The Facts of Life

And I thought this will fix everything for me.

And so I ran away from home thinking that I was going to marry Mackenzie Astin from Facts of Life.

And So the film really like that's like the premise of the film, but it's a little bit more about this kind of moment in childhood that we all have where we realize like the reality of the real world is seeping through the cracks of your childhood innocence and you are growing up and there is just this moment where you realize, oh, things aren't going to be just so innocent forever and like you do grow up and that's a scary moment for kids when they have that realization and it's encapsulating this kind of moment when that happened to me where I realized oh I had this really sweet innocence and this like fantasy and that's what that was fantasy.

And now I have to have the reality consequences of the real world will start seeping into my life.

She, do you want to know what it's about? She's like, nah.

And once she said yes, I was, I talked to her a lot about it and what it was about.

And she was like, who's Mackenzie Astin? What's facts of life? What's that? And I was

like,

It was between he and Corey Feldman and Corey Hayne for that part.

They called him and Mac wanted to do a movie over the summer because he was on Facts of Life.

And they were looking for Tangerine and Tangerine had to be a little bit older than he was, but not too much older.

It was insane because Tangerine was like 16, 15, 16 and living by herself.

And you remain sad.

And then you have the facts of life.

Okay.

Tootie will teach you that.

Going into this week, at present, he leads all running backs throughout the state, all classifications, averaging five touchdowns and just under 300 yards a game.

Is that amazing or what?

I thought Mackenzie Phillips was in Facts of Life, which is strange because I just sang that song.

Well, you know what? It could be Quincy.

While I'm looking up the girls from

the Facts of Life.

Tootie, by the way, lives right around here.

Like in Mableton, I believe, by me.

question for everyone at the table.

What kind of Tupperware or glassware or what kind of dishes are you putting stuff in to save it? Because last night when I reached into the refrigerator and pulled out a Tupperware or something, I remembered the words of someone very important and profound to me, Mindy Cohen, who played Natalie on Facts of Life.

I haven't thought about this since she said it on my podcast.

She said, maybe someday you'll have nice glass containers.

I mean,

the thing is, I imagine, this is what I imagine.

Are you familiar with Facts of Life? You take

the good, you take the bad, you take them both, and then you have the Facts of Life.

Yeah.

I would like to see a new reality show that was Tori and Joe from Facts of Life that were like, hey, these are the girls when you were kids who wore leather jackets inexplicably on some TV show.

Let's see what they're doing now.

Producers, let's go.

I still remember when they tried to do the...

I mean, obviously I wasn't there for it, but when they tried to do the Facts of Life and Different Strokes episode, I just...

I always thought that stuff was interesting because it still reinforced my idea of when I was a kid that everybody lives in the same universe in the TV.

And so seeing stuff like that, and then there was Family Matters, Steve Urkel was on...