January 21, 2025 • 27 mins
Once again, we’re turning the spotlight onto you, the listeners, to work through another heated Boy Meets World debate: Should Topanga have gone to Yale??
In season 5, Topanga was faced with a major dilemma: choosing between attending Yale, or staying home for her relationship with Cory. It’s spawned an argument that, even decades later, has good points on both sides…
And so now the gang listens to voice memos, sent in from fans with opinions, including many who’ve actually lived the Cory/Topanga storyline!
So here’s your acceptance letter, but only you can decide what to do…on a brand new Pod Meets World!
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Speaker 1 (00:18):
I wanted to give you all an update because we've
seen your comments. We know that a lot of you
are actually watching the show along with us in real time,
not jumping ahead, and so a lot of you are
wondering when are we going to start our season six rewatch. First,
I would like to thank you for your patience with us. Honestly,
(00:38):
needing to take a break between seasons is something I
know for me, I need to do in order to
not burn out on the show. Basically, it's a nice
palette cleanser. It gives me a little bit of time
to digest what we've just watched. We can easily if
we just keep going right through it and barrel right
(00:59):
through it. We get burnt out hearing ourselves talk about it.
We also find that we need a little bit of
space between it so that we don't become hyper fixated
on maybe something that's negative. It helped, it truly helps
us to do these episodes.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's just a nice palate cleanser for us.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's a creamy sorbet. It's a creamy sorbet.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It's thank you, It's a creamy sorbet.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Between creamy sorbet.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's a palate.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
You have the sorbets smelling coffee beans in between sense
it refreshes.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
You've never had them bring go to a restaurant where
like in between courses they'll bring you a little sorbet
that just cleanses the palate.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
And yeah, I thought ginger and sushi or like like
a just a plain cracker, right like when your wine
tasting sorbet.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's an amuse douche. No, it's a moose booth.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh did I get that wrong? Ah?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Anyway, thank you for your patience with us.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I think we just stop.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You just know more I want to not do.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
People'll say, if we just just that's the end, We're
going to.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Pretend season five ended because I actually think I'm gonna
feel that way.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So we don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
We've heard.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I've heard that season six is really bad, and I've
also heard that season six.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Is really really bad. So I don't know which one
it's going to be. We'll have to see.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So I wanted to make the announcement that we are
going to start our season six rewatch on February twentieth.
That's going to be our date, February twentieth. It's my
mom's birthday. It doesn't mean anything to any of you, guys,
but it is true. And another announcement, our very first
guest of season six is going to be maitland Ward.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So we look forward.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
To welcoming Rachel onto our podcast. Can't we to get
her perspective and her thoughts on her time on Boy
Meets World. And once again, thank you all for your patients.
Welcome to pod meets World.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm Daniel Fishall, I'm right or Strong, and I'm Wilfordell.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Guys, this might have been the most heated voice memos
we've received yet. Oh really, asking our listeners should to
Panga have went to Yale?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Hot button? Hot button issue.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Is truly a controversial move. We received hundreds of voice memos. Wow,
I would say two or three were yelling.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh really, do we have yellers?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
We had yellers?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Are they angry?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Was that an overwhelming like point of view? Was there
one winner?
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Really?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I mean I think if you had, if you really
had to vote, I think probably went to Yale would
have won, but not by much. Okay, I don't think
it could have beaten sixty five thirty five. I don't
you know, I don't think it could have been much
worse than that. So it was it was close. It
was close. Wow, did you expect that? Was that? Was
that what you thought would happen?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I would have thought overwhelmingly they would have said, gone
to Yale. That would have been my personal opinion. Eighty
twenty at the most, or at the least, I would say, yeah,
But fans of.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Woman's World love ka like that's that's a big part
of the show. So I don't know, I was totally yeah,
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I'm actually kind of surprised that it leaned at all
toward to Penga should have gone to Yale.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I think I would have thought real close to fifty
to fifty, if not sixty forty, she would have been
successful anywhere. Because I even go back and forth between
like we put a lot of importance on in the show.
We put a lot of importance on who you marry
and who you choose to stay with, but we also
tend to put a lot of importance on like where
you go to school. I'm like, knowledge to Penga was
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going to be successful no matter where she went to school. Well,
so I actually thought more people would have said, why
you know, throw a wrench into your entire life.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Let me throw another wrench at you.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Do you think the numbers would have changed had Girl
Meets World not existed where we got to see that
fact that Topanga was successful.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
That comes up a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Okay, well, yeah, I mean I was taking Girl Meets
World out of it. I wasn't even thinking about the
fact that we see that she's a lawyer and all that.
I know that we do, but I do still just
generally think, like, you know, when you're the smartest person
in your school or in the top of your class,
and you're driven.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And you are you know, uh, you can kind of
do well anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Like I think of Tapanga as being the type that
you could throw her into a situation where she might
not know anything, and very quickly she'll figure it out.
She'll figure out how to do what needs to be
done and how to be good at it and how
to succeed.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And I think she could have done that anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So anyway, I'm actually I'm surprised it's not the other
way interesting.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
All right, do you guys want a yes Yale or
a no Yale?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
First surprise us?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
All right, let's go with Melissa. She's out of Connecticut.
You may have heard of the place I have.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Hey, Podmeates World, my name is Melissa Client from Connecticut.
Love the show. I think that if we're asking the
question did Tapanga make the right decision, we're kind of
asking the wrong question. I honestly believe that where you
go to college at the end of the day doesn't
really matter. And I say that as someone who went
to what's been described as a third year university and
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now I'm actually a faculty member at Yale, So like,
where I went to college did not matter. Now, if
we're asking would to Panga be better off now if
she had gone to Yale instead of proposing to Corey
and staying in Pennsylvania, I don't know. She's an attorney
in New York and it's seemingly making enough money that
she can live there while her husband is a middle
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school teacher. So like what I would advise an eighteen
year old Hell, oh that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Oh yeah, that's all.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Right, good, good perspective. I love that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I love that we have a perspective from somebody who said,
I went to what's called a third tier university and
now I work at you, work at you.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Yeah, interesting. Good shout out to Connecticut too. Love the
good shout out to Connecticut.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Yeah, you know, I do feel like the Girl meets
World kind of ruins this question.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That's what I mean, because the girl meets World and
everybody's happy.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yeah, it like if we we have to take that away,
we have to just say, like, let's take Boy.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Meets World on its own terms. Should she have gone
to Yale or not? Should?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
But that's like say, don't think of a white horse.
You know, it's the first thing you're gonna think of.
So yeah, that's it. Does it? Kind of they've shown
that she made the right decision already, so it kind
of makes the question negates the entire question, Frank, what's
the point?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah, and here's Elizabeth. She has a different take.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Hello, guys, Elizabeth here from Washington, one thousand million percent.
She should have gone to yell Oh, no question, you
go to Yolle. They could have made it work because
essentially all of those the Northeast, as somebody who's from
New England, it's not far from me, so nothing is far,
so you can make it work. And if it didn't work,
it wasn't meant to be Anyways. I did vote on
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the website that they should go get married because I
was a child and did not understand the real world
as I do now as a thirty four year old woman. Now,
I don't think you should have proposed to him. You
should have gone through college and see what happens. Yeah,
go to Yale to Panga.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You know, it is so true, the difference between like
the perspective you had as kids the perspective you have
now as adults, whether or not Girl meets world's playing
into it at all, whether.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Or not you know.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, it's so many factors.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
Well it is.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
There's a great quote the other day about somebody rewatched
Dirty Dancing as an adult and they're like, are you
kidding me?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
He looks like he's forty, she's sixteen. Put baby in
a corner.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Gets all the time out.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh yeah, it depends on when.
Speaker 9 (09:01):
You watch it.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Not everyone was as focused on the relationship. Hillary from
Canada makes a pretty good point about something we missed.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
High Pie meets World longtime listener, first time voice memoir.
I saw the questions you posted after the season five finale,
but my question is, really, how did we not acknowledge.
The music when Eric is repelling out of Feel's office
is a reprise to the theme of good Looking Guy.
(09:30):
I loved the throwback, so I just wanted to make
sure you guys were aware. Love the show and yeah,
that's all I got.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
That's so cool. Yeah, I don't think I picked up.
I don't think I picked up at all.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
No, I don't think I noticed it in the moment either.
But then when we heard about it, I was like, wait,
I do kind of remember hearing that, but I think
maybe it was just like, oh, that's what that was.
So I think when I watched it, I was aware
that something sounded familiar, but didn't put it together with
one of us. It's so funny, that's great.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
This isn't who made a point that was unique, which
is hard to do when you get hundreds of emails you're like, oh, wow,
this is a completely different take on it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Hi.
Speaker 11 (10:07):
I'm Nicole. I'm in Seattle, Washington, and I totally am
fully support to Panga for choosing Corey over Yale. I
think that we teach children that they should be prioritizing
education in their career over everything else, and then when
they become workaholics and not very good parents are very
good partners in their relationships. We wonder why this is
exactly why, because we're training them from the very beginning
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that they have to prioritize their career, and that's not true.
We know that the people around you are more important.
And to Paning It does a really good job of
showing us this. She does not give up on her
dreams to be with Corey. She still goes and gets
really good grades at a really good school. We know
that she becomes a successful lawyer. She shows us that
you can choose your relationship and your future and your
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personal wants at the same time. It doesn't matter if
they stayed together forever or not. She has the right priorities,
and she's so different from other characters on TV. At
this time. I start a watching this on Disney Channel
and I just loved her so much, love the pod,
Thank you so much. I will defend this forever.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That's a good point. It's a totally good point.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
But here's my here's my problem. Does Corey ever make
a similar sacrifice?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Does Corey ever choose his relationship over his personal success
or his person No, like he's he chose a relationship
with Lauren. I just feel like, I just feel.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Like Tapanga is asked as a character to make this
incredible sacrifice, and she does for the sake of, you know,
highlighting this powerful relationship. But Corey doesn't do the equivalent.
He never has to do the equivalent. He just has
to give up not sleeping with random girls throwing themselves
at him.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
They try, that's tough.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Well, they tried to make him seem self self less
when he's like, no, she's you've got to go. He
made her say it once or twice, but he didn't
even believe that or really feel that. Yeah, it's very strange.
It's a selfish character with a selfless character.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I mean, it's why you're talking about their relationship. I
want to play a call from Isaac, not so much
for his content or opinion, but for his mistake.
Speaker 12 (12:11):
Hey, guys, is I said a long time listener of
the podcast. I just wanted to say, I don't think
that she should have not gone to I think, yeah,
I think you should have gone to jail. I mean
not jail, but Yale, you.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Should go to jail.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
She should have gone to jail.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
It was a cool mistake. I don't know. All right,
here's here's Kelsey. She's got the other side for Yale.
Speaker 13 (12:56):
Hi, my name's Kelsey, and I'm dropping a pin in Woodland.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Hills, Califul.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (13:00):
Now, at the time this episode originally aired, I absolutely wanted,
according to Panga, to get married. But I was ten
and my frontal lobe was basically mashed potatoes. Now, as
I'm the same age as what I assume the writers
of this episode were at the time they wrote it,
I can't fathom writing a story about an eighteen year
old girl proposing to the world's worst boyfriend and not
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having an end in tragedy. What should have happened is
Tapanga should have dumped him, graduation, gone to Yale, lost
her virginity to some dufus named Chad, and then my
very impressionable preteen mind could have seen a story about
how virginity is a social construct that means nothing and
to not make it such a source of fear and stress.
(13:43):
And this is coming from a real life virgin on
her wedding night.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Love the pod.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Wow, geez, yes much start a podcast.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, God's.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Unpack.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
This is from Kelsey to Chelsea. I love this take.
It's something I've never thought of, but boy, I adore it.
Speaker 14 (14:10):
Hey, this is Chelsea. I'm a teacher from Texas, and
I think we're arguing about the wrong thing. To Pega
getting into Yale in the first.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Place is ridiculous.
Speaker 14 (14:17):
Yes, it's established that she's smart and at the top
of her classes, but look at who else is in
those classes, Corey and Sean. That means she's at the
top and all regular on level courses, not honors or AP.
Good for her, but Yale would never I propose that
the other part of the school is the honors hall.
This explains why Corey and Seawan look over there with
such trepidation. Critical thinking happens over there, turners over there,
teaching courses like existentialist theory in twentieth century comic books.
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And Stuart has spent four years over there making weighted a's,
non regular a's like Topanga. Stuart would have a higher GPA.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Stuart would be valedictorian.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Stuart should be.
Speaker 14 (14:50):
Going to Yale. Thank you for coming to my Stuart talk.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yes, Wow, absolutely, she's in regular classes.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Think about that classes with Corey and Sean.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, not much of an accomplishment.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Running in a.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Next to Corey and Sean doesn't really seem that special.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
No, it doesn't. You would have gone to Yale, you
wouldn't have gotten in.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Come on, it's a good times to announce that Lean
Norris is coming back. Pretty excited about that is if
you watching an episode.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
With us, How I Care is a good time.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
All right, Here is Sarah. I this is one of
my favorite calls we've ever gotten.
Speaker 15 (15:25):
Hi, guys, this is Sarah from Dallas, Texas. I'm very
pro to being a going to Yale for very personal reasons.
I'm a person who moved away from my high school
sweetheart to go to college, and it cost our breakup,
and it was probably the best thing that ever happened
to us. I got to so my wild oats. I
got to make all the mistakes you're supposed to make
in college. I got to experience life. I got to
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date other people and figure out what I actually want
from a relationship and not just stick with the one
thing I'd ever had in high school. And I got
to pursue my dreams. And I think it was the
best thing that ever happened to me. And years later,
I reconnected with my high school sweetheart, and we're currently
married now because we got to come back together as
fully formed human beings who actually know what we want.
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And I think that if we hadn't been able to
do that, we would have eventually ended up presenting each
other for not following our dreams just for the sake
of the relationship. And I just wish that Tipega had
been able to experience that. So yeah, that's my take.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Oh man, So that's yes, you get to have both.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
You can go in, you can go to Yale, you
can live, you could be a fully realized individual and
still maybe have the love of your life that you
met when you were a kid. Like that can still happen.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
I love that coming. We came together then as fully
formed human beings.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
It's great. Hold on, Here comes is that Lauren's music?
Sorry to bring in a wrestling term. Here comes Lauren
down into the ring. Hi Podneeds World.
Speaker 16 (16:54):
I'm Lauren from Boynan Beach, Florida, and I've been a
fan since the original airings on cg IF. I wasn't
in high school yet when the season originally aired, but
looking back on it now, I realized that Tapanga situation
was a lot like what I went through when I
graduated high school. Tapango was young, only eighteen, so we
have to put ourselves back into the mindset of a
young and in love teenager. When I was a young
and in love teenager just graduating from high school, I
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had the option of going to Berkeley School of Music,
or I could have stayed home and gone to a
school in Florida to be with my then boyfriend at
the time. I chose to stay near home and go
to the University of Miami. My then boyfriend is now
my husband and we've been together over twenty years. Do
I wonder what my life would have been like had
I gone to Berkeley. Yes, but I had a really
good reason in my own head not to go. I'm
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very happy with the way my life has turned out now,
so I don't fall to Panga for not going to
Yale and staying behind with Corey. We know that Tapanga
went on to become a lawyer and work for a
prestigious firm. Again, that parallels my own life, as I
also went on to become a lawyer. Okay, love you all,
here's to another thirty years.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Wow geez, yeah wow, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
So you know, life's just going to work out the
way it's going to work out. Yeah, there's always the other.
There's always the other. You're always going to wonder what
if to a certain extent, if you're the type of
person who wants to spend time imagining what if I
had made different decisions, what would life have been like?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Then there's always a path you don't take.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Okay, okay, But statistically, how often does the person that
you fall in love with at the age of four
eight end up being the greatest person, like the coolest,
most interesting, best person for you?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Very rare?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Like, statistically, we know that making the decision to be
with your childhood sweetheart is a risk. That is a
big risk, that is a bit and like, here's you know,
she just told a great story where it did work out,
Like she has.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
A happy life with somebody that she met in high school.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
But that's rare. Yeah, actually is very rare. And so
recognizing that in the context of I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Like.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It happens.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
I'm next to a kid who I think they started
dating when they were freshmen in high school and I
think are still together and have kids, So I mean,
it does happen. It does, but it's definitely more.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Rare than not.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
And yeah, wow, all right, what's light in the maybe
with Gary?
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Hi? Gary Moore here Pudme's World on Tour Cosm Contest finalists.
That's justide the point. Should depend have gone to Yale? Listen? No,
because Sean could never get into Yale and then you'd
have a house divided and Corey would have to split
his feelings and we don't want that. We don't want
that any more than we already have that. So no,
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because also that would destroy the storyline. Okay, should she
have proposed yes? Was there other ways around it? Of
course there were? Okay, they could have all just taken
a year off, a year abroad and went to Fiji
or Belgium or just had a back in time year.
That would have been fantastic. I don't know, I just
(19:57):
have I have a lot of feelings. Okay. Are we
rushing into this? Yeah? We are? Does it make sense
kind of to the show in retrospect?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
God?
Speaker 9 (20:07):
No, not at all. I love what you us are doing.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Keep doing it by anybody else, I'm sorry, but does
anybody else see Gary? You know, on a break at
work in the bathroom, whispering into his phone.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Picked because he needed like six more minutes to work
through all of his feelings.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Did not help him.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
No, Gary was real stri He's like, but is it?
And does it?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
But what about.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
I just see his feet on the toilet, like you say,
the people who know he's there, Gary, are.
Speaker 17 (20:41):
You in here?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I'm talking about me world meats world.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
And now listening to Leha, she says she supports Tapanga
and let's hear about her current predicament.
Speaker 17 (21:06):
Hi, Pod, I'm in a bit of a Tapanga moment
myself as I apply to grad school while coordinating with
my boyfriend's job applications, and I keep hearing Phoene's voice
in my head saying, unless you have a very good
reason not to. As an affirmation as to why I'm
applying to these schools and maybe not some others. I
know I'm making the right decision because it means I'll
have a support system nearby and a hug at the
end of a long, hard day. Maybe Tapanga wanted that too.
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I'm a similar student to Tapanga, so I feel comfortable
prioritizing all the important things in my life, including our
relationship and future, not just a potential job. As for Corey,
I know if my boyfriend or I applied somewhere random
without talking to each other, we would feel blindsided because
we have this shared plan. And the rewatch showed that
Corey encouraged her to go. She's the one who wanted
to stay close. Granted, I am older and not dealing
(21:49):
with a cheaterh like Corey, but there are definitely reasons
to stay close to the ones that you love. Love
you all your real life. Topanga out memo dismissed.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
But to writer's point, sure, maybe right now you can persue.
You can say I'll end up with a hug at
the end of a long day, but two years in
you don't necessarily know that that's gonna be the case,
and then you're gonna be trapped, not trapped necessary.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
If you look, you'll be in jail. You'll be in jail,
right yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
But also but also I'm sorry, Like there's a big
difference between grad school and undergrad like eighteen eighteen versus
in your twenties, your different brain.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, at eighteen, you're not you're not an adult yet.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Like to me.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
I didn't, like, my brain didn't come online until I
was twenty five. I feel like twenty five twenty six
is when, like, oh, I was a grown up.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I thought I was a grown up, right, I'm stilling on,
still waiting it'll happen to me.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I'm waiting I'll get there.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yeah, but no, it's true.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I know.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Eighteen is I mean ridiculous?
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Eighteen It's such an arbitrary number to pick, like now
you're an adult, Like really, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
No, there's a big difference between grad school and just
graduating high school.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
I feel like in grad school I could make the
decision whether a relationship was worth sure investing or not.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
At eighteen, I could not. I had no idea.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Yeah, our last flip peers from Jordan. Let's listen to
Jordan here.
Speaker 18 (23:19):
Hi, my name is Jordan, and I feel like I
have a hot take on this. But I am very
much teamed to Panga not going to yell, And if
it were real life, I one hundred percent thinks she
should have gone to yell.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So please don't come for me.
Speaker 18 (23:30):
But when I was growing up, I watched Boywe's World
on repeat, and I came from a broken home and
Corey and to Panga were kind of like they made
me believe in love, and now as an adult, I
can see how their relationship wasn't always great and the
red flags. And I can see also where you guys
are coming from, saying making people believe that you should
stay with somebody just because you believe in fate can
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be harmful.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
But for me, like that wasn't the case.
Speaker 18 (23:55):
Like I've had relationships, I could still see red flags,
Like I wasn't idolizing Corey and Topanga and that and
being like, well, we're meant to be, so I need
to overlook this. It wasn't like that. I just there's
so much bad in the world. I just don't see
the harm and Coreyan Tapanga living happily ever after and
having a cute little end to that story. So that's
just me. Please don't be mad. I think the show
is great and I love the podcast.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Oh such a good point. It's sort of like.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Foeni is the ideal teacher, you know, like we can
accept that fantasy, right, we can accept the idea that
he is perfect as a teacher. He's infallible, and yet
we're criticizing the Cork Topanga relationship.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
But it's also the same level of idealism.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
It's a fantasy.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
The fantasy of Boy Meets World is that Corey and
to Panga are meant to be together, and that Phoenie's
a great teacher, Sean's a good friend. You know, like
there are these sort of fantasies that that are we
have to buy in, like we have.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
You have to remember that when you're twelve and you
read Romeo and Juliet, them dying together at the end
is the most wonderful thing in the world. When you're thirty,
you're like, really, you couldn't have waited ten more minutes
you would have been together, Like yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Know, but it's true.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
You get this idealized, fantasy version of a relationship and
written by adults.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
So yeah, I don't know. God, Season five is so
weird though.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
It is so weird, Like if I think about season
four with like Tapanga moving to Pittsburgh and coming back, like,
I don't it's just it feels like a different show.
Season is five breaks Boy Meets World. Can I just
say that, Like it splits the show into something completely
I don't know where we are, Like.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Well, it's also I mean, one of the problems with
the entire thing when you look at it, is something
just basic as logistics. They have they have her getting
into a school that's three and a half hours away.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Now, as we talked about, it should have been it
should have been yes, yes, yes, And so that changes
it where just as one of our callers said, when
you grow up in New England.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
You know, in California you drive for eight hours. You're
still in California. In New England you've been through forty
two states in eight hours. So it's like that. That's
what is maybe throwing me more than anything is logistics.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
It's like you can do both.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
You're three hours.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Away, right, So yeah, that was a big mistake, I think.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
But yeah, well, as always, we want to thank all
our listeners and those are participating with their voice memos.
The amount is we're inundated, I could even say, with
voice memos and we love it and we'll do it
again soon, but this time again great close, I'm telling
you maybe sixty forty it's pretty close.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Okay, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
As always, you guys are wonderful, you're thoughtful, you're paying attention,
you've got great thoughts, you're funny, you're great personalities.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
We really do have the best listeners ever.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, thank you all for joining us for this episode
of Pod Meets World. As always, you can follow us
on Instagram pod Meets World Show. You can send us
your emails pod Meets World Show at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
And we've got March.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
It's not like it was Harvard March.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
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Speaker 2 (26:54):
We love you all, pod dismissed.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
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Carp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo,
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at Podmets Worldshow at gmail dot com
I wanted to give you all an update because we've
seen your comments. We know that a lot of you
are actually watching the show along with us in real time,
not jumping ahead, and so a lot of you are
wondering when are we going to start our season six rewatch. First,
I would like to thank you for your patience with us. Honestly,
(00:38):
needing to take a break between seasons is something I
know for me, I need to do in order to
not burn out on the show. Basically, it's a nice
palette cleanser. It gives me a little bit of time
to digest what we've just watched. We can easily if
we just keep going right through it and barrel right
(00:59):
through it. We get burnt out hearing ourselves talk about it.
We also find that we need a little bit of
space between it so that we don't become hyper fixated
on maybe something that's negative. It helped, it truly helps
us to do these episodes.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
It's just a nice palate cleanser for us.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
It's a creamy sorbet. It's a creamy sorbet.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It's thank you, It's a creamy sorbet.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
Between creamy sorbet.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
It's a palate.
Speaker 1 (01:27):
You have the sorbets smelling coffee beans in between sense
it refreshes.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
You've never had them bring go to a restaurant where
like in between courses they'll bring you a little sorbet
that just cleanses the palate.
Speaker 6 (01:38):
And yeah, I thought ginger and sushi or like like
a just a plain cracker, right like when your wine
tasting sorbet.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
It's an amuse douche. No, it's a moose booth.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Oh did I get that wrong? Ah?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Anyway, thank you for your patience with us.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I think we just stop.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
You just know more I want to not do.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
People'll say, if we just just that's the end, We're
going to.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
Pretend season five ended because I actually think I'm gonna
feel that way.
Speaker 2 (02:16):
So we don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
We've heard.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
I've heard that season six is really bad, and I've
also heard that season six.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Is really really bad. So I don't know which one
it's going to be. We'll have to see.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
So I wanted to make the announcement that we are
going to start our season six rewatch on February twentieth.
That's going to be our date, February twentieth. It's my
mom's birthday. It doesn't mean anything to any of you, guys,
but it is true. And another announcement, our very first
guest of season six is going to be maitland Ward.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
So we look forward.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
To welcoming Rachel onto our podcast. Can't we to get
her perspective and her thoughts on her time on Boy
Meets World. And once again, thank you all for your patients.
Welcome to pod meets World.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
I'm Daniel Fishall, I'm right or Strong, and I'm Wilfordell.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Guys, this might have been the most heated voice memos
we've received yet. Oh really, asking our listeners should to
Panga have went to Yale?
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Hot button? Hot button issue.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Is truly a controversial move. We received hundreds of voice memos. Wow,
I would say two or three were yelling.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Oh really, do we have yellers?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
We had yellers?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Are they angry?
Speaker 5 (03:37):
I mean?
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Was that an overwhelming like point of view? Was there
one winner?
Speaker 7 (03:45):
Really?
Speaker 4 (03:46):
I mean I think if you had, if you really
had to vote, I think probably went to Yale would
have won, but not by much. Okay, I don't think
it could have beaten sixty five thirty five. I don't
you know, I don't think it could have been much
worse than that. So it was it was close. It
was close. Wow, did you expect that? Was that? Was
that what you thought would happen?
Speaker 5 (04:07):
I would have thought overwhelmingly they would have said, gone
to Yale. That would have been my personal opinion. Eighty
twenty at the most, or at the least, I would say, yeah,
But fans of.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Woman's World love ka like that's that's a big part
of the show. So I don't know, I was totally yeah,
I had no idea.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
I'm actually kind of surprised that it leaned at all
toward to Penga should have gone to Yale.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I think I would have thought real close to fifty
to fifty, if not sixty forty, she would have been
successful anywhere. Because I even go back and forth between
like we put a lot of importance on in the show.
We put a lot of importance on who you marry
and who you choose to stay with, but we also
tend to put a lot of importance on like where
you go to school. I'm like, knowledge to Penga was
(04:55):
going to be successful no matter where she went to school. Well,
so I actually thought more people would have said, why
you know, throw a wrench into your entire life.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Let me throw another wrench at you.
Speaker 5 (05:07):
Do you think the numbers would have changed had Girl
Meets World not existed where we got to see that
fact that Topanga was successful.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
That comes up a lot.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Okay, well, yeah, I mean I was taking Girl Meets
World out of it. I wasn't even thinking about the
fact that we see that she's a lawyer and all that.
I know that we do, but I do still just
generally think, like, you know, when you're the smartest person
in your school or in the top of your class,
and you're driven.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And you are you know, uh, you can kind of
do well anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
Like I think of Tapanga as being the type that
you could throw her into a situation where she might
not know anything, and very quickly she'll figure it out.
She'll figure out how to do what needs to be
done and how to be good at it and how
to succeed.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
And I think she could have done that anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So anyway, I'm actually I'm surprised it's not the other
way interesting.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
All right, do you guys want a yes Yale or
a no Yale?
Speaker 3 (06:00):
First surprise us?
Speaker 4 (06:03):
All right, let's go with Melissa. She's out of Connecticut.
You may have heard of the place I have.
Speaker 7 (06:10):
Hey, Podmeates World, my name is Melissa Client from Connecticut.
Love the show. I think that if we're asking the
question did Tapanga make the right decision, we're kind of
asking the wrong question. I honestly believe that where you
go to college at the end of the day doesn't
really matter. And I say that as someone who went
to what's been described as a third year university and
(06:33):
now I'm actually a faculty member at Yale, So like,
where I went to college did not matter. Now, if
we're asking would to Panga be better off now if
she had gone to Yale instead of proposing to Corey
and staying in Pennsylvania, I don't know. She's an attorney
in New York and it's seemingly making enough money that
she can live there while her husband is a middle
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school teacher. So like what I would advise an eighteen
year old Hell, oh that's crazy.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Oh yeah, that's all.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Right, good, good perspective. I love that.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
I love that we have a perspective from somebody who said,
I went to what's called a third tier university and
now I work at you, work at you.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Yeah, interesting. Good shout out to Connecticut too. Love the
good shout out to Connecticut.
Speaker 6 (07:18):
Yeah, you know, I do feel like the Girl meets
World kind of ruins this question.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That's what I mean, because the girl meets World and
everybody's happy.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yeah, it like if we we have to take that away,
we have to just say, like, let's take Boy.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Meets World on its own terms. Should she have gone
to Yale or not? Should?
Speaker 5 (07:36):
But that's like say, don't think of a white horse.
You know, it's the first thing you're gonna think of.
So yeah, that's it. Does it? Kind of they've shown
that she made the right decision already, so it kind
of makes the question negates the entire question, Frank, what's
the point?
Speaker 4 (07:49):
Yeah, and here's Elizabeth. She has a different take.
Speaker 8 (07:54):
Hello, guys, Elizabeth here from Washington, one thousand million percent.
She should have gone to yell Oh, no question, you
go to Yolle. They could have made it work because
essentially all of those the Northeast, as somebody who's from
New England, it's not far from me, so nothing is far,
so you can make it work. And if it didn't work,
it wasn't meant to be Anyways. I did vote on
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the website that they should go get married because I
was a child and did not understand the real world
as I do now as a thirty four year old woman. Now,
I don't think you should have proposed to him. You
should have gone through college and see what happens. Yeah,
go to Yale to Panga.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
You know, it is so true, the difference between like
the perspective you had as kids the perspective you have
now as adults, whether or not Girl meets world's playing
into it at all, whether.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
Or not you know.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, it's so many factors.
Speaker 9 (08:47):
Well it is.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
There's a great quote the other day about somebody rewatched
Dirty Dancing as an adult and they're like, are you
kidding me?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
He looks like he's forty, she's sixteen. Put baby in
a corner.
Speaker 4 (08:56):
Gets all the time out.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Oh yeah, it depends on when.
Speaker 9 (09:01):
You watch it.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Not everyone was as focused on the relationship. Hillary from
Canada makes a pretty good point about something we missed.
Speaker 10 (09:08):
High Pie meets World longtime listener, first time voice memoir.
I saw the questions you posted after the season five finale,
but my question is, really, how did we not acknowledge.
The music when Eric is repelling out of Feel's office
is a reprise to the theme of good Looking Guy.
(09:30):
I loved the throwback, so I just wanted to make
sure you guys were aware. Love the show and yeah,
that's all I got.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
That's so cool. Yeah, I don't think I picked up.
I don't think I picked up at all.
Speaker 4 (09:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
No, I don't think I noticed it in the moment either.
But then when we heard about it, I was like, wait,
I do kind of remember hearing that, but I think
maybe it was just like, oh, that's what that was.
So I think when I watched it, I was aware
that something sounded familiar, but didn't put it together with
one of us. It's so funny, that's great.
Speaker 4 (09:59):
This isn't who made a point that was unique, which
is hard to do when you get hundreds of emails you're like, oh, wow,
this is a completely different take on it.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Hi.
Speaker 11 (10:07):
I'm Nicole. I'm in Seattle, Washington, and I totally am
fully support to Panga for choosing Corey over Yale. I
think that we teach children that they should be prioritizing
education in their career over everything else, and then when
they become workaholics and not very good parents are very
good partners in their relationships. We wonder why this is
exactly why, because we're training them from the very beginning
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that they have to prioritize their career, and that's not true.
We know that the people around you are more important.
And to Paning It does a really good job of
showing us this. She does not give up on her
dreams to be with Corey. She still goes and gets
really good grades at a really good school. We know
that she becomes a successful lawyer. She shows us that
you can choose your relationship and your future and your
(10:49):
personal wants at the same time. It doesn't matter if
they stayed together forever or not. She has the right priorities,
and she's so different from other characters on TV. At
this time. I start a watching this on Disney Channel
and I just loved her so much, love the pod,
Thank you so much. I will defend this forever.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That's a good point. It's a totally good point.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
But here's my here's my problem. Does Corey ever make
a similar sacrifice?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Right?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Does Corey ever choose his relationship over his personal success
or his person No, like he's he chose a relationship
with Lauren. I just feel like, I just feel.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
Like Tapanga is asked as a character to make this
incredible sacrifice, and she does for the sake of, you know,
highlighting this powerful relationship. But Corey doesn't do the equivalent.
He never has to do the equivalent. He just has
to give up not sleeping with random girls throwing themselves
at him.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
They try, that's tough.
Speaker 5 (11:48):
Well, they tried to make him seem self self less
when he's like, no, she's you've got to go. He
made her say it once or twice, but he didn't
even believe that or really feel that. Yeah, it's very strange.
It's a selfish character with a selfless character.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
I mean, it's why you're talking about their relationship. I
want to play a call from Isaac, not so much
for his content or opinion, but for his mistake.
Speaker 12 (12:11):
Hey, guys, is I said a long time listener of
the podcast. I just wanted to say, I don't think
that she should have not gone to I think, yeah,
I think you should have gone to jail. I mean
not jail, but Yale, you.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Should go to jail.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
She should have gone to jail.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
It was a cool mistake. I don't know. All right,
here's here's Kelsey. She's got the other side for Yale.
Speaker 13 (12:56):
Hi, my name's Kelsey, and I'm dropping a pin in Woodland.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Hills, Califul.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 13 (13:00):
Now, at the time this episode originally aired, I absolutely wanted,
according to Panga, to get married. But I was ten
and my frontal lobe was basically mashed potatoes. Now, as
I'm the same age as what I assume the writers
of this episode were at the time they wrote it,
I can't fathom writing a story about an eighteen year
old girl proposing to the world's worst boyfriend and not
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having an end in tragedy. What should have happened is
Tapanga should have dumped him, graduation, gone to Yale, lost
her virginity to some dufus named Chad, and then my
very impressionable preteen mind could have seen a story about
how virginity is a social construct that means nothing and
to not make it such a source of fear and stress.
(13:43):
And this is coming from a real life virgin on
her wedding night.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
Love the pod.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Wow, geez, yes much start a podcast.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, God's.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Unpack.
Speaker 5 (14:01):
Ah.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
This is from Kelsey to Chelsea. I love this take.
It's something I've never thought of, but boy, I adore it.
Speaker 14 (14:10):
Hey, this is Chelsea. I'm a teacher from Texas, and
I think we're arguing about the wrong thing. To Pega
getting into Yale in the first.
Speaker 9 (14:16):
Place is ridiculous.
Speaker 14 (14:17):
Yes, it's established that she's smart and at the top
of her classes, but look at who else is in
those classes, Corey and Sean. That means she's at the
top and all regular on level courses, not honors or AP.
Good for her, but Yale would never I propose that
the other part of the school is the honors hall.
This explains why Corey and Seawan look over there with
such trepidation. Critical thinking happens over there, turners over there,
teaching courses like existentialist theory in twentieth century comic books.
(14:41):
And Stuart has spent four years over there making weighted a's,
non regular a's like Topanga. Stuart would have a higher GPA.
Speaker 4 (14:48):
Stuart would be valedictorian.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
Stuart should be.
Speaker 14 (14:50):
Going to Yale. Thank you for coming to my Stuart talk.
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yes, Wow, absolutely, she's in regular classes.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Think about that classes with Corey and Sean.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Yeah, not much of an accomplishment.
Speaker 6 (15:04):
Running in a.
Speaker 2 (15:06):
Next to Corey and Sean doesn't really seem that special.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
No, it doesn't. You would have gone to Yale, you
wouldn't have gotten in.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Come on, it's a good times to announce that Lean
Norris is coming back. Pretty excited about that is if
you watching an episode.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
With us, How I Care is a good time.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
All right, Here is Sarah. I this is one of
my favorite calls we've ever gotten.
Speaker 15 (15:25):
Hi, guys, this is Sarah from Dallas, Texas. I'm very
pro to being a going to Yale for very personal reasons.
I'm a person who moved away from my high school
sweetheart to go to college, and it cost our breakup,
and it was probably the best thing that ever happened
to us. I got to so my wild oats. I
got to make all the mistakes you're supposed to make
in college. I got to experience life. I got to
(15:47):
date other people and figure out what I actually want
from a relationship and not just stick with the one
thing I'd ever had in high school. And I got
to pursue my dreams. And I think it was the
best thing that ever happened to me. And years later,
I reconnected with my high school sweetheart, and we're currently
married now because we got to come back together as
fully formed human beings who actually know what we want.
(16:07):
And I think that if we hadn't been able to
do that, we would have eventually ended up presenting each
other for not following our dreams just for the sake
of the relationship. And I just wish that Tipega had
been able to experience that. So yeah, that's my take.
Speaker 6 (16:21):
Oh man, So that's yes, you get to have both.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
You can go in, you can go to Yale, you
can live, you could be a fully realized individual and
still maybe have the love of your life that you
met when you were a kid. Like that can still happen.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
I love that coming. We came together then as fully
formed human beings.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (16:45):
It's great. Hold on, Here comes is that Lauren's music?
Sorry to bring in a wrestling term. Here comes Lauren
down into the ring. Hi Podneeds World.
Speaker 16 (16:54):
I'm Lauren from Boynan Beach, Florida, and I've been a
fan since the original airings on cg IF. I wasn't
in high school yet when the season originally aired, but
looking back on it now, I realized that Tapanga situation
was a lot like what I went through when I
graduated high school. Tapango was young, only eighteen, so we
have to put ourselves back into the mindset of a
young and in love teenager. When I was a young
and in love teenager just graduating from high school, I
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had the option of going to Berkeley School of Music,
or I could have stayed home and gone to a
school in Florida to be with my then boyfriend at
the time. I chose to stay near home and go
to the University of Miami. My then boyfriend is now
my husband and we've been together over twenty years. Do
I wonder what my life would have been like had
I gone to Berkeley. Yes, but I had a really
good reason in my own head not to go. I'm
(17:36):
very happy with the way my life has turned out now,
so I don't fall to Panga for not going to
Yale and staying behind with Corey. We know that Tapanga
went on to become a lawyer and work for a
prestigious firm. Again, that parallels my own life, as I
also went on to become a lawyer. Okay, love you all,
here's to another thirty years.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
Wow geez, yeah wow, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
So you know, life's just going to work out the
way it's going to work out. Yeah, there's always the other.
There's always the other. You're always going to wonder what
if to a certain extent, if you're the type of
person who wants to spend time imagining what if I
had made different decisions, what would life have been like?
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Then there's always a path you don't take.
Speaker 6 (18:16):
Okay, okay, But statistically, how often does the person that
you fall in love with at the age of four
eight end up being the greatest person, like the coolest,
most interesting, best person for you?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Very rare?
Speaker 6 (18:30):
Like, statistically, we know that making the decision to be
with your childhood sweetheart is a risk. That is a
big risk, that is a bit and like, here's you know,
she just told a great story where it did work out,
Like she has.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
A happy life with somebody that she met in high school.
Speaker 6 (18:46):
But that's rare. Yeah, actually is very rare. And so
recognizing that in the context of I don't know.
Speaker 5 (18:55):
Like.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
It happens.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
I'm next to a kid who I think they started
dating when they were freshmen in high school and I
think are still together and have kids, So I mean,
it does happen. It does, but it's definitely more.
Speaker 3 (19:07):
Rare than not.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
And yeah, wow, all right, what's light in the maybe
with Gary?
Speaker 9 (19:14):
Hi? Gary Moore here Pudme's World on Tour Cosm Contest finalists.
That's justide the point. Should depend have gone to Yale? Listen? No,
because Sean could never get into Yale and then you'd
have a house divided and Corey would have to split
his feelings and we don't want that. We don't want
that any more than we already have that. So no,
(19:34):
because also that would destroy the storyline. Okay, should she
have proposed yes? Was there other ways around it? Of
course there were? Okay, they could have all just taken
a year off, a year abroad and went to Fiji
or Belgium or just had a back in time year.
That would have been fantastic. I don't know, I just
(19:57):
have I have a lot of feelings. Okay. Are we
rushing into this? Yeah? We are? Does it make sense
kind of to the show in retrospect?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
God?
Speaker 9 (20:07):
No, not at all. I love what you us are doing.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Keep doing it by anybody else, I'm sorry, but does
anybody else see Gary? You know, on a break at
work in the bathroom, whispering into his phone.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Picked because he needed like six more minutes to work
through all of his feelings.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
Did not help him.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
No, Gary was real stri He's like, but is it?
And does it?
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
But what about.
Speaker 5 (20:36):
I just see his feet on the toilet, like you say,
the people who know he's there, Gary, are.
Speaker 17 (20:41):
You in here?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I'm talking about me world meats world.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
And now listening to Leha, she says she supports Tapanga
and let's hear about her current predicament.
Speaker 17 (21:06):
Hi, Pod, I'm in a bit of a Tapanga moment
myself as I apply to grad school while coordinating with
my boyfriend's job applications, and I keep hearing Phoene's voice
in my head saying, unless you have a very good
reason not to. As an affirmation as to why I'm
applying to these schools and maybe not some others. I
know I'm making the right decision because it means I'll
have a support system nearby and a hug at the
end of a long, hard day. Maybe Tapanga wanted that too.
(21:29):
I'm a similar student to Tapanga, so I feel comfortable
prioritizing all the important things in my life, including our
relationship and future, not just a potential job. As for Corey,
I know if my boyfriend or I applied somewhere random
without talking to each other, we would feel blindsided because
we have this shared plan. And the rewatch showed that
Corey encouraged her to go. She's the one who wanted
to stay close. Granted, I am older and not dealing
(21:49):
with a cheaterh like Corey, but there are definitely reasons
to stay close to the ones that you love. Love
you all your real life. Topanga out memo dismissed.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
But to writer's point, sure, maybe right now you can persue.
You can say I'll end up with a hug at
the end of a long day, but two years in
you don't necessarily know that that's gonna be the case,
and then you're gonna be trapped, not trapped necessary.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
If you look, you'll be in jail. You'll be in jail,
right yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
But also but also I'm sorry, Like there's a big
difference between grad school and undergrad like eighteen eighteen versus
in your twenties, your different brain.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Yeah, at eighteen, you're not you're not an adult yet.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Like to me.
Speaker 6 (22:33):
I didn't, like, my brain didn't come online until I
was twenty five. I feel like twenty five twenty six
is when, like, oh, I was a grown up.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I thought I was a grown up, right, I'm stilling on,
still waiting it'll happen to me.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
I'm waiting I'll get there.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
Yeah, but no, it's true.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
Yeah, it's true.
Speaker 4 (22:50):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
I know.
Speaker 2 (22:51):
Eighteen is I mean ridiculous?
Speaker 5 (22:54):
Eighteen It's such an arbitrary number to pick, like now
you're an adult, Like really, yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
No, there's a big difference between grad school and just
graduating high school.
Speaker 3 (23:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (23:04):
I feel like in grad school I could make the
decision whether a relationship was worth sure investing or not.
Speaker 3 (23:09):
At eighteen, I could not. I had no idea.
Speaker 5 (23:13):
No.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Yeah, our last flip peers from Jordan. Let's listen to
Jordan here.
Speaker 18 (23:19):
Hi, my name is Jordan, and I feel like I
have a hot take on this. But I am very
much teamed to Panga not going to yell, And if
it were real life, I one hundred percent thinks she
should have gone to yell.
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So please don't come for me.
Speaker 18 (23:30):
But when I was growing up, I watched Boywe's World
on repeat, and I came from a broken home and
Corey and to Panga were kind of like they made
me believe in love, and now as an adult, I
can see how their relationship wasn't always great and the
red flags. And I can see also where you guys
are coming from, saying making people believe that you should
stay with somebody just because you believe in fate can
(23:52):
be harmful.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
But for me, like that wasn't the case.
Speaker 18 (23:55):
Like I've had relationships, I could still see red flags,
Like I wasn't idolizing Corey and Topanga and that and
being like, well, we're meant to be, so I need
to overlook this. It wasn't like that. I just there's
so much bad in the world. I just don't see
the harm and Coreyan Tapanga living happily ever after and
having a cute little end to that story. So that's
just me. Please don't be mad. I think the show
is great and I love the podcast.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
Oh such a good point. It's sort of like.
Speaker 6 (24:21):
Foeni is the ideal teacher, you know, like we can
accept that fantasy, right, we can accept the idea that
he is perfect as a teacher. He's infallible, and yet
we're criticizing the Cork Topanga relationship.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
But it's also the same level of idealism.
Speaker 7 (24:35):
It's a fantasy.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Sure.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
The fantasy of Boy Meets World is that Corey and
to Panga are meant to be together, and that Phoenie's
a great teacher, Sean's a good friend. You know, like
there are these sort of fantasies that that are we
have to buy in, like we have.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
That's true.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
You have to remember that when you're twelve and you
read Romeo and Juliet, them dying together at the end
is the most wonderful thing in the world. When you're thirty,
you're like, really, you couldn't have waited ten more minutes
you would have been together, Like yeah, you.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Know, but it's true.
Speaker 5 (25:00):
You get this idealized, fantasy version of a relationship and
written by adults.
Speaker 3 (25:06):
So yeah, I don't know. God, Season five is so
weird though.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
It is so weird, Like if I think about season
four with like Tapanga moving to Pittsburgh and coming back, like,
I don't it's just it feels like a different show.
Season is five breaks Boy Meets World. Can I just
say that, Like it splits the show into something completely
I don't know where we are, Like.
Speaker 5 (25:29):
Well, it's also I mean, one of the problems with
the entire thing when you look at it, is something
just basic as logistics. They have they have her getting
into a school that's three and a half hours away.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
Now, as we talked about, it should have been it
should have been yes, yes, yes, And so that changes
it where just as one of our callers said, when
you grow up in New England.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
You know, in California you drive for eight hours. You're
still in California. In New England you've been through forty
two states in eight hours. So it's like that. That's
what is maybe throwing me more than anything is logistics.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
It's like you can do both.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
You're three hours.
Speaker 2 (26:02):
Away, right, So yeah, that was a big mistake, I think.
Speaker 4 (26:05):
But yeah, well, as always, we want to thank all
our listeners and those are participating with their voice memos.
The amount is we're inundated, I could even say, with
voice memos and we love it and we'll do it
again soon, but this time again great close, I'm telling
you maybe sixty forty it's pretty close.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Okay, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
As always, you guys are wonderful, you're thoughtful, you're paying attention,
you've got great thoughts, you're funny, you're great personalities.
Speaker 2 (26:32):
We really do have the best listeners ever.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
Yeah, thank you all for joining us for this episode
of Pod Meets World. As always, you can follow us
on Instagram pod Meets World Show. You can send us
your emails pod Meets World Show at gmail dot com.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
And we've got March.
Speaker 3 (26:46):
It's not like it was Harvard March.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
Podmeets Worldshow dot com will send us out.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
We love you all, pod dismissed.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
Pod Meets World is not iHeart podcast produce and hosted
by Daniel Official, Wilfredell and Ryder Strong executive producers, Jensen
Carp and Amy Sugarman, Executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo,
producer and editor, Tara sudbachsch producer, Maddie Moore, engineer and
Boy Meets World super fan Easton Allen. Our theme song
is by Kyle Morton of Typhoon and you can follow
us on Instagram at Podmeats World Show or email us
(27:19):
at Podmets Worldshow at gmail dot com
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