WEBVTT - Drama Queens meet The Ravens 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.280 First of all, you don't know me. 0:00:02.400 --> 0:00:06.439 All about that high school drama Girl Drama Girl, all about. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:08.119 Them high school Queens. 0:00:08.160 --> 0:00:10.360 Well, thank you for a ride and our comic girl 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:12.360 shared for the right teams. 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.439 Drama Queens, Jamie's my girl fashion but your tough girl. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.600 You could sit with us Girl Drama Queen Drama, Queens Drama, 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.319 Queens Drama, Drama, Queens Drama Queens. 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:28.080 Hey friends, Hi gouy, Hello, Hello, Hello. 0:00:28.200 --> 0:00:31.639 So we have a special episode today. We are joined 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:35.400 by a couple of friends of ours from across the pond, 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:40.879 the hosts of the Fantastic The Ravens podcast, none other 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.200 than Simon and Dom. Gentlemen, Welcome to Drama Queens. 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:48.080 Thank you, thank you for having us. It's incredibly surreal, right. 0:00:48.440 --> 0:00:50.559 Absolutely, this is that moment where we go who's going 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.200 to speak first? Which one of us? Does it? Always? 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:54.760 I want it to be here. Thank you so much. 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.120 Well, clearly what's happening on our end is we're all 0:00:57.120 --> 0:01:00.120 excited and we're all talking at the same time. So 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:02.520 it's good you're reminding us to just take a deep 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:03.440 breath and go slap. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:07.600 Well, I would love to start by just asking when 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.800 did you guys start your Ravens podcast, and what was 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.280 the like, what was the moment where you were like, 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.200 let's let's do this, and then what was the response 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:19.040 and the fact that you've kept I mean clearly it 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:21.360 was good enough that's kept going for your in your 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:25.720 eighth were season eight? Now is that right for you guys? 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:28.360 So yeah, what was the impetus for all of this? 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.520 Well, Dom is being held against his will. It's kind 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:37.759 of the flow of it. So we started this five 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.520 years ago, so it's been a long time. It was 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:44.080 about a year or so before you guys started. And 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:48.559 I watched the show when I was twenty three, and 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:52.600 I'm one of those people that will say proudly that 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.240 it really had a positive impact on me. I watched 0:01:56.240 --> 0:01:59.920 it at a certain time where I was a bit 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.640 i'd say lost in my career, Like I was living 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:07.840 with my girlfriend who's now my wife, Efany, and I 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.640 really didn't like my job. And so at night, you know, 0:02:10.680 --> 0:02:12.600 when you don't like what you're doing for a living, 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.680 you really try to maximize what you're doing outside of 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:18.280 work because you're dreading going there. But I used to 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.360 stay up really late to like one two in the morning, 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.520 like just watching you know, TV and things, and I 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.760 had just finished the OC and on the Amazon recommendation 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.480 list came up One Tree Hill and I watched it 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.720 and I was just hooked into it, but I think 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.520 subconsciously hooked by the theme of you know, what's the 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:42.600 version of you that you want to be lately, as 0:02:42.600 --> 0:02:47.040 Gavin de grow might say. And so from that it 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:51.000 kind of sent me on this road of like changing career, 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:56.560 learning to play basketball, getting involved in I became an 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:01.880 SCN teacher, like a neurodiverse teacher, volunteering with the Special Olympics, 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:05.480 ended up coaching basketball at national level and then at 0:03:05.480 --> 0:03:11.040 an international level and one with Great Britain. One sounds braggy, 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:15.639 but I'm trying to show what one trag do. Yeah, 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.320 So I ended up coaching Great Britain and we went 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:20.120 back to back World championships. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:23.200 Dude, it was like a whole thing. 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.480 And then we created a local basketball team called the Ravens, 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.520 and it all just kind of came into it and 0:03:30.680 --> 0:03:34.680 was very like this, like I sort of put it 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.880 to like my wife, like my parents, and One Tree Hill. 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:40.120 It kind of did a lot for me. 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.480 And then within that when I was rewatching for like 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:47.000 the fifth time in my early thirties. When I finished, 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:48.320 I was like, I don't know what to do with 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.280 this energy now. And Dom and I had been started 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:54.600 podcasting movies, and Dom had never seen it, and so 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.840 we thought it would be interesting to see the perspective 0:03:56.880 --> 0:04:00.840 of a first time watcher, of a mildly scrampled man 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:06.120 in his like British man in his ear. And so 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:10.880 every week we watched together on Zoom with ravens from 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.680 around the worlds. We have people in Australia, in Canada, America, Norway, 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.839 and we're watching Dom react for the first time, and 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.240 then Dom's making predictions as we go along. 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:26.000 Dom, No, you've covered it all. 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:29.000 You will have to speak at some point. 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.200 At some point I've got to say something. But yeah, Simon, 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.599 literally five years ago in the in the middle of 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.360 us kind of we we we were friends from since 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:40.120 we were five, so we've been friends for a long time, 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:41.920 but we have a gap in our history. We went 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.520 to different like high schools, different universities and stuff and 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.279 kind of lost kind of touch and connection. And then 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.800 through the podcast messaged me one day and so they'd 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.040 like to, you know, do a podcast with you, and 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.000 I was like, we haven't really hung out or done 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:57.880 anything for a long time. This is it's a bit 0:04:58.040 --> 0:05:01.920 like random to just jump into doing podcast. And then 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.159 we picked The first film we podcasted was Good Fellows, 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:08.440 which is the longest film ever, and we we did 0:05:08.520 --> 0:05:10.480 the longest podcast ever. It was about seven hours long. 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.880 If it was just it was horrendous. Honestly, I'm so bad, 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:16.080 but we love it. And then we just kept going 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.280 and then we get you know, a few months in 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.000 and down the line, and he says, I really love 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.920 this show. Have you ever seen it? I've never never 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:25.520 seen I've heard of it, of course, never seen it. 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.120 I was like, okay, well, let's let's do it. Let's 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:30.640 do it episode by episode together, go through it, and 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:33.960 just if no one listens, it doesn't matter, because, you know, 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.040 at least I'm talking to my friend and you know, 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:38.719 sharing my love for this show is like, okay, great, 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:39.840 let's let's give it the. 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:41.960 Best way to start any kind of artistic ventures. 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.600 Like, you know what if nobody sees it, then whatever, 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:45.720 at least we're having fun. 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.600 Absolutely, I've become a bit of a yes man when 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:50.920 it comes to this podcast because it's like Lyman's like 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:53.599 I want to do this, Like yeah, okay, it's taken 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:55.120 us to great places. 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:58.239 So yeah, And the beautiful thing about it is that 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.560 it's kind of as much as you know, the podcast 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:03.159 has been great and the show has been great, And 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:05.960 this is kind of cliche to say, but this is true, 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.600 we became best friends again. So we were best friends 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.000 with children, and then we've become best friends again and 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.200 we're now in like our late thirties, and to have 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.440 a friend like that at this time in life is 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.640 actually a bit rare, Like we kind of didn't really 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.800 have that anymore and have you know, lives and you know, 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:26.640 wives and children that kind of things, and so it's like, actually, 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.120 it's been a beautiful thing to be like for this 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:31.719 like two hours once a week, we're going to sit 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.599 down and talk nonsense about a show that I love 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.440 that now Don does love. And it has kind of 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.600 just given us these crazy opportunities and it's very surreal 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:43.600 and we're incredibly grateful to be. 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:44.920 Here and be invited here. 0:06:45.400 --> 0:06:47.240 It really means a lot to us and to our 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:51.880 We have like a core cult of listeners and they 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.800 are really rallied behind this as well. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:57.960 So thank you so much. We really appreciate it, Yeah 0:06:58.000 --> 0:06:58.520 for sure. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:01.280 And I mean it's also a little peak behind the 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:03.760 curtain is we got to meet you guys recently. So 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:07.279 the last Friends with Benefits event that we did in Wilmington, 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:10.640 you guys attended, So it was really cool that we 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:12.280 got to meet. So then when this came up, it 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:14.360 was like all three of us sort of unanimously. When 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:16.960 our producer Hannah pitched it, We're like, oh, they were 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:21.040 lovely in Wilmington. Absolutely, let's do it. So I think 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.760 we're just as thrilled as you guys. I'm so happy 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:25.920 for the success. But I love that you guys hadn't 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.240 hung out in like a decade and you were just like, 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:29.440 do you want to do a podcast? I would be 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.640 like calling someone you haven't seen in a decade and 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:33.200 being like, Hey, do you want to go on a 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:37.239 really long road trip? Should we maybe get lunch first? 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.600 Maybe let's catch up in front of everyone. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:40.640 You know. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.360 What's really cool though. 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:46.120 Hearing your story about it is in a really interesting way. 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.120 I feel like the way we came to the podcast 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:54.040 was steps of experiences. 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.280 Like that, you know, Yeah, for sure. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:58.960 It's like when we all left Wilmington. Obviously it was 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.400 it was all the things. Really, it was sad. You know, 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.120 you kind of can't wait to get going, almost like 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.360 when you are going to graduate high school or college, 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.760 and then when the end is approaching, you're like, I 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:10.400 don't want to leave. 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:11.360 Just kidding, just kidding. 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:14.560 This was a terrible idea. And so you know, we 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.720 went through the excitement of this sort of early career 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.680 freedom and also the absolute heartbreak of like looking at 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.240 each other at work and bursting into tears every day. 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:30.280 And then you know, as you do, everyone leaves the 0:08:30.320 --> 0:08:34.880 town and people go home, people get married, people move, 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.679 you know, people go on to other jobs. And it 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:41.480 was actually the conventions that kind of gave us a 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:46.160 chance to start dipping back into the world. And I remember, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.640 because I was working in Chicago at the time when 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.840 they really got going and I could never go, and 0:08:50.880 --> 0:08:54.440 I was like, well, this is exactly that thing, like 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:57.160 your TV job keeps you from going and doing something else, 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.760 including hanging out with your friends from your first TV job. 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:00.800 So bummed. 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.240 And I think maybe it was France, was that the 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:04.920 first one we got to do joy. 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.360 Maybe those are they're all a blur, so far. 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:09.439 I mean, I don't know. 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:12.840 I couldn't say when each one started, but I know 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.760 we were in France together at some point. 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:15.400 Yeah. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.280 I think that was the first one I'd gotten to 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:19.719 go to, and I like took a red eye from 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.240 work and I remember just being like, oh my god. 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:23.040 Everybody's here. 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:24.440 Everybody's here. 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:28.640 And I really think it was the way, you know, 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.560 people like you, Simon and dom now you welcome to 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.920 the club. Like we had such great viewers who wanted 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:40.800 to go home with us, and it's why, you know, 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.280 us girls started the pod in the pandemic, and it's 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:47.000 why we were so excited to get Rob to join 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:51.000 us as of season seven, Like, you know, Hillary was like, wait, 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.800 I don't have any actual memories. This is stupid. Rob 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.960 was like I have all of them, you know, And 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.400 I don't know. I just think about how there is 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:03.360 something a about this show that it gives you these 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:07.400 really weird opportunities to gather, whether you were on the 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.800 show as we were, or you were a fan of 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.080 the show like you guys, it's so cool that one 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.040 trio has given us all this shared experience. 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.800 Yeah, what is the what are the conventions been like 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:20.920 for you? Was that your first one that I feel 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:22.120 like it was the first one you've been to in 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:23.960 the States. Had you gone to any of them in 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:25.120 Paris before either? 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.440 No? Actually the first one that was the first one 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:32.160 we've been to. Like ever, ever, what was that like 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:34.720 for you? We are going to Paris as well, so 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:35.800 we'll see you in Paris. 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:37.559 Okay, great in October. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:42.880 Yeah, we've kind of learned, and this was a trick 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:45.600 that we've only learned just recently that if you just 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.640 put a video out on Instagram and just ask for 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.840 what you want, sometime Sophia Bush might see it, and 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.800 then other times, like you get a media pass to 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.679 you know, a one Tree Hill then in Paris. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.280 Like I really want to implore everyone just off the 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:03.920 internet of the things. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:04.120 You might. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.360 These are those exact moments what Dom just says, Yes, 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:09.800 that's fun. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.760 Sometimes it works. It was so fun for us having 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.920 just met you though, Like when I saw you, guys, 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:21.959 when I saw your message, it was kismet because I 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.440 think I did I text a screenshot of it and 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:25.120 our group was. 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:28.000 A vious text a screenshot and then I saw it 0:11:28.000 --> 0:11:30.320 in my inbox. Yeah, I don't know if you checked yours, 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.920 but and then I think our producer must have seen hers. 0:11:32.920 --> 0:11:34.600 You guys just did like a blast, and we all 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:36.320 kind of saw it around the same moment. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:38.840 It was amazing because Hannah was like, wait, I just 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.640 spoke to them, and I was going to talk to 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.920 you guys about it on our zoom this week. So 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.960 it was like everybody for some reason in the same 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.240 day got the little like internet pixie dust and we 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:50.920 were like, Okay, this feels really fun. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.920 It was kind of we kind of got some confidence 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:59.600 from that event a little bit, I mean joy actually 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.240 to speak you specifically to say thank you. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:03.840 We you. 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.240 You probably won't remember this, but we said to you, 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.080 you know, like lovely to meet you. All of you 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:12.160 were lovely, but you specifically you actually got up, came 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.240 around and sort of like hugged us to say thank 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:16.200 you for like supporting the show and everything. 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:16.600 Yeah. 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:18.400 Prom the fact that I then had to tell dom 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.440 My Knees a week I'm not sure I can stand 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:22.360 right time. 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:26.640 I do remember hugging you guys. I thought that was 0:12:26.720 --> 0:12:28.760 just so special that you came over and that you've 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:32.000 been investing so much of your time into something that 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:34.600 we invested so much of our time into you know, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:38.040 it's yeah, and it's not just watching like you're actually 0:12:38.080 --> 0:12:39.959 taking the time to walk through it and talk about 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:41.200 it and share with other people. 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:42.040 Yeah. 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.800 I was so happy to meet you guys. I'm sorry. 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:46.560 I didn't intend to cut you off. I just got excited. 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:47.240 You can keep me. 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:48.920 Well. 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.520 It just the whole experience, like meeting all three of 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:53.440 you and meeting you know, the rest of the cast 0:12:53.480 --> 0:12:57.040 and everyone was it kind of just gave us this 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.880 sense of life of oh actually because we met a 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.719 lot of people as well, like a lot of our 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.880 listeners were there, and we did really special things like 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.480 we after the event, we got pizza together and went 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:10.720 to work to the river Core and had like pizza 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:12.400 at sunset, and it was. 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:14.000 All so meaningful. 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.520 It was like, actually, let's just shoot for the stars 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.280 with some of this stuff and just and just go 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:22.760 for it. I don't think we ever expected like this, 0:13:23.440 --> 0:13:27.520 and this really is like just beyond any kind of expectation. 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:32.000 Wilmington was like was amazing, Like the whole experience and 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:34.320 obviously obviously getting to meet the three of you, but 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:39.079 just being kind of in a huge group of people 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:43.040 that love this show and it's global and from someone 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.439 who's I guess I feel still feel a little bit 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:48.520 outside looking in because we haven't finished season nine, and 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.320 you know, we're working our way to it, and I've 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:53.400 only this is my first time watching and so not 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.400 really understanding the following that this show has and then 0:13:57.960 --> 0:13:59.840 just seeing it the generosity that comes from it as 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.480 well all of our we call them out ravens, but 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.160 you know, our listeners and our our cult, Simon said, 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.720 we know they're so generous and so kind, and you know, 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:12.120 one of them, one of our listeners shout out to 0:14:12.200 --> 0:14:17.240 Crystal sorry she if she won the opportunity to meet 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.480 Barry Corbyn, and like, Whitey was like my favorite character 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.560 in the beginning, right because you know, as Simon said, disgruntled, 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:30.120 you know, and what's better than that? And so she 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.200 took me as her plast one to go and meet him, 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:35.040 and I was like, well, this is oh so kind 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.480 and a couple of others and some of her great 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.160 experiences as well. So just the kindness that comes from it, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.240 and then you see and the things that we've the 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:45.040 people that we've encountered and the things that they do 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:47.120 for this show is amazing. 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:50.640 I would include yourselves in that because you are creating 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:54.920 another community for the fans of this show, like you are. 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:57.760 You're creating a place for them to go and make 0:14:57.840 --> 0:15:00.640 new friends and share experiences. So you are now a 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.080 part of that of that of the tapestry of One 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.160 Tree Hill, you know, and you are contributing to it 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.080 as opposed to just sort of, you know, enjoying in it. 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:11.240 And I'm so glad that you're The podcasts has done 0:15:11.280 --> 0:15:13.440 so well and you have the falling because you deserve it. 0:15:13.440 --> 0:15:15.000 You guys are doing great. I listened to a couple 0:15:15.040 --> 0:15:18.840 episodes and I really liked it. And I think I 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.640 just never thought of until this moment, is are the 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.400 fans on One Tree Hill are incredible? Like when I 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.120 joined the show, I had no idea what I was 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.760 in store for, like i've and also since then, I 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:33.480 have never experienced anything like what we had with our fans. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.440 But one thing I hadn't thought of until just right 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:41.400 now is that it's because of the fans that I 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.600 have so many of the relationships with people from One 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.920 Tree Hill. Because if it weren't for the fans, there 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.120 wouldn't be conventions. And if there weren't conventions, I don't 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:52.120 think I would have ever. I should say that the 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.640 odds are very low I would have reconnected with as 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:57.440 many of the members of the cast that I have, 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.920 because I'll speak for myself. I was for largely I 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:02.800 was kind of just like my head was down, I 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.040 was getting through that time, so I wasn't really available 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:07.840 for relationships. And I think a lot of people kind 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:09.960 of had their own stuff going on or were just 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:11.760 sort of ready to wrap it up or whatever it was. 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.960 And it's because of the conventions that we were able 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.560 to all come back sort of as adults and be like, hey, 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.800 oh my gosh, hi friend and like these friendships came 0:16:20.800 --> 0:16:23.640 out of it. But none of that would have happened 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.680 were it not for the fans wanting conventions and attending conventions. 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:31.320 So just a new gratitude swell to say thank you 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.200 to all of the fans for allowing us to have 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:35.160 this opportunity. 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:36.040 Yeah. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:52.000 Absolutely, Well, I want to get into like storyline stuff. 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.280 I'm so curious if you guys, like I just want 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.800 to know what you have been dom especially you you know, 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:02.720 starting from scratch, and I want to know, like what 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:06.600 what storyline has just taken you totally by surprise the most. 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:08.600 What do you feel like really made you stand up 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:12.600 and yell at the TV or like, gasp, you have 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:13.399 any memories of this? 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:18.639 It's got to be well pretty much for like the 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:21.280 first couple of seasons, I was convinced that Keith was 0:17:21.440 --> 0:17:22.560 Lucas's real father. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.400 This is so many of us were. 0:17:26.280 --> 0:17:27.639 It was like, this has got to come out, This 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:29.119 has got to happened. Karen's going to be like, oh, 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:32.520 do you remember that night? You know it's your you 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.960 know he's yours and that I was so so disappointed 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:39.320 when that didn't happen. But I think that the Dan 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:41.119 shooting Keith's story. 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:46.800 Is just what I still haven't seen seasons one through five, actually, 0:17:47.040 --> 0:17:48.680 but I do. I do know that plot point. 0:17:49.040 --> 0:17:52.360 Yeah, Yeah, that's that's the that's the like the biggest one, 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:58.000 and then you know, the whole Jimmy Edwards storyline as well, 0:17:58.200 --> 0:18:00.760 that's the one that's I think he really stands out 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:02.920 and makes you go, what is happening here? 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:03.760 Yeah? 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:05.960 Was that one of the things that also made you 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:09.520 you know, you just said that you you didn't at first, 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:11.600 you were like, I don't really understand all of this 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.920 hubbub around this show, What's what is the whole big 0:18:14.960 --> 0:18:18.040 deal about it? And as you started to watch, like, 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.399 I mean, I know, for us, I think that was 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:22.720 one of the turning point episodes where we all kind 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.919 of knew we were doing something more meaningful than just 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:29.960 like pop TV. And so was that one of the 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.479 turning points for you or was there something else that 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.200 made you kind of connect in a way that was like, oh, 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.720 this is actually something I want to invest more of 0:18:37.760 --> 0:18:39.720 my time and see it through. 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.080 I think pretty much all along like a lot of 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:45.760 the way, like I've always considered the performances in the 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:50.080 show so from yourselves, to be like excellent, you know, 0:18:50.600 --> 0:18:54.080 I mean, there's always been a draw to that. I mean, 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.679 you're all exceptional cryers. You just cry so well, it 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:01.840 just happens, like you tapped on go crying and it's unbelievable. 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.439 So you really drawn into that, and then those stories 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.440 like it just enhances the storyline because there are some episodes, 0:19:07.760 --> 0:19:11.159 let's say in the later seasons, where what's written on 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.640 the page might not necessarily be, you know, the best dialogue, 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:16.800 but actually you're making it work and you're you know, 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:19.320 and you've got the feeling in the room you've got 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:23.400 that sense of connection, and lots of people grow up 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.639 or it's like when they watch it, they're growing with 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:28.840 the show. So they're watching it at a particular age, 0:19:28.960 --> 0:19:32.200