June 25, 2026 • 40 mins
In the conclusion of our series finale Q&A, Danielle, Will and Rider dive even deeper into YOUR burning questions!
The gang reflects on how their characters evolved (or regressed) over the show’s run, Rider evaluates his later-season performance from the perspective of an acting coach and they reveal the guests they wish they could have interviewed on the podcast.
Plus, we find out if Danielle and Rider would’ve actually dated back in the day and hear some final words of wisdom on one Brave New World of a Q&A - for Pod Meets World!
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Big news announcement.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Can we can we down afford a horn after four
years of this war?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You all can join us live for our final episode recap.
I can't believe I'm even saying that that's right. We
are going to be breaking down the series finale of
Boy Meets World Brave New World Part two in front
of a live studio audience for the first time ever.
We just felt like we really needed to celebrate this
(01:01):
last episode and we wanted to do it in the
same room with you, our dear listeners and the people
who have just made this show and made this podcast
extra special for us. So it is going to be
at the iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank on July twenty third,
and if.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Things go according to plan, we will announce what is
next for the podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I can't wait for you guys to announce it, so
I know what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So we know what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We have a meeting tomorrow, so sweet.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
The tickets for the show are on sale now.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
You have a few options, including a special meet and
greet upgrade, so don't miss out. We would love to
see you and celebrate the last recap together.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
And if you can't make it.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
You'll be able to see the entire recap video on
demand again for the first time ever starting the twenty seventh,
and then, as always, the recap will drop in your
podcast feed that Thursday the thirtieth. But please come see
us live and in person if you can, We would
love to have you there. Say hello, meet some of
(02:07):
you face to face. You can get your tickets now
at veeps dot Events slash PMW Live.
Speaker 5 (02:14):
I'm going to get the meet and greet because i
want to meet Ryder. I can't wait to meet him
in person.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I want to touch his professor elbow patches.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah again, sounds like a weird muppet professor elbow packet.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Jesse James and Danny Garcia say love the show and
the pod. Thank you for all the years of love
and laughter. My questions, how have your feelings toward the show,
slash your characters evolved now that we are near the end,
are you proud of your work?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, I mean, I've talked a lot about how I've
loved I've really come to appreciate a boyman's world. I've
come to appreciate Sean, But I do at the end,
I mean to the actual question, I do think I
regret this last.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Year year and a half, regret regret what my performance?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Your performance?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Okay, yeah, like the fact that I was so checked out.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And so I think I've said a version of this before,
but I think the part of my vision of Boy
Meets World and my brain that I've carried from when
it ended until we started this podcast has been season
seven boy Meets World, Like that's what I have, and
the Girl Meets World was an extension of that season
seven and a lot so all so going back to
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those early seasons has been such a revelation and positive revelation.
And but yeah, getting to this end, I'm like, uh,
I see it, and I see why. I you know,
so I'm I'm sad about my performance or I also
just wish I had gone. I pushed back a little
bit more and empowered a little bit more to say like,
maybe this could happen with Sean, maybe this should be
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you know, all the all the stuff so I bumped
about the last year and a half.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I am definitely proud. I look at those first couple
of seasons when I very clearly have no idea what
I'm doing acting wise, but it doesn't stop me from
being proud of the work because I was working to
the best of my very limited ability and experience under
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circumstances where I was stressed that I wasn't going to
have a job and feeling, you know, not ideal circumstances.
But what I'm proud of is the fact that I
never let it stop me. I never, I never. It
didn't change the fact that I showed up to work
every single day and showed up to work every day
with enthusiasm I up until the end when I then,
(04:36):
like specially season six and seven, where I just did
not want to be there anymore. I wasn't showing up
with enthusiasm anymore. And yet my work was so much better.
I was so clearly comfortable in my skin and wasn't
worried that I was going to be let go. You
can tell that I'm taking certain risks and I'm taking
breath and I'm so I'm much happier performance in the
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last few seasons than I was at the beginning. But yeah,
I'm proud of everything I see young Danielle doing, even
if I know there are things that could have been
done better, funnier and with more maybe gratitude, but yes,
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I am very proud, and my feelings towards the show
have changed, because before my feelings for the show were
always like, wow, people really like this show. That's great,
people really.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Like the show.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
And now my thoughts on the show are we did
a really great show that people love. Like I feel
like I understand it now, not like a oh interesting,
it's yeah, it's great. It's a great freaking show and
we were lucky to be a part of it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, I mean I echo all of that. It's one
of the things. I think.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
The thing I'm proudest of when it comes to my
performance is just like you said, Danielle, I clearly in
the first season had no idea what I was doing,
just didn't know how to act. So from where I
started to where I ended, I mean, I can see
myself learning and I'm very very proud of that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Same.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
You know, you always wish look back and wish you
had kind of more agency over what you did. I
wish we did fight back on some of the stories,
but we were kids and we were kind of that
wasn't what you did. You sat there and you listened
to your notes and you made sure you did it
the way Michael told you to do it, So yeah,
looking back, it'd be great to be like, but wait
a minute, this doesn't make any sense, or why are
we doing this or why are we doing that?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
But overall, super proud of the show.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I've always been proud of the show's I loved doing
every second of it.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I've always said we'd still be doing it if it
was up to me.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
So yeah, this has just been it's been great, and honestly,
it sounds ridiculous, but you both have talked.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
About this on the podcast.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
You talked about how towards the end of the show,
neither of you wanted to be there, and that hurt
me because it was something that I loved so much.
And so one of the greatest things in this podcast
for me is watching you guys discover how great you
both were and how.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Really good the show was.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
And and so that's been something that's been awesome to watch.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Because yeah, you've been able to say, see, I told you,
I told you so.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Let knew it about that, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
None of us knew that it was going to have
any sort of staying power, or that the audience liked
it as much as they do. I mean we just
did not know when it was going on how important
it was to people. So that's something we've all learned together,
which is great.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But yeah, super.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Proud of it.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Cush wants to know who were some podcast guests you
would have loved to have but just didn't work out
for whatever reason. I think the top one at the
top of all of our lists. Linda Cardellini.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, I would put two. I would I would put
another one with her. I would put Hewitt up there.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I put Love here too, yep, just because she was
part of arguably the most you know, famous episode we've
ever done, in our favorite episode, so having Love.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
On would have been would have been very very cool.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Yeah, you know, unfortunate we said we were weren't going to
talk about him unless it was an actor, but then
of course obviously we'd want want to happen on the show.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Lily Nick Lily to have on, Jerry Levine, Jerry would
have been great, probably, but Linda Cartlein he would probably
be number one.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I would put Jerry Levine second.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Matt Nelson, Oh my gosh, Matt Nelson.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Matt Nelson. Having Matt on the on the podcast would
have been incredible. I'll put Bob Tishlerler.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
You know some of the people that we've lost that
we didn't have a chimp Matt would have come on
to heertainly would have come on the show.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
So people that we've lost, that's that's a rough one
because we know we can just Steve Hibbert. You know,
we just lost Steve Hebbert.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
He was going to come on and then just didn't
feel comfortable talking about himself and and so there's a
bunch of people that I would like to have talked to,
but now we can't.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
And that's that's the thing that sucks.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
There's a finality to a couple of David Colmes would
have been phenomenal.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Right, that's like five people who passed away.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, yeah, before.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Got Yeah, there's a there's a there's a bunch.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I would love I know we read a statement from her,
but I would love to have actually been able to
talk to April Kelly that that would have been something
that would have been pretty great.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, there's a bunch. Karen McCain, Karen would have been awesome. Yep.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
A few of these people are people who we were
in talks to have come on the show, and then
you know, whether they are just not super comfortable public
speaking or whatever the case is. Then ended up saying,
you know what, I actually I don't I don't actually
want to do it, and then of course we obviously
respect that carry Russell.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Car Russell would have been fun.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Oh, Carrie Russell would have been right.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
You know, she would have been fun too. But that's
more just to kind of more more about Boy Meets World.
Lord's just more about her career and talking about how
awesome she's been doing like that would have been really cool,
Whereas like Linda CARLINI might have only done a couple episodes,
but the episode she did were super important in the
Boy meets Boy meets World universe. So because I've heard
stories she's told about people coming up to her and
(10:01):
like giving your hate on the street, I can't believe
you broke up Corey into paying and stuff, and I'd
love to talk to her about stuff like that. So, yeah,
you're right, she'd be very near the top of the list.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
We have mel and Charles from Capitol District to New
York after recapping seven seasons, what would you tell your
younger selves four years ago who were on the brink
of beginning this podcast, I would say, trust yourselves, trust yourselves,
trust your instincts, continue to talk about everything amongst yourselves,
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and then go with your gut, because that is what
we have done. At every juncture where we've had a
decision to make, we have felt perfectly comfortable, not just
the three of us, but Jensen and obviously than our
other spouses, just saying, let's talk about all of it.
(11:06):
There's this, there's that, there's this, there's that, Well, what
about this, what about that? Well, you know what, I'd
like to throw this into the mix. I'm thinking this,
I'm thinking that, and then pretty quickly, without it ever
needing to drag out, we have all been able to
come to, yeah, you know this, this feels like the
right thing, let's do it, and I don't I've never
been in another professional situation with as many people as
(11:30):
we could, say our cooks in this kitchen. Ultimately, it
all does come down to the three of us. We
have final decision. No one else like no one else
has final say except the.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Three of us. But we really make decisions together.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Will Yeah, I was gonna say, I can count on
one hand with fingers left over. At the times we
really disagreed about something. Yeah, and then it was never
a fight. It was like one of us would go okay,
got it, like no worries.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Exactly that after hearing the other side be able to
be like, yeah, you know what, after hearing your perspective,
I think you're right.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
A lot of that was early on.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Those few times were when we were first starting and
figured out at this point, like you guys are such
great creative and business partners.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Like there's such a comfort and confidence that I have
in our relationship that it's like, Okay, great, there's no
problem we can't figure out, or like totally so we
should start a studio.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And ruin it all.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Well, I've got the first film.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, Tommy says, I have a question I have wanted
to ask Danielle. Since the start of the pod, we've
come to discover you are much more talented.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Oh gosh, why am I reading this question?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Okay, comedy, drama and now the physicality you showed on
Dancing with the Stars than Boy Meets World ever allowed
you to be. You were put in a role that
mostly put you on a pedestal for Corey and not
much else. While you were starring and directing the young
actresses on Girl Meets World who were the focus of
the show, did you ever envy their opportunities as young
actresses and think I could have done that?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Such a great ques question.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I did not ever have the feeling of I could
have done that, but I did have the feeling, Oh, do.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You guys know how great it is that you get
to do this? Do you guys know like enjoy this?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
And because there definitely are moments when you work with
teenagers where they are, of course in their own head
about what their body looks like when they do something,
or whether or not something is cool.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
They would never admit it.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
They would never admit that they're thinking about the fact
that this seems uncool, but we know that they are
because they're push they resist against it, and then sometimes.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
The explanation for why they're resisting. You know, you have that.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Conversation you'll say, it feels like you're really resisting doing
you know, fully committing to it.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
What do you think you're resisting about.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
They'll never say, like, I feel dorky, but right you
can kind of tell sometimes that that's what it is.
And I can remember also feeling that way, and yet
I had the benefit of age of being able to
be like, Oh, do you have any idea how fun
this is to just.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Be the Lucille ball, be the.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Comedic force of something, And so I never felt jealous
or envious or like, why didn't I get that?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But I felt thrilled.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Anytime I've been able to direct somebody and they get
the opportunity to do it, I'm like, Man, this is awesome.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Yea.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Do you think the closest This is going to be
weirdly phrased, so I apologize.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Do you think the closest to.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
You you had on Boy Meets World, like what you
did for the girls on Girl Meets World, The closest
you had on Boy Meets World was somebody like McCracken,
like an advocate that was looking out for you the
way Obviously it wasn't to the same level that you
were looking out for Rowan and Sabrina, But if you
had to pick somebody that was kind of taking that role,
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was there anybody you could look at on Boy that
was like that.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I mean, David Combs was.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Wildly protective of all of all of us, and on
top of it, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Knew, knew where we were. I mean, David Combs is
the one who read it on me to my mom about.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Smoking, you know, and like he he was very much
the studio teacher every child actor deserves and not every
child actor gets. And of course Wesley Staples was also,
you know, he came on a little right after David,
but you know, between David and Wesley, I was very
(15:37):
well protected and looked after. And then as far as
like actor advocate, Yeah, Jeff McCracken, no one believed in
me the way jeffmccracken believed in me.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Like Jeff McCracken.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It was, I think, very disappointed when I chose not
to keep acting, and really wanted me to get into
classes and was willing to do anything he could to
help me with that, and I just didn't. I just
didn't know what that meant, and didn't you know, I
just obviously took that entirely for granted and poop pooed
it all. But yeah, so that's that's the one.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Katie.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
What did you assume would be your favorite season or
episode before you started the podcast recapping the show versus
now after you've watched every single episode, I.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Can answer this because I I think we've talked about this.
I mistook having so much fun season seven right for
that meaning the show was good season. So I was like,
we were getting I've talked about the interviews before we
start the podcast. I was like, Oh, we were getting better,
the storylines were getting better. We could have gone another
And now I watch it and I think season seven
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is arguably the weakest season that we've done. And so
I was just conflating two different things, the fun I
was having on set with the actual product we were
putting out. So yeah, you know, I thought it was
going to be season seven, and I thought it was
going to be like the wedding episode or they're chopping up.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
The dorm room like these.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Yeah, and it's like, you know, I'm remembering the fun
I had shooting it.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
The actual seasons.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
I can't remember if we liked four or five better,
but there was one might have been five where we
it was like banger after banger.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
So yeah, that would be my answer.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Writer, Did you have an idea?
Speaker 6 (17:16):
I mean, I don't know. I'm trying to remember, like
how I came into the podcast. I think I think
I thought Chick.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Like Me was good which it turned out to be,
so that was worked out. I think in general, I
did not expect to like the first season as much
as I did. Watch you right, I really loved it,
and loved especially the Alan Amy's stuff, the family stuff,
which I just totally took for granted and never remembered. Yeah,
I mean, I mean, it's just so over overall, I'm
(17:46):
just impressed with the show.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I'm trying to specific episodes.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You know, the prom episode, since we already brought it up,
like we talked about it, I thought it was like
this heavy, weird episode, you know, But then watching I
was like, oh, this is like a fun wromp that.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Actually screated sex in a very hysterical way.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
So the fact that it was banned and the fact
that it was this like heavy subject in my brain
was like, that's weird because it wasn't at all.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
The show itself was good and funny.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, in general, I feel like I just there's a
there's a positive lightness about boy Meet's world in my brain. Now,
you know, that didn't exist much more heavy sort of
cloud over the whole project, and now it's just like, no,
it's a super wonderful TV show.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I think only season one was super salient to me, like,
and so I went into it thinking, well, we're gonna
have a great first season as far as I'm concerned,
and then I'm probably gonna dislike most of what follows.
I was not prepared for how incredible the middle.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Chunk of the show was. Yeah, I didn't remember that.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
There were so many things that that I had just
not remembered. So I would say that I thought. I
think going into the podcast, I thought, oh, I'm gonna
love every episode of season one, and I mostly did.
It was great and and my memories were so good
of it. But man, that middle chunk, like we talked about,
seasons four and five were just on another level, like
(19:12):
how did we not win an Emmy? How did we
not win an.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Emmy those years? Honestly, I don't robbed, I tell you robbed?
Speaker 6 (19:19):
All right?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
So you know how you make packs with your best friends, Like,
all right, if one of us isn't married in fifteen years,
so if one of us isn't on another podcast fifteen years,
we've got to come back and watch the series again.
We gotta start all over season one because you know,
none of us are gonna watch something to live for.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Here you go.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
We got to come back and what would be I'll
be sixty five, so we got to come back in
our sixties.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Rewatch it again?
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Okay, all right, we have Brittany.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Hi, Pod Meets World. This is Brittany from Hanover, Pennsylvania.
My question is if you had the opportunity to play
a different character on Boy Meets World, who would it
be and why gender and age do not apply?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I think we did this one before, didn't we We
may have.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, I want to maybe in one of our live
shows or Q and A before.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Because I think writers said, I remember what you each said.
I think Ryder said he wanted to be Alan, and
I think Danielle didn't you say you wanted to be
either Amy or mister Feenie.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, I think I said mister Feenie.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Okay, I think Phoenie's the answer.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Now, now I would want to.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Be Will wants to be Ben.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, I'd be Feenie or Corey Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I'd
be our second little sister.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
I would either be Alan or Feenie probably, That's what
I would want to.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Do, not Amy completely.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
The women are written so well.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I know, no no women I would be no women
on the show.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
The best women are men.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So actually, if I think about, like, if we can't
change the writing, yeah, you just have to go in
and do the scenes as written.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh you'd be a great, mister.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You'd be great. Let's hear your New York accent.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
What I don't know?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
X men? Great?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You got it, you got there, you go, mac juice.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Us.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
I'm from the like the richest part of what.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Tammy says.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Thank you for the opportunity to ask questions during your
Pod meets World era, which I hope never ends. I'm
looking forward to what the three of you have planned next.
How did it feel walking offset and out the door
for that very last time on Boy Meets World.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Felt exactly like it did in the show. I'm probably
the way it felt for our viewers. It was like, seriously,
it was very sentimental.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
It was the end of a chapter.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It felt monumental, but it also felt like the future
was wide open. I don't know, it was all the
things like I'm I'm very glad that the scene was
written the way it was and we did it the
way it was we did because it felt like I
don't know, if it's like you know, your wedding day
like goes by too fast and you have all these regrets,
(22:25):
and like, I actually have no regrets about the last
day of taping, Like I walked away, so I stayed
late afterwards. I stole the painting. So there was like me, Danielle,
were you with me? I stayed there to me and
my girlfriend Brooke, you were.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
And we shared we shared champagne in the in the audience,
in the audience.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Audience sat in the audience.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Yeah, there was a small group of us that sat
in the audience and.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Then with bottles of dumb Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And then I was like, I'm going to steal that pain.
I jumped over the audience rail and grabbed the paint
and threw in the back of Brooks truck. And and
we had been crying earlier, and everybody had been there
and that.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Yes, it was like a perfect night. It was a
great ending. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Well, people don't, I mean, you really don't understand how
rare it is in television to get a last episode. Yeah,
I mean most shows you just you find out, you
get a call the show's canceled by. So to actually
get one where you know what you're going into really
really rare and obviously a wonderful way to do it
because you got to. And I hope I'm not wrong,
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but I remember the last two episodes being a very
nice goodbye, like I remember walking away, going wow, that
was a great final two episode, well for us, final episode.
So I hope I'm right when we see it again,
because again I haven't seen it since it aired, and
I don't think I ever watched last episode, the last scene.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I couldn't watch the scene with all of us in
the classroom. I just I couldn't do it. So yeah, yeah,
it's going to be that's going to be a trip.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Hmmmm from Sabrina.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Clearly we all love these characters, sometimes for their flaws
and sometimes despite them. In twenty twenty six, what do
you truly think they would be doing? What careers would
they have? Would Eric own the Wilderness Store? Would Tapanga
still be married to Corey?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Wooo?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
If we're a racing girl meets world in this.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We're apparently a racing girl meets world from the situation.
Although she didn't say that, she did just say in
twenty twenty six, what do you think they would be doing?
So we could have still had girl Meets World from
twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen, and now we're nearly ten
years past the end of Girl Meets World.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
If we're keeping Girl Meets World as canon, Eric, I
don't think Eric would have cut it in politics.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
I get where they were going.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
With it in the heart and all that kind of stuff,
but that was a weird kind of thing for me,
the mayor of San new Betown. That was fun in
Disney Cherry fun actually making him a US senator.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
I was like, Okay, this is this is Ait Munch.
So yeah, I don't think he has anything to do
with politics. I think it would be something.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
I can see Eric honestly as something like a small
town kindergarten teacher. I think something with kids. I think
he always likes kids. I don't know if he's married.
Kind yeah, exactly like that kindergarten Phoenie for like young
like you know, four or five year olds. You see
Eric in that classroom. He would be like the world's
greatest kindergarten teacher.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I would love to.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
See kindergarten Foenie teaching kindergarten Shakespeare.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Little kids with little rubber rubber knives.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Like in the first one. You touched her with that knife,
you better kill me the first time.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
So yeah, no, I think that would be fun.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
That would be great. I love that. I do think
Tapanga would have done.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Maybe Topanga would have been in politics that I can see.
You know, Tapanga would have definitely been doing something with
a high level of power, and she would have been
using it for good. She would be using it to
protect marginalized populations. She she would be on the right
side of history for sure, and she would have she
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would have power and sway over whatever she was doing.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Whether or not she's still married to Corey is a
good question. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
It depends. Like obviously, Tapanga, even in her most flower
child feminism, wasn't turned off by who Corey was, So maybe,
you know, I don't know when, if, and when she
would have ever become that. I know Danielle wouldn't want
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to be married to the Corey type character.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But Tapanga seemed to I don't know, it didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
It didn't seem to bother Tapega the way it would
bother Danielle. So if it hadn't bothered Topanga up until
like if we're taking girl meets World as canon, Like
Will said, if it hadn't bothered her all the way
through twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
She'd already been through some pretty yeah, pretty toxic behavior,
so real.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Toxic behavior and has kids.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
So I think if we're taking Girl meets World ass canon,
Seean adopts my and I think it would have been great.
I think either way, Sean should be an artist, right,
like he should be a photographer or writer, but she
was a.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Photo journalist in Girl Metorial if I remember so, Like.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
That makes sense, Yeah, that's right. So I think right
being a being being some kind of expressive artist, thinker,
you know, person, and probably a father in some capacity
like would have been awesome for Sean.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah, you think do you think he and his wife
would have had another kid together or do you think
it would just be.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Maya would be there?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
I like that, Will, I think they would have another
kid together.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I think Sean, Yeah, I think, because Maya would be
I mean, by the time Sewn adopted her, she was
already fourteen or fifteen, right, so you're only talking a
couple of years. So but then to you know, to
discover like what it's like to be a father to
a younger to an actual baby would yeah, be great
for Sean and I think, you know, that would have
been cool to see.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And so Corey was a teacher.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Yeah, I thought that was weird.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Yeah, I just don't see Corey as a teacher now.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
I don't either.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I saw of all the people there, Eric would have
been become the teacher for younger kids. Yeah, like Aory
would have done something like being an actuary or you
know something.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I think like if we erase Girl meets World, I
would love for Corey to have like the most boring
job in the world, right, just like steady, but you know,
good income, like just whatever. And then Sean and him
after like later on, Sean and him start a business together,
like they do something Sean inspires Corey cool, take a chance,
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and then two of them starts something really fun.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Not sure what that is, like very like a good idea,
and Corey the whole way is nervous, just anxiety, anxiety, anxiety.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Sean knows that he needs Corey to be like the
steady guy, and he's going to do something.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
Yeah, so let's think about what. I'll keep thinking on it.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
But it would be fun to see the two of
them running a business.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
What if they if they moved to a town and
they bring back the newspaper like they where they start
the small town news.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
The franchised the Wilderness stored in New York. Yeah, Corey
takes over the Wilderness store in New York.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Have Sean being creative or you know, but yeah, they
started an art gallery.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Like that's like like Jensen used to have.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Like they sell art and Corey does all the business
stuff and Sean goes around the country and finds like
all these new artists and there.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You go, because you have all these great or like
a music venue or something where like they're haven't engaged.
They're constantly engaging with artists or interesting character.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
That could be a.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Show, Okay, Serena says, considering we all now know that
Danielle had a crush on writer. If you two would
have dated back then, do you think the writers would
have implemented it into the show like they did most
of your personal lives and interests.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So like just like part of the like the constitution
of the show that Corey and to Pango were meant
for each other and for Sean to cross that line, Yeah,
to Pang it across that line would have just been.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah, no, it would change show.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Literally.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I think they would have actively encouraged us not to date.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Yea or keep it as quiet as you possibly can.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
What you need to sean into pang a holding hands
in a mall or something that would.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Exactly know that would have been a total nightmare.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Kristen says, I've been a fan of Boy Meets World
since its original run, and I have come back to
it again and again. It's meant so much to me
that you have been doing this podcast and I've gotten
to know you as people.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
My question is about show business. I recently read Alison
Stoner's memoir. I recommend it and learn things about the
entertainment industry I had not previously known. They mentioned having
numerous paid staff, managers, agents, stylist, payroll, et cetera. So
many people. I'm curious if this is true for all
child actors and whether it depends on the kind of
work they do. It also leads me to wonder how
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much of a percentage of your paycheck do you actually
get to take.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Home at the end of the day. Good question.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
There's a lot of factors in that.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah. So I think like if you yeah, like you,
there's your reps are a lot and your team is
a lot of different teams. Like I think the you
know the standards that you have an agent and that
takes ten percent.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
That is sort of book. Agents take fifteen.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Percent, Managers take five ps.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Do managers Yeah, well depends back in the day.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Managers, Yeah, you're right, fifteen yeah, you're or ten yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Managers are much more flexible. Agencies for talent is actually
pretty standard.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Sorry, I was thinking of lawyers. Lawyers take a pretty
standard five.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Five percent, so you end up with pretty much if
you have a full team, which is a lawyer, manager,
and agent, you're usually looking at twenty five percent of
your paycheck.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah, or or thirty if your manager takes fifteen yeah,
And then taxes.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Public for some people, and then taxes.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Which they don't usually get charged. They don't usually charge
a percentage. They'll charge like a flat fee, which is
a fee today, I mean, can be anywhere from four
to ten thousand dollars a month, depending on which agency
you're looking for.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
And then if you are a.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Successful, financially successful working actor, you're also looking at about
fifty percent of your taxes, fifty percent of your paycheck
going to taxes. So if you have an agent, a manager,
and a lawyer who is taking let's say twenty five percent,
and then fifty percent of your paycheck is going to taxes,
that means a total of seventy five percent of your
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paycheck is gone before you ever see it. And then
with that twenty five percent paycheck that you have, you
have to pay for all of your own bills. And
like we said, if you decide you want a publicist,
or if you want to hire a stylist, or if
you have a very expensive hairdresser or a makeup artist
and you want them to get you ready for red carpets,
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if you're currently on a show, the show will cover
the cost of those things. Like we want you to
go to this red carpet, we want you to go
to this event. They will, they will pay for hair
and makeup and transportation to get you there. But if
you're not and you're using it to stay relevant and
in the public eye, and you don't have somebody to
pay those bills.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
For you, you're paying those on your own.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
So yeah, yeah, there's very little we actually.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
To keep the overhead is you know, like you kind
of end up running a corporation of oh you know
what I mean, Like the more successful you get, especially
if you're a musician who's like touring, right, because you're
you're in charge.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Of so many employees at that point, and.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Like, yeah, so even even when yeah, the more you
become a star, the more you have to you know,
run a business of your startup. Yeah, which is it's
a lot.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
And the vast, vast, fast majority of actors never hit
that level. Nope, no, you just you don't get to
the point of of I mean, there's you need a
minimum amount of money to get insurance health insurance through
the Screen Actors Guild, and it's something like eighty percent
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of actors don't qualify. I mean, it is a very
especially now, it is a very difficult business.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Our last question is from Jill, as we approach the
final lesson from our favorite teacher, in the spirit of
dream try do good, what would each of you offer
as one piece of parting advice given your whole experience
with this recap. Thank you for all bringing your whole
selves to this endeavor. Will be along for the ride.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
With whatever comes next. Thank you. Jill.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
What would each of us offer as one piece of
parting advice given your whole experience with this recap.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I mean, I guess so much of this applies to
if you're going to be looking back on your life,
So I guess that's really what the advice I'll be
giving is, like how to reflect on your own life,
because that's what this recap was all about. I would say,
be fearless in your honesty, but also accepting.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Of your own flaws.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I'll find a way to phrase that better, but you
know what I mean, like, yeah, to just don't be
afraid to be honest, go for it, and then also
on the other side of that, accept you know that, yeah,
you made You've always you're always going to make mistakes
and continue to but that you definitely did in the past.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Yeah, yeah, similar, it's you can embrace the past and
not wallow in it.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
I think that's good.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
You know.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
It's one of those things where it's.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Every single thing you did in your past got you
to wherever you are right now, and some of it's
going to be great, and some of it's going to
be absolutely terrible, and it's going to be every other
point in between.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Those two things. That's that's a life, and that's all
it is.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
And so you can look back at your past, embrace
it and uh, you know, use it and move forward.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
I think, unlike writer who was kind of looking at
it from a standpoint of looking back on our lives,
I think I feel like I always want to speak
to the Danielle I see on Boy Meets World, Like
I always just want to tell her something. And although
I have never you know, been clinically depressed or you know,
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ever struggled with thoughts of unliving myself or anything like that,
the feeling that there's something wrong with you and that
you are imperfect and finding all of the ways you're imperfect.
That like it really like the message of it gets better.
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There's no truly, there's no problem I've encountered in my
life that has been permanent. It's it's like, okay, I
mean even illness, you know, even illness, you can you
can certainly have an incurable illness, and that then is
now technically permanent. But there will be ebbs and flows
within that too. You're not going to feel terribly every
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single day. You're going to have weeks and days and
times where you feel like you're at a very high
peak and then there will be valleys, and I think
just knowing that that never changes, that like, you are
going to ebb and flow for the rest of your life,
and when it's bad, just know that it's temporary. And
when it's good, just know that it's temporary, and that
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around the corner will be a time where you will
struggle again. And that's going to be okay because then
you can just go, hey, guess what. We're in a
time of struggle. But I know what's around the corner
is a time of you know, success, So ride those
waves and know that it's a lifelong endeavor.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
I've got a quick one for you guys. It's actually
not quick at all.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
It's going to be one that we're not even going
to be able to answer, and we'll probably talk about
it another later podcast.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Everyone always asks us, if we could go back in
time and talk to our younger selves, what will we
say to them? If we could go back in time
and sit with our younger selves, what do you think
they'd say to us?
Speaker 6 (38:00):
I feel like he'd be pretty cool with me.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yeah, I think he'd be like, I think he'd want
to read what I'm writing, okay, and I would I'd be.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Stoked to so that's cool, right, Like that's very good.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Teenage Danielle would just be like, just tell me you
had kids, man, just tell me you at kids, and
you'd be like, yeah, I have two boys.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
And then she'd be like, do you want to try
for a third to have a girl, And I'd say no,
say no, stop talking, stop talking now.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
I think I think my guy would say, so, it's
we're still out of shape.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
I never never figured that out in forty years.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
I'm still still out of shape.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Great, right, I really should never quit.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
I don't know. That's interesting, I think he'd say. I
think he'd say something like are you still making people laugh?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (39:04):
And hopefully I'd be able to look a him and go, yeah, yep,
we're still doing that, and he'd be like, all right,
that's good, and that would be it.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
It would just be like, all right, cooling.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Then we're doing what we want and then I'm happy.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Well, thank you all for joining.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Us for this episode of Pod Meets World. As always,
you can follow us on Instagram pod Meets World Show.
You can send us your emails at Podmeets World Show
at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
And we've got March.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
Will from Connecticut asks, Hey, how much merch you're gonna
buy March?
Speaker 4 (39:32):
It's great question.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
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Speaker 6 (39:38):
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Speaker 2 (39:42):
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Speaker 5 (40:10):
M
Big news announcement.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Can we can we down afford a horn after four
years of this war?
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You all can join us live for our final episode recap.
I can't believe I'm even saying that that's right. We
are going to be breaking down the series finale of
Boy Meets World Brave New World Part two in front
of a live studio audience for the first time ever.
We just felt like we really needed to celebrate this
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last episode and we wanted to do it in the
same room with you, our dear listeners and the people
who have just made this show and made this podcast
extra special for us. So it is going to be
at the iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank on July twenty third,
and if.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Things go according to plan, we will announce what is
next for the podcast.
Speaker 4 (01:24):
I can't wait for you guys to announce it, so
I know what we're doing.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
So we know what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
We have a meeting tomorrow, so sweet.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
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Speaker 3 (01:36):
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Speaker 1 (01:44):
And if you can't make it.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
You'll be able to see the entire recap video on
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and then, as always, the recap will drop in your
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Speaker 5 (02:14):
I'm going to get the meet and greet because i
want to meet Ryder. I can't wait to meet him
in person.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I want to touch his professor elbow patches.
Speaker 5 (02:21):
Yeah again, sounds like a weird muppet professor elbow packet.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
Jesse James and Danny Garcia say love the show and
the pod. Thank you for all the years of love
and laughter. My questions, how have your feelings toward the show,
slash your characters evolved now that we are near the end,
are you proud of your work?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Well, I mean, I've talked a lot about how I've
loved I've really come to appreciate a boyman's world. I've
come to appreciate Sean, But I do at the end,
I mean to the actual question, I do think I
regret this last.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Year year and a half, regret regret what my performance?
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Your performance?
Speaker 6 (03:03):
Okay, yeah, like the fact that I was so checked out.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And so I think I've said a version of this before,
but I think the part of my vision of Boy
Meets World and my brain that I've carried from when
it ended until we started this podcast has been season
seven boy Meets World, Like that's what I have, and
the Girl Meets World was an extension of that season
seven and a lot so all so going back to
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those early seasons has been such a revelation and positive revelation.
And but yeah, getting to this end, I'm like, uh,
I see it, and I see why. I you know,
so I'm I'm sad about my performance or I also
just wish I had gone. I pushed back a little
bit more and empowered a little bit more to say like,
maybe this could happen with Sean, maybe this should be
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you know, all the all the stuff so I bumped
about the last year and a half.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I am definitely proud. I look at those first couple
of seasons when I very clearly have no idea what
I'm doing acting wise, but it doesn't stop me from
being proud of the work because I was working to
the best of my very limited ability and experience under
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circumstances where I was stressed that I wasn't going to
have a job and feeling, you know, not ideal circumstances.
But what I'm proud of is the fact that I
never let it stop me. I never, I never. It
didn't change the fact that I showed up to work
every single day and showed up to work every day
with enthusiasm I up until the end when I then,
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like specially season six and seven, where I just did
not want to be there anymore. I wasn't showing up
with enthusiasm anymore. And yet my work was so much better.
I was so clearly comfortable in my skin and wasn't
worried that I was going to be let go. You
can tell that I'm taking certain risks and I'm taking
breath and I'm so I'm much happier performance in the
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last few seasons than I was at the beginning. But yeah,
I'm proud of everything I see young Danielle doing, even
if I know there are things that could have been
done better, funnier and with more maybe gratitude, but yes,
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I am very proud, and my feelings towards the show
have changed, because before my feelings for the show were
always like, wow, people really like this show. That's great,
people really.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Like the show.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
And now my thoughts on the show are we did
a really great show that people love. Like I feel
like I understand it now, not like a oh interesting,
it's yeah, it's great. It's a great freaking show and
we were lucky to be a part of it.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Yeah, I mean I echo all of that. It's one
of the things. I think.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
The thing I'm proudest of when it comes to my
performance is just like you said, Danielle, I clearly in
the first season had no idea what I was doing,
just didn't know how to act. So from where I
started to where I ended, I mean, I can see
myself learning and I'm very very proud of that.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Same.
Speaker 5 (06:11):
You know, you always wish look back and wish you
had kind of more agency over what you did. I
wish we did fight back on some of the stories,
but we were kids and we were kind of that
wasn't what you did. You sat there and you listened
to your notes and you made sure you did it
the way Michael told you to do it, So yeah,
looking back, it'd be great to be like, but wait
a minute, this doesn't make any sense, or why are
we doing this or why are we doing that?
Speaker 4 (06:33):
But overall, super proud of the show.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
I've always been proud of the show's I loved doing
every second of it.
Speaker 4 (06:39):
I've always said we'd still be doing it if it
was up to me.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
So yeah, this has just been it's been great, and honestly,
it sounds ridiculous, but you both have talked.
Speaker 4 (06:48):
About this on the podcast.
Speaker 5 (06:49):
You talked about how towards the end of the show,
neither of you wanted to be there, and that hurt
me because it was something that I loved so much.
And so one of the greatest things in this podcast
for me is watching you guys discover how great you
both were and how.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Really good the show was.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
And and so that's been something that's been awesome to watch.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Because yeah, you've been able to say, see, I told you,
I told you so.
Speaker 4 (07:12):
Let knew it about that, I didn't.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
None of us knew that it was going to have
any sort of staying power, or that the audience liked
it as much as they do. I mean we just
did not know when it was going on how important
it was to people. So that's something we've all learned together,
which is great.
Speaker 4 (07:25):
But yeah, super.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Proud of it.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Cush wants to know who were some podcast guests you
would have loved to have but just didn't work out
for whatever reason. I think the top one at the
top of all of our lists. Linda Cardellini.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
Yeah, I would put two. I would I would put
another one with her. I would put Hewitt up there.
Speaker 5 (07:45):
I put Love here too, yep, just because she was
part of arguably the most you know, famous episode we've
ever done, in our favorite episode, so having Love.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
On would have been would have been very very cool.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Yeah, you know, unfortunate we said we were weren't going to
talk about him unless it was an actor, but then
of course obviously we'd want want to happen on the show.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Lily Nick Lily to have on, Jerry Levine, Jerry would
have been great, probably, but Linda Cartlein he would probably
be number one.
Speaker 6 (08:16):
I would put Jerry Levine second.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
Matt Nelson, Oh my gosh, Matt Nelson.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Matt Nelson. Having Matt on the on the podcast would
have been incredible. I'll put Bob Tishlerler.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
You know some of the people that we've lost that
we didn't have a chimp Matt would have come on
to heertainly would have come on the show.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
So people that we've lost, that's that's a rough one
because we know we can just Steve Hibbert. You know,
we just lost Steve Hebbert.
Speaker 5 (08:41):
He was going to come on and then just didn't
feel comfortable talking about himself and and so there's a
bunch of people that I would like to have talked to,
but now we can't.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
And that's that's the thing that sucks.
Speaker 5 (08:50):
There's a finality to a couple of David Colmes would
have been phenomenal.
Speaker 6 (08:57):
Right, that's like five people who passed away.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Yeah, yeah, before.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Got Yeah, there's a there's a there's a bunch.
Speaker 5 (09:05):
I would love I know we read a statement from her,
but I would love to have actually been able to
talk to April Kelly that that would have been something
that would have been pretty great.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Yeah, there's a bunch. Karen McCain, Karen would have been awesome. Yep.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
A few of these people are people who we were
in talks to have come on the show, and then
you know, whether they are just not super comfortable public
speaking or whatever the case is. Then ended up saying,
you know what, I actually I don't I don't actually
want to do it, and then of course we obviously
respect that carry Russell.
Speaker 4 (09:38):
Car Russell would have been fun.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Oh, Carrie Russell would have been right.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
You know, she would have been fun too. But that's
more just to kind of more more about Boy Meets World.
Lord's just more about her career and talking about how
awesome she's been doing like that would have been really cool,
Whereas like Linda CARLINI might have only done a couple episodes,
but the episode she did were super important in the
Boy meets Boy meets World universe. So because I've heard
stories she's told about people coming up to her and
(10:01):
like giving your hate on the street, I can't believe
you broke up Corey into paying and stuff, and I'd
love to talk to her about stuff like that. So, yeah,
you're right, she'd be very near the top of the list.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
We have mel and Charles from Capitol District to New
York after recapping seven seasons, what would you tell your
younger selves four years ago who were on the brink
of beginning this podcast, I would say, trust yourselves, trust yourselves,
trust your instincts, continue to talk about everything amongst yourselves,
(10:45):
and then go with your gut, because that is what
we have done. At every juncture where we've had a
decision to make, we have felt perfectly comfortable, not just
the three of us, but Jensen and obviously than our
other spouses, just saying, let's talk about all of it.
(11:06):
There's this, there's that, there's this, there's that, Well, what
about this, what about that? Well, you know what, I'd
like to throw this into the mix. I'm thinking this,
I'm thinking that, and then pretty quickly, without it ever
needing to drag out, we have all been able to
come to, yeah, you know this, this feels like the
right thing, let's do it, and I don't I've never
been in another professional situation with as many people as
(11:30):
we could, say our cooks in this kitchen. Ultimately, it
all does come down to the three of us. We
have final decision. No one else like no one else
has final say except the.
Speaker 1 (11:40):
Three of us. But we really make decisions together.
Speaker 5 (11:44):
Will Yeah, I was gonna say, I can count on
one hand with fingers left over. At the times we
really disagreed about something. Yeah, and then it was never
a fight. It was like one of us would go okay,
got it, like no worries.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Exactly that after hearing the other side be able to
be like, yeah, you know what, after hearing your perspective,
I think you're right.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
A lot of that was early on.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
Those few times were when we were first starting and
figured out at this point, like you guys are such
great creative and business partners.
Speaker 6 (12:08):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Like there's such a comfort and confidence that I have
in our relationship that it's like, Okay, great, there's no
problem we can't figure out, or like totally so we
should start a studio.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
And ruin it all.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
Well, I've got the first film.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, Tommy says, I have a question I have wanted
to ask Danielle. Since the start of the pod, we've
come to discover you are much more talented.
Speaker 1 (12:35):
Oh gosh, why am I reading this question?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Okay, comedy, drama and now the physicality you showed on
Dancing with the Stars than Boy Meets World ever allowed
you to be. You were put in a role that
mostly put you on a pedestal for Corey and not
much else. While you were starring and directing the young
actresses on Girl Meets World who were the focus of
the show, did you ever envy their opportunities as young
actresses and think I could have done that?
Speaker 1 (12:59):
Such a great ques question.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
I did not ever have the feeling of I could
have done that, but I did have the feeling, Oh, do.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
You guys know how great it is that you get
to do this? Do you guys know like enjoy this?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
And because there definitely are moments when you work with
teenagers where they are, of course in their own head
about what their body looks like when they do something,
or whether or not something is cool.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
They would never admit it.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
They would never admit that they're thinking about the fact
that this seems uncool, but we know that they are
because they're push they resist against it, and then sometimes.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
The explanation for why they're resisting. You know, you have that.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Conversation you'll say, it feels like you're really resisting doing
you know, fully committing to it.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
What do you think you're resisting about.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
They'll never say, like, I feel dorky, but right you
can kind of tell sometimes that that's what it is.
And I can remember also feeling that way, and yet
I had the benefit of age of being able to
be like, Oh, do you have any idea how fun
this is to just.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Be the Lucille ball, be the.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Comedic force of something, And so I never felt jealous
or envious or like, why didn't I get that?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
But I felt thrilled.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Anytime I've been able to direct somebody and they get
the opportunity to do it, I'm like, Man, this is awesome.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
Yea.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
Do you think the closest This is going to be
weirdly phrased, so I apologize.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Do you think the closest to.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
You you had on Boy Meets World, like what you
did for the girls on Girl Meets World, The closest
you had on Boy Meets World was somebody like McCracken,
like an advocate that was looking out for you the
way Obviously it wasn't to the same level that you
were looking out for Rowan and Sabrina, But if you
had to pick somebody that was kind of taking that role,
(14:59):
was there anybody you could look at on Boy that
was like that.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
I mean, David Combs was.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Wildly protective of all of all of us, and on
top of it, you know.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Knew, knew where we were. I mean, David Combs is
the one who read it on me to my mom about.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Smoking, you know, and like he he was very much
the studio teacher every child actor deserves and not every
child actor gets. And of course Wesley Staples was also,
you know, he came on a little right after David,
but you know, between David and Wesley, I was very
(15:37):
well protected and looked after. And then as far as
like actor advocate, Yeah, Jeff McCracken, no one believed in
me the way jeffmccracken believed in me.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
Like Jeff McCracken.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It was, I think, very disappointed when I chose not
to keep acting, and really wanted me to get into
classes and was willing to do anything he could to
help me with that, and I just didn't. I just
didn't know what that meant, and didn't you know, I
just obviously took that entirely for granted and poop pooed
it all. But yeah, so that's that's the one.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Katie.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
What did you assume would be your favorite season or
episode before you started the podcast recapping the show versus
now after you've watched every single episode, I.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Can answer this because I I think we've talked about this.
I mistook having so much fun season seven right for
that meaning the show was good season. So I was like,
we were getting I've talked about the interviews before we
start the podcast. I was like, Oh, we were getting better,
the storylines were getting better. We could have gone another
And now I watch it and I think season seven
(16:42):
is arguably the weakest season that we've done. And so
I was just conflating two different things, the fun I
was having on set with the actual product we were
putting out. So yeah, you know, I thought it was
going to be season seven, and I thought it was
going to be like the wedding episode or they're chopping up.
Speaker 4 (16:57):
The dorm room like these.
Speaker 5 (16:58):
Yeah, and it's like, you know, I'm remembering the fun
I had shooting it.
Speaker 4 (17:02):
The actual seasons.
Speaker 5 (17:04):
I can't remember if we liked four or five better,
but there was one might have been five where we
it was like banger after banger.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
So yeah, that would be my answer.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Writer, Did you have an idea?
Speaker 6 (17:16):
I mean, I don't know. I'm trying to remember, like
how I came into the podcast. I think I think
I thought Chick.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Like Me was good which it turned out to be,
so that was worked out. I think in general, I
did not expect to like the first season as much
as I did. Watch you right, I really loved it,
and loved especially the Alan Amy's stuff, the family stuff,
which I just totally took for granted and never remembered. Yeah,
I mean, I mean, it's just so over overall, I'm
(17:46):
just impressed with the show.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I'm trying to specific episodes.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
You know, the prom episode, since we already brought it up,
like we talked about it, I thought it was like
this heavy, weird episode, you know, But then watching I
was like, oh, this is like a fun wromp that.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
Actually screated sex in a very hysterical way.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
So the fact that it was banned and the fact
that it was this like heavy subject in my brain
was like, that's weird because it wasn't at all.
Speaker 6 (18:10):
The show itself was good and funny.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Yeah, in general, I feel like I just there's a
there's a positive lightness about boy Meet's world in my brain. Now,
you know, that didn't exist much more heavy sort of
cloud over the whole project, and now it's just like, no,
it's a super wonderful TV show.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
I think only season one was super salient to me, like,
and so I went into it thinking, well, we're gonna
have a great first season as far as I'm concerned,
and then I'm probably gonna dislike most of what follows.
I was not prepared for how incredible the middle.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Chunk of the show was. Yeah, I didn't remember that.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
There were so many things that that I had just
not remembered. So I would say that I thought. I
think going into the podcast, I thought, oh, I'm gonna
love every episode of season one, and I mostly did.
It was great and and my memories were so good
of it. But man, that middle chunk, like we talked about,
seasons four and five were just on another level, like
(19:12):
how did we not win an Emmy? How did we
not win an.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Emmy those years? Honestly, I don't robbed, I tell you robbed?
Speaker 6 (19:19):
All right?
Speaker 5 (19:19):
So you know how you make packs with your best friends, Like,
all right, if one of us isn't married in fifteen years,
so if one of us isn't on another podcast fifteen years,
we've got to come back and watch the series again.
We gotta start all over season one because you know,
none of us are gonna watch something to live for.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
Here you go.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
We got to come back and what would be I'll
be sixty five, so we got to come back in
our sixties.
Speaker 4 (19:47):
Rewatch it again?
Speaker 7 (19:48):
Okay, all right, we have Brittany.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Hi, Pod Meets World. This is Brittany from Hanover, Pennsylvania.
My question is if you had the opportunity to play
a different character on Boy Meets World, who would it
be and why gender and age do not apply?
Speaker 4 (20:14):
I think we did this one before, didn't we We
may have.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, I want to maybe in one of our live
shows or Q and A before.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Because I think writers said, I remember what you each said.
I think Ryder said he wanted to be Alan, and
I think Danielle didn't you say you wanted to be
either Amy or mister Feenie.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
Yeah, I think I said mister Feenie.
Speaker 6 (20:34):
Okay, I think Phoenie's the answer.
Speaker 4 (20:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Now, now I would want to.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Be Will wants to be Ben.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
Yeah, I'd be Feenie or Corey Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I'd
be our second little sister.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
I would either be Alan or Feenie probably, That's what
I would want to.
Speaker 6 (20:54):
Do, not Amy completely.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
The women are written so well.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
I know, no no women I would be no women
on the show.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
The best women are men.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
So actually, if I think about, like, if we can't
change the writing, yeah, you just have to go in
and do the scenes as written.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Oh you'd be a great, mister.
Speaker 1 (21:17):
You'd be great. Let's hear your New York accent.
Speaker 6 (21:21):
What I don't know?
Speaker 1 (21:22):
X men? Great?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
You got it, you got there, you go, mac juice.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
Us.
Speaker 4 (21:29):
I'm from the like the richest part of what.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Tammy says.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
Thank you for the opportunity to ask questions during your
Pod meets World era, which I hope never ends. I'm
looking forward to what the three of you have planned next.
How did it feel walking offset and out the door
for that very last time on Boy Meets World.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Felt exactly like it did in the show. I'm probably
the way it felt for our viewers. It was like, seriously,
it was very sentimental.
Speaker 6 (22:01):
It was the end of a chapter.
Speaker 2 (22:03):
It felt monumental, but it also felt like the future
was wide open. I don't know, it was all the
things like I'm I'm very glad that the scene was
written the way it was and we did it the
way it was we did because it felt like I
don't know, if it's like you know, your wedding day
like goes by too fast and you have all these regrets,
(22:25):
and like, I actually have no regrets about the last
day of taping, Like I walked away, so I stayed
late afterwards. I stole the painting. So there was like me, Danielle,
were you with me? I stayed there to me and
my girlfriend Brooke, you were.
Speaker 5 (22:40):
And we shared we shared champagne in the in the audience,
in the audience.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Audience sat in the audience.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Yeah, there was a small group of us that sat
in the audience and.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Then with bottles of dumb Yeah.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
And then I was like, I'm going to steal that pain.
I jumped over the audience rail and grabbed the paint
and threw in the back of Brooks truck. And and
we had been crying earlier, and everybody had been there
and that.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Yes, it was like a perfect night. It was a
great ending. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:03):
Well, people don't, I mean, you really don't understand how
rare it is in television to get a last episode. Yeah,
I mean most shows you just you find out, you
get a call the show's canceled by. So to actually
get one where you know what you're going into really
really rare and obviously a wonderful way to do it
because you got to. And I hope I'm not wrong,
(23:24):
but I remember the last two episodes being a very
nice goodbye, like I remember walking away, going wow, that
was a great final two episode, well for us, final episode.
So I hope I'm right when we see it again,
because again I haven't seen it since it aired, and
I don't think I ever watched last episode, the last scene.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I couldn't watch the scene with all of us in
the classroom. I just I couldn't do it. So yeah, yeah,
it's going to be that's going to be a trip.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Hmmmm from Sabrina.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Clearly we all love these characters, sometimes for their flaws
and sometimes despite them. In twenty twenty six, what do
you truly think they would be doing? What careers would
they have? Would Eric own the Wilderness Store? Would Tapanga
still be married to Corey?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Wooo?
Speaker 6 (24:10):
If we're a racing girl meets world in this.
Speaker 3 (24:12):
We're apparently a racing girl meets world from the situation.
Although she didn't say that, she did just say in
twenty twenty six, what do you think they would be doing?
So we could have still had girl Meets World from
twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen, and now we're nearly ten
years past the end of Girl Meets World.
Speaker 5 (24:29):
If we're keeping Girl Meets World as canon, Eric, I
don't think Eric would have cut it in politics.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
I get where they were going.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
With it in the heart and all that kind of stuff,
but that was a weird kind of thing for me,
the mayor of San new Betown. That was fun in
Disney Cherry fun actually making him a US senator.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
I was like, Okay, this is this is Ait Munch.
So yeah, I don't think he has anything to do
with politics. I think it would be something.
Speaker 5 (24:50):
I can see Eric honestly as something like a small
town kindergarten teacher. I think something with kids. I think
he always likes kids. I don't know if he's married.
Kind yeah, exactly like that kindergarten Phoenie for like young
like you know, four or five year olds. You see
Eric in that classroom. He would be like the world's
greatest kindergarten teacher.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I would love to.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
See kindergarten Foenie teaching kindergarten Shakespeare.
Speaker 6 (25:14):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Little kids with little rubber rubber knives.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Like in the first one. You touched her with that knife,
you better kill me the first time.
Speaker 4 (25:24):
So yeah, no, I think that would be fun.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
That would be great. I love that. I do think
Tapanga would have done.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Maybe Topanga would have been in politics that I can see.
You know, Tapanga would have definitely been doing something with
a high level of power, and she would have been
using it for good. She would be using it to
protect marginalized populations. She she would be on the right
side of history for sure, and she would have she
(25:53):
would have power and sway over whatever she was doing.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Whether or not she's still married to Corey is a
good question. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (26:02):
It depends. Like obviously, Tapanga, even in her most flower
child feminism, wasn't turned off by who Corey was, So maybe,
you know, I don't know when, if, and when she
would have ever become that. I know Danielle wouldn't want
(26:28):
to be married to the Corey type character.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
But Tapanga seemed to I don't know, it didn't.
Speaker 3 (26:36):
It didn't seem to bother Tapega the way it would
bother Danielle. So if it hadn't bothered Topanga up until
like if we're taking girl meets World as canon, Like
Will said, if it hadn't bothered her all the way
through twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
She'd already been through some pretty yeah, pretty toxic behavior,
so real.
Speaker 1 (26:53):
Toxic behavior and has kids.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
So I think if we're taking Girl meets World ass canon,
Seean adopts my and I think it would have been great.
I think either way, Sean should be an artist, right,
like he should be a photographer or writer, but she
was a.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
Photo journalist in Girl Metorial if I remember so, Like.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
That makes sense, Yeah, that's right. So I think right
being a being being some kind of expressive artist, thinker,
you know, person, and probably a father in some capacity
like would have been awesome for Sean.
Speaker 6 (27:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (27:31):
Yeah, you think do you think he and his wife
would have had another kid together or do you think
it would just be.
Speaker 4 (27:36):
Maya would be there?
Speaker 6 (27:38):
I like that, Will, I think they would have another
kid together.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I think Sean, Yeah, I think, because Maya would be
I mean, by the time Sewn adopted her, she was
already fourteen or fifteen, right, so you're only talking a
couple of years. So but then to you know, to
discover like what it's like to be a father to
a younger to an actual baby would yeah, be great
for Sean and I think, you know, that would have
been cool to see.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
And so Corey was a teacher.
Speaker 4 (28:08):
Yeah, I thought that was weird.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Yeah, I just don't see Corey as a teacher now.
Speaker 4 (28:12):
I don't either.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
I saw of all the people there, Eric would have
been become the teacher for younger kids. Yeah, like Aory
would have done something like being an actuary or you
know something.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
I think like if we erase Girl meets World, I
would love for Corey to have like the most boring
job in the world, right, just like steady, but you know,
good income, like just whatever. And then Sean and him
after like later on, Sean and him start a business together,
like they do something Sean inspires Corey cool, take a chance,
(28:46):
and then two of them starts something really fun.
Speaker 3 (28:48):
Not sure what that is, like very like a good idea,
and Corey the whole way is nervous, just anxiety, anxiety, anxiety.
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Sean knows that he needs Corey to be like the
steady guy, and he's going to do something.
Speaker 6 (28:59):
Yeah, so let's think about what. I'll keep thinking on it.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
But it would be fun to see the two of
them running a business.
Speaker 5 (29:05):
What if they if they moved to a town and
they bring back the newspaper like they where they start
the small town news.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
The franchised the Wilderness stored in New York. Yeah, Corey
takes over the Wilderness store in New York.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Have Sean being creative or you know, but yeah, they
started an art gallery.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Like that's like like Jensen used to have.
Speaker 5 (29:27):
Like they sell art and Corey does all the business
stuff and Sean goes around the country and finds like
all these new artists and there.
Speaker 2 (29:33):
You go, because you have all these great or like
a music venue or something where like they're haven't engaged.
They're constantly engaging with artists or interesting character.
Speaker 6 (29:41):
That could be a.
Speaker 3 (29:41):
Show, Okay, Serena says, considering we all now know that
Danielle had a crush on writer. If you two would
have dated back then, do you think the writers would
have implemented it into the show like they did most
of your personal lives and interests.
Speaker 2 (29:57):
So like just like part of the like the constitution
of the show that Corey and to Pango were meant
for each other and for Sean to cross that line, Yeah,
to Pang it across that line would have just been.
Speaker 4 (30:08):
Yeah, no, it would change show.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Literally.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
I think they would have actively encouraged us not to date.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Yea or keep it as quiet as you possibly can.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
What you need to sean into pang a holding hands
in a mall or something that would.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Exactly know that would have been a total nightmare.
Speaker 4 (30:25):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Kristen says, I've been a fan of Boy Meets World
since its original run, and I have come back to
it again and again. It's meant so much to me
that you have been doing this podcast and I've gotten
to know you as people.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
My question is about show business. I recently read Alison
Stoner's memoir. I recommend it and learn things about the
entertainment industry I had not previously known. They mentioned having
numerous paid staff, managers, agents, stylist, payroll, et cetera. So
many people. I'm curious if this is true for all
child actors and whether it depends on the kind of
work they do. It also leads me to wonder how
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much of a percentage of your paycheck do you actually
get to take.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
Home at the end of the day. Good question.
Speaker 4 (31:04):
There's a lot of factors in that.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
Yeah. So I think like if you yeah, like you,
there's your reps are a lot and your team is
a lot of different teams. Like I think the you
know the standards that you have an agent and that
takes ten percent.
Speaker 6 (31:19):
That is sort of book. Agents take fifteen.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Percent, Managers take five ps.
Speaker 4 (31:25):
Do managers Yeah, well depends back in the day.
Speaker 1 (31:27):
Managers, Yeah, you're right, fifteen yeah, you're or ten yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
Managers are much more flexible. Agencies for talent is actually
pretty standard.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
Sorry, I was thinking of lawyers. Lawyers take a pretty
standard five.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Five percent, so you end up with pretty much if
you have a full team, which is a lawyer, manager,
and agent, you're usually looking at twenty five percent of
your paycheck.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
Yeah, or or thirty if your manager takes fifteen yeah,
And then taxes.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Public for some people, and then taxes.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
Which they don't usually get charged. They don't usually charge
a percentage. They'll charge like a flat fee, which is
a fee today, I mean, can be anywhere from four
to ten thousand dollars a month, depending on which agency
you're looking for.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
And then if you are a.
Speaker 3 (32:16):
Successful, financially successful working actor, you're also looking at about
fifty percent of your taxes, fifty percent of your paycheck
going to taxes. So if you have an agent, a manager,
and a lawyer who is taking let's say twenty five percent,
and then fifty percent of your paycheck is going to taxes,
that means a total of seventy five percent of your
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paycheck is gone before you ever see it. And then
with that twenty five percent paycheck that you have, you
have to pay for all of your own bills. And
like we said, if you decide you want a publicist,
or if you want to hire a stylist, or if
you have a very expensive hairdresser or a makeup artist
and you want them to get you ready for red carpets,
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if you're currently on a show, the show will cover
the cost of those things. Like we want you to
go to this red carpet, we want you to go
to this event. They will, they will pay for hair
and makeup and transportation to get you there. But if
you're not and you're using it to stay relevant and
in the public eye, and you don't have somebody to
pay those bills.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
For you, you're paying those on your own.
Speaker 3 (33:18):
So yeah, yeah, there's very little we actually.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
To keep the overhead is you know, like you kind
of end up running a corporation of oh you know
what I mean, Like the more successful you get, especially
if you're a musician who's like touring, right, because you're
you're in charge.
Speaker 6 (33:35):
Of so many employees at that point, and.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Like, yeah, so even even when yeah, the more you
become a star, the more you have to you know,
run a business of your startup. Yeah, which is it's
a lot.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
And the vast, vast, fast majority of actors never hit
that level. Nope, no, you just you don't get to
the point of of I mean, there's you need a
minimum amount of money to get insurance health insurance through
the Screen Actors Guild, and it's something like eighty percent
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of actors don't qualify. I mean, it is a very
especially now, it is a very difficult business.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Our last question is from Jill, as we approach the
final lesson from our favorite teacher, in the spirit of
dream try do good, what would each of you offer
as one piece of parting advice given your whole experience
with this recap. Thank you for all bringing your whole
selves to this endeavor. Will be along for the ride.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
With whatever comes next. Thank you. Jill.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
What would each of us offer as one piece of
parting advice given your whole experience with this recap.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I mean, I guess so much of this applies to
if you're going to be looking back on your life,
So I guess that's really what the advice I'll be
giving is, like how to reflect on your own life,
because that's what this recap was all about. I would say,
be fearless in your honesty, but also accepting.
Speaker 6 (35:06):
Of your own flaws.
Speaker 2 (35:08):
I'll find a way to phrase that better, but you
know what I mean, like, yeah, to just don't be
afraid to be honest, go for it, and then also
on the other side of that, accept you know that, yeah,
you made You've always you're always going to make mistakes
and continue to but that you definitely did in the past.
Speaker 5 (35:24):
Yeah, yeah, similar, it's you can embrace the past and
not wallow in it.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
I think that's good.
Speaker 5 (35:30):
You know.
Speaker 4 (35:30):
It's one of those things where it's.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Every single thing you did in your past got you
to wherever you are right now, and some of it's
going to be great, and some of it's going to
be absolutely terrible, and it's going to be every other
point in between.
Speaker 4 (35:42):
Those two things. That's that's a life, and that's all
it is.
Speaker 5 (35:45):
And so you can look back at your past, embrace
it and uh, you know, use it and move forward.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
I think, unlike writer who was kind of looking at
it from a standpoint of looking back on our lives,
I think I feel like I always want to speak
to the Danielle I see on Boy Meets World, Like
I always just want to tell her something. And although
I have never you know, been clinically depressed or you know,
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ever struggled with thoughts of unliving myself or anything like that,
the feeling that there's something wrong with you and that
you are imperfect and finding all of the ways you're imperfect.
That like it really like the message of it gets better.
(36:35):
There's no truly, there's no problem I've encountered in my
life that has been permanent. It's it's like, okay, I
mean even illness, you know, even illness, you can you
can certainly have an incurable illness, and that then is
now technically permanent. But there will be ebbs and flows
within that too. You're not going to feel terribly every
(36:58):
single day. You're going to have weeks and days and
times where you feel like you're at a very high
peak and then there will be valleys, and I think
just knowing that that never changes, that like, you are
going to ebb and flow for the rest of your life,
and when it's bad, just know that it's temporary. And
when it's good, just know that it's temporary, and that
(37:21):
around the corner will be a time where you will
struggle again. And that's going to be okay because then
you can just go, hey, guess what. We're in a
time of struggle. But I know what's around the corner
is a time of you know, success, So ride those
waves and know that it's a lifelong endeavor.
Speaker 4 (37:38):
I've got a quick one for you guys. It's actually
not quick at all.
Speaker 5 (37:40):
It's going to be one that we're not even going
to be able to answer, and we'll probably talk about
it another later podcast.
Speaker 1 (37:45):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (37:45):
Everyone always asks us, if we could go back in
time and talk to our younger selves, what will we
say to them? If we could go back in time
and sit with our younger selves, what do you think
they'd say to us?
Speaker 6 (38:00):
I feel like he'd be pretty cool with me.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yeah, I think he'd be like, I think he'd want
to read what I'm writing, okay, and I would I'd be.
Speaker 6 (38:11):
Stoked to so that's cool, right, Like that's very good.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:16):
Teenage Danielle would just be like, just tell me you
had kids, man, just tell me you at kids, and
you'd be like, yeah, I have two boys.
Speaker 1 (38:24):
And then she'd be like, do you want to try
for a third to have a girl, And I'd say no,
say no, stop talking, stop talking now.
Speaker 5 (38:33):
I think I think my guy would say, so, it's
we're still out of shape.
Speaker 6 (38:38):
I never never figured that out in forty years.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
I'm still still out of shape.
Speaker 2 (38:42):
Great, right, I really should never quit.
Speaker 5 (38:56):
I don't know. That's interesting, I think he'd say. I
think he'd say something like are you still making people laugh?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (39:04):
And hopefully I'd be able to look a him and go, yeah, yep,
we're still doing that, and he'd be like, all right,
that's good, and that would be it.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
It would just be like, all right, cooling.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Then we're doing what we want and then I'm happy.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:14):
Well, thank you all for joining.
Speaker 3 (39:16):
Us for this episode of Pod Meets World. As always,
you can follow us on Instagram pod Meets World Show.
You can send us your emails at Podmeets World Show
at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
And we've got March.
Speaker 5 (39:27):
Will from Connecticut asks, Hey, how much merch you're gonna
buy March?
Speaker 4 (39:32):
It's great question.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Will Pod Metsworldshow dot com writer send us out?
Speaker 6 (39:38):
We love you all, pod dismissed.
Speaker 2 (39:42):
Pod Meets World is an iHeart podcast producer hosted by
Danielle Fischel, Wilfridell and Ryder Strong executive producers, Jensen Carp
and Amy Sugarman Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo,
producer and editor, Tarasubosch, producer, Maddie Moore engineer and Boy
Meets World Superman Easton Allen. Our theme song is by
Kyle Morton of Typhoon. Follow us on Instagram at Podmets
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