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Speaker 3: Well. Well, gosh, Sophia, they gave you the Burning Boat episode,
Speaker 3: the penultimate episode.
Speaker 1: It made me so emotional to watch this.
Speaker 4: You guys, me too.
Speaker 1: This was a great app oh man.
Speaker 3: Alright, Season nine, episode twelve, Anyone who had a Heart
Speaker 3: All of Us Air date March twenty eight, twenty twelve.
Speaker 1: Okay, As Haley prepares.
Speaker 3: To mc the annual tree Hill Burning Boat Festival, Brook
Speaker 3: uses this opportunity to process her father's betrayal, while Julian
Speaker 3: tries to breathe new life into a path. Idea Mouth
Speaker 3: and Millie make a change, and what a change it
Speaker 3: is to their morning show, and Clay and Quinn get
Speaker 3: ready for Logan's first night at the beach house. Director
Speaker 3: Sofia bush Oh which was.
Speaker 4: Me written by Brian L.
Speaker 3: Riding's well, he was a new writer on the show.
Speaker 3: I guess right, I don't recognize it.
Speaker 5: I recognize yeah.
Speaker 1: I think he was new for our last season. And
Speaker 1: what a great episode. The callbacks to early season nostalgia,
Speaker 1: the kind of lessons you see all of these adults
Speaker 1: that we've grown up with processing. I just I loved
Speaker 1: it so so.
Speaker 3: Much, and there were so many pieces of nostalgia that
Speaker 3: were intentionally dropped in. I mean, watching the boys on
Speaker 3: the river court, watching Brooke and Victoria back together, Mouth
Speaker 3: and Milly back together, well, Hayley with Lydia a lot
Speaker 3: was great too. Being able to see I love that
Speaker 3: they just like threw Chase and Haley together for this
Speaker 3: whole episode since Nathan.
Speaker 4: Was not around.
Speaker 1: It was so sweet.
Speaker 4: And being able to.
Speaker 3: See Quinn and Clay finally coming together as a family,
Speaker 3: the family they've always wanted to be with Logan included now.
Speaker 5: Getting to see Richard Burgee with his shirt off.
Speaker 1: I mean right, what like Okay, that.
Speaker 5: Was the shirtless hunk this show had been missing the time,
Speaker 5: how sir?
Speaker 1: I know, you know, it was really fun to watch
Speaker 1: the There's so much I remember about the episode obviously
Speaker 1: because I directed it, and because it was so close
Speaker 1: to the end and there was so much that I
Speaker 1: had hanging around in my brain and in my heart
Speaker 1: about what I wanted to make sure it felt like
Speaker 1: as we began to you know, close the box and
Speaker 1: then put the bow on it and wrap up our show.
Speaker 1: And it was really fun going into it thinking oh,
Speaker 1: I can't wait to remember all of this, and then
Speaker 1: to still be surprised. I forgot that Julian was doing
Speaker 1: this practice pitch to Brook and then it did that
Speaker 1: great transition to find him in the pitch. What I
Speaker 1: remembered as soon as it started is Peter Kowalski, our
Speaker 1: DP and I worked really hard on these these kinds
Speaker 1: of cool trick shots where the camera's pulling back but
Speaker 1: also zooming in and it kind of changes the way
Speaker 1: the movements feel across the long dining room table at
Speaker 1: Brook and Julian's house, and instantly I remembered this moment,
Speaker 1: you know, standing in my wardrobe behind video village watching
Speaker 1: them do it with second team and being like, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's working. Oh my god, we got it. This is
Speaker 1: going to be so great. And like those little things
Speaker 1: that put energy you know, in the opening of the episode,
Speaker 1: I wanted the energy to feel up. I wanted it
Speaker 1: to feel happy, and I think it did.
Speaker 4: It really did.
Speaker 5: And when you transition to him being in the actual boardroom, Yeah,
Speaker 5: was that because there's a there's a picture over Julian's
Speaker 5: shoulder and it is either it either is or it's
Speaker 5: very intentionally reminiscent of the Warner Brothers water Tower, Yeah, which,
Speaker 5: by the way, was a part of One Tree Hill,
Speaker 5: which is part of the c W you know. So
Speaker 5: I wasn't certain if we were allowed to reference that
Speaker 5: or if you were just cheekily put in something that
Speaker 5: was nearly identical to it.
Speaker 1: That I would imagine that was a decision made by
Speaker 1: the producers. I do know we all were like, he's
Speaker 1: like pitching the WB right, Like that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1: And I liked in a way that the pitch got
Speaker 1: to go so well, and also that it felt light
Speaker 1: despite the fact obviously that our writers were trying to
Speaker 1: poke fun at you know, Twilight and the Vampire Diaries
Speaker 1: and everything else. It worked. Austin delivered it so much
Speaker 1: humor and the kind of coyness between Brooke and Julian.
Speaker 1: I think overshadowed what might have seemed petty on the page,
Speaker 1: and then when he's in the room and her feedback,
Speaker 1: which seems silly and flirtatious, actually works, and then we
Speaker 1: make fun of ourselves and he's like, it doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be in a conference room, we can be in
Speaker 1: a hot tub. Like it just felt very correct.
Speaker 3: Here's my pitch that I think this was a missed
Speaker 3: opportunity because we were at the end of our show.
Speaker 3: We totally could have done a spinoff that was the
Speaker 3: filmed version, yes, like Julian's version.
Speaker 4: Yes, Ravens.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it could have started a whole.
Speaker 3: New series where we just like took the characters in
Speaker 3: different directions as you do, and named them different ways.
Speaker 1: It could have been like The Office. You could have
Speaker 1: watched everyone film a TV show. You know, you could
Speaker 1: have been the filming of the TV show. Could have
Speaker 1: been a really funny, funny thing.
Speaker 4: Even just like the meta. It would been so meta.
Speaker 5: As a fan as well, it would have been cool
Speaker 5: for Lucas to have been back at least some capacity,
Speaker 5: seeing as how it's his book that's being pitched, even
Speaker 5: if it's just him and Julian like talking it out
Speaker 5: or something. Yeah, I think the fans would have loved that,
Speaker 5: and like, that's the most organic way to have him
Speaker 5: be there, you know, it's his books.
Speaker 1: Yes, especially because we did get that years ago. You know,
Speaker 1: we had Lucas and Julian working together, trying to make
Speaker 1: a project together. It was the whole We got James
Speaker 1: Vanderbeek to come in as the you know, the worst
Speaker 1: director ever. We've seen it and it's worked, and it
Speaker 1: would have been really fun to nod to that that
Speaker 1: moment when oh, we didn't get to make Ravens as
Speaker 1: a movie, you know, and unkindness of Ravens as a movie,
Speaker 1: and now Julian's going to do it as a show.
Speaker 1: It would have been so cool to offer that it
Speaker 1: was working. To the writer, what I will say is
Speaker 1: not having that character come back. What touched me and
Speaker 1: what I did forget is that as Julian is pitching
Speaker 1: it because Brooke is his wife, he pitches this story
Speaker 1: of all these kids in high school in a way
Speaker 1: that kind of sounds like a love letter to her.
Speaker 1: And the first version, you know, when they tried to
Speaker 1: make the movie really wasn't. She was so offended by
Speaker 1: her character write up and it all went so badly
Speaker 1: for them that they almost broke up. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, look at the way he's pitching this.
Speaker 1: This is so sweet, Like if i'd actually been her,
Speaker 1: what I would have given to be a fly on
Speaker 1: the wall for this moment. And I was really touched
Speaker 1: by that. I didn't remember it.
Speaker 5: Well.
Speaker 4: We didn't have James either.
Speaker 5: Which is so weird, so weird.
Speaker 1: What was he doing because I know and I don't
Speaker 1: remember what, and I'd be we should have asked him
Speaker 1: in Paris?
Speaker 5: Did he direct the episode before this? By chance? No,
Speaker 5: he didn't, didn't I don't think so.
Speaker 1: I wasn't paying sorry that would pay attention.
Speaker 6: But he he had something going on this you know,
Speaker 6: season nine special time season nine mini series, because he
Speaker 6: negotiated to have a certain number of episodes.
Speaker 1: Off, so you know that was the kidnapping storyline. Was
Speaker 1: partially motivated by that. But I couldn't believe that one
Speaker 1: of the episodes they gave him off was the second
Speaker 1: to last one. I was like, hello, he must have
Speaker 1: been filming or something and needed the week. I will say, though, Joy,
Speaker 1: you did such a beautiful job making Nathan's absence work
Speaker 1: as Haley, because the way that you shared you know
Speaker 1: what was essentially expository writing to explain why he's gone,
Speaker 1: you grounded it in such a place of I've really
Speaker 1: been through something with my person, but our kid has
Speaker 1: been through it too.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you put a real weight behind that. And
Speaker 1: so even though it felt strange as a viewer to
Speaker 1: have Nathan missing, your explanation of why and what Jamie
Speaker 1: needed and how you have to prioritize your kid above
Speaker 1: even yourself made the whole thing work for me. So
Speaker 1: it hats off to you.
Speaker 3: Oh thanks, I think it's a reasonable I mean, we
Speaker 3: know as AFEs were like, wait, we missed our character
Speaker 3: in the show, But yeah, it is plausible for sure.
Speaker 3: I think as a family, that's just what they would
Speaker 3: have needed. And I really enjoyed seeing Haley just happy
Speaker 3: with Lydia. It wasn't all the stress around the baby.
Speaker 3: It feels like since Lydia was born there was just stress, stress, stress, stress, dress.
Speaker 4: So this was nice.
Speaker 3: Plus I had my breastfeeding body, which was super fun
Speaker 3: to see, like all the baby weighted dropped off and
Speaker 3: my boobs were big. I was like, oh that's fun.
Speaker 1: You're like, hey, girl.
Speaker 5: You know who else's body was dramatic. Different was good
Speaker 5: old Mouth.
Speaker 4: Good old Mouth.
Speaker 5: Thank god we put that fat suit to bed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure he was thrilled as well.
Speaker 5: Oh to see Mouth and Milly in a scene that
Speaker 5: wasn't about that ridiculous storyline was yeah, so nice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, them really getting back to themselves. And I loved that.
Speaker 1: The run, even though it came from a storyline we hated,
Speaker 1: gave us the device to get to the river court
Speaker 1: with all the boys because seeing them get back on
Speaker 1: the court and Mouth doing his announcing like he did
Speaker 1: in season one, even in the pilot, it hits you
Speaker 1: with that nostalgia and you remember how far these friends
Speaker 1: have come together, and you know now so many of
Speaker 1: them have kids, and it's like, oh my god. Again,
Speaker 1: just thinking about what we wanted to call back from
Speaker 1: the beginning of the show as we were wrapping it up,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a great device for the writers
Speaker 1: to put all the boys there and then to bring
Speaker 1: Milli there and for that to be the place where
Speaker 1: she said to him, you miss sports, and yes I
Speaker 1: want to work with you, and yes I want to
Speaker 1: be with you every day, but I know you enough
Speaker 1: and love you enough to know what you need, and
Speaker 1: that it wound up being, you know, the joke of
Speaker 1: like you're trying to get me fired, Like the whole
Speaker 1: thing just played so perfectly. But it really struck me
Speaker 1: watching it that I'm so happy we shot that scene
Speaker 1: at the river court because in a way, without having
Speaker 1: to say it, Milly was meeting a part of mouth
Speaker 1: that predates her, but it's so central to who he is,
Speaker 1: and that's how your locations can become characters in your story,
Speaker 1: and I thought it really it just really added something
Speaker 1: for me watching it.
Speaker 3: Back now every time there on the river court, and
Speaker 3: there was quite a bit of that in this episode.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we didn't use.
Speaker 3: It as much as I wish we had over the
Speaker 3: last few seasons, same because it is such a central
Speaker 3: piece and I get that the boys weren't really playing
Speaker 3: basketball anymore, so it just became this place that sometimes
Speaker 3: character would go, characters would go to stop and think
Speaker 3: because it was in case they used.
Speaker 4: To go, which is sweet.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I was really happy to see that in
Speaker 3: this episode.
Speaker 4: And you and I had had a scene there.
Speaker 5: About that.
Speaker 4: It was so windy, but it felt like it was
Speaker 4: only windy on my side. I don't know if you
Speaker 4: noticed this.
Speaker 1: No, every time.
Speaker 3: They shot to you, your hair was perfect, your makeup
Speaker 3: is perfect.
Speaker 4: The sun wasn't in your eyes. It was just like ah.
Speaker 3: And then they cut to me and it was like
Speaker 3: the the bizarro world version of it where I was like,
Speaker 3: my eyes were you could see my mescara was down
Speaker 3: on my eyes because my eyes were watering from the song.
Speaker 3: And yeah, and my hair just could not be tamed,
Speaker 3: and my felt like my makeup was you know, my
Speaker 3: skin was like eating my makeup and all that. It
Speaker 3: was like I felt like, who does she play in
Speaker 3: Kate McKinnon and Barbie?
Speaker 4: What was this?
Speaker 5: Oh messy Barbie or whatever like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I totally felt like that when it made me laugh.
Speaker 3: But it was a really sweet scene. I loved seeing
Speaker 3: us together do that.
Speaker 1: I loved it too. And I loved that because it
Speaker 1: was the burning boat. It gave us the device of
Speaker 1: people are going to go sit at the river court
Speaker 1: and watch this thing get constructed. And I remember really,
Speaker 1: you know, wanting to tell the story and the way
Speaker 1: I wanted to tell it as a director, and really
Speaker 1: wanting to fight for all these scenes to be there
Speaker 1: no matter what, and then watching it back going. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why they hated shooting at the River Court because
Speaker 1: of the wind. Because we had to ad r all
Speaker 1: the dialogue. We had to loop every single line. They
Speaker 1: couldn't control the weather.
Speaker 3: It was a pain trans bo too, because if it rained,
Speaker 3: there was just we were in a pool everywhere you walked.
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Speaker 5: I have a question about the burning boat of it all,
Speaker 5: because I have only ever known like a burning boat
Speaker 5: type ceremony, like a Viking funeral to be when the
Speaker 5: boat is actually on the water. It's kind of the
Speaker 5: point of it. It can burn itself all the way
Speaker 5: into the water. So I was very surprised when it
Speaker 5: was a landlocked ship. So was there ever talk in
Speaker 5: this episode of it actually being a floating boat.
Speaker 1: No, because we had done a burning boat just like
Speaker 1: this in the high school years and it was in
Speaker 1: the exact same place.
Speaker 4: Oh so it's like a town tradition.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So when you open your speech, you know when
Speaker 1: Haley's talking and says, you know, welcome back to our tradition.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen it in I don't know, seven or
Speaker 1: eight seasons, but apparently we do it every year. That's
Speaker 1: the fireproof platform on the bricks Man.
Speaker 3: They really missed that too, because that would have been
Speaker 3: a fun thing to do, Like everybody's guaranteed at the
Speaker 3: end of every season there's a burning boat episode and
Speaker 3: what's going to happen and all the drama.
Speaker 5: Also, it's the ninety third annual burning boat. You're telling
Speaker 5: me they were burning boats on land and the like
Speaker 5: you know in nineteen hundred, Like, no, come on, you
Speaker 5: know that they were pushing those things out. They didn't
Speaker 5: have a fireproof area. But regardless, it still looked great.
Speaker 5: But as soon as I started watching that and I
Speaker 5: saw that it wasn't going to go to the water,
Speaker 5: was like, I got asked, so if she if she
Speaker 5: was pushing for that to be on water, and maybe
Speaker 5: it was just like logistically impossible or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's I think it's a little logistically
Speaker 1: impossible because you know, when you remove the movie magic
Speaker 1: of it, the boat is burning most of the time
Speaker 1: with gas lines like little pipes that are letting flames out.
Speaker 1: You can really see it when it starts. It's like
Speaker 1: little fingers of fire that aren't really touching anything. And
Speaker 1: they don't burn the boat for a day because you're
Speaker 1: filming all the stuff that happens before they really soak
Speaker 1: it in whatever they soak it in and light it
Speaker 1: on fire. And so the boat ironically has to burn
Speaker 1: but also not burn. So it's part of the reason
Speaker 1: they keep it on land because they've got all the
Speaker 1: tanks underneath it and all the things that allow them
Speaker 1: to control the fire for However, many nights of filming
Speaker 1: prior to the actual burn you have to do. And
Speaker 1: so that was a weird thing too, logistically, sitting with
Speaker 1: the producers and going, well, how are we going to
Speaker 1: burn the boat for hours before we burn the boat?
Speaker 1: Like fires fire?
Speaker 5: What do you mean? Yeah?
Speaker 3: And if you spray it down then it doesn't relight
Speaker 3: all of a sudden.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there were all these crazy things that we had
Speaker 1: to do, and there is there is one moment when
Speaker 1: it starts to burn and you can really just see
Speaker 1: that it's all the gas line tubes that made me
Speaker 1: cringe then and makes me cringe now. Because they were like,
Speaker 1: don't worry, we'll never use the very beginning. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: you used the very beginning.
Speaker 3: You never believe them when they say that. Never believe them, actors,
Speaker 3: when people tell you will never use it, do not
Speaker 3: believe the lies.
Speaker 1: Terrible to the end.
Speaker 5: Though, I did not notice that shot, so that's you
Speaker 5: only noticed it because you are aware of it. I
Speaker 5: don't I doubt anyone else unless it's a fan who's
Speaker 5: watching it back for the fourth time or something.
Speaker 1: It's like, why does the fire look weird? Yeah? Yes,
Speaker 1: you know what, I really do love about the boat.
Speaker 1: As much as I hated the rigging, I love that
Speaker 1: it gave us a central place for people to gather,
Speaker 1: Like Joy was saying, you know, even the Chase and
Speaker 1: Haley run ins, you know, seeing Brooke and Victoria. I
Speaker 1: forgot about the gag with the golf clubs for us
Speaker 1: and trying to haul those up into the boat together
Speaker 1: is so funny to me. And just watching everybody come
Speaker 1: to this place to put something down, to try to
Speaker 1: get rid of something, and then Antoine being our star
Speaker 1: comedian with CDs. It's such a good device, the traditional moment.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And also that's such a relatable human moment that
Speaker 5: of course someone is just gonna come and want to
Speaker 5: just dump their trash. Of course they are.
Speaker 1: I mean these that.
Speaker 5: Might not be good for the environment or yeah, for
Speaker 5: the cause.
Speaker 1: I mean such a funny moment between the two of you,
Speaker 1: joy because you having to be like, no, you can't
Speaker 1: burn these, and you're like but why and you're like
Speaker 1: with it and him leaving and you having to push
Speaker 1: the box down behind the pirate. There were moments that
Speaker 1: I remember thinking, because of the set deck we had,
Speaker 1: like I want some of these moments to almost feel
Speaker 1: a little campy, like Pirates of the Caribbean. And that
Speaker 1: was one of the moments that really worked for me.
Speaker 1: And then I forgot that the payoff of you getting
Speaker 1: stuck with the CDs was finding the friends with benefit.
Speaker 3: Yes, I love that, and even bringing Peyton back into
Speaker 3: the frame just was seeing her on the post her.
Speaker 3: I feel like they did that every chance they could
Speaker 3: on the show and just bring in, you know, the
Speaker 3: people that we loved that weren't there anymore. That made
Speaker 3: me happy to see they open that poster.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh that's so sweet.
Speaker 5: Yeah, speaking of bringing people back, we had a fun
Speaker 5: little one episode cameo by miss Sasha Jackson Kylie, Yes, yes,
Speaker 5: where I was like, what, oh okay, here's this character now?
Speaker 4: Was she on the show before?
Speaker 5: Yeah? She was like a sort of a fling of Clays.
Speaker 1: She's the one who swims naked in his pool.
Speaker 4: That's right. Oh okay, that.
Speaker 1: Makes Quinn dumps as Smoothie on.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Man, I don't know why.
Speaker 3: I guess just of all the storylines that I'm trying
Speaker 3: to hold in my brain, that one didn't stick in.
Speaker 3: But that makes so much more sense because my notes
Speaker 3: are like, why are we not that I don't love?
Speaker 3: You know, she's a lovely actress. But I was like,
Speaker 3: why are we wasting time on new characters that we
Speaker 3: don't know? Like we've got one episode left or two
Speaker 3: episodes now? Like what we've got these twins that we're
Speaker 3: now we're looking at this Australian girl. I'm like, what's
Speaker 3: going on? Why are we not paying attention to us?
Speaker 1: It was like the cameos for people that we loved
Speaker 1: through the seasons. Yes.
Speaker 5: Yes. The one thing I like about that though, is
Speaker 5: that we actually gave her being there, gave Jerry an
Speaker 5: opportunity to actually do something for once, and he was
Speaker 5: very funny.
Speaker 1: With it, very funny, which I.
Speaker 5: Feel like he's been around so long that he deserved
Speaker 5: to have something that's like fun as opposed to just
Speaker 5: like you shouldn't have done that, You're fired, You're on
Speaker 5: thin ice, you know. Yeah, you actually got to be
Speaker 5: funny and be the butt of a joke. And you know,
Speaker 5: it was great, And of course we managed to put
Speaker 5: her in a bikini at the end of it.
Speaker 3: Of course us with the chicken head, with the chicken head, why.
Speaker 2: Why not?
Speaker 1: Even the chicken head got a cameo.
Speaker 4: Again, that's the way to look at it.
Speaker 5: But another great moment from that runner was when she
Speaker 5: freezes on air and just goes winker. And then later
Speaker 5: when it's Mills and skills. Incredible according he pretends to
Speaker 5: freeze and says winker and you're like, no way, it's
Speaker 5: happening again. He's like, nah, I'm just messing with you.
Speaker 1: Immediately, great, Immediately, he's the best.
Speaker 3: I completely forgot that we got a million skills together. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and that well, then it turned into mouth and skills, like, wait,
Speaker 3: am I saying it wrong?
Speaker 1: Mills and skills, Mills and skills and that's what he
Speaker 1: comes up with after his faux freeze. Yeah, he's like,
Speaker 1: I'm just messing with you. You got mills and skills,
Speaker 1: and he's just like he's got the ad libs.
Speaker 3: He's already oh yeah, yeah, he knows for this job.
Speaker 3: I just love seeing them together again, and love that
Speaker 3: we gave Antoine something to do that was like real
Speaker 3: and integral, you know, getting back into involved in the
Speaker 3: storyline where he has he's going to have some agency
Speaker 3: and actually something to do rather than just reacting to
Speaker 3: everybody else's stuff. I thought that was always that's always
Speaker 3: really fun.
Speaker 1: I also loved that that came about from Millie and
Speaker 1: Mouth standing up to Jerry and Jerry getting his real
Speaker 1: great comedy moment and then saying, well, fine, you come
Speaker 1: up with a co host and in unison immediately they
Speaker 1: both say skills. It's like, yeah, they know what the
Speaker 1: show needs, they know what the town needs, and it's
Speaker 1: it's right. It's like a perfectly correct move. And then
Speaker 1: you see the payoff at how good he is and
Speaker 1: it I don't know, maybe I'm thinking about it because
Speaker 1: I just interviewed Carson Daly on my other show and
Speaker 1: was talking about like our early TRL days and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, skills is giving me full
Speaker 1: TRL Carson Daily VJ like perfection and it feels.
Speaker 5: How great was Julian in this episode?
Speaker 3: That was my next thing. This dirty dancing moment was
Speaker 3: so funny.
Speaker 4: I always trying to.
Speaker 3: Give a speech to your dad and he's like, I
Speaker 3: will not let anyone put her in a corner, and
Speaker 3: please don't stop taking me seriously because.
Speaker 1: I just use a dirty dancing Yeah, despite my dirty
Speaker 1: dancing references, I will continue to reprimand you for being
Speaker 1: a less than father.
Speaker 5: And then and then even when you know, he's like
Speaker 5: what kind of person would do that? Hint at rhymes
Speaker 5: with thick, And then I like it was so funny.
Speaker 5: That's it's somehow funny when he's also really land sticking
Speaker 5: the landing of being like it's dick, which is funny
Speaker 5: because like everyone knows what it is, but then he goes,
Speaker 5: it's dick, Ted, You're a dick. You should be ashamed
Speaker 5: of yourself, and I was like, that was so cathartic
Speaker 5: to watch. I was like, oh my god, that would
Speaker 5: like there was such a strong theme in this episode
Speaker 5: of partners Yes and the way partners are friends and
Speaker 5: their teammates and how they are showing up for each other.
Speaker 5: It's Millie potentially losing her love as a co host
Speaker 5: because she sees he could be happier doing something else.
Speaker 5: Julian going to bat with Brook's dad because he knows
Speaker 5: she deserves better. It's Quinn putting up the picture of Sarah.
Speaker 4: Broke my heart. That was so good in the best way.
Speaker 5: This show. It's like we've talked about before, like this
Speaker 5: show is about relationships, about and friendships. I think I
Speaker 5: remember saying this like very early on doing this podcast
Speaker 5: with you, But that's I saw so much of that.
Speaker 5: I feel like when the show is really shining, it's
Speaker 5: often around the theme of like friendships and relationships, and
Speaker 5: this episode delivered like everyone got to have.
Speaker 3: That, Haley and Chase even so Brooks parents. Yes, like
Speaker 3: the partnership that they were trying to figure out, Like, yes,
Speaker 3: I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Speaker 1: And something I really loved is that every single leading
Speaker 1: man on our show took a beat to thank his
Speaker 1: woman because we haven't seen that a lot, and Rob
Speaker 1: you even talked about it a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Even what Quinn has been patient with put up with
Speaker 1: like the way people stay, you know, each of you,
Speaker 1: You with her, and Julian with Brooke, and Lee with
Speaker 1: and Mouth with Milly. You know, we had these scenes
Speaker 1: where each man said, Hey, I need to tell you something.
Speaker 1: I need to thank you for the way that you
Speaker 1: show up. I need to thank you for the way
Speaker 1: that you support me. I need to thank you for
Speaker 1: the way that you believe in me. It and it
Speaker 1: was just so lovely and for all the grotesquely stereotypically
Speaker 1: masculine ick we've gotten on our show over the years,
Speaker 1: including putting Kylie in the bikini and the chicken head
Speaker 1: in this episode, these were such moments of shining heroic
Speaker 1: masculine goodness and like emotional intelligence and it just it
Speaker 1: was gorge Like. I loved watching all three of you
Speaker 1: in those scenes. It was just like it was a
Speaker 1: little boat for me.
Speaker 4: For sure.
Speaker 3: I was really happy to see Clay and Quinn together,
Speaker 3: like the way that you guys.
Speaker 4: Felt.
Speaker 3: It felt like we were finally getting I guess I
Speaker 3: said it before, like this family that we always finally
Speaker 3: wanted you guys to settle into, and Logan coming in
Speaker 3: and the model airplane, but the way that Quinn supported you,
Speaker 3: even bringing in the photo and setting down the photo
Speaker 3: of Sarah, and like, oh, it broke my heart in
Speaker 3: the best way. I just felt like, this is what
Speaker 3: a real partner does, yea, I embrace.
Speaker 5: All of you in terms of the you know, Clay Banking, Quinn,
Speaker 5: Julian Banking, Brook. I also I related to it. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I identified with that, like I have that in my
Speaker 5: own marriage, in my relationship, you know, where there are
Speaker 5: moments where Jenny speaks confidence and support and to me
Speaker 5: at a time when like I really need it, you know,
Speaker 5: and it's a team sport, and so our wins, our
Speaker 5: team wins. So I just thought that was a nice
Speaker 5: moment because not only was it beautiful, it's just it's
Speaker 5: so real and authentic that I think a lot of
Speaker 5: people can relate to. And and Pierce are you kidding Peers?
Speaker 5: When he's looking at the ocean and he says, does
Speaker 5: it does it get any closer? Because he's afraid of
Speaker 5: the ocean, and he backs up, I was like this
Speaker 5: protect this child that all.
Speaker 1: Costs just so sweet and having the element you know,
Speaker 1: as you as you're saying to honor all of a person,
Speaker 1: you know, when you fall in love with someone who
Speaker 1: comes from things, they bring those things into your relationship.
Speaker 1: And to love someone who's been through grief is a
Speaker 1: big thing. And to watch Clay and Quinn have navigated grief,
Speaker 1: you know, and then all the jumping the shark stuff
Speaker 1: in between, and now be navigating with this little boy.
Speaker 1: To have the totality of it in this little cocoon,
Speaker 1: that was one of the things that I remember talking
Speaker 1: to set Deck about. And I really wanted the cocoon
Speaker 1: to be a warm color by the tent, sorry, because
Speaker 1: I wanted it to feel like a cocoon. And we
Speaker 1: found this like butterfly wing orange tent so that it
Speaker 1: would really feel like they went into this bubble and
Speaker 1: they came out as a better version of something and
Speaker 1: it worked. And even like we made I don't if
Speaker 1: you remember, Rob, but we made a projector light. We
Speaker 1: did a stencil of the green lantern symbol and we
Speaker 1: made a tiny projector light that we had to hide
Speaker 1: in the in between you guys, in between yeah, like
Speaker 1: the sleeping bags, so that when Pierce comes up into
Speaker 1: frame with the ring that you need to propose and
Speaker 1: then she puts it on. We wanted to cheat that
Speaker 1: like in a superhero movie, like a bat signal, the
Speaker 1: ring would shine through the roof of the tent, but
Speaker 1: we had to make a light to do it because
Speaker 1: obviously it was like a teeny tiny thing that didn't
Speaker 1: have that much power. And seeing it again, I remember
Speaker 1: sitting in the chair watching You Guys on monitor like
Speaker 1: in tears because it worked, but seeing it ten years later,
Speaker 1: like watching as a fan on my Giant TV, I
Speaker 1: was sobbing. I was like, Oh, it so special.
Speaker 5: They deserve this, and even to like the writing of it,
Speaker 5: it was I love so there, Like there's just such respect,
Speaker 5: right because I understand, first of all, Clay has no
Speaker 5: idea what he's doing. He's just trying his best, as
Speaker 5: is Quinn as his logan, right, But I understand why
Speaker 5: Clay might not have put a picture of Sarah up
Speaker 5: because he's not sure how that's gonna make Quinn feel,
Speaker 5: you know, and he's navigating this for the first time.
Speaker 5: She's being incredibly supportive. So I'm like, I understand why
Speaker 5: Clay might might not have done that respect. And then
Speaker 5: I but the fact that Quinn is the one to
Speaker 5: be like, yeah, I know this needs to be here,
Speaker 5: she's showing like respect for Sarah and respect to Clay.
Speaker 5: And and then the fact that then like that Logan
Speaker 5: then sort of gives permission for like them all to
Speaker 5: be a family by taking the picture of the three
Speaker 5: of them and putting it in the frame next to
Speaker 5: Sarah was so beautiful.
Speaker 4: I'm smart.
Speaker 5: Oh, it was so good.
Speaker 3: I was thinking that I really missed seeing you guys
Speaker 3: with everybody at the burning boat. But it felt so
Speaker 3: right to have this time of rest and connection for
Speaker 3: the three of you that as much as it was like, oh,
Speaker 3: I wish it would have been fun to have like
Speaker 3: all of our faces there, but this is what Quinn
Speaker 3: Clay needed. This is the cap on this long the bow,
Speaker 3: if you will, on this long story, this long journey
Speaker 3: that they've been on together.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was all right. And I appreciated that a
Speaker 1: lot of the humor in the episode, which you needed
Speaker 1: because you were getting such big emotional payoffs, I appreciated
Speaker 1: that the humor wasn't so outlandish even with you three,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to work with him to not be
Speaker 1: afraid of the ocean, and you're like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: and he's here with us and his grandparents and he
Speaker 1: can't sleep and it's the thing. And then his mom
Speaker 1: who passed away, and you know, Quinn's like, it's the immensity.
Speaker 1: I totally get it. And he's like I'm scared of sharks.
Speaker 1: And it's like, oh, you're still good. It like let
Speaker 1: you just a little of the emotional pressure out in
Speaker 1: the most perfect way. That was so sweet, and you
Speaker 1: remember like, oh, yeah, he's he's also just six. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a kid.
Speaker 3: Totally do that as parents and adults like project all
Speaker 3: this stuff like do you are you subconsciously feeling like like, no,
Speaker 3: I'm just afraid of sharks.
Speaker 5: That's yeah. First of all, I don't know what immensity means.
Speaker 5: The second of all, have you heard of sharks? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sea monsters? Like it's just perfect.
Speaker 5: He Yeah, he was great. And as much as I
Speaker 5: have issues with the road we took to get here, boy,
Speaker 5: this is a really nice destination. And I was talking
Speaker 5: with we were at a convention last weekend and I
Speaker 5: was talking with some fans. I was finding myself asking like,
Speaker 5: what's your favorite season? And it was really interesting to
Speaker 5: hear what people thought. And then someone asked me and
Speaker 5: I was saying, you know, I've only seen seven eighty nine.
Speaker 5: But I gotta say much as I have kind of
Speaker 5: ripped on season nine for the first half of it,
Speaker 5: it is giving such a strong finish that it is
Speaker 5: becoming a contender for my favorite season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I love that. I also have to give
Speaker 1: speaking of comedy, I have to give the most amazing
Speaker 1: props to my parents.
Speaker 4: Daphne. I know, I was gonna say, when you walk
Speaker 4: into that.
Speaker 1: Hotel room, Daphne and Richard just crushed this and even
Speaker 1: it's funny when I realized, oh, this is the episode
Speaker 1: where Brook catches them. I went back to watch us
Speaker 1: putting the golf clubs in the boat, and she's like,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you should just hear about and she
Speaker 1: has just a hint of something and I look at
Speaker 1: her and she goes, you know, so we can make
Speaker 1: fun of him or whatever, you know, for nothing else
Speaker 1: than to see him flailing in the wind like she covers.
Speaker 1: But Daphney's so good that she had a little something
Speaker 1: under what she was saying. Then, so when you when
Speaker 1: you get into the hotel room, and it's like the
Speaker 1: robe and then the bed, and then the hair, and
Speaker 1: then the dune dune of the chocolate covered strawberries, which,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, are the hotel sex giveaway. It's she
Speaker 1: just crushes crushes.
Speaker 5: Let me give you some props because no one plays
Speaker 5: horrified like you, and you are so good with comedy.
Speaker 5: But I gotta tell you the you know, comedy comes
Speaker 5: in threes, and so there's who when Richard comes out
Speaker 5: shirtless looking like he's chiseled from stone. That's incredible. By
Speaker 5: the way, what are you doing, sir? I mean making
Speaker 5: all the right choices uparent right. I watched that scene,
Speaker 5: was like I gotta go for a jog, honestly, but
Speaker 5: so he so you so Brooke, you an amazing face,
Speaker 5: and you're like, oh my god, and you leave the
Speaker 5: room and there's a beat, and then Richard says, or
Speaker 5: then Ted says to Victoria, funny, that's what you were
Speaker 5: saying last night. There's our second. And then then from
Speaker 5: out on the other side of the door, you hear
Speaker 5: Brooke go.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, yes, so good, and then Daphney picks
Speaker 6: it up and goes, oh my god.
Speaker 4: And it just the timing.
Speaker 1: I remember when we were getting that and needing to
Speaker 1: figure out how I could start to back out of
Speaker 1: the room in just the right way so that he
Speaker 1: could come out of the door and we could smack
Speaker 1: into each other. And I and I remember telling Maddie,
Speaker 1: our camera operator, when we do it, keep the frame
Speaker 1: above his towel, because I want the audience for a
Speaker 1: minute to think Brooke has just slammed into her naked dad.
Speaker 1: And then when we start to move, you see that
Speaker 1: he has a towel around him. But for a moment
Speaker 1: it's like, I mean, it's already the worst thing that
Speaker 1: could happen, but it seems even worse. And then the
Speaker 1: cacophony of oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh,
Speaker 1: I like the build. You think it's over when Daphne
Speaker 1: does the slow burn one, and then when they walk
Speaker 1: into Brook and Julian's and it happens again. It's like
Speaker 1: that kind of comedic writing and timing is my very
Speaker 1: favorite thing in the world to play.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Oh, when he squeezes her butt when they are
Speaker 5: leaving your apartment and then Julian does it, You're like,
Speaker 5: no ah, so wait, I want to go back to
Speaker 5: the beach scene for a second because I noticed, and
Speaker 5: I'm just curious if you caught this or if you
Speaker 5: remember this that when when Quinn is getting Logan to
Speaker 5: walk out into the water, and we are shooting out
Speaker 5: into the ocean. Did you notice that there was just
Speaker 5: a random dude in the water in the background, like
Speaker 5: a surfer. No, just like a dude. I didn't see that,
Speaker 5: like half of a guy. And then it's funny because
Speaker 5: then the camera kind of crops him out and I
Speaker 5: was laughing, like I wonder if it was just someone swimming,
Speaker 5: and you guys were like, get the rando out of
Speaker 5: the shot, like, what are you doing, sir, which it's,
Speaker 5: by the way, totally okay. Clay lives on a public beach. Yes,
Speaker 5: it's funny because those moments you're not used to seeing
Speaker 5: someone who's not in the show, just like casually filling
Speaker 5: in the corner of a frame. So yeah, and when.
Speaker 3: They're cropped out like clearly, I say, mad dollar, cameraroberator.
Speaker 3: I'm sure it was just like slightly moving the kid.
Speaker 1: Let me do this slow so you don't really notice,
Speaker 1: but I fixed the problem. That's so great.
Speaker 3: I love seeing I love watching that on shows when
Speaker 3: you can spot a problem and you see the camera
Speaker 3: just slightly moving.
Speaker 5: Comedy didn't stop there because we had all Chase bringing
Speaker 5: it with the totally not a cry for help runner,
Speaker 5: that scene with Haley, which was he was so good
Speaker 5: in this episode. I mean we say this, it was
Speaker 5: even all the time, but so under It was funny
Speaker 5: but also really grounded.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he just never tries too hard. It makes me
Speaker 3: so happy when I watch him, like I can relax.
Speaker 3: You know, there's there's an anxiety I feel as if
Speaker 3: you were when I'm watching an actor that I feel
Speaker 3: like is trying really hard. I just get a little like,
Speaker 3: I don't know what, what is your expectation of me?
Speaker 3: And like not even the same room with the person
Speaker 3: that it was filmed, you know, a year ago, but
Speaker 3: I'm watching it like.
Speaker 4: Oh god, I don't know how to react to this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but Steven's just so easy to watch because he's
Speaker 3: he's just so unconcerned with anything.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's just so natural. I don't know how
Speaker 4: else to say it.
Speaker 1: I also like that he leaned into the stress and
Speaker 1: the nervousness and nothing is working and I don't know
Speaker 1: how I'm going to pay for all of this. You know,
Speaker 1: these are real world problems and he's leaning into them
Speaker 1: with you know, the best listener he's talking to Haley,
Speaker 1: but also like Haley's a rock star, he's married to
Speaker 1: a basketball player. And then it's like that dawns on
Speaker 1: him and he looks at you and just so deadpan,
Speaker 1: not a cry for help. It's like I did, I'm
Speaker 1: not meaning to stress you out for as much as
Speaker 1: I'm stressed out. And it's the dryness that makes it
Speaker 1: so funny but also lets you hold the the emotion
Speaker 1: underneath it. It's so well played on his.
Speaker 5: Part, and also a hilarious, very small hint of a
Speaker 5: callback to Haley working at the crisis center.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, oh yeah, good old Hailey, always there
Speaker 3: for advice when someone needs it.
Speaker 5: Did we ever find out? Because I know at the end,
Speaker 5: you know, Haley's like, what if you just what if
Speaker 5: the bar was yours? Like what if you just bought it?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm broke, So no, And Haley said some of
Speaker 5: the effect of like I have an idea about that.
Speaker 5: We didn't hear the plan for that, correct, I didn't know.
Speaker 3: She just goes to Karen I guess yeah, and has
Speaker 3: a conversation with her, which definitely annoyed me that we
Speaker 3: didn't have Moiro back on the show for that episode.
Speaker 3: I don't know remember if we got her back for
Speaker 3: the next one, but we'll find out.
Speaker 1: Well, the pebble that we drop is the Friends with
Speaker 1: Benefit flyer that you find. Yeah, and obviously we know
Speaker 1: how the next epist, so it ends, so you can
Speaker 1: kind of imagine that we do a big fundraiser to
Speaker 1: buy the bar. I would bet okay, yeah, bet is
Speaker 1: the is the plan. It's it's very cool the nods
Speaker 1: to high school, and you know, they managed to tell
Speaker 1: a story. I do wish we'd had Moira. I remember
Speaker 1: a few things, you know, just sort of from behind
Speaker 1: the scenes directing, Like I'd wanted a photo. I'd wanted
Speaker 1: Haley to get a text message of a photo of
Speaker 1: Nathan and Jamie camping, like we could have just taken
Speaker 1: it in the back of the studio against a tree,
Speaker 1: like And it was one of those things. Because we
Speaker 1: were wrapping in November and then these episodes were going
Speaker 1: to air like March and April. They were like, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll get it. And then I watched the final cut
Speaker 1: and I'm like, nobody, nobody remembered my note. And there
Speaker 1: was a thing as well where I remember because of
Speaker 1: the boat the way we did it. They hadn't set
Speaker 1: up like a like a side container to do inserts
Speaker 1: of burning. We were going to do it at the studio,
Speaker 1: and then we ran out of time and then they
Speaker 1: were like, oh, we'll do it during the finale, and
Speaker 1: then obviously it didn't happen. So you miss Brook's diary burning,
Speaker 1: which was one of those things I wanted because the
Speaker 1: diary was such a runner in the episode. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I loved that it called us back kind of like
Speaker 1: The Boys and the River Court. I love that we
Speaker 1: got the call back to the early seasons because Rob
Speaker 1: there's this voiceover that I have. I think it's maybe
Speaker 1: top of season three, or maybe it's season two, running
Speaker 1: like in the morning, sneaking out of a boy's house
Speaker 1: that I've slept over at, sneaking back into mind, being like,
Speaker 1: you know, good girls keep diaries and bad girls don't
Speaker 1: have time. So that's why when Brooke brings Julie in
Speaker 1: the diary and is like, I used to say, I
Speaker 1: didn't keep one of these. It's just because I didn't
Speaker 1: want anyone to find it. And then you hear about
Speaker 1: all the turmoil at home and the parents, the parents
Speaker 1: arguments and and you know, we don't talk to each other,
Speaker 1: we've never sat together. That's the runner that gets you
Speaker 1: to the end again, our final picnic table moment at
Speaker 1: the river court with this family finally sitting together. And
Speaker 1: I was like, my burning journal shot is missing from
Speaker 1: this moment right before the fireworks. But it's fire I'll
Speaker 1: get over it.
Speaker 3: I did love that moment though, I mean the over
Speaker 3: the shoulder shot of those you three, like just onto
Speaker 3: the burning boat, onto up into the fireworks. The big
Speaker 3: crane shot was it a crane or a drone? At
Speaker 3: the h that was a crane number and.
Speaker 1: Those were viz effects, right, Yeah, the fireworks were fake.
Speaker 5: But what do you think was on the one page
Speaker 5: of Brook's diary that she tore out wouldn't let Julian.
Speaker 8: See I I would imagine here's my thought, because there
Speaker 8: was the overlap in season six where Julian and Lucas
Speaker 8: worked together.
Speaker 1: I imagine it was a story about Lucas and she was like,
Speaker 1: let's not, let's not burn that into my husband's memory,
Speaker 1: like because not only to rip it out, but then
Speaker 1: to eat it to stop it from seeing it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I think.
Speaker 4: So fusciting.
Speaker 3: We had fun on this show. I do remember shooting
Speaker 3: this episode. It's like not a super clear, but I
Speaker 3: do feel the nostalgia that we all felt when we
Speaker 3: were walking around downtown, like, oh my gosh, we're doing
Speaker 3: another burning boat. Oh my gosh, this is almost over.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: Really it was like a time when we were all
Speaker 3: really soaking up our time with each other, knowing that
Speaker 3: we only had one more left. Yeah, it's only a
Speaker 3: few weeks left. It really kicked into our brains a
Speaker 3: lot of us. I think all of a sudden, we're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're not dealing with crazy storylines. We don't have anything
Speaker 3: insane happening where we really have to focus and be
Speaker 3: stressed out long hours or late nights or it was
Speaker 3: just we were just hanging all together really good.
Speaker 1: It's just so sweet.
Speaker 5: Only one more left.
Speaker 1: Only one more left.
Speaker 9: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 5: Cody's question is One Tree Hill was my show growing up.
Speaker 5: Everyone knew it. That night each week the family TV
Speaker 5: was mine. I wept when the series ended. Otch absolutely
Speaker 5: shaped me in a lot of ways. When it ended,
Speaker 5: I felt like a little part of me died. I
Speaker 5: know I'm being dramatic, but I learned from the best.
Speaker 5: I want to know, what is your One Tree Hill?
Speaker 5: What is the show, movie, book, etc. That shaped you
Speaker 5: and played a massively influential role in your life.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I wish i'd read this question before.
Speaker 1: Now I know to think about it answers in chunks,
Speaker 1: So like college, going into filming One Tree Hill, Sex
Speaker 1: and the City was it for me. I'd never seen
Speaker 1: women's stories told that way, women shot that way, women
Speaker 1: centered that way. It really influenced so much of how
Speaker 1: I felt about our show. I think about after our
Speaker 1: show wrapped, being home and Jenny and I going like
Speaker 1: so deep on Orphan Black and just being obsessed and watching,
Speaker 1: you know, was what was possible in story? And then
Speaker 1: I think about, you know, in my adult life, like lately,
Speaker 1: it's the books that have really impacted me, like Maggie
Speaker 1: Smith's book You Could Make This Place Beautiful, like it
Speaker 1: is like a religious text for me prior to that,
Speaker 1: in between these times Cheryl stra Tiny Beautiful Things. I
Speaker 1: read it every year once a year. It's a tradition,
Speaker 1: Like I think, there are the stories that find you
Speaker 1: for these moments in your life, and I think it's
Speaker 1: why hearing things like this from people like you, Cody
Speaker 1: is so meaningful because for us to have been such
Speaker 1: a part of your life is I don't know, like
Speaker 1: we have that and it's really profound. So thank you
Speaker 1: for sharing. What do you guys have? Do you do
Speaker 1: them in chunks too, or do you think it's like
Speaker 1: one thing?
Speaker 4: Yeah, mine's in chunks.
Speaker 3: I mean it doesn't have the same emotional weight. But
Speaker 3: I love Lucy really. I mean, I just I grew
Speaker 3: up watching it from when I was a kid, and
Speaker 3: I continue to watch it. It's still on in my
Speaker 3: house on Saturday mornings.
Speaker 4: It's just.
Speaker 3: She's just such a genius and it's so fun. I
Speaker 3: never stopped laughing at it. And The Twilight Zone, I think.
Speaker 4: Really I always.
Speaker 3: Had a very even from when I was a kid
Speaker 3: or like adolescent, the concept of mortality was not a
Speaker 3: fearful thing for me. So I wasn't afraid of them,
Speaker 3: cob or the things that were bizarre.
Speaker 4: I was really intrigued and wanted to understand more.
Speaker 3: So I really liked The Twilight Zone because it explored
Speaker 3: a lot of those.
Speaker 4: Themes in a way that was fun. Yeah, And then.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm trying to think of the thing that
Speaker 3: really got me emotional. The show that ended that I
Speaker 3: felt emotional. I was like, how am I going to
Speaker 3: how am I going to keep moving after this is done.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of embarrassed to say it because I feel like.
Speaker 4: You guys are laugh at me. But it's so cliche
Speaker 4: Game of Thrones.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm sorry, it's so cliche as mad as your show.
Speaker 3: But like I was, okay, I was going through my
Speaker 3: divorce while like Tyry and Lanister was gidding, was just
Speaker 3: like getting beaten down, beaten down, and I was like,
Speaker 3: I just desperately need an underdog to win in something
Speaker 3: in my life. I need to see that, like really
Speaker 3: amazing things can happen for people that are like down
Speaker 3: at their worst. Yea, And he won that battle, like
Speaker 3: the huge battle. If you're a fan of Game Thrones,
Speaker 3: that you know which one I'm talking about. I don't
Speaker 3: even know how to name them because I wasn't that
Speaker 3: kind of a fan where I knew the details. I
Speaker 3: just was like a character fan. But he basically wins
Speaker 3: this massive, massive, massive battle for his family or is
Speaker 3: it for someone else's family?
Speaker 4: I can't even remember.
Speaker 3: It was a huge battle that he won and he's
Speaker 3: this tiny guy. And then as a story kept going,
Speaker 3: I just fell so deeply in love with these characters
Speaker 3: and their humanity and it deeply connected with me. So
Speaker 3: when it was over, I was really sad. I felt
Speaker 3: like I lost a lot of friends all of a sudden.
Speaker 5: Yeah, man, I would rob me the same with Chunks.
Speaker 5: And as far as things being influential, it's really it's
Speaker 5: been all comedies for me because like I remember watched
Speaker 5: the first time I watched Wet Hot American Summer. Oh,
Speaker 5: there were jokes in that that I remember thinking, I
Speaker 5: didn't know you could do that. Like I remember ending
Speaker 5: that movie and I felt like, oh, like new neural pathways,
Speaker 5: new wrinkles are in my brain because I wasn't even
Speaker 5: aware that that was an option. Like it was like
Speaker 5: someone went, hey, by the way, we have four new
Speaker 5: colors of crayons, and I was like, holy seriously, so
Speaker 5: like that like kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. I had never
Speaker 5: seen humor and dialogue intertwined so seamlessly, and I was like,
Speaker 5: I guess this is an option. We can do this,
Speaker 5: you know, and then.
Speaker 4: It's like the West Wing, Yes, yes.
Speaker 5: Arrested development. I was like I had no idea we
Speaker 5: could do this. So for me, it's been comedies where
Speaker 5: like I feel like, oh, like there's been a new
Speaker 5: part of my brain has opened up that I can
Speaker 5: now play in that I didn't even know existed.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love that, especially, You're right, comedy can crack
Speaker 1: expectation in a way that I think sometimes drama doesn't.
Speaker 1: Like Harter, I had that same feeling watching Parks and
Speaker 1: Rec I was like, this can be work, this can
Speaker 1: be what we do. Oh my god, like, oh, it's
Speaker 1: so fun.
Speaker 5: It's probably also because I think humor is my strike zone, Like,
Speaker 5: it's my love language, it's my self defense tool. It's
Speaker 5: kind of my Swiss army knife. So I think it
Speaker 5: makes sense that the most impactful stuff has been when
Speaker 5: it is geared towards that. You know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great question, that's such a good question.
Speaker 4: I guess let's spin a wheel, guys, let's.
Speaker 3: Do it second to last wheel.
Speaker 5: Oh, this one is great. Most likely to text their
Speaker 5: ex during mercury retro grade.
Speaker 4: That's so funny.
Speaker 5: I'm going to say it's not any of the boys,
Speaker 5: because I don't think any of us would know when
Speaker 5: mercury is in retrograde.
Speaker 3: I don't usually know either. I mean, I guess sometimes
Speaker 3: I feel weird and then I find out later that
Speaker 3: mercury was in retrograde and I'm like, oh, I guess
Speaker 3: that's what happening.
Speaker 1: You know what character I actually think it is Chase. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that boy loves to text his ex.
Speaker 4: That's very on point for this episode.
Speaker 1: And you know what, who's going to be talking more
Speaker 1: about mercury retrograde than some sad person sitting at a bar,
Speaker 1: so he would overhear it and probably get a little
Speaker 1: swept away in the story and then decide to text
Speaker 1: one of the ladies who he was deleting from his
Speaker 1: phone in this very episode.
Speaker 5: Perfect, that's the answer. Sign all right, join us next
Speaker 5: week because we have Oh my god, that's a big
Speaker 5: episode in that it's the final episode Season nine, Episode thirteen.
Speaker 5: Couldn't think of a better title, One Tree.
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