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Speaker 4: Hey, everybody, we are here for a Q and A.
Speaker 4: Can't wait to dive into this with you. I always
Speaker 4: love these episodes. It's so fun to just kind of
Speaker 4: take a little divergence from the regularly scheduled programming, from.
Speaker 1: Picking on ourselves. I feel like at this point in
Speaker 1: season five, we're just like what nerds, we would never
Speaker 1: behave this way.
Speaker 4: You know, we wish we had Sophia with us. She
Speaker 4: is in London right now, as a lot of you
Speaker 4: guys know, working on her new show, and so we're
Speaker 4: just kind of patchworking everybody being in different time zones
Speaker 4: and all that. But you know, if we have any
Speaker 4: any questions with that are burning for Sophia, we will
Speaker 4: we will call her, bring her in, We'll we'll get
Speaker 4: her to drop in an answer.
Speaker 1: Extra real quick.
Speaker 4: Yeah you know, yo, girl, Okay, should we start. Let's
Speaker 4: start from Diana. Diana says, do you remember which episodes
Speaker 4: aired during sweeps weeks? Because I remember those always being
Speaker 4: the episodes the show would do crazy things for ratings
Speaker 4: to go up? Smart girl, did you know something crazy
Speaker 4: would happen because sweeps was at a certain time in
Speaker 4: the season.
Speaker 5: What a great question.
Speaker 4: How interesting, dude, I totally forgot about sweeps.
Speaker 5: Yeah, me too, Like, hold.
Speaker 1: On a second, let me do my mom, don't googling.
Speaker 1: That's really funny. So explain what sweep sweep was to
Speaker 1: like kids who were born not in the nineties, eighties
Speaker 1: or nineties.
Speaker 4: So this is before streaming when you could just sort
Speaker 4: of have anything on demand, and the network set up
Speaker 4: their schedules so that it was it was geared toward
Speaker 4: times when people might be the most, might be watching
Speaker 4: the most, and they would put their most dramatic storylines.
Speaker 4: And all shows did this, All network TV shows did this.
Speaker 4: It would put their most dramatic or exciting episodes into
Speaker 4: this one week. And it wasn't just one week a year.
Speaker 4: There were several sweeps weeks during a year, and it
Speaker 4: was geared toward bringing in a ton of viewership just
Speaker 4: to really boost the ratings and get a bunch of
Speaker 4: advertising money. Am I missing anything?
Speaker 1: No? I mean it. It was water cooler TV where
Speaker 1: you wanted to do something so crazy that the next
Speaker 1: day at work everyone would be talking about it at
Speaker 1: the water cooler. Yes, and I don't think that really
Speaker 1: exists anymore.
Speaker 4: It was Ross and Rachel getting together. It was like
Speaker 4: all the crazy things that happened on Er When when
Speaker 4: George Clooney and Julianna Margullys finally got together. It was
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm trying to remember if things that every
Speaker 4: time there was a major moment on one of your
Speaker 4: favorite shows back then, it was from sweeps week.
Speaker 1: I feel like The Office, Like, remember we liked The
Speaker 1: Office a lot when we were filming the show, and
Speaker 1: I feel like they had, like Jim and Pam stuff
Speaker 1: go down during sweeps week.
Speaker 4: You couldn't, Emily. Yeah, So I'm sure they did that
Speaker 4: with us. I don't think that we we I didn't
Speaker 4: calculate storylines by I just remember getting scripts and being like, damn,
Speaker 4: this shit is getting wild.
Speaker 5: I never thought about sweeps week.
Speaker 1: This stuff is going to be expensive, is what I
Speaker 1: thought like, right, we're going to bring in every character.
Speaker 1: You're all going to be in hair and makeup at
Speaker 1: the exact same time, we're going to throw you in
Speaker 1: the river, and then you know a dog is going
Speaker 1: to eat a heart.
Speaker 5: Just uh yeah.
Speaker 1: It's so crazy how streaming has affected our business, because
Speaker 1: I don't think people who are making TV now have
Speaker 1: to worry about that. It's subscription based. It's not based
Speaker 1: on going out and getting advertisers at your upfronts or
Speaker 1: your TCAs and things like that. Like you wanted to
Speaker 1: be able to cut together a reel of your show
Speaker 1: that advertisers could look at and be like, oh damn,
Speaker 1: and they got those numbers?
Speaker 4: Ooh right, I don't even know what numbers look like anymore.
Speaker 4: How do they calculate? It's the same in music, like
Speaker 4: how are artists even getting paid? It's a totally different conversation.
Speaker 1: Well, streamers don't have to share the numbers, right, keep
Speaker 1: them a secret.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's so weird. I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's not a business I want to work in. It's
Speaker 4: not that part of it. I mean, I don't know
Speaker 4: how to do any of that stuff.
Speaker 1: Numbers. Yeah, But but to that point, I think there
Speaker 1: was a state championship feeling to those big episodes because
Speaker 1: we all knew, like, these are the episodes Eyeballs are
Speaker 1: going to be on. We got to show up and
Speaker 1: we're all, it's a team sport and we're gonna win,
Speaker 1: damn it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're definitely worse some And I remember them doing
Speaker 4: big press.
Speaker 1: That's what like Entertainment Tonight would come to see exactly.
Speaker 4: They would come down to set. It was a whole
Speaker 4: big thing. They would organize photo shoots and video shoots
Speaker 4: and all kinds of stuff, and that was I would
Speaker 4: say once a year that happened, right, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 4: multiple times.
Speaker 1: Now I want to say there was that. There were
Speaker 1: like two. It was weird. It was split up in
Speaker 1: like semesters because we would film the same schedule as school.
Speaker 1: It was like end of August to Christmas, and there'd
Speaker 1: be a sweet episode in there somewhere like November it
Speaker 1: would air, yeah, and then you would have second semester
Speaker 1: was after Christmas break to like end of April, beginning
Speaker 1: of May, and then we'd have our summers off. And
Speaker 1: maybe that's why we all are still stunted adults because
Speaker 1: we stayed in an adolescent schedule, well into adulthood.
Speaker 5: Could be.
Speaker 1: Yeah, It's like there was our next question. All right,
Speaker 1: Lindsay wants to know. Do you guys do random photo
Speaker 1: shoots for your pictures that get hung up in the
Speaker 1: houses and or offices or are they just random pictures
Speaker 1: taken on set?
Speaker 4: I always hated these, just so annoying. It was like
Speaker 4: I could just you know, you're in a groove, whether
Speaker 4: you're on set or you're they just come pull you out.
Speaker 5: We got we gotta do a prop photo shoot.
Speaker 1: Well, it's better than better than the Frankenstein photo shoots.
Speaker 4: When photoshopping was so terrible.
Speaker 1: But even like still, So I did a Christmas movie
Speaker 1: where I just hired the whole One Tree Hill cast.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, I get to produce cool. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hire my friends. Yeah, And so I hired Daniel
Speaker 1: and Antoine to play a married couple, to play my
Speaker 1: best friend and her husband, and they Frankenstein a wedding
Speaker 1: photo of Daniel and Antoine. That is the funniest thing
Speaker 1: I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 5: I want to see it.
Speaker 1: Where is it? You know, I'm anna put it on
Speaker 1: a tote bag or some shit. I need to sell this.
Speaker 1: It was horrendous. Track that one down and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: text it to everybody. So I I giggle at those
Speaker 1: things because they do ask you at the beginning of
Speaker 1: any job if you'll provide childhood photos, like they use
Speaker 1: the out of the Scott brother's childhood photos on our show,
Speaker 1: and then they ask like, oh, do you have photos
Speaker 1: of you with your real baby giving birth so we
Speaker 1: can use that, And like the picture that Ellie had
Speaker 1: holding a baby that was supposed to be Peyton was
Speaker 1: actually Cheryl holding her son. And so they ask for
Speaker 1: that stuff and if you turn it over cool, and
Speaker 1: if you don't, they'll just frankenstein something horrible together. So
Speaker 1: it's better just to give them what they want.
Speaker 5: Give it to my gosh. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So that's where those come from. They can be
Speaker 4: something that they just pull you aside, and sometimes you
Speaker 4: can watch it. You can notice it when you're watching
Speaker 4: a show. You'll see a character refer to a photo,
Speaker 4: but they're wearing the same shirt in the photo that
Speaker 4: they are wearing in the scene, or that they were
Speaker 4: wearing in the previous scene. They just took that photo
Speaker 4: on set.
Speaker 1: It's kind of funny now, I'm on a quest to
Speaker 1: find this picture.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to see this photo. Okay, Robin wants
Speaker 4: to know that there's no pets during the series. What
Speaker 4: kind of pets do you see certain characters having.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 4: I always wish there was pets around there were I mean,
Speaker 4: why wouldn't somebody have a dog?
Speaker 1: Yeah, the boys who all live in that like frat house,
Speaker 1: they definitely have like a nasty, druly little bulldog that's
Speaker 1: just humping people's leg when they come over, like that's
Speaker 1: absolutely happening. One.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Karen and Lucas, I feel like would have had
Speaker 4: a dog.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I do miss the presence of pets in this world.
Speaker 4: I guess Nathan and Haley, I feel like there's definitely well,
Speaker 4: actually Jamie gets Chester the rabbit.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah he does.
Speaker 5: He does get a rabbit.
Speaker 1: I just sent you the wedding picture by the bye,
Speaker 1: look at your phone. You're gonna be happy about this.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, we stopped stomped real real, I mean
Speaker 4: it's literally not real. But also who decided that's okay?
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I'm sorry for you guys that
Speaker 1: want to hear us talk about pets. But I'm going
Speaker 1: to fixate on this picture for the next half hour.
Speaker 1: It is real bad, and maybe if daniel gives us permission,
Speaker 1: we'll put it on the internet. But ant One has
Speaker 1: no neck, No, and he's a foot taller than her.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's got six different hair colors. She has
Speaker 4: six different hair colors. I feel like even the bouquet
Speaker 4: is photoshopped, which is just so bizarre. Yeah, that's not
Speaker 4: Danielle's body. Oh wow, the tiara is really the kicker
Speaker 4: for me. Oh yeah, all of it's.
Speaker 5: Writing I'm dying. I'm dying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So anyway, thanks for reminding us to look that up. Pets.
Speaker 1: Would Peyton have a pet? No, because Peyton is already
Speaker 1: anticipating everything's death. Like, there's no way that Peyton's gonna
Speaker 1: have a pet because she's like the people always leave
Speaker 1: and dogs always die and I can't do it. No,
Speaker 1: she would have to get one of those pets that
Speaker 1: lives forever, like a tortoise.
Speaker 5: Lizard or a tortoise.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, who would have I don't know that I
Speaker 4: see Brooke having it. I mean, obviously we know Sophia
Speaker 4: is like buried in dogs, But does Brook have a pet?
Speaker 1: I don't know. She didn't want that cat when she
Speaker 1: got the apartment.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's very Holly, go lightly of her.
Speaker 1: You can keep Cat.
Speaker 4: I'm missing the dream sequence of Sophia as Audrey Hepburn
Speaker 4: in an alleyway singing Moon River to a cat. I
Speaker 4: feel like I need that in my life now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. Listen from Claire. She says, it's high school
Speaker 1: reunion time. Do you think your character would attend? Are
Speaker 1: there any characters you think wouldn't attend? Did you go
Speaker 1: to your own high school reunions?
Speaker 5: Girl?
Speaker 1: This is a dangerous question.
Speaker 4: I know I didn't go. I wish I would have.
Speaker 4: Of course Halee would attend because she's teaching at the
Speaker 4: high school. Oh, the characters that wouldn't attend, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I I've mean, all of our crew seemed pretty tight.
Speaker 4: I feel like everybody would show up. Everybody could have
Speaker 4: a reason to show up. Maybe maybe Glinda probably wouldn't come.
Speaker 1: No, she'd totally come because she's had her come upance,
Speaker 1: like I feel like in adulthood she's thriving. The person
Speaker 1: who's not gonna come is like.
Speaker 4: What's Cat Bayliss's character's name?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Cat baylifs like, I don't know if Shelley would come,
Speaker 4: not because just because she's like over it. I just
Speaker 4: don't know that Shelley would care to come. I can't
Speaker 4: remember what is wrong with me. Cat Bayless's character's name
Speaker 4: Erica Marsh.
Speaker 5: Erica Marsh. Yeah, I don't know if she would come.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what it is. It's when you're really
Speaker 1: when you're really firm in high school and then you
Speaker 1: loosen up as a grown up, and it's embarrassing to
Speaker 1: remember how like tight you used to be, you know,
Speaker 1: just like how narrow minded you used to be. You
Speaker 1: need anybody to remind you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so this whole podcast is like that for us.
Speaker 4: I feel like we doing this whole thing like.
Speaker 5: Oh god, we're gonna go look at it.
Speaker 1: One long admission of like I was wrong.
Speaker 4: I was wrong.
Speaker 1: I was wrong. I was wrong. No, they just had
Speaker 1: they had a reunion for my graduating class, just like
Speaker 1: a month ago, and I was working so I couldn't go.
Speaker 1: But it looked nice, like everyone seemed to be having
Speaker 1: a really good time. It was you know, what was
Speaker 1: interesting is that it was a really random group of
Speaker 1: people that didn't necessarily hang out when we were in
Speaker 1: high school, like there were some like really popular kids
Speaker 1: that were jocks, and then some like really academic kids
Speaker 1: and drama kids and people that didn't necessarily overlap in
Speaker 1: high school. But as adults are all really cool with
Speaker 1: each other, and so that's nice to see. It's nice
Speaker 1: to see them all kind of budding up to take
Speaker 1: photos and support each other. And ah, yeah, man, that's great.
Speaker 1: That's public school. We love it. We love to see it.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go home in October. Oh, you are good.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go do a book tour. Stop there.
Speaker 1: That'll be my union.
Speaker 5: I'm so excited for this for you. That's awesome.
Speaker 1: We're going to go drinking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, so let's end. We got to wrap this
Speaker 4: one up soon. So let's end with Emily's question, how
Speaker 4: did you maintain personal relationships with friends and families outside
Speaker 4: of the One Tree Hill family while you were making
Speaker 4: the show, Because working away for most of the year
Speaker 4: with long filming days, seems like your circle outside the
Speaker 4: show might get smaller. It's interesting. Yeah, I think it does.
Speaker 4: I think like when you only have a limited amount
Speaker 4: of time, you're the people that you are prioritizing, who
Speaker 4: aren't in your face every single day because of work,
Speaker 4: it does have to kind of by default get a
Speaker 4: little bit smaller.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I would blame it on work.
Speaker 1: I blame it on boys. Like I was in a
Speaker 1: relationship for the first five seasons, and so I didn't
Speaker 1: like on weekends, I was just hanging out, you know,
Speaker 1: in Wilmington. The second I was a swinging, single lady girl.
Speaker 1: I would get in that car on a Friday and
Speaker 1: drive to Raleigh, drive to Northern Virginia, drive to Charleston. Like,
Speaker 1: I saw more people in that last season than I
Speaker 1: did the first five years. I love that. I love
Speaker 1: that you're adventurous like that, but you were also driving around.
Speaker 1: I did a little bit of it.
Speaker 4: But I have to say that's one thing I will
Speaker 4: say in my twenties, that's one thing I really wish
Speaker 4: I had done more of, because you just take it
Speaker 4: for granted. I lived in New York City and I
Speaker 4: never went to the cloisters. I never were like I
Speaker 4: don't think I even went out to Long Island. I
Speaker 4: never I just never left the city. I never left
Speaker 4: the actual pad of the island of Manhattan. And it's
Speaker 4: so dumb because there's so many amazing things to see
Speaker 4: in that area and hiking and all this great stuff.
Speaker 4: But you just kind of get caught up in the
Speaker 4: zone you're in. The same thing happened to me in Wilmington.
Speaker 4: I just got I was just there. I didn't really
Speaker 4: travel a lot, but I was also traveling across the
Speaker 4: country because I was also in a relationship. And then
Speaker 4: you know, it was like I was tired. It was
Speaker 4: back and forth across the country every weekend. Just boys
Speaker 4: made it dumb tired boys.
Speaker 1: Boys. Yeah, so it wasn't the show that was the
Speaker 1: the obstacle.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Boys, I think that's a universal thing for anyone who
Speaker 1: has a job. It's like, look, the job's a job,
Speaker 1: but the boy is the problem.
Speaker 4: Exactly, which will tie in Chay's question here about would
Speaker 4: you rather have an all ladies' night at Trick or
Speaker 4: watch a good game of basketball on the river court.
Speaker 4: I'm saying ladies' night at Trick all the way. Tie
Speaker 4: it up with your girls.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Trick ruled like like you guys, hear us talk
Speaker 1: about that set, and it were not exaggerating. It really
Speaker 1: was the best set of all the sets. It was
Speaker 1: so fun there were so many like corners. You could
Speaker 1: go hide in and just like talk, get into trouble.
Speaker 1: Then totally they'd call for first team. We'd hit our marks,
Speaker 1: we do our take, and then we go back to trouble.
Speaker 1: It's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so friends, go find your own version of trick
Speaker 4: and grab your girlfriends and come back and see us
Speaker 4: next week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for the questions, guys.
Speaker 4: Hey, thanks for listening.
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