Q&A Meets World! Part 2

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Thank you for your patience, Happy to have you here. Welcome to part two of Q and A's for season two. Here we go. What were some of your tricks for memorizing lines every week? Did you guys have any never has a problem, Just they're just in my head exactly, young brains that were sponges naked them up and by the time show night came around, you just they were just in your head absolutely the next day and filled up with new ones. Do you guys remember being baffled by people thinking it was hard? Yes, it was like yeah, and I will never be one of those people, like, I don't know if it would be hard now I haven't done it, and so but like I imagine it would. It would kind of come back if I practice. But like I remember as a kid actor just being like, why are these people think this is hard? Yeah, it's muscle memory after a while, or just that's what it was. That was part of your job. So in the later seasons, Sean Hunter's poetry comes up and this person said, I remember I saw in the credits that it was actually written by writer. I've always wondered how this came about. Was it easy for you to share your writing and have it be a part of the show. Didn't we tell the story we may have with you? I don't know that we told the story of how the how? I mean I talked about it. Yeah. Interesting, I thought I told the story on the podcast. But maybe you know, also we've done Q and A's right, so I might I might be confused. Um, yeah, so they had done. They had written the script based on the fact that I really did write poetry in real life. Um, and thanks to David Colmbs, the studio teacher. I you know, and I know Danielle you feel the same way that poetry was basically introduced to your life at a very young age. It's still a huge thing. Like Danielle and I were texting each other, you know, a few months ago, but like something about some favorite poems and I was like, you must know this poem because David probably taught to you. And She's like, I've got my addition, it was a John Keith's poem. Yeah. But then we were also we read contemporary poetry. You're sharing Ada Lemon poems with each other, and I just I love that. That's a huge part of my life because of David and yours too. Um So, yeah, so I got into writing poet, reading poetry, and then were eventually writing poetry. And somehow the writing staff found out about this decided, which now I see that we're in the second season, poetry is always kind of a backphone appoint meets world interestingly. Um so, I guess it was part of Michael Jacobs, you know, I think he likes poetry and loves literature obviously as you see throughout the show. So they decided to take this aspect of my real life put it into Sean and part of his storyline, and um, I was really upset. I was u I they had written it into the show. At this point, they were already taking a lot of things from my life. I wasn't comfortable with it always, and this one really upset me. And it was David Colmbs who sat me down. He was like, why are you so upset about this? And I said, well, I just feel like I don't know, I didn't say it this way, but I think I felt exploited to a certain degree, like I felt like, you know, And what I said was, I feel like they've taken a part of me without actually taking it, Like because they had written poems in the show that weren't obviously not written by me, and so David said, why don't you just go meet with Michael? And so I did. I called a meeting with Michael and I sat down and I didn't know what I wanted, but Michael offered. He was like, do you want to write the poems? Would that make you feel better? And I said, yeah, why don't you give me a chance to write the poems and if they work, you know, great, you can use them. And if they don't, then we can just use whatever is already in the script. So I wrote two poems and and Michael loved the first one, and then I started getting notes on the second one, and I just said, yeah, I really like the second one. I don't want to change it. So if you don't want to use my poem, don't. And it became like a big thing, like I remember in front of the audience. We were like having all these meetings and Michael kept trying to change the actual content of my poem and I was like, just don't use it, right, like, I'm not going to change like I you know, he wanted it to be more accessible, he wanted the poem to be like, I don't know. I guess it's more I think that he had a hard time. He thought the vocabulary was too complicated, the audience wouldn't get it, or I don't know, And I was like, look, I get it. I know what you're saying. But if you want to use my poetry, this, I like this poem. This is personal to me. I had written it, you know, for the episode, but I had based it on my real life. And if you don't want to use that, then don't go back to the poem that you already had. And it became kind of a face off, and then they ended up using my poem without changing it. And then you know, I that's the one that I get the most emails, and the first one, which I actually think now is kind of a better poem. People don't comment on it that much. But the Top of the World poem is the one that I get the most feedback about. People love it. So what was the name of the other one? An unpublished manuscript for JD. Salinger? Okay, yeah, well, we all know that Corey sees himself as Celery, but what food would your characters describe themselves as being a great question, so fun. Wow. Um, you know. The first thing that popped into my head and it has nothing to do with it's just because of what Eric was and became and was tofu Oh, just because he took on the flavor of everything that was around him. He just became whatever you had to become. No, it didn't have its own thing, it just had I mean the other thing I would say was just Eric seems like a big old, happy slice of pizza or like yeah, like a or like a pot pie, like something like something warm, food, cozy and comfort foodie that at the end of the day is probably not great for your heart, but it's really good for your heart. Oh yeah, man, I don't know, I have to talk. I did have this question ahead of time. I still didn't prepare anything. I think anything I feel like Topanga would have to be something that's like a little too difficult to make, like something that you're like, I'm not gonna make that, like um, like three day Ramen, where it's like you've got to first make the bone broth and everything. It's like, oh, yes, yes, I do feel like something like that, something where you're like, well, yeah, it's fine, but you really have to work for it. Yeah that's great. Nice, Yeah, nice. I feel like, yeah, I mean, Sean's got to be like, uh, like a like a TV dinner, but like with a twist, right, Like it's got to be something that would be served in a trailer park. It's probably got mayonnaise, but then it's got like a new it's like, um, oh you know what it is. It's like a casserole dish, but like with the cheese that's crumpled on top. I gotta say I could also see just bologna and cheese on wonderbread. You know, just that old school kind of sandwich. Yeah. Yeah, it's a lot of mayo. Yeah. Miracle Whip, Miracle Whip. Which character from the show do you would think do you think would have had the best spinoff? They talked about doing an Eric and Eric and Jack show. I think that probably would have been pretty good. But for the record, you and Ben did kind of have a spin off. I mean, you know, it was more like a sequel show. Yeah, yeah, but still I'm but no, there was so I was going to talk about this as we got closer, but I was going to leave the show at one point. Um, I mean to the point where Michael and I had had meetings. We had meetings with ABC. He'd already written to it. Well, we'll get to certain scenes where there's a scene where Bill actually says, do you know what you're going to do in life? And I talk about no. But and it was because there was a a good chance I wasn't going to come back the following season because Michael and I what was all Michael had, But I was in on the pitches, pitched an idea to where Eric moves to Los Angeles. This was not the seventh season. This was between This was season four, season five, and we met with ABC, we met with Disney. He had the pilot all set up. I remember it was Eric was driving his car and the start was going to be he jumps the ramp at Santa Monica, at the Santa Monica Pier and just the car slams into the beach like this. Eric stumbles out and just walks into the ocean. And that was going to be the start of the start of the episode. And it was gonna be like a young friends and he was going to have meet all these people in Los Angeles. So he actually, I mean, we not only had meetings and talked about it, and he was writing the pilot, but he wrote to it on Boy. So you can actually see a time where it was like, oh, they're writing me off, and it was because Eric was gonna have hispen off. Wow. Yeah, that's so cool. Yeah, I'm I'm not even sure why it never happened, to be honest with you, I never got I just never left boy. I never got a reason why we didn't. We didn't do it well, I didn't go forward. Yeah, I mean, based on what we've seen so far, I would love a t K spin off. Yeah, I think the bullies in general, all the bullies and have their own little like version of Boy. That would have been really fun. I think what could have been really interesting too, would have been a UM Alex daysera Tony Quinn spinoff. Could have been like a Young Teachers. See I love Alex, but I don't remember what his role of the show was at all Teachers, so like you, a young faculty. But I mean that could have That could have been an interesting kind of show too. You get kind of friends aspect and all that kind of stuff that could have ye. Yeah, writer, can you still do a handstand slash? Walk on your hands. Uh yeah, wow, I haven't done. So somebody asked if I could explain to Penga's cross necklace that I wore slash she wore in the later seasons. Was it a choice by producers or wardrobe in support of waiting for marriage? And it was just my necklace. I over the course of my life have been on a roller coaster of trying to figure out what I think about religions. And when I was young, I was raised Catholic, and then we moved to Calabasas and we couldn't find a church we like, so we just stopped going to church altogether. And then in the later my later teens, I, through different friends in different avenues, started going to church again. And for my eighteenth birthday, I asked my grandmother for a diamond cross necklace and she got it for me, and it was just a gift from my grandmother that I wore basically all the time, and I just started wearing it as part of my wardrobe and nobody complained. So it just kind of seems like the jewelry was mostly ours. It was. It seems like the jewelry was our choice. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, which is interesting because then later we'll talk about it, of course. But you know, Will's already mentioned he had to ask permission before he got a tattoo, and I did not ask permission. I just went and got a tattoo, and then we showed it in the final scene of BOYD And my goal was man so interesting that like our jewelry, nobody really cared too much about, but any sort of like body jewelry stuff was not really supposed Yeah, we weren't really supposed to do that. You got it removed, though, didn't you? I did. Yeah. I had two tattoos and they're both gone, and can you tell it all? Because I'd like one of mine a very little bit. But I also stopped, like, didn't finish my cycle of removals, and also I got mine removed on the earlier side of tattoo removal. They've gone, They've come a long way and they're better now. I actually just recently bought another package to go and have them, like I want them gone gone. So um, we can go together if you'd like. I just need one. I want to keep my others, but there's just one that if it's like that's stupid. So yeah, yeah, well there's one. There's one really close to us, so we can go have it removed. So, um, where's the weirdest place you've ever been recognized? Oh? God, the Anne Frank House and Amsterdam. Oh oh, I know, but it was it was somebody going, oh my god, I love you, and I was like, okay, okay, not appropriate here. I'm not an appropriate place to be doing this right now, so please like wanting to take pictures and everything, and it's like we're essentially in a Holocaust museum, like we're not going to be taking Boy Meets World pictures here. I'm sorry, we're just not. So that is the one that instantly jumps into my mind. And then being strip searched, um, coming out of Lax, coming from Amsterdam, and essentially being in my underwear as the cop says to me. The police officer says to me, hey, aren't you the guy from Boy Meets So those are my those are my two writer I went. I was. I was at a bachelor party and it was one of these bachelor parties. I hate these things where strippers were involved and they're so uncomfortable, if so uncomfortable and all, you know, but you know, whatever you're at a friend of course, of course, and somebody paid for me to get a lap dance. And this is like not even in a strip club. This is like one of those situations where it's like strippers were brought to us, um and yeah, sure enough, this this stripper was like, you know, in my lap being like I grew up watching your show. Okay, I guess maybe I just felt so you know, that was by far like the just not wanted to be recognized, like please, okay, okay, I think it's less uncomfortable to just tell your friend I love you, but this isn't for me. I was twenty years twenty one now I was having New York. Yeah, this is when I was moving to New York. So I was only twenty. It was between twenty and twenty four, and it was just yeah, no, now I would just be like please, that's how we ever put me in this position again. Yeah, I also think you know, things have changed. This was two thousand and something, right, right, right, two thousand and two or whatever, So yeah, I would be way different about my approach to that situation. Yeah, I've always been the person that was like, if that's what you want to do totally fine. I'm just let me know when they're coming. And I'm leaving and I have I've just been landing. I'll just go put myself in the bathroom. I'm just going to excuse myself from the situation I have. I'm not judging you at all. You do you, but not for me, Not for me, Not for me. I actually I have similar stories. I've been recognized, you know, in uncomfortable places, but I just I have one very recently, so I'll use that one. I was my just absolutely beloved grandfather, who was my biggest fan, you guys. No, Papa, my mom's dad passed away two and a half weeks ago, and he was ninety nine, ninety nine and a half really, and he passed peacefully in his sleep. And it's, you know what, how much more can you ask for than that? A long life, lived to be extremely healthy until he was like ninety seven or ninety eight years old, and only then was then diagnosed with COPD and congestive heart failure, but otherwise incredibly healthy his entire life. And we just had his memorial and as I walked in, I said, Hi, you know, we're here for the Joe CARBONI memorial and the woman said, oh, I don't know if the family is you know, ready yet, and I said, oh, no, I'm family. And she goes, oh, excuse me, are you are you? I think you are? And I was like yes, and she's like, oh my gosh, I love that. And I just thought, okay, it's just I love it, love you, and let's let's just calm down a little. Yeah, I just told you I was family. Like I just told you exactly now. To her credit, she didn't ask to take a picture. She didn't ask me to sign the prayer card. But there are times when yes, it's it's a little bit of a feeling of like, you know, for them. For her, it was just her day at her job, like that was just her place of work. So anyway, there's an infamous story too that I might as well tell, just because people probably have heard rumors about it. But I was shooting cabin Fever and we were shooting at an old boy scout camp in North Carolina, UM, and we had the camp for the most part to ourselves while we were shooting UM. But at one point I was covered in blood because we had been shooting the scene where I'm like covered in blood. And then we took a long break or they went to go shoot something else and I had to stay in the blood makeup. And I was sitting in my trailer reading and I was like, is it gonna be a while? They're like, yeah, we've got a couple of hours. So I said, okay, I'm going to take a hike. So I took a hike into the woods by myself and ran into a troop of kids for my boy Scout, and so I'm walking. I was walking back from my hike when I ran into it and I saw him coming up and I was like, oh god, I'm going to scare the crap out of these kids because I'm I literally have dripping down my face and I was like trying, and so they started freaking out seeing this bloody guy coming out of the woods, and then they all recognize me as riot or strong and then they started screaming about that. So it was like this weird rip as I'm like passing all these kids on this trail, like one kids looking at the other like wait, is that is that? Is that? And then like by the time I was running back to my trailer because they were all like freaking out. Oh my god, pretty weird experience. And you say people may have heard rumors about it. Did that story make its way to the internet, that I saw Wright or Strong covered in blood? Yes? Well, I think what happened to Eli Eli Roth, who was, like, you know, the director of a notorious storyteller. He just loves so he told this story like every Q and A he would ever give, you know, when the movie first came out, because he just thought it was hysterical. So it's made it to the to the internet, I think through him. I'm not sure if any of the kids actually wrote about it, but oh that's so funny. Um. What was it like for us to have animals on set? The only time I really remember it is when we had the little pigs. Do you remember that the bear about the bear? I don't think I was in the bears. Yes you were, You're in the scene with the bear. Yeah, I don't remember. Then it was terrified, really, yes, we get covered in honey in front in front of the bear. I have such a fear of bears, and it was we had a bear on set had a chain around its neck, and then we had a bear A couple times on the set at that time was with you guys, yes, and they put a wire, an electric wire between us and the bear, like in the doorway because the bears in the doorway, and um, we are sitting in the in the in the classroom, the college classroom. And the joke was that that morning when the bear showed up, they handed out pamphlets to everybody on set saying do not have food, and do not around the bear, and do not move quickly. And then our scene is us getting covered in honey and running away from the bar, and I remember being like, but we have since the opposite of what we were told following any of that was you guy, oh yeah. And then we had another one in the in the Wilderness Store that again they apparently used if I got the story right, and please send all your emails to Daniel Fishel if I didn't. Um, But they the bear they used in the Wilderness Store that we did one time with Lonnie was also used in a Will Farrell movie Semipro with the basketball thing. And that bear on another set ended up killing somebody. That same bear, yes, that same bear that we had on later ended up like killing somebody on a different sounds. It sounds through the hiker. What are the chances of that happened? Have you heard about somebody dying on a film set from a bear attack? Doesn't? Like that would be a famous story. We would all know on Google. I'm googling. I know. Bart the bear was the most famous bear actor for years. And that's the one fall. No, that's like the biggest, most incredible grizzly bear. This guy had trained it to fight with him, so he could actually fight a full grown grizzly bear. So it's the baron the bear. Um, it's the baron legends of the fall. So like whenever you see a person actually fighting with the uh summer rental, I want to know, what is the John Candy movie with a bear? Great Outdoors? I think anyway, Bart was like the famous bear for years. Nev Campbell survived a bear attack on set, okay, and Jensen said he did kill a person. He killed his trainer, thank you yep. While filming a promotional video, Miller was killed by a five year old grizzly bear name Rocky Rock. He was a He was a bear actor who had been trained to wrestle human guys. I knew I was right. We had prisoners in our audience. Damn it. Ry. Why do I remember trust being covered in Honey Bear? You know why? I can tell you remember that. I can tell you why because yeah, that's why it was right towards the end of the series. This was this was the first second episode of the war episode what is the War? This plays with squirrels episode where we are fighting each other, so we keep like doing escalating pranks, and that was the it's the old cast versus the new cast. Yeah, and you me and Ben where we're the old cast has like gotten the bear. And I can remember you writer, could you know what I remember about that scene? I remember that you're sitting in this in the chair and Trina comes up to you guys want to kiss, and everybody's booing on your side, like Corey and to Pangra booing like you can't kiss her. She's part of the enemy. And so you guys put your hands up like this and you lean in to kiss each other like you're both That's like that, I remember, and then you back away and then the bear ends up showing up. Yeah, like I remember, we had a big there's an episode with a big dog. That I like am friends with and I remember love Bernard and I fell in love with your friend. You're like still friends with this dog. No, I'm friends with Sean. I'm doing it in the present tense. Sean becomes friends with a dog somehow I don't know, but like I'm carrying a dog around the college set. I just remember that, And I remember I actually loved this dog. Was a big Saint Bernard I think, or a big dog, and I remember like hanging out with it and like laying on it behind the set the scenes like this love he was he was on Eric there because there's one scene where I'm lying on the couch and you don't know I'm supposed to be there. There's just a giant dog and then I'm like and the thing moves aside and I'm there. Yeah. I remember having the little pigs, and the little pigs were really loud and and not and we were really Yeah. Monkeys are always the worst to work with. Yeah, we had we had the monkey. We had the same monkey they had on Friends. Yeah that will remember accused of someone, but there was there were animals on the same all right, Well, we only have two more questions. One I remember there being an online vote if you wanted Corey into Pengga to get married or not. And I remember voting. No one else I've ever talked to my age remembers this. Do you know or am I remembering completely wrong? You're right? There was a website, Yeah, and you could go to the website and you could place your vote for whether or not Cory into Penga should get married. And they promised that they were going to like honor it, and apparently overwhelmingly people wanted Corey into Penga to get married. Um, And then there was on that website there was like a the date of the wedding, like it turned into like a whole thing. Do you think they should have gotten married? I mean, I'll have to watch the show. I don't know. I think it's very young to get married. With that said, similarly to the way my mom raised me about like wanting to make decisions based on the individual people, based on the individual couple, I don't think I would ever recommend to somebody to get married, but under certain circumstances, depending on the individual people, I could see saying, if this is the decision you really want to make, and you've thought it through, and we've had these conversations and you've really thought about this that I would give you my blessing. But overall, no, I would say no one should get married at eighteen nineteen years old. I don't care if you've known each other since you were three, And that doesn't mean that your marriage isn't going to work out or that you're not that there aren't people who have happy marriages if they've done that, But I overall, ninety eight percent of the time, that's going to be a catastrophic failure. I agree. I also think I think the better way to have gone would have been Corey saying we're meant to be together, since that's the way they did it, to almost a creepy way. We're meant to be together. We're to survive your four years go to Yale. Yeah, that's like you figure, that's what you want for your partner. It's like, go do be the best you you can be. I'm not going anywhere, right and it distance or whatever breaks us up, then we're supposed to be together. It's supposed to be together, exactly. I think that's there's two different ways to approach this question, though, right there's the question like the way you answered it, Danielle, and you will too is like sort of how you would feel about this situation where real life, right, But there's also the sort of cultural question of was it good for boy Meet's world to have these two given right, you know? And and what message does the show end up reinforcing or stating by having that be the main storyline? And it's it's it's it's an interesting question, like I, you know, I wouldn't have written it that way, Like I don't, you know, but I think that it's such a defining characteristic of the show that at this point it's almost a moot point, like yeah, it's almost like people, especially the people listening to our podcast right now, probably are fans of Wyman's world, and if they are, part of that is loving the Corey Tomanga relationship. It's almost like it's inseparable um and and accepting the world view of their destiny for each other is kind of part of the deal. Like yeah, you know, there's a whole other element that we're not discussing though, which is also the fact that Tapeango was waiting for marriage, and there are a large there's a large percentage of people who not only choose to do that, but think religiously it's something they're supposed to do. And so there's there's so many elements to yeah, why people choose to do that, um and regardless, and so I try to be very non judgmental about all the different reasons for why people choose to do that, because that's up to every person to decide for themselves. But as a general rule, my advice would be that you should wait to get married until you, like, truly know yourself. And I do not think you even have scratched the surface of who you are by the time you are the age that they are. And even though Corey and Topengo were the same from you know, we believe, we believed as the characters. Oh, these people are who they are, They're the That's kind of the whole point of the show is like Corey's always Corey and Topenga is always Topengga. Sean's always Sean. But the truth is, look at us thirty years later and how many changes, oh man, we've all gone through. Um, And so that is more. I don't think you're grown up until you're twenty five, twenty six Oh, I think it's, like, yeah, I think it's I think like it we have such a weird idea of adulthood in this country that's based on eighteen eighteen twenty one makes sense. There are Martuary numbers that are just grown out there. Yeah, well no, I think it's honestly, I think it's because of the military. Military. I think it's because we want to convince children to go fight for us, and so we take advantage of what they can't have a beer, right exactly. I mean it's like, you're not you're you're you're You're definitely old enough to go and fight for your country, but have a beer? You really enough to make that decision? Yeah, it's like waits what so? Yeah, it's crazy. No, let's talk about politics. Oh no, okay, last last question. Will For whatever reason, this is the person writing it. I have a recollection of a teen Magazine photo spread of you and Jennifer Love Hewitt washing a car. Do you have any memory of this? I don't. That is not what you Love been doing teen magazine. Oh yeah, we did stuff to teen Magazine's teen People Vogue, like teen Vogue, We did all that kind it was mostly her. It was like her pulling me to something and then I'd kind of be blurry in the background and close. It didn't fit, um, but it was. But yes, I'm sure there was some kind of something. Oh that's hilarious. I'm actually googling it right now to see if I can find it. But no, I can't find it. Doubt it. I see a lot of that stuff existed only in print back then, right, Yeah, you know, so uploaded their Sure there's something somewhere. We were for you know, we were that it couple for the six months or whatever. We were together for like almost two years, but for like six months we were everywhere. Yeah. She was still one of the hardest working people I'd ever met in my life. She knew what she wanted and she worked her butt off for it and was constantly at a mall singing or recording something, or doing photoshoots or filming something. I mean, that was a hard working woman. She really was. I think she still is. I mean I haven't seen her in twenty five years, but back in the day, she knew what she wanted and she went after it. Well, thank you guys for answering so honestly and as always a fun little trip down memory Lane. Thank you guys for listening and thank you for joining us. You can follow us on Instagram pod Meets World Show. You can send us your emails pod Meets World Show at gmail dot com. If you send us questions, we'll try to get to them at our next Q and A. And as always we have merch merchandizing pod Meets Worldshow dot com. We will see you all next time. Well send us out. We love you all, pod dismissed. 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