Speaker 1: It's nine O Gen one with Jenny Garth and Tory Spelling.
Speaker 2: This is so exciting. Do you know how who.
Speaker 1: We have on the show today.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 2: It's it's a pretty great day. It really is.
Speaker 4: Courtney Thorne Smith, Daphne Suniga, and Laura Layton Melrose Place.
Speaker 1: All three of the Ladies of the Place are here today.
Speaker 5: Both are responsible for the fact that Melrose Place even exists.
Speaker 2: I don't seek it's it's all us.
Speaker 5: Don't tell them that nobout you there would be no Melrose.
Speaker 2: They would find some way to make it happen. I'm
Speaker 2: pretty sure.
Speaker 1: But we were happy to visit Melrose Place, but we're
Speaker 1: even happier to have them visit OMG Ladies.
Speaker 4: Their new podcasts Still the Place.
Speaker 2: Podcasts listen on the iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 5: Wait, can I just say this is literally as a
Speaker 5: fan like the Dream collaboration right now, Like it's almost
Speaker 5: like I'm glitching because we have Tory, Jenny, Daphney, Laura Courtney,
Speaker 5: Like my college years are like my brain is freaking
Speaker 5: out right now because I spent my entire college years
Speaker 5: and Tory and Jenny know this in a TV room
Speaker 5: and my sorority. Like literally the size of the room
Speaker 5: I'm in with thirty five girls packed in two straight hours,
Speaker 5: nine oh two one zero Melrose Place, and like I
Speaker 5: don't even think we drank water, like we might have
Speaker 5: got some popcorn, but like just were hooked. So for
Speaker 5: my college self, I thank you all.
Speaker 3: I love it. I love that. What a fan she is,
Speaker 3: don't you guys?
Speaker 6: Like it really makes the job and makes doing this
Speaker 6: really an added umph, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 6: when someone comes in and they're like you, Amy, it
Speaker 6: really does.
Speaker 4: It makes it look so Jen and I always talk
Speaker 4: about it, and you guys, I'm sure will know. There's
Speaker 4: a difference between oh yeah I watched the show. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 4: I know who you guys are. Between that and like
Speaker 4: a super fan. There's a look in their eyes. Correct, yes, yeah,
Speaker 4: it's crazy crazy. No, it's just like invested like family.
Speaker 1: To Amy's defense, she has that look with a lot
Speaker 1: of different people. It's not just us, you guys, so
Speaker 1: don't flatter yourselves too much. She's very enthusiastic about every jealous.
Speaker 2: Why are you smiling so much?
Speaker 5: Because I love television? She does, like, I love watching
Speaker 5: television and I've loved it since I was a kid,
Speaker 5: and this was like the height of that for me.
Speaker 5: It was something that brought all of us together to
Speaker 5: and it was juicy and it was fun and it
Speaker 5: was like it was water cooler. Like that's such an
Speaker 5: old timey saying now, but like we all talked about
Speaker 5: what was happening on both your shows all the time.
Speaker 4: And everybody each other.
Speaker 3: We won't remember that.
Speaker 5: But did you guys at the time know how, Like
Speaker 5: were you aware of how huge nine O two one
Speaker 5: oh was and that you were coming off of that
Speaker 5: show as a spinoff?
Speaker 3: I did.
Speaker 6: I remember being I remember randomly being in Paris or
Speaker 6: something and seeing postcards and pictures everywhere of nine O
Speaker 6: two one oh, Because I feel like as big as
Speaker 6: our show's nine O two one oh, we're talking about art,
Speaker 6: we're here abroad like even that much more, you know,
Speaker 6: posters and billboards. I just remember seeing it everywhere on
Speaker 6: you know.
Speaker 2: So I was like, Wow, that's a huge show.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. We all kind of are cut from the
Speaker 1: same cloth in that respect.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's there's not a week that goes by that
Speaker 4: someone doesn't come up to me and go, oh my god,
Speaker 4: I love you. You were great on Melwar's place, and
Speaker 4: when they do, I'm just like, thank you, thank you
Speaker 4: so much, because I'm like, it's the same thing. We
Speaker 4: just you know, we're all aligned, we're family.
Speaker 5: What do you remember? What do you remember from your
Speaker 5: dad and Darren creating the show and these ladies being cast.
Speaker 4: I remember we talk about this a lot that they
Speaker 4: take a lot of stories from real life and put
Speaker 4: into Nino to and oh and we're seeing that now
Speaker 4: doing the rewatch. So Melrose was like our place that
Speaker 4: we always went to, my friends and I and that
Speaker 4: was like the thing, and my dad was always really intrigued,
Speaker 4: like what's the Melrose like type thing? And so I
Speaker 4: know that was like part of the inspiration of wanting
Speaker 4: to elevate it to like something that was a little
Speaker 4: more like mainstream for La, like when you got a
Speaker 4: little bit older, you know, you weren't Beverly Hills like
Speaker 4: that was the lux in kind of Melrose was like
Speaker 4: it was cooler. It was like where anyone and everyone
Speaker 4: could come and kind of be a part of it
Speaker 4: and fit in and be able to afford the time.
Speaker 4: I mean, not the place you guys lived in that
Speaker 4: was like crazy, but no one could afford to live there.
Speaker 3: I think that that nice.
Speaker 5: Did you guys think it was nice? I never thought
Speaker 5: that apartment building was so bougie.
Speaker 2: I liked it.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: It's funny because I think it was sort of in
Speaker 6: the day supposed to be like a cool place, and
Speaker 6: now it just looks so run down and dumpy to me.
Speaker 2: When I watched, I.
Speaker 7: Go, wow, it was exaccurate apartment lived.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if I had to live in an apartment I
Speaker 1: would have wanted to live in one like that with
Speaker 1: pool and like all the young people living there.
Speaker 8: Totally, the apartments I actually lived in in LA we're
Speaker 8: not as cute as that, So yeah, they were pretty janky.
Speaker 2: So true.
Speaker 1: I'm really you know, we heard you guys are doing
Speaker 1: a rewatch podcast.
Speaker 2: So have you started? Are you already into it? We've started.
Speaker 8: Our first episode is actually live today, so today's our
Speaker 8: launch day, and we you know, we're just still getting
Speaker 8: together once a week from here on out.
Speaker 3: And we watched the pilot.
Speaker 1: You watched the pilot and how did you How did
Speaker 1: you well like it?
Speaker 4: Jenny?
Speaker 7: We all wanted to jump in a break because we.
Speaker 8: Feel like, oh, Kelly, yeah, no, too young.
Speaker 7: Up until like, as you guys are flirting up until
Speaker 7: the second you guys kissed, I was thinking they couldn't
Speaker 7: possibly they was like, we are kissing, the kissing it's
Speaker 7: so shocking now. The time, I remember it seeming romantic
Speaker 7: and sexy, and now it looks shocking creepy, right, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 7: now it looks creepy, although you know, incredibly handsome, attractive
Speaker 7: people being creepy. But still our thinking about that has
Speaker 7: changed so much school.
Speaker 1: We're older now, so we have a completely different perspective.
Speaker 1: I think that's what Tory and I find so interesting
Speaker 1: about rewatching our show is that you are able to
Speaker 1: look at it from a completely different place in life,
Speaker 1: and everything just resonates a little differently.
Speaker 7: What do you think then? What did you think then?
Speaker 7: Do you remember when you had a storyline with Grant.
Speaker 1: No, I remember just being like, Okay, this is what
Speaker 1: I've been told to do, Like I didn't. There wasn't
Speaker 1: a point where I had much say in anything, and
Speaker 1: so I was just doing what Darren and Aaron wanted done,
Speaker 1: and I didn't think anything of it. Like I literally
Speaker 1: never thought, oh he's this age or she's this age.
Speaker 7: Did it seem bad? He's insane and handsome, right, and
Speaker 7: a super nice guy. So did it seem like, oh,
Speaker 7: this feels how were you actually? Were you eighteen at
Speaker 7: the time? How old were you.
Speaker 2: In real life?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: How old were you?
Speaker 4: Guys started?
Speaker 2: What year was thisenne ninety two?
Speaker 5: Yeah, ninety two too, God quick, math, you were around eighteen? Yeah,
Speaker 5: about eighteen.
Speaker 2: I can't even fathom being eighteen again. Wow. Yeah, at
Speaker 2: the time, we thought it was kind of a lot.
Speaker 7: Yeah, at the time, it seemed really wetter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought he was like twenty.
Speaker 8: Like his character, probably mid twenties as the character, but
Speaker 8: he was probably about thirty.
Speaker 2: It's creepy now that we look back at it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I guess they're right.
Speaker 6: A lot of stuff feels inappropriate and kind of shocking,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean. And it's so bizarre that
Speaker 6: none of us saw before. It's just the way the would.
Speaker 6: But and I say this.
Speaker 9: Like.
Speaker 6: Drama, just drama and conflict. Back then, was you know,
Speaker 6: women being threatened or harmed by a male figure the
Speaker 6: bad guy, like that was the go to you know,
Speaker 6: it's not that it just was allowed in.
Speaker 3: Life, so you know, you.
Speaker 6: Can't really do that right now, that's like a this
Speaker 6: misogynistic and easy easy, you know, sloppy, lazy writing. Why
Speaker 6: why do we always go to that. Let's just throw
Speaker 6: in a threat to her. Let's just threaten her.
Speaker 5: You know that'd be funny, Daphne. That's a major theme
Speaker 5: on Milrose.
Speaker 2: Like totally the thing I know well.
Speaker 7: But also I watched a kind of Fringish crime because
Speaker 7: I'm stuck on BritBox. There's always a woman getting locked somewhere,
Speaker 7: like she's in a box, she's an old refrigerator. That
Speaker 7: happens all the time. It's not just us as it does.
Speaker 7: Happens all the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow.
Speaker 5: And do you remember Jenny like being on your set
Speaker 5: and shooting with you guys sort of as you launched
Speaker 5: this first episode. I know you didn't have scenes together.
Speaker 4: We did it during the summer, so we were not
Speaker 4: like we.
Speaker 7: Remember when I remember you guys coming on and filming.
Speaker 7: What did you guys think of it? Did you think, oh,
Speaker 7: I can't believe they're making us launch the show or
Speaker 7: did it seem fun? Do you remember it again?
Speaker 4: I go back to the beginning, sorry real quick. So
Speaker 4: I know obviously Grant was cast because he was the
Speaker 4: crossover of the link to Melbroe's place. But Courtney, you
Speaker 4: were cast first out of everyone else. Correct, I don't know, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you were right.
Speaker 3: You tell remember so.
Speaker 4: Little known fact. I Summer school was my like one
Speaker 4: of my biggest obsessions. It was my favorite. And I
Speaker 4: had this thing when I was younger then, whenever I
Speaker 4: would watch something and I was a huge fan, I
Speaker 4: would always take notes and tell my dad, like this person,
Speaker 4: I like, they're great, you have to cast them in something.
Speaker 4: I did this, you know, since I was like literally
Speaker 4: seven years old, and I just remember telling him that
Speaker 4: I was such a huge fan of yours, and I
Speaker 4: was really excited that he went on to work.
Speaker 7: I need to tell a story super quick that I
Speaker 7: told in our first episode, but super quick about your dad.
Speaker 7: So I auditioned for something else, auditioned for a whole week,
Speaker 7: didn't get it. I was devastated. And as I'm leaving
Speaker 7: the office, he said, he said, Doll, I'm going to
Speaker 7: work with you, and I just sort of rolled my eyes,
Speaker 7: like I like you hear that. The next morning, I
Speaker 7: woke up there was a stack of scripts on my doorstep,
Speaker 7: and one was from Melo's place, and your dad was
Speaker 7: one of the few people who said things like that
Speaker 7: and meant it like I will work with you, you
Speaker 7: will be in one of these things. And it was
Speaker 7: Melra's place, So now I owe that to you, So
Speaker 7: thank you.
Speaker 6: Tory's toys a dad give her a stack of scripts.
Speaker 5: Well yeah, okay, why did you cast anyone else?
Speaker 4: I was also obsessed with Spaceball, very going had me
Speaker 4: in there.
Speaker 3: I knew it. Thank god I did that though.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank god you were allowed to watch that movie.
Speaker 3: And were three.
Speaker 4: Sorr said, Laura, I can't take credit for you.
Speaker 8: No, I was a nobody unless you sat at the
Speaker 8: bar and I bought you a drink.
Speaker 5: You probably didn't know me, Laura. It was your first
Speaker 5: job ever, Like, how did you go? I mean that
Speaker 5: must have been insane to go from never working to
Speaker 5: being on like what was arguably like the top show
Speaker 5: in the universe.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean it was to me because I I
Speaker 8: was coming into something that was I was. It was
Speaker 8: so far above my wildest imaginings of what my first
Speaker 8: job might be, and it was.
Speaker 2: It was written as a two episode guest s arc
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 8: Thought that was the hugest first job ever to have
Speaker 8: two whole episodes where I got to, you know, develop
Speaker 8: a character. And I didn't just you know, wait on
Speaker 8: somebody in the background, you know, as my first job.
Speaker 8: So no, it was it was a huge deal in
Speaker 8: I went through a series of auditions and I was
Speaker 8: at those.
Speaker 2: Big offices on Wolster Boulevard.
Speaker 8: And and I was just thrilled when they told me
Speaker 8: that I had won the job. And then I was like,
Speaker 8: oh no, now I have to figure out what I'm doing,
Speaker 8: you know, like you know, you know, the script supervisor
Speaker 8: reminded me that I needed to match from take to
Speaker 8: take and was like, what's matching?
Speaker 2: What do you type me now?
Speaker 8: And I was supposed to be smoking a cigarette and
Speaker 8: that first appearance of my character, she was smoking, and
Speaker 8: I thought, oh god, now I have to smoke at
Speaker 8: the same time. What Like, I didn't know any of
Speaker 8: that stuff. But yeah, and by the way, your dad
Speaker 8: was super cool to me as well. He was like,
Speaker 8: I love the jacket kid. You know, I was wearing
Speaker 8: a leather jacket in my audition. He's like, Sydney, where's
Speaker 8: the jacket. So I ended up that was part of
Speaker 8: her definition of her characters, how she dressed, and it
Speaker 8: was my jacket that i'd worn to the audition?
Speaker 5: Was it nerve wracking? Like, did you guys realize, like
Speaker 5: this guy's the biggest TV producer of all time?
Speaker 3: What was that Like?
Speaker 7: It was nerve But he was so sweet. You're in
Speaker 7: this beautiful office and he made you feel comfortable. It's
Speaker 7: the exact opposite of what happens today when you walk
Speaker 7: into a bunch of strangers. He would walk in, he'd
Speaker 7: give you a hugs. It's so good to see you.
Speaker 7: Remember Duke. Duke Vincent came to my mind today driving here.
Speaker 7: It was such a different time, Like your dad was
Speaker 7: like the last person of that era who believed in
Speaker 7: actors as people and that were here to do this
Speaker 7: thing together. And he had loyalty to his actors, which
Speaker 7: I think you just don't see very often anymore.
Speaker 3: Like look at Heather.
Speaker 6: He brought Heather in, and I remember the wood paneling
Speaker 6: in his office and the fine art on the walls
Speaker 6: and the soft cigar, and it was just so elegant.
Speaker 6: You know, I didn't audition but Darren, because Darren brought
Speaker 6: me in and he kind of just and then I think,
Speaker 6: I don't know if I had to do with a
Speaker 6: Friday or something. No, he didn't do meetings on Friday, right.
Speaker 6: I don't know if I new remembers, but anyway, Aaron
Speaker 6: just said, chosen't need to go to network. We're just
Speaker 6: going to do this. So it was like, just you know,
Speaker 6: not many people can do that. I'm saying this, so
Speaker 6: she's coming. Yeah, So I did read for him, though
Speaker 6: Darren wrote a little scene that didn't wasn't from the show.
Speaker 6: We just wrote something so he could present me this
Speaker 6: new character from New York, you know, And and I
Speaker 6: just remember just just loving it. I just had so
Speaker 6: much fun. I was so excited to come on to
Speaker 6: a show where I could act every single day.
Speaker 3: I was so excited.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it was great.
Speaker 6: And I remember disappointing your dad immediately. I wore an
Speaker 6: out that he hated. I was chewing gum, which he hated.
Speaker 6: I was wearing a hat that he hated.
Speaker 2: And first day, yeah, so we just we just redid it.
Speaker 3: We reshot my first day and I had none of
Speaker 3: that stuff.
Speaker 2: It was that simple, man.
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Speaker 4: I remember, maybe I might have this wrong. Did you
Speaker 4: come to our house which wasn't the big house, It
Speaker 4: was the semi big house before and read with Andrew
Speaker 4: and were there a couple other guys.
Speaker 7: Yeah, because that replaced the billy character. So on a
Speaker 7: Saturday we came to your house. Yes, yes, Well, wasn't
Speaker 7: it the big house across from the park, isn't that?
Speaker 2: It wasn't the.
Speaker 4: Quote unquote manner. It was the one on the other
Speaker 4: side of Mapleton. We say it wasn't the fifty six
Speaker 4: thousand square foot house.
Speaker 3: It was of conversation.
Speaker 7: It was a beautiful library with leather bound volumes of
Speaker 7: Fantasy Island and love Boat. It was in wall to walls,
Speaker 7: in wall to wall. It was amazing. And I watched
Speaker 7: your dad work the roomy them all do exactly what
Speaker 7: he wanted. I was like, wow, the puppet master, it
Speaker 7: was fascinating. Cool, he's so smart.
Speaker 8: But Torri, I heard you had a point of view
Speaker 8: about Andrew Shoe too. You he was maybe maybe this
Speaker 8: is folklore, but this is what I recall is that you.
Speaker 2: Had a preference and you thought and.
Speaker 4: Partney stole him from me. Yeah, that's that happens.
Speaker 8: That parts extra butt.
Speaker 2: And on this show.
Speaker 5: And we all, I mean, I I don't want to
Speaker 5: say we all. Tory and Jenny can speak for themselves,
Speaker 5: but I got kind of swoony. I'm not gonna lie.
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my gosh, he said no, I
Speaker 4: had a crush on him back then, like when my
Speaker 4: dad cast him, and yeah, I saw him at like
Speaker 4: one upfront and I was like, oh my god, he's
Speaker 4: so cute.
Speaker 7: And then because he is so so cute, it's still
Speaker 7: so it was.
Speaker 6: Still dream so toy and then we'll talk to Jenny too.
Speaker 6: But Tory, did you also have a say in that
Speaker 6: the men were all uh, shirtless because you had crushes
Speaker 6: on all Andrew was shirtless and even in the pilot
Speaker 6: he just starts right off and so does Grant, and
Speaker 6: like then they just made it a thing. It's probably Darren.
Speaker 4: I think my dad was into that too, like he
Speaker 4: was like, you know, the women, you know, we want
Speaker 4: them to be smart and funny and hot, and same with.
Speaker 3: Yeah, same with men.
Speaker 2: Hot.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we got to keep our clothes on. How about
Speaker 7: nine O two and o the guys never had clothes on.
Speaker 7: We always had our clothes took.
Speaker 2: I don't think no, you guys we begged.
Speaker 5: There's definitely like bikini a lot on nine O two
Speaker 5: one oh Yeah, you guys were always around the pool
Speaker 5: though we had the beach house.
Speaker 2: You had the pool.
Speaker 7: Was your beach house inside or outside?
Speaker 4: On set?
Speaker 2: It was inside, Yeah, because.
Speaker 7: We had to be inside in a bathing suit. Was extra,
Speaker 7: super duper uncomfortable. It felt even worse than it would
Speaker 7: have if we were actually outside.
Speaker 2: Was inside, Yeah, that pool.
Speaker 7: We didn't even get a skyline till like season four,
Speaker 7: so they couldn't shoot up, so they had to you
Speaker 7: see the roof, you see the lighting. So we finally
Speaker 7: got the sky illusion, which seems like a pretty easy
Speaker 7: fix that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they dug outside stage. They dug into the floor
Speaker 8: and built a underground the sound.
Speaker 3: You didn't know that, Amy.
Speaker 4: It was like the love boat, the lido deck in
Speaker 4: the pool. I mean they did go on cruises once
Speaker 4: in a while, but it was all on set, the
Speaker 4: pool and everything. Did you go on the love boat cruises?
Speaker 5: Toy?
Speaker 4: I did go on the first one, I think when
Speaker 4: they were doing what Mexico. Yeah, it was like two
Speaker 4: or three.
Speaker 6: Was there, Yes, disappoint her whatever you say, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I was just going to ask you guys, did you
Speaker 1: ever feel like any once you thought about doing a
Speaker 1: podcast about your show from so long ago. Did you
Speaker 1: guys ever have any like conflicting feelings about it where
Speaker 1: all of you like, yeah, let's just do this, let's
Speaker 1: talk about it, or where was anybody like.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I want to do this.
Speaker 6: So far, we've just been because Corney keeps saying, let's
Speaker 6: just have fun. Let's just sit around and talk and
Speaker 6: watch this and just make it fun, because how can
Speaker 6: it be serious? Seriously, you know, the rest of your career,
Speaker 6: you're hustling this and that and do I you know,
Speaker 6: but this is just an opportunity to have fun.
Speaker 3: And then we did text everyone.
Speaker 6: We're all in a text chain, and they all said, yeah,
Speaker 6: we'll come, we'll come, and that, Yeah we'll come, and.
Speaker 2: Nice for you.
Speaker 3: Yeah did you hear that?
Speaker 6: Jo?
Speaker 3: Did that happen with you guys?
Speaker 1: No much, really, I'm glad you guys have the support
Speaker 1: of your cast though, well, you guys see you guys.
Speaker 7: See each other more like we're scattered far and wide,
Speaker 7: so we don't get to see each other very often.
Speaker 7: I feel like you guys have come together and I
Speaker 7: have they Is that right? I feel like you guys
Speaker 7: see each other more.
Speaker 1: We each other at cons occasionally we see each other.
Speaker 1: We saw each other on BH nine or two and
Speaker 1: I when we did that show in twenty eighteen, right,
Speaker 1: But other than.
Speaker 3: That, not got it.
Speaker 2: I'm kind of feeling like we should wait.
Speaker 4: I have a question. Is there a kind of screen?
Speaker 4: I got so excited. Wow, I just amied out. I
Speaker 4: just got a super fan because I like, I became
Speaker 4: such a super fan of Meller's Place, because you know,
Speaker 4: our show we're filming and doing all that. But like,
Speaker 4: I actually watched your show with my friends and like
Speaker 4: that was so I'm a super fan. But is there
Speaker 4: the reboot coming out in the works.
Speaker 2: We're in the works.
Speaker 8: We don't have any you know, there's nothing definitive, but
Speaker 8: it's in the works. We're trying, we hope, so you know,
Speaker 8: we hope.
Speaker 6: We've been working on develop We've been developing something Laura
Speaker 6: and I for quite a while with CBA Studios that
Speaker 6: owns IP and uh so, yeah, they are very excited and.
Speaker 4: Get a referral fee.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a fair question.
Speaker 8: I think you should keep asking that because Tori, you go,
Speaker 8: you should ask.
Speaker 4: You're in charge of casting, Tori, I can't help with.
Speaker 5: The Taylor and Jake are married after all these years.
Speaker 3: Just kidding, just kidding, that would be actually nice.
Speaker 5: Now it's kind of appropriate now the age difference is
Speaker 5: is okay? Wait really quickly. It's interesting with nine O
Speaker 5: two one oh and Melrose that out the gate they
Speaker 5: weren't like giant Giant perfect because oh, sort of that
Speaker 5: was okay, And then it had these summer episodes and
Speaker 5: do you guys feel that way that when Heather came
Speaker 5: on it really changed the trajectory.
Speaker 7: One, We're gonna be canceled, and then Heather came on
Speaker 7: and everything turned around. But we needed a bad guy.
Speaker 7: I don't know if that's true for your guys showing
Speaker 7: and you had the summer, but we didn't have eight
Speaker 7: nice kids trying to make it. And then Heather came on,
Speaker 7: we had a bad guy. Did you guys have that
Speaker 7: or was it just the summer or did something shift
Speaker 7: in the way you were telling stories.
Speaker 1: We had the summer, which definitely helped with that original content,
Speaker 1: but then we had Tiffany come in, who was kind
Speaker 1: of like our Heather. She played Val and so she was,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't until season three. We just crashed it
Speaker 1: and I have no idea she didn't.
Speaker 5: Shift at the point where it became much more soapy
Speaker 5: on nine h two and zero, which I'm all about, like,
Speaker 5: and I don't know if that was maybe because at
Speaker 5: the time Melrose was starting to blow up, but there
Speaker 5: is a shift around season four. It does start to
Speaker 5: feel a bit more.
Speaker 4: Juicy Melrose or.
Speaker 5: Like with the murder, and there's a little bit more
Speaker 5: sex and there's more like drama, and.
Speaker 4: They were taking the lead from Melrose.
Speaker 2: They were like, yeah, so what year did did Heather
Speaker 2: come on to Morrow's the f one?
Speaker 7: Midway season one? So we were not we were sold
Speaker 7: for thirteen. It must have been right after thirteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was kind of fun.
Speaker 6: They were in fifteen, someone told me, and she wasn't
Speaker 6: on yet, so I just have the number fifteen, So
Speaker 6: we're going to do fifteen episodes of you talking and telling.
Speaker 3: Us that we weren't there yet. But then Howther came
Speaker 3: on after that.
Speaker 7: And I think Sar said we need to add smart Vice.
Speaker 8: And it was that sort of an overall tonal shift too,
Speaker 8: because it was like too got bad, really he got bad,
Speaker 8: and just it was a general tonal shift, like it
Speaker 8: was no longer about just like, oh can these kids
Speaker 8: pay their rent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, am like a primetime Soapa.
Speaker 5: It was old.
Speaker 2: Was terrible stuff, terrible.
Speaker 5: Wait before you guys go just a little thing. You
Speaker 5: can keep going, keep going, We've got time. But on
Speaker 5: night of doing oh they I don't want to speak
Speaker 5: for these guys, but there was maybe inter set dating,
Speaker 5: but it was kept kind of under wraps, whereas on
Speaker 5: Melrose Place it seemed like it was like have at it.
Speaker 5: We're in the magazines. Everybody kind of knew about it.
Speaker 3: It's is that right, Like we weren't underage. That's probably
Speaker 3: why because.
Speaker 8: And it was like sort of an actual relationship because
Speaker 8: like Courtney and like you guys dated for a year.
Speaker 2: Like it wasn't just like, oh, I'm going to date.
Speaker 7: For I don't discuss my personal life, right, Yes we did.
Speaker 7: We dated and they were horrified and terrified that it
Speaker 7: would be a bad breakup, but it wasn't. It was
Speaker 7: very sweet when it was happening, and then it was
Speaker 7: fine when it wasn't.
Speaker 3: Tell them what you said. They were concerned, hilarious.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they were concerned and we yeah, but it happened
Speaker 7: pretty fast. We did not keep it together very long. Uh,
Speaker 7: And then we told them, and they were concerned, of course,
Speaker 7: because what if we broke up and hated each other.
Speaker 7: That didn't happen, but we literally dated for the season
Speaker 7: and then that was it. What did you say before
Speaker 7: you went on?
Speaker 5: I heard Daphne asked that.
Speaker 2: I thought it was so cute what you said to Andrew.
Speaker 7: Didn't I I just said I said it here.
Speaker 8: Not on camera, though. The story started when you broke up.
Speaker 8: What did you tell Andrew?
Speaker 7: Okay, the lines are blurring after we broke up, I said,
Speaker 7: now the screen kissing, no tongue, and he goes why.
Speaker 4: I was like, because you're not dating anymore.
Speaker 2: He goes, why, just.
Speaker 7: Trust just trust me, just tongue.
Speaker 6: He's like, I don't understand how to pull back before
Speaker 6: after physically pulled.
Speaker 3: This so funny because you.
Speaker 4: Break up on Monday. I don't think that's fair. I
Speaker 4: don't think you all break up.
Speaker 7: Character Yeah, ok, Broker are still dating. So when we
Speaker 7: had to kiss, I was like, now we have to
Speaker 7: do screen kissing, and he was like, I don't because
Speaker 7: I'd been his only screen kiss and we'd been dating.
Speaker 7: I was like, magic, I.
Speaker 2: Am appreciate your boundaries. I like that about you.
Speaker 4: Thank you genuine quite proud of yes.
Speaker 7: Good.
Speaker 4: Wait did you start dating during the pilot? After the pilot?
Speaker 7: I know when we were watching the pilot, and I
Speaker 7: know I wanted to date him very early.
Speaker 4: I remember.
Speaker 7: Like trying to hold off, but it was really early.
Speaker 7: I'm going to say like episode three or four or something.
Speaker 2: Maybe that sounds like holding off.
Speaker 4: I did not. It wasn't super impressive.
Speaker 2: Wait what do you wait?
Speaker 7: Well, because I thought, no, we can't possibly were all right?
Speaker 7: And then he's so adorable. He was in my defense, right,
Speaker 7: he's so adorable.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you really you couldn't help yourself.
Speaker 7: I'm only one woman. I'm only one woman.
Speaker 3: I just love it.
Speaker 6: And then like they're like, okay, we're broken up, no
Speaker 6: time kissing? All right, great, I'll see you.
Speaker 7: And then you break up?
Speaker 4: And then wait, who on the cast did you tell
Speaker 4: first when you guys started dating before anyone knew?
Speaker 7: Well, you know who knew first? Were Tony and Kathleen
Speaker 7: are wardrobe people? Because so we shot out in Santa Clarita.
Speaker 7: Where did you guys shoot Santa Clarica?
Speaker 4: Santa were and.
Speaker 7: We were shooting, you know, fourteen to sixteen hours a day,
Speaker 7: and it felt like we had to drive back into town.
Speaker 7: So we kept saying we should stay at the Hilton
Speaker 7: Garden End, which is the Hilton Garden In, And one
Speaker 7: day we said, you know what, we have a really
Speaker 7: late we're getting out late and we're coming in early,
Speaker 7: so we're just gonna stay at the Hilton garden In overnight.
Speaker 7: Kenny Barrow some pajamas, and Tony and Kathleen were like,
Speaker 7: yeah right. I was like no, really, And then the
Speaker 7: next day I was like, no, you were right. It
Speaker 7: was not like we didn't need pajamas. Yeah, well we did.
Speaker 4: We did. We just don't want.
Speaker 7: To think that we did need pajamas. But we did
Speaker 7: kiss in our pajamas.
Speaker 6: So you guys are getting the tea here happy. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't remember having conversations with the cast about it, or.
Speaker 7: I don't know how everyone knew it was Kathleen, and
Speaker 7: I'm sure Kathleen told Tony told everyone right away. I
Speaker 7: think people were already seeing there was something going on,
Speaker 7: like there was chemistry everywhere.
Speaker 1: Just understood to know, but like there were a lot
Speaker 1: of relationships, like meaningful relationships that lasted for some of
Speaker 1: you with your cast members.
Speaker 7: I was married to Doug to Miss Day. I mean,
Speaker 7: look at that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, twenty six.
Speaker 7: Years of marriage and and I dated.
Speaker 2: That's insane. Yeah crazy.
Speaker 4: How long were you and Grant together for?
Speaker 8: It was at least a couple of years. I think
Speaker 8: it was maybe almost three seasons. I mean I really
Speaker 8: you know, and then our relationship, you know, obviously was
Speaker 8: ended and stuff, and Grant or Doug and I just
Speaker 8: didn't even really become Our relationship didn't beget until we
Speaker 8: were all leaving the show after our five seasons anyway,
Speaker 8: And that was sort of when my relationship with the
Speaker 8: Doug started as we were off the show. So it
Speaker 8: was never like an on the show overlap or like,
Speaker 8: oh I've you know, they were kind of separate.
Speaker 7: Hey, everyone, this is Courtney Thorne, Smith.
Speaker 8: Laura Layton, and daphnews Aniga on July eighth Night, ninety two.
Speaker 8: Apartment buildings with pools were never quite the same. As
Speaker 8: Melroe's Place was introduced to the world, it took drama
Speaker 8: and mayhem to an entirely new level.
Speaker 7: We are going to be reliving every hookup, every scandal,
Speaker 7: every backstep, blackmail and explosion, and every single wig removal together.
Speaker 8: Secrets are revealed as we rewatch every moment with you.
Speaker 3: Special guests from back in the day, we'll be dropping by.
Speaker 3: You know who they are.
Speaker 6: Sydney, Allison and Joe are back together on Still the
Speaker 6: Place with a trip down memory Lane and back to
Speaker 6: Melroe's Place. So listen to Still the Place on the
Speaker 6: iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts.
Speaker 7: Mondays are Still a bitch?
Speaker 5: Do fans glitch like I do when I got the
Speaker 5: two of you together? Like do fans, especially in other places,
Speaker 5: do they freak because you go do look the same?
Speaker 3: Do they freak out out?
Speaker 7: Like oh wait yeah?
Speaker 8: And it's sort of funny like you were saying, Tori,
Speaker 8: like you were struck by like every you know, every
Speaker 8: week people are still like, oh my god, Meloye's place. Well,
Speaker 8: and for you, I know, the joke was that they
Speaker 8: sometimes get it mixed up. They do it for us too,
Speaker 8: nine o two and oh they're telling me, oh, I
Speaker 8: remember you from nine or two in our change banks.
Speaker 8: I know what you mean, but you know, like, yeah,
Speaker 8: they're all interchangeable. But like there are times when we'll
Speaker 8: be out and we were just in Europe together with
Speaker 8: our families and stuff, and sometimes somebody would spot him and.
Speaker 2: Go, oh my god reply and then they turn and
Speaker 2: they're like.
Speaker 8: Oh what, you know, like it's all or the other
Speaker 8: way around. They might see one of us and not
Speaker 8: the other and then never really even put it together.
Speaker 2: It's just it's just sort of funny.
Speaker 8: And then there was one time, like he was it
Speaker 8: was before we were married. We were engaged, I think,
Speaker 8: but we were not married. He needed to have a
Speaker 8: surgery and we were in the hospital and he was
Speaker 8: just coming out of surgery, and of course I was
Speaker 8: with him for recovery and everything, and there was a
Speaker 8: moment when the nurse walked into his hospital room and
Speaker 8: they're like, you know, dealing with whatever he needed. And
Speaker 8: she turns and she sees me in the chair next
Speaker 8: to us bend. She's like, you know, because I was
Speaker 8: like I was this crazy character, you know, and that's
Speaker 8: how she saw me. And she's like, you're not safe
Speaker 8: here with this, you know, crazy person in your room,
Speaker 8: and he's like, no, she's fine.
Speaker 4: So people, there's nothing hotder to me than when two
Speaker 4: stars of a TV show get together after like it's
Speaker 4: like Mila and Ashton. It's like it blew my mind
Speaker 4: or when you and Doug were together. I was like,
Speaker 4: yes as a fan, you know, like a the aftermath
Speaker 4: like worked out, like, yeah, you guys see each other
Speaker 4: back then, But did you guys ever have that flirtation
Speaker 4: during was there ever?
Speaker 2: Like no, it was never.
Speaker 8: No, It's sort of never a heard to us until
Speaker 8: there was this moment at the end of the five seasons.
Speaker 8: We didn't have a lot of scenes to We didn't
Speaker 8: really have a lot of scenes together, and you know,
Speaker 8: to be honest, he was married at the you know,
Speaker 8: he was married very young, and he had two little girls,
Speaker 8: and he was just one of the cast. So he
Speaker 8: was just one of the cast members in our bunch,
Speaker 8: and we were all really close friends, and we all
Speaker 8: just like loved and admired each other and just that's
Speaker 8: it sort of thing. And I it wasn't really until
Speaker 8: late late late in the process he was going through
Speaker 8: his divorce and and Grant and I had ended, and
Speaker 8: that we just had conversations where we were sort of
Speaker 8: like realizing, like, wow, you're you're all that, Like I
Speaker 8: had no idea you've been We've been working together for
Speaker 8: five years and I never knew all these things about
Speaker 8: you or he didn't know about me, and it was
Speaker 8: just sort of we had this opportunity to see each
Speaker 8: other in a different way and go, wow, all this
Speaker 8: time of you know, known you but not known you,
Speaker 8: and it.
Speaker 5: Was yeah, Courtney and Andrew.
Speaker 2: I think not at the beginning.
Speaker 8: I think it was maybe a little bit harder, and
Speaker 8: it was a longer relationship, and it wasn't it wasn't
Speaker 8: as easy to do that and go, oh, and by
Speaker 8: the way, now you know, Doug and I are dating,
Speaker 8: and you know.
Speaker 2: So that was that was a little bit more of
Speaker 2: a harder transition.
Speaker 8: I mean, certainly now everyone's pals and fine and and
Speaker 8: all that, and he's you know, he's got his marriage
Speaker 8: and his kids, and we've got twenty six years of
Speaker 8: marriage and our kids and so like that's all.
Speaker 2: It's just such a funny, like it's a million years ago.
Speaker 7: It does.
Speaker 2: It sounds like a million years ago. But it was
Speaker 2: like it was like that.
Speaker 4: I know, and we definitely who did you date?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, who did you date?
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 6: I kept work and personal life separate like a professional.
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding. Yeah, I didn't. I do know this.
Speaker 3: I do know this.
Speaker 6: I do remember Thomas so when I started A ninety too,
Speaker 6: I was dating someone, living with someone, and then we
Speaker 6: were just breaking up. And so the next time I
Speaker 6: saw people on the set, which was I think at
Speaker 6: the end of the week, I was brought someone else to,
Speaker 6: like the Christmas party maybe something like that. I just
Speaker 6: remember Thomas and Liz just coming up and going, so,
Speaker 6: did you have someone another boyfriend week? And I'm like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 6: that was that's over about that and he's like, so.
Speaker 3: This is your new boyfriend. I'm like, yeah, my new boyfriend.
Speaker 3: He's yeah.
Speaker 6: So that kind of happened a few times throughout my
Speaker 6: time at Melrose Place, so, but no one was on set.
Speaker 2: I think they were actors. Actually, Wow, we're.
Speaker 5: Most excited to have on Who are who? Do you
Speaker 5: guys want to talk everyone?
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, we're excited.
Speaker 2: We're gonna We're excited to have had everyone.
Speaker 8: We were just talking about this that like we need
Speaker 8: to have like a little something that we all sign,
Speaker 8: you know, so that eventually everybody crosses back through the
Speaker 8: room and we have assigned I don't know script. I mean,
Speaker 8: you know, we were all here again, you know tile, Yeah,
Speaker 8: I had one.
Speaker 5: You guys know this. But when When the show ended,
Speaker 5: they sent to the press a pool tile and I
Speaker 5: kept it for the longest time. I got to dig
Speaker 5: around tiles.
Speaker 3: It was not a tile.
Speaker 5: It was like a total fake, like hairy, like I.
Speaker 2: Don't know what it was, not a tile.
Speaker 6: We you know, we've all kept in touch, but also
Speaker 6: some of us have have worked with each other, like
Speaker 6: Josie and Laura and I did The Fantasy Island on
Speaker 6: Fox a couple of years ago. I just I did
Speaker 6: Dynasty a couple of years ago. Laura did there, so
Speaker 6: we saw Grant, you know. And so there's a little
Speaker 6: bit of Jack has worked with Josie and I've worked
Speaker 6: with you know. So there's a god with Marsha, Doug
Speaker 6: and Marsha. So there's this kind of like.
Speaker 7: This didn't according to Jim, and he didn't according he did.
Speaker 7: It's fun.
Speaker 6: So it's just kind of like wanting to see everyone.
Speaker 6: There's no favorite there really isn't. I'm just looking forward
Speaker 6: to I haven't seen Thomas in a long time.
Speaker 8: I went to my kids went to middle school with
Speaker 8: Thomas's kids, so we saw him as like parents out
Speaker 8: in the world, like being you know.
Speaker 2: You guys.
Speaker 1: I went to a yoga class once and he was
Speaker 1: my yoga teacher, Thomas.
Speaker 2: Really he's really yoga.
Speaker 1: Oh my shirtless shirtless yeah, on his head, all kinds
Speaker 1: of things.
Speaker 7: Ooh, did he correct This was a while A lot.
Speaker 7: I see him correcting a lot.
Speaker 3: Of that's amazing. Okay, we're gonna ask him about that.
Speaker 2: We're going to bring him on as we're gonna have
Speaker 2: like a little yoga moment. Yeah, now that we know
Speaker 2: the right way to do it is. Did you go
Speaker 2: back to the class? I don't think I went. It
Speaker 2: was just too weird. She's like, I just got to
Speaker 2: wait for.
Speaker 5: I told you guys the time I saw Martians the
Speaker 5: grocery store and I was like.
Speaker 1: Like, she freaked out, did you pull her hair like Lemons?
Speaker 4: And was just like, did you just give.
Speaker 2: Her hair a little tug?
Speaker 7: That's where I see her too. I've seen her in
Speaker 7: the grocery store several times. Isn't that funny.
Speaker 5: Because we all live in the same because we all
Speaker 5: live in the same areas, won't I won't name it,
Speaker 5: I know, but I have a place in l.
Speaker 2: A and it's ok.
Speaker 5: I've seen Courtney around.
Speaker 7: I saw her foods.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's where the lemon incident happened. That's exactly
Speaker 5: where and sometimes Ed O'Neill cruising down the the eye.
Speaker 3: Pam daughter O'Neill. Mindy, Yeah, it's yeah.
Speaker 5: They got the regulars there at the Vicenti Foods.
Speaker 7: We do. It's a little neighborhood market.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I can.
Speaker 1: I could speak for my but I'm pretty sure Tori
Speaker 1: and I feel the same way. Like it being able
Speaker 1: to go back and watch yourselves on the show that
Speaker 1: was from your early twenties. It's just actually a gift,
Speaker 1: Like you guys are gonna love it so much, being
Speaker 1: able to sort of like not just watch the show,
Speaker 1: but like remember what it was like for you personally
Speaker 1: in that timeframe. And it's just a really cathartic like
Speaker 1: experience where you really do get to revisit your past
Speaker 1: life in a completely different way than normal.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm really excited for you guys. I hope
Speaker 2: you hope you love.
Speaker 4: It going back to high school but not as scary.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I mean what's coming up to me? Mostly
Speaker 7: watching it, I so much compassion for that young woman.
Speaker 7: I was exactly about how much how hard I was
Speaker 7: on myself, and I'm so grateful. I don't do that
Speaker 7: to myself now. I'm so much kinder to myself today
Speaker 7: and I just want to go take her and go,
Speaker 7: oh sweetie, sweetie.
Speaker 2: Like it's going to be okay, it's fine, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it felt so it's one of them to talk
Speaker 7: about too. It felt so intense. We were working all
Speaker 7: the time, we had photo shoots on weekends, and now
Speaker 7: we're all like, let's get together and have some fun.
Speaker 7: And I wish we've beld a lot more of that energy.
Speaker 7: But when you're working fourteen hours a day and on weekends,
Speaker 7: it feels much more intense. So this is nice to
Speaker 7: go back with that really lighthearted energy. It's fun to
Speaker 7: see you guys with this lighthearted energy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's us too. This is just a trip, actually
Speaker 2: fun dream come true. Right now.
Speaker 4: It's great able to go back and you'll see, like
Speaker 4: you become fans of your own show.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's so true, because we talk about
Speaker 1: this a lot too, Like we know, I never watched
Speaker 1: the show when it was on because it was too
Speaker 1: busy working or like trying to figure out how to
Speaker 1: have a life. And then also I never read the
Speaker 1: parts of the script that the other people were in.
Speaker 1: I only read my parts basically because you know, you
Speaker 1: only got so many free gigabytes up there. So now
Speaker 1: watching the show, we are such fans of the show,
Speaker 1: like we are super fans of our own show now,
Speaker 1: which is weird.
Speaker 7: That's awesome.
Speaker 4: Well, normally I've watched a little bit back then, but
Speaker 4: I was so hard on myself. I couldn't look at myself.
Speaker 4: And now I'm able to disconnect and be like, oh
Speaker 4: I love this girl, I love this character, and yeah,
Speaker 4: we're super fans.
Speaker 2: So it's cool.
Speaker 7: Oh that's so sweet. I hope that happens. That's a great. Well,
Speaker 7: look at it.
Speaker 2: So you guys are going to have so much fun.
Speaker 4: Talks about me. What season did your in your opinion?
Speaker 4: Did nine? Two and I jump the shark?
Speaker 2: It does? It hasn't jumped the shark yet? Yeah, threatening
Speaker 2: season seven of the ten?
Speaker 4: Seven of the ten? In your opinion?
Speaker 2: Watch it?
Speaker 3: I'll still watch.
Speaker 4: What about Melro's Place? When did it jump the shark?
Speaker 2: Did we all leave it?
Speaker 3: Five?
Speaker 7: What's yeah, it's seven? I think we all left. But
Speaker 7: the Yeah, we did thirty three episodes a year, so
Speaker 7: we've got.
Speaker 6: A lot of feel like it's two different shows. Yeah,
Speaker 6: like the last four or three. We're just different show, the.
Speaker 5: Last cast, the last two, Yeah, a different cast A
Speaker 5: little bit there at the end, it got a little
Speaker 5: You guys.
Speaker 3: Were on for ten years.
Speaker 2: Tory and I were on for ten years.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so did you then go to college and then
Speaker 7: got post college jobs?
Speaker 4: The characters m I was so confused.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, we went to college.
Speaker 7: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 2: A store together, cute?
Speaker 7: Okay, I'm starting with again now too.
Speaker 4: It was on me.
Speaker 7: I'm starting over with that.
Speaker 2: Of course it was on Melroe's Place.
Speaker 3: That probably, Oh my.
Speaker 5: Gosh, the boutique you guys open is on Melrose.
Speaker 4: Who came to shop?
Speaker 7: Who came to shop in it? Do you remember Jessica
Speaker 7: Alba seriously from Melrose Place? Was she on Melrose Place?
Speaker 7: But you said that it was on.
Speaker 2: The street, on the street Melrose Place.
Speaker 4: It's it's not like a kind of fancy, it's on
Speaker 4: the corner. And then they built an on set fancy.
Speaker 8: So I did a few episodes of nine, O, two
Speaker 8: and O at the beginning of I can't remember which season,
Speaker 8: at the beginning.
Speaker 2: Of what Yeah, wait, watch what episode?
Speaker 3: I think Laura's is trying to throw Amy.
Speaker 2: What what episode are you guys on right now? In
Speaker 2: your podcast?
Speaker 7: Amy's madly Yeah, you.
Speaker 8: Played Sydney no a whole new character. So it was
Speaker 8: literally after I was done with Melrose later later and
Speaker 8: then and then I got the call like, hey, will
Speaker 8: you do the first six episodes of nine O two
Speaker 8: and zero in season?
Speaker 2: Please tell me so?
Speaker 8: And I was I had a storyline with Brian and
Speaker 8: it sort of overlapped with David.
Speaker 4: Oh.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was like a grifter Like I was sort
Speaker 8: of like a grifter, Like.
Speaker 2: There was like some somewhirre thing where I was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I was.
Speaker 1: A little.
Speaker 4: Sophie. Yes, yeah.
Speaker 1: Did you want to leave the show after five episode?
Speaker 1: You said that each of you left after five years?
Speaker 2: Sorry?
Speaker 1: Did you all want to leave at that time? Was
Speaker 1: that your choice?
Speaker 8: So it sort of a natural It was a contract break,
Speaker 8: right because our contracts were only through those five years,
Speaker 8: and it was all sort of of a piece like
Speaker 8: if the negotiations went, you know whatever, and it was
Speaker 8: just like it just didn't those pieces didn't all fit
Speaker 8: right together to want to stay longer. It just felt
Speaker 8: like the right time to leave. Just creatively, I mean,
Speaker 8: I can only speak for my experience of it, but
Speaker 8: it just felt like it was a natural transition where
Speaker 8: they were. You know, we'd done so many crazy storylines
Speaker 8: and I just you know, it was sort of hard
Speaker 8: to imagine.
Speaker 7: And thirty two episodes a year, so it was really
Speaker 7: like eighties to Double Light. We did so many episodes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they did double ups too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I had a number and I told them
Speaker 7: my number and they're like no, and I was like,
Speaker 7: all right, yeah.
Speaker 2: I think I think that was sort of the same
Speaker 2: for most people.
Speaker 7: It was like, well, for the right day, it would
Speaker 7: be worth it for this, and they were.
Speaker 2: And that just wasn't in the cards. So yeah, so
Speaker 2: we all just sort of like.
Speaker 4: Low super piecey Corney's like, I gave a number, they said, Now,
Speaker 4: I'm like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's how it went.
Speaker 3: He's out.
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So yeah, so then right about welcome to Courney, great,
Speaker 6: welcome to court me.
Speaker 5: And we have stolen it a little bit.
Speaker 2: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Mondays are a bitch that you guys did have some
Speaker 5: of the most rad promo lines ever. They get Minasa
Speaker 5: wasn't it minausa Tuesdays?
Speaker 4: Like yeah, TV Guide that would be like yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they were getting a great job.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 1: We just wish you the best of luck on this
Speaker 1: you're embarking on. You never know what you can learn
Speaker 1: about yourself.
Speaker 7: I hope there's events when we get to see each
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Speaker 7: to see?
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Speaker 6: Go, thy bye,