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September 22, 2025 11 mins
James Van Der Beek had to drop out of the Dawson's Creek live event due to health concerns and you will not believe who is filling in for him!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So for one of his favorite shows of all time
is Dawson's Creek. A show man loves Dawson's Creek show. Yeah,
I still do, still do.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
I never haven't seen it on TV a long time. Yeah,
which it's on appoint you're gonna watch. Four seasons were great.
Last two weren't so great. It's when you go to college,
you know. And they brought in a new character who
I wasn't a fan. Who's the magic Yeah, the loss
of the match who was gone. It got a little convoluted,

(00:33):
but whatever we made it through. The ending was kind
of terrible. Last episode was pretty terrible.

Speaker 1 (00:38):
So we got Dawsonson, Pacey, Joey and the other one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
Michelle Williams's character remember her name, Yeah, I remember.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
Her name's Sarah.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
No, it's uh. Jen was a little sluity, but I think.

Speaker 3 (01:04):
That was a previous school she was wasn't.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
No, she was in the new school too. She was scandless,
little slutie and uh, you know, she eventually was with Dawson.
That didn't work out because Dawson's kind of a bitch.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
I thought Dawson was with Joey, Yeah, but then he
was well, they all like very ancestuous. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
And then and then there was this guy Jack who
was there. It was who was also with Joey, but
then he turned out to be gay. Oh so, and
then Jen dies and then Jen dies with the kid
and Jack takes on the kid. But here's the problem. Yeah,
in the reunion episode, you could never another UNI episode

(01:41):
the final episode because they did like a flash forward
kind of thing, the time jump. Here's the problem. You
can never do a reunion episode because you killed off Jen,
who happened to be the biggest star on the show.
Stupid move.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
Michelle Williams on that show is now like an Academy
Award winning actress. Like as Vanderbeek, not so much.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
I can tell that was coming though.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
He showed up some chops potential. He loved the show
so much that if you had a daughter, you were
gonna name her after one of the characters.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
We just like the name Joey.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
We know why you like that.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Me and my wife both liked the name Joey. Her
name is girl. Do you have a daughter, her name
would be Joey.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Yeah. Wow, it's a fact you didn't want to name
her Katie Holmes.

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Katie doesn't have the same ring to it as Joe.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Katie Katie Holmes.

Speaker 2 (02:32):
Dodd had a big crush on Katie Holmes in Big
Katie Holmes.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
How do you feel about her now?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
Still like? Still like her? Okay, I don't know if
I look at her the same way as I used
to write She's a weird ye, but whatever.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Well, apparently there was going to be a big event
surrounding Dawson's Creek. I think it's tonight. I was all
locked in you know about this.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
Yeah, they were doing like a table read of the
first episode, great episode in front of a studio audience.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Yep. Yeah.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
And it's all because you may or may not heard
that James Vanderbeek Dawson was diagnosed with stage three cole
e rectal cancer last year.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Did not know that?

Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (03:16):
And I guess when that's gonna.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
Be a very special episode.

Speaker 4 (03:19):
Very special episode.

Speaker 5 (03:20):
So when that happened, he said his quote Angel Michelle
Williams said, we need to put together some sort of
charity event for cancer charities, and let's do a Dawson's
Creek reunion that's to raise money.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Pretty wild, because you would think she'd be too above this,
you know, I mean, she's a pretty differ I guess
so something she did. Wait, hold on, I mean again,
he's been nominating multiple times for Academy Awards.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
Yeah, she seems very down to earth.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
I follow Busy Phillips Instagram.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Busy Phillips is who came on the show in the
fifth and sixth seasons, who I think ruining the.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Show and say that we're being the lead here. You
follow Busy Phillips. Yeah, terrible, guys.

Speaker 5 (04:08):
I've loved her ever since Freaks and Geeks and I
followed her ever since, and she's been in other things
that I love, and I just love her like personality.

Speaker 3 (04:17):
I don't like her to I really like the relationship together.

Speaker 5 (04:20):
Yeah, and so her and Michelle Williams are it's literally
like best friends because of Dawson's Creek, Like she.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
Brings her on the red carpet to like the Academy
Awards with her because.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
She wouldn't be invited otherwise. It's a fact.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
But it's not nice, Tony, it's not nice.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
So yeah, so they're like, so they're like bestie. So
so you know, kind of with that vibe. Michelle Williams
is down to earth. She's not as like A list
as you think so, because I was just that is
an example to back up what you were saying about.
How like, out of all people to say, hey, let's
get the band back together to raise money for your charity,

(05:01):
you wouldn't think the A list actress would be the
one in the group, but she was, and so planned
for tonight in New York. Tickets went anywhere from two
hundred to twenty five hundred dollars and about twelve cast members,

(05:21):
all of the main ones, Joshua Jackson, Katie Holmes, Michelle Williams.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Like, because, like, if you're gonna call Joshua Jackson and go, hey,
we're doing this, is he gonna say no? Like out
of all that, I mean, Katie is a huge right now. Yeah,
but I mean, is he on the same level as
Michelle Williams and Katie Holmes?

Speaker 4 (05:40):
No question?

Speaker 2 (05:42):
Is Katie Holmes still a big star? Her name is yeah,
I don't know what her name is her her and
Joshua Jackson are doing a movie together. I think she's directing. Yeah, right,
I know that's right.

Speaker 3 (05:55):
I mean maybe she's a good director.

Speaker 2 (05:58):
That's it's a Joey pacey uh spin off spin off
I don't want to send great.

Speaker 4 (06:03):
Okay, now that movie has nothing to.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Do with it.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
It's a terrible friend to Dawson. You still your best
friend's girlfriend.

Speaker 3 (06:09):
Come on.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
And then they went on a sailing trip together. They're
in high school. How are they sailing together for summer?

Speaker 3 (06:16):
Like I remember watching that going They took off.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
The entire summer for months just to just to to
a small boat.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Did Joey have parents?

Speaker 2 (06:25):
She had an older sister.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
Parents died.

Speaker 4 (06:29):
I think that's why they were on Dawson's Yeah something.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
It wasn't actually Dawson's Creek.

Speaker 4 (06:35):
Well, wasn't that the name of the creek that ran
through It.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Wasn't Called's creek.

Speaker 4 (06:41):
Regular.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
Yeah, she was sneaking through Dawson's window and they'd hang out.
But they were just friends.

Speaker 1 (06:46):
Damn creepy.

Speaker 6 (06:49):
Yeah, anyway's dad died, by the way, I told, yeah,
you're very found out.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
His mom was cheating on his dad. It's home, man,
it's home.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Your parents are still together.

Speaker 2 (07:01):
That's true.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
That's big good.

Speaker 5 (07:05):
Charity events scheduled for tonight to raise money for cancer,
but last night, James Van Derbeek took to his social
media to let his fans know.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
He is so sorry, but he will not be able
to beat.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
The whyow well is he is the cancer?

Speaker 5 (07:24):
Well, he says he's developed two different stomach viruses in
addition to his cancer treatments, and so he needs he.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Gets two different stomach viruses.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
That's bad luck.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
What does that mean? I don't know what does that mean?

Speaker 5 (07:38):
Do you even know that? I'm not sure. I'm not
sure for him? Yeah, yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
Take some pepto. You got to go.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
I don't know if you gotta go.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
Yeah, sounds like it may be a little rougher than that.

Speaker 1 (07:50):
It's for his thing.

Speaker 7 (07:50):
If he's like got basically the stomach flu and you're
throwing up, not like, how can you do that?

Speaker 4 (07:55):
And you're going through cancer.

Speaker 1 (07:57):
I was at our tenth anniversary show sick as a
dog still performed. That's a fact. And you know I
was on my deathbed, deathbed, and I brought it that night.
You did, okay, James?

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, well James is actually on his deathbed. I was there.

Speaker 6 (08:18):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
I mean he took a point for his wife and
children are still going to go to New York to
a test.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
Video or something.

Speaker 4 (08:25):
Yeah, he's got he's got.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
You going to do it, Well, how can you do it?

Speaker 4 (08:30):
Dawson, don't worry everybody.

Speaker 2 (08:32):
I'm let me think who would replace Dawson?

Speaker 4 (08:34):
He has a stand in.

Speaker 1 (08:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:35):
I'm trying to think of who would want to stand in. No,
not anymore. I don't know.

Speaker 4 (08:42):
If it's looking better he's put it back together.

Speaker 7 (08:45):
You know, that's a great question. Philippy Philippy. I don't
know why that. I would go Freddy Prince Jr. That
actually worked Dawson. I wouldn't be surprised if he was
up for it, and that he said.

Speaker 4 (09:00):
He passed French Junior past I.

Speaker 1 (09:03):
Would say that that would be would go Jason Priestley.

Speaker 4 (09:08):
Wow, Grand Brandon couldn't get him.

Speaker 3 (09:14):
Dylan would have been nice.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Well he's dead r I p r P.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
He's actually what about Mark Paul Gostler? They're the same, right,
isn't that the same human? They're the same? Wow?

Speaker 3 (09:26):
You freaking nailed it.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Yeah, that's he's not doing.

Speaker 1 (09:29):
People would be confused. They would be like.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
He said he was sick, and make it.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Who is he's not doing a Yeah?

Speaker 5 (09:38):
Come on, well he says that his replacement is ridiculously overqualified.
They're going to be doing this at a big theater
in New York, he said. Plus he already knows how
to get to the theater, and that is because his
replacement is Lynn Manuel Miranda.

Speaker 1 (09:57):
I think that makes sense. I think that makes sense.

Speaker 4 (09:59):
We also not coming, gonna wrap the scripts coming?

Speaker 6 (10:05):
Ye, he looks exactly like Dawson, couldn't. I mean, sounds
like makes a lot of sense. Even thinks to that,
Oh man, what's maybe he's out. James picks out, what
are we gonna do? I got it? I just watched Hamilton. Well,
hold on a minute. What if Lynn is a massive

(10:27):
Dawson's Creek fan. He hears about this, and he puts
his hand up and goes, I'll do it.

Speaker 4 (10:32):
I got you, but I'll do it.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
But how would he know?

Speaker 2 (10:35):
Somebody had to have reached out to him, right, Yeah,
you would think.

Speaker 1 (10:38):
Uh, there's this a list actress on the cast, Michelle Williams.
She makes a phone call, goes, you know what, we
need to replace James. I'm gonna call Lynn and see
if he's available. Yeah, that's the most random thing I've
ever heard of my life.

Speaker 4 (10:57):
The world's confused.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
Maybe maybe Mark Paul Gossler was too busy. You know,
he's too busy. Yeah. Wow, that's a stunner. All right, Well,
I don't know if this is the union. Yeah, it's lame. Yeah,
it's lame. Don't do it. Reschedule it just rescheduled.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
But I mean people bought tickets.

Speaker 5 (11:16):
I think they like flew in like crazy Dawson's people
like flew into New York.

Speaker 1 (11:20):
I know, you want to do the guy's got the squirts.
What do you want to do? Sorry,

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