Speaker 1: First of all, you don't know me.
Speaker 2: All about that high school drama girl drama girl, all
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Speaker 1: got me and Rob for Q and a Hi Robert.
Speaker 4: Hey Joy, Hey friends, how you doing, buddy?
Speaker 1: I'm good. I've been really good.
Speaker 4: Guys.
Speaker 1: We just had a fantastic talk with Chantelle Van Samon
Speaker 1: and Lindsay McKeon, and we talked about that whole episode
Speaker 1: seven eighteen where Lydia passes away, and it was so
Speaker 1: great to see both of them and spend time with
Speaker 1: those girls. They're just such lovely souls and really talented actors.
Speaker 1: That was a nice time.
Speaker 4: Yes, it was great, especially because I feel like we've
Speaker 4: been seeing some much of them, especially you know, Quinn
Speaker 4: aka Chantel that it was so nice to finally have
Speaker 4: her here to get her perspective, you know, because I
Speaker 4: feel like we've been talking about her so much, and
Speaker 4: it was nice to actually have her here to talk
Speaker 4: with her.
Speaker 1: I know, I'm so glad we were able to do that,
Speaker 1: but we have got to move on. The show must
Speaker 1: go on, friends, and so here we are with our
Speaker 1: Q and a episode. Thank you so much for writing
Speaker 1: in your questions for us. We've we've got a fun
Speaker 1: list here today. Would you like to get us started?
Speaker 4: I would, and I was just going to say before
Speaker 4: we jump into this, first of all, these questions are awesome,
Speaker 4: So thank you to everyone. I've only skimmed a couple,
Speaker 4: but all the ones I saw I loved. And I
Speaker 4: also want to say, I see our first nickname, so
Speaker 4: I love that. Keep up, give us your fun nickname,
Speaker 4: let us know who it is.
Speaker 1: Okay, So Sarah wants to know if your characters were
Speaker 1: in The Walking Dead, how do you think they would go?
Speaker 1: What would be their game plan? M Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make a confession here. I've never seen an episode of
Speaker 1: The Walking Dead.
Speaker 4: I am texting Hillary right now. Second.
Speaker 1: Sorry, I don't do zombies, guys. I don't do zombies.
Speaker 1: But maybe that's the good indication of how Haley would survive.
Speaker 4: Now, Okay, So then let's just pretend right it's zombie
Speaker 4: apocalypse has happened again, and it's we're trying to hide
Speaker 4: we see our first zombie. Is it I that you
Speaker 4: shriek or are you just petrified? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think there's definitely an ick factor involved. My first
Speaker 1: zombie I ever see this is as Hailey. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think she's totally grossed out. But also Haley's got a
Speaker 1: pretty good fight or flight instinct. I think she like
Speaker 1: maybe jumps and then immediately grabs the nearest weapon, shovel, stick,
Speaker 1: tennis ball, like, whatever's nearby, she's grabbing it.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And she's also a mom, you know, And I
Speaker 4: think I think once you're a parent, you sort of
Speaker 4: develop that innate protector, yeah, reflex. I think I think
Speaker 4: Hayley would would do alright after when she got past
Speaker 4: the initial ick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how's Clay doing?
Speaker 4: Clay already sees dead people, so I feel like it's
Speaker 4: not going to really rock the boat. They're just a
Speaker 4: little less attractive than the dead people he normally sees. Uh.
Speaker 4: I think I think Clay would do all right. You know,
Speaker 4: I think he's been through some stuff, so I think
Speaker 4: I think you'd have a fighting chance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could see that Clay. Clay is really resourceful.
Speaker 1: He's very He's wily and resourceful, and I think Clay
Speaker 1: is it would invent something. He would know how to
Speaker 1: team up with the right people. He's got a good
Speaker 1: eye for who's going to be useful and how to
Speaker 1: put a team together. So I feel like Clay would
Speaker 1: probably be the guy putting together assembling the team of
Speaker 1: renegades who are going to fight the zombies. I feel
Speaker 1: like I have confidence in Clay.
Speaker 4: I gotta say, if I had to pick who I
Speaker 4: think would would do the best, it's Dan Scott for sure,
Speaker 4: because I could see him like not being afraid to
Speaker 4: get the you know, the farm equipment out and fight them.
Speaker 4: But then he's also that guy who I could see
Speaker 4: him turning on other people like for his own good.
Speaker 1: Absolutely survival of the fittest. I'm sure that's his motto completely.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a bit of a sociopath. So yeah, I
Speaker 4: think it would be Dan Scott for the zombie win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. Do we have a character who's the
Speaker 1: first to go.
Speaker 4: My knee jerk was Alex.
Speaker 1: She's kind of scrappy, I don't.
Speaker 4: Know she is, but also just I feel like tragedy
Speaker 4: just follows her.
Speaker 1: Oh that is true. That is true. Who's the first
Speaker 1: to go? I don't know. I guess I feel like
Speaker 1: Julian would be running a lot, but he also would
Speaker 1: turn around and fight if he had to. I just
Speaker 1: don't feel like he would. That would be his first rehabs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because he's a strong protector. But you're right, like
Speaker 4: we saw him in the campaign episode where he had
Speaker 4: like zero practical smarts, it seemed yeah, all right, all right.
Speaker 4: Melissa asks if you could go to any convention as
Speaker 4: a fan of one of your favorite shows, what would
Speaker 4: it be and who would you be most excited to meet.
Speaker 4: Oh that's a great question.
Speaker 1: Yes, I feel like, here's a fan convention. I would
Speaker 1: really like to go to mad Men and we're all
Speaker 1: dressed up in the sixties and it's a cocktail party
Speaker 1: and it's not weird and awkward, but we're all really
Speaker 1: like just mingling in the sixties. Can that exist?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Yeah, listen, this is you get to
Speaker 4: make your own convention. Okay, yeah, I love that answer
Speaker 4: because that was way outside the box, and now I'm
Speaker 4: going to do the same. Mine would be for great
Speaker 4: British Bakeoff, and at the convention there would be people baking,
Speaker 4: so same thing. It wouldn't be the awkward like hi,
Speaker 4: how are you? It would just be like, hey, let's
Speaker 4: try this food together. Do you like you know? Eclaire's
Speaker 4: went over Paul Hollywood, Let's have any Claire together. Maybe
Speaker 4: someone gets a handshake, you know.
Speaker 1: I like this. Yeah, so I get cigarettes and Martini's
Speaker 1: and you're going to get your British. It's good.
Speaker 4: I come home with two cavities and that's okay, a
Speaker 4: lot of memories.
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we do have our first nickname. This
Speaker 1: is Daniel going by College. Buy T shirt. I love it.
Speaker 1: I love it, Daniel College my T shirt. Wants to know. Listen,
Speaker 1: you mentioned frequently how a lot of men have told
Speaker 1: you their girlfriend made me watch the show, so or
Speaker 1: my girlfriend made me watch the show. So his question
Speaker 1: is what show or shows have you made your partners
Speaker 1: with you watch you're current or a previous partner, and
Speaker 1: the disclaimer is preferably a show you watched from episode
Speaker 1: one and not just randomly like watching when you're watching it.
Speaker 4: Good question.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Game of Thrones for me, my boyfriend had never
Speaker 1: seen it. So we just started from season one and
Speaker 1: took us about seven months. I think kept going.
Speaker 4: That's a great one. I got pulled into that one
Speaker 4: by an ex girlfriend. I would say, detroitter's are you
Speaker 4: failing with this show? It was two seasons. It's Tim
Speaker 4: Robinson and Sam oh Boy. It's going to come back to.
Speaker 1: Me, Sam oh Boy.
Speaker 4: I like it, Yes, Sam oh Boy, Sam Richardson. And
Speaker 4: it's a comedy. It was a short lived comedy two
Speaker 4: seasons on Comedy Central, and it was so funny, and
Speaker 4: it was the thing Tim Robinson did just prior to
Speaker 4: I think you should leave. But it's basically it's just
Speaker 4: it's kind of absurd comedy, but at the crux of it,
Speaker 4: it's just about two guy best friends and how much
Speaker 4: they love each other and the adventures they get into.
Speaker 4: That's all fun, it's all heart and then laughs. It's
Speaker 4: great Detroiters, No Detroiters, Yep, Detroiters.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 4: I highly recommend. And it's you know, it's a thirty
Speaker 4: minute sitcom, but it's it's funny, it's irreverent, but it's
Speaker 4: also just sweet because it's two guys who aren't afraid
Speaker 4: to be like, I love you, I love you, buddy,
Speaker 4: let's go.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to watch that. Thank you. That's good.
Speaker 4: Hannah asks what holiday was the best to celebrate in Wilmington.
Speaker 1: Oh, did I celebrate any holidays in Wilmington?
Speaker 4: Weren't there for like, you know, we all kind of
Speaker 4: went home. Yeah, I mean, I guess Fourth of July.
Speaker 1: That's probably fun. I'm sure they do something on the
Speaker 1: Cape Fear.
Speaker 4: When we were there for the fourth of July.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't remember any Fourth of July's there.
Speaker 4: Do you Maybe Halloween? We were there for Halloween.
Speaker 1: Halloween was fun because downtown was definitely flooded with people
Speaker 1: in costumes. It's such a college town Wilmington, so Halloween
Speaker 1: was a big Yeah, that's a good call. I would
Speaker 1: say that too, especially with the parties that Hillary would
Speaker 1: throw at her house. There was always something to do.
Speaker 1: Everybody really decorated their trailers, and Halloween was fun.
Speaker 4: It would have been funny if we just said an
Speaker 4: obscure holiday like Labor Day President's Day, and then we
Speaker 4: didn't add any clarification and just moved on. Everyone's like,
Speaker 4: why is that day? So we got to get to
Speaker 4: wilmingtown President's Day? What's going on there mail.
Speaker 1: The businesses just get an influx of people on President's Day.
Speaker 4: You're welcome, Chamber of Commerce.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, Brittany says. It's the late eighties early nineties
Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning. What cereal are you eating? And
Speaker 1: what cartoon show are you watching?
Speaker 4: Romuless, Brittany, this is such a good question. It's so
Speaker 4: good cereal. If it's specific to cereal, it's going to
Speaker 4: be probably fruity pebbles ooh. But I also definitely aaraied
Speaker 4: with toaster strudles.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 4: And what cartoon am I watching? Oh? Man? I mean
Speaker 4: mask g I Joe, Gummy Bears. Those were Those are
Speaker 4: kind of the staples off the top of my eye.
Speaker 1: I know there was something that was on before Smurfs.
Speaker 1: I wasn't allowed to watch the Smurfs, but there was
Speaker 1: something that was on right before it that I watched,
Speaker 1: maybe My Little Pony, but I feel like it was
Speaker 1: something else and I can't remember. I liked the sparkly, magical,
Speaker 1: girly cartoons.
Speaker 4: I just did you ever get into Sailor Moon?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 4: Maybe, because Sailor Moon was awesome?
Speaker 1: Was that Japan animation?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Okay, I did not I remember seeing commercials for it,
Speaker 1: though I didn't watch a lot of cartoons.
Speaker 4: Oh man, there was some good ones. Jim Jim and
Speaker 4: the hol Aground remember that whole theme song. Yeah, Sailor
Speaker 4: Moon was a fun one. Oh, I mean obviously, like
Speaker 4: Looney Tunes was awesome.
Speaker 1: That actually is. Yeah, animals and tiny tuns, tiny tuns.
Speaker 1: There was another one after tiny chuns was maybe it
Speaker 1: was they were little muppet muppet babies. That's what it was.
Speaker 1: Not animals. It was muppet babies and tiny tuns. That's
Speaker 1: what I loved. And I had been eating lucky charms.
Speaker 4: Yeah, lucky ducktails. Did you ever party with ducktails?
Speaker 1: Sometimes? That was a little boring for me.
Speaker 4: Chippendale Rescue Rangers, guys, we had it good back then.
Speaker 4: I don't know what the cartoon selection is these days,
Speaker 4: but Bluey is great. But I mean, come on, I
Speaker 4: don't know. All right, Jackie says, excuse me, excuse me.
Speaker 4: Jackie asks, do you have any goals that you set
Speaker 4: for yourself that you want to accomplish by the end
Speaker 4: of the year. So let's I wonder if that's sort
Speaker 4: of well. Also, let me just follow up question to that,
Speaker 4: Joy do you are you? In New Year's resolutions person.
Speaker 1: I have become more of one I didn't used to be,
Speaker 1: although I do try and set some kind of something
Speaker 1: take intentional, take a look at the year ahead and
Speaker 1: reflect on patterns of behavior or just things that I
Speaker 1: think I could do better at, and try to set
Speaker 1: an intention and a plan for how I might go
Speaker 1: about changing that. I try not to make anything too
Speaker 1: grand or sweeping, because I feel like very lofty goals
Speaker 1: are harder to achieve, so I try and move in
Speaker 1: smaller increments. I did not I don't have anything other
Speaker 1: than finishing a book, which I did. There's nothing else
Speaker 1: that I really want to accomplish. By the end of
Speaker 1: the year, I'm pretty tired. I just want to rest.
Speaker 4: What about you, that's a good question. I think I'm
Speaker 4: similar to you where I've realized the whole grandiose thing
Speaker 4: just it's just lip service. It doesn't go anywhere. So
Speaker 4: I kind of set more actionable goals like I had
Speaker 4: one a couple of years ago, which was I'm no
Speaker 4: longer allowed to have conversations with people who aren't in
Speaker 4: the room, because I realized I was spending a lot
Speaker 4: of my time like in the shower, just when I
Speaker 4: was by myself, like having imaginary arguments, having imaginary fights,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, solutions with people. And the thing is they
Speaker 4: never end with me feeling more relaxed and peaceful. They've
Speaker 4: always seemed to agitate or excite my nervous system. So
Speaker 4: I realized that it's just it's sort of this self
Speaker 4: involved act that only just affects me in a negative way.
Speaker 4: So my resolution was, I'm I'm no longer allowed to
Speaker 4: talk to people who aren't the room.
Speaker 1: That's great. I think that's relatable for a lot of people.
Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of people who don't do that,
Speaker 1: but there are a lot who do. I'm one of
Speaker 1: those people. And I've also in recent years caught myself
Speaker 1: and been like, what this is stressing me out? Why
Speaker 1: am I having an imaginary conversation that doesn't exist. It's
Speaker 1: not happening. I'm not I'm never going to fix the
Speaker 1: moment that passed. I can't go back and rehab that
Speaker 1: moment and say the right thing. If there's a conversation
Speaker 1: in the future that I'm going to have, I can
Speaker 1: prepare for that by being thoughtful. But I don't need
Speaker 1: to have some kind of stressful release of saying things
Speaker 1: that I would never say in real life? Do you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Like, it's just it's too much.
Speaker 4: I think what it comes from is it's it's our
Speaker 4: brains wanting to protect us. I'll speak for myself. I
Speaker 4: think it's my brain wanting to protect me. It's sort
Speaker 4: of saying, if we play through every scenario of how
Speaker 4: this could go, then we can't be caught off guard. Yes,
Speaker 4: the problem is ninety percent of time, whatever the scenario is,
Speaker 4: doesn't even isn't even have doesn't happen. Yeah. And the
Speaker 4: other thing too, is I only play through the negatives. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I never. I never in the shower go what if
Speaker 4: I get out of here? And Jenny says that I'm
Speaker 4: a I'm an amazing man in a great debt. That's
Speaker 4: not what happens. My brain's like, what if I get
Speaker 4: out of here? And she says, hmm, kind of a
Speaker 4: long shower, I only think of things that would like
Speaker 4: agitate me, and and so it's okay, that's a losing proposition.
Speaker 1: Yes, I agree. I agree. That's a great that's a
Speaker 1: great goal. I love it. Okay, Reese wants to know
Speaker 1: what current issues or topics would Haley draw inspiration from
Speaker 1: to write her music. I don't know, you know, you know, Rees,
Speaker 1: I don't know that Haley was ever a writer about issues.
Speaker 1: I feel like she was more of what her own
Speaker 1: personal experiences were and what her longings are and what
Speaker 1: I mean. I'm only saying that because I guess that's
Speaker 1: kind of how I am too, So I related to
Speaker 1: Haley on that on that level. But yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: know she I think she probably would have been writing
Speaker 1: about her kids going off to college and feeling like
Speaker 1: there's empty nest syndrome and trying to reconnect with Nathan
Speaker 1: and what does it look like to be rebuilding a
Speaker 1: home that looked one way and now is looking like
Speaker 1: something else. I think I think that would be irrelevant
Speaker 1: for her.
Speaker 4: I buy it. Yeah, Aaron asks what This is a
Speaker 4: great question, Aaron, if only you had a nickname attached
Speaker 4: to it, what would your character bring to friends giving?
Speaker 1: Well, Hayley brings a turkey, Yeah, what do you bring?
Speaker 4: I think Clay brings a really delicious side dish or
Speaker 4: two that he one ordered and picked up from a
Speaker 4: good restaurant on the way to friendsgiving, like he is
Speaker 4: courteous enough that he wants to bring something people will like,
Speaker 4: but he is also inept enough, having been a bachelor
Speaker 4: for so long that he doesn't know how to cook anything.
Speaker 4: So he's like, I'm just going to order something tasty
Speaker 4: from a good restaurant.
Speaker 1: Also courteous to not make people eat something that you
Speaker 1: know is subpart.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because otherwise, you know, it would be like a
Speaker 4: cereal crusted chicken or something, and it would just be terrible.
Speaker 1: Captain crunch green beans.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly exactly. I got it off Pinterest. Guys, everyone's like, no,
Speaker 4: stay off Pinterest. Good.
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's one from Gwen. She says, who is
Speaker 1: your favorite director to work with and what made that
Speaker 1: person special to work with? Is this limited to One
Speaker 1: Tree Hill or is this just in general?
Speaker 4: That's a great I think let's let's say it's not limited.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: Let's broaden it up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because also then my answer is going to be
Speaker 4: a tie between you and Sofia. Okay, fine, my answer is, Sophia,
Speaker 4: how do you like that joy? Because of your editor?
Speaker 4: It's fine, It's fine. No, I think it's got to
Speaker 4: be it can be any director, because I think that's
Speaker 4: that's more meaningful. Okay, do you have one, because I
Speaker 4: have one.
Speaker 1: I think it is hard to say my very favorite.
Speaker 1: I've worked with several directors that I really absolutely loved.
Speaker 1: I think you know who's coming to mind right now
Speaker 1: is Kevin Bray, who he directed a lot and was
Speaker 1: an executive producer on Pearson the Suit spin off that
Speaker 1: I did for a season. And he used to be
Speaker 1: a music video director, got his start there and then
Speaker 1: started branching off into TV and now he's doing The
Speaker 1: Morning Show and he's been doing The Penguin on HBO,
Speaker 1: and like, super, super talented guy, but very soft spoken,
Speaker 1: and he's an observer and he was just so good
Speaker 1: at giving you space as an actor and trusting you.
Speaker 1: And if he had a note, it was minimal and
Speaker 1: there wasn't a lot of verbiage. It was he just
Speaker 1: trusted that you could feel what needed to be done,
Speaker 1: and if you were having a hard time, he would
Speaker 1: maybe even just ask you relevant questions to get your
Speaker 1: brain thinking so that you could solve your own problem,
Speaker 1: which is so I think that could be a really
Speaker 1: hard thing to do for an actor or for a
Speaker 1: director to know how to give an actor the dignity
Speaker 1: of solving their own problem without you having to even
Speaker 1: tell them what to do. It's really cool skill. Kevin
Speaker 1: Bray love him.
Speaker 4: That's great man. Yeah, it's a toss up. So my
Speaker 4: very first one of the very first directors on my
Speaker 4: first TV shows, guy David Hogan, was amazing to work with.
Speaker 4: But he also is the one who planted the seed.
Speaker 4: I remember before we even started shooting, he said, just
Speaker 4: keep it as honest as possible, and that was where
Speaker 4: that and that has become my north star and has
Speaker 4: always been my north star is just let's just keep
Speaker 4: it honest.
Speaker 1: I remember you talking about that in the episode we
Speaker 1: watched when you were dealing with Sarah's death.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. He was the one who planted that seed, which,
Speaker 4: like I said, it was great because that's sort of
Speaker 4: it was just my guiding light always like is this honest? Okay?
Speaker 4: You know. And but Tim Bussfeld, he direct he was
Speaker 4: our directing producer on Lipstick Jungle, and he really took
Speaker 4: me under his wing. He's the other guy I've talked
Speaker 4: about that. He's the guy who said it should be
Speaker 4: a privilege for the audience to know what you're thinking.
Speaker 1: Wait, was he an actor on thirty something.
Speaker 4: Yeah that's him.
Speaker 1: Oh well, yeah, I've heard. He's great.
Speaker 4: Suit he's the best. Mean, she's an actress director because
Speaker 4: he knows how to talk to you, the way he
Speaker 4: runs a set, I mean, invaluable in my development. I
Speaker 4: loved working with him.
Speaker 1: That's so cool.
Speaker 4: Well got it.
Speaker 1: I think that's it, I guess. So thank you everybody.
Speaker 1: Thanks for hanging out. I can't wait to see you
Speaker 1: next time. We'll have Sophia back and we'll get we'll
Speaker 1: get into episode seven nineteen. Thanks everybody.
Speaker 4: In the meantime, guys, send us some more of these
Speaker 4: great questions because you're on a hot streak. They've been wonderful.
Speaker 4: And also throwing a nickname, would you because it just
Speaker 4: it just brightens our day? Just pap a nickname in there,
Speaker 4: would you already?
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