rider strong says he now sees Boy Meets World as timeless, even though he once thought the series was too sentimental. He credits the show’s heartfelt life lessons for helping it last, a change in view that comes as he revisits the series through Pod Meets World.
“I've just been embracing my nostalgia and my sort of position in other people's nostalgia but it's a reality that I've sort of come to recognize, and really a process that started with doing the podcast 'Pod Meets World,' and watching the show.” That shift matters because Strong is not just looking back; he is describing how the show’s audience still treats him, Will Friedle and Danielle Fishel as a shared part of their own upbringing.
Pod Meets World and Corey
Strong said the rewatch podcast pushed him to reassess the series on its own terms. He now argues that Boy Meets World kept working because it was “just a good show,” even when it leaned hard into lessons from Mr. Feeney and Corey. His view is practical, not nostalgic fluff: viewers keep returning to something that gave them a moral framework as much as a sitcom.
“When you have Mr. Feeney teaching life lessons and really kind of heavy handedly, like telling Corey this is the lesson of this week's episode, people have come to really appreciate that,” Strong said. He also said the show sometimes took itself very seriously, which is exactly the quality he once resisted. The contradiction is the point — what once felt overdone now reads as part of why the series still travels across generations.
Simple Mills and the 90s
Strong said Simple Mills approached him with an idea about a taste of the 90s, and he connected with it immediately. “They came to me with this crazy idea that there is a taste of the '90s, which I hadn't really thought about,” he said, adding that the snacks were amazing and brought him back to that time. He also said the decade was the last technology moment before cell phones and social media, which helps explain why the era keeps selling as a cultural product.
“it's the last technology moment before we had cell phones and social media and I think that makes it really a special time,” Strong said. He added that he would like clothing that lets people “look like crap” and still be comfortable, a blunt reminder that nostalgia usually arrives as a consumer preference, not a museum exhibit. In his telling, the 90s sell because they feel less managed than the present.
The Red Weather next
Strong also said he has an upcoming fictional true-crime podcast called The Red Weather, extending his work beyond the Boy Meets World rewatch format. That gives him two lanes at once: one built on revisiting a legacy show, the other on a new scripted project. For readers tracking his next move, the real signal is that he is turning nostalgia into a current career strategy rather than treating it as a one-off reunion.
He said many people look at him, Danielle Fishel and Will Friedle as if they grew up together, and that is the business logic behind the story. Boy Meets World still has value because Strong now understands how deeply it sits inside viewers’ memories, and he is using that recognition to keep his own work moving instead of standing still.
