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Speaker 1: Welcome back, friends. This is our next Q and A,
Speaker 1: our our Winter December Q and A. We're so excited
Speaker 1: to have you joining us from whatever cozy corner you're
Speaker 1: in in the world.
Speaker 5: Are we going to end this episode with with your
Speaker 5: Christmas songs?
Speaker 1: Joy?
Speaker 6: Please?
Speaker 5: Those should play us out?
Speaker 6: Sounds great? Yeah?
Speaker 5: Did you record any new ones this year?
Speaker 6: I didn't.
Speaker 1: I've been I've been so slammed. I really planned to actually,
Speaker 1: but I just is not and it was not in
Speaker 1: the cards for this year.
Speaker 6: Okay, Yeah, I do have me some Christmas music.
Speaker 5: I know you do. That's why I'm like, I feel
Speaker 5: like every year, if you just drop one song every
Speaker 5: year until we die, that's a hell of a library.
Speaker 5: Like Mariah carry can.
Speaker 6: Just that is a lot of Christmas albums. I know
Speaker 6: I should. Maybe maybe there's still time. You never know.
Speaker 6: I am, I am in the last minute.
Speaker 5: I'm just a little impulsive.
Speaker 6: You do well.
Speaker 1: Actually, in that vein, what are you guys's favorite Christmas albums?
Speaker 1: Do you have favorite holiday albums that you love listening to?
Speaker 5: This is an Elvis house, yes, yeah. I mean it's
Speaker 5: like it was one thing when it was just Jeff
Speaker 5: and I and we were into the Elvis of it all.
Speaker 5: But then Gus watched that Boslerman Elvis movie every day
Speaker 5: for three months and went as Elvis for Halloween, and
Speaker 5: so now like that child is all Elvis. Oh, and
Speaker 5: then George just became obsessed with Lee Lo and Stitch,
Speaker 5: So now she's obsessed with Elvis. Amazing Elvis Christmas.
Speaker 7: I like all the old school stuff, Like I want
Speaker 7: to listen to Louis Armstrong and Sam and HeLa Fitzgerald
Speaker 7: and like, you know, like I can get on one
Speaker 7: of any music app and be like, give me a
Speaker 7: Mariah Carey holiday Radio for a.
Speaker 6: Little bit, because I gotta break it up.
Speaker 7: She launches Christmas every year, but I always want to
Speaker 7: go old school. After after a couple.
Speaker 1: Of songs, Yeah, I love all that old stuff too.
Speaker 1: That's my go to the forties radio station on serious
Speaker 1: act time. I always I'm like, just hit play. Leslie
Speaker 1: Odom Junior did a Christmas album. I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was last year or the year before. I think
Speaker 1: it was the year before.
Speaker 5: It's beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's so the music is so interesting and his voice
Speaker 1: is like butter and Yeah, that one surprised me.
Speaker 6: I really love that album.
Speaker 5: All right, ladies, Owen wants to know if there had
Speaker 5: been an opportunity to do an episode abroad, where would
Speaker 5: you pick m.
Speaker 7: In the later years Hill when you had gone. They
Speaker 7: took us to Puerto Rico for an episode, which like
Speaker 7: isn't technically abroad, but felt pretty fun.
Speaker 5: Really like it was more abroad than which where we
Speaker 5: would just go when I was there, Yeah.
Speaker 7: Exactly, but I feel like abroad means, you know, truly
Speaker 7: you have to go to I know you need you
Speaker 7: need a passport, right, Like, I don't know. I always
Speaker 7: have so much fun when we all go to Paris together, Like,
Speaker 7: wouldn't it have been fun to shoot an episode there
Speaker 7: and just like sit in cafes and eat macaroons together?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Paris and London. That would have been fun.
Speaker 1: I actually I would have loved to have gone to
Speaker 1: Italy for an episode. We really would have had a
Speaker 1: ball if they had taken us to Roam or Lawrence
Speaker 1: or something. That would have been really fun.
Speaker 5: My favorite place that we've ever gone. Jeff and I
Speaker 5: we don't know how to vacation. Just like vacation. We
Speaker 5: only go places for work and then spend a couple
Speaker 5: extra days. Like, I don't know how to vacation. I've
Speaker 5: never done it. Uh. When he had to go shoot
Speaker 5: a commercial in New New Zealand, Gus and I tagged along,
Speaker 5: and it's a hop getting there. I mean, that's a
Speaker 5: long flight. But once you're there, that Lord of the
Speaker 5: Rings energy, those trees and the waterfalls and like the
Speaker 5: mountains and like all that Hobbits was so awesome. And
Speaker 5: I haven't even watched Lord of the Rings. It was
Speaker 5: just such a majestic environment. Literally every day Gus and
Speaker 5: I went and did the most interesting thing that we've
Speaker 5: ever done in our lives.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 5: We were taking those crazy little speedboats under waterfalls and
Speaker 5: going to see where sea monsters live and just it
Speaker 5: was so gorgeous and so wild, and everyone there that
Speaker 5: like that New Zealand sense of humor that like Flight
Speaker 5: of the Concords had. Yes, I just I was so
Speaker 5: won over by New Zealand going to shoot our show
Speaker 5: in the you know this magical green.
Speaker 1: Country, just beautiful. Yeah, I would love to shoot there,
Speaker 1: Thank you Ewen. So okay, when the show was airing,
Speaker 1: would your parents and grandparents watch? This is from Carla, Hi, Carla,
Speaker 1: did your parents and grandparents watch the show? And what
Speaker 1: did they What did they think of it? Was the feedback?
Speaker 1: I don't my grandparents didn't. I think my grandma might
Speaker 1: have watched it, but I don't remember hearing much feedback.
Speaker 1: My parents probably did for a minute, but then I
Speaker 1: think it was like any other job. They were like, yeah,
Speaker 1: good job. I mean I know what you I know
Speaker 1: what you do, I know what you look like when
Speaker 1: you talk.
Speaker 6: You're fine.
Speaker 5: I know what you look like when you talk. I'm
Speaker 5: not impressed.
Speaker 6: So you need to see this every day?
Speaker 5: Yeah that's hilarious. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I think the novelty wears off pretty quick and then
Speaker 7: they're like this is weird. Mine were like, we'd rather
Speaker 7: talk to you than watch you pretend to be someone
Speaker 7: else and like make out with people we're good.
Speaker 5: I don't really have like family is a weird thing
Speaker 5: for me, So I don't have relationships with grandparents or anything.
Speaker 5: But in the last month, when I've been doing this
Speaker 5: book tour, I've been spending a lot of time with
Speaker 5: all my old high school teachers. And those were like
Speaker 5: adopted relatives, you know, Like that's like the ant tribe.
Speaker 5: All those chicks were in charge of raising me. Yeah,
Speaker 5: and they have strong opinions about all the boys I
Speaker 5: kissed on the show, and like the mischief I got into,
Speaker 5: and like how I dressed and stuff. Just hearing their
Speaker 5: commentary has been a delight because they're like, Hillary, seriously
Speaker 5: kissing your best friend's boyfriend. That's ridiculous. Sorry, ladies, I
Speaker 5: didn't make that decision.
Speaker 4: I love.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's funny, You're like, it wasn't my choice.
Speaker 5: No, And they knew me as this like super studious,
Speaker 5: Like I was a school nerd. I loved school. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Like the fact that Peyton saw I didn't go to
Speaker 5: college like that was also problematic. Yeah, it's cool. I
Speaker 5: think it's funny. Especially the people who are watching it
Speaker 5: have the freedom to make fun of you and call
Speaker 5: you on your Those are fun phone calls to get Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: Oh, this is a good question from Susan. I feel
Speaker 7: like we talk about this a little bit. But Joy
Speaker 7: and Hill, would you let your kids following your footsteps
Speaker 7: and go into act?
Speaker 6: Sure? Yeah, but they just have to take it seriously,
Speaker 6: like I don't.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's not a hobby, like I mean, it can
Speaker 1: be a hobby, but not like as a you can't
Speaker 1: make a career out of it if you treat it
Speaker 1: like a hobby. It's has to be something you really
Speaker 1: take seriously. Otherwise I think there's just no, there's no hope.
Speaker 1: It's such a miserable existence as an actor.
Speaker 9: Without but you know what I mean, Like the sacrifices
Speaker 9: are so huge, and it's this constant rejection and constant criticism.
Speaker 6: No, it's terrible.
Speaker 1: You have to really believe in the work and really
Speaker 1: believe that you're meant to do it. And if you
Speaker 1: do and you take it seriously and that's who you are,
Speaker 1: then great, do it. But if not, like, go go
Speaker 1: please go find something else to do.
Speaker 5: I mean, Gus just started acting last year, right, He
Speaker 5: really had it in his head that he wanted to
Speaker 5: be a director, and so he was making all of
Speaker 5: these movies at home, and he was writing scripts and
Speaker 5: he would always get like the little storyboard notebooks and
Speaker 5: he would just storyboard movies for hours and hours and
Speaker 5: hours a day, Like, oh yeah, Gus really puts so
Speaker 5: much thought and effort into the production side of things.
Speaker 5: This is a child that will like take budgets and
Speaker 5: go through budgets just to see what those look like.
Speaker 5: He was so well. As I was producing more and more,
Speaker 5: he really immersed himself in that side of it. And
Speaker 5: so last year he was like, well, I'm just going
Speaker 5: to do a play just so I can understand actors,
Speaker 5: you guys, I mean, So he did a Christmas Carol.
Speaker 5: He played Jacob Marley and he did a really really
Speaker 5: good job, but he had to sing in front of people,
Speaker 5: which was like totally new and when you're like a
Speaker 5: twelve year old boy, it's so hard. And so then
Speaker 5: this year, our town does this play every year. He
Speaker 5: since played Oberon in Midsummer and he went into the
Speaker 5: audition process and he came home and I was like,
Speaker 5: how was it, And he was very just like, you know,
Speaker 5: I don't want to jinx anything, but I did my best,
Speaker 5: Like I know that I showed up and I'm like,
Speaker 5: that's all it it And so he Scrooged this year
Speaker 5: and carrying that little show. It's the first play I
Speaker 5: ever took him to. I think when he was like
Speaker 5: two or three years old, I took him to this
Speaker 5: town production and it was his first time in a theater,
Speaker 5: first time in the little fall down seats. And so
Speaker 5: to have him play Scrooge this year is a nice,
Speaker 5: big full circle moment, except now he's like, but where
Speaker 5: do I go from here? Like, what's next? Mummy? Good?
Speaker 5: It's very serious business. Great, But I don't know that
Speaker 5: I would let him do like TV that seems different,
Speaker 5: so diffnity theater.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I would that. I feel the same way.
Speaker 1: I think I would probably reserve that for when she
Speaker 1: was eighteen, Like, okay, you're on your own, you can
Speaker 1: go do that. But now learn, learn in theater, Learn
Speaker 1: with other kids. Learn ye god, they're so cute. Learn
Speaker 1: where nobody's waiting on you hand and foot.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Man, no, it's a community theater, such a good
Speaker 5: space for kids to figure out who they are, and like,
Speaker 5: you have adults validating you in that space. So when
Speaker 5: you go back to regular school and like pissant, kids
Speaker 5: are making fun of you. You're like whatever, I'm best
Speaker 5: friends with Peggy.
Speaker 6: Yea.
Speaker 5: My best friend in sixth grade was Peggy. She was
Speaker 5: a banker. She would call me from the bank be like,
Speaker 5: oh my god.
Speaker 1: It does kind of give you a bird's eye view
Speaker 1: of high school problems, though, like the kids that you
Speaker 1: really get sucked into feeling like it's the end of
Speaker 1: the world, like everything that you're experiencing, because when you're
Speaker 1: in high.
Speaker 6: School it is your whole world.
Speaker 1: Yeah, But to be able to have a life outside
Speaker 1: and like you said, have adults that are that you
Speaker 1: look up to, who respect you, and just give you
Speaker 1: a perspective outside of the world that you're immersed in
Speaker 1: every day. I think that's so valuable.
Speaker 5: Is that the only.
Speaker 6: Space when that happens.
Speaker 5: Because I'm thinking about middle school and high school sports,
Speaker 5: Like when you're fourteen, you don't go play sports with
Speaker 5: thirty year olds, Like you don't go play sports with
Speaker 5: like sixty five year olds. But if you're a kid
Speaker 5: doing theater, you're doing your club activity with like a
Speaker 5: huge age range of people.
Speaker 1: Was actually a huge reason probably why high school drama.
Speaker 1: I'd always sort of had this perspective of it's gonna
Speaker 1: be okay, Like, as soon as I get out of here,
Speaker 1: everything's going to be fine.
Speaker 6: Because I knew I.
Speaker 1: Was joining a world that I had already been a
Speaker 1: part of and exposed to for a long time, but
Speaker 1: I was fully going to be joining that world as
Speaker 1: an adult, and so it it did make make high
Speaker 1: school hard times feel like this too shall pass. And
Speaker 1: that's interesting that you're saying that I had never thought
Speaker 1: of that before.
Speaker 6: I think that's really true.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was always able to be friends with people
Speaker 5: much younger and much older because that was a part
Speaker 5: of the theater scene as opposed to like my brothers
Speaker 5: played baseball. They're not playing softball with a bunch of
Speaker 5: dads on the weekends the way that we were so interesting. Hmmm, Yes,
Speaker 5: we want well rounded children that can hang out with anybody. Okay,
Speaker 5: So now we're gonna pivot, guys, let's go holiday. Let's
Speaker 5: go holiday.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 5: Cody wants to know what is your favorite holiday food
Speaker 5: or what's the weirdest dish on your table for the holidays.
Speaker 1: Favorite holiday food always is stuffing and it has to
Speaker 1: have raisins in it. Don't talk to me stuffing has
Speaker 1: to have raisins in it.
Speaker 5: Wait, you're saying it has to have raisins in it?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, interesting, Bring me stuffing with no raisins.
Speaker 6: Huh.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's probably my favorite stuffing. Maybe pecan pie ooh,
Speaker 1: pecan nut, Yeah, weirdest dish.
Speaker 5: So my favorite's Virginia ham. And this is the barometer
Speaker 5: for how much I love my husband because I don't
Speaker 5: eat turkey. I think it's gross. I've always thought it
Speaker 5: was gross, but when I met him, I had to
Speaker 5: forego my ham holidays because that man loves turkey more
Speaker 5: than anything on the planet. And so up until recently,
Speaker 5: I have pretended for like a daycade and a half like, mmm,
Speaker 5: I love this because he spends like all week working
Speaker 5: on this thing, Jen Like, I love it when all
Speaker 5: I want is a tacky little honey baked ham with
Speaker 5: that sugar glaze on there, that spiral cut.
Speaker 1: The Christmas with the cranks honey baked ham that she
Speaker 1: goes and gets run over by a truck about big
Speaker 1: tin of ham.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ham is I'm from Virginia. Virginia ham is legendary.
Speaker 5: It's in my DNA, and so Jeffrey, like in our
Speaker 5: gift of the magi situation. Recently started buying just like
Speaker 5: little half hams and just kind of squirreling them away
Speaker 5: and surprising me with a little half ham. That is
Speaker 5: so sweet because then the day after you get to
Speaker 5: fry it up like it's bacon and it's delicious, and
Speaker 5: you get to eat it on a little Hawaiian roll
Speaker 5: sandwiches for the next week. I love it. I don't
Speaker 5: think it's it's weird. The weird thing is that I
Speaker 5: used to make a really fancy cranberry sauce, like a
Speaker 5: beautiful Martha Stewart looking gorgeous thing, and that man only
Speaker 5: eats cranberry sauce out of the can, like the Shelley
Speaker 5: Cranberry sauce, and he doesn't even want me to put
Speaker 5: it in a dish. He's like, Hillary, just leave it
Speaker 5: in the can so I'll have all my pretty li
Speaker 5: crusades out. And Jeff's just like, where's my carron? Like
Speaker 5: a caveman, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 7: I don't know what's weird, but yeah, you're right, Joy
Speaker 7: when you asked earlier, like what might seem weird? Culturally?
Speaker 7: There's a there's like a big Italian tradition of the
Speaker 7: Feast of the Seven Fishes, and.
Speaker 8: I, oh, yeah, I started doing like really wild, like
Speaker 8: you know, branzino stuffed with like herbs and olives and
Speaker 8: like Linguini Vangelis, and.
Speaker 5: People are like, is this holiday food?
Speaker 7: Like I don't know, but it's seafood and it's delicious.
Speaker 8: So this is what we're having.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that makes me happy.
Speaker 5: I've never done Feast of the Seven Fishes. What's the background, Like,
Speaker 5: what's come over? Yeah?
Speaker 7: I want that, Honestly, I couldn't even tell you. I
Speaker 7: don't know. I should probably look it up. I don't
Speaker 7: even know where it came from.
Speaker 5: There's gonna be some Italians that walk us through it. Yeah.
Speaker 7: It's just like a thing we've done in my family
Speaker 7: for so long that I've never even asked why. And
Speaker 7: then like I was, I think we talked about this
Speaker 7: in our last in our last one. But when when
Speaker 7: Christmas and hanok a week overlap, I always do one
Speaker 7: of my seven fishes. I do get filter fish from
Speaker 7: the deli. People are like, wow, you're really going in
Speaker 7: on this theme. I'm like, yeah, so we got to
Speaker 7: have seven kinds of fish on the table. So everybody
Speaker 7: gets a little something. It's really I find it very fun.
Speaker 7: It's a little stressful to prep seven dishes, but once
Speaker 7: you figure it.
Speaker 6: Out, it's great.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I did that last year at a Frand's house. I
Speaker 1: didn't prepare it, but I went and it was really fun.
Speaker 1: All the different you know, they were like cracking open
Speaker 1: the muscles. They had muscles and clams and like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's great, really fun.
Speaker 5: I just love it. It sounds like a fun contest.
Speaker 5: All right, I'm a convert. I'll make one of the fishes.
Speaker 5: We'll all make a fish. Come over, we'll make fish.
Speaker 5: All right, you guys, we are gonna go finish decorating
Speaker 5: our houses. We're gonna go finish wrapping presents. We're gonna
Speaker 5: go busy ourselves. But we hope that wherever you are,
Speaker 5: you are having a lovely and cozy and safe and
Speaker 5: frivolous holiday season. Just take care of yourselves.
Speaker 8: Guy, I'd be holidays.
Speaker 4: I see lights on the movets up everywhere I go.
Speaker 4: It's that time of you. I see smiles on the
Speaker 4: faces of everyone I meet.
Speaker 10: Such holiday chin.
Speaker 4: I want to lay it all like a seven year old.
Speaker 4: I want to wrap you. Ben and kiss under the mistletoe.
Speaker 6: It's that time again.
Speaker 10: Let it shine again, snow from mowingdoor.
Speaker 4: I'm watching as I'm watching my pumpkin pie.
Speaker 9: And with you.
Speaker 4: It's a thrill escaping the chill. Here by the fire,
Speaker 4: I wane. I'm dancing it all like a sugar plum doll.
Speaker 4: I wanna wrap you. I've been a kiss under the mistletoe.
Speaker 10: It's that time again. Let it shine again, snow.
Speaker 4: Donn kiss me good night yet? Everything's fine. Let's wait
Speaker 4: for the sun. The chambers through the cotton candy clouds,
Speaker 4: over the gun drop cramps. Have you ever seen a
Speaker 4: more enchanting Christmas towel? Don't you fall asleep yet? Said
Speaker 4: old peep. Here's bright rosy cheeks in soon He's bound
Speaker 4: to arie. It really is a wonderful life in the Essa.
Speaker 4: Oh the snow, snow. It's snowing on the rooftops everywhere
Speaker 4: I go. It's that time of year.
Speaker 10: I see smiles on the faces of everyone I meet.
Speaker 6: Such holiday chi.
Speaker 3: I won I'm playing it all like a seven year
Speaker 3: old honey raped me on medicis.
Speaker 4: Under the mistletoe.
Speaker 3: It's that time again. Let it shine again. It's that
Speaker 3: time again. Let it shine again.
Speaker 4: Oh it's that time again. Let it shine again.
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