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Speaker 1: feel there somewhere ya, welcome back. We are. We are
Speaker 1: into a Q and A episode for you, guys, super stoked.
Speaker 1: We have some really fun fan questions. All right, let's
Speaker 1: let's get into it. I like this question. Wait, wait
Speaker 1: before you ask a question. No, I have a question
Speaker 1: for you because you just got my brain going. Can
Speaker 1: you take that hey, hey, moment you just had and
Speaker 1: like maybe taken into the studio with your band and
Speaker 1: nothing for us? Yeah? Yeah, we just need to loop it.
Speaker 1: We'll just get it on right, put it on a
Speaker 1: rhythm in lube. I'm like, you're doing this big band project, Like,
Speaker 1: can we can we make requests? Is that like when
Speaker 1: you make a request to a DJ. Do not be
Speaker 1: surprised when I send you a country song with hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: who is the singer that just sampled the Muppets? It's
Speaker 1: all my kids listen to what wait? Really? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: like what is her name? Fick a twigs? Is that
Speaker 1: how you say it? Okay? Yeah, yeah, Grandma anyway, she's
Speaker 1: got this like, oh my god, I did not do
Speaker 1: it for you, Kermy and my kids are singing it,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, are you are you miss Piggy right now? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Joy sample this, that's that's okay, the Muppets. I'll be
Speaker 1: your mom. Why not? Well, if I especially if I
Speaker 1: get somebody who does them upet voice to maybe do
Speaker 1: it in the background. Yeah, like a kermit, Hey, hey hey,
Speaker 1: we're really off the river. We've really we've really gone
Speaker 1: and taken a left. But I like it. Twig all right,
Speaker 1: take it away with the first question that actually has
Speaker 1: to do with this show and not the record. We're
Speaker 1: harassing you to write for us, Hillary, go read it. Okay,
Speaker 1: for any teenager watching the show today, what is the
Speaker 1: main thing you would like them to take away from it?
Speaker 1: I love that question. That's a good line. I think
Speaker 1: it's like simplicity works. Yeah, in your life in creativity
Speaker 1: and material that there's nothing wrong with complexity, and there
Speaker 1: was certainly emotional complexity, but like you can enjoy your
Speaker 1: life without all the electronics, you can you can feel
Speaker 1: all your feelings without needing to send everything through a
Speaker 1: text message. Sometimes talking to somebody in person is the
Speaker 1: best thing to do. I just feel like there's a
Speaker 1: simplicity about our show in comparison to the way teenagers
Speaker 1: are living their lives right now with all the technology
Speaker 1: that I just would love for them to embrace a
Speaker 1: little bit more of maybe. You know what else for
Speaker 1: me really comes up is communication, because when things go unsaid,
Speaker 1: your brain will fill in the gaps. And the best
Speaker 1: relationships on our show the relationships that people have come
Speaker 1: to us for years and said I want a friendship
Speaker 1: like that. Those come from communication. But I like what
Speaker 1: you added in their joy, Like sometimes you just gotta
Speaker 1: give it a beat, like if you're going to be
Speaker 1: friends with people for twenty or thirty or forty years,
Speaker 1: like sometimes everybody just needs a second. Give people a beat,
Speaker 1: love them, and then talk to them, you know, stick,
Speaker 1: stick with it. I think I think all of that
Speaker 1: is really important, and I think our show modeled that
Speaker 1: really well. Sometimes we modeled crazy things like dogharts, but
Speaker 1: sometimes communication, the communication is so right. Like I tell
Speaker 1: Maria this all the time because I got her an
Speaker 1: iPad and I don't she still doesn't have a phone.
Speaker 1: But I have rules around the iPad and one of
Speaker 1: them is you are not allowed to have like meaningful
Speaker 1: conversations via text right now. When you're older, maybe you
Speaker 1: can figure it out, but I mean I still struggle
Speaker 1: with that. But but for her, age like to train
Speaker 1: her brain to start having like emotional conversations on text,
Speaker 1: which happens, like she'll get these messages from other girls
Speaker 1: like why did you say that in class? And what
Speaker 1: you know? And I'm like, they just say, I'll talk
Speaker 1: to you tomorrow. Show up at school and talk to
Speaker 1: them face to face because it's just so much better.
Speaker 1: And I love that we did that. We did that,
Speaker 1: we got bad at it later in life as humans,
Speaker 1: I would say the reason the characters on our show
Speaker 1: had such rich lives, Like they're fun to watch, right,
Speaker 1: it's fun to live through them because they got involved.
Speaker 1: You know, Brooke Davis was throwing prom and doing the
Speaker 1: you know, designated driving thing. Haley. Yeah, they can joins
Speaker 1: the cheerleading squad, right, it's out of her conference zone,
Speaker 1: but she joins Lucas Scott gets off of that river
Speaker 1: court and like joins in the school. Peyton doesn't have
Speaker 1: a place. And so launch is this all ages thing
Speaker 1: at Trick, you know, getting it and thought, yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean getting involved is something that I think COVID really
Speaker 1: messed up for a lot of kids because it was like,
Speaker 1: there wasn't that natural passing of the baton, and so
Speaker 1: it's almost like you just gotta jump in and even
Speaker 1: if it's a club that you don't know if you're
Speaker 1: gonna love it or not, like join that Spanish club,
Speaker 1: Honey Guts against drunk driving, you know, like join the thing,
Speaker 1: but just join. Stute observation, there's the fact that COVID
Speaker 1: messed that up. I never thought about that, but I
Speaker 1: think you're right. I think there's a lot of kids
Speaker 1: that never got that sort of passed down to them
Speaker 1: because that to year gap. Yeah, it was weird. Get
Speaker 1: in there, all right. You know what I think about
Speaker 1: a lot. I think about how crazy it is that
Speaker 1: you know and you read it, you learn about this
Speaker 1: in school, right, they say history repeats itself around every
Speaker 1: hundred years. And I don't know if you guys have
Speaker 1: thought about this, but thinking back to you know, the
Speaker 1: big flu pandemic of nineteen eighteen, and you see all
Speaker 1: the people isolated and you know, in their masks and
Speaker 1: all the black and white photos, and I just think like,
Speaker 1: oh man, it's been so hard for us, to your point,
Speaker 1: to not be able to gather, and especially for kids.
Speaker 1: And then I'm like, what did they do when they
Speaker 1: couldn't FaceTime? You know, what did they do when they
Speaker 1: couldn't be in school on zoom? Like damn? And it
Speaker 1: makes me wonder I've never thought about this. We were there,
Speaker 1: schools running drama clubs on zoom? Were kids able to
Speaker 1: have any version of that? I don't know the answer,
Speaker 1: but yes there were. I love the desire to be
Speaker 1: resilient and the desire to figure out how to gather.
Speaker 1: And my hope, hearing your observation, is that kids who
Speaker 1: got out of that practice, who do as you said, joy,
Speaker 1: feel a little more comfortable maybe on an iPad than
Speaker 1: they do in person. I hope your parents are also
Speaker 1: pushing them to get back together in person now because
Speaker 1: they can, and to join the extra club to do
Speaker 1: the after school extracurricular thing that you know is back
Speaker 1: on this year because I think we're so lucky to
Speaker 1: be more connected than ever. But I also think nothing
Speaker 1: replaces face to face time with your people and with
Speaker 1: your peers, and and that I think is where you
Speaker 1: learn to communicate like that. It is where you learn
Speaker 1: to be inspired by, you know, some group activity, the
Speaker 1: puppy pile, raman school and just puppy piling with your friends.
Speaker 1: I'm still puppy pile. It's my dream situation Marian days.
Speaker 1: I love pulling up to school and watching her all
Speaker 1: her friends are all climbing all over each other. Oh
Speaker 1: that's so good. Cute. That was a good question. Okay, listen,
Speaker 1: if you had a theme song that played every time
Speaker 1: your character walked into a room, what would it be?
Speaker 1: I mean, I know what mine is. It's kind of
Speaker 1: an obscure song. This is an obscure song. When we
Speaker 1: were filming One Tree Hill, this biopic um documentary about
Speaker 1: Harry Nielsen came out and he has written, like so
Speaker 1: many songs you've heard, you just don't know that he's
Speaker 1: who wrote them. And he has this song that's like
Speaker 1: you break him. Ahart you break him Ahart, So you
Speaker 1: and I that is Peyton Sawyer like it's obscure. It's
Speaker 1: like acknowledging that I'm dying inside. And also like, god,
Speaker 1: that is so funny. I don't think I've ever thought
Speaker 1: of this before. But when you read the question, these
Speaker 1: boots were made for walking in my head? Yeah, and
Speaker 1: then I was like, why am I thinking about that?
Speaker 1: For brook? And then I was like, honestly, it's not
Speaker 1: not a no little Nancy Sinatra. Yeah, it's just like
Speaker 1: a little sassy lad the American Royalty. Okay, come into it.
Speaker 1: I love it. I'm probably gonna stick with I think
Speaker 1: I said Casey Musgraves the last time, and she came
Speaker 1: to mind again for that reason. But I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say a cup of tea, okay. When I think
Speaker 1: of Hayley, she was so confident, you know, even though
Speaker 1: she had kind of some neurotic insecurities, there was a
Speaker 1: confidence about her that was like, I know, I'm not
Speaker 1: everybody's cup of tea. Like it's okay, you know, we're
Speaker 1: not we're not all gonna you're not You're not always
Speaker 1: gonna like me, and I'm always gonna like you. But
Speaker 1: she was confident in who she was. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: like that. I think it's cool. Yeah. Man, all right,
Speaker 1: we're putting a mixtape together. Hold on, do we have
Speaker 1: any other characters that we have songs for? Let's see,
Speaker 1: what would the Nathan Scott song be? Oh yeah, oh gosh.
Speaker 1: I feel like he's so like something so classic, like
Speaker 1: Tom Petty or Bruce Springsteen like, okay, such, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? That's what comes to mind
Speaker 1: for me immediately, is that you're a and those sounds. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I think of the marriage between Haley and Nathan,
Speaker 1: and I think of that Eric Church song Wrecking Ball.
Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm talking about? That song so perverted,
Speaker 1: but it's like a husband and wife like hook up song.
Speaker 1: You guys has great horror energy. Oh joy, put that
Speaker 1: on Hey, I'm putting it on my list. I wish
Speaker 1: I had a better answer for that. I feel like
Speaker 1: there's there's My brain goes totally blank when somebody says,
Speaker 1: think of a song, all I can think of It's
Speaker 1: like I can't think of a single record I've ever
Speaker 1: listened to him. No, there's got to be way better
Speaker 1: songs for Haley and Nathan Lucas is definitely like a
Speaker 1: born in the USA Springsteen kind of a song, right,
Speaker 1: because isn't he so like he's so literary, Like what's
Speaker 1: a good Yeah? Wasn't that a Bikowski poem that Cheryl
Speaker 1: Crowe turned into Santa Monica Boulevard? Wasn't that like a
Speaker 1: Bikowski poem? Oh? Was it? Yeah? I feel like yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like he needs something that that references like yeah, right,
Speaker 1: especially because he did his character did all the voiceovers
Speaker 1: of literature and read, you know, sections of books and
Speaker 1: poems and things. I'd love to find him an anthem
Speaker 1: that has a little a little classic writing. Totally. Wait, Hillary,
Speaker 1: don't you think for Peyton it would be just a
Speaker 1: girl from No Doubt in the nineties? Such a bitch?
Speaker 1: Doesn't Peyton say like a mean Gwen Stefani comment in
Speaker 1: the show? Does she? I don't know. I think she
Speaker 1: said something should be about Gwen Stefani like season one,
Speaker 1: just like, oh that's basic, Like it's so late. Love
Speaker 1: me some Gwen. I know she's cute, but I love
Speaker 1: that Peyton is like, no, everybody likes No Doubt, so
Speaker 1: I don't die well. Micha Oh my god, my son
Speaker 1: has a friend like that. That's like we hate Weezer.
Speaker 1: I'm like, he says, you, yeah, awesome your mouth, young man.
Speaker 1: We should kick it to the audience for Dan Scott,
Speaker 1: Like I want to hear from the audience, yes, what
Speaker 1: they think Dan Scott's themed song is our bad boy
Speaker 1: m Maybe Nathan's would be He's so fun. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: wouldn't that be cute? Every time he walked in the room,
Speaker 1: we get annoying. After that, he's adorable. All right. Number three,
Speaker 1: what's the last book you read? Oh, well, you're reading
Speaker 1: all the time, Hillary to constantly. I read Mystic Christianity.
Speaker 1: It's a book that was written in nineteen o eight
Speaker 1: and it was a critique of American Christianity at the
Speaker 1: time and about just all the they make up that's
Speaker 1: not actually in the Bible. And it talked about like
Speaker 1: things that I had never considered, like who are the
Speaker 1: wise men? Like, really think about that for a second?
Speaker 1: Who who? Who bankrolled Jesus so he could escape, know,
Speaker 1: King Herod, And so it's stuff like that. Um, it's
Speaker 1: you know, it's a lot of New Testament philosophy and
Speaker 1: it's a really fun beach read kids great time. I
Speaker 1: have a book that is it's funny. I finished a
Speaker 1: book last night and then started a new one today
Speaker 1: and the next book in my stack based on what
Speaker 1: you just said you need to read. It's called Jesus
Speaker 1: and John Wayne. And it's about the marriage of like
Speaker 1: the deep toxicity of the evangelical church and toxic American
Speaker 1: masculinity and how it's completely missed it's been so faith
Speaker 1: is about and what being a man is about. And
Speaker 1: it's like the back of the book jacket gave me chills.
Speaker 1: So I'm excited to get there. But I just finished
Speaker 1: the most beautiful book. It's a it's really amusing on
Speaker 1: girlhood and growing up and grief and loss and love
Speaker 1: and all these things. It's called The Paper Palace. Oh
Speaker 1: I heard about that one. Oh my god, it's so
Speaker 1: so stunning. I could not put it down. Um So
Speaker 1: I stayed up late to finish it last night, and
Speaker 1: then today I started um Cole Arthur Riley, who runs
Speaker 1: Black Liturgies, wrote a book called This Here Flesh that
Speaker 1: I'm reading, and it's it's really about the liberation of
Speaker 1: the systems we were raised in and how it's actually
Speaker 1: our community that gets us there and all of the
Speaker 1: stories that make us and so sensing sensing themes, you
Speaker 1: keep a book in every m's like this is yeah.
Speaker 1: I in the same way that I want to pile
Speaker 1: with my people, I want to just be under a
Speaker 1: pile of books at all times. I feel that for you, Joy,
Speaker 1: what are you reading? I just finished All the Light
Speaker 1: We Cannot See, which was so beautiful. Um. I'm in
Speaker 1: a little neighborhood book club, so that's fine. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful um telling of a little blind girl
Speaker 1: in World War Two and she's in Germany and there's
Speaker 1: a boy that she be friends who gets recruited into
Speaker 1: the Nazi army. And it's just like really putting on
Speaker 1: glasses to look at how things might have felt from
Speaker 1: the other side, and and what it looks like to
Speaker 1: be confronted with ideas that you don't agree with, but
Speaker 1: you go along with it anyway because it's just too
Speaker 1: scary to say I don't believe that, um. And and
Speaker 1: then what how this little girl survives? There's it's it
Speaker 1: goes back and forth between the two stories. And then
Speaker 1: how this little girl survives and actually thrive even though
Speaker 1: everything around her is falling apart. She can hear it,
Speaker 1: but she can't see it, and so she's got this
Speaker 1: whole world constructed in her mind that she lives in
Speaker 1: and it's just it's really beautiful. When did that come out?
Speaker 1: Is that new? I feel like it was maybe fourteen
Speaker 1: or sixteen, I'm not sure. And then the audiobook I'm
Speaker 1: halfway through right now is Lessons in Biology or less sorry,
Speaker 1: lessons in Chemistry, which is also great, and it's about
Speaker 1: a female chemist in the nineteen sixties and it's still
Speaker 1: the crazy that happens to her, but it's so well
Speaker 1: right to imagine that was a weird scene. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but she well, she turns her chemistry knowledge because they
Speaker 1: just won't let her climb the ranks and do what
Speaker 1: she's capable of doing. So she turns it into cooking
Speaker 1: and like becomes this host of a cooking show in America.
Speaker 1: But they flash back to this whole story of her
Speaker 1: life and it's great. Sweet, So I recommend, I recommend.
Speaker 1: Great question. I love it. Okay, we have looking back.
Speaker 1: Do you think there was something your character did or
Speaker 1: said that was ahead of its time? Well, hm hmm,
Speaker 1: not really. I mean I still stand by the fact
Speaker 1: that Burke Davis invented uber feels ahead of its time. God,
Speaker 1: you know the guy that like eventually opened that company.
Speaker 1: He watched our show in college. I bent money on it.
Speaker 1: He sat there and cried with all the raps. You
Speaker 1: just cry, um Peyton ahead of her time. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I mean I feel like I feel like it was
Speaker 1: true to my high school experience. I just hung out
Speaker 1: with my friend Marla the other day and she and
Speaker 1: I just became friends in the last few years. She's
Speaker 1: a new friend. She'd never seen the show, and we
Speaker 1: were hanging out and she's like, I watched the first
Speaker 1: season of your show and I was like, you weirdo,
Speaker 1: why would you do that? She's like, because I I
Speaker 1: feel like it's you right, Like are you Payton? Were
Speaker 1: you Peyton? In high school? Was that real? And it
Speaker 1: was all the questions about like sexuality and place and
Speaker 1: gender and like what do I do with myself? Like
Speaker 1: all of that was my experience, And so I don't
Speaker 1: think it was ahead of its time, but it was timely.
Speaker 1: That's cool. Yeah, I don't know, the only thing I
Speaker 1: could think of is just Haley being a pregnant girl.
Speaker 1: In high school, that nobody shamed for being pregnant in
Speaker 1: high school? Right, that was kind of cool. Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: In fact, we all like throw baby showers and it
Speaker 1: was kind of fun. I know, I know totally. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I guess that's that's a nice world to him. Do
Speaker 1: any teachers ever stop Haley and be like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: are you okay? No? Never, that's wild, all right, it's
Speaker 1: really wild that everyone just acts like it's totally normal. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well it's because she was married that made it okay,
Speaker 1: so suddenly everybody, well, you know, it's another that's a
Speaker 1: conversation for another day. But what's the line from oh
Speaker 1: brother about he's bouta fad? Yeah, Haley whatever. Regardless, it
Speaker 1: does seem like a that's a nice world to dream
Speaker 1: of where a girl could make whatever choice she wanted
Speaker 1: and not get shamed for it either way. Yeah, just
Speaker 1: be supported. It'll be nice if only poor Rachel had
Speaker 1: had that. Hey, thanks for listening. Don't forget to leave
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