Hello, it's Danielle Fischel, podcaster, TV director, and mom of two,

and tonight, maybe more than ever, forever known

as Topanga. And that's because I am currently competing on the 34th season of Dancing with the

Stars, participating in the tradition of dedication night, despite having absolutely no dance

experience before stepping into a practice with my pro-partner,

Pasha Pashkov.

And throughout this journey, I have decided to record my experience in the form of a podcast

called Danielle with the Stars, hoping that maybe in 100 to 200 years, people will discover

it amongst post-apocalyptic rubble and hear what it was like to push yourself every day to possibly win a Len Goodman mirror ball trophy.

I am just off the press line from Dedication Night and absolutely jam-packed an emotional night of celebrity and dance. I danced the jive to the season

five through seven Boy Meets World theme song by 20 Cent Crush featuring Phil Rosenthal. And I dedicated it

to 99 and a half year old Bill Daniels, aka Mr. Feeney, who joined me on the dance floor. Why did I pick Bill?

I'll tell you exactly why I picked Bill. I consider him to be the patriarch of Boy Meets World.

And Boy Meets World is a show that forever changed my life, not just

personally, but professionally. And Bill was a shining example of what it meant to be a professional

and to be kind and to be good with kids. He didn't have to be. He could have treated us like

snot-nosed kids because we were a lot of times. We were having fun and goofing around and I came

to the set with little to zero experience and he never treated me that way. He always treated me like a peer,

which is really saying something. So I have taken Bill's lesson of how to be a professional

with me onto every set I have gone onto since the day I met him at 12 years old.

Being able to honor Boy Meets World tonight felt so special,

like such a gift. I knew full well that I was representing every 90s kid, every, you know, early

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