Speaker 1: I just ate an entire plate of bacon to myself
Speaker 1: and am I ashamed? Yes, it was a delicious Also, yes,
Speaker 1: we got an air fryer. So we've made it to
Speaker 1: that stage of adulthood. I don't know if I'm proud
Speaker 1: of that either. It's kind of admitting that you've given
Speaker 1: up on the traditional sense of cooking. You're like, listen,
Speaker 1: I just I'm not going to use the oven anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna use this toaster situation that's got a fan
Speaker 1: in it. And I don't really know how the science works,
Speaker 1: nor do I even know if it's any good for me.
Speaker 1: Could be throwing gamma rays into my food. I don't know, guys,
Speaker 1: but I've given up and I just want everything to
Speaker 1: be easy as I slowly devolve into an old person. Also,
Speaker 1: I think my air fryer is on steroid Zoe, because
Speaker 1: every time I put something in there, it is done
Speaker 1: way before like the little cheat sheet says it should
Speaker 1: be done, and sometimes we're burning stuff. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: but yeah, we're at that stage of our lives where
Speaker 1: we were at the stage of our lifer where we
Speaker 1: were talking about air fryers a lot, which is depressing.
Speaker 1: Then we got said fryer of the air, and now
Speaker 1: we're air frying and we're talking about what to air fry,
Speaker 1: and we're buying cookbooks on Amazon about what cookbooks would
Speaker 1: be the best for Sarah and I to air fry
Speaker 1: things with. So Today's Super Bowl Sunday. I know it's
Speaker 1: gonna come out. It's gonna come out tomorrow. But um,
Speaker 1: do I have some wings marinating ready for the air fryer? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I do. Am I excited about it? Yeah? Did I
Speaker 1: put some money on the game? Yeah? I did. The
Speaker 1: Chief's gonna win, so I think so because Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and I was like, Brady is so good. Have you
Speaker 1: seen badroom homes? Like there's like no look passes and stuff.
Speaker 1: Brady is so old. He's past the air fryer portion
Speaker 1: of life. I don't even know what's next. He was
Speaker 1: in the air fryer portion of life five years ago
Speaker 1: in Boston. Now he's in the Tapi yoca portion of life.
Speaker 1: Now he's looking great. You know that guy's never had
Speaker 1: coffee before, hasn't had a granule of sugar in like
Speaker 1: twelve years. If that's what it takes to win a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, I don't want to ring keep it all right,
Speaker 1: I want my coffee, I want my good poop afterwards,
Speaker 1: and then I want to donut. Okay, So anyways, hopefully
Speaker 1: I was right because I put some money on the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: and I could use the electration money because I've been
Speaker 1: spending it on air fryer materials. Very excited abou the
Speaker 1: Weals cast Today. One of the stars from The Goldbergs
Speaker 1: is on the show, a show that I am obsessed with.
Speaker 1: Sarah and I watched it all the time. I believe
Speaker 1: they used to have the spot after Modern, so we'd
Speaker 1: watched Modern Family into the Goldbergs. I think that's how
Speaker 1: it worked. Anyways, we watched every week anyways, but such
Speaker 1: a great show. And this woman's story is kind of
Speaker 1: crazy because yes, she's on this like really long running,
Speaker 1: amazingly popular sitcom, but she started through a singing competition.
Speaker 1: It's hard to do. It's hard to go from reality
Speaker 1: TV singing competition to like starve a TV show. I
Speaker 1: can't think of a lot of them. My friend Katie Stevens,
Speaker 1: who was on American Aisles, she's now in the Bold Type.
Speaker 1: That's one. And then maybe our guest this week. This
Speaker 1: is the show you do not want to miss. Coming
Speaker 1: up on the Wells Cast. Hayley or Anthea play the intro. Doe,
Speaker 1: Let's get an air fryer, guys, let's fry some air.
Speaker 1: This is a Wells Cast with Wells Atoms and I
Speaker 1: Heart Radio podcast. Hello, Hello, how are you? I'm good.
Speaker 1: You've got a cool hat on. Thank you? You got
Speaker 1: a cool office. Yeah. Well, when a pandemic hits, you
Speaker 1: gotta do it up the right way. I feel you
Speaker 1: turn lemons into vodka drinks. How's it going, it's going.
Speaker 1: It's been a little bit of a busy morning, but
Speaker 1: always exciting. So are you just doing press for Goldberg
Speaker 1: stuff today? That's kind of what Well, it's been a
Speaker 1: little bit of and seems like a common conversation I'm
Speaker 1: having is about um, my home flipping business that I
Speaker 1: do in Nashville with my family. So outside of that,
Speaker 1: it's kind of just mostly been Goldberg's mid season premiere.
Speaker 1: You ready to go? Yeah, alright, We're back in the
Speaker 1: Wells Cast. Very excited to half one of the stars
Speaker 1: of one of my favorite shows on ABC, The Goldbergs.
Speaker 1: It's Hayley or Antia. How are you good. How hurt you?
Speaker 1: I'm great. I'm a studio city. But I know that
Speaker 1: you live in l A. But then also in Nashville.
Speaker 1: So where are you right now? Well, technically I am
Speaker 1: also in studio city, sirs. So that's very weird. You
Speaker 1: might be down the street from me, But I do
Speaker 1: live in Nashville part time. I just haven't been able
Speaker 1: to go for a while because a pandemic happened. But otherwise, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of in between both. You know that I
Speaker 1: lived in Nashville for twelve years. Yes, and that's not
Speaker 1: where you're from, though, is it. No, I'm from California,
Speaker 1: but I lived there after college and did radio and stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised that I never I guess I ran into
Speaker 1: you out there. What where do you live in Nashville? Um?
Speaker 1: Do you know the twelveth South area? Yeah, okay, I
Speaker 1: have a place there, and I adore it. That part
Speaker 1: of town so fun. But Nashville in the last five
Speaker 1: years especially has been really fun with all these new
Speaker 1: restaurants coming in and bars opening up, and I mean, again,
Speaker 1: in a normal non pandemic world, but yeah, I love
Speaker 1: it so much, and I secretly might love it a
Speaker 1: little more than l A. But you know, it depends
Speaker 1: on the day I've held on my house over there
Speaker 1: on the East Side. So if I ever can travel again,
Speaker 1: I think Sarah and I are going to try to
Speaker 1: do half the year in Nashville. That's that's the plan
Speaker 1: for tax reasons. Such a good place right right, exactly
Speaker 1: for tax purposes, but also because seasons. Um, that's something
Speaker 1: I miss and it's kind of nice to be able
Speaker 1: to sneak off to there and have a little bit
Speaker 1: of that. I want to talk about the Goldberg's season eight,
Speaker 1: but first, Yeah, I do some research on you, and
Speaker 1: are you like getting in the h G t V game, Like,
Speaker 1: are you the next like Joanna Gaines because you're flipping
Speaker 1: houses out in Nashville. Look, don't compliment me with a
Speaker 1: Joanna Gaines thing, because I adore her, um and I
Speaker 1: would die one day to meet her. But we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that later. No, my dad, before I was born,
Speaker 1: was like flipping houses in his hometown of Great Falls, Montana.
Speaker 1: And then I did a little bit in my hometown
Speaker 1: of Dallas, Texas. And then once I started going to Nashville,
Speaker 1: you know, five or six years ago, and we've seen
Speaker 1: this kind of boom in the market, We're like, why
Speaker 1: don't we start doing it there? Um, So he started,
Speaker 1: you know, inquiring with different properties, and it wasn't until
Speaker 1: twenty that I actually signed on to be kind of
Speaker 1: a partner in our company. And um, yeah, so one
Speaker 1: thing led to another, and these production companies started hitting
Speaker 1: us up about the idea because pretty much my entire
Speaker 1: family's involved with different jobs. Um my mom, my dad,
Speaker 1: my uncle, my cousin, and myself, and so I guess
Speaker 1: it kind of writes itself in that way. But no
Speaker 1: TV show quite yet, but that would be awesome. What's
Speaker 1: your style? What's your aesthetic? Because it ship lap and
Speaker 1: subway tile? Is it modern? What are we going for here? Well,
Speaker 1: in Nashville, honestly, it depends like on where I am,
Speaker 1: because in Nashville, I my house is very like modern farmhouse.
Speaker 1: But here in l A it's been an interesting mash
Speaker 1: up of like I always have a little bit of
Speaker 1: Boho in my life, but um, it's kind of uh,
Speaker 1: mid century industrial meats Boh in a weird way. Um.
Speaker 1: Lots of plants, so that's a thing good for you
Speaker 1: that you can keep them alive. I haven't figured that
Speaker 1: part out. Okay, So Pie in the Sky? Where do
Speaker 1: you want this show to go? Like, what do you
Speaker 1: want it? Netflix? Do you want it? H G t V?
Speaker 1: I mean, do you think that Disney and ABC would
Speaker 1: pick this up? Because you gotta put this ship out
Speaker 1: there in the universe if you want to happen. Definitely.
Speaker 1: I also don't want to pigeonhole idea in case one
Speaker 1: doesn't like it. Uh No, Honestly, we would love to
Speaker 1: have conversations with the Magnolia Network, which is CHIP and
Speaker 1: join the Games network, UM, HDTV, Disney plus HBO Max,
Speaker 1: just because me and my family have a bit of
Speaker 1: a potty mouth, so that might play better in met platform.
Speaker 1: Um So, I don't know. We're kind of open to
Speaker 1: We also are in the process of developing what it
Speaker 1: even look like, so based on how the format works,
Speaker 1: it might cater to a different network, So we don't
Speaker 1: really know quite yet. That's like my dream job. I
Speaker 1: didn't think this is where this interview is going to go,
Speaker 1: but like you have to know that I am obsessed
Speaker 1: with those shows, Sarah and I literally all we watch
Speaker 1: before we go to bed. So I'm excited for you.
Speaker 1: This is cool and when it gets going, if you
Speaker 1: guys want to do an episode at our house, come on, dude,
Speaker 1: I mean collaboration episode. Perhaps I see that in the future.
Speaker 1: I think. So our budget is dollars, but we need
Speaker 1: you to do like two dollars of the work, right,
Speaker 1: somehow we'll figure the math out and it'll end up
Speaker 1: working out. It will be beautiful. Yeah. I'm so curious though,
Speaker 1: on those shows if when they style it, if they
Speaker 1: actually get to keep that furniture, if it's just for
Speaker 1: the sake of the show. Would you know the answer
Speaker 1: to that? So, I think because my friend Brandy Cyrus
Speaker 1: and her mom did a show that was that was
Speaker 1: basically that, and from what I understand, no, you don't
Speaker 1: get to keep that staging stuff that sucks. It does
Speaker 1: suck because then you can then you know your crap
Speaker 1: from like the last house in there, and you're like,
Speaker 1: this looks right like a dark brown letter couch because
Speaker 1: you've had some nineties six that you're just like, I
Speaker 1: guess this will work. It like really disappointing. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: it was good luck on that, I'm sure. I mean,
Speaker 1: that just sounds like it's gonna sell itself. Speaking the
Speaker 1: shows that are very successful. You're in your eighth season
Speaker 1: of The Goldbergs. Did you think starting out that this
Speaker 1: thing was going to run this long? No, I honestly
Speaker 1: landed this show in such a miraculous way. Like I
Speaker 1: I've really never worked on anything before this, and so
Speaker 1: this was like my first real gig, and then to
Speaker 1: have it go this long on a network like this
Speaker 1: is pretty insane. You know, you always have hopes that
Speaker 1: it will and I loved the writing so much, especially
Speaker 1: in that first audition when I got it. I'm like,
Speaker 1: there's something to this show that just resonates with me
Speaker 1: that you wanted to and you put it out in
Speaker 1: the universe. But I don't think any of us knew
Speaker 1: that it was definitely gonna happen. But now we've gotten
Speaker 1: into a comfortable space. I think people like it, so
Speaker 1: hopefully we can keep doing it. I'm trying to get
Speaker 1: to Sarah's status. Yeah, you're close. I remember so when
Speaker 1: Modern rapped, I was having a conversation with a bunch
Speaker 1: of writers and stuff, and I was like, do you
Speaker 1: think that there will be a show that will do
Speaker 1: this now? Because it's very you know, back in the day,
Speaker 1: those single shows could run Forever, Seinfeld, Friends, Cheers, and
Speaker 1: just like the way that the market has changed with
Speaker 1: streaming services and stuff, it just seems like the appetite
Speaker 1: for those type of shows are starting to dwindle. But
Speaker 1: then I'm like, I don't know, Big Bang went forever,
Speaker 1: and you guys are on your eighth season, so I
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess my question is I wonder if
Speaker 1: this is going to be like one of the last
Speaker 1: iterations of this or not. Well, that's what we've been
Speaker 1: wondering too, because as we're doing this show and it's
Speaker 1: still got a great audience that tunes in every week,
Speaker 1: and we're very grateful for that, there's also a part
Speaker 1: of us that's like, we're not seeing this format work
Speaker 1: out as often, and when I watched shows on my
Speaker 1: own time, it's usually through streaming networks and a lot
Speaker 1: of the times they're limited series, and it's just a
Speaker 1: new phase of entertainment that we're kind of entering. So
Speaker 1: it's it's we're kind of all in a little bit
Speaker 1: of a middle ground trying to figure out what's next,
Speaker 1: but grateful that we've been able to go this long
Speaker 1: and honestly wouldn't hate it if we were one of
Speaker 1: the last dinosaurs or network television. Is this what I
Speaker 1: will take it? Your character, Erica wasn't supposed to be
Speaker 1: a girl from what I understand. Did you know that
Speaker 1: going into this? So I knew this was about a
Speaker 1: real family, but I didn't. I don't think it was
Speaker 1: until a little bit later after meeting the creator of
Speaker 1: the show, UM, once I booked it, that I was
Speaker 1: informed that it was based on his older brother Eric,
Speaker 1: And you know, with developing the show, I guess they
Speaker 1: realized that turning it into an older sister could appeal
Speaker 1: to you know, any younger women that would be watching.
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know, UM, And so I'm grateful
Speaker 1: for it because otherwise I wouldn't have been able to
Speaker 1: book it, I don't think. But it's kind of created
Speaker 1: an interesting dynamic because every other actor on our show
Speaker 1: has this sort of like booming cloud of like this
Speaker 1: is a real person, right, But I kind of get
Speaker 1: the excuse to or the writers are able to freely
Speaker 1: write for things that maybe weren't applicable to Eric because
Speaker 1: I've changed to a girl in the show. So UM,
Speaker 1: for example, like my character was never supposed to sing,
Speaker 1: and that's something that I do in my off time,
Speaker 1: and so I mentioned it to the creator of the
Speaker 1: show and then it kind of ended up becoming a
Speaker 1: part of the character because they allowed you know, there
Speaker 1: was that wiggle room in between all of it. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of worked out for the best. It's funny
Speaker 1: stuff like that tends to work, I think the best
Speaker 1: on shows. One of my favorite examples of that Eric
Speaker 1: stone Street from Modern who plays Cam. He was a
Speaker 1: clown in his past life, like he like fisbo was
Speaker 1: a real thing he did, and so he brought it
Speaker 1: to the writers and they were like, holy sh it, Okay,
Speaker 1: well we've got to make this thing. And that's the
Speaker 1: episode that he wanted. Emmy for all those writers just
Speaker 1: going home just like watching their families and just trying
Speaker 1: to figure out, like what the next episode is going
Speaker 1: to look like and get ideas, and then when actors
Speaker 1: come in with you know, already like a bag of tricks,
Speaker 1: they are like, hell, yes, this will make my job
Speaker 1: so much easier, which I think it's so cool. Definitely,
Speaker 1: I know that with storyline ends. Wendy micklen and Covey,
Speaker 1: who plays Beverly on the show. She actually came to
Speaker 1: set with a storyline that was something that happened to
Speaker 1: her that ended up making the show because it's a
Speaker 1: very Beverly esque thing where her mom was actually listening
Speaker 1: in on her and her friends hanging out in her
Speaker 1: bedroom and fell asleep outside of her door, and so
Speaker 1: she like opens the door and she's like, what the hell.
Speaker 1: It's pretty incredible, Like sometimes actors do have these little
Speaker 1: nuggets of things from their personal life that really applied
Speaker 1: to what's happening in this show. It's great like going
Speaker 1: back to like them writing the show and turning Eric
Speaker 1: into Erica because it makes more sense for viewers and
Speaker 1: stuff and brings more people in. But there's also a
Speaker 1: part of me that's like, if I was writing a
Speaker 1: show and my family knew I was writing about my family,
Speaker 1: what I would do to my brother is I would
Speaker 1: turn him into a girl on the show, just because
Speaker 1: that's a siblings due to each other, you know. Honestly, yes,
Speaker 1: I think that in a way. And I've actually talked
Speaker 1: to the real Eric Goldberg, and at the beginning he
Speaker 1: was very okay not being associated in a way with
Speaker 1: that with the show, because if anything bad happened to
Speaker 1: any of the other where they announced anything that maybe
Speaker 1: these people had done in real life. He can hide
Speaker 1: behind the fact that it's not really him. But then
Speaker 1: I think later on maybe he's like, I kind of
Speaker 1: want to be on the show so kind of a
Speaker 1: weird middle ground, But your character has gotten like a
Speaker 1: big character arc. You got to start as kind of
Speaker 1: a dork, and now you get to play the cool person.
Speaker 1: Like that seems unfair to me? Was that because you
Speaker 1: get the best of both worlds, you know? I it
Speaker 1: started out where the character was described in the audition
Speaker 1: to be like the cool girl at high school, like
Speaker 1: he's always ashamed of her embarrassing younger brothers. And then
Speaker 1: they started getting into season one and they're like, let's
Speaker 1: do a throwback ninth grade Erica thing where she's got
Speaker 1: braces and crazy hair. And I love because it it
Speaker 1: allowed me to really step outside of my comfort zone
Speaker 1: and do some goofy ship I would have never done before.
Speaker 1: I do say it is a little bit of the
Speaker 1: best of both worlds. But we haven't seen her in
Speaker 1: a long time. I'm kind of wishing they would bring
Speaker 1: her back again. Yeah, it's kind of like Monica on Friends.
Speaker 1: You know that she was yes, where they had like
Speaker 1: the throwback where she was a lot heavier. But sometimes
Speaker 1: it's just it's just such good comedy like that. Friends
Speaker 1: is one of my all time favorite shows, so she
Speaker 1: did so great in that, and it does feel a
Speaker 1: little bit like you get to step outside of your
Speaker 1: character for just a little while and and be ridiculous, um,
Speaker 1: which is a lot of fun. And I also think
Speaker 1: it helps for the viewer to understand the character development
Speaker 1: of that person, Like I understood Monica so much more
Speaker 1: when I found out her neuroses and being such a
Speaker 1: neurotic person came from this past life of hers. And
Speaker 1: I think that that's a cool way to like continue
Speaker 1: to grow the character for the viewer, especially if you
Speaker 1: go as many seasons as Modern did, where it's just
Speaker 1: like at that point you have to find that sort
Speaker 1: of like dynamic in there because it's it's Friends went
Speaker 1: ten seasons as well, It's like you want a little
Speaker 1: bit of that dynamic in who they are. The cast
Speaker 1: of the Goldbergs is just packed and awesome. Who is
Speaker 1: your favorite person to do scenes with? Oh, that's so difficult.
Speaker 1: There's so for different reasons. Um, I like working with
Speaker 1: different people, like Wendy McLennan Covey, who plays but really
Speaker 1: she's just so entertaining to watch because she has she
Speaker 1: has this great improv background, and she'll just kind of
Speaker 1: throw things at you out of nowhere that you don't expect,
Speaker 1: and it makes it so much more fun to be
Speaker 1: a part of UM. And I can never keep a
Speaker 1: straight face with her. So I really enjoy working with Wendy.
Speaker 1: But I also love doing scenes with the JT P,
Speaker 1: which is like the younger group of guys and Barry's
Speaker 1: friends on the show UM, just because we're also close
Speaker 1: in age and just the hanging out in between the
Speaker 1: scenes that is really fun to UM. I don't know
Speaker 1: like it's difficult because it's always been different people that
Speaker 1: I have different experiences, even George Siegel, who's eighty four
Speaker 1: now I think, who you would think I have no
Speaker 1: nothing to relate to on but he also plays music
Speaker 1: and he's just like an amazing human being and has
Speaker 1: one of the greatest laughs you'll ever hear in your life.
Speaker 1: So I love doing scenes with him just because you
Speaker 1: never know what he's going to say. He's kind of
Speaker 1: got this crotchety old man thing that he'll pull out
Speaker 1: every now and then. That's so fun to be around.
Speaker 1: Who's taught you the most about the craft of acting
Speaker 1: from that cast? I would say just by watching Wendy Um,
Speaker 1: I think she she just does so well, Like she's
Speaker 1: such a great leader, um for our show. The way
Speaker 1: that not only just as an actress and getting to
Speaker 1: see how she can you know, throw in something completely
Speaker 1: random that uh just works so well. She's not She's
Speaker 1: capable and willing to like just be free in the scene. Um.
Speaker 1: She's also not afraid of of looking ridiculous for the
Speaker 1: sake of comedy, which is something I struggled with when
Speaker 1: I first got into it, where I'm like, how do
Speaker 1: you just be okay with knowing that you look insane
Speaker 1: right now? Like or dancing ridiculously? How are you people
Speaker 1: are watching this? But that's just a part of what
Speaker 1: the comedy is and and acting and being comfortable in
Speaker 1: that space. So I've learned a lot just by watching her,
Speaker 1: and she's an incredible leader to our crew. Like I
Speaker 1: haven't really gotten the experience to work on too many
Speaker 1: other sets, but the way that she um, I don't
Speaker 1: know the right word, and manage is not the right word.
Speaker 1: But the way she manages like being the number one
Speaker 1: on the call sheet and creates these really personal relationships
Speaker 1: with every crew member even is really inspiring, and it's
Speaker 1: something that I think allows our set to feel as
Speaker 1: intimate and fun as it is day in and day
Speaker 1: out going into the show. Are you a fan of
Speaker 1: Red and I one. I've seen a few episodes, but
Speaker 1: I actually constantly get made fun of by my friends
Speaker 1: and family because I don't. Actually, I've missed so many
Speaker 1: iconic like movies and TV shows, and so I'm now
Speaker 1: trying to do the process of going backwards and watching them. Um.
Speaker 1: So I haven't seen the whole thing all the way through. Um,
Speaker 1: but Bridesmaids, of course it is like iconic for me
Speaker 1: and Wendy being in that. Uh. When I first auditioned
Speaker 1: for the show, she was the first person who had
Speaker 1: signed on, and I was like, I have to work
Speaker 1: with her, Like that's just that has to happen. So
Speaker 1: it was pretty wild that it ended up happening. And
Speaker 1: she's just as amazing as she is, but in front
Speaker 1: of the camera shees off, do you need to go
Speaker 1: back and watch Reno because she's so good in that show?
Speaker 1: And you can and you can tell it's it's got
Speaker 1: to be like improv. And it's just those people are
Speaker 1: just really funny, you know, like, Yeah, they have such
Speaker 1: an ability that I personally feel like I lack too.
Speaker 1: Just I don't know where these things come from that
Speaker 1: they can find in their brains, that they're so quick
Speaker 1: with it. And the one scene that of course goes
Speaker 1: viral on the internet almost every year from Marina nine
Speaker 1: one is Wendy doing the d u I pulling over
Speaker 1: and he does the dance. Oh my god. For like
Speaker 1: four years of working on the show with her, I
Speaker 1: would see that video comeback up on the Internet and
Speaker 1: I'm like, this video is so funny. Literally, like three
Speaker 1: or four years into this show, I see it come
Speaker 1: up again and I go, wait a minute, is that
Speaker 1: Like I didn't even I thought it was just like
Speaker 1: a video someone did all the internet, when at first
Speaker 1: you think gets real and then I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: that's incredible. So that's my favorite thing to talk to
Speaker 1: her about. So what's the next thing that's gonna happen
Speaker 1: for the Goldberg's. I mean, you guys have done almost
Speaker 1: everything your eight seasons in uh doesn't look like you're
Speaker 1: stopping anytime soon. What's gonna happen going forward? That's tough
Speaker 1: because the writers never really tell me anything. It's kind
Speaker 1: of always a mystery to me. But for my character specifically,
Speaker 1: Um finally settling in on what she wants to do
Speaker 1: with her life and a career, and we see kind
Speaker 1: of an interesting dynamic happen this year with her and
Speaker 1: her boyfriend Jeff, who have been together for a really
Speaker 1: long time. So I don't want to give too much away,
Speaker 1: but there's going to be kind of a shift in
Speaker 1: the way things happen with them Um, And I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's going to be interesting because this year is the
Speaker 1: youngest Goldberg Sean jam Bronie plays Adam and he's graduating
Speaker 1: high school after this, so I don't know what they
Speaker 1: have planned as far as that transition is, because then
Speaker 1: the you know, Beverly is going to be an empty nester,
Speaker 1: so that will probably cause you know, problems of its own.
Speaker 1: You talked earlier about how you know, your love of
Speaker 1: music kind of bled into the show, but it is
Speaker 1: a real thing that you aren't actual recording artists. What
Speaker 1: are you working on in terms of the musical aspect.
Speaker 1: It's been hard of this pandemic because I would normally
Speaker 1: go to Nashville and be co writing with some friends
Speaker 1: of mine, and I would often just rely on the
Speaker 1: producers there that I would work with two help me
Speaker 1: like shape what the song would look like and actually
Speaker 1: do the recording. But since that hasn't been the case
Speaker 1: this year, I moved into this house and it does
Speaker 1: have a recording studio in the grash, so I've been
Speaker 1: kind of challenging myself a little bit to record my
Speaker 1: own demos. Um and my boyfriend does really great work
Speaker 1: in the studio because he knows what he's doing, so
Speaker 1: hoping to collaborate with him a little bit. And i'd
Speaker 1: love to produce an album this year. Um. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I would do the full production, but I
Speaker 1: would love to at least get the groundwork and obviously
Speaker 1: right on my own, maybe maybe co writes on Zoom.
Speaker 1: But sometimes it's really hard to do. It's just it
Speaker 1: feels very different. But the goal is to just keep
Speaker 1: releasing music. UM, I do it independently, I always have,
Speaker 1: and I kind of just can't help myself. I just
Speaker 1: have to keep releasing music. You lean towards like the
Speaker 1: country genre or format. Is that always what you gravitated
Speaker 1: towards being from Texas? Funny you ask, um, not at all.
Speaker 1: I really didn't. I listened to a lot of different
Speaker 1: things growing up, a lot of soul and R and
Speaker 1: B from my mom and um, big vocalists like Whitney Houston,
Speaker 1: Celindian were like very big influences for me. And then
Speaker 1: it you know, when I started, I was fourteen or
Speaker 1: fifteen and met with labels and was doing more of
Speaker 1: like remember Jojo the song set out Leave. She was
Speaker 1: like my idol, that's the day, So I like loved
Speaker 1: that song. So I wanted to do like a jojo thing,
Speaker 1: just that kind of sound, and um, you know, it
Speaker 1: just wasn't. I was fourteen and they're like, we have
Speaker 1: a jojo, so like you know, And it wasn't until
Speaker 1: I was on The X Factor in two thousand eleven
Speaker 1: that I was put into a country pop girl group
Speaker 1: on the show that I started recognizing like, oh, there's
Speaker 1: actually country pop music that I really like and resonate with.
Speaker 1: And once I started songwriting, things were just like naturally
Speaker 1: coming out with a country twist and so no matter
Speaker 1: what I do. There's always going to be a little
Speaker 1: bit of that storytelling that country has in my music. Um,
Speaker 1: but I do just love singer songwriter stuff, and I
Speaker 1: want to try to challenge my sound more this year
Speaker 1: than I have before, now that I had the ability
Speaker 1: to kind of do that on my own. Um. So
Speaker 1: for now, it's been country pop leaning, but I don't
Speaker 1: really know where it's going to go the next day. Well,
Speaker 1: I was listening to some of it beforehand, and you're
Speaker 1: super talented. It's just I mean, it seems a little
Speaker 1: unfair that you get to be good at like all
Speaker 1: these things. But it's just fine whatever. Um. So The
Speaker 1: Goldberg's Wednesdays on ABC. Check local listings eighth season. Um,
Speaker 1: is there anything that I didn't ask you about that
Speaker 1: you want to talk about or promote before we kind
Speaker 1: of transition over to my portion of the show. Oh man?
Speaker 1: Um No, I mean, yeah, tune into The Goldbergs and
Speaker 1: stay tuned for when music does come out. I don't
Speaker 1: have anything quite yet, but I'm gonna and keep your
Speaker 1: fingers crossed for me that we can get a show
Speaker 1: on television about my craziest family. So we'll see. It's
Speaker 1: a lot of We'll see you in a moment. Yes,
Speaker 1: tweet to the heads of HBO, Max and Netflix and
Speaker 1: hd TV and Mickey Mouse and get this show on TV. Alright,
Speaker 1: quick break when we come back, did anyone tell you
Speaker 1: what the show is mean? But I'm down for anything.
Speaker 1: It's an origin story. I like to find out how
Speaker 1: people got to become successful, the road you took, you know,
Speaker 1: the sacrifices you had to make to to get to
Speaker 1: this point. So when we come back, we're gonna find
Speaker 1: out where the hell Haley came from and how the
Speaker 1: hell she got here. Stick around back in the wells,
Speaker 1: Gast have Haley or Antia on the show. She plays
Speaker 1: Erica on The Goldberg's. I mean, you've been in a
Speaker 1: bunch of movies as well. Other TV shows been off,
Speaker 1: like Schooled. You're now working on flipping houses in Nashville,
Speaker 1: which definitely probably will be a reality show unscripted in
Speaker 1: the near future. You're an amazing and talented musician. Seems
Speaker 1: like you do it all. I'm so excited to find
Speaker 1: out how the hell you got here. So, I mean
Speaker 1: I touched on it kind of in the first half
Speaker 1: of the show. I know you come from Texas, Where
Speaker 1: were you born. I was born in a suburb outside
Speaker 1: of Dallas, UM in Highland Village, which is like Denton County,
Speaker 1: which is more familiar to people who aren't from there.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I grew up in in Denton and moved
Speaker 1: to l A when I was nineteen to start the Goldbergs.
Speaker 1: Highland Village different than Highland Park in Dallas, I assume,
Speaker 1: very different. Um. Highland Park is a very wealthy area,
Speaker 1: very nice and not that high. The village isn't, but
Speaker 1: very different levels. Okay, So you grow up kind of
Speaker 1: in the suburbs of Big d Um. Are you the oldest,
Speaker 1: the youngest, the middle child, the only child? What's about? Like?
Speaker 1: I am the only and I feel like that might
Speaker 1: show a little bit, but yeah, I'm the only one.
Speaker 1: So were you What were you like as a kid?
Speaker 1: Were you were you kind of like always entertaining, entertaining
Speaker 1: and singing? Were you quiet? What was that like? Very bossy?
Speaker 1: I've heard in my life. Um, I like to talk
Speaker 1: a lot. I know what I want and I always
Speaker 1: wanted to play teacher and of course be the teacher.
Speaker 1: So that was something I had to grow out of.
Speaker 1: But I don't think I did because then I just
Speaker 1: grew up to be like a girl boss. So you know,
Speaker 1: I feel like it ended up kind of working itself out.
Speaker 1: I have no way of relating to this because I
Speaker 1: am the youngest of five, I like come from this
Speaker 1: huge family. I feel like where I come from is
Speaker 1: I was the youngest. I was the mistake, so I
Speaker 1: was very much like always trying to get attention and
Speaker 1: always having to be like the class clown and stuff.
Speaker 1: But I imagine, and tell me if I'm wrong. If
Speaker 1: you are the only child, then the people that you're
Speaker 1: surrounded by our adults, so it makes you kind of
Speaker 1: like an old soul immediately. Is that right or is
Speaker 1: that not right? Thousand and I feel that with my
Speaker 1: other friends that are only children as well, where um
Speaker 1: you're just always around your parents friends, and there you
Speaker 1: just kind of take on this like mindset of I
Speaker 1: don't know why, but I've always been more comfortable with
Speaker 1: people older than me. Um, I rarely have friends that
Speaker 1: are my age. I've always been that way, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just because I feel like I
Speaker 1: can't relate on a lot of levels. I do think
Speaker 1: that that's an inaccurate stereotype. That we kind of have
Speaker 1: an old soul a little bit. So were you in
Speaker 1: like performing arts classes and stuff and and singing classes
Speaker 1: and piano classes. When I was nine, I was singing
Speaker 1: in the car with a family friend we had, like
Speaker 1: her and her kid. We had gone like roller skating,
Speaker 1: and we were on our way back and I was
Speaker 1: saying along to the radio and she's like, I got
Speaker 1: a great voice, like you should sing for your parents.
Speaker 1: And I was nine, so I'm like okay. So I
Speaker 1: went home and she was like seeing something. So I
Speaker 1: sang amazing grace acapella and they were like, oh, you
Speaker 1: have something there, Like do you want to take classes?
Speaker 1: So it was then that I started taking lessons in
Speaker 1: my hometown. I joined the choir in my elementary school
Speaker 1: and I think middle school as well. Um, so I
Speaker 1: would like dabbled in just art after that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: can't fathom doing anything else. I'm very unathletic, so I
Speaker 1: wish I somehow would have been able to ballop a
Speaker 1: little bit of that, but didn't work for me. You're
Speaker 1: growing up in Dallas and then you moved to Los
Speaker 1: Angeles for what reason? Um, well, there was a lot
Speaker 1: that happened in between there, but I ended up um
Speaker 1: auditioning for the Goldbergs and uh, it was the week
Speaker 1: that I came out of her pilot season. I actually
Speaker 1: was driving in a couple of hours outside of l
Speaker 1: A when I got the audition and I was told
Speaker 1: to put it on tape the second I got into
Speaker 1: like our airbnb. Um, And so I did that and
Speaker 1: then submitted it, got a call back, and then ended
Speaker 1: up booking the show. So I ended up moving out
Speaker 1: here like four months after that. Okay, then I jumped
Speaker 1: in time. So you said that there's a lot that
Speaker 1: happened in between that. What happened in between that? So
Speaker 1: between like just singing in my hometown at like festivals
Speaker 1: and I'm talking like pumpkin patch festivals, Like my parents
Speaker 1: were the only ones of the audience kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Um to my mom telling me, like, you should really
Speaker 1: audition for The X Factor. It's coming to the US,
Speaker 1: and I think, you know, Simon Cawel is a part
Speaker 1: of it. I had zero interest because I just watched
Speaker 1: a lot of people joined those shows and not really
Speaker 1: like anything hit for them afterwards. So I didn't want
Speaker 1: that to happen. But when I was seventeen, I did
Speaker 1: it and submitted an online audition just to get My
Speaker 1: mom was up talking to me about it and I
Speaker 1: ended up getting a phone call and they said come
Speaker 1: audition in Seattle and front of the judges. Did that
Speaker 1: made it all the way through the Hollywood round and
Speaker 1: then they put me in a girl group on the show.
Speaker 1: It's the same way that Fifth Harmony and One Direction
Speaker 1: were put together on X Factor. UM. So I was
Speaker 1: put into a country pop girl group and it was
Speaker 1: that experience that was like my first on camera with
Speaker 1: that kind of audience. UM. Terrifying, slightly messed up just
Speaker 1: given the context of competition shows like that. UM. But
Speaker 1: then after that I had started auditioning again. I missed
Speaker 1: a step because when I was fourteen, before the X Factor,
Speaker 1: my manager had introduced me to different record labels and
Speaker 1: they were like, you're great, you know, trying to do
Speaker 1: the jojo thing, but you know, you might as well
Speaker 1: just go do the Disney Channel thing where you get
Speaker 1: a TV show and a record deal in one. And
Speaker 1: I had zero interest in acting. I always was only
Speaker 1: interested in music. So I started I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: if I'll do what I gotta do, started taking lessons
Speaker 1: in my hometown in Dallas, where people like Selena Gomez
Speaker 1: and Demi Lovato went to the same school. They're from
Speaker 1: the same area, and I was like, this must be
Speaker 1: where you learn how to do that. So I started
Speaker 1: taking lessons, never booked anything, didn't really understand acting, and
Speaker 1: it wasn't until after the X Factor that I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'll just keep auditioning and see if something happens that
Speaker 1: I ended up booking the Goldberg's Did you Win X Factor? No,
Speaker 1: we made it to ninth place, which is okay because
Speaker 1: we literally met each other on the show um and
Speaker 1: had like a week to figure out how to just
Speaker 1: be a girl group in order to win, and so
Speaker 1: it was very hard. The dynamics were very different, but
Speaker 1: we're all still friends and yeah, it was just, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an interesting time. Those shows are cringe e a
Speaker 1: little bit for me. Was it presented to the audience
Speaker 1: that you guys were a group before a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks prior. Was it like, this is the girl group
Speaker 1: from Dallas that everyone needs to know about. No, we
Speaker 1: all auditioned individually and some of us had our our
Speaker 1: solo auditions air on the show, and then they put
Speaker 1: you together and they kind of like take credit for
Speaker 1: being like I found all of these people and put
Speaker 1: them together. So that's how we met. Um. And funny enough,
Speaker 1: one of the girls who I actually clicked within the
Speaker 1: auditions ended up being one of the girls in my
Speaker 1: girl group. Out of the thousands of people that had
Speaker 1: auditioned and hundreds that were at the Hollywood thing, she
Speaker 1: actually is the only one that's doing music, um as
Speaker 1: a signed artist. I don't know if you've ever heard
Speaker 1: of Fletcher Um, but she's pop artists and she was
Speaker 1: in my my girl group at the time and so
Speaker 1: pretty wild. But um, we actually ended up connecting ahead
Speaker 1: of that, and it was nice to have somebody that,
Speaker 1: you know, we knew a little bit before we knew
Speaker 1: we were going to be a girl group. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you get ninth on X Factor and you go back
Speaker 1: to Dallas and then you're like, all right, let's go
Speaker 1: to l A and let's see what happens. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I was seventeen when I started the X Factor. I
Speaker 1: actually said team when we finished it as well. I
Speaker 1: think I finished out my high school online, which sucks
Speaker 1: because I went to public school in my whole life
Speaker 1: and and really loved it, so finished high school and
Speaker 1: then I was like, I guess I'll just audition and
Speaker 1: figure out. I really didn't want to go to college
Speaker 1: because I didn't want to waste money not knowing what
Speaker 1: I was going to do. Um and I got very
Speaker 1: lucky in that timing when I went out to that
Speaker 1: pilot season to book the show, and I did, and
Speaker 1: then the rest of history eight seasons later. Yep, at nineteen,
Speaker 1: moved l A and been here really ever since. So
Speaker 1: that's awesome. Yeah. Thanks, I'm running out of time with you, Haley,
Speaker 1: but I wanted to do some rapid fire questions before
Speaker 1: you go. Are you ready for this? Yeah? All right,
Speaker 1: here we go to have a fire questions with Haley
Speaker 1: or Antia Fire Pizza topping. First concert ever went to
Speaker 1: Factory Boys. What was your first job? I worked for
Speaker 1: my dad's catering company. Do you have a poster hanging
Speaker 1: on your bedroom wall as a kid? It was of
Speaker 1: the Spice Girls? Yes, h what's your favorite flower? Gerbert Daisy?
Speaker 1: It's a weirdest superstition you have. That's a good one,
Speaker 1: say walking under a ladder, but that's probably not true.
Speaker 1: I don't know what your thoughts on air, fryers don't
Speaker 1: know how they work, but delicious outcomes. Who's your first kiss?
Speaker 1: Vince from the football team. What would you rather win?
Speaker 1: A Grammy or an Oscar? Oh? Wow, maybe an Oscar
Speaker 1: because I feel like that would be something I never
Speaker 1: expected would happen, So it would be like even more epic.
Speaker 1: Not that I expect a Grammy to happen by any means,
Speaker 1: but both. All right. When you finally, when you're Grammy,
Speaker 1: which is wouna be so easy? Who are you gonna
Speaker 1: who are you gonna think? Oh? Definitely my mom and dad.
Speaker 1: They sacrificed a lot for me to be able to
Speaker 1: get here, So them for sure. Hayley, thanks so much
Speaker 1: for being on the show. Your story is crazy and
Speaker 1: awesome and you are as well. Everyone go watch The
Speaker 1: Goldberg's season eight's on Wednesdays on ABC. Let's cross our
Speaker 1: fingers for this, so this flipping Houses show that needs
Speaker 1: to find its way on TV. Go listen to your
Speaker 1: music and if people want to follow you, where do
Speaker 1: they go? You can go really on any social platform,
Speaker 1: Hayley rantia um and especially TikTok love me a good TikTok?
Speaker 1: All right, dude, thank you so much. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 1: It was great hanging with you. Take care bye. Well.
Speaker 1: She was lovely, love her love the Goldbergs. I gotta
Speaker 1: get myself on one of the HG TV shows. So right,
Speaker 1: that's the dream job. That is the dream job. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go watch the super Bowl, go make some wings
Speaker 1: in the air. Frier, what do you guys have any
Speaker 1: suggestions on how to do things in the air Frier
Speaker 1: tweets me at Wells Adams or Instagram DM me at
Speaker 1: Wells Adams. I could use all the help I get. Also,
Speaker 1: if you want to make suggestions for like other guests
Speaker 1: we should have on the show, whatever, you can tweet
Speaker 1: to me there as well. Hey, if you like the show,
Speaker 1: please go rate and review. Oh I thought I would
Speaker 1: do a new thing. I thought I would read a
Speaker 1: nice review at the end of each show to kind
Speaker 1: of like entice you guys to go make more reviews,
Speaker 1: because then if you do that, then the show gets
Speaker 1: more popular, and then I can make more money from
Speaker 1: the show. I think. I don't know. This one comes
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Speaker 1: Thanks five Stars. Here's what she says, so well is
Speaker 1: a great interviewer loves that he listens to his guests,
Speaker 1: doesn't interrupt them when they're speaking like many other hosts.
Speaker 1: Who's she throwing shade at? I agree with you, Yugy girl,
Speaker 1: she says, I enjoy a y f T with Brandon too. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's my other podcast. Oh thanks, Yogi girl. And this
Speaker 1: one comes from Free House. Subject line loves Sadie. That's
Speaker 1: referring to the episode I think we had last week
Speaker 1: or the week before with Sadie Robertson from like Duck
Speaker 1: Dynasty and stuff. I enjoyed your interview with Sadie. You
Speaker 1: always seem to get things out of people that one
Speaker 1: normally doesn't know. I always learned something from all your interviews.
Speaker 1: Oh thank you. Anyways, go out leave a review like
Speaker 1: that or at least something funny whatever. I'll read it
Speaker 1: on the air. Yeah, all right, go Chiefs, go air friars,
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