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Speaker 3: How was your trip?
Speaker 5: It was really amazing. I was in Rwanda with the
Speaker 5: school called Hope Haven and they were having a big
Speaker 5: their first graduation. Gosh, they started the school under a
Speaker 5: tree in one of the most impoverished areas of Kakali,
Speaker 5: and uh it's you know, twelve thirteen years later, and
Speaker 5: I guess twelve years later, a lot of these kids
Speaker 5: are having a graduation. So yeah, I just got to
Speaker 5: spend a lot of time with some amazing children and
Speaker 5: teaching classes and helping out. And that pace the pace
Speaker 5: of Africa where nobody's on time. There is no on time.
Speaker 5: You're just hanging out and you get there when you
Speaker 5: get there, and the priorities shift dramatically when you're surrounded
Speaker 5: by that kind of poverty, that kind of light lifestyle,
Speaker 5: and they're so happy.
Speaker 3: Oh it was I.
Speaker 5: Mean I can't even there's no words for me to
Speaker 5: put it into yet, but it was really amazing.
Speaker 4: No, I totally got it. I mean, there's there is
Speaker 4: nothing more amazing than watching what schools do to communities.
Speaker 4: Like all the years I got to travel with pencils
Speaker 4: and promise, whether it was you know, Gana, Guatemala, allow
Speaker 4: like to see just what school does for yes, the
Speaker 4: kids and the families and the community. It's like it
Speaker 4: really it really reminds you how we can get so
Speaker 4: accustomed to our own resources and privilege that we don't
Speaker 4: even realize how frick and lucky we are for sure.
Speaker 5: I mean, these kids are in school from six thirty
Speaker 5: to I mean they arrive at between six thirty and
Speaker 5: seven until four thirty, and they're thrilled and they love
Speaker 5: it and they're learned. I mean, their education quality is
Speaker 5: surpassing what I'm experiencing, what we're experiencing here in Tennessee,
Speaker 5: like at a good private school. It's just these kids
Speaker 5: are so hungry to learn, so it's really different than Yeah,
Speaker 5: the sort of entitlement and taking for granted that we
Speaker 5: have here, shape shift, yeah.
Speaker 3: Identity affecting school.
Speaker 4: Yes, Like, honestly, it's all I want to do.
Speaker 5: You could go back to school if you said yes
Speaker 5: to Pete's question here if we want to get started,
Speaker 5: Pete is asking us, Joy and Sophia. You both directed
Speaker 5: on One Tree Hill. Would you still be interested in
Speaker 5: doing that in future shows or movies? I'm sure there's
Speaker 5: other you know, go back to Outer Banks high school shows.
Speaker 3: Or plenty of others. Do you want to do? You
Speaker 3: want to direct on other shows and movies?
Speaker 4: I do. I think it's something that I've had such
Speaker 4: a good time over the last you know, eight years,
Speaker 4: really getting into producing, and I love it and I
Speaker 4: just like having hands in that kind of collaboration. The
Speaker 4: stuff that happens obviously on camera for us as actors,
Speaker 4: but everything else that happens off and I think, yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know, I definitely have that itch to direct again.
Speaker 4: But gosh, it was so fun to direct on our
Speaker 4: show because it was just like, I don't know, I
Speaker 4: thought that it was so we were so well supported.
Speaker 4: That's that's the word I'm looking for. I just I
Speaker 4: loved the experience of it. I know you did too.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I did.
Speaker 5: I really loved it, and I support it is a
Speaker 5: great word for it. It was this really wonderful place
Speaker 5: to learn and observe and get my feet wet, and
Speaker 5: I would definitely love to direct again in the future.
Speaker 5: It wasn't really possible after I left One Tree Hill and.
Speaker 3: Was raising a gorgeous little goal.
Speaker 5: But now I'm you know, she's getting older and I
Speaker 5: can disappear for longer stretches of time. So I've been
Speaker 5: looking for a few things that I could direct. I
Speaker 5: don't know if i'd want to direct episodic TV. I
Speaker 5: think that that grind is Yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 5: i'd be in for that. I'd rather just work on
Speaker 5: one particular thing that I could hyper focus on for
Speaker 5: six months or a year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what exactly i'd
Speaker 4: want to direct next, but I just know that i'd
Speaker 4: love to do it. So yeah, I suppose we'll see.
Speaker 4: Thanks Pete, all always happy, says Sophia and Joy. You've
Speaker 4: both played recurring characters on Grey's Anatomy and Hillary Too.
Speaker 4: How was it to work on that show and what
Speaker 4: kind of character would you make up for Rob if
Speaker 4: he were playing someone on Grace? I love it.
Speaker 3: That's awesome. I had a ball working on that show.
Speaker 5: That was really fun.
Speaker 4: Are you still on it right now? Well, we're wrapped currently.
Speaker 4: The show's on hiatus, so not at the moment. Okay,
Speaker 4: but it's I've loved it too.
Speaker 5: But you didn't die or anything like. You can still
Speaker 5: come back. Okay, Oh that's exciting. Yeah, I had a
Speaker 5: great time. Did you enjoy yourself?
Speaker 4: I loved it. It's just one of the greatest sets
Speaker 4: to work on. Everyone is lovely and thoughtful and incredibly
Speaker 4: dedicated to what they do, so grateful to be there.
Speaker 4: And it was pretty profound for me to see that
Speaker 4: even you know, twenty one seasons and everybody loves their job.
Speaker 4: Nobody's jaded, it hasn't been worn off, and I just think,
Speaker 4: you know, what Shonda and her world of producers and
Speaker 4: folks have built is such an amazing thing to be.
Speaker 5: A part of. Yeah, and it's just such a legacy.
Speaker 5: It's been around. Was it on season sixteen?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 4: Twenty one?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 5: What?
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's incredible. Okay, So twenty one seasons, I mean
Speaker 3: they've had a lot of characters.
Speaker 2: Is what is Rob?
Speaker 5: What hole is Rob going to fill that hasn't been
Speaker 5: filled already? I mean, is there some sort of smartass
Speaker 5: doctor that has not been introduced to Grey's Anatomy yet,
Speaker 5: Because I feel like Rob would be a great, dry,
Speaker 5: sarcastic like just you know, coming in from out of town.
Speaker 5: What do they need on that show? You've been on
Speaker 5: it most recently, what do they need?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean, my gosh, I don't really know. I think
Speaker 4: one of the exciting things about shows like that is
Speaker 4: you get to much like we did on One Tree Hill,
Speaker 4: because it's an ensemble, you get these slices of life
Speaker 4: for everybody. But I agree, I think I can't decide
Speaker 4: if it would be fun to have Rob walk in there,
Speaker 4: you know, as some great new doctor who was recruited
Speaker 4: from some other hospital and to your point, was very dry,
Speaker 4: or would it be like so fun to let him
Speaker 4: be Rob and see him go in as this you know,
Speaker 4: handsome guy that everyone thinks is going to be one thing,
Speaker 4: and then he's just an absolute goofball who becomes the
Speaker 4: hospital prankster.
Speaker 5: I think there's room for both. Yeah, I think there's
Speaker 5: a room for both. I like it, I would enjoy well.
Speaker 5: Gray's Anatomy showrunners, please listen, Rob Buckley. You need Robert
Speaker 5: Buckley on your show. You need his energy. Let's make
Speaker 5: this happen. Absolutely okay, whiz kid, what is something you
Speaker 5: pret tend to understand but absolutely do not?
Speaker 4: Oh goodness, what a great question.
Speaker 3: Uh, I don't know. I mean my instinct is telling
Speaker 3: me that.
Speaker 5: I usually I'm pretty forthcoming about asking and saying like,
Speaker 5: I don't what is that? What does that mean? Can
Speaker 5: you explain that to me? I don't really understand it.
Speaker 5: If I don't, I don't have like a I'm trying
Speaker 5: to think of what environment I might be in where
Speaker 5: I would feel insecure and need to pretend like I
Speaker 5: don't understand, don't know. Is there I mean maybe with
Speaker 5: my daughter or there things where I'm like, just yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 5: What about you?
Speaker 4: Well, I was going to say, I think we're just
Speaker 4: at that stage in life where we're very aware of
Speaker 4: what we don't know. Yes, And I think there's such
Speaker 4: a there's such a thing that happens as you grow
Speaker 4: into yourself, you know, I think it twenty you're more
Speaker 4: likely to be like, oh, God, am I the only
Speaker 4: person who doesn't know what these people are talking about?
Speaker 4: And just go sidon and listen and try to figure
Speaker 4: it out. You know, at this stage I love to
Speaker 4: be like, wait, what is that? I don't know what
Speaker 4: that is? You tell me about that? It's fun for
Speaker 4: me to learn something I don't know, and I think,
Speaker 4: I'm I've just been around, you know, I've made enough
Speaker 4: trips around the sun that I'm not embarrassed that I
Speaker 4: don't know something. I'm yeah, I'm great to admit what
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because there's so it's only good when you say
Speaker 5: I don't understand that, because then you get somebody explaining
Speaker 5: it to you, and yeah, you know that's nice. I mean,
Speaker 5: I can tell you the things that I have had
Speaker 5: explained over and over to me and still don't understand,
Speaker 5: and that would be golf. How the investment banking world,
Speaker 5: like all of the stocks and bonds I still don't
Speaker 5: know the difference between stocks and bonds have had to
Speaker 5: explain to me multiple times. Don't understand the difference, And
Speaker 5: maybe I just don't retain it because I don't care.
Speaker 5: That's probably it. It's not that I understand, I just
Speaker 5: don't retain it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not it's not your cup of tea.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: Our producer just said cryptocurrency absolutely, yeah, no, no idea.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what, you're illuminating something for me. I
Speaker 4: have two friends who, in different sort of areas of focus,
Speaker 4: both work in web three you know, digital know what
Speaker 4: that is, like like the digital world, like the non
Speaker 4: physical world, the world that is built exclusively on the Internet.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And the level of knowledge that they have and the
Speaker 4: things that they have explained to me. I I do
Speaker 4: understand the things they've shared, yeah, because they are incredibly
Speaker 4: brilliant women. And I still don't understand the point of it,
Speaker 4: And like, that is an interesting lane for me in
Speaker 4: my adulthood is to go, I understand what you've just
Speaker 4: explained to me. I don't understand why anyone's doing this right,
Speaker 4: And I sort of have to hold both. I'm like,
Speaker 4: I don't get it. It's interesting, yeah, but I'm not
Speaker 4: interested in it. I'm interested in your perspective and your career,
Speaker 4: and I want to know stuff. And I do ask
Speaker 4: a lot of questions because really, at the end of
Speaker 4: the day, no matter how much I learn about it,
Speaker 4: I'm still like, but why are we doing this? I
Speaker 4: don't get it.
Speaker 5: It's like Minecraft or Fortnite or something. I'm just like,
Speaker 5: I don't. I mean, I get it, like I'm an
Speaker 5: intelligent human capable of understanding what you're communicating to me,
Speaker 5: but that I can't. I can't hold on to it
Speaker 5: if I don't care enough, Like if I'm not invested
Speaker 5: in it, my brain just won't hold on to it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: I feel that.
Speaker 4: So there, whiz Kid, You're smart. You chosen nickname. I
Speaker 4: want I want to know what you pretend to understand,
Speaker 4: but don't. Oh this is a good one, baby Grace says.
Speaker 4: I am so shocked Joy was only given two weeks
Speaker 4: off after having her baby. And the really crazy part
Speaker 4: about that, I'm interjecting now obviously, is that some people
Speaker 4: were like, wow, they gave you time off, like insane.
Speaker 4: But Grace, the rest of Grace's question is, what was
Speaker 4: it like coming back to work with a newborn? Did
Speaker 4: the baby come to set? Did you have someone to
Speaker 4: help you take care of the baby during filming?
Speaker 5: Oh, baby, Grace, Yeah, two weeks is just not enough time.
Speaker 5: But also, I mean, what are they going to do?
Speaker 5: Like I'm filming a TV series and they're just going
Speaker 5: to write me out of the show. I mean, there
Speaker 5: has to be some sort of comedyations made. It's not
Speaker 5: quite the same I think as some other things where
Speaker 5: you could do it virtually. Like I actually had to
Speaker 5: show up with my face and my body on camera,
Speaker 5: So I'm not sure what the other option would have been.
Speaker 3: But yeah, coming back.
Speaker 5: I actually wrote about this in my book about what
Speaker 5: it was like coming back to set with a newborn.
Speaker 3: It was difficult, but.
Speaker 5: The producers were great in terms of scheduling me and
Speaker 5: being really accommodating with meeting to go back to the
Speaker 5: trailer every two hours on the dot to pump and
Speaker 5: or nurse. I did have a nanny in the trailer.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: We just made it work.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't have anything else to compare it to,
Speaker 5: like that was just my reality. So I mean that's
Speaker 5: what women are experts at this. We just figure it out.
Speaker 5: We make it work totally. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Well, and that is part of the incredible thing about
Speaker 4: our jobs. You know, most new parents I don't have
Speaker 4: a trailer two hundred yards outside of their office where
Speaker 4: you know, their new baby gets to be, which is probably.
Speaker 5: Why it was easier for me to come back after
Speaker 5: two weeks, because it's not like I had to leave
Speaker 5: the baby at home for the entire day and just
Speaker 5: start working again. I mean, it was really they created
Speaker 5: this home. I mean it already felt like home on
Speaker 5: set was another extension of our homes. So yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean it was. It was the best case scenario and
Speaker 5: certainly better than what most women in America get, for sure, totally.
Speaker 4: And I even remember when you came back, you know
Speaker 4: how interesting certain things were, the sort of mystery of
Speaker 4: what's Haley doing at closeover Bros? You know, and you
Speaker 4: having this day where they could cut all these shots
Speaker 4: of you that were essentially montage into the episode when
Speaker 4: you returned, but hadn't you didn't have to be there
Speaker 4: for that long that day, and then you and I
Speaker 4: finally had that scene, you know, at the end. But
Speaker 4: it's like interesting things like that. We're cool to get
Speaker 4: to peek behind the curtain during that time and see
Speaker 4: how they were able to sort of work around taking
Speaker 4: care of you a little bit and making sure they
Speaker 4: weren't making you do something so taxing, Like your first
Speaker 4: moment back on set, you know, you were still recovering,
Speaker 4: and I just I remember listening to the adults like
Speaker 4: talk about how they were figuring that stuff out, and
Speaker 4: I thought that was pretty cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah, there was a lot of care put into it.
Speaker 5: I mean I was treated like family. So yeah, it
Speaker 5: was a great experience.
Speaker 4: Well, and I think nice too with us having you know,
Speaker 4: Greg and David like are on site executive producers, were parents,
Speaker 4: So I think it was it was a good thing
Speaker 4: that they they knew, they definitely had your back.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they'd all been through so much like this before.
Speaker 5: So okay, Leslie wants to know. Are you the type
Speaker 5: of person who returns your shopping cart or leaves it
Speaker 5: by where they parked? What kind of question is this?
Speaker 5: Of course you return your shopping cart. Who does not
Speaker 5: return their shopping cart? No, you have to No, that's outrageous, outrageous.
Speaker 4: The only way things work is if we all pitch in.
Speaker 4: Got a contribute. Society requires some manners.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those are basic manners. I'm sorry, Like, I don't
Speaker 5: care how hot it is, I don't care if it's raining,
Speaker 5: I don't care what's going on.
Speaker 3: Like, you just put your cart back, what are you
Speaker 3: going to leave it?
Speaker 5: Because that means someone else has to go out and
Speaker 5: do it so essentially by leaving your cart next to
Speaker 5: your car, first of all, you're probably blocking a parking space,
Speaker 5: but also that someone else who works at the store
Speaker 5: now has to leave and go out in the rain
Speaker 5: or out in the heat or whatever it is that
Speaker 5: you were trying to avoid. I'm trying to think, Okay,
Speaker 5: the only no with it when you've got a newborn baby.
Speaker 5: If it's just you and your baby in the car
Speaker 5: and the shopping cart thing is really far away there,
Speaker 5: I can I guess I can understand feeling stressed about
Speaker 5: not wanting to do that, and but like, I mean,
Speaker 5: it's only like that forty five seconds. Like you can
Speaker 5: figure it out, right, It's not that hard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean you want you would hope that if
Speaker 4: you were dealing, you know, solo with a little baby,
Speaker 4: someone would see you and offer you some help. But yeah,
Speaker 4: I just I think you got to contribute. This is why,
Speaker 4: like that my public sass solely revolves around this stuff
Speaker 4: at the airport.
Speaker 3: Oh like when people don't put their trays back on
Speaker 3: the thing.
Speaker 4: Oh, I am absolutely the person who will I will
Speaker 4: look a grown man in the face and say, oh
Speaker 4: it's fine, I'll clean up after myself and you as well,
Speaker 4: because apparently that's my job or the job of the TSA.
Speaker 4: Like people they're so shocked. And I always look at
Speaker 4: the TSA people, you know, and say, I'm so sorry.
Speaker 4: People treat you like you know, you're their housekeeper or
Speaker 4: like what like these people are dealing with now security?
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 4: It drives me absolutely up a wall.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't like it. It's hamiltating. I get being spacey.
Speaker 5: Though I'm spacey. I know what it feels like to
Speaker 5: be like have a million things on your brain and
Speaker 5: you just sort of like forget. And I try and
Speaker 5: make space for people like, Okay, if they left their
Speaker 5: shopping cart, maybe they were injured and it was too
Speaker 5: hard for them to get it back, Like I try
Speaker 5: and create some space for that. But in general, I
Speaker 5: would hope that people are self I don't want to
Speaker 5: say self policing, but you know you've got some some
Speaker 5: measure of like self control and awareness to be able
Speaker 5: to ye.
Speaker 4: Like, manners matter, that's all manners matter.
Speaker 3: Man me make a T shirt out of that.
Speaker 4: Yes, absolutely, We're going to end on a high note
Speaker 4: with Sam's question, what shows are you currently watching?
Speaker 3: Oh? I just watched Oh did I just watch? Oh
Speaker 3: it was great. It's great.
Speaker 5: It's called based on a true story, and they didn't
Speaker 5: it ended after two seasons. It's Katie Quoco and it's
Speaker 5: produced by Jason Bateman. It's a great show on Peacock
Speaker 5: about this couple that gets this woman's obsessed with true
Speaker 5: crime and then they get kind of involved in a
Speaker 5: real life murder. It's a comedy, dark comedy.
Speaker 3: Oh how fun. It's great, But they canceled it, so.
Speaker 5: Now I'm kind of I'm sad they always cancel the
Speaker 5: shows I love.
Speaker 4: Well, that's a shame. I just watched Sirens and really
Speaker 4: enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: Oh oh yes, it's just.
Speaker 4: Great and all the women are fantastic and.
Speaker 3: Oof.
Speaker 4: It's so escapist and also so self aware and it's fabulous.
Speaker 5: All right, next time the list. Thanks everybody, We'll see
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