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- Our guests today have been BFFs.
- I know.
- But they have been BFFs for over 30 years.
- Yeah, they have.
- And they met on a little show you might have heard of.
- 9021 O-M-G.
- I know!
(Drew screams)
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- Donna Martin and Kelly Taylor.
And I love this fun fact,
back in the day, they used to go on double dates
with their bad boyfriends.
(Drew gasps)
That sounds like fun.
- All right everybody.
It's Jenny Garth and Tori Spelling.
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- [Ross] Look at them.
- [Drew] Oh my God!
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We love you, get in here.
- [Ross] Get in here, get in here.
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- [Drew] Oh my God.
I'm so happy to see you guys, thank you so much.
- [Jenny] We're so happy to be here.
- Oh my God.
Literally, we were so excited.
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- [Ross] I can't even believe it.
- [Jenny] Oh my God.
- [Ross] It's all coming true.
- All right, so 90210 was such an eye of a storm.
- [Ross] Mm hmm.
- So popular, like such pop culture.
- [Jenny] Mm hmm.
- You know, and everybody had crushes on you guys.
- [Ross] Uh huh.
- The girls and boys.
- [Jenny] Uh huh.
- Equal opportunity.
Everybody was like in love with everybody.
It was like the time of Bop Magazine and posters.
- [Jenny] Mm hmm.
- And like obsession.
How did you guys think about that and weather that storm
or were you just like two girls in it, grabbing hands,
and living your lives?
- We were just going full speed at the time.
- Yeah.
- We didn't know.
- We had no idea.
- Like we weren't as aware as we are now,
acutely aware of like what we went through,
and how we were able to manage that.
But we just had to keep going.
- [Jenny] It made us stronger, if anything.
But I think to answer your question,
I think we really didn't see all of that.
We just did our lives.
- [Ross] And see, I come in with the POV
as like the fans screaming in the mall for you.
- [Drew] Well that. Yeah, yeah.
- As you come out, you know?
And so it's so interesting to think
that in the middle you're just like going to work, you know,
in the middle of it.
- [Jenny] Absolutely.
- Fascinating.
- [Jenny] Yep.
- Oh my gosh, who knows if we would've survived it
if we'd been like acutely aware
that everybody was focused on us.
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- I don't think so.
- At 16 and 17 like.
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- Do you mind going back there for a minute though?
Because, we do love 90210.
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- My childhood begs this moment.
- I'm not kidding, we never missed one episode.
- [Jenny] Oh my gosh.
- Beginning to end, all of them.
- [Drew] Every single.
- You're blowing my mind right now.
- [Drew] Every Wednesday night!
I'm like fan girling on such a hard level right now.
I'm like ooh. (breathes deeply)
- [Drew] It was like a cult, but in a positive way.
(Ross laughs)
- We're right there with you because on our podcast
we're watching it from the very first episode as well.
- Mm hmm.
- For the first time in our lives.
And we're on season four,
and I don't remember anything that happened.
So I'm like, what is gonna happen next week?
I have no idea.
- [Ross] I love that you're doing it.
- So fun.
- It's kind of so brave.
I mean, imagine if you could go back in time
and watch yourself 20 years ago.
- [Jenny] Mm hmm.
- [Ross] You guys, think about that.
So it's brave that you're doing this and looking at it.
- [Jenny] Brave and amazing.
' Cause we're like, wow, look at them.
Look at us. It's great.
We just hate ourselves now.
- Well 'cause now if not,
if you're trying to live your life
you don't really focus on it.
And now you're older
with this different perspective,
and you're looking back, and you're parents,
and like then you think about
what young girls are going through like,
- [Jenny] Yep. - [Tori] Mm hmm.
- It's just, it's such a wild, surreal, full circle moment.
So I'm so glad you're doing it. 'Cause we all love it.
- [Tori] Watching it with our daughters.
[Ross] So crazy.
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- Okay, we have questions. Okay.
- And nothing's off limits, right?
We can ask anything about it.
- Sure.
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- Okay. First of all, I could never get over
how like skintight and awesome Donna's outfits were.
- [Ross] Oh my God, cute.
- [Drew] Like it was full midriff. Like teeny tiny.
- [Jenny] Yeah. That belly.
- And you had the most insane body.
- Yeah. And those bike shorts for days.
- Oh my gosh.
- It was like bras and bike shorts.
Like how was that to sport that look?
- I mean I definitely look back now and I'm like, oh gosh.
I took all of that for granted.
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'Cause I was so scrutinizing, I was really insecure then.
Like even 10 years ago I couldn't watch myself back.
And now I'm able to watch it,
you know, when we watch our podcast
and watch that girl and I'm like, that girl was amazing.
- [Ross] Mm hmm.
- And she should have been secure,
and she was beautiful, and look at her,
and she rocked it, and took chances and yeah.
I love my wardrobe from back then.
- Oh my God, it's so good.
And I love that. It's true.
We all look at photos of like our haircuts.
(Tori laughs)
- We love you!
- And we're like, darn it, why didn't I like that haircut?!
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It was so cute!
What is wrong with us?
- Yeah.
- Well, it's a good thing that you're spending time
going back now and loving up those outfits.
- Right, definitely.
- 'Cause we loved them at the time.
- You are really flexible.
- And I was obsessed with Donna.
And then I was obsessed with Kelly,
who went through a lot on the show.
- So much!
- Amnesia. She joined a cult.
She almost got single white femaled.
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What was your most?
- [Jenny] She did.
- Yeah. Right.
What was your most famous?
- You were shot!
Oh, you got shot?
- [Jenny] In the stomach, yeah.
- [Ross] Yes.
- Right there.
- What was your like most favorite outrageous storyline?
- You named them all.
I mean, I loved every one of them.
- [Ross] Uh huh.
- Because it was just always an emotional roller coaster.
Not only on screen, but in my personal life too.
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- Which was fun.
- I know, 'cause that's the thing.
You're like it's not that I'm on 90210.
I've got stuff going on behind the scenes.
- Yeah, right?
- That I am dealing with!
(all laugh)
- I'm a human.
But I mean there were so many,
I love, I think, probably the stalker,
the single white female one that you mentioned.
That was fun.
- [Ross] Sure. I remember.
- [Jenny] I mean, she got her hair cut just like Kelly.
- [Ross] It was great.
- That was a lot of fun.
But it wasn't just all the crazy things
that happened on the show.
Our show was like a trailblazer.
A trailblazer in the fact that we dealt with topics
that weren't being dealt with on television.
- [Drew] That's right.
- At that time for teens.
- Definitely not for, yeah.
- Yeah.
- What was one of your favorite topics
that you so boldly tackled
that wasn't being tackled at the time
and now obviously is incredibly relevant,
but for you guys, what was one you're like,
I'm glad we touched on that.
- I mean, so many. We're, so far we've seen addiction
that we've talked about.
I think date rape was one of the things
that Kelly went through
that I think really started a lot of conversations
for people.
Safe sex at that time was just not being talked about.
- [Ross] Mm hmm.
- You also tackled breast cancer.
- [Jenny] Breast cancer.
- I loved being America's virgin.
- [Ross] Yeah, you were.
- [Drew] That's right! Chastity.
- [Ross] Yeah, well.
- I, like, girls and boys used to come up to me
and be like, "you're a role model."
I remember at the time thinking, what is that?
And they're like, you show that it's okay
to be popular and be cool and still be a virgin
for men and women.
I was like, "okay, I like this."
- Yeah. And Brian Austin Green was hot.
I was like, I don't know how she's doing it.
(all laugh)
I dunno.
- You also tackled AIDS.
That was still a subject that was not being tackled.
- Not openly, right?
- No.
- Yeah.
- So thank you for doing all that.
- [Jenny] We're proud of (indistinct) too.
- For sure.
- Yeah.
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