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Speaker 1: Well, hello friends, we are back and post not one,
Speaker 1: but two conventions. We're really like feeling the giddy here
Speaker 1: you've got us for season seven, episode fourteen, absolutely titled
Speaker 1: Family Affair, which is really what our conventions feel like now.
Speaker 1: This aired originally January twenty fifth, twenty ten, and today
Speaker 1: our special guest will read the synopsis for us Austin
Speaker 1: take it away.
Speaker 3: Here we go. The synopsis. Nathan tries to keep Haley
Speaker 3: calm after Taylor shows up at their house with Quin's
Speaker 3: ex husband in toe, Julie and sticks up for alex
Speaker 3: on the set of their movie, and Brooke leans on
Speaker 3: Alexander to ease her heartache. Meanwhile, Clay gets a chance
Speaker 3: to prove his commitment to Quinn by helping her through
Speaker 3: a dinner with her sister and David. This episode was
Speaker 3: directed by Paul Johansson, writers Mike Harrow and David Strauss.
Speaker 4: This was a good one.
Speaker 1: This was a really.
Speaker 3: Jump good morning whore. You can leave now start the episode.
Speaker 3: I just started laughing out lout. I was like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, this this episode is going to be full on?
Speaker 3: Was this peak? Just like what did? I wrote some
Speaker 3: notes like peak juicy one Tree Hill. It just seems
Speaker 3: so juicy?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Or was it always in every episode?
Speaker 1: I don't think it was always this intense, but it
Speaker 1: really went for the jugular on the like old school.
Speaker 1: It sort of made me flash back that morning scene.
Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, we've really graduated from uh like
Speaker 1: Brooke Bevin, Daniil or Rachel and Peyton being like slut
Speaker 1: hoor bitch, thank you in like you know, season three
Speaker 1: or whatever that was. I was like, Oh, we're on
Speaker 1: good Morning horror. And then the response is nothing he
Speaker 1: hasn't seen before, reminding the audience that Taylor is the
Speaker 1: one who took Nathan's virginity. I was like, wow, we're
Speaker 1: really Yeah, these girls are like in the mud. It was.
Speaker 1: It was really something.
Speaker 3: It was definitely gratuitous, and I was I immediately went like,
Speaker 3: was it sweeps week? Like, what was the you know,
Speaker 3: it was very It's just very juicy.
Speaker 4: Well, in that same scene, Joy has the incredible line.
Speaker 4: Haley has the great line which she says, you like
Speaker 4: that outfit enough to get buried in it? Or do
Speaker 4: you want to go put something on? It's like like
Speaker 4: they set the tone in a very good way. Like
Speaker 4: you knew immediately after that first scene, Okay, this is
Speaker 4: what we have in store for ourselves.
Speaker 1: Great, Yeah, you knew it was going to be knockdown,
Speaker 1: drag out through the whole episode, which becomes literal by
Speaker 1: the end. But what I sort of I don't know.
Speaker 1: I sort of loved it well because it made me giggle.
Speaker 1: You know, we've all talked so much about how like
Speaker 1: the on screen drama is great, but there's also just
Speaker 1: the preposterousness of what happens when you trap a group
Speaker 1: of young people together for ten years and like everybody's dated, everybody,
Speaker 1: everybody knows everybody's business. And I was like, wow, they're
Speaker 1: taking like some of these people's lives and making it
Speaker 1: so extra and so ridiculous. It just made me giggle.
Speaker 1: I was like, I feel like I saw things in
Speaker 1: it this time around that I didn't see in real
Speaker 1: time then, And yeah, it felt very ballsy one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: I was you know, we're all older now, years have
Speaker 3: gone by, and you're you know, looking back at ourselves
Speaker 3: as kids doing this stuff and going, what what's going on?
Speaker 3: I can't believe we were doing this, but you know,
Speaker 3: it's a young drama about young people. I love it.
Speaker 3: It is. It's interesting to watch it with older eyes.
Speaker 1: Isn't it.
Speaker 4: What were some of the things that you noticed this
Speaker 4: time around?
Speaker 1: So for me, it made me laugh because I think
Speaker 1: back to our lives in season seven and they were
Speaker 1: like very mellow. My early life on this show was not.
Speaker 1: And it was very funny to me to be like, oh,
Speaker 1: in a very similar way to the way I think
Speaker 1: Brooke and Julian sort of look on screen almost like
Speaker 1: the mom and dad now, like they have a little
Speaker 1: bit of drama, but it's gentle. I was like, Wow,
Speaker 1: there's just shows happening, and people had shows going on
Speaker 1: in their life, and it made me laugh because I
Speaker 1: was just so relieved that it wasn't me, and I
Speaker 1: just like, I don't know, there's a there's like a
Speaker 1: playfulness to all of it that is so ridiculous but
Speaker 1: also kind of legit. And I think we've talked about this.
Speaker 1: I'm really trying to be careful because I don't want
Speaker 1: to be specific about anybody's lives obviously, but like there's
Speaker 1: times when our lives were mined for on screen drama
Speaker 1: and times when on screen drama was so ridiculous and unrealistic,
Speaker 1: and I can just I can see all of that
Speaker 1: in this episode, Like some of it's not based in
Speaker 1: any reality, some of it's based in reality. Some of
Speaker 1: it's so extreme and ridiculous, and it just makes me
Speaker 1: giggle because to Austin's point, like it's been so long,
Speaker 1: we all laugh at each other. We've been a family
Speaker 1: now for almost twenty years, and I don't know, I
Speaker 1: was just very amused. It all felt very meta and
Speaker 1: it made me laugh a lot.
Speaker 4: Well, it made for good TV because this was a
Speaker 4: fun episode.
Speaker 1: It really was.
Speaker 3: It really was. And I also want to say, like, Sophia,
Speaker 3: what did you think about the pool? The girls all
Speaker 3: going in the pool at the end, like complete honesty, I.
Speaker 1: Think I actually made notes about this. Hold on, let
Speaker 1: me scroll down because I remembered, like when the episode started,
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, yeah, this is the one where
Speaker 1: they all fight and wind up in the pool. What
Speaker 1: I wish they'd done for the girls because I actually
Speaker 1: thought you got this flashback Haley and Taylor wrestling was
Speaker 1: really good because it was so childish. And what bummed
Speaker 1: me out is that they very clearly just wanted the
Speaker 1: girls to end up in the pool. And I was like,
Speaker 1: wouldn't it have been great if they'd shot something where like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Taylor had gotten Haley on the ground
Speaker 1: and like wouldn't get off of her, and so Quinn
Speaker 1: shoved Taylor in the pool and then Taylor grabbed Quinn's leg,
Speaker 1: Like I would have loved to have seen everybody wind
Speaker 1: up in there in a little bit of a messier way.
Speaker 1: And I was kind of bummed that they it worked obviously,
Speaker 1: and it was probably a safety thing, let's be real,
Speaker 1: but I was bummed that they just had Chantelle knock
Speaker 1: everyone into the pool like kind of out of nowhere.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, that that doesn't track and like.
Speaker 3: It.
Speaker 1: I felt like it was a missed opportunity to give
Speaker 1: them a little more comedy, and that bummed me out
Speaker 1: a little bit. And I only say that because Rob
Speaker 1: and I have been talking a lot lately, and we
Speaker 1: did this last week when Joy was with us for
Speaker 1: our Friends listening. She's on her book tour, so we
Speaker 1: don't have her this week, so sweet Austin came to
Speaker 1: fill in, so thank you. But like we talked last
Speaker 1: week about how there are these opportunities to have things
Speaker 1: be really grounded, and they're almost there, they're ninety percent
Speaker 1: of the way there, and then they're ten percent lazy.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I would have loved to have
Speaker 1: seen Quinn like try to get rip Taylor off of
Speaker 1: Haley and then they all fall in the pool. But
Speaker 1: I was like, they had her like dive at the
Speaker 1: girls like alignment in a football game. I was like,
Speaker 1: why did you make her do that? Because she's like
Speaker 1: a tall, elegant person who also is strong and could
Speaker 1: totally do like a stunt sequence. And I was like,
Speaker 1: oh man, it was all working for me until they
Speaker 1: like they just made the girls get wet to get wet,
Speaker 1: and that bummed me out a little bit. Is that
Speaker 1: why you're asking?
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, I you know, the part of I have
Speaker 3: two minds about it one, it was hilarious and entertaining,
Speaker 3: and then the second part of me starts going, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is a little gratuitous. The guys are drinking beers
Speaker 3: and watching, and I'm glad they weren't in underwear, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean, Like, yes, you know, if Nathan
Speaker 3: had like you said, if Nathan had like maybe tried
Speaker 3: to intervene and then he gets pushed, or if it
Speaker 3: had been more of an accident, or even if yeah
Speaker 3: you know, melee like you said, or even guys in
Speaker 3: trying to whatever. But yeah, it did. It did enter
Speaker 3: the realm of hot girls fighting in a swimming pool, yeah,
Speaker 3: watching And I was like, yeah, yeah, I totally agree
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 1: And everyone's already so dressed up, like it's a dinner
Speaker 1: at home, and girls are in like mini skirts and corsets,
Speaker 1: four in shield like it's already so crazy, and then
Speaker 1: they get in the pool. I don't know. I I
Speaker 1: saw both sides of it. I liked the goofy sibling thing,
Speaker 1: and I wish we'd leaned more into it because to
Speaker 1: your point, the girls were like so hot in the
Speaker 1: in the outfits that I was like, give us, give
Speaker 1: us the goofy all the way across the finish line
Speaker 1: in this one moment please.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, you can earn it a bit. It kind
Speaker 4: of feels like it's It's sort of like when you
Speaker 4: watch it sometimes you watch a performance of an actor
Speaker 4: and you go, did they just shoot the first take
Speaker 4: or the rehearsal. You know, it's sort of like, okay,
Speaker 4: like you got the words eye, you know. It felt
Speaker 4: like it was in the writer's room. Someone just pitched
Speaker 4: it and it went, don't go any further with that idea.
Speaker 4: It's perfect, Yeah, because it's like just the exactly they
Speaker 4: end up pool. I don't know, maybe one grabs the
Speaker 4: other and the other pushes them both in perfect perfect
Speaker 4: don't change a thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah. I also I was and I'm not here
Speaker 3: to rip the episode at all, but I was wondering
Speaker 3: why anybody would sit down at that dinner. I'm going,
Speaker 3: why is anyone choosing to sit down at this? I
Speaker 3: wish that would have been like that dinner would have
Speaker 3: come together for in a different way, like everyone chows
Speaker 3: to some for some reason to sit down at that table.
Speaker 3: And I was like, no, why is this? That one
Speaker 3: bumped me?
Speaker 1: The one place where I where I got it, and
Speaker 1: I actually thought it was a really great scene for them.
Speaker 1: Joy and Chantal did such a good job in the
Speaker 1: scene at Clay's beach house, because Hailey is like, why
Speaker 1: are you doing this? And Quinn's like, because this is
Speaker 1: who Taylor's always been, so I can't let her get
Speaker 1: to me, and and Hailey makes a joke about killing her.
Speaker 1: And what bummed me out is there was such a
Speaker 1: good button on that scene, like yeah, I'm gonna kill
Speaker 1: her with kindness, like cliches or a cliche for a reason,
Speaker 1: you know, And they didn't take the bait on it,
Speaker 1: and I was a little again. I was like, writers,
Speaker 1: come on, like you've gotten us ninety percent of the
Speaker 1: way there, finish it. But I did like the idea
Speaker 1: that Quinn was like, listen, I understand why David's upset
Speaker 1: with me, and I'm just gonna have to take it.
Speaker 1: And my sister's always been an appol so she's gonna
Speaker 1: be an apple. But I wanted I liked that that
Speaker 1: felt grounded, and then so many other things didn't, and
Speaker 1: like I'm sorry but saying grace and Taylor saying I
Speaker 1: have been calling out God's name a lot. I was
Speaker 1: like oh, they're just it was so, and then she
Speaker 1: teaches stripper aerobics and the rest, as they say, is sex.
Speaker 1: I was like, no woman talks like this. If she
Speaker 1: made the god joke, that would be the end of it.
Speaker 4: They make out at the table in front of other
Speaker 4: people and no one gets up to leave, right ooh.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm talking about. Like I have two minds
Speaker 3: of it because it was ridiculous, but I was also
Speaker 3: just laughing my ass off and enjoying the hell out
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's something I've been sort of figuring out
Speaker 4: lately when I watched the episodes, right is because I found,
Speaker 4: I think, for a little while, sort of getting into
Speaker 4: this groove of being critical and like well this like
Speaker 4: I was sort of becoming the logic police.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't do that on a teen drama.
Speaker 4: That's exactly what I realized, Like, that's not what this
Speaker 4: show is. This isn't a docu series. It's a fun show.
Speaker 4: And so, like you, Austin, I there was stuff like
Speaker 4: listen for Taylor and David to show up and spend
Speaker 4: the night, like there's sociopaths, Like there's so many issues, right, yes,
Speaker 4: but I just had to go like if that, since
Speaker 4: that was the start of it, I had to just go,
Speaker 4: this is going to be a fun ride, and I'm
Speaker 4: on it. You know, I'm not here to pick apart.
Speaker 4: Why that doesn't make sense? Like stuff's about to get
Speaker 4: real awkward and uncomfortable, and I'm here to enjoy it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yes, And it's a TV show, and it's like
Speaker 3: it's a like we're here to you know, to put
Speaker 3: some some fun, some fun, juicy drama on the screen
Speaker 3: for the audience.
Speaker 4: But I will say that it did make David just
Speaker 4: like any any crow that ability or sympathy he had
Speaker 4: earned with the audience is out the window.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so you could rightfully be heartbroken if you've come
Speaker 1: to a point where the person you love looks at
Speaker 1: you and says, I just can't do this anymore. Like,
Speaker 1: we get it, we get it. That's hard. He got left.
Speaker 1: That's hard. Your response to getting left is to bone
Speaker 1: her sister, Like, sir, what, it's so crazy? And then
Speaker 1: they wrote this is what made me nuts. They wrote
Speaker 1: this thing that he was so mad at her for
Speaker 1: lying that she'd moved on faster than she had, as
Speaker 1: if that's the worst thing, that's happened in this dynamic
Speaker 1: since they broke up, Like he's dating her sister, and
Speaker 1: he's mad that she suggested she'd moved on more quickly
Speaker 1: physically than is true. Like, I was like, you can't
Speaker 1: be mad about that.
Speaker 4: In what world are those two things comparables? Like you
Speaker 4: dived about sleeping with this guy to push me away.
Speaker 4: I actually went and sought out your sister and slept
Speaker 4: with her.
Speaker 1: And am dating her and brought her home for dinner.
Speaker 3: What.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's so petty. It's so small time and petty.
Speaker 1: But it also and I want to be clear, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't say this in a room with a zoom room
Speaker 1: with two of my favorite men, if you weren't two
Speaker 1: of my favorite men, Like I get I say these
Speaker 1: things in front of men because I'm like, you're on
Speaker 1: the inside the men who wrote this, Like what this
Speaker 1: says to me about the man who ran our show
Speaker 1: and the way he looked at women. I think that's why, Like,
Speaker 1: and now I'm so uncomfortable, you know me, The minute
Speaker 1: I say something that I worry could ever like be
Speaker 1: taken the wrong way, then I have anxiety for two days.
Speaker 1: I was like laughing about how they took little things
Speaker 1: from everyone's lives and then made them one hundred miles
Speaker 1: an hour psychotic, insane, sprinkled in and hot fire dust
Speaker 1: on the show, Like all of this stuff I'm giggling
Speaker 1: about from the beginning, but like it's actually so nuts
Speaker 1: that we were in an environment where someone equated these
Speaker 1: sorts of things, like I've moved on because this really
Speaker 1: wasn't healthy for me into this is equal to your
Speaker 1: ex sleeping with your sibling and sticking their tongue down
Speaker 1: their throat at youd like at your parents' dinner table, essentially,
Speaker 1: Like it's I just go like, wow, that's the way
Speaker 1: you think about women and their autonomy, and they're not
Speaker 1: liking you even This is nuts.
Speaker 4: Right in that same vein to switch scenes for a moment,
Speaker 4: how about when we are on the set of their movie.
Speaker 4: It's the first time we've been in Lucas's house on set,
Speaker 4: and Julian and his dad are talking and we see
Speaker 4: the director actively groping Alex yes, And unfortunately the response
Speaker 4: Juliane and his dad have is to make a joke
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 3: I was like, what are we what?
Speaker 4: I know he's a good guy, Why is this taking
Speaker 4: so what it was that blew my mind? They're like, well,
Speaker 4: I guess he's a hands on director. What what are
Speaker 4: we doing here the.
Speaker 3: Way we're looking at it? You know, I don't remember
Speaker 3: how I felt when I watched it back then, but
Speaker 3: I wonder how people felt when they watched it when
Speaker 3: it was on, Like is that just like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 3: director's grabbing a book. Cool that happens? Or was were
Speaker 3: people going We're people going ick? Then?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I don't know, especially because it
Speaker 4: doesn't take long for you to sort of eventually step
Speaker 4: up and be a hero about it. I don't like
Speaker 4: we didn't. We didn't leave that like hanging in the
Speaker 4: air too long before.
Speaker 3: Oh good point, Yeah, I see. Yeah.
Speaker 4: But that guy's he's just and again as a teenage
Speaker 4: so but he's just like this extreme caricature.
Speaker 1: Well I was just gonna say caricature. He's not a
Speaker 1: real person.
Speaker 4: No, he's like he's like a.
Speaker 1: Twisty, mustached like villain guy. And it I thought you,
Speaker 1: Austin and Jana were so good in that, Like, you
Speaker 1: guys grounded this relationship that the characters have built. You know,
Speaker 1: you tried to give her great advice, let her be strong.
Speaker 1: You know, you asked him to back off all these things,
Speaker 1: but he didn't feel like a real person to me,
Speaker 1: which feels like a disservice then to the two of you,
Speaker 1: because you're great actors and you have to essentially act
Speaker 1: with like the cookie Monster.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you guys talk about how he's a good director,
Speaker 4: but it would have been so easy to get, Like
Speaker 4: it would take ten seconds to see him actually giving
Speaker 4: a substantive note, you know what I mean, Because the
Speaker 4: problem was it was all it was was just vitual.
Speaker 4: It was it was playing grab ass and being mean.
Speaker 4: It's like we didn't see him direct, we didn't see
Speaker 4: him being a genius. We just saw this guy where
Speaker 4: it's like, and when you do that, then it makes
Speaker 4: everyone else look bad for going Why is no one
Speaker 4: saying anything? Whereas like if he had had a good
Speaker 4: note or something, then you're like, I see the predicament.
Speaker 4: He's good for this, you know, yeah right, yeah.
Speaker 1: And Julian still could have come in to save the
Speaker 1: day when he said something disgusting. But yeah, like the
Speaker 1: things that Taylor has to say feels so extreme. The
Speaker 1: way that this director talks felt so extreme, Like that
Speaker 1: a man would look at you and be like, well,
Speaker 1: she's gone down more times than the sun. What he
Speaker 1: guy's so gross? Like what and it I don't know,
Speaker 1: it just felt. It's like in these moments where I
Speaker 1: catch myself saying like our boss's name to myself while
Speaker 1: I watch the episodes as like a swear word, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm like skin Voldemort, Like it's just like that guy.
Speaker 1: You just had to get it in there, and I
Speaker 1: don't get it.
Speaker 3: I hate doing this because it's in the can. It's
Speaker 3: years it's years ago. No I know, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: But like I was thinking of a way that might
Speaker 3: be more interesting and like it's pointless. But if we
Speaker 3: could have had a moment where the director and Alex
Speaker 3: thought they were alone and he did something more subtle,
Speaker 3: like just touched her shoulder or said like, hey, Julian overheard,
Speaker 3: do you want to get a drink tonight? So when
Speaker 3: he thought they were alone, and then what that does
Speaker 3: to Julian in the audience, immediate was like, oh, is
Speaker 3: this gonna is this guy gonna cross the line? Like
Speaker 3: that would a really interesting way to explore something that,
Speaker 3: by the way, still happens.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all the time.
Speaker 3: Yeah, something like that, instead of just this very out
Speaker 3: in the open. I don't know it could have been.
Speaker 4: That would have actually been so much more threatening as well,
Speaker 4: you know, as opposed to this guy is doing it
Speaker 4: in the wide open.
Speaker 1: Exactly, especially because you guys are in Lucas and Peyton's
Speaker 1: old house, Like if you had, you know, been doing
Speaker 1: something in Lucas's old bedroom and then turned to go
Speaker 1: into the hallway but heard them in the hallway and
Speaker 1: like leaned in and we see you on the other
Speaker 1: side of the doorframe, you know, especially because you and
Speaker 1: I are in that scene in there, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: they're painting my high school a fugly shade of brown.
Speaker 1: Like it could have gone from funny to not funny
Speaker 1: really quickly in a way that would have made us uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: We would have understood that this man knows Alex is
Speaker 1: supposed to be sober and is suggesting they go to
Speaker 1: a bar, like all of this is bad for her,
Speaker 1: And it could have been more interesting. Absolutely, absolutely, one
Speaker 1: of the things I loved about this episode was all
Speaker 1: of our storyline.
Speaker 3: I thought it was so good.
Speaker 1: I thought it was so sweet. I love the Victoria
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, is suddenly obsessed with the movie seven
Speaker 1: and can't stop talking about severed heads.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and when she sees how sad I am about
Speaker 1: your stuff. The fact that the mom sort of acts
Speaker 1: like a child and gets the other boy to drop
Speaker 1: off the box to prove a point was so cute
Speaker 1: to me, and what it allowed for us, like you
Speaker 1: came in so hot, yelling and I was like, wait what.
Speaker 1: And the fact that by the end of the episode,
Speaker 1: I was so surprised by it. I didn't remember it,
Speaker 1: but I loved it. And by the end of the
Speaker 1: episode when we get to the beat where I'm like
Speaker 1: fishing and I'm like, so, I'm really I'm the best
Speaker 1: person for this job, and You're like yeah, and we're
Speaker 1: doing the little dance around the clothing racks. It was
Speaker 1: so precious to me. It made my day.
Speaker 3: I gotta say, the clothing rack dance. What a was
Speaker 3: that Paul's idea?
Speaker 1: I don't remember.
Speaker 3: I just remember I just watched it this morning. I
Speaker 3: was like, this could have been a bplus scene and
Speaker 3: took it to in a Yeah, just that kind of
Speaker 3: koy playing with each other, just a little movement, you know,
Speaker 3: you're obstructed. I'm instructed, then you see us, then you don't.
Speaker 3: It's just really well staged.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it gave it this really fun, playful energy, and
Speaker 1: I felt like it built really well off of this
Speaker 1: scene when you came back to close over Bros. Calmer
Speaker 1: and you said, look, you're the only one I trust.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to look at me if you
Speaker 1: don't want to in the back of the store, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh boy, this is going to be hard.
Speaker 1: And then we get to the thing and it's this
Speaker 1: little dance and it was such a great device and
Speaker 1: I just loved it. I was like, oh, we're cute.
Speaker 3: And then also after the episode was over, I went
Speaker 3: back and watched the opening again because I wanted to
Speaker 3: see all the names and who wrote and directed and everything.
Speaker 3: And I saw the scenes from the previous one again
Speaker 3: and realized, we just broke up the night before. Yes,
Speaker 3: it's okay, So the next day we're already starting to
Speaker 3: put it back together. That's hilarious.
Speaker 4: But can I tell you, as a as a brilliant fan,
Speaker 4: I was very grateful for that. Like, I've watched you
Speaker 4: guys fight and be on different pages for a few episodes,
Speaker 4: so this was a welcome reprieve to get to see
Speaker 4: you guys beginning this dance of finding each other again.
Speaker 4: And it was just it was cute as heck, you know,
Speaker 4: like you said, the chemistry is great and it worked
Speaker 4: very well.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Alexander Coin, first of all, hilarious that he
Speaker 4: can't just say Hi, I'm Alexander. He has to and
Speaker 4: it's just funny because Coin is such a funny last name,
Speaker 4: you know. Yes, But the shirt he is wearing when
Speaker 4: he comes to drop off Julian's stuff, I mean that
Speaker 4: is a baby gap, extra small. I laughed because that
Speaker 4: is like that has been one of my biggest CW
Speaker 4: experiences is like, what shirt does Rob wear a large?
Speaker 4: Put him in a small? Like I spent so many
Speaker 4: years in shirts that were way too small for me.
Speaker 4: So when I saw him carrying that box in in
Speaker 4: just the shirt, begging please get off me, I laughed
Speaker 4: so hard at the poor guy, Like, we get it,
Speaker 4: he's handsome, he's fit, Get him a bigger shirt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really funny.
Speaker 4: It's cutting off his circulation. You know.
Speaker 1: He's such a good sport and something I will say
Speaker 1: I really appreciate obviously at the time when we were
Speaker 1: shooting it was supposed to be this rivalry between you two,
Speaker 1: and watching it back, I realize how like he plays
Speaker 1: a lot of it so subtly, and it's I don't know,
Speaker 1: I really appreciate it, Mitch did. He did such a
Speaker 1: good job of showing up and just being a good
Speaker 1: guy where you you kind of don't know as an
Speaker 1: audience member, like does he like Brook or is he
Speaker 1: just really a good friend to her? Is he a
Speaker 1: good new addition to her work life? Does he feel chemistry?
Speaker 1: I don't see it as being as overt as it
Speaker 1: felt then, because you know, my job as an actor
Speaker 1: then was to be in between these two and to
Speaker 1: be like, no, I don't have feelings for this person, Julienne,
Speaker 1: I have feelings for you. But I think maybe because
Speaker 1: it was supposed to feel dramatic, it felt more heightened then.
Speaker 1: And I'm watching it and I'm like, good Anya, Mitch, Like,
Speaker 1: he does a really great job of not really revealing
Speaker 1: like does he or does any like this girl? And
Speaker 1: I really like the way he plays these scenes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I think there is a there's a trap
Speaker 4: in this writing that a lesser actor would have fallen into,
Speaker 4: which is if you don't layer it with sincerity, it
Speaker 4: just it's overtly like it's so clear he's into you
Speaker 4: and he's hitting on you. And then that does brook
Speaker 4: a disservice because if you even start entertaining that, it's like,
Speaker 4: what all this dude is doing is just coming in
Speaker 4: hot all the time. But because he does this thing
Speaker 4: where he is just seeming to be wanting to be
Speaker 4: a good friend to you, it makes him more appealing.
Speaker 4: It makes it kind of muddies the water. So we
Speaker 4: don't really know what's going on, but he he did
Speaker 4: a great job with it.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Can I tell a quick story about Mitch please?
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So, I don't know if you remember this, Sofia, but
Speaker 3: we had a late call one morning and there was
Speaker 3: I don't mean I always make everything about surfing.
Speaker 4: I knew it. I feel this was going to be
Speaker 4: a surfing story.
Speaker 3: I loved it was a hurricane brewing in the Atlantic.
Speaker 3: We had a late call and Mitch really wanted to
Speaker 3: go surfing, and I was like, hey man, tomorrow morning
Speaker 3: is going to be like the best day of the year,
Speaker 3: Like it was going to be that good. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: was so so down. He was such a nice positive guy.
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, let's go. He was so excited and
Speaker 3: we got there and I'm not even kidding, it was
Speaker 3: the best I'd ever seen Wrightsville Beach. And he paddles
Speaker 3: out and it's big and hollow and powerful and dangerous,
Speaker 3: and he just getting destroyed so much so that there
Speaker 3: was there was points where I was like Mitch and
Speaker 3: like are you okay? And he'd paddle back out Mitchell
Speaker 3: all right, and he'd be like, yeah, man, that was awesome.
Speaker 3: And his sort of smile and his attitude just after
Speaker 3: getting destroyed was always a smile and happy and like
Speaker 3: he had the best attitude. And I think he, you know,
Speaker 3: that's what he brought to the set every day because
Speaker 3: it's not easy to come into as as we all know,
Speaker 3: it's not easy to come into a show that's up
Speaker 3: and running and you're playing like the guy that's in
Speaker 3: between a couple, like it's not and you know, he uh,
Speaker 3: he was so positive and he just brought the right energy.
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about this until you just said that.
Speaker 1: Do you think that that helped you guys bond as friends?
Speaker 1: Because that's what you did in season six, Like Julian
Speaker 1: comes in and the whole audience is going ballistic because
Speaker 1: they think he's going to screw up Lucas and Peyton, right,
Speaker 1: and then Julian and Brooke end up together, and then
Speaker 1: Alexander comes in to screw up Julian and Brook Like.
Speaker 1: It's kind of an interesting domino effect, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I might have had a little tender spot for him,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yet here I came in brand new season seven
Speaker 4: and I didn't get asked to go surfing once, and
Speaker 4: I didn't know how, but I would have been I
Speaker 4: would have liked to have been invited. I feel like
Speaker 4: Miss Lauren when Skills didn't invite her to Los Angeles.
Speaker 4: It would have been nice to be invited.
Speaker 3: That invitation's on its way. It's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Hey, guys, next convention, we're going a day early and
Speaker 1: Austin's taking.
Speaker 3: All of us surfing deal.
Speaker 1: I will say, you are a good teacher.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 1: Here's here's a fun BTS throwback in Obviously this World.
Speaker 1: I did not get in the hurricane waters because I'm
Speaker 1: not on a suicide mission, but Austin did. On like
Speaker 1: baby Wave days, really take the time to try to
Speaker 1: teach me to surf and there was like there was
Speaker 1: like a solid two weeks rob where I was really
Speaker 1: feeling it. And by the way, nothing will make a
Speaker 1: girl feel cooler than walking down Rightsville Beach with a surfboard.
Speaker 1: Like people were like whoa, and I was like, this
Speaker 1: is tight. I've never felt cool at anything.
Speaker 4: Like.
Speaker 1: I was a theater kid, and not even a musical
Speaker 1: theater kid, just a theater kid. And I didn't have
Speaker 1: that experience at my tiny all girls school. So I
Speaker 1: was really having the like blue crush fantasy life of
Speaker 1: my dreams for these couple of weeks. And there was
Speaker 1: a day where I was really feeling confident and the
Speaker 1: waves were probably like three feet big instead of two
Speaker 1: feet big, like nothing to write home about, and I
Speaker 1: had a tumble and the board. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you remember this, the board came out of the water
Speaker 1: at me so fast I like tried to get out
Speaker 1: of the way. Thank god it didn't break my face
Speaker 1: because Warner Brothers probably would have sued me no more.
Speaker 3: One Tree Hill.
Speaker 1: It hit me in the leg so hard, like the
Speaker 1: upper left part of my thigh, that it left a dent. Yes,
Speaker 1: And it took five years for that dent to fully
Speaker 1: go away.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, really it went away like.
Speaker 1: Mostly after two. And then I just had this weird
Speaker 1: I can't explain it, it was it was. It was
Speaker 1: a dent in my leg. And for years I was like,
Speaker 1: if I ever, if I ever get overly confident that
Speaker 1: I can do some stupid shit, all I have to
Speaker 1: do is look at my leg and be like, remember
Speaker 1: that time I almost killed myself surfing with Austin And
Speaker 1: it wasn't It wasn't even like a good day. It
Speaker 1: was it was child's play. And I was like, not
Speaker 1: for me. I'm gonna go back to the theater and
Speaker 1: sit in the dark and run the light board. That's
Speaker 1: that's what I do.
Speaker 3: It sounds silly, but there's surfing just offers all kinds
Speaker 3: of lessons like these.
Speaker 1: It hits a lot. And then what did I do?
Speaker 1: I came home and I started a podcast, which is
Speaker 1: essentially running a lightboard indoors in the dark. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was like, I know what I'm good for.
Speaker 3: Wait before I forget. I wanted to pop out to
Speaker 3: kind of a different topic. When I was watching your
Speaker 3: scene on the deck at the at your house and
Speaker 3: it was topsail right Topsail Beach or Clay's.
Speaker 4: House house right Topsail, Yeah, you're right, yeah, and you
Speaker 4: guys are.
Speaker 3: On the balcony and then behind you in the background
Speaker 3: are sand dunes and like open land. And I just
Speaker 3: started drooling this morning watching the episode, going, oh my god,
Speaker 3: I want that house. I want to live in Clay's house.
Speaker 3: I want to be on that beach. There's like space.
Speaker 3: You don't have a house right next to you. I
Speaker 3: was just just drool over and your car of course too,
Speaker 3: but I just was overwhelmed and because we were just
Speaker 3: there in Wilmington and just sort of I'm so in
Speaker 3: love with the beauty of that place and so special
Speaker 3: ocean and anyway, your house, Clay's house, just got me
Speaker 3: all excited again.
Speaker 4: Anyway, the house was beautiful. The only problem with that
Speaker 4: house was it was forty five minutes away.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so was mine? Really the yeah, the Brooks house
Speaker 1: you know that she originally like buys and her and
Speaker 1: Peyton live in. There were all these scenes in that
Speaker 1: I guess it was season five where Hillary and I
Speaker 1: would sit up on the deck which was like three
Speaker 1: stories up overlooking the marina. And we did that in
Speaker 1: Carolina Beach.
Speaker 3: Oh, yeah, I worked there. I remember that.
Speaker 1: Place, and that's why eventually we just stopped going outside
Speaker 1: at Brook and Julian's because it took so long to
Speaker 1: get there.
Speaker 3: I remember the very last scene I think we did
Speaker 3: there was you and me on that bench.
Speaker 1: On the dock.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and forgetting the message. It's like, yeah, we won't
Speaker 3: be coming back here anymore. It's it's fun.
Speaker 4: At one point, Brooke calls Hailey Jilly.
Speaker 1: Jayley Jaylee because Haley, and that's why she makes the
Speaker 1: joke like I hate my name because I say to her,
Speaker 1: You've been arrested more than anyone I know, Jailee, and
Speaker 1: she's like, got I hate my name because we got
Speaker 1: arrested in high school for stealing back all my original
Speaker 1: clothes over Bros. Designs that were taken by a store
Speaker 1: with no credit. We Hailey got arrested. I don't remember.
Speaker 1: I think she says in the episode, it's like, it'll
Speaker 1: be my fourth time going to jail, fifth fourth, and
Speaker 1: it's very very good.
Speaker 3: It was really cool to see Gregory Harrison, who plays
Speaker 3: Julian's father. We actually became great friends through the show,
Speaker 3: and we ended up on vacation together, Like I love
Speaker 3: that man and anyway, I hadn't seen him in a
Speaker 3: long time, so it was really great to see him
Speaker 3: on my screen and kind of I will say one
Speaker 3: of the coolest things that happened to me on the
Speaker 3: show was having them right parents for Julian and having
Speaker 3: them come through was that was a lot of fun
Speaker 3: and it gives a character so much more dimension. And
Speaker 3: I anyway, I was really lucky to have Sharon Lawrence
Speaker 3: and Gregor Harrison. Is my TV moment.
Speaker 4: Sharon was your mom. Yeah, oh, I love me some.
Speaker 4: Sharon Lawrence to oh get ready, she played my mom
Speaker 4: in a couple movies she did.
Speaker 3: Oh that's so cool.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she's the best. She's so great. And Gregory Harrison,
Speaker 4: I got to work with a different series and we
Speaker 4: became Palace. He's great. Also he's a surfer, so of
Speaker 4: course you guys get long. But he's a lovely guy.
Speaker 1: Didn't you guys go to Catalina or something?
Speaker 3: No, we went to Indonesia. We went on a surf
Speaker 3: trip to Indonesia.
Speaker 1: Oh, the big surf trip you went on? Okay, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know why. I remember there were talks about
Speaker 1: you guys like going to do a Catalina trip, but
Speaker 1: maybe that'll maybe that'll come soon.
Speaker 3: He talked about Catalina a lot. He might have had
Speaker 3: a place there something, but it never happened. But I
Speaker 3: will say this. Greg did a very famous movie called
Speaker 3: north Shore that was an eighties yeah surf movie, And
Speaker 3: when we were surfing in Indonesia, I shit you not,
Speaker 3: people paddled up to him and went, Chandlor, No, he
Speaker 3: gets recognized in the water in Indonesia.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's so cool.
Speaker 3: It was really cool. Some guys we brought a boat
Speaker 3: and some guys paddled over with beers to our boat
Speaker 3: and was like, Chandler, can we have a beer? Bro?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, that's awesome.
Speaker 1: That's incredible. I love that you guys had Gregory and
Speaker 1: Sharon Lawrence overlap Hillary and I had Markey Post overlap.
Speaker 4: What.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Marky played Hillary's mom and she played my mom
Speaker 1: on PD.
Speaker 3: Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 1: So it's like, I don't know, we just had these
Speaker 1: really special years with some of these folks and really cool.
Speaker 4: Marky Post is a legend.
Speaker 1: Oh, Marky was just the most amazing woman.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 1: You guys all got asked obviously, I got all the
Speaker 1: video updates. You got asked about like where things stand
Speaker 1: with this potential revisit, and I mean Rob and I
Speaker 1: talked about this a few weeks ago, and obviously you know,
Speaker 1: Austin because we talked about it last weekend. But it's
Speaker 1: like it's a bummer when something leaks and you don't
Speaker 1: actually have anything to say but thinking about it and
Speaker 1: you know, having to kind of answer questions without answering them. Like,
Speaker 1: it's so cool to me that we're sort of in
Speaker 1: the position now where we might get to play the
Speaker 1: young parents, And I don't know, I'm like, it's such
Speaker 1: a crazy thing that part of what excites me the
Speaker 1: most about if we get to do this is like,
Speaker 1: what if we get to bring all our parents back too,
Speaker 1: like our on screen parents. Could you imagine like a
Speaker 1: like a generational moment. I would sob I think I
Speaker 1: would actually cry the whole time. It would be very
Speaker 1: much like our final episode where I just walked around
Speaker 1: the stages in tears for two street weeks.
Speaker 3: There's so many people came through, It's a nine year show,
Speaker 3: so many actors came through. There's so many characters that
Speaker 3: are in the sandbox to play with. I can't even imagine,
Speaker 3: like how fun and difficult that could be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, just so sweet, I don't know. Yeah, and all
Speaker 1: of the families that have been built out of this too,
Speaker 1: Like I had one of those moments. Obviously. It's so
Speaker 1: fun having the David character, as extreme as the storylines are,
Speaker 1: because Scott Holroyd is just the nicest person in the world.
Speaker 1: But having Miss Lauren and David in this episode, I
Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, Like our friends when they
Speaker 1: first started working on this show together didn't even have
Speaker 1: kids yet, you know, and I think about their family now.
Speaker 1: It's just a trick to me. It's so special, so cool.
Speaker 4: So two things around, Well, before we get to that
Speaker 4: Miss Lauren scene with Mouth is how I loved this scene.
Speaker 4: Mouth is now back at their apartment and there's this
Speaker 4: great exchange when Millie's getting ready to leave for work
Speaker 4: and she says she asks him like, how long are
Speaker 4: you staying? And he says a day or two and
Speaker 4: she stops and says, but you'll be here when I
Speaker 4: get home and he says yeah, and she says, that helps.
Speaker 1: That helps. I started crying.
Speaker 4: It was so sweet, and again, especially after this ridiculous
Speaker 4: storyline of her after school special, like it was just
Speaker 4: so nice to be getting her Mouth and Milly back
Speaker 4: in this like sweet scene of connection. But then I
Speaker 4: will say I had a really funny moment when Miss
Speaker 4: Lauren shows up and Mouth is cleaning up this you know,
Speaker 4: the apartment looks like a Fiona Apple music video. It's
Speaker 4: an absolute disaster. And she shows up and she's like, well,
Speaker 4: all help, and they start playing this like cute game
Speaker 4: of like recreating a crime scene. And because I remember
Speaker 4: much of the show was like hold on a second, yeah,
Speaker 4: our Mouth and Miss Lauren about to make some bad
Speaker 4: descis together, I thought so too.
Speaker 1: I had that moment too where I was like, what's happening,
Speaker 1: what's happening? And then I went no, No, they're both
Speaker 1: just adorable. They're just adorable and they miss their people.
Speaker 1: But I had a moment of panic because the episode
Speaker 1: is so extreme and outlandish and has taken like what
Speaker 1: might be the craziest things that have ever happened to
Speaker 1: anyone and ratcheted them up from ten to one hundred.
Speaker 1: I was like, no, no, no, oh. I had one
Speaker 1: of those. It was like a no, no, no, getting
Speaker 1: closer to the TV, and then an oh, oh oh.
Speaker 1: Resting back into my couch, I.
Speaker 3: Find stuff like that's so interesting because then I go, Okay,
Speaker 3: was it in the lines or was it in the performance?
Speaker 3: And yeah, something that happened just because the two actors
Speaker 3: had a cute moment or was it actually in the writing.
Speaker 4: That's a good question.
Speaker 3: Did the writers want that to happen or did that
Speaker 3: just happen accidentally?
Speaker 1: Well, and there's a thing too, right where like everyone
Speaker 1: has chemistry. Chemistry doesn't have to be sexual, it doesn't
Speaker 1: have to be romantic. But when you really get along
Speaker 1: with someone, when you share a sense of humor, like
Speaker 1: you have chemistry with your friends, like me and Raw
Speaker 1: exactly you and Rob have. I mean, honestly, sometimes I
Speaker 1: feel like I should leave the room. It's electric, it's
Speaker 1: really hot. Sometimes I don't know. As a viewer, I
Speaker 1: was watching them and I was like, their chemistry is
Speaker 1: so good, but it's so sweet. But it's also chemistry.
Speaker 1: What's happening. And that's a fun place to be seven
Speaker 1: years in to realize you don't know something with characters
Speaker 1: that at this point almost feel like your family. I
Speaker 1: really liked that.
Speaker 4: And tonally the episode is so unhinged that it is
Speaker 4: entirely within the realm of possibility that this might be
Speaker 4: going down, because by the time we get to this bit,
Speaker 4: oh if we've already seen some outrageous stuff happen and
Speaker 4: it's it's perfect. It's like you were saying, So if
Speaker 4: it's in no way is it heavy handed, it's kind
Speaker 4: of all circumstantial, right, Yeah, mouth has been through it
Speaker 4: with Milk. It's been nothing but like pain and heartache
Speaker 4: and worry. Miss Lauren is heartbroken. And now here they
Speaker 4: are back in this apartment and they're laughing together and
Speaker 4: they're connecting. So they didn't have to do much to
Speaker 4: create that question of oh, farts.
Speaker 1: Yes, and this is going to be like a really
Speaker 1: extreme thing I'm relating it to. But again, I think
Speaker 1: it's why it felt possible. You know, there's that very
Speaker 1: common thing that happens, you know, knock on wood, God forbid,
Speaker 1: someone dies young and then like you know, the widowed man,
Speaker 1: the widower and the wife who's died, her best friend
Speaker 1: fall in love like people often bond after loss, and
Speaker 1: granted skills hasn't died. But weirdly, you know, our bosses
Speaker 1: did that strange thing where like they just disappeared a
Speaker 1: character for a while, so they were like, Julian got
Speaker 1: him a job in la but nobody's heard from him.
Speaker 1: We don't know how often they're talking, you know, Lauren's
Speaker 1: talking about him like he's just evaporated and they both
Speaker 1: miss him. And I think that's part of why you're like, wait,
Speaker 1: are they friends that are having the same sad experience
Speaker 1: or are they gonna like bond in a way they
Speaker 1: shouldn't out of their sadness. Yeah, And it left me questioning.
Speaker 1: But the questioning was kind of cool because it reminds you,
Speaker 1: I guess, that you never really know. And it was
Speaker 1: an interesting thing to have Mouth trying to process with
Speaker 1: Milly and deciding to stay and show up. And then
Speaker 1: on the other end, you know, since we've been the
Speaker 1: best of friends on the show for so long, you
Speaker 1: have Brooke who's like pushing away her feelings about Milly
Speaker 1: and who just doesn't want to deal and like can't
Speaker 1: have another person hurt her. And then you've got Victoria
Speaker 1: being like she believed in you and I didn't. I
Speaker 1: loved that they gave that to Daphne to be this
Speaker 1: sort of rational person who really stood up for Milly
Speaker 1: and who at the same time is so Victoria because
Speaker 1: she's like I don't necessarily like her or whatever she says,
Speaker 1: but she was a very good friend to you. It
Speaker 1: was so snarky and yet so sweet at the same time.
Speaker 1: And I just thought the whole world they built around
Speaker 1: Millicent felt worthy of her, like we've missed her so much.
Speaker 1: To your point, Rob, that it's nice to see everybody
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out.
Speaker 4: And speaking of Victoria, Daphne makes this incredible choice at
Speaker 4: the top of one of these scenes where I think
Speaker 4: it's in close over bros And maybe Brooke is showing up,
Speaker 4: either Brooke or Milly, where there's no dialogue, but she's
Speaker 4: making the choice to be looking at her reflection and
Speaker 4: she's pulling back her skin as if to see what
Speaker 4: a facelift would look like on her. Yeah. Yeah, and
Speaker 4: that killed me because you know, that's not in the script.
Speaker 4: That's just an actor who's good knowing like, Okay, here's
Speaker 4: how I can fill up some time. This is what
Speaker 4: this character doing. But it it got such a for me,
Speaker 4: It got such a good laugh that I don't think
Speaker 4: was on the page.
Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, it was great and also vulnerable, shows
Speaker 3: that a little vulnerability and really great.
Speaker 4: Which tracks with what we're seeing her do lately, you know.
Speaker 1: And one of the things I loved about it too
Speaker 1: is Daphne is so she's so in her body. She's
Speaker 1: a meditator, she's like a brilliant mind. She's you know,
Speaker 1: incredibly healthy, like she takes beautiful care of herself and
Speaker 1: also has never been a woman who messes with her face,
Speaker 1: and that she was so willing to be like, well,
Speaker 1: since my face actually moves, I can pull it around
Speaker 1: and do something with it, like absolute freedom in herself.
Speaker 1: And you don't see that a lot. And I remember
Speaker 1: at the time her being like, oh, come on, it's hilarious,
Speaker 1: And now it's like even cooler to me than it
Speaker 1: was then.
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Can I say something about before we move on from that? Though,
Speaker 1: Like the Millie Brooke in Victoria dynamic I really love
Speaker 1: and I just caught a note and I get why
Speaker 1: I didn't, because it has to be a little hard one.
Speaker 1: But Victoria is really encouraging Brooke to stand up for
Speaker 1: Melicent and to be her friend and to show up
Speaker 1: for her. And the only way Brooke really knows how
Speaker 1: in her own sadness. When she sees that Milly's also
Speaker 1: so sad, is to say, hey, will you help me
Speaker 1: with this? And they start working on that jacket together.
Speaker 1: You know, they're each taking a lapel and doing the work,
Speaker 1: and they have this nice moment of like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is a first step. But sweet Lisa is so I mean,
Speaker 1: she's just so vulnerable and obviously crushed, and it kills
Speaker 1: me that when she's like, through her tears, says thanks
Speaker 1: as she's pinning, I don't just hug her, And I
Speaker 1: wrote it down, I was like, I wish I had
Speaker 1: hugged her. I know it required baby steps, but for me,
Speaker 1: it like it hurts me that I didn't get to
Speaker 1: hug her in that moment. And I'm sure it was
Speaker 1: Paul being a smart director and saying no, no, it's
Speaker 1: too much, too soon. But oh, she's just so vulnerable
Speaker 1: in it.
Speaker 3: I always find that so interesting, the sort of intersection
Speaker 3: or the the push and pull of the actor's instinct
Speaker 3: and then also not being right for a story. Yes,
Speaker 3: that happens to me all the time, where I have
Speaker 3: an instinct and it's not right for the movie or
Speaker 3: the show. It's like no, no, no, that happened. That's
Speaker 3: gonna be later.
Speaker 1: Yes, Like you gotta wait and you're like, no, my heart,
Speaker 1: it hurts.
Speaker 4: It's like the the camping trip when Nathan is just
Speaker 4: an absolute tool to Julian the entire time.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: It's that kind of thing where I think the rational
Speaker 4: James Pricey like, hey, I feel like I'm coming off
Speaker 4: a little bit dickish.
Speaker 1: And they're like, that's the point.
Speaker 4: But it's exactly. It's like, yeah, but we got to
Speaker 4: get to the end where there's this nice turn. You know.
Speaker 4: So what did you think of the whole Kylie swimming
Speaker 4: in Clay's pool?
Speaker 3: What did that ever happened before? Or was that the
Speaker 3: only time that happened.
Speaker 1: It's happened before, but not since Quinn, right, And so
Speaker 1: the fact that Kylie just comes back out of nowhere,
Speaker 1: it didn't feel super motivated.
Speaker 3: And also we were out of the scene before they
Speaker 3: could say anything or do anything. It was just scene
Speaker 3: over and it's like, what happened? What was the conversation
Speaker 3: after this happened?
Speaker 1: Exactly?
Speaker 4: Well, the whole thing is like she's the booty call.
Speaker 4: We've established that, you know that, Like it's just it
Speaker 4: was just the fling when Clay was still trying to
Speaker 4: numb out, you know. And so to me though, to
Speaker 4: have her just show up for a swim and be leaving,
Speaker 4: to me, it's like she's not even there to hook up.
Speaker 4: She just needed a pool to swim in. It's so
Speaker 4: it's so strange.
Speaker 1: It's very strange. And again it feels like they had
Speaker 1: an idea that they didn't take across the finish line,
Speaker 1: because the whole reason it happens is so that by
Speaker 1: the time you guys get home from this show of
Speaker 1: a dinner, Clay can say I changed the locks for you,
Speaker 1: and now you're the only woman with a key to
Speaker 1: my house. And then my reaction wasn't oh, how sweet.
Speaker 1: I was like, Kylie had keys.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what I was like, wait.
Speaker 1: Clay's just been giving keys to random chicks, Like, oh
Speaker 1: my god.
Speaker 3: What.
Speaker 1: It feels like they had the kernel of an idea
Speaker 1: and then they sent the script out and forgot to
Speaker 1: finish those scenes.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, and then you know, and we'll see in
Speaker 4: the next episode. There's poor Sasha. She was a good sport,
Speaker 4: you know, but her unofficial uniform in this show was
Speaker 4: just a bikini. But yeah, I just thought it was
Speaker 4: so odd that it's like she wasn't even like swimming
Speaker 4: sexy or like took her top off y at Clay's attention.
Speaker 4: She just didn't even knock. She was like, I'm just
Speaker 4: going to show up and swim in his pool.
Speaker 1: She was like doing laps to get her cardio.
Speaker 4: In exactly what go to the why what are you doing?
Speaker 1: It's so weird. Yeah, okay, I think I think this
Speaker 1: episode is like an extreme seesaw. It's very up and down,
Speaker 1: but all around pretty fun. Oh yeah, what do you
Speaker 1: guys think? What are your honorable mentions for this?
Speaker 4: I will say there was there was a line from
Speaker 4: this episode that I remembered to this day, which is
Speaker 4: when Nathan is shooting his mocap for the video game
Speaker 4: and he walks over and I say, you look good
Speaker 4: covered in balls.
Speaker 1: That was uncomfortable.
Speaker 4: And then he says, now I know how Taylor feels. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 3: The mine's kind of weird. The x X song, Yes,
Speaker 3: that song is so good and so sexy, and I
Speaker 3: was like, oh my god, that must have been a
Speaker 3: fortune because that's what I'm dealing with. And I just
Speaker 3: thought it was so cool that we have that song.
Speaker 1: The episode was Yeah, stoked, it's so good. I wrote
Speaker 1: that down too. I was like that we had two
Speaker 1: songs from the XX and we had Teagan and Sarah.
Speaker 1: I was like, God, we were in such good flow.
Speaker 1: I actually I want to give an honorable mention because
Speaker 1: it was the perfect button on the whole episode. The
Speaker 1: scene where Nathan and Haley are getting in bed and
Speaker 1: he just starts to laugh and she goes what and
Speaker 1: through laughter he goes, your family's crazy. It was just
Speaker 1: a perfect little button on the episode because in a way,
Speaker 1: Nathan got to be the audience being like, what the
Speaker 1: was that? And I thought it was a very very
Speaker 1: great little device of comedy. So hats off to Mike
Speaker 1: and David for that.
Speaker 3: A little wink like, hey, we know this episode was
Speaker 3: a bit unhinged exactly.
Speaker 1: They were like, it was unhinged, we know, we're in
Speaker 1: on the joke real quick.
Speaker 4: To last things, one, did you notice that their bed
Speaker 4: is smack in the middle of their room?
Speaker 3: I was just gonna say this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the floating bed in a house that has no
Speaker 1: other modern touches is very odd. It stood out to
Speaker 1: me as well.
Speaker 3: Part of me thinks loves it and part of me
Speaker 3: hates it. I was wondering why they did that, and
Speaker 3: then I started thinking like a DP and going, oh, well,
Speaker 3: there's more depth and you don't have to be facing
Speaker 3: shooting at a wall all the time. Yeah, maybe it
Speaker 3: looks good on camera.
Speaker 1: But you know what, it made me think of Austin,
Speaker 1: like those visits to see all of Donald Judd's spaces
Speaker 1: that we've done, and like, I was like, it's a
Speaker 1: really weird choice in this very kind of like Mediterranean
Speaker 1: villa home to do like the Donald Judd floating bed
Speaker 1: in the middle of an empty room that isn't empty.
Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, but I do agree.
Speaker 1: I think it was probably a DP thing. And it
Speaker 1: made me giggle. I like that we all noticed that
Speaker 1: and we're like, wait, what's going on.
Speaker 3: It's odd, but it's kind of cool.
Speaker 4: It's it's so odd. And also there's a scene at
Speaker 4: the very start of it when Taylor sauntras out of
Speaker 4: the room I think it's like that scene where she's
Speaker 4: wearing like the juicy shorts or whatever, and Hayley turns
Speaker 4: to Nathan goes, are you going to say something? And
Speaker 4: James takes a beat and just goes, I love you
Speaker 4: and the husband and you went accurate.
Speaker 3: Accurate yep.
Speaker 1: Also, he has such good dad jokes in this episode
Speaker 1: because when him and David have the talk and they
Speaker 1: get to the end and he goes, if Haley asks,
Speaker 1: I yelled at you and you're sorry, and then he
Speaker 1: walks away, that was great, accurate. It's all so good.
Speaker 3: Mind's a bit of a disc but it's it's not
Speaker 3: that I actually loved it. The video game animation is
Speaker 3: pretty bad, yeah, but I've kind of like loved it.
Speaker 1: It was kind of good.
Speaker 3: Schedule is so fast, you don't have the time and
Speaker 3: the money, but it was.
Speaker 1: Kind of well and can you imagine now that thing
Speaker 1: would have been rendered in five minutes and looked incredible.
Speaker 4: Totally, And it's just it's so funny again like Logic Police,
Speaker 4: But if you are recording mocap for a video game
Speaker 4: at noon, you will not have a prototype of the
Speaker 4: game available at four pm. Yeah, it's exactly. It's like
Speaker 4: it'll be available eight months.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy.
Speaker 3: I did you even think of that? Rob. That's really funny.
Speaker 1: The game will be out next year. But here's a
Speaker 1: DVD of it for you today, kid, So weird.
Speaker 4: But that scene also lent itself to Nathan being able
Speaker 4: to tell Chuck to suck it, which was funny. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and that's like a grown man burning an eight year.
Speaker 1: Old, you know, yeah, the absolute payoff. Okay, guys, we
Speaker 1: have a listener question, and this is actually really sweet
Speaker 1: since we just have had these two conventions back to back.
Speaker 1: Shay wants to know what is your most memorable fan
Speaker 1: interaction that you have had at a One Tree Hill convention.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, there's so many because as you guys know,
Speaker 5: you know, people have had crazy tragedies happen to them,
Speaker 5: and they come to you and they say, like, this
Speaker 5: show saved my life.
Speaker 3: You know, all kinds of amazing things come from this,
Speaker 3: so it's hard to pinpoint one. But there was this
Speaker 3: girl named Matilda who's from France and I saw her
Speaker 3: seven years ago when I was dead at Comic Con
Speaker 3: in Paris, and you know, she's like, she's tweeted me
Speaker 3: and hit me up on Instagram and stuff, and she
Speaker 3: keeps just send me that photo of us together at
Speaker 3: the convention. And I saw her last weekend in Paris. Oh,
Speaker 3: you know, it was just moving and so cool just
Speaker 3: to see her again. And she came at the last thing.
Speaker 3: I was signing something and she comes and she goes, Austin,
Speaker 3: I wanted to say goodbye. I don't know if I'll
Speaker 3: ever see you again, and she it was just crumbled
Speaker 3: and like I crumbled, and I was just like, this
Speaker 3: is so beautiful and sad, like she's just has the
Speaker 3: most kindest, most beautiful and love that girl of death.
Speaker 4: How about you? So oh my.
Speaker 1: Gosh, it's funny. It's like there's there's so many memorable
Speaker 1: moments like running through my brain. The first thing I
Speaker 1: thought about was a couple of years ago at a
Speaker 1: convention in Wilmington, Hillary and I got to help two
Speaker 1: gals who love the show get engaged and like to
Speaker 1: be part of someone's proposal is so cool and so special.
Speaker 1: And then to your point, Austin, like sometimes it's the
Speaker 1: best moment, and sometimes it's that you were a part
Speaker 1: of like real hardship and you find out that this
Speaker 1: thing that you made helped this wonderful little girl Hayley
Speaker 1: that similarly, I feel like I've known her for almost
Speaker 1: fifteen years now because of the show and social and
Speaker 1: all the things like grew up being super sick. Her
Speaker 1: mom used to cut out all of our little characters
Speaker 1: and glue them onto her eyegs, like in scenes from
Speaker 1: the show when she was in the hospital for treatments.
Speaker 1: I've watched her go through all of these things for years.
Speaker 1: Cut to after college she moved to LA she wound
Speaker 1: up working for one of my friends, Like applied for
Speaker 1: a job because she'd followed a friend's company because I
Speaker 1: talked about it on Instagram, And like, I get a
Speaker 1: call from my friend Elizabeth, who's like, this kid is
Speaker 1: amazing and said she like grew up in the win
Speaker 1: Tree Hill world. Like I've watched her get better and
Speaker 1: it's so special, and like I don't know all of
Speaker 1: these all of these incredible things. You know, you realize
Speaker 1: that we built a world that ran the gamut of
Speaker 1: you know, tragedy to joy, and we've been in people's
Speaker 1: lives while they've run the real life gamut of those things,
Speaker 1: and we did too behind the scenes, you know, our
Speaker 1: on our set for as many years as we were there.
Speaker 1: And there's just something really special about this particular little
Speaker 1: world because we all feel like the same place makes
Speaker 1: us feel at home. And I really cherished that.
Speaker 4: That's wild.
Speaker 1: What do you got?
Speaker 4: I would say. In fact, it was at Paris this
Speaker 4: last week and I had several fans come up and
Speaker 4: show me a picture of us together from seven years ago.
Speaker 4: One was eleven years ago, and I was kind of
Speaker 4: struck by a similar thing to what you were saying.
Speaker 4: Where it was. It just blew my mind that this
Speaker 4: show has that kind of staying power and to be
Speaker 4: able to like look at the picture and then look
Speaker 4: at the person ahead of me and being like, wow,
Speaker 4: we've we've had ten years of life since then, and
Speaker 4: yet like the thing that hasn't changed is this show,
Speaker 4: you know, and it's still going on and it's just
Speaker 4: such a cool opportunity to get to do. But yeah,
Speaker 4: the fact that you know, we've we've been meeting some
Speaker 4: of these people for you know, more than a decade
Speaker 4: is crazy to me. And it's still going strong. Yeah,
Speaker 4: there's nothing like it. So cool, powerful. Well, buddy, thank
Speaker 4: you so much for joining us.
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me guys. It's so fun to
Speaker 3: see you and catch up always.
Speaker 1: What a fun day. And next week, you guys, the
Speaker 1: next episode, Season seven, episode fifteen is Don't You Forget
Speaker 1: About Me? It's our John Hughes week.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm so pumped, so good fun costumes.
Speaker 1: I'll go ahead while we have you, Austin an honorable
Speaker 1: mention your ducky costume. It was really really pro dude.
Speaker 4: It's so good.
Speaker 3: Very stoked on that because I love eighties everything and
Speaker 3: John here. That was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's gonna be a good one.
Speaker 4: You were it well, my friend.
Speaker 3: Thank you, sir.
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