June 12, 2026 • 15 mins
Daniella Monet is hanging out with Danielle and reliving some childhood trauma, but in a fun way!
The Victorious star explores awkward first on-camera kisses, navigating situationships, and what it’s like stepping back into the role of Trina Vega.
Plus, a listener reveals how a fairytale romance was doomed thanks to “too much slobber.”
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Let's kids. That's okay because no one here. It is.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Every week I ask our listeners to send in voice
memos telling us an embarrassing story from their past, and
they always pull through.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So today we're.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Gonna hear from Hannah, who has quite the first kiss.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Hi, Danielle, you had your first kiss in front of
a live studio audience, And I had mine meticulously planned
out for me. It was eighth grade, went to a
small school, had a crush, and my crush and I
had a mutual male best friend, and somehow the idea
was born that my crush and I meet up and kiss.
We decided that the safest place to do it was
between two classrooms in what was probably supposed to be
(01:05):
a really big shared storage closet, but it was big
enough for one desk and like one teacher. One day,
one hour after school schedule is aligned, the last bell rings,
and of course are not speaking to each other or
even looking at each other.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Finally, the hallways seem empty.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I see my crush going towards one of the classrooms,
so I go to the other one.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I walk into the little storage room and close the.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Door behind me, and he's standing across from me behind
the other door, and there's a window in the door,
and I'm staring at it intently to make sure that
nobody comes in the room, but I also don't know
what else to do. So I take a couple steps
and I put my right hand on his left shoulder
and he put his right hand on my left hip.
I kind of leaned back because he was leaning forward,
(01:47):
and we start kissing.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We had no idea what we were doing.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
It was just full slobber, and I remember thinking, why
is there so much slobber? Why is it like we
are just flat out licking each other's faces. We keep kissing,
and I'm really stiff, and I'm stuck in this position,
and I don't want to move because if I move,
it might signal to him that I want to stop,
and of course I don't want to stop. My left
(02:12):
low back starts cramping, so I have to start gripping
his shoulder a little harder so that I lose my balance,
and then my right back leg starts shaking. My body
just can't take it. Eventually, we stop kissing, and I
remember having to wipe the entire bottom part of my face,
and sadly, he did not fall madly in love with me.
(02:33):
We did not go on to date. I'm not even
sure if we ever spoke about it again. So maybe
Tapanga had the right idea, and I should have just
shoved him up against a locker, kissed him, and walked
away confidently, because what I did instead was super awkward.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh my gosh, I love the back pain.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It's like her number one memory from her first kiss.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
How so intricate she understood every detail. She's like, I'm
never forgetting this.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Moment, getting all of these moments.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oh man, so sad. I only remember my first kiss.
My first kiss was on Boy Meets World. I only
remember that one.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I don't remember my first real life kids at all.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I don't remember my first real life kiss, my first
or on TV. My first, very first one was on
eight Simple Rules, and I remember Kate Lee Quoco and
Amy Davidson giving me so much good advice, and I
remember at one point I said, okay, well, I didn't
know what to expect. I didn't know what kind of
(03:32):
kiss this was, and he was a little older than me,
and I was so nervous, so I just closed my
teeth and I went in for the kiss, and then
he made his as far as I remember, it made
his tongue look like he was moving.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
But I said, unclose the gates, no one could get there,
and I'll just stam there.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh my god, she was awful. Can't watch it?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I had so.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I mean, first of all, Ben and I spent years
just kissing. There's no one in the world still to
this day, I think I've ever kissed more.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
My husband and I have now been together eight years.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Spent and I were together for seven and then yeah,
I'm pretty sure we're maybe about equals and yeah, you know,
it's funny, like you get when you first start.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It's very awkward.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And on TV, you know, there's stuff that happens in
real life when you're not having to deal with a camera,
but like, who cares if your kisses look awkward in
real life? But on TV everything needs to look good,
you know. And I remember thinking a lot about our noses.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
What's happening with my nose? Like yeah, yes?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
And am I supposed to go this way? Or are
you going to go that way? Yeah? And then there
was one week.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
There was a week when Corey and Pinker were broken
up and I got to kiss another boy was a
guest star.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Wing Wolf, and my mom was like, who's it going
to be?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Who's it going to be?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Is it gonna be cute? And I was like, I ope,
be so cute.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And then he was, of course so cute, of course.
And I described the kiss as being kissing have tomato.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It was just oh.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And I remember immediately after the first take looking like this,
oh no, no, out toward my makeup artist, who then
came on and she was like she gets real close
to her face and she's like, what on earth I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Oh my gosh, how old are you at this?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I was like fifteen, okay, and it was just like
a full and then it was like okay, maybe maybe
just that one time, and then it happened again and
it was.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Like need you again, need to touch up?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It was just.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, TV kisses, they're.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
So hard because like, if you didn't go through for me,
I ended up leaving school in eighth grade, and like
I had never had any like experience with like boys
in real life for a while, so like the only
experience I had was when we would maybe rehearse it,
but usually.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
You wouldn't even yeah. It would be like you'd fake rehearse.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
You'd be like mm mm hmmmm, and then we'll kiss
it and then.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
We guss here the week is it.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Today?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Did you ever practice kissing like on the back of
your hands?
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Yeah, but that doesn't know, like, what are we doing?
Are we doing that's not efficient?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You do a little no, I know, the back of
the hand, that's like a kiss.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Can't do that doesn't want.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I know. I think, Yeah, I'm not really sure. There's
really no good.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
There's no way other than the throw yourself into it.
And the first four were probably terrible. Even my husband
was like, well, you didn't have a ton to me.
Fifteen years later, we're fine, guys, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You figured out how to kiss.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I do feel like choosing your own school as the
spot for the like the meetup, adds a whole other layer.
It's so hard hard as a kid though you don't
have your own house to go back to, you have
nowhere to go for the private so true, what.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Do you do? You go?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
You don't when you go to the promenade or to
pay them all or whatever, like that's why they would go,
and that's why my parents would say, you are not going.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Not allowed nope.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I you know, I spilled. Still spend a lot of
time at the mall because I love it. I am
very happy to see kids meet up at the mall.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
You know they're still Yeah they write their little motorbikes.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
We've got their little e bikes very dangerous. And they're
dressed exactly like we were, exactly. They're wearing tops and
baggy jeans, and they're holding hands and they're walking in groups.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
And it makes me very excited. But you're right, that
is what you do.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You go, you do the you do the mall situation,
which does explain why in the family bathroom there's.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
One always in the in the family.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Bathroom with the door locked for a long time. I'm
figuring it out. Now you know you're kissing in there.
I just figured it out. So I got to get
a little smarter before my kids get to be that ape.
I can't take me a couple.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Of I don't even know because I have no experience.
Remember I know, Yeah, your husband had to teach you.
It's gonna have to be the one that's ten steps ahead.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Okay, do you.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Think kids still have bay like the way we used
to talk about, like getting a first base segment.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Do we do think they still talk about you know,
it's so weird And I watch a lot of unscripted
dating shows. Okay, dating is not dating, it's different. Oh
I'm looking at these youngins in the Okay, so dating
now is like essentially if we were like in a relationship,
that's what they call dating.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Really, like, we're not even dating.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Like dating growing up was like we're going to go
on some dates and we're going to start dating each other.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Yes, Now it's like.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
If you're dating, you're coupled up, you're like kind of
like together in a weird way, like you're now dating.
Whoh am I right?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Yeah really yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And so what do you call what do they what
do the youngs call casual dating?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
That's a situationship, right, and seeing each other would be
like serious or not serious?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Yeah, that's like kind of situation ship be okay, yeah,
but dating is like if you're dating, that's serious, right.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Right, that's like a yeah, yeah, a big step that
was not serious. No no, not when we were young, No, no,
you were like, yeah, we're doing around.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
There are so many people that like, when I look
back on my time and I'll be like, yeah, I
dated that guy, and then people are.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Like what I meant, Like, we went to Robbie twice.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, we went on a date, right, that was dating,
not like together together. Yes, all right, kind of like
this for them on.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Your new show.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Have you already found yourself developing a bit of a
motherly toward the girls?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Yeah, into all of them.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, so we all stayed in the same hotel, and
I'm so glad we did because I would get little
knocks on the door. I would make like when people
got sick, like you know, would bring them a little
soup or whatever, and yeah there is something. Oh I
had alyssa or girl or gorgeous. I had amazing gifted
human being over at the house yesterday because she's a
(10:04):
little social Butterfly flew out from New Jersey to la
just because and hang out with the family Immemorial Day.
And then we popped by the house and helped like
say good night to the kids. And I'm like, this
is big sis life, Like it's different, Like this is
so good we are. So I've got another one coming
in a week. I'm like, guest rooms open. I'm like,
(10:25):
what do I do make a bunch of keys. Now,
what are we doing.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I'm so cute.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Yeah, yeah, I had Eric like an another one stay
with me. It was it's been so nice. And it's
how old are they? Youngest is almost eighteen, oldest is
twenty four?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Man, this is great.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Good people like a salta the earth. Good people, good families.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Good.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yes, great.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean every time you have a show, you are
involved in the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
The whole thing.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's not just the kid, it's the parents and the
family and all of that.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
And that's a big thing too, because you know a
lot of these kids that had just kind of moved
out for the show for the first time, they live
at home. You know, I'd meet the parents and it's
like I didn't. I moved out there too, So I
was away from my family temporarily, and so I was
always like, you know, I am a call away, Like
I'm a knock away.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
I will you know, we can be in touch. So
I would be talking with the parents.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Sometimes the moms would text me like so sweet, Like
that was a really special dynamic.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I'm still in touch with all the moms of the
kids from Girl Meets World too, and of course all
the kids from Girl meets world. But yeah, I mean
for me it was a little different because they were twelve,
very little fourteen, Yeah, and so it was for me
I wanted to have both the professional boundary as you
have a family and as a thirty something year old
(11:45):
woman at the time, it's inappropriate for me to have
you come stay at my house total fourteen. But I
also wanted them to know I had a total open
door policy and that they were welcome to come and
talk to me about anything that was going on. If
something was bothering them, something was making them uncomfortable and
they needed someone to speak up for them, but and
didn't feel comfortable doing it themselves, maybe didn't want it
(12:07):
to be their parent, because there is, of course when
you're young, that feeling of like I don't want my
mommy to be the one to solve this for me.
So letting them know that like I was there to
be that person if they needed it, and but those
you know, the great thing about having good relationships with
the people you work with is that twelve years later,
I'm still in touch with those kids who.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Are now no longer children.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I know they're all in their mid to late twenties now,
so gosh, hopefully you'll have the same experience for Hollywood Arts.
Is the plan to have some of the original Victorious
cast members swing by, of course.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Of course.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
So yeah, you know it's been awesome.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
How many episodes have you done?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
We did twenty six?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Yeah, girl, I swear when I say it was all
thanks to the Victorious fans, Like you don't get noners
like that anymore. Yeah, We've been very lucky. Netflix has
been super generous and supportive, and they have the data,
they know what's performing well, and like believe in us
and the edits they've seen. They're stoked on and like,
(13:09):
we're just really proud of this. And I try not
to like get too ahead of myself because I've also
been on the other end of a lot of shows
where it's like you think it's a great one and
you get one season, you barely get the pilot out
and you just don't know what's going to happen. But
something feels different with this, and yeah, I'm just like
forever grateful for the Internet.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Yes, thank you Internet.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'm really excited for you.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Thank you so much for spending your time with me.
It was wonderful getting to chat with you, Like, it's
always so fun to find someone I have so much
in common with, you know, like that shared history. Like
you mentioned my husband, we went to high school together.
Oh so we have been acquaintances and friends over the years.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And when we started dating, I always said to people.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We were on a fast track because I didn't have
to spend the first six months figuring out if he
was a serial killer.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I already knew he wasn't. Yes, and like, you know,
because and I could talk to.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Him about Dan sucks and familiar.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You know, it was like, oh, you know, Dan's great.
We can get married.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I'll be juicy ladies, but my husband will be getting
a sack.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Gosh, I love a juicy lady's. That wasn't around when
we were here. But I mean when I was young.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
See I'm older than you, but you know, we we
were very big on the fat free.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
We didn't know anything about sugar.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Like the non fat yogurts.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You know, yogurt Delight over there on shoe Huh, that's
where I went for Dan.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Yogurt Delights is my juicy Ladies.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
By the way, that was such a thing when I
would be out in like off Laurel Canyon. We go
to studio Yogurt or come Freeze like yogurt.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
And I hear it's coming back. Oh, I stilly, did
yogurt is a thing again? Yeah? She said mm hm.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Oh yeah, yogurt is yogurt' where it's at?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Thank you so much Daniella for being here on the podcast,
and we will have to get our kids together in
eight one eight and stay tuned for more information on
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Let's kids. That's okay because no one here. It is.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Every week I ask our listeners to send in voice
memos telling us an embarrassing story from their past, and
they always pull through.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
So today we're.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Gonna hear from Hannah, who has quite the first kiss.
Speaker 4 (00:41):
Hi, Danielle, you had your first kiss in front of
a live studio audience, And I had mine meticulously planned
out for me. It was eighth grade, went to a
small school, had a crush, and my crush and I
had a mutual male best friend, and somehow the idea
was born that my crush and I meet up and kiss.
We decided that the safest place to do it was
between two classrooms in what was probably supposed to be
(01:05):
a really big shared storage closet, but it was big
enough for one desk and like one teacher. One day,
one hour after school schedule is aligned, the last bell rings,
and of course are not speaking to each other or
even looking at each other.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Finally, the hallways seem empty.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I see my crush going towards one of the classrooms,
so I go to the other one.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I walk into the little storage room and close the.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
Door behind me, and he's standing across from me behind
the other door, and there's a window in the door,
and I'm staring at it intently to make sure that
nobody comes in the room, but I also don't know
what else to do. So I take a couple steps
and I put my right hand on his left shoulder
and he put his right hand on my left hip.
I kind of leaned back because he was leaning forward,
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and we start kissing.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
We had no idea what we were doing.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
It was just full slobber, and I remember thinking, why
is there so much slobber? Why is it like we
are just flat out licking each other's faces. We keep kissing,
and I'm really stiff, and I'm stuck in this position,
and I don't want to move because if I move,
it might signal to him that I want to stop,
and of course I don't want to stop. My left
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low back starts cramping, so I have to start gripping
his shoulder a little harder so that I lose my balance,
and then my right back leg starts shaking. My body
just can't take it. Eventually, we stop kissing, and I
remember having to wipe the entire bottom part of my face,
and sadly, he did not fall madly in love with me.
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We did not go on to date. I'm not even
sure if we ever spoke about it again. So maybe
Tapanga had the right idea, and I should have just
shoved him up against a locker, kissed him, and walked
away confidently, because what I did instead was super awkward.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
Oh my gosh, I love the back pain.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It's like her number one memory from her first kiss.
Speaker 5 (02:53):
How so intricate she understood every detail. She's like, I'm
never forgetting this.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Moment, getting all of these moments.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Oh man, so sad. I only remember my first kiss.
My first kiss was on Boy Meets World. I only
remember that one.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
I don't remember my first real life kids at all.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
I don't remember my first real life kiss, my first
or on TV. My first, very first one was on
eight Simple Rules, and I remember Kate Lee Quoco and
Amy Davidson giving me so much good advice, and I
remember at one point I said, okay, well, I didn't
know what to expect. I didn't know what kind of
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kiss this was, and he was a little older than me,
and I was so nervous, so I just closed my
teeth and I went in for the kiss, and then
he made his as far as I remember, it made
his tongue look like he was moving.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
But I said, unclose the gates, no one could get there,
and I'll just stam there.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
Oh my god, she was awful. Can't watch it?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
I had so.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I mean, first of all, Ben and I spent years
just kissing. There's no one in the world still to
this day, I think I've ever kissed more.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
My husband and I have now been together eight years.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
Spent and I were together for seven and then yeah,
I'm pretty sure we're maybe about equals and yeah, you know,
it's funny, like you get when you first start.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
It's very awkward.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And on TV, you know, there's stuff that happens in
real life when you're not having to deal with a camera,
but like, who cares if your kisses look awkward in
real life? But on TV everything needs to look good,
you know. And I remember thinking a lot about our noses.
Speaker 6 (04:33):
What's happening with my nose? Like yeah, yes?
Speaker 3 (04:37):
And am I supposed to go this way? Or are
you going to go that way? Yeah? And then there
was one week.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
There was a week when Corey and Pinker were broken
up and I got to kiss another boy was a
guest star.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Wing Wolf, and my mom was like, who's it going
to be?
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Who's it going to be?
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Is it gonna be cute? And I was like, I ope,
be so cute.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
And then he was, of course so cute, of course.
And I described the kiss as being kissing have tomato.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It was just oh.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
And I remember immediately after the first take looking like this,
oh no, no, out toward my makeup artist, who then
came on and she was like she gets real close
to her face and she's like, what on earth I
don't know.
Speaker 6 (05:18):
Oh my gosh, how old are you at this?
Speaker 2 (05:21):
I was like fifteen, okay, and it was just like
a full and then it was like okay, maybe maybe
just that one time, and then it happened again and
it was.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Like need you again, need to touch up?
Speaker 1 (05:31):
It was just.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Yeah, TV kisses, they're.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
So hard because like, if you didn't go through for me,
I ended up leaving school in eighth grade, and like
I had never had any like experience with like boys
in real life for a while, so like the only
experience I had was when we would maybe rehearse it,
but usually.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
You wouldn't even yeah. It would be like you'd fake rehearse.
Speaker 5 (05:52):
You'd be like mm mm hmmmm, and then we'll kiss
it and then.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
We guss here the week is it.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Today?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Did you ever practice kissing like on the back of
your hands?
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Yeah, but that doesn't know, like, what are we doing?
Are we doing that's not efficient?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
No?
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You do a little no, I know, the back of
the hand, that's like a kiss.
Speaker 6 (06:11):
Can't do that doesn't want.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I know. I think, Yeah, I'm not really sure. There's
really no good.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
There's no way other than the throw yourself into it.
And the first four were probably terrible. Even my husband
was like, well, you didn't have a ton to me.
Fifteen years later, we're fine, guys, don't worry.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
You figured out how to kiss.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I do feel like choosing your own school as the
spot for the like the meetup, adds a whole other layer.
It's so hard hard as a kid though you don't
have your own house to go back to, you have
nowhere to go for the private so true, what.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
Do you do? You go?
Speaker 5 (06:50):
You don't when you go to the promenade or to
pay them all or whatever, like that's why they would go,
and that's why my parents would say, you are not going.
Speaker 6 (06:57):
Not allowed nope.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I you know, I spilled. Still spend a lot of
time at the mall because I love it. I am
very happy to see kids meet up at the mall.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
You know they're still Yeah they write their little motorbikes.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
We've got their little e bikes very dangerous. And they're
dressed exactly like we were, exactly. They're wearing tops and
baggy jeans, and they're holding hands and they're walking in groups.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
And it makes me very excited. But you're right, that
is what you do.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
You go, you do the you do the mall situation,
which does explain why in the family bathroom there's.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
One always in the in the family.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Bathroom with the door locked for a long time. I'm
figuring it out. Now you know you're kissing in there.
I just figured it out. So I got to get
a little smarter before my kids get to be that ape.
I can't take me a couple.
Speaker 5 (07:47):
Of I don't even know because I have no experience.
Remember I know, Yeah, your husband had to teach you.
It's gonna have to be the one that's ten steps ahead.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
Okay, do you.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Think kids still have bay like the way we used
to talk about, like getting a first base segment.
Speaker 5 (08:03):
Do we do think they still talk about you know,
it's so weird And I watch a lot of unscripted
dating shows. Okay, dating is not dating, it's different. Oh
I'm looking at these youngins in the Okay, so dating
now is like essentially if we were like in a relationship,
that's what they call dating.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Really, like, we're not even dating.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Like dating growing up was like we're going to go
on some dates and we're going to start dating each other.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Yes, Now it's like.
Speaker 5 (08:27):
If you're dating, you're coupled up, you're like kind of
like together in a weird way, like you're now dating.
Whoh am I right?
Speaker 6 (08:35):
Yeah really yeah?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
And so what do you call what do they what
do the youngs call casual dating?
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
That's a situationship, right, and seeing each other would be
like serious or not serious?
Speaker 5 (08:48):
Yeah, that's like kind of situation ship be okay, yeah,
but dating is like if you're dating, that's serious, right.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Right, that's like a yeah, yeah, a big step that
was not serious. No no, not when we were young, No, no,
you were like, yeah, we're doing around.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
There are so many people that like, when I look
back on my time and I'll be like, yeah, I
dated that guy, and then people are.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Like what I meant, Like, we went to Robbie twice.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah, we went on a date, right, that was dating,
not like together together. Yes, all right, kind of like
this for them on.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Your new show.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Have you already found yourself developing a bit of a
motherly toward the girls?
Speaker 6 (09:41):
Yeah, into all of them.
Speaker 5 (09:42):
Yeah, so we all stayed in the same hotel, and
I'm so glad we did because I would get little
knocks on the door. I would make like when people
got sick, like you know, would bring them a little
soup or whatever, and yeah there is something. Oh I
had alyssa or girl or gorgeous. I had amazing gifted
human being over at the house yesterday because she's a
(10:04):
little social Butterfly flew out from New Jersey to la
just because and hang out with the family Immemorial Day.
And then we popped by the house and helped like
say good night to the kids. And I'm like, this
is big sis life, Like it's different, Like this is
so good we are. So I've got another one coming
in a week. I'm like, guest rooms open. I'm like,
(10:25):
what do I do make a bunch of keys. Now,
what are we doing.
Speaker 6 (10:27):
I'm so cute.
Speaker 5 (10:28):
Yeah, yeah, I had Eric like an another one stay
with me. It was it's been so nice. And it's
how old are they? Youngest is almost eighteen, oldest is
twenty four?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Man, this is great.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Oh.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Good people like a salta the earth. Good people, good families.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
Good.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
Yes, great.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
I mean every time you have a show, you are
involved in the whole thing.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
The whole thing.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
It's not just the kid, it's the parents and the
family and all of that.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
And that's a big thing too, because you know a
lot of these kids that had just kind of moved
out for the show for the first time, they live
at home. You know, I'd meet the parents and it's
like I didn't. I moved out there too, So I
was away from my family temporarily, and so I was
always like, you know, I am a call away, Like
I'm a knock away.
Speaker 6 (11:16):
I will you know, we can be in touch. So
I would be talking with the parents.
Speaker 5 (11:19):
Sometimes the moms would text me like so sweet, Like
that was a really special dynamic.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I'm still in touch with all the moms of the
kids from Girl Meets World too, and of course all
the kids from Girl meets world. But yeah, I mean
for me it was a little different because they were twelve,
very little fourteen, Yeah, and so it was for me
I wanted to have both the professional boundary as you
have a family and as a thirty something year old
(11:45):
woman at the time, it's inappropriate for me to have
you come stay at my house total fourteen. But I
also wanted them to know I had a total open
door policy and that they were welcome to come and
talk to me about anything that was going on. If
something was bothering them, something was making them uncomfortable and
they needed someone to speak up for them, but and
didn't feel comfortable doing it themselves, maybe didn't want it
(12:07):
to be their parent, because there is, of course when
you're young, that feeling of like I don't want my
mommy to be the one to solve this for me.
So letting them know that like I was there to
be that person if they needed it, and but those
you know, the great thing about having good relationships with
the people you work with is that twelve years later,
I'm still in touch with those kids who.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
Are now no longer children.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
I know they're all in their mid to late twenties now,
so gosh, hopefully you'll have the same experience for Hollywood Arts.
Is the plan to have some of the original Victorious
cast members swing by, of course.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Of course.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
So yeah, you know it's been awesome.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
How many episodes have you done?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
We did twenty six?
Speaker 1 (12:48):
Wow?
Speaker 5 (12:49):
Yeah, girl, I swear when I say it was all
thanks to the Victorious fans, Like you don't get noners
like that anymore. Yeah, We've been very lucky. Netflix has
been super generous and supportive, and they have the data,
they know what's performing well, and like believe in us
and the edits they've seen. They're stoked on and like,
(13:09):
we're just really proud of this. And I try not
to like get too ahead of myself because I've also
been on the other end of a lot of shows
where it's like you think it's a great one and
you get one season, you barely get the pilot out
and you just don't know what's going to happen. But
something feels different with this, and yeah, I'm just like
forever grateful for the Internet.
Speaker 6 (13:27):
Yes, thank you Internet.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'm really excited for you.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Thank you so much for spending your time with me.
It was wonderful getting to chat with you, Like, it's
always so fun to find someone I have so much
in common with, you know, like that shared history. Like
you mentioned my husband, we went to high school together.
Oh so we have been acquaintances and friends over the years.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
And when we started dating, I always said to people.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
We were on a fast track because I didn't have
to spend the first six months figuring out if he
was a serial killer.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I already knew he wasn't. Yes, and like, you know,
because and I could talk to.
Speaker 6 (13:58):
Him about Dan sucks and familiar.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
You know, it was like, oh, you know, Dan's great.
We can get married.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I'll be juicy ladies, but my husband will be getting
a sack.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Gosh, I love a juicy lady's. That wasn't around when
we were here. But I mean when I was young.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
See I'm older than you, but you know, we we
were very big on the fat free.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
We didn't know anything about sugar.
Speaker 6 (14:17):
Like the non fat yogurts.
Speaker 2 (14:19):
You know, yogurt Delight over there on shoe Huh, that's
where I went for Dan.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
Yogurt Delights is my juicy Ladies.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
By the way, that was such a thing when I
would be out in like off Laurel Canyon. We go
to studio Yogurt or come Freeze like yogurt.
Speaker 6 (14:31):
And I hear it's coming back. Oh, I stilly, did
yogurt is a thing again? Yeah? She said mm hm.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Oh yeah, yogurt is yogurt' where it's at?
Speaker 5 (14:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Love it.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Thank you so much Daniella for being here on the podcast,
and we will have to get our kids together in
eight one eight and stay tuned for more information on
Hollywood Arts the Victoria spinoff coming to Netflix asap. Teen
Beat is an iHeart podcast produced and hosted by Danielle Fischl.
Executive producers Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman, Executive charge of production,
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Danielle Romo, producer and editor Tara Subach. The theme song
is by Mark Coppus, Yes that Mark Coppus. Follow us
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