The Stalker Family Meets World

Pod Meets World

Danielle, Rider and Will have often talked about how the live studio audience was the uncredited, and sometimes most important, member of the Boy Meets World cast. Their laughs and applause could single handedly dictate the strength of an episode. And no members of that audience meant more than the Shere's, lovingly dubbed - "The Stalker Family." A staple in the bleachers, they not only attended almost every taping, they became part of the show's very fabric, both appearing in episodes and becoming close friends with the young stars. And somehow, 30 years later, we've tracked them down. Take a listen to this unlikely, and very emotional, reunion with "Stalker Boy" Adam and "Stalker Girl" Sarah, while we get a rare look into what it was to attend a live Boy Meets World taping as its most important viewer.

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2023-06-12 50 min Transcript

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00:00:18
Speaker 1: I've never been to Milwaukee if it's one of the few places in this country.

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Speaker 2: Have you been anywhere in Wisconsin Green Bay?

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Speaker 1: No, No, I don't think I've been anywhere in Wisconsin me neither. One of my closest friends is from Wisconsin, though, so she's already gave me a list of places to go and visit and restaurants to hit and stuff. So I'm super excited. But no, I've never been.

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited every time I get to cross off another state because I think I'm at like forty eight.

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Speaker 4: Oh wow, you're really close.

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Speaker 2: I'm really close.

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Speaker 3: I have to do Alaska and I think I have to do the Dakotas, so it can't be so I'm probably I'm in the mid to high forties b Wisconsin.

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Speaker 2: I think I get to cross off. I'm so excited to do our show in Milwaukee. I really am.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 5: We're also talking about out possibly having a special guest there in Milwaukee. It's it's just we just started the initial convos. But uh, a guest we do have for sure booked is the one and only mister Turner, Tony Quinn, who is going to be joining us in Kansas City.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a glorious tie, and an earring boy will be with us.

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Speaker 4: Ear Ring Boy. Speaking of earring Boy, we just posted a picture on the Pod Meets World Instagram.

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Speaker 5: The other day and writer has an upper ear piercing that I did not remember you having it all.

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Speaker 1: You didn't remember me having that. Yeah, I got I've got it multiple times. I still I think I could still probably.

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Speaker 4: Put an earring in there, But I did it.

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Speaker 1: I did it once and then and then had to take it out for a job and it filled in and so they had to get.

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Speaker 6: It re pierced.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, Yeah, I got it.

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Speaker 1: I've got I got appiers two or three times and then, Yeah, I wonder when I took it out, probably when Boy Meets World ended. I don't think I've ever put an ear ring in. Oh No, I put an ear ring in there for a job. I did a movie called Borderland and I put an earring back in. So that was when I was twenty three twenty four.

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Speaker 5: Will you put an earring back in for our Kansas City show? And Tony will ask him to wear his earring and we'll have two earring boys.

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Speaker 2: I like it. Or will repierce you on stage in mind, I like that idea too.

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Speaker 1: I'll totally do it. I mean, I wouldn't mind having an earring up there. My wife would probably hate it, but I'll go for it.

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Speaker 4: I would like I'd like another piercing as well.

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Speaker 5: My girlfriend's about ready to have a piercing party and I'm like, I'm there, but maybe I'll just do it on stage with you guys.

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Speaker 1: Is piercing still as big of a deal as it was in the nineties, not like.

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Speaker 7: The biggest tattoos?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought in the nineties nobody got tattoos and everybody got piercings.

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Speaker 4: Right right.

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Speaker 5: Ear piercings are still very big cartilage, you know, like multiple Like however many holes can you have in your ears? Is kind of is a big deal.

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Speaker 4: And I think, yeah, nose piercings or I don't know that it's.

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Speaker 2: As big as a piercings.

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Speaker 1: There were I knew multiple guys getting i know, begetting nipple piercings when we were teenagers.

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Speaker 2: It seems like it would snag on something.

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Speaker 5: Please and stop, can't talk about it.

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Speaker 3: I did see I did see a very funny meme writer you said your wife would hate it. I saw a funny meme the other day that it just said this, the scariest five minutes in any woman's life is watching her husband shave off his beard, keeping his mustache, and going, I think I might.

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Speaker 7: Just keep this.

00:03:22
Speaker 1: But there are people mustaches are okay, Like I if you can pull it off and pull it off.

00:03:27
Speaker 3: It takes a special face to pull off a mustache, well Tom Sellick face to pull off.

00:03:31
Speaker 1: But I also just feel like it goes through trends, like in the early aughts it was like not cool to have a mustag, and then it was like there's even that movie. Oh my god, I'm totally blanket on the movie Jack Black, Nicole Kidman. I just recently Margot at the wedding. It's a it's it's not a great movie, but it's a Noah bomb Bac movie and it's it's not amazing, but there's some interesting parts about it. But Jack Black plays a character who has a mustache, and the whole time it's about He's like it started off ironic and now I'm keeping it.

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Speaker 7: And it's like this whole.

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Speaker 1: Like joke about like could you believe a guy having a mustache. And it was like so clearly two thousand and seven when this movie was made, when it was still still crazy. But now like I know multiple friends who have mustachesn't pull them off, they pull them off.

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Speaker 2: My dad had a mustache for years. My uncle pulled it off.

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Speaker 5: My uncle had one. Yeah, okay, Jensen had a mustache for a little bit and I was like, you look like a cop.

00:04:26
Speaker 7: And that was it.

00:04:26
Speaker 2: And then it goes on, Yeah, all right, come to Milwaukee.

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Speaker 4: Come to Kansas City. Take a drive. Yeah, take a drive.

00:04:33
Speaker 2: Best mustache wins. We'll do a mustache contest.

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Speaker 3: Oh, best mustache wins, Milwaukee, Kansas City. I will donate several, do several, several scripts. I love it, best mustache on stage.

00:04:43
Speaker 5: You can get your tickets at Podmeats World show dot com. Bring your stash and will bring his stash exactly.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 4: Welcome to pod Meats World.

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Speaker 5: I'm Danielle Fischel, I'm right or Strong, and I'm wilfordell Well.

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Speaker 4: Dear listeners.

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Speaker 5: If we have learned anything from doing this podcast, it's that if we mentioned someone, no matter for how long, there is a very good chance that they will then be re entering our lives soon thereafter, we have been reunited with people we never imagined we'd be able to talk to again, and this episode might just take the cake. We've always said that our live studio audience, who was there with us a week after week, was almost like another character in the show, and a hot, loud audience could make a good episode even better, or a quiet, confused crowd could turn any.

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Speaker 4: Episode into a bad one.

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Speaker 5: We really like fed off of their energy, so obviously, as the show was on over the years, fans started attending tapings, which was really nice, but no one and I mean absolutely no one in that audience meant more than a local family who somehow showed up to every single show, and because of that, was lovingly dubbed the Stalker Family. The Shears were as visible on the set of Boy Meets World as we were, and they actually became part of the show's folklore and believe it or not, canon, So when they came up on an earlier episode, we wondered could we ever find them, and we did. Today, we welcome two members of our Boy Meets World family who saw it all and from a very important angle. Let us welcome to Pod Meets World Sarah and Adam Sheer aka Stalker Girl and Stalker Boy.

00:06:38
Speaker 4: I want to give you guys up.

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Speaker 7: Oh my god, you look the.

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Speaker 3: Same.

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Speaker 4: It is so good to see you guys.

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Speaker 8: Okay, please tell us how, like, how did you end up at your first Boy Meets World live taping?

00:07:02
Speaker 4: And do you remember which episode it was?

00:07:05
Speaker 6: We took a wrong turn?

00:07:06
Speaker 2: No, we were trying to find full house. Oops.

00:07:13
Speaker 9: I'll just say this, and I think it's gonna explain a lot of things. We were homeschooled. Okay for having us, That's it.

00:07:20
Speaker 6: I'm just going Yeah, what was the first episode?

00:07:26
Speaker 10: Well, the first episode I remember it was August twenty ninth and Soccer Girl please.

00:07:34
Speaker 4: She's like, I wasn't gonna let you down.

00:07:37
Speaker 10: Ninety six and my parents, actually my mother had surprised us by getting us tickets to go because we had I guess we started watching maybe in ninety five, so we kind of came into the show. But but yeah, we just really fell in love with the show. And there wasn't we didn't all watch all that much TV, and so there was very little that we watched. But your guys show we just got hooked on and I fell in love with Eric's character. I just identified with a lot of the humor and I loved that stuff. And my mother was like, you like him because he's like you, and I'm like, yeah, yeah he is.

00:08:17
Speaker 6: I love that.

00:08:19
Speaker 10: So we just really fell in love with all you guys. And my mother got us tickets and actually was kind of a bittersweet thing because unexpectedly, my grandfather passed away in July that year, in ninety six, just five days after my birthday. But I think we'd already we already had the tickets. I'm not sure when she told us about our surprises about it, but we went on August twenty ninth was the first one and kind of humorous and kind of ironic. The first thing we saw on the set was a casket?

00:08:52
Speaker 7: What was this episode?

00:08:54
Speaker 11: Episode always I forgotten episode of Yeah, I think it was like materially that's right, Oh yeah.

00:09:04
Speaker 6: That's right.

00:09:05
Speaker 2: I don't remember this.

00:09:06
Speaker 4: We remember, I don't remember there was a casket.

00:09:10
Speaker 2: That's so horrible.

00:09:11
Speaker 4: Man, we'll remember maybe when we get there.

00:09:15
Speaker 2: We get there, well, we'll remember when we're watching it.

00:09:18
Speaker 7: That's what it was like.

00:09:19
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, so was that was that your first ever live studio audience taping. Yes, yeah, okay, And then how did it go from Hey, surprise, kids, we've got tickets to go see the show. We're going to go August twenty ninth, and then oh, we're going to go every week?

00:09:36
Speaker 4: How did that come about?

00:09:38
Speaker 10: Like we got hooked watching the show. We just wanted to go again and again.

00:09:42
Speaker 6: I don't know.

00:09:42
Speaker 10: She might have got tickets a couple more times, already had them.

00:09:46
Speaker 9: I think as I recall it. So we were there. So I remember in the nineties they had teen magazines. You guys remember that, Yeah, you sure do magazines. And so my sister and I we would go. We love Boyding Squirrel. It was our favorite show. We want to know everything about out all the characters. So we would go. When we're at the market or target or whatever, we'd just go look through the teen magazines and our favorite like celebrities right.

00:10:08
Speaker 10: Well, And the thing was too because we were homeschooled and my father was self our father was self employed. We'd often just kind of hang out at stores when we weren't playing the toys r us.

00:10:20
Speaker 4: By the way, that actually is really fun when you're a kid.

00:10:23
Speaker 9: Absolutely, that's the whole.

00:10:24
Speaker 7: Point of people hanging out at the mall.

00:10:26
Speaker 5: I loved going to Target with extra time to just like peruse.

00:10:30
Speaker 9: Right, and so why I remember we're at the show and Mitch, the warm up guy, Mitchell Bank so amazing, and I remember him asking something. I don't remember what it was. It was something like, who knows when Danielle's birthday is?

00:10:46
Speaker 6: Or something.

00:10:47
Speaker 10: I think maybe the audience was asking him questions.

00:10:50
Speaker 9: He didn't know me that sounds right because Mitch, and so I was like, oh, I know when her birthday is, because I, like every other boy in the nineteen nineties a crush on Tipinger Right. I knew everything about.

00:11:04
Speaker 6: Tippinger Right, And so I said, I know when his birthday is.

00:11:07
Speaker 9: He's like you do, and I'm like, yeah, I know everything about her just being you know, a stupid teenager.

00:11:12
Speaker 6: And he's like, I'm so sure.

00:11:14
Speaker 9: And so I just started rattling off all of these facts, which were the most like basic facts that you would know about anybody.

00:11:21
Speaker 5: Her favorite color is purple, her favorite pizza topic, favorite pizza topping. She has a lot of pet peeves about guys, but don't get her started on them.

00:11:29
Speaker 9: Like, as I'm saying that like, I'm just watching Mitch's face like fall and he's what is going.

00:11:36
Speaker 6: On and he's like a lot, Oh my gosh.

00:11:39
Speaker 9: And he's like, you know, as Mike, He's like, we have a stalker boy right here.

00:11:42
Speaker 6: We security we have a stalker boy. And so that so.

00:11:45
Speaker 4: Mitch is the one who made that makes perfect sense.

00:11:49
Speaker 7: That's that's what I always thought. I assumed that that was the case. Yeah, okay, wow.

00:11:53
Speaker 9: Took me down to the kitchen set and he's like, follow me. And he took me down the kitchen set and you guys, I think we're filming, like you know, not in those main sets, but like in swing sets or whatever, and so nobody was out on the sound stages.

00:12:06
Speaker 6: And he put me in the dining room.

00:12:08
Speaker 9: Chair and he just had me sit there and he looks at me and he goes to pegus at there, Oh my god, call me. And then he takes me to the Matthew's living room and has me sit on the couch and he goes to pegus hat. Then I like, I get back to the stands and he's like, who are you with? And I had my sisters, both my sisters, my parents, my grandma and He's like, oh my gosh, there's a whole stalker fan.

00:12:34
Speaker 6: And that night, I remember that.

00:12:35
Speaker 9: He brought Danielle over, he brought you over to meet me, and I was just like, I've died and gone to heaven.

00:12:40
Speaker 6: I grocious. Is incredible.

00:12:44
Speaker 9: And then we got home and we were just like walking on cloud nine, like we've met our heroes.

00:12:48
Speaker 6: This is amazing.

00:12:50
Speaker 9: And my parents had like this freedom in their schedule and they just loved us, did everything for us, and they just started booking out all the episodes, the tape, and that's how it started.

00:13:01
Speaker 10: It came to a point when we got really close with them, with the audiences Unlimited and with Jana Janna, and at some point they were just like, you know, she was just like, we know you're coming.

00:13:15
Speaker 6: Stop calling for tickets, just come.

00:13:17
Speaker 4: Oh man.

00:13:19
Speaker 3: She made the best dirt cake every week Jenner Delicious. It was just there'd be a giant pot in the center of the table with gummy worms coming out of it and.

00:13:27
Speaker 12: A tremble oreos crumbled Oreos. Oh, she was the best Jaf're watching, Janna, how.

00:13:37
Speaker 4: Are mom and dad stock are doing?

00:13:39
Speaker 6: You're doing well?

00:13:40
Speaker 5: And what nice parents that they knew what a passion you had for a show.

00:13:58
Speaker 7: What is happening?

00:14:00
Speaker 13: The same age now that Grandma Stock or stop your grandma was when we first started going.

00:14:05
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's crazy.

00:14:07
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.

00:14:09
Speaker 14: And you guys, I think I think I was your age.

00:14:13
Speaker 4: Danielle forty two, almost forty two.

00:14:17
Speaker 13: When we started going, and David was Sarah's eight forty four almost forty four.

00:14:23
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh my gosh.

00:14:27
Speaker 6: Like I said, forty two, I'm like, you're forty two.

00:14:29
Speaker 2: Like, thank you, I wish I was forty two.

00:14:33
Speaker 4: I'm forty Jennings exactly, we're more.

00:14:41
Speaker 5: I just I love that this was like a thing you guys did together every week that you looked forward to as being like for my family, every Friday night we would it was the we ate dinner together every night at home that my mom cooked, and on Friday nights we went out to dinner and we saw a movie almost every Friday for years. That was like our family outing every week. And I love that your one of your family outings every week was to the tapings of Boy Meets World. And kudos to you parents for seeing that in your kids and knowing.

00:15:15
Speaker 4: It was you could make it possible. For them to get to go and do this and then doing it every week. It's so it's so lovely.

00:15:23
Speaker 14: Yeah, I don't.

00:15:24
Speaker 13: I don't think people understood. It wasn't always easy.

00:15:27
Speaker 9: You know.

00:15:27
Speaker 13: It was a long trip, heavy traffic, and just rescheduling everything and sitting on those benches for our bench.

00:15:34
Speaker 4: Yes, the benches. They were not comfortable.

00:15:36
Speaker 13: No, I don't think, and I didn't want to. I didn't want to stress it too much and hurt their feelings. But I don't think that the crew ever got it that it wasn't really the show.

00:15:46
Speaker 9: It was you guys.

00:15:47
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, it wasn't Eric and Sean and and you know, I mean that we cared about And it wasn't long till we transferred from going to the shore show for fun you wanting to be there for you guys.

00:16:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so sweet.

00:16:03
Speaker 9: Yeah.

00:16:03
Speaker 1: I remember feeling like there there were three times when we'd have in jokes on our show and it would feel like you guys were the only people in the audience that would get.

00:16:11
Speaker 7: Get because it'd be like, oh, well they know what it was like.

00:16:14
Speaker 1: Well, we like because you guys would have a shorthand for like everything, you'd be there for every joke.

00:16:19
Speaker 7: It was like, yeah, it's so importable.

00:16:21
Speaker 13: David and I got to meet together. We met in Sunday school, and nobody else got us right. We're all trying to explain things. We're no, no, So how how you said it was a long trip.

00:16:32
Speaker 2: How long a trip was it to get to the show every week?

00:16:37
Speaker 6: I mean, you guys were lots so they kept moving us.

00:16:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you know, we bounced all over the place.

00:16:44
Speaker 9: I mean it was worth it. I'm not I'm not complaining.

00:16:47
Speaker 13: I'm just saying I don't I don't know if people got that it was it was because we cared about.

00:16:52
Speaker 14: You, Yeah, to the point where we wanted.

00:16:55
Speaker 6: You to know you mattered that much.

00:16:57
Speaker 13: You know, we're not coming for fun because we got And.

00:17:01
Speaker 10: I felt so badly because at some point, even because we just were going to see you guys and because we loved you guys, and I think will at some point they start talking about how dumb Eric's character was, and I thought, I didn't even notice that transition. I'm some friend, you know that I'm not not even noticing what my friend's knowing or something, you know, And I'm like, yeah, I don't know why they did that. I mean, I just but I wasn't even noticing that, you know, because I was just going to go and see my friends, you know.

00:17:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, well it's also the frog in the pot.

00:17:30
Speaker 3: You got to see. You were there every week, so you got to see that. It was like no time was changing. It wasn't like you watched one episode and then watch the other. You're there for every week, so the slow change it was it was incredible.

00:17:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh it was so fun.

00:17:53
Speaker 5: Can you explain for our listeners what it was like on your end? We've talked a lot about what the schedule for us was like, what was it like for you guys? So you'd spend an hour and a half in the car and then you'd arrive. What was the process once you arrived on the lot? What was the process of being an audience member?

00:18:10
Speaker 6: Like?

00:18:11
Speaker 10: Well, they change, yeah, changed up a little bit. We'd stay and get in the line. All the audience would line up outside in a designated area and I don't remember how long we'd wait and then we were all be taken in and filed in, you know, and eventually when we got to going to more. I think it was when we were the guys were at CBS, and the first episode at CBS, we were all all the audience was in like a one room and I don't remember where they had us like something yeah, yeah, something that wasn't being used. And one of the pages, just because the pages had gotten really close to us and we all love them too, one of the pages kind of just happily, you know, told the other people there, He's like, this is a stalker family. They've gone every episode and then we suddenly knew what it was like to be celebrities. Everyone around us and attacking us with questions and pressuring us, and we're just like oh, and then one person, then one person looked at me and randomly said, so how long did you date Will?

00:19:08
Speaker 6: I'm like, what's about?

00:19:14
Speaker 10: And then we didn't even notice, but the Pages realized what they had done and they felt guilty and they instantly became like our bodyguards and gathered around us and shuffled us off and they got us into the building first, and they were like, Okay, you're gonna come on your own next time, and we.

00:19:28
Speaker 7: Ended you guys became vis yeah.

00:19:31
Speaker 10: Ended up coming on to the law parking wherever we went, and my father had a handicap placard, so we were able to use that and we just go right to the front of the line and people would look at us, like where are these people getting in front?

00:19:41
Speaker 9: It was like so weird, Like I don't know what it was like for you guys to see like this family. And sometimes I wonder like were they scared of us? Like whatever? It was so strange, Like I don't even talk to people sometimes about it because it's so hard to explain. Right, it was just such a unique situation. And now I look back, I'm like, they let us just come onto the lot park where we want completely unshaped around. Like I remember being in the bathroom, a public bathroom, and I look over and it's like mister Jefferson Sherman Helmsley's like washing beside me. I'm walking by John Lithgow, there's Jerry Seinfeld's portion. I'm just like, why am I like giving free access to just roam around.

00:20:21
Speaker 4: Just the all access pass.

00:20:22
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's so so weird.

00:20:25
Speaker 6: It was such an unute.

00:20:26
Speaker 1: I remember being so happy to find it because you know, in a way, the stalker thing is pretty derogatory, you know, And then I remember you guys owned it like pretty much right away, like because you at some point, you guys would start made stuff for us, like I don't know if it was cookies or what, but I remember you signed the car the Stalker Family, and that was when I was like, oh, it's okay, like, you know, because it felt mean like I felt like and obviously I think if you hadn't come back, it would have been Mitch would have just been a one off joke, you know. But the fact that it became like a thing and that you guys were totally fine and so nice and like we all got along, it was like, Okay, it's not like because I felt like we it could have easily turned, you know, where we were like making you feel bad, but it was like, no, we actually rely on you guys as our like audience barometer.

00:21:11
Speaker 7: How's the night going, How's But that's what it was.

00:21:14
Speaker 3: It was you became our we talk about the symbiotic relationship between the audience and the actors, and you became our metronome. You were you were in the you were the captains of the audience for lack of a better term, where it was like we knew if you guys were having fun. If there was laughing, we could talk to you about that stuff. It's like, is this working is it not?

00:21:31
Speaker 2: So that it was.

00:21:32
Speaker 1: Great, But then you guys also started having regular bits with Mitch right because I remember you would sing.

00:21:37
Speaker 4: You would do time you sang right.

00:21:39
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, I remember that.

00:21:42
Speaker 4: What did you sing? Every week?

00:21:43
Speaker 6: I was singing sing songs.

00:21:45
Speaker 7: It was in sync.

00:21:45
Speaker 6: It was the weirdest thing.

00:21:47
Speaker 9: And you were like, I think you were dating Lance at the time, and You're like, will you sing for Lance?

00:21:50
Speaker 6: And I'm like, okay, Like.

00:21:54
Speaker 7: No, pressure, were good.

00:21:57
Speaker 6: Boy, shirt.

00:21:58
Speaker 7: I saw that.

00:21:59
Speaker 3: I saw you got the BA actually because for the from the dance that we I mean, you saw you were there for the evolution of everything.

00:22:04
Speaker 10: It wasn't just the dance. You guys lip syn too. Oh yeah, you eached apart.

00:22:10
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, somehow somehow even lip syncing, my voice sounded bad. So it was terrible, especially when you're next to Matt Lawrence towards the end, who's actually thinking along into dancing, and you're like, oh man, I feel terrible.

00:22:24
Speaker 5: Well, we we obviously considered you guys. You guys felt like a bit of a good luck charm too. It was always like we you know, we we knew you were going to be there. We wanted you guys to be there. If you weren't there, it would have felt very messed up.

00:22:39
Speaker 9: Seven seasons and I feel personally responsible for that.

00:22:42
Speaker 6: So you're welcome.

00:22:44
Speaker 5: Thank you, and thank you for coming up with the idea for this podcast.

00:22:47
Speaker 2: The podcast too. That's very sweetest.

00:22:49
Speaker 6: It was like a long time coming.

00:22:50
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:22:52
Speaker 13: I actually outpatient surgery went Thursday and Stocker Grandma had to drive the kids out about this, And we got there as fast as we could, and I had to have this big pillow in front of me for my surgery site.

00:23:06
Speaker 14: And I remember when.

00:23:08
Speaker 13: They let us in, Karen came up and she says, now we can start.

00:23:13
Speaker 9: I was so thankful we were able to get there. That's all right, that was pretty special.

00:23:21
Speaker 4: Well, I mean, you guys were such a part of our family.

00:23:24
Speaker 5: We ended up including you in the wedding episode of Boy Meets World where you were seated on Tapanga's side. Who was the person who told you that was going to happen? How did that come about and what was it like?

00:23:39
Speaker 14: Let go?

00:23:40
Speaker 6: I can't remember.

00:23:41
Speaker 9: I feel like it might have been Mitch who presented it to us, Yeah, but it was presented that it was like Michael Jacob's idea that he in the wedding. And I remember, like, I think, I think my favor I think we were so weird. I think we actually dressed up because we knew it was the episode showed up as if it was a wedding. But I was the only one they didn't think was like, my outfit was good enough, which I was like a little insulted by.

00:24:08
Speaker 4: I want to know what you were wearing so bad?

00:24:11
Speaker 6: It's probably a sweater vest. I had the worst style.

00:24:15
Speaker 9: And then I remember, though Julie from Wardrobe like to wardrobes, so I'm like, well, they didn't like my outfit, but I get to go back to wardrobe and see what this is all like, so.

00:24:27
Speaker 10: Oll and I for me, I mean, you can tell my hair is crazy, but I had it I think just hanging down. But they didn't like that, so they like did something to it, and they did.

00:24:38
Speaker 6: I couldn't.

00:24:38
Speaker 10: I didn't even know what they were doing. But they were working really hard on it, and not everybody I think, was very enthusiastic about the stalkers or knew who we were because they were like doing my hair, and I heard them standing behind me, like who are these people? I don't know, they just came out of the audience. I'm like, they can hear you, human beings.

00:24:57
Speaker 6: And doors.

00:25:00
Speaker 9: They like to call themselves the background artists. Like they were seemed to a little like were these people coming.

00:25:06
Speaker 1: They took the premost seats.

00:25:09
Speaker 6: Like introduced themselves and She's like, how do you do?

00:25:11
Speaker 10: Like, oh my gosh, doing with my hair and I couldn't tell how she did it, and they were like, oh, still, don't move. So the whole time during the wedding, I'm.

00:25:19
Speaker 9: Like, we were in one other episode too, another we were in the chevy scene. I can't remember what episode.

00:25:30
Speaker 3: Sarah Knows Sarah nos Pulp Fiction.

00:25:34
Speaker 9: Oh that was a great episode.

00:25:35
Speaker 3: Oh okay, so you were in two of the most arguably the most famous episodes.

00:25:44
Speaker 6: The wedding.

00:25:46
Speaker 10: Wow, yeah, it was actually I think it was filmed on Valentine's Day. I think because we also my parents are always really good at just making holidays special for us and stuff, and so we all wore bread and have little Valentine's pins.

00:26:02
Speaker 6: You just look for three kids.

00:26:04
Speaker 9: I was wearing a red bullore vest.

00:26:06
Speaker 5: Again, listen, no one had No one had better vest game than right or strong, so I was.

00:26:12
Speaker 1: Rocking the best.

00:26:13
Speaker 9: Yeah, people actually would would think that I was your brother Writer.

00:26:16
Speaker 4: I could totally see that girl.

00:26:20
Speaker 6: In an audience.

00:26:21
Speaker 9: She came out to me and she was like, are you Writer's brother? And I'm like no, and she goes, well, you look like him. So I'm just going to tell everybody I met his brother.

00:26:30
Speaker 7: All right.

00:26:34
Speaker 5: What other special memories do you have from some of your favorite tapings?

00:26:41
Speaker 10: I think I don't know specifically. I think that just the way everyone felt like family, you know, and Mitch was a big part of that. He was just great the way he kept the audience going and we actually went, of course we did. We went to an episode of Girl Me's World in the two episodes, but it's it's I feel old saying it, but things change even in the taping. I mean, there used to be these long like do it again, take again, take again, and now I guess everything's digital. It's just like one take done. I'm like, what just happened?

00:27:12
Speaker 6: Yeah it was. And the guy at Girl.

00:27:15
Speaker 10: Means World he was really sweet too, and really good at it, but there wasn't a time for everybody to kind of bond and it wasn't the same experience and stuff, and so I think that was just great, you know, and just feeling like everyone was a family. And I think that's something that really connected and something I really wanted to share with you guys. It's not anything specifically about one episode, but you may have noticed that our family is weird.

00:27:40
Speaker 4: It's not weird. You're unique, yes.

00:27:42
Speaker 6: But the thing is, I think that's a thing.

00:27:44
Speaker 10: Even in our own family and our own little world, we were always different in the outcast. You know, I'm gonna cry, no, but it's being with you guys. It's like it's like and we're basically your guys' age too. It's like, here people are age who basically, even though they're celebrities, you know, they're kind of raised like us. They're raised different. They don't have a regular set, nine to five job, they don't fit into the mold of society, and this is what you should shouldn't be doing at this age. They're home school, they're close to their families. You know.

00:28:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all true.

00:28:20
Speaker 2: It's absolutely true.

00:28:22
Speaker 10: And it's kind of like I found my people, you know, And even though I never felt necessarily called to be an actor or an actress on this on the screen or.

00:28:32
Speaker 6: Go into it.

00:28:33
Speaker 10: I am now doing theater and I and I have published stories and I do cosplay, and I think that's all a part of it, you know. It's kind of like good for you, thank you, and it's just like these are my people, you know, and this is what I'm comfortable doing. And I think all of that subconsciously, you know, really encouraged me all that time with Boy Meets World.

00:28:52
Speaker 6: You know that this is okay to be me, you know.

00:28:55
Speaker 2: All right, So now you're talking my nerdom. What do you cause?

00:28:59
Speaker 10: I do bell and more than anything, I'm doing a Missus clause, which is funny because.

00:29:08
Speaker 6: Yes, and oh yeah, I do Princess LEI.

00:29:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, what do you do?

00:29:19
Speaker 9: I'm actually pastor, which never expected here I am. I work at Harvest Christian Fellowship with Greg Lourie. If you guys have heard of the Jesus Revolution movie, it kind of chronicles his story and how he became a pastor. And it's been super fun to see that movie impacting people. But yeah, it's it's you know, having it's such a unique time in my life that I look back to it's so special.

00:29:43
Speaker 6: It was a very like the audiences were very communal.

00:29:47
Speaker 9: There's something about being because you were there for like four or five hours at a time and so you like have no.

00:29:54
Speaker 1: Phones to look at, right, Like we didn't have any other thing to do except.

00:29:58
Speaker 4: Together audience and the cast.

00:30:02
Speaker 9: Yeah, and there's some like you guys became our friends. Like we're not like hanging out friends, but you guys were our friends. And it was just such a special time. And not, like I said, I've given up like trying to tell people about it, because I mean, your show is so iconic, like a generation was raised by you guys, you know.

00:30:21
Speaker 6: But it's just something that I kind of hold inside.

00:30:24
Speaker 9: And remember so like lovingly because it's like, man, this was such a sweet time in my life. But it's at the same time I look back and like, what was I thinking?

00:30:30
Speaker 6: That was so weird?

00:30:31
Speaker 9: Like this even happen.

00:30:33
Speaker 6: I feel like it was a different life.

00:30:35
Speaker 5: Are there people in your life now who know your the history of it? And like what the people that you talk to and deal with now, how often does it come up?

00:30:44
Speaker 4: If ever?

00:30:45
Speaker 6: Now and then?

00:30:46
Speaker 9: And like I said, sometimes I just don't bring it up because it's hard to explain, you know. I told my brothers friend the other day. I was like, Oh, we want to hear something funny. I'm going to be on the podmeats World Boy Meets World podcast with the original cast. He's like, wait what, And I was like, one told me about it, like I don't think so I'm like.

00:31:04
Speaker 6: I guess you didn't know about it.

00:31:05
Speaker 9: And then I was with some friends recently, and I'm also a geek, Will, and so I was thinking about We were talking about like superheroes and Batman's and what's the best Batman and somebody was like.

00:31:14
Speaker 6: Oh, you remember Batman Beyond and like.

00:31:16
Speaker 7: Too, I remember Batman Beyond, I know.

00:31:19
Speaker 9: And I was just like what, I don't know how it was, but yeah, it was great.

00:31:25
Speaker 6: That well, yeah, that reminds me. Will.

00:31:27
Speaker 10: I actually need to share a story with you about Batman Beyond. I had forgotten. I was at Disneyland one time and there was a little boy, I don't know if he was five or six dressed up like Batman Beyond, and he went on the matter Horn with his mother and he was in the car behind me or whatever, and so we got off first and when we got off, he was just all shaken and he was like in tears and all upset. You know, it had really gotten him upset. And his mother was trying to comfort him. And I'm like, I'm gonna go say something to him, and so I got really close to him. I said, I know Batman and I said he would be so so proud of you. Mother was just very condescending. She's like, she knows Batman and I kind of took her and I said, no, I know the guy who does his voice.

00:32:18
Speaker 13: And we we got our first email while we were going to the show, and.

00:32:23
Speaker 9: I have it.

00:32:24
Speaker 13: I think Sarah told Jensen in case anybody ever wanted to get in touch with.

00:32:28
Speaker 14: Us, it's still the stock to people on a regular basis.

00:32:38
Speaker 10: And what I'm like, uh, it's so often more often than not, though, the people that she tells, like when we're on the phone with the phone company or.

00:32:49
Speaker 6: Whatever, they get all excited. They're like, I love that show.

00:32:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's the thing.

00:32:53
Speaker 1: What's so what's so interesting to me about like what you were saying, Adam, especially like feeling like awkward about it is that you you guys were we all and we've talked about this before, like the fact that we kind of felt like nobody was watching our show when it was on, like nobody.

00:33:07
Speaker 7: Was talking about it, right, And and yet you.

00:33:10
Speaker 1: Guys felt like this sense of continuity, like because you were seeing every episode, we knew that, like there was an audience, right, And what's what we found out since is that there was a lot of you. They just weren't showing up physically, do you know what I mean?

00:33:22
Speaker 7: Like there were a.

00:33:23
Speaker 1: Lot of people who were really tracking our characters and our storylines and felt like comforted by the characters in a way that like we didn't quite know, like because you didn't read about in the press, there wasn't social media, there was no feedback, Like you guys were just physically doing what a lot of people. So now when we go to conventions, we meet our fans and like or the people that listen to this podcast, I think who were like just like you guys, like every week it brought their family together, and you know, the show and the characters was like really meaningful. You guys just happened to make it a physical journey every week, you know, But really it seems like there's a lot more of you and us than we realized.

00:34:00
Speaker 9: Know. Yeah, on the other end of it, you see how it really was an iconic show and it was so unique, like there were lots of live tape shows, but Boy means World is just a unique and special show. Like the humor, the way it was written, it's really written for adults, even though like the target demographic teenagers.

00:34:19
Speaker 6: I look at the guest stars that.

00:34:21
Speaker 9: Michael Jacobs brought on and it's like, none of these guest stars, any of your target demographic, know anything about Yeah.

00:34:28
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly. We've talked about that.

00:34:31
Speaker 9: Sales and Harlis Diller, why are they on the show? It was just it's a special show, and you guys man like it. It's just going to live on, especially with our generation. Like I don't know if you guys saw that viral video that Jimmy Fallon and Paul Red did recently, the teeny Weenie Beanie, and it just has mister Feenie in it, Like, Yeah, amazing.

00:34:58
Speaker 2: Nuts, isn't it.

00:34:58
Speaker 9: Yeah?

00:34:58
Speaker 3: Every time it pops up some more, I'm amazed. But you're so right about the guest stars. I'm thinking back as we're watching, I'm like, do you think there's many eleven year old kids going, oh my gosh, they got Billy Vera and Away.

00:35:13
Speaker 2: Like, what are the chances they got Pazzi?

00:35:15
Speaker 1: Like I've been.

00:35:18
Speaker 13: Totally in love in the Monkeys when I was like eleven and twelve, Yeah.

00:35:23
Speaker 9: And carried their album.

00:35:26
Speaker 13: I could get into Joshua Tree when I was twelve years old and all warped and melted because I didn't know about keeping things on the dash and stuff, and I was going to grow up and marry Mickey Dolan's and to have him come and directing the show and stuff I was.

00:35:38
Speaker 14: I was just freaking out a bit.

00:35:40
Speaker 2: Man, Oh that's so funny.

00:35:41
Speaker 14: Well, special moments.

00:35:43
Speaker 9: We collected a lot of memorabilia from the show as well, but you guys were interests and you would give it.

00:35:49
Speaker 6: I have a stack of sign.

00:35:50
Speaker 9: Scripts in my my collections still. I think we got I have like a Boy Meets World bowling shirt at the cast start my shirt.

00:35:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, you got some of our casting krue gifts.

00:36:00
Speaker 1: I don't know.

00:36:01
Speaker 9: Daniellen Ryder, if you recall that you once shot a very informative instructional video for how to Rollerblade, We signed it, so I popped that in my VCR anytime I want to.

00:36:18
Speaker 1: Refresher on how to roller make sure you're know how to break.

00:36:22
Speaker 2: Oh that's so fun I show you how.

00:36:26
Speaker 3: That's so funny and well, the great thing was so rider and I towards the end of the series.

00:36:33
Speaker 4: Yes, I was going to ask about this.

00:36:35
Speaker 3: Started to shoot a video where it was where the cast is ten years from now, and one of the first things we pitched to each other was we have to go end up where we're living with the Shares, like that has to be what happens. And then we're then it's like, well, how do we get in touch with them?

00:36:50
Speaker 2: How do we do?

00:36:50
Speaker 3: How do we get But it was like kind of based around that premise at the end already like we have to.

00:36:55
Speaker 1: End the whole video with where we've moved in with them.

00:36:57
Speaker 3: Will do it because they're the only ones that would take us in. The only was by this point that would want to have anything to do with us.

00:37:03
Speaker 5: And then it was we didn't make it happen.

00:37:07
Speaker 3: It was so funny though, because you guys, you were so accommodating your like, of course we end up with this big pillow fight and it was just right.

00:37:14
Speaker 2: I forgot the big fight you have the big pillow. Oh, it was such a video.

00:37:20
Speaker 9: I'm probably the only man who can step out a pillow fight with Will.

00:37:24
Speaker 7: And one one of several, one of seven.

00:37:31
Speaker 14: Didn't she tackle you?

00:37:33
Speaker 9: Oh?

00:37:36
Speaker 3: Tackle took you came and took a knife from me because I like, have this big knife and trying to cut and You're like, no.

00:37:41
Speaker 9: No, no, no, can't because you guys were like my comedic heroes. And I came up with that bit and I'm like, oh my gosh, I think it's funny.

00:37:47
Speaker 3: Like it was great, and then you sang and then you end by singing the song that we would always.

00:37:52
Speaker 7: Take us in the dance.

00:37:53
Speaker 2: It takes us into the dance.

00:37:54
Speaker 9: So.

00:37:56
Speaker 3: We couldn't do it without you. Thank you again. It was just so much fun. But that was like our first pitch was like, we've got it. We got to end up living with the years.

00:38:02
Speaker 6: Like we have to.

00:38:03
Speaker 3: Oh no.

00:38:06
Speaker 10: Daddy has often told us you took him aside and asked him about it, and uh, Will and writer and kind of took him aside, and you said, as you know, the show's ending, and Daddy started pulling out his wallet and handing you money.

00:38:22
Speaker 2: If we could just borrow five.

00:38:23
Speaker 4: Or no, I'm going to be out of a job soon, so it's gonna it.

00:38:30
Speaker 2: Was so fun though, Oh thank you for doing that.

00:38:32
Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you.

00:38:33
Speaker 5: Well, looking back, I guess it's not quite thirty years yet, but soon we're inching inching toward thirty years ago you attended your first studio audience taping. What does Boy Meets World mean to your family and you guys as individuals?

00:38:49
Speaker 10: Now, Well, I think, like I said, I was just sharing, is that just being a part of you know, realizing that there is a place for people like, you know, for creatives, and that that's more than okay, and that we're the people that make people laugh, you know, and are the eight for people. And I think too, something I've been actually noticing sorry with Full House is it's it's been on really late at night, and my parents and I are night owls, and we're just like, well, let's watch the Full House, you know, And I just started feeling really sad because the one episode we saw recently, it ended with all of them singing and dancing in Hawaii, you know, and I'm like, there's no joy anymore, you know, and Boy Meet's World is kind of on the similar lines. You know, it's like we don't have shows like this anymore, like Boy Meets World and like Full House, you know, where it's just happy, close families that are loving each other and having fun and it's just really sad. So I think I think that's something that is so great now with coming to digital and that sort of thing, you know, that people can just access this and these memories and keep coming back to them.

00:39:55
Speaker 3: I couldn't agree with you more Frankly, I think I think there is a big cole in the entertainment nowadays, where it is just everyone's like, what do you want to see a family where they solve all their problems in twenty two minutes? Yes, that's exactly what I want to see. I just there's something about the warmth that just bathe the TV bathes you in that glow and you're sitting around with your family and you're all enjoying that and is sappy and it's saccherin and you end up singing for no reason in Hawaii. Yes, that's exactly what I want to see. So I really think we're we're lacking that quite a bit nowadays.

00:40:28
Speaker 9: So yeah, I think, yeah, like it like I said, with my generation, like your show is just a part of our childhood, of our adolescence.

00:40:37
Speaker 6: It's like so much of who we are.

00:40:39
Speaker 9: It's almost like regardless of what was going, you know, we had a good family life and stuff.

00:40:43
Speaker 6: A lot of people who watch the show probably didn't, but like you look.

00:40:46
Speaker 9: Back at that point in your life and you had like friends, you had family, even if they were only on the TV, and you just had this bright spot in your week tgif. I loved all the shows on it, but Boy Meets Squirreld obviously clearly the best. But it's just like you guys made such a bright spot for our generation, you know, in that that space and time that will never be filled by anything else.

00:41:06
Speaker 6: It was just there.

00:41:07
Speaker 9: And then for me, like, yeah, I'm a part of that general recollection and nostalgia of that show. But then for me it's just a deeply personal thing as well, and it's it's almost it's not like I'm embarrassed to admit it, but it's almost like this like not a secret, but just something that I hold like personally in private too, because it's just such a joy that I can't really explain, and it sounds it's like it sounds awesome in your head and then you try to explain to someone and they're just like.

00:41:33
Speaker 4: Right, You're like, I promise it's actually very sweet and.

00:41:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, but I'm glad I did.

00:41:41
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:41:42
Speaker 6: So this is a very special time.

00:41:44
Speaker 9: And you guys were so so kind, you know, and so hospitable and just made us feel like family and like we belonged. And Danielle, like you were so gracious and kind to me and always made time for me, just a boy with who started with a massive crush and then just really cared about you as a person. You were so so kind. Just all of you guys are so gracious. You didn't have to make the time of day for us, and you did, and it just speaks volumes about your character. And I think the character of the cast and crew is what made the show because it bled through to the audience even with they didn't know you, Even if they didn't know why it was special, it was you guys. You guys made the show well.

00:42:21
Speaker 10: And I think that's the thing too, is that Oh, I just want to say likewise that I want to thank Will because when I was reading about and stuff, I thought there's got to be something wrong with this guy, you know, I read and the sweet and just the more I read about you, I'm like, wow, he's a really sweet, nice guy. And because of being homeschooled and close to our family and just not socializing much, I didn't really have friends, you know, and didn't really feel that lacking. But I thought he's someone I would want to be my friend. And I wrote you a letter and gave it to you, and it was actually September twelfth, nineteen ninety dates okay in Pietnare, But anyway, you I think you're giving you the letter. And then you came and you called me out of the audience and you took me backstage and you got a picture with me I polaroid, and you signed and said thank you for everything your friend will. And that just took me through a lot, you know, because even when I feel alone or be going through something, I'm like, I have a friend somewhere, you know, someone who was kind to me.

00:43:28
Speaker 6: And I think that's not to get.

00:43:29
Speaker 10: Weird or anything, because I've never been one of the teenage girls going you know what. But again, like Adam was saying that you just you guys were the first ones that showed us what ladies and gentlemen can be. And I think that's the thing, is just this so important and that it really matters. And I just want to tell you that your life matters, and that it meant so much that you were that gentleman and that friend, because I've met some guys that aren't gentlemen, they're not.

00:43:57
Speaker 1: Friends, and they're notice.

00:44:00
Speaker 10: And women too, you know, and that just have turned their back. So I mean stuff, And I'm like, I didn't hang out with you, but I still believe we're friends.

00:44:08
Speaker 3: Are I felt the same way, and you would definitely you would send me, you'd give me letters more than one. It was got letters often and they were great, and they were always so heartfelt and I read them all and I could tell that you were you were putting your heart and your soul into them, and it really meant a lot to me as well, because I also didn't have a lot of friends growing up and was different. And even if it's We've talked about this, even if it's for something that people think is cool, like you're an actor, anything that makes you different as a kid is bad. Usually it's something that somebody will turn against you or just make you feel like an outcast.

00:44:43
Speaker 2: So yeah, we totally are friends.

00:44:45
Speaker 3: We totally would have been friends, and we can geek out at the cons as you're cosplaying, so.

00:44:50
Speaker 2: We don't have a problem with that at all. That sounds great to me, Oh so much.

00:44:55
Speaker 6: I'll keep cherishing that well.

00:44:57
Speaker 5: We as always appreciate all of your kind words, but you have spent so many years telling us how you feel about us. Here we goes, We really wanted to have you on the show so that we could have the opportunity to tell you thank you from the bottom of all of our hearts for always being there for us and like writers said, just being that barometer for us as like somebody we could reach out in touch and be like, oh, we're doing the show for you, and even though it's not just for you, it's for other people, it felt like it was just for you and that was enough for us.

00:45:36
Speaker 6: It was like that.

00:45:39
Speaker 4: Was enough and that's what we wanted.

00:45:40
Speaker 5: And you guys have just always been so supportive and so wonderful and such good friends. And you are no different to us than any other cast member or crew member who we have welcomed back to this show with open arms. You are family to us and you will always have a special place in our hearts and we have so much love for you, and I just really want to thank you for just always being there for us and for coming back and sharing this time with us today.

00:46:10
Speaker 12: You much.

00:46:12
Speaker 4: Thank you guys, so much.

00:46:16
Speaker 7: So good to see you to thank.

00:46:18
Speaker 2: You for coming.

00:46:19
Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank by hugs. Well tried to make it through an episode with that.

00:46:35
Speaker 2: I didn't see that happening. Wow, They're such great people. They're just such great people.

00:46:42
Speaker 1: I just love that they're so you know, like I was afraid that they wouldn't want to come on the show, on this podcast, you know, like I was like, oh, you know, and and I think Adam put it best, like when he was able to describe like it's.

00:46:54
Speaker 6: Kind of hard to explain to people.

00:46:56
Speaker 7: And you know, because it does.

00:46:57
Speaker 1: It sounds like a joke, you know, or it sounds like we you know, I don't know, just call him the Stalker family. I feel bad about it over the years, you know, because it does. But it's not like it was. It quickly became this something different, and that's so interesting.

00:47:13
Speaker 5: I never forgot about it because I think, like you said, writer, when they they owned owned it. They knew it was from a place of love, like, yeah, it was never I mean, I think when Mick Mitch first made the joke, when it was like, well, you're a stalker, that was just a that was just a joke. But then when they became like, no, we really like these people and we like the show and we want to be there every week, and it was like, oh, you're a whole Stocker family, And then they were just I don't know it, I've never I've never said it or thought about them without also being filled with just the swell of love joy.

00:47:49
Speaker 1: A big part of that is Michael Jacobs too. Michael was just loved them.

00:47:53
Speaker 7: Like Michael became it.

00:47:55
Speaker 1: It was very important him when he realized that they had a similar sense of humor. I feel like he started writing to them, and I think it was a very conscious he because and I think Michael always had this vision of our show that we had fans that were like that that would come back every week and care about the continuity, which was revolutionary when you think about it, Like most sitcoms would just throw characters under the bus for a laugh, right and boy Mecs World never did that. Boy Mes world always said, no, we're gonna make you, We're gonna mister Feene's gonna matter all the time. We're not gonna make him a joke. We're not going to make him a punchline anybody. And and so in part of that vision was that there would be families that would share in watching the show and remember every episode and show up every week. And so I think what the Sheares came to represent for him, you know, they were the they were the physical human embodiment of his audience that he was right. And he was always so welcoming about that. And I think just really respectful of them, and and and what it was mutual, you.

00:48:50
Speaker 2: Know, an audience. Michael always respected.

00:48:53
Speaker 3: The audience people that were there, that's in the audience that we were doing the show.

00:48:58
Speaker 2: Of course, he had a monumental respects for that.

00:49:01
Speaker 7: And you can tell in the writing when the writing.

00:49:03
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing about I think so many you know, bad sitcoms, is that they condescend to their audience. Are they write down to their own or they did dismiss their audiences intelligence. They don't care, right, They just don't think their audience is going to be willing to like take a tough scene or handle a little bit of drama or whatever. And Michael always said, like, no, our audience is going to meet us where we go, and he was absolutely right, you know, and it's to his credit that now we have that audience still.

00:49:26
Speaker 2: It's so funny.

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Speaker 3: But listening to him talk about where he's like, I don't exactly what you're saying. I don't know how I could share this with somebody. It sounds weird in my head. It just reminds me of kids that would play Dungeon and Dragons.

00:49:36
Speaker 2: And not want to tell anybody.

00:49:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally.

00:49:38
Speaker 3: You know, it's that same You've got your nerdom and it's like, no one's going to get my love for this, so I'm just going to keep this to myself. And luckily it's not like that anymore. But that's what it was like. You just you know, I had it with fantasy novels and stuff. It's like, I'm just going to keep my mouth shut about how much I enjoyed this stuff. So I'm glad people don't have to do that anymore.

00:49:55
Speaker 7: And he's funny.

00:49:57
Speaker 2: Too, and it's funny audience.

00:50:00
Speaker 4: It's a wicked sense of humor and.

00:50:02
Speaker 2: Yeah many Thank.

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Speaker 2: We love you all, pod dismissed.

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