Danielle Fishel (Boy Meets World)

We’re gonna get right to it…Danielle and Lance…used to date. 

Now obviously, things didn’t work out (for multiple reasons) but that doesn’t make this meeting of the exes any less juicy! 

There’s so much to remember, rehash and rekindle! All that plus, Boy Meets World gossip!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
This is Frosted Tips with Lance Bass and iHeartRadio podcast. Hello,
my little peanuts, it's me your host, Lance Bass. This
is Frosted Tips with Me and my beautiful husband, A
Turkey Turchin.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh, hello there, mister Michael to some Michael Turkey to
most Turkey.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
Okay, I don't I didn't know if you should be
here for this episode.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
I know I'm kind of triggered, right, I.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Don't want you to be triggered. You know, when an
X comes on the show, it can be very triggering,
and I just want to make sure you're okay before
I bring my ex girlfriend, first love of my life
on the show.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
No, I'm not okay, but I'm a professional, so I
will maintain my professionalism.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Okay, during this interview, I appreciate that I won't.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
I won't name call, I won't try to pull her
hair through the screen.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Ever. A moment that you know you feel uncomfortable, you
can you can leave the room. I totally understand.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
Okay. I'm glad you're so supportive of me and my emotions.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
I'm excited. Dead Eel is amazing. She's obviously great friends
with us. We're even working on a project together about
our true story.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Our prom I hate your love affair, which.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Every gay boy out there has the same story, and
a lot of you straight women out there have this
same story. Oh yeah, it's a prom with your gay
friend that didn't you didn't know that they were gay,
and you thought you might have been in a relationship
or about to be in a relationship.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
But surprise that way.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
It's just a rite of passage. It is both sides.
For both sides, it's definitely a lot harder, I think
on the lady because well, obviously don't know the full story,
and then exactly and you start thinking like, what is
there something wrong with me? And you know, being seventeen eighteen,
that's hard to deal with well.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Being rejected and then you realize oh and especially at
that point you're like, oh, they hate me so much
now they're gay. Like I'm sure that goes through a
lot of women's ad Yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
So Danielle is in the waiting room right now, So
let's get to her right now a little. D Let's

(02:22):
get into this. Danielle Christine Fishel is an American actress, director,
television personality. She began her career in theater appearing in
the community productions up The Wizard of Oz Peter Pan.
In ninety three, Danielle was cast for the role of
Tapanga Lawrence on the teen sitcom Boy Meets World Where
We All Fell in Love, which ran on ABC for

(02:43):
seven seasons. She then reprised the role and Girl Meets
World on Disney Channel, which aired twenty fourteen to twenty seventeen. Today,
Danielle mom of two directing movies and shows. One of
the hosts of iHeartRadio podcasts Pod Meets World, which is
so much fun. And I've been on an episode, daniel
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
Welcome, Thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
He looks out pretty. I like your heir.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Oh food, Yeah, I got my shausted tips out.

Speaker 2 (03:08):
I know, very frosty.

Speaker 1 (03:09):
You right, You've got the assignment and you aced it.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
That's exactly right. You guys sent me the invite and
I was like, well, I know what I need to do.
Got a make hair appoint.

Speaker 1 (03:18):
How has Pod Meets the World been going. I mean,
I've been listening and it's so fun to get and
go back.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
Thank you. We so love doing it and we love
being together and we just I mean, it's been one
of the highlights of my career. Honestly, I'm I'm always
shocked when at this late stage, after being in the
entertainment industry for over thirty years, when something comes along
and ends up being like, Wow, this is a true
highlight of my life. I'm always like, I thought most

(03:46):
of those were probably behind me, but it's it's such
a nice feeling to know that there's still like so much.
There's so many great things out there to do. I
love doing the podcast. We're going on the road. We
just made the announcement we're taking the podcast on.

Speaker 1 (03:59):
The road, so as you just did your first live one.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Recently exactly, we did a live show with Hyundai, which
was absolutely amazing. We did this great series of interviews
we called them the Bully Series, where we got to
talk to all the great bullies we had in season two.
And after doing those interviews, fans kept saying, we have
to get them back into the same room. We have
to see them in the same room, and it just

(04:22):
became like a mission for me. And so when Hundai
came to us and said, listen, we want to do
a live show. What do you guys want to do?
I was like, let's get the bullies together. And he
so low performed it. It was really great. We had
so much fun.

Speaker 1 (04:34):
That is great, so real because we're interested in also
doing the road thing I would love to take for
us and tips on the road, you know, for a
couple of weeks, you know, visit all. I think comedy
clubs would be really good to go to.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
That would be great.

Speaker 1 (04:46):
So what is that going to look like for y'all
when you're all going to start that.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
We're starting in July, and the way we planned it
I think is really smart and it's good for you
guys too as parents of small kids. We are doing
like three shows at a time over a weekend and
doing three shows a month. So we're doing three in July,
we'll be doing three in August. We've got plans for
three more in September, October, November, but we haven't released

(05:11):
those dates yet. But so it's really great because you
do a Friday, Saturday, Sunday, you're gone for a couple
of days and then you get to come home back
into the normal routine. It's not like going out on
the road for you know, two months at a time,
which would be really difficult as a family. So yeah,
we're really excited about it.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
That is so great.

Speaker 1 (05:26):
Yeah, well, I'm so excited to have you on because one,
I know everything about you, so this canna be very interesting.
I'm going to try to I'm going to try to
ask ask the questions I already know, but the people
need to hear exactly. And what's so great about you
is you lived this whole boy band era. I mean,
you were had the front seat of what was going
on in the late nineties early two thousands, of course,

(05:48):
with us being on the road with us and just
really hop novin with all the boy banders out there.
So I'm interested to hear your perspective on a few things. Yes, please,
all right, but let's start at the beginning. So you
started acting as a child in local theater. Now tell
us where you're born and how did you start acting professionally.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
So I was actually born in Mesa, Arizona. And it's
funny because whenever there's like a political race, I started
getting these notifications on social media that are like, come
on campaign for your home state of Arizona. But I
only lived in Mesa for three whole weeks. I was
there because my dad went to Asu, and I was
born three weeks before my dad graduated college. But both

(06:34):
my parents are native Californians, so the minute my dad graduated,
they moved back to California, and that's where my dad
started his business. So born in Mesa didn't have anything
to do with Arizona. Three weeks there, moved to Orange County.
Was raised in Orange County and when I was in
elementary school, there was a girl who was like a
year or two older than me, and she was so

(06:56):
cool and she was like pretty, and she just came
to school and she was like, guess what, I got
an agent and I'm going to be a model. And
I was like, yes, I want to be like an Antisica.
I also want to be a model. So I went
home and I told my mom, Mom, Jessica got an agent.
She's going to be a model. That's what I want
to do. And my mom was like, well, sweetie, I
have some bad news for you. Models are tall. Unfortunately,

(07:20):
are probably barely going to be over five feet. And
I was like, all right, no big deal. So I
went back to school the next day and I told her, Unfortunately,
I'm too short to be a model. And that did
not stop, Jessica. She said, you know what, my agents
are also going to put me on TV, and I
don't think you need to be tall to be on TV.
And I thought, great, and that's where that's my calling.
And so sure enough, I just I kept persisting. I

(07:41):
was telling my parents, please, please, I want to be
an actor, and they were like, no, We've only heard
horror stories about those kids that get into the entertainment industry.
And after a year of begging, my mom finally said, okay, fine,
we'll take some regular pictures of you. We'll send them
into agents and we'll see if we get any calls back.
And we ended up hearing back from like seven or
eight different agents, and we met with all of them
and I signed with one, and then I started going

(08:03):
out on auditions and I booked my first ever commercial
audition for a MATEL commercial and then the rest is history.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
Well that is good. So how many because you know,
when people are auditioning, I always say ninety nine percent
of the time, you're just told no. In this business.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
How many no's did you have until you finally got
boymous World?

Speaker 3 (08:21):
How many nos?

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Well?

Speaker 3 (08:22):
I booked my flick I said, my very first audition,
I got a yes.

Speaker 1 (08:25):
One of those.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
I was one of those. It was for a Metel
commercial and I went in and I did the audition
and I came out and my mom said how did
it go? And I said great, I got it, and
she goes, they told you that, and I said, no,
they didn't tell me that, but I just I feel
really good about it. And she goes, oh, no, no,
this is not okay, Like you have to understand. You're
going to hear no so many times and I was like, okay, whatever,

(08:49):
and then I got a call back and she was like, okay,
so they do want to see you again, but it
still doesn't mean you got the job. And then I
did book the job and I was like, see, I
told you so. I in commercials, I did not have
that experience. But then with TV I got quite a
few no's. But I first got Full House and I
got to do my first ever speaking role on a
TV show was Full House.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Do you remember your first line?

Speaker 3 (09:10):
I sure do. My first line was and I'm Jennifer two,
not the number two, but also because the other girl
was with me, her name was also Jennifer, and she
had walked in and said, Hi, I'm Jennifer, and I
then said I'm Jennifer too, and it was so much fun,
Like being on the Full House set was unbelievable. That
cast was so fun and so friendly, and it was

(09:31):
my first time ever working in front of a live
studio audience, so you got that enormous rush. And so
I got to do two episodes of Full House, and
then shortly thereafter I got Boy Meets World.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
That's great, and everything just blew up. I mean, I remember, Look,
we were obviously kids of the nineties. Boy Meets World
was so huge, and I mean I obviously had a
huge crush on you when I saw that show. And
did y'all ever expect it to blow up that because
it was part of TGIF, Right, Yeah, it.

Speaker 3 (10:02):
Was part of TGIF. And you know what's funny is
that we really weren't that popular in the nineties. We
feel like we were because we've actually become so much
more popular since it's gone off the air. And Boy
Meets World is one of those shows that is just
I mean, here we are thirty years later, still talking
about it.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
It's full house. Boy Meets World. Z loves those shows.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yes, they really do, and so we just keep finding
a second and third, and fourth and fifth life as
the years have gone on. But when the show was
actually on, we were one of the lower rated shows
of TGIF. I mean, Sabrina the Teenage Witch did much
better than us. Family Matters did better than we did.
A lot of the TGIF shows did better than we did.
We always kind of felt like we were We always

(10:44):
felt like we were on the bubble. We never knew
at the end of one season whether or not we
were for sure picked up. But here we are, you know,
thirty years later, it's it's obviously lasted.

Speaker 1 (10:53):
So yeah, you know what you were talking about, you know,
being short, I mean, I'm short. I noticed that most
people in entertainment are short.

Speaker 3 (11:03):
Short, and we have big heads.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Why is that big one of the business so short?

Speaker 2 (11:07):
He has a bunch of lollipops is running around.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
If you want to be an actor entertainer, don't go
above six foot exactly.

Speaker 3 (11:16):
I really don't know it is true, though I've noticed it.
There was, Actually we did. We took a picture of somebody,
one of the guys from brah Meat's World, and he's
very tall, and it's it's him with Will Ryder and myself,
and Will is the tallest of us, and I think
he's about five ten. It's so funny because it's like
people don't realize how short we are until they meet

(11:36):
us in person, and then that's always one of the
first things they say. They go, my gosh, you're so
much smaller.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
I always enjoyed going to like the Grammys or something
like that because I felt so tall because again short,
but like you'd go to the Grammys and like, wow,
I am actually, I mean, you're not.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Short, you're average.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
What are you?

Speaker 3 (11:52):
Five eleven?

Speaker 1 (11:53):
I at this point maybe five average? Yeah, shrinking shorter
and shorter.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Well compression, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Well there would y'all ever do like a spin off
of Boy Meets World but an adult version of it?

Speaker 3 (12:10):
That's a really smart idea. I mean I would never.
I would never say never. I do think for the
most part, all of us feel like, what story hasn't
been told at this point between Boy Meets World and
Girl Meets World, Like is there really enough to do
for a whole new series? But I think doing a
movie could be really fun, Like, you know, like a
movie could be really interesting. So you get a sense

(12:31):
of like what they're doing now and who they've grown
into being, but without needing to drag it out over
multiple seasons. I also, I keep saying this because I'm
trying to put it out into the universe. I also
really love the idea and instead of rebooting a series,
rebooting a cast, because that has never been done, that's interesting,
taking the entire cast, but having a brand new idea,

(12:53):
new characters.

Speaker 2 (12:54):
That's amazing.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Isn't that fun?

Speaker 2 (12:57):
There is that is so fun?

Speaker 1 (12:58):
What's a good idea? Did that or something? Remember like
every year is kind of like the same.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Well you have like people like Christopher Guest always used
the same you know cast, but it's all different. But like,
I think that's a great idea, isn't it?

Speaker 3 (13:10):
Because you know, so much of what makes a show
work is the chemistry between the people, and if you go, well,
this group of people, we already know the chemistry is there,
but we've seen the characters enough. Let's just see what
they can do when we put this group of people
together with something totally original. So I still keep trying
to make that happen.

Speaker 1 (13:26):
That's a great idea. And now that you are a director,
you can direct this show. How has that been? Did
you always know that you wanted to direct?

Speaker 3 (13:35):
No, I was not one of those actors that was like,
but what I really want to do? That was not me.
I didn't even it didn't even cross my mind until
I was on the set of Girl Meets World. And
then I was working with these really amazing, very well
established directors, but they were maybe more experienced with camera
because they had never been actors themselves. And so I

(13:57):
noticed that when we had, you know, these fantaststically incredibly
talented kids, but they were all very green, and I
noticed that I kind of just took on this role
of pulling them off to the side and explaining what
maybe some of the directors hadn't been explaining, so some
of the confusion that was there for them, I would
start explaining. And I thought, Hey, I wonder if I
would enjoy doing this, and so I asked, and Michael

(14:18):
Jacobs very kindly gave me the opportunity to direct four
episodes over the course of the last two seasons we
were there, and then for the next year after Girl
Meets World lended, I just made it my mission. I
went and shadowed every director I possibly could I met
with every showrunner who would take a meeting with me
and basically just begged them to understand that this was

(14:38):
a real passion of mine. It wasn't a vanity project.
I wasn't one of those actors who just wanted my
name on something but expected everyone else to do the work,
which also does happen. And so, yeah, I've been really lucky.
I've now directed over forty episodes of TV, which is incredible,
and then I just directed my first feature film recently
about that. Yeah, it was really fun. It's available to

(15:00):
watch now for free on two B It's called Classmates,
and my husband wrote it, so that was also really
fun because, as you guys know, it's really fun when
you get to be a married couple who also enjoys
working together. And so Jensen wrote it. He wrote this
very funny, heartfelt script about two college aged girls who

(15:21):
think they have absolutely nothing in common by appearances, and
then end up realizing that they have a lot more
in common than they thought. And it's my favorite type
of comedy where it halfway through kind of becomes a thriller.

Speaker 2 (15:34):
So I love that.

Speaker 3 (15:35):
It's really fun.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
That's great, all right, We love Jensen we're actually working
on a project. We'll get into. Okay, but tell everyone
how you met. How do you know each other? Because
again I know this whole story, but trying to get
everyone here to hear how you fell in love with Jensen.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah, so Jensen and I actually met in ninety five.
Where all good things come to fruition is in the nineties.
We went to this same high school and we were acquaintances.
We were familiar with each other, but I wouldn't say
we were friends. He was two years older than me,
and we just kept in touch over the years we
were Sometimes we'd see each other at work events, and

(16:12):
sometimes we'd see each other out at the clubs. And
then a few years would pass and we wouldn't see
each other for a while. And then come to twenty seventeen,
I had taken some time away from social media. I
was really trying to figure out my life. I had
had several failed relationships and I thought, man, I really
need to take myself away and figure out how how
I'm contributing to this problem of not meeting the right person.

(16:35):
And when I finally felt like I had a grasp
on what I had been doing wrong and why I
was picking the people I had been picking. I slowly
tip dipped my toe back into the social media world
and I had sent out a tweet and Jensen was
one of the first people who replied, and he just said,
I've missed you, and I knew it wasn't a flirty message.
It was literally just him recognizing that I had been

(16:57):
gone and now I was back. The minute I saw
his tweet, I thought, that's always been a good guy.
That's always been somebody who's just been consistent and there
and is never like just a good dude. And so
we ended up just kind of exchanging a few messages
back and forth, and then we had a phone call
and he said we should get together. I'm out of
town now, but when I get back, we should get

(17:18):
together for dinner. And I said, yeah, let's do that.
And then like it was like our dinner was two
weeks out, and then we just started texting every day
and it's one of those things that went from platonic
to now we've texted every day, and by the time
then that dinner rolled around, I was like, I think
we're flirting. And then you know, we.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Thought that when was that moment that you looked at
him and said, Oh, my gosh, I love this man.
Was that like a quick, quick thing for you or
did it have to you know?

Speaker 3 (17:41):
It did happen pretty quickly, I think because we had
known each other since ninety five, there was so much
shared history. You know, so much of getting to know
somebody is is learning about where they grew up and
the kind of people they grew up with and who
their families were. And Jensen and I already knew a
lot of that stuff. So our getting to know each
other was less about getting to know our past selves
and more just about so, who have you grown into

(18:04):
in this stage of life as an adult? What have
you learned? What are you really looking for? And when
we realized the things we were looking for were in alignment,
it was pretty quick that we were like, Okay, then
then I really think we could have a future.

Speaker 1 (18:17):
Yeah. It's so great, And we know we're working on
a project now which we're super excited about. I know
I've talked about this on the show before, but we're
recreating our prom night story for film, and I'm so
excited about. Mary Holland and Lauren Laughcus are going to
be writing it, which listeners. If you don't know Mary
Holland and Lauren Laughacas yet, go google them watch their stuff.

(18:39):
They're so good, incredible. You're like, oh, yeah, I know
who they are.

Speaker 3 (18:42):
Of course, of course them. I know, we're so lucky
to have them.

Speaker 1 (18:45):
I know, with their humor and all that. I think
this is going to be such a fun project. What
how do you see this going down?

Speaker 2 (18:53):
Like?

Speaker 1 (18:53):
Because to me, you know, it is it's it's a
funny story. But also you know, it hits pretty hard
for us because we did live through that, and I
know our prom night was one of the knights that
I was like, oh wait, I'm definitely gay like this,
and it was the first time I had to really
say it to myself and be like, wow, I'm now

(19:13):
I'm grown up. I have to deal with this right now.
So we both had very different ideas of what the
night was going to go, like yeah, but without giving
too much away because you got to go see the movie.
Tell us a little bit about prom Night from your
from your.

Speaker 3 (19:30):
View, well, I mean from my perspective. You know, Lance,
you were the first like true love of my life.
I met you and I was seventeen, and you were
so sweet and so charming and so funny and all
the things you still are today. And I just I thought,
this is it, this is I'm going to marry this man.

(19:53):
He's you know, successful, he comes from a great family.
We have so many things in common. I could just
picture everything. I pictured our whole future together. I was
also coming from a family where my parents met at fifteen,
got married at twenty one, had children at twenty three
and twenty seven, And so from my perspective, that's what
you did, and you glanced. Being from Mississippi, people also

(20:16):
got married yet at years old exactly, and so in
my mind that was that was the goal. The goal
is to find someone young and to get together young
and make it work. And so when I met you,
it was like, wow, look at this, my dreams are
all coming true. And then, of course, as our relationship

(20:37):
progressed and we realized, wow, there's a lot of love here.
But there was definitely a lack of romance.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
Yes, intimacy was lacking.

Speaker 3 (20:46):
Intimacy was lacking in our relationship, which.

Speaker 1 (20:48):
Again like that we didn't make out a lot.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
There was so much kissing, so much guss.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
But I could do that.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
So yeah, there was a lot of kissing, a lot
of handholding. Yeah, and so I, you know, obviously as
the time progressed and we ended up, you know, realizing
you broke up with me in the kindest, most gentle way,
and I didn't, but I thought for sure it must
have been something I did. It was me. You know,

(21:20):
when you're young, you think everything is about you, and
you can't take yourself out of your own biopic viewpoint,
and you think I must have done something wrong, maybe
if what could I have done differently to make this work?
And you know, I didn't realize it at the time,
but Lance was doing the exact same thing. Lance was
saying to himself, something's wrong with me. And of course
the beautiful thing about it is that there was absolutely

(21:43):
nothing wrong with either one of us. And our love
story is still a love story. It's just a friendship
love story. That love has never gone away, the respect
has never gone away. And I think we're we're really lucky.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
No, we are. If we have we definitely have this
connection that I don't have with many people at all.
And I think that happens a lot when when you're young,
because you really those core memories that you have when
you're a teenager, that's what really just sticks with you
for the rest of your life. Those are the ones that.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
It really goes back to because it's kind of your
first memories of love and relationships and friends. It's your
first time really being like a young adult. So like
they really do stick with you.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
It's kind of comfortable because with Jensen like going back
and be like, well, we went to school together, so
it's so familiar my high school friends. I mean, I still,
you know, keep in touch with all of them and
we're so close. But that those are your just that'
surcore of yourself as those teenage years.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
Well, and you think about it too, it's like how
many times are you bringing someone home at that age?
How many times have you brought someone home to meet
your family? Exact Lance came and stayed in my family's home,
and it was like I was introducing this very serious
boyfriend to my family. Of course I'm going to remember
that in Lance, I'm still friends with with your college
friends that I met when I went back to Mississippi

(23:00):
one of then I still communicate on Instagram. And again
part of that is because that those are those core
memories from that age that just are irreplaceable.

Speaker 1 (23:07):
It is being a teen idol. What was it like
for yourself being, you know, being a girl teenager on television?
I know, women definitely, especially in magazines and everything, y'all
get picked on way more than us guys, and especially
looks right, oh you know. And but you you were
known about your hair. I mean it was all the

(23:28):
hair with Daniel Official. Yes, You've had.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
A lot of hair magazines.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
Oh yeah, so you even had a whole episode on
boy Mean's World about cutting your hair.

Speaker 3 (23:36):
Yes, and I really cut my hair. I really took
the scissors to my hair. And yeah, you know, it
definitely was a hairs There was a lot of there
was a big hair obsession on the showy and uh yeah,
I mean it was hard. It was hard to be
on TV, especially because you know, starting at twelve, your
twelve year old body is nothing like what your seventeen, eighteen,

(24:01):
nineteen year old body is like. And the way your
body metabolizes food at twelve is different than the way
your body metabolizes food at eighteen. And then also I
moved out of my parents' house at eighteen, so I
went from having these healthy home cooked meals from my
mom to now living on my own and thinking nothing

(24:21):
of like I'll drive through Burger King, I'll drive you
know whatever, stuff I couldn't eat necessarily when I was
at home with my parents. And I remember being on
Boy Meets World and gaining weight toward the end of
the season's there and feeling like hoping nobody noticed, and
just thinking, maybe nobody knows, maybe it's just me, maybe
nobody is noticing. And then they actually wrote an episode

(24:44):
about it, and the episode was that Tepega must be pregnant,
and there was I remember one joke in particular that
like really hurt me at the time, and it was
that I was struggling to put on my jeans and
when Corey came in and he said, what are you doing?
And I said, I can't get these jeenes on. They're
you know, they can't zip them up, and he said,

(25:05):
because they're mine. And I remember thinking like, wow, So
this joke is that I can't even fit into my
I think we were married on the show. I can't
even fit into my husband's jeans, and yet at the
time I was only a size four.

Speaker 2 (25:21):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yeah, And so I just remember thinking like, wow, well,
not only do people definitely notice. But now they're writing
an episode about it.

Speaker 2 (25:31):
It's crazy.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
I have to pretend to be totally comfortable with it,
and I'm not.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
I mean very insecure, but I mean that's not so
they just sprung the episode on you. You had no warning,
you're just like reading you tell.

Speaker 3 (25:43):
Us ahead of time. But the way they told us
was they they called Will Fridell, who played Eric. They
called Will and I into the office and they said, so,
obviously you guys have both been gaining weight, and so
I just wanted to give you a warning that we're
going to write an episode about it.

Speaker 2 (25:59):
Oh wow, can you imagine?

Speaker 3 (26:02):
And I think we were both just like, oh okay, yeah.
And you have this feeling as an actor always and
really as a performer that you don't want to you
don't want to ruffle any feathers. You don't want to
say like well, I'm uncomfortable with that. You really just
want to go with the flow and be easy to
work with. So I remember very much being like, yeah, okay, great, Yeah,
that's a funny idea that that'll that'll be that'll be fine.

(26:24):
And you know the truth was, it was it was
very hurtful.

Speaker 1 (26:28):
Of course, and you know most of us go through
that awkward teenage years, right, I definitely did.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
I did, well.

Speaker 1 (26:36):
You did not that I'm telling you, like you.

Speaker 2 (26:39):
Know, you're you're always beautiful. You had no gawky fan, No,
that's a yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Just go google Lance past nineteen ninety seven. You're going
to see that is the epitome of gawky right there.
How you fell for me.

Speaker 3 (26:56):
So hands, I'm sure I don't remember. I don't remember
any awkward phase for you, Alm.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
Well, I have pictures to prove it. Trust Trust, And
going back with all these episodes and rewatching them, are
there any uncomfortable moments for you with the cashier, with
or whoever you're interviewing, Like, do you ever be like,
I don't want to talk about that? That was so
awkward to rehash.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
You know what.

Speaker 3 (27:20):
No, we actually haven't had that happen too much yet.
There are things that we don't remember that they do remember.
Certainly when we had Adam Scott on who was he, Yes,
he remembered that. At the end of season two, we
like wrapped on the season and Blake Soaper who's now

(27:43):
Blake Senate, and Ethan Sipple both hugged writer, and writer
was like, you know, a congratulations end of the season,
and then Adam went to go hug writer and he
hugged him and then instantly like pushed him away and
like ran off stage. And Adam has been carrying this
around for twenty years. He like, I made this teenage
boy super uncomfortable and I don't know how I was

(28:04):
just I was just hugging him the same way other
people were hugging at the end of the season. I
don't understand. And he's never told anybody about it because
it was super uncomfortable for him. So when he came
on the show, he said, I have to ask you,
do you remember this? And none of us even knew
what he was going to say, so we were like,
what what is the tea you're going to smell?

Speaker 1 (28:23):
I know? And was like, I don't remember that at all.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
I remember that at all? Do we do really feel
like we have narrowed down the fact that Blake and
Ethan used to play like I don't wouldn't call them pranks,
but like they were really big into like goosing someone,
Like they'd come up and goose you or grab your
leg and be like, you know, or spikes your knee
and I have a feeling when Adam hugged writer, one

(28:49):
of them did something, grabbed his butt, you know, did
something that writer thought was Adam doing and he like
pushed Adam off, like, hey man, that's not cool. That's
maybe the only and it was a it was funny, obviously, Oudam.
There is no there were no hard feelings. It's a
it's a warm room. It was all just a funny story.

(29:09):
But you know that's that's one of the great things
about doing the podcast and about reliving some of the
moments of the show. Our cast, including all of the
guest stars, we got along so well. It was a
really fun, warm environment. So even when we don't remember
stuff most of the time, it's it's pretty positive.

Speaker 1 (29:29):
Yeah. Yeah, you had an amazing cast, also, amazing crew,
your writers, everyone just amazing all set.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
We were really lucky.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Let's get to the fans, all right, So you know,
this is a fandom show for all teen idols, and
of course we're starting with boy bands. But being a
girlfriend of a boy band member, yeah, what was that like?
Because you know, we all had girlfriends at the time.
You you obviously bonded with a lot of the girlfriends,
you know, Big D everyone, But what was it like

(30:12):
on the other side, is I'm on stage and all
that type of stuff. You have to be really next
to the fans a lot. Did you get any hate
from our fans? Were they nice to you?

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Or everyone was so nice? There was occasionally like this
was the very early days of the internet, and Big
D was very big about finding the chat rooms and
seeing what people were saying. And every and then girlfriend
by the way, yes Chris Kirkpatrick like.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
The original comment section, Yes, yeah, let's go search. Yeah exactly, And.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
So every now and then she'd goes search to see
what people were saying, and uh, most of the time
people were really nice. Of course, there were always the
people who were like, ew, I don't want her to
be with him. I love Lands, And it was like,
you know, I that was always just like, no big deal.
I get that. Who doesn't want to be with Lance?
Lance is a total catch. So I always got that,

(31:04):
but I never really took it personally. I was like,
they would feel that way about no matter who was
in these shoes. They want to be in my shoes,
That's all it is. But for the most part, everybody
was really nice. There were also some some things though,
that were just maybe a little scary, you know, I mean,
in sync was on par with Beatlemania. There were times
when we'd hop into you know, Pantera Sarah's Cadillac, and

(31:26):
girls would literally be running after the car screaming bloody murder.
And you know, I was at a friend's concert recently
and we went out the same way you know, we
used to go out with you guys, like out before.
Technically the last songs you guys were still singing, like
running to the bus so that you could hop on
the bus till leave. I was just telling, just telling Jensen,

(31:49):
because we were kind of doing the similar walk with
our friend at his show, and I go, man, this
is really bringing me back to the Lance would still
be have his mic attached, still be in his wardrobe
running to the bus. So in some ways that was
a little that was a little crazy. But also I
was aware even in the moment of how like historical
it was.

Speaker 1 (32:08):
See I was not. I was just you know, I
don't know, I was very numb to it all at
that point, because you know, we had been working for
so long and that's just all the life we knew.
I didn't realize what was happening at the moment. I
wasn't really taking it all in. And I do remember
us jumping in Sarah's convertible. It must have been after
something like Leno or because I remember my one of

(32:30):
my best friends from high school, Kerry Martin, was there.
And yeah, I don't know why. We thought we could
just kind of like walk outside in a massive sea
of fans, just hop.

Speaker 3 (32:39):
Into a convertible where everyone could still see exactly who
you are.

Speaker 1 (32:41):
Yeah, I know, good times. And those are the times too,
because you know, it was our first, you know, going
out to a club for the first time, and we're
hitting you know, we're finally becoming of age, although we
were underage for most of the time. But it was
such a fun, innocent time because no cell phone cameras,
no cell phones, really you could really just kind of

(33:02):
get away with anything and really be a teenager and
be a young adult.

Speaker 3 (33:07):
We got to be stupid and make stupid mistakes. It's
without worrying about it being on display for everyone. You know.
It was a really sweet It was the last little
bit of that before everything changed.

Speaker 1 (33:19):
And I think it's important that you do make mistakes
as I mean, we're all stupid, you know, that's how
you learn. And now this this generation that you know
as teenagers, they they can't really make mistakes because of
social media. I mean the personal, your friends, your family,
your church members, everyone's gonna be looking at everything you do.
So you do that one mistake and your your.

Speaker 2 (33:39):
Whole life can just be ruined for one. It's anything.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
If you're one stupid thing and nobody wants to let
you forget it, Everyone's like, I'm going to hold you
to that forever because I've got the receipts.

Speaker 2 (33:50):
I know.

Speaker 3 (33:50):
It's so scary. I'm so I worry about for our
kids what it's going to be like by the time
they get to be that age. And I and I
also feel so lucky for those of us who didn't
have to go through that. I do want to tell you, though,
Lance that you know, feeling like you weren't able to
take it all in back then. I also feel very
much that way about Boymet's world. I think there were
so many moments I took for granted because I couldn't

(34:12):
really understand one how temporary all of it is, and
two to really be able to take it in But
one of the things that I've really learned as I've
gotten older that brings me a lot of comfort is
that part of the reason why we aren't able to
be present in those moments is because ultimately, as incredible
as those moments are, they're not the moments that make
up the best aspects of your life. It's not the big, flashy,

(34:35):
shiny moments of performing for Madison Square Garden or doing
whatever that at the on your deathbed you're going to
be thinking about. It's going to be the quiet moments
at home, the two of you with your kids. Those
are the little things like that, like the first time
you see a little dream come true for your child,
like you're going to be like, that's it. There's nothing
that's going to top that. And so I think about

(34:56):
that all the time. I think, man, I wish I
had taken that in more and I think, no, ultimately
I took and as much of it as was important,
it's not the most important aspect of my life. So
just let that bring you some comfort.

Speaker 1 (35:05):
Yeah, it does. And speaking of kids, all right, what
is it like being a mom? You're such a great one, yeah,
And I mean, now you know, our kids are nineteen
months old, so I get to follow in your footsteps
and be like, Okay, what's Danielle doing at this age?
Now you're kind of teaching me how to be a
parent out there.

Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah, is Keaton's twenty months so we're just in front
of you there, and Adler is going to be four
in June. Far it just gets better all the time.
It just gets better and better and better the older
they get. I know you guys are probably feeling that
way too. It's like, oh, now that they're walking and
they're running and they're starting to say things, and it's

(35:44):
it's just the best. I feel very lucky when I
when I first found out Keaton was a boy, I
was a little bummed because I was really hoping to
have a boy and a girl. I wanted the experience
of both. I knew I really only wanted two kids,
and I thought, oh, I'll just you know, I want
to know what it's like to raise a daughter, and
I want know what it's like to raise the sun.
And now that I have two boys, I cannot imagine
it any other way. Like being a boy mom is

(36:06):
so fun. It means I'm constantly wrestling, I'm constantly jumping.
I'm constantly chasing, I'm rolling in the dirt, and you know,
it's uh, it's the best. It keeps me young, honestly.

Speaker 1 (36:17):
And boys never turn on their moms. I mean, you're
always going to just be so loved. Girls I hear,
you know, around the teenage years rarely turn on moms.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
Be surprised because I hear from girl moms where they're
only four or five. They're like, you'd be surprised how
early the sas starts.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
It starts.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
You guys will have to let me know when that starts.

Speaker 1 (36:37):
I love it because you know our daughter. It's going
to be interesting. They're so their personalities are so different,
so different. Alexander is just rambunctious and needs attention and
you know, look at me, look at me, I'm so cute.
And Violet is kind of a loner. She loves kind
of her her own space. She likes to read a
book in the corner. You know, if brother does something

(37:00):
and then she'll do it. She kind of like follows
him around and like copies him, which at the beginning
was opposite. She was usually the leader. Yeah, through some
person he would do it. Now they switched because she's
just kind of like a little wallflower.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
She's sensitive and sweet.

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Yeah yeah, but she also has a I mean, I
hate to say this about my daughter, but she kind
of has a little resting bitch face.

Speaker 2 (37:19):
Oh well, she definitely she does.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
She does. And you know, you look at it, You're like, wait,
are you like upset?

Speaker 3 (37:24):
So does Keaton. Katon has this face all the time
where he's like this, that's.

Speaker 2 (37:29):
What Alexander does that lately now he's always just like
mean mugging.

Speaker 3 (37:33):
Like mean muggin. I know, funny because he was actually
the smiliest, happiest baby, Like anytime I took a picture
of him, he was like cheers. And now for some reason,
he really likes a little poudy face. He's like right in, Miss.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Scooter, all right, little bad boy?

Speaker 1 (37:47):
What is that? What else?

Speaker 2 (37:48):
Go to?

Speaker 1 (37:50):
Uh for watching? Like, so we're into Miss Rachel. We
love Miss Rachel. I don't know if you've discovered her yet,
but it's it takes a little while to get into it,
Like is this craziness? Oh my god?

Speaker 3 (37:59):
Okay, I've heard a lot about it, have not watched it,
So I'm glad you're giving me the recommendation. I will
put it on good.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
It's really good because she's really good about speech. So
our kids are learning so many words just from watching her.
It's very educational. And then our other go to just
for us as Blue.

Speaker 2 (38:16):
Because Blue Blue's amazing.

Speaker 1 (38:18):
Our kids don't even care to watch it, but we
love to watch it.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
How many times have you guys cried?

Speaker 2 (38:23):
Oh, I was just about to say that, I've cried
so many times watching Blue.

Speaker 1 (38:27):
I'm going to be that dad, Like I am taking
every episode of Blue and I'm like, I'm playing that game.
I'm playing that game.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Well, that's the thing that I think is great about
Blue is that it really is like aspirational for every
member of the family. Oh, you learn how to be
a good mom, you learn how to be a good dad,
you learn how to be a good sibling. Like it's
a friend. It's so great. I love Blue. Wait till
you guys, wait till your kids get a little older,
and it starts to like reveal itself. It's really revealing

(38:54):
itself to me that I think Adler is just a
little Performer's possible to contain it. And I think, like
when I watch him, I'm like, this must have been
what it was like when I was a k and
everyone around me was like, she should be on the stage.

Speaker 2 (39:08):
I'm like, oh no, no.

Speaker 1 (39:10):
Going through that with Panuccino. Oh sorry, I uci Ucci Panucci.
So yeah, we're kind of going through that now. Even
at nineteen months, I mean even months ago, we're like,
uh oh, I think he's been bitten because he he
loves music. He loves playing piano, loves dancing, drums, dancing, singing.

Speaker 2 (39:28):
He's oh, he was singing this morning.

Speaker 1 (39:30):
Yeah, makes up songs. There's a dada song he made up.
I put it on stage for the first time with
the Bakshi Boys and he just grabbed that mic and
start as you do boxing.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Amazing.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
It was pretty goot.

Speaker 1 (39:45):
He's never even seen a microphone. He's like, I'm like,
what is this like a new justin Timberlake happening right now?
But yeah, he's he's a showboat, and I feel like
he needs to be on the stage. But he can
do whatever he wants. He can do whatever exactly.

Speaker 3 (40:01):
That's my thing is like, listen, if this is what
you end up deciding you want to do, totally fine,
one hundred percent. I will support you, but I also
just want you to know all of the things there are,
there are so many other things. There are so many
other things. There are so many great options. So I
just want to make sure they get to dabble in
it all before they make a decision.

Speaker 1 (40:17):
And that's one thing I wish I was exposed to
more as a kid. You know, living in a very
small town in Mississippi. You know, you didn't look outside
your town. You didn't really dream big, so there was
very limited things that I thought I could do. I
want my kids to just be exposed to everything, every instrument,
every religion, every just everything, so that they can just

(40:38):
choose what they are gravitating towards.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Couldn't agree with you more, could not agree with you more.
I want to instead of shoving my ideals and the
things that I think onto you, I want you to
just be exposed to all of it so you can
find what sings and speaks to you.

Speaker 1 (40:53):
Yeah, exactly, all right. So back on the road, within Sync,
tell us some stories that I might not know about.
Was there anything that happened that you're like, oh my.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
Gosh, no, I mean we one of the things I
loved about our relationship is that we were best friends.
We told each other everything, so there was never anything
that was like, you know, a secret. I think we
both remember that music video shoot where we were both
so bummed that I was like the only girlfriend not
allowed to be I.

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Know, every everyone's girlfriend was kind of in the videos drama.

Speaker 3 (41:27):
Well, I think you know, Brittany wasn't in it either,
right right now, And I think the idea was Brittany
and myself were probably the two they were. We were
recognizable from something else and they didn't want that to
distract from your video. That it was like it worked
out that they if it weren't for you know, the
the girlfriends being in it, they would have casted girlfriends

(41:50):
and so why not use Bobby and Danielle and all
and and so. But I just remember being bummed because
I was like, well but I don't care, and you.

Speaker 1 (42:00):
I didn't care. But in hindsight, god, I wish we
would have done that. I wish you and Brittany were
in the video because that would have been such a
moment to look back and be like, oh my gosh,
that was fun.

Speaker 3 (42:08):
We all had for sure exactly, I know, I I
love that, I think you know. And then after we
broke up, we all went to Hawaii together for y two.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
K that's right when the world was ending.

Speaker 3 (42:22):
The world was ending, you had to turn your computers
off because who knew at midnight.

Speaker 2 (42:30):
Yeah, the fear was real.

Speaker 3 (42:33):
Yeah, it really was. That was a really fun trip.
And we actually just talked about that trip because you know,
you unfortunately just lost your grandma and I had all
those great pictures your grandparents were on that trip.

Speaker 1 (42:43):
Yeah, it was their fiftieth anniversary. Both of both my
sets of grandparents went to Hawaii with us for the
millennium and uh, yeah, it was their fiftieth anniversary. It
was I would say probably my favorite trip of my whole.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Entire life was that it was so much fun. I know,
that was such a good time.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
And didn't you get piercings and Brittany or something.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
So when Britney got her belly button pierce, okay, and yeah,
and I was there and I already had my belly
button piers Everyone got their belly button pierced, but my
belly button was already pierced, and so I was like,
and my mom was so mad at me because my
mom made a deal with me. Here's the real story.
My mom made a deal with me when I was
sixteen years old, because at some point I said, I
think I want to get a tongue piercing, and my

(43:22):
mom was like, don't you dare, And so she made
a deal with me where she said, I will let
you get your belly button pierced if you promise me
you never get your tongue pierced. And I said, deal,
and so she did. She let me get my belly
button pierced when I was sixteen. So then here it is,
the year nineteen ninety nine slash two thousand and everyone

(43:45):
Danielle Brittany, Everybody's getting their belly buttons pierced, and I'm like,
I'm missing out. I already have mine. So I thought,
I'm going to get my tongue pierced, but I'll take
it out. I just want to know what it feels
like to get your tongue pres My mom won't even
ever know. I just wanted I'll just take it out,
no big deal.

Speaker 2 (44:01):
That's like the opposite of everyone else who wants to
know what it feels like to get their tongue peers.
That's the reason why I wouldn't get my tongue peers.

Speaker 3 (44:08):
I don't know what I was thinking. I look back
now and I'm like, that's really kind of like so
unrelatable for Danielle, who Danielle is today, But I don't know.
I was obsessed with it. So I in order to
be with everyone and to get something done, I got
my tongue peers. I took one picture of it, and
then I took it out. And then years later I
didn't tell my mom. I said, oh, you know, I
ended up getting my tongueaists on that trip and I

(44:28):
took it out immediately, and my mom said, you did
what And I said, well, I wasn't planning on keeping
it in, which is all you cared about. And she said, no,
we had a deal you would never get it pierced,
and she felt so hurt and let down by it.
I was like, I guess you're right. I really did
go back on my word. But I thought because I
didn't keep it in, she wouldn't care. But boy was
she ever mad.

Speaker 1 (44:49):
Mad me the snatch that belly button ring, pretended to
get a tattoo or something. I remember all trying to
play a joke on maybe Brittain. It was like, oh,
I got a tattoo.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
That did you get a tattoo in Hawaii?

Speaker 1 (45:04):
I did, Yeah, we all did he ate tattoos. But yeah,
I got what did I get? Oh? I got? Okay,
Remember we went to the tattoo place and I wanted
to get some Japanese.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
Writing right now, Japanese writing which I had on my.

Speaker 1 (45:17):
Neck, you know, and I was very you know, religious,
and so I wanted faith right on it. So we
picked the one that said faith, and you know, I
put it on my ankle. Blah blah blah blah blah.
Fent out years later from someone that actually speaks Japanese
that it did not say faith. It said instead, I
think it was fate. So the whole time I get,
oh this is faith, faith, it was fate.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
That's funny. You know what I did not realize is
that I didn't realize you got you or you wanted
to get faith. The Japanese symbols I had on my neck,
which I've now had removed, were love and faith. I
think faith is two symbols.

Speaker 1 (45:50):
Yeah, well what I have is two symbols for sure.
But I have no idea what give me anything. It's
fading a lot now because I have I needed to
work on my leg because that's where I put all
most of my tattoos. This is kind of like I
was thinking I was gonna eventually get like a leg
sleeve type thing where they all kind of go together.
It's horrible.

Speaker 2 (46:08):
I mean, it looks like you just have a bunch
of prison tattoos.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
It's like it's like a prisoner just when it was
like put a little velvel rope there, which is now face.

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Yeah, you either need to go forward and commit for
the legs sleeve or just remove them.

Speaker 1 (46:21):
Joey apparently just got his last tat That's why he
says his final test okay, which has five million of them.
He got his Funko pop character on.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
His thumb brand thum brand.

Speaker 1 (46:34):
Wait, boys, the world has to have Funko.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Do you have Funkos?

Speaker 1 (46:39):
I need to have accord into Panga funk because now
I'm a collector. I've just I've become a collector this year.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah, so well guess what. I have a few of them,
but then signed, and obviously I'll sign one for you,
so I will send you Ben and Danielle A Corey
into Panga.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Signed please because you know, I'm obviously for in these
to my kids. I have this idea. I want to
make one of their walls in the nursery just all
funkl pops just pushed together.

Speaker 2 (47:05):
We have so many it's like to see preposterous.

Speaker 3 (47:07):
Yeah, you know what's really funny is that they're gonna
be like, why did my daddy's put all their friends
on my wall?

Speaker 1 (47:14):
All of them?

Speaker 3 (47:14):
Why are all my family friends in this bedroom.

Speaker 1 (47:17):
That's That's how I'm pushing my favorite pop culture onto
my kids, like you.

Speaker 3 (47:21):
Will, like Danielle, you will enjoy like Freddy Krueger.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Yes, all my faves. Now, I take all my favorite
funkos and I make them. They are my Christmas tree ornaments.
So I have a whole Christmas tree of just all
my favorite pop culture moments.

Speaker 3 (47:36):
Well, and you have several trees to decorate.

Speaker 1 (47:38):
So yes, I do. All right, Let's I know we're
kind of running out of time here, but again, I could.
I could talk to you for like five hours. We
could have five episodes with you. But let's get to
some fan questions for you. Tee. What is the hardest
part about doing the pod Meats World? Rewatch? This is
from Thellistia Oh the Heart ardest part.

Speaker 3 (48:00):
There really aren't that many hard parts, so I would
say I think it's probably keeping ourselves on track. We
record two episodes a week, and we usually allow an
hour and a half for each episode, so we record
for three hours at a time, and you'd be amazed
that sometimes we are running way past that because we

(48:24):
joke that the fact that we love each other so
much can really be a detriment because we just do
not shut up. We really love to hear ourselves to talk.
So I would say the hardest part is maintaining focus
and not getting sidetracked into tangents because we somebody brings
something up and we're like, that reminds me, let's talk
about that next thing. You know, it's been four hours.

Speaker 1 (48:44):
If you could have been a backup dancer on one
of the Instinct tours, there you go. Which one would
you have chosen? From Green archies?

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Which tour?

Speaker 1 (48:52):
Which tour would you like to be a background dancer on? Oh?

Speaker 3 (48:54):
Man, oh gosh, I don't know. What was the tour
where you guys flew over the audience for sailing?

Speaker 1 (49:01):
That was no Strings?

Speaker 3 (49:02):
Okay, I would have been on No Strings.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
Yeah, that was my favorite tour. For sure the best
that was a going, that was a going Besides Lance,
what other boy band members did you have a crush on?

Speaker 2 (49:13):
JS nine escandalous?

Speaker 3 (49:16):
I had a crush on Drew lache ah h, Dru.
Drew was so sweet and so kind. He had a
long term girlfriend. He was like he was He was
absolutely no way, shape or form interested in me at all,
but he was so funny, so sweet, so kind, so considerate.
Those ninety eight degrees guys were really just some of
the best out there, and I got to know them

(49:38):
really well when Lance and I were in Cankuon for
MTV and he was supposed to have some days off,
and so I went out there early so we could
sync up our days off in cancuon And then you
guys ended up leaving early to go do something out
of town, and I was now alone in CanCon and
Lance was like, this is Nick and these are in
the ninety eight degrees guys, They'll take care of you,

(49:58):
And sure enough they did. They just looked after me
and made sure I always had something to do and
felt comfortable and didn't feel like I was alone in
Cancun without knowing anybody. So they were very sweet.

Speaker 1 (50:09):
Do you know Vanessa at all? Have you friends? Are
you friends with her?

Speaker 2 (50:13):
No?

Speaker 3 (50:13):
I don't know Vanessa.

Speaker 1 (50:14):
It seems like y'all would be like, we.

Speaker 3 (50:16):
For sure have probably met and we should know each
other because it feels like we really run in the
same circles. But no, we don't know each other.

Speaker 1 (50:23):
Do you watch crazy reality TV like we do? Like
Love Is Blind? Are you into that crap?

Speaker 3 (50:27):
You know what? Honestly, I go to bed at eight
thirty the minute my children are asleep.

Speaker 5 (50:32):
I am in bed.

Speaker 3 (50:33):
My number one priority in life is getting my rest.

Speaker 2 (50:35):
Yeah that should be ours, all right?

Speaker 1 (50:37):
Okay, page wants to know what are a couple of
your favorite in sync songs.

Speaker 3 (50:44):
Gosh, there are just too many. I have to tell
you the in Sync Christmas album.

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Yeah, that's a good one.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
It is just one of the most iconic albums of
all time. And I have to say that one because
there are, obviously there are so many in sync hits,
but that Christmas album. I don't care what I'm a
year it is that I'm putting it on. I love
it nice.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
Okay, we have a questionnaire from Let's See What I
don't even know what magazine.

Speaker 2 (51:09):
This is Uh, it's Tiger B. You had a Yeah,
you had Daniel's diary.

Speaker 3 (51:16):
Yes, I wrote Daniel's diary for sixteen magazine.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
That's right, Yes, well we have we have a Daniel's
diary here. So uh, I'm going to ask you some
questions and see if you can match your answers.

Speaker 3 (51:27):
Okay, let's see. I I what teenage Danielle said?

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Yes exactly. Okay, So uh with BMW on hiatus, what
means well, uh, what are you doing to keep busy?
What do you think you were doing to keep busy
on hiatus?

Speaker 3 (51:41):
Did I say that I was going back to my
regular school and also going to Hawaii with my family?

Speaker 1 (51:46):
You did not? You said it's good a lot. I
have my own website on celebrity sidings.

Speaker 2 (51:54):
Do you still operate that? That's amazing.

Speaker 1 (51:59):
I'm doing a calendar, a poster and the show is
really going wonderful. So yeah, so celebrity site, Well, that.

Speaker 3 (52:05):
Was the year I was shooting the calendar. Okay, yeah,
I do know my I do you remember my calendar
and the poster shoot? That was really fun. I posed
on a train track for the poster, of course, yeah,
as one does.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
Yeah, all right, what's your favorite movie TV show in
place to.

Speaker 3 (52:20):
Vacation, Okay, place to Vacation, I definitely said Hawaii. And
then my favorite TV show? Did I say X Files?

Speaker 1 (52:27):
Let's say you said Friends, Home Improvement, and Grace under Fire.

Speaker 2 (52:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (52:35):
Who was teenage Danielle?

Speaker 1 (52:37):
But you did like you said, yeah, oh my gosh.
How did they convince you to do Daniel's diary in
sixteen magazine?

Speaker 2 (52:45):
Well?

Speaker 3 (52:45):
It was actually really smart on their behalf because they
needed interviews with teen guys to fill these magazines because
most of the readers of these magazines were teen girls,
and so they were like, what if instead of sending
adult women to go interview these teen boys, we just
hire for free team Danielle to go in anytime she

(53:05):
meets anybody, put a tape recorder in their face. And
so I basically got my own column and I just
got to interview everybody. I'm sure I interviewed you. I've
got interviews with writer and you know, I interviewed everybody
over the years, especially the Home improvement guys because we
taped right next door to them.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:21):
Home Improvement was definitely one of my favorite shows growing up.
That was like, where'd you watch for your family. My
dad loved it. Loved that show.

Speaker 2 (53:30):
Yeah, your dad totally, I can see that.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
Oh yeah, all right, before we let you go, we
have to know what you're watching, what you're listening to,
give us some recommendations TV shows. What do you want?

Speaker 3 (53:40):
Oh my gosh, I swear I go to bed at
like eight thirty. I'm like, I'm not even watching anything
I like and exactly, I'm like, anything that's really good
for the two to four years old range is really
what I'm what I'm into. Yeah, man, I really do
have a boring answer for this, because I honestly don't know.

(54:00):
I haven't watched.

Speaker 1 (54:01):
Succession or any of those that everyone's like talking about.

Speaker 3 (54:05):
No, I wish I did, but I don't honestly know
the last time I watched a TV show for myself.

Speaker 2 (54:12):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (54:13):
So I don't know.

Speaker 1 (54:13):
Music. What are you listening to?

Speaker 3 (54:16):
What am I listening to?

Speaker 1 (54:17):
It? Well?

Speaker 3 (54:18):
I have had Sabrina Carpenter's album emails I can't send
basically on a loop. And she just performed at the
Greek Theater and I got to go and watch that show.
It was her first time ever performing at the Greek,
which was like years and years and years of a
dream in the making. So that was really fun. And
then I love Ice Spice.

Speaker 2 (54:36):
I think she Oh yeah, we were just talking about
her yesterday. I know.

Speaker 3 (54:40):
Cool.

Speaker 1 (54:40):
Yeah, I mean, I'm kind of nude Ice Spice. I've
been seeing she's like the most memorable person on TikTok
right now. I mean, I know, loving it, But yeah,
I listened to a song for the first time this
week and I loved it, Like, who is this? I
thought it was the loss she is. I thought it
was just like the sixth member of the Spice Girls
that just didn't end up making the final bands close
show them.

Speaker 3 (55:01):
She's Yeah, she's fantastic. Everything she touches her insta gold.
So I'm really looking forward to what she does in
the future.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
All right, let's end with a frosted tip from you.
You are a full time working mom. What tips do
you have for the moms out there who feel like
they can't work full time doing what they love while
raising kids.

Speaker 3 (55:18):
Oh man, my best tip would be to just give
yourself a lot of grace. It doesn't matter whether you're
a mom or you're a dad. If you are in
any sort of caretaker role, you are constantly rocked with guilt.
When you're with your children, you're guilty that you feel
guilty that you're not getting things done in your job.
When you're at your job, you feel guilty that you're
not there with your kids. And I think you know,
the number one thing I remind myself of is that

(55:39):
I want my children in the future to pursue pursue
the things that they love that bring them joy. And
if that is their job, then you've hit the lottery.
And so I love doing my job. And so when
my son says to me, Mommy, why can't you pick
me up from school today? All you do is work, work, work, work, work,
I always say to him, Honey, Mommy loves my job.

(56:00):
I love what I do, and I can't pick you
up today. But it doesn't mean I'm not going to
pick you up tomorrow. I can pick you up again
in another time. But I just want my kids to
know that when I go to work, I'm also doing
something that brings me joy, and that's what I work
for them as well.

Speaker 2 (56:13):
That's so important.

Speaker 1 (56:14):
You are wise beyond your years, Danielle Fischel. Thank you
so much for being on Frosteds. Yeah, I know, everyone's
been looking forward to this episode. I think they were
probably one wanting more like scandalous stories, but we don't
have any.

Speaker 2 (56:27):
We were just.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
Wish we were like fun stories. You know, you always
hear stories on the read. Oh, sex, drugs, and rock
and roll. We didn't have any of that, especially the
sex part.

Speaker 3 (56:39):
Definitely not but so much kissing, so much, Yes, guys.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
So much.

Speaker 1 (56:49):
Give your family my love and I can't wait to
see you very soon. We have a play date that
we have to set up. Yes, absolutely, kids, seriously, all right,
my love. So good to see you. Thank you.

Speaker 5 (57:00):
Danielle by Michael Bye bye.

Speaker 1 (57:18):
I love me some little d She's so great. I know.
I'm so glad we got to catch up with her
because you know, it's it's nice to have these guests
on the show kind of reminisce and see from a
different perspective totally, because you know, we were doing our
thing and being in this lane a lot of the times,
and then you know your friends and your you know,
relationships and your family members kind of were on this

(57:40):
different lane. But it's been Yeah, it's nice. I love
catching up with her.

Speaker 2 (57:44):
I know she's great, and.

Speaker 1 (57:45):
I'm telling you this movie that is being written is
going to be so funny. It's great. We were obviously
not going to be playing ourselves, by the way. I
don't know if you thought that, you know, I know
I could still You're not.

Speaker 2 (57:55):
Yeah, you can definitely still play high school.

Speaker 1 (57:57):
Yeah, I know I could, But I'm just you know, yeah,
I'm just gonna say that that's weird.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
You're not. I don't know. I mean, Danielle really could
probably play herself.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
She looks exactly the same, exactly the same, and I
was like, she did not have an awkward teenage phase
at all.

Speaker 2 (58:11):
She never had an awkward teenage phase.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
No, God, yeah, go google me. That fun all right, guys,
that is all the show I have for you today.
For this extra frosting, thank you so much for listening.
Remember we have a couple other podcasts out there if
you're liking the scripted podcast world. We have The Last Soviet,
which has been really fun killing it out there, and

(58:34):
then we have a new show that also has entered
the shots. I think we're number fifteen in fiction. That's great,
that's good for us. It's called The Bedtime Stories of
the Ingleside and a true story about this Hotel in
nineteen seventy five and Palm Springs. Yeah, so Alexander is
our star. I mean, it's so many incredible comedic actors

(58:55):
in the show, which I think you will love. I mean,
we got freaking George stands up, come on, come on,
come on, and really great music, great music. Immerse yourself
into the seventies.

Speaker 2 (59:05):
Oh, it totally takes you, like into a whole other world.

Speaker 1 (59:07):
Yeah, it's fun. It's fun. So go check that out.
Be good to each other, don't drink and drive out there,
be good to those animals, and.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Remember stay frosted.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
Hey, thanks for listening. Follow us on Instagram at Frosted
Tips with Lance and Michael Turchinard and at lance Bast
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Speaker 2 (59:28):
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