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Pod Meets World

Rachael Leigh Cook

Pod Meets World

iHeartPodcasts

Tv & Film

4.77K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

From “The Baby-Sitters Club to “Tom & Huck” to “Josie and the Pussycats,” Rachael Leigh Cook had a real chokehold on the late 90s, and Danielle’s ready to hear all about it on the newest Teen Beat!

 

Rachael takes us behind the scenes of some of her most iconic roles, and reveals a shocker of a story from when she was dating Rider.

 

She may have been immune to developing a crush on Jonathan Taylor Thomas, but she could never have stopped the frenzy that was “She’s All That.”

 

Plus, a look back at the PSA that changed her life forever. Because this is your brain…and THIS is your brain on Teen Beat!

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0:00.0

Give me my need for cigarettes.

0:07.0

I'll never leave your filthy bed.

0:12.0

I stay in the night and one night weekend, two or three years, the kids are not all right, but that's okay because no one here is Teen Beat.

0:27.1

Hello Beatniks.

0:29.3

Hmm.

0:30.1

Hmm.

0:30.9

Slowly getting there.

0:32.2

I can feel it.

0:32.8

We are inching closer to a name.

0:34.9

It's time for another installment of Teen Beat with me, Danielle Fischel,

0:39.2

the host of the 1998 ABC TGIF premiere party featuring the musical stylings of InSync and an

0:46.4

appearance from The Olson Twins. But now, decades later, I sit down with interesting people to chat

0:53.2

about their awkward and embarrassing memories from childhood, all in an attempt to learn more about their present selves.

1:00.0

And I am the perfect host, because, like I say, I gave you my childhood, it's time we hear yours.

1:07.9

And this week, I'm joined by someone else who experienced the joy of puberty

1:12.3

under the watchful eye of an international viewing audience. She began her time in the spotlight

1:17.4

at just seven years old in a PSA for foster care, though not this one, a public service

1:23.6

announcement would later become quite a big deal in her origin story. But first, she'd

1:28.9

transition into print modeling at age 10, all from the comfy confines of her hometown, Minneapolis,

1:35.6

Minnesota. And when she left behind those cold winters and juicy Lucy's for Hollywood,

1:41.2

that was the moment she became a 90s It Girl. She made her screen debut in 1995's

1:47.3

Babysitters Club, a who's who's who's cool girls from the era who about me for the part. But it was

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