Debbie Matenopoulos shares what she learned as the youngest co-host on 'The View'

In the special podcast series "Behind The Table," two original co-hosts Debbie Matenopoulos and Joy Behar discuss being a part of the show from the start.

Debbie Matenopoulos and Joy Behar joined "The View” together on day one of show and they reconnected again to discuss being a part of the show from the start in the "Behind The Table" podcast.

Matenopoulos was 22 years old and finishing up her journalism degree at New York University when she was "plucked out of nowhere" after working as a production assistant at MTV. "I graduated when ... we were doing the run throughs," Matenopoulos told Behar on the podcast.

It all began when Matenopoulos went to a friend's going away party and a casting agent working with Walters approached her about being on a new show, then called "The View From Here."

Meredith Vieira, Star Jones, Barbara Walters, Behar and Matenopoulos met up at Essex House for an audition and went on to become the original co-hosts of "The View."