July 10, 2023 • 48 mins
Just days away from the start of Season 3 recaps, there’s just one last piece of unfinished business from the gang’s Freshman year at John Adams High School that needs attending to. It was during the rewatch that actress Darlene Vogel, and her nuanced, yet vital, role as Katherine “Kat” Tompkins, shocked the gang beyond expectations, forcing them to hunt her down and bring her on Pod Meets World.
Listen in as Darlene recalls her time on the show, digs deep into her Back to the Future II stardom and talks honestly about her time all over television. And…we reunite two former lovers that give the final word on whether or not 4 months is too early to talk marriage. Join us in the teacher’s lounge for this fun, and candid, interview!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
M How about the fact that the Declaration of Independence
(00:20):
wasn't signed on the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
When was it signed.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's it was people were staggering in to sign it.
But it was July second is when everything was was
actually done.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So they were holding off.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Like the famous the famous painting of all of the
founding fathers and everybody together around the Declaration of Dependence.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
None of that ever happened. That's not photograph exactly.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Never watched the documentary National Treasure.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh yes, starring Nick Cage. Yes, I watched it with
my son. Not great. Not a great movie because it's
a great movie. It is not Nick Cage is a
National Treasure. I love Nick Cage.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
But but it's it's back in the day, like when
they would just be like a puzzle here and a
puzzle there. Nah, they didn't talk. They didn't talk about
the lack of everybody signing on the fourth.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, no, they were just he's the fourth well, because
the fourth is it might have been ada. It was
actually ratified. But again, these were men that were coming
from all over the thirteen colonies, So it's the idea
that they were all together at the same time to
sign it.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
People would stagger in, people would stagger and people would
stagger in and they and they signed it and it
was it was actually New York abstaining was the thing
that finally allowed the law to pass.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Where where to get down?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
So not everybody voted for independence, and that's where and
so there are all these I mean, that's why it's
so sad to see kind of what's happening in our
country now because our country was founded on compromise. That's
what our country was founded on. And so eventually New
York just wouldn't vote yes or no. So they went
(02:02):
to the New York delegation and said, just abstain. So
they were with their abstention they were able to pass.
But no, because I mean the South was making a
ton of money from from England exporting you know, everything
cotton and everything else that not everybody wanted to.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Declare, you know, independence. So that's why Lexton and Concord.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I mean, when the shot heard around the world and
all that kind of stuff, I mean, it changed everything.
But even when we were at war, and that was
the thing General Washington, So General George Washington was a
huge man, especially at the time, he was like six
foot four when everybody else was like five foot three.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I mean, yeah, I was gonna say five to six,
but that maybe.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Even empowering over people.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And he would go to when everybody was together, he
would go to all of the discussions and the debates
in full military regalia.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So when the time actually came, it was John Adams
who said we have to appoint a general and everyone thought, oh,
of course, you're from Massa Chusetts. We were your state
was your country. So if you were from Virginia, that
was your country. If you were from Massachusetts, that was
your country. There was no United States, so the everyone correct, right,
(03:16):
but that's they called it their country. So if you
when John Adams stood up, everyone's assumed he was going
to pick somebody like his cousin Sam Adams, somebody like
that to lead the Continental Army. Here's who I vote for,
and they he said, there's only one person, and that's
George Washington, who was from Virginia. And so Washington very
you know, was very bashful in actually taking over the lead.
(03:38):
But the whole I mean, the story of actually how
our country came to be is just so amazing, and.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know, I love this. I remember as a kid
being like we would.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I would just get lost in conversations like this with
you all the time because I knew nothing like I
was so especially American history. I remember, because you grew
up in Connecticut, you were surround like you just were
steeped in it in a way that I knew nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It was just it was such the entire and talking
a bill about all this stuff was.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
The what George Washington had wooden teeth?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I believe he did, because again at the time it
was the wooden teeth were you know, your teeth fell.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Out all the time, and the versions of dentures.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, exactly, so his dentures were wooden. But there's all that.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I mean. The height thing is something like, what's the
one thing if you hear not to jump to another country?
But when you think of Napoleon, what are the things
that you think at all short which he wasn't, which
he wasn't at all. So the French how tall was he?
He was five seven and the French inch was different
(04:42):
than the English inch. The French inch was larger. So
like the the major generals that he was fighting who
were English were like five two and five three, and
Napoleon was actually five seven, but they used it as
a propaganda tool to say that he was the titque
colonel or whatever they called him, when at the end
(05:03):
of the day, that was actually a French affectation for
how much his soldiers loved him had nothing to do
with his size. It was like they would, you know,
you'd call your baby the batite whatever, because it was
a it was affection.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And so he was actually five seven.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So like the one thing everyone knows about Napoleon is
actually untrue, and you get all that stuff. But that's
why history is just so amazing and so fascinating.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Well, I just got another one from from husband Jensen,
cart producer this podcast. It says the dentures were not
would they were human cow and horse teeth, okay, with
io pieces and alloy.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I love learning new things. I love learning new things.
It's like my favorite thing in the world to do.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Well.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I love learning new things from you, especially I really
I think I think we could do an entire podcast
episode that's just class with Will and Will we'll just
come to the table with like three topics and he's
gonna someat and he's just gonna educate us a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Will would you do that? Would you say, like, here
are three.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Historical things that I think are the most interesting that
you may not.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Know about it.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
What if just what if we just you don't have
any prep and we just say, oh my.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
God, Egypt, what do you want to know? We'll just talk.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
He knows everything, all right, Well, I think I'm in okay,
welcome to bod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fishl, I'm right
or Strong, and I'm Wilfredell. When we decided to sit
(06:45):
down to rewatch Boy Meets World, which we continue to prove, sure,
feels like we're watching it for the very first time ever.
We knew we'd be surprised by a lot of things,
some big ones already. That Minkis is only in season one,
I'm clearly just not even a part of the show
until he's three. The Feenie Call is a late addition,
but one that really snuck up on us. Catherine Kat Tompkins,
(07:08):
the immediate love interest of mister Turner, sure has an
important and very present role, and it was excellently played
by an actress named Darlene Vogel, who will quickly knew
from Back to the Future two and as the host
for the Back to the Future Ride at Universal Studios.
But as far as much as she was on the
show or how story driven her time with Tony was,
(07:29):
we just did not know.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
So we rushed to get her.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
On the show when we found out, and we are
so happy she responded to us and is willing to
give us some of her time. In addition to Boy
Meets World and the classic Back to the Future too,
Darlene starred on the Santa Monica bicycle cop show Pacific Blue,
a bit of like another Bawatch type but on ten speeds.
She also appeared on Coach, two episodes of Full House
(07:54):
as Danny Tanner's younger sister, house Castle, and Silk Stockings.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But today we will.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Force her to talk about her four episodes on Boy
Meets World as the social studies teacher who Will thinks
rushed way too fast into talking about marriage. Let's please
welcome Darlene Vogel to Pod Meets World.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, I got it. Somebody else who hasn't aged what I.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Got your lighting in here? Oh yeah, it's all about
the lighting.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
You look fantastic. It's so great to see you. Oh,
my gosh, we are so excited. I'm just gonna get
it out of the way now. I see Will foaming
at the mouth. What was it like to have Back
to the Future to be your first feature film?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Were you nervous to join such a hit with all
those big stars around you?
Speaker 6 (08:47):
You know, it's crazy, is if.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
We didn't even realize what it was when we were there,
like it, and I mean, you know, it's great to
work with Michael.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
I don't even think I knew what the job was
until I was on.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Set because it was so hush hush, and it was
a three month process. And then when we were on set,
was suppoed to beak for two weeks and we were
there for two months.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, were shooting two and three at the same time.
Weren't they shooting both movies at the same time?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
They went two and three were back to.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Back, back to back, Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
So when we finished two, then they went on to
do three.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
But you're on like that big cool back lot at Universal.
It's this big, mega movie cool.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
It was fun to walk around in my outfit and
all the tourists were in the trams and they didn't
know who we were because it was a new thing.
No one saw us yet, so no one knew what
we were.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
So yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You've got like punk hair and punk makeup and bits
around your neck, right, and they put a.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Red contact in my eye because my eye is half
blue and brown in really well.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
He remembers that about you, absolutely, absolutely, yes.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
So they got the idea from that, and yeah, it
was just I mean, it's great. What it was really
funny is like I didn't even.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Tell people I was in that movie for the longest
time because it was so many years ago, and then
when we did the twenty five year anniversary, all of
a sudden, I go, oh my god. I mean, there's
a lot of people that love this movie. And now
when I mentioned it, it's crazy. It's like, what you know,
and I go to year, I'm going to Milan, I
went to Paris just to sign for people. I'm like, really,
(10:29):
I mean, it's weird. It's just has this full resurgence
and the fans are getting younger and younger.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
We're just getting older and older. But it's great. Are
we doing it till I'm three?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
So will we?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We're just still drugging along.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
I know right. Well you all look amazing too. I
have to say, you look exactly the same. Shit.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Thanks you do.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Do you have a Crispin Glover story.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
I didn't work with Crispin.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
It was because there was a lot Yeah, because there
was a lot of.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That was a big thing and it's still a big thing.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Yeah. The first one there was contract disputes and a
little bit of strangeness going on. So they ended up
taking this guy, Jeffrey Eisman and putting his mask on
him and just putting him upside.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Down, and then that became a problem.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Gotten away with that, I mean they.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Didn't really now there Now there's like a oh there's
litigation involved and all that and all that way. Oh yeah,
that's a whole big thing about just taking somebody's likeness
and putting it in the second movie, and Crispin Glover.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Was like, hey, you know you can't do that. So
it was thank you much. What you no?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I remember when you came onto the set, I was
I knew instantly who you were really, Oh yeah, absolutely,
and was It took me about a day to work
up the courage, and then you started telling me stories
from the set.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Oh so funny because.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It was just because you know, Tony and I are
were nerds with that stuff, Tony and so we would
just we would be like, we got to tell me
what was like and then we started slow so it
was like, hey, so you're like in Back to the
Future or whatever, and then it was then it was
just story after story after story.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Yeah, yeah, it was a great experience, I have to say. Yeah,
and Michael was so sweet.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
How big was being the video host of the ride,
like so many people saw that, I know, And that.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Was funny because the wardrobe, the costumer from Back to
the Future, she suggested me for the job and so
I was like, okay, yeah, sure, I'll do it.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
And then I went.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I showed up that day and the teleprompter had broken
and I had all this dialogue and I'm like, I mean,
thank god they let me kind of read off the
sheet because I was supposed to be a reporter anyway.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
So but that was crazy. Yeah, yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
And then yeah, it was I went to the premiere
or the ride, and that's where I saw Michael Jackson.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
He was there with the whole with Macauley Culkin and a.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Whole group of kids and and then I got to
go the premiere of that.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
But yeah, it was pretty cool to do that, right. Yeah,
that's all done now though. But there's this whole Back.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
To the Future conspiracy that they think that Heather, my
reporter character on the ride, is related to Spike, and
I'm like, no, there's there's no.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
It's so funny these stories that come up later.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
It's an alternate timeline, a multiverse.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It's a multiverse thing.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Yeah exactly. Yeah, yeah, so cool.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
You know what I do remember the one thing I
do remember with you Will and writer with the teaching
me that you can choot trident gum with the wrappers
still on it and it dissolves in your mouth, right.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
All the time? Did you know you can shoot try
to guming with the paper?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I learned that from you guys, right, I forgot we
used to do that. You just put it. It's like
that you made your discovery. It works, it works like
a charm. I love that.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
That was funny.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, that was so great.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Wait, so the gang from Back to the Future, Yeah,
it's you Casey Schmasco.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
No, isn't Casey in it? So he's not in this
The second.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Dean Logan and Jason scott Lee.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
It was Jason Scott Lee was the other one. Okay,
that's who I thought. It was Jason Scott Lee. And
then of course Tom uh Tom Wilson. Yeah yeah, who's
still is still Griff or Biff or Griff Yeah yeah, okay,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It was the new gang.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Casey Shamasco was in the the first and third.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
And then they plucked one from each for the third one.
I think you Reichy from us and like you should
have picked a girl.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, but they did it.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, that would have been fun to be in the
Western but yeah, crazy. Yeah, I'm still friends with them.
I mean, Ricky and I talk all the time.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
We do shows together.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Jason is in Hawaii or no, Yeah, he's in Hawaii.
He's always working on something. Yeah, he took a break
for a really long time.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
But yeah, now he's back because right after that he
did Dragon, the Bruce Lee story, and it was the
one that really shot him to the whole.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah it was great. So yeah it was old.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yeah, we haven't all been back together since the twenty
fifth year anniversary.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, sorry, I just need to geek out. You need
you need to back to the future geek out. I
just had to.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
I's all right, I want to see my hoverboard. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
I was just going to ask you, what was it
like filming the hoverboard scene?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
But I have I have someone made me this. Oh,
it made me this.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
And then they also made me a skateboard.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Cool, yazi cool. I never let my kids ride it though,
I was like, you can't ride that.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
What was it like shooting that scene?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
It was awesome.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
I mean, you know, we just and they put us
up on We had harnesses on and piano wires attached
to a crane and they just flung us around the town.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
It was just so I couldn't wait for.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
That scene because we were we had to practice it
and everything. But the story is, my first stunt double
backed out because she knew.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
The stunt was not perfected.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
And I don't know if you know all this story,
but so the day one day I had off was
the big crash into the courthouse, and Eryl Wheeler, my
stunt double, she what happened was when they were flying
it to the courthouse, the crane was off like this
much like maybe a half an inch and if you
(16:32):
really slow that scene down you see her crash into
the pole and then they released them because they were
supposed to go through the glass and land on mats,
which which the two other stunt doubles did.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
But she dropped fourteen feet onto cement.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
And she had multiple, multiple, multiple surgeries after that.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
And yeah, it was a huge thing.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I mean, I have to say because a Lisa A Color,
who was my first stunt level she was like, this
is not affected.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
I'm not doing this and she knew like something was.
She wasn't going to do it, but Cheryl did.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
And yeah, oh my god, isn't it crazy that that
wouldn't even be a thing nowadays?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Right, It would just all be green screen. You would
just be like standing out stand somewhere. Yeah, that's crazy,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Yeah, but it was funny when you do watch that
movie back, it's like a lot of those things come
true and and just there's just some weird stuff. I mean,
like Bob Gail the writer, you know that they so brilliant.
The writing in that movie is just crazy. It still
stands now.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah that's the time.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yeah, well let's jump into something else that we like
to think stands The test of time, Boy Meets World.
Do you remember your audition?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
So many people and they do exactly what you just did.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
They go, you remember being on Boy I'm trying to.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Gonny because my kids, you know, they're friends.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
When they a lot of them didn't even know it
was an actress or anything, but they would freak out,
oh my god, you're on Tooy Meets World and they
love that. Sh So many kids still to this day
love that show. It's another one that stands a tots
of time. But I don't remember the audition. I think
I already knew Michael Jacobs because why I worked on
Charles in Charge. That was my first sitcom. I got it,
(18:25):
and then I did a pilot called Misery Loves Company.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yes, yeah, between yeah, but it didn't.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Go my version because I was with Rick Rossovich who
then I got a job on The Pacific Blue.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
But I don't think our version went.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
But I remember David Trainer, Michael Jacobs, all those guys
were on that, so.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I can't That would have been between our seasons one
and two, so they probably you probably didn't audition, and
then they probably just brought you radio.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
They just brought.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Me in had you seen any of Boy Meets World?
You don't have to say yes, had you Were you
at all familiar with the show before you were then
on it?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
No? No, I wasn't. No. No.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
I mean, of course I probably watched it before I
went on it, because I always do all my research.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
But yeah, well, we were so wildly impressed with your
acting and also how important you are both to mister
Turner storyline and the Seawan character development. Like what do
you remember about taping the show? And do you remember
anything about specifically working with.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Writer although you didn't really work with writer that much,
like one scene where I walked in and.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Write when you were in trouble all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
You know, it's funny.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I rewatched the episodes this week, and it's it. It's
funny because I shot like one hundred episodes of Pacific Blue,
and I watched some of those episodes and I don't
really remember half.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Of them shooting them.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
But then when I watched Boybet's World, I go, oh
my god, I remember this.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I remember this. I remember that so much. I remember
when I put my hands.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
On Tony's face, Tony's.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Face like that doing that go. I remember it was
such a weird feeling. And then but when I was
watching it back, I go, come, my voice is so high.
Because I was younger, you know, I hardly had anything
to do. I just felt so green. I was like,
oh my god, it was so green. And I love
that I got to work with mister.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Feenie, you know. I mean he's still.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Around, right, he's such a ninety six.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
I remember just being in awe of him because he
was such an established actor.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
It was just such a professional. I loved working with
all the kids. I remember being at a horse show
once and Fred was at the horse show and I said, oh,
I worked with your.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Brother Ben and you would come and you.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Know, and visit the set and He's like, okay.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
But I just loved working with you guys because you
had such great energy.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
You are really the one thing that's really important is
that you made me feel comfortable. Because I remember being
on Charles in Charge was my first sitcom, and none
of the actors said hello, none of them, no, yeah,
I was a guest star, and they were just like
they just didn't make us feel welcome. And I was
(21:16):
like what, So I was just like I was like, Wow,
I said, you know what, one day when I get
on a show, I'm going to treat the extras the
same the guest stars every because it's as family.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Yeah, And I remember being on your show and feeling
like part of the family. You really made me feel good.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah. I always hated guest starring and stuff because especially dramas,
because you know, if it was a single camera drama,
you might not even meet like of the cast. You
only work with like one person. I always so intimidated.
And it's like if you find if an actor comes
up to you and it's nice to you and it's
like welcome, or a director whoever is like bringing it,
it's the best feeling.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You need that confidence because I mean being able to
act from a place of like fear and insecurity is
just impossible. It's so yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
As we get older in this field, you know, and
then you know, our roles are just different now and
you go in to be a guest star and now
it's not a guest star like it used to be.
It's like very small sometimes and you just feel like
I just sit the trailer and I go.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Why am I doing this?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
I don't even like this anymore because when you're used
to being a lead of a show and having that
family and having that camaraderie, it's so hard to walk
into another family because yeah, it's just different.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, were you saying something interesting about not remembering the
Pacific Blue stuff. There's something about doing single camera where
you're getting random scenes. You're shooting kind of every day
all day, as opposed to sitcom where you're rehearsing one thing.
It's like you're putting on a play. You've got to
show night. There's something that kind of sticks in your
head as opposed to just one thing, one thing, one.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Four days a rehearsal. Yeah, you do, and then there's
a big night.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You know, there's a big night around it, and and
there's a whole cool thing and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
So yeah, I love that being in front of an audience.
And I haven't had that since my twenties. I mean
that's when I used to do all that, you know
kind of work.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
But then after that it's always drama and now it's
the crying mother all the time.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
So it's like I never get to do, you know,
comedy anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
So do you like doing multicams I did.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I really did love it because I love the audience.
Although I don't like doing theater, but I love doing multicams.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Why don't you like doing theater?
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I just I can't do the same thing week after
week after week. I was. I did one play once
that got extended to eight weeks. I go, oh God, really.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You know more of this? Yeah? I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You know, like somebody like Nathan Lane does, like years
of the producers on Broadway, like in his fifties. You're like,
what every night, eight times a week, the same thing
all the just it's yeah, it's a Mira.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
They say it.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Feels different every because of the audiences are always to
be sure. But it's just nothing I would want to do.
I mean, I did a soap too for a year
and a half and I said, never, I will ever
do a soap ever.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And then you did eleven hundred episodes of a soap opera.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Oh my gosh. When I when I first did that soap,
I was like, I cried to the executive producer every
three weeks, I go.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Can you give me off the show? I couldn't handle it?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
And give me Amnesia, drop me off, Elevator chef something.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
It was like thirty pages a day. My last day
was seventy pages.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Oh my gosh, I know it's possible.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
You just had to go, Okay, what scene I am?
What am I doing?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
And you're pretty much saying the same lives as you
said on Monday, but you're peating them on Thursday for
who didn't see Monday. I mean, they're just rewording them
and it's the hardest work ever.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
We really spent quite a bit of time on the
scene where you basically dump mister Turner for not being
ready for a long term relationship, and you do it
so subtly and you don't really need to, like Hammer
at home. But also Will felt very adamant, very strong
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feelings that the character pressured mister Turner way too early
at only four.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Surely, oh okay, you agree with Will because right away
we're on the other side.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
No, I'm a scorpio, so I'm like and I'm also
the runaway bride and been engaged many times, so for
me play that kind of a character, I was cringing
watching myself on the couch the other day.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
I go, what are you doing? The only one I.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Liked was when I was when I was being flirtatious
with them and giving him a hard time about the dance,
not asking him to do right. That was like that
because I'm giving a little bit of a hard time.
But I was just like, oh my god, we've been
taking for three months, four.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Months, four months, we're gonna get married.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
That means you want to marry me. I'm like, oh
my god, how cringe.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Will is very vindicated, And I have to tell you
I disagree with you.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I just I don't want to. I did too.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I thought calm logic in sitcom logic, like four months two,
I mean two, like twenty something teachers in love like
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
It made sense. It made sense to me.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
It makes for a good story point because it makes
for a great breakup. I mean, the way that you
break up with him is actually really wonderful.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
But again, we could have done this, could have done
exactly we talked about this in the last one. We
could have done exactly the same thing by just not
using the word marriage.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Where is this going? Is there a future?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
What's it going to be when you're talking married at
four months? As I said, it was very nice meeting you.
Please exit stage left. So yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
No.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
She should have she knows John Guturna.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
She should have said, listen, I'm not the kind of
girl that wants to get married, and then he'd be like, oh,
I want to marry you.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
In the game reverse psychology.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
Like getting married.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Yeah. Yeah, but I guess it was only a four
episode arc. I didn't even I don't even know.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I was gonna ask you, did you know that that
was going to be your last episode? Do you remember
if I originally signed on?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Yeah, I don't, I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, hmm.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Interesting. You also had we talked about some of your
experiences or being in awe of Bill Daniels. Do you
have any great Bill Daniels stories, like for you got
you had to have a lot of scenes with him.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I did, but he was I just remember him being
just very professional and he wasn't a chatty guy, you know,
just and plus you know me coming into a new
uh you know, a set, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
I I don't. I'm not always myself where I'm very chatty, chatty, chatty.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I don't want to be that obnoxious guest star, you know,
So I just let him lay the line, you know,
because you never know. I mean I I did House,
and we weren't allowed to talk to him more allowed.
I was a guest star too, and I'm standing right
next to uh, what's his name, the guy who played House.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
No idea doctor House, Doctor House, the British doctor.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Couldn't even like ask him any questions, nothing, And I'm
him to me.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
We're standing doing the markings and this. Some sets are
like that.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
So I did a movie with Donald Sutherland and he
has an eye contact rule.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Oh he can make eye contact. Well that's when I
walk up and I go, nice to meet you, sir. Well,
if you're in the scene with him, you can make
eye contact with that.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
But you know, his whole thing was that everybody, every
crew member has to look away. Nobody can make eye
contact with him. To the point that we're shooting in
the houseboat and he was delivering some sort of he's
like a creepy grandfather in this movie's delivering some kind
of monologue. In the middle of his monologue, he looks
up and he goes, there's a man outside that window
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looking at me, and like it was.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Like some passerby, not part of the crew. That was
like outside the window looking.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
In, but that through the whole take and you had
to start over and the whole crew had to go
out and like kick this guy away.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It's so ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
There's a there is an argument to me, when you're
doing single camera stuff that if your eye catches somebody
looking at you, you work eyes with them, and there
can be a problem if you have too many lookie.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Louse, like in the line in the scene, if you're
somebody's in your eye line. Okay, I understand that, but
I'm walking on the set and the crew is not
allowed to make eye contact.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Is you can bleep me looking ridiculous? Yeah, it's it's
that is.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
A stupid egotistical power trip that all comes from insecurity
of this being an actor, and it's like, you're an idiot.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Sorry, you're just an idiot.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Our feeling is for will come on four months. That's
also just saying you're not.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Good enough to look me in the eyes.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Please, I know, forget it. Also, though I feel like
it's probably a little better now, but in the ninety
I can only imagine how bad that was. This like
those sets for women, specifically dart Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
I mean, I have to say I've never had any
me too stories like that on sets.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
I'm pretty good.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
But as far as yeah, actors being holier than thou, yeah,
I've had those experiences for sure.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Except Michael J. Fox. He was not like that at all.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
No, He's like the coolest guy. We got. Got a
chance to meet him a couple of times, and he's
so nice.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Every time you meet him. I remember I just because
he was my idol. He's the reason that I became
an actor.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Essentially.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
He and Alan Aldo were the reasons that I decided
to be an actor. And we got to meet him.
I was with you, I think writer and Ben at
Disney World and we walked up to him.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
We're like, he's right there. We have to go say hi.
We have to go say hi.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
And Ben took the lead and he went, excuse me, sir.
We just wanted to say and he went, sir, are
you kidding me? I've known your brother since he was
get over here, and like gave in a big hug.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
How are you guys doing? He could not have been
nicer to hum.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
He gets some.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Parade through Disney World and he was in the car
in front of us. He was like making faces and
shouting things to us the whole time.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It was It's so validated everything I hoped he would be.
It was like, oh my god, He's exactly what I wanted.
It was amazing. I almost cried. I literally almost cried
because he was just so cool.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
He invited us to do his trailer for Margarite to
Fridays and stuff. And I recently, right before COVID, I
was in New York and I was walking down the
street and I saw Tracy coming out of a restaurant
and I go, oh, there's Michael's like Tracy and I go, oh,
wait a minute, there's Michael. And I hadn't seen Michael.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Since the premiere. Woh wow, so like that many years ago.
So my friend Linda was like, you have to say hi.
You have to say hi. I go, yeah, I'll kick
myself if I don't say hi.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
So I walked over there and I said Hi. And
I don't want them.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
To think here I am a fan, you know, I'm like, Hi, Terracey,
I'm Darklene. I played Spike and bad to Future two
and They're like, oh my god. And so then we
had a but then he had said it goes weren't
you hurt?
Speaker 6 (32:04):
And I said, no, that was my stunt up.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Yeah, but but yeah, it was really great to see him,
and they were so gracious. They were so nice. You know,
I said, Oh, I just went to Paris to do
a show. They're like Paris, We've got a Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
See him at the comic cons.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Nowadays it's always like Tulsa and yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Yeah, speaking of very cool, you were cast as a
love interest for mister Turner a ka Tony Quinn.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
When do you remember the first time you met Tony?
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Yes, I do, because he was he was so sweet.
I remember him just being so sweet and so inviting.
He really was.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
He didn't Yeah, I mean he was great. I mean
we we got along. I remember we got along really well.
He's very comfortable to be with.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
And yeah, he was a great guy in the world.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, and that hair maybe you know he said, least
least pretentious person in the world.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, you guys, Well, we wanted to send you this
little message from Tony Quinn. So let's bring in Tony Quinn.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
What here? Hi?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
How are you?
Speaker 8 (33:24):
I'm doing great? You look fantastic.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
So do you just shorter hair.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
I see, ah, yeah, that's all gone.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
When did you get rid of the mullet, Tony? I mean,
I know that bullet, you guys, I told you you guys.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
When when?
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (33:40):
I think the last episode that I did my hair
was different.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
Because they told me I wasn't coming back, so I
cut off all my hair and I had to audition
for other shows.
Speaker 8 (33:51):
So I think the last episode I show up with
way shorter hair.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
MM. So funny he's back now.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Did you know that it is.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Nineties?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Not for me. I would look a little bit like
Ben Franklin.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I like, hell o, thank you, thank you, Tony.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
We just asked Darlene what she remembers about you and
working together, and she talked about how sweet and warm
and welcoming you were and really making her feel at home.
What do you remember about meeting Darlene for the first
time and working with her?
Speaker 8 (34:26):
It was pretty much the same. I mean, she had
this It was immediate.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
It was like, welcome to the party, this is going
to be great, and we just we just hit the
ground running.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yeah, you guys had such great chemistry.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
Yeah, yeah, easy to be around, easy to work with.
It was great.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
I just feel bad that I just really pinned you
and like wanting to when you go you have such
great eyes and like does that mean you want to
marry me or something?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
I'm like, oh my, it's like, what the heck, Tony,
where do you stand? Where do you stand on that debate?
We we talked about it when we watched the episode recently.
Wright and I were both on Kat Tompkins side, which is, yeah,
you know, at four months, you.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Guys are you guys? Are aren't like your Gaby Young?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
It's at least worth saying, where do you see this
being a thing for the future. It's it's a worth
a check in. But Will is like the minute you
say marriage at four months, you run out the door.
And Darlene actually agrees with Will. So let's let you
be the deciding. What do you think about how she
handled that at that at that four.
Speaker 9 (35:35):
Months I I sort of was kind of in agreement
with her in terms of, you know, where is this
going kind of thing? I mean, we're we're in our
we're in our thirties, and it's like, are we just
playing around or that's okay?
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, but that's okay, that's okay. Is there a future here.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Well, just has a real problem with the marriage insantly
going to marriage.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
After I, Hey, you got great eyes? Does that mean
you want to marry me? Like what he does say
I could stare into your eyes forever verbally hyper people.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
I don't know if Jonathan Turner was using hyperbole at
that moment.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
And how was she sing? Yeah, because when you say
something like that, you better dag I mean it exactly.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because you're not going to play
around with somebody's emotions and say something like that flippantly.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I could stare into your eyes forever.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Is a declaration of undying love that will last for
an eternity.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Well, you did use the forever word. I agree with you.
Speaker 10 (36:47):
She just repeated, back, forever. That's what we talked about
that for you get married. Yeah, we're working on time
travel and then we have we have a lot of
the mist of stuff we're doing with the show. When
we actually invent time travel. We're going to get there,
We're going to get We're almost there. We're really close
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so far. We have a styrofoam cup and we're doing.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Well, which is a telephone in Connecticut. Thank you very much.
I grabbed it from you anymore.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I know.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
One of the most uncomfortable scenes was when we were
standing at the bar. It was at the first episode,
standing at the bar, and we're just like no, like
forehead to forehead.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
And you've got like your hand on his chest and
it's it's so we're in the makeout poetry bar.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Some of the romantic displays of like p d A
that that we chose on the show.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
World trafficked and PDA is like business wow, And I
don't think we thought.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Anything like it was just normal.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Yeah, Tony, I don't want to take up any more
of your time. Thank you for popping in to make
a surprise my pleasure.
Speaker 9 (38:05):
You guys look fantastic. You're doing great. It was Thank
you so much for inviting me to be on Thank you.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Want to see you in Kansas City. In Kansas City
on August six. We'll see you there, Tony. We love you.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
That was so cute.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
I love that we.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Wanted to have a little bit of a surprise for you.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
And where does Where does Tony live?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Chicago is in Chicago the next Thursday.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
We were so able to anticipate your responses and our
responses that he actually taped that a week ago.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
Amazing. Gosh.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Okay, So looking back now, nearly thirty years later, we
are I mean, we're approaching the thirtieth anniversary of the
first season, so you would have been just next year. Yeah,
twenty nine years for you. Looking back, how do you
feel about your time on Boy Meets World.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Oh, it's definitely, you know, I mean I love that
I was on that show, and even you know, because
it's a kids show and it was clean.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
It was good, it was.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
Fun, it was sweet, and you know, I just had
a great experience of it. You know when I tell kids,
like I said, you know when I was on that show,
it's just everyone thinks very highly of that show because
you guys were also so professional. It's like young ages
and you know, just very professional, very sweet, very giving
as actors. I mean, it's great to work with child
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actors back then and just know what they're doing, and
you know, you just did and you just all had fun,
which was great because some sets are not so fun.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
I remember that set being really fun. We were all
laughing a lot. You guys were so close, and yeah,
it was just it was just always a great, great feeling.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
It's always good to look back on a show and go,
oh my god, that was a great experience. Definitely people
that I was on it, because also it's still a
big show today.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Well.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
One of the most favorite things we have found doing
this Rewatch podcast is how much of an appreciation it
has brought to us about all of you, the adult
actors we worked with, because we were honestly not really
paying that much attention to the adult storylines, whether it's
because we were in the school room or because.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Were if it was you and Tony in the scene,
we wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Be unless it was run through, and which case we'd
see it that one time for run through and then
we'd be into notes and getting, you know, into the
next stuff. So being able to watch the show now
as adults ourselves who are even significantly older than you
guys were when you were on the show, it has
it has really just been like, Wow, we were surrounded
by such talent and you are one of the people
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that we were just mesmerized by watching the show.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
So oh you're I mean, when I was watching it,
I was like, I really didn't too much.
Speaker 8 (41:17):
I mean, I I was a little.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
Embarrassed it's like I had like little lines here and there.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
But but that is it is true that they could
have given you more and they they didn't.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
You were you were Your.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Character was a little limited, but what you were able
to do with it, you left such a mark, like
you are memorable. Yes, you are memorable, your dynamic, you're
fun to watch, even though they didn't really give you
that much great stuff, but you really really make the
most of it, and you stand out.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
And it's and it was so.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Important for the storyline of of where you know, uh,
it got Tony to Sean.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
It got it got Tony. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
That became huge, hugely important because you were the catalyst
for mister Turner realizing he wanted something in his life.
He didn't know what it was, but wanted something, which
then led us to the entire Sean Turner storyline, which
was a huge story point for season three. So, I mean,
you say you didn't have a lot to do, and
you didn't, and they could have used you more, but
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I mean without your character, it wouldn't have gotten us
there in such a natural way.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
It really was a great kind of transition. Yeah, yeah,
I know.
Speaker 6 (42:26):
I was just like it's like, okay, bye, you're not
going to be a bye.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Yeah, and then you're out.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
I hate to do this, though, I absolutely hate to
do this.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
I don't think you do.
Speaker 8 (42:37):
I do.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
I do?
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Actually, I don't think you know I do do?
Speaker 1 (42:40):
What what? The brand Modellis International, the company that sells
Trident gum, has explained the rapper is not meant for
human consumption, so you're not supposed to let you're not
supposed to eat the try, the tried and wrapper.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
I hate, after all these years.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
To have there's ink on it as well. I mean,
there's ink.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Did anybody really enjoy doing that?
Speaker 6 (43:08):
Though?
Speaker 2 (43:09):
I mean we thought we all did it once we
heard you could. It was a party trick.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
It was great, but that it does make the gum unenjoyable,
so you don't actually keep doing.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
It, right, It turns out that not only was the
gum unenjoyable, but it's also probably poisonous to us.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
So yeah, well we're all still here.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
We managed to make Maybe that's why no one's aging.
It's all. I mean, Will does have a tail, and
we have been wondering where that came from. But I
do it's vestigial. It's fine. Well, Darlene, thank you so
much for being here. We really appreciate it. It was
great to catch up with you.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
Yeah, it's so funny because I was on a retreat
last summer and the girl that I met, Christine, she
lives in Massachusetts, and she.
Speaker 6 (43:51):
Just happened to text me. She goes, I'm listening to.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
This podcast by Boy Meets World and all that, and
I was like, oh really, and so I love to
chime in.
Speaker 6 (43:59):
So yeah, she's so happy that I'm coming up. There's
so much I can't wait to listen to it.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
We're we're finally, at some point in the in the
near future, going to be doing a party for everybody
we want to, like a bit like.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
Really big, everybody we have contact information for, and even
people we don't, but we're going to try to find
We're going to try to do something maybe at Writer's house.
I think probably the easiest way to plan it and
giving everybody enough time is like to send out a
save the date and do it sometime at the early
part of next year, so we will be in touch
with you and it'll be a big Pleas.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
For inviting me into the family. Thank you are you
guys all with Greg. So happy to be here and
thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
So good to see you just see so hopefully bye
bye bye bye. Well that was fun and it was
fun to have a mister Tony Quinn pop in and
do a little surprise did you guys? Did you guys?
Like all the Back to the Future talk, I'd.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Never heard the.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Horrible and I want to them with the cranes like
I knew that that's till I did it. Like I've
definitely seen some behind the scenes footage, but I never
heard the injury story. That's that's a bummer.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
I want to be on a set like that once
in my life. I don't need lines. I will be
a background. Just a huge, huge movie like a star
back to the Future where you're on you know the
best Now it's just like it was just a bunch
of Tom Cruise movie and then it's all practical. Oh man,
I would do that in two seconds. I would hold
his motorcycle and just to be here, you go, mister Cruz.
(45:30):
That's all I need to do that a big movie star.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
Like, Yeah, I've always wanted to be on the you know,
I I think I told you guys that I was
really close to getting apart and hook like the movie
because they built a whole pirate ship.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Yeah, and it was like they took over the stage.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
It's like back in the day when they would just
build everything. Oh my god, and like I never got
to do that, you know. But also like I love
how she's like we were shooting for two months. It's like, yeah,
on those big things, especially back in the day, you
would spend like all day on one eighth of the page,
like one eighth of a page in the script, and
you are just getting so much coverage and everything takes
(46:08):
so much preparation and like that it must be exhausting
in its own way.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Do you know the original time Machine was a refrigerator. Yeah,
in the original draft that talk about change. You're breaking
in the break into three rather than like getting to
the they had to like break into a.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
A nuclear power plant.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
They didn't.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
They didn't come up with a giggawatts thing until later,
but yeah, so originally it was like them just the
whole third act was then breaking into a power plant
to like get material.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
The first Back to the Future is perfect, It's a
perfect script. It's perfect as a film. There's nothing wrong
with it. It's so amazing.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
I teach it. I teach it.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
It's like my fourth lectures back to the Future. It's
it's like, it's like so fundamental screenwriting. Every single you know,
talk about set up and pay off, every single line
of dialogue, every single shot pays.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Off, pays off.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
I mean, it's echo. It's like, yeah, it's the platonic
ideal of set up and pay off. It's just me,
Oh god, it's such a good movie. Yeah, okay, Well, thank.
Speaker 4 (47:07):
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. As we mentioned,
Tony Quinn will be joining us in Kansas City on
August sixth, and uh.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
As always, we have merch. You built a time machine
out of merch. Pod Metsworldshow dot com.
Speaker 4 (47:32):
We'll see y'all next time. We love you all, pod dismissed.
Pod Meets World is an iHeart podcast produced and hosted
by Danielle Fischel, Wilfredell and Writer Strong. Executive producers Jensen
Karp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo,
producer and editor, Tara Sudbachs producer, Jackie Rodriguez, engineer and
(47:53):
Boy Meets World superfan Easton Allen. Our theme song is
by Kyle Morton of Typhoon. You can follow us on
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M How about the fact that the Declaration of Independence
(00:20):
wasn't signed on the fourth of July.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
When was it signed.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
It's it was people were staggering in to sign it.
But it was July second is when everything was was
actually done.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
So they were holding off.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Like the famous the famous painting of all of the
founding fathers and everybody together around the Declaration of Dependence.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
None of that ever happened. That's not photograph exactly.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Never watched the documentary National Treasure.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Oh yes, starring Nick Cage. Yes, I watched it with
my son. Not great. Not a great movie because it's
a great movie. It is not Nick Cage is a
National Treasure. I love Nick Cage.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
But but it's it's back in the day, like when
they would just be like a puzzle here and a
puzzle there. Nah, they didn't talk. They didn't talk about
the lack of everybody signing on the fourth.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Yeah, no, they were just he's the fourth well, because
the fourth is it might have been ada. It was
actually ratified. But again, these were men that were coming
from all over the thirteen colonies, So it's the idea
that they were all together at the same time to
sign it.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Didn't happen.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
People would stagger in, people would stagger and people would
stagger in and they and they signed it and it
was it was actually New York abstaining was the thing
that finally allowed the law to pass.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Where where to get down?
Speaker 1 (01:42):
So not everybody voted for independence, and that's where and
so there are all these I mean, that's why it's
so sad to see kind of what's happening in our
country now because our country was founded on compromise. That's
what our country was founded on. And so eventually New
York just wouldn't vote yes or no. So they went
(02:02):
to the New York delegation and said, just abstain. So
they were with their abstention they were able to pass.
But no, because I mean the South was making a
ton of money from from England exporting you know, everything
cotton and everything else that not everybody wanted to.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Declare, you know, independence. So that's why Lexton and Concord.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
I mean, when the shot heard around the world and
all that kind of stuff, I mean, it changed everything.
But even when we were at war, and that was
the thing General Washington, So General George Washington was a
huge man, especially at the time, he was like six
foot four when everybody else was like five foot three.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
I mean, yeah, I was gonna say five to six,
but that maybe.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Even empowering over people.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
And he would go to when everybody was together, he
would go to all of the discussions and the debates
in full military regalia.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
So when the time actually came, it was John Adams
who said we have to appoint a general and everyone thought, oh,
of course, you're from Massa Chusetts. We were your state
was your country. So if you were from Virginia, that
was your country. If you were from Massachusetts, that was
your country. There was no United States, so the everyone correct, right,
(03:16):
but that's they called it their country. So if you
when John Adams stood up, everyone's assumed he was going
to pick somebody like his cousin Sam Adams, somebody like
that to lead the Continental Army. Here's who I vote for,
and they he said, there's only one person, and that's
George Washington, who was from Virginia. And so Washington very
you know, was very bashful in actually taking over the lead.
(03:38):
But the whole I mean, the story of actually how
our country came to be is just so amazing, and.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
You know, I love this. I remember as a kid
being like we would.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I would just get lost in conversations like this with
you all the time because I knew nothing like I
was so especially American history. I remember, because you grew
up in Connecticut, you were surround like you just were
steeped in it in a way that I knew nothing.
Speaker 1 (04:04):
It was just it was such the entire and talking
a bill about all this stuff was.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
The what George Washington had wooden teeth?
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I believe he did, because again at the time it
was the wooden teeth were you know, your teeth fell.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Out all the time, and the versions of dentures.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Yeah, exactly, so his dentures were wooden. But there's all that.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I mean. The height thing is something like, what's the
one thing if you hear not to jump to another country?
But when you think of Napoleon, what are the things
that you think at all short which he wasn't, which
he wasn't at all. So the French how tall was he?
He was five seven and the French inch was different
(04:42):
than the English inch. The French inch was larger. So
like the the major generals that he was fighting who
were English were like five two and five three, and
Napoleon was actually five seven, but they used it as
a propaganda tool to say that he was the titque
colonel or whatever they called him, when at the end
(05:03):
of the day, that was actually a French affectation for
how much his soldiers loved him had nothing to do
with his size. It was like they would, you know,
you'd call your baby the batite whatever, because it was
a it was affection.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
And so he was actually five seven.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
So like the one thing everyone knows about Napoleon is
actually untrue, and you get all that stuff. But that's
why history is just so amazing and so fascinating.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Well, I just got another one from from husband Jensen,
cart producer this podcast. It says the dentures were not
would they were human cow and horse teeth, okay, with
io pieces and alloy.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
I love learning new things. I love learning new things.
It's like my favorite thing in the world to do.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
Well.
Speaker 4 (05:48):
I love learning new things from you, especially I really
I think I think we could do an entire podcast
episode that's just class with Will and Will we'll just
come to the table with like three topics and he's
gonna someat and he's just gonna educate us a little bit.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Will would you do that? Would you say, like, here
are three.
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Historical things that I think are the most interesting that
you may not.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
Know about it.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
What if just what if we just you don't have
any prep and we just say, oh my.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
God, Egypt, what do you want to know? We'll just talk.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
He knows everything, all right, Well, I think I'm in okay,
welcome to bod Meets World. I'm Daniel Fishl, I'm right
or Strong, and I'm Wilfredell. When we decided to sit
(06:45):
down to rewatch Boy Meets World, which we continue to prove, sure,
feels like we're watching it for the very first time ever.
We knew we'd be surprised by a lot of things,
some big ones already. That Minkis is only in season one,
I'm clearly just not even a part of the show
until he's three. The Feenie Call is a late addition,
but one that really snuck up on us. Catherine Kat Tompkins,
(07:08):
the immediate love interest of mister Turner, sure has an
important and very present role, and it was excellently played
by an actress named Darlene Vogel, who will quickly knew
from Back to the Future two and as the host
for the Back to the Future Ride at Universal Studios.
But as far as much as she was on the
show or how story driven her time with Tony was,
(07:29):
we just did not know.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
So we rushed to get her.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
On the show when we found out, and we are
so happy she responded to us and is willing to
give us some of her time. In addition to Boy
Meets World and the classic Back to the Future too,
Darlene starred on the Santa Monica bicycle cop show Pacific Blue,
a bit of like another Bawatch type but on ten speeds.
She also appeared on Coach, two episodes of Full House
(07:54):
as Danny Tanner's younger sister, house Castle, and Silk Stockings.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
But today we will.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Force her to talk about her four episodes on Boy
Meets World as the social studies teacher who Will thinks
rushed way too fast into talking about marriage. Let's please
welcome Darlene Vogel to Pod Meets World.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
Yeah, I got it. Somebody else who hasn't aged what I.
Speaker 6 (08:21):
Got your lighting in here? Oh yeah, it's all about
the lighting.
Speaker 7 (08:27):
You look fantastic. It's so great to see you. Oh,
my gosh, we are so excited. I'm just gonna get
it out of the way now. I see Will foaming
at the mouth. What was it like to have Back
to the Future to be your first feature film?
Speaker 4 (08:43):
Were you nervous to join such a hit with all
those big stars around you?
Speaker 6 (08:47):
You know, it's crazy, is if.
Speaker 5 (08:48):
We didn't even realize what it was when we were there,
like it, and I mean, you know, it's great to
work with Michael.
Speaker 6 (08:55):
I don't even think I knew what the job was
until I was on.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
Set because it was so hush hush, and it was
a three month process. And then when we were on set,
was suppoed to beak for two weeks and we were
there for two months.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Yeah, were shooting two and three at the same time.
Weren't they shooting both movies at the same time?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Okay?
Speaker 6 (09:17):
They went two and three were back to.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Back, back to back, Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
So when we finished two, then they went on to
do three.
Speaker 8 (09:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
But you're on like that big cool back lot at Universal.
It's this big, mega movie cool.
Speaker 5 (09:32):
It was fun to walk around in my outfit and
all the tourists were in the trams and they didn't
know who we were because it was a new thing.
No one saw us yet, so no one knew what
we were.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
So yeah, it was pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
You've got like punk hair and punk makeup and bits
around your neck, right, and they put a.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Red contact in my eye because my eye is half
blue and brown in really well.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
He remembers that about you, absolutely, absolutely, yes.
Speaker 6 (10:00):
So they got the idea from that, and yeah, it
was just I mean, it's great. What it was really
funny is like I didn't even.
Speaker 5 (10:06):
Tell people I was in that movie for the longest
time because it was so many years ago, and then
when we did the twenty five year anniversary, all of
a sudden, I go, oh my god. I mean, there's
a lot of people that love this movie. And now
when I mentioned it, it's crazy. It's like, what you know,
and I go to year, I'm going to Milan, I
went to Paris just to sign for people. I'm like, really,
(10:29):
I mean, it's weird. It's just has this full resurgence
and the fans are getting younger and younger.
Speaker 6 (10:34):
We're just getting older and older. But it's great. Are
we doing it till I'm three?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (10:40):
So will we?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We're just still drugging along.
Speaker 6 (10:42):
I know right. Well you all look amazing too. I
have to say, you look exactly the same. Shit.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Thanks you do.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Do you have a Crispin Glover story.
Speaker 6 (10:54):
I didn't work with Crispin.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
It was because there was a lot Yeah, because there
was a lot of.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
That was a big thing and it's still a big thing.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
Yeah. The first one there was contract disputes and a
little bit of strangeness going on. So they ended up
taking this guy, Jeffrey Eisman and putting his mask on
him and just putting him upside.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Down, and then that became a problem.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Gotten away with that, I mean they.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Didn't really now there Now there's like a oh there's
litigation involved and all that and all that way. Oh yeah,
that's a whole big thing about just taking somebody's likeness
and putting it in the second movie, and Crispin Glover.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Was like, hey, you know you can't do that. So
it was thank you much. What you no?
Speaker 1 (11:40):
I remember when you came onto the set, I was
I knew instantly who you were really, Oh yeah, absolutely,
and was It took me about a day to work
up the courage, and then you started telling me stories
from the set.
Speaker 6 (11:53):
Oh so funny because.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
It was just because you know, Tony and I are
were nerds with that stuff, Tony and so we would
just we would be like, we got to tell me
what was like and then we started slow so it
was like, hey, so you're like in Back to the
Future or whatever, and then it was then it was
just story after story after story.
Speaker 8 (12:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Yeah, yeah, it was a great experience, I have to say. Yeah,
and Michael was so sweet.
Speaker 4 (12:16):
How big was being the video host of the ride,
like so many people saw that, I know, And that.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Was funny because the wardrobe, the costumer from Back to
the Future, she suggested me for the job and so
I was like, okay, yeah, sure, I'll do it.
Speaker 6 (12:31):
And then I went.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
I showed up that day and the teleprompter had broken
and I had all this dialogue and I'm like, I mean,
thank god they let me kind of read off the
sheet because I was supposed to be a reporter anyway.
Speaker 6 (12:43):
So but that was crazy. Yeah, yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 5 (12:46):
And then yeah, it was I went to the premiere
or the ride, and that's where I saw Michael Jackson.
Speaker 6 (12:50):
He was there with the whole with Macauley Culkin and a.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Whole group of kids and and then I got to
go the premiere of that.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
But yeah, it was pretty cool to do that, right. Yeah,
that's all done now though. But there's this whole Back.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
To the Future conspiracy that they think that Heather, my
reporter character on the ride, is related to Spike, and
I'm like, no, there's there's no.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
It's so funny these stories that come up later.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
It's an alternate timeline, a multiverse.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
It's a multiverse thing.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Yeah exactly. Yeah, yeah, so cool.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
You know what I do remember the one thing I
do remember with you Will and writer with the teaching
me that you can choot trident gum with the wrappers
still on it and it dissolves in your mouth, right.
Speaker 6 (13:43):
All the time? Did you know you can shoot try
to guming with the paper?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I learned that from you guys, right, I forgot we
used to do that. You just put it. It's like
that you made your discovery. It works, it works like
a charm. I love that.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
That was funny.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Yeah, that was so great.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Wait, so the gang from Back to the Future, Yeah,
it's you Casey Schmasco.
Speaker 2 (14:08):
No, isn't Casey in it? So he's not in this
The second.
Speaker 6 (14:12):
Dean Logan and Jason scott Lee.
Speaker 1 (14:14):
It was Jason Scott Lee was the other one. Okay,
that's who I thought. It was Jason Scott Lee. And
then of course Tom uh Tom Wilson. Yeah yeah, who's
still is still Griff or Biff or Griff Yeah yeah, okay,
that's right.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
It was the new gang.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Casey Shamasco was in the the first and third.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
And then they plucked one from each for the third one.
I think you Reichy from us and like you should
have picked a girl.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Yeah, but they did it.
Speaker 5 (14:41):
Yeah, that would have been fun to be in the
Western but yeah, crazy. Yeah, I'm still friends with them.
I mean, Ricky and I talk all the time.
Speaker 6 (14:49):
We do shows together.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Jason is in Hawaii or no, Yeah, he's in Hawaii.
He's always working on something. Yeah, he took a break
for a really long time.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
But yeah, now he's back because right after that he
did Dragon, the Bruce Lee story, and it was the
one that really shot him to the whole.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yeah it was great. So yeah it was old.
Speaker 5 (15:07):
Yeah, we haven't all been back together since the twenty
fifth year anniversary.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Yeah, sorry, I just need to geek out. You need
you need to back to the future geek out. I
just had to.
Speaker 6 (15:16):
I's all right, I want to see my hoverboard. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:19):
I was just going to ask you, what was it
like filming the hoverboard scene?
Speaker 6 (15:23):
But I have I have someone made me this. Oh,
it made me this.
Speaker 5 (15:30):
And then they also made me a skateboard.
Speaker 2 (15:38):
That's awesome.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Cool, yazi cool. I never let my kids ride it though,
I was like, you can't ride that.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
What was it like shooting that scene?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (15:48):
It was awesome.
Speaker 5 (15:49):
I mean, you know, we just and they put us
up on We had harnesses on and piano wires attached
to a crane and they just flung us around the town.
Speaker 6 (15:59):
It was just so I couldn't wait for.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
That scene because we were we had to practice it
and everything. But the story is, my first stunt double
backed out because she knew.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
The stunt was not perfected.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
And I don't know if you know all this story,
but so the day one day I had off was
the big crash into the courthouse, and Eryl Wheeler, my
stunt double, she what happened was when they were flying
it to the courthouse, the crane was off like this
much like maybe a half an inch and if you
(16:32):
really slow that scene down you see her crash into
the pole and then they released them because they were
supposed to go through the glass and land on mats,
which which the two other stunt doubles did.
Speaker 6 (16:44):
But she dropped fourteen feet onto cement.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
And she had multiple, multiple, multiple surgeries after that.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
And yeah, it was a huge thing.
Speaker 5 (16:56):
I mean, I have to say because a Lisa A Color,
who was my first stunt level she was like, this
is not affected.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
I'm not doing this and she knew like something was.
She wasn't going to do it, but Cheryl did.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
And yeah, oh my god, isn't it crazy that that
wouldn't even be a thing nowadays?
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Right, It would just all be green screen. You would
just be like standing out stand somewhere. Yeah, that's crazy,
Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5 (17:20):
Yeah, but it was funny when you do watch that
movie back, it's like a lot of those things come
true and and just there's just some weird stuff. I mean,
like Bob Gail the writer, you know that they so brilliant.
The writing in that movie is just crazy. It still
stands now.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Yeah that's the time.
Speaker 4 (17:38):
Yeah, well let's jump into something else that we like
to think stands The test of time, Boy Meets World.
Do you remember your audition?
Speaker 6 (17:47):
No, I don't.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
So many people and they do exactly what you just did.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
They go, you remember being on Boy I'm trying to.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Gonny because my kids, you know, they're friends.
Speaker 5 (18:01):
When they a lot of them didn't even know it
was an actress or anything, but they would freak out,
oh my god, you're on Tooy Meets World and they
love that. Sh So many kids still to this day
love that show. It's another one that stands a tots
of time. But I don't remember the audition. I think
I already knew Michael Jacobs because why I worked on
Charles in Charge. That was my first sitcom. I got it,
(18:25):
and then I did a pilot called Misery Loves Company.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Yes, yeah, between yeah, but it didn't.
Speaker 5 (18:32):
Go my version because I was with Rick Rossovich who
then I got a job on The Pacific Blue.
Speaker 6 (18:37):
But I don't think our version went.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
But I remember David Trainer, Michael Jacobs, all those guys
were on that, so.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
I can't That would have been between our seasons one
and two, so they probably you probably didn't audition, and
then they probably just brought you radio.
Speaker 6 (18:51):
They just brought.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Me in had you seen any of Boy Meets World?
You don't have to say yes, had you Were you
at all familiar with the show before you were then
on it?
Speaker 6 (19:00):
No? No, I wasn't. No. No.
Speaker 5 (19:04):
I mean, of course I probably watched it before I
went on it, because I always do all my research.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
But yeah, well, we were so wildly impressed with your
acting and also how important you are both to mister
Turner storyline and the Seawan character development. Like what do
you remember about taping the show? And do you remember
anything about specifically working with.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Writer although you didn't really work with writer that much,
like one scene where I walked in and.
Speaker 5 (19:32):
Write when you were in trouble all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I know.
Speaker 6 (19:36):
You know, it's funny.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I rewatched the episodes this week, and it's it. It's
funny because I shot like one hundred episodes of Pacific Blue,
and I watched some of those episodes and I don't
really remember half.
Speaker 6 (19:47):
Of them shooting them.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
But then when I watched Boybet's World, I go, oh
my god, I remember this.
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I remember this. I remember that so much. I remember
when I put my hands.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
On Tony's face, Tony's.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
Face like that doing that go. I remember it was
such a weird feeling. And then but when I was
watching it back, I go, come, my voice is so high.
Because I was younger, you know, I hardly had anything
to do. I just felt so green. I was like,
oh my god, it was so green. And I love
that I got to work with mister.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
Feenie, you know. I mean he's still.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Around, right, he's such a ninety six.
Speaker 8 (20:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
I remember just being in awe of him because he
was such an established actor.
Speaker 6 (20:29):
You know.
Speaker 5 (20:30):
It was just such a professional. I loved working with
all the kids. I remember being at a horse show
once and Fred was at the horse show and I said, oh,
I worked with your.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Brother Ben and you would come and you.
Speaker 5 (20:43):
Know, and visit the set and He's like, okay.
Speaker 6 (20:49):
But I just loved working with you guys because you
had such great energy.
Speaker 5 (20:54):
You are really the one thing that's really important is
that you made me feel comfortable. Because I remember being
on Charles in Charge was my first sitcom, and none
of the actors said hello, none of them, no, yeah,
I was a guest star, and they were just like
they just didn't make us feel welcome. And I was
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like what, So I was just like I was like, Wow,
I said, you know what, one day when I get
on a show, I'm going to treat the extras the
same the guest stars every because it's as family.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
Yeah, And I remember being on your show and feeling
like part of the family. You really made me feel good.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Yeah. I always hated guest starring and stuff because especially dramas,
because you know, if it was a single camera drama,
you might not even meet like of the cast. You
only work with like one person. I always so intimidated.
And it's like if you find if an actor comes
up to you and it's nice to you and it's
like welcome, or a director whoever is like bringing it,
it's the best feeling.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
You need that confidence because I mean being able to
act from a place of like fear and insecurity is
just impossible. It's so yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (22:02):
As we get older in this field, you know, and
then you know, our roles are just different now and
you go in to be a guest star and now
it's not a guest star like it used to be.
It's like very small sometimes and you just feel like
I just sit the trailer and I go.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Why am I doing this?
Speaker 5 (22:18):
I don't even like this anymore because when you're used
to being a lead of a show and having that
family and having that camaraderie, it's so hard to walk
into another family because yeah, it's just different.
Speaker 1 (22:33):
Yeah, were you saying something interesting about not remembering the
Pacific Blue stuff. There's something about doing single camera where
you're getting random scenes. You're shooting kind of every day
all day, as opposed to sitcom where you're rehearsing one thing.
It's like you're putting on a play. You've got to
show night. There's something that kind of sticks in your
head as opposed to just one thing, one thing, one.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Four days a rehearsal. Yeah, you do, and then there's
a big night.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
You know, there's a big night around it, and and
there's a whole cool thing and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
So yeah, I love that being in front of an audience.
And I haven't had that since my twenties. I mean
that's when I used to do all that, you know
kind of work.
Speaker 5 (23:09):
But then after that it's always drama and now it's
the crying mother all the time.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
So it's like I never get to do, you know,
comedy anymore.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
So do you like doing multicams I did.
Speaker 5 (23:21):
I really did love it because I love the audience.
Although I don't like doing theater, but I love doing multicams.
Speaker 6 (23:26):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
Why don't you like doing theater?
Speaker 6 (23:29):
I just I can't do the same thing week after
week after week. I was. I did one play once
that got extended to eight weeks. I go, oh God, really.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
You know more of this? Yeah? I don't know how.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
You know, like somebody like Nathan Lane does, like years
of the producers on Broadway, like in his fifties. You're like,
what every night, eight times a week, the same thing
all the just it's yeah, it's a Mira.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
They say it.
Speaker 5 (23:56):
Feels different every because of the audiences are always to
be sure. But it's just nothing I would want to do.
I mean, I did a soap too for a year
and a half and I said, never, I will ever
do a soap ever.
Speaker 2 (24:07):
And then you did eleven hundred episodes of a soap opera.
Speaker 5 (24:10):
Oh my gosh. When I when I first did that soap,
I was like, I cried to the executive producer every
three weeks, I go.
Speaker 6 (24:18):
Can you give me off the show? I couldn't handle it?
Speaker 1 (24:22):
And give me Amnesia, drop me off, Elevator chef something.
Speaker 5 (24:27):
It was like thirty pages a day. My last day
was seventy pages.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Oh my gosh, I know it's possible.
Speaker 6 (24:38):
You just had to go, Okay, what scene I am?
What am I doing?
Speaker 5 (24:40):
And you're pretty much saying the same lives as you
said on Monday, but you're peating them on Thursday for
who didn't see Monday. I mean, they're just rewording them
and it's the hardest work ever.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
We really spent quite a bit of time on the
scene where you basically dump mister Turner for not being
ready for a long term relationship, and you do it
so subtly and you don't really need to, like Hammer
at home. But also Will felt very adamant, very strong
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feelings that the character pressured mister Turner way too early
at only four.
Speaker 2 (25:16):
Surely, oh okay, you agree with Will because right away
we're on the other side.
Speaker 8 (25:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
No, I'm a scorpio, so I'm like and I'm also
the runaway bride and been engaged many times, so for
me play that kind of a character, I was cringing
watching myself on the couch the other day.
Speaker 6 (25:34):
I go, what are you doing? The only one I.
Speaker 5 (25:37):
Liked was when I was when I was being flirtatious
with them and giving him a hard time about the dance,
not asking him to do right. That was like that
because I'm giving a little bit of a hard time.
But I was just like, oh my god, we've been
taking for three months, four.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Months, four months, we're gonna get married.
Speaker 6 (25:53):
That means you want to marry me. I'm like, oh
my god, how cringe.
Speaker 4 (25:57):
Will is very vindicated, And I have to tell you
I disagree with you.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I just I don't want to. I did too.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
I thought calm logic in sitcom logic, like four months two,
I mean two, like twenty something teachers in love like
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (26:13):
It made sense. It made sense to me.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
It makes for a good story point because it makes
for a great breakup. I mean, the way that you
break up with him is actually really wonderful.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
But again, we could have done this, could have done
exactly we talked about this in the last one. We
could have done exactly the same thing by just not
using the word marriage.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Where is this going? Is there a future?
Speaker 1 (26:30):
What's it going to be when you're talking married at
four months? As I said, it was very nice meeting you.
Please exit stage left. So yeah, it's.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
No.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
She should have she knows John Guturna.
Speaker 5 (26:43):
She should have said, listen, I'm not the kind of
girl that wants to get married, and then he'd be like, oh,
I want to marry you.
Speaker 2 (26:50):
In the game reverse psychology.
Speaker 8 (26:53):
Like getting married.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
Yeah. Yeah, but I guess it was only a four
episode arc. I didn't even I don't even know.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
I was gonna ask you, did you know that that
was going to be your last episode? Do you remember
if I originally signed on?
Speaker 6 (27:04):
Yeah, I don't, I don't remember.
Speaker 2 (27:07):
Yeah, hmm.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
Interesting. You also had we talked about some of your
experiences or being in awe of Bill Daniels. Do you
have any great Bill Daniels stories, like for you got
you had to have a lot of scenes with him.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
I did, but he was I just remember him being
just very professional and he wasn't a chatty guy, you know,
just and plus you know me coming into a new
uh you know, a set, you know, stuff like that.
Speaker 6 (27:44):
I I don't. I'm not always myself where I'm very chatty, chatty, chatty.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
I don't want to be that obnoxious guest star, you know,
So I just let him lay the line, you know,
because you never know. I mean I I did House,
and we weren't allowed to talk to him more allowed.
I was a guest star too, and I'm standing right
next to uh, what's his name, the guy who played House.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
No idea doctor House, Doctor House, the British doctor.
Speaker 5 (28:13):
Couldn't even like ask him any questions, nothing, And I'm
him to me.
Speaker 6 (28:20):
We're standing doing the markings and this. Some sets are
like that.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
So I did a movie with Donald Sutherland and he
has an eye contact rule.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Oh he can make eye contact. Well that's when I
walk up and I go, nice to meet you, sir. Well,
if you're in the scene with him, you can make
eye contact with that.
Speaker 3 (28:35):
But you know, his whole thing was that everybody, every
crew member has to look away. Nobody can make eye
contact with him. To the point that we're shooting in
the houseboat and he was delivering some sort of he's
like a creepy grandfather in this movie's delivering some kind
of monologue. In the middle of his monologue, he looks
up and he goes, there's a man outside that window
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looking at me, and like it was.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Like some passerby, not part of the crew. That was
like outside the window looking.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
In, but that through the whole take and you had
to start over and the whole crew had to go
out and like kick this guy away.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
It's so ridiculous.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
There's a there is an argument to me, when you're
doing single camera stuff that if your eye catches somebody
looking at you, you work eyes with them, and there
can be a problem if you have too many lookie.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Louse, like in the line in the scene, if you're
somebody's in your eye line. Okay, I understand that, but
I'm walking on the set and the crew is not
allowed to make eye contact.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
Is you can bleep me looking ridiculous? Yeah, it's it's
that is.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
A stupid egotistical power trip that all comes from insecurity
of this being an actor, and it's like, you're an idiot.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
Sorry, you're just an idiot.
Speaker 1 (29:45):
Our feeling is for will come on four months. That's
also just saying you're not.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Good enough to look me in the eyes.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Please, I know, forget it. Also, though I feel like
it's probably a little better now, but in the ninety
I can only imagine how bad that was. This like
those sets for women, specifically dart Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (30:07):
I mean, I have to say I've never had any
me too stories like that on sets.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
I'm pretty good.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
But as far as yeah, actors being holier than thou, yeah,
I've had those experiences for sure.
Speaker 6 (30:22):
Except Michael J. Fox. He was not like that at all.
Speaker 2 (30:25):
No, He's like the coolest guy. We got. Got a
chance to meet him a couple of times, and he's
so nice.
Speaker 1 (30:31):
Every time you meet him. I remember I just because
he was my idol. He's the reason that I became
an actor.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
Essentially.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
He and Alan Aldo were the reasons that I decided
to be an actor. And we got to meet him.
I was with you, I think writer and Ben at
Disney World and we walked up to him.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
We're like, he's right there. We have to go say hi.
We have to go say hi.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
And Ben took the lead and he went, excuse me, sir.
We just wanted to say and he went, sir, are
you kidding me? I've known your brother since he was
get over here, and like gave in a big hug.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
How are you guys doing? He could not have been
nicer to hum.
Speaker 6 (31:03):
He gets some.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
Parade through Disney World and he was in the car
in front of us. He was like making faces and
shouting things to us the whole time.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
It was It's so validated everything I hoped he would be.
It was like, oh my god, He's exactly what I wanted.
It was amazing. I almost cried. I literally almost cried
because he was just so cool.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (31:22):
He invited us to do his trailer for Margarite to
Fridays and stuff. And I recently, right before COVID, I
was in New York and I was walking down the
street and I saw Tracy coming out of a restaurant
and I go, oh, there's Michael's like Tracy and I go, oh,
wait a minute, there's Michael. And I hadn't seen Michael.
Speaker 6 (31:39):
Since the premiere. Woh wow, so like that many years ago.
So my friend Linda was like, you have to say hi.
You have to say hi. I go, yeah, I'll kick
myself if I don't say hi.
Speaker 2 (31:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (31:50):
So I walked over there and I said Hi. And
I don't want them.
Speaker 5 (31:52):
To think here I am a fan, you know, I'm like, Hi, Terracey,
I'm Darklene. I played Spike and bad to Future two
and They're like, oh my god. And so then we
had a but then he had said it goes weren't
you hurt?
Speaker 6 (32:04):
And I said, no, that was my stunt up.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Yeah, but but yeah, it was really great to see him,
and they were so gracious. They were so nice. You know,
I said, Oh, I just went to Paris to do
a show. They're like Paris, We've got a Philadelphia.
Speaker 2 (32:21):
See him at the comic cons.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Nowadays it's always like Tulsa and yeah, stuff like that.
Speaker 4 (32:26):
Yeah, speaking of very cool, you were cast as a
love interest for mister Turner a ka Tony Quinn.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
When do you remember the first time you met Tony?
Speaker 6 (32:37):
Yes, I do, because he was he was so sweet.
I remember him just being so sweet and so inviting.
He really was.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
He didn't Yeah, I mean he was great. I mean
we we got along. I remember we got along really well.
He's very comfortable to be with.
Speaker 6 (32:51):
And yeah, he was a great guy in the world.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Yeah, and that hair maybe you know he said, least
least pretentious person in the world.
Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah, you guys, Well, we wanted to send you this
little message from Tony Quinn. So let's bring in Tony Quinn.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
What here? Hi?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
How are you?
Speaker 8 (33:24):
I'm doing great? You look fantastic.
Speaker 6 (33:27):
So do you just shorter hair.
Speaker 8 (33:29):
I see, ah, yeah, that's all gone.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
When did you get rid of the mullet, Tony? I mean,
I know that bullet, you guys, I told you you guys.
Speaker 8 (33:39):
When when?
Speaker 4 (33:40):
Uh?
Speaker 8 (33:40):
I think the last episode that I did my hair
was different.
Speaker 9 (33:44):
Because they told me I wasn't coming back, so I
cut off all my hair and I had to audition
for other shows.
Speaker 8 (33:51):
So I think the last episode I show up with
way shorter hair.
Speaker 2 (33:56):
MM. So funny he's back now.
Speaker 6 (34:00):
Did you know that it is.
Speaker 8 (34:03):
Nineties?
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Not for me. I would look a little bit like
Ben Franklin.
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I like, hell o, thank you, thank you, Tony.
Speaker 4 (34:14):
We just asked Darlene what she remembers about you and
working together, and she talked about how sweet and warm
and welcoming you were and really making her feel at home.
What do you remember about meeting Darlene for the first
time and working with her?
Speaker 8 (34:26):
It was pretty much the same. I mean, she had
this It was immediate.
Speaker 9 (34:31):
It was like, welcome to the party, this is going
to be great, and we just we just hit the
ground running.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
Yeah for sure.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Yeah, you guys had such great chemistry.
Speaker 8 (34:43):
Yeah, yeah, easy to be around, easy to work with.
It was great.
Speaker 5 (34:48):
I just feel bad that I just really pinned you
and like wanting to when you go you have such
great eyes and like does that mean you want to
marry me or something?
Speaker 4 (34:56):
I'm like, oh my, it's like, what the heck, Tony,
where do you stand? Where do you stand on that debate?
We we talked about it when we watched the episode recently.
Wright and I were both on Kat Tompkins side, which is, yeah,
you know, at four months, you.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
Guys are you guys? Are aren't like your Gaby Young?
Speaker 4 (35:18):
It's at least worth saying, where do you see this
being a thing for the future. It's it's a worth
a check in. But Will is like the minute you
say marriage at four months, you run out the door.
And Darlene actually agrees with Will. So let's let you
be the deciding. What do you think about how she
handled that at that at that four.
Speaker 9 (35:35):
Months I I sort of was kind of in agreement
with her in terms of, you know, where is this
going kind of thing? I mean, we're we're in our
we're in our thirties, and it's like, are we just
playing around or that's okay?
Speaker 2 (35:52):
Yeah, but that's okay, that's okay. Is there a future here.
Speaker 4 (35:58):
Well, just has a real problem with the marriage insantly
going to marriage.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
After I, Hey, you got great eyes? Does that mean
you want to marry me? Like what he does say
I could stare into your eyes forever verbally hyper people.
Speaker 8 (36:14):
I don't know if Jonathan Turner was using hyperbole at
that moment.
Speaker 2 (36:18):
And how was she sing? Yeah, because when you say
something like that, you better dag I mean it exactly.
Speaker 8 (36:27):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, because you're not going to play
around with somebody's emotions and say something like that flippantly.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I could stare into your eyes forever.
Speaker 1 (36:36):
Is a declaration of undying love that will last for
an eternity.
Speaker 2 (36:41):
Well, you did use the forever word. I agree with you.
Speaker 10 (36:47):
She just repeated, back, forever. That's what we talked about
that for you get married. Yeah, we're working on time
travel and then we have we have a lot of
the mist of stuff we're doing with the show. When
we actually invent time travel. We're going to get there,
We're going to get We're almost there. We're really close
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so far. We have a styrofoam cup and we're doing.
Speaker 2 (37:12):
Well, which is a telephone in Connecticut. Thank you very much.
I grabbed it from you anymore.
Speaker 1 (37:21):
I know.
Speaker 5 (37:22):
One of the most uncomfortable scenes was when we were
standing at the bar. It was at the first episode,
standing at the bar, and we're just like no, like
forehead to forehead.
Speaker 1 (37:32):
And you've got like your hand on his chest and
it's it's so we're in the makeout poetry bar.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Yes, yes, yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:45):
Some of the romantic displays of like p d A
that that we chose on the show.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
World trafficked and PDA is like business wow, And I
don't think we thought.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Anything like it was just normal.
Speaker 4 (37:58):
Yeah, Tony, I don't want to take up any more
of your time. Thank you for popping in to make
a surprise my pleasure.
Speaker 9 (38:05):
You guys look fantastic. You're doing great. It was Thank
you so much for inviting me to be on Thank you.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Want to see you in Kansas City. In Kansas City
on August six. We'll see you there, Tony. We love you.
Speaker 6 (38:32):
That was so cute.
Speaker 2 (38:33):
I love that we.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
Wanted to have a little bit of a surprise for you.
Speaker 6 (38:37):
And where does Where does Tony live?
Speaker 2 (38:39):
Chicago is in Chicago the next Thursday.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
We were so able to anticipate your responses and our
responses that he actually taped that a week ago.
Speaker 6 (38:52):
Amazing. Gosh.
Speaker 4 (38:59):
Okay, So looking back now, nearly thirty years later, we
are I mean, we're approaching the thirtieth anniversary of the
first season, so you would have been just next year. Yeah,
twenty nine years for you. Looking back, how do you
feel about your time on Boy Meets World.
Speaker 6 (39:17):
Oh, it's definitely, you know, I mean I love that
I was on that show, and even you know, because
it's a kids show and it was clean.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
It was good, it was.
Speaker 5 (39:28):
Fun, it was sweet, and you know, I just had
a great experience of it. You know when I tell kids,
like I said, you know when I was on that show,
it's just everyone thinks very highly of that show because
you guys were also so professional. It's like young ages
and you know, just very professional, very sweet, very giving
as actors. I mean, it's great to work with child
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actors back then and just know what they're doing, and
you know, you just did and you just all had fun,
which was great because some sets are not so fun.
Speaker 6 (40:00):
I remember that set being really fun. We were all
laughing a lot. You guys were so close, and yeah,
it was just it was just always a great, great feeling.
Speaker 5 (40:11):
It's always good to look back on a show and go,
oh my god, that was a great experience. Definitely people
that I was on it, because also it's still a
big show today.
Speaker 1 (40:23):
Well.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
One of the most favorite things we have found doing
this Rewatch podcast is how much of an appreciation it
has brought to us about all of you, the adult
actors we worked with, because we were honestly not really
paying that much attention to the adult storylines, whether it's
because we were in the school room or because.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Were if it was you and Tony in the scene,
we wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (40:45):
Be unless it was run through, and which case we'd
see it that one time for run through and then
we'd be into notes and getting, you know, into the
next stuff. So being able to watch the show now
as adults ourselves who are even significantly older than you
guys were when you were on the show, it has
it has really just been like, Wow, we were surrounded
by such talent and you are one of the people
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that we were just mesmerized by watching the show.
Speaker 6 (41:12):
So oh you're I mean, when I was watching it,
I was like, I really didn't too much.
Speaker 8 (41:17):
I mean, I I was a little.
Speaker 6 (41:18):
Embarrassed it's like I had like little lines here and there.
Speaker 4 (41:22):
But but that is it is true that they could
have given you more and they they didn't.
Speaker 2 (41:26):
You were you were Your.
Speaker 4 (41:28):
Character was a little limited, but what you were able
to do with it, you left such a mark, like
you are memorable. Yes, you are memorable, your dynamic, you're
fun to watch, even though they didn't really give you
that much great stuff, but you really really make the
most of it, and you stand out.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
And it's and it was so.
Speaker 1 (41:48):
Important for the storyline of of where you know, uh,
it got Tony to Sean.
Speaker 2 (41:54):
It got it got Tony. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
That became huge, hugely important because you were the catalyst
for mister Turner realizing he wanted something in his life.
He didn't know what it was, but wanted something, which
then led us to the entire Sean Turner storyline, which
was a huge story point for season three. So, I mean,
you say you didn't have a lot to do, and
you didn't, and they could have used you more, but
(42:19):
I mean without your character, it wouldn't have gotten us
there in such a natural way.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
It really was a great kind of transition. Yeah, yeah,
I know.
Speaker 6 (42:26):
I was just like it's like, okay, bye, you're not
going to be a bye.
Speaker 2 (42:30):
Yeah, and then you're out.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
I hate to do this, though, I absolutely hate to
do this.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
I don't think you do.
Speaker 8 (42:37):
I do.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
I do?
Speaker 2 (42:38):
Actually, I don't think you know I do do?
Speaker 1 (42:40):
What what? The brand Modellis International, the company that sells
Trident gum, has explained the rapper is not meant for
human consumption, so you're not supposed to let you're not
supposed to eat the try, the tried and wrapper.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
I hate, after all these years.
Speaker 6 (42:59):
To have there's ink on it as well. I mean,
there's ink.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
Did anybody really enjoy doing that?
Speaker 6 (43:08):
Though?
Speaker 2 (43:09):
I mean we thought we all did it once we
heard you could. It was a party trick.
Speaker 4 (43:12):
It was great, but that it does make the gum unenjoyable,
so you don't actually keep doing.
Speaker 1 (43:17):
It, right, It turns out that not only was the
gum unenjoyable, but it's also probably poisonous to us.
Speaker 6 (43:23):
So yeah, well we're all still here.
Speaker 2 (43:26):
We managed to make Maybe that's why no one's aging.
It's all. I mean, Will does have a tail, and
we have been wondering where that came from. But I
do it's vestigial. It's fine. Well, Darlene, thank you so
much for being here. We really appreciate it. It was
great to catch up with you.
Speaker 5 (43:44):
Yeah, it's so funny because I was on a retreat
last summer and the girl that I met, Christine, she
lives in Massachusetts, and she.
Speaker 6 (43:51):
Just happened to text me. She goes, I'm listening to.
Speaker 5 (43:54):
This podcast by Boy Meets World and all that, and
I was like, oh really, and so I love to
chime in.
Speaker 6 (43:59):
So yeah, she's so happy that I'm coming up. There's
so much I can't wait to listen to it.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
We're we're finally, at some point in the in the
near future, going to be doing a party for everybody
we want to, like a bit like.
Speaker 4 (44:12):
Really big, everybody we have contact information for, and even
people we don't, but we're going to try to find
We're going to try to do something maybe at Writer's house.
I think probably the easiest way to plan it and
giving everybody enough time is like to send out a
save the date and do it sometime at the early
part of next year, so we will be in touch
with you and it'll be a big Pleas.
Speaker 6 (44:35):
For inviting me into the family. Thank you are you
guys all with Greg. So happy to be here and
thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 4 (44:43):
So good to see you just see so hopefully bye
bye bye bye. Well that was fun and it was
fun to have a mister Tony Quinn pop in and
do a little surprise did you guys? Did you guys?
Like all the Back to the Future talk, I'd.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
Never heard the.
Speaker 3 (44:59):
Horrible and I want to them with the cranes like
I knew that that's till I did it. Like I've
definitely seen some behind the scenes footage, but I never
heard the injury story. That's that's a bummer.
Speaker 2 (45:09):
Man.
Speaker 1 (45:09):
I want to be on a set like that once
in my life. I don't need lines. I will be
a background. Just a huge, huge movie like a star
back to the Future where you're on you know the
best Now it's just like it was just a bunch
of Tom Cruise movie and then it's all practical. Oh man,
I would do that in two seconds. I would hold
his motorcycle and just to be here, you go, mister Cruz.
(45:30):
That's all I need to do that a big movie star.
Speaker 3 (45:33):
Like, Yeah, I've always wanted to be on the you know,
I I think I told you guys that I was
really close to getting apart and hook like the movie
because they built a whole pirate ship.
Speaker 2 (45:44):
Yeah, and it was like they took over the stage.
Speaker 1 (45:46):
You know.
Speaker 3 (45:46):
It's like back in the day when they would just
build everything. Oh my god, and like I never got
to do that, you know. But also like I love
how she's like we were shooting for two months. It's like, yeah,
on those big things, especially back in the day, you
would spend like all day on one eighth of the page,
like one eighth of a page in the script, and
you are just getting so much coverage and everything takes
(46:08):
so much preparation and like that it must be exhausting
in its own way.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Do you know the original time Machine was a refrigerator. Yeah,
in the original draft that talk about change. You're breaking
in the break into three rather than like getting to
the they had to like break into a.
Speaker 2 (46:25):
A nuclear power plant.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
They didn't.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
They didn't come up with a giggawatts thing until later,
but yeah, so originally it was like them just the
whole third act was then breaking into a power plant
to like get material.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
The first Back to the Future is perfect, It's a
perfect script. It's perfect as a film. There's nothing wrong
with it. It's so amazing.
Speaker 2 (46:46):
I teach it. I teach it.
Speaker 3 (46:47):
It's like my fourth lectures back to the Future. It's
it's like, it's like so fundamental screenwriting. Every single you know,
talk about set up and pay off, every single line
of dialogue, every single shot pays.
Speaker 2 (46:58):
Off, pays off.
Speaker 3 (46:59):
I mean, it's echo. It's like, yeah, it's the platonic
ideal of set up and pay off. It's just me,
Oh god, it's such a good movie. Yeah, okay, Well, thank.
Speaker 4 (47:07):
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. As we mentioned,
Tony Quinn will be joining us in Kansas City on
August sixth, and uh.
Speaker 2 (47:23):
As always, we have merch. You built a time machine
out of merch. Pod Metsworldshow dot com.
Speaker 4 (47:32):
We'll see y'all next time. We love you all, pod dismissed.
Pod Meets World is an iHeart podcast produced and hosted
by Danielle Fischel, Wilfredell and Writer Strong. Executive producers Jensen
Karp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo,
producer and editor, Tara Sudbachs producer, Jackie Rodriguez, engineer and
(47:53):
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