Speaker 1: First of all, you don't know me.
Speaker 2: We all about that high school drama. Girl drama girl,
Speaker 2: all about them high school queens. We'll take you for
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Speaker 3: Drama queens up girl fashion, but your.
Speaker 2: Tough girl, you could sit with us.
Speaker 1: Girl drama, Queens, drama, Queens drama, Queens drama, Drahna, Queens Drama, Queens.
Speaker 3: Friends and listeners, Welcome to a Q and A. I
Speaker 3: know we do this very excitedly for us because you
Speaker 3: all send us such good questions. But I'm the most excited,
Speaker 3: and I want to give Robert Buckley his flowers because
Speaker 3: nearly every question in our Q and A is from
Speaker 3: somebody with a nickname.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I just saw that Wait and go people. You
Speaker 4: crushed it, Rob oh Man, I like it. I mean, listen,
Speaker 4: we got some great ones, and we also have some
Speaker 4: people with just some regular government names. So there's room
Speaker 4: for improvement.
Speaker 3: Gang, there is, there is, But you know, it's something
Speaker 3: I think we can build into. It's it's not dissimilar
Speaker 3: to you know, the energy around the holidays where people
Speaker 3: are like, what are your traditions, And it turns out
Speaker 3: the traditions of drama queens are to build code names.
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you for this contribution. Wrong, I think we
Speaker 2: really needed this.
Speaker 3: We were we did.
Speaker 4: If this is all that I end up contributing to
Speaker 4: this podcast, and let's be honest, it very well may
Speaker 4: be now I would consider it a win.
Speaker 3: It feels a lot like when you came to join
Speaker 3: us on the show, Like we were seven seasons in
Speaker 3: and we didn't even realize what we needed until you
Speaker 3: got there and we were like.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's right, yes, you charmer.
Speaker 2: Turn up making things better all the time.
Speaker 4: And then you shot me and put me in a coma.
Speaker 3: Thank and listen not not the call of anyone on
Speaker 3: this zoom. You did great, this is true.
Speaker 4: How are you guys doing?
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 4: Joy?
Speaker 3: Where are you you're traveling?
Speaker 2: I'm in New York. You're home Portland, right, and so
Speaker 2: where are you at?
Speaker 3: I'm on my way to the airport. I'm heading to Paris,
Speaker 3: Oh dalling. I don't know why we both just like
Speaker 3: lent into our English accents, even though I'm going to France.
Speaker 3: But it's fine.
Speaker 2: It's because it's continental, you know.
Speaker 3: It just feels exciting to go to Europe. I'm hoping
Speaker 3: that I have. I want it to just feel a
Speaker 3: little bit like a Netflix Christmas movie, you know, like,
Speaker 3: I really hope that on one of the two days
Speaker 3: I have in town that i'm off, it snows and
Speaker 3: I can like walk through the streets of Paris with
Speaker 3: a crepe and just feel like I'm in a rom com.
Speaker 3: I would love that, yeh.
Speaker 4: Send send me that picture so I could live curiously.
Speaker 4: I want to see you on a Parisian street with
Speaker 4: hopefully some holiday lighting behind you, and then you can
Speaker 4: pick the dessert, crape, what whatever you're in the mood
Speaker 4: for corn dog if they serve them there.
Speaker 3: Listen, if I could get a corn dog in Paris,
Speaker 3: I would probably spontaneously combust from the excitement.
Speaker 4: Jenny is like, why are you smiling? And I'm like,
Speaker 4: I just have a feeling somewhere in the world. Sofia
Speaker 4: is eating a corn dog and explain it?
Speaker 2: Can You're Madine? I started selling corn dogs at the
Speaker 2: Eiffel Tower. It's just like this is just the official
Speaker 2: epitome of American culture. They're like, we give in and
Speaker 2: you're all coming here for the Eiffel Tower. Here's your
Speaker 2: corn dogs.
Speaker 3: Here's what I will tell you and Rob and I
Speaker 3: were texting about this. I had a major friend fail recently,
Speaker 3: because the corn dogs at Disneyland are famous. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: I went to Disneyland and I did this not once,
Speaker 3: but twice. We went for Jenny's birthday. And then I
Speaker 3: was telling Rob how good the corn dogs were. He said,
Speaker 3: how dare you not send me a photo? I said,
Speaker 3: you're right, and then I went back and I don't
Speaker 3: know what happens to me. I get near that breaded
Speaker 3: dog and it's like I black out and I ate it.
Speaker 3: And then I was looking at my empty little stick
Speaker 3: and I was like, I did it again. Two times
Speaker 3: this year. I have not sent Rob a photo. I
Speaker 3: have failed. So if I find a corn dog in Paris,
Speaker 3: I'm going to send you multiple photos.
Speaker 4: I would appreciate that because we spoke ahead of time,
Speaker 4: like I specifically said, please send me a pic of
Speaker 4: you eating a corn dog and Achua would be a
Speaker 4: bonus picture. Not only did I not get a single
Speaker 4: picture from you now, then two days later you sent
Speaker 4: me a text asking me for something, and I was like,
Speaker 4: how dare you Okay?
Speaker 3: It was your address to send you a gift? Still
Speaker 3: a big ask, but yes, you're right. It's like a
Speaker 3: blackout and I am an adult woman who should be
Speaker 3: able to do this, and it's like I'm incapable. I
Speaker 3: lose all self control.
Speaker 4: But as someone who also blacks out around their favorite foods,
Speaker 4: I totally get it. No judgment, thank you.
Speaker 2: I think you should just lean into it and start
Speaker 2: sending him photos of the empty stick.
Speaker 3: The empty stick, Oh, just so cold, so cold. The
Speaker 3: questions I really think we should, especially because the first
Speaker 3: one is about food, rob take it away.
Speaker 4: Listen. What better way to kick it off than with
Speaker 4: a question from little pants? Well done, little Pants. You
Speaker 4: guys have mentioned the Great British Bake Off on multiple
Speaker 4: occasions recently, so I wanted to know, if you were
Speaker 4: a contestant, what would your ideal bake that you think
Speaker 4: you could earn? What would be your ideal bake that
Speaker 4: you think you could earn a prestigious Hollywood handshake with.
Speaker 4: For those who don't watch the show, there is a judge,
Speaker 4: Paul Hollywood, and on rare occasions when a dish is exceptional,
Speaker 4: he shakes the hand of the contestant and it has
Speaker 4: become this coveted thing. You got a Hollywood handshake. This
Speaker 4: question is really for you, Joy, because I think you
Speaker 4: are you are the best baker. I don't want to
Speaker 4: if I'm wrong. So if I just feel like she's
Speaker 4: she's probably the best baker of the three, absolutely, no.
Speaker 3: You're correct.
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm I feel like I'm a really
Speaker 2: good decorator of baked goods, Like if you give me
Speaker 2: cake and fondant and all the tools for it. Like
Speaker 2: if I could just walk in to one of those
Speaker 2: steel blocks, like steel butcher blocks, you know, and have
Speaker 2: all the things laid out for me, the icings and
Speaker 2: the tops of the icings that make the different shapes
Speaker 2: and all that, like, I can probably design something really,
Speaker 2: really beautiful. I feel confident in my sculpting abilities, but
Speaker 2: my baking. Baking is so much chemistry, and I get
Speaker 2: things wrong all the time, and it's like one little
Speaker 2: you know, you add a little too much egg or
Speaker 2: a little too much flour, baking soda, and it ruins
Speaker 2: the whole thing. And I like to be a whimsical
Speaker 2: when I bake, and I don't love following recipes. So
Speaker 2: often I just get lost in my whimsy and then
Speaker 2: I'll end up the baked good that's not terribly delicious.
Speaker 2: It's not bad, but it's like, oh, it could be better.
Speaker 2: But I'll tell you what. I did once make an
Speaker 2: olive oil bunt cake. It was like an orange rosemary
Speaker 2: olive oil bunt cake that was covered in this crystallized
Speaker 2: rosemary sugar orange peel marmalady thing all over the top
Speaker 2: of it. And it was so delicious. And I have
Speaker 2: had friends ask me for it for the recipe for it.
Speaker 2: One of them, I think, baked it for their wedding cake.
Speaker 2: It's a really, really good cake, So I would say
Speaker 2: that might be my move.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, I think Cake Week would be
Speaker 4: your best opportunity to shine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, which is weird because I don't like cake, Like
Speaker 2: I don't really eat cake, but I don't. Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2: I can't really make anything else I don't eat. I
Speaker 2: don't make pie. I don't make cookies. Do you guys
Speaker 2: bake at all?
Speaker 4: What do you make? I? Funnily enough, When I applied
Speaker 4: for college, I also applied to the pastry program at
Speaker 4: the Culinary Institute of America what and I got in
Speaker 4: and I but it was very expensive, so I applied.
Speaker 4: I entered this contest for a scholarship.
Speaker 2: I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or I.
Speaker 4: Think entirely serious. I'm being entirely serious. And I had
Speaker 4: the chef from the restaurants where he can't help me,
Speaker 4: and we did a Grandpa Smith's Prohibition apple pie and
Speaker 4: I didn't win though, so I didn't get a scholarship.
Speaker 4: And I remember I looked and it was going to
Speaker 4: be thirty grand a year to go to culinary school,
Speaker 4: or like twelve grand a year to go to UC
Speaker 4: San Diego, and I thought I should probably just do
Speaker 4: try college because what if I spend thirty grand a
Speaker 4: year to find out I just like eating food. So
Speaker 4: that was the start and the end of my baking career.
Speaker 2: You were blowing my mind right now.
Speaker 3: Same Also, I'm like, did you write that recipe down?
Speaker 3: Because much like Joy, I'm not I'm a great cook.
Speaker 3: Cooking is very emotional and you rely on like feeling taste,
Speaker 3: give it a shot at a little here, do it.
Speaker 3: You have to trust trust yourself. Baking is so scientific
Speaker 3: and yeah, I always think baking again, going back to
Speaker 3: the Paris and the snow, I pray moment like baking
Speaker 3: in my brain looks like the Holiday movie that's so
Speaker 3: cute and the family's in the kitchen and there's like
Speaker 3: powdered sugar flying through the air. That's not what it is.
Speaker 3: It's so stressful and specific and scientific, and it's not
Speaker 3: my skill set, though I wish it were. But you, pastry,
Speaker 3: I'm having a hard time getting my words together. You've
Speaker 3: blown my mind that that is a niche for you.
Speaker 4: But in a way it makes sense, right, And that's
Speaker 4: why I'm kind of surprised that you There isn't a
Speaker 4: part of you that's drawn to pastry. Because one thing
Speaker 4: that is great about pastry is it is it's math.
Speaker 4: It is precision, it is calculated control. So there is
Speaker 4: part of my brain that really likes knowing there is
Speaker 4: no guesswork. This isn't a taste and maybe a pinch more.
Speaker 4: It is three quarters of a cup. It is one
Speaker 4: eighth of fatigue, you know what I mean? Like, there
Speaker 4: is that part of my brain that loves black and
Speaker 4: white structure. I get that, Yeah, there's no guesswork there.
Speaker 2: So are you baking at home?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 4: Literally, the last thing I baked was that pie Jenny.
Speaker 4: Jenny's an amazing baker, so I've just never there's never
Speaker 4: been like any slack to pick up in the family,
Speaker 4: and I've just kind of lazily been like, you're great,
Speaker 4: keep crushing. Wow, But think about it's a good thing
Speaker 4: I didn't win that scholarship because we probably would not
Speaker 4: have met had I gotten it and gotten to Hyde Park,
Speaker 4: New York, to basically spend a lot of money to
Speaker 4: find out I probably just like eating food. Wow, that's
Speaker 4: a big investment just to find out you actually just
Speaker 4: like eating if.
Speaker 2: You didn't really pursue it, if it's not something that's
Speaker 2: stuck with you as like I still do it in
Speaker 2: my spare time. I love it. I have to be
Speaker 2: in the kitchen regardless of whether I'm at school or whatever.
Speaker 2: I mean, really, that's the last thing you bake and
Speaker 2: you're like, never mind. So I guess I guess it's
Speaker 2: just as well. It would keep coming back to haunt
Speaker 2: you if it was something that you really were meant
Speaker 2: to pursue. I guess exactly.
Speaker 4: There's been not a single moment of regret or what if,
Speaker 4: which tells me I made the right call.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. I mean, it's like, sometimes it feels silly to
Speaker 3: repeat cliches but I think cliches become cliches because they're
Speaker 3: so true for so many people. That that phrase nothing
Speaker 3: that's meant for you will miss you. It's like if
Speaker 3: it's missed you ever since, then it wasn't meant for you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's kind of nice.
Speaker 4: But it's also funny that what I did choose was
Speaker 4: to get a degree in economics that I use for
Speaker 4: precisely one point five years and then quit to join
Speaker 4: the circus. That's kind of like, either way, you're not
Speaker 4: gonna end up using these long term buddies, so just
Speaker 4: pick the cheaper one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, cold in Nebraska. Oh, I like it. It sort of
Speaker 3: sounds like you've got mail the scripts. Are you allowed
Speaker 3: to keep them? Do you keep them? Do you just
Speaker 3: toss them when you're done? Do you keep ones that
Speaker 3: are special to you and your part?
Speaker 2: Kept a lot of my scripts, I mean, not everyone,
Speaker 2: that's a lot of scripts. Yeah, I did keep some
Speaker 2: special ones.
Speaker 3: Same. I mean, you guys know me. I'm so sentimental,
Speaker 3: Like I'll open a suitcase and be like, oh dear God,
Speaker 3: it's filled with like scripts, sides, concert tickets, like I
Speaker 3: need this to go somewhere. But I've been squirreling away
Speaker 3: memories in it. So I am working on kind of
Speaker 3: you know, filtering through those things. I same. I've saved
Speaker 3: certain scripts, like I have the script for episode one
Speaker 3: oh one that I started in on our show with
Speaker 3: all my notes in it. I kept most of our
Speaker 3: season finale scripts. I normally keep a script, you know,
Speaker 3: some version, whether it's in the middle or the last,
Speaker 3: from every film I've done. Now I use that app scriptation.
Speaker 3: Do you guys use that on your iPad? Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Scriptation changed my life on Good Sam because having to
Speaker 3: transfer copious notes and medical definitions and phonetic pronunciation like
Speaker 3: that I would have to do with every new script,
Speaker 3: with every new draft and every new page literally made
Speaker 3: me want a SOB And scriptation is a digital It's
Speaker 3: a digital script on your You get an iPad and
Speaker 3: you can make notes. You can do them in all
Speaker 3: sorts of different colors. You can add stickies so you can, like,
Speaker 3: you know, for a I don't know, something like paracardial
Speaker 3: sentisis needle. I could like copy an image of what
Speaker 3: that was from Google and literally put it in a
Speaker 3: virtual post it note on the script. And then every
Speaker 3: time you get marrigold pages or a new draft aft.
Speaker 3: You click combine and it transfers all your notes over
Speaker 3: and if any scenes have been omitted, it just deletes
Speaker 3: those notes. And like it literally changed my life.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: And then so in kind of a nice way, now
Speaker 3: I have every script, but they only take up the
Speaker 3: width of an iPad, which is cool. Weirdly, I find
Speaker 3: that I like to keep a couple pairs of sides
Speaker 3: from things because everybody's stuff is on it. And years ago,
Speaker 3: actually I tried to start this thing, you know, because
Speaker 3: I remember how much fans used to love to come
Speaker 3: to our set in particular and get our sides and
Speaker 3: ask us to sign them because crew would give them
Speaker 3: to people like out on Front Street or whatever. And
Speaker 3: I was like, we could do something really cool and
Speaker 3: I'll hit up all my friends and anytime somebody does
Speaker 3: a really nice thing and can like share it, can
Speaker 3: send it to us. This was back when Twitter was Twitter. Well, like,
Speaker 3: we'll send out a signed copy of sides to people
Speaker 3: just for fun. And the network I was working on
Speaker 3: at the time literally was like, that is an absolute violation. Legally,
Speaker 3: you can't do that. Their production office phone numbers are
Speaker 3: on they went so ballistic they made me take the
Speaker 3: Twitter down. I was like, oh my god. I was
Speaker 3: trying to do this like a really nice thing because
Speaker 3: all these people I know are in the circus, and
Speaker 3: they were like, don't you dare give sides away? And
Speaker 3: I really got reprimanded for it. So I have this
Speaker 3: like envelope of sides from our shows and other people's shows,
Speaker 3: who would like send them to me for this thing.
Speaker 3: But then I was like, I guess I should shred
Speaker 3: these whenever you're rude, Like I don't know. It made
Speaker 3: me really scared. I haven't thought about that in a
Speaker 3: long time either, but clearly I'm I'm a hoarder of
Speaker 3: script pages of every variety. Are you sentimental like that?
Speaker 3: Rob or No?
Speaker 4: I used to be where I would save scripts. Funny,
Speaker 4: I did the same thing with sides. I remember there
Speaker 4: was a specific project that worked on and it was
Speaker 4: the first time where like the script was in. It
Speaker 4: was not television, right, and I'd mostly done television in
Speaker 4: my career, which they don't generally, they don't encourage ad
Speaker 4: libbing and rewriting, and this wasn't and it was in.
Speaker 4: The script was not in the best shape, and it
Speaker 4: was the first time where I started like rewriting and
Speaker 4: pitching stuff and it actually ended up like being what
Speaker 4: we used. And I remember I saved the sides because
Speaker 4: it was like the first time I got to feel
Speaker 4: like I was collaborating and I was so proud of myself.
Speaker 4: So those I kept for a long time. But no,
Speaker 4: you know, because also as a parent in moving, I
Speaker 4: just it's like when you're trying to load up an
Speaker 4: entire house and it's just a box of scripts I
Speaker 4: haven't looked at in three years, it was like, okay,
Speaker 4: I can I can let this go, you know. So nowadays, no,
Speaker 4: like you, though, I have a digital app that I
Speaker 4: sort of have them all if I ever wanted to
Speaker 4: revisit them.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, At some point, it just becomes paper that's just
Speaker 2: taking up space in your house. And it's like I
Speaker 2: like knowing that it's there just for this sort of
Speaker 2: hoarding comfort sense. I don't know what it is, but
Speaker 2: I like knowing that it's in a drawer. But what
Speaker 2: am I ever going to do with it? Like you, So,
Speaker 2: if I have a bunch of sides that I was
Speaker 2: going to send out and then realize there were a
Speaker 2: bunch of phone numbers and stuff on them. I was like, well,
Speaker 2: how long do I wait? Do I just wait for
Speaker 2: like five years? And I've got a file cabinet full
Speaker 2: of sides from our show that I a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff I kept for the sake of auctioning, Like I've
Speaker 2: got a bunch of DVDs and you know, wardrobe pieces
Speaker 2: and stuff. And I'm like, you know, things will come
Speaker 2: up and somebody wants an item for charity and I'll
Speaker 2: sign it and send it off, but I don't do
Speaker 2: you know, I also hate the post office, so I
Speaker 2: don't do it as often as I mean too. But
Speaker 2: it's nice to have them around.
Speaker 4: You said exactly, it's the knowing they're there, which I
Speaker 4: think is like the beginning of the hoarder trap. Because
Speaker 4: I have three boxes of eye zombie cereal in our
Speaker 4: guest closet right now, and about once a year, Jenny's like,
Speaker 4: are you ready to throw these out? I'm like, absolutely
Speaker 4: not no, because what if I want to send one?
Speaker 4: Exactly like you said, you know, but what if? But
Speaker 4: what if?
Speaker 3: By the way, what you should do is take one
Speaker 3: of them and be really careful when you open the
Speaker 3: is there actual cereal in it? It's just okay, or
Speaker 3: you could leave it in there, I guess, but I
Speaker 3: would take one to a great framer and have it
Speaker 3: framed in like a shadow box so it could be mounted,
Speaker 3: you know, some sort of like cool textured linen, you know,
Speaker 3: background or whatever, and then like put it in you know,
Speaker 3: wherever you have a version of like a gallery wall
Speaker 3: or behind your desk or some sort of officey space
Speaker 3: like that is such a cool piece of memorabilia to
Speaker 3: have for you and eventually for the kids and stuff.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like three of them in a dark upper
Speaker 3: closet shelf. You're like, what am I? What am I
Speaker 3: doing with that?
Speaker 2: Do you guys know? Okay? So so concert artists. I
Speaker 2: know this because a friend of mine who's a stylist
Speaker 2: also runs a housing business for artists like musicians outfits
Speaker 2: like things that they wore on stage for award shows
Speaker 2: or whatever that they just don't have room in their
Speaker 2: closet for every special thing that they've worn on stage
Speaker 2: at all these different events over the years. And so
Speaker 2: she's got this super secure warehouse where people send their
Speaker 2: artists will send their items when they're done with the
Speaker 2: concert tour, and it just goes you know, I mean
Speaker 2: Taylor Swiftcott when it's in an airplane hanger. I think
Speaker 2: in Nashville. Yeah, somebody maybe already does or should do
Speaker 2: this for actors who want to save their stuff for
Speaker 2: the sake of like auction to get off to charity.
Speaker 2: Because if we all just sign a bunch of stuff
Speaker 2: and then send it in to somebody who would keep
Speaker 2: it in a warehouse and send it off whenever there's like, oh,
Speaker 2: hey there's a charity blah blah blah needs this, can
Speaker 2: you send it off? We give them the address and
Speaker 2: they do it for us. Like I'd pay a monthly
Speaker 2: feet a house a little cubicle of my memorabilia.
Speaker 3: Sure, and if it were a big enough warehouse, the
Speaker 3: fee per person would be so minimal. Yeah, but it
Speaker 3: would be very That could be like a cool kind
Speaker 3: of collaborative thing. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Have you noticed every time the three of us get
Speaker 4: on a Q and A, we come up with this
Speaker 4: one random business idea. Yeah, this genuinely is like the
Speaker 4: third or fourth business ideas.
Speaker 3: We've had to cut some out of the show because
Speaker 3: we're like, wait, that's a great idea, don't tell anyone
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 4: We've actually done that listeners, we've actually cut stuff out
Speaker 4: of the show. Maybe maybe we do that. Maybe we
Speaker 4: do that.
Speaker 2: Once shefally, I was asking, what's the best date you've
Speaker 2: ever had? And the worst?
Speaker 4: Okay, I know one of my worst. I was in
Speaker 4: college and got Everything I talk about revolves around food.
Speaker 4: That's so, that's so raven. Anyways, We're on a day
Speaker 4: and I'm kind of broke, and but we go to
Speaker 4: this nice Italian restaurant and I'm excited because obviously I
Speaker 4: love food, and I'm very excited about this gallon on
Speaker 4: the date with We get our food and she had
Speaker 4: got lobster ravioli and she went to one ravioli and
Speaker 4: she halved it and then she quartered it and she
Speaker 4: had two bites aka half of a ravioli, and she
Speaker 4: was like, I'm stuffed. And I remember in that moment
Speaker 4: just thinking this can this will never work. This is
Speaker 4: the last time we're going to see each other, because
Speaker 4: I can't be with someone who just doesn't eat and
Speaker 4: doesn't like food. I remember just sitting out the rest
Speaker 4: of the time. It was like I was seven minutes
Speaker 4: into the date going, oh, farts.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 4: Swinging a miss Yeah, how about y'all.
Speaker 3: I have a one that's really not great. It was
Speaker 3: actually in the early years of our show. Sorry for
Speaker 3: the pause. I'm figuring out how to tell the story
Speaker 3: without revealing who it's about. But I I was sent
Speaker 3: a script by someone in our industry that I really respect,
Speaker 3: and it was fabulous and you know the story. You
Speaker 3: join knows the story. And the feedback was, you know,
Speaker 3: you met this person, you know, writer, producer, actor, award winner,
Speaker 3: and they want to know if you're interested in, like,
Speaker 3: you know, playing this sort of like amazing like wild
Speaker 3: Child in this movie. And I was like, yeah, totally
Speaker 3: tracks Brooke Davis at this point, it was still kind
Speaker 3: of a wild Child great and I read it and
Speaker 3: I was like, oh my god, this is so amazing.
Speaker 3: And I was like this is this is like someone
Speaker 3: who made me want to be an actor, Like, oh
Speaker 3: my god, I can't wait. And I remember driving to
Speaker 3: the meeting. I had to fly to LA and I
Speaker 3: had to like, you know, go for this like late
Speaker 3: lunch meeting because they had something at noon. So we
Speaker 3: were going to meet it too, at this very famous
Speaker 3: restaurant in Malibu because it was like, you know, near
Speaker 3: their fancy house. Uh, and it was a Friday, and
Speaker 3: so like, listen, they don't do Friday afternoon meetings. But
Speaker 3: get that you're on a show and this is the
Speaker 3: one day you have off for you know, the next
Speaker 3: three episodes or whatever. So this is how we're going
Speaker 3: to make it work. And I was like totally. I
Speaker 3: like thought nothing of it. So I get out there
Speaker 3: and I'm like talking to my best friend on the way,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, how do I like be cool but
Speaker 3: be excited but not be too excited, and like, what
Speaker 3: do I I've made notes through the whole script, things
Speaker 3: to talk about, character beats, all the things, you know,
Speaker 3: And I get out there and it's, you know, so sorry,
Speaker 3: the noon was at Universal and now coming from the
Speaker 3: valley to Malibu is taking forever. You know, this person
Speaker 3: will be there at three, And I was like okay.
Speaker 3: And then at like two point fifty, I get a
Speaker 3: phone call from you know, the agent's assistant on the
Speaker 3: desk being like, traffic's really bad. You're so lucky you
Speaker 3: went out there early to like make sure you were
Speaker 3: on time, looking like maybe three forty five. Anyway, you
Speaker 3: get the story. It pushes and it pushes and it
Speaker 3: pushes and it pushes and then it's five thirty and
Speaker 3: then this person walks in almost at six.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 4: By the way, that's not just traffic, that's the terrible
Speaker 4: and says, I've.
Speaker 3: Kept you here all day. I am so sorry. My apologies.
Speaker 3: Were pitching this other film we're so excited about. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: just you know, guys, my age in it. You know,
Speaker 3: if there was a role in it, I would have
Speaker 3: had them send it to you so you could read
Speaker 3: it while you were waiting. But let's talk about this one.
Speaker 3: And since I've kept you waiting, let me buy you dinner.
Speaker 3: And I was like, I just got date napped. I
Speaker 3: am on a fucking date. But I didn't agree to
Speaker 3: go on with someone that until this moment I have
Speaker 3: literally respected for like my whole life. And now I'm
Speaker 3: stuck here and what do I do? And it was
Speaker 3: such a bummer, But now it's like a pretty hilarious story.
Speaker 2: How was the dinner? I mean, did you like, was
Speaker 2: it interesting at least?
Speaker 3: Or was it I had fish, it was lovely.
Speaker 4: Was this guy even trying to make it a business
Speaker 4: mean or was it clear he was just trying to
Speaker 4: now have a date.
Speaker 3: It became like pretty clear, because there was definitely a
Speaker 3: like here's you know, this was still when our agents
Speaker 3: were sending us physical scripts, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: well here's my script and here's my notes, and I
Speaker 3: have questions and then these are my thoughts, and you know,
Speaker 3: I know you obviously you know you co wrote it.
Speaker 3: And if you don't want thoughts but you just want questions,
Speaker 3: let me know, like trying to be kind of funny.
Speaker 3: And the immediate response was we we'll get to that,
Speaker 3: like how are you? And then and then commentary was
Speaker 3: made about what this person knew about what had been
Speaker 3: going on in my life. That was, you know, very
Speaker 3: public and sad at the time. And my favorite line
Speaker 3: was you know, well, you know you can't date men
Speaker 3: your own age. They're all useless idiots. And I was like,
Speaker 3: oh my god. I was like I got to get
Speaker 3: out of here, Like, bro, you're not like old enough
Speaker 3: to be my dad, but you're way closer in age
Speaker 3: to my dad than I am, so I'm going to
Speaker 3: have to leave. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Gross, But he also wasn't wrong. Let's be honest, guys,
Speaker 4: guys that genuinely have that.
Speaker 3: Here's the thing turns out in our mid twenties. Yes,
Speaker 3: you all are very stupid, and then you grow out
Speaker 3: of it and look at what charmers you are now.
Speaker 3: I adore you all, But my god, I was just like,
Speaker 3: how long do I have to stay here? Not to
Speaker 3: get like blacklisted? But how quickly can I leave?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Those situations are the worst. It's so so uncomfortable.
Speaker 2: It's easier now that I'm older, obviously, but yeah, when
Speaker 2: you get young, you don't know what the what are
Speaker 2: the rules of play? How do I And that's kind
Speaker 2: of what that personality banks on, is you being uncomfortable
Speaker 2: and not knowing what to do and being like a
Speaker 2: deer in the headlights. It's so gross.
Speaker 4: Well, by the way, go ahead, rob as you can say,
Speaker 4: the audacity and the stupidity of going ah yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: probably the best way to kick off a date is
Speaker 4: the keeper waiting for about three to four hours. That's
Speaker 4: a power play, right, that's the power play?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it isn't And it's to see how much you'll
Speaker 2: put up with ahead of yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that was the interesting thing for me looking back,
Speaker 3: I realized, you know, and we were doing this all
Speaker 3: the time. I mean, you know, Joy and I everybody
Speaker 3: and especially in the early days of the show, you
Speaker 3: had to fly everywhere for a meeting. Yeah, and it's like,
Speaker 3: if you know, I flew out from Wilmington on the
Speaker 3: five thirty am flight, like it was a whole thing,
Speaker 3: and I was like, well, I flew all the way here.
Speaker 3: I took two planes. I came here for this meeting,
Speaker 3: like I'm going to have this meeting. It could be
Speaker 3: a really big deal, and you know, somebody with an
Speaker 3: iconic filmography that I really again respect. And then it
Speaker 3: was like, oh, I have to do two things at once.
Speaker 3: I have to be bummed as a human that this
Speaker 3: is what's happening. And on the other side, I have
Speaker 3: to figure out how to sort of strategically make my
Speaker 3: boundaries very clear but also not risk like she's terrible
Speaker 3: or difficult or whatever. Story per me an industry from
Speaker 3: someone where there's such a power imbalance. So it was
Speaker 3: like a really it was kind of a curious thing.
Speaker 3: And I look back now and like, yeah, now, like
Speaker 3: this version of me, i'd be like, are you looking
Speaker 3: for real? I'm leaving. But at the time I had
Speaker 3: to sort of try to figure out what I could
Speaker 3: say and what I couldn't and sort of shoot the
Speaker 3: shit about you know, the movie i'd just made and
Speaker 3: the movie I knew they'd just made. And then of
Speaker 3: course when like should we get around to drinks? I
Speaker 3: was like, oh, I live like really far from here
Speaker 3: and I drove, so no, like I don't. I don't
Speaker 3: drink and drive. That's a that's a big no no
Speaker 3: for me. And at least I had the wherewithal to
Speaker 3: like not say I'm not going to have drinks with you, dude,
Speaker 3: but to be like, I'm not going to have drinks
Speaker 3: with you, sir father figure, like goodbye.
Speaker 2: Or gross gross wow, whoa, that's a bad date.
Speaker 3: It also, like the lore of it is quite funny,
Speaker 3: and there are details that Joy knows, which I'll tell
Speaker 3: you offline, Rob, that are so ridiculous. So it is
Speaker 3: one of those things where like in my group of friends,
Speaker 3: someone will go on a bad date and be like,
Speaker 3: but you didn't get date napped by like fill in
Speaker 3: the blank, and everybody laughs, like it's given to us
Speaker 3: for twenty years.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
Speaker 2: It's one of those stories that like when you write
Speaker 2: a memoir eventually and everyone is year old and it
Speaker 2: doesn't matter. Yes, it's good.
Speaker 3: I'll be like, let me tell you who it was.
Speaker 3: It'll be great.
Speaker 4: I can't wait to find out. Joy. Do you want
Speaker 4: to jump in on this bad date train? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean I've had a few bad datesn't. I didn't
Speaker 2: date a lot because you know, I kind of got
Speaker 2: married right away and then like afterward was I was
Speaker 2: pretty in monogamous relationships. I don't have a ton of
Speaker 2: bad dates. One bad date I had while I was
Speaker 2: in a relationship, I went we went to a friend's
Speaker 2: birthday dinner at one of those restaurants where they waiters sing,
Speaker 2: and my date was drinking heavily as per usual, and
Speaker 2: really wanted me to get up and sing a duet
Speaker 2: with one of the waiters. So he's like trying to crawl.
Speaker 3: I'm like, well, no, I have to fix my hair
Speaker 3: even though it's messy. I I need to touch something I
Speaker 3: want to buy.
Speaker 2: So good, And I I didn't mind. I thought. I
Speaker 2: was like, I mean, sure, whatever, Like it's it's a
Speaker 2: it was a casual environment. It's like, yeah, this would
Speaker 2: be fun if he So he's like, I'm going to
Speaker 2: go talk to the I'm going to go back to
Speaker 2: the guy playing the piano and tell him what the
Speaker 2: song you want to sing? But I was like whatever,
Speaker 2: if he wants to do something, I'd be happy to.
Speaker 2: But there's I mean, we're here for my friend's birthday.
Speaker 2: But it was like a big casual thing, so like
Speaker 2: I was whatever. Anyway, So he goes up there and
Speaker 2: the guy says, oh, we don't. It's really just the
Speaker 2: staff here that's sing. And I was like, thumbs up, great,
Speaker 2: let's get back to dinner. And he got really insistent,
Speaker 2: like no, no, you got to hear her sing, like
Speaker 2: she's got to say. And I was like, no, dude,
Speaker 2: like we're here for our friend's birthday dinner. Just sit down.
Speaker 2: Let's just our dinner. And the waiter comes over and
Speaker 2: he he starts arguing with the waiter, and the waiter's like,
Speaker 2: I don't. I mean, it's fine, I'll sing with her.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I don't want to. I don't
Speaker 2: want to sing. I don't. I'm not, it's fine. Let's
Speaker 2: just eat our pasta. It's good. And he stands up
Speaker 2: and starts yelling at the waiter of this whole restaurant
Speaker 2: like you could hear a pin drop. Everybody in the
Speaker 2: restaurant gets quiet and We're just listening to him like
Speaker 2: burreat this poor waiter about not letting me sing with him,
Speaker 2: and I was like, oh my god, I want to
Speaker 2: crawl into a hole. Everybody at the table is just like,
Speaker 2: hey man, sit down, like girl, it's all good, it's
Speaker 2: all good. And uh, you know, of course we went
Speaker 2: I like went to check on the waiter and left him.
Speaker 2: We all left him at Big Tip. But it was
Speaker 2: like that was one of those moments where you're just
Speaker 2: like what am I? What am I doing here? Why
Speaker 2: I'm by my hair? What is this life?
Speaker 3: The when you go up on the ceiling and you're like,
Speaker 3: how has it gotten here? Yeah? How did it get
Speaker 3: away from me? And now we're here?
Speaker 2: How is this a part of any day in my life?
Speaker 2: I'm not understanding where this came from, or I guess
Speaker 2: I knew where it came from. I just didn't know
Speaker 2: I had made allowances for so many little things to
Speaker 2: the point where now we're here. Yeah, So that was
Speaker 2: a bad date night.
Speaker 4: All of a sudden, two bites of ravioli isn't looking
Speaker 4: so bad. I'm glad I went first, because I certainly
Speaker 4: couldn't follow either of those. All right, let's with old
Speaker 4: Brandon's question. I'm sure it's Brandon, but your nickname should
Speaker 4: have been in there. He calls himself the Dawn for short.
Speaker 4: Uh absolutely asks who would win in an arm wrestling contest, Rob,
Speaker 4: Chad or James. I can give you definitive answer. James
Speaker 4: would win. Yeah, and then it would be Chad n
Speaker 4: I and the loser's bracket and we would get so
Speaker 4: lost in each other's eyes that it would be a tie.
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, nobody else can answer that except you.
Speaker 4: If you asked, Brandon, you asked there, you go, all.
Speaker 3: Right, definitively. I like, I like the button on it. Rob,
Speaker 3: It's very good.
Speaker 2: I can see that. I can see how like James
Speaker 2: has a has a switch flip thing where he can
Speaker 2: it's like when he when he's decided he's going to
Speaker 2: do something and commit to it and go for it.
Speaker 2: I think there's like just absolutely no chance he doesn't
Speaker 2: succeed at whatever that is. And so I think if
Speaker 2: he decided in that moment, I don't know, is it
Speaker 2: like psychological warfare?
Speaker 4: Just like he's kind of built like Superman, you know,
Speaker 4: I just feel like he's he's not just vanity strong
Speaker 4: he's just strong, strong, and he's not even a dad yet.
Speaker 4: He's his strength is going to be something out of
Speaker 4: this world. But he's just a very strong guy.
Speaker 2: That's true.
Speaker 4: Yes, it's like you know how people in cold weather
Speaker 4: are just different, like lumberjacks in the Arctic or just different. Yes,
Speaker 4: just different. Yes, yes, that is that is James is
Speaker 4: the Hollywood equivalent of that. Maybe asks an interesting question?
Speaker 4: Is going to jump back in here again? She said,
Speaker 4: is there a reason that only certain members of the
Speaker 4: cast have nicknames? I e. Junk Mouth, Fergie Skills. What
Speaker 4: nickname would you give Clay, Brooke and.
Speaker 2: Haley Well Hailey as tutor girl Brook.
Speaker 4: Yes, I liked Jayley when you went to jail.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2: That's fun. I forgot about that.
Speaker 3: Yes, when when Brooks parents went broke in high school,
Speaker 3: everyone called her Broke Davis, which was sad it was
Speaker 3: a nickname.
Speaker 4: I was going to say, given the last episode we watched,
Speaker 4: which is close over bros Getting in financial trouble and
Speaker 4: Brooke getting arrested, I was thinking we could just change
Speaker 4: Brook to crook.
Speaker 2: Brooke Davis. Yeah, I what is Clay?
Speaker 3: What's Clay's nickname?
Speaker 4: I feel like I was thinking, like something along lines
Speaker 4: of Memento or like Doctor Forgetful. I feel like that's Goldfish.
Speaker 3: Sure, gold Fish is good.
Speaker 4: I feel like we need to circle the amnesia part
Speaker 4: of it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Goldfish, okay. Man Ali wants to know what your
Speaker 2: top three favorite shows are, like of all time?
Speaker 4: Oh today though your favorite all time shows? Today?
Speaker 2: Wait? What do you mean?
Speaker 4: It's the way of hedging your bets right where it's like,
Speaker 4: what's your favorite food? And that's an impossible question. I
Speaker 4: freeze up, so I answered, and I go today my
Speaker 4: favorite food is because it's me giving my brain the
Speaker 4: out that you're allowed to change this at a different time.
Speaker 2: Mad Men, Friends, Game of Friends.
Speaker 3: Ooh good, okay? I mean Orphan Black will always be
Speaker 3: in my in my top as of today, I just
Speaker 3: binged the first three episodes of the Madness with Coleman Domingo,
Speaker 3: and I have not seen a show that good in years.
Speaker 3: I am beside myself. Oh this is so hard. What else?
Speaker 3: What have I been watching? I've been watching I've been
Speaker 3: watching something on HBO and I can't think of what
Speaker 3: it is. This is it that these questions are too
Speaker 3: high pressure for me and my brain goes blank.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna buy you a moment, buy me a minute. Patriot.
Speaker 3: I love The Patriots.
Speaker 4: Such a great show, arrested development. To be fair, though,
Speaker 4: like specifically seasons one through three especially Yes, yeah uh
Speaker 4: and oh man, it's tough. I'd say thirty Rock.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, iconic, you know what in the in
Speaker 3: the comedy vein, Yes, in the third spot. I think
Speaker 3: I'd actually have to give a tie. It would tie
Speaker 3: for me between VEEP and Parks and rec.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: So genius, so genius, genius.
Speaker 4: Rob.
Speaker 2: I started watching Detroiters on your recommendation. I really like
Speaker 2: it. It's great, really great. I was I mean the episode
Speaker 2: where they're trying to break the glass wind the glass
Speaker 2: window and I'm still in the beginning, but I was
Speaker 2: laughing my ass off. It was like late at night
Speaker 2: in bed and I'm just crying laughing.
Speaker 4: I love that show. That would make my short list
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, that's great.
Speaker 3: That feels fun. I want to ask this question because
Speaker 3: we all we've we've bonded over many and made many
Speaker 3: for one another. Mikayla, uh, let's call her a little Mikayla.
Speaker 3: She she We're just going to keep it going. Wants
Speaker 3: to know what cocktail reminds you of your oth days.
Speaker 2: I was a wine drinker back then. I wasn't drinking
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of liquor, were you, guys?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would.
Speaker 3: I would go for wine. And I feel like we've
Speaker 3: talked about this. We all really got to learn a
Speaker 3: lot about wine thanks to Paul. Yeah, and Hank at Deluxe,
Speaker 3: Like that was always so nice. But when we were
Speaker 3: shooting One Tree Hill is when I started to get
Speaker 3: really into old fashions. And my sort of favorite like
Speaker 3: ha ha moment at a bar was always ordering an
Speaker 3: old fashion and like you know, some golf dad would
Speaker 3: be like, who's that for? And I'd be like me,
Speaker 3: it's for me, And it always felt so nice.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when you're like twenty two, you're like, look, look
Speaker 2: what a what an unexpected girl I am.
Speaker 3: I'm twenty six and I'm drinking a sixty two year
Speaker 3: old men's drink And I like that about myself.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I Season nine, Steven Coletti and I discovered the
Speaker 4: Jamison pickleback, which is a shot of jamison and a
Speaker 4: shot of pickle juice. Here's the weirdest thing. It tastes
Speaker 4: like a McDonald's hamburger. I can't expect it. And we
Speaker 4: went so hard that we would just we There was
Speaker 4: a couple of bars that we went to. We're like, guys,
Speaker 4: we're out of pickle juice.
Speaker 3: Like they're like, please leave us alone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So that's that would be my my nostalgia.
Speaker 2: It's kind of genius. I think in terms of not
Speaker 2: making the the pickle juice being such a hydrator that
Speaker 2: it's not gonna the alcohol maybe doesn't have the same
Speaker 2: effect as it would if you were just taking it
Speaker 2: straight right.
Speaker 4: I don't know if that chemistry checks out.
Speaker 2: Is it now?
Speaker 4: Juice highly sodium content? Isn't there a massive Yeah?
Speaker 2: But it's lights. It's all. It's like athletes will drink
Speaker 2: pickle juice or pickle water or whatever.
Speaker 4: Are you telling me? We were actually just really taking
Speaker 4: good care of ourselves with.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is top tier help.
Speaker 3: I did remember reading something because Jenny Smart is also
Speaker 3: a real fan of a pickleback. I personally am not,
Speaker 3: but that was also her jam in our Willington days.
Speaker 3: I remember forwarding her the little video clip about it.
Speaker 3: Pickle juice does something like really incredible. I think it
Speaker 3: can stop a migraine. Maybe I'm going to need to
Speaker 3: do this. Yeah, it was something that when I saw,
Speaker 3: you know, some person talking about it online, I was like,
Speaker 3: do you know about this? Is this why you're healthy?
Speaker 3: So there's something too what you're saying, enjoy pickle juice
Speaker 3: does something.
Speaker 2: Vinegar is great. Vinegar is so great for you.
Speaker 3: Except thinking about it, I have cravings.
Speaker 2: I totally have pickle juice cravens. I just go in
Speaker 2: the fridge and I'll just like drink a little.
Speaker 4: Lot of pickle chart go on joy wellst listeners, you
Speaker 4: heard it here. First, the Drama Queens and the medical
Speaker 4: community encourage you to drink your pickle juice.
Speaker 3: Everyone except for me. I'm trying not to throw up,
Speaker 3: but I love it for all of you. Congratulations. I'll
Speaker 3: be in the corner with my whiskey and a little
Speaker 3: sugar cube.
Speaker 2: Yeah bye, guys, Thanks.
Speaker 4: He drink your pickle juice.
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