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Speaker 2: Hi, everyone, welcome back. We have a Q and a
Speaker 2: episode for you. You got me and Robert Buckley, the
Speaker 2: effervescent ray of sunshine in his yellow jacket, Robert Buckley,
Speaker 2: and we're excited to get going. Rob you want to
Speaker 2: kick us off?
Speaker 3: I do. I wanted to sort of jump in the
Speaker 3: front of the line here though with a question of
Speaker 3: my own will you allow it? I will allow it
Speaker 3: very well. This one is from me to you. Have
Speaker 3: you found over the course of doing the Drama Queen's
Speaker 3: Podcast that the way that you watch the episodes and
Speaker 3: take notes in preparation the podcast has changed, like, for example,
Speaker 3: where you taking feverish notes at the beginning because you
Speaker 3: didn't want to miss a thing, but now you're sort
Speaker 3: of you're a senior in class and you can kind
Speaker 3: of kick back a bit. Has what's that been like
Speaker 3: for you?
Speaker 2: Yes, that is exactly what it was. I was furiously
Speaker 2: writing the first probably six months that we recorded. I
Speaker 2: wanted to make sure I got every detail I wanted to.
Speaker 2: I was trying to catch themes of the episodes and
Speaker 2: trying to remember things that were happening behind the scenes
Speaker 2: and make notes to myself to that and yeah, and
Speaker 2: then I think I kind of got into a groove
Speaker 2: with it and started to figure out, Okay, it's more
Speaker 2: of a just a conversation, and if something really strikes
Speaker 2: me or hits me, I can trust myself to just
Speaker 2: make a quick little note and that'll be an interesting
Speaker 2: topic of conversation if it comes up, and I do so. Now,
Speaker 2: my notes are usually I have topic, I write them topically,
Speaker 2: so I've got each character in the episode, and then
Speaker 2: I just write any notes I have regarded that character
Speaker 2: storyline underneath those topics, and they're usually like two three words.
Speaker 2: How do you How are you taking notes now that
Speaker 2: you're a brand new drama queen drama king.
Speaker 3: Well, this is why I'm asking, because I always approach
Speaker 3: everything with the I want to be the perfect student
Speaker 3: so I have been taking notes like I am a
Speaker 3: Jerry in a high profile case. Yeah, I am taking
Speaker 3: such feverish notes. It looks like my note look looks
Speaker 3: like the scratchings of a madman, because I'm just like
Speaker 3: ferociously writing things down as quickly as I can. But
Speaker 3: I am also doing that going I am in doing
Speaker 3: notes like this, I am short changing myself a bit
Speaker 3: of the experience of just sitting back and enjoying the
Speaker 3: continuous flow of an episode.
Speaker 2: Yes, so you can pull more out of it if
Speaker 2: you just are sitting back and enjoying. But if you
Speaker 2: totally relax and enjoy I mean maybe not for you,
Speaker 2: but for me, it'll be over and then I forget everything.
Speaker 3: Yes, I tend to do extreme. So right now I'm
Speaker 3: on the extreme of I want to be perfect and
Speaker 3: not miss a single thing. And I'm sure somewhere between
Speaker 3: that and I'll just watch it and I'll remember it,
Speaker 3: you know, las Fair or whatever. We'll get there. Okay,
Speaker 3: enough of me, Emily, our listener, Emily has a wonderful question.
Speaker 3: Austin Nichols starred in Holiday in the Sun with Mary
Speaker 3: Kate and Ashley who Oh, which is truly iconic. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I had the same reaction, and I watch it regularly
Speaker 3: with friends. That was Emily saying that, not me. If
Speaker 3: you could choose to cast yourself in a timeless teen
Speaker 3: movie from the nineties or early two thousands, which one
Speaker 3: would you choose and which character would you have wanted
Speaker 3: to play?
Speaker 2: Oh, that's so good.
Speaker 3: This is a great question.
Speaker 2: What a good question. Oh my gosh, timeless teen movie
Speaker 2: from nineties to early adds.
Speaker 3: I think I have one.
Speaker 4: Okay, I have one.
Speaker 3: Two go Okay, she's all that because when I watched
Speaker 3: she all that specific. Yeah. No, only was Freddy Prince
Speaker 3: Junior so cool, but he also was a good guy.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: But there is a scene where he goes to a
Speaker 3: sort of a theater show that she wants him to go,
Speaker 3: and she coaxes him up on stage. Yes, and he'd
Speaker 3: he Hacky Sacks while talking, he's kind of like waxing poetic.
Speaker 3: And I just remember being in a movie theater because
Speaker 3: I grew up playing soccer going not realizing how insert
Speaker 3: shots work, but going, Freddy Prince Junior can Hacky Sacks
Speaker 3: so well?
Speaker 2: He's so cool.
Speaker 3: Besides the fact he gets the girl at the end
Speaker 3: and she's pretty when she takes off her glasses and
Speaker 3: lets her hair down. Just the fact that he was
Speaker 3: a good, hacky sacker and he seemed really cool in school.
Speaker 3: I remember thinking, I want to be that guy.
Speaker 2: You would have been great in that movie in that
Speaker 2: part too, you really would have. I think you would
Speaker 2: have been so dreamy and fun to watch. I would
Speaker 2: have put your picture up out of teen Beat on
Speaker 2: my wall when I was a little girl. If I
Speaker 2: watched you in that movie, you would have been great.
Speaker 3: Are you listening, Hollywood? How about you? What's your movie?
Speaker 2: Ten Things I Hate about You? That movie was everything
Speaker 2: when I was because I was obsessed with Shakespeare. Obviously
Speaker 2: it's not all in Shakespeare. And although I guess I
Speaker 2: could also say Romeo and Juliet, I really would have
Speaker 2: loved to do that one, but I was younger. I
Speaker 2: think I would have been too young at the time.
Speaker 2: I was probably fifteen when it came out. But yeah,
Speaker 2: ten Things I Hate about You. I actually auditioned for
Speaker 2: alex olin X part is that her name alexis Olina,
Speaker 2: maybe the one who played her younger sister, but I
Speaker 2: think Julie and I are the same age. But I
Speaker 2: would have wanted to play the Julia Styles part, the
Speaker 2: cat part. Yeah, come on, like opposite Heath Ledger and
Speaker 2: been able to be this uptight girl who sort of
Speaker 2: relaxes into herself. I think it's great. It's a fun part.
Speaker 3: You've seen this movie Holiday in the Sun Never, Yeah,
Speaker 3: well I got I add that to my cue because
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it either. But Austin's great, so and
Speaker 3: let's be honest, The Olsen Twins come on. Oh, I
Speaker 3: don't ever miss a movie.
Speaker 2: Did I ever tell you about when I got I
Speaker 2: got mistaken for the Olsen Twins? But like I mean,
Speaker 2: people tell me all the time like which we know,
Speaker 2: like oh like are you Mary Kate or whatever? And
Speaker 2: more so. But when the show was on, I was
Speaker 2: in the audience at a Broadway show and this girl
Speaker 2: walks up to me and she's like, oh my gosh,
Speaker 2: can I get your autograph? And when tree Hill was
Speaker 2: on the air, so I was like, oh sure, and
Speaker 2: I signed her program and I had to back to
Speaker 2: her and she goes, which one are you?
Speaker 4: Like what do you mean?
Speaker 2: Which one are you? Or are you Mary Kate? Or
Speaker 2: are you Ashley? Sorry I can't tell the difference. I
Speaker 2: was like I'm Mary Kate.
Speaker 3: Yay, good for you. She's gonna go back and show
Speaker 3: her mom and goes. She spells her name so differently
Speaker 3: than I would have expected.
Speaker 2: So funny. Okay, listen. Ariel wants to know if you
Speaker 2: started your own reality show, what would it be about
Speaker 2: and who would you have in the show.
Speaker 3: Oh, well, I have a quick answer for this one.
Speaker 3: It would It would just follow Jenny and I. Jenny
Speaker 3: is being my wife because we just we just make
Speaker 3: each other laugh a lot, and we're very irreverent and
Speaker 3: we're also too exhausted, tapped out parents, and so we
Speaker 3: just we kind of constantly say, I feel like this
Speaker 3: would just be funny for people to watch this happen. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think it would be funny.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I could see that. I can buy that.
Speaker 3: How about you?
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I think honestly watching middle school productions,
Speaker 2: like middle school plays get put on. Now that my
Speaker 2: daughter is she's going into eighth grade, but I've been
Speaker 2: watching how these how these things go, and all of
Speaker 2: the characters, like all the moms and the high schoolers
Speaker 2: that come in to help out, and the personality dynamics
Speaker 2: of all the different people that weigh in on and
Speaker 2: that you know, there's always it's like the waiting for Guffman,
Speaker 2: Like there's always the people that take it really seriously,
Speaker 2: and then there's people who just do not care at all.
Speaker 2: But they're the ones that are moving the set pieces
Speaker 2: around and they're just standing backstage while the you know,
Speaker 2: the set, the lights have gone out, the house is full,
Speaker 2: the sets need to be changed, and they're on their
Speaker 2: phone just like standing in the corner talking and to
Speaker 2: their girlfriend and like scrolling through and forgetting that they
Speaker 2: have to be out on stage moving furniture. It's so great.
Speaker 2: I feel like that would just be really fun to
Speaker 2: watch all that drama unfolds.
Speaker 3: I also think you would be fantastic as a judge
Speaker 3: on a cooking show. I want that job because you
Speaker 3: are very good in the kitchen. You know how to cook,
Speaker 3: you know how to bake, and I think you are funny.
Speaker 3: You are very honest. You have this wonderful blend of
Speaker 3: it's almost like European honesty, but like southern genteel hospitality.
Speaker 3: So I would love just to hear like I would
Speaker 3: love to listen to you talk about a bad dish.
Speaker 2: Thanks, Rob oh Man, I do I would love that job.
Speaker 3: Emily asks, if the world collapse in a walking dead
Speaker 3: kind of way, how would you do? Do you immediately
Speaker 3: build a new city? Do you fight and kill others
Speaker 3: to get stuff? Especially Robert? How would you survive without
Speaker 3: all the food? What's your survival plan?
Speaker 2: All of the foods?
Speaker 3: Thank you Emily for acknowledging the fact that food is
Speaker 3: in fact the most important thing to me. How would
Speaker 3: I do? I mean, listen, what's my survival plan?
Speaker 2: Zombie apocalypse survival plan?
Speaker 3: Go. I would become a jesture of sorts. I would
Speaker 3: just be there to cheer people up and to hopefully
Speaker 3: get food from whoever had it. I would be the
Speaker 3: irreverent guy, you know, because listen, it's already apocalypse. We
Speaker 3: need someone to lighten the mood. Okay, so I'm the
Speaker 3: guy who comes in just riffing about nonsense and then
Speaker 3: asking for a hot pocket.
Speaker 2: Let's just we'd start a troop because I would sing
Speaker 2: and you could do the stand up, and we would
Speaker 2: just have a little troop. We could go around find
Speaker 2: a few other fun artists who just want to, you know,
Speaker 2: make everybody happy for ten minutes in their zombie infested lives.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't want your gasoline or you know, or
Speaker 3: anything else. We just want to entertain you and make
Speaker 3: your life sand for snacks and then just give us
Speaker 3: some hot pockets and pop tarts and we're at it here,
Speaker 3: sign me up. I would do terribly. In short, I
Speaker 3: would do terribly.
Speaker 2: No, we'd survive. I think we'd survive because even the
Speaker 2: zombies would have to take pity on us. Sarah wants
Speaker 2: to know if for any reason, you couldn't act now,
Speaker 2: with all of your life experience, what would you like
Speaker 2: to do. You want to work another job, coach, teach,
Speaker 2: become an accountant, Oh god, no, I would never be
Speaker 2: good at that. Or just retire and enjoy life.
Speaker 3: That's such a good question, Sarah lovely. If I couldn't act,
Speaker 3: I came from consulting and it was soul crushing. I've thought,
Speaker 3: when times have gotten slow in this industry, I've started
Speaker 3: to play that game with myself of Okay, what's my
Speaker 3: pivot here do I have? And teaching is a pleasant one.
Speaker 3: I think teaching in theory sounds great. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I don't know how I would do with teaching in reality,
Speaker 3: but the idea of teaching sounds nice to me. I
Speaker 3: think teaching is far harder than my brain sort of
Speaker 3: romanticizes it to be.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it's not just giving a lecture. You actually
Speaker 2: have to get to know the students, invest in their lives.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sure it's incredibly enrich in so many
Speaker 2: personal ways, but it's not just being a guest lecturer
Speaker 2: that goes in and out. You're really invested.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And I had a friend who was a teacher,
Speaker 3: and she said the hardest part of her job was
Speaker 3: dealing with the parents of the students. And I had
Speaker 3: never even thought about that. That you have thirty sets
Speaker 3: of parents who want to give you notes or give
Speaker 3: you feedback, and I would imagine that that gets pretty trying.
Speaker 3: So what we're saying teachers out there is that we
Speaker 3: appreciate you. You're doing a heck of a job.
Speaker 1: That's right, That's right.
Speaker 2: I would you know. I have to say, since I
Speaker 2: started working on my book, I've always written. I started
Speaker 2: writing novels when I was twelve, and scripts and songs,
Speaker 2: and I've always been writing, but have always kept everything
Speaker 2: really tucked away. And this is not the first book
Speaker 2: I've wanted to write, but it is and since I
Speaker 2: started working on it, I've realized how much I really
Speaker 2: love writing. Always wanted to just write novels and murder
Speaker 2: mysteries and create stories. So to write a story of
Speaker 2: my own on my own about my own life has
Speaker 2: been a really nice way to introduce me to the
Speaker 2: structure and the timelines and learning how to edit myself
Speaker 2: and all those things. I've learned so so much, And honestly,
Speaker 2: I really really believe if I wasn't acting, and even
Speaker 2: if I continue to act, that'll be a major part
Speaker 2: of my life. I would love to just be a
Speaker 2: lady in a cabin that writes books.
Speaker 4: I would love it.
Speaker 3: Erica writes in aside from you guys on the podcast,
Speaker 3: who do you keep up with and text the most
Speaker 3: from the cast?
Speaker 2: Ah, Paul Johansson for me, I mean he's he's my bff,
Speaker 2: Ride or die like love that guy.
Speaker 3: Funny enough, Paul Johansson is the one I have most
Speaker 3: recently spoken with.
Speaker 2: Really.
Speaker 3: I text him after he was on last season just
Speaker 3: to say, hey, man, it was so good to listen
Speaker 3: to your episode. I miss yet I hope you're great.
Speaker 3: And then so he called me back and we spoke
Speaker 3: like two days ago and just had a lovely catch up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's great, such a wealth of knowledge. He's so interesting.
Speaker 2: He's been through so much and seen so much and
Speaker 2: has so many opinions and is also so curious and
Speaker 2: open to changing his mind. He's just a really good
Speaker 2: quality person. Love that guy.
Speaker 3: And you know who else? Lately I've gotten very close
Speaker 3: to who Tyler Hilton.
Speaker 4: Ah.
Speaker 3: Yes, it all started. I started on the drama Queen's
Speaker 3: tour when we were hanging out.
Speaker 2: Had you guys never met before then?
Speaker 3: We had crossed paths, but sort of like at conventions
Speaker 3: where it's oh, hey, you were on those show too,
Speaker 3: And I'm sure we met each other on the show,
Speaker 3: but we had always sort of been ships in the night.
Speaker 3: And then I remember after the first show we did
Speaker 3: on the road, he and I were in a taxi,
Speaker 3: I think going back to the hotel or something, and truly,
Speaker 3: I remember in my heart feeling, this guy is supposed
Speaker 3: to be in my life. This is a friend. And
Speaker 3: I even said it out loud, and we have, We've
Speaker 3: gotten really close, and so I talked with Tyler almost
Speaker 3: every day.
Speaker 2: Do you really?
Speaker 3: Yeah, We're like it's great. He introduced me to voice notes.
Speaker 3: So sometimes we both wear nightguards when we sleep, so
Speaker 3: it'll just be one of us, Hey, nightguard crew. Just
Speaker 3: hope you had a great day, buddy, I love you.
Speaker 3: Or it's like we just shoot text or voice notes
Speaker 3: throughout the day, or we'll talk.
Speaker 2: It's great because we're both dads.
Speaker 3: We both have a lot of things in common, and
Speaker 3: it's just he's another guy who is my brand where
Speaker 3: it's like big, open heart feelings, funny.
Speaker 2: He's lovely, built in support system. That's so important to
Speaker 2: have a support system like that, especially when you're a
Speaker 2: new parent. But I could see that, I really see
Speaker 2: the similarities in you guys, and how you can complement
Speaker 2: each other. You're both so intelligent and quick, but really,
Speaker 2: as you say, open hearted and kind hearted, and you
Speaker 2: both give people the benefit of the doubt. And I
Speaker 2: feel like you look at the world through this kind
Speaker 2: of cock eyed, interesting lens. So I'm sure there's plenty
Speaker 2: for you, plenty of fodder for comedy and conversation between
Speaker 2: you both. And you're really loyal and loving to the
Speaker 2: people in your lives.
Speaker 4: But there's a three.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a lot of people in the world
Speaker 2: who bear those characteristics but there's a through line of
Speaker 2: similarity in the way that you behave that I can
Speaker 2: see that. I'm so happy that you're really close friends.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right, thank you, One Tree hill Ah.
Speaker 2: Just keeps giving and giving and giving.
Speaker 3: It does. All of our reunions are not unions, but
Speaker 3: the unions. But the conventions are great like that, aren't they.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been falling more and more in love with them.
Speaker 2: I think at first I was it was just weird.
Speaker 2: It's weird to go back to a place where, I mean,
Speaker 2: you remember this. It's like we would do these conventions
Speaker 2: within two years of the show ending, and it was like,
Speaker 2: I don't I mean, I don't know. I just felt
Speaker 2: awkward about it. I didn't know how I was supposed
Speaker 2: to feel about it. And once I let that go
Speaker 2: and stopped worrying, how are you supposed to feel about this?
Speaker 2: What am I supposed to do with this? What's the
Speaker 2: appropriate way to behave? How should we? I just let
Speaker 2: all that stuff go. And I would say, in the
Speaker 2: last like five years, the more we've done these, the
Speaker 2: more I've just really enjoyed showing up to see my
Speaker 2: friends and to see all these amazing people who turn
Speaker 2: up for us, the way that you fans right now
Speaker 2: listeners turn up to listen to our show. The fact
Speaker 2: that you guys continue to book plane tickets and come
Speaker 2: out and give your time and get to know each
Speaker 2: other and build relationships around something that we built so
Speaker 2: long ago. It's just amazing thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and for anyone who wonders, like do we still
Speaker 3: get along or come to a convention and just watch
Speaker 3: because it's it's so much love and smiles the whole time.
Speaker 3: You know, everyone liked same as you. I love going
Speaker 3: to them now because I walk into the green room
Speaker 3: and it's like hi, friends, Yeah, you know, and whoever
Speaker 3: I'm doing a picture with, it's like, I haven't seen
Speaker 3: you in a while? What's it's Typically the photographer is like,
Speaker 3: hey guys, guys, can you stop talking for a second,
Speaker 3: we need to take photos. We're like, oh, that's right,
Speaker 3: we are actually totally having to do something here. But
Speaker 3: but yeah, it's it's turned into such a cool thing.
Speaker 3: I like you, I didn't really know what my relationship
Speaker 3: with conventions was it first, and now I'm like, these
Speaker 3: are it's like a two day trip to summer camp.
Speaker 2: Totally, yes, and we all go to dinner afterwards. That's
Speaker 2: so great. Well, friends, thanks for listening to this Q
Speaker 2: and A. We look forward to having you join us
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