it's the best schedule for an
actor is amazing. But also the sort of um, the
sort of old fashioned nature of rehearsing all week for

(53:04):
the big show on and there's that energy with it,
and you do you go back and you watch those
Norman Lear kind of shows, the all in the families
things like that, it's a play. It's a play every
week that just gets beamed into people's homes and man,
that needs to come back. It totally tricked me too
into thinking that acting was easy. Uh, the certain parts

(53:26):
of acting were easy, Like I remember doing single camera
for the first time, like when I did an episode
of The Practice and being like, I have to be
there at five am. What are you talking about? Like
you know, I was used to like you just get
your script. You'd barely have to memorize it because then
you just show up at ten and you walk in.
You all get to rehearse. And but no, like single
camera or you know, it's the life of an actor
is pretty rough. You have your trailer, you barely get

(53:48):
to talk to people before you shoot, and it's like
you know, it's a it's a very different animal. And
I remember, you know, hitting that wall in my twenties
and being like, do I even want to do this
because you know, I had just been completely convinced that
my camera was acting, and it's like, no, no no, no,
it's a very specific form of acting that's you know, rare. Yeah,
it definitely is. It definitely is acting. The skill to

(54:11):
it that I was never able to to sort of
pinpoint for myself the skill of it that you guys
were able to do it a really young age. Which
is even more impressive is having that intention and the
emotion and all of that in the kind of in
the the the multi camps. Getting to inject all of

(54:34):
that into that form is really hard to cut yourself
some slack. You were only given three episodes. We are
watching ourselves over the course of many episodes going still
haven't found it. I haven't found it yet. It's a
very bizarre form. Is it ever something that you'd want
to come back and do again? Or is it like no,

(54:57):
I don't and I'm done with that. No, I I
think it would be really fun. I was going to
say I rewatched the first three or four seasons of Cheers,
So it's it really is perfect because I read that
Jim Burrow's biography, the autobiography they put out, which is
really fun, and went back and rewatched Cheers and a

(55:20):
Bunch of Friends as well, and it really is nothing
better and more entertaining uh as as an audience member
than watching those great, great shows. And how fun it
looked and Cheers particularly, I mean it's essentially one room,
the amount hundreds of stories going in and out of there.

(55:40):
It's just a play and have so much fun. And
the acting Ted Dance and Shelley Long on that Like
as far as TV acting goes, or acting in general,
it's it really doesn't get better than that. That's pretty
close to the perfect television pilot for me, ever been
done before. And it has the best joke, in my opinion,

(56:01):
in the history of which is they're sitting there and
the phone rings and Coach picks it up and goes,
Ernie cheers, hang on, Ernie pantuso, that's you Coach speaking.
It's just it's so fast, and it's just him, and
it's perfect and and it's it's it's a perfect joke.

(56:23):
But also it's the pilot, so they're trying to establish
these characters in a hurry, and they got that guy
in one line exactly who the sweet old guy is for.
You know, as long as you say, it's also so difficult,
as we found to bring this back to Boyman's world,
and you did this seamlessly as well. It's difficult to
lose characters and then have to bring in new characters.

(56:46):
And that's something that Cheers did as well. Shelley Long
takes off. They bring in Christiality, who just passed Um
Coach passed away in real life. They bring in Woody.
These are these are people, this is these are characters
that shouldn't work. You've you've got you've established a cast,
you've established a show, you've established a rhythm. You can't
bring in you can't get rid of Frank Burns and
bring in Winchester and still have it work on match.

(57:08):
That's impossible. We can't lose Harley and bring in somebody
named Griffin. It's still gonna work. And it's like, wait,
it works. The acting is there and the writing is there,
then the audience will buy it because it works. And
that's why they easily that the reason that the initial
actor did not work when they just tried to have
a different Harley is because Harley was already established. You

(57:31):
can't just bring in someone else, throw the leather jacket
on him and go, now you're that character. But they
bring in Griff and it's like, we're gonna make him cool,
but an entirely different way. It's a different it's a
confident cool. It's uh, i'm are, I'm you know, it's
the Fonzie kind of cool instead of like the kind
of cool, tough guy kind of cool. So I also

(57:54):
think it's interesting, just going back to what you said
of I wonder how it would have affected your performance
knowing if you knew the story behind kind of Danny
leaving and there was a backstory there, and probably not
knowing it made it easier to just come in and
I'm just going to do the character. Oh I'm sure.
I'm sure. If I knew there was this kind of

(58:17):
beloved guy that had had this rough sort of exit
and everyone felt uneasy about it, it would have made
it ten times harder. Thankfully I didn't know. I do
remember my first costume fitting, and again it's like the
first real costume fitting i'd had. I remember it was.

(58:38):
I was standing there trying on outfits for Michael and
like four other producers, and I kept coming in with
different outfits and they just it was like a flash
dance when she's flipboards. And I remember one person I
don't remember her name. I remember she looked at me
and just said, I don't know, it's sort of Johnny

(58:59):
Depp four years ago. And just thinking that was like
such a show biz thing to say, like, Wow, they
really say stuff like that in show business. So exciting,
My god, oh my gosh. So you got your first
Emmy nomination this year for your role as Mark on
Several Congratulations, I mean congratulations And what what is doing

(59:23):
severance like? And is it better than kissing yasmine bleef? Well,
nothing is better than kissing Um. Yeah, it's really it's
it's it's a it's a it's a great, uh, really
fun show to put together, really challenging. We're in the
middle of shooting right now. Um and I just I

(59:44):
love it. I love uh the world. You know. Something
that's that's really fun coming back to the show is
when season one it was all about sort of world
building and and finding the tone of of of of
the loom and and everything we're doing and not knowing
uh what it was gonna look or feel like. Um,

(01:00:07):
And now having set that tone and coming back to it, um,
not having to worry about that part of it, um,
and just getting to dive right in is is really fun.
It's like you all have the same TV show in
your head. That's right, that's right, yeah yeah um uh.
And the group of actors is unbelievable obviously. Uh. And

(01:00:30):
and getting to see them every day and work with them,
it's just so much fun. Is there one you prefer
over the other? I mean, like, you know, doing a film,
it's kind of your with people for a finite amount
of time and you get to do something great and
walk away. But with television you get to kind of
build the camaraderie as a cast, you get to really
grow as a character. Is there one that you prefer
over the other? I really like uh making TV shows.

(01:00:53):
I mean they're sort of one and the same now
more and more. But the thing about making a TV
show for me that I like growing up in the
eighties and being a eighties movie goer, that's kind of
where I sort of learned and what I like. Um,
I loved sequels growing up in the eighties, and like,

(01:01:14):
Temple of Doom is my favorite movie, right, and I
remember like Police Academy to going to see it on
my birthday with all my friends and stuff. So coming
back for another season of the show to me just
feels like we're making a sequel. Um. And so there's
like this really kind of fun like getting every getting
the band back together feeling, and I just love um

(01:01:35):
getting getting to see everybody again and catch up with
each other's catching up with each other's lives and uh
and finding new angles on on the you know, the story,
the big story and the characters and everything. It's really
really fun. That's cool. You know what with all the
unpacking and everything we've talked about in the episode, the
thing we're going to get the most emails about Temple

(01:01:56):
of Doom is his favorite. You know. Here's the thing.
So my son, whose name is Indie, Yeah, Temple of
Doom is his favorite. Yeah. I'm like, you know, and
it's the one he wants to watch. He wants to
go back to it more than and I'm like, this
is the crazy one. But then I remember as a
kid it was my favorite too. It's and when you
watch it, you're like, there's like five movies before the

(01:02:18):
movie even starts. It's like there's a musical number, there's
there's plain flight, there's a rafting number. It's like, oh
my god, and you're like, there's like five five sequences
before the story even so it's amazing. It's but it's
totally it's just all over the place. Yeah, yeah, but
ah my god, it's the best. It was like, oh
my god, what is happening. They've made a movie specifically

(01:02:41):
for me? And I just went back over and over
and over again. And the other night we were at
the Gotham Awards in New York and I learned afterwards
that that key Hugh Kwon, who played Short Round, was
sitting in the in the table near us to night.
I didn't know. I would have gone and said hello,
because he you know, Short Round toys every thing to
me as a kid. It's really nice. He's we did,

(01:03:03):
he's at some of the conventions we do, and he's
a very sweet and everything everywhere all at once, and
it was incredible. It's one of the most astounding performances.
You're like, we're this person should have been working every
day for the last thirty years, and he's so you
just can't take your eyes off from the entire movie.
He's so good, he's amazing. Well marks the return of

(01:03:26):
Party Down. So what can you reveal to fans for
what they can expect from the gang? Yeah, it comes
out somewhat soon. Uh, yeah, it's it's It was really
fun because it was like thirteen years later and we're
all uh together again. I mean, I think by now
it's almost like a almost a cliche because there's so

(01:03:47):
many reboots and stuff, but it really is strange getting
everyone back together and it just kind of feeling the same,
which is it was just a blast. And uh, you know,
I think everyone I love it. It's it's very much
Party Down. It's very much the same show, which is
what what we're hoping for, and uh, and it was

(01:04:09):
it was a blast. I hope we get to do
more at some point. Well, I have to ask you,
would you like this to be the very last time
you're asked about Boy Meets World. I feel like you've
had such an illustrious career and yet you're always the
face of that clickbait article you won't believe who guessed
it is true. There's a clear picture. Oh it's always him.
You won't believe the stars that we're on boy Meat's

(01:04:31):
World and it's Adam's face. A lot of people carry
Russell to world. She was my jasmine belief Adam. That's right,
that's right, Yeah, that's right. Um and uh, there were
a lot of people, I think Linda Carlin, yeah, yeah, yeah,
we had a great we had we had great guest guests. Yeah. No.

(01:04:53):
I I love being asked about it. I think it's
a it's a grim really proud to be on the show,
and it meants, you know, it's a huge Obviously, I
remember everything and that was a huge learning experience and
so so valuable. And watching my daughter watch it when
she was a bit younger is I think it's a

(01:05:13):
great show. I love being asked about it, and and
I've loved listening to you guys talk about it and
remember it and kind of deal with being grown ups
looking back. And it's been fascinating listening to you. Well,
thank you so much, and thank you for taking time
out of your very busy schedule. I know, like you said,
you were in the middle of filming Severance, and I
so I the fact that you have made time for

(01:05:35):
us means a great deal to us, and so appreciative
of you being here. Um, I would just I would
just like to say, as you leave, do not hug. Writer.
I was gonna say, I can't wait to give you
a giant hug next time I see you, next time
we see each other. I'm just gonna it's been great talking.
I'm it sounds so ridiculous, but I'm so happy every

(01:05:56):
time you pop on screen. I really thanks man. It
makes me so happy to see all your success and
it just couldn't happen to a nicer person. It really
couldn't appreciate that. Thanks a lot, well continued success with
the podcast. I'll be listening. Thank you, so good to
see you. Take care bye. Hi Christie, Hey, well, I

(01:06:19):
have some unbelievable news. Oh there's a Kim Possible Rounstoppable
reunion in the works. No, no, no, that would be great,
But no, I have other big news. We just launched
the super Awesome contest to become the next big voice actor.
That's right, we want to give an amateur voice actor
an opportunity to win a one year contract with my
voice over agency c S. D They are amazing. I've
been with them for over twenty years and that's not all.

(01:06:40):
A trip to l A to meet Will and myself
and some amazing prizes as well. Yeah. So, how do
people enter the super awesome contest to become the next
big Voice actor Christie? Send a two minute or less
video or audio file showcasing your best voices. Okay, well
it's time do your announcer voice for the rest? Oh yes,
no purchase necessary. Submit your entry it I Hear Voices

(01:07:00):
that I Heart radio dot com between January nine and
February nine. Entries will be judged. The contest is open
to legal residents of the United States who are eighteen
and older. Official rules can be found by going to
our Instagram page and I Hear Voices podcasts for complete details,
listen to I Hear Voices on the I Heart Radio
app or wherever you listen to podcasts. Wow, what a

(01:07:24):
dick that guy I met you writer to leave that story.
That's so bizarre, so not well, it's not it's so
not me. But I have no idea there must have.
I mean, either he's just you know, he was just
in an insecure moment and like I gave him a look.
I might have been joking, but that doesn't really sound

(01:07:45):
like me, Like, I don't know what happened, Like you're
a hugger exactly, And I feel like in a situation
like that, I would have just been running around hugging everybody,
because that's just what I did. Um, So it must
have been like a weird misinterpretation of something like maybe
I heard something, maybe somebody called to me away and
I ran off. And he just was like in this

(01:08:07):
weird moment of like, oh okay, yeah that sucks, it's
so funny. Yeah, like I said, I had read that.
I had read that article once that was like somebody
asked him about boy Meat's world, and I was all
excited to see what he had to say, and he
was like, well, yeah it was. I felt really uncomfortable there.
I don't think anybody liked me. Why why did you

(01:08:27):
Why did you feel that way? And he was like, well,
I read once on a message board that Danielle told
somebody that that nobody liked him, and I was like,
it's not true. I wanted to correct it so badly, man.
And this is the thing about actors, right, It's like
this this incredible confidence, right, this ability to be in
your control of your body and your voice and to
be able to present confidence and then just this crippling insecurity. Right,

(01:08:51):
It's like it's and you you always carry both with
you because you know, and I heard it explained once
that it's because actors had to make a leap. At
one point they were watching a TV show or watching
a movie or watching a play and they looked at
somebody up there and said I could do that, and
they had to make that leap, right, And that's a
leap of faith, Like you don't you don't actually know
every A lot of people try that and they don't

(01:09:12):
get jobs or you know, they want to be that
person and they can't actually do Like you just can't
act or you can't you don't have the thing whatever
it is, And so all of us have to have
made that leap, are constantly wondering is everybody fooling me?
Or is this actually at this? You never and it's
so amazing that never goes away. It just never goes away,
because then it's the next role. Like even if you

(01:09:33):
get super confident, as you know, one TV show or
one job, the next one could just go away as
just as easily. Well, it's because that's also the nature
of our business. The nature of our business is Yeah,
I mean I you tell everybody that you don't understand
what it's like to be on something like a Boy
Meets World like show for seven years where Thursday night
you're awesome, and you wake up Friday morning and it's done,

(01:09:55):
and that's it, it's over. You're hey, you you know
how you're so awesome yesterday when you got start again
trying to find the jobs and hitting the pavement and
doing everything the whole way. But you're right, it is
a leap of faith, much like the leap of faith
that Indiana Jones has to take. And clearly the best
of those films the last pisade Um. So yes, that's
that's what we're gonna be begetting is the Temple of

(01:10:16):
June glad. He also remembered Yasmine Bleaf because I thought
maybe all of us had some sort of collective maps,
and you know where she where. It's like, maybe she
wasn't on the show. Was she in a bathing suit
on our show? Like was she was in a like
a big sparkly sequin dress. She spoke to his like
ringside date. I thought she was like the ring girl

(01:10:38):
or something like. Okay, and then and then Robert Gulay
gets up, it's just the sings right bonkers cast. That's
gonna be an episode. We should probably dedicate two episodes
that are pod to just that episode, because we're not
far away from it. We're gonna get to it really soon.
So okay, it is in second season? Really we already? Yeah?
Oh yeah. I just remember watching when we did the

(01:11:00):
DVD commentary, and there's like an entire scene where I
am clearly just not even aware that I'm on camera.
I'm just sitting there like zoning out, watching the scene
unfold in the ring And I remember looking at myself going,
I am so I am just overwhere I'm not present.
I am like sitting there going, what is happening to
our TV show? You can see it on my face?
Oh that's uh yeah. And we'll get into the whole

(01:11:22):
thing with Vader. Just what a man he was. He
was such a good guy. Anyway, we'll get it all that.
What what the with the success? Though? I meant this
when I said this, that could not have happened to
a better person than Adams and he's earned everything he's
gotten and has just been so magnanimous with everything he does,

(01:11:42):
and it's just it does. He makes me smile. Every
time I see him in something. It makes me happy,
and I'm just I'm so happy for him. I really am.
He's the greatest. Well, I'm really I'm I was so
excited when he agreed to do the show and he's
been listening. Isn't that cool? That's awesome. It's cool. That's
pretty cool. Well, anyway, thank you guys for joining us
for this episode of Pod Meets World. As always, you
can follow us on Instagram pod Meets World Show. You

(01:12:05):
can send us your emails pod meets World Show at
gmail dot com, tell us all about Temple of Doom,
and as always, we have Merchu pod meets World show
dot com. Thank you guys for joining us and we'll
see you next time. We love you all, pod dismissed.
Pod Meets World is an iHeart podcast produced and hosted

(01:12:26):
by Daniel Fishel Wilfernell and Wryder Strong. Executive producers Jensen
Carp and Amy Sugarman. Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo,
Producer and editor Tara suit Box producer, Jackie Rodriguez, engineer
and Boy Meets World super fan Easton Allen. Our theme
song is by Kyle Morton of Typhoon. You can follow
us on Instagram at pod Meats World Show or send

(01:12:47):
us an email at pod Meats World Show at gmail
dot com.