Speaker 1: Oh hello everyone, Hi Joy, Hello, Hi Johi, Hi hillarys
Speaker 1: hanging out in the backyard or doing something fun. I know, well,
Speaker 1: this is the second best thing, being able to get
Speaker 1: you to see you face to face again. I love
Speaker 1: when we hang out together. I wish Sophia was here,
Speaker 1: As everybody knows, Sophia is off um having wonderful married moments,
Speaker 1: and we are um holding down the fort gladly. Like
Speaker 1: I love that she is off having romance. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too, and just kind of celebrating because we have
Speaker 1: all certainly been through it together as our characters in
Speaker 1: this episode, as as you and Haley, Haley and Brook
Speaker 1: hold each other during these moments of turmoil. We love
Speaker 1: holding each other up when we get to celebrate good
Speaker 1: stuff too. So that's what's this episode about. So we've
Speaker 1: got what is it? It's uh, I don't even know
Speaker 1: the name of it. This is the Champagne one, I guess.
Speaker 1: So again, Okay, so you guys, last week it felt
Speaker 1: like a standalone episode. We explained what a spec script was.
Speaker 1: I feel like this one did too, Like, yeah, it
Speaker 1: totally felt like a bottle episode. Did anything advance? The
Speaker 1: only thing that advanced is maybe Brooks clothing line. So yeah,
Speaker 1: let's give him the rundown and then let's talk. Can't
Speaker 1: all right? It's episode Season three, episode seven, Champagne for
Speaker 1: My Real Friends, Real Pain for My Sham Friends. Air
Speaker 1: date November sixteen, two thousand five, two thousand five. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, it seems so long ago. Is The draft
Speaker 1: results are in and everyone goes on a date with
Speaker 1: their pick. Nathan and Haley devil date with Brooke and
Speaker 1: Chris Keller, which ends in a big mistake. Mouth brings
Speaker 1: Peyton to a senior home to visit his grandpa, mel
Speaker 1: and learns a lesson in regret. Rachel and Lucas play
Speaker 1: basketball sort of at the river Court. Karen and Deb
Speaker 1: get their revenge John Dan's Billboard. Yeah, Paul directed this episode.
Speaker 1: Um yeah, I think he did the best he could
Speaker 1: with the material. I thought this was a really boring episode,
Speaker 1: to be honest. Yeah, I mean I liked your storyline
Speaker 1: with Mouth. That was interesting to me because I'm that
Speaker 1: working with Tom Bosley was really cool. That's one of
Speaker 1: those things you know, in the moment, you're like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: like this is an icon. Happy Days was a huge
Speaker 1: deal When I was a kid, even though it was
Speaker 1: in reruns, and so it feels very meta to have
Speaker 1: our show live in like reruns now like streaming and
Speaker 1: kids be like, oh, we watch your old timey show
Speaker 1: the way like Tom Bosley came on our show and
Speaker 1: we were like, oh my god, I totally watch Ironic
Speaker 1: one day we will be Tom Bosley. Um, that's right,
Speaker 1: but he was. It was so great to see him,
Speaker 1: and he was so sweet, like, I'm sorry, I'm yawning
Speaker 1: so much. Guys. I think I just said this was
Speaker 1: a sleepy episode. Music. Yeah, that's right, a lot of
Speaker 1: slow music and nothing really advancing the storylines. Everything just
Speaker 1: kind of like, well, I guess Brook slept with Chris Keller,
Speaker 1: but that's the illusion anyway. I think, doesn't it come
Speaker 1: out tomorrow or in the next episode that he just
Speaker 1: like crawled into bed next to her when she fell asleep,
Speaker 1: but think all the time that such a creep. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I the whole episode took place at night, but it
Speaker 1: wasn't like a fun club night at Trick. It was
Speaker 1: everybody on dates they didn't want to be on, except
Speaker 1: for Peyton and Mouth like that was you know fine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: everybody else just kind of seemed disappointed the whole episode,
Speaker 1: and maybe that's what we're feeling. Maybe we're like absorbing
Speaker 1: the character's disappointment. I know I think so well. But
Speaker 1: I like the way this episode started with all the
Speaker 1: like dream sequences. That was funny. Yeah. We started off
Speaker 1: with broken Lucas in bed fake out, and then it's
Speaker 1: Lucas and Chris Keller in bed, which is Haley's dream
Speaker 1: fake out. And then Haley crawls into bed with Brooke
Speaker 1: and it's a dream, it's Nathan's dream. It's a total
Speaker 1: fake out. Yeah, that was a fun way to start. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was I liked that. Um, it was very and
Speaker 1: then Brooke was like so aggressively angry with Rachel again
Speaker 1: for existing. Have you ever been that mad at someone
Speaker 1: that you just met? No, I'm trying to be probably
Speaker 1: joy have I come on? I mean I get annoyed
Speaker 1: with for sure. I've definitely been annoyed with people I
Speaker 1: just met, but not like openly hostile hostile. I try
Speaker 1: to keep my hostility, you know, and buried until I
Speaker 1: get home and then I have to vent to my
Speaker 1: poor husband, and I'm like and another thing, and then
Speaker 1: she did this more thing. No, Brooke is so blatant
Speaker 1: with her hostility. Is that a youth trying I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to think if at any point in my life
Speaker 1: it's been that aggressive, or if that is just the
Speaker 1: way that adults script teenage girls, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: It's like teenach girls are bitches. Was leaning into it,
Speaker 1: I mean, whatever the lines were, she was like fully
Speaker 1: leaning into it, and that was great. I mean, I
Speaker 1: like the choice. I think it's really funny. It's a
Speaker 1: nice flaw for Brooke to have good comedy. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but then again, clearly Rachel is trying to uh steal
Speaker 1: her man sot it. I don't know, man, Rachel asked
Speaker 1: so many times, is this your boyfriend? Is this your boyfriend?
Speaker 1: Are you going to pick him? And then Brooks sends
Speaker 1: him to ask her out, and she's like, why is
Speaker 1: this brook girl messing with me? Either she doesn't want
Speaker 1: me to date this guy or she does want me
Speaker 1: to date this guy. But now I know I'm a
Speaker 1: target and I'm gonna mess with her back. Yeah, she
Speaker 1: makes perfect sense. Well, we've got the fake out in
Speaker 1: the beginning. Let's talk about suburban filth. The idea of
Speaker 1: a kid designing clothes in high school. It's a good deal.
Speaker 1: It's a very big deal. Is it realistic? I guess maybe.
Speaker 1: Like I remember when this storyline started with Brooke and
Speaker 1: I was like, she's designed and clothes in high school.
Speaker 1: This is crazy. And now we've got kids on the
Speaker 1: internet like YouTube, and I guess not YouTube but Instagram
Speaker 1: and stuff like kids who are designing. But I think
Speaker 1: I'd never heard of such a thing. When we were
Speaker 1: doing this storyline. It was like what And that was
Speaker 1: you know. One of the one of the first jobs
Speaker 1: I applied for, the first job A ever wanted to do,
Speaker 1: was window dressing. I wanted to go dress the mannequins
Speaker 1: in the store, but I wasn't sixteen, so they wouldn't
Speaker 1: let me work there. And the the other one I
Speaker 1: wanted to do was fix up classic cars, but I
Speaker 1: had to be eighteen for that so they wouldn't either.
Speaker 1: But um, I really went hard after the window dressing thing.
Speaker 1: I I went to, um, Joyce Leslie, do you remember
Speaker 1: that store? What is that? Is that a New Jersey
Speaker 1: thing or it's like a I think it might be
Speaker 1: a New Jersey or Century twenty one? Sure? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, all the store I just walked around the neighborhood.
Speaker 1: I went back to French Connection in Banana Republic and
Speaker 1: the Gap and I was like, I just want to
Speaker 1: window dress, That's all I want to do. And they
Speaker 1: all thought I was super cute but ignored me. So
Speaker 1: we'll show them that dream out. I know because I
Speaker 1: was thinking about going to school to be a fashion
Speaker 1: designer at one point in my Yeah, absolutely, I loved.
Speaker 1: I had this dress form in my bedroom and uh,
Speaker 1: it was just a little mannequin which I named mary
Speaker 1: Anne after my daughter was born, and she would she
Speaker 1: couldn't say mannequins, so she would always refer to it
Speaker 1: as the Mary Anne. Is that the mary Anne? Is
Speaker 1: that your dress of the Mary Anne? I remember their
Speaker 1: dress form because you were also like there was a
Speaker 1: point where you made your own lingerie, like you made
Speaker 1: a ball and I was like, girl, what you made
Speaker 1: a lot of clothes when we were doing this. I
Speaker 1: love I love sewing. I would like to take a
Speaker 1: real course because I'm I make a lot of Maria's
Speaker 1: Halloween costumes and I'm I can fix things, but I'm
Speaker 1: not I don't know how to read a pattern or
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you could teach me how to do that.
Speaker 1: You're great with a sewing machine. Well, I was in
Speaker 1: Future Homemakers of America and I was treasurer of Future
Speaker 1: Homemakers of America my middle school chapter. So um il yeah,
Speaker 1: but I also have like zero taste joy. So if
Speaker 1: you bring like the fabric selections and like what it's
Speaker 1: gonna look like, I'll teach you how to do the
Speaker 1: mechanical that's super easy. Oh my god, I love that.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. I don't know how to use a pattern.
Speaker 1: It's so I get it's it's always a little wonky,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, it's got enough for kids Halloween costumes.
Speaker 1: So I just kind of, you know, lean into it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I wanted to be a fashion designer and
Speaker 1: east to I have books and books and books of
Speaker 1: just sketches. That's all I would do is sit around
Speaker 1: and sketch outfits and dresses and big gowns and lingerie
Speaker 1: and all kinds of fun stuff. Um and then uh,
Speaker 1: I never just well, I mean I had to either
Speaker 1: go to school. I was also like criminal psychologist or
Speaker 1: a marine biologist or fashion designer. You know. It's kind
Speaker 1: of the fun part about being in high school, right,
Speaker 1: what are the other things you wanted to do when
Speaker 1: you were in high school? Well, I went to school
Speaker 1: for psychological forensics. I went to FORDAM at Lincoln Center
Speaker 1: because they also have the law school there, so it's
Speaker 1: like right by on J School of Criminal Justice. I
Speaker 1: just to go drinking with the boys from John Jay.
Speaker 1: And you know, how many years did you do that?
Speaker 1: Did you get a degree? No? I went for two
Speaker 1: full years, and then I transferred to n y U. S.
Speaker 1: Gallaton School. And by then MTV was working me so much.
Speaker 1: I was like, why am I spending all this money
Speaker 1: on school? Oh? My gosh, I didn't know that Forensic psychology.
Speaker 1: The psychology stuff has been very helpful as an actor,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like for sure, because once
Speaker 1: you understand how that brain ticks, you're like, oh, all right,
Speaker 1: I see what you're doing here, um. And that's for
Speaker 1: yourself figuring out a character, and also for figuring out
Speaker 1: the people that you have to work with in the
Speaker 1: film industry because everyone's bat um. But then the criminology
Speaker 1: part of it was it was really interesting because what
Speaker 1: I grew up learning in Virginia, you know, with your
Speaker 1: family being like watch out for this, watch out for that,
Speaker 1: it was totally wrong, Like, you know, living in New
Speaker 1: York City, learning the reality behind like criminology and like
Speaker 1: how crimes happen, where they happen, who typically commits them. Um.
Speaker 1: It was a good lesson because I was less afraid.
Speaker 1: Most stuff is like domestic crime, you know, and we
Speaker 1: deal with some of that on our show, you know,
Speaker 1: like there's there's a little bit of it on our show. Um,
Speaker 1: But anytime it's like a total stranger committing a crime
Speaker 1: on a TV show or movie, I'm like, that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: It's almost that's interesting. Knowledge is power? Man. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't ever think about that in the context of
Speaker 1: understanding crime. But that's true. Is that Apparently that's really
Speaker 1: serving you still because you're doing your show. Um, is it?
Speaker 1: This couldn't happen here? It's called it couldn't happen here? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it couldn't happen here. Look, when we lived
Speaker 1: in Wilmington's, I was fixated on crimes that were happening
Speaker 1: on like local news. How next door to mine was
Speaker 1: getting renovated and the guys working on it found bones
Speaker 1: in the backyard and they didn't call the police. They
Speaker 1: were like, hey, lady, come over here and look at this,
Speaker 1: you know, comes get your bones. I'm like, oh you guys,
Speaker 1: Brownly calls somebody. Um, yeah, I was. I was always
Speaker 1: into it, and you know, you always want to do
Speaker 1: more than just what you're doing. I think we all
Speaker 1: feel that way. We always wanted to be more than
Speaker 1: what we were at the moment. So yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like Sophia really leaned into this fashion storyline while we
Speaker 1: were in it because she really, I mean, she was
Speaker 1: going to fashion show, she was making friends with designers,
Speaker 1: she was really educating herself about it in a way
Speaker 1: that was kind of intimidating for me. I was like,
Speaker 1: what are you wearing? I don't know how to say
Speaker 1: that me too. Sophia was also spending all of her
Speaker 1: money on boxes and boxes of clothes that would just
Speaker 1: like these giant boxes would always arrive and appear at
Speaker 1: her trade alert and just load just loading them all
Speaker 1: in every day, one right after the other. Because she
Speaker 1: was very she was she was educating herself on that world.
Speaker 1: And of course now she owns a company, fashion Kind
Speaker 1: with a friend of hers, and they are selling incredible
Speaker 1: like sustainable fashion and it's awesome. Listen. I don't know
Speaker 1: anything about fashion, but but I do know is I
Speaker 1: fall down the rabbit hole of her website and I'm
Speaker 1: just like, this is gorgeous. I need ten of them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. I know the curation is impeccable. Yeah, George
Speaker 1: likes fashion. Are you wearing your Sonic clothes right now? Yeah?
Speaker 1: She's going through a big Sonic the Hedgehog fashion phase.
Speaker 1: So I love kids fashion. That's my favorite is when
Speaker 1: kids you just let them do whatever they want. It's
Speaker 1: so fun because Maria used to. I remember one time
Speaker 1: I told her we were going to church and she
Speaker 1: didn't want to go, and I was taking to take
Speaker 1: her to like a really a Catholic mass forum. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean formal enough that you you know, you dressed nice.
Speaker 1: And I said, I think she was probably six Yep,
Speaker 1: she was six or seven at this time. And I said, um, okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go to church. She didn't want to go
Speaker 1: to church, and I was like, honey, we're going. I
Speaker 1: want to go to this, so get get dressed. You
Speaker 1: have five minutes. And I turned over my little sand
Speaker 1: what are they called our glass time alas, I have
Speaker 1: multiple hour glasses we have a half hour, a fifteen minute,
Speaker 1: at ten minute, and a five minute, so that it's
Speaker 1: great for kids brains because they can see the time
Speaker 1: running out. It's on a digital clock. It's just numbers
Speaker 1: counting down. It's not your brain. I mean, my kid's
Speaker 1: brain is not um as easily adaptable to that as
Speaker 1: to our glass. Anyway. So I set the timer for
Speaker 1: her and she comes out in a leopard miniskirt with
Speaker 1: like leg warmers and sparkle shoes and a tank top.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, it was a leotard, tank top, leotard
Speaker 1: underneath it with a glitter a glitter um vest and
Speaker 1: you know, and sunglasses and a big sequin band in
Speaker 1: her hair. And she was like, this is how I
Speaker 1: feel like where, this is what I feel like. We're
Speaker 1: in a church. Jesus is gonna see me today, that's right.
Speaker 1: So I love kids fashion. Anyway, how do we get there? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: close over, bros. That's what's coming because of this, I think,
Speaker 1: because her idea gets stolen. Suburban filth. I do like
Speaker 1: that that name, yeah, I mean, it's so it's so
Speaker 1: late nineties, early two thousand's, like I'm from the suburbs.
Speaker 1: But I'm also very edgy. It sounds like the name
Speaker 1: of a department store on a TV show, is what
Speaker 1: it sounds. Yeah, yeah, And it's definitely at the mall.
Speaker 1: Favorite line of the episode. Hailey is all upset about
Speaker 1: the houses being built where her marriage spot was and
Speaker 1: in all serious z like Haley's tearing up. Brook looks
Speaker 1: over and goes, let's just go to the mall. It's okay,
Speaker 1: It's okay, honey, Let's just go to the mall. That
Speaker 1: was gold you said it. It's the most teenage line
Speaker 1: I've ever heard. It's so teenage. The next time something
Speaker 1: bad is happening in one of our lives, like the
Speaker 1: next time, like I call you and I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: my dog DoD, I just need you to say, that's okay,
Speaker 1: Let's just go to the mall. Oh god, another T shirt.
Speaker 1: I hope somebody's marking down all these T shirt requests.
Speaker 1: We just need to have a streamlined how all these
Speaker 1: T shirts? Genius? You know what? She didn't say with
Speaker 1: a straight face. When Chris Keller shows up at the
Speaker 1: apartment and she has just gone on this rant about
Speaker 1: like I will never hang out with Chris, and then
Speaker 1: she opens the door Keller, and he goes off on
Speaker 1: his whole little rant and then breezes past her. Y'all
Speaker 1: better go back and watch that, because Sophia, for the
Speaker 1: life of her, cannot keep her nostrils from flaring and
Speaker 1: that little grin from sneaking in. It's so good. That
Speaker 1: was the Jerry Seinfeld moment. Yeah, she's just like, I
Speaker 1: can't with this din stop her from laughing. It's hard
Speaker 1: not to laugh when Tyler's doing his thing. He's so
Speaker 1: committed to it. He's so committed, and I loved working
Speaker 1: with him for that reason, because he could say the
Speaker 1: craziest stuff and somehow he kept a straight face. I'm
Speaker 1: terrible at that. I think it's why I could. I
Speaker 1: really can't do improv, because did you do improv growing up?
Speaker 1: I did a little bit, but not not a lot.
Speaker 1: I um, I really struggle with improv. I prefer to
Speaker 1: have lines down. I'm I'm just not like A. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't consider myself a super quick witted
Speaker 1: person in conversation and stuff. I'm more of a Having
Speaker 1: been drinking with you recently, you are wrong, very quick,
Speaker 1: very well, thanks, but I I know what you're saying,
Speaker 1: because I saw in myself in this episode Peyton Hillary,
Speaker 1: Little Hillary can do the like serious stuff like I've
Speaker 1: got this birth mother that's got cancer and I don't
Speaker 1: but me having to like be light and breezy and
Speaker 1: like hey mouth, let's go ride go card. So hey
Speaker 1: ha ha. I'm not a good fake laugher. I am
Speaker 1: not good at um. I just see it. Oh no,
Speaker 1: I believed every second. But I thought you were having
Speaker 1: a ball and I was like, it's so nice to
Speaker 1: see Peyton laughing and happy, and I thought you were great.
Speaker 1: You really were, Like I'm faking it? Were you miserable
Speaker 1: that day? Remember? Writing the go karts was was fun
Speaker 1: and Tom Bosley is fun, but like the stuff on
Speaker 1: the quad and oh that was rough, and like the
Speaker 1: lead up to it where it's all like a little expository. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just like trying to explain what are we gonna do,
Speaker 1: why we're about to have this episode? Yeah, what are
Speaker 1: we doing now? Um? I can always tell that any
Speaker 1: time I have to be lighthearted Peyton, there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of a can't I just be growly about something
Speaker 1: that's so much? Why? Why is that? I don't know?
Speaker 1: Maybe because Peyton had to cry for the whole first
Speaker 1: two years that now in year three they're like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: go be a kid. I'm just like, but um laughter weird. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can laugh as other characters. I just struggle with
Speaker 1: Peyton being like giggly. Yeah. It was nice to see
Speaker 1: Nathan softening up. I mean, I still cringe. Haley is
Speaker 1: just trying so hard and it's it's cringe e, it's
Speaker 1: cringe E. And the stuffy says when he's like, Haley,
Speaker 1: I know where we got married, I know what our
Speaker 1: history is, like, let it go, Let's just be in
Speaker 1: the present. I felt that that was uncomfortable, so brutal,
Speaker 1: so brutal. She's a kid, she doesn't know how to
Speaker 1: deal with this or go through this or But I'm
Speaker 1: glad that he kind of threw her a line at
Speaker 1: the end to let her know that he still loves her.
Speaker 1: With the flower that looked freshly picked but clearly had
Speaker 1: been in his pocket all day, why don't we fixate
Speaker 1: on that? Why why do we do that? Joy At
Speaker 1: the same time, we're both like, that hasn't been in
Speaker 1: his pocket for two hours, because you and I both
Speaker 1: have picked flowers and put them in our pockets and
Speaker 1: then taken them out at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I take my broth and I'm like, what's that
Speaker 1: doing in there? Whatever? Nipples and flowers? No, what did
Speaker 1: he say? He said, he wrote down his own prediction
Speaker 1: right and said, and Hailey's like, how do you know
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go, you know, take a sneak
Speaker 1: at this. He's like, I guess I'll just have to
Speaker 1: trust you, which is basically his way of signaling like
Speaker 1: I'm I'm trusting you. You know, we're going to use
Speaker 1: her more opportunities. It's flowers of metaphor. But I was
Speaker 1: kind of hoping they would show you looking at it.
Speaker 1: I know, No, I no, no, I don't. I understood that.
Speaker 1: I like, I really respected and trusted that um moment
Speaker 1: emotionally with them. I thought that was really beautiful and
Speaker 1: it felt good watching it to know that he was
Speaker 1: telling her it's it's not all gone, it's not hopeless,
Speaker 1: it's just taking time, because that in and of itself
Speaker 1: is such a huge sign, good sign hopeful communication. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of like the roots aren't gone. I loved that. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: like because you guys had so much stuff just by yourselves, Um,
Speaker 1: you're on the rooftop, you're out on the balcony. You know,
Speaker 1: like there's a lot of stuff where you guys are
Speaker 1: just off by yourself. I don't know how you prep
Speaker 1: for that, because your stuff was always so like serious.
Speaker 1: Did you guys sit around and talk in between scenes
Speaker 1: or did you kind of go into your bubbles so
Speaker 1: that you would be super focused when they yelled action.
Speaker 1: I think we talked some. I mean James is always
Speaker 1: reading some classic novel that he was catching up on,
Speaker 1: like The Old Man in the Sea or The Great
Speaker 1: gats Beers Dick or whatever he was reading. He was
Speaker 1: always reading one of those. Uh. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think we just were really it was easy. It was
Speaker 1: so you know, we've had been king together so closely
Speaker 1: for so long that it's it was always pretty easy. Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know that we've really spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time chit chatting. I don't think James and I are
Speaker 1: either of us are very chit chatty people. I think
Speaker 1: we tend to go for the meat and potatoes of
Speaker 1: meaningful conversation. You both are like, tell me what you
Speaker 1: think about God? Yeah, how do you feel about politics?
Speaker 1: Let's geta is actually really uncomfortable with those conversations with
Speaker 1: but but he also doesn't really like small talk, so
Speaker 1: but he likes I think he likes those conversations when
Speaker 1: he's super super comfortable. I just don't know that on
Speaker 1: set feels like the right place to drive into those
Speaker 1: spaces for him. So I don't know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm talking out of my ask. We should
Speaker 1: have James on and actually ask him ourselves. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: but you're right. He was always trying to educate himself, yes,
Speaker 1: which I liked Watch chain. Does that sound creepy? That
Speaker 1: was inspiring? Yeah. Yeah. Kid always would just go back
Speaker 1: to his chair and start reading a book and be
Speaker 1: hyper focused on that and then be able to flip
Speaker 1: the switch and be hyper focused um in the scene.
Speaker 1: But I was always only working with him when they
Speaker 1: were like a lot of people around, so I didn't
Speaker 1: know if that was just a crowd thing or if
Speaker 1: that was always No, I think that's just his way. Um.
Speaker 1: It's just kind of quiet and reserved, and then when
Speaker 1: he's off work and relaxed and around his friends, he
Speaker 1: lets his guard down. Um, which is a lovely quality
Speaker 1: for a professional, for an actor, to be able to
Speaker 1: not have your extroverted self um in everybody else's space
Speaker 1: or in you know, in a work environment, not getting
Speaker 1: caught up in the drama. It's a great quality. That's
Speaker 1: been my life lesson. Like once I left treatment and
Speaker 1: I would go work with grown ups on other things,
Speaker 1: I'd go home and be like, oh my god, I
Speaker 1: talked too much? Oh my god, what did I say.
Speaker 1: I feel the same way. I'm always walking away from
Speaker 1: conversations like God, I'm so annoying. Oh why did I
Speaker 1: say that? And Haley does that this whole episode. She's
Speaker 1: just like, I don't even think anything awesome was gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I'm god, I dressed self flagellation, just brutal. He's brutal well.
Speaker 1: And to have Chris Keller there is your audience while
Speaker 1: you're feeling like a nerd. Do you know what I
Speaker 1: noticed in this episode a little bit is that Tim
Speaker 1: and Chris Keller are two wings on the same bird,
Speaker 1: like we Because Tim at the beginning of the episode
Speaker 1: is all like boy, draft, who picked me? What's going on? Ladies?
Speaker 1: Where's our dates? You know? And he just disappears missaw
Speaker 1: genistic and kind of like a dork. And then Chris
Speaker 1: Keller is also super misogynistic and a dork. He's just
Speaker 1: already graduated high school and a little bit older than us. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Do we ever get scenes with the two of them
Speaker 1: that might have made people's head exempted. Who that's a
Speaker 1: lot of dumb and cheek in the same Like I
Speaker 1: feel like they're the divorced dad's now it's a lot
Speaker 1: of kitchen in one space. Yeah, they're the dads at
Speaker 1: the playground on Sundays with the kids. This is my weekend.
Speaker 1: Oh god, right, we know that we're friends with How
Speaker 1: about skills in Bevin? How fun was that? Well? How
Speaker 1: fun is this Easter egg of the Notebook? Him? Oh,
Speaker 1: it's so fun? Well, a because Cullen Moss was in
Speaker 1: the Notebook, so that was kind of a fun little
Speaker 1: extra thing. But it was shot in Charleston, near us,
Speaker 1: so we had a lot of our crew and cast
Speaker 1: that were, you know, back and forth on that movie.
Speaker 1: Also because uh, the director of this episode, Mr Paul Johansson,
Speaker 1: was in the Notebook as Ali's mom's old boyfriend who
Speaker 1: she didn't end up with, which is why she's trying
Speaker 1: to convince her daughter not to marry the poor boy.
Speaker 1: Of course we would be snobby. Just driving by that
Speaker 1: manual labor camp wherever Paul was working. I thought he
Speaker 1: looked hot like he was at do Better Joan Allen.
Speaker 1: And then it's also fun because for those of you
Speaker 1: who don't know this out there, I was super, super
Speaker 1: super moved by this film when I saw it. Um,
Speaker 1: I kind of couldn't get up and leave the theater
Speaker 1: for about fifteen minutes after it was over. I was
Speaker 1: just weeping into my shirt and um So, I ended
Speaker 1: up writing a musical for Stay Age on spec of
Speaker 1: the Notebook, and I wrote it. It took me like
Speaker 1: four years, and at the end of four years, I
Speaker 1: sent it to Nicholas Sparks and uh he let me
Speaker 1: produce a staged version of the Notebook my musical in Wilmington's.
Speaker 1: Um So that was really really fun and I was
Speaker 1: just so grateful. Was the second musical I've ever written,
Speaker 1: and we got to cast it and we performed it
Speaker 1: at Thalien Hall Um. It was one of the most
Speaker 1: amazing experiences of my life to be able to work
Speaker 1: with I kind of co directed. We had Judy green Hunt,
Speaker 1: who was a wonderful theater director from New York, and
Speaker 1: so she was our director, and I was just there
Speaker 1: every day and talking everybody through all the parts and
Speaker 1: those songs, and and I wrote the music with Ron
Speaker 1: and Yellow, who is now Bruce Springsteen's producer. He's done
Speaker 1: his last like, uh, I don't know five five to
Speaker 1: eight albums, I think, um and uh yeah, actually I
Speaker 1: have I have a SoundCloud. You think, should I play
Speaker 1: one of the songs right now from the notebook? Me
Speaker 1: thinks we shall. I think we should. Okay, hold on,
Speaker 1: let me share my screen. Joined This is like a
Speaker 1: fun twist of events. I wasn't even expecting, you know what. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do it though, let's do it. Um, okay, listen,
Speaker 1: here's kind of what would be like the big pop
Speaker 1: song of the episode. Let's see if we can hear it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I can hear it. Breathe then breathe out standing, but
Speaker 1: on my knees, breathe in, breathe out speaking, but my
Speaker 1: heart say so, th boots search searching a million moments.
Speaker 1: It's before this he got some goose my joy. I
Speaker 1: would stand beside you as you darken the's door. We
Speaker 1: go in Gun's place and bring that temple chiss knees. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's some strange power. Can you and me, let's produce
Speaker 1: this again? We heaven beater and taking in my heart
Speaker 1: beating reading and with one look there's like a very
Speaker 1: faith hill like Shania twain Field to this, like just
Speaker 1: like we country icon female queen pitching a million moment
Speaker 1: and for our years all more. I would stand side
Speaker 1: you as you're dark and dat we go in God's
Speaker 1: pleas and bring that devil to his name. And there
Speaker 1: was some strange past in you, and I mean it's
Speaker 1: super musical theater. Every whispern within time year, my love,
Speaker 1: just turn every whisperingly. I would weigh a thousand years
Speaker 1: or more. I would stand aside as we talk cotest
Speaker 1: to we're going on plaz and brain n tell little
Speaker 1: with means this side strange po strange power. Can you
Speaker 1: and me so fun to hear this stuff? This is
Speaker 1: the only place we can hear this right now? Right
Speaker 1: it is actually yes, I feel sail. Oh that was
Speaker 1: so fun. So is your Noah? Oh my gosh for Broadway,
Speaker 1: I mean tarn Edgerton right, Like, how not have Taron
Speaker 1: Edgerton playing no Way? He's the best or maybe somebody new.
Speaker 1: Are you going to discover the next big thing I
Speaker 1: could do? Okay, here's something else that's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: Alison Mutton, who is also a remote arkable singer, she
Speaker 1: leads this song, um number seven. This is like one
Speaker 1: of the nightclub songs when they're all in the nightclub
Speaker 1: and like doing a big swing dance on stage and
Speaker 1: all the soldiers and the and the the soldiers are
Speaker 1: on one side of the stage and uh, go it.
Speaker 1: Finn is there and no one they've just enlisted in
Speaker 1: the army. And on the other side of the stage
Speaker 1: is the nightclub and Ali is meeting Lawn and his parents,
Speaker 1: and so it's like two things happening on stage at
Speaker 1: the same time. Um. So here's a little bit of
Speaker 1: Alison Munt singing for our notebook soundtrack. Alright, so it's
Speaker 1: number seven. Hold my heart, Hold my heart, and don't
Speaker 1: let's go for you know very well you have caught
Speaker 1: me in your web. You've got me under your spell.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know who I am well to
Speaker 1: touch me? Don't you understand your archists? Or the rush
Speaker 1: of your head makes me lose my EQUILIBRIU, my dear
Speaker 1: when you're whispering in my ear for you know very
Speaker 1: well you've got me under yoursell it so cute. Surely
Speaker 1: maybe this is what we go back and do in
Speaker 1: Wilmington's Do we need to contact the Allion Hall and
Speaker 1: be like, hello, friends were doing a reunion tour. Wouldn't
Speaker 1: that be fun? I would love to. Sadly, the rights
Speaker 1: actually don't belong to me anymore. Somebody else swooped him
Speaker 1: up during a There was a long stretch where um,
Speaker 1: they were Warner Brothers held the rights to the film
Speaker 1: and I held the rights to the book, and so
Speaker 1: there was a lot of stuff in the movie that
Speaker 1: wasn't in the book that you would want to have
Speaker 1: on stage. And it was just like so much you know,
Speaker 1: once lawyers get involved at all, just falls apart. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: So unfortunately somebody else has the rights. I think, Um,
Speaker 1: Kevin McCollum, who's a wonderful Broadway producer. Um, it's taking
Speaker 1: that over and Ingrid Michaelson is writing some new music
Speaker 1: for the show that they're going to do, Um, their
Speaker 1: own version of it in Chicago. I think maybe this fall. Um,
Speaker 1: So you know, it's cool to see that my idea
Speaker 1: is still living on and having a life of its own.
Speaker 1: It's a heartbreak for sure. I mean I spent like
Speaker 1: five years of my blood, sweat and tears pouring into
Speaker 1: that story. And the fact that, um, we had amazing,
Speaker 1: like really seasoned Broadway producers who were ready. They came
Speaker 1: down to Wilmington's and saw the show. They saw our
Speaker 1: local cast, and they loved the show. And it wasn't perfect.
Speaker 1: It's a little long, some of the songs needed to
Speaker 1: be changed, we needed a few more pop songs, but whatever,
Speaker 1: Like the bones were all really there and they loved it.
Speaker 1: They were ready to do it. They were like, let's
Speaker 1: get this off the ground. Um. And unfortunately the people
Speaker 1: who were in charge of holding the property making the
Speaker 1: decision about who was going to take on the mantle
Speaker 1: of this the name of the notebook, which was epic
Speaker 1: at the time. I mean it still is. Um, they
Speaker 1: never saw my show and they didn't listen to the music.
Speaker 1: They just or I think they were just afraid that
Speaker 1: I was like twenty three, and you know, now it's
Speaker 1: cool to be twenty three and writing a Broadway show,
Speaker 1: but back then it was just terrifying, and everybody thought,
Speaker 1: you know, she's never done anything. The Notebook is a
Speaker 1: huge name and she's not. Um Ron obviously now is
Speaker 1: producing for Springsteen and winning Grammy's, but back then wasn't,
Speaker 1: and so we just didn't have the street crend that
Speaker 1: I think the powers that be wanted whoever took over
Speaker 1: the Notebook to have, and so they just never listened
Speaker 1: to the music, never read the script, never heard the show,
Speaker 1: and just passed it on to somebody else. UM, And
Speaker 1: that sucked. It was really hard. But I did learn
Speaker 1: a couple of things. One of them is that I
Speaker 1: have to stand up for myself more because I tried.
Speaker 1: I really tried to get them to listen to it
Speaker 1: and to and to read it. But I didn't try
Speaker 1: hard enough. I could have done more. I was just
Speaker 1: too afraid. And I've learned that lesson since then, that
Speaker 1: you just if you believe in something, and if it's
Speaker 1: if it's coming from you and it's you're passionate about it,
Speaker 1: it's your art. Like nobody else is going to fight
Speaker 1: for you the way that you will, you have to
Speaker 1: go after it. And so that was really valuable. And
Speaker 1: then also learning that, um, I have good ideas, you know,
Speaker 1: I created that I did it. I went for it. Um,
Speaker 1: it's in somebody else's hands now, but I got that
Speaker 1: ball rolling. That was my idea. And so to have
Speaker 1: the confidence that in the next thing that I create
Speaker 1: and do, to know that my ideas are good and
Speaker 1: they sell and they'll work, Um, that was good, you know.
Speaker 1: So anyway, it's just cool to see that that is
Speaker 1: living on and having a life of its own. That's
Speaker 1: kind of cool. Well did you so when you saw
Speaker 1: this movie though, because I remember having also a very
Speaker 1: big reaction to this movie. Did you ever did anyone? Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't think I did. That's not what I heard.
Speaker 1: That's not what I heard. What I heard I heard
Speaker 1: you made Tyler watch The Notebook and it affected him.
Speaker 1: That's actually totally probably true. I don't remember, but I
Speaker 1: think watch like while you guys were out on tour,
Speaker 1: and he was maybe when we were on tour, he
Speaker 1: was like, she's so deep, man, so deep? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I never did it like Bevin did it.
Speaker 1: But the truth is I was ready to force anyone
Speaker 1: to watch this movie because it changed my life. Those
Speaker 1: two hours changed my life. It reminded me in a
Speaker 1: time when I was honestly pretty hopeless about love, and
Speaker 1: I had basically given up on the idea of that overwhelming,
Speaker 1: all consuming loving, no matter what, self sacrificial, even when
Speaker 1: it's hard, kind of love. And when I saw this
Speaker 1: film and then read the book immediately after, something was
Speaker 1: unlocked inside of me. That was just this a flood
Speaker 1: of passion and hope and it didn't stop. It was
Speaker 1: like reawakening those young dreams that we had in high school.
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, didn't you did you ever have
Speaker 1: that boy that that boy that when you were younger,
Speaker 1: like just evoked all of those dreams and feelings in you.
Speaker 1: So in real life, in real life, when I wasn't working,
Speaker 1: I would just go drive around in rural, rural North
Speaker 1: Carolina and go find like old abandoned houses and things.
Speaker 1: And there was someone in town. I was in a relationship.
Speaker 1: So this other person and I were never going to
Speaker 1: work out ever, but it was very like, I love
Speaker 1: your art, I am attracted to your your essence, your
Speaker 1: spirit so so impressive. Um. Yes, And we decided upon
Speaker 1: this like abandoned house in the middle of nowhere, and
Speaker 1: he was like, I'm either going to fix it up,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna burn it down and so for years. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I would just like drive past it and be like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well he hasn't burned it down. Um, I guess we're
Speaker 1: so good. Um. But it was a very It was
Speaker 1: such a rip off from this movie. It was just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're giving your own story. We're going to fix up
Speaker 1: the old house and have this sordid Carolinian romance. Um
Speaker 1: fun man. Southern Southern romances are just unbeautiful to me.
Speaker 1: I think there's something so sweet about it. You've got
Speaker 1: the Spanish moss hanging off the trees and their hot
Speaker 1: air and the fireflies at night and water warm rain
Speaker 1: and the small town feel. There's just nothing as romantic
Speaker 1: to me as the South. Never will be well Hayley
Speaker 1: says in this episode, she goes, I'm just wishing it
Speaker 1: would rain rain. Yeah for that first kiss. See there
Speaker 1: you go, first kiss in the rain. It was kind
Speaker 1: of notebookie. It was I love that Bevan did that
Speaker 1: to Skills. It was really cute. I loved watching Antoine
Speaker 1: and her have such great chemistry in this episode. But
Speaker 1: they were both outstanding. Um, and you know, I can't
Speaker 1: believe we got the rights to Nicholas Sparks Like brought
Speaker 1: his son to set, right, Yeah, yeah, that we felt
Speaker 1: real cool. We'd arrived. We had no idea people watched
Speaker 1: our show because we were in North Carolina. So when
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, celebrity writer comes to set, We're like what, Oh,
Speaker 1: we were very excited about that. Yes, Nicholas Sparks is
Speaker 1: the most popular author on the planet in that moment,
Speaker 1: because the Notebook had like catapulted him, and so when
Speaker 1: he came to set, we were all just in awe
Speaker 1: that he or his kids were even remotely interested in us.
Speaker 1: And I can tell you, um, through inventing the musical,
Speaker 1: I became really good friends with Nick and he's actually
Speaker 1: such a smart, deeply kind hearted person. And one of
Speaker 1: the things I think is really cool about him is
Speaker 1: that he's so curious. He's such a curious person, and
Speaker 1: I love that because I don't know, I feel like
Speaker 1: we're living in a time right now where curiosity has
Speaker 1: been pushed aside in favor of UM. I guess everybody's
Speaker 1: sort of looking out for themselves, like making sure that
Speaker 1: uh no one is offending them and making sure that
Speaker 1: everybody's doing everything right. This sort of like mental policing
Speaker 1: has taken over and I miss the days of curiosity
Speaker 1: when you really were interested in why another person thought
Speaker 1: the way that they thought, or function the way that
Speaker 1: they function. Because so much great art comes from listening
Speaker 1: and just being curious. Um. And I think it's absolutely
Speaker 1: integral to being an artist and especially a writer. UM.
Speaker 1: So anyway, I just wanted to mention that. But, UM,
Speaker 1: one thing that we haven't talked about yet is Rachel.
Speaker 1: Can we talk about Rachel? Um, let's talk about the
Speaker 1: Rachel of it all, because and we have talked about
Speaker 1: Barbara and Moira too. Oh that's right, that's right. Um,
Speaker 1: Rachel is all of us in this moment, because she says,
Speaker 1: do you really think there's one person in this world
Speaker 1: who's right for you? You're in high school? You also
Speaker 1: said the same thing about Peyton, you know, like really
Speaker 1: one person in the whole world. UM. I appreciate her skepticism. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do too. I think she's really smart. I mean,
Speaker 1: and I liked what Danielle had to say in our
Speaker 1: last episode about how she played Rachel as somebody who's
Speaker 1: been from school to school and has a very bird's
Speaker 1: eye view of the high school experience, which is unusual
Speaker 1: for someone in high school. And I think that that's
Speaker 1: a really valuable perspective that Rachel offered, even though she's
Speaker 1: still messy like we all are, and still trying to
Speaker 1: figure out some of her own things. That was a
Speaker 1: pretty smart thing to say. I think she's right well,
Speaker 1: and she also says, she's like, seriously, what is with
Speaker 1: this school? Every single boy is in some like traumatic
Speaker 1: you know, puppy dog love thing. She's like, isn't anyone DTF?
Speaker 1: What is wrong here? Like? Who does she have to
Speaker 1: choose from? Tim? Yeah? Who else is even available? I
Speaker 1: don't know? Mouth leon Or had the other really good
Speaker 1: line he um was kind of an iconic line that
Speaker 1: I have heard fans bring up. He said, I say,
Speaker 1: give me regret as long as I can keep the
Speaker 1: good memories too. Oh yes, yeah that you know. The
Speaker 1: Alzheimer's really was a theme in this episode, wasn't it?
Speaker 1: With a notebook and and then with his grandfather. Can
Speaker 1: I just tell you that I did not make that
Speaker 1: connection until you just said it right now. I'm like, wait,
Speaker 1: what double wammy? That's it. That's why it worked so much.
Speaker 1: I appreciate your sister, Thank you for carrying I've been
Speaker 1: a sign no prop any times, we'll get there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's I love that line. You know this, maybe, maybe,
Speaker 1: maybe the theme of this episode is memories, because because
Speaker 1: Hailey's memories are being physically erased and mels memories are gone,
Speaker 1: and the memories in the notebook are a theme. And
Speaker 1: now Karen has the memory of her ex boyfriend looming
Speaker 1: over her in this great, big, giant billboard and she
Speaker 1: has to decide what she's going to do with that.
Speaker 1: She's gonna stoop to his level or rise above it? Yep,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, when's the last time you
Speaker 1: did some vandalism? Yeah, I think she should have just
Speaker 1: committed to it, say, just stuck with it, I mean whatever.
Speaker 1: Pulling it back and having the billboard for a rectile
Speaker 1: dysfunction was also pretty good luck was good luck. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it could have been anything. It could have been insurance
Speaker 1: under their yeah, a little frog. It could have been anything.
Speaker 1: But no, No, they pulled back the they pulled back
Speaker 1: all their artwork. It's too bad. I think they should
Speaker 1: have committed to it. But it was certainly fun watching
Speaker 1: them get into a trouble. I remember Barbara finding out
Speaker 1: that she was going to have to be in her
Speaker 1: underwear and it was like a she worked out really hard.
Speaker 1: She was like so committed to making sure she looked
Speaker 1: amazing and she did. Yeah, she absolutely did. It paid off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Barbara looks like a teenage the well we were saying
Speaker 1: they both looked like teenagers when they were just sitting
Speaker 1: on the ledge of the billboards and got a little ponytail.
Speaker 1: She's so cute. It's you know, watching the show as
Speaker 1: an adult is so different because they're younger than us.
Speaker 1: They're right, Yeah, they're younger than us. They're and they're
Speaker 1: having to play these grown ups, and you realize that
Speaker 1: all the grown ups are faking it. I A is
Speaker 1: a grown up. I'm baking it. You're faking grown up
Speaker 1: nous adulthood. You know him a nightmare too? No wait, um,
Speaker 1: I think you're a nightmare. Yeah. If you were going
Speaker 1: to spray paint a billboard, m I don't know what
Speaker 1: could make me get on a billboard? What would bother
Speaker 1: me so much that I had to tag that? Also,
Speaker 1: that cann of spray paint was like the weakest cann
Speaker 1: of spray paint I've ever seen in my life. It
Speaker 1: was so small. How are they going to get up
Speaker 1: there with the one. Yeah you said it looked like polish,
Speaker 1: like black shoe polish. Yeah, I don't know, um I,
Speaker 1: but I love that. Also, we've never seen any billboard
Speaker 1: ever in Tree Hill, and suddenly we have a billboard.
Speaker 1: That's kind of funny. Leave it to Dada. To Dan,
Speaker 1: we didn't Yeah, what do we got? Should we spin
Speaker 1: a wheel? Yeah? I want to spin a wheel most
Speaker 1: likely too well, most likely to run away and join
Speaker 1: the circus circus like acrobatics, like just like bail on
Speaker 1: life and be like, guys, I'm out, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: so the circus. I think that would be fun. Who
Speaker 1: is an adult that doesn't have any responsibilities that could
Speaker 1: do that? Though? I feel like we have friends that
Speaker 1: have done that, have done this kind of stuff, like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I have friends who have done that. Were
Speaker 1: you doing like an acrobatics course, like a silk acrobat Like,
Speaker 1: who has done that? Yeah? I do. That's that's like
Speaker 1: one of my past times that I enjoy as aerial silks. Yeah, joy,
Speaker 1: it's you Like, I have responsibilities. I can't like run
Speaker 1: away and join the circus. I mean, I guess we
Speaker 1: are in the circus, right that's what we do for
Speaker 1: a living. I literally texted, so it's Gus. Gus has
Speaker 1: uh sixth grade exams this week, and I'm on a
Speaker 1: text thread with all the other parents and they're freaking
Speaker 1: out because the history exam is worth a huge chunk
Speaker 1: of the grade and they're like, you know, very stressed
Speaker 1: out about this. And I literally said, well, my husband
Speaker 1: and I are dropouts and we don't care about tests.
Speaker 1: So if any of your children would like to run
Speaker 1: away and join the circus with the Morgans, we have
Speaker 1: open arms. Yes, I mean that's our industry. We are
Speaker 1: the circus. It will accept freak that wants to come play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how I feel. This isn't all of the above answer,
Speaker 1: I think. So I don't know who from the show
Speaker 1: with what character would run away? I guess Chris Keller, Yes,
Speaker 1: that's he's most likely too for sure? Yeah? Or if
Speaker 1: or is it someone with like a secret life? Like
Speaker 1: is there something we don't know about Junk? Is Junk
Speaker 1: like really good with big cats? Like maybe he's got
Speaker 1: some sigre Roy energy? G feels like a wild card
Speaker 1: too sweet? Kelsey m hm, Hey, at Lease wants to
Speaker 1: know why is every room and tree Hill painted red?
Speaker 1: Is it except Luke's room and the five minutes that
Speaker 1: Peyton painted hers? There must be a technical reason for that.
Speaker 1: Why so many red walls are there? I've never noticed
Speaker 1: that in all these years. I never never noticed that
Speaker 1: at all. No, I wish I had an answer for
Speaker 1: that question. I'd sadly do not, But now you'll have
Speaker 1: to as a technical question. I think maybe it's just
Speaker 1: like to like a color scheme theme. Perhaps, well, so
Speaker 1: if you guys notice, I know some people ask questions
Speaker 1: about like hair colors sometimes. Um, there's definitely a filter.
Speaker 1: On our show, they were using kind of a warm
Speaker 1: orange filter to make everything seem really like homeie. And
Speaker 1: you know, it's crazy what the eye can do. It
Speaker 1: helps tell a story. And so if it's got that
Speaker 1: warm hue to it, the audience automatically feels warmer. So
Speaker 1: having colors that work well with that filter is important. Um. True,
Speaker 1: I don't know the green is going to show up
Speaker 1: great with an orange filter, you know what I mean?
Speaker 1: But a rich amber, beautiful red velvet. It's such a
Speaker 1: funny thing for someone to have noticed. I guess maybe
Speaker 1: an interior designer, maybe Alice are you. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: like the Lamp's Joy. Now that we've heard it, We're
Speaker 1: going to see them everywhere. We'll never see anything else,
Speaker 1: I'm sure. Well, you know, since I never get to
Speaker 1: play this music for anybody, why don't I like we
Speaker 1: can say goodbye and then I can just sort of
Speaker 1: leave a few songs at the end for people. Let's
Speaker 1: just play three of them, so guys, I'll play for you. Um.
Speaker 1: This one of them is called A Sweet Country Home.
Speaker 1: This is when Noah an Alley or characters inspired by
Speaker 1: Noah and Ali. I don't know if I have to
Speaker 1: say that for like legal reasons. I don't know. The
Speaker 1: birds just two Southern love birds, um, And they're in
Speaker 1: a house and the house is all dilapidated and falling apart,
Speaker 1: but they're dreaming about what it would be like if they, uh,
Speaker 1: if they lived together in this home and built it up.
Speaker 1: And then I'll also play you something called the Colors Play,
Speaker 1: which was inspired by a scene when, um, the two
Speaker 1: of them are walking down a street. They're just meeting.
Speaker 1: It's their first date, late at night, and he's really
Speaker 1: trying to win her over, and she's talking about all
Speaker 1: the things that she has to do and all her responsibilities,
Speaker 1: and then he's just like, what do you love? Tell
Speaker 1: me what you love? And then she sings about what
Speaker 1: she really loves to do. It's just to paint. And
Speaker 1: then the last one I'll play for you is something
Speaker 1: about when they're getting torn apart and uh. In my version,
Speaker 1: she goes away with her family on the train and
Speaker 1: so Noah uh. Inspired by Noah from The Notebook, he
Speaker 1: sings Paul Teal, who is later on Our show as
Speaker 1: I directed him in his first episode on Our show
Speaker 1: as one of the movie stars in the movie that
Speaker 1: was made about Peyton and Lucas's romance member based on
Speaker 1: Like Lucas or is of thing he might have played Lucas. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I forgot you know you know me and my memory.
Speaker 1: I forgot Old Teal was a really wonderful improv actor
Speaker 1: in Wilmington's He was part of the improv troop at
Speaker 1: Level five and like joined when he was in high school.
Speaker 1: He was a baby that got to play with the bigs, right,
Speaker 1: So I love that he really really talented guy. And
Speaker 1: so this is really his song, which incidentally, for fans
Speaker 1: of the music tour that I went on with Tyler
Speaker 1: and Michelle Branch. This is a song that I actually
Speaker 1: sang a lot on tour and incorporated it into my
Speaker 1: my UM fan version of the notebook is that like
Speaker 1: the Fan the Unofficial Britain is that kind of what
Speaker 1: we're doing. It's fan. I love it. I'm also going
Speaker 1: to add in a couple more songs since it's the
Speaker 1: only place that any of y'all can hear this music.
Speaker 1: Um Think of Me is the song that is played
Speaker 1: after that song that you heard Alison mun sing uh
Speaker 1: in the nightclub where now the soldiers are really going
Speaker 1: to war. And so there's a character I think I invented.
Speaker 1: I don't think she's in the book, Maxie, who is
Speaker 1: one of Ali's best friends and Um incidentally has a
Speaker 1: romance with finn Uh and she is singing in the nightclub.
Speaker 1: She's like the nightclub singer, and she's guss Is. I
Speaker 1: think I made her Guss's daughter, and Gus is in
Speaker 1: the novel and he's an older black man who is
Speaker 1: Noah's father's best friend who it's complicated anyway, Maxie sings
Speaker 1: this song think of Me um in the nightclub. So
Speaker 1: one side of the stage the nightclub is all slow dancing,
Speaker 1: and it's all silk and soldiers and beautiful um and
Speaker 1: this very sad song. On the other side of the
Speaker 1: stage is General Patton and Finn and the soldiers at war,
Speaker 1: and so that's all happening at the same time. And
Speaker 1: I would like to say, if you've seen the London
Speaker 1: production of Who From Here to Eternity, they actually do
Speaker 1: this on stage, which is so funny because I wrote
Speaker 1: this like six or seven years before that came out. Um.
Speaker 1: It always made me wonder if one of the producers
Speaker 1: that saw our show I thought it was a good
Speaker 1: idea and then passed on the word, but or maybe
Speaker 1: it was just a good idea and somebody else had
Speaker 1: it too. But it's an interesting device that I had
Speaker 1: never seen on stage before, and so it's kind of fun.
Speaker 1: So you'll hear that, You'll hear Some one forty eight,
Speaker 1: which is meant to be sung by Gus at Frank
Speaker 1: Noah's father's funeral, and Through the Storm is the last
Speaker 1: one you'll hear. Through the Storm is a song for
Speaker 1: the older couple inspired by Noah and ali Um as
Speaker 1: they walk through her journey with Alzheimer's. So there you go. Thanks.
Speaker 1: Thanks so much you guys for joining us for this
Speaker 1: really weird episode. Okay, I hear you've rented the old
Speaker 1: Mare place. Where do you live the rest of the
Speaker 1: year in Charleston? It's not too far away, although now
Speaker 1: Mom and Daddy and i'd be going to look colleges.
Speaker 1: And I like the idea of Sarah Lawrence, but it's
Speaker 1: all the way in New York, and I just don't
Speaker 1: know if I'm ready to leave Carolina altogether. SAP. I
Speaker 1: have to decide soon. Noel got the rest of this year? Well,
Speaker 1: what are you like where? What do you mean? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean it seems like even when you're out having fun,
Speaker 1: you're worried that you're having too much fun. And I'm
Speaker 1: just one of them. Well, I never see you out
Speaker 1: playing around. I'm busy. I don't have a lot of
Speaker 1: time for playing around. I'm busy busy. What do a
Speaker 1: couple of kids like us gotta be busy with? Oh lots.
Speaker 1: I got my whole schedule planned out for me. And
Speaker 1: what does that look like? Well, first arithmetic, I'm terrible attitude.
Speaker 1: And then there's music. This week is chopin Current Events?
Speaker 1: Have you heard they're writing in Manhattan, Oh Latin. Then
Speaker 1: tennis with Pierre and dance with Andri, then lunch on
Speaker 1: the pier while I studied the sea. They're calling it
Speaker 1: now marine biology French on the all days voice on
Speaker 1: the rest, Housekeeping Fridays, though my room's still a mess,
Speaker 1: Junior League Tuesday. Though it's hard while I'm here, somehow
Speaker 1: I manage all this all year. Wow, that sounds like
Speaker 1: the road to success. Oh, yes, well we mom and Daddy.
Speaker 1: Now we feel very strongly about getting into a good college.
Speaker 1: A good education is really the key. Some girls are wasted,
Speaker 1: but that won't be me. I'm certainly a successful and
Speaker 1: meaningful life as a wife and a working No need
Speaker 1: to grow part of the world making plans, making money
Speaker 1: on badies. Close your eyes, painting, what fun I like
Speaker 1: to paint? Tell more, tell me every when they become
Speaker 1: so full. I'm gonna cream when I'm dazzy with the
Speaker 1: every tarante, when I'm almost up to here with the
Speaker 1: voices that I hear. Think, Elly be wimms the lesson.
Speaker 1: See when you've been speaking to it for the sake. Ally, No,
Speaker 1: there's a long lowisland through the drees. The honey bees
Speaker 1: will catch a breeze from far away, and then I'm
Speaker 1: lonesome and my heart is at bay. My fun the
Speaker 1: lonesome disappears with canvas near the colors play, And while
Speaker 1: I am listening to the dreads across the sea, Comma
Speaker 1: teasing Lollaba, she will tell me how to stay locked in,
Speaker 1: my friend. I never mind the Brussian line, the Prussian
Speaker 1: paint a week. I can't imagine anything more awful and
Speaker 1: unfair than wasting all your lifetime making plans. It may
Speaker 1: be just a feeling, but the feeling that I've got
Speaker 1: says this life and me we're gonna be each other
Speaker 1: as greatest fans. When I paint, I can see it
Speaker 1: all is clear. My dreams are right within my reach. No,
Speaker 1: try a fair Oh it's not in grin. I just
Speaker 1: know I've been mad for the rechest of the lives
Speaker 1: you're inside the Prussian white colors play, the Prussia my
Speaker 1: color play. What is this place? Brings a plantation built
Speaker 1: in seventeen seventy two. I will buy it some day
Speaker 1: and fix it up. Well, don't I get to say
Speaker 1: in this? You want to say this? Honey, I've got
Speaker 1: mine the sweet country home where the mocking birds sing,
Speaker 1: and the moon shines along the river, where we will
Speaker 1: be happy as to envy. I've got designs on a
Speaker 1: white country home where the shutters are blue and the
Speaker 1: sun shines along or wrap around port, where three or
Speaker 1: four can be happy as you and me. Then after
Speaker 1: the sun goes down, well caught up by the river,
Speaker 1: this old, sleepy turn will never be the wiser as
Speaker 1: weet dream away those sweet saturdays, sing summertime blues, and
Speaker 1: laugh at the ways of the easy life, that lush
Speaker 1: lazy life. Indeed happy just you and me, Scarlet, look you,
Speaker 1: it's it's so much brilliant, Frank, you are beautifully. But
Speaker 1: after the sun was down, well cut up by the river,
Speaker 1: this sult sleepy down where never be the wiser as
Speaker 1: rich in the way sun days some summertime and life
Speaker 1: at the waysibly easy life, bad lush lazy life, and
Speaker 1: be happy, just you and me. He is trash, trash, Mamma.
Speaker 1: You don't know anything about him, know what. He's a
Speaker 1: good man. He's not good enough for you. You can't
Speaker 1: provide a good are for your honey. He's just a
Speaker 1: country boy. Pretty boxes of diamonds, of ribbons and pearls,
Speaker 1: maybe her heart's desire. What if she's fooling herself and
Speaker 1: me and everyone else into thinking that she's as free
Speaker 1: as a winded love? But I know too well and
Speaker 1: she never tell and nightly breaker Heart. Pretty boxes can
Speaker 1: be such curious things when you know what's inside a
Speaker 1: strong will and wings, and it's only a matter of
Speaker 1: time before they go. She'll try to live a simple life,
Speaker 1: but simple lives are not for everyone. I know to well,
Speaker 1: and she'd never turn and I only biger ahly ohly
Speaker 1: break cued. No, I'm sorry, No, you know a couple, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: you gotta let her here for you. I can't reading. No,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I hate that. I can't believe they really
Speaker 1: doing this, and they really tearing us apart. Summer love,
Speaker 1: she said, laft it on the summer love. But she
Speaker 1: doesn't know you like I do. No, one, No, Ali,
Speaker 1: don't talk to me. Oh this is just silliness. Ali,
Speaker 1: Oh sugar, I know you think that I don't know
Speaker 1: what you're going through, but I do listen to me.
Speaker 1: I do. It's just that sometimes our future is dictated
Speaker 1: by what we are, as opposed to what we want.
Speaker 1: I'll just try to understand that. Honey. That's all I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say. I love you, Ali, I just want what's best.
Speaker 1: I hope that is still love me after I have
Speaker 1: gone up. You still hope my heart beside you? Oh no,
Speaker 1: no summer romances and for all kinds of reasons. But
Speaker 1: all said and down, they have one thing in common.
Speaker 1: They're shooting stars, a spectacular moment of light in the heavens,
Speaker 1: glasses of t and the flush there. But that can't
Speaker 1: happen to us now on no matter what they do,
Speaker 1: no matter who tries to keep us apart, I will
Speaker 1: come back to you for me. If you still love me,
Speaker 1: right to me and tell me so, and I will
Speaker 1: come back to you on a Sunday like the day
Speaker 1: in then I'll take a tray. No no me loving
Speaker 1: you all m h Sundays all need to dates wit
Speaker 1: already they same. Your train was coming in made oh weak,
Speaker 1: it's cold it tonight and the fireflies cold lights up
Speaker 1: to evening like Christmas. Aim as your rise. Before I
Speaker 1: let you go on a Sunday train. I can hear
Speaker 1: the wet soul blow when you wear on a Sunday train.
Speaker 1: I can hear the steeple bells ringing in our refrain
Speaker 1: and I say good bye and again and again because
Speaker 1: I can't get it out of my hand, and the wait,
Speaker 1: my god, we for every Sunday chain m. Time's passing
Speaker 1: on and still no reply. You said you loved me,
Speaker 1: and maybe I'm crazy, but I can't let this die.
Speaker 1: They said it might snow, and they'll probably be rain
Speaker 1: and winds's gonna blow. I'll be here just the same
Speaker 1: because I don't want to miss you, and baby, I
Speaker 1: miss you. Come on back this wain on a suddeny train.
Speaker 1: I can hear the wind so love you. Wait on
Speaker 1: a Sunday chrea. I can hear the steep blue bells
Speaker 1: creen in our refraind and I say good bye again
Speaker 1: and again because I can't get you out of my hand,
Speaker 1: And no, wait na go away. I'll wait n going,
Speaker 1: I'll wait night going for every Sunday dream. You'll hear
Speaker 1: a fight ahead of your life. Battle that means one
Speaker 1: thing to afford to be a fool. Because the battle
Speaker 1: fool mean dead men inevitable for men be killed and
Speaker 1: wounded in battle. There's no reason why it. Such lost
Speaker 1: increase called the incompetence careless of something stupid as told me,
Speaker 1: I don't tolerate such a man on my stack. All right, folks,
Speaker 1: Max is going to slow it down a little for you,
Speaker 1: sub grab your gals and coming out to dance. Think
Speaker 1: of me when another's arms are open world to the enemy.
Speaker 1: Think of me, lorn d you love me too, and
Speaker 1: same name, perhapsally wildly across the sea. I'll close my eyes,
Speaker 1: isn't if I try back in your embrace? All be
Speaker 1: thinking morning the boy with me every top of the
Speaker 1: morning we don't like and burning home lights, getting lonely
Speaker 1: and core young. Think of me on the mind when
Speaker 1: we called the one views so when we said we'd club,
Speaker 1: drum again on me? You kiss I can misister. Think
Speaker 1: of me, Darling while you are gone, when up attack baking,
Speaker 1: stay here doing about amos stake, butt up your right back,
Speaker 1: and not night but down hand. You would have not
Speaker 1: that without you, and simply a shell. Think of me
Speaker 1: when all you hear cries in the dark. Think of me.
Speaker 1: Recall the way I whisper to you and real hard
Speaker 1: was aking. I confessed, hum and I were made for
Speaker 1: love and tenderness. Won't you think of me, Darty when
Speaker 1: you are God. Praise the Oh, Praise the Lord from
Speaker 1: the heavens. Praise the Lord. Praise him, all his angels,
Speaker 1: all his home. Praise him, son and mone and all
Speaker 1: you stars at night, let them pray it. Praise a
Speaker 1: name of Jeesesus. Praise the Lord, all the earth and
Speaker 1: allver deep you lightning, hail, fall and frost. You star
Speaker 1: me with fulfilling his call, mountains, hilled foodful trees, and
Speaker 1: see beast and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds,
Speaker 1: Kings of the people, princess and rule, judges off the earth, men,
Speaker 1: young men, men and children, le bred, all my heir
Speaker 1: and sprays along. Praise him, all his ages, all his holes,
Speaker 1: Praise him. Sudden mood and all save tonight. Let them praise,
Speaker 1: praise and her jeess euse. Days go by memories in
Speaker 1: my head. They sing like ships and sunset leaving well.
Speaker 1: Get y'all a life, fire house, falling through the storm
Speaker 1: and to the dark, still with the kiss to breathe
Speaker 1: back to. Don't want to fread any more, try to
Speaker 1: without a fair without and die through go to see
Speaker 1: cap fund atich. I never lches sleep b don't want
Speaker 1: any more trite I love will fother you my days
Speaker 1: call pine mymoes in my sing like ship, and susme h.
Speaker 1: Lon is good, Lon is kind, lon is steady and patient,
Speaker 1: and make sure that I'm taken care of. Lone is true,
Speaker 1: no one true. Lone is loyal and spoils me. So
Speaker 1: he's a good man, a fine man. I know. It's
Speaker 1: appalling how ungrateful you are. There are many other places
Speaker 1: you might have landed. There are many worse fates to
Speaker 1: before many women than to have a man who is
Speaker 1: kind and good and true. It's so silly, how romantic
Speaker 1: you are in your quiet moments, how you long for
Speaker 1: his timet But he's no more than an ambotion in
Speaker 1: your past. Everything's change now, Hello, Hi, Betsy. Routine conversation,
Speaker 1: routine conversation, nothing too suspicious, Everything is fine, routine conversation.
Speaker 1: All right, then goodbye? What kind of fool am I
Speaker 1: to go to all this trouble, go to lying and
Speaker 1: deceiving for a boy that I once knew it was
Speaker 1: seven years ago, for God's six seven years, And here
Speaker 1: I am. What kind of fool does this? I ask you?
Speaker 1: What kind of woman tells the man she loves she
Speaker 1: loves him? And then leaves him as a safety net
Speaker 1: in case the one she loves more doesn't love her. No,
Speaker 1: not really anymore. What kind of woman wouldn't stop herself
Speaker 1: and march right out the door. And yet here am
Speaker 1: I with my best dress and my favorite perfume, my
Speaker 1: heart laid down like a pig on a platter, and
Speaker 1: all a flutter like a butterflyne juune, Oh dear me,
Speaker 1: bless my soul. I'm just a fool. Hello, Hi London.
Speaker 1: Routine conversation, routine conversation, nothing too suspicious, Everything is fine.
Speaker 1: Routine conversation. Yes, I found a dresser. It will be
Speaker 1: delivered Friday in the afternoon, if that's all right with you,
Speaker 1: I love you too, Goodbye. Now I have to find
Speaker 1: a dresser from someone who deliver. God, what kind of
Speaker 1: woman must I be to be so selfish, to be
Speaker 1: lying left and right and feeling barely guilty of it.
Speaker 1: It's appalling and exhilarating. I'm a mess and loving every minute.
Speaker 1: I'm it all for shame. But what kind of woman
Speaker 1: in my situation wouldn't do the same. Besides, every woman
Speaker 1: likes her best dress and her favorite but perfume, even
Speaker 1: if there's no one who cares to notice well than
Speaker 1: I guess I'll be no worse off than I started,
Speaker 1: and I know, Bless my soul, I've been a fool.
Speaker 1: It's amazing how much more grown you. Oh, always pretty
Speaker 1: in your youth, but now a woman. There are many
Speaker 1: new things still to learn in my hasten and a
Speaker 1: dream from years ago, too late to rast. Excuse me.
Speaker 1: If I receive any calls while I'm out, will you
Speaker 1: please tell them I'll be back late this evening. Thank you,
Speaker 1: m Routine conversation, routine conversation, nothing too suspicious and everything
Speaker 1: is hot. Routine conversation. Just seeing an old friend, no, no, no, nevery,
Speaker 1: and my best dress and my favorite red perfect. Oh,
Speaker 1: bless my soul, I'm just a fool in my best
Speaker 1: dress and my favor perfume. Breathe then breathe out standing
Speaker 1: bird on my knee, breathe and breathe out speaking, but
Speaker 1: my heart say we want so through search, search, A
Speaker 1: million moments before this he is off. I would stand
Speaker 1: beside you as you darken the door. We go in
Speaker 1: Gun's place and bring that temple to dis knees. Oh,
Speaker 1: there's some strange power in you and me we heaven
Speaker 1: breath and taking in my home all head didn't reading
Speaker 1: and with one looking car scones, we lived hunder lives
Speaker 1: before searching a million moments for this, and I war
Speaker 1: all moon. I would stand inside you as you're dark
Speaker 1: and daston were going God's plas and bring left double
Speaker 1: to his knees. And there was some strange past in
Speaker 1: you and me teaching, and so I for start every
Speaker 1: we spurn wine times year my love time, every whispering,
Speaker 1: I would weigh a thousand years more. I would stand
Speaker 1: aside you as we talk in death to We're going
Speaker 1: to plaze and pain that double chose knees O this side,
Speaker 1: strange strange power in you and ye love me. Hey,
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