Ty Listens to the "Zack to the Future" Podcast

Today I come to you with a new podcast recommendation. Obviously the X Millennial Man podcast is the best out there, but I do listen to other pods.

It’s no secret that RD and I used to enjoy “Saved by the Bell”. We enjoyed it unironically too. We had days where we wore Zubaz pants, we watched the blocks on TNT and TBS and I have been on this very site praising April Richardson’s old podcast “Go Bayside”. It was, keyword was, the best “SBTB” podcast out there until three weeks ago.

In that time there has been a new podcast focused on “SBTB” called “Zack to the Future”. “Go Bayside” will always hold a very special place in my heart, but “Zack to the Future” has host Dashiell Driscoll, you may know him from Funny or Die’s “Zack Morris is Trash”, which is phenomenal, and the cohost is the very Zack Morris himself, Mark-Paul Gosselaar. This is a humongous deal for all the “SBTB” fans out there, which there are so, so many. To get these two to talk about this show is simply amazing. Driscoll is a self described super fan. He created a whole web series. He says he’s seen every episode. He is a writer on the new show they’re doing for “SBTB”. He is very informed, knows the material extremely well and has a great way of hosting a podcast. Then we have Gosselaar, who plays the main guy, the one we all grew up with, cheered for, then rooted against when we all grew up, as the cohost. Also, he says he’s never seen an episode ever. At first I didn’t believe him, but after three episodes, it’s obvious he has never watched this show. He explains that he doesn’t like to watch his performances, and I get that. I don’t listen to pods I’ve been on. I don’t watch TV stories that I’ve been on. I don’t read newspaper articles where I’ve been interviewed. I know what I said and did, and that’s how Gosselaar describes it. It makes sense.

The purpose of this pod, Driscoll has Gosselaar watch an episode, then they talk about it, they break it all down. It’s fantastic to hear Gosselaar talk about what he remembers and what he doesn’t. He gives real insight as to what it was like as a child actor, and a very famous one at that. He’s incredibly humble, and I adore hearing him poke fun at his character of Zack. I also like hearing him talk about how bad of a person Zack is. I also enjoy hearing all the inside baseball talk that Gosselaar gives the listener. There’s so many things that went into this tiny teen comedy shown on Saturday mornings. It’s truly wild. It’s also helps that Gosselaar is the cohost because he gets great guests for the show. Elizabeth Berkeley was on the first episode. I know Tiffani Amber Thiessen will be on later because I heard her voice in a preview. I’m sure he will also get some other big time names to interview for this great, great new show.

This is really a perfect podcast given our current climate. There’s a new “SBTB” show coming out, but we are all home, or should be, and I know I’ve gone back and watched some “SBTB” when I have free time. Now I go and watch the episodes they are going to talk about in the upcoming podcast. We have time to binge, we can do our “homework” as they call it and we can relate to the conversation.

So far this podcast has been great, it’s a great distraction in the best possible way and I love everything about it. The stories, the memories, the hosts, the guests, it is all wonderful. I cannot recommend “Zack to the Future” enough, especially for fans of “SBTB”. It really is the perfect retrospective of a show that had stayed with all of us for a very, very long time. Check it out.

Ty

Ty is the Pop Culture editor for SeedSing and the other host of the X Millennial Man Podcast.

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