More Time With: Nicole Byer

Summary

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Teen Beat: "More Time With: Nicole Byer"

Host: Danielle Fishel
Guest: Nicole Byer
Date: February 13, 2026

Episode Overview

This bonus episode features Danielle Fishel and comedian Nicole Byer sharing and responding to embarrassing teenage stories, centering around first kisses, summer camps, and vacation disasters. They read a real listener submission, reflect on their own formative and awkward moments, and banter about the horrors (real and imagined) of cruises. The tone is nostalgic, self-deprecating, and frequently laugh-out-loud funny, offering a heartfelt but hilarious look at the universally cringey side of growing up.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

Listener Story: Dana’s First Kiss at Sea

• A listener named Dana sends in a voice memo about her first kiss experience:
  • At 14, on a family cruise in Alaska, she sneaks out to meet a boy at the "teen club."
  • The first kiss is described as “slimy” and immediately results in her vomiting—prompting a year of questioning (“Does this mean I’m gay?”).
• Danielle and Nicole react with empathy—and loads of humor—discussing how awkward first kisses can be and speculating about the poor boy’s lifelong trauma.

Notable Quote (Dana’s story, paraphrased):

"I had my first ever kiss in which this boy slimily popped his tongue in and out of my mouth. The combination of my disgust response to a stranger’s saliva in my mouth, my deep anxiety about sneaking out, and the queasiness of being on a ship turned out to be the perfect recipe for vomit."
[07:31]

Danielle and Nicole’s Cruise Debate

• Danielle reveals intense feelings against cruises—citing germaphobia, food storage doubts, the logistics of being “stranded,” and the horror of malfunctioning plumbing at sea:

  “You simply couldn’t pay me to be on a cruise. You’re in the middle of the ocean with the same people day after day. These freaks at the buffet, not washing their hands… And then what if the toilet stopped working? You're in the middle of the ocean smelling shit. I could be at home.”
  [03:39] - [04:10]

• Nicole is intrigued by cruises for their mindless, all-inclusive nature, but Danielle tries to persuade her a travel agent is the better route.

• The two joke about the cult-like experience of cruise “teen clubs” versus more luxurious yacht life.

First Kiss Confessions

• Both hosts share stories of their awkward first kisses and their own misunderstandings about “the dance of the tongues.”

• Danielle recalls her first memorable kiss with a man who had a “cold tongue” outside a NYC dive bar:

  “There was a man with a feather earring. I was like, I like your earring. And he was like, put it in your ear. And then we just, like, started making out on the street. That was the first time a tongue was in my mouth, and I was like, huh, your tongue is cold. I was like, I feel like I’m kissing a kimono dragon.”
  [18:26] - [19:11]

• Nicole’s first kiss happened on set for “Boy Meets World,” in front of a live studio audience and her family, making it neither personal nor romantic. She laments not remembering any “real” first kiss off-camera:

  “My actual real, the first time my lips had ever touched another person’s lips… is in the moment when I slam him up against a locker. By the way, as a 12-year-old handcuff…I plant one on his face with all the confidence in the world and inside shaking like a leaf.”
  [23:18] - [24:06]

Teen Clubs, Camp, and the Teenage Social Experience

• Danielle discusses never getting to attend “sleepaway camp,” while Nicole reflects on her plus-one Girl Scout camp adventures and learning gossip about kissing from peers.
• The conversation playfully examines how teen vacations and camps force you to create mini-societies, form fleeting friendships, and fuel lifelong stories and cringe.
• Both hosts agree that teenage years were riddled with insecurity, and that, looking back, everyone feels they were the awkward one.

Working as a Child Star

• Danielle shares her unique school schedule, balancing “Boy Meets World” filming with attempts at regular high school life:

  “I was back and forth between Boy Meets Week and my regular school. So I was only there on hiatus weeks… But I couldn’t really like, be a cheerleader or do any sports or be a part of any clubs. But I did go to all the football games.”
  [21:38] - [22:01]

The Salient Kisses: Magic vs. Obligation

• Nicole and Danielle discuss how the “memorable” first magical kiss is more important than the technical first:

  “Do you remember the first time you were kissed where you were like, that was magic?”
  “Yes, I do actually.”
  “I think that’s more important.”
  [24:38] - [24:45]

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Memorable Quotes & Moments (with Timestamps)

• Danielle on Cruises:
  “There’s lawless. It’s lawless out there.”
  [05:51]

• Nicole attempting to rationalize a cruise:
  “I love the cult feeling of a cruise where, like, I just have to get myself to the ship. And then I walk out and you show me where the food is. I eat what’s there, I leave. There's an itinerary. I look at the itinerary.”
  [05:04]

• On the awfulness of vomit-covered first kisses:

  • Danielle: “If you vomit on a person, there's no coming back from that.”
    [16:03]

• On teenage insecurities:
  Danielle: “I was zitty and chubby and had wild hair all the time—like, I truly was a mess.”
  [18:26]

• Nicole on obligatory on-screen kisses:
  “My actual real…first time my lips had ever touched another person’s lips…is in the moment when I slam him up against a locker…as a 12-year-old…with all the confidence in the world and inside shaking like a leaf.”
  [23:18]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Listener Dana’s story & reaction: [03:21] – [08:17]
• Cruise horror rants & debate: [03:36] – [06:56]
• Teen club and camp comparisons: [09:15] – [10:46]
• First kiss stories (Nicole & Danielle): [18:01] – [20:38]
• Child star school-life balance: [21:38] – [22:20]
• On the memorable first magical kiss: [24:38] – [25:03]

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Recurring Themes & Takeaways

• Growing up is universally mortifying, but those awkward moments become funny, cherished stories with time.
• Nostalgia through the lens of humor is healing. Both celebrities and regular people share the same embarrassing rites of passage.
• The importance of sharing and normalizing cringe-worthy teenage tales—helping listeners feel less alone in their awkwardness.

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Final Thoughts

This episode perfectly embodies the mix of laughter, pain, and perspective that comes from growing up. Danielle Fishel and Nicole Byer create a space where embarrassing memories turn into points of connection. Their willingness to laugh at themselves—and at the absurdity of adolescent rituals—feels warm, inclusive, and deeply relatable.

For more tales, updates, and interaction, listeners are encouraged to follow @teenbeatpod, send in their own awkward stories, and check out new merch.

Transcript

[Danielle Fishel]

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[Shelly Rohm]

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[Danielle Fishel]

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[Danielle Fishel]

Give me money for Cigarettes. I'll never leave your cookie bed. I stay the night and one night be came two or three years. The kids are not alright, but that's.

[Nicole]

Okay cause no one here is take me. We have a little bonus episode that I like to do where I asked listeners to send in their own embarrassing childhood stories via voice memo. And I am happy to report you and I are not the only ones with some awkward teenage stories. And some of those embarrassing moments apparently happened out on the open sea. Let's hear from Dana, all about her first kiss.

[Dana]

Hi, Danielle. While I spent my childhood and preteen years hoping to be as cool and confident as you were, I found myself at age 14 as a late blooming weirdo from New Jersey who was on a family cruise in Alaska.

[Nicole]

Now, Nicole, have you ever been on a cruise?

[Dana]

No.

[Danielle Fishel]

You simply couldn't pay me to be on a cruise.

[Nicole]

Really?

[Danielle Fishel]

Absolutely not.

[Nicole]

Why?

[Danielle Fishel]

Why? You're in the middle of the ocean with the same people day after day. These freaks at the buffet, not washing their hands. Yuck, yuck, yuck. I have to get on a slide to get into the. No, I couldn't. You couldn't? No. And then what if the toilet stopped working? You're in the middle of the ocean smelling shit. I could be at home. No, you.

[Dana]

No.

[Danielle Fishel]

No. And I've been offered really nice. A nice amount of money. And I said I can't. I can't do it.

[Nicole]

Oh, I think I. I think I'm gonna love a cruise.

[Danielle Fishel]

Why would you love it? Well, think about it this way. You could take a plane to where you want to go.

[Ad Voice]

Mm.

[Danielle Fishel]

And then you're there. And then you could take another plane to go to the next place you wanna go. A cruise. You dock for three hours and if you don't make it back, they leave you. Can you imagine a giant boat just leaving? I paid money. You can't wait for that?

[Nicole]

You can't wait just a little longer? That part's weird. You're right, that part is weird. But here's the thing I have planned. Like, planning a vacation for my family inevitably means it's all on me. I have to pick the flights, I have to pick the location.

[Danielle Fishel]

I don't want to count your money. But a travel agent, that is, that.

[Nicole]

Is probably better because I love the cult feeling of a cruise where like, I just have to get myself to the ship. And then I walk out and you show me where the food is. I eat what's there, I leave. There's an itinerary. I look at the itinerary I go for.

[Danielle Fishel]

Here's the thing about the food. You think they have enough storage for all the food they're going to be serving? You think it's properly refrigerated at all times?

[Nicole]

I feel like that's a part of planning a cruise ship is. Yes. Making sure you have enough proper refrigeration. But listen, what do I mean?

[Danielle Fishel]

People probably get sick all the time from the food on a cruise. How do we know they're in the middle of nowhere?

[Nicole]

I know.

[Danielle Fishel]

Who are you going to report it to? It's. It's maritime law, so. Psych.

[Ad Voice]

Just wild.

[Danielle Fishel]

There's lawless.

[Nicole]

It's lawless out there.

[Danielle Fishel]

I, I really. You should get a travel agent. Because a travel agent can do like hotel rec or. No, they just book it. They show you a bunch of stuff and they go, do you want me to book this? They'll give you like restaurants anymore. They do.

[Nicole]

Okay.

[Danielle Fishel]

I went to South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia and we had a travel agent who planned the whole thing. It was delightful because we didn't worry about anything. It was all done.

[Nicole]

Okay.

[Ad Voice]

That.

[Nicole]

See, this is what I've been missing in my life. That is literally the only reason I've been thinking about going on a cruise is because I'm like, wouldn't it be nice and not have to plan everything every day but travel?

[Danielle Fishel]

Please don't go on a cruise.

[Nicole]

Okay?

[Danielle Fishel]

I really don't want this life for you.

[Ad Voice]

Thank you.

[Danielle Fishel]

I want you like on a yacht in San Trope that somebody else planned for you.

[Dana]

Okay?

[Nicole]

Okay. And you're fine with a yacht?

[Danielle Fishel]

Yes.

[Ad Voice]

Okay.

[Danielle Fishel]

What do you mean am I fine.

[Nicole]

With a proper amount of refrigeration on a yacht?

[Danielle Fishel]

Well, yes. Cuz smaller amount of people, smaller amount of. Well, it's just me and my people.

[Nicole]

Right? Okay. Okay.

[Danielle Fishel]

No strangers on the yacht.

[Nicole]

I've never been on a yacht.

[Danielle Fishel]

You never been on a yacht?

[Dana]

No.

[Danielle Fishel]

You never, like rented a yacht with friends?

[Ad Voice]

No.

[Danielle Fishel]

What are you talking about? You don't have enough money to have a pole that goes back up into your sailing.

[Nicole]

But you've been on a yacht with your friends.

[Danielle Fishel]

It's called. Here's the amount. Split it eight ways. We're only on it for four hours. We gotta get the off.

[Nicole]

Guess what?

[Danielle Fishel]

I'm just on a pole for 49.99.

[Nicole]

You don't have to split it with anyone, girl.

[Ad Voice]

No.

[Danielle Fishel]

I'm not gonna dance on an Amazon pole. No. Fly out of the ceiling and I die.

[Nicole]

No, I do not want that responsibility. Absolutely Not. Okay, let's hear from Dana again. Back to her cruise.

[Dana]

I met a boy in the teen club, as you do, and after days of awkwardly flirting, or at least what I thought was flirting, I snuck out on the last night to meet him on the deck of the ship. Saucy. I had my first ever kiss in which this boy slimily popped his tongue in and out of my mouth.

[Ad Voice]

Gross.

[Dana]

The combination of my disgust response to a stranger's saliva in my mouth, my deep anxiety about sneaking out of my room, and the queasiness of being on a ship turned out to be the perfect recipe for vomit. Yes, that's right. I had my first kiss, immediately threw up, and then spent about six to eight weeks wondering if this meant that I was gay.

[Danielle Fishel]

God, that's funny. God, that's so funny. She pukes. She's like, am I gay? That man was like, oh, no. Oh, no. Do women hate me? I wonder if that man still talks about that in therapy.

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

He's like.

[Nicole]

It all started. Yes, after my first kiss and I made her vomit. He has. He knows nothing about the seasickness. Nothing.

[Danielle Fishel]

God, that is so funny. I do remember the first time a tongue was in my mouth. I was like, what the are we doing? Yeah.

[Nicole]

What is this now?

[Danielle Fishel]

It's fine. That's good. I got over it. I was like, oh, okay. It's a.

[Nicole]

You have to. You have to learn the dance of the tongues.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yes. And my first tongue kiss, I was like, yeah, it was just like a little tongue darting in and out, and I was like, well, it almost. It's like you're violating my mouth.

[Nicole]

Exactly.

[Danielle Fishel]

It's wild. And you're like, oh, my God.

[Nicole]

Also, the figuring out of the turning of the heads. There's like, yeah, there's. There are just some people who have good kiss chemistry.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yes.

[Nicole]

And other people don't know.

[Danielle Fishel]

Some people are just bad at it. But I just want to say one more thing about the cruise. Yeah. There's a teen club. You have to, like, form a society for a week, and then you never see these people again. You have to go to the teen club. You have to make friends.

[Nicole]

I mean, have you ever been to camp? Did you ever go to a camp?

[Danielle Fishel]

No. My parents loved me. They kept me around.

[Nicole]

Well, my parents only didn't love me one time.

[Danielle Fishel]

I'm kidding. I went to tennis camp during the day, like a swim camp. But I never got to go to sleepaway camp.

[Ad Voice]

Okay.

[Danielle Fishel]

And I simply think it's. My mother was like, no one else is gonna have A good time with her. I gotta keep her around. But I was like, send me away. I need a break.

[Nicole]

I went to a girl scout camp with a girlfriend. I was not a girl scout, but my friend was so funny being a plus one.

[Ad Voice]

Yeah. Come.

[Nicole]

They were like, sure, it's all right. We don't have a problem with that. And the girlfriend I went with was also a big square, but we got to meet other girls there that weren't. And so I got to feel cool. Like, one of the other girls. Her name was Rachel, and this was sleepaway camp. Sleep away camp.

[Danielle Fishel]

I'm so jealous.

[Nicole]

It was wonderful. And she had all these experiences with boys. I had. Had none. And so she got. She just got to tell me about kissing boys and horror movies she watched. I wasn't allowed to watch anything even remotely.

[Danielle Fishel]

Now, see, I was allowed to watch horror movies and stuff, but I wasn't allowed to, like, go out with boys.

[Nicole]

Yeah, yeah. No, I. She had. Great story. Sleepaway camp was really fun.

[Danielle Fishel]

Like, I'm deeply jealous. I wish I got to go to sleepaway camp, but kind of.

[Nicole]

That's kind of what, Like a sleepaway camp? Like, I. The teen club on a cruise. It's one of the other things I love about going on a vacation where there's a kids club. Take my children. It's not a vacation for me if I am the sole entertainment for my children.

[Danielle Fishel]

A travel agent can find you a hotel that has.

[Nicole]

Yeah, I know you're really trying to save me from this crew cruise.

[Danielle Fishel]

I really don't want. I. Okay, you'll have. If you make it onto a cruise, you'll have to tell me how awful it was.

[Nicole]

Okay?

[Danielle Fishel]

Because I guarantee you, I don't know why I'm manifesting this for you. That's not nice. If you want to go on a cruise, go. Oh, my God. But it will be bad. But, like, if you. If you want to go. I. Once I was in my early twenties, me, Sashir, and our other friend Keisha were taking a bus to Boston from New York. And I was like, I don't want to be on this bus. Buses break down. And so she was like, buses don't break down. People take buses all the time. I was like, they break down. 45 minutes into our trip, the bus broke down.

[Nicole]

Okay. Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

So I. So I wouldn't go on a cruise. I've already manifested it to go poorly.

[Nicole]

Yeah, you're right. I. Now I know for sure I can't. You have manifested your entire life. You've gotten all the things you drew. You've got a career, a broken down bus. You've now manifested a terrible cruise for me.

[Danielle Fishel]

We all know about Titanic and now we're getting on these big boats for fun. I really.

[Nicole]

We learned nothing. We've learned absolutely nothing crazy.

[Danielle Fishel]

Also, I didn't know how strongly I felt about cruises until right now.

[Nicole]

Can you share with me your travel agent information? Because I want you. It sounds like you went on a.

[Danielle Fishel]

Real nice only does Africa.

[Nicole]

Oh, okay.

[Danielle Fishel]

She does the continent of Africa. Or maybe she specializes in South Africa. I might be a liar, but I can give you her her name, give me her information.

[Nicole]

At some point I'll go to South Africa as well. But yes, I. I'm good. I didn't even know really the travel agents were.

[Danielle Fishel]

I do. Okay? They do exist. I said they do. You said I didn't know there was travel agents. And I said they do. They do.

[Nicole]

They are. They are around.

[Shelly Rohm]

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[Nicole]

Let's put ourselves in Dana's shoes here. How would you have bounced back from that kind of situation? First kiss you vomit. I get. I feel like I wish I did. She vomit on him off the side of the.

[Danielle Fishel]

That's what I would like. More information. Because if you vomit on a person, there's no coming back from that.

[Nicole]

No.

[Danielle Fishel]

That's a wrap.

[Nicole]

That's it.

[Danielle Fishel]

And I've seen the showers on a cruise ship. You're never going to be clean until you get home.

[Nicole]

More things I didn't know about.

[Danielle Fishel]

The showers are nasty. The rooms are so small.

[Nicole]

I know the rooms are small.

[Danielle Fishel]

I've heard that tiny your windows like this and then you're just this the whole time. This isn't fun.

[Nicole]

I hate cruises.

[Danielle Fishel]

I've never been on wood. But if she barfed off the side of the boat, oh, you could be like, the shrimp was bad, right?

[Nicole]

Exactly. Oh my gosh. It was a dinner I ate.

[Danielle Fishel]

I don't know if I think that quickly in the moment as a teen.

[Nicole]

No, especially because she was like nauseated and not feeling great.

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, boy.

[Nicole]

What do you do?

[Danielle Fishel]

I really don't think you come back from that. I think that's just a memory you keep and tell people.

[Nicole]

Yeah. Also, how early into the trip is it? Does she have to keep running into the guy?

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, God. At the teen club.

[Nicole]

At the teen club, there's only two.

[Danielle Fishel]

Mom.

[Nicole]

I could never go back to the teen club. They need to know why. Now she's like, I vomited on my friend. It was after I snuck out. She couldn't even share the story because she snuck out of her room to do it.

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, no. What a cross to bear.

[Nicole]

This is terrible. All right, let's see how this story ended for Dana.

[Dana]

Needless to say, it was a solid year or more before there was a second kiss from anyone. Oh, the joys of being a non celebrity teenager.

[Nicole]

Ah, so she had her first kiss at 14 and her next kiss was at 15.

[Danielle Fishel]

Honestly, she's doing great.

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

It only took a year to get. Come on.

[Nicole]

It's pretty darn good.

[Danielle Fishel]

That's great.

[Nicole]

And I guarantee you that's the only time she's ever vomited on somebody.

[Danielle Fishel]

I mean, probably.

[Nicole]

Yeah. So keep that as a. Unless it's a kink of hers.

[Danielle Fishel]

I don't know.

[Nicole]

I guess get triggered into vomit. I don't know.

[Danielle Fishel]

I said it and I was like, I hope no one questions it. You ever say something and you're like, we'll just move along. We'll just go moving right along.

[Nicole]

Why? No one. No one even heard it.

[Danielle Fishel]

We'll cut. We'll.

[Nicole]

We'll cut it. You know?

[Danielle Fishel]

No, no. I stand by. All bad jokes I make don't cut it.

[Nicole]

Do you remember your first kiss?

[Danielle Fishel]

Yes. I kissed somebody in high school, but it wasn't super eventful. Okay. And then I truly didn't kiss another person until I think I was 20.

[Nicole]

In high school. And then not. Not another person until 19 or 20.

[Danielle Fishel]

I told you. The boys did not reciprocate feelings that I had for them. I was zitty and chubby and had wild hair all the time. Like, I truly was a mess. But this was outside. I think I was 20. And it was outside the Blarney Stone, which was a Bar on 47th and 8th, and there was a man with a feather earring. And I was like, I like your earring. And he was like, put it in your ear. And I was like, okay. And then we just, like, started making out on the street, and I was like, whoa. And that's the first time a tongue was in my mouth. And I was like, huh, Your tongue is a cold. I was like, I feel like I'm kissing like a kimono dragon. Like some sort of reptile.

[Nicole]

Wait, why was his tongue cold? It was inside his mouth.

[Danielle Fishel]

That's not a question you ask somebody. You don't pull back and go, why is that tongue cold? I was just like, okay, did you earn.

[Nicole]

I was gonna say, did you have the feather earring in?

[Danielle Fishel]

I think I wore it all night. And then we, like, kept finding each other to, like, make out. And the drunker I got, the less it mattered that his tongue was. Maybe he was dead. I don't know.

[Nicole]

Like, it was in heart sight.

[Danielle Fishel]

So wild. But, yeah, that. That was like the first memorable kiss that I had.

[Nicole]

I'll say.

[Danielle Fishel]

Yeah, okay.

[Nicole]

I don't even know how. I don't even know. I think another pitch for you. I've pitched Dancing with the Stars. I have another pitch for you. I think if you were to go back, you don't even have to bring them to you. Fly. Fly these people out here. If you were to question on your podcast, why won't you date me? The people you went to junior high and high school with, I guarantee you there would be some people who were like, I didn't think you'd ever be interested in me.

[Danielle Fishel]

No, I really don't think so. I look back at old pictures and I'm like, poof. I was doing something and it wasn't good.

[Nicole]

But everyone feels that way about their pictures when they look back. You're like, oh, I was such a dwebo. But, like, we're not.

[Danielle Fishel]

We're.

[Nicole]

We weren't as big of dweebos as we think we were. There's just.

[Danielle Fishel]

Because it's us in seventh grade. I didn't smile for my picture, and I truly look like Queen Latifah and set it off in her mugshot. Like, I. When I tell you, like, I was not doing. I was not doing great.

[Nicole]

And my.

[Danielle Fishel]

Mother even was like, why didn't you smile? And I was like, I don't know. It was a choice. I made a choice.

[Nicole]

Did you ever talk to friends about their first. Like, did you ever try to gather intel about kissing or anything sexual?

[Danielle Fishel]

Well, I feel like my core group of girlfriends didn't really start dating until, like, high school. High school. Because in middle school, we. We were just like, yeah, holding it.

[Shelly Rohm]

And hold.

[Nicole]

Or holding a hand with the boy was like, that's my boyfriend.

[Danielle Fishel]

It was like, too much.

[Nicole]

Yeah.

[Danielle Fishel]

But I. I guess I knew, like, people were having Sex. But I always remember feeling like, how do you have the time?

[Nicole]

You were so busy in high school.

[Danielle Fishel]

We're in school for eight hours. That's our full time job. Like. And then you have homework. That's more job.

[Nicole]

I know.

[Danielle Fishel]

Wouldn't it? Why are you doing it?

[Dana]

Yeah.

[Nicole]

And I've got to talk on the phone to my friends that I just saw in school. All day, all night?

[Danielle Fishel]

Yes.

[Shelly Rohm]

Where?

[Nicole]

I know.

[Ad Voice]

I don't know.

[Nicole]

I remember that too.

[Danielle Fishel]

Did you do clubs in high school?

[Nicole]

No, I. I was back and forth between Boy Meets Week and my regular school. So I was only there on hiatus weeks.

[Danielle Fishel]

You had two jobs?

[Nicole]

Yeah, I was there on every hiatus week I was back in school. And then the season would wrap in March, and so I'd go full time from March until June.

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh.

[Nicole]

But I couldn't really, like, be a cheerleader or do any sports or be a part of any clubs. But I did go to all the football games.

[Danielle Fishel]

Oh, see, that's nice.

[Nicole]

And I went to all the dances and, you know, tried to do that. Okay, so a good five years between your first and second kiss. My first kiss was on television on Boy Meets World. I truthfully don't remember what my real life first kiss was. Have no memory of it. Just the one on tv.

[Danielle Fishel]

So on set, were you like, are you the type of actor who's like, yes, I know how to do this, and then you just try it or do you have like questions and queries?

[Nicole]

At 12, I had no idea how to do anything. I had never acted before. I'd never done anything. And so I didn't feel comfortable asking. I just tried stuff and then was told, that was terrible. Here's how you do it. And then was given like line by line readings for every single thing in the script.

[Danielle Fishel]

Really?

[Nicole]

Correct. And my mom would write notes and then I'd go home and my mom and I would work on it, trying to just do the line readings I had been given. And then I would do that.

[Danielle Fishel]

That's crazy.

[Nicole]

Yeah, that's why I'm a terrible actor.

[Danielle Fishel]

I don't think you're a terrible actor, but I think a better approach maybe would be like getting you an acting coach and asking you to do a range of emotions for each line.

[Nicole]

Well, listen, everyone's got their different. Different methods.

[Danielle Fishel]

I guess it was. It was the 90s.

[Nicole]

Yeah, it was the 90s.

[Danielle Fishel]

It was just like a bunch of men in charge who were just kind of dicks.

[Nicole]

There was a man in charge who just said, tell the girl how to say it the way I want it. I'll tell her how to say it and we'll. And we'll get what we want. But isn't it kind of weird that like that first kiss, which is so salient though, because one, it's on TV for millions to see. Two, it was in front of a 250 person live studio audience and my grandparents were there and my parents were there and we didn't rehearse the actual kiss all week. They wanted it to be real. So my actual real. The first time my lips had ever touched another person's lips are in the. Is in the moment when I slam him up against a locker. By the way, as a 12 year old handcuff, I remember this scene and I plant one on his face with all the confidence in the world and inside shaking like a leaf.

[Ad Voice]

And they wanted.

[Danielle Fishel]

Isn't it funny that they thought you required line reads, but they were like, this she can do on, she'll do this. Yeah, this we don't have to help her with. That's interesting.

[Nicole]

She'll be fine.

[Danielle Fishel]

We'll just say that on your behalf.

[Shelly Rohm]

Save it.

[Nicole]

Save it for the live show. And then you. I mean, hard to, hard to top that, memory wise. But like, that's a TV kiss. That wasn't a kiss because I had a crush on someone. How come I don't remember who I like liked enough to have a real first kiss with? That bothers me.

[Danielle Fishel]

Well, do you remember the first time you were kissed where you were like, that was magic?

[Nicole]

Yes, I do, actually.

[Danielle Fishel]

I think that's more important.

[Nicole]

Okay, you're right, you're right. Because maybe that first real kiss was also a situation where I was like, I think I'm supposed to kiss now.

[Danielle Fishel]

I mean, I just told you my first kiss is. Or the first one I remember. And it's wild.

[Nicole]

It is wild. You're right. You're right. I do remember, like that first one.

[Danielle Fishel]

Where you're like, oh my God, magic just happened. I think that's really special to remember valid.

[Nicole]

Well, thank you so much. Thank you for checking out this bonus episode of Teen Beat with Danielle Fishel. Please follow the podcast on Instagram @teenbeatpod and stay updated on this feed so that every week you get both of our episodes. Merch is available [e-mail] go check it out. And remember, we are looking for your embarrassing teenage stories. Send a voice memo to teenbeatpodmail.com we like them in the one minute, minute and a half range. So keep that in mind. And you could hear your own tale of shame right here on a future Teen Beat. Nicole, you have been an absolute joy. I'm not surprised in the least, but thank you so much for spending your time with me.

[Danielle Fishel]

Thank you for having me and being a part of this Delightful. I think my phone is buzzing. I'm so, so.

[Nicole]

I have not heard it at all.

[Danielle Fishel]

I hear it now. My potatoes ringing.

[Nicole]

Oh, I do.

[Danielle Fishel]

I. Okay.

[Nicole]

You have a potato. What?

[Danielle Fishel]

I Sometimes you say things. You're like, well, that was insane. I have a potato shaped case. So I call my phone my potato. And I constantly say it. When I haven't explained it to people, I'm like, where's my potato? And people are like, wait, what?

[Nicole]

The funny thing is, when you said it, I immediately thought you must have a very old phone because one time we had another co host of mine record something and it looked so, so bad. We said, what did you record that on? A potato. So when I. When I hear potato, I think of like an ancient phone or just, you know, a potato.

[Danielle Fishel]

Nope, just a potato shaped case from Amazon. I'll show it to you.

[Nicole]

Thank you so much for being with me. You kept us laughing for an hour and a half, if not longer.

[Dana]

So thank you.

[Danielle Fishel]

Aw, thanks.

[Nicole]

Teen Beat is an I heart podcast produced and hosted by Danielle Fishel, executive producers Jensen Karp and Amy Sugarman, executive in charge of production, Danielle Romo, producer and editor Tara Sudbaksh. The theme song is by Mark Hoppas. Yes, that Markoppas. Follow us on Instagram eenbeatpod.

[Danielle Fishel]

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[Nicole]

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[Danielle Fishel]

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