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June 28, 2024 35 mins

The gang has been on the road for “The Kids Wanna Jump! Tour” for the last year and somehow they just wandered into a podcast studio in the back of Queenie’s, a bar in North Carolina.

Hear about the joys of Buc-ees, what happens when a live show goes wrong and the sticker shock of renting a venue couch. What were their favorite costumes? What cities had the loudest fans? Will there be anymore shows? So we have your front row seat ready - please try not to throw up - it’s time for a road trip edition of Pod Meets World!

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Speaker 1 (00:20):
We are at Queenie's Durham in Durham, North Carolina, Carolina.
We are.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Know what that what just happened?

Speaker 1 (00:31):
We are finally making up our Podmeats World Live shows
that we had to cancel from December twenty twenty three.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
When Will got COVID for.

Speaker 2 (00:40):
My third time. Yeah, love it, love it. Covid likes me.
It does finds me everywhere.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
So we uh, Will and I got in a little
earlier than Writer yesterday because as per usual, Writer left
out of Bourbank, took a connecting flight Sweet sweet Bourbank.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Sweet sweet Burbs, so you had to get to the
train and then you hit that boat.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
I hitchhiked through Ohio.

Speaker 2 (01:01):
You will do anything just to take off from Burbank.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
I want to do. You'll change thirteen from walk to
I still rather. I mean, is there a worse airport
than lax.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
It is the worst airport DFW is It's I mean,
it's pretty bad.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Chicago hair is the only one that I would say
weather and getting stuck down the times in my life.
But no, oh my.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
God, yea LX is bad.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
So anyway, Will and I arrived in Durham a few
hours before Writer, and we made our way into Queene's
Bar and loved it, had some fries, had some fried pickles,
and then realized they have a podcast studio and they
let people in Durham use it for free.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
And you know, we anything we could do for free.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
See, you guys made this this issue without me. I
know this is a very move of you. I know, wait,
free free stuff, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Free stuff we could record, and you know we're never
sick of each other. So I immediately booked a time
and here we are at our time recording.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
We thought we.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Would our free time. We're also podcasting.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
Well listen, we have never been sick of our own voices.

Speaker 4 (02:18):
I don't narcissism.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yes, it's great.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
But we did want to do this episode because we
have been reflecting a lot on the pod meets World.
The kids want to jump tour, wrapping it up, wrapping
up the tour. We may still possibly have a few
one off dates. There's some Pacific Northwest, Northwest Northwest.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
We want to do the Pacific Northwest.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
To call the next one. Kids still want to jump.

Speaker 3 (02:47):
The kids are jumping, the kids are the kids are
all right?

Speaker 4 (02:53):
Kids are not all right. The kids aren't.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
It's broken heps I think would work.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
Uh so yeah, let's let's talk about our live tour.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
The kids want to jump in.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
What some of our favorite moments were We yesterday when
we were driving through Durham, Will said, oh, you know
those buildings remind me of oh where.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
Were That's what happens. It starts to blend because you go,
Especially when we started the tour, we were doing what
they are called runs of three, So you would land
in one city, do a show that night, either drive
or get a car the next day to the next city,
do a show that night, drive or get a car
to the next city, and it just starts to blend

(03:37):
together kind of where you are amazing crowds. Ever, we
haven't had a bad crowd yet, No, but man, it
just you.

Speaker 4 (03:43):
We wouldn't say so if we did.

Speaker 1 (03:46):
Was that one person who vomited in the front.

Speaker 4 (03:51):
Oh my god, what city was that?

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Was that?

Speaker 3 (03:55):
In Texas?

Speaker 2 (03:56):
We thought it was back East?

Speaker 3 (03:58):
Well, we've been a lot back East.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
But I mean, wasn't it was.

Speaker 4 (04:03):
We just heard this like commotion is like going on
in like the front row, and we thought somebody had
like sneezed.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
Or spilled it sounded like a splash. Yeah, like a
bit of a splash. And then there was some like
talk we were doing our pre show chatter. So it
was very early on in our live show. And I
guess you know, there are probably a lot of people
who didn't make it out to a live show, but

(04:31):
listen to the podcast. Maybe we should start by doing
a little rundown of what our live show entails.

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Okay, do we want to give anything away?

Speaker 1 (04:40):
We're done with this?

Speaker 2 (04:41):
Okay, yes, no, saving.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
I don't want to give anything away. I want to
wait because we're going to do this five years.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
I'm not giving anything away. I'm just saying, shouldn't we
give people a little like run of show. I think
we could talk about the fact that you come out
and give a poem. No, all right, say it, all right, listen,
we have a very secret live show and.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
West of it, we're not going to talk. Let's talk
about the vomit.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
You know what everyone wants to hear about the vomit.
So we heard a kerfuffle and people were very angry,
and we were, like people were not usually angry at
each other, very loving.

Speaker 4 (05:25):
Loving, supportive group of people, and this was suddenly it
turned and then yeah, we found out.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
After the show.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
We do our VAP meet and greets where we spend
quite a bit of time with everybody who comes through
the line. We talked to them, We asked them what
they thought of the show. They usually tell us a
favorite moment, and then we take a photo together. And
it was during that meet and greet where someone said
I got thrown up on and we went, I'm sorry, what.

Speaker 4 (05:55):
Wow, put it together.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
That's what happened. It was not the sound of and
that person was escorted out.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Yeah, just too drunk, too drunk. Yeah, geez or our
show induces vomiting the other part.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
So what happens? God look at them.

Speaker 3 (06:20):
Okay, So that was a great show.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
That was a great show.

Speaker 4 (06:23):
Here's here's my question. Expectations before we started doing this
tour versus the reality Hmmm.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
I wasn't expecting it. I've said this from show four.
I wish I had done this in my twenties and
not my late forties. I was not expecting to be
as tired as I was. As horrible as that sounds,
it's true. It's exhausting to be on the road. It's
absolutely exhausts Yeah, I mean it's it's exhausting, It really is.

Speaker 1 (06:53):
I I did say to my dear friend Sabrina Carpenter,
who goes on real tours, when we first started this
and we were just doing those three nights back to back,
but you're gone for five days because a lot of
the shows we were doing were on the East Coast,
so we couldn't.

Speaker 3 (07:07):
Get there the day of the show.

Speaker 1 (07:08):
We'd have to leave the day before a show and
then arrive, you know, spend the night there, then the
next night do the show, early wake up. The next day,
travel to the next location, do a show, same thing again,
early wake up, travel to the next location, do a show,
and then the next day, early wake up, fly home.
And I said, how do you do this night after
night after night for months on end? And she literally

(07:30):
just laughed. She was like, yeah, it's it's only twenty exactly.
But even still she's like, it's it's hard and.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
It's not physical. If it's mental, yes, because it's it's
the sense of like, you know, because when you do
a show, it takes so much energy, like to prep
and psych yourself out, and then you get out there
and it's a huge rush. It's a huge adrenaline rush,
and then when it's over, you feel like the best
you've ever felt in your life. Yeah, so do you

(08:00):
have to do that again the next day? That's the
hard part. It's like the mental endurance to just like
pull yourself up off the floor and be like I
didn't really just do a thing. I gotta do it again.
And that's why, like you talk to Broadway actors who
do like theater shows eight days a week, and you know,
you don't have a life, You just have your that's
the show is everything, and it's like, right, that's kind

(08:22):
of our problem is that we keep thinking, we're like, hey,
we're in Durham, let's hang out, let's go find a restaurant.
And I think the actual way to do it is
like you just never leave the tour bus. Yeah, you
know you just kind of like pull up.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Or even have a tour bus. That would.

Speaker 4 (08:38):
Really luxurious to bush. Yeah, video games.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
But we got to stop at BUCkies.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
BUCkies in Texas the largest we had. What do we get?
We got their gopher nuggets. What are the things that
are the really famous.

Speaker 3 (08:50):
For I don't know.

Speaker 2 (08:52):
Something, I forget what they are, but they're like everyone's
like you've got to get the weasel treaders.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Or whatever that it didn't actually end up getting. We
got the wrong, got the wrong.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah, and jerky that you didn't like. No, but I
do like I bought my kids BUCkies long sleeve teas
and they're so cute on them, and it's a I'm
glad that I got that, because although we didn't love
the food we got at Bucky's, seeing the shirts on
my kids is a nice reminder of that overall experience
of like being in a car, having a place to stop.

(09:22):
I think one of the expectations to your question writer
was that I thought for sure I was going to
want to fly from city to city as much as possible,
because to me, a long drives.

Speaker 3 (09:33):
Are also exhausting.

Speaker 2 (09:34):
Yeah, we can wipe out.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
And I was thinking flying, Oh bit, it'll be easy,
you know. So you get there, You're on a plane
for an hour, No, no big deal.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
But boy did I ever.

Speaker 1 (09:43):
I enjoyed the drives way more than I thought I
was going to.

Speaker 2 (09:47):
I enjoyed the drives when I started to insist upon driving. Yeah,
that's when I enjoyed the drives. Being in the back
when whoever's driving is sometimes also doing nine other things
besides just driving an occasion decided the road gets brushed
every once in a while, and you're kind of in
the back, like, who are you talking about? Jensen's got
nine things. It'll be like, hey man, I just sold

(10:08):
fourteen pins put up a new web page. But I'm like,
you're also doing eighty. So let's maybe I'll take.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Will very into safety.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
And I'm not saying he shouldn't be, but he he's
very into safety.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
Safety, security and location. Drop where you're from, how how
close to Connecticut? Exactly which in Connecticut?

Speaker 1 (10:28):
But where do you live currently? And where is that
in relation to where I am?

Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's how it is, you know, writer, some people believe
in some things. I waited.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
I enjoyed the drives when I had control of the music. Yeah,
I could put on my Bob Dylan watch.

Speaker 2 (10:40):
Yeah, well Daniel Glove Dylan. Well, it's like Bob Dylan said, I,
I mean, really set it up. He's really he really
can talk about that. Do you remember where were we
when I almost couldn't go on stage because the Popes
I had the diarrhea.

Speaker 1 (10:57):
I don't think I'm going to be able to make
it guys, if I have to leave the stage at sometimes,
just know that you're gonna have to.

Speaker 2 (11:05):
Toronto.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
You're right, it was we were not like our show
has like strict requirements literally and we would have just
kept talking. It's very loose but kind of fun. But
you know also that looseness is part of my bowels.
Loose is your poops, no part of part of the
The reason is that every show is different. We have

(11:28):
not planned a lot of it. There's like, there's a
couple of bits that are like five minutes long that
are pretty planned, but for the most part, every night
is a different conversation. We have different preacher chatter, We
pull people up from the audience, we do things with them.
So that keeps you on edge, and it keeps you
kind of mentally like what's going to happen to you?
And I have to say, like, I'm really proud of
us because I think if you had told me before

(11:50):
we did this tour that I would be totally cool
with that. I would have been like, but I'm not
a comedian. I'm not like, I'm not an improv actor.
This is not my thing, Like I want to know
what and actually now I'm realizing like, well, when I'm
with the two of you, no, it's all gonna be fine,
Like because even when things kind of go wrong, we
the audience loves it. Yeah, that's the point. It's like
when we and there's nothing to really worry about, Like

(12:12):
we've always had a good show. It's always been because
it's just us. And again, like you know, part of
doing this whole podcast, but especially doing the live tours,
it's like coming face to face with how much our
fans now are not just fans of Sean Eric and
the Panga, but like us. Yeah, because we've we've been

(12:32):
putting ourselves out there and I really got to feel that,
you know where It's like when we say something on
Lee and we talked about it already on the show,
but like when that guy asked the philosophy question, everybody's
losing it because it's like, oh, here's something that you know,
we know about, we know about the writer, and you
guys are like, what are you talking about? It's just
so funny.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
I remember was sitting I forget where we were. It
might have also been Boston or New York, might have
been New York, but we're sitting there and I said,
and then my wife like yelling out, and it's like,
oh God, if anyone knows everything, it's great.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:02):
Well, we were able to after a city say how
that compared to other shows we had done. And one
of the distinctions that we would make would be how
whether the crowd felt like a strictly Boy meets World
audience or whether they were a Pod meets World audience.
And if they were a Pod meets World audience, they
understood the inside jokes really quickly or yelled them out.

(13:24):
If they were more of a Boy meets World audience,
are jokes that we would make that were Pod meets
World references or references to who we are as individuals
wouldn't land as well, right.

Speaker 4 (13:33):
Yeah, kind of hear it in the room and be like,
they don't.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
Listen to the podcast. They love the show, but they
don't listen to.

Speaker 4 (13:38):
The other way you could tell is because we open
up for a Q and a for AIG show. And
if they ask questions that like easily get answered in
the first episode of our podcast, right, where's Corey, Where's
no but like you know, questions like you know, what's
your favorite episode? Or we'd be like, oh, well, we've
we've really covered this ground. It was fine, but we
just realized, like, right, this crowd just came out because

(13:59):
of a boy me, not because of the podcast, but
that was happening less and less by the end.

Speaker 1 (14:03):
It was for sure. Also the costumes, the costume contest.

Speaker 2 (14:07):
Because you'll get deep cuts from the podcast sometimes exactly
as opposed to deep cuts from Okay, favorite favorite.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
Costume, oh man favorite, that's.

Speaker 2 (14:16):
Big one where it was it was the roller coaster car.

Speaker 3 (14:20):
The first one we ever saw with incredible detail.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Yes one, I had Feenie and everything, and it had
the puke bags and so that was the Devil roller
coaster whatever the hell they called it on the show.
That was a pretty impressive one.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
I really loved the old Corey and Sean. We've had
a couple of them, but there was entire and they
genuinely had matched our outfits from the show perfectly, and
then they stayed in character, which was just hysterical. But
I have to say the deep cut, I mean, because
there have been some deep cuts from my own life,
of course, I just have. And the one girl who
came as a white rose from Susie the Pony came

(14:57):
because it was Justice for Susie. Oh my god. Yeah.
And then yes, Strafty Bright like a couple of different
like Strapty Bright as a character, just t shirts.

Speaker 3 (15:04):
It's just Strafty Bride cutting that woman's hair.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
First show, I think, no second second, it was our
first the first.

Speaker 1 (15:14):
Run, a woman came as the hair cutting episode to
Panga but her hair was still long, and she said,
will you cut my hair? She had scissor, We got scissors,
Macala got scissors, scissors whatever her hair.

Speaker 3 (15:29):
That was pretty cool.

Speaker 4 (15:30):
Also someone dressed as prisoner who comes to our tables
such a deep cut. Oh, in death chair. We had
multiple death chairs. We had like people as death sitting
in a chair, people just as a chair.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
A lot of couches, good ones, Eric in the couch.
There was some good. Yeah, there was some good. Is
there a show that sticks out for you for the
person we brought, personal people we brought on stage.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
I was just going to say guest stars.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
We had Toronto was the one? Was that the guy
who was just perfect, amazing, amazing, Coryes the Cory he
he was both.

Speaker 3 (16:16):
Literally thought he was a plant.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, he was so incredible good and he was an
acting teacher afterwards, Yeah, made sense.

Speaker 4 (16:25):
He taught college, but all the references and was able
because you.

Speaker 2 (16:30):
Couldn't just like you couldn't fluster thelam.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
What we do we often bring a Cory don't know,
I'm not telling details, but what do we do is
we put somebody on the spot and make them sort
of see what they remember from the show or what
they can make up and pretend to remember from the
show to stay within a scene with us improving from
Boybeth's world. And this guy was never flustered, took over
the scene, monologued in character, made references, and it happened

(16:54):
a few times, but he was truly next level. But
it happened a few times where people really were you know,
stoked and prepared and and you know, and kind of
ruined the joke in the sense that like here we
are trying to like make a show out of how
little they know what we're going to do, but they
actually just roll with it. And there was that one
woman who came as Cora from the She was dressed

(17:17):
as Cora and we brought her up to be Corey
and she sang the entire Goofy movie song right because
Jason Marsden was on stage, and she like and didn't
know that Jason was going to be there. By the way,
when she came up on stage, we brought Jason out
as a surprise mid scene and she ran with it
and then transitioned into singing the Goofy movie theme song

(17:37):
and it was perfect. Ended the scene. We're like you just,
oh my god, there's so many great actors out there.

Speaker 1 (17:41):
I thought you were talking about guest stars we brought
on stage. Let's talk about crowd reaction to our guest stars.
Which has been one of the highlights of the tour
for me is the people that we know and love
that we've been able to give their flowers on this
podcast because we didn't appreciate them as much at the time.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Seeing Danny McNulty.

Speaker 4 (18:03):
He got so much love it was amazing, and we
did a bunch of shows with him. He actually came
out a bunch because he was He lives in New York,
so he was able to come to all the East
Coast shows. The people love him though.

Speaker 2 (18:13):
I mean, he is just a beloved person, absolutely for
a good reason, and it never went to his head.
Every time he'd walk on stage, you could see his
eyes fill up. I mean, he loved it every single time.
It was amazing.

Speaker 4 (18:25):
And then all I had to say was you know,
bab boon, but he would get yeah, full like minute
of applause. Tony was our second most you know. He
came out for a lot of shows, and I have
to say, like, it was so much fun because he
is so funny and when he just acting with him again,

(18:45):
sitting there and being like hunt to why you and
I'm like looking at his face and I'm like, oh
my god, I'm I'm fifteen and we're in the middle.
Even though we're doing it as a joke, I feel
it oh so fun. Blake coming out to Tennessee. And
when we did Nashville, Blake came out got a huge
like a response and then like the audience just was

(19:07):
like why well.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
That was so that. Let me tell that story briefly.
So we were in Nashville. We knew that Blake was
going to come out. We I think had announced Blake.
It wasn't a he wasn't a surprise.

Speaker 1 (19:18):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (19:19):
But then Mel called me that morning and she's like, dude,
are you guys in Nashville. I'm like, yeah, we are.
You are you in town. I thought you were gone.
She's like, no, I'm here, and I said, come, you've
got to come to the show. She said, well, can
I bring a couple of friends They want to meet
Wryter And I was like, yeah, of course. And so
two three hours later she's down there and we bring
her out on stage and the place just because I

(19:41):
remember the the line he says it, Blake comes out
into something like there's this new girl here and she's
she's a real witch. And we're like, you can't say
that about girl, and he's, no, she's a real witch.
And by that point the audience started to get it.
He just heard these like no way, and then out
she comes and the place exploded. It was a great show.
That was a packed show.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
That was a pack show, great crowd, awesome.

Speaker 4 (20:03):
Our Philly show was huge that a lot of people
who listen might have seen because you.

Speaker 1 (20:08):
Could Trina was there with us.

Speaker 4 (20:10):
Yeah at Lawrence. God, that was a good show. That
was another big That.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Was a big show. Yeah, Danny, that was a big show.
That was also was that our biggest biggest audience?

Speaker 1 (20:20):
Yeah, I think that was like close to three thousand people.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
That's insane.

Speaker 1 (20:23):
Yeah, that was a huge show. And that was where
we got to throw the first pitch at the Phillies game,
danced with the Phillies fanatic writer's favorite thing.

Speaker 4 (20:33):
Dance scene sports mascot of public. Oh, just a dream
come true. But I'm the one that said that I'm
friends with the guy who manages.

Speaker 2 (20:45):
I was at my nephew's wedding, like what two weeks ago,
and a guy came up to be one of my
brother's friends and he said, I was at that game.
I'd driven to Philly to see a game, and I
was in the section where you guys were watching you
dance on the thing. And he's like, that can't be
Gary's brother. It can't be Gary's brother. And he's like,
came up to me, He's like, it was you. I

(21:06):
was there, I watched it.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
That's so fun.

Speaker 2 (21:08):
That was That's one of those experiences that ever in
the middle of it, I'm going, I can't believe I
get a chance to actually do that.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4 (21:16):
It was the first time I'd ever been on a
like professional baseball on the field.

Speaker 2 (21:19):
I don't think i've been on the field either, so
big because of course, of course, of course you have
you alsot the full sized baseball card. We got the
little baseball cards. We got the Allen and get Through
baseball cards, which are great and should be coming out soon. Right.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
You guys signed yours. I signed mine too, And when
I was in New York.

Speaker 2 (21:34):
Yeah, that's so yeah. We I get to be, you know,
with all my yeah, all my my sports, sports ball
and working out and everything really paid off. Yeah, because look,
we got baseball cards. It's pretty good.

Speaker 4 (21:47):
New York. Adam Durretz came and right after we had
recorded that episode with him. But you know, that was
so funny because we're talking about like experiencing life on
the road, like connecting with him because we were at
that point where like this is crazy, right, like living
like this, you do this for living all the time
since you were twenty seven, and he's like, yeah, yeah,

(22:08):
you don't even know where you are. But interestingly, we
were able to like compare notes and like talk about
how we had all been in Raleigh like the year before,
and he was like, oh, yeah, I remember that day
and he was like the con was going on. We're like,
that's so he did, you know, But I was just
like but it was so cool they just like that
was like a childhood dream come true because we brought
him out as a special guest, so yeah, a surprise guest,
but also just hanging out with him next stage, like yeah,
it was very great being like, oh my god, when

(22:29):
I was fifteen, if you told me that someday he'd
be coming to.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
Like to your show show, come on stage with us.

Speaker 4 (22:35):
And like get a laugh and get applause, it was like, oh,
that's so crazy.

Speaker 1 (22:38):
There were a couple of random hiccups. Things we lost,
things we didn't have. As a matter of fact, you
mentioning Adam Dirrits in that New York show, why did
we not have your plays with squirrels wig? And remember
that we had to find a Halloween shot.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
You can't remember why we didn't have it because we
had not yet. It was not yet we're all bringing
our own.

Speaker 3 (23:00):
Yeah, was I supposed to? Did I have your star?

Speaker 2 (23:02):
Might have been Jensen? You and Jensen were supposed to
bring because at the point you were bringing I remember
one time you forgot scripts. No, no, I forgot scripts
at one point.

Speaker 3 (23:12):
But we didn't have your wig.

Speaker 1 (23:13):
We had your you had your other stuff, So I
don't know why I would have had your wig and
you had your Well maybe I maybe I thought the
wig was in there and it wasn't. I think I
think I had a bag that had the plays with
squirrel stuff in it, and I assumed everything was in
there and put it in, and then when we unpacked
it, it was like, well, where's the wig. The wig isn't
in here.

Speaker 2 (23:29):
And so somebody to find.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
And then I was on online looking for like typing
in the local zip code, looking for a party city,
searching their specific stores wig departments, and we had to
find a like Halloween store nearby. It was not near Halloween, No,
and a dear dear pa ran out and ran out
and found something, and it's the one you're still using.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
You're still using it today. But we should also talk
about the fact that the entire tour started with you
forgetting something, because the very first thing that happened was
you left your purse in the car when Susan.

Speaker 1 (24:03):
Dropped the gosh our first.

Speaker 2 (24:05):
And we're like, before we ever got on the plane,
the first time you look at me and you're like,
I don't know my purse.

Speaker 1 (24:08):
I don't know my pursse, where's my Susan was still
right down the street at the airport, I basically had
a crossbody bag. Thought I left the crossbody bag on
my body from the through the car ride, but had
my seatbelt on obviously, and then took my seatbelt off
and didn't realize that my purse was actually on the floor.
I thought it was still across my body. Got out
of the car, grabbed our suitcases, walked right inside and

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up an escalator. And the minute we got there and
I realized I didn't have my boarding path, like, I
didn't have my physically, I didn't have anything. I was
like my purse and thankfully she was still. Susan was
right downstairs. I ran down. They were like, we're gonna
be waiting here for fifteen twenty minutes.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Oh you were back.

Speaker 1 (24:46):
I was back in seconds. It was literally like a
minute and a half. Susan hadn't even left yet.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (24:50):
So yeah, we started with forgetting, which became kind of
an on running thing.

Speaker 4 (24:54):
Yeah, traveling is man.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
I I left my c hook, I've left a couple
plane sweaters, got them back. We've all left phone chargers.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Didn't You also take a hair dryer from from a
hotel and they have to mail it back.

Speaker 3 (25:06):
I did.

Speaker 1 (25:07):
No, I didn't have to mail it, did I.

Speaker 3 (25:08):
Mail it back? I brought it to the next city.

Speaker 4 (25:11):
One time, we drove all the way, all the way
from Florida Tampa to and had forgotten.

Speaker 1 (25:16):
Jensen had not for Yeah, Jensen was in charge of
getting all the luggage into the car. He helped the
bellman put all the bags in the car and somehow
didn't realize that they had not included his suitcase. So
we didn't realize that until we were unpacking the car.

Speaker 4 (25:31):
And Landowell learned. It was a loud show.

Speaker 1 (25:34):
That was at the end of nineties con It was
that hard rock, wasn't it. Yeah, Yeah, that was so fun, so.

Speaker 4 (25:39):
Many Yeah, it's so you know, like I think there's
so many different energies that different crowds give too, you know,
Like Toronto was like really listening to us, and like,
even though it was kind of a quieter crowd, it
like was one of my favorite shows because I felt
like everyone was kind of leaning in and like and
then like there was one Q and A I want
to say, Saint Louis Q and A that was one
of the best unas we've ever done. There was like

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the right questions and we just kind of went, I don't.
We talked a lot and I just remember it was
that room that kind of felt like a bar. It
was everyone was at tables and stuff around it. Lewis,
I'm pretty sure it was St. Louis and it was
just like, man, this is it felt. I don't know,
it felt more intimate in some ways.

Speaker 2 (26:19):
All the different venues too.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
I know we should talk about the backstages, like writer's
favorite backstage. Yeah, the debt was that in that wasn't
Royal Oak, Michigan.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
Yeah, it was downstairs.

Speaker 4 (26:30):
Though where's the Where's fonsor from Milwaukee? Milwaukee?

Speaker 2 (26:34):
It was?

Speaker 4 (26:35):
It was amazing because it was right yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (26:37):
They had a coffee guy and they had.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
A record player and like leather chairs and books.

Speaker 1 (26:42):
And it was really big and nice and set up
really cool vibe. And then there are backstages that make
you feel very sad.

Speaker 2 (26:50):
Toronto as great a show that was, you remember that was?

Speaker 1 (26:53):
That was?

Speaker 4 (26:53):
Yeah. Danielle was like, what are we doing?

Speaker 1 (26:55):
Like I'm starting?

Speaker 4 (26:57):
I started. I was like, once we get out there,
you're gonna be fine. But we were cited as like basement.
We could hear some band playing like a diary.

Speaker 3 (27:05):
Yeah, will help.

Speaker 4 (27:06):
And you were like, I don't know, I don't know
how I feel.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
About this white white just.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
Feeling and you and you're like.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Oh, what what do you?

Speaker 1 (27:16):
Does anyone care? Why is what do we? And then
and then yeah, you go out there and it's and
it's you're great and it's happy. And what it was the.

Speaker 4 (27:24):
Backstage where did Georgia come and meet us?

Speaker 2 (27:26):
Because that was a really nice backage Floridiano that was
somewhere in Florida and the Orlando Then it was yeah,
that was a great backstage.

Speaker 1 (27:34):
That was a great piano and the Orpheum in l
A remember how beautiful that that.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
That for me was like kind of the home coming.
And then Bill Daniels came up from That's all right,
which is amazing, Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:46):
Unbelievable, amazing, talk about an ovation and like they're not
a single dry eye in the place.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Connecticut was special for me because it was the Bushnell
and I grew up going to the Bushnell and we
had we had a ton of fun there and that
was also just coming off a nineties con which is
you know, a racous crowd there. That was fun, That
was cool. My you know, my dad came and my
family came, and yeah, that was cool.

Speaker 4 (28:18):
The run that we did from Boston to New York,
that was really fun. I mean, I guess maybe just
because they were sold out crowds and the audience was
so like.

Speaker 1 (28:27):
I also realized that was Jensen's birthdaycase. Remember we were
in New York on Jensen's birthday, and that was right
before or right after his gallbladder exploded. The tour gave
the tour gave Jensen an exploding gallbladder?

Speaker 2 (28:41):
Isn't it necrotic?

Speaker 4 (28:42):
Don't you think?

Speaker 3 (28:43):
My favorite?

Speaker 1 (28:44):
One of my favorite will jokes Jensen was doing was
had produced the entire podcast tour, so booking all the cities,
organizing the show, talking with each and every venue, each
handling all the merch and and halfway he just started
experiencing a bunch of pain. He kept going to emergency

(29:04):
room after emergency room all across the country. We're very
well versed in emergency rooms. And eventually, finally he went
into urgent care at home and said, I'm not leaving
until you take my gallbladder out of me. And when
they opened him up, the surgeon called me and said,
I've been doing this for thirty five years. I've never
seen a worse gall bladder. It was absolutely necrotic, completely

(29:26):
a dead organ in his body.

Speaker 3 (29:29):
So the will came overrotic, and it.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Exactly will came over while my child was napping, so
that I could go see him at the hospital for
a little bit, and and that's the song. He was like, Hey,
I just want to tell you I wrote the song.

Speaker 3 (29:46):
It was very good.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
Soon anyway, Johnsen doesn't do the tour anymore. We've taken
him off that duty.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
I said duty, and he did say yeah. No. We
figured if every time he came on the tour, they
had to cut something else out of his body, wasn't it.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
Just wasn't worth it.

Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, I think you should sacrifice. Really good trip, really
amazing tour.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
Where is the prettiest venue because there are so gorgeous.
Was Kansas City the one that we walked into and
we were like, wow, it might have been Yeah, I
mean there was one or two that we went into
that were just incredible.

Speaker 3 (30:24):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
All different types. Yeah, sometimes it felt like a comedy club.
Sometimes it felt like a theater theater. Yeah, there's really Yeah.
I like doing the more ornate, like old timey theaters.

Speaker 1 (30:35):
Also, this is real inside baseball and maybe super boring,
but you never know what you're gonna get for set
dressing at each location.

Speaker 3 (30:43):
So when we say, like, really, all.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
We need is a couch and a chair and some microphones,
and then you get there and they're like, well, here
are the couch options. Some places are like, we have
a ton of couches. You can pick a bunch, you
can pick whichever couch you want. We'll bring it up
for you. And then I don't remember which venue it was,
but they were like, yeah, we'll get you, will rent
you a couch for the three hours, and we got
the bill for it because we obviously paid for that

(31:05):
and it was seven hundred dollars to rent one couch,
set them up, I mean, and then owned them. It
was We laughed about that forever. Like the three.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
Giant he took. Look he took stuff out, Jesus, that
is still giant.

Speaker 3 (31:26):
You took still chis, but he took stuff out.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
You're talking to a Global entry person, man, easy there
global entry.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Uh. And the crews are different every time, like the
totally different attitudes.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
That they're like there, like you the hell are you?
And why are you here?

Speaker 4 (31:42):
There's always that awkward like we show up and we're like, Hi,
we're the we're the town, we're the show. And they're
used to mostly musicians. Yeah, so they're like, what do
you need? You just have a couch and a screen
and what is this or But you know, the reality
is there's been lots of times when they play it
cool and they act like they don't know who we are.
But then it's the end of the night there and

(32:02):
I'm like, okay, come on, you played it cool.

Speaker 1 (32:05):
There's also the talking about the anxiety. Before we go on,
we play some videos for the audience, and sometimes those
setups are not working. The projector is off, the color
is green, it's skipping, or it looks bad and we're
trying to figure that out right before we go on tonight.
I know, well, really fun tour. Really so we you know,

(32:31):
can't say enough how much it has meant to us,
to any of you who did make it out to
a show. Also, we have to acknowledge the amount of
people who came to multiple shows, people who said I
had so much fun at the last one, I drove
you know, six hours to come to this one tonight.
Or I'm planning on going again. So really wonderful tour.
It started in twenty twenty three. Here we are midway

(32:52):
through twenty twenty four, kind of wrapping it up and
just so so lucky to have been on this journey
with you guys for the last year.

Speaker 4 (32:59):
I was, especially when we did LA, but throughout the country,
I've been able to invite friends to come, some of
whom have never seen Boy Meets World or you know,
like just have no real connection to it.

Speaker 2 (33:10):
And uh.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
One of them pointed out to me, one of my
friends in LA was like, you know what it's like.
It's like a rocky horror picture show, you know, where
it's like this this sort of like community building call
and response. Uh where like you're all fans of this thing.
He's like, except it's live. It's not just like screaming
at a screen. You're talking to the actors from the thing.
And I was like, that is kind of what it's like.
It's it's like kind of like Boy meets World.

Speaker 3 (33:34):
Church your favorite interesting those two things you love.

Speaker 4 (33:38):
Yeah, I love the church. I love the concept. Well, yeah,
I just don't go to the idea of community gathering
for wonderful is like the most important thing. So yes,
I think, and I like Boy meets World that I
don't know.

Speaker 1 (33:55):
No, I know, I know.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
All of this.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
Well, No, a couple things we're going to know no
matter what city we're in. Daniel is going to forget something,
and Rider's going to know some people to go and
have dinner with. Absolutely where we are, and Will.

Speaker 1 (34:09):
Is going to ask if the downtown is safe to
walk around at day?

Speaker 2 (34:11):
I'm right, is it safe to walk around here?

Speaker 3 (34:13):
Is there security?

Speaker 4 (34:14):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (34:15):
I was boy scout. People better be prepared, by the way,
who's listening to lawyers? Whoever's listening? Where are you located?
How drop? What high school did you? Where are you from?
Where are you?

Speaker 4 (34:26):
What are you near? I want to know.

Speaker 1 (34:28):
Oh I didn't say welcome to Pod meets World or
our names. Oh that's right, welcome to Pod meets World.
I'm Danielle Fischer, I'm right or strong, and I'm Will Fordell.

Speaker 4 (34:37):
Well.

Speaker 3 (34:37):
It was a great episode, Guy.

Speaker 2 (34:39):
Reach out everybody from Queene's Queen's d Queene's Durham.

Speaker 1 (34:44):
Thank you all for joining us for this episode of
Pod Meets World. As always, you can follow us on Instagram,
Pod Meets World Show. You can send us your emails
Pod Meets World Show at gmail dot com. And we
have merch merch.

Speaker 2 (34:56):
What's that? I don't know. It just came out and
it's the first one that's like kind of in person.
It's an in person merch.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
I Wasn't that scares you a little bit?

Speaker 2 (35:03):
Yeah, a little bit.

Speaker 1 (35:04):
Podmeetsworldshow dot com writer, send us out.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
We'll love you all. Pod dismissed. Podmeets World is an
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Strong Executive producers Jensen Carp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in
charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer and editor, Taras Ubasch producer,
Maddy Moore, engineer and Boy Meets World Superman Easton Outen.
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