Speaker 1: First of all, you don't know me.
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Speaker 1: Oh, guys, happy week. I was about to say the day,
Speaker 1: and then I remember that these don't always drop me
Speaker 1: the days we're recording.
Speaker 3: There you go, happy late late Sunday night, everyone, that's
Speaker 3: the one. We're so glad you couldn't sleep and you
Speaker 3: could be here to join us exactly. Hey, soph Hey joy, Hi.
Speaker 4: Hi guys, how goes it?
Speaker 3: The episode? Can wait? I want to know how my
Speaker 3: friends are doing.
Speaker 4: I'm good.
Speaker 3: How are you on that fun combination of overly tired
Speaker 3: and overly caffeinated?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I was telling Rob that as absolutely in
Speaker 1: love with the planet as I am, and so happy
Speaker 1: it's spring and everything is like gorgeous and green, I'm
Speaker 1: also allergic to everything.
Speaker 4: Oh no, so I am just.
Speaker 1: Like likewise caffeinating to get through how terrible I feel.
Speaker 4: My daughter is allergic to every flower except I think roses,
Speaker 4: and that might be the only one. Maybe daisies, I'm
Speaker 4: not sure, but it's so sad. I'm like bringing wild
Speaker 4: flowers home and she immediately just I'm you gotta get
Speaker 4: that out of the house. I can't preape, Like, oh no,
Speaker 4: it's so sad.
Speaker 3: That's an expensive allergy that the only one that doesn't
Speaker 3: make her sick is arguably one of the most expensive.
Speaker 3: It's like, I'm only not allergic to orchids and roses.
Speaker 4: Know, it's so such a highbrow allergy. Yeah, do you
Speaker 4: guys take bee pollen or purplis or anything, because I do,
Speaker 4: and I don't have any allergies. You don't take this
Speaker 4: on a regular basis.
Speaker 1: So if you've got bees, I was gonna say I
Speaker 1: do all of it because I've been beekeeping forever. But
Speaker 1: of course, you know, I know, what a crazy thing, right,
Speaker 1: But it is actually sort of interesting because for years
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, local honey totally helps with allergies,
Speaker 1: and da da da da. Yeah, And a doctor friend
Speaker 1: of mine was like, you know, that's a really charming
Speaker 1: but not true, and I was like, oh, well, I
Speaker 1: really like the old wives tale of it all, and
Speaker 1: I'm just going to keep it up.
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, are you a doctor of honey?
Speaker 1: No, Like, well, what you're not is a bee, so
Speaker 1: who knows.
Speaker 4: But you know, we can't not be true. That makes
Speaker 4: total sense though.
Speaker 1: Well sure, but they were like, essentially what I thought was,
Speaker 1: you know, you're getting trace amounts of the flora and
Speaker 1: fauna around you in the honey. And they were like, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's a completely processed thing that comes out on
Speaker 1: the other side of a bee.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the honey doesn't the pollen will well.
Speaker 1: Right, But the pollen is what most people are allergic to,
Speaker 1: which is why when they give you an allergy shot,
Speaker 1: like at the doctor, when you get that little tiny
Speaker 1: dot dose kind of like a TB test. They give
Speaker 1: it to you once a week for I don't know,
Speaker 1: a whole summer, and then you build up build assistance
Speaker 1: because it gives your body like a small shock of
Speaker 1: the thing it doesn't like, rather than just fistfuls of pollen,
Speaker 1: which seemed to be on every car. Yeah, the Tristate
Speaker 1: area right now.
Speaker 4: I think it's if you ingest the pollen, like I
Speaker 4: get local pollen in a jar and I take a
Speaker 4: little tiny teaspoon of it and I just take it
Speaker 4: every day in Propolis too, Yeah, little droplets. I take
Speaker 4: like thirty drops of propylis a day and all my
Speaker 4: allergies this season in Tennessee, because usually I don't have
Speaker 4: many allergies, but here it gets really bad. I've been
Speaker 4: taking this for a year and this year I've gotten zero.
Speaker 1: Oh that's crazy. Well, Propolis is actually really cool. We're
Speaker 1: just really getting nerdy on the bee stuff.
Speaker 3: Hey, if you're just tuning in, welcome back to the Buzz,
Speaker 3: our weekly be only podcast.
Speaker 1: It's the for our friends at home. It's actually the
Speaker 1: substance that bees make and essentially glue their hives shut with.
Speaker 1: But it's actually it has antibiotic properties massive and so
Speaker 1: it's really like you can make tea and stuff if
Speaker 1: you're coming down with something, and it's pretty great. Yeah, antibacterial.
Speaker 1: I guess I should have said not antibiotic.
Speaker 3: Speaking of antibiotic properties, today, we're discussing season eight, episode seventeen,
Speaker 3: The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get It, aired
Speaker 3: March first, twenty eleven. Synopsis reads, As Hayley's do date approaches,
Speaker 3: she takes steps to ensure that all her friends and
Speaker 3: family will be ready when the time comes. Oh boy
Speaker 3: does she. Brooke and Julian also prepare to be in
Speaker 3: a family, while Chuck turns to Chase for help with
Speaker 3: a problem. Directed by Les Butler, and it was written.
Speaker 4: I love love this episode so much.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so much fun. I remember it being really
Speaker 1: fun to film too. Yeah, and just to keep the
Speaker 1: levity going feels so nice. I will say, you know,
Speaker 1: the way, we ended last week's episode not understanding the
Speaker 1: title of this one, and it was typed in in
Speaker 1: incorrect order, and then we got the right order, and
Speaker 1: it still makes no sense. The smoker you drink, the
Speaker 1: player you get? Did anybody I'm really asking because I
Speaker 1: realized I definitely didn't. Did anybody remember to google what
Speaker 1: the meaning of this song title is?
Speaker 3: Noop?
Speaker 1: Okay? Great?
Speaker 3: Cool?
Speaker 4: Still don't understand its relation to the episode.
Speaker 1: I don't either, because, by the way, the only drinking
Speaker 1: happens at the frat party. I don't know. Anyway, I
Speaker 1: don't get it. But here we are, guys, we've got bees.
Speaker 1: Apparently someone is smoking somewhere, and you know, as Rob
Speaker 1: said twenty eleven, what a blast from the past.
Speaker 3: Seriously, I feel we talked to this last episode, but
Speaker 3: I feel as though we've just hit this really fun stride.
Speaker 3: And I wonder if it was just because the writer's
Speaker 3: room didn't know if this was going to be our
Speaker 3: last so they were just like, let's just blow it out,
Speaker 3: giving everyone happy endings. And because the last handful of
Speaker 3: episodes have all been way lighter, way more fun and playful. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and this one was no exception.
Speaker 4: I think they knew they weren't getting any new viewers.
Speaker 4: It's not like people were suddenly tuning in season eight
Speaker 4: and being like, let me start this show. I don't
Speaker 4: think there was a lot of that happening, So I
Speaker 4: think they felt like there was a lot of space
Speaker 4: to just play.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, if I've learned anything about
Speaker 1: our show, it's that every year it finds a new audience.
Speaker 1: But I do think, you know, I remember having like
Speaker 1: a particularly special dinner with a couple of folks from
Speaker 1: the writer's room coming into the end of season eight,
Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, when you have that sort
Speaker 1: of sense memory, I remember four of us sitting at
Speaker 1: the bar at a restaurant and like how fun it
Speaker 1: was because you had to huddle together and kind of
Speaker 1: look like this down each side of the bar to
Speaker 1: have a conversation. And it was a cool thing because
Speaker 1: people were sharing stories and observations and things that even
Speaker 1: though we'd all been together for eight years, they'd never
Speaker 1: really done before. You know, when something's going to end,
Speaker 1: you're like, God, I better make sure to say the
Speaker 1: last thing or share the last thought. And I don't know,
Speaker 1: I really do recall everyone being like, well, crazy that
Speaker 1: we got this season seven and eight together, and crazy
Speaker 1: that we're going to be done, and like everyone really
Speaker 1: thought that the end of this season was going to
Speaker 1: be it. Yeah, And so it does have this kind
Speaker 1: of nostalgia. You know, it's like it's before the senioritis
Speaker 1: clicks in and you have no desire to be there anymore,
Speaker 1: but you know it's coming to an end and you
Speaker 1: really want to go to every every gathering and every
Speaker 1: school event before you leave.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: It has that sort of energy even in the in
Speaker 1: the episodes.
Speaker 4: Yeah, to in the episode, for sure, I feel it.
Speaker 3: It also feels like it's the writers taking care of
Speaker 3: the fans, because you know, sometimes when shows are wrapping up,
Speaker 3: they'll they will do the like we're going to reach
Speaker 3: for a cliffhanger to sort of force the network's hand
Speaker 3: and give us another season, and it's that's that's all
Speaker 3: fine and well, but that's them looking out for a
Speaker 3: job for next year, Whereas on this one, it just
Speaker 3: felt like they're like the writer's room going like, let's
Speaker 3: just blow it out. Let's just have all the care.
Speaker 3: Like in this episode, it's all of a sudden, we
Speaker 3: have Clay, Julie and Nathan and chasing a scene, we
Speaker 3: have Haley, like everyone was sort of crossing paths and
Speaker 3: getting to play together, which is so much fun. So
Speaker 3: really kind of in a way, I felt like all
Speaker 3: they're they're taking care of the audience.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, that's a great way to put it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I loved.
Speaker 1: That that sort of central perk scene for you guys,
Speaker 1: it felt so reminiscent of friends to me. Starting with
Speaker 1: you and Nathan. It's in the dicktris a diner. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: oh that was great, right, Like Nathan and Clay are
Speaker 1: shooting the shit and they're joking about your taste and
Speaker 1: food and you know, you're just having this moment and
Speaker 1: then Chase comes in and then Julian comes in and
Speaker 1: I don't know, it was so nice and I wish
Speaker 1: we'd gotten to see more of that with you all.
Speaker 3: Do you remember that that is the infamous tea scene
Speaker 3: that we got roasted for on Talk Soup.
Speaker 1: The tea scene because you were both having iced tea.
Speaker 3: No, there are Okay. First of all, there's two very
Speaker 3: notable aspects of the scene. One, I remember this as
Speaker 3: a product integration thing because there is we go way
Speaker 3: out of our way to say AT and T's it's
Speaker 3: sneaky though, right, So if you watch it again, because
Speaker 3: it's we have this whole weird build up of about
Speaker 3: like sixty seconds of content of just Nathan and Clay
Speaker 3: talking about cell phone service and how it always drops
Speaker 3: and why you got a text. And then if you watch,
Speaker 3: the server comes up and Nathan goes, hey, Tea and T.
Speaker 3: So again, my memory told me, oh, we were doing
Speaker 3: a product integration, and then I watched it last night
Speaker 3: I realized, No, that's a shot at AT and T,
Speaker 3: and it's a reach a weird easter egg of a
Speaker 3: shot at AT and T. The other aspect is so Talk
Speaker 3: Soup took that clip because if you watch it, she
Speaker 3: pours some iced tea in James's cup and then when
Speaker 3: she goes to mine, here's the problem. When she goes
Speaker 3: to mine, no tea makes it into the cup. However,
Speaker 3: when they cut to the next shot, you do see
Speaker 3: tea going into the cup. I think Talk Soup cut
Speaker 3: it after just the first part because you can see
Speaker 3: her clearly not pouring, and she's in the shot not pouring.
Speaker 3: But then in the next angle you do see tea
Speaker 3: going into the cup. So the eric kind of cherry
Speaker 3: picking to make a meal of that.
Speaker 1: Interesting, You're not You're definitely not bothered about it. In
Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty five, Rob no.
Speaker 3: Because again, like it's not like you had to wait,
Speaker 3: It's like he cuts a different angle teas going in Wait.
Speaker 4: Talk Soup roasted you guys about about continuity.
Speaker 3: It was one of the like highlight clips of the year.
Speaker 3: Was this iced tea see the phantom tea scene. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's so odd, but for god, the AT and T
Speaker 3: thing there was. There's two moments in this episode where
Speaker 3: I was like, did our boss have a bone to
Speaker 3: pick with at and T? And the other one is
Speaker 3: this weird moment where it's believe it's Haley and Quinn
Speaker 3: and you're sitting at the table and oh, Psych, and
Speaker 3: you go, uh, what should we do? Do you want
Speaker 3: to watch Psych? And Quinn goes, is it good? And
Speaker 3: you go eh, and then there's like a two seconds
Speaker 3: of just dead air and then you move on like
Speaker 3: it's a very weird shot at Psych? Did he have
Speaker 3: a beef?
Speaker 4: Psych was a great show, by the way, which I
Speaker 4: watched like every episode of and loved, and they had
Speaker 4: they thought it was funny to make fun of Chad,
Speaker 4: so they made fun of him on their show. James.
Speaker 4: Is it James? I can't remember his name. I'm sorry.
Speaker 4: I think it's James, the lead actor the other there's
Speaker 4: two lead actors. He's one of them, the one who's
Speaker 4: not Delay Hill, and he he would do this like
Speaker 4: the brow furrow and like blah blah blah unless I'm
Speaker 4: Chad Michael Murray and then he would do that, you know,
Speaker 4: he would just like make fun of Chad and it
Speaker 4: was kind of all in good fun, and it was.
Speaker 4: It ended up on the soup as well. They did
Speaker 4: a whole thing about Psych making fun of one Tree Hill.
Speaker 4: So I guess our boss just wanted to try and
Speaker 4: get back at them, but like, I don't know why
Speaker 4: they chose me, because I loved that show and I
Speaker 4: remember getting the material and being like, okay, like I
Speaker 4: don't I'm really not sure how to make this work
Speaker 4: in the context of the scene because it doesn't make
Speaker 4: any sense and the line is meh. So it's not
Speaker 4: like I can be like, yeah, yeah, that's good and
Speaker 4: then we don't watch it, so yeah, it was not fun.
Speaker 3: So it's weird to suddenly want to stick up for
Speaker 3: the person that you've gone out of your way to shine.
Speaker 3: Like as soon as Chad left, like five episodes later,
Speaker 3: there's a blatant dig at him that Paul's character delivered
Speaker 3: to Daniil. So it's just odd to suddenly be like, well,
Speaker 3: now I'm going to stick up for the person on
Speaker 3: our show that I openly talked about. It's like Will
Speaker 3: Ferrell talks about you and step brothers don't see you
Speaker 3: taking any shots at Big Willie.
Speaker 4: I think they had done some episode where they overtly
Speaker 4: said one tree Hill and it was no longer just
Speaker 4: about oh the beef between the joking beef between these
Speaker 4: two actors, which never even existed. I don't even know
Speaker 4: if they've ever met. I know nothing about this other
Speaker 4: than which show up on my television screen, but I
Speaker 4: do think there was something in the in this a
Speaker 4: recent Psych episode where they said one tree Hill and
Speaker 4: it probably made our boss. It's just so dumb, It's
Speaker 4: so childish. It's like middle school, like, can we just
Speaker 4: mind our own business and make our own show? Do
Speaker 4: we need to be doing this weird cross network?
Speaker 1: But what it screams of is just like, are you
Speaker 1: guys are the people in charge of television shows high
Speaker 1: school student?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 1: Like I am always shocked when adults play into high
Speaker 1: school drama. I'm I don't know. Don't you look around
Speaker 1: and go, aren't we too old for this? And the
Speaker 1: irony is that, as cast members who were much younger
Speaker 1: than our boss, and plenty of people on the writing staff,
Speaker 1: we all were like, are we doing this?
Speaker 4: It's going weird?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: But I like that you guys figured out a way
Speaker 1: to let it hang there and then move on because
Speaker 1: you made it as irrelevant to the plot as it was,
Speaker 1: And I guess works.
Speaker 4: Yes, I like to do exactly what's on the page
Speaker 4: so you can see how stupid this is.
Speaker 1: Well, and it also sort of works because Haley's clearly bored,
Speaker 1: and you know when you have that thing you're bored
Speaker 1: or your house bound because you're sick or something, and
Speaker 1: you're like, ugh, I want to do anything but this,
Speaker 1: And I also don't want to do anything. Yeah, Like
Speaker 1: do I want a snack? No, I'm kind of hungry though.
Speaker 1: Do I want to watch a movie?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: I don't really want to scroll either. Like it plays
Speaker 1: that way, and so I think in the context of
Speaker 1: of you know, the Dirty Trick runner through the whole episode,
Speaker 1: it works because Haley's bored and she's trying to have
Speaker 1: a good time.
Speaker 4: Haley's bored and she's trying to figure out what to do,
Speaker 4: and she sure does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was a great runner.
Speaker 1: It's so cute and I love you know. It harkens
Speaker 1: back to what I think the Ladies did so well
Speaker 1: in the last episode. The buttons would come back around,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty a quarter of the way through the episode,
Speaker 1: halfway through the episode later, and to have every single
Speaker 1: person who came in the house have the same reaction
Speaker 1: and use the same term made the runner of the
Speaker 1: joke have a nice little button on it. I liked it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, did you notice high heels again, Haley in her
Speaker 4: high heels.
Speaker 1: We are all in like, and they're not just heels,
Speaker 1: they're like platforms.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they were like little peeptoe like pumps as far
Speaker 4: as I saw anyway, But I don't like.
Speaker 1: The platform under your toes. And you are nine.
Speaker 4: Months pregnant, right, yeah, in these little these little peeptoe
Speaker 4: pin and the jeans are like what is it called?
Speaker 4: You know, in the skirt is like it's a pin.
Speaker 4: What's it called?
Speaker 1: Tapered? They're skinny jeans, aren't they skuinea jeans?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Tapered. Yeah, there's a word with pin that I
Speaker 4: can't think of it. But anyway, Yeah, it's just so silly.
Speaker 4: And she's coming in the room like send me to
Speaker 4: the send me to the hospital in my high heels,
Speaker 4: and then Quin's trying to stuffer in the trunk of
Speaker 4: the corn. I mean it was very funny. I liked
Speaker 4: the I like the whole setup. But the heels have
Speaker 4: got to go.
Speaker 3: The infamous Toaster Strudel song. Oh yes, we got to
Speaker 3: talk about it because I how.
Speaker 1: Much money did Toaster Strudell pay our show? That clearly,
Speaker 1: you know, Chantal got none of but had zero. The
Speaker 1: on camera commercial.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if that was the actual toaster
Speaker 3: strudel jingle. No, she made that up, but toaster Strudels
Speaker 3: was it. That's a legit product obviously, yes.
Speaker 1: But she also if you, if you clapped it in
Speaker 1: the episode, couldn't say toaster strudel. Her song was toaster pastry,
Speaker 1: and every single person says toaster pastry until shoot. Now
Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was, if it was Levin
Speaker 1: or if it was Austin. In the Brook Julian and
Speaker 1: Chloe scene when Chloe's making one at our house, someone
Speaker 1: says toaster strudel.
Speaker 4: And I went, yes, oh, and it must not.
Speaker 1: We must have missed it on the day and nobody
Speaker 1: caught it.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah.
Speaker 1: I think even Levin says toaster pastry, and Austin must
Speaker 1: have ad libbed something about a toaster strudle being delicious. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it made it in because they didn't they didn't
Speaker 1: have a toaster pastry for him.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: The whole thing felt really bizarre.
Speaker 3: Well, you're right though, because I in my notes I wrote, oh,
Speaker 3: the infamous toaster Strudel song, but then I went back
Speaker 3: and I was like, no, everyone's saying pastry. Did I
Speaker 3: misremember this? And it wasn't until the end of the episode.
Speaker 3: You're right that scene where someone said toaster Strudel and
Speaker 3: I was like, no, it's freaking toaster Strudels. I can
Speaker 3: say behind the scenes that song was the bane of
Speaker 3: Seantell's existence. Well becaurse she had to do it for
Speaker 3: an entire episode. Then of course it was like people
Speaker 3: like a conventions would be like sing the toasters pastry song.
Speaker 4: You know, she had to just make that up. She's like,
Speaker 4: I don't know how to write music. I don't know
Speaker 4: what this is supposed to sound, Like, what do I do?
Speaker 3: Wait? She had to make that up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: No, yeah, really that wasn't scripted.
Speaker 4: My memory of it is her talking to me about
Speaker 4: having to make that up and trying to figure out
Speaker 4: what the hell to sing.
Speaker 3: If she ad lib that, she did an incredible job.
Speaker 1: They would have had to write the words for her though,
Speaker 1: and be like do something like this, So she had
Speaker 1: to like make up a melody.
Speaker 4: Correct, that's what I mean. I would say, sorry, I
Speaker 4: mean to imply the words. Yeah, the melody. She had
Speaker 4: to just figure out how to like there were words
Speaker 4: on a page. She was like, what the hell am
Speaker 4: I supposed to do with this?
Speaker 3: But are we? Are we sure? Every time she sang
Speaker 3: the jingle, she didn't say strudle because one of the
Speaker 3: rhymes is a tasty doodle.
Speaker 4: Doodle put toast or pastry. You taste so good and
Speaker 4: yummy toaster or pastry, get inside my tummy.
Speaker 1: That's It's something about the stroudel, the frosting doodle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then that circles back with strudel.
Speaker 1: I wonder if this is going to be the episode
Speaker 1: where everyone at home is like, Okay, it's official, send
Speaker 1: these three.
Speaker 3: To take a nap.
Speaker 1: They're done, they're cooked, goodbye.
Speaker 3: I listened for thirty minutes and all they talked about
Speaker 3: was bees and strudels. What happened to this podcast?
Speaker 4: Not for nothing? A honey strudle I would not say
Speaker 4: no to.
Speaker 3: I'd party with that.
Speaker 1: Well, here's what I will say. I I thought that
Speaker 1: a lot of this, you know, referring to what we
Speaker 1: were talking about earlier, there's a sweetness and a nostalgia
Speaker 1: even some of what's very stupid, which clearly got us landed.
Speaker 1: I'm surprised this whole episode wasn't just an entire episode
Speaker 1: of Talk Soup. But I love Hayley's Runner, and I
Speaker 1: do really love the paint story line for Brooke and Julian.
Speaker 1: As soon as we were in the paint store, I
Speaker 1: literally went, oh, soft, duckling is coming. Like I remembered
Speaker 1: how sweet that felt, and I remembered, you know, thinking
Speaker 1: about exactly that moment for you know, for friends of ours.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think at this point, you know, Hillary
Speaker 1: was one of our only friends who'd had a kid,
Speaker 1: You were about to have a kid, And I think
Speaker 1: about now what it's been like to help so many
Speaker 1: people put kids rooms together, and there's something so universally
Speaker 1: precious about it, and I like that it offered this
Speaker 1: sort of this sort of nesting energy for Brooke and Julian,
Speaker 1: but Brook in particular. And then Chloe's in the bed
Speaker 1: that used to be Peyton's bed and then it was
Speaker 1: Sam's bed, and now this girl who is theoretically going
Speaker 1: to give this couple this baby is in this space
Speaker 1: and you kind of get to track this evolution, and
Speaker 1: even Brooke bringing up, yeah, I have I have this
Speaker 1: friend Peyton who used to have a black bedroom. And
Speaker 1: then that goes up on the wall and it's like,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought it was a great way
Speaker 1: to sort of represent if we are really ending the show,
Speaker 1: if season eight is going to be it like, look
Speaker 1: at this life we've lived with all these people, and
Speaker 1: it was cool to see it in those sort of quiet,
Speaker 1: reflective moments. I liked that.
Speaker 3: Can I ask you a question? I want to jump
Speaker 3: around a little bit here? Time was but do I
Speaker 3: recall correctly? And if by some chance there's a listener
Speaker 3: who hasn't watched any future episodes, like just turn it
Speaker 3: down for like thirty seconds. You guys, it's twins.
Speaker 1: Right, we don't get the baby.
Speaker 3: Holy I just spoiled it for myself. Okay, sorry, let's
Speaker 3: go back to the conversation.
Speaker 4: Well if.
Speaker 3: Wow, I damn it. I shouldn't have asked a question.
Speaker 3: This is what I get. Okay, welcome, shake it off. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm so disappointed now. And you know what it kind.
Speaker 1: Of is when you think about it, it's this really
Speaker 1: nice build up that's been happening, and we have that you,
Speaker 1: me and Chantelle have so much fun with Jackson. In
Speaker 1: the next episode, we have our Saltine challenge, like waiting
Speaker 1: for all these women to have all these babies. It's
Speaker 1: so good, and then you get the highlight and the
Speaker 1: and the crash, and so it's weird because in a way,
Speaker 1: obviously I know what's coming. It was a big storyline
Speaker 1: for us, but it's weird to watch it and be like,
Speaker 1: oh man, we really did have this sort of pure excitement,
Speaker 1: And I like that it wasn't overdone, and I like
Speaker 1: that we were really even though some of it feels
Speaker 1: a little like whitewash prescriptive in terms of the adoption storyline.
Speaker 1: To me, I like that most of it feels a
Speaker 1: little complicated, bittersweet, and you don't always say the right thing,
Speaker 1: and it's nerve wracking. And you know, what does a
Speaker 1: young girl do if she finds herself pregnant in this situation?
Speaker 1: What does someone struggling with infertility do? Like, I think
Speaker 1: it's so I think most of it is so good.
Speaker 1: And then yeah, I remember getting the script for the
Speaker 1: next episode and just being love, course, we're gonna just
Speaker 1: pull the rug out from under people.
Speaker 3: And I'm not even just devastated. I'm now pre devastated.
Speaker 3: This is sorry. This is a hard way to start
Speaker 3: a Wednesday.
Speaker 1: You should just watch it tonight and get it over with,
Speaker 1: write your notes and then be done.
Speaker 3: Did anyone notice when he's handing back the tests there's
Speaker 3: a close up insert shot of the first tests going
Speaker 3: down on a desk, and the student's name is less Butler.
Speaker 3: No director of this episode. He threw a little easter
Speaker 3: egg in there for himself.
Speaker 1: That's cute.
Speaker 3: The next batch of tests go down and it's too
Speaker 3: I forget. What's Quentin's character's name?
Speaker 1: Hmmm, Oh no, I've forgotten because Quenton is such a
Speaker 1: memorable guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well to his character, and the note is his
Speaker 3: letter grade is d D. And then he finishes spicablepable Tommy, Tommy, yes,
Speaker 3: tell her man, listen. That guy is a real turns
Speaker 3: in the punch bowl.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm not a fan, but I did like this storyline.
Speaker 4: I like that they're drawing it out a little, keeping
Speaker 4: it interesting. I feel like, is this the storyline that
Speaker 4: leads Nathan to be kidnapped by the Serbian mafia? No,
Speaker 4: it's not, okay, isn't that in season nine? Yeah? Yeah, okay,
Speaker 4: I think yeah.
Speaker 3: This is I believe this is the story that gets
Speaker 3: us to the scene on the bridge where Clay goes
Speaker 3: all John Cena and top rocks Kellerman into the river.
Speaker 4: Geez, wow, there's so much coming up that I did
Speaker 4: not I was pregnant, y'all. I was so checked out.
Speaker 4: I did not know what was happening on the show
Speaker 4: at this point.
Speaker 1: It's okay, that feels fair.
Speaker 4: I was about to pop.
Speaker 1: I knew there were a few sort of indicators about
Speaker 1: what was coming. I had forgotten where Ian Kellerman's storyline
Speaker 1: was going to go. And uh, when when you when
Speaker 1: when Hayley and Quinn are sitting talking, you know about
Speaker 1: all this nostalgia, and then it's like, and can you
Speaker 1: believe they haven't found the car? I was like, this
Speaker 1: is a weird left. Oh. I was like, right, it's
Speaker 1: it's the exposition she has to give, which obviously this
Speaker 1: is the place for it to go, because they're reflecting
Speaker 1: on parenthood and what's coming. But it felt like a
Speaker 1: real It just felt like a device, not like a
Speaker 1: real shift in the conversation between these two sisters. And
Speaker 1: then I was like, right, right, right, the wagoneer. We
Speaker 1: had to repeat the Wagoneer because Nathan's going to go
Speaker 1: in the garage. Got it?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because in real life, you just say, can
Speaker 3: you believe they haven't found the person who did that?
Speaker 3: But she had to go? Can you believe they haven't
Speaker 3: found the nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety wagon year with
Speaker 3: the damage.
Speaker 1: Actually at the time listed as ox blood red.
Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised if there was an empty bottle
Speaker 3: of liquor in that car.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a bourbon because a hit and run
Speaker 1: driver really seems like a bourbon drinker, don't they Like
Speaker 1: it's so silly.
Speaker 4: I was wondering why that was in the flash but
Speaker 4: like in the last, last week or last time previously
Speaker 4: on one trail and they were showing that. I was like,
Speaker 4: this is such a random thing for them to show.
Speaker 4: Why are they showing this clip because there's nothing in
Speaker 4: the episode about you saving anybody's life or anything else.
Speaker 4: And it was yeah, for that, it was that.
Speaker 3: It was also a bit of a hat on a
Speaker 3: hat for Nathan to find the empty liquor bottle in
Speaker 3: the car, because it's like he already hit and run
Speaker 3: and almost killed people. Like it's it's bad enough. I mean,
Speaker 3: and we obviously see as an alcohol problem. I mean,
Speaker 3: the real takeaway is that this guy does not he's
Speaker 3: a very messy person. Yes, he hasn't cleaned his car
Speaker 3: in weeks, guys.
Speaker 4: I didn't need anything more than just the shot in
Speaker 4: the window. You could see the liquor bottle like peeking
Speaker 4: out from the seat. It's fine, like that already is
Speaker 4: more than enough. But the fact that he is to
Speaker 4: open the door and pull out and hold the water bottle,
Speaker 4: the liquor bottle in for the camera, it's just so.
Speaker 1: For a neat tidy insert. And by the way, and
Speaker 1: perhaps this comes from then having gone to do half
Speaker 1: a decade of a police show. I'm like, don't touch
Speaker 1: the evidence. Don't you just put your fingerprints all over
Speaker 1: the car, prints all over.
Speaker 4: The bottle bottle? So stupid, you are.
Speaker 1: Literally contaminating on crime scenes, sir. And furthermore, what ding
Speaker 1: dong who's hit and run? I mean, I get that
Speaker 1: you're putting the car in the garage to hide it
Speaker 1: from view, but you're not going to like put a
Speaker 1: car cover over it in the garage for plausible deniability,
Speaker 1: for I don't know anyone who might walk through your house.
Speaker 1: You live with your parents, Like you don't think your
Speaker 1: parents are going to notice the mangled vintage suv next
Speaker 1: to the rear door of your home. The whole thing
Speaker 1: was just silly to me.
Speaker 3: Also, where's the bright green Porsche exactly?
Speaker 4: That's that would be in the garage? Yeah, silly silliness. Well,
Speaker 4: there's plenty of other grit that. You know. What else
Speaker 4: was silly was Milli in that chicken costume.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you good.
Speaker 4: She pulled it off.
Speaker 3: That was incredible.
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean that takes a lot of gumption to
Speaker 4: be able to stand there in a chicken outfit and
Speaker 4: say that and just you know what, I'm just going
Speaker 4: to say the things that I'm going to say, regardless
Speaker 4: of what I look like right now, and people will
Speaker 4: take me seriously because of what I'm saying. Yeah, that's
Speaker 4: a lot of that's a big gamble. I loved her
Speaker 4: for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was so great and it was very cool too.
Speaker 1: I loved Lisa's choice because you've seen the Mouth and
Speaker 1: Milly sort of back and forth about the issue at
Speaker 1: the apartment, and she's made the decision that she's not
Speaker 1: going to do this, She's not going to try to
Speaker 1: push any buttons, and then it's you watch her as
Speaker 1: she's reading you know, her little fact sheet, and she
Speaker 1: has that moment where she goes, I don't know, I
Speaker 1: couldn't read it because it was all in caps, and
Speaker 1: it just like there's something about seeing it right in
Speaker 1: front of her face. She chooses for that to be
Speaker 1: the absurdity that hits her, and when she looks up,
Speaker 1: I was like, there she goes. But I knew the
Speaker 1: rant was coming and I was so excited about it,
Speaker 1: and it was such it was such a great way
Speaker 1: to differentiate the conversation at home and then the inspiration
Speaker 1: for that gumption to come out of her under that
Speaker 1: street sign. She's just so fun to watch.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree. My note was Lisa should be in
Speaker 3: a chicken costume every week.
Speaker 1: Lisa just needs a show she does. I just want
Speaker 1: to I want to watch her do everything. And I
Speaker 1: loved too. It's so much fun the misdirect, especially because
Speaker 1: Alex has been in our world now for two seasons.
Speaker 1: When the guy comes up to the girls at the
Speaker 1: bar and she's like, oh, yeah, it's me, Like I'm
Speaker 1: used to this and he's like, you're the angry chicken lady.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's just so the whole thing is so good, so good.
Speaker 4: Speaking of Jana at the bar. Do we know that
Speaker 4: Jana knows Ian Kellerman or not Jana whatever, Alex.
Speaker 3: I mean no, up until this very moment.
Speaker 4: Okay, there was no other clue that I missed. That
Speaker 4: was the first time. That was another that felt a
Speaker 4: little too far fetched for me, Like we really really
Speaker 4: everyone in town knows everyone else to this degree.
Speaker 1: Come on, And it was good at least to have
Speaker 1: her say to Chase, just a guy I met. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm like, Alex Dupray is gonna hook up with a.
Speaker 3: College student exactly, Like, let's let's not forget for a moment.
Speaker 3: He hasn't signed any big deals. Yeah, he's like a
Speaker 3: twenty year old kid. Yeah, that's it. So it's weird
Speaker 3: that like some movie star would be like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 3: he has a great fast ball and.
Speaker 4: The implications they've already hung out together before, like she's
Speaker 4: already slept with him because that's what he's testing her.
Speaker 1: He's basically like, come over for round two, and here's
Speaker 1: what's crazy. And Rob, you know, we obviously haven't done
Speaker 1: as much of it since you joined us on the show,
Speaker 1: but there were many a story in the first seasons
Speaker 1: of drama queens for Joy and Hilary and myself to
Speaker 1: talk about many a dumb decision we made in our
Speaker 1: early twenties, partially because we were trapped in a town
Speaker 1: as young girls on TV and the only people there
Speaker 1: were either college students or like retired dads in their
Speaker 1: sixties looking for their third wife. And we've joked about,
Speaker 1: you know, how small our dating pool was, and so literally,
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is the fantasy of an older guy
Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, the movie star is totally gonna
Speaker 1: want to hook up with the young baseball stude. I'm like,
Speaker 1: the last thing a girl in her mid twenties who
Speaker 1: is famous wants to do is hook up with the
Speaker 1: guy from UNCW. I'm sorry, I don't care how good
Speaker 1: looking you are. I don't care. Like we're just never
Speaker 1: gonna do it. Yeah, And it was so funny to
Speaker 1: me to be like, wow, they just they don't get it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: And it's also it would be odd if it was
Speaker 3: I mean, any other character. It would make more sense
Speaker 3: because to a normal person there's a shot of big
Speaker 3: things to come for this guy. So it's like I
Speaker 3: could be I could be a part of a journey
Speaker 3: of maybe being famous and rich. Yeah, you can't pick
Speaker 3: the one person in town who's famous and rich. You
Speaker 3: got to be like, what if he makes it, It's
Speaker 3: like you've already made it. What are you're talking?
Speaker 4: What is the appeal?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I will say I loved seeing a softer, saner
Speaker 3: side of Alex. Yeah, when she gets to sort of
Speaker 3: just stay sort of a at a lower gear and
Speaker 3: just be sincere. Like that whole thing with Chase with
Speaker 3: the glasses. That was funny. Yeh, it's I know it's
Speaker 3: the times and it's our past, but like, I don't
Speaker 3: love how fast and loose everyone is with throwing the
Speaker 3: sex tape in her face. Like Chase has that line
Speaker 3: of like, yeah everyone can see her, but JJ on
Speaker 3: a sex tape, but you're worried about glasses. It's like, bro,
Speaker 3: come on man, but whatever that aside.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he could have just said you made a sex
Speaker 4: tape and you're worried about about glasses or whatever, like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, this is like the third time he's just casually.
Speaker 4: Specifically talk about her vagina. Can we can we be?
Speaker 1: Yeah? Like maybe let's not.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was very heavy handed, but seeing her like this,
Speaker 3: this version of herself with Chase. It makes it really
Speaker 3: easy to root for her.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And you know, one of the things I really
Speaker 1: liked as well is rather than do what we've seen
Speaker 1: so many of you guys do who are musical on
Speaker 1: the show and shock us all with a beautiful song,
Speaker 1: I actually love that they wrote it for her to
Speaker 1: be sitting and listening and questioning is it good enough,
Speaker 1: especially because her voice is so beautiful and it's nice
Speaker 1: to your point, Rob, you're making me realize, like, oh,
Speaker 1: that's exactly what a lot of this episode is. It's
Speaker 1: a quiet kind of reflection for Alex and that's really
Speaker 1: refreshing to see because yes, Jenna can make anything work,
Speaker 1: and yes she's so talented, particularly with the over the
Speaker 1: top comedy stuff, but it's really nice to see this
Speaker 1: quiet because then at the end it's just something that
Speaker 1: kind of carries through and she doesn't announce anything to anyone.
Speaker 1: You watch her just think about it quietly and try
Speaker 1: to make different choices. And that's really cool.
Speaker 3: Speaking of quiet moments, did anyone else notice at the
Speaker 3: end of the diner scene, Nathan and Chase have taken off,
Speaker 3: and as we say goodbye, there's just a two shot
Speaker 3: of Julian and Clay sitting next to each other. I
Speaker 3: didn't remember this until watching it back, So go ahead
Speaker 3: and watch that back because there's a very charged moment
Speaker 3: of silence where everyone leaves the table and we both
Speaker 3: look at each other and then we have some sort
Speaker 3: of thinking that goes on and then we quickly look away.
Speaker 3: And it made me laugh so hard because I had
Speaker 3: forgotten we did this. But we one hundred percent were like,
Speaker 3: let's just add a weird layer of like there is
Speaker 3: something between us and just not address it. Unless liked
Speaker 3: it and kept it in. But I immediately laughed. I
Speaker 3: was like, damn it. When we had Austin on the show,
Speaker 3: I was joking about the fan fiction people should write
Speaker 3: yeah about Clay and Julian. I was like, Holy, this
Speaker 3: is it. This is the seed.
Speaker 4: I missed it. I have to go back and watch.
Speaker 1: You guys are so funny in that moment. But what
Speaker 1: really set it up for me to make that smash
Speaker 1: is that as the you know, it's you two and
Speaker 1: then Chase and then Julian comes in and the four
Speaker 1: boys are mashed into this very small little booth. They leave,
Speaker 1: but before they have, as everyone's talking about what they
Speaker 1: want to order. You say something about mashed potato. Know,
Speaker 1: Nathan says something about mashed potatoes, and Julian's like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want mashed potatoes, and you guys look at each
Speaker 1: other like yes because you just said that. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: now it's this of like the awkwardness I read was
Speaker 1: a little bit of like while we're sitting really close
Speaker 1: to each other and also like we both do want
Speaker 1: mashed potatoes. Yeah, and it's just great. It's like, is
Speaker 1: it is it feeling.
Speaker 3: I'm watching this scene? I felt like this. It was
Speaker 3: very apparent to me that the writer's room had really
Speaker 3: come to see who I was, like Rob, not Clay,
Speaker 3: and just start leaning into that for the character. Yeah,
Speaker 3: because it's like it's it starts to get weird and silly,
Speaker 3: and Clay is like really leaning into it, like that
Speaker 3: whole thing about Uh, it's hard to say no when
Speaker 3: someone calls you and ask you to smuggle like five
Speaker 3: kilos and then and then I go on and on
Speaker 3: and everyone's like okay, okay, and then I lean and
Speaker 3: I'm like in your but.
Speaker 4: Like just the one last thing, even James kind of
Speaker 4: broke a little on that. It was so good.
Speaker 3: We had so much fun doing that. But to me,
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, okay, yeah, they're just they're kind.
Speaker 4: Of because remember how long it was, like, Oh my god,
Speaker 4: is this guy ever going to be able to like
Speaker 4: they bring in a comic genius and you're just gonna
Speaker 4: load him up with all of this drama non stop,
Speaker 4: like crazy ghosts and depression and psycho stalkers and like,
Speaker 4: good grief, let this man laugh.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So wow, Seriously go back and watch the end of
Speaker 3: the scene. And I'm telling you because it's not it was.
Speaker 3: I remember us deliberately doing it, thinking it was funny
Speaker 3: and also one of those things where it was like, dude,
Speaker 3: there's no way in hell this is going to make it,
Speaker 3: but let's just do one like this, and it made it.
Speaker 3: So go back and watch and you will now that
Speaker 3: you're looking for it, it is clear as day that
Speaker 3: there's an untold story happening.
Speaker 4: This is the This is the stuff I love about acting.
Speaker 4: This is the play that you know, we show up,
Speaker 4: we get paid to show up and say our lines,
Speaker 4: But it's the play in all the in between that
Speaker 4: really is what makes it so fun. All the layers
Speaker 4: you get to create that sometimes people catch and and
Speaker 4: they like or don't like, and then sometimes they don't
Speaker 4: catch it and it just floats right on in.
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 3: How about Chloe? Did anyone else get confused that she was? Like,
Speaker 3: she's a boundaryless cat Burglar, Yeah, a little bit. Brook
Speaker 3: and Julian come home and she's just sitting on the
Speaker 3: counter hanging out. And to Brook and Julian's credit, because
Speaker 3: obviously they're in a position where they need to not
Speaker 3: rock the boat with her, they're cool about it.
Speaker 4: She's on Brook's bed hanging out, eating yogurt or whatever.
Speaker 3: So she showed up, she knocked, and she just thought,
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm gonna go ahead and look for
Speaker 3: a high to key. It was just it was wild
Speaker 3: to me.
Speaker 4: It's very sam energy to me, like maybe they were
Speaker 4: trying to recreate that vibe of Samantha. It just it did.
Speaker 4: It did feel a bit out of place, like it
Speaker 4: hadn't been earned yet.
Speaker 1: And you know what would have been such an easy
Speaker 1: fix is if we'd come in and she's making a
Speaker 1: snack and then it's like, but why are you here?
Speaker 1: And she said, oh right, I came to tell you
Speaker 1: guys something, and I have to pee every five minutes. Look, you,
Speaker 1: I found your hide a key. You know you would
Speaker 1: have been like, oh, okay, yeah, pregnant women do have
Speaker 1: to pee all the time. Yeah, Like if there'd been
Speaker 1: some version of or.
Speaker 4: If she'd been coming out of the bathroom instead of
Speaker 4: making a sandwich even a little bit like good, kay,
Speaker 4: it's understandable, Yes, that's fine, but going in my fridge,
Speaker 4: like I know you're going to give me your baby,
Speaker 4: but we haven't established these bit But she's nineteen, so
Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe maybe kids assume things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would have appreciated them grounding it for her
Speaker 1: a little more than just being like, we've made Seantelle
Speaker 1: eat eight toaster pastries today, and we'd also like someone
Speaker 1: else to want one, like for.
Speaker 3: What well, And it was odd when we cut to
Speaker 3: later in the day and she's laying on the bed
Speaker 3: in the guest room. Yeah, oh oh, are we going
Speaker 3: to find out she's living out of her car?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Like is she homeless?
Speaker 3: Like sand And then that sort of makes more sense
Speaker 3: that she's just showing up and lingering. But that doesn't
Speaker 3: seem like that's where it's going. I did like the
Speaker 3: way that you played the scene so of going like
Speaker 3: as she's just eating a plate of oreos. In fact,
Speaker 3: she's not even eating the cookie, She's just eating the awasting,
Speaker 3: fake ingredient cor frosting that you were like, say, would
Speaker 3: you like some fruit with that frosting? Maybe maybe a
Speaker 3: vegetable or too. She's trying so hard to be like,
Speaker 3: how about one nutrient? Can we get one nutrient in there?
Speaker 1: Just some sort of antioxidant for you and the baby?
Speaker 5: So sweet, It's really it's it's cool, and I like,
Speaker 5: I like though that they let us, or at least
Speaker 5: they gave us space, and I thought lested really well
Speaker 5: with it.
Speaker 1: Have discomfort and awkwardness because we don't know each other,
Speaker 1: and then have these moments of ease and humor and
Speaker 1: figuring each other out, and then you know, even the
Speaker 1: screw ups of it would really help if we knew.
Speaker 1: And then of course she doesn't want to know. Of course,
Speaker 1: Brook's not thinking about this because she's so excited about
Speaker 1: this other part, and you know, Chloe hasn't communicated that
Speaker 1: and then has to and the sort of fits and
Speaker 1: starts of it I thought were really they were just
Speaker 1: nice to play. I'm glad we didn't do some totally
Speaker 1: Pollyannish version of it. And I think Levin is so
Speaker 1: she's so grounded in, you know, the moments and the emotion.
Speaker 1: She doesn't have to do a lot to communicate a lot.
Speaker 1: And I liked that we were communicating, albeit awkwardly, not
Speaker 1: with what we were saying, but with what we were
Speaker 1: trying to say. I always think that's the mark of good,
Speaker 1: good writing for sure.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about Chuck and Chase real quick. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I wanted to pivot there too, because that was my
Speaker 4: favorite besides Mouth and Millie.
Speaker 3: But also Millie saying how clucked up is that? I
Speaker 3: don't know how that didn't catch on because that was great.
Speaker 3: But Chuck and Chase, it was all. It was also sweet.
Speaker 3: There's also some funny elements to it. One I thought, like,
Speaker 3: my Chase is having him standing with Chuck, has his
Speaker 3: back to the wall, meaning if he hits the ball,
Speaker 3: he's hitting it at a room full of customers and
Speaker 3: glass and glass. But then I thought, oh, but how
Speaker 3: funny if he did that because he knows that this
Speaker 3: kid cannot hit a ball to save his life. And
Speaker 3: then later so for and also like total jerk move,
Speaker 3: laughing like when a kid gets vulnerable. You got a
Speaker 3: button that shit up, you know, But I don't know
Speaker 3: if you is this. So Chase later goes to Chuck's
Speaker 3: house to apologize. He goes to the window and he knocks.
Speaker 3: It gets weirder. I have a different layer for you.
Speaker 3: So it is weird that he knocks and you hear Chuck,
Speaker 3: go go away, mister mee Hall. I told you to
Speaker 3: leave me alone. So Chuck is clearly dealing with some
Speaker 3: sort of pervert predator. But here's where it got even weirder.
Speaker 3: I rewound it, and you know how, I don't know
Speaker 3: if you like I watch this on my computer. If
Speaker 3: you rewind it on Apple TV, it'll do ten seconds
Speaker 3: of subtitles for you. So when I rewound it, when
Speaker 3: he says, he clearly says go away, mister mee Hall.
Speaker 3: The subtitle is go away mister Kowalski. What as in
Speaker 3: like Pete? Well, like the only Kowalski we know on
Speaker 3: the show is obviously are.
Speaker 4: All love Everybody loves Today, which.
Speaker 3: Made me wonder if, like in the original script it
Speaker 3: was Kowalski and then Pete or someone was like hey, no, no,
Speaker 3: and they changed it. But the subtitles are off of
Speaker 3: the script or something.
Speaker 4: But if you go back and do that, that's horrendous.
Speaker 3: It's not even like they were listening and like, oh
Speaker 3: it sounds like this, No, it's me Hall, but the
Speaker 3: subtius says, go away, mister Kowalski.
Speaker 4: Oh my gods, that's such a frat boy thing that
Speaker 4: the you know, the crew would do that a lot
Speaker 4: in it. I mean, it's it was always fun, like
Speaker 4: putting less Butler's name on the homework sheet. You know,
Speaker 4: they would use crew members' names all the time as
Speaker 4: parts of you know, posters that were going up or whatever,
Speaker 4: a character's name just to just be fun because it's
Speaker 4: a fun, friendly community in sweet ways. And that totally
Speaker 4: sounds like something somebody wrote as a joke and then
Speaker 4: didn't end up correcting it later.
Speaker 1: I absolutely hate that.
Speaker 4: That sucks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that was so that was just.
Speaker 4: Also just gross, Like why why is that in the show.
Speaker 3: It's as if the kid doesn't have it bad enough.
Speaker 1: My note for that is I was like, first of all,
Speaker 1: we have a grown man trapesing down the side of
Speaker 1: a house in the dark to kind of child's window,
Speaker 1: which yes, it's Chase, but it's weird enough, yeah, and
Speaker 1: then the kid's response is to assume it's a different
Speaker 1: creepy girl man, And I'm like, why are we making
Speaker 1: a joke out of? Like what is that?
Speaker 3: Also, it's extra folk, It's like it's extra shoe leather
Speaker 3: we didn't need. Because Chase then immediately goes to the
Speaker 3: front door to meat Chuck. So it's like, why would
Speaker 3: you go to his window in the first place. That
Speaker 3: all you do. The only reason you go to someone's
Speaker 3: windows if you don't want their parents to know.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 3: So so that was all kinds of weird. Their story
Speaker 3: got better though, when they went to the park. He
Speaker 3: puts on the glasses. He drills that ball so.
Speaker 4: Great line drive right into Chase's stomach.
Speaker 3: He hits a line drive into Chase's sternam and by
Speaker 3: the way, Steven, who's great with physical comedy, did that
Speaker 3: perfect getting hit jump and then I love as he's
Speaker 3: getting up kind of wheezing, He's like, yeah, you need glasses,
Speaker 3: But was that cgi because there's no way.
Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm sure it had to be.
Speaker 3: It had to be. It was too perfect.
Speaker 1: Well that or that was a stunt setup because that
Speaker 1: was clearly when you see Chase fall, it's from so
Speaker 1: far back it's over Chuck's shoulder. Like that had to
Speaker 1: be a stunt person who literally threw their body to
Speaker 1: the ground. So I wonder if they I wonder if
Speaker 1: they hid like a ball launcher, you know, yeah, oh
Speaker 1: yeah in front of like they got Chuck's shoulder in
Speaker 1: but they actually had a like a ball launcher, so
Speaker 1: they knew in the right.
Speaker 4: And maybe Stephen was wearing a pad.
Speaker 3: See that makes sense because if you also watch it
Speaker 3: back because again as one of the ones I went
Speaker 3: back to like four times, they they do three different
Speaker 3: shots they do they go like fifty to fifty and
Speaker 3: then they go like at Chase, and then they cut
Speaker 3: to a third one. It's so actually you're probably right.
Speaker 3: They probably told cheated it. But that's what those first
Speaker 3: two in to be, like it's these two, it's these two,
Speaker 3: and then it's not the kid.
Speaker 1: It looked great good.
Speaker 4: So for those of you who don't know, Less Butler
Speaker 4: was our editor for one of our editors for a
Speaker 4: very long time, and so he really is skilled at
Speaker 4: this would have been This was a great example of
Speaker 4: a way that a great editor can make a shot work.
Speaker 4: You just line up a few different shots, but the
Speaker 4: timing down to the millisecond of making it all move
Speaker 4: smoothly enough that unless you're looking for it, it just
Speaker 4: looks perfectly seamless. Yeah, it's a great example of that
Speaker 4: what a good editor can do. But I love this storyline.
Speaker 4: I'm so glad that we're continuing with Chase showing up
Speaker 4: for Chuck. I'm really invested in Chuck's well being. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I really want to see him win. I just care.
Speaker 4: I love this kid now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's really, you know, there's something to it.
Speaker 1: We're not saying it, but even the idea that this
Speaker 1: little boy has gone this long clearly with a site
Speaker 1: problem and no one's identified it. It's it's just continuing
Speaker 1: to reinforce the truth that if you invest in kids,
Speaker 1: they really get to flourish. And it's nice to have
Speaker 1: that be in the mix of the often sort of
Speaker 1: you know, dramatic car crash sexy love story world of
Speaker 1: a TV show. It's nice to have this other thing
Speaker 1: and it works too.
Speaker 4: It still works with the storyline of investing in people
Speaker 4: that are younger than you, which we've done on our
Speaker 4: show consistently throughout, you know, you with Sam and Hayley,
Speaker 4: with Quentin, I feel like there's always these younger mentor moments.
Speaker 4: So I love seeing that Chase is doing that now
Speaker 4: and oh them laughing at him when he put his
Speaker 4: glasses on. I agree with you, Rob, but I don't
Speaker 4: know if you noticed this. When Chuck put the glasses on,
Speaker 4: he turned around and then he made this, He made
Speaker 4: a face, he smiled really goofy, And that's to me
Speaker 4: what I was like, Oh, I thought they were laughing
Speaker 4: because he was making fun of himself, like making a
Speaker 4: goofy face and sort of giving them permission to laugh.
Speaker 4: So anyway, that worked well for me, that to make
Speaker 4: them not just look like dicks that were just laughing
Speaker 4: at a kid they had only moments ago told they
Speaker 4: weren't going to laugh at.
Speaker 1: It was a really good choice either by Less or
Speaker 1: the prop department or them together to put Chuck in
Speaker 1: a very exaggerated, like almost nineteen fifties cat eye adjacent
Speaker 1: pair of glasses. It added to the humor in a way.
Speaker 1: You know, if they'd given him like a cool Clark
Speaker 1: Kent pair of frames, it wouldn't have worked the same.
Speaker 1: And so you know, Michael May being such a good sport,
Speaker 1: playing Chuck and leaning into his own physical comedy and
Speaker 1: making the face and the glasses being so like nineteen fifties,
Speaker 1: you know, Lady and the Boys. It made it just
Speaker 1: made for a lot.
Speaker 3: Of fun, very cute, and it also helps land the
Speaker 3: joke about why Alex would be insecure about people seeing
Speaker 3: her in them, But then it begs the question, like,
Speaker 3: you're an adult, why wouldn't you just go buy a
Speaker 3: pair that you look good in? But regardless, it's so.
Speaker 3: It was very funny on Michael May honorable mentions. What
Speaker 3: do we got?
Speaker 1: Yeah, chicken suit, Yeah, chicken suit all day.
Speaker 3: I'm going to go the runner of Haley auditioning everyone
Speaker 3: she knows for her labor driver.
Speaker 4: Yeah that was fun. That was fun.
Speaker 3: That was great.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I liked the reaction when she tries to pull
Speaker 4: it over on Clay and Nathan and y'all are already
Speaker 4: yeah already, Wise, go ahead.
Speaker 3: And force those knees together, Hails. Yeah, it's a Clay
Speaker 3: says something that effect.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I remember. That was fun to shoot and
Speaker 4: you losing the keys down the down, Acy bent.
Speaker 1: It was a really fun day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did enjoy that. What's our listener question?
Speaker 1: Brenda asks, This question is for joy. Did you film
Speaker 1: all the way up to having your daughter? Whose idea
Speaker 1: was it to put you in the heels while filming
Speaker 1: in your third trimester, especially when Haley is home in
Speaker 1: her own house. Grenda, we have been talking about this
Speaker 1: for two weeks.
Speaker 4: A girl after my own heart. Let me tell you,
Speaker 4: I know, can you imagine what woman in her right
Speaker 4: mind walks around in heels in her home in her
Speaker 4: third trimester? I would like to meet that woman. So yes,
Speaker 4: I filmed all the way up to having my daughter.
Speaker 4: I did. And it's one of the reasons why my
Speaker 4: storyline became very sporadic and unrelated to many other storylines,
Speaker 4: because they weren't sure at what moment I might have
Speaker 4: to disappear and go have a baby and be gone
Speaker 4: for two weeks. So yeah, just episode by episode kept filming,
Speaker 4: and Maria was two weeks late. Actually, so kind of
Speaker 4: through everything.
Speaker 3: Buddy, did you only take two weeks off?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Holy cow, that's bonkers, man.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was wild.
Speaker 3: Wow, you are a soldier. I did not realize that
Speaker 3: was all the time you took after creating and delivering
Speaker 3: a human to the America. Yeah, right, she'll walk it off,
Speaker 3: she'll be fun.
Speaker 1: Bill paid leave and two weeks is you're told, is
Speaker 1: a luxury? Like absolutely insane.
Speaker 4: I remember us filming a scene at the hospital later
Speaker 4: after I'd had my daughter, and it was I think
Speaker 4: but kind of right after I came back and I
Speaker 4: was still in pain, and I remember asking I started
Speaker 4: to walk and it was when we filmed at the hospital,
Speaker 4: we had this area, so we parked our trailers and
Speaker 4: then there was this massive area that felt like an
Speaker 4: acre maybe of just rocks, and they were all these
Speaker 4: little it wasn't tiny gravel rocks. They were like no,
Speaker 4: they're like big river rock, plunky rocks. Yeah. That you
Speaker 4: had to walk across all the way up to get
Speaker 4: to the hospital doors where then all the filming would be.
Speaker 4: And I started to walk and I was just like
Speaker 4: my body just hurt. I mean, I had a baby.
Speaker 4: So I had asked them, I was like, we're at
Speaker 4: a hospital. Is there like a wheelchair in there? Could
Speaker 4: I just like get a lift please? Just like a
Speaker 4: little lift over to set. And I remember they brought
Speaker 4: one out and I got The producers came to me
Speaker 4: and they were like we heard you like had needed
Speaker 4: a wheelchair to set like that seems really dramatic.
Speaker 3: Are you okay the all male producing team the way, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Just like yep, just fine, just you know, just had
Speaker 4: a little baby, that's all.
Speaker 1: Just needed a little extra You're like, I just actually
Speaker 1: have a football size open wound inside my abdomen. But
Speaker 1: thank you so much for asking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, no, no problem. Sorry to be over dramatic.
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry to like.
Speaker 3: We heard you're being hysterical. Would you like to tilan all.
Speaker 4: It just took you so long with the wheelchair over
Speaker 4: the rocks, you know, yeah, you need to go slow
Speaker 4: because of all the you know rocks. But we made it.
Speaker 4: We're here, oh lord yea America. So anyway, Brenda, thanks
Speaker 4: for your question. We'll have lots more of those pregnancy stories,
Speaker 4: I'm sure, as as the baby baby gets closer.
Speaker 1: Also, for anyone else who liked the Three of Us
Speaker 1: thinks a two week maximum is insane, you should probably
Speaker 1: follow Paid Leave for All. They're a great nonpartisan organization
Speaker 1: trying to advocate for you know, actual parental leave.
Speaker 3: I love that. Yeah, pretty great, good plug.
Speaker 1: You know you can come for the drama and you
Speaker 1: can stay for the for the wonderful community organizing. Yes, now,
Speaker 1: who's getting the wheel?
Speaker 3: Most likely to cry during a rom comid?
Speaker 4: Julian, Oh yeah, yeah, Julian and skills.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, how about in real life?
Speaker 4: I mean, so if you do, if it's a good one,
Speaker 4: I'll cry. But yeah, I don't know. Rom com seem
Speaker 4: to be kind of a diamond dozen now. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm in a lot of them. I shouldn't say that.
Speaker 3: Name names Joy name names.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but but if it's a real like I love
Speaker 4: those old nineties ones like Lawrence kan and like the
Speaker 4: you know, Tom Hanks, make Ryan Sandra Bullock, love those
Speaker 4: old ones. Those ones always get me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, those get me And I'm definitely a crier.
Speaker 3: I love it all right, ging come back out join
Speaker 3: us next week. We got season eight, episode eighteen with
Speaker 3: a much better title, Quiet Little Voices.
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