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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Freddie Prinze Jr on working for WWE, real life issues with John Cena, why he left acting to be a father, being married to Sarah Michelle Gellar

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness, Sports, Wrestling

4.94.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2021

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Freddie Prinze Jr. talks with Chris Van Vliet from his home in Los Angeles, CA. He talks about his time working for WWE, his career-defining roles in "She's All That", "I Know What You Did Last Summer", "Scooby-Doo" and "Summer Catch", why he left acting to be the best father that he could be, growing up with a legendary father, stories about training with Chuck Norris and Muhammad Ali, his wife Sarah Michelle Gellar, his role in the Punky Brewster reboot and much more! Support the show by supporting our sponsors! Get your energy back, sleep better, and block out the unhealthy effects of blue light with BLUblox. Get free shipping worldwide and 15% off by going to https://blublox.com/CVV or enter code CVV15 at checkout. If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to https://chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media:  Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

What's up y'all? It's Druski, and I've teamed up with Mountain Dew to produce a hilarious new basketball podcast called The Do Zone with Drewski. Learn the backstories of your favorite ballers and celebrities like Jamal Murray. Did you have like a favorite team? Was it the Raptors at the time or no? Was the Raptors even started around that time? Come on, bro. I ain't that old, fam. You're talking like I'm 50. Taylor, Rokes, A.J. Wilson, and many more. You won't want to miss this.

0:03.4

Listen to The Do Zone with Drusky on Apple Podcast. I ain't that all, Phil. You're talking like I'm 50. Taylor, Rokes, Asian Wilson, and many more.

0:21.8

You won't want to miss this.

0:23.0

Listen to The Do Zone with Drewski on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:31.2

Welcome to the show.

0:36.5

I'm Chris Van Fleet, and if it's your first time here, I'm an Emmy

0:39.9

award-winning TV host, obsessed with finding out what makes successful people so successful. On each

0:46.9

episode of Insight, we have in-depth conversations and reverse engineer the habits and techniques

0:52.5

of the world's top actors, athletes, entrepreneurs, you name it.

0:57.8

If they are the best at what they do, I want to get their insight so we can apply it to our own lives.

1:04.6

And you know Freddie Prince Jr. for movies like, She's All That, Summer Catch, I know what you did last summer.

1:12.7

I still know what you did last summer. Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo, Scooby- that. Summer catch. I know what you did last summer. I still know what you did last summer.

1:19.0

Scooby-Doo. Scooby-Doo, too. Down to you. I mean, that's just a handful of the films that he's been in.

1:30.0

And I can't even begin to tell you how much I enjoyed this conversation. Because for someone that's achieved the level of success and the level of fame that he has,

1:36.2

he's just a great guy. Someone you'd want to have a beer with if that was, you know, a thing we could do right now. Oh, and by the way, his wife is incredibly successful in her own right.

1:42.2

Actually, you know, I don't think Freddie would mind me saying

1:45.4

this because it's true. She's actually more famous than him. You know, in case you didn't know,

1:49.7

his wife is Sarah Michelle Geller, aka Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And it's really interesting hearing

1:56.2

about Freddie's love-hate relationship with Hollywood, how he left his acting career behind to focus on

2:02.5

being a dad.

2:03.7

But now he's back in acting.

2:04.9

He's back in the reboot of Punky Brewster on Peacock.

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