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Pod Meets World

Richard Karn Meets World

Pod Meets World

iHeartPodcasts

Tv & Film

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It’s Tool Time on Pod Meets World! If you’re diving into ’90s TV nostalgia, you can’t skip the legend in flannel himself: Richard Karn, a.k.a. Al Borland from Home Improvement!


Richard shares how getting a moving violation helped land a role on one of the biggest sitcoms of all time. And the gang reminisces about his guest starring appearance on Boy Meets World, and what it was like sharing the screen with a diva pig.

Plus, find out how some complete strangers helped change his mind about hosting Family Feud! Survey says...it’s time for a brand new Pod Meets World!

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:04.0

What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

0:08.5

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

0:15.1

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

0:18.5

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.

0:23.9

What difference at this point does it make?

0:27.4

Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Have either of you start.

0:40.3

Have either of you started reading my book? Okay.

1:00.7

I also have not started reading my book club selection. I have it.

1:04.5

Oh, so lazy. It is on, well, here, you want to know the truth? Can I, can I be honest with you guys?

1:09.2

Yeah. Okay. So the day that I had to

1:12.6

pick it, the day that we did our interview with the wonderful office ladies, I completely

1:19.8

forgot that I was going to need to pick the book. And so right before we did the interview and I

1:24.3

needed to say it, I like Googled, Googled best books of 2025 or something. And I read a list of

1:32.9

books, saw the name of it, read the description of it and was like, this sounds like something I would

1:37.7

really like. I'm going to pick it. And then we announced it and so many people were like, this book sucks. Couldn't get through it.

1:47.0

A bunch of comments saying, this book was, it's not what you think it's going to be. It's not good.

1:53.1

And it really scared me. Now I'm like, every time I think of picking it up, I'm like, oh, no, once I start, I have to commit to the whole thing.

2:01.4

So now I've just been afraid to start it. And then there was a possible, I was like, do I, do I just listen to those people and pick a new book? No, we got to do it. Even if, yeah. I guess even if it sucks. If we don't like it, then we get to have a conversation about that. Is it a detective story?

2:15.7

I thought it was going to be a murder, like a thriller.

2:19.1

Like a murder mystery thriller.

2:20.5

And I think that's, about that. Is it a detective story? I thought it was going to be a murder, like a

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