Girl Meets - Episode 101

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In this episode of Pod Meets World, hosts Danielle Fishel, Ryder Strong, and Will Friedle reflect on memorable personal anecdotes from their lives, including a hilariously

Key takeaways

• Everyday moments—like a drunk waiter or an overbearing stranger—can become lasting family inside jokes.

Main topics

• Personal anecdotes and memorable life moments

Notable quotes

"I did not know." – A family catchphrase born from a missed bread pudding order.

Conclusion

Through shared stories of humor, memory, and nostalgia, Pod Meets World highlights how

Transcript preview

Speaker 5 (0:00) This is an iHeart Podcast. Guaranteed human. I survived nine months in captivity, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are The Survivor Files. Every week, I'm with survivors who lived through the unthinkable, abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. These are stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If Speaker 7 (0:36) your bookshelf and your For You page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. Pro Society is a weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse. Each week, we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and pop culture with your favorite writers, book talk creators, and plenty of overthought opinions. Yeah, I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. Listen to Pro Society on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 1 (1:09) Hey, this is Hayes Davenport and Sean Clements. We host the podcast Hollywood Handbook. Each week we talk to someone in show business and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. Everyone has a good time and no one gets mad at their publicist for letting them do our show. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman, Adam Scott, Danny McBride, Ben Stiller, and a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 8 (1:36) On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B. I'm Julie Pinheiro and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita, trading the pity for possibility. Listen to Solita on the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Speaker 3 (2:33) assuming everybody does this. Like, within your family or within your relationship, you have, like, certain people that you've encountered or, like, strangers and moments that kind of live with you forever that you become, like, an in-joke or, like, a catchphrase or, like, a certain way of saying something. Of course. So, like, our family, like, one of our favorites was Miguel, the waiter in Alaska, who... got so drunk. We saw him doing shots with other tables. It was an amazing meal. We were having this... Our friends brought us to... Our friends that live in Alaska, he's a pilot and flew us around on his small little plane, his seaplane, and took us to a place that you could only get to via boat or seaplane. Had this amazing restaurant food experience. But the waiter was so drunk. And he was very nice, but just... Indy was like seven. This is one of his first encounters with like, what a drunk person, how, what a drunk person could be like, but they just like forget something. So the guy, he like, he like, like kept selling us on the bread pudding. Like you got to order the bread pudding. And we were like, oh, okay. You know? So then we ordered the bread pudding and then 45 minutes go by with no bread pudding. And then we finally are like, where's we ordered a bread pudding. Oh, I did not know. So to this day, my family will just be like, I did not know. So two days ago, we were riding bikes and Indy fell and like kind of broke the pedal on his bike. Like he fell and was like, oh, and we're like, oh my God. So we stop our bikes and we're in this bike path and we stop, Alex and I stop our bikes and like park, you know, put the kickstands down and run back. And he's not crying. He's actually okay. But then we're like getting his bike back up. We noticed the pedal because the pedal has this like foldable pedal. It's broken. So I'm sitting there and I'm trying to like. wedge it back down. I'm like, oh God, do I need a tool? Am I going to be able to do this by hand? And another family goes by like these kids on bikes. And then this woman is coming by and she's like, really bad place to park your bike. You can't park there. And Alex is like, yeah, I know he fell. We're just helping him out. And she just shakes her head and repeats. Yeah, really bad place to park your bike. So we're like, oh, my God. Like, we just told you our son fell and we're like helping him get back up. Really bad place to park here. So now it's our favorite thing to say. Anytime we're just really bad place to put that cup. Are you familiar? Speaker 4 (4:58) Are you familiar with the meme Speaker 2 (5:00) of you can't park there? No. Even I know this one. Yes. So it's when people get in car accidents and their car isn't clearly in an accident. You just drive by and go, you can't park there. Speaker 2 (5:12) That's Speaker 6 (5:12) literally Speaker 2 (5:13) what Speaker 3 (5:13) happened then. Speaker 6 (5:13) They've hit a mall and the car's all the way up against the side of the wall like this. You can't park there. You're Speaker 3 (5:19) not allowed to park Speaker 6 (5:19) there. Sorry. Oh, I Speaker 3 (5:21) didn't know that. That's so funny. No, that's exactly what it was. Really bad place to leave a bike. Yeah, we know. We don't want to Speaker 6 (5:28) be here. It's like we're Speaker 3 (5:28) dealing with a situation here. And even after we said it, she repeated it again. We're like, how could you be? Oh, my God. Oh, Speaker 6 (5:35) my God. Yes. Oh, bike and Karen. Love it. Exactly. Speaker 3 (5:39) I mean, I don't want to like the Karen. moment I feel like has passed. I don't want to keep it. So I'm tired of it. But that was a very big Karen moment. I mean, it was precisely the most Karen of all Karens. And then like we kept thinking we'd run into her later on the bike path. And so Indy was like, which one? Because I didn't get a really good look at her. I was like dealing with a thing. And I was like, do you think we're going to recognize her? And Speaker 1 (5:58) we Speaker 3 (5:59) hear their voice piercing. Come on, kids. Stay in line. She's Speaker 6 (6:04) just Speaker 3 (6:04) already she's yelling at her kids. I'm like, well, there she is. There she is. We found her. There Speaker 4 (6:08) she Speaker 3 (6:08) is. Speaker 4 (6:09) Oh, Speaker 6 (6:10) my gosh. Good times on the bike path. We do one, that same kind of thing, where my high school camping, like it was an English teacher, but then we had like a camping hiking group that we would go with. And we were hiking Mount Washington one time. And as we're hiking up, this group of young kids like kind of runs by quickly and splashes through a puddle and keeps going. And he just goes, wow, guys, you're really infringing on my right to enjoy the mountain. Speaker 6 (6:38) And so we still do stuff like, wow, you're really infringing on my right to enjoy the song. And it's just the way he did it. Infringing on my right? Infringing on my right to enjoy the mountain. So it is. You hear some of these great phrases that stick with you forever. I've been saying that since I was 15. That's amazing. Speaker 3 (6:56) Indy was like gleefully, he asked, he's like, oh, she's going to be added to our list Speaker 4 (6:59) of characters. Speaker 3 (7:01) Yes, she is. She will live with Speaker 4 (7:04) us Speaker 3 (7:04) forever. Speaker 4 (7:04) I had a landlord that was a lawyer, but was also a massive stoner. And the garbage disposal stopped working once and I called him and he came down and he goes, yeah, well, you know what I say about garbage disposals? I said, no, I don't know. And he goes. They only work if you don't use them. Speaker 1 (7:33) OK. I Speaker 4 (7:34) was like, OK. But I have said that about anything that breaks, you know, they only work. He's Speaker 6 (7:41) from the law firm of Rip and Pull. Bong and Smoke. Yeah, exactly. Speaker 4 (7:49) Oh, well, welcome to Pod Meets World. I'm Danielle Fishel. I'm Speaker 3 (7:53) Ryder Strong. And Speaker 6 (7:54) you're really infringing on my right to enjoy this podcast. I'm Will Friedle. This segment is brought to you by Ally Bank. who is always there for you for all of life's moments. Speaker 2 (8:04) What do you guys think, Corey, in Topanga's first apartment that we saw on Boy Meets World? What do you think they actually paid for that per month? I mean, they didn't work. Speaker 3 (8:12) Yeah, what was the, there was a number given for the house that they looked at. It was like $80,000. Yes, $80,000 to buy the house. Did we, we did research and that was realistic for the time. Yes. Right? That was actually what a Philly, okay. I'm going to say Speaker 6 (8:26) that apartment, with the condition they got it in, probably wasn't more than, say, $450 a month. Speaker 3 (8:31) That's Speaker 6 (8:31) what I was going Speaker 3 (8:32) to say. $350, $400. Okay, Speaker 2 (8:34) $350. Oh, my gosh. That would be Speaker 6 (8:36) my guess. Well, because it wasn't a great apartment when they first got it. And Speaker 2 (8:39) wasn't it part of the college? It was like in the student housing? Speaker 3 (8:43) Oh, yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah, so it would have been subsidized. Maybe even less. Maybe even less. Like $250. Oh, Speaker 2 (8:50) my gosh. But then how did... How did they afford a tropical honeymoon? I Speaker 6 (8:55) don't Speaker 2 (8:56) understand some of these things. Speaker 6 (8:57) Coconut sales. I guess also gifts Speaker 2 (8:59) from the wedding. Just people were really generous at the wedding, I guess. I don't know. If they were just starting out today, what do you think they would prioritize financially? What would they be saving for? Kids? Finishing college? Yeah, college probably first. Speaker 3 (9:18) And then obviously Topanga is going to go to law school, grad school, you know, law school. But yeah, so saving for that. Speaker 2 (9:25) Saving for school, eventual children. Yeah. Well, I hope that they would have Ally Bank with their assistance. You can spend and save. You can budget for that concert you've been eyeing or you can indulge in that romantic getaway, but still have those emergency funds ready or the savings you've compiled for that first home. Speaker 6 (9:43) Ally Bank shows up when real life and money collide with solutions to help you meet your financial goals. No tricks, no hidden fees. Speaker 3 (9:50) Banking built for life today. Speaker 2 (9:52) Ally Bank, member FDIC. Speaker 5 (10:00) When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and held captive for nine months. I survived, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are The Survivor Files. I just remember this low, taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up, don't say anything. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up, without a doubt, he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed, and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them. They're stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 4 (11:06) Okay, before we jump into the recap, I do really quickly want to rattle off outside of returning writers, of which there were many, Mark Blutman, Jeff Manel, Matthew Nelson. There was a lot of crew that came back that very first year. Didi DiStefano came back. At this time, she was going to be a stand-in. Oh, really? Really? At first, she was a stand-in? She was a stand-in. I Speaker 3 (11:28) didn't know that. I wonder if she was going to bring the lobster. Speaker 4 (11:32) William Rusty Russ was the... dialogue coach. Yeah. So he had taken over the Chris Kier position. He was going to be working with the actors and with the kids specifically memorizing lines. There were some cameramen that had worked on Boy Meets World. There were a lot of returning through. Kathy, Kathy G. Kathy G. Oh yeah, our script supervisor. Our script supervisor was back. So that was really fun. Obviously, Laurie Heaps was the key hairdresser on the show and she had been our hairdresser on Boy Meets World. So a lot of people came back and it was it did have that feeling of like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe here we are, you know, 20 years after the start of the show or, you know, that that all these same people are still back. So we are here to recap season one, episode one, Girl Meets World. It originally aired June 27th. 2014. The synopsis, when Maya leads a rebellion in class, Riley joins in to try to be like her, much to her father, Corey's dismay. It was directed by John Whitesell. It's a new name to the Boy Meets World universe, but he has been in the sitcom world since the 80s, directing shows like Coach, 23 episodes of Roseanne, Blossom, and almost all of the John Larroquette show, which got him an Emmy nomination. He has since directed Big Mama's House 2, Big Mama's Like Father Like Son, and the 2020 movie Holiday, starring Emma Roberts. And this is his first of six Girl Meets World episodes. He Speaker 3 (13:06) was a good guy. I got to shadow him on Girl Meets World because that was like, you know, part of the arrangement with me getting to direct was that I would follow, you know, a director. And so I followed him probably. One of his last episodes, if he only did six of Girl Meets World. Yeah, no, I never watched it. I shadowed Speaker 6 (13:22) like Speaker 3 (13:22) three different directors before I came and did my first episode at the end, near the end of this first season. Okay. But he was a really good guy and had, you know, obviously tons of experience. Tons of experience, yeah. It Speaker 4 (13:34) was written by Michael Jacobs, the co-creator of both Boy Meets World and Girl Meets World. This is one of the few times he took complete credit for the script. Is it Speaker 6 (13:43) the only time? Did he do it for the pilot of Boy? I don't think he did for the pilot of Boy. I think this is the only time. Was it him and Speaker 3 (13:49) April with the pilot together? I think he and April got the pilot. Okay. Maybe. And Speaker 6 (13:54) it still says co-created by Michael and April. I mean, obviously. Which is super Speaker 3 (13:57) interesting. I know. You can't Speaker 6 (13:58) legally drop it once you've created the characters. That's it. Speaker 3 (14:01) Right. Speaker 6 (14:01) Yeah. Speaker 5 (14:08) When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and held captive for nine months. I survived, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are The Survivor Files. I just remember this low, taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up, don't say anything. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up, without a doubt, he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed, and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them. They're stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 7 (15:07) If your bookshelf and your For You page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. This is Prose Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsessives, and anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse. I'm Eli Rallo, and every week we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and the conversations everyone can't stop having. I'm going to have to look up this story. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. From bestselling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments, nothing is off the table. It's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters, then that is a Trojan horse. Whether you're looking for literary deep dives, smart pop culture conversations, or a community of readers who love to think a little too much, you're in the right place. Listen to Pro Society on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See you between the pages. Speaker 8 (16:08) On the new podcast, Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B. I'm Julie Pinheiro and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word solita, trading the pity for possibility. Every time I tried to be alone, I kept meeting people and they were like, you smiled at us. Not a lot of people smile around here. It's when you're alone that you're most receptive to the world as it is and not the lies you're sold about it. It can be a time where you push your limits, change your mind, or wake up to a new version of yourself. So whether you're a solo travel veteran or you're too nervous to book your first trip, I hope you listen to Solita on the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 1 (17:08) Hey, this is Hayes Davenport and Sean Clements. We host the podcast Hollywood Handbook on the Big Money Players Network. Our show is extremely accessible to first-time listeners. Each week, we talk to someone in show business, aka The Biz, and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. Everyone has a good time and no one gets mad at their publicist for letting them do our show. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman, not that great. Speaker 8 (17:32) Actually, can you help me shape this? How about we flip it on its head? How about we flip the script? What if the surprise woman, who actually you think is the straight man, is actually the one who's acting weird? Speaker 1 (17:46) Adam Scott. This entire time, you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show. I would never expect. I would never set. expectations for something like that to happen. If the universe allows for something like that to happen, I'm open to it. I'm always going to accept. Danny McBride, fine. Yeah, it's all this fragile masculinity exuding. I could smell it walking down the hallway, to be honest with you. I was like, is that weed? Nope. It's fragile masculinity. Ben Stiller, no. Because a lot of times, out of context, people don't get it or even know what a circle is. You know what I mean? Like, they're like, oh, what's Speaker 6 (18:30) the Speaker 1 (18:30) state? Speaker 6 (18:31) Everyone's so dumb except for you. And Speaker 1 (18:33) fake. Right, fake and also not interested or just like, oh, I've got my life. I don't care about your life. And a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. Oh, and by the way, Will Ferrell told us personally he loves the show and he wants to be a guest on every episode, but he's just so busy. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 4 (19:02) Starring 12-year-old Rowan Blanchard as Riley Matthews. She was cast to lead the show. She was Ben for A New Generation. She had starred in Spy Kids 4 all the time in the world before this show and has since appeared on the Goldberg's poker face Snowpiercer and she is now in the Handmaid's Tale spinoff, The Testaments. Funny Speaker 6 (19:23) show. Speaker 4 (19:23) Funny Speaker 6 (19:24) show. The whole Handmaid's Tale world. The Handmaid's Universe. The Handmaid's Universe funny show. Speaker 4 (19:31) Oh my Speaker 6 (19:31) God. Speaker 4 (19:33) So the only experience Rowan had had before doing this was single camera work, which is a totally different world to a multicam. And I say that only because it was so instrumental in me realizing why I wanted to direct is that not every director who, especially directors that have a ton of experience. come into a show with very green cast and want or. even have the bandwidth to spend the time starting from scratch explaining this new world and explaining where the cameras are and what it means to be opened up and what it means to be 50 50 with someone and which is what Speaker 3 (20:14) david trainer did so well yeah that first season of boy meets world yeah we all felt comfortable within minutes of like what we needed to do and we all learned like holding for laughs and all that stuff it's incredible how much we absorbed that first year without even knowing we were absorbing it yeah Speaker 4 (20:29) it was like a it was like being in a class right uh you know and yeah and i did not necessarily see that happening on girl meets world and i would regularly catch the kids with confused looks on their faces after someone would just walk onto the set and slightly adjust them and they'd look around like what Speaker 2 (20:47) the hell was Speaker 4 (20:48) that Speaker 2 (20:48) why did that happen yeah like why why would you move well but it's also Speaker 3 (20:51) tricky because i will say the way that this is shot I was looking, you know, coming from Boy Meets World into Girl Meets World was jarring for a lot of reasons. But visually, it was it feels a little hybrid. It has a lot of single camera. You're right. Feel and looks and setups to it. It does not. It's like a weird hype. And I remember that from when I directed, like having to do more than we would have done on an older show like Boy Meets World. Like Boy Meets World was the old school sitcom style, which is, you know. radio with postcards is what I've heard it called. And it's like, you just wide shots. And, but the modern is now like the modern idea now is to have basically a hybrid of single camera and multi-camera. So you get a lot prettier shots. Your camera's like getting closeups basically of people. So in a weird way, it's like more tech technical and more, it's a little slower to shoot. And, um, but you also realize how different. Speaker 6 (21:49) People look at child actors as opposed to adult actors. Can you imagine a director walking up to an adult actor and just physically putting them in place? It would never happen. Like walking up and just opening their shoulder. You just wouldn't do that. You'd be like, hey, why don't you open up or do it? Whereas it was no problem to just, you know, some strange guy would walk up and grab you by the shoulders and twist you the way they wanted. It's like, there you go. You're 12. Now just do what I say. And so, yeah, it's just such a different world when you look back at it. It's crazy. That's interesting, yeah. Speaker 4 (22:19) Ben Savage returns as Corey Matthews. 15-year-old Sabrina. Was she 15 or was she 14? No, Speaker 6 (22:26) she Speaker 4 (22:26) was 14 at the time, wasn't she? 13 Speaker 6 (22:28) or 14. Speaker 4 (22:28) Let's see. I have to look that up because she was born in 99, so. Speaker 4 (22:34) She may have been. Yeah, she was 15. Just turned 15 in May. Yeah, that would make sense. So she was born in 99. And Speaker 3 (22:42) Rowan was 12? Yeah. That's a huge difference. I don't think I realized that. I think I assumed because, you know, Sabrina is smaller. She's shorter. And I think I assumed that they were closer in age than that. No, 12 and 15. Yeah. that's a big difference yeah it is 12 and 15. Speaker 4 (23:00) that's basically what will and i were almost well i was 12 and will was 16 or 15. yeah Speaker 6 (23:04) totally different never hang out at that age 12 and 15. so Speaker 4 (23:07) 15 year old sabrina carpenter was maya hart sabrina started her career posting cover songs on youtube she was hoping to be a singer or actress or a singer-actress hybrid even at that very young age she'll Speaker 6 (23:19) make it someday she'll make it hopefully Speaker 4 (23:22) She had appeared on an episode of Law & Order SVU and a show called The Goodwin Games, but this threw her right into the Disney system and the spotlight. She was also signed to Disney's Hollywood Records, and she would appear in another reboot, The DCOM Adventures in Babysitting. After Girl Meets World, she would continue making music and appearing in movies like The Hate U Give, Tall Girl 1 & 2, Work It, and Emergency, but has since become one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She is a multi-time Grammy winner. selling millions of records with sold out arena tours with multiple songs streamed over a billion times each. And she is one of the few musicians in 2026 shifting pop culture with every move she makes. So I. She Speaker 6 (24:08) did okay. Speaker 4 (24:09) She's done all right for a while. Yeah, Speaker 6 (24:11) she Speaker 4 (24:11) did okay. Speaker 6 (24:11) You Speaker 4 (24:11) know? Speaker 6 (24:11) She also, I mean, the cast is phenomenal. I Speaker 4 (24:15) know. Speaker 6 (24:15) But Speaker 4 (24:15) she Speaker 6 (24:15) walks on screen. I mean, she just, she's a star. Yeah. Speaker 4 (24:18) She's a star. She grabs, Speaker 6 (24:20) she steals every scene she's in. She steals the episode. She does. She's so comfortable on screen. I mean, she's just, this is what she was born to do. She's born to entertain. But unfortunately, Speaker 3 (24:31) I think it's a little bit of an unbalancing. It's. The show. You know what I mean? Because, and it's, you know, it's not Rowan's fault. No. They're not giving Rowan much help here. No. In terms of character and it's Speaker 4 (24:44) - Speaker 3 (24:44) Also just being overshadowed Speaker 6 (24:45) by somebody who's, it also shows just in the entertainment world, three years makes a big difference. Yeah. And an entertainer at 15 is a hell of a lot different than an entertainer at 12. Yep. So it's, yeah, it's, you're right. And Rowan is adorable and she- is great but yeah i mean no they didn't get on screen and you're just like that's the star i mean Speaker 3 (25:06) but they also just gave her like an actual character yeah more stuff to do and better things to do clearer who she is and you're clear how you know how it changes and in that scene with her and ben near the end of the episode is phenomenal you know because it feels like this earnest moment and a revelation of character yeah it's just so great whereas like rowan you know the way they wrote Her character is just, it's mushy. I'm just, I'm not clear. It's all kind of mushy. Speaker 6 (25:30) Couldn't you argue that's exactly the same thing that happened with you and Ben on Boy? Speaker 3 (25:35) But it took two seasons. I don't know if that, yeah, I mean, again, once they realized what they had, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's true. Speaker 6 (25:40) You don't see Speaker 3 (25:40) in the pilot. In this, I was like, wow, we just compressed. like an entire first two seasons of Blame It's World into one, which is part of the problem with this episode. It's like so much is happening. I'm just like, whoa, let's pick a lane, guys. I know, but you also think Speaker 6 (25:53) it's looks because why? I mean, somewhere, somehow there had to have been the conversation of why isn't she the girl in Girl Meets World? Speaker 2 (26:02) It had to be. She was originally up for the girl. Yeah, they both read for each other. That's Speaker 6 (26:06) what is amazing to me, though, is that they're like, I mean, I get why they did it because she's got more edge. Totally understand that. But, you know, then the shifting of the writing and I don't know where the show goes, because, again, this was the second episode I've ever seen. Does it become like a Sean thing where she's got a season where it's just she's the star? Essentially, she's girl. Speaker 3 (26:23) They share a lot of the spotlight. Yeah, Speaker 4 (26:25) it's the two of them. Speaker 3 (26:26) Yeah. Speaker 6 (26:27) It is Speaker 4 (26:27) not. It is not. How do you not Speaker 6 (26:29) when you've got her there? I mean, she's great. Speaker 4 (26:31) Well, and so much of the show was really focused on their friendship. Right. And and, you know. So yeah, it's about the two of them. We have Peyton Meyer as Lucas Fryer. Peyton had already been on Disney's Dog with a Blog and would go on to appear on American Housewife and the movie He's All That. And from 2024 to 2025, he was on over 40 episodes of Days of Our Lives. Speaker 3 (26:56) Ugly kid. I didn't know he was doing that. Ugly kid. That's the thing that sticks out to me the most. You get hit with the ugly stick. That's an ugly Speaker 6 (27:02) child. Every branch on the way Speaker 3 (27:04) down. Uggo. Yeah. Couldn't be a nicer guy, by the Speaker 6 (27:07) way. Speaker 3 (27:08) From the moment I met him, just the sweetest we are. And so game to try everything. I loved working with him. Yeah, great guy. Speaker 4 (27:17) We have seven-year-old August Maturo as Augie Matthews. Oh, Speaker 2 (27:21) my Speaker 4 (27:21) God, Speaker 2 (27:21) this kid. Speaker 4 (27:21) This was his first job in Hollywood, and he would later appear in the movie The Nun and the TV show The Conners. He has since graduated UCLA at the young age of 18 with a Bachelor of Arts in English with college, departmental, and Latin honors, alongside a minor in film, television, and digital media. God. Yes. He is a kid genius. He was. He Speaker 3 (27:44) was back then. I remember walking into the classroom and talking with Wesley about Augie and what he could do and how he could think. Already at seven, it was like, oh, these kids. Speaker 6 (27:53) Yeah. So 18, he's already a UCLA graduate. Well, most kids are going, I don't know what I'm going to do with college or if I'm even going to go. And he's already done. Speaker 4 (28:00) During one of our earliest meetings after everybody had been cast and we all, you know, Michael called everybody to the office and we all sat around and we were just talking and, you know, getting to know each other and whatever. And Augie climbed up on the table and sang a full song for all of us. And we were just like, oh, OK. It was always been adorable. Someone named Danielle Fishel. Returns as Topanga Lawrence. Speaker 6 (28:30) Completely forgettable. No idea. Completely forgettable. She is. Speaker 4 (28:32) And a version of William Daniels cameos as George Feeney. More on that later. Why? So weird. I don't, it's so, it's just. So weird. And finally, a 15 year old Corey Fogelmanis is Farkle Minkus. So he was 15 too? Yeah. And Peyton, I think was Speaker 6 (28:55) 16. Peyton, I can see Peyton looking like he's 16, though. Speaker 4 (28:59) Peyton may have been a year older. So Rowan was, she had a little bit of that kind of in-between feeling where the rest of the kids were significantly older than her. And then Augie was so much younger than her. So, you know. Speaker 6 (29:11) Corey Pogomanis does not look 15, though. No. He looks 12 all day long. Speaker 3 (29:15) So young. Yeah. He had Speaker 4 (29:16) appeared on the show House of Lies and has since appeared in movies like Ma and Tommy Dauphin's directorial debut, I Wish You All the Best with Lena Dunham. And he is about ready to star in The Adventures of Cliff Booth with Brad Pitt, a 2026 film directed by David Fincher and written by Quentin Tarantino. Speaker 6 (29:37) I've never heard of any of those people. Speaker 4 (29:38) So, I mean, quite a quite a career, quite a talent. And then guest starring Jack A. Harry as Evelyn Rand. Jacquet is a TV legend best known as Sandra Clark on 227, a role that made her the first black woman to win the Best Supporting Actress Emmy. Speaker 2 (29:58) Really? Speaker 6 (29:59) I didn't know that. OK. She Speaker 4 (30:01) also co-starred with Rodney Dangerfield in the movie Ladybugs and with Oprah in the critically acclaimed TV limited series The Women of Brewster Place. But don't forget Sister, Sister, Another World, Days of Our Lives and Glee where she plays herself. And this is the first of three Girl Meets World episodes for her. Speaker 5 (30:27) When I was 14 years old, I was kidnapped and held captive for nine months. I survived, and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive what should have destroyed them. I'm Elizabeth Smart, and these are The Survivor Files. I just remember this low, taunting voice next to my ear saying, shut up, don't say anything. Every week, I'm with survivors who live through the unthinkable. I knew if he woke up, without a doubt, he was going to hurt me. I started feeling that there was someone at the end of my bed, and I just started screaming. They are abducted, stalked, controlled, and nearly silenced. But these aren't stories about what's taken from them. They're stories about what it takes to make it out alive. Listen to The Survivor Files with Elizabeth Smart on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Speaker 7 (31:26) If your bookshelf and your For You page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. This is Prose Society, the weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for thought daughters, pop culture obsessives, and anyone who thinks Pride and Prejudice and Love Island deserve the same level of discourse. I'm Eli Rallo, and every week we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and the conversations everyone can't stop having. I'm going to have to look up this story. I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. From bestselling authors and your favorite book talk creators to the latest pop culture moments, nothing is off the table. It's like if you can hide some real messages inside compelling characters, then that is a Trojan horse. Whether you're looking for literary deep dives, smart pop culture conversations, or a community of readers who love to think a little too much, you're in the right place. Listen to Pro Society on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. See you between the pages. Speaker 1 (32:27) Hey, this is Hayes Davenport. And Sean Clements. We host the podcast Hollywood Handbook on the Big Money Players Network. Our show is extremely accessible to first-time listeners. Each week, we talk to someone in show business, a.k.a. the biz, and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. Everyone has a good time, and no one gets mad at their publicist for letting them do our show. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman. Not that great. Speaker 8 (32:51) Actually, can you help me shape this? How about we flip it on its head? How about we flip the script? What if the surprise woman, who actually you think is the straight man, is actually the one who's acting weird? Speaker 1 (33:05) Adam Scott. This entire time, you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show. I would never let go of that. I have. I would never set expectations for something like that. It seems like if the universe allows for something like that to happen, I am open to it. I'm always going to accept, you know, Danny McBride. Fine. Yeah. It's all this fragile masculinity exuding. I could smell it walking down the hallway, to be honest with you. I was like, is that weed? Nope. It's fragile masculinity. Ben Stiller, no. Because a lot of times, out of context, people don't get it or even know what a circle is. You know what I mean? They're so stupid. Speaker 6 (33:50) Everyone's so dumb except for you. And Speaker 1 (33:52) fake. Right, fake and also not interested or just like, oh,