Marty York meets World

You fell in love him as “Yeah Yeah” McClennan from The Sandlot…but did you know he was a tenant of the “Death Chair” on Boy Meets World Season 1?

Marty York, aka Larry, takes us back to the beginning, and his first role with the legendary John Candy, who gave him a surprise new use for toilet paper.

In addition to revealing their first commercials, Marty and the gang theorize why he was never asked back to BMW after only a handful of episodes.

And in an emotional turn, Marty recalls a horrific accident that almost took his life and made him step away from acting for over a decade…

All this, and more, on the most muscular Pod Meets World yet!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
And by the way, we then changing from iPhone. I'm
not going to sugarcoat it. Changing from iPhone to an
Android was one of the most difficult, most of all
the things I've done in my life college child, just
breaking away from Apple was one of the hardest. I
love that we finally have reached the point where where

(00:40):
we are our parents with VCRs. You remember when you
were a kid and like you were like, how do
you not understand how to program the VCR? And my
watch my dad like not, how do I pity buttons?
And I was just like, oh my god, I will
never be that old and dumb yet here right And
I'm like, India will be like grabbing his iPad and
he'll be able to jump through zip through things, and

(01:01):
I'm like, whoa, whoa slowed to write this down? We're
doing roadblocks now mine crafting? How do I And He'll
be like he just zipping through and I'll be like,
oh my god. Realized that is absolutely the equivalent of
when we used to turn the knob too fast and
you'd hear from the other room, don't turn the knob
so fast. Did you even't have knobs? And you know
what you're talking on Earth, old man exactly. That's how

(01:23):
TV used to start if you had yours, and then
when you got into the uh F channel, it was
like TV TV is used to have a pool start
like a long back in Connecticut. That's my friends, how
do you make fun? And you're the guy who can
operate on you? Remember? Do you remember we used to
tease you all the time, like that was our running
gag being ironically, I don't. We used to tease you.

(01:44):
We used to tease you about what life was like
in Connecticut, the big one, third World. One of the
biggest things, the biggest difference that we could identify was
you called it TV, not TV, not TV, and we
still do because it's tell and do you have an
aunt or an aunt? I have an aunt? I love you.
It's like saying and I would always say the same thing. Yes,

(02:06):
you're right, because I was born in a gust, you
know the A. And then you make any difference, are all?
That is not a good argument, that's true. The good
argument with television was what the good argument of televisions
because it's television. Don't say television television does make sense?
That doesn't. So it's TV TV, al right, well, we
should probably start to what you want to talk about
our TV show TV show that we were on. The

(02:30):
thing we would always talk to you about was your
inflections because we would back He's say like this is
so good, and Rodery go this is so good. He'd
go up on the end of everything. Surfer wasn't it
was like that was a strange thing. It was like, dude,
it's so great. I've been listening to the conversations between
me and Indie just like the most California surfer. Dude,
are you on the reno? N I'm gonna get caught

(02:55):
loco and I have some tacos ya. We should probably
start the show, shouldn't think now? Um, So last week
we had Leon Morrisson, I mean Lee and his giant
yellow pants. Um, how cool was that nineties clothes were
so large. I don't know if you guys noticed, but

(03:17):
the nineties jeans are very back, are very much in Well,
those are writer's favorite jeans. He with the jeans because
they had a big enough pocket for your books was
absolutely remember your back Your back pocket could hold the
book you were. It's still such a thing for me,
like I hate, I hate that books have gotten bigger,
like I like the old school like yeah, and so yeah,

(03:40):
books have gotten bigger and back pockets have gotten smaller,
so I can't do it anymore. I have to carry
a backpack. At least. Men still get pockets in their
clothes like women. I mean, if you find a dress
with pockets, you're like, does it come in any other colors?
Has come back? Everyone's wear over their shoulder is that.
It's like if I find something I like, she's like,

(04:01):
I'm getting it in every color? Yeah, how many colors?
And all the way. By the way, if you love
one color in particular, good two of them? What could happens?
So it is ridiculously long clothing. I did not know.
I thought I would wear large shirts and pants with
like thirty six ways, and I did not understand. It

(04:23):
wasn't until I was like twenty years old and I
moved to New York and I started buying actual Jeanes
that were not Jenko, and I realized, like, oh, I'm
actually a size small in their ways. I literally didn't understand,
like human size absolutely the way it works. Oh, lean

(04:44):
Or that was a great episode, though, But this one,
I mean, this one's really great too, and I'm so
excited about our guest this week. He played the iconic
role of Alan Yeah yeah McLennan in The sand Lot.
He was also the voice of Weasel in Hey Arnold
and as we all no, this idea for this podcast
was his. It was his idea to start this podcast.

(05:06):
It's just the running thing. It's everybody else's idea. I
just love that Bill Daniels came up with this. This
is a great idea. So I mean, put the credit
in your big back pocket, my friends, because it is yours.

(05:27):
You get credit for doing this. Is absolutely fine. It
was writer's idea. But today we are talking to him
about being Larry on the first season of Boy Meets World.
Let's please welcome Marty Yorkey. Did you at all? I
couldn't hear, you couldn't see I'm here. Oh my god,

(05:53):
oh man, so good to see you. Thanks for doing this.
You look exactly the same as you did when the show.
On the show, exactly, I was gonna say the same thing. Yeah,
I ate the Beast from the sand Lot. Well it worked, damn.
Speaking of the sand Lot, that is actually my first
question for you, which did you film first? So your

(06:14):
first episode of Boy Meets World was also my first
episode of Boy Meets World. You were in episode number
one oh four Corey's Alternative Friends. Was that? Did that
come before the sand Lot or had you already filmed
the sand Lot that came I already filmed the sand
that came after, but the sand Lot hadn't been released yet, right, No,

(06:37):
it had been released. Yeah, I think we had done
the pilot with Chauncey Leopardy, but he had already shot
sand Lot. Um and then you came on once to
our show got picked up and we were filming what
four or five months later, and sand Lot had already
come out that summer, So we started in the fall
and sand Lot was out. Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah,
it was definitely after. But I still remember seeing Danielle

(06:58):
and all the auditions when I was a kid. She
had big, goofy curly hair. Yeah, like your mom had
like the same haircut as That's true too, I was
a little mini Jennifer fishal had feathered banks of course.
So how did you get into acting, Marty? How did
you find me? And where was your mom also had

(07:20):
the same hair as you taking you to auditions? Where
was your situation my mom didn't have the same hair
as me, but no. I I started theater in northern California,
a lot of theater productions, and uh, you know, my
parents split when I was about ten, So my mom
brought me out to l A and my my aunt

(07:40):
actually ran Centex Casting, which was a big extras casting company,
and uh so she was like, oh, hey, let me
take you to your aunt and maybe we can get
you some extra rolls and some you know, some some stuff.
So the first thing I did was a movie with
John Candy called Delirious. Delirious was a great, great movie. Yes,

(08:01):
Mariel Hemingway, John Kennedy, Yeah, is that the one about
the soap opera. Yeah, it's a woman opera town that
he writes and his his his um typewriter is actually
hooked to the town, so everything actually start writing the
stuff that I need to watch it is. It's brilliant.
It's absolutely great movie. Yeah. Yeah, so that was yours. Yeah,
it's like the Warner Brothers back laud and uh you

(08:22):
know it's my first time saying like a whole movie
set and all that, and uh, I remember one of
the breaks I started doing John Candy's lines and he
overheard me, and he walked over and he like touched
me on the shoulder. He goes a kid, that's pretty good.
And he took out a piece of toilet paper and
signed his autograph and gave it to men a piece
of toilet paper. Do you still yeah, I still have it.

(08:46):
That's awesome. And so I mean that moment, did you
know then, as you were before you became an extra,
or does the meeting with John Candy have something with
you kind of going wait, I might be able to
do this? Yeah, you know it d of like because
you know, John Candy was bigger than life back then.
Of course I knew John Candy was playing trains and
automobiles and Uncle Buck and all those movies. So when

(09:08):
he did that, I was like, wow, mom, like I
really want to do this. And and then yeah, then
I uh my first actually then I went to an
agent and she's like, I got an audition for a
Colgate toothpaste commercial for you. That was my first real
like audition, and I remember I had to dance with
the little girl and I was so scared because there's

(09:29):
all these like producers and directors. I ran and hid
behind the chair tasting room and they're like, it's okay,
come out, and was like, and I came out and
I actually did it. I danced with the girl and
I got that. That was the first thing I did,
is the first thing audition for. Yeah, I booked it.
I booked it, and then I got called back to

(09:51):
do play a little Italian kid in a raggy sketty
Slas commercial. That was my second from the same company. Yeah,
we all do every A lot of child actors have
that kind of You always start with the commercial. There's
some sort of commercial that is we all remember our
first one of of doing something I never did. You did?
You did the voice the biggest commercials of like all

(10:14):
of the late eighties early nineties. You showed it to
me and I was like, oh my god, completely forgotten
that I had done it. But I never I never
did just forgotten commercial. I've never done a commercial commercial.
I've never been on television in my life. I don't
know what you guys are talking about. It was so good.
So Marty, what did you know? Well, so you had
already do so. Sam Lott was really the big step up.

(10:35):
That was when you were a part of a big
cast a great role. And did you when you were
making that movie, did you guys know how great it
was going to be or did you did it feel
like you were part of something special immediately? I mean
we just it was like a big summer camp that
I think we shot that whole movie like forty five

(10:57):
days over the course of eighteen two, and uh, we
just we just had fun the whole time. Like you guys, shoot,
we shot in Glendale, Utah. Whoa, I wasn't Utah. Yeah, yeah,
there's a part of I mean there's a part of Utah.
It looks like you know, Pacoima in nineteen sixty two.

(11:19):
So they brought in all the old cars and we
had all the old, you know, old fashioned clothes on
and it was like stepping into the you know, the
sixties when we shot that movie, because everything was vintage
everything they brought in. So that must be really cool
to being a giant period piece kind of movie. Yes, yes,
didn't you do a period piece movie with I think

(11:40):
you did something. I saw that you were like a
period piece. Yeah, it was setting like the fifties or
something I did. I did a one of my first role, actually,
my first movie role was this TV movie called Long
Road Home, which was like a Grapes of Wrath rip
off with John Hart, John Harmon, Damn damn, what's his name?
I don't know, Mike Harmon, Carmen Mark, My brain just

(12:04):
went through like a Mark Harmon played My dad and
I had two lines. They all they both got cut.
But for for for four weeks, we lived in the
Central Valley of California, like we basically they set up
Depression era camps like and we were all like every
day was you know, us as like this poor grapes
of rat style family. It was really cool four because

(12:28):
I was a part of a family. It was it
was like it was basically, you know, it was a
leavenweek shoot. It gets even worse because my agents and
my parents. Ever do you remember back in the day,
maybe you guys did this too. They would send out
a postcard to all the casting directors in town if
you were in a movie or something. No, this is

(12:51):
how you would bring awareness because of course there was
an Internet or anything. So if you like, if you
were an actor and you were in something, you could
send out a postcard with your face with your head
shot saying you know, right, there's going to be in
this movie on this time. And so my agent, Judy Savage,
the Great Judy Savage is my agent, blanketed Hollywood all
the cats. So it was like my big thing. And

(13:12):
then we all sat down with my family to watch it.
Maybe this is Nope. I had gotten the call to
come to what to do looping and and I said
to my mom, but I only had like two lines,
and then they didn't call back, so they just looped me.
Some woman did my voice over, so it's not even
my voice. Yeah, so awful, and they did they David

(13:34):
proused you, they full on, David Prouse. What was we
were talking about commercials and what was your commercial that
you did? My very very first one. And I actually
watched it maybe ninety seconds before you guys got here,
because I d he was strong enough. I can do this.
I can do this people. If I just watched my

(13:55):
every More Kids and Guns commercial. No, it was a
local commercial for New York City about the dangers of
kids playing with guns. And I'm running park and where
we're playing with cap guns and then one of us
ends up having a real gun and we're then all
leaning over a body and it is and it is like,

(14:16):
first of all, the my my leaning acting's so good
is the worst leaning acting in the history of leaning.
WILL show you after the podcast and then I'll send
me a copy of it. I will I will on
the Pod meets World Show Instagram. But it is somehow

(14:39):
the worst, like like if they were looking for professional
leaning actors, I would not have been I'd have been
cut after a six week shoot. My my first commercial
was also very serious. It was for a doll that
when you pushed a button on the top of her head,
she grew her first teeth. They had these three dolls.
They did three different things. So one doll you put

(15:00):
an ice cream cone up to her mouth and she
got like ice cream on her lips. Another one she
had braids and you could pull her hair from the
back of her head and pretend like you were cutting down.
And then button in the head and the two front

(15:22):
teeth came down, and I just remember the my my
dialogue was, look, she's getting her first teeth, but teeth
was in Danielle high pitch, so it was she's getting
her first it's so high pitch. We're gonna put all
our first commercials up on because I think it's important
because we have your milk commercial. Well, so Marty send

(15:43):
us your commercial. I send you I have a hot
commercial I did when I was a kid. And it's like,
you know, that's like, this is your brain on drug?
Why were the advertising cannabis? Like I immediately read ye,
old spokesman, here's how Bobby roses joint. Yeah, And I
had to act like I was high weed and they

(16:04):
were like they were like, okay, so I act like
you're high. I'm like, I've never smoked weed, so I'm
like twelve years. So they're just like just pretending like
you don't know where you are, and like just it wasn't.
It wasn't I learned it from watching you. It wasn't
that one was it? No? This was this was like
so they used my actual name and they're like, a Marty,

(16:25):
when's the last time you smoked weed? And I was
like and you couldn't remember? I can't. And I was
like scratching my head and I was like like Marty
and that was it. He's already losing backlineth the bottom.
Is that some good weed? Yeah? Now it's legal, so

(16:48):
you alright. So Marty, when you came on too, boy,
Meats World. Did you have any idea? I mean, the
show was was already a thing. I guess we maybe
it aired one or two episodes or no. His first
episode was my first episod. Okay, so nothing aired? So
what did you know? Hory's Alternative Friends the name of
the episode. Yeah, and that was you were awesome, you know.

(17:09):
I remember we dressed you dressed up like we actually
dressed up for Halloween. Remember you were there. I was
in the Halloween one that was the class reunion, right one. Yeah, Yeah,
I dressed up as Mr Feenie. That was That was
like the coolest thing. You came out as as a
little Mr Feenie, which was great. Yes, yes, the mustache.

(17:29):
Everything was awesome. But so you were around for a
little while. I mean, how many episodes did you end
up doing. I'm sorry, I think I'm confused. Were you
there when the cast when we all dressed up for
Halloween on the stage or you saying it was the
Halloween episode you guys dressed up actually off camera and
on Yeah, I think he was there because you were

(17:50):
dressed as the Joker. Writer was dressed as a Joker.
I don't know, I don't think, well, no, I did.
I was Batman did I hope you were that Michael
Keaton Batman suit, which I still for most days because
its commercial, it doesn't as much they are forty four

(18:10):
regulars now. Um yeah, yeah, so you were around. I mean,
you know, even the episode we just watched one oh six,
you were there. I don't even think you had any lines,
but you were still there for the whole episode. Um yeah,
well I was there. I think the one we're the
one we're looking at to his boys Tom. Yes, yes,
that one. I just had a Halloween mask on and

(18:31):
I had a couple of lines at the end of
the episode. But yeah, I did three episodes of Boymates World,
and I thought I completely messed up because that Halloween
episode where I, you know, have the lines with William
h I screwed up one of the lines. And that
was like the last time I was on the show,
and I'm like, oh, that's it. I actually it was.

(18:53):
It was it was death we had. Yeah, we were
we were cycling through cast because they just that's what.
But that's one of the interesting things about going back
and watching from the beginning is as we're all trying
to find ourselves as actors. The show is absolutely trying
to find itself because it doesn't know what it is.

(19:14):
It doesn't know who's pairing with who or whom if
I want to be that guy, um, and it doesn't
like it. You this Sean and you know Sean and
and um Corey kind of start and then they're like, well,
we're gonna try to put Eric in Morgan together. Like
they're still trying to fit the pieces together. So it
had nothing whatsoever to do with you. They just they

(19:36):
you could tell, still didn't know what was going on
really where it was like, all right, let's okay, we
got Phoenie and Corey and we can't have every scene
with that, so we're gonna bring in Allan. And then
it's like, okay, we can't do every scene with that.
And I think I think also they were really trying
to I think the prevailing mindset at the time was
that you couldn't get everything from Corey's school slash friendship

(19:58):
life with just one friend. You have to have a
group of friends and and some foils and and a
love interest. And so we're gonna build this universe around Corey.
And then what they realized pretty early on was that
you can have everything you need from the school friendship
life with just one best friend. We saw that with

(20:19):
the last The last episode with Lee was that same
kind of thing where it's like Lee doesn't have any
friends except all the friends he hangs out with all
the time. Yeah, so it's like, we hate that kid,
so we're gonna hang out with him every day like that.
It didn't even that was they were just trying to
throw groups of people together. Yeah, Marty, did you know
about the death chair when you were sitting in the
death chair. Was it like something you guys were talking

(20:39):
about off screen? No, I had no idea about just
so we we I told my mom. I told my
mom when I was like, well, I messed that lineup.
So that's you know, that's it. That's the end of
the Oh my gosh. And then they really didn't bring
you back, and you really thought that was and for years,
for years, and like only would have got that mind perfect.

(21:01):
Oh my god. I mean it came it came out
good at the end. I mean when I saw a
show like it was really good, but you know it
had Yeah this is probably too late to tell you this, Marty,
but it had nothing to do with you, like nothing
to do with you. Not know what they were doing
when it came to Corey's friends. I mean they just

(21:21):
didn't didn't have the group together. Yeah, probably a little
a little too late to who was your favorite person
to work with on Boy Meets World Martyn? I mean,
I've got to be honest, Writer, Probably it was just
it was like the nicest dude on set. Yeah, that's
all fake. So writer was your favorite person to work with?

(21:44):
Which you remember hanging out with Marty? Like Marty and
I like hung out, like I remember just too. Yeah,
we're always I mean we had our you know, our
little pack of the not only the guest stars, the extras.
Like it was just it was a fun time, like
we hang so when Marty because we reconnected last year
at a convention and he came up and it was like,
of course I remember you, Marty, Like it was so

(22:06):
fun to reach. Do you remember the convention because I do, Yes,
I remember where we were, New Mexico wasn't Albuquerque, um no,
But it was so much fun because I you know,
got to see not only Marty but all the guys
from some from sand Lot because they were all there.
Well yeah, it was a safe speaking of what you
guys did a sand lot like red last year, right, Yeah,

(22:30):
the big one was two thousand eighteen. That was anniversary.
We did almost every MLB stadium in the United States.
Oh my god. Really cool. Yeah, and uh And the
cool thing was like Dodgers because they did a big
thing for us. They had like it was like, well
every stadium did SAM one day, but the Dodgers went
above and beyond and we went into the dugout and

(22:52):
we actually took our positions on the Dodger field that
we played on SAM like. They they called us out
and I went to short stop, Timmy went the first base,
Squints went to outfield like and we all went to
our positions on the Dodger field and literally the entire
stadium set up and gave us and it's sold out.

(23:13):
It was like sixty people. We were just like and
that's the first time me and the guys have really
connected in like twenty five years. But to come back
to that kind of like we were just like, what
is going on? Like looking around, like like is this real?
Like rock stars? You're full on stars? What is that like?
Then to reconnect with all of them is there anyone
in particular you're closer to had you had you not

(23:35):
talked to anybody in twenty five years. It's actly. I
played Timmy Um. We always hung out, you know for
the past six or seven years, but like small and
you know, some of the other guys like Tom Guyrey
and some the other guys, I hadn't seen it twenty
five years, and they were just as blown away as
I was when we were doing like the Today's Show
and all these other interviews, and people were like, you know,

(23:57):
freaking out, and like people behind the set, you know,
the scenes were coming up and asking for an autograph
and We're like, we're on the Today Show, like and
you're asking for our autograph. It was it was, it
was crazy. And you know, we we played a game
we played on the Field of Dreams in two thousand
nineteen against the girls from a league of our own.

(24:18):
Yeah and uh. And we also had like some Hall
of famers like Wade Boggs was on my team, and
like Ozzie Smith was on the opposing team, and like
Ricky Jackson and like so we played with these guys
and uh, and then we drove back in Wade Boggs RV.
I got like got hammered with it. Srank a bunch
of beer because I don't know if if you've ever

(24:39):
seen this sending in Philadelphia episode with Wade Boggs. Oh,
it's like the beer Challenge. He drinks like ninety eight beers.
That's a lot of it's real. The guy really does
do that. Then how do you he just the same way,
the same way you get to Carnegie Hall? My friend?

(25:02):
What a thing to I mean, he was drinking bears
all the way back to in the r V and
then we got back into karaoke with him, and then
we saw Squints and Wade Bogs singing that Celine Dion
song My Heart Will Go On. It was like crazy.
Let me ask you this because something that occurs to
me is that you kind of have to. I hope
you like baseball because you kind of have to like

(25:26):
it because you're always going to be associate party. Right.
Are you good at baseball? Like? Can you play? I
wouldn't say I'm as good now as I was when
I was a kid, but you know, yeah I like baseball. Yeah. Well,
in all fairness, you really have to be in shape
to be an athlete, and you aren't. He's very buff.
So when you get that out of shape, Marty, are

(25:48):
you are you a bodybuilder? Um? You know, working out
came as. It was weird because I acted until I
was seventeen. I was constantly doing like guest starring roles
and stuff like that. When I was of the teen,
I got a sixty mile head on collision. Oh my god,
Julan Road. I died, actually flat lined on the side
of the road. Are you kidding? Where was this? Yeah?

(26:09):
This was in where I lived close to like um
acting Akwa Dulce area, like kind of like you know,
northern out of northern California, but it's like towards tom Dale.
But yeah, I I flat lined out side of the road.
And I after that, just I left the business. I
was like I'm done. I was burnt out, you know.
I was like going to school, you know, going to school.

(26:32):
They then driving sixty miles one way just to get
the Hollywood audition, then driving back home sixty miles and
so I fell asleep at the wheel and my car
went over the you know double yellow line. I hit
another guy head on, and uh, you know, I had
to relearn how to walk again, and all this stuff happened.
Was Yeah, the person was okay. The person was okay.

(26:54):
They survived, but and you died and then came back.
I died and came back. Yeah, can I do you?
Do you have any memory of being dead? I? I
do have memories. I do. I did see. It was
like a long hallway of stars that were like circling.

(27:15):
It was like a long hallway of stars. I remember,
and I remember like feeling an out of body experience.
I remember feeling like I'm floating above myself. I remember
feeling floating above myself and it was like the most calming,
like relaxing feeling I've ever felt. And then when I
woke up, I was in a hospital with my leg
and traction like hanging from my metal pole. Oh my gosh.

(27:39):
I was like, how much later did you wake up?
Was this like that later that night or were you
I woke up like four or five days later? Wow?
Jeess crazy. Yeah. So I haven't actually shot a documentary
for the Peacock channel NBC Peacock end of last year,
that kind of they talked about my accident and every thing.

(28:00):
It's on my Instagram page, but it's called the Marty
it's called behind the scenes. Yeah, yeah, okay, And what's
your Instagram handle, Marty Underscore York. Looking at that, go
check out. I still can't get over that. I mean,

(28:20):
that's insane. This took you out of the acting game
after this accident then, huh this really Yeah? I left,
you know, and I was after like, I think I
wore the same like and I wanted to say this
about because you mentioned the same hood the flannel hooded vest.
Like every show I was in, the same thing that

(28:41):
oversized hooded is very popular. Yeah, I just I just remember, Yeah,
I did so many things and then I was like,
you know, I'm burnt out. I'm not gonna do this anymore. Uh,
And I left. What did you do? I just I
did random things, you know, I worked in the mortgage industry,
work in a coffee shop. I mean I did a lot,

(29:02):
like everything really good for you. And then and then,
you know, about ten years ago, I decided I was
going to get back into the business. And uh, when
we did the twentieth anniversary of Samli and I just started.
I did like three national commercials the first year I
got back in, and you know, I wanted to be
a different kind of a character. I always wanted to
be like an action hero. When I was a kid,

(29:23):
I was like Van dam and like Arnold Schwarzenegger and
you know all those guys. So I wanted to reinvent
myself when I came back. So, uh, building thing, Yeah,
that kind of came from. Like I just started like
working out after the car accident, cause I was doing
physical therapy, right, and they were like showing me to
do this and that and this is how you build

(29:43):
this and that, and I started like really loving you know,
fitness and working out, and I just I've done it
now for like fifteen years, twenty years. Amazing. Isn't that cool?
How that like when you actually can learn the like
science behind something and you and you can notice the difference,
You're like, oh, when I do this, it makes me
feel this way. Like I noticed that if I focus

(30:04):
on the fact that when I work out and take
care of myself, I don't wake up with like a
kink in my neck and I don't all of those
benefits to working out are so much more motivating to
me than like I'm going to be sleek and small
like that. I'm like whatever for mental health to for
my mental health. For mental health, running is like changed
my life when he came to anxiety. I mean, it's

(30:24):
just it makes such a difference when you do that
kind of stuff. And yeah, there's a nice bonus that
I'm you know, I'm not wheezing when I walk up
a flight of stairs, and that's nice. But it's that's
not why. It's like has nothing to do with oh
my jeans fit better. It's just like, wow, I'm my
anxiety is better. Yeah, it's great. Yeah. I like being
able to pick up my child without feeling like, oh,
just kink to my neck. Gosh, it's hurt my ankle

(30:46):
because I stood right exactly, I sneak. Yeah, that kind
of stuff it is. It's amazing. But here's the other
thing that I think you said that's really interesting is
you got burnt down in the industry. You walked away
and worked a bunch of quote unquote regular jobs, and
there's so many people out there that think that, like, oh,
you're not on camera anymore and now you're working at

(31:07):
a coffee shop. You failed, and it's like, no, what
you don't realize is there's a whole lot of people
who just went I don't want to do this anymore,
and you walk away and it's there's no failure in
it whatsoever. It's no, I'm going to live my life
a different way. And you get people that always look
at you like, oh god, he's working in a restaurant now,
and it's like, no, I didn't want to do what
I was doing. So did you ever struggle with that

(31:30):
where you were like, well, I didn't. I made it
as an actor, but I didn't make it where I
wanted to, so I had to leave. Or were you
always like I know I could do this for the
rest of my life. I don't want to do this anymore,
and you just walked away, you know. I just yeah,
I mean I just got to plomers like I just
I don't want to do this anymore because I was
so burnt out from just the constant driving and going
to school and memorizing the lines and like going on set,

(31:52):
and like I just was like, I'm so tired of this,
Like I just like I just don't, you know, I
want to just live a regular life. And uh, you know,
I think the acting bug hit me during the twentieth
anniversary of the film, when I was just like, you know,
I started like getting that you know vibe again, that buzz,
that fling, the buzz, and I was just like, I'm
gonna I'm gonna give this a shot again and see

(32:13):
if I can do this again. And there was never
for me. It was never like I feel like less
a person for working regular job. I think anybody that
works period is it's commendable off the government. You know,
I get props. But yeah, I mean it's just you know,
it is what it is now. Yeah, I mean that

(32:35):
was what I was thinking. To Will's point, it's it's
always crazy to me when people act like it's a
big goutcha moment when a when an actor has a
quote unquote real job, you're earning an honest living. And
aside from that, also what if you have other interests
that are like I worked at Bloomingdale's in the gift
wropping department. Yeah, you know, I liked to wrap. And

(33:01):
I was that's a crazy story O the time all
the time. And you didn't lie, You said no, I lied,
or I would just everyone would say did you has
anyone ever told you? It's actually not a lie? It
has anyone ever told you? And I say yes? And
then we all just sit there smiling at each other,
and there I think waiting for me to say surprise

(33:22):
it is, and I'm waiting for them to thence follow
up with the question is are you um? But yeah,
like you have other interests, you have other things you
want to pursue. When I went to college cal State Universe,
I went to when did you wrap? When did you
do this? The wrapping of the presents was around I
was like twenty eight years old, twenties seven. I was

(33:47):
thirteen years ago, so two thousand nine, okay, okay, I
was in school. I was going to UM. I think
I was going to cal State Fullerton at the time. Actually, no,
I take that back. I think I was still in
community college. I went to community college for two years
and then I transferred to cal State Fullerton and I
actually went because so here you want to know the story, yes, okay, course,
all right. So I went to Bloomingdale's to get a

(34:07):
gift for maitland Ward's wedding. So it's so exactly it's
the year after maitland Ward. Well did you get invited
to maitland Ward's wedding? I did not get into yea.
I went to Maitland. I was the only cast member
at maitland Ward's wedding. I don't know. Were you closer
to Maitland than we were? Yeah, I thought Will would

(34:28):
have been the one. You worked with her all the time. No,
I don't even remember where. I don't remember how. I
think she did have my number though, because I think
she texted me for my address and then said up,
you know I'm getting married and I was like, wonderful,
So I think we she did have my number. Maybe interesting.
So I was not as organized back then as I

(34:49):
am now. And it was literally the night before Maitland's
wedding and she had registered at Bloomingdale's and I was like,
you know, it was like five pm or something, and
I went to bloom Dale's in Newport Beach and pulled
up her registry and saw that she had registered for
these really pretty wine glasses. And I was like, great,
I'm gonna get her the whole set of these wine glasses.
So I asked somebody to help me. They send him.

(35:11):
They said, would you like this gift wrapped? And I
said yes, thank you, who saves me from having to
wrap this gift? So they sent it to the back
so I go back there to wait for the gift,
and there's a girl back there and she's, you know,
working in the in the customer service gift wrap area,
and but she's not acknowledging me at all, and so
I'm just like, oh, she, I'm sure she's wrapping my gift,
and she's not. She's just kind of tinkering that. She

(35:32):
disappears for a little. When she comes back out, I go, high, sorry,
I just wanted to make sure that they told me
they were sending the wine glasses back here to be wrapped.
And she goes, oh, yeah, they're not going to be
done tonight, and I go, oh, well why and she goes, well,
I've already closed the register. And I go, oh, what
what time do you guys close? And she's like seven,

(35:53):
it's like and I go, oh, well, it's like when
when are they going to be available? She's like, um,
can you come back tomorrow after three? And I go no,
it's it's for a wedding tomorrow, like I have. If
we're going to gift drop him, I need them done now.
And she goes, well, yeah, I already closed the register.
And I go I'm just confused because it's only five thirty,
and she goes, well, sometimes when it's slow, I closed

(36:15):
the register basically I don't want to. I'm not doing it.
And oh okay, and I said, I have no problem
wrapping it. Can you just give me the materials and
I'll wrap it right here, and she goes, okay, turns around,
pulls the paper off, the thing, rips it off, hands
me the ribbon, the bow, whatever, and I sit down
on the floor in the Bloomingdale's customer service department and

(36:37):
wrap the gift. Well who comes back there? But the
manager comes around the corner and goes, hi, I I'm sorry,
what are you What are you doing? And I go, oh,
I'm just rabbing the I'm just wrapping this gift. She
said it wasn't gonna be available until tomorrow and I
really needed tonight because I'm a last minute organizer and
you know whatever. And he's like no, no, no, no, no,
I am so sorry. What do you what do you
And she's in there back like, I close the register
and he's like, what do you mean you close the register?

(36:59):
So anyway, I'm like, it's totally fine. I promise it's fine.
Let me just drop the presents. So I wrapped the present.
He looks at me and he goes, that's actually really good.
I said, thanks. I love to wrap presents. And he
gave me his card and said, we got discovered. You
had the Hollywood you got us you know what? He
getting a major and said, we hire gift wrappers for Christmas.

(37:20):
This is a reverse Hollywood story here. And I'm like really,
and it hands me the card and I'm thinking, would
I be interested in? I think I might, and I
saved the card and then I thought about it, thought
about it, and then filled out the application. I just
got a bus shot and then worked with the girl

(37:42):
who closed the register early. And I was really good
at wrapping presents, but also I was very good at
customer service. I'm sure you were. Danielle would like to
thank the academy. You'd like to thank I had his
She is that great present rapper to this day. I

(38:03):
was there. I was just going to be there for
the holiday season, and then I extended my stay and
worked in customer service and helped people with their bills
and worked at the Bloomingdale sale where people would lose
their marbles if they thought they got one less like
twenty off card and they'd like, I've had a woman
lunge across the counter at me. It was incredible. It's
because you were like, I'm sorry, I closed the register.

(38:24):
It's yeah, sometimes when it gets really busy, I just don't.
I just want to sit back and work on my
vocal fry. She was actually a very nice woman, and
it is true that when when it is very slow
back there, like on a regular day, you became her. No,
you're started closing. Didn't start closing early. But I did
understand the allure of like I do. We realized love

(38:47):
that you got discovered, Like wow, yah whose corners. I've
never seen a tape job like that, one piece of
tape on this entire you got. We had a bow
machine because this couldn't be done naturally. We all did
that though. I studied with your brother writer. I studied
to be an E M T. Yeah, I mean did

(39:10):
you complete No. I was like we were like a
week away from it, and then I got Jon Shilo
did the drunk performance. Okay. So I don't know if
you guys have ever had this moment where like you're
acting kind of becomes like a superpower, Like okay, yeah.
When I when I was in college, I would do like,
um uh, creative writing classes and if they if we

(39:31):
were doing like a play or something that somebody would
be like we reread it aloud and the fact that
you could like act would be anyway. And this happened
to Shilo in his e m T class. They decided
to to you know, a role play where they're like, okay,
now we're at we need somebody to pretend to be
drunk and like you know shot. They were like, oh, Shylo,
could you do this? And he got up and just
he could play drunk. They really well, and he nailed it,

(39:53):
and the whole class was like, I'm not sure what
to do because they were like, oh my god, this
guy is acting like a real drug person. He talks
about that m T classes like all, it's kind of
like a superpower. Didn't Shiloh complete the anti course? Yeah, yeah,
he's right, Yeah, yeah, I mean he's been that. I
did that for a little bit too. Actually it's fun.
You got a blast and that, and then I got

(40:14):
a pilot and then I was like, oh, I guess
I'll go be an actor again. So you are back
in the entertainment industry. You're still working, tell us about
what you're working on? Now what what we what we
can catch you in all that stuff? Uh so yeah,

(40:35):
check my documentary out on Marty Underscore York and on
Instagram and uh in my blinken bio whatever and uh
yeah I did. I did a really funny old spice commercial.
Have you seen the old spast commercials? Well yeah, yeah,
of course yes. Um, that guy is brilliant. Like I've

(40:56):
never seen someone do a monologue like that, like with
the whole that moving around you like I've just actually
seeing how these oldest martials are made. Oh yeah, I
I hosted a show called The Dish once and he
came on as a guest and we recreated a little
funny jokey um. And he, first of all is the
nicest guy. He's so he's talented to super talented and yeah,

(41:21):
just I mean what a skill set. That's funny. Yeah.
So that's YouTube executive. Spray Tan Parties is the name
of I gotta go check that one. It's really funny. Yeah,
it's really really hilarious. Oh that's hysterical. Um, So I
want to talk about what the next episode? So you did?
We did Corey's alternative friends. Then we were you were
in this episode episode number one oh six. What is

(41:43):
the third episode that you did class reunion, Right, that's
the one where every that's where he dresses like Phoenie.
That's where everybody you go to like what you're going
to be in the future. Corey's got the CoreOS and
I remember that. I'm like my uncle's fat Is that
the one where tanks in a toga? Yeah that sounds

(42:04):
about right. Yeah, I'm like the President of the United
States men underground for reading. Yes, yes, it's actually you
would love it if I It's very it's very of
the now. All right, So when is this coming at
this like one oh eight or something. I don't know.
I don't know it's later in the season, I think, Okay,
anything I noticed I rewatched, like rewatched some of these
episodes where I came in here. I was looking at

(42:25):
that the episode where I say, hey, look it's don
Kinge to Corey and Ben's mouth is mimicking my line.
We talked about that. We actually talked about it on
the episode He's moving along with you the whole time. Yeah,
isn't that funny? I didn't notice if the Will pointed
it out when we watched it. Yeah. Yes, it's like
it's like he's like save my lines, and it's not

(42:48):
even subtle, like he's like full on mouthing your lines. Yeah.
What do you remember most from that episode? Oh? Man,
I just I just remember hanging out with you guys
back you know, backstage and you know, talking to you guys,
and just the camaraderie off camera that you guys have. Yeah,
I'm sure you were in the classroom with us. I mean,

(43:09):
you know we had. Yeah. I feel like I was
in the classroom like that wholeful season, like you know,
just doing the whole all the scenes in the class
I did so many shows in classrooms once. Yeah, yeah,
so yeah it was. Yeah, the camaraderie between you guys
is great. And going to the commissary with you guys.

(43:30):
Oh I do remember going to uh when we you
guys hung out with the home improvement kids at the
little wreck area. Yeah, you were playing the trailer, we
were playing bass. I was playing basketball against it. It
was like John Kuntillas, Thomas and like Zach or whatever,
and we were all playing basketball and like John fell
down and scraped his knee and he started like crying.

(43:50):
I was like, get up your little get you said, yeah,
I said, get up you little You're like, my goodness,
this is Yeah. I was just like a bad kid.
I don't remember actually a bad kid, like in real life,
what kind of what was your life like behind the scenes.

(44:11):
I was just a nouvy kid, like you know, I
played like I always played like the street kid, the
smart talking you know, the smart ass. Yeah you know,
the Italian kid, but you know, the quick talk or whatever.
But I was kind of like in real life too,
so like it was just translated onto screen. And yeah,
it was like that with him on the ground. Well,

(44:31):
I have to say, like I'm like, ghet up, you
little hanging out with Hanging out with the guys from
sam Lot was pretty amazing because they have this rapport
with each other that is very much guys that play
sports like that that we're on a team together as kids,
like it feels like you guys are and actually it's
and they all referred to like a sort of teenage

(44:51):
mentality and they just give each other. It's so much
fun to be around. It's a great group of guys. Yeah,
especially for you who doesn't have a whole lot of
like stereotypical male energy. Well that's your favorite sports team, writer,
I like the one where you throw the net into
the I like the score the wickets. Yeah yeah, is

(45:16):
to sports as writer is to sports. That's the only
analogy I can go over. I always got that with writer.
I always got that this guy is not really into
sports or but that's cool. I really wasn't either when
I was a kid. I really wasn't in the baseball
you know. Yeah, and uh, I had to learn to
play baseball when I did Sam one. So we we
trained for like, you know, a month out here in

(45:38):
l A. That's awesome. You know, we got really good.
But you know, I'm I like sports, but I like
you know, UFC and stuff like that. Now me too.
Yeah yeah, well, Marty, thank you for being here with us.
We so appreciate your time. It was wonderful to catch
up with you. Um Please check out Party at his

(46:00):
instagram Arety Underscore York and you can. He's got a
Lincoln bio. You can see his his documentary. And don't
forget to send me or send us your commercial. I'd
love to. We can't wait. We're going to put them
on the Instagram. We'll do all of our Yeah, we'll
do We'll do reels of all of our first commercials. Yes,
I'm going to send you the link link. It's actually

(46:23):
on my Instagram. Okay, I can link it to your
messaging right, Yeah, I think you can do that. But
also you can email us at Pod Meets World Show
at gmail dot com. Send it to us there. Um,
we'll make sure you have that and you can email it.
It's so much fun with you guys. I don't want to.
I know we'll have to do it again at a
con I think, yeah, this time it will not be

(46:44):
an Albuquerque problem. I see these well, I've been having babies.
It's I'm like, I'm pregnant, giving birth, thank you, or
having a newborn. I mean, I only have two kids.
But it's been in the time since we started doing conventions.
So if you think about how many opportunities I've had
to do conventions between oh I'm going to have a

(47:05):
newborn at that time, or oh I'm going to be
extremely pregnant at that time, It's it's been a lot
in three years. A great excuse. Does you just leave
your kids though a convention? Just leave them somewhere and
go to a convention. How I thought you meant leave
him at the convention that too. I mean, I guess
if you want to. But I don't have kids, so
I don't know how they're raised. But I imagine you
can't just leave them and put them in crates and
stuff like that. By the way, I listen to your
husband all the time on the radio. Oh Jensen, Yes,

(47:28):
he's great. He's actually executive producer of this podcast. In
the other in the other rooms, Jensen is watching over
writer's son, Indy. It's exactly what we're talking about. This
is this is well, thank you so much for being here.
We can't wait to see you again next time. And yeah,

(47:49):
thank you so much, Marty. Great to see your Marty
by Marty oh Man. Reunions are so fun. It was
so funny to run into Marty because I I he
doesn't look the same at all. He's such a skinny

(48:12):
little kid. In the episode, he's so skinny, and now
he is. I mean, we're gonna you're gonna have to
see a picture of this guy. He is buff. Yeah
I didn't so I didn't recognize him. But the second
he said, like Marty York. It was like, oh my god,
I have like really fond memories of hanging out with him.
And he was also a really good actor. He was

(48:34):
really good at I know, it's a bummer he didn't
didn't stick around, but yeah, I mean you know that
I can't show they were just poor guy to have
to have internalized all those years of thinking like I
meant because of that he died. Oh yeah, I thought
I thought you meant just the fact that he thought.
But I mean, that's the way it is when you're
a kid, like you know, man, the pressure on a

(48:56):
child actor, it's a pressure on Edie kid it all.
So it's it's it's one more reminder that things you say,
or or the way you treat somebody, even if it's
instantaneous and it's a small kind of thing that happens,
can so affect somebody. Something can be so small in
your life, but it can be so huge in somebody else's.

(49:18):
And you know, it's funny because I was thinking about
this recently, that like we make and it's true that
childhood is like fun and you have no responsibilities, and
we always tell kids like, oh, enjoy this time now,
because once you become an adult, you know, you don't
get to have these moments. But also, being a kid
is so hard. It is truly so hard, and I

(49:38):
think sometimes we minimize it because we were, you know,
now adults, and we know what it's like to have
the weight of the world and families on your shoulders
and and all that stuff, so that we we kind
of minimize what childhood is to a kid. We're like, oh, gosh,
junior high, wait till you're an adult. And really what
we should be telling kids more is like, this is
really really difficult. But it's not always going to be
like this, you know, so funny because you know, my

(50:01):
son is is terrified of things that I think are ridiculous,
but that doesn't make them any less terrifying for him,
do you know what I mean? He said, And he
said that it was, you know, during the pandemic was
a big reality check for me of like we because
we my in laws moved in with us during the
lockdown period and we were we were it was five adults,
four adults and my son living in the house together,

(50:23):
and he was like, at one point, you know, after
a couple of weeks, he's just like, I'm bad at everything,
And I realized, like, oh, right, because you're surrounded by
adults who can do everything, and we're always telling you
just put your clothes on, just brush your teeth, just
we're always telling you what to do, and you're always
messing up and here, let me help you. Yes, and
so so I like that was like the first realization, like, oh,
you need to like get on his level as opposed

(50:45):
to always be like you know, and it's also I mean,
I couldn't imagine being a kid with social media and
every other thing else that's out there. It's just horrifying. Yeah. Yeah,
well we haven't gotten there yet. But you know, at seven,
although there is a girl in his class who has
a phone, which I think is insane. Is it just one?
Do you know? If it is data? Is it just
for calling out? It's for calling out, but she can
play games and stuff on it. So and she has

(51:07):
you too. Oh no, my son wants to be an influencer.
He like, that's what they all want to be. They
want to be, which is just mine. It is what
kids want to do. Now, how do we fix these VCRs? Guys? Guys,
I don't know. Just keep hitting the butt until it
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