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Speaker 1: First of all, you don't know me.

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Speaker 2: We all about that high school drama.

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Speaker 3: Girl drama girl, all about them.

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Speaker 2: High school queens. We'll take you for a ride, and

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Speaker 2: our comic girl shared for the right teams Drama, Queens

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Speaker 2: up girl fashion, but your tough girl, you could sit

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Speaker 2: with us.

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Speaker 1: Girl Drama, Queens Drama, Queens Drama, Queens Drama, Drahn the

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Speaker 1: Queens Drama, Queens.

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Speaker 4: Friends.

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Speaker 5: I'm so excited Ashley Rickards is here with us today.

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Speaker 5: You know her as the incredible Sam. She came in

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Speaker 5: and turned Brook Davis's world upside down and then really

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Speaker 5: helped set it right side up. And I'm so excited

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Speaker 5: you're here today. I haven't seen you since like a

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Speaker 5: pre pandemic convention.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I came to something where I was like, because

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Speaker 4: I knew you, saying because we have the same vocal coach.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, so I've seen your face like up

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Speaker 4: on the wall that he has whenever I'm there. So

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Speaker 4: I was like, oh, okay, And then yeah we got

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Speaker 4: together and I heard your voice for the first time.

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Speaker 4: It was blown away you too, Oh my god, No,

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Speaker 4: but you're incredible, Like I wish.

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Speaker 3: We'd figured out a way to get you to sing

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Speaker 3: on on Wondre Hill. That would have been so fun.

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Speaker 3: I mean at this point, like, you know, we've got

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Speaker 3: dogs eating hearts, we've got Nanny's being shot in cornfields,

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Speaker 3: Like why not, let's just make Sam a rock star?

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Yeah, why not? Yeah? The dog eating the heart

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Speaker 4: thing is great.

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Speaker 5: Anything is possible in tree Hill and season seven anything.

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Speaker 3: Uh well, let's uh, let's get like, let's get to

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Speaker 3: know you a little bit for this audience, because everybody

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Speaker 3: knows you as Sam. But I here's some things that

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Speaker 3: I love that I didn't know about you. It is

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Speaker 3: a that you grew up on a horse farm that

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Speaker 3: catered to children with special needs, which is amazing. What

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Speaker 3: an experience. Like how many years are life? Did you

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Speaker 4: A lot on the horse farm?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 4: My family doesn't really do anything halfway, so I was,

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Speaker 4: you know, I went to a horse camp one year

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Speaker 4: and then I guess the next year and a half,

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Speaker 4: all of a sudden, we had twenty four horses and

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Speaker 4: we're we're living on seven acres and and yeah we

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Speaker 4: we they have shoes for horses so that like they

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Speaker 4: some of the Oh, and I should say they were

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Speaker 4: miniature horses, so I mean I was, yeah, I know, way,

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Speaker 4: I did a little bit of like English riding, not

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Speaker 4: so they were really great for like we bring them

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Speaker 4: to nursing homes and we'd bring our dogs too, And

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Speaker 4: one really crazy experience was that I brought Amber, who

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Speaker 4: this one woman in her room and she was talking

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Speaker 4: that's great. And then you know, I went outside and

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Speaker 4: that was crazy. But I guess the power of animals.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, horses especially, they're such incredible animals.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, how do you go from growing up on a

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Speaker 5: horse farm and doing so much of this sort of

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Speaker 5: care work, how do you find your way into acting

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Speaker 5: rather than you know, forcefully training animals or something like

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Speaker 5: like what light? What lit you up?

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Speaker 3: In that way?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was kind of by force. I went to

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Speaker 4: a small Montessori school that was just like walking distance

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Speaker 4: very small. There were five people in my grade and

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Speaker 4: the back of the theater where I was like, ugh,

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Speaker 3: So your family moved to LA for you to be

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Speaker 4: We okay. So I don't know if you remember Lou Pearlman.

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Speaker 4: you should come out to LA, and so my mom

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Speaker 4: and I came out for this, you know, meeting that

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Speaker 4: ended up with me meeting my first entertainment lawyer. So

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Speaker 4: by then he sort of, yeah, he sort of introduced

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Speaker 4: then my mom realized she really liked La and I

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Speaker 3: So, yeah, are you an only child? Yeah, she says, defeated.

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Speaker 3: Well it doesn't show like the only children here.

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Speaker 4: Oh okay, well we.

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Speaker 3: All grew up yeah, into the club. So it's a

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Speaker 3: just the three of two. Was it two of you

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Speaker 3: or three of you?

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Speaker 4: It was my mom and I my dad came out

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Speaker 4: like every two weeks or so.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay, cool, wow. I mean that's that's just

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Speaker 3: we're we're here, We've picked up our whole life. We're

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Speaker 3: coming out here for me to try and do this

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Speaker 3: thing that I think that I love as a child.

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Speaker 3: When did it start transitioning for you as like this

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Speaker 3: is something that I can really do.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean part of being stubborn is kind of

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Speaker 3: When we decided to pursue acting, there's usually a moment

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Speaker 3: and like you're saying, the stubbornness of I'm going to

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Speaker 3: figure out how to make this work. I have to

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Speaker 3: do this, And it sounded like maybe being on stage

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Speaker 3: was a moment for you for that. But I feel

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Speaker 3: like when you get to La and you start integrating

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Speaker 3: you have a moment where everything really clicked for you?

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Speaker 4: I do. That moment was back in Florida and I

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Speaker 4: was sitting at the Players Theater backstage. I can remember

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Speaker 4: the smell. I can remember, and I still use that

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Speaker 3: Lash pink too with the green.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're not I paid to say anything about that,

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Speaker 4: but I was putting that on. And also I was

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Speaker 4: playing an eel, so I don't know in my so

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Speaker 4: the eel needed scara, but anyway, Yeah, I just remember

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Speaker 4: just once you were on set, you were in the

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Speaker 4: it became even more addictive and like, like you know

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Speaker 4: that you have to do it, like you were saying,

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Speaker 4: and it's just I've never bad science.

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Speaker 5: So how did you get cast on our show? As Sam?

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Speaker 4: So? I auditioned and I was with my parents. Was it? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: It was Don Kucko's down into Luca Lake and the

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Speaker 3: It was just a random audition that came in.

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Speaker 4: It was an audition. I did it like everyone else.

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Speaker 4: And then yeah, I guess people were looking at it

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Speaker 5: And you were sixteen right when you came out to Wilmington.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like fifteen sixteen something like that, really young.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, because you graduated high school.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I didn't have to do any onset I've

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Speaker 4: never had to do any thank god, any onset schooling

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Speaker 3: I mean, that would be hard to find a tutor

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Speaker 3: who's capable of Yeah, you probably would have been teaching them.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, I don't know. I just saw a lot

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Speaker 4: just seemed kind of like awful because there you are,

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Speaker 4: you're parallel to doing something that you've love, something that

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Speaker 3: So I loved on set tutoring really. It was just

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Speaker 3: way better in my classes when I was doing a

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Speaker 3: just was really not suited for my brain. I had

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Speaker 3: such a hard time focusing and paying attention and retaining information.

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Speaker 3: But we would do one on one and I would

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Speaker 3: get straight a's every time, and it was it was

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Speaker 3: it was always more complex, and then I would get

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Speaker 3: already ahead of everybody. Like I wish I'd been able

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Speaker 3: to do one on one tutoring for most of my life.

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Speaker 3: I probably would have graduated early. That would have been nice.

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Speaker 3: But I loved it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it definitely was in a way a lot of

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Speaker 4: one on one tutoring because you had to. When you're

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Speaker 4: a different schooling program. So it was definitely travel schooling.

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Speaker 4: So you know, my mom tried to be my teacher

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Speaker 4: Keep quing, sir, No, we did. He was. He was

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been it's been great to have that experience.

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Speaker 4: freak out over you, and then they were still wanting

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00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:53,920
Speaker 4: to freak out, so I got the second phase of

442
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:58,240
Speaker 4: the freak out. That was fun. But I guess the

443
00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:03,240
Speaker 4: things that I learned m on One Tree Hill that

444
00:25:04,000 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 4: really helped me the most was just how to how

445
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:12,520
Speaker 4: to be on set, how to how to welcome new people,

446
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:18,240
Speaker 4: how to kind of I don't know, if the day

447
00:25:18,320 --> 00:25:21,840
Speaker 4: can be made shorter. You can point it out to

448
00:25:21,960 --> 00:25:24,960
Speaker 4: maybe like a very new director who you can tell

449
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 4: is a little intimidated, like it's all good. You know,

450
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:35,800
Speaker 4: we can not to like back seat direct, but you know,

451
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 4: when you're doing your rehearsals, you can just say, you know,

452
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 4: is it better for you if I'm over here? And

453
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,439
Speaker 4: then it is and we all get out two hours earlier.

454
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, those little tips and tricks.

455
00:25:52,200 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, but I don't know, you guys really taught me

456
00:25:55,720 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 4: like how to cry, and it's just take your time

457
00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:07,800
Speaker 4: and kind of have it rolling before you need to

458
00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 4: be on it because it's kind of distracting when they're

459
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,159
Speaker 4: like an action then you're supposed to be like, but

460
00:26:14,240 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 4: you can just have them be rolling in that waste

461
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 4: anyone's time for thirty seconds and that was super helpful

462
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 4: and important. Also I learned never ugly cry and definitely

463
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 4: what that meant. But really, as it is, it's like

464
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,680
Speaker 4: it's so hard when you're really upset. You're just upset.

465
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 4: But yeah, and what you were saying about, like you

466
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,639
Speaker 4: know how exciting it is to have like a new generation,

467
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,719
Speaker 4: it was. It was the same way on on Awkward,

468
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 4: we had have new people who we knew were going

469
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:58,639
Speaker 4: to be around for a long time for many episodes.

470
00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 4: It was that like excitement and seeing how they were

471
00:27:04,920 --> 00:27:08,239
Speaker 4: on set and you know, a lot of them it

472
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 4: was their first big thing too, and so you know,

473
00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:20,919
Speaker 4: you hope you're helping them, but yeah, it was. It

474
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 4: was just such a pivotal show for me just setting

475
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:27,119
Speaker 4: it up for everything else I do.

476
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Speaker 5: That's so cool.

477
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 3: I love hearing that.

478
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:45,080
Speaker 5: When you tell that that story about all the folks

479
00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 5: outside the Dixie Girl. It feels like a perfect segue

480
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,160
Speaker 5: because we told the fans you were coming on the show,

481
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 5: and my god, they sent in so really questions for you.

482
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,760
Speaker 5: So yeah, so we want to do I mean, we

483
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 5: have a million more questions want to ask you, but

484
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 5: you know, we want to. We want to spread the

485
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 5: love around and let make sure we get through some

486
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:06,439
Speaker 5: of us Q.

487
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:09,480
Speaker 3: And Okay, So the first one is from Katie. She says,

488
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,080
Speaker 3: what is your favorite scene of Brooke and Sam?

489
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 4: I remember being very uncomfortable assaulting you and that first

490
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:20,440
Speaker 4: scene so for you, so it's pretty happy like every

491
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 4: other episode where I didn't have to like punching or

492
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:23,480
Speaker 4: throw you down.

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Speaker 3: I mean, have you how much have you watched the episodes?

494
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 3: Like have you gone back and watched the stuff that

495
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Speaker 3: you were in or are you one of those actors

496
00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 3: that's like I just can't I can't watch it.

497
00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:36,359
Speaker 4: No, I've watched it, I just haven't like it's so

498
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,959
Speaker 4: weird to watch like something where it's like ten years ago.

499
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:44,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, for you, it is isn't it.

500
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 4: It's hard to pick one, but I think you know

501
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 4: that episode where Sam leaves. I think we both got

502
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 4: to do a lot of crying, and that's always good.

503
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 4: Actors love that when they get a chance to cry.

504
00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 4: And yeah, so somewhere in there.

505
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Speaker 5: Well, that sort of relates to Christina's question because she

506
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,040
Speaker 5: wants to know what was your hardest scene to shoot?

507
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 5: Would it have been one of those really emotional ones,

508
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 5: do you think?

509
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, there was one, and I don't remember what episode

510
00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 4: it is, but I think Sam had done something bad

511
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,240
Speaker 4: and she was I was just like doing the dishes

512
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 4: or something in Brooks House and like that required a

513
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:37,080
Speaker 4: lot of emotion. So that was pretty hard. But yeah,

514
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 4: actually the first scene in close over Grows was probably

515
00:29:43,400 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 4: the hardest because I had no experience with like physicality

516
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 4: or stunts or anything. So you did a lot of

517
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 4: the guidework on that that I guess technically for me

518
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:00,360
Speaker 4: that was the hard us.

519
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 5: I just remember having to be like, don't worry, it's

520
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 5: gonna be okay. You can chell me like we'll be well,

521
00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 5: we're gonna be all right. Do it like, do it harder,

522
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:11,120
Speaker 5: you know, because you yeah, it was you poor thing.

523
00:30:11,160 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 5: I mean, they gave it to you on your first day.

524
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:14,719
Speaker 5: You're like, hey, nice to me. You let me just

525
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:19,719
Speaker 5: hte like, what a weird brutal to be introduced to someone.

526
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:23,240
Speaker 5: And I remember being like, I know exactly how you're feeling.

527
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 5: We're gonna be okay me and you.

528
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:30,800
Speaker 3: Yeah what, So, Ashley, did they ask you to come back,

529
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 3: like for Brooks wedding or anything? Where were you? Where

530
00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 3: were you? Where did you go?

531
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I didn't know where I was. I

532
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 4: don't think so. I don't think so. I think because

533
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 4: we walked off in by like that's pretty offense, and

534
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 4: she was just gone. She didn't like die or anything,

535
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 4: but she just like, but you walked off.

536
00:30:57,160 --> 00:30:59,200
Speaker 3: Into the sunset to go live with her mom.

537
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 5: You wound up awkward though pretty quickly, right.

538
00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, I wouldn't like a year exactly.

539
00:31:05,000 --> 00:31:07,640
Speaker 5: So I feel like that's the thing that happens is,

540
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 5: you know, great people leave a show and then they

541
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,840
Speaker 5: wind up on another show, and then they're not available

542
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 5: to come back for special episodes or whatever, because you know,

543
00:31:16,280 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 5: you're off working and starring on your own thing, which

544
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 5: was so cool.

545
00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would love to have been in two places

546
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 4: at once, though, thinking.

547
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 5: Back on it now, Jess wants to know this, and

548
00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 5: so do we. Is there any storyline you would have

549
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 5: liked to see for Sam that you didn't get to

550
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:34,560
Speaker 5: do while you were on the show.

551
00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 4: I mean, I think it's like an easy one where

552
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 4: you're like, oh, Sam gets pregnant, but that would have

553
00:31:41,240 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 4: locked me in for a couple episodes.

554
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:45,800
Speaker 3: Definitely would have kept you around for a while.

555
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, so that would have been great. Then there's also like,

556
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,520
Speaker 4: what about the skateboarding thing, because Sam was supposed to

557
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 4: be a skateboarder, and oh yeah, I am athletic. I

558
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 4: am not afraid of heights. I am so scared of

559
00:32:03,560 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 4: being an inch and a half off the ground.

560
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:06,959
Speaker 3: Skateboards are terrifying.

561
00:32:07,320 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 4: It's fine, I paddleboard, I mean, but I can't skateboard.

562
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 4: I'm just I don't know.

563
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 3: That's like these hoverboards with the two wheels on either side.

564
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,800
Speaker 3: My daughter has friends that just jump on these hoverboards

565
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 3: and they're just zooming, zipping around their driveways in the house,

566
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 3: and I'm like, every time I get on one, I

567
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 3: feel like I'm gonna fall over.

568
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 4: I haven't tried one, probably for the same reasons. The skateboards.

569
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Speaker 4: It didn't work.

570
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,840
Speaker 3: Tara is asking what is your best on set memory

571
00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,280
Speaker 3: with the cast and crew? That's a nice like, oh,

572
00:32:40,360 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 3: let's put a bow on it. I just loved this moment.

573
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 4: Okay, on set moment. I don't mean to make fun

574
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 4: of this person, I really I don't. So there was

575
00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:54,360
Speaker 4: this background artist who I thought just smelled like a

576
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 4: ragan o but he just smelled overall Herbie. Sure in

577
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,240
Speaker 4: life I would come to know what that is, but

578
00:33:04,440 --> 00:33:08,200
Speaker 4: he was. He was just so weird. And he was

579
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:09,840
Speaker 4: talking to me, and he was kind of like holding

580
00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,200
Speaker 4: up the wall and like wondering it kind of thing.

581
00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 4: And I was like, all right, like Rocky Rocky, Rocky's like,

582
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,240
Speaker 4: I don't know what this situation is. So he came over.

583
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 4: Background artist names Joe. We've been filming for like reasonably

584
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 4: ten hours, but the prop food had been put out

585
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 4: the beginning of the day. It was North Carolina heat,

586
00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 4: oh boy, and Joe decides to go eat one of

587
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,760
Speaker 4: those sandwiches, and a PA stops and before and goes no, no, no,

588
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,880
Speaker 4: don't eat that. Obviously for continuity as well, but like

589
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 4: also there's ham, cheese and mustard on this like don't

590
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 4: eat that.

591
00:33:51,440 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 3: No, no, no, he ate it.

592
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 4: And we looked over like an hour and a half later,

593
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 4: Joe was like, oh oh. And so then like when

594
00:34:06,800 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 4: they did get to you know, see him and he

595
00:34:09,520 --> 00:34:11,760
Speaker 4: was in the shot, he was just like on a launchair,

596
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:19,439
Speaker 4: I mean to sleep. Oh that was something. I think

597
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 4: the other one was so I think it was a

598
00:34:23,400 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 4: book that Hillary bought me, and she did buy me

599
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,399
Speaker 4: a great book on that I have to sit next

600
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 4: to me, but this might have been another one. And

601
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:38,439
Speaker 4: it was about like fairies and mystical stuff and we're

602
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 4: in the makeup trailer and I brought it and Rocky

603
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,760
Speaker 4: and I were like, there's a puison there that says

604
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,600
Speaker 4: like what kind of mystical creature are you? And so

605
00:34:47,880 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 4: I was hoping for Unicorn. I got know I read

606
00:34:55,080 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 4: ticket and I was like maybe that was a goof

607
00:34:57,880 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 4: Now I got know him again. U. So so then the

608
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 4: next day from the set and on my trailer is

609
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 4: a little garden though just right on the step. It

610
00:35:10,840 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 4: was so cute and so yeah, well we named him

611
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 4: Philip and put some blush on him and I've had

612
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:26,800
Speaker 4: him ever since. Philip Philip is the best.

613
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 5: I love that those are the little things you carry

614
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 5: with you that you know nobody would know about who

615
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 5: wasn't in the sort of intimate cast family. And I

616
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 5: don't know, I just I love it. I love all

617
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 5: those quirky little pieces of chotchkeys and things that make you,

618
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:49,839
Speaker 5: you know, feel a little warm.

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00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:52,040
Speaker 3: And those are the things that make it feel like

620
00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 3: a family. Just all the little things that happened in

621
00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 3: the trailers and between the trailers and from the trailers

622
00:35:57,160 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 3: to set and in between the shots watching background people eat, say,

623
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 3: old sandwiches, just like man, that's the stuff that really

624
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:07,400
Speaker 3: builds the bond.

625
00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:11,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember, I remember one here we are like

626
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 4: Arou'm Halloween or something. Rocky Tim and my mom and

627
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,799
Speaker 4: I and some other people all decide to go up

628
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 4: to I think Charleston supposed to be like super Haunted

629
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 4: or whatever, and so we wanted to go on one

630
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:27,560
Speaker 4: of those ghost tours. And props to the guy who

631
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 4: was doing the tour, he is a good and committed actor.

632
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 4: As corny as the situation was, he was, he was

633
00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 4: on it. And they're like, if you see any orbs,

634
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 4: those are spirits. So whether it's a dust particle or

635
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 4: an orb, we'll never know. But but so we're taking

636
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 4: all these pictures and everything. At the end of the tour,

637
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 4: we end up at like a cemetery because you've gone

638
00:36:54,520 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 4: through like the house and other places, and so we're

639
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 4: at a cemetery and I'm like, I'm like, fifteen sixteen,

640
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 4: I'm just being obnoxious, but I'm laughing, giggling, stifling giggling

641
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 4: the whole time. And we get out to the cemetery

642
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 4: area or whatever, where we're like, Okay, take a bunch

643
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:17,040
Speaker 4: of pictures and see what you get. And there's this

644
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 4: one picture with all of us where there genuinely are

645
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:24,640
Speaker 4: like orbs that didn't look like dust particles, but they

646
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 4: could have been very large dust particles.

647
00:37:26,680 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 3: M just hanging out all around you.

648
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 4: It will ever know. Yeah, Wow, that was fun.

649
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:38,520
Speaker 3: Amazing, Well fun, guys. We're gonna wrap it up because

650
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 3: we have a recap to do of our actual episode

651
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 3: where we really start to get to know Sam, so

652
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,600
Speaker 3: we're going to dive into that. And thanks for hanging

653
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 3: out with us this week, and we'll see you. We'll

654
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 3: see you soon.

655
00:37:52,560 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 4: Yep.

656
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 3: Hey, thanks for listening.

657
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Speaker 5: Don't forget to leave us a review. You can also

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Speaker 3: Or email us at Drama Queens at iHeartRadio dot com.

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Speaker 3: See you next time.

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