Jonathan Lipnicki Meets World
Pod Meets World
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
You can’t revisit the ‘90s without calling Jonathan Lipnicki! Between Jerry Maguire and Stuart Little, he defined two of the most iconic characters of the decade, and now he’s ready to share some memories with Danielle, Will and Rider.
Jonathan talks about launching his acting career at just five years old, learning how to read screenplays (while also learning how to read in general) and the lengths he took to protect his valuable face while playing sports in school.
And when looking for Tom Cruise, Jonathan does NOT disappoint. I mean, do you even know about the “Tom Cruise cake?”
So catch up with the only actor in Hollywood who co-starred with a CGI mouse AND has a black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu - right here on Pod Meets World!
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:26.3 | At some point during this holiday season, I've completely lost track of time. |
| 0:29.3 | So I believe it was before New Year's. |
| 0:29.7 | Okay. |
| 0:30.0 | Okay. But after Christmas. |
| 0:31.5 | Okay. |
| 0:32.0 | Oh, okay. |
| 0:32.5 | So in those lost days. |
| 0:33.4 | My family and I went to the Queen Mary. |
| 0:34.9 | Okay. |
| 0:35.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:35.6 | Oh, right. |
| 0:36.4 | Which is the second time I've been to the Queen Mary in the last few months because I went down there. They did this, they do a Halloween Dark Harbor thing with like haunted mazes and stuff. And Indy was obsessed with mazes this holiday season. So we went to all of the ones in L.A. And we went down to that one. It was so much fun. and we actually slept on the Queen Mary for the night. So we decided to do it again with family in from out of town. |
| 0:57.5 | We were like, let's go. And we went down to that one. It was so much fun. And we actually slept on the Queen Mary for the night. |
| 0:54.8 | So we decided to do it again with family and from out of town. We were like, let's go to the Queen Mary. And you guys, you have to, the two of you have to go to the Queen Mary for one thing. I will never go back to the Queen Mary now. What? No, no. Oh, you have a Queen Mary story? I have too many, too many. |
| 1:10.0 | Because they have the greatest buffet |
| 1:13.2 | in the history of the world. Danielle Vee. Okay. So like, we stayed the night and then Alex kept being like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, the buffet. And I was like, okay, the buffet, whatever. You know, I don't, I'm not like a buffet person. How are you not a, how is anybody not a person? |
| 1:27.5 | I don't eat enough. |
| 1:43.7 | Neither do I. I do. See, like, yeah, like my brother-in-law was like, he's made for a buffet. Like, this is just his, you know, like, most of my in-laws, like, they're just like, yes. Bring on, like, all the options. and I'm like the most boring, |
| 1:45.1 | especially when it comes to breakfast. |
| 1:46.9 | It's like the most boring breakfast I'm like the most boring, especially when it comes to breakfast. |
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