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Speaker 1: We are so excited. Season eight has almost come to
Speaker 1: a close, and we have everybody's favorite teacher, Miss Lauren.
Speaker 1: Alison Munn is here on the podcast today.
Speaker 3: Hi. Hi you guys. Hi your faces? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: I'm good. How are you so good?
Speaker 1: It's great to see you, guys.
Speaker 3: It's so good to see you. I have been like
Speaker 3: ridiculously excited to see you guys.
Speaker 2: Hey you look amazing, Alison, incredible, Thank you?
Speaker 1: So do you guys?
Speaker 3: You can't even take it because I actually just got tierry. Okay,
Speaker 3: Oh so happy. Hey, I need to see you. Hi.
Speaker 2: Okay, so tell us, tell us what we're doing here?
Speaker 2: What are we doing here?
Speaker 3: Okay, we are deal. This episode. This episode is season eight,
Speaker 3: episode twenty one, Flightless Bird American Mouse Air date May
Speaker 3: tenth twenty eleven. Wow synopsis is Nathan, Jamie, Clay, Julian, Chase,
Speaker 3: and Chuck have a camp out on the river Court. Meanwhile, Brooke, Quinn,
Speaker 3: Alex and Lauren take a trip to Porto Rico.
Speaker 2: Hey, hey, I remember when we were when we were
Speaker 2: casting you because I was directing that episode.
Speaker 3: I know it was. You're also the first time I'd
Speaker 3: ever been directed by a femail.
Speaker 2: Can you re that?
Speaker 3: Yes? Yeah, And I remember being like so nervous to
Speaker 3: come to do the show, but then seeing that you
Speaker 3: were the director and be like, oh, I got this
Speaker 3: because Joy and I knew each other. Yeah, so if
Speaker 3: I don't know if you knew that like Joy and
Speaker 3: I had, we had worked together before. We've done a
Speaker 3: musical version of The Outsiders.
Speaker 1: That's what it was.
Speaker 2: I was like, was it soap?
Speaker 1: I couldn't remember what the show.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Alison was Cherry Valance, she was the lead, and I
Speaker 2: was Soda Pop's girlfriend Sandy. Yeah, and it was fun.
Speaker 3: We had a cute little boy in the chorus, mister
Speaker 3: Adam Lambert. Yeah, he was your little chorus cat seeing
Speaker 3: these high notes.
Speaker 2: Yep, just like a little redheaded, freckled redheaded sweetheart.
Speaker 3: He must have done what like eighteen twenty something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he was young. He was so young.
Speaker 3: Oh, Joy, I have to tell you I loved your book.
Speaker 1: He did so much. I didn't know you read it,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Alice.
Speaker 3: I read it and then I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was like a third of the way in and
Speaker 3: I was like, I need to listen to this. So
Speaker 3: I started with the book, and then I wanted to
Speaker 3: hear your voice. So then I downloaded the audio and
Speaker 3: like finished it on audio. And the coolest thing is that, Joy,
Speaker 3: I feel like I've There's so much I didn't know
Speaker 3: about you, but I've known you through every phase of
Speaker 3: this book. I felt like for most phases of this book,
Speaker 3: like I, yes, I remember you actually kicking around in
Speaker 3: New York, like we would be in audition light together.
Speaker 3: And I mostly remember her because you were so beautiful,
Speaker 3: but your I was obsessed with your hair. I couldn't understand.
Speaker 3: It was always like the most perfect but didn't look
Speaker 3: like you spent time on it, because you probably didn't.
Speaker 3: It just like looked perfect. And I would just like
Speaker 3: sit in the audition room and just be like what
Speaker 3: is how And ask you.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And then when we worked together in when we in
Speaker 3: The Outsiders, I was like, oh my god, that's the
Speaker 3: girl with the hair, that's her, and I think I
Speaker 3: did ask you. I was like, Joy helped me out,
Speaker 3: like why can't I do with my hair? And You're like,
Speaker 3: I don't know, this is just what it does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, how do I make mine like yours? I can't
Speaker 2: contain this craziness?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so I was really excited to see that
Speaker 3: you were directing and to get to come on. So
Speaker 3: that was what was the title of that? That was
Speaker 3: season seven?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was the one where Jamie comes he brings
Speaker 2: you over to meet Paul and we shot in that
Speaker 2: house that felt like a lighthouse, but it wasn't. It
Speaker 2: was on the beach. I don't remember what episode that was,
Speaker 2: but yeah, it was the whole thing about Jamie's got
Speaker 2: a crush on his teacher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's like stop talking and miss yeah, that's right,
Speaker 1: that's right.
Speaker 3: You know. I thought they were originally setting me up
Speaker 3: with Paul, like just the way that the scene was written,
Speaker 3: I was confused. Yeah, and then I was told from
Speaker 3: the direct the producers later on that I think maybe
Speaker 3: that's what the network had thought. So when they and
Speaker 3: maybe that was the way it was going. I'm not sure,
Speaker 3: but when they pitched me for this, the network was
Speaker 3: they said, we just don't see Alison and Paul together. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and they were like, oh, that's not what we're going
Speaker 3: to do. You know, who knows?
Speaker 1: Who knows they?
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, there's always things going on behind the scenes,
Speaker 2: and I would imagine they probably were like, we really
Speaker 2: want her, and they had a whole idea for a
Speaker 2: storyline that you know, like the writers talking to the
Speaker 2: network suits, they don't tend to understand like a lot
Speaker 2: of create creative choices. So I would imagine they were
Speaker 2: there was some politics involved in just trying to like, oh,
Speaker 2: sure you want the new teacher to get together with Paul.
Speaker 2: We're going to cast somebody that's right for the storyline
Speaker 2: we actually want to write so.
Speaker 1: Much longer lasting, totally.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad, like please, it just it benefited me
Speaker 3: for sure.
Speaker 1: Well when did you because when you first came in,
Speaker 1: obviously you come in as his teacher. As you're saying,
Speaker 1: there's this, will they or well they almost misdirect for
Speaker 1: miss Lauren and Dan Scott, So what did they tell
Speaker 1: you how long did you think you were coming to play?
Speaker 1: Did you have an idea where it was going to
Speaker 1: go it?
Speaker 3: The audition was for a guest star, and it wasn't
Speaker 3: one of the ones that qualifies with possible recur It
Speaker 3: was just guest star. So I thought that it was
Speaker 3: a one and done.
Speaker 1: And that was it.
Speaker 2: Wow, guys, do you audition like you were? You know,
Speaker 2: that's amazing. Thank you for doing that, because I feel
Speaker 2: like there's a lot of working actors who would be like,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go do a guest star. I've
Speaker 2: got other things going on.
Speaker 3: We had just it was the strike. It was the
Speaker 3: writer's strike, so we had I had just I had
Speaker 3: been on a show that was canceled on ABC because
Speaker 3: of the strikes, and so then there was just this
Speaker 3: time time we were there was you know, so I
Speaker 3: was excited to go in and and I had known
Speaker 3: I knew all of the producers because they had been
Speaker 3: the production team on What I Like About You, so
Speaker 3: Tom Robbins, What I Like About You, So I kind
Speaker 3: of knew them all, so I knew it would be
Speaker 3: a friendly room. And Breton Debbie, you are so amazing, So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's really so interesting, isn't it. It's crazy to
Speaker 1: think about what the writer's strikes were like for all
Speaker 1: of us then, and then when you think about what
Speaker 1: the last two years have been like with the SAG
Speaker 1: strike and the w GA strike and how the business
Speaker 1: has not recovered.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, coming at the end of COVID, I feel
Speaker 3: like it was like a double rammy. I remember during
Speaker 3: the strikes back then, the writer strike back then, that
Speaker 3: one felt like stolen time. It felt so Yeah. Of
Speaker 3: course this is coming from an actor who had just
Speaker 3: gotten off of a show. I had just gotten married.
Speaker 3: I had no responsibilities in the world. We were bowling
Speaker 3: during the day. We'd go see movies that I started doing.
Speaker 3: I started doing roller Derby.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's right. Yeah, wait, what was your
Speaker 1: roller Derby name?
Speaker 3: Kis magrits Kiss.
Speaker 1: I remember.
Speaker 2: It's all being so impressed with you when you told
Speaker 2: us you were in roller Derby. Gosh, and you did
Speaker 2: some in Wilmington too. Didn't you get involved with like
Speaker 2: a league which.
Speaker 3: I went to some, but I didn't get involved. At
Speaker 3: one point Carol had to ask me the our wardrobe
Speaker 3: had to say, you look, we are a teen soap
Speaker 3: I'm having to dress you like with long sleeves and
Speaker 3: long pants every episode because to cover your bruises.
Speaker 1: So at some.
Speaker 3: Point you have to stop like being so roller derby.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 3: So I did.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 3: It was really only a stock gap because it was
Speaker 3: so bored during the strikes. So, you know, once I
Speaker 3: was working, I.
Speaker 2: Guess you're so cool, you are so good I was.
Speaker 3: I was. I don't know what happened. Kids.
Speaker 2: Did you ever do ice skating or anything too? Like
Speaker 2: are you used to? That's not just not a thing
Speaker 2: people pick up like, well, you know what, let me
Speaker 2: try roller derby.
Speaker 3: We we were so bored during the strike that Scott
Speaker 3: and I worked, going on dates where he would plan
Speaker 3: one and I would plan one, and so I was like,
Speaker 3: let's go look at this roller derby thing. This looks
Speaker 3: like so much fun. And there was an ad in
Speaker 3: the program that was like, if you want to learn
Speaker 3: to skate. I was like, I want to learn to skate? Sure,
Speaker 3: and so I went.
Speaker 1: So that's how it happened.
Speaker 3: That's how bored I was.
Speaker 2: They taught you how to do it. I still can't
Speaker 2: go backwards on roller skates. It's a whole I feel
Speaker 2: shame around it. Don't talk about it.
Speaker 3: Well, that's also hard, Like that's I mean, you're you
Speaker 3: have to do like a sweeping thing with one Let's.
Speaker 1: I don't. I have no, absolutely not. I don't think
Speaker 1: I'm coordinated enough. I mean no more for me.
Speaker 3: That is that's a that shit has sale.
Speaker 1: Could you don't you take your kids? You don't go?
Speaker 3: No, I really want to take my kids to see it.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna know. That is because you know you're
Speaker 3: on a banked track and it goes so fast. It's
Speaker 3: it's yeah, do you just.
Speaker 2: Go to the regular roller RINKO?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do like to go to the like moonlight rollerway,
Speaker 3: that's room light.
Speaker 1: That's one of those things like when Joy and I
Speaker 1: talk about are really intense ADHD Like being the person
Speaker 1: who goes to the roller rink on the weekend is
Speaker 1: one of those things I still think I'm going to
Speaker 1: do and I still don't. Yeah.
Speaker 3: The only reason I do is because our kids school
Speaker 3: has fund raisers there, so I ended up there for that.
Speaker 3: And when I'm back on I'm like, man, this could
Speaker 3: just be my new hobby. I could do this all
Speaker 3: the time and I don't go. It's it's so fine.
Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe we can go.
Speaker 3: So when you're here with your movie, so you have
Speaker 3: to fly in and we're going to go to.
Speaker 2: The roller ring, let's go. I mean, let's go to
Speaker 2: the roller ring.
Speaker 1: So ready, give me like a flared bell bottom jean.
Speaker 1: Let me listen.
Speaker 3: Can you go backwards, Sophia?
Speaker 1: Absolutely not no no no no no no no no.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I can go forwards.
Speaker 3: I'll push you, push on.
Speaker 1: I'm going to hold the belt loops of your jeans
Speaker 1: and just trick.
Speaker 3: Great idea.
Speaker 2: Are you on blades or are you on like roller
Speaker 2: blades or are you on the regular old fashion? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you're on good old fashion, got good new pair roller skates.
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I like that. Yeah we look so cute.
Speaker 2: Yeah okay, Well, I wish we had been able to
Speaker 2: write you in roller Derby in the show.
Speaker 1: That would have been I mean, so, I don't know
Speaker 1: why we did.
Speaker 2: We never do a roller Derby episode of our show
Speaker 2: ever I've done.
Speaker 3: I've done other shows where they've written it in and
Speaker 3: it was really fun. Showed you do it was on
Speaker 3: a show called Nikki, Ricky, Dicky and Don. I played
Speaker 3: the mom on it, who like Rulled the whole one
Speaker 3: whole episode was just me doing Ruler Derby.
Speaker 1: It was really fun. That is amazing. I mean, you
Speaker 1: just you have such an amazing sense for comedy and
Speaker 1: physical comedy. Oh thanks, I can't imagine. Well, now I'm
Speaker 1: going to have to look up that episode obviously. I'm like,
Speaker 1: I can't imagine how funny that was. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh man, I'm going to watch it. What did you
Speaker 1: feel like when you got the script for this episode
Speaker 1: and read your whole storyline.
Speaker 3: I don't even know how to explain it to you,
Speaker 3: because I already felt so fish out of water on
Speaker 3: your show. You know, I come from not because of you, guys.
Speaker 3: This is all just in my crazy brain. So I
Speaker 3: had come from like doing so many sitcoms I was,
Speaker 3: and mostly multi camera, so in front of an audience,
Speaker 3: and so it was already like, oh, I need to
Speaker 3: relearn this sort of new way to tell a story.
Speaker 3: And I promise you, and especially in this episode. This
Speaker 3: is not me fishing for any sort of compliment, but
Speaker 3: the only way that I can describe it in today's
Speaker 3: terms is that I felt like Kristin Wig and I'm
Speaker 3: Judy like I felt like it was all of these
Speaker 3: incredibly beitiful actresses and then I I'm Judy, like I'm
Speaker 3: there just trying to win, and well that's just where
Speaker 3: my head was, and so then so at So that's
Speaker 3: number one. Number two. I am like a committed never
Speaker 3: nude from like you know, like arrested development, Like I
Speaker 3: you will not see me walking around in a bikini. Ever.
Speaker 3: I'm not apprude by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 2: Just got your cut off jeene shorts that you sleep.
Speaker 1: In in the shower. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: I'm not at all comfortable like in a bathing suit situation.
Speaker 3: I just I've never have been since I was a teenager.
Speaker 3: It's just so I'm reading the script and I'm like,
Speaker 3: oh no, oh, yeah, I'm Judy. I'm in a suit
Speaker 3: with these you know, there was a certified model in
Speaker 3: this episode. And then I keep reading and then I'm
Speaker 3: lecked out of my hotel room in my bron underwear.
Speaker 3: I just I kind of went into full spiral mode.
Speaker 3: I was so excited, Like, first of all, I couldn't
Speaker 3: believe that I was able to go to Puerto Rico,
Speaker 3: like so cool, Joy, I'm so sad you were.
Speaker 2: I'd never even seen the episode, so I didn't know
Speaker 2: what happened to you When you got locked out of
Speaker 2: your hotel room. I genuinely gasped. I mean, I was
Speaker 2: loving that storyline.
Speaker 1: That was so fun. That's the thing. Your storyline was
Speaker 1: my favorite part of the whole episode. Yes, like, it
Speaker 1: was so fun. And I remember I remember that scene
Speaker 1: where we were all having breakfast the next day, you,
Speaker 1: me and Janna at the table and just going, oh
Speaker 1: my god, it was It was just the most fun
Speaker 1: to do that whole thing with you. But to Joy's point,
Speaker 1: getting to watch all of your scenes that you know
Speaker 1: we weren't in, I mean the room service tray and
Speaker 1: the hot top over your butt, I was shrieking.
Speaker 2: And then you get in the elevator with the model
Speaker 2: and the two of you standing next to each other
Speaker 2: like a giraffe.
Speaker 3: Some sort of little ferret. I don't want to know,
Speaker 3: but like your baby.
Speaker 1: Gazelle and a giraffe.
Speaker 3: It was so funny.
Speaker 1: Well, I also just need you to know, because look,
Speaker 1: it's vulnerable to talk about how these sorts of things
Speaker 1: make you feel behind the scenes, no matter how hilarious
Speaker 1: you are on camera, I ironically, because you know, I
Speaker 1: played Brooke Davis. I never wanted to be in a
Speaker 1: bathing suit either. And I remember when we got to
Speaker 1: the the moment where we were all laying on the chairs, like,
Speaker 1: I remember how stressed I felt that they were going
Speaker 1: to pull across all of you guys and then land
Speaker 1: on me in the foreground. I was like, why do
Speaker 1: I have to be in the foreground. I don't want
Speaker 1: to be in the foreground. Put me in the background,
Speaker 1: block block me with Chantelle's six foot long supermodel body,
Speaker 1: like anything but this. And it's so weird because also
Speaker 1: now I realize I'm doing the thing my mom always
Speaker 1: said I would do, which is be nicer to yourself,
Speaker 1: because in ten years you're going to look back. And
Speaker 1: I look at us and I'm like, everyone is so hot?
Speaker 1: What's going on? We all looked amazing, and I remember
Speaker 1: feeling like just a garbage person. And I need you
Speaker 1: to know that. As I'm like writing my notes for
Speaker 1: the episode in all cabs, I have holy abs, Allison,
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, incredible, incredible, And I just but we all
Speaker 1: do it to ourselves. I mean I'll do it to ourselves.
Speaker 2: I did it on a daily basis, and I look
Speaker 2: back now and I'm like, why did I spend so
Speaker 2: much time back then worrying about my arms or like
Speaker 2: my my waist or what like all.
Speaker 1: The little things that you're just I'm stressed so much
Speaker 1: about could I not have.
Speaker 2: Just expended that energy in better ways being happy?
Speaker 3: I agree, I'm so mad at myself and my but no,
Speaker 3: I mean it's how we're like socialized. It's not our yeah,
Speaker 3: that we feel this way. And it really does stink
Speaker 3: because I was I was actually scared to look back
Speaker 3: at it, and as I was watching, I was like, oh,
Speaker 3: we were also like it's great, it's perfect, Beau.
Speaker 1: So I do have that.
Speaker 3: So you know, I had my one. I felt like
Speaker 3: a little you know, like Judy number two. I have
Speaker 3: the never nude number three. Number three. I had just
Speaker 3: found out I was pregnant, oh like like a week prior.
Speaker 3: So what Sophia I was do? I was living your story?
Speaker 3: Oh my god when we were there, so you were
Speaker 3: tossing drinks over your shoulder, I was passing them to Scott.
Speaker 3: Scott got hammered my husband.
Speaker 1: Scott, Yes, yes, okay for the viewers, just let's let's
Speaker 1: really hit that nail on the head. Quinn's ex husband,
Speaker 1: David was played by your actual husband Scott on our show. Yes, Yes,
Speaker 1: and so one of the things that was so fun
Speaker 1: is he came with us to Puerto Rico. But now
Speaker 1: in my brain, I'm like, oh my god. When we
Speaker 1: were sitting having like Margarita's by the pool, yeah.
Speaker 3: Yes, and when we actually had sushi and like all
Speaker 3: of that, I was just passing things to him. I
Speaker 3: was so nervous when I had to fall off the bed,
Speaker 3: which I just.
Speaker 2: My favorite two legs are just it's brilliant. You're comed
Speaker 2: It's like comedy Barbie. It was so so good.
Speaker 3: That's really funny.
Speaker 1: It was like you cartwheeled off that bed. I did.
Speaker 1: I did.
Speaker 3: There was a crash pad on the other side of
Speaker 3: the bed, but I ended up bruising my butt because
Speaker 3: I just kept landing so hard because I just trying
Speaker 3: to be funnier and funnier. I was like, I don't know,
Speaker 3: maybe I'll flip a little harder this time. Yeah, And
Speaker 3: I remember thinking like, oh my gosh, did I like
Speaker 3: hurt the baby. I didn't know. You're so superstitious scared
Speaker 3: of everything at like the you know, who's my first kid,
Speaker 3: So I was really nervous and scared on top of
Speaker 3: whoa the other things.
Speaker 2: But this adds a whole other layer because to be
Speaker 2: to be doing physical comedy when you're pregnant for the
Speaker 2: first time and that kind of fear and still be
Speaker 2: so committed to the work and pull it off in
Speaker 2: a way that was I mean, no one ever would
Speaker 2: have known. But that's a lot of stress, that is really.
Speaker 1: It was a lot.
Speaker 3: I think I just dissociated and it was like, oh.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm here, let's do it. I guess it'll be fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And it was whoa.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so funny, but it was crazy that that was
Speaker 3: your whole storyline.
Speaker 1: In the Yes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was fun too. I didn't know when they
Speaker 2: were going to do start with that storyline of Brook
Speaker 2: being pregnant, so that was really exciting to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I loved it, and I loved the way it was
Speaker 1: really sweet, you know, after all the tumult of when
Speaker 1: they first brought Alex's character in to kind of be
Speaker 1: the foil for Brooke and Julian and maybe screw up
Speaker 1: the relationship. I love that Alex is the one that
Speaker 1: got to help and I said in the episode prior
Speaker 1: where we do the whole reveal, and she's like, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I needed to take a drug test for Chase,
Speaker 1: and then I wanted to help, and then so I
Speaker 1: had to have Julian do it, but he wasn't home,
Speaker 1: so then Brooke did it. It's you know, this whole
Speaker 1: thing I had said when we had Jana on, I
Speaker 1: was like, I wish we'd seen Brooke and Alex have
Speaker 1: this moment because it's so cool that they have this
Speaker 1: friendship now. Yeah, and so I honestly forgot that this
Speaker 1: was our secret through the whole Puerto Rico episode. I look,
Speaker 1: we have our moment, you have it, and it was
Speaker 1: so sweet, and I mean, she just has she has
Speaker 1: such great comedy, you know, walking in going to say
Speaker 1: the thing, and I look at her and she's like,
Speaker 1: I forgot what I was going to say anything about it,
Speaker 1: and then it actually winds up that you you run
Speaker 1: away with the comedy train. And I just thought it
Speaker 1: was a really fun storyline for all of us.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I loved it. I loved it, and I have
Speaker 3: that same memory so of like that shooting the morning
Speaker 3: after scene, you the all of us, Yeah, we were
Speaker 3: like in front of the ocean. It was just the
Speaker 3: most idyllic, beautiful, fun scene. It just felt like it
Speaker 3: felt like we were actually at lunch or something.
Speaker 2: Like we love a location, man, This location shoots are
Speaker 2: so fun. Did we find out in the episode who
Speaker 2: she sent those texts? Those selfies in her underwear to
Speaker 2: Chuck school?
Speaker 1: Nick? Oh, who's next to the skills in your French?
Speaker 3: I had forgotten me, and so that was a reveal.
Speaker 3: When I was watching it, I was.
Speaker 2: Like, Oh, I don't know why I missed that. Okay, crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when Chase brings Chuck the bike, he goes, this
Speaker 1: is even cooler than those pictures miss Lauren sent me.
Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, that's why I missed. It was a comment,
Speaker 2: But that's funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good thing his mom doesn't seem to
Speaker 3: be on top of things, because I could have been
Speaker 3: fired for that for a.
Speaker 2: Hundred person Yeah, maybe criminal charges possibly possibly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would definitely be on the news.
Speaker 1: Yea. And the hrony is as the viewers of the show,
Speaker 1: it's so funny to us because we know miss Lauren's
Speaker 1: a good person, But could you imagine in reverse being
Speaker 1: like I meant to send them to skills and I
Speaker 1: accidentally went to the wrong sk name, like I'd be
Speaker 1: on the news. Yeah, on the news, on the news. Okay.
Speaker 2: This other storyline with the boys out by the river court,
Speaker 2: I loved. This was so fun to see them all together.
Speaker 2: I love Rob's annoyance with the lazy Bird.
Speaker 1: Yeah, delivery so funny, so good.
Speaker 2: I love that they're just letting him, letting him be,
Speaker 2: letting him be himself on camera and not forcing all
Speaker 2: of these super super dramatic storylines on him, which he
Speaker 2: handled so well. But we've been saying it recently that
Speaker 2: it's so nice to watch him be able to just
Speaker 2: do some comedy and be comfortable in his skin and
Speaker 2: he's so funny. Yeah, it's fun to watch Clay in
Speaker 2: this space, like.
Speaker 1: You, lazy bird lay your eggs in a nest. I
Speaker 1: also love how committed to the bit he is, and
Speaker 1: that's really true for both of you. I mean, you
Speaker 1: went so hard in the paint in this episode for us.
Speaker 1: And then it's a really interesting counterpoint to all of
Speaker 1: your comedy that the minute his like gorgeous girlfriend leaves,
Speaker 1: he puts on this ridiculous figure skater shirt and he
Speaker 1: loves this disgusting old red recliner.
Speaker 2: And she's just like, leave me be.
Speaker 1: I want to have a cold beer and just read
Speaker 1: and sit in my chair with my feet up. And
Speaker 1: Rob really committed to the bit, and he underplayed some
Speaker 1: of it in a way that does feel very Arrested Development. Yes,
Speaker 1: and it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I really wish he would have been able to
Speaker 2: be on that show. I was just watching and rewatching
Speaker 2: it recently. It's so good, Like, yeah, I could totally
Speaker 2: see Rob on this show.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny. We got asked in a Q
Speaker 1: and A about Gray's Anatomy and someone was like, what
Speaker 1: doctor would you cast Rob as? And I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I want to put That's it. I want to put
Speaker 1: Rob on Arrested Developments.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, or just think of whatever role you would
Speaker 2: cast Jason Bateman as on Grey's Anatomy and then put
Speaker 2: Rob in that role. Yes, yes, Speaking of the figure
Speaker 2: skating shirt, why are we making fun of Brian Boitano
Speaker 2: so much in this episode? It was I don't really confusing.
Speaker 2: Was he like in the news at that time? Was
Speaker 2: I don't know what, but it wasn't even like it
Speaker 2: was nice and just kind of funny. It was like me,
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's mean, and I didn't like it.
Speaker 2: I thought it was really weird.
Speaker 1: I didn't like it either, and I didn't understand why
Speaker 1: why we went so far with it? Like why was
Speaker 1: why was Rob so obsessed with this shirt? Because Clay
Speaker 1: doesn't dress in much color, He's not like a guy
Speaker 1: with flair. And then there's a guy in Puerto Rico
Speaker 1: in the same shirt and we make the same joke
Speaker 1: and Quinn's aware of it, but why because he's never
Speaker 1: worn it before.
Speaker 2: It feels like one of those jokes that are show
Speaker 2: runner like he had some beef with Brian Boitano for
Speaker 2: some reason and was like intentionally writing it into the
Speaker 2: show because it just didn't make sense anywhere. There was
Speaker 2: no reason for it whatsoever, Right, I.
Speaker 1: Mean one of those things that you're like, this is
Speaker 1: funny to no one, but you do you want to
Speaker 1: write a better joke? Or no, you just want to
Speaker 1: you just want to do this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, that's that's fine, your little puppet show whatever.
Speaker 1: That was so strange.
Speaker 2: But I also have in my notes here, Allison, when
Speaker 2: was the last time you got that plastered? Like like never,
Speaker 2: Lauren I actually did, wait, never in your whole life,
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 3: My whole life, really, I mean, I've never found myself
Speaker 3: basically naked out lockdown.
Speaker 1: Thank god.
Speaker 3: I was also surprised Lauren. We never saw the sight
Speaker 3: of Lauren before. Yeah, it's it was really fun.
Speaker 2: To like that's what made it so funny, right, yes, right.
Speaker 3: I was happy to see her sort of jumping out
Speaker 3: of her like little box and having a blast.
Speaker 1: I also loved that you referenced it that they wrote
Speaker 1: in the bit for you to be like I'm a teacher,
Speaker 1: because it's in a way, it's like, you know, you've
Speaker 1: literally gone to an island with your friends. You get
Speaker 1: to let loose, and maybe the reason you go so
Speaker 1: hard is because you never do this at home.
Speaker 3: Probably it was.
Speaker 1: Really really fun.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I was so excited.
Speaker 1: To do it, And I mean it's so long ago.
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't remember, but I'm just wondering, knowing what
Speaker 1: a great comedian you are, what you added, Like, were
Speaker 1: there things you really riffed on in terms of the
Speaker 1: physicality and stuff? Do you remember? I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't remember. It was so long ago. I do
Speaker 3: remember having because you know when you're when you're so
Speaker 3: out of the box, like you know, I remember like
Speaker 3: having to add like I can't remember if I touched
Speaker 3: or if that was written in the screen.
Speaker 1: So good. I think the.
Speaker 3: Line was written, but I'm not sure if it was,
Speaker 3: you know, And then I can't. I can't quite remember.
Speaker 3: But that feels like something that we would have discussed
Speaker 3: on the day. Maybe that wasn't written in the script.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
Speaker 3: She was so game, she was so she did a
Speaker 3: great job.
Speaker 1: I thought Jelly was great.
Speaker 3: Jelly, Yeah, she was so good in the episode.
Speaker 1: Just beautiful, sweetest, but also something I didn't track until
Speaker 1: we watched it because obviously there's the whole joke that
Speaker 1: Clay's upset that his beautiful girlfriend and all these beautiful
Speaker 1: women are like off on this trip. But the next
Speaker 1: morning stuff when Quinn says to you know, the model, like, oh,
Speaker 1: do you want to come drive around town with me?
Speaker 1: I was like, do they actually kiss? Like there is
Speaker 1: a chemistry like a lot, And I didn't remember that,
Speaker 1: And I was like, is something like is the miss
Speaker 1: Lauren thing touching her? Misdirect? Like is something gonna happen
Speaker 1: with these twodes going on?
Speaker 3: They had insane chemistry. I had the same thought. I
Speaker 3: was like, kiss, kiss, because I have to say, those
Speaker 3: scenes when they went out into and they and they
Speaker 3: took the you know, the the on the fly photographs.
Speaker 3: It was shot so beautifully. The light was so pretty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that Golden Hour, Oh yes, she was so beautiful.
Speaker 2: It really added a nice element to the episode.
Speaker 1: Yes that it was very cool. I felt like I
Speaker 1: could feel Pete Kowalski all over that, Like I could
Speaker 1: picture him going, oh my god, and look at that
Speaker 1: the sun is setting. Turn just turn, get it because
Speaker 1: so much of it was handheld, and I could just
Speaker 1: picture him and Matt like doing the thing and it
Speaker 1: it gave this kind of energy to it. And I
Speaker 1: will say I thought it was really nice that back
Speaker 1: in twenty eleven we touched on the fact that it
Speaker 1: is weird, you know, to be a tourist and sometimes
Speaker 1: you are in this really idyllic place and right outside
Speaker 1: it's not shared, like not all these resort towns are
Speaker 1: actually supported very well by these places that get built.
Speaker 1: And I was like, damn, look at us talking about
Speaker 1: a social issue in twenty eleven.
Speaker 3: Okay, Quinn had that beautiful line I which I could
Speaker 3: remember it was about privilege. Yes, and I had that
Speaker 3: same thought. I was like, Oh, this is ahead of
Speaker 3: our time for this show. This is yeah, really lovely.
Speaker 2: I appreciate wake.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was cool to you know, to
Speaker 1: hear some things being acknowledged. And maybe it particularly hit
Speaker 1: me because you know, there were certain powers that be
Speaker 1: that would be like stop talking about charity so much,
Speaker 1: like can you tone it down, like you know, in
Speaker 1: my actual life. And I was like, oh, maybe being
Speaker 1: a little bit of a pain in the asses more
Speaker 1: effective at the time than I realized.
Speaker 3: Right, it might have worked in a little bit, look.
Speaker 1: At us talking about some stuff.
Speaker 2: I also really thought it was great for Quinn's character.
Speaker 2: The reminder to the audience that she has a job
Speaker 2: and she's really good at it. Yes, because she's been
Speaker 2: living in this zone of just being like hot girlfriend
Speaker 2: sister space, but like her actual brain being highlighted was
Speaker 2: something I really felt like we needed this, particularly in
Speaker 2: an episode that was clearly so much about featuring everybody's bodies.
Speaker 1: Yes, And I do think it's cool like that it
Speaker 1: brings us back to a connection, particularly for Brooke and
Speaker 1: for Quinn, like that was kind of her introduction when
Speaker 1: the character first came in, you know, she shot the
Speaker 1: first ad campaign with Alex Duprey for Close Over Bros.
Speaker 1: And so it's nice to your point, joy when we
Speaker 1: get reminded, I mean, even the whole she's going to
Speaker 1: shoot in South Africa thing was like what and then
Speaker 1: obviously a little bit of a ruse for the Katie storyline,
Speaker 1: but it is nice when we get reminded that the
Speaker 1: women on our show are really talented artists too. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and I loved the moment at the end
Speaker 1: where she got to see the shot on the cover
Speaker 1: and that it was a thing that our characters got
Speaker 1: to collaborate on and it wasn't like the bed in
Speaker 1: the ocean shot that it was this real sort of
Speaker 1: moment in time captured. I was like, oh, that's a
Speaker 1: nice that's a nice little ball on that for Yeah,
Speaker 1: because she did what her job was, she did what
Speaker 1: she was supposed.
Speaker 2: To do, She got the shot that they asked for,
Speaker 2: and then he was like, you know what, let me
Speaker 2: this is more I know how to actually do this better.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I loved watching her grow into that. So she
Speaker 3: like had the bed with the guy, then she switches
Speaker 3: it out with a woman, and it's cool and edgier
Speaker 3: and then she then you see her going out into
Speaker 3: the city, and then that's what And that's where you
Speaker 3: can see like she's truly like lit up by that.
Speaker 3: You can see like her artistic juices are flowing and
Speaker 3: she's super excited. And that's why.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a really nice way to communicate that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I'm ready for Clay to step up a
Speaker 2: little bit. Come on, buddy, I know it is pretty
Speaker 2: funny that she's out working her bed off and having
Speaker 2: all these creative ideas and amazing things. In Clay's just
Speaker 2: like in his lounge chair and his barking lounger on
Speaker 2: the beach, just complaining about bird eggs.
Speaker 1: He's so pissed that he got hijacked on this camping trip,
Speaker 1: just wanted to sit in his house. I love when
Speaker 1: we get to see the boys be great friends. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's just so sweet, especially back on the river court. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think about too, you know, the whole storyline
Speaker 1: of Brooke and Julian and the adoption that didn't work
Speaker 1: and all the things. I loved that scene a few
Speaker 1: episodes ago where all the boys are at the bar
Speaker 1: and Julian confides in them when they thought the adoption
Speaker 1: was going to work. And then it's this sweet moment
Speaker 1: where you know, Nathan's talking about how much they'll all
Speaker 1: miss them, and Jamie's going to miss them, and then
Speaker 1: Julian gets to share this thing with him, and I
Speaker 1: was like, oh, look at the boys talking about their
Speaker 1: families and their feelings. It's refreshing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's so good.
Speaker 3: I love that moment when everyone was texting each other too, too.
Speaker 1: It was so sweet.
Speaker 3: It did made me terr up a little. It was
Speaker 3: really really sweet.
Speaker 2: That was an interesting comment on cell phone culture that
Speaker 2: had become a big deal at the time when they
Speaker 2: just did them the montage of everybody on their cell phone,
Speaker 2: which is so funny that it was intentionally a comment
Speaker 2: at a little tongue in cheek lay, Hey, we're all
Speaker 2: here now, everybody is doing this, Yeah, but things haven't
Speaker 2: changed much.
Speaker 1: Was that I watched that.
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, we really crossed the threshold here,
Speaker 2: Like this is a very clear moment in time of
Speaker 2: when culture has shifted from everybody reading books and sitting
Speaker 2: around talking to each other to now everyone is on
Speaker 2: their cell phone. It happened in twenty and ten, twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, it's so surreal but also so sweet that
Speaker 1: you know, it goes between all the women and everyone's
Speaker 1: in their own room and then you see the boys
Speaker 1: and the pan around how they're all just sitting there
Speaker 1: talking to their you know, to their people, people, their loves.
Speaker 1: It's like it was very sweet to me. It made
Speaker 1: me feel like a real sense of nostalgia because in
Speaker 1: a way, you see that all these characters you've been
Speaker 1: rooting for for so long feel settled. And you know,
Speaker 1: we didn't know we were going to come back for
Speaker 1: a season nine at this point, so the end of
Speaker 1: season eight really begins to feel like it could be
Speaker 1: a series finale. And there was something about the image
Speaker 1: of all of our people, like having the right people
Speaker 1: that I thought was really touching settled in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, except well, miss Lauren doesn't. Actually this is weird.
Speaker 2: In our notes here it says that she ends up
Speaker 2: married to David Fletcher in the show. Who is David
Speaker 2: Fletcher Scott?
Speaker 3: Oh right, I know, Oh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I did not know that happened.
Speaker 3: It was a reveal. It was like a really quick reveal.
Speaker 1: I feel like, yeah, when they sort of did the
Speaker 1: where everyone is. Yeah, and that was like a sweet
Speaker 1: little inside joke for you guys.
Speaker 2: Which is so all we ever heard about this guy
Speaker 2: was that he was a jerk and just like wanted
Speaker 2: to stay in one place and didn't want to grow
Speaker 2: as a person. So hopefully they developed his character a
Speaker 2: little bit. So we feel like miss Laura and ended
Speaker 2: up with somebody that's as a character we wanted her
Speaker 2: to be with.
Speaker 3: Now that they have a kid, maybe that's like the
Speaker 3: right personality for yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah that's true.
Speaker 1: Oh by the way, maybe maybe an elementary school teacher
Speaker 1: is his dream girl. He's like, maybe you want to
Speaker 1: have a normal job. You don't want to pick up
Speaker 1: and travel and like go do photo.
Speaker 2: Shot and I don't know. Yeah, no, he's had plenty
Speaker 2: of time to learn and grow. I just hope that we,
Speaker 2: you know, let the audience know that he did. And
Speaker 2: so we don't feel like, oh no, well we'll see.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not happening yet, it's in the next season,
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 3: So I loved so much. I loved the stuff with Chuck.
Speaker 3: I felt he was so sad. He looked so cute
Speaker 3: up in the driving, the driving, the big whatever, that
Speaker 3: machine is called tractor and then yes, and then he
Speaker 3: and Chase had the really the sweet, sweet little scene
Speaker 3: where you know, Chuck got to be really vulnerable. I
Speaker 3: don't know, I just that really touched me when I.
Speaker 1: Was rewatching it.
Speaker 2: This is something I missed too. Chase enlisting in the service.
Speaker 2: When did that happen?
Speaker 1: So that's what he decides to do because you know
Speaker 1: he's been getting his pilot's license. Yeah, that's the whole
Speaker 1: reason he had to take a drug test a few
Speaker 1: episodes ago when we find out Brooke is pregnant.
Speaker 2: Oh wait, we found out Brook's pregnant. If you did
Speaker 2: I miss I wasn't how I was traveling, So I
Speaker 2: think I missed nineteen.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah. So the whole thing is Chase needs to
Speaker 1: take a drug test, but he was backstage at Kid
Speaker 1: Cuddy and they like told him to take a hit
Speaker 1: of a joint, so he can't, and then he asks
Speaker 1: Alex to do it for him, but Alex ate Quinn's
Speaker 1: Pot Brownie's, not knowing they were pot Brownie. So Alex
Speaker 1: goes to Brook and Julian's to ask Julian to pee
Speaker 1: in the cup and Julian's not home, so Brooke does. So,
Speaker 1: Chase gets the results of his drug test and they said, hey,
Speaker 1: we obviously screwed up the samples because your drug test
Speaker 1: says you're pregnant. He thinks Alex is pregnant. He says,
Speaker 1: I was going to end. I was enlisting, but I'm
Speaker 1: not going to if we're going to have a baby.
Speaker 2: Wait, why does he think Alex is pregnant if he
Speaker 2: knows that she didn't be in the cup.
Speaker 1: Because she didn't tell him, she didn't pay Oh, she's
Speaker 1: the one that took the cup to Yes, she was like, well,
Speaker 1: I want to help, but I don't.
Speaker 2: I got to watch this episode. These are fund shenanigans.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like a very it's a very cute,
Speaker 1: roundabout storyline, but it did feel a little surprising. It
Speaker 1: was like, what do you mean he's wait, he's going
Speaker 1: from like wanting to fly a four seater plane on
Speaker 1: the weekends to being in the Air Force. Like hold up,
Speaker 1: But that was the whole thing. And so, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: how Brooke finds out she's pregnant. I did not realize that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so that's why Alex knows in this episode she's the
Speaker 1: only one that knows, which is why it's very sweet
Speaker 1: by the end, when you know I'm ravenously eating someone's
Speaker 1: leftover food.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Sophia, that was so funny, funny, Oh
Speaker 2: my gosh, it was so great. I really wondered what
Speaker 2: you were looking at when they did that shot and
Speaker 2: you turned and you looked, and oh my gosh, and
Speaker 2: you walked towards something. And when you pulled the lid
Speaker 2: off an old burger and fries, I died. I was
Speaker 2: laughing so hard the way you real shame.
Speaker 3: You just went for it, like you just were like, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: this is what my body needs in this moment, and
Speaker 3: I'm going to give it to it right now.
Speaker 1: Fully, fully, Yeah, it was perfect.
Speaker 3: You just went for it.
Speaker 1: I tried to, like unhinge my jaw like a snake
Speaker 1: to get as many French fries in there for the
Speaker 1: for the laugh as I could.
Speaker 3: It was so funny.
Speaker 2: It was worth it, totally worth it. I mean, did
Speaker 2: you how many takes did you do? Please tell me
Speaker 2: they gave you a spiitbucket.
Speaker 1: I don't remember, but I remember the turnaround and realizing
Speaker 1: I was caught, and I thought they did such a
Speaker 1: good job. The camera motion and the way that they,
Speaker 1: you know, moved from me to Sean Tello adds to
Speaker 1: the funny. And then her being like I see you,
Speaker 1: like yeah, even owing drinks over your shoulder all night,
Speaker 1: like come on, lady, it's so sweet.
Speaker 2: Okay, Actually this makes me wonder would you guys do
Speaker 2: this if you had a girlfriend that you were suspecting
Speaker 2: was pregnant. Would you approach her and say the thing
Speaker 2: that Quinn said or would you leave it alone and
Speaker 2: let her tell you on her own time?
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that depends on how close you
Speaker 1: are to the person, right, I don't know.
Speaker 2: Well yeah, but even so, even if it's like even
Speaker 2: if you're really really close, do you.
Speaker 1: There was a little part of me that was like, oh,
Speaker 1: like she's robbing her of the.
Speaker 2: Experience of telling everybody on her own time, Like I
Speaker 2: don't like get.
Speaker 3: There's something about your face, Sophia. Every time you confirmed
Speaker 3: or you talked about it, especially at the end with
Speaker 3: the two of you, it was so you seemed so
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously you're genuinely you're so happy in this moment,
Speaker 3: but it was it was so deep because you have
Speaker 3: struggled and you could just see it all in your face. Yes,
Speaker 3: when you are telling each person that you are pregnant,
Speaker 3: and it's not just like, oh, i'm you could see
Speaker 3: everything you've been through up until this point in those
Speaker 3: little moments, and it was so beautiful. I loved those tho.
Speaker 2: Yes, they were thank you.
Speaker 1: It felt it felt so important to me, you know,
Speaker 1: for Brooke and for you know, everybody that goes through
Speaker 1: this stuff. And it's crazy to think of how much
Speaker 1: more I know and every woman in my life knows
Speaker 1: now than I did then. And even then it felt
Speaker 1: like a it felt like something. It's not just that
Speaker 1: it felt like a responsibility. It it felt it just
Speaker 1: felt important and it was fun to have the joy.
Speaker 2: I think it was important. Everybody's been walking through this
Speaker 2: with Brooke for so long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it was a big deal.
Speaker 3: Joy your face, like you, you took it with importance
Speaker 3: as well. So when she had the very end when
Speaker 3: she told you and you and you your reactions to that.
Speaker 3: There's such a deep history in those moments and in
Speaker 3: that it just gave me chills.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I loved that.
Speaker 3: It might be my favorite moment of the whole episode. Oh,
Speaker 3: I love that loved it.
Speaker 1: Oh, I know, it was all very very It's great
Speaker 1: to see you guys together, my goodness, and you know,
Speaker 1: it was really nice even looking back at it, getting
Speaker 1: to see the totality of the episode sort of full
Speaker 1: circle moment to where we started, right, I remember, you know,
Speaker 1: I remember the stress of certain things and the pressure
Speaker 1: we all felt, and that, you know, the fact that
Speaker 1: we were going to spend a whole episode essentially in
Speaker 1: swimwear felt stressful. And the episode is so lovely. There
Speaker 1: was so much more about it that was so sweet
Speaker 1: and tender and important and and yeah, that felt so
Speaker 1: good for all these characters. Then the anxiety of this
Speaker 1: sort of setting, let me remember, And it was really
Speaker 1: nice to watch it and for an hour be like oh,
Speaker 1: over and over and over again.
Speaker 3: Yeah it was.
Speaker 1: There were a lot of oz in this episode.
Speaker 2: That's so good.
Speaker 3: Oh, I wanted to say, Millie. Lisa was so cute
Speaker 3: and her little her little dog costume.
Speaker 1: Yes, oh, oh great.
Speaker 3: Here's something about Lisa that is so She's so honest,
Speaker 3: and she's so her her choices are never I just
Speaker 3: feel like they're always so grounded.
Speaker 1: And she's sitting here in.
Speaker 3: This ridiculous costume and being the sweetest, most grounded and
Speaker 3: what she's saying and all these like poop puns.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, it's still so Milly.
Speaker 3: It's so Lisa. She was, she was. She handled that so.
Speaker 1: Well, you know as a comedian.
Speaker 2: The only way that works is if she plays it
Speaker 2: really honestly, because there are so many people that would
Speaker 2: get put in a costume and then be like, I'm
Speaker 2: in a costume and I'm going to really play it
Speaker 2: up and yeah, no, she knows how to just She's like,
Speaker 2: I don't care that I'm wearing a costume.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be completely real. Yeah, that's what makes
Speaker 1: it work. Yes, it's really funny. Yeah, the commitment and
Speaker 1: and Lisa and all of her dance training, you know,
Speaker 1: her ballerina posture in the dog costume adds this hilarious
Speaker 1: because she's very regal, you know, she looks like she
Speaker 1: was three D printed out of a Disney movie. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, and then for her to you know, shoulders back, elegant,
Speaker 1: you know, head up in the costumes so much. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's so funny, so brilliant. It adds so many layers
Speaker 1: to who Milly is too, and watching the partnership between
Speaker 1: Mouth and Milly grow, watching them become this duo, you know,
Speaker 1: her the unlikely reporter and him serving as her partner
Speaker 1: in life but also essentially her producer. The way they're
Speaker 1: growing together and the way that they have this rhythm
Speaker 1: now when they're going over stories and working on ideas.
Speaker 1: It's so lovely and I love that her work begins
Speaker 1: to serve as That narration for the show reminds you
Speaker 1: of why this place is so meaningful to people. The
Speaker 1: fact that they wind up once the guys have found
Speaker 1: the eggs at the river Court and they're talking about
Speaker 1: what this place means to people, and when she turns
Speaker 1: it over to him, and then you get pilot episode
Speaker 1: Marvin McFadden talking about the river Court yeast it burst
Speaker 1: into deers and it's happening again. I just was like, God,
Speaker 1: this is so special and Lee is so genuine, so
Speaker 1: good and so human, and oh, I just it really
Speaker 1: made me nostalgic for what we all got to do together.
Speaker 2: Yeah, me too. It also made me really sad because
Speaker 2: they have destroyed the River Court and I was like,
Speaker 2: could nobody find in a dangered bird on that river
Speaker 2: court in real life? I know, I hate that they
Speaker 2: knocked it down and they're making condominiums there now.
Speaker 1: Oh it's awful.
Speaker 2: I know, it really is. I'm so mad about it.
Speaker 2: But life goes on. I guess that's the that's the course.
Speaker 1: Well, that's kind of the thing, right, is like things
Speaker 1: can't stay the same. Yeah, but it is hard. It's
Speaker 1: hard to let your things go. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I appreciate it while you have it, so sad.
Speaker 1: Alison.
Speaker 2: Before we do it, listen, question, I just wanted to
Speaker 2: ask about life now for you and if you're working
Speaker 2: on anything you're excited about or want to share, or
Speaker 2: if you're just I mean, I don't You and I
Speaker 2: haven't talked really in a while. We've exchanged a couple
Speaker 2: of voice texts, but yeah, like, how are you?
Speaker 1: What's going on? Yeah, I'm great.
Speaker 3: Life is awesome. My kids are incredible. I have a
Speaker 3: kid in middle school and a kid in elementary school.
Speaker 3: It's great. It's so slow here and I've done some
Speaker 3: like guest stars here and there, but like there are
Speaker 3: there aren't even auditions happening, Like it's wild. It's a
Speaker 3: ghost town here, So that part's a little frustrating.
Speaker 2: Are you inclined to create your own stuff or are
Speaker 2: you like, I mean, being a mom is also a
Speaker 2: full time job, so I know it's really hard to
Speaker 2: try and find time to do those things too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would love to do. I have some ideas
Speaker 3: I have like irons in the fire. But I have
Speaker 3: to say, nobody inspires me more than you, Joy when
Speaker 3: you're with your creativity the way you're like, I think
Speaker 3: I'll write a musical and then the next thing you know,
Speaker 3: your walls are covered in index cards. You just do it.
Speaker 3: Oh have you written a musical before? No, but I'll
Speaker 3: figure it out, and then you write a damn musical
Speaker 3: Like It's honestly, it blows my mind. And I don't
Speaker 3: understand that that mechanism that goes from idea to actually
Speaker 3: doing it, especially when I always feel like, well, first
Speaker 3: I have to go back to school. I have to
Speaker 3: get a degree that will somehow support this.
Speaker 1: Next to my god, I'm so much like you, Alison. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know how to do that. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: Enjoy You're like so, and I'm like, wait, what you
Speaker 1: can just do that?
Speaker 3: It's honestly, it's it's so inspiring. And also just I'm
Speaker 3: in awe of you with that, because yeah, so I was.
Speaker 3: I would love to. I have a lot of creative ideas,
Speaker 3: it's just getting them to the fruition part.
Speaker 2: So yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: Well you can do it. You just need just you
Speaker 1: know it is.
Speaker 2: It's just the taking the step of like, I don't
Speaker 2: know what this is, but give me a couple hours
Speaker 2: to just hyper focus on it and see if anything
Speaker 2: comes to mind, and usually it will. It'll start so
Speaker 2: I think it, but it does. There's like there's always
Speaker 2: that moment of a hurdle of like imagining whatever it
Speaker 2: is that you're thinking of doing is so enormous. You
Speaker 2: have to break it down into just like I want
Speaker 2: to do this, but I'm literally just going to start.
Speaker 2: I'm going to write one song and see if I
Speaker 2: like it, and then if the song inspires something else,
Speaker 2: I'll write another thing. But you have to take creative
Speaker 2: projects just one small chunk at a time. I think
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't know anybody else who can look
Speaker 2: at a behemoth like a like a novel or a
Speaker 2: book or musical or some massive project or you know,
Speaker 2: a really big script or something and just go, uh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I have the whole thing in my brain and I
Speaker 2: know exactly how to do it. It just doesn't I
Speaker 2: don't think it works that way. It's just one piece
Speaker 2: at a time.
Speaker 3: That's really smart. That's what I do.
Speaker 2: Just like, there's no way I can you know, Yeah,
Speaker 2: what do you do for yourself creatively? Then what are
Speaker 2: the moments that I mean other than also being a mom,
Speaker 2: Like there's so much creativity in motherhood as well, So
Speaker 2: maybe that's satisfying.
Speaker 3: Well, that's part of this whole. That's where I felt
Speaker 3: so stuck lately because I'm not having my creative It
Speaker 3: is so stuck here in this town right now that
Speaker 3: there and there. I think it's a problem every I mean,
Speaker 3: we have all of these creative people that just aren't
Speaker 3: having these outlets right now. So yeah, it's frustrating. I
Speaker 3: can I can tell you that much. I'm reading a lot,
Speaker 3: which is great, maybe good. Some stuff is sticking in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting do you feel because one of the
Speaker 1: things I get in that way that you're discussing how
Speaker 1: you feel at the moment when I have to Joy's
Speaker 1: point a big idea. What to do first?
Speaker 3: Is hard?
Speaker 1: And it's interesting actually that I've never heard you talk
Speaker 1: about the musical in that way, like, oh, just write
Speaker 1: the first song, And in my brain I'm thinking, oh, well,
Speaker 1: that makes sense because musicals are filled with individual songs.
Speaker 1: And I wonder follow me while I'm like noodling on
Speaker 1: this real time, so I probably got you're rambling. But
Speaker 1: it's like I almost wonder if for me or for
Speaker 1: you Allison, that like we need to start to figure out,
Speaker 1: like what the songs are, even though it's not a musical,
Speaker 1: Like how do you take the film or the world
Speaker 1: of the show, how how do you create smaller pieces,
Speaker 1: because if you're thinking about developing a series, it's a
Speaker 1: world and it's so hard to know what to focus
Speaker 1: on first. But I almost wonder if if we could
Speaker 1: trick ourselves into thinking about it more like a musical,
Speaker 1: if it would make it less intimidating.
Speaker 3: That's a really really good point idea. Yeah, and then
Speaker 3: we could have a list, a list that we can
Speaker 3: check off, Sophia, because you.
Speaker 1: Don't say you know me and all my little posted
Speaker 1: notes and I'm still every year, I'm like, maybe this
Speaker 1: will be the year that one of these ADHD planners
Speaker 1: actually changes.
Speaker 3: I just bought another one, so I bought one in
Speaker 3: January and then I just I saw that. Now it's
Speaker 3: July and they're in the stores. I'm like, oh, this
Speaker 3: is the new one. So January one didn't work very well.
Speaker 3: So I just bought a new July starting planner. So
Speaker 3: we'll see. Oh see, if it's gonna I'll let you
Speaker 3: guys know, I'll give you updated.
Speaker 2: Great yes, please do all planning the planners.
Speaker 3: Can I tell you what I'm really excited about is
Speaker 3: Colletti joining Traders?
Speaker 1: I know, wait, what what?
Speaker 3: What? What? What? So Colletti's gonna be in The Traders
Speaker 3: is in the next season.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Okay, So The Traders is this amazing? Uh it's a
Speaker 3: reality show. It's like a competition show, kind of like Mafia.
Speaker 3: It's it's like the game of Mafia.
Speaker 1: Trader like a trader, like a trader. Yeah, yeah, got it? Okay.
Speaker 3: It's hosted by Alan Cumming, who is incredible. He's incredible.
Speaker 3: They dress him.
Speaker 1: So beautifully and you've never heard of this show, joy.
Speaker 3: You would love it. It's honestly so great. And he
Speaker 3: as the host, he almost plays the character of a
Speaker 3: it's not Alan coming acting naturally.
Speaker 1: No, it's it's very camp.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, that's the word. It's great and it's
Speaker 3: so fun. And so they have different celebrities on there
Speaker 3: that you then are in this game, this like mafia
Speaker 3: like game that are getting voted out and they are
Speaker 3: killing people and we're so deep in it. We've loved
Speaker 3: all three seasons that they've bared here we've actually switched
Speaker 3: to UK and Australia. And so when we found out
Speaker 3: that Colletti was going to be on Scott's like, Scott
Speaker 3: lost his mind. So he and Coltie are really close,
Speaker 3: so he was texting with like he won't text me back,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, I think that they're there.
Speaker 1: They're there, Yeah, they're there.
Speaker 3: They're shooting, so like they took their phones. Yes.
Speaker 1: My one of my best friends, my friend Jordan, his
Speaker 1: husband Colton, is on this season and this is yes,
Speaker 1: so I I just can't wait to talk to them both.
Speaker 1: But they have a young baby and Jordan was like, well,
Speaker 1: I'm so happy for you and we'll see you in
Speaker 1: five weeks and my mom's coming and like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: this is so exciting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Joey, you're gonna have all the tea You're gonna
Speaker 3: get it from two separates.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Oh, I'm so excited.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, I've never been a fan of reality
Speaker 2: shows until recently in my life. I think I've started.
Speaker 2: They've gotten better and you know, like the first season
Speaker 2: of Love is Blind. I liked it and like the rest,
Speaker 2: and then like now we've got Love on the spectrum.
Speaker 2: And then there's that one about I can never remember
Speaker 2: like Secret Millionaire or Millionaire in the House, or I
Speaker 2: can never remember the title of it, Who Wants to
Speaker 2: Be a million It's something about Millionaires in the House.
Speaker 2: It's an over the reality show on Netflix. It's great.
Speaker 2: But now this, I got to check this out. I
Speaker 2: got a call, sorry, my ADHD.
Speaker 1: My brain.
Speaker 2: I got an email about they invited me to be
Speaker 2: on Special Forces the reality show.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: The location was someplace I really wanted to go that
Speaker 2: I've never been, but the dates overlapped with my time
Speaker 2: in Africa now, so I couldn't And I was, Oh,
Speaker 2: it's killing me because I totally totally would do that.
Speaker 3: Hopefully it'll come back around for another iteration.
Speaker 1: I know it's got to.
Speaker 2: I'm ready. I think I'm ready for my reality show era.
Speaker 2: Now give it dancing with the Stars. Come on, give
Speaker 2: us something I can need to, like really push myself physically.
Speaker 1: By the way, I had the best time watching Alona
Speaker 1: mar Do Dancing with the Stars. How fantastic is she?
Speaker 1: She's so wonderful. I just adore her and it then
Speaker 1: it also hit me where I like, you know, I've
Speaker 1: been telling myself every year for my birthday for the
Speaker 1: last ten years, like this is going to be the
Speaker 1: year I get in the best shape of my life.
Speaker 1: I'm going to really start to take care of myself finally,
Speaker 1: and I just don't. And then I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: maybe it would have to be my job to do it.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking, And like, maybe that's how you
Speaker 1: psych yourself into it. Honestly, I really think about this sometimes.
Speaker 1: I'm friends with Phil Rosenthal, the guy on Everybody Feeds.
Speaker 1: Phil his show, you know, phenomenal TV writer loves to Eat,
Speaker 1: made it his job, turned it into eight it's eight
Speaker 1: seasons now on Netflix, and I'm like, could my job
Speaker 1: be to go to eat.
Speaker 3: With my friends?
Speaker 1: Yes, that would be my dream job.
Speaker 3: To figure it out, Okay, you got to find You've
Speaker 3: got to find the first thing you need to do.
Speaker 1: Let's do it and do it right.
Speaker 3: Let's make a list.
Speaker 1: Okay, I need a tripod, an iPhone, and a restaurant reservation.
Speaker 1: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Let's get to our listener question. Yes, Christina's asking, what's
Speaker 2: the story behind getting picked up for season nine? Why
Speaker 2: were you ending season eight like that was the end
Speaker 2: of the series, Hi, Christina, Well.
Speaker 1: We thought it was. Yeah, simple as that.
Speaker 2: I mean, we always thought the show was about to end,
Speaker 2: but that was the Uh yeah, we just thought we
Speaker 2: thought that was it, and it was great. I mean,
Speaker 2: we'll talk about it in our next episode, but even
Speaker 2: just the ending of Jamie walking across the bridge bouncing
Speaker 2: the basketball like Lucas, I mean, it was very clearly
Speaker 2: the series finale. And I don't know they just called
Speaker 2: us all and said, will you just come back for
Speaker 2: another thirteen.
Speaker 1: When we got our season seven pickup, it was season
Speaker 1: seven and eight, so everyone assumed at the end of
Speaker 1: season eight it would be finished. We never had a
Speaker 1: two year pickup before. It's a very big deal to
Speaker 1: cross past six seasons anyway, let alone to make it
Speaker 1: to six seasons, and so we were ready to wrap
Speaker 1: it up, and I think the network was very pleased.
Speaker 1: With how the show was doing, how the episodes were
Speaker 1: coming out. Our cast was in such a great spot,
Speaker 1: like everybody's wonderful on the show, and it was doing
Speaker 1: really well for them, and they wanted more, and nobody
Speaker 1: saw that coming. But what I can tell you, which
Speaker 1: I thought was very smart, honestly of all of us,
Speaker 1: was when they called us back about a season nine.
Speaker 1: Essentially we all were open to it, but we wanted
Speaker 1: to be done by pilot season because none of us
Speaker 1: had had an opportunity. I had to run a job
Speaker 1: and you know, ten years. So that's why season nine
Speaker 1: was only thirteen episodes, so we could shoot from July
Speaker 1: through the fall wrap just ahead of Thanksgiving, have that
Speaker 1: stretch off for the first time ever, and then we'd
Speaker 1: all be free agents by January and be able to
Speaker 1: go into pilot season.
Speaker 2: That's right, there's your answer, Christina.
Speaker 3: With your pickups, did you go into almost every hiatus
Speaker 3: not knowing if you were coming back or when did
Speaker 3: they let you know?
Speaker 2: Every year is so frustrating.
Speaker 3: So seven to eight was the only time you could
Speaker 3: have a hiatus where you felt it was a true
Speaker 3: hiatus and you were coming.
Speaker 2: Back, so we could we could test for pilots, but
Speaker 2: we always had to be in such exiation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like the pilot I did with I did this
Speaker 1: really fun show with Mary Stein Virgin and Don Johnson,
Speaker 1: and I was in second position, and I remember just
Speaker 1: being like, what is going to happen if both of
Speaker 1: these shows get picked up? Like what are we going
Speaker 1: to do?
Speaker 3: I remember it being so crazy to even get seen
Speaker 3: in second position.
Speaker 1: That's like a lot of times.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they wouldn't even want to audition you because they
Speaker 3: didn't want to take the risk. Yeah, so you guys
Speaker 3: were at a distinct disadvantage for every I mean, luckily
Speaker 3: you had a job to come back to, but you
Speaker 3: didn't know you did.
Speaker 2: I never knew, right, So such a strange place to
Speaker 2: be in. Oh, well it's changed a lot now, who knows.
Speaker 2: The landscape is so different, just none there just isn't
Speaker 2: any weird so crazy.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm so glad you came to join us. It's
Speaker 1: really nice talking with you. I've missed you, I have.
Speaker 3: Missed you both. I'm so excited to get some FaceTime
Speaker 3: with you and wish I could just like reach through
Speaker 3: and give you. Yeah, it's so good to see you.
Speaker 2: You too too, many. I'm in la. I'll give you
Speaker 2: a bus, please do.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to go roller skating.
Speaker 3: This tie we're going. We're gonna go roller skating. You're
Speaker 3: gonna hold on, You're gonna hold on to my belt loops.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Bye. By the end of August, I'm gonna be like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, You're gonna be so good. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, thanks for joining us, everybody. Next episode is season eight,
Speaker 2: episode twenty two. This is my house, This is my home,
Speaker 2: and uh it's it's.
Speaker 1: An emotional episode. Okay, see you guys soon. Thanks, love
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