Speaker 1: It's nine with Jenny Garth and Tori Spelling. Hi you guys.
Speaker 1: Uh So we have listened to you and we're putting
Speaker 1: it into action. We have scouted some of our most
Speaker 1: die hard nine O two one OMG fans to join
Speaker 1: us for a special episode called Team Brenda Versus Team Kelly.
Speaker 1: What Oh my gosh, I'm kind of nervous. We have
Speaker 1: six live collars and we're going to get to zoom
Speaker 1: with them and they are going to state their case
Speaker 1: and let us hear all about why they are what
Speaker 1: they are. Yep, they're live collars, you guys, so anything
Speaker 1: can happen and no judgment over here. Were so ready
Speaker 1: for everybody. You should put on a wig and a
Speaker 1: hat and pretend you're not Kelly. You should you should
Speaker 1: dress as Brenda. Oh I should? And then this out
Speaker 1: well you're right right? Yeah? All right, well whatever, let's
Speaker 1: jump in. Let's go to our first participant. We are
Speaker 1: on with Stephanie. Right, Hi, how are you hi? This
Speaker 1: is Stephanie first, first out of the gate. You're our
Speaker 1: first team. What team are you on? I'm Team Kelly? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: thank you, I guess so nice of you. Um, why
Speaker 1: tell us. Why, Well, I I always thought that, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, even even when I was you know, of
Speaker 1: that age, watching you guys, I was always team Kelly,
Speaker 1: and watching it back now, I still am Um. And
Speaker 1: I think it's because I think it's because like you
Speaker 1: were the rich girl with you know, rich girl problems,
Speaker 1: and like they were real, like they were real things.
Speaker 1: And I think Brenda she wanted to be the rich
Speaker 1: girl and she wanted to have the problems, and then
Speaker 1: when she got the problems, she just complained and said,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just some girl from Minnesota. And I
Speaker 1: just felt that it was always interesting. I kind of
Speaker 1: lost interest, you know, in back then and watching it again,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, at different times of in my
Speaker 1: adult life. I've never changed, right, So that's interesting that
Speaker 1: you said when you watched it back originally you felt
Speaker 1: this way, but then even as an adult watching it back,
Speaker 1: you still feel that same way, because I kind of
Speaker 1: feel a little bit torn now and a little differently
Speaker 1: about it seeing it from an adult lens, and before
Speaker 1: you knew what was going to happen, Like would you
Speaker 1: watch the show seeing Um, Brendan Dylan together and be
Speaker 1: like I just love Kelly, like I wish did you
Speaker 1: want did you think, like, oh I want him to
Speaker 1: be with Kelly or did you even think of it?
Speaker 1: Or like you're you were just a Kelly fan from
Speaker 1: the get go, right, Yeah, do you want her to
Speaker 1: be with Steve? No? No, I don't think I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know about Steve. I always liked Steve, and
Speaker 1: I liked how his character progressed, you know, sort of
Speaker 1: in the in the later years. But um, in high school, no,
Speaker 1: I I there was nothing I like what Steve was. Um.
Speaker 1: But but at the time, I was in university at
Speaker 1: the time, and and I was I was just team Kelly.
Speaker 1: I just I just always wanted to see her either
Speaker 1: either you know, in the days with UM with Dylan
Speaker 1: and then later on. I always liked the brand the
Speaker 1: Brandon storyline. I always like that. Oh right, yeah, so
Speaker 1: were you were you? Yeah? Which was your favorite? Dylan
Speaker 1: or Brandon? So then that's a toughie because at the
Speaker 1: you know, at the very end, I really liked how
Speaker 1: it all kind of came together. So well, people have
Speaker 1: asked me who I ended up with on the show. No,
Speaker 1: I don't know who do you think she ended up with?
Speaker 1: Inevitably Okay, Well, I mean it could have gone either way.
Speaker 1: Years later, you never know, Yeah maybe maybe maybe Stephanie's
Speaker 1: not gonna tell you. She's not gonna give you a
Speaker 1: know what really happened, but I think that's what she
Speaker 1: wanted to have happened. Sounds like I mean, I would
Speaker 1: have loved your your sixth part, your you know, your
Speaker 1: your last rendition. I would have loved to have seen
Speaker 1: a season two come of that. So to Stephanie, I know,
Speaker 1: I know I had so much more to tell. I
Speaker 1: know chapter is not over yet. Well, we appreciate you
Speaker 1: coming on and sharing your perspective. Um, and I can
Speaker 1: say thank you as Kelly, I guess really appreciate her friend,
Speaker 1: I thank you as well. Well, thank you for letting
Speaker 1: me talk to you know, Kelly and Donna and you
Speaker 1: know of course, Um Tory and you're welcome. You're welcome.
Speaker 1: Thank you for being with us. So we appreciate you,
Speaker 1: and we're sorry about the comments you're going to get
Speaker 1: after people listen to this because they have very precise
Speaker 1: uh teams, and so now that you have gone on
Speaker 1: record as being team Kelly, just wait for it, March
Speaker 1: you're back. Yeah, but we got you. Thank you, Stephanie.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, Okay, I feel like if we've got we
Speaker 1: came out of the gate strong with a with a team. Kelly.
Speaker 1: I feel like, maybe, oh, dear and are ready for it.
Speaker 1: I'm ready and I'm more ready than you are. Probably
Speaker 1: you're right. Let's bring in our next caller, our next zoomer. Maggie. Hi, Maggie, Hi, Maggie, Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you? It was so happy to see you happy.
Speaker 1: Thank you for taking the time to talk to us.
Speaker 1: Of course, anything any time. Okay, So is your hair
Speaker 1: color in the indication? Are you team Brenda? Yes, I am,
Speaker 1: but not sometimes when you were like in high school,
Speaker 1: like you would identify with girls sometimes for the physical
Speaker 1: attributes first, like I would identify with the lawn on
Speaker 1: camera because I was blond, you know. So that's the
Speaker 1: only reason I asked you that. Okay, we want to
Speaker 1: know what's what's your story? Like, why is it that
Speaker 1: you connected more with the character of Brenda? Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: the same thing happened to me with a boy and
Speaker 1: my friends. So o lord, I mean, I never forget
Speaker 1: that day, but I remember connecting with her as well.
Speaker 1: When she moved to Beverly Hills and she was watching
Speaker 1: Kelly's shop and she wanted what she couldn't afford. I
Speaker 1: remember that a lot too. I would break bad memories,
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, the whole boy thing. Yeah, I would
Speaker 1: like to take this opportunity to apologize, uh for bringing
Speaker 1: up bad memories your show every day like obsessed. I
Speaker 1: don't know what's wrong with oh? Like I literally watched
Speaker 1: it on Plutle all the time. You're my son already
Speaker 1: knows you know the antral, so he means you all.
Speaker 1: So after ten years, were you still like, oh, I
Speaker 1: don't want to see Kelly end up with Dylan, or
Speaker 1: like what I never you didn't think it was it
Speaker 1: was right for Kelly and Dylan, do you. I don't
Speaker 1: disagree with you, by the way, it's just it's weird.
Speaker 1: And I mean, if they were together, it's fine. But
Speaker 1: she's still stayed friends with them, And you know, were
Speaker 1: you upset? Like once Brenda left the show, did you
Speaker 1: like not watch the show as often? Or you still
Speaker 1: did you followed? I still I watched you guys forever?
Speaker 1: And then were you like team Valerie once she came on? No,
Speaker 1: I was like, what's she doing? Yeah? Okay, who is she.
Speaker 1: But I love how Kelly saw right through her, but
Speaker 1: nobody believe her. You're so nice, You're a first team Brenda,
Speaker 1: and we were nervous. Were mostly for her because a
Speaker 1: lot of people think of her as it's interchangeable that
Speaker 1: she is Kelly, So we're worried. Sorry, So thank you
Speaker 1: for breaking us in. You broke our team, Brenda Cherry.
Speaker 1: So thank You're welcome. We are so happy that you
Speaker 1: called you called in and took the time to visit
Speaker 1: with us and represent your team and your perspective. We
Speaker 1: appreciate it. We hear you. We're so yeah, so grateful
Speaker 1: for all your years of devotion to the show. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Maggie so much. Thank you. Have a good day, by guy,
Speaker 1: I love you too. She was so chill. I kind
Speaker 1: of want somebody to bring the heat. I gotta be honest. Okay,
Speaker 1: who's next? Who's next? Simona is coming in? Simona? Hi, Simona, Hi, Hi,
Speaker 1: Hi Hi? Hello? Where where are you? Where are we
Speaker 1: talking to you at? I mean Epa, in the south
Speaker 1: of Epaly. It's late. We were there with you drinking wine. Wow,
Speaker 1: so far away yet so close. Tell us your stories
Speaker 1: about why what team are you are you Kelly, Are
Speaker 1: you Roody more for Brenda, I'm totally Kelly team, totally
Speaker 1: from from the first moment. Yes, I think Kelly is
Speaker 1: a complex character. After you have to be people should
Speaker 1: have a sensitivity and death too to understand Kelly, because
Speaker 1: she's great character and she she was a very great girl.
Speaker 1: She m I want to say this. Uh. Some weeks ago,
Speaker 1: a girl sent a letter to Amy saying that Brenda
Speaker 1: is a so loved by fans because she's more similar,
Speaker 1: more more a common girl. But I don't think I
Speaker 1: totally disagree because the Branda has always been self confident
Speaker 1: and sure about her value, herself, her choices, probably because
Speaker 1: she grew up in a very healthy family and Kelly instead,
Speaker 1: I went through a lot of difficulties because she grew
Speaker 1: up in a broken family with no dad, with an
Speaker 1: addicted mother, being a mother of her mother. So and
Speaker 1: still she's a good person. And I think to Dylan
Speaker 1: and Kelly, um so in in the worst family what
Speaker 1: they wanted and never had. And also for this reason,
Speaker 1: maybe they connected each other and they were really were
Speaker 1: soul made. I have to say Kelly and Dilan still
Speaker 1: are one of the most beautiful and the intense couple
Speaker 1: of the history of television. I think live, Oh yes,
Speaker 1: beautiful and so poignant and everything you said, and it's
Speaker 1: not just because your accent is so beautiful, but everything
Speaker 1: you said is so true. That's she's a true fan.
Speaker 1: We can tell that you really invested in the show.
Speaker 1: I'm curious your age. Did you watch the show as
Speaker 1: it was originally airing back in the nineties. No, no,
Speaker 1: because I think year in Italy it was heard in
Speaker 1: the first year of two thousand. Maybe okay, okay, and
Speaker 1: you look a lot younger than I probably not right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Now I have a DVD. So at first I watched
Speaker 1: in in it in Italian. Now I have DVDs with
Speaker 1: your voices. So the actress the voices Kelly and Italian.
Speaker 1: Does her voice sound similar in tone to Jenny's voice? Um,
Speaker 1: I have to say yes, yes, the voice actress as
Speaker 1: a great voice, but Jenny's voice is as sweeter and
Speaker 1: the lower Maybe yes, I prefer that propely Jenny's voice. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think I think Kelly Kelly's development true. The entire
Speaker 1: show has been uh maybe the best development. And it
Speaker 1: breaks my heart that Journey couldn't see how wonderful Kelly was,
Speaker 1: and how wonderful Dylan and Kelly were together. Because we
Speaker 1: uh the Kelly and Dylan fans, we see that totally.
Speaker 1: And I have to say, it's a maybe it's easy
Speaker 1: to understand Branda. It's easy understand a girl who as
Speaker 1: being cheated by h a boy, but you have to
Speaker 1: see the entire perspective. So Kelly, I said before, never
Speaker 1: had the very healthy family, so maybe she didn't know
Speaker 1: how healthy relationship was. But she grew up a lot
Speaker 1: during the season. And I think in season three and four,
Speaker 1: particularly with the with the London, I think you will
Speaker 1: see Jenny and then yes, I believe you and I
Speaker 1: appreciate you saying that, and I and I'm going to, um,
Speaker 1: I'm going to think about that because it's so easy
Speaker 1: for me to feel guilty, um as Kelly, that we've
Speaker 1: hurt someone, you know, with that storyline, that we hurt
Speaker 1: the character of Brenda. So I think a lot of
Speaker 1: my perspective is sort of clouded by my guilt. Um
Speaker 1: even though it wasn't really me, it didn't really happen,
Speaker 1: but I played the character. So I'm going to think
Speaker 1: about that, and I'm gonna I'm gonna think of you,
Speaker 1: Simona when I watch it next and kind of be
Speaker 1: open to um seeing what you saw. I have a question, Simona,
Speaker 1: So a lot of things happened to poor Kelly during
Speaker 1: the ten seasons. Yes, which of the you know, the
Speaker 1: crazy things that happened are? Which was your favorite storyline
Speaker 1: about Kelly? Hello, just Kelly like the things? Like you know,
Speaker 1: we all know she was in a fire. She was
Speaker 1: called like which of those things? It's very out, very
Speaker 1: hardble to choose the only one thing, because yes, she
Speaker 1: went through a lot of difficulties. Uh. Maybe I love
Speaker 1: this storyline of Kelly with the in the in the
Speaker 1: fire because I think she was a very brave and
Speaker 1: in that particular storyline, you can see that Kelly as
Speaker 1: a always told that her value was in her beauty.
Speaker 1: She was scared about this because she told that this
Speaker 1: was her only quality, and I think in this storyline
Speaker 1: she understood that it wasn't in that way. Kelly had
Speaker 1: a lot of qualities and maybe she uh can I
Speaker 1: say she she understood this uh difficulty, But in this
Speaker 1: storyline she could see things clearly and she was a
Speaker 1: very supported girl for the other girl, and she felt
Speaker 1: guilty also in that occasion, but this wasn't her guilty.
Speaker 1: You're the best. Thank you so much for being such
Speaker 1: a devoted fan of the show and calling it. Thank
Speaker 1: you both for sharing you. It's great talking to you.
Speaker 1: Sorry for me, it was an honor. You are the best.
Speaker 1: But I love you, but of love. Okay, she's the best,
Speaker 1: Like not just because she was Team Kelly. That has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. She just was articulate and
Speaker 1: passionate and not like blaming anyone. She she saw everything
Speaker 1: from all the different perspectives. She's partly did the character
Speaker 1: and the growth of the character through the seasons. And
Speaker 1: I think it's and it's those are the I love
Speaker 1: my Italian friends. I gotta be honest with you. Oh
Speaker 1: I love my Italian pants. I okay, we're ready for
Speaker 1: the next our next Christina, Christina Christina does. Nice to
Speaker 1: meet you, girls, Nice to you. Okay, what team are
Speaker 1: you on? I'm team Brenda? Sorry, Kelly, that's okay, tell
Speaker 1: us why tell us? Why so? Um? I've always there
Speaker 1: was a lot of chemistry between Um, Dylan and Brenda
Speaker 1: UM and later watching the college episodes, wish we will
Speaker 1: all get to their soon. Um you and Brandon, you
Speaker 1: and Jason. It was just amazing. Your chemistry was amazing
Speaker 1: for me. So so yeah, that's that's basically it. I
Speaker 1: did feel that the way that they wrote Kelly the
Speaker 1: I I think it wasn't fair though, and looking back
Speaker 1: now after all these years, Um, I'm with you, Jenny.
Speaker 1: I don't like Dylan with either one of them, like
Speaker 1: I don't like what he does. I don't want to
Speaker 1: think that way, but it's true, like you see things
Speaker 1: from a different perspective as you get eight, gotten older
Speaker 1: and been through life to listen, I was ten years
Speaker 1: old when I wasn't even to watch it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: but um but yeah, as as the older you get,
Speaker 1: you see things that you're like, oh no, this is
Speaker 1: like no, right, but yeah, yes, yes, but yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: but I'm stick to my guns. You do it. I
Speaker 1: love that so well. Thank you, Thank you for being
Speaker 1: honest with us and telling you. Thank you guys for
Speaker 1: thank you for inviting me, and please I love the podcast.
Speaker 1: I love when you when you girls talk about everything
Speaker 1: and anything, show eyes or you guys. It's amazing. So
Speaker 1: keep up you guys are and your support. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much. Absolutely have a great day lady. Thank you bye,
Speaker 1: my lovely lady. So nice. I feel like because you're
Speaker 1: here and you played Kelly, people are like going going
Speaker 1: for it, not not how they do in the comments.
Speaker 1: Don't hide behind your computer screen. Let me know how
Speaker 1: you feel. It's okay, okay, we have another zoomer. Let's
Speaker 1: let's hear. Let's hear from Christina. Hi, Tina, Hi, Hello, Hi.
Speaker 1: How are you good? How are you o good? We're
Speaker 1: so happy to have you on our pod today. Thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you. This is so fun getting to meet real
Speaker 1: people that are really going through it with us every week.
Speaker 1: This is great. To tell us what team are you on?
Speaker 1: I am Team Kelly? Okay, I predicted that, Um, I'm
Speaker 1: Tim Kelly because I just feel like Dylan and Kelly
Speaker 1: really understood each other better. I think that they grew
Speaker 1: up very similarly, and I think that their relationship and
Speaker 1: their bond was so special, especially throughout the season's watching
Speaker 1: them grow up together. I just feel like they really
Speaker 1: were soulmates and they were just meant to be together. Wow.
Speaker 1: So at any point when Brandon and Kelly were together,
Speaker 1: which was like in hindsight, that was a bigger portion
Speaker 1: I think on nine o two and I have ten seasons.
Speaker 1: Was Dylan, I mean, was Kelly? Was Dylan and Brandon?
Speaker 1: I would have liked that. I would have been on
Speaker 1: that team. I would have liked to see that. But uh, yeah, um,
Speaker 1: did you ever like like seeing Kelly Obviously you're a
Speaker 1: big Kelly fan Kelly and Brandon or no, I did.
Speaker 1: I did like Kelly and Brandon too, especially in like
Speaker 1: season four. I really didn't say them at I'm excited now.
Speaker 1: I don't know that's coming sooner than I thought. I
Speaker 1: know it happens like I I was there, I played it,
Speaker 1: but I don't the end. Okay, I did really enjoy them,
Speaker 1: But and I really I liked Kelly and Steve. I
Speaker 1: really just liked Kelly with a lot of people. But
Speaker 1: I just feel like, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: I just think that Dylan was the person she was
Speaker 1: always going to find her way back to. But that
Speaker 1: doesn't because I did love Brandon and I did love
Speaker 1: her with him, but I just feel like she just
Speaker 1: always kept coming back to Dylan, So that's what I
Speaker 1: wanted her to be with. What was your favorite boy
Speaker 1: friend of Kelly's other than the regular So other than
Speaker 1: Dylan and Brandon, Oh my goodness. And which did you hate? Well?
Speaker 1: I didn't like Colin Um because that was just a
Speaker 1: bad time for her. Bad choice. Yeah, yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know who my favorite out of the main was.
Speaker 1: I mean Matt. I guess Matt was really sweet, but
Speaker 1: it was just you know, I was just waiting for
Speaker 1: that was very sweet. I didn't like him. This is good.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Wow Um, I'm so excited now to see
Speaker 1: what happens Um. But I feel the same way that
Speaker 1: you do. Kind of like they understood each other on
Speaker 1: a level that other characters couldn't understand each other on
Speaker 1: and and that's why they kept coming back together. And
Speaker 1: I guess they're they're going to break up at some point.
Speaker 1: That's going to be sad, but it's okay because that's
Speaker 1: TV right by the way, you guys, that stuff happens
Speaker 1: in real life too. Thank you for playing with us, Christina.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being a fan of the
Speaker 1: pod and listening. We love it so much. For having
Speaker 1: me this is amazing. Thank you, Christina. Bye bye bye.
Speaker 1: I love talking to the real Please Okay, we have
Speaker 1: one more. I wanted to keep going. We have to
Speaker 1: do this more often. Yeah, I love it. Let's hear
Speaker 1: from Melissa. Wait, predict all right? That was We're going
Speaker 1: back and forth pretty consistently. So I'm gonna feel like
Speaker 1: we're going to go back to a broad good by
Speaker 1: the color of her hair. I'm just saying. That's called stereotyping.
Speaker 1: I just yeah, but it's working out. So. Oh look
Speaker 1: it's Melissa, who's a brutal Melissa. Wait, what's your shirts say?
Speaker 1: What does it say if it looks like a duck
Speaker 1: and walks like a duck? Oh my gosh, you're wearing
Speaker 1: a quote from Brenda. Yeah, that is a good shirt.
Speaker 1: And you have Brenda bangs. Yes you are Brenda. I
Speaker 1: think we found her here. I am ladies, so so Niels,
Speaker 1: say your team Brenda? Yes, tell us what is um
Speaker 1: do I have? I have notes, ladies, I wrote a
Speaker 1: whole different notes. Oh my gosh. Oh yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: prepare it. Oh please jump jump in, Brenda, I mean
Speaker 1: jump in and don't feel bad. That is right here.
Speaker 1: And I love Yeah, I love Jenny. I've followed her
Speaker 1: career all these years, your TV shows and movies, and
Speaker 1: my mother even texts me yesterday She's like Chinese movies
Speaker 1: on this weekend whatever station she's watching though, thank you,
Speaker 1: so all right, yes, of course. Um So I started watching,
Speaker 1: as you know, because of Shannon, because I've always loved
Speaker 1: Harf since like the eighties, and and then I was like,
Speaker 1: oh what this show looks great, and then I got hooked.
Speaker 1: Um So, for me, I've always said that nine o
Speaker 1: two has been the only show that really treated us
Speaker 1: kids as adults. Like it wasn't the crazy stupid storylines
Speaker 1: of like you know, like say by the Belt Freeze
Speaker 1: and like they started talking on camera. It was a
Speaker 1: real true storylines and like things you could really get
Speaker 1: invest in. Um So, Brenda and Dylan were my first
Speaker 1: big super couple. So I was a teenager when it
Speaker 1: came on, so I was in high school so it
Speaker 1: was kind of same time frame everything. Um So, that
Speaker 1: was the the big couple, you know, like besides wants
Speaker 1: and things, that was the big couple. And we watched
Speaker 1: them fall in love and you know the heartbreak and
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, so you really felt
Speaker 1: the emotions, especially as a teenager in that age, you
Speaker 1: just really felt it. And you had Brenda, who was
Speaker 1: you know, the new girl in California and you know
Speaker 1: in the Sea of Blonds she had the burnette stuck out,
Speaker 1: you know, um and got the guy in the friendship
Speaker 1: and the whole thing. Um. And then the betrayal with
Speaker 1: Kelly and Dylan, you know, your best friend and your boyfriend,
Speaker 1: and and then the way she got treated afterwards from
Speaker 1: the rest of the game. You know, it was kind
Speaker 1: of like, oh, Kelly and Dylan greats together, but for
Speaker 1: Brenda's home, like in the room, and Donna was there
Speaker 1: for her. She always was. Um. But you saw that
Speaker 1: and like, that's kind of what I resonated with, and
Speaker 1: it's always stuck with me. Um. And then you know,
Speaker 1: throughout the series, you always saw that she still loved him,
Speaker 1: and through everything, she never really moved on. Stewart was whatever.
Speaker 1: The Stewart. Oh yeah, you'll get him, you'll get to him.
Speaker 1: But like she you know, so she always she didn't
Speaker 1: have that next big love super couple that like Kelly
Speaker 1: had Brandon afterwards, because we didn't see her with Dylan,
Speaker 1: I mean with with Steve. So she had Brandon afterwards
Speaker 1: and you saw that develop. We didn't get that with her.
Speaker 1: So the whole series that stuck with me of in
Speaker 1: any time there was any mention of her through the
Speaker 1: whole time, it was oh, she's in London with Dylan
Speaker 1: or you know, different things, like even years later, So
Speaker 1: still that huge, that's it was still there for me
Speaker 1: all those years later. Finally started agatting over it. Thousand
Speaker 1: eight reboot happens with um Kelly having Dylan's kid, like
Speaker 1: the reboot with you know, the head Laurie Laughlin and
Speaker 1: Rob Esti's in there. You guys probably heard me from
Speaker 1: Boston in l a screen when it was Dylan's kids,
Speaker 1: but it looked like Steve, I'm sorry, just saying I
Speaker 1: still stand by I don't disagree with you on that one.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Um. But yeah, So that's why I've always
Speaker 1: been team into this whole time, and just you know,
Speaker 1: that always stayed with me, and I think really a
Speaker 1: true testament to this whole storyline is the writing, the acting, everything.
Speaker 1: It's still thirty years later and people are so passionate
Speaker 1: about it and like really to the point of like,
Speaker 1: oh no, I'm still team Brenda. I'm still team Kelly.
Speaker 1: Like I was thirteen when that show stotted. I love
Speaker 1: your conviction. I just I love your conviction, and I
Speaker 1: think that's very honorable. Yeah, so I was fifteen like
Speaker 1: when that happened. I'm forty five now and I'm still
Speaker 1: talking about us too. It's a big thing for all
Speaker 1: of us. It was a big like a pivotal part
Speaker 1: of all of our lives. And like I said, I
Speaker 1: think for so many of us because that was the
Speaker 1: first show that really, you know, we watched. I watched
Speaker 1: daytime soaps, I watched nighttime soaps, but it was all adults.
Speaker 1: This was the first show that really treated kids like
Speaker 1: we sorry, my dogs trying to eat the paper. We
Speaker 1: have feelings, showed kids, yeah, with feelings, storylines and and
Speaker 1: just things you can connect to at the same age
Speaker 1: of gold high school and and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: That that was a big pot of you know, lives.
Speaker 1: I mean, from thirteen to twenty three, you guys were
Speaker 1: my friends. Like I mean, I had a lot of
Speaker 1: other friends, but I would leave and come home. I'd
Speaker 1: be out with my friend, especially in the summertime. Alright, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm coming home. I'm going home. I'll be back in
Speaker 1: an hour. I'd go in, watch the show and then
Speaker 1: back out. And I still have all the tapes, the
Speaker 1: VHS tapes from all ten years. I still have, you know,
Speaker 1: quite a few things, and you know, I met you
Speaker 1: guys quite a few times over the last few years,
Speaker 1: and you know, it's still it's still there. Like were
Speaker 1: you did you come meet us on our tour? I
Speaker 1: did you guys in Medford and and then um in
Speaker 1: sixteen at that crazy crazy ass um the one in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, out you were at that one, the
Speaker 1: one that started the whole wanting to doh because we
Speaker 1: had this crazy story at a convention. Yeah, he was there.
Speaker 1: I was there. I flew in for the day to
Speaker 1: meet you guys. Oh my gosh, you're the best. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then I was at the when you did the
Speaker 1: show in Boston. I did the show with Christal Okay, yes,
Speaker 1: I did the show with her and we did the
Speaker 1: Champagne toast and yes, yes, yes yeah. When we took
Speaker 1: the picture together and it came up on the screen,
Speaker 1: you guys were like, oh my god, you're Brenda. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it is a Ballian Donna tell me I'm Brenda. That's
Speaker 1: it's You're like, we could go on the road with
Speaker 1: her as Brenda. This is perfect. Literally, whatever do you
Speaker 1: ever get involved in some of the comments on time?
Speaker 1: Okay you do, You're not chime in? No, definitely not. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not afraid you throw down? What do you it does?
Speaker 1: It does? It gets ugly and if you I leave
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of messages a lot of
Speaker 1: times too with just a duck going across. So if
Speaker 1: you see it goes, that's me too because of the shirt.
Speaker 1: Did they get so mad when you do that? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And then you get the team bruns and they're like, yes,
Speaker 1: do it again. I love it. I love that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: like I said, thirty years later, it's still it's still there.
Speaker 1: And my husband was laughing at me. When I came
Speaker 1: out to tell him what I was doing. He just
Speaker 1: shakes his head. It was like the first time I
Speaker 1: met him, well the first the first time he came
Speaker 1: to my house. I had gone on a cruise. I
Speaker 1: was going on a cruise and one of the themes
Speaker 1: was Nineties Night on the Cruise. So I was like,
Speaker 1: it's the nineties. I have to do not oh to
Speaker 1: it all. And I made a life size codbood cut
Speaker 1: out of Dylan and I addressed as Brenda. I had
Speaker 1: the men shirt with the tie and the whole the
Speaker 1: whole thing. And the first time my husband, my now husband,
Speaker 1: came to my house, I had to cut out cut
Speaker 1: out in my bed. Oh my god. Was he like,
Speaker 1: wait was happening? He stayed and he married me, so him, Wait,
Speaker 1: I have to know when he first went out with him,
Speaker 1: where you like, was that important to you? Where you're like,
Speaker 1: are you a fan of nine or two? It was
Speaker 1: funny like when we first sent out, we were, you know,
Speaker 1: talking or whatever, like, well, we're just having drinks and
Speaker 1: something came up. I had mentioned the cutout because I
Speaker 1: knew it was at my house, and you know, as
Speaker 1: I'm driving down you know, in Boston with Luke Perry
Speaker 1: like in the window, people driving like, what the hell
Speaker 1: is that? And so I told him and he's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was always I was always for Brenda. I'm like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: it's kind of menta what if he had said to
Speaker 1: you at the time, Oh yeah, I never saw that show.
Speaker 1: But if he said I'm team Kelly, Yeah, I've been
Speaker 1: okay with it. Okay, Um, you seem pretty level headed
Speaker 1: about it. Yeah. He even said to me in the house,
Speaker 1: He's like, we can have a nine O two and
Speaker 1: O off right now it's like, no, you can't beat
Speaker 1: oh gosh, but yeah, so all these years, it's still there.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what Jen and I say when we're
Speaker 1: like we can tell a super fan in the eyes
Speaker 1: because we were like, oh I was a fan of
Speaker 1: that show. We're like we look into their eyes like, no, listen.
Speaker 1: Super confident in her, like she she doesn't need to
Speaker 1: prove it to anyone. I can tell, like she's like,
Speaker 1: this is what we mean. Yeah, yeah, it's it's there.
Speaker 1: And anybody who knows me, like knows, you know when
Speaker 1: I told people I was doing this, So like I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised whatsoever. We're hanging out like it's it's normal,
Speaker 1: of course. But I love it. I love the podcast.
Speaker 1: I listen first thing every Monday morning, like just and
Speaker 1: I'm you know when you guys announced like for the
Speaker 1: live when you did the first time, um like last year,
Speaker 1: I was like buying the tickets right away, and you know,
Speaker 1: anything that you guys do, I'm always right there on
Speaker 1: top of it. And you know, Sugarman, I love her
Speaker 1: because she's just a podcast too, and I listened to
Speaker 1: her and we're always the two things that we don't
Speaker 1: agree on is team Kelly and then Christopher on Gilmo girls.
Speaker 1: Now we agree on that. I was going to ask
Speaker 1: you that because sugarman gets a lot of grief. So yeah, right.
Speaker 1: She used to hear that too. Yep, No, I love her.
Speaker 1: When she emailed me, I I sent it back to
Speaker 1: her that I loved her on there and you know,
Speaker 1: my my cousin growing up. We're the best friends forever.
Speaker 1: She was always Kelly and I was always randomly all right,
Speaker 1: I still love you, but you know, but actually she
Speaker 1: was more Donna. She loved Donna and David and I
Speaker 1: used to have potties at your food have food, and
Speaker 1: you know, for any big events when uh the college
Speaker 1: graduation and you know, the wedding Dylan Brenda her and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, uh Brandon and Kelly's wedding. Um, you know
Speaker 1: I had everybody over the house like a food and
Speaker 1: cake and oh yeah I had I had events. I
Speaker 1: want to come. You can come. Absolutely. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: you're the best. Most we appreciate you. You have no
Speaker 1: idea how much. No, and I love you, guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: like I said, it's I've followed both of your is
Speaker 1: this whole time from everything that you've ever been in
Speaker 1: in movies and as I have with you know, all
Speaker 1: the cast too. But you guys are awesome. And the
Speaker 1: couple times that I got to meet you and be
Speaker 1: in your presence, it was like made me love you
Speaker 1: guys even more. It's like, how is that possible? But
Speaker 1: it's true. So you guys are awesome. So I love
Speaker 1: the podcast. We'll keep listening in. Well, I'm sure we'll
Speaker 1: see you again our paths across. I will be around
Speaker 1: And if you ever need a Brenda representative somewhere anything.
Speaker 1: You know, my puppies color, I just gotta that's not
Speaker 1: a puppy. That's a big dog. He's only one eighty pounds.
Speaker 1: All right, you stopped shart, there you go. Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: eighty pounds. So he's a puppy, but he doesn't realize
Speaker 1: he's a puppy. Well, thank you Melissa. Great seeing you
Speaker 1: guys so much. Love you love you guys to bye bye.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. I love her. We I knew her.
Speaker 1: I knew I knew her from I know. She looks
Speaker 1: so familiar. At first, I was like, is that a
Speaker 1: Brenda wig? Like? She has such good like hair, that's
Speaker 1: she and it looks just like Brenda's. Yeah, okay, exact
Speaker 1: same thing. I'm a little upset that no one came
Speaker 1: on and just like I was, like, I'm mad, I
Speaker 1: hate you Kelly, Like you guys chose Team Kelly too much.
Speaker 1: I'm mad listening to this podcast. Nobody did it. They
Speaker 1: were also maybe maybe next time. So if you're out
Speaker 1: there and we know you are mad, you know that
Speaker 1: Amy Sugarman is fully team Brenda and the Team Kelly.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, how did I say that? If you
Speaker 1: were mad, that Amy Sugarman, our co host and producer,
Speaker 1: is fully team Kelly and is not afraid to say it. Um,
Speaker 1: come on the show and tell us you're mad, and
Speaker 1: you know if we lie, you've been a little it
Speaker 1: like more Team Brenda lately Kelly. So, but you're not
Speaker 1: gonna hurt our feelings. We understand. This was a TV
Speaker 1: show that we acted in. This was fun. We're going
Speaker 1: to do this again, we promise you. Um. We hope
Speaker 1: that you guys loved hearing from the fans too as
Speaker 1: much as we did. Definitely, So this was our special
Speaker 1: episode brought to you by nerd Tech. Uh. Team Brenda
Speaker 1: versus team Kelly, so thank you