WEBVTT - Monster In Law • EP 808 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:01.240 First of all, you don't know me. 0:00:02.240 --> 0:00:05.600 We all about that high school drama, Girl Drama, Girl, 0:00:05.680 --> 0:00:08.800 all about them high school queens. We'll take you for 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:12.000 a ride, and our comic girl sharing for the right 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:15.520 team Drama, Queens of Girl Fashion. 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:16.400 But you'll tough, girl. 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:17.360 You could sit with. 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:21.160 Us, Girl Drama, Queens Drama, Queens Drama, Queens Drama, Drawn 0:00:21.200 --> 0:00:25.320 the Queens Drama Queens. 0:00:25.920 --> 0:00:30.880 Hi, everybody, Hi, I'm so sorry we weren't able to 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:31.800 be there last week. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:37.720 Rob, how to go? It was a disaster too, aren't here? 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:39.960 The wheels come right off the wagon. 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.440 It was your first time hosting. I meant to text 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:43.840 you too. 0:00:43.960 --> 0:00:45.800 I kept like thinking of it in moments when I 0:00:45.840 --> 0:00:48.040 was like driving or brushing my teeth or like the 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:49.879 wrong moments, I was like, I need to text Rob. 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:51.199 I gotta find out how it went. How did he 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:53.800 feel about hosting the episode? You know, it's kind of 0:00:53.840 --> 0:00:56.480 a big deal, Like totally it fell apart what. 0:00:56.760 --> 0:00:59.080 There was a fair amount of nervous crying at the 0:00:59.120 --> 0:01:04.360 beginning on Life Gorgeous. Luckily, Lee and Antoine are just 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:08.480 such great guys and such natural performers that they really 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.160 helped carry me. And I think at the end of 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.120 the day, we got something that is going to be usable. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:14.160 Amazing. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:16.240 I love that for you, though, I gotta be honest, 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:17.640 I was feeling the exact same way. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:17.920 Joy. 0:01:18.040 --> 0:01:20.760 I was just thinking to myself, of course, because we 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.280 have similar brains at like twelve thirty at night or 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.200 like six forty five in the morning, when Rob's on 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.319 the West Coast and it's a deeply inappropriate time to 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:31.640 text him, I wanted to ask. 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:32.320 All these questions. 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:37.679 And I also felt myself, like back in my younger self, going, well, 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.600 I'm sad I didn't get to hang out with the boys. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.679 I wonder what they talked about. I wonder if they 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.039 had a good time, Like I was. I was amped 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:47.960 that you guys basically had a treehouse experience episode. And 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:53.000 also my little like younger self ego was wounded that 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:56.120 the girls didn't get to come and play, especially. 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.480 After watching that episode because it was just so fun. 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:01.160 Well, that's why it was perfect, right, and that was 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:02.680 sort of how I let in. I'm like, we're it's 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.280 it's kind of funny because it's like our parents, like 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:06.880 the parents are away and it's just like a boy's 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.680 night in and like but it's the perfect episode for 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.120 that because that's essentially what we do there as well. 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:15.000 Yeah and no, it was great. We had a lot 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:19.079 of fun, managed to keep things on track because with 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.200 those two guys, it's like my brain wants to go 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:25.160 in a million different directions conversationally. But it was great, 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.680 and now it is awesome to have you back. I 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.480 feel like before we even get into atoh eight, we 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.040 do need to touch upon the greatness that was both 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:37.880 of your performances in eight oh seven because you two 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.320 so if you and Sharon at the at the Bride 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:45.080 Expo is just like the episode. And of course it 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.280 was like a heroin Strauss episode. So the episode was 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:52.040 just rife with killer one liners. Yes, with the with 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:54.760 the gist of them being between you and Sharon, and 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.120 then when Joy pops in and Joy your stuff was 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:02.440 so funny, like you trying in Earnest to show up 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:04.440 as a friend, Hayley's trying to show up in Earnest 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.840 as a friend for Brooke but because of what's happening 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:11.440 hormonally with the pregnancy constantly undermining her at every turn, 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:15.119 and just the comedy playing between you guys. 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:16.600 Was so good. 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.360 I will say I think that's one of my top 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:25.840 five episodes we've ever done. I had the best time 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:31.160 with you and Sharon and that little storyline, and especially 0:03:31.240 --> 0:03:32.000 it was a fun day. 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:32.919 I remember that. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.120 It was so fun and everyone, I mean, the wardrobe 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:39.040 was amazing, the set was amazing, Like I remember walking 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.120 in there and thinking, Oh, this is going to be good. 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:46.160 And especially because we are and I think really beautifully 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:50.320 in this arc for everyone this season where people are 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:53.160 really trying to figure out life, they're figuring out their emotions, 0:03:53.160 --> 0:03:57.880 they're figuring out things that require the maturity. Our characters 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.880 have earned emotional intelligence. So to have just an all 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:07.200 out comedic fun fest, yeah, it was relieving for me 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:07.840 as an actor. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:09.600 And like you and I are goofy. 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.200 We like to be funny and it was nice to 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.160 get to show that and to do it with Sharon. 0:04:14.480 --> 0:04:19.200 Come on, she's such a genius everything she does. I mean, 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.120 I tell you she always I said this already, she 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:24.240 floats through every room she's in. But the way she 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.600 played this character. And also I had totally forgotten that 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:32.120 she was had this drinking issue, and so as I 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.840 didn't realize that she was getting progressively more and more 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.040 like silly and loopy. I guess I thought she was 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.120 just being a little more happy or pushy or just 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:43.160 but it felt so jovial that you couldn't help, And 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.440 I think Hayley couldn't help but just fall in line 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.200 and fall in love with her. And so when you 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:52.960 find her collapsed in the hallway, it's like this, The 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.159 turn was so great because I hadn't spotted it. But 0:04:56.240 --> 0:04:58.800 if you go back and watch, you can see Sharon's 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.680 deliberate choices to progress. 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:02.159 It's like the sixth sense. 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.960 You don't see it coming, and then once you know 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:08.880 the secret, you realize you saw it the whole time. Yeah, 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.960 it's the best kind of misdirect I think writers can do. 0:05:12.080 --> 0:05:15.120 And to your point, Rob heroin Stress are just such 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:19.839 a good writing team, and they I think they just 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.520 crush it from the funny to the emotional. 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.839 Really, there was a line where it's when you're looking 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.440 at bridesmaid's dresses and she goes, how about these? And 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.480 you said, actually, I was thinking about I was planning 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.479 on designing them myself, you know, something cute And she says, 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.040 oh no, honey, the whole point is for your bridesmaids 0:05:40.080 --> 0:05:43.200 to look ugly so you look pretty. And I love 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:47.359 that because it was perfect, right, it's there. It is 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.360 the leanest joke in that there is like, there's nothing 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:53.000 extra on it, because first of all, that's accurate. Why 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:57.599 are bride'smaid's dress is always hideous? But it's a perfectly 0:05:57.720 --> 0:06:01.160 backhanded like, yeah, dear you them to look bad so 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:02.160 you can look good. 0:06:03.640 --> 0:06:05.680 It's just so rude, so free. 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:09.119 Yeah, because God forbid another woman look beautiful then you don't. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.880 It's such an antiquated way of thinking. And it's perfect 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:16.600 for a mother in law, particularly for Brooks mother in law, 0:06:16.640 --> 0:06:20.920 because Brook's entire business is literally based on making other 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:22.200 women feel beautiful. 0:06:22.400 --> 0:06:27.279 Yeah, just so tone deaf. She just shows up so 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:27.920 tone deaf. 0:06:28.040 --> 0:06:30.640 It's so good though, because it's it's such a perfect 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.960 illustration of how these two do not speak the same language, 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:38.599 they do not come from the same era, and it's 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:40.839 you know, perfect. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.640 I also really like the Sharon didn't make choices to 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:49.280 be aggressively pushy, that the pushiness just came out of 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:54.880 the flow of her. It's it's the uh, what's her 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.880 characters name, wait, Sylvia, Sylvia Right, It's like it's the 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.599 it's the Sylvia Show. It's always been the Sylvia Show 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:03.960 in her mind, and everywhere she goes it's just she 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.360 just floats around. Oh no, no, no, oh, yes, yes, yes, oh, 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:07.560 this is what we need to do. Oh that's what 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.400 It's just so endearing. You love it, but she also 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:11.880 hate it. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:12.560 Yeah. 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.160 Well that's the thing, right. She does the thing that 0:07:15.200 --> 0:07:18.800 good actors do, which is she makes it hard to 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.880 just make a snap judgment on like who she is, right, 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:24.760 because she's doing things that aren't cool, but she's coming 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.160 from kind of a good place, Like I think the 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.160 characters the best of the ones where like the water 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.840 is muddied and it's not easy to go like they're 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.720 great where they say. It's sort of like, man, she's 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.280 kind of being a mom zilla, but she's also offering 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.920 to pay for it, you know. It's like, ah, it's okay, 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:43.040 so I wanted to ask you. 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:43.240 Though. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:47.600 At the end of the episode, obviously she gets canned. 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.640 You have to help her get home. She passes out 0:07:50.680 --> 0:07:54.320 with all of her jewelry on Brave and at the 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.440 end of it she says, hey, don't mention this to 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.560 Julian and he worries about me, which also help tie 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.680 back to last season when he was like, my mom 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:04.880 was in a bad way, and we had a conversation 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:07.160 about how it was like, this woman seems very put together. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.360 It doesn't make sense now we're getting a glimpse. But 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.880 if you were in Brooks shoes and your mother in 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.280 law did that and asked that of you, would you 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.440 keep her secret or would you share with your partner? 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.600 It depends on how often it happens. I think the 0:08:25.640 --> 0:08:30.440 first time, I might not say anything. If it became 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.760 a pattern that I was noticing, then I would I 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:34.480 would bring it up. 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:36.520 Yeah. 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.360 God, that puts people in such a rock and a 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:41.199 hard place. In between, such a rock and a hard place, 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:45.160 because you never want to keep something from your partner. 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:48.400 But to your point, especially when you don't know someone, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:53.320 I could see if that was a real situation, you know, 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:56.719 putting myself back in the shoes of that character, thinking well, 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.560 maybe she just got a little carried away. Today, you know, 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:04.240 plenty of people do that, and you know, sometimes somebody 0:09:04.360 --> 0:09:07.200 drinks too much, and it's sort of the lore right 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:09.720 of even like a rehearsal dinner at a wedding, you know, 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:11.760 half the people there get shit canned and then they're 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:13.520 hung over the day of the wedding, Like, how many 0:09:13.600 --> 0:09:15.800 times have we heard that story? So I feel like 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:19.320 you could rationalize it to yourself in a way, and 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.960 especially because they're having a hard time, I could see 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.520 wanting to ingratiate yourself and not make it worse, not 0:09:27.559 --> 0:09:29.880 make your mother in law hate you. But on the 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:33.600 flip side, it would make me feel so icky to 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:38.200 keep a secret. So I feel like, especially at this point, 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.679 thinking about how young our characters were being in our 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.160 mid twenties, now different story, I think we've all gotten 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:45.480 to the point where you're like, look, you just got 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:48.160 to figure it out, be frank, deal with you. But 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.040 then I might have been like, wow, we had such 0:09:50.080 --> 0:09:53.280 a good time, and they definitely gave your mom a 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:55.640 lot of champagne, but you know, obviously because she said 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:57.600 you'd pay for everything. Like I feel like I would 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.840 have tried to make it not her fault but alluded 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.040 to the fact that she wound up drunk. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:04.560 You would have been passive aggressive. 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:06.880 So what you're saying, No, I think I would have 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:09.320 tried to do you think that's passive aggressive? 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:11.240 Oh my god, I think that's so protective. 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:13.520 Well, no, it's not aggressive, but it is. 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:15.760 It is like, Okay, maybe I don't know the definition 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.120 of passive aggressive. I thought it was that you're saying 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.960 something directly, but you're not being directive about it. You're 0:10:21.960 --> 0:10:24.000 being passive about being saying something that is. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:25.640 V But that's when you're mad at someone. 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:27.199 Wouldn't it be passive gossiping? 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:27.400 Then? 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:28.199 Yeah? 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.040 The way I look at it is more like I 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.200 don't want to rat on her, and she's asked me 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:34.400 not to say something, but I don't want to lie 0:10:34.440 --> 0:10:37.760 to Julian, So I think I would have said something 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:43.280 in between, like they really gave you so much champagne yesterday? 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:44.120 Like whoa hinting? 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.360 You know? But I would have told him a little, 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:49.920 but not said I had to carry her home put 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:51.320 her in bed and then she told me not to 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:56.640 tell you, you know again, in my forties, I would 0:10:57.000 --> 0:10:59.080 have a very different conversation. 0:10:58.720 --> 0:10:59.680 Because it's your partner. 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:00.840 Though, yeah, it's your. 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.400 Partner, but you're also twenty and it's his mom, and 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.280 I don't I see, I see how. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.920 Tough that is, but I hear it, like I hear 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:11.040 what you're saying, lout joy because I would like listen 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:13.400 It's not like she went to Applebee's on a Tuesday 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.440 afternoon by yourself and got you canned. Right, that would 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.240 be like, oh, oh, okay, you're right. 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:19.160 Yah, that's a conversation. 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.480 It is a highly atypical environment that is va tailored 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:24.520 to like let's get a little boozy and have fun. 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:28.880 Yeah. And I'm a watcher, like I if I notice behavior, 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.040 I don't I hold onto it. I'll put it in 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.880 my filing cabinet. But I don't do anything about it 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.079 until I see it becoming a pattern, and then I 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:36.800 become aware. 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:38.800 Well, yeah, because you have to make sure you're not 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:43.120 filling in a story, yeah, based on a moment, because 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:47.440 of any subconscious or preconceived notion you have. So you 0:11:47.559 --> 0:11:51.480 have to make sure you're not filling in the blanks incorrectly. 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:52.000 Yeah. 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:54.200 And an environment like that, like you're talking about rob 0:11:54.240 --> 0:11:55.760 when it's all catered to that. 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:58.520 Yeah, Like of course they're giving the mother of the 0:11:58.520 --> 0:12:01.640 bride or the mother in law a ton of champagne 0:12:01.840 --> 0:12:02.840 at a wedding expo. 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:04.880 So I see how. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:07.960 And again, hats off to Heroin Strauss because they made 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:13.400 it sticky for Brooke. And when I think about the 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.960 life experience. We're all bringing to this conversation about what 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.079 would we do. Imagine trying to figure this out at 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.280 twenty two or twenty three years old, like nightmare. 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.520 Yeah, what would you do Rob today or then? I 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.320 mean in my twenties, I would have kept the secret 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.760 because I just wouldn't want to rock a boat. Yeah, 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:36.160 I kind of It's funny cause when you answered Joy, 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:37.440 I went, yeah, that's what I would do. I would 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.760 gather with some more data. But then when so I 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:41.679 was talking, I kind of agreed to it because it's like, 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.920 so if your answer was sort of the like halfway 0:12:43.960 --> 0:12:46.920 between keeping the secret and gathering data, where it's like 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.040 I'm going to I'm going to tell you some of 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:53.400 the information without like laying it on super thick and worrisome, 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.600 you know, because I think now it's like it's my partner. 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:58.959 I'm not going to that's that's my primary I'm not 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.880 keeping secrets, Yeah, because I think that's how I would 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:04.480 let myself off the hook, is just go like nope, 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.880 you know, this is the dieout. Everything else comes second. 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:10.680 So I'm just gonna go ahead and share that because 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:15.240 I suck with secrets. Also, I'm a terrible Secret Surprise Keeper, 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:19.160 Me too, Surprise Keeper. Yeah, so can I ask. 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:20.959 You a question? Okay before we move on. This will 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:24.400 be the bridge between the episodes. I panic when I 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:26.880 have to, for example, like you just said help with 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:30.160 some sort of surprise, and people are like, you're an actor, 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.960 You're supposed to be good at this. And the thing 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:33.880 that always comes to mind for me is, no, you're 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.319 missing the point. Other people write the dialogue. We memorize. 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:40.240 That's what we're good at. We make the dialogue true. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.360 When you ask me to come up with the fib 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.400 to do the thing, I'm not a writer. I don't 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:46.839 want to do it. I'm bad at it. 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:48.960 I start to get weird. I start to panic. People 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:50.560 are like, why is your voice going. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:51.720 Up and octave. I'm like, I don't know what are 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.040 you talking about. I am the worst at that. 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:12.680 Okay, onto episode eight, Take us Away, Rob, Here we Go. 0:14:13.760 --> 0:14:18.480 Season eight, Episode eight, Mouthful of Diamonds Air date November ninth, 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.520 twenty ten. Nathan's career as an agent takes a big 0:14:21.560 --> 0:14:25.360 step forward when he visits Atlanta. While Haley consoles Jamie 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.640 regarding his new braces, the drama between Brooke and Sylvia 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.640 finally comes to a head, Oh boy does it, and 0:14:31.960 --> 0:14:35.080 Chase makes a decision regarding Mia and Alex does He 0:14:35.640 --> 0:14:40.600 directed by all love this man, Mike Leone, and it 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.160 was written It was. 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:48.040 For our lovely friends and listeners at home. Mike Leone, 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:51.160 you've heard us talk about before. Our script supervisor on 0:14:51.200 --> 0:14:55.440 our show, the person who literally keeps every single note 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:59.600 and beat and moment organized in the entire script in 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:03.240 every episode, sits right next to the director. I think 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:10.080 there's probably nobody who knew our show better. I agree 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.480 with that, and God, he directed the heck out of 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:13.040 this episode. 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:13.760 I just loved it. 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:16.440 Also, hats off to Mike Cleon. I've told the story 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:19.840 on the podcast, but he The best burn I've ever 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.880 received on a set was courtesy of Mike Leon while 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.560 shooting our show one day. I was normally very good 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.000 about my lines, but I just I went up on 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:30.040 a line. I was like, what's that line, Mike, You'll 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:31.920 scream me across set because he's far away, and he 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:34.680 shouts it back to me. I go thanks, and then 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:37.240 he just goes, it's a good script, you should read it. 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.800 That's right, And I just died so to this day. 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.480 I still repeat that to people when they ask for 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.920 a line. You got me, Mike. 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:51.000 Just the funniest, sweetest man, Mike Leon. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:55.040 He really was such a sweetheart, so so generous. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:57.680 This episode had so much funny and good in it. 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:02.760 I loved The opening scene was so sad and funny 0:16:02.760 --> 0:16:05.120 to me. It's when Brooke is signing away all of 0:16:05.160 --> 0:16:09.680 her assets and she's liquidating everything she's signed all over 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.880 clothes for bros. Close overbros. Excuse me. And at the 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:15.080 end of it, when she's kind of just sitting there 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:17.960 shell shocked, there's like a pause and the lawyer goes, 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:19.960 could I have the pen back? 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:21.240 Yeah? 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.800 I noticed that too, wrong, Like they even stripped her 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:24.840 of the ballpoint pen. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.480 Couldn't just be like keep the pen just you know, 0:16:27.560 --> 0:16:28.200 it's fine? 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.360 So good? Yeah. The look on your face too, like 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.480 sure you can take this? Yeah great all her pen? 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.280 Even this, speaking of looks on face is joy You 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.320 pull off an eye patch quite well? 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:41.160 Oh, thank you a much. 0:16:41.000 --> 0:16:46.120 Shoting consider it for my next look. Yeah, that was fun. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.920 I remembered that. Isn't that funny? All the random things 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.000 that we remember. There's so many scenes we shoot that 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.000 I'm just like I have no recollection of being in 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:56.600 that location or anything, and that one I really remember 0:16:57.600 --> 0:16:58.880 wearing an eye patch. 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:04.640 You. I was very appreciative of your performance because you 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:06.199 you always do this and I always say that, but 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:12.520 you fully committed to the lame parent jokes. Yes see, 0:17:12.600 --> 0:17:15.040 there's a later scene in which you're wearing the wonky 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:20.280 glasses and the messed up teeth and I and it 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:22.960 even because what struck me was you're funny in the 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:26.960 whole scene. But the scene ends Jamie leaves the room, yes, 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:30.280 and you just you just create this additional moment where 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.600 you kind of turn back to camera because it's sort 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:34.960 of like over your shoulder ish and you sort of 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:38.280 like like do something with your mouth and you look around. 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:40.800 It clearly wasn't scripted. I was like, look at her 0:17:41.000 --> 0:17:44.480 just leaning into the absurdity, Like there's no vanity in comedy, 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:48.240 and you were hilarious because you looked for none. 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.320 What I loved about that beat too, is that what 0:17:51.400 --> 0:17:53.600 it told me as an audience member was that Haley 0:17:53.680 --> 0:17:57.040 was having a good time. Yeah, you know, not just 0:17:57.119 --> 0:18:00.440 for Jamie's sake, by the way that you were enjoying yourself. 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:03.560 You were having a silly day with your kid, and 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:08.920 it it took the what Rob's talking about the nature 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:11.280 of like you know what we call dad jokes. It 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.840 took the dad joke a step farther and it made 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.080 it yours. And I was like, yes, that's so nice, 0:18:17.640 --> 0:18:18.240 that's so cool. 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.159 I think I've discovered it, which is funny. You know, 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.119 I wasn't a parent then, but I was actually pregnant, 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:24.879 so I was going to be. But now that I 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:27.840 am one, I think I've one of the secrets to 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:32.240 parenting is that Rob really genuinely enjoying yourself. Like all 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:35.480 the things that we do to entertain our kids, it 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.000 just you know, you can go through the motions, but 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:40.760 if you can't find a way to make old McDonald 0:18:40.760 --> 0:18:43.960 has a farm like actually fun for yourself, like. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:46.679 You're going to be bored. 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.320 Like that's part of enjoying parenthood is do you know, 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:51.880 how do you sing Twinkle Twinkled Little Star in four 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:55.679 different languages? Or like teach your kids a sign language 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.080 or whatever it is. It's like something you can get 0:18:58.080 --> 0:18:58.640 out of it too. 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:03.440 Yea of my day is doing voices and stupid bits. Yeah, 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:05.720 and if and so, like we ran into this problem 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:07.160 a lot when we were trying to find a nanny. 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.639 No one knows how talented you are except your kids 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:14.320 and your wife, right, like, because it's amazing the kind 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.760 of talent that really comes out when you're. 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:21.160 With your kids, because it's a terrific mix of desperation, 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:25.159 exhaustion and a spark of talent. And but truly, like 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.199 the key is like to just not care, to not 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.280 care about how you look, to let it all go right. 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.000 And we ran into this issue when we were like 0:19:33.119 --> 0:19:35.000