April 8, 2022 • 60 mins
Drama Queens LIVE!! Catch up ICYMI. Special guest Bryan Greenberg reminisces on playing every-girl’s-crush Jake Jagelski.
Then, Sophia’s CBS hit “Good Sam” costar, Skye P. Marshall, pops in to celebrate your favorite BFF’s on screen together for the first time in 15 years!
Cocktail love from Johnnie Walker, Fan Questions and all the details about how FUN it was on set with the #GoodSamFam!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
First of all, you don't know me. Were all about
that high school drama, Girl Drama, Girl, all about them
high school queens. We'll take you for a ride in
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Queens Drama, Queen's Drama Drawn M Queen's Drama Queens. Here
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we Live. I think we're love you guys. Are we
doing happening? We're love? Man. Hey, thanks for joining us
for our second John M. Queens Live event. You guys. Um,
I'm just like looking at my phone here. We have
so many people joining us today, so stoked, so like excited,
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a big big deals us. Let's talk about it. It's
coming back and it keeps coming back accidentally, like the
fact that our New York Times article came out on
the three when we were on the set of Good
Sam filming, and we none of us knew it was
coming out that day. We just like suddenly are starting
up weird text. It was so wild and we were like, wow,
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wasn't it crazy that we're together on the first twenty
three of the year. And then an hour later our
article came out and we were like, what's happening? And
then they announced our episode was airing today and we
were like, on my treeting there really which is a
double whammy because it's three twenty three, so we've got
both boys basketball jerseys covered here, um, and our fan
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base has been so cool, like we've seen like twenty
three tattoos on people and they're the ones that give
us a big heads up whenever anything twenty three is happening.
I should get a twenty three tattoo at this point, right,
are you gonna do it? I feel like we need
some kind of a tattoo, you guys, we do. Did
we ever get fan art for the idea? Were we
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talking about this on the show? Yes, guys, yeah, anyone
who's with us tonight. We love seeing your art and
the drawings that you've made. I mean, send us ideas
for tattoos we might join. Are people disappointed when they
find out you don't really have the twenty three tattoos.
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I've definitely had some fans to be like, I want
to see it. I'm like, first of all, I'm not
gonna put my pants out for you, but second of all,
but you got first at least, but second of all, no,
I I don't I didn't actually get that tattoo, But
I don't know. Maybe it might be fun. Maybe I'll
get one somewhere, little three on my shoulder or something.
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It feels like it's about time. Well, we just surpass
this like major major milestone with our podcast, Little engine
that could you want to walk us through with? Sophia
wanted to tell us what we've won again, We're paying attention.
The signs are coming for us. Um just was it
last week or the week before? Now? Time literally as
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this episode is area. Yeah, we we got the news
that we crossed twenty three million worlds of drama queens. Ye,
my daughter embarrassed when I do that, Mom, I used
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to do that's my mom? What I mean? What do
we what do we want? But seriously, like all of
this lining up to have twenty three million people listening
to our podcast, we were marveling when the what is
it called the list I guess for like most popular
podcasts in the top five it's US and then four
true crime shows and we were nostalgia into the murder room.
(03:58):
We like it sometimes, I like our show is like
true crime going on that we're just crimes of the players,
true crime and romantic comedy at the same time in
the later season. It's a genre. There's a genre there. Hey, Hillary,
will you talk a bit about the charity that we
are sponsoring tonight, because I know that you have a
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lot of experience being from you said, you're from a
Chapter one high school, and you know, having the experience
of kids being uh not unable to play sports because
of finances, so I know you have experienced. Well, this
was actually Joy's idea. She brought this to the table
and we all jumped on it because high school sports
is such a big part of one Tree Hills narrative.
You know, we spent so much time in that jam
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and supporting real high school kids is important to us.
So Good Sports is our charity partner tonight. They drive
equitable access in youth sports and physical activity by supporting
children in high need communities to achieve their greatest potential
on the field and in life, because we know that
they're connected. The benefits of sports and physical activity in
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a child's life are very well documented, and Good Sports
exist to make sure cost does not keep kids on
the bench. So, like Joyce said, I went to a
title one high school. We leveled the playing field by
getting lots of donations for them through my charity, UM
High School Forever that we raised winning for Park Few
High School and all of a sudden, you guys, once
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we gave them money, my kids are winning everything. Really,
this is awesome, school Lady Patriots are killing it. Um. Yeah,
it's it's a good feeling to be able to level
the playing field. So thank you guys at home for
helping us do that tonight. Yeah, so many young people
don't have a talent gap, they have a resource gap.
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And where we can fill that gap, and the three
of us can take a legacy of a show that
was about you know, small town kids playing for their
home team and do something for kids around the country.
It's really really meeting full. So you know, we're probably
gonna thank you all for being here a lot tonight.
Thank you for helping us use this community and like
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this fierce amount of love we have for each other
to raise funds for people who need it. It's really
meaningful to usk that this that this fam has been
able to turn into a positive force in the world.
So thank you. Absolutely should we toast to that should
we we should we have something special to toast with. Um. Thanks,
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friends at home, if you have some whiskey, especially if
you have some Johnny Walker or Jane Oh, I have
a display back here with a crown. Um, I'm gonna
lead us through a little uh adventure, a little cocktail.
It's gonna be like those YouTube unboxing video unboxing video
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from Blue Nile, by the way, that that's what you Okay,
we're guys. Can I also just tell you a funny.
So I'm working on my show in Canada and you
can hear Jason Isaacs and plays. My father is screaming
with the rest of my cast in the other room
because we're gathered to watch this. They're watching us on
a laptop downstairs. Our friends at Johnny Walker sent us
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Black Label to say congrats on twenty three million views.
You guys got the cocktail, kids, all I got was
the whiskey because customs wouldn't let me have the rest.
But it wouldn't see the best part. Can't send fruit
across an international border. So yeah, that's weird. I'm just
gonna have you, okay, so listen, It's just an ounce
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and a half. Okay, get your highball glass. Anybody had
almost got a highball glass. Give me some ice, okay,
you know, like I brought up plastic three four, you
know the ice there. Okay, a little bit of ice. Alright,
we're gonna do an ounce and a half. Here we go.
I can't pour and hold it up in front of
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here we go. Looks, that's the big end of the
little end. The big end is two ounces. So fill
either the big end up a little less or the
second the small end up a time and a half.
We're still the big end up all the way. It's
late where we are, Joy, it's not a clock where
we are a baby. Um all right, so yeah, next
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is here. We got get some guava. I want that.
Guava is known to have benefits for your skin. Oh
oh my gosh. Shoot uh, guys, I just so sorry.
It's just spilled everywhere my parents house. That's why they're
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your friends. Joy, they're using anyway, we're tapping this off. Okay,
guava juice. I have sparkling water. Appropriately it's Canada dry,
so I'm gonna make um. That's actually really good. I
would not have expected to put those two together and
enjoyed it. But it's really good. I'm so sorry. John M.
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Queen's nice guys, hi friends and his wife Flaora's house
and the cheers to you guys thinks are girl? Oh yeah, pleasure.
I'm sorry. It's fine, but maybe just really likes this
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is very haly of you right now to just like
and you know what, the last time we were together,
you made such an elegant cocktail. God doesn't give with
both hands. If you do a really great thing, then
you have to be a mess just to balance the university.
It feels right. Okay, what are we cheersing to? What's
happened over the course of the last twenty three million
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downloads that we want to cheers to and want you
We have learned so much about each other and from
each other and about ourselves through this experience. I'm so
proud to be your friends. I'm so proud of all
of our fans for going on this journey with us,
with the ups and downs. I hope you guys all
stick with us. We are nowhere near done. Just hang on.
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I love it. Yes, Okay, we have someone that a
lot of the fans want to talk about. Maybe they
want to talk to this person. What do you think
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should we should we bring our friend in? Our friend?
That was me, that was my drunk winking Okay, bring
the mad ladies into my God, Ryan Greenberg, why are
you so handsome? Girl? Oh my gosh, you're better looking
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now than you were then, if that's possible. Moored, Yeah,
where are you? I'm in l A. I'm home. Really?
Whose dog is that? This is my friend's dog. This
is Lyla the dog. She always wants to be where
the action is. I got a cold. My daughter had
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a cold, and then she was like, well me, can
I sleep in your bed? Yeah? That's about now. Why
do you look well? Arrested, Brian? You're not exausted. I
have twins. I'm not sleeping. It's good though, let's get
into that. I mean we Uh, why didn't I what's
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going on here? Why? What's going on? We're gonna We're
gonna fix that. I'm wanna be home in a week
and I'm personally going to deliver a bottle of whiskey
right now. Wouldn't even I'm so game to do it. Um,
look on over you day on this freaking show and
now your dad in real life. It's crazy. You were
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surprisingly good at it though, like in our early twenties,
what was your baby experience up until our show? My
baby experience until I had kids was only playing Jake
on What Your Hill? No, yeah, I don't. I don't.
Like my sister doesn't have any kids. I just around kids.
And you were so natural just with baby Jenny. You
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were so natural with her. Well let's let the audience
know there were like four Baby Jenny's so when we
come in. But the guitar thing really helped, Like that
was they that would relax them. And now I do
that with my kids too. It's kind of you do
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what you say. Yes, at least it's finally no one
song still repeat. Um, I don't know, explain what right?
And mostly my stuff that's the only things I can remember. Okay,
so talk to us a little bit about when we
first started doing the show. Wow, okay, you get the
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message you've got to play basketball? Um? Right? Did you play?
I thought I could play? And uh, I mean I
played like pick up and stuff, and I was like, yeah,
I played basketball, like I could shoot around, I know
how to dribble a ball, but like that's as close
to playing real basketball is I'll ever get. Uh, and
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once I got to like once Your Hill and they
were doing practices and I was like, James was dunking.
I was way out of my league, but you know
was it was. It also a little intimidating for them
to be like, hey, go play basketball with all these
people who do it every day, and you're going to
be the guy who plays in Chuck Taylor's right, you
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play in converse. I can't remember if that was my
idea or marsh idea, I can't remember, but I think
there was just something like there was like an old
soul to Jake and and you know he was like
he was at you know, yeah, he was like a throwback.
Do you regret that decision later? Oh? Yeah? That hurt. Yeah,
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because we had really long I mean we've talked about
this on our show. We had the basketball days were
the most brutal because they were just epic. Everyone was
there all day long. You never knew when you were needed.
You were always like on what do you remember about
shooting those basketball days? Like I said, that's as close
as I'm gonna ever get to playing real sports. So
it was really fun for me because I got to
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look good and they drew place for us. Um. I
do remember one time I was doing it. We were
doing a play and I remember Chad like I was
supposed to like get out of the way, and I
think he forgot and I like came down on him
and I broke I broke a I remember, who's rid
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my rib? I think I came down on him like
he was supposed to move, but he didn't move. It
was like a little mix up that happens. But I
was like, I remember that vividly. Um, but how long
does it take to heal from a broken rib? As?
You can't? You just gotta you just gotta let it heal.
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There's nothing you can do about it. So that soulful
like Jake squinteen was just Greenberg like in pain, like
he focusing. Um, But no, I mean that was probably
I played it so much basketball because we all became friends,
like all the guys on the team, and we'd all
play outside of shooting and stuff, so like we do
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practices NonStop, and I mean it wasn't That's all we
did down there was played basketball and shoot the show.
What were you laying high school? For real? Like? Who
who was Brian Greenberg class of What were you class
A nineties seven. Yeah, I was the guy who was
kind of like I didn't have a crew or a click.
I could kind of be with anybody. I had a
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lot of friends, but I didn't have like my own click.
Like I was in theater, I'd like I played the cross.
Um you know, yeah, big public school in San Louis
Parkway Central. Shout out, um, shout out our high schools
on this one, shout out. So wait, you did theater
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in high school? Were you like a musical boy? Did
you do Greece? I feel like everybody were you naked
or were you? Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah yeah? And then
I did Oklahoma? Oh my god. Yeah. I mean you
do musicals in high school because most are the only
plays that you do in high school, so you just
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kind of do it by the fault. But theater, nerd,
did you fall in love with all your co stars?
And because theater is like such an intense on top
of each other experience, I would always fall in love
with my coasts and then you know it's like over
three months later, like what did did you have that
experience just with you three? Oh my god, Bryan Greenberg,
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you are such a flirt and I can't stand you.
Um well, here's the deal. I catch so much on
the internet because all I do is rape about Jake
and Peyton. I'm like, I, guys, I blush. I can't even.
Like we watched these scenes back and you're so smooth
and you're so good at it, and we're all just
like dorky giddy girls, and the fans were like, Okay, Hillary,
(17:38):
that's enough. I'm gonna make a confession that I actually
haven't gone back and watched any of these episodes, so
it feels like such a long time ago. But what
I do remember is like we had crazy good chemistry,
right see um it. You know, we all remember the show,
(17:59):
but not the episode specifically, and when the three of
us have gone back a lot, like I feel like
in every video where there's a payment Jake scene, I'm
just like this. I'm like, I can't even. I can't.
I'm so red. My face is sweating. It's I didn't.
We're also like what this is? Cleol, Like I remember
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we think I went forward. I was like shirt Saw,
I was like, what is this? You were older? You
were older than us, which is probably why you played,
you know, such a mature high schooler. But did you
feel like when you came in, um, did you feel
like you were kind of on the same level or
did you feel like you you were watching um, you know,
(18:43):
kind of all like no, no, I mean like eure
up here with your talent and you understanding you guys.
I felt like, oh, you're all serious regulars and I'm
just kind of here guest starring. I'm not really sure
where I fit in. But you guys were so cool
and you to here's so humble and sweet. My other job,
(19:04):
Clooney were something, how's that going for you? They're cool, Well,
you're making a movie with Meryl Streep and great, it's
so weird. It leveled jumps so quick, right Like I
was like trying to be a series regular on One
Tree Hill. I was dying to be a series regular
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and like for the first season, and they were kind
of like, I don't know, maybe there's a big cast
and just get in line, all right. Well, I really
loved the show and I loved the role and um,
and then I got this other thing called Unscripted, which
is an HBO show with George Clooney and uh, and
I was like, I want to take this and then
(19:45):
I was like, well, well now we want you. And
I was like, well it's not that works. But I
was like too late, you know so, But but we
worked it out so we could I could keep coming back.
And I know even after I did Prime, I'd like
I kept coming back and kept coming back, like seasons.
I think, what do you think made you want to
keep coming back? I just I mean the show, like
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it was a really special show those first I only
know the early one three Hill Like, I don't know
what happened later on um because there's like a whole
cast of characters that I never have never even met.
But I just felt like we had something special. And
I love the character and I love working with all
of you, and I don't know, I just felt like
we were onto something. I didn't want to let it go.
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And it was such a cool, like a rich character
that I love playing. In the fans we're really responded
to it too, so I wanted to give them, you know,
a full arc. They did. And you always had such
a maturity about you anyway, I think that's what I mean,
Like we were all sort of fumbling around as young kids,
and you felt there was something about you that felt
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like mature and like you had seen more than we
had seen in life, and like, I don't know, did
you do you remember graduated college? Brian? I knew I
had been on a few sets. Well maybe I did
a movie before. That was kind of like why I
had like the seniority or the experience, but I didn't
do I was never on like a real show. That
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was like I think my first recurring character. So I
mean I was just you guys, like I didn't know what.
We had fun though, I mean we got to do
fun outside of the show too, Like there was a
period where MTV had you and I host a Valentine's
Day special because like Peyton and Jake were like hot
and heavy at the time, and I was like, I
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feel like I got photo booth pictures to say, I
had that on my fridge for like years. The photo
you did, Yeah, I don't know where they are. Those
We had to have fun. And then Brian had this
pack of buddies from n y U and anytime we
all had to go do press in New York, I
was like yo yo, and I just used him to like, yeah,
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we wanted a lot. Actually during those days, you had
fun friends there still fun. Actually they're not funny now, Brian,
We're not fun anymore. It's a memory. What's your favorite
memory of just like hanging out in Wilmington's what was Yeah,
that's what I want to know. What are your favorite places? Oh, man,
I don't know. I remember going to that Dixie Diner
(22:19):
a lot back. Yeah. Yeah, then yeah, I remember everyone.
You bought a house and you gave me a tour
of it for the first time, and I just remember
so much taxidermy. Oh yeah, really dark well paint and
(22:43):
so much I got you. Oh my god. Joy just
bought me a book on taxidermy called Creepy Taxidermy, and
my kids are Um, you guys, I go through phases.
I was in dark You're not still in the taxidermy phase. No,
I mean I still have all of it and more. Um.
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I just have like two kids in the house, so
I try not to creep him out. Um. We told
my story on the podcast, Bryan about you leaving your
guitar at my house away for the time being like
what the this and coming in out of town and
I didn't want to travel with the guitar and I
(23:23):
was like kind of yeah, and you were the dude
everybody's boyfriend hated you because they were like this dude
coming in singing the songs, being cool, your boyfriend who
was part on the crew as well. Yeah, yeah, it
was around we had to do those love making scenes. Yeah,
that was one for everyone that was awkward. That the
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worst was always there was no Hillary was right. You
were the guy who all the other guys were really
mad about, and like what you were saying earlier that
we all don't know. We responded to your calm and
you're cool, and even if it was one movie, you
really seemed like you knew what you were doing in
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the industry, and we were all like a little fumbling.
Like every time you would like tell one of us
we've done a good job on something, we'd be like
Brian said, I do a good job. Yeah, growing I
feel like I feel like I've figured something out, And
all the other guys in the room were just like,
shut up, we're not. We still haven't. I think like you,
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you were all stuck in this bubble of being series regulars,
and I had I could come in and give some
perspective because I would pop in and pop out like
I was never there for too long, and so I
kind of came in and I got to like change
up the energy a little bit and just like you know,
just kind of clean the palette a little bit, and
then i'd be out um when I come back from
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my guitar. But I don't know memories. We just remember
we all hung out all the time. It was so
much fun. How many anythings did you do? Uh? I
remember I did? I think on Off for the first
three seasons, and I didn't do the pilot like I
came in the second episode. Yeah, we talked about all
the time, how your real life lucas introspect, you know,
(25:18):
just like introspective and like you know, problems over where
are you coming and going and coming and going? Was
that you were actually playing music like you started playing
music on the show the season two or season three.
You can't remember what we were doing those shows together.
We would go on tour and we played a show together.
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That was a highlight for me. Just doing all those
concerts and let Us Brian Us two were blues and
all that stuff and was so much fun. Did we
never did a song together? Did we? I don't know
if we did. I mean I remember going to see
you perform Cafe that but that was just your show. Yeah,
(26:00):
and I think we did a House of Blues gig.
It's never too late hey you. In fact, it's exactly
that voice back. Let's talk right, it's coming back. Why
are you still performing? What's going on? COVID kind of
(26:22):
made concerts a weird thing, but I haven't. Yeah, since COVID,
I haven't. I did like some online stuff, but I
haven't really been playing stuff from my kids. I've been
working more on you know, writing, and I'm you know,
I have been you know, acting, and I'm about to
direct the movie that I wrote, which I'm really excait.
Is about energy is like going towards that. Yeah, it's
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hard to do, and music does take a lot out
of you. And me had seasons where I'm writing furiously,
and then I'll go for like a two or three
year stretch where I'm not writing anything musically because all
my creative energy is focused on a story or some
other project that I'm doing. It's just because a song
will I mean, I don't know how you write, but
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for me, a song will live with I'll start it
and it lives with me for like a week, two
weeks three weeks, I can kind of piece it all
the other You're walking or whatever, I mean, what do
you do? Every song is different, but I remember, like someday,
for example, I remember I Was I Was, which was
on the show UM featured on the show. I remember
(27:27):
I went to New York to do some press for something,
and the producer for Once Your Hill was like, you
have to shoot the next day. You have to fly
back in. And there was a huge snowstorm in New
York and I couldn't come back in, and so he's like,
you gotta drive. I'm like, I'm not dying. I'm not
dying for the show, but I mean I'll try. I'll
do whatever I can. I like the show theren But
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so I took a train and I had like a
fifteen hour train ride from from New York to UH
to Raleigh actually, and I just remember writing it on
that train, just seeing you know, the state's go blind.
It sounds so clear, and I just kind of started
writing it and I had the song in my head
when I got to the hotel, and like it all
came out. UM. I vividly remember that. I still think
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that's one of the better songs I've ever written, and
I remember that the process that vividly. I felt so cool.
But yeah, I don't know. I just feel like I
only have so much creative energy and I right now
I just kind of put it in a different place.
But I still love music. It's still there and it's
a huge party. Father was a new parent though, too.
(28:31):
I mean that the Lions share. George just turned four,
and I just feel like I'm sort of getting like together.
I'm like a four year, four year gap. My man,
it's gonna be so You're gonna have gray hair like
me in four years. Right now whatever? Right now, you
(28:51):
still look exactly like you did fifteen years ago. I
had two different looks, like that was the first season
like hair bangs, Oh the bangs. We all had puka
shells in season one with your jeans, and so did we. Honestly,
(29:14):
I'm calling myself out here too. It's like it's all
coming back to that, Hey made your wife is such
a good sport. Um she Jamie is an amazing actress
in her own right and has like a brilliant career.
And I have always appreciated that she's a fellow MTV girl.
You know, she probably hears about Jake jagel Ski more
(29:36):
than she wants to. Um, I don't like hearing about
my husband. She like, I don't hear about Denny. Is
she a good sport about it? Is? She like? But
she's also kind of like what like shes At some point,
I think she's gonna watch it because she's just heard
about it so much and people it's it's the craziest
thing that I've done a lot of work, but this
show is it has an audience like no other, And
(29:58):
it doesn't matter where are we going the world. That
could be in Brazil and France wherever. Like people are
coming up and then saying Jake, Jake Elsie and she's
just never seen it. And I think one of these
days was just gonna cave and I watch it. Do
you have anywhere else here? I haven't seen it since
it aired. Oh yeah, you guys should watch it together
(30:20):
some distance from it too, So I think it's just
interesting to watch. That's why we started this podcast. Man.
We were like, why is it so special? And the
first episode we watched together, we were all bawling. By
the end. We were like, oh no, you've all working
on a bunch of stuff like why do you think
this show connects with an audience so much all these
(30:42):
years later, Because it's the thing that airs when you're
forming your identity. I think we all identify with things
we watched when we were teenagers or young adults, because
you're formulating your identity at the same time, these characters
are also being formulated, and there's a bond there, you know.
I don't connect with characters now as a grown up.
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I'm like Nietz, you know. But that thing that you
watch when you're like malleable is important. I think there's
also something to it, you know. I think Joy you
might have been the first person who said this, Like
there was no fantasy, There was no like gimmick, No
one's a superhero, no one's a vampire, no one's awarewolf.
We all like those movies, but it was like kind
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of the last best place to go to just see
groups of friends trying to figure out how to be
good humans, pre social media, pre iPhone, you know, like
just a group of kids trying to find their posts
in the world. And that's a universal truth. And so
I think despite having since yeah, and despite the premiered
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so long ago, still ring so true when you tune
in and you watch, you go like, oh yeah, that
that's telling the truth to me. Well, I think it's interesting,
is you know, we're seeing a whole second generation discovering
it now. Like now it's like it's crazy how it's
got a whole other life. Yeah. I think it's like
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ironic to them in the same way, you know what
I mean, not really watching it like enthusiastically, they're like
just watching but it may have started that way, but
there's no denying that you fall in love with these characters.
So even if it's like, oh, this will be cool
and retro to watch, the fact is there's nothing like
it on television right now for teenagers. Everything is high
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genre driven and to be able to give teenagers a
safe space. Might I have a little brother who's twenty,
and he texted me the other day, what were the nineties? Like,
what was it like in the late nineties? Wow? So
before so also life like before a cell phone, you know. Yeah,
(32:57):
and it's it's it's cool that they're interest it in
that because it was a very different time. Yeah. Yeah.
Where would where would Jake Jakalski be right now? Babe? Like,
what's Jake? What what hasn't been up to the road,
do you think, well, because now, yeah, he's probably like
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maybe he's um, maybe he's like what Verry was like.
He maybe he's like the new coach, like the new
the new gratchy coach, drinking real heavily. That's what he
wants to be too. So I would be really into
a sports team run by skills in Jake JASKI gotta
be honest good Yeah, yeah, I mean like rival rival
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teams that were going at it that could be good.
I don't know, what do you think. I have no idea,
like Jake could be or he could be you know,
Jack Dorsey. I mean he's like you don't he's so
he's so random. You know, he is so random because
I completely forgot about the storyline down the road where
like Jake gets arrested and goes to jail. What guys,
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it's coming. Was like pounding on the glass. You and
I had our hands up on the glass each other. Yeah,
it was what you say. It was all to protect Jenny. Yeah, okay, yeah, right.
(34:33):
You know you were mentioning that there's fans all over
the world of this show. No matter where you go,
people recognize you. Are there any specific fan encounters that
you remember that we're like either really meaningful or really
crazy or I don't know, what's just like, I mean,
it happens a lot with this show. Um as. I'm
sure you guys all know, but um, I mean I
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was in Paris last year, by the way, it's huge
in France. Me. Yeah, more interested in front of um
I know. Um but like suddenly came up to me
and they're like like, oh, you play basketball And I'm
like what, And I'm like, yeah, I mean I have
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in the past. I don't like yeah, but with Scott's
and I'm like, what you know with the Scots, I
was like, oh yeah, I didn't know that. It was
like it had another name out there. It's like, yeah,
I had no idea what they were saying. So it
took a little while, but um, yeah, it's huge, it's crazy. Yeah,
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what about you. I don't know what we got. We
got reminded today people were talking about being so excited
for this and they posted a bunch of photos from
the last convention that you and I and Hillary brab
Ban the One and Willing to Enjoy You were working,
so you remember you couldn't be there, but people were
posting those photos we all took together and and someone
(36:00):
posted the video of the girls who got engaged that
we helped with Hill the photo for a fan and
the whole thing was a ruse and they were video
cameras going and her girlfriend set it up and we
literally were like holding her up when she almost fainted
from the surprise of being proposed. We were just like,
this is a very intimate special moment for us Mut's
(36:23):
pay pictures. People do they really feel like the show
is like these characters meet so much to them and
you guys, I went to go see Greenberg play in
Vancouver right after I left the show. So I left
the show. I went and I had a secret baby.
Gus was a year old. So One Tree Hill was
(36:44):
still on the air but we weren't on it, and
Jeff was shooting a movie to Vancouver and Greenberg is like, hey,
I'm in town right maybe I saw a flyer and
I was like, are you here? And so I went
to go see Greenberg and all the girls in the
audience are like on the baby with you know. I
(37:07):
had my Gus in like a Bjorn and people were
like it's baby, Jenny. No, but we did go to
lunch the next day and I brought my baby. And
it was so weird for you because you're, like, you
really have a baby, like we worked with the baby
you were young. I didn't have a baby until ten
twelve years after that, so that was blowing my mind.
I was just not in that that headspace. Yeah, well,
(37:29):
now you've got he's like a man, he's shaving up. Yeah, kids,
got a mustache. It's crazy. Is there anything that's been
really surprising for you about parenthood. I mean, I know
they're I know they're really little. Still, I guess what
I was surprised most by was, um, just how many
people in your life step up and like how people
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say it takes a village, and I didn't really you
hear that, but I didn't really realize until we needed
the help, and so many of our friends and family
we have stepped up and gotten on planes and then
showed up and there. Because two at the same time
when you don't know what you're doing is intense. So
I guess I'm just it's deep in my appreciation and
my love for my support system. Yeah, yeah, that's great. Yeah,
(38:21):
um all right, Well, you're directing a movie. Yeah, you're
dadding it up. Um, start that in May, I think, really,
all right, where are you guys going to shoot it?
Probably Rhode Island, Yeah, probably after two weeks prep. And
it's my first time directing. So it's the drama. It's
(38:41):
called Junction. Um, so it's gonna be an intense but
I love indies. It's gonna be an intense intense you
for like a month and a half and then yeah,
I'll be editing all summer. But I don't know. I've
been working. I just finished a really cool movie with
Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy called You People. That's coming
out on Netflix. Casual. Yeah, there you go, special Drop.
(39:06):
We love him. He's so just easy and cool cool. Hey,
well I was chilling during COVID, so that came out
of nowhere. I was like, Okay, that's that's awesome. Um.
So it's nice that you deserve it. You deserve all
of it. You're so talented and so he worked with
such a constant professional and so fun And I'm just
so bad for all the success that comes your way,
(39:28):
and I don't want to I want to find something
else for all of us to work on together. Yes,
I was just gonna say it. Everything is real sparkly
when we're together. Guys, make sure just make sure you
bring your guitar. You can leave it at my house, Brian,
no one about it. Got to start leaving stuff in
your house. Now. I'm just gonna leave this about whiskey. Yeah,
(39:56):
we Hey, will you come on the regular podcast in
season three when Jake and Peyton are in Savannah? So
how's it work with watching the episode we talk about it?
Oh yeah, I'm gonna make you sit down you're watching it? Yeah,
it's so good you would talk with you honestly, like,
(40:17):
I've missed your face. Man, I love all of you
so much. Really, congrats on the success of this and
your show, Sophia, I know you guys draw that's so
cool face. I love you. Um, alright, so we're gonna
see you soon. Then it's aty fantastic all right, tell
the family we said, Hibs, I love him so much?
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Is that the quietest I've ever been during an interview?
I just sat like this. I think it was. I
think it was. Also, why is your lighting amazing? You're
like in a basement to find the best lighting no
matter where you go. I was gonna say that about yours.
I feel like I look like I'm being interrogated by
the police. It's like, I'm so mad. Guys. We ordered
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these cute me on, you know, trick lightning bolts, and
I was so excited to get off work in time
to do this that I ran out of the van.
And now sweet Doug, who drives me to work as
a lightning bolt in his van, it's supposed to be
right here. I can't do it. There goes What's cool
is seen throughout the course of like twenty three million
(41:38):
downloads and all the fan interactions, is seen them to
their drama queens rooms and like put their crowns out
and their lightning bolts out, and it kind of made
us a little bit like, you know, we had we
had a little bit of envy. We were like, well,
I want to pick me on, Like I want to
hear more of what the fans have to say, because
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they've been been sending it a lot of questions and
comments and I can't wait to hear. Oh, we have
one already. Well, while we answer these, I'm gonna make
another drink. But item from set with each of us. Oh,
did we wish we took we took what item from set? Um?
(42:21):
From this set? You know, Sophia and I have spoken
at length about that red vintage couch that was in
Karen's cafe. It was a really good It was a
curved couch in the corner front window. It's beautiful. Yeah,
I wish we had that. The cut out of the
(42:45):
toe the Wetsprocket song, what what what are you talking about?
What are you talking about? What are you talking about?
Everything is better and everything is safe? That's what? Did
(43:11):
you think it was wrong? I know it was a
song I but I didn't think it was for that band.
Somebody told me this is the place everything's better and
everything's saying. Yeah, it's called walk on the Ocean. I
think you want not think they sang that because I
(43:32):
heard did you cover it? Who covered it? Because I
just felt like, I just feel like that's our song.
I wish I took that. Hillary, we have another question.
But tell us what you what would you have taken?
You know what? I'm mad I didn't take. In later seasons,
they got a really cool old black pickup truck for
Julian for my husband's character. Most of blue Gie taking
(43:55):
cars and taking it. I mean, I like you have
the comment and I want that truck. I'm mad about it.
Next question, Rebecca, Oh, this is sweet. If you had
a yearbook for yourself right now, what would your senior
quote be? I mean, apparently it would be from a
toad Weets Rocket song. Have we been saying that quote
(44:21):
and writing that quote? And I had zero idea, no idea,
no clue. Oh guys, okay, Um, my senior quote is
I mean come to you? Okay. So here's the deal.
I was kind of told my senior year in high
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school because I was just ready to get out of
Virginia and go to New York, and I had a
little bit of a chip on my shoulder about certain
things in my small town. And I won the Senior
superlative most Dramatic, and my quote in like this little
senior like book it that comes out was if you
thought I liked you in high school, I was only acting.
(45:04):
And I cringed about that right now because it's so
bitchy and like so unwarranted, because I really hometown and
I really love all the kids I graduated with, and
I'm like, why, So, what would your quote me, now
then if if this was your senior year, I'm sorry, sorry,
(45:25):
it's Simon Birch. I'm sorry. Yeah. Good. Of all the
houses on the show, such as Brooks, Felix Stands, all
the houses are big. Are those actual houses in Welmington's
and are they actually all that big? Well, Joy and
I lived on the opposite side of the tracks. Haley
(45:46):
and Brooke or Haley and Payton's house are actually right
next door to each other. Um, They're just across there,
like catty corner from each other. And we are actually
over by New Hanover High School, which is another I
want to say, it's another title one school. And so
I liked that chapter one? Why am I thinking chapter one? Probably? Um?
(46:08):
But yeah, so your house was for sure real? Yeah, yeah,
Brooke and Felix's house were next door to each other,
and they were definitely in like a fancy part of town.
They were big homes. And then where Dan's house was
was like the fancy, fancy, fancy fancy that was like
houses and guest houses and like big. I was not
(46:31):
accustomed to anything and seeing anything like that. So yeah,
this kind of small though, I mean, it wasn't like
they were like we had little pockets of every kind
of sort of socioeconomic experience. The one thing I don't
think we really ever showed though, I don't think we
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ever had a family in an apartment, which feels weird
because so many families live in apartments. But I guess
maybe because Wilmington is such a house town, Like the
apartment started getting built there in the later years that
we were filming there weren't really even many apartment buildings
and college kids living there college it was college. Yeah,
I really like this next question, smart, This is a
(47:15):
good one. Well, when you guys had scenes on the phone,
were you actually dogging to someone mike Leone, mike leone
every time, Supervisor. I remember one call when I actually
I think we actually had James on the phone, or
(47:37):
it might have been. And there was another one when
we had Paul, I had Paul reading. We called Paul
and he read someone else's lines for me because it
was like an acting moment and I just needed some
real feedback. Yeah. I definitely feel most of the time
they'll just have yeah the script supervisor read for you,
which is super weird, especially because those people are usually
(47:59):
your friends, but not people on the show, and then
we started to do things like if we were at
work at the same time, if you you know, if
if Hailey had to call Brooke and I was like
in the parent makeup t I'd run in and do
the off camera. We we really started to do that
free truck. It's hard to act with like essentially like
(48:19):
your friend's dad pretending to be Peyton. Like it's weird.
So we we tried. But yeah, sometimes you've got somebody
being like, well, g Brooke and you're like stop it,
I can't you're doing this. Yeah, it's in What ways
(48:39):
do you think Sam is similar different than Brooke Davis?
Do you think they have any similar personality traits? Sam?
That's so sweet? Um, you know, I think they're both
really motivated women who aren't going to let anything in
the world hold them back from achieving in a really um,
(48:59):
you know, competitive landscape and also in like a major way.
I think I think Sam is a little calmer, perhaps
a little more professional than Brooke Davis, but there's she's
feisty in there, like you don't wanna you don't want
to push her, So yeah, I don't know, maybe they
are somewhere. What did you guys, see when you came
to the set, well, listen, Brook Davis was always the boss, always, always,
(49:24):
always the boss, And we didn't really get to see
her go into her thirties, you know, and get like
closer to authority. We saw her in those years where
we all are kind of just testing the waters, and
so a self assured Brooke Davis is every bit as
calm and powerful as Sam. I think that's right. Brook was.
(49:47):
She was always the boss, but not everyone always saw it,
and she was trying. She was young and just kind
of scrappy in a way of like trying to constantly
prove it, and there was there's an elegance and a
settledness to Sam. I have sat here today. This is
what I want you guys. It's our fourth Surama Queen.
(50:14):
Oh my gosh, so beautiful. Dr Lex truly has a
new look. It's actually well her part in the middle today.
But usually we have the exact same time, like you
too can beat the Sophia Rush and Strawberry Um. You guys,
we were really lucky when we came up to to
(50:36):
film Good Sam, because your cast was so so so
welcoming and oh my god, my cheerleading photo. Look at
our cheerleading knees, like all of us got right into formation.
I love the photo. It was like perfect thing. Wells
about your high school experience? Who were you in high school? Sky?
(50:59):
Oh my god, that's so funny that you asked, because
I was literally just downstairs talking to Jason Isaac's about
my high school experience. And I went to high school
in to Lincoln Park High School in Chicago, and anyone
who knows Chicago knows that UM at that time in
Lincoln Park where Lincoln Part High School is. It was
(51:19):
right in the district of the kids of Lincoln Park,
very wealthy, very smart kid majority white, and Cabrini Green,
the roughest projects in Chicago. So that's where I really
learned how to like code switch because my sister was
very much attached to the Cabrini Green crowd, and I
(51:40):
was very much attached to the very smart like I
believe we're gonna go, We're gonna shoot to the sky,
like very ambitious and outgoing, and they were just more
into the things that I was into. But I had
to keep like kind of playing both sides, which is
quite interesting because that was something important to me that
I wanted to do with Dr Lex truly. Yeah, you know,
because wow, I may be able to like be myself
(52:03):
with my friends, I still know like in America, it's
best to just switch over to mainstream and talk a
certain type of way so that the patient can trust
you with their life in your hands. So many people
are preconditioned to like only trust what they know and
like what they're comfortable with, and so if you come
with any kind of energy that's not familiar to them,
(52:26):
it's like, oh, this is bad, this is wrong, this
is you know, uncomfortable. And so I love that your
character is shaking things up. I love that you have
this military background where you're like a beautiful homecoming queen cheerleader.
That's also like I'm really good with funds. Like yeah,
Uncle Sam was my sugar daddy. He bought me all
(52:48):
my books in school. Sure I was into the military,
you know, Honestly, um my dad was a doc he
and my mom was a teacher, and I would hear
them talk about student debt all the time. And like
I share the story with Sophia, Like I thought Sally
(53:08):
May was a real like woman with like a very
beautiful silver silver locks and she made am She made
America Pies every weekend, just the sweet sweet Sally May
like the sweetest woman, and she just want to make
sure you got that education. So she gonna get but
she's gonna have to get that. Sally and I had
this this that was a very I had a very
(53:28):
vivid imagination as a kid. So I thought Sami. I
was like, honey, Sally May, I don't want any relationship
with saving. And she's sound sweet, but I don't want
her money. And and I just kind of grew up
not wanting to have that that umbrella of debt that
just forces these young kids to go straight into the
corporate world to pay off this this dad, when like,
(53:49):
how do we know who we want to be at
seventeen eighteen years old? I didn't decide to act until
I was twenty nine, really, girl, and I did not
have a resident a uh formal training. I had life experience,
and that's what I took in the room. How would
you make preparate myself? You know, I was sitting in
(54:11):
a cubicle for two years in New York, a cubicle
that I worked so hard to get to. You know,
I thought I was gonna have my Cary brash all
life and just like make this money and wear cool
shoes and hang out with Wall Street models and like
that was just gonna be the life. And it wasn't
the life, but it was like totally opposite ends of
the spectrum. It was like I was partying hard and
(54:31):
then back in this just very sterile, neutral cubicle world
that was just sucking the life out of me. But
what I noticed is they would always send me in
two boardrooms to close the deals because I would go
in there because it was a pharmaceutical market, this woman
doing any kind of I would go in there. I'd
be like, so we drugs and wood and these are
(54:51):
like a bunch of like birds and you know, so
like I was just going there and make it fun
and like yeah, So they would always in the end,
but I was like I'm performing, like I'm getting yes
and yeah. And and then after that, everyone just kept
saying to me like are you you never thought about acting?
Like you've never you never, And I'm like, I mean,
(55:13):
of course I've thought about it. I was in dance place,
you know, like, yeah, I was always in dance theater
since I was a kid, and recitals like I was
never afraid of the stage and another version of me
would show up. Um, I knew the who am I?
Based off of where I am and who I'm talking to?
Like the who am I with you ladies isn't the
(55:33):
who am I with my mom? Or the who am
I a cop pulls me over? Or the who am
I in the courtroom or at the club? Right? So
I learned that very early on on. How can it
serve for me? Because at the age of seventeen, I've
had to figure everything out in my life because while
I may have said my dad as a doctor, my
mom's teacher, she hit the fan when I was twelve,
So like, I had to really learn how to figure out, Okay,
(55:54):
how can I how can I not fall into the
whole in the wrap of being somebody's baby mama and
doing nails in Chicago, which was like what I was
surrounded by. So when I went to the military, that's
where it really helped because it taught me how to
process and utilize fear. And then the corporate world taught
me how to market, so I was able to market myself.
(56:16):
I didn't have an agent when I got go Sam.
I haven't had an agent and said, since you, she
goes do yeah, I message, I miss. It's just amazing.
We're getting ready to wrap, so we can send people
to watch whatever. You know. But I want to know
(56:39):
when you were growing up, who were the drama queens
that you looked up to? Who were your drama queen? Here,
Rapid Fire, let's go, Lisa Turtle and Shannon Aerty On Nanatino.
That was that was my dam I was a to
those and I record every episode and because in tapes,
(56:59):
and then my ends and neighborhood would come over and
they would rent episodes and I hadn't had a numbered
from season and season and I were rented out like
Black Buster. I had a library and it was business
and I was making money off and I was amazing.
You guys can go. Everybody out there, you guys can come.
Let's come watch these amazing women as these incredible doctors
(57:21):
come on. And it was so special. I loved working
with you Sky and uh, we're gonna party in New York. Yeah,
oh yeah, were you coming to be with the two
of us? Was so cool? And I remember when you left,
she was like, that's what we're doing, like building these
(57:42):
families and I'm so excited for everyone. Two minutes guys too,
Good Sam episode eight of season one with these two
gorgeous ladies and us and my cast that's downstairs right here. Yeah, okay, listen.
The cast was so so cool. Sophia knew what a
huge crush I had on j and Isaac's geeked out
so quick already knows Sky I get you out so hard.
(58:07):
They took a picture and guy, um no, honestly, please
give all of them great, big, huge hugs for us
because it was so nice to be welcomed into your family.
And we're so excited to, you know, send all our
drama queens fans over to hang out on the on
the medical set of Good Sam. You guys are change
in the world. I can't wait for you all to
(58:28):
see the episode. I think we have. Who did this
little treat come from? Which one of you took this?
We filmed it? I don't remember you filmed. This is
our favorite moment from being on set and I love you.
Thank you for having us you, thank you, thanks for
joining us, everybody, Thanks for joining us. Everybody. We have
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every so often to make a pep talks in the
morning to thank you guys for being the most stellar crew,
and like most tremendous background players that you know, I
get to go rag about outside of here. Um. I
know I've never cried what I've done one of these before.
But the reason I'm so emotional isn't it. My two
best friends came employed with us. This we and these
girls and I grew up together. We started on our
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first show over twenty one We literally have been to
hound and back. They are my family, your family, and
you welcome them with open arms. And it's been yeah,
First of all, you don't know me. Were all about
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we Live. I think we're love you guys. Are we
doing happening? We're love? Man. Hey, thanks for joining us
for our second John M. Queens Live event. You guys. Um,
I'm just like looking at my phone here. We have
so many people joining us today, so stoked, so like excited,
(00:59):
a big big deals us. Let's talk about it. It's
coming back and it keeps coming back accidentally, like the
fact that our New York Times article came out on
the three when we were on the set of Good
Sam filming, and we none of us knew it was
coming out that day. We just like suddenly are starting
up weird text. It was so wild and we were like, wow,
(01:20):
wasn't it crazy that we're together on the first twenty
three of the year. And then an hour later our
article came out and we were like, what's happening? And
then they announced our episode was airing today and we
were like, on my treeting there really which is a
double whammy because it's three twenty three, so we've got
both boys basketball jerseys covered here, um, and our fan
(01:44):
base has been so cool, like we've seen like twenty
three tattoos on people and they're the ones that give
us a big heads up whenever anything twenty three is happening.
I should get a twenty three tattoo at this point, right,
are you gonna do it? I feel like we need
some kind of a tattoo, you guys, we do. Did
we ever get fan art for the idea? Were we
(02:04):
talking about this on the show? Yes, guys, yeah, anyone
who's with us tonight. We love seeing your art and
the drawings that you've made. I mean, send us ideas
for tattoos we might join. Are people disappointed when they
find out you don't really have the twenty three tattoos.
(02:26):
I've definitely had some fans to be like, I want
to see it. I'm like, first of all, I'm not
gonna put my pants out for you, but second of all,
but you got first at least, but second of all, no,
I I don't I didn't actually get that tattoo, But
I don't know. Maybe it might be fun. Maybe I'll
get one somewhere, little three on my shoulder or something.
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It feels like it's about time. Well, we just surpass
this like major major milestone with our podcast, Little engine
that could you want to walk us through with? Sophia
wanted to tell us what we've won again, We're paying attention.
The signs are coming for us. Um just was it
last week or the week before? Now? Time literally as
(03:09):
this episode is area. Yeah, we we got the news
that we crossed twenty three million worlds of drama queens. Ye,
my daughter embarrassed when I do that, Mom, I used
(03:33):
to do that's my mom? What I mean? What do
we what do we want? But seriously, like all of
this lining up to have twenty three million people listening
to our podcast, we were marveling when the what is
it called the list I guess for like most popular
podcasts in the top five it's US and then four
true crime shows and we were nostalgia into the murder room.
(03:58):
We like it sometimes, I like our show is like
true crime going on that we're just crimes of the players,
true crime and romantic comedy at the same time in
the later season. It's a genre. There's a genre there. Hey, Hillary,
will you talk a bit about the charity that we
are sponsoring tonight, because I know that you have a
(04:20):
lot of experience being from you said, you're from a
Chapter one high school, and you know, having the experience
of kids being uh not unable to play sports because
of finances, so I know you have experienced. Well, this
was actually Joy's idea. She brought this to the table
and we all jumped on it because high school sports
is such a big part of one Tree Hills narrative.
You know, we spent so much time in that jam
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and supporting real high school kids is important to us.
So Good Sports is our charity partner tonight. They drive
equitable access in youth sports and physical activity by supporting
children in high need communities to achieve their greatest potential
on the field and in life, because we know that
they're connected. The benefits of sports and physical activity in
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a child's life are very well documented, and Good Sports
exist to make sure cost does not keep kids on
the bench. So, like Joyce said, I went to a
title one high school. We leveled the playing field by
getting lots of donations for them through my charity, UM
High School Forever that we raised winning for Park Few
High School and all of a sudden, you guys, once
(05:24):
we gave them money, my kids are winning everything. Really,
this is awesome, school Lady Patriots are killing it. Um. Yeah,
it's it's a good feeling to be able to level
the playing field. So thank you guys at home for
helping us do that tonight. Yeah, so many young people
don't have a talent gap, they have a resource gap.
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And where we can fill that gap, and the three
of us can take a legacy of a show that
was about you know, small town kids playing for their
home team and do something for kids around the country.
It's really really meeting full. So you know, we're probably
gonna thank you all for being here a lot tonight.
Thank you for helping us use this community and like
(06:08):
this fierce amount of love we have for each other
to raise funds for people who need it. It's really
meaningful to usk that this that this fam has been
able to turn into a positive force in the world.
So thank you. Absolutely should we toast to that should
we we should we have something special to toast with. Um. Thanks,
(06:29):
friends at home, if you have some whiskey, especially if
you have some Johnny Walker or Jane Oh, I have
a display back here with a crown. Um, I'm gonna
lead us through a little uh adventure, a little cocktail.
It's gonna be like those YouTube unboxing video unboxing video
(06:53):
from Blue Nile, by the way, that that's what you Okay,
we're guys. Can I also just tell you a funny.
So I'm working on my show in Canada and you
can hear Jason Isaacs and plays. My father is screaming
with the rest of my cast in the other room
because we're gathered to watch this. They're watching us on
a laptop downstairs. Our friends at Johnny Walker sent us
(07:17):
Black Label to say congrats on twenty three million views.
You guys got the cocktail, kids, all I got was
the whiskey because customs wouldn't let me have the rest.
But it wouldn't see the best part. Can't send fruit
across an international border. So yeah, that's weird. I'm just
gonna have you, okay, so listen, It's just an ounce
(07:38):
and a half. Okay, get your highball glass. Anybody had
almost got a highball glass. Give me some ice, okay,
you know, like I brought up plastic three four, you
know the ice there. Okay, a little bit of ice. Alright,
we're gonna do an ounce and a half. Here we go.
I can't pour and hold it up in front of
(08:00):
here we go. Looks, that's the big end of the
little end. The big end is two ounces. So fill
either the big end up a little less or the
second the small end up a time and a half.
We're still the big end up all the way. It's
late where we are, Joy, it's not a clock where
we are a baby. Um all right, so yeah, next
(08:25):
is here. We got get some guava. I want that.
Guava is known to have benefits for your skin. Oh
oh my gosh. Shoot uh, guys, I just so sorry.
It's just spilled everywhere my parents house. That's why they're
(08:47):
your friends. Joy, they're using anyway, we're tapping this off. Okay,
guava juice. I have sparkling water. Appropriately it's Canada dry,
so I'm gonna make um. That's actually really good. I
would not have expected to put those two together and
enjoyed it. But it's really good. I'm so sorry. John M.
(09:11):
Queen's nice guys, hi friends and his wife Flaora's house
and the cheers to you guys thinks are girl? Oh yeah, pleasure.
I'm sorry. It's fine, but maybe just really likes this
(09:35):
is very haly of you right now to just like
and you know what, the last time we were together,
you made such an elegant cocktail. God doesn't give with
both hands. If you do a really great thing, then
you have to be a mess just to balance the university.
It feels right. Okay, what are we cheersing to? What's
happened over the course of the last twenty three million
(09:56):
downloads that we want to cheers to and want you
We have learned so much about each other and from
each other and about ourselves through this experience. I'm so
proud to be your friends. I'm so proud of all
of our fans for going on this journey with us,
with the ups and downs. I hope you guys all
stick with us. We are nowhere near done. Just hang on.
(10:19):
I love it. Yes, Okay, we have someone that a
lot of the fans want to talk about. Maybe they
want to talk to this person. What do you think
(10:39):
should we should we bring our friend in? Our friend?
That was me, that was my drunk winking Okay, bring
the mad ladies into my God, Ryan Greenberg, why are
you so handsome? Girl? Oh my gosh, you're better looking
(11:01):
now than you were then, if that's possible. Moored, Yeah,
where are you? I'm in l A. I'm home. Really?
Whose dog is that? This is my friend's dog. This
is Lyla the dog. She always wants to be where
the action is. I got a cold. My daughter had
(11:23):
a cold, and then she was like, well me, can
I sleep in your bed? Yeah? That's about now. Why
do you look well? Arrested, Brian? You're not exausted. I
have twins. I'm not sleeping. It's good though, let's get
into that. I mean we Uh, why didn't I what's
(11:44):
going on here? Why? What's going on? We're gonna We're
gonna fix that. I'm wanna be home in a week
and I'm personally going to deliver a bottle of whiskey
right now. Wouldn't even I'm so game to do it. Um,
look on over you day on this freaking show and
now your dad in real life. It's crazy. You were
(12:05):
surprisingly good at it though, like in our early twenties,
what was your baby experience up until our show? My
baby experience until I had kids was only playing Jake
on What Your Hill? No, yeah, I don't. I don't.
Like my sister doesn't have any kids. I just around kids.
And you were so natural just with baby Jenny. You
(12:27):
were so natural with her. Well let's let the audience
know there were like four Baby Jenny's so when we
come in. But the guitar thing really helped, Like that
was they that would relax them. And now I do
that with my kids too. It's kind of you do
(12:48):
what you say. Yes, at least it's finally no one
song still repeat. Um, I don't know, explain what right?
And mostly my stuff that's the only things I can remember. Okay,
so talk to us a little bit about when we
first started doing the show. Wow, okay, you get the
(13:10):
message you've got to play basketball? Um? Right? Did you play?
I thought I could play? And uh, I mean I
played like pick up and stuff, and I was like, yeah,
I played basketball, like I could shoot around, I know
how to dribble a ball, but like that's as close
to playing real basketball is I'll ever get. Uh, and
(13:32):
once I got to like once Your Hill and they
were doing practices and I was like, James was dunking.
I was way out of my league, but you know
was it was. It also a little intimidating for them
to be like, hey, go play basketball with all these
people who do it every day, and you're going to
be the guy who plays in Chuck Taylor's right, you
(13:57):
play in converse. I can't remember if that was my
idea or marsh idea, I can't remember, but I think
there was just something like there was like an old
soul to Jake and and you know he was like
he was at you know, yeah, he was like a throwback.
Do you regret that decision later? Oh? Yeah? That hurt. Yeah,
(14:21):
because we had really long I mean we've talked about
this on our show. We had the basketball days were
the most brutal because they were just epic. Everyone was
there all day long. You never knew when you were needed.
You were always like on what do you remember about
shooting those basketball days? Like I said, that's as close
as I'm gonna ever get to playing real sports. So
it was really fun for me because I got to
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look good and they drew place for us. Um. I
do remember one time I was doing it. We were
doing a play and I remember Chad like I was
supposed to like get out of the way, and I
think he forgot and I like came down on him
and I broke I broke a I remember, who's rid
(15:04):
my rib? I think I came down on him like
he was supposed to move, but he didn't move. It
was like a little mix up that happens. But I
was like, I remember that vividly. Um, but how long
does it take to heal from a broken rib? As?
You can't? You just gotta you just gotta let it heal.
(15:25):
There's nothing you can do about it. So that soulful
like Jake squinteen was just Greenberg like in pain, like
he focusing. Um, But no, I mean that was probably
I played it so much basketball because we all became friends,
like all the guys on the team, and we'd all
play outside of shooting and stuff, so like we do
(15:47):
practices NonStop, and I mean it wasn't That's all we
did down there was played basketball and shoot the show.
What were you laying high school? For real? Like? Who
who was Brian Greenberg class of What were you class
A nineties seven. Yeah, I was the guy who was
kind of like I didn't have a crew or a click.
I could kind of be with anybody. I had a
(16:10):
lot of friends, but I didn't have like my own click.
Like I was in theater, I'd like I played the cross.
Um you know, yeah, big public school in San Louis
Parkway Central. Shout out, um, shout out our high schools
on this one, shout out. So wait, you did theater
(16:31):
in high school? Were you like a musical boy? Did
you do Greece? I feel like everybody were you naked
or were you? Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah yeah? And then
I did Oklahoma? Oh my god. Yeah. I mean you
do musicals in high school because most are the only
plays that you do in high school, so you just
(16:52):
kind of do it by the fault. But theater, nerd,
did you fall in love with all your co stars?
And because theater is like such an intense on top
of each other experience, I would always fall in love
with my coasts and then you know it's like over
three months later, like what did did you have that
experience just with you three? Oh my god, Bryan Greenberg,
(17:14):
you are such a flirt and I can't stand you.
Um well, here's the deal. I catch so much on
the internet because all I do is rape about Jake
and Peyton. I'm like, I, guys, I blush. I can't even.
Like we watched these scenes back and you're so smooth
and you're so good at it, and we're all just
like dorky giddy girls, and the fans were like, Okay, Hillary,
(17:38):
that's enough. I'm gonna make a confession that I actually
haven't gone back and watched any of these episodes, so
it feels like such a long time ago. But what
I do remember is like we had crazy good chemistry,
right see um it. You know, we all remember the show,
(17:59):
but not the episode specifically, and when the three of
us have gone back a lot, like I feel like
in every video where there's a payment Jake scene, I'm
just like this. I'm like, I can't even. I can't.
I'm so red. My face is sweating. It's I didn't.
We're also like what this is? Cleol, Like I remember
(18:19):
we think I went forward. I was like shirt Saw,
I was like, what is this? You were older? You
were older than us, which is probably why you played,
you know, such a mature high schooler. But did you
feel like when you came in, um, did you feel
like you were kind of on the same level or
did you feel like you you were watching um, you know,
(18:43):
kind of all like no, no, I mean like eure
up here with your talent and you understanding you guys.
I felt like, oh, you're all serious regulars and I'm
just kind of here guest starring. I'm not really sure
where I fit in. But you guys were so cool
and you to here's so humble and sweet. My other job,
(19:04):
Clooney were something, how's that going for you? They're cool, Well,
you're making a movie with Meryl Streep and great, it's
so weird. It leveled jumps so quick, right Like I
was like trying to be a series regular on One
Tree Hill. I was dying to be a series regular
(19:25):
and like for the first season, and they were kind
of like, I don't know, maybe there's a big cast
and just get in line, all right. Well, I really
loved the show and I loved the role and um,
and then I got this other thing called Unscripted, which
is an HBO show with George Clooney and uh, and
I was like, I want to take this and then
(19:45):
I was like, well, well now we want you. And
I was like, well it's not that works. But I
was like too late, you know so, But but we
worked it out so we could I could keep coming back.
And I know even after I did Prime, I'd like
I kept coming back and kept coming back, like seasons.
I think, what do you think made you want to
keep coming back? I just I mean the show, like
(20:07):
it was a really special show those first I only
know the early one three Hill Like, I don't know
what happened later on um because there's like a whole
cast of characters that I never have never even met.
But I just felt like we had something special. And
I love the character and I love working with all
of you, and I don't know, I just felt like
we were onto something. I didn't want to let it go.
(20:28):
And it was such a cool, like a rich character
that I love playing. In the fans we're really responded
to it too, so I wanted to give them, you know,
a full arc. They did. And you always had such
a maturity about you anyway, I think that's what I mean,
Like we were all sort of fumbling around as young kids,
and you felt there was something about you that felt
(20:51):
like mature and like you had seen more than we
had seen in life, and like, I don't know, did
you do you remember graduated college? Brian? I knew I
had been on a few sets. Well maybe I did
a movie before. That was kind of like why I
had like the seniority or the experience, but I didn't
do I was never on like a real show. That
(21:11):
was like I think my first recurring character. So I
mean I was just you guys, like I didn't know what.
We had fun though, I mean we got to do
fun outside of the show too, Like there was a
period where MTV had you and I host a Valentine's
Day special because like Peyton and Jake were like hot
and heavy at the time, and I was like, I
(21:33):
feel like I got photo booth pictures to say, I
had that on my fridge for like years. The photo
you did, Yeah, I don't know where they are. Those
We had to have fun. And then Brian had this
pack of buddies from n y U and anytime we
all had to go do press in New York, I
was like yo yo, and I just used him to like, yeah,
(21:57):
we wanted a lot. Actually during those days, you had
fun friends there still fun. Actually they're not funny now, Brian,
We're not fun anymore. It's a memory. What's your favorite
memory of just like hanging out in Wilmington's what was Yeah,
that's what I want to know. What are your favorite places? Oh, man,
I don't know. I remember going to that Dixie Diner
(22:19):
a lot back. Yeah. Yeah, then yeah, I remember everyone.
You bought a house and you gave me a tour
of it for the first time, and I just remember
so much taxidermy. Oh yeah, really dark well paint and
(22:43):
so much I got you. Oh my god. Joy just
bought me a book on taxidermy called Creepy Taxidermy, and
my kids are Um, you guys, I go through phases.
I was in dark You're not still in the taxidermy phase. No,
I mean I still have all of it and more. Um.
(23:03):
I just have like two kids in the house, so
I try not to creep him out. Um. We told
my story on the podcast, Bryan about you leaving your
guitar at my house away for the time being like
what the this and coming in out of town and
I didn't want to travel with the guitar and I
(23:23):
was like kind of yeah, and you were the dude
everybody's boyfriend hated you because they were like this dude
coming in singing the songs, being cool, your boyfriend who
was part on the crew as well. Yeah, yeah, it
was around we had to do those love making scenes. Yeah,
that was one for everyone that was awkward. That the
(23:46):
worst was always there was no Hillary was right. You
were the guy who all the other guys were really
mad about, and like what you were saying earlier that
we all don't know. We responded to your calm and
you're cool, and even if it was one movie, you
really seemed like you knew what you were doing in
(24:06):
the industry, and we were all like a little fumbling.
Like every time you would like tell one of us
we've done a good job on something, we'd be like
Brian said, I do a good job. Yeah, growing I
feel like I feel like I've figured something out, And
all the other guys in the room were just like,
shut up, we're not. We still haven't. I think like you,
(24:30):
you were all stuck in this bubble of being series regulars,
and I had I could come in and give some
perspective because I would pop in and pop out like
I was never there for too long, and so I
kind of came in and I got to like change
up the energy a little bit and just like you know,
just kind of clean the palette a little bit, and
then i'd be out um when I come back from
(24:52):
my guitar. But I don't know memories. We just remember
we all hung out all the time. It was so
much fun. How many anythings did you do? Uh? I
remember I did? I think on Off for the first
three seasons, and I didn't do the pilot like I
came in the second episode. Yeah, we talked about all
the time, how your real life lucas introspect, you know,
(25:18):
just like introspective and like you know, problems over where
are you coming and going and coming and going? Was
that you were actually playing music like you started playing
music on the show the season two or season three.
You can't remember what we were doing those shows together.
We would go on tour and we played a show together.
(25:38):
That was a highlight for me. Just doing all those
concerts and let Us Brian Us two were blues and
all that stuff and was so much fun. Did we
never did a song together? Did we? I don't know
if we did. I mean I remember going to see
you perform Cafe that but that was just your show. Yeah,
(26:00):
and I think we did a House of Blues gig.
It's never too late hey you. In fact, it's exactly
that voice back. Let's talk right, it's coming back. Why
are you still performing? What's going on? COVID kind of
(26:22):
made concerts a weird thing, but I haven't. Yeah, since COVID,
I haven't. I did like some online stuff, but I
haven't really been playing stuff from my kids. I've been
working more on you know, writing, and I'm you know,
I have been you know, acting, and I'm about to
direct the movie that I wrote, which I'm really excait.
Is about energy is like going towards that. Yeah, it's
(26:45):
hard to do, and music does take a lot out
of you. And me had seasons where I'm writing furiously,
and then I'll go for like a two or three
year stretch where I'm not writing anything musically because all
my creative energy is focused on a story or some
other project that I'm doing. It's just because a song
will I mean, I don't know how you write, but
(27:06):
for me, a song will live with I'll start it
and it lives with me for like a week, two
weeks three weeks, I can kind of piece it all
the other You're walking or whatever, I mean, what do
you do? Every song is different, but I remember, like someday,
for example, I remember I Was I Was, which was
on the show UM featured on the show. I remember
(27:27):
I went to New York to do some press for something,
and the producer for Once Your Hill was like, you
have to shoot the next day. You have to fly
back in. And there was a huge snowstorm in New
York and I couldn't come back in, and so he's like,
you gotta drive. I'm like, I'm not dying. I'm not
dying for the show, but I mean I'll try. I'll
do whatever I can. I like the show theren But
(27:48):
so I took a train and I had like a
fifteen hour train ride from from New York to UH
to Raleigh actually, and I just remember writing it on
that train, just seeing you know, the state's go blind.
It sounds so clear, and I just kind of started
writing it and I had the song in my head
when I got to the hotel, and like it all
came out. UM. I vividly remember that. I still think
(28:10):
that's one of the better songs I've ever written, and
I remember that the process that vividly. I felt so cool.
But yeah, I don't know. I just feel like I
only have so much creative energy and I right now
I just kind of put it in a different place.
But I still love music. It's still there and it's
a huge party. Father was a new parent though, too.
(28:31):
I mean that the Lions share. George just turned four,
and I just feel like I'm sort of getting like together.
I'm like a four year, four year gap. My man,
it's gonna be so You're gonna have gray hair like
me in four years. Right now whatever? Right now, you
(28:51):
still look exactly like you did fifteen years ago. I
had two different looks, like that was the first season
like hair bangs, Oh the bangs. We all had puka
shells in season one with your jeans, and so did we. Honestly,
(29:14):
I'm calling myself out here too. It's like it's all
coming back to that, Hey made your wife is such
a good sport. Um she Jamie is an amazing actress
in her own right and has like a brilliant career.
And I have always appreciated that she's a fellow MTV girl.
You know, she probably hears about Jake jagel Ski more
(29:36):
than she wants to. Um, I don't like hearing about
my husband. She like, I don't hear about Denny. Is
she a good sport about it? Is? She like? But
she's also kind of like what like shes At some point,
I think she's gonna watch it because she's just heard
about it so much and people it's it's the craziest
thing that I've done a lot of work, but this
show is it has an audience like no other, And
(29:58):
it doesn't matter where are we going the world. That
could be in Brazil and France wherever. Like people are
coming up and then saying Jake, Jake Elsie and she's
just never seen it. And I think one of these
days was just gonna cave and I watch it. Do
you have anywhere else here? I haven't seen it since
it aired. Oh yeah, you guys should watch it together
(30:20):
some distance from it too, So I think it's just
interesting to watch. That's why we started this podcast. Man.
We were like, why is it so special? And the
first episode we watched together, we were all bawling. By
the end. We were like, oh no, you've all working
on a bunch of stuff like why do you think
this show connects with an audience so much all these
(30:42):
years later, Because it's the thing that airs when you're
forming your identity. I think we all identify with things
we watched when we were teenagers or young adults, because
you're formulating your identity at the same time, these characters
are also being formulated, and there's a bond there, you know.
I don't connect with characters now as a grown up.
(31:03):
I'm like Nietz, you know. But that thing that you
watch when you're like malleable is important. I think there's
also something to it, you know. I think Joy you
might have been the first person who said this, Like
there was no fantasy, There was no like gimmick, No
one's a superhero, no one's a vampire, no one's awarewolf.
We all like those movies, but it was like kind
(31:26):
of the last best place to go to just see
groups of friends trying to figure out how to be
good humans, pre social media, pre iPhone, you know, like
just a group of kids trying to find their posts
in the world. And that's a universal truth. And so
I think despite having since yeah, and despite the premiered
(31:49):
so long ago, still ring so true when you tune
in and you watch, you go like, oh yeah, that
that's telling the truth to me. Well, I think it's interesting,
is you know, we're seeing a whole second generation discovering
it now. Like now it's like it's crazy how it's
got a whole other life. Yeah. I think it's like
(32:11):
ironic to them in the same way, you know what
I mean, not really watching it like enthusiastically, they're like
just watching but it may have started that way, but
there's no denying that you fall in love with these characters.
So even if it's like, oh, this will be cool
and retro to watch, the fact is there's nothing like
it on television right now for teenagers. Everything is high
(32:34):
genre driven and to be able to give teenagers a
safe space. Might I have a little brother who's twenty,
and he texted me the other day, what were the nineties? Like,
what was it like in the late nineties? Wow? So
before so also life like before a cell phone, you know. Yeah,
(32:57):
and it's it's it's cool that they're interest it in
that because it was a very different time. Yeah. Yeah.
Where would where would Jake Jakalski be right now? Babe? Like,
what's Jake? What what hasn't been up to the road,
do you think, well, because now, yeah, he's probably like
(33:23):
maybe he's um, maybe he's like what Verry was like.
He maybe he's like the new coach, like the new
the new gratchy coach, drinking real heavily. That's what he
wants to be too. So I would be really into
a sports team run by skills in Jake JASKI gotta
be honest good Yeah, yeah, I mean like rival rival
(33:47):
teams that were going at it that could be good.
I don't know, what do you think. I have no idea,
like Jake could be or he could be you know,
Jack Dorsey. I mean he's like you don't he's so
he's so random. You know, he is so random because
I completely forgot about the storyline down the road where
like Jake gets arrested and goes to jail. What guys,
(34:13):
it's coming. Was like pounding on the glass. You and
I had our hands up on the glass each other. Yeah,
it was what you say. It was all to protect Jenny. Yeah, okay, yeah, right.
(34:33):
You know you were mentioning that there's fans all over
the world of this show. No matter where you go,
people recognize you. Are there any specific fan encounters that
you remember that we're like either really meaningful or really
crazy or I don't know, what's just like, I mean,
it happens a lot with this show. Um as. I'm
sure you guys all know, but um, I mean I
(34:55):
was in Paris last year, by the way, it's huge
in France. Me. Yeah, more interested in front of um
I know. Um but like suddenly came up to me
and they're like like, oh, you play basketball And I'm
like what, And I'm like, yeah, I mean I have
(35:17):
in the past. I don't like yeah, but with Scott's
and I'm like, what you know with the Scots, I
was like, oh yeah, I didn't know that. It was
like it had another name out there. It's like, yeah,
I had no idea what they were saying. So it
took a little while, but um, yeah, it's huge, it's crazy. Yeah,
(35:38):
what about you. I don't know what we got. We
got reminded today people were talking about being so excited
for this and they posted a bunch of photos from
the last convention that you and I and Hillary brab
Ban the One and Willing to Enjoy You were working,
so you remember you couldn't be there, but people were
posting those photos we all took together and and someone
(36:00):
posted the video of the girls who got engaged that
we helped with Hill the photo for a fan and
the whole thing was a ruse and they were video
cameras going and her girlfriend set it up and we
literally were like holding her up when she almost fainted
from the surprise of being proposed. We were just like,
this is a very intimate special moment for us Mut's
(36:23):
pay pictures. People do they really feel like the show
is like these characters meet so much to them and
you guys, I went to go see Greenberg play in
Vancouver right after I left the show. So I left
the show. I went and I had a secret baby.
Gus was a year old. So One Tree Hill was
(36:44):
still on the air but we weren't on it, and
Jeff was shooting a movie to Vancouver and Greenberg is like, hey,
I'm in town right maybe I saw a flyer and
I was like, are you here? And so I went
to go see Greenberg and all the girls in the
audience are like on the baby with you know. I
(37:07):
had my Gus in like a Bjorn and people were
like it's baby, Jenny. No, but we did go to
lunch the next day and I brought my baby. And
it was so weird for you because you're, like, you
really have a baby, like we worked with the baby
you were young. I didn't have a baby until ten
twelve years after that, so that was blowing my mind.
I was just not in that that headspace. Yeah, well,
(37:29):
now you've got he's like a man, he's shaving up. Yeah, kids,
got a mustache. It's crazy. Is there anything that's been
really surprising for you about parenthood. I mean, I know
they're I know they're really little. Still, I guess what
I was surprised most by was, um, just how many
people in your life step up and like how people
(37:51):
say it takes a village, and I didn't really you
hear that, but I didn't really realize until we needed
the help, and so many of our friends and family
we have stepped up and gotten on planes and then
showed up and there. Because two at the same time
when you don't know what you're doing is intense. So
I guess I'm just it's deep in my appreciation and
my love for my support system. Yeah, yeah, that's great. Yeah,
(38:21):
um all right, Well, you're directing a movie. Yeah, you're
dadding it up. Um, start that in May, I think, really,
all right, where are you guys going to shoot it?
Probably Rhode Island, Yeah, probably after two weeks prep. And
it's my first time directing. So it's the drama. It's
(38:41):
called Junction. Um, so it's gonna be an intense but
I love indies. It's gonna be an intense intense you
for like a month and a half and then yeah,
I'll be editing all summer. But I don't know. I've
been working. I just finished a really cool movie with
Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy called You People. That's coming
out on Netflix. Casual. Yeah, there you go, special Drop.
(39:06):
We love him. He's so just easy and cool cool. Hey,
well I was chilling during COVID, so that came out
of nowhere. I was like, Okay, that's that's awesome. Um.
So it's nice that you deserve it. You deserve all
of it. You're so talented and so he worked with
such a constant professional and so fun And I'm just
so bad for all the success that comes your way,
(39:28):
and I don't want to I want to find something
else for all of us to work on together. Yes,
I was just gonna say it. Everything is real sparkly
when we're together. Guys, make sure just make sure you
bring your guitar. You can leave it at my house, Brian,
no one about it. Got to start leaving stuff in
your house. Now. I'm just gonna leave this about whiskey. Yeah,
(39:56):
we Hey, will you come on the regular podcast in
season three when Jake and Peyton are in Savannah? So
how's it work with watching the episode we talk about it?
Oh yeah, I'm gonna make you sit down you're watching it? Yeah,
it's so good you would talk with you honestly, like,
(40:17):
I've missed your face. Man, I love all of you
so much. Really, congrats on the success of this and
your show, Sophia, I know you guys draw that's so
cool face. I love you. Um, alright, so we're gonna
see you soon. Then it's aty fantastic all right, tell
the family we said, Hibs, I love him so much?
(40:56):
Is that the quietest I've ever been during an interview?
I just sat like this. I think it was. I
think it was. Also, why is your lighting amazing? You're
like in a basement to find the best lighting no
matter where you go. I was gonna say that about yours.
I feel like I look like I'm being interrogated by
the police. It's like, I'm so mad. Guys. We ordered
(41:18):
these cute me on, you know, trick lightning bolts, and
I was so excited to get off work in time
to do this that I ran out of the van.
And now sweet Doug, who drives me to work as
a lightning bolt in his van, it's supposed to be
right here. I can't do it. There goes What's cool
is seen throughout the course of like twenty three million
(41:38):
downloads and all the fan interactions, is seen them to
their drama queens rooms and like put their crowns out
and their lightning bolts out, and it kind of made
us a little bit like, you know, we had we
had a little bit of envy. We were like, well,
I want to pick me on, Like I want to
hear more of what the fans have to say, because
(42:00):
they've been been sending it a lot of questions and
comments and I can't wait to hear. Oh, we have
one already. Well, while we answer these, I'm gonna make
another drink. But item from set with each of us. Oh,
did we wish we took we took what item from set? Um?
(42:21):
From this set? You know, Sophia and I have spoken
at length about that red vintage couch that was in
Karen's cafe. It was a really good It was a
curved couch in the corner front window. It's beautiful. Yeah,
I wish we had that. The cut out of the
(42:45):
toe the Wetsprocket song, what what what are you talking about?
What are you talking about? What are you talking about?
Everything is better and everything is safe? That's what? Did
(43:11):
you think it was wrong? I know it was a
song I but I didn't think it was for that band.
Somebody told me this is the place everything's better and
everything's saying. Yeah, it's called walk on the Ocean. I
think you want not think they sang that because I
(43:32):
heard did you cover it? Who covered it? Because I
just felt like, I just feel like that's our song.
I wish I took that. Hillary, we have another question.
But tell us what you what would you have taken?
You know what? I'm mad I didn't take. In later seasons,
they got a really cool old black pickup truck for
Julian for my husband's character. Most of blue Gie taking
(43:55):
cars and taking it. I mean, I like you have
the comment and I want that truck. I'm mad about it.
Next question, Rebecca, Oh, this is sweet. If you had
a yearbook for yourself right now, what would your senior
quote be? I mean, apparently it would be from a
toad Weets Rocket song. Have we been saying that quote
(44:21):
and writing that quote? And I had zero idea, no idea,
no clue. Oh guys, okay, Um, my senior quote is
I mean come to you? Okay. So here's the deal.
I was kind of told my senior year in high
(44:42):
school because I was just ready to get out of
Virginia and go to New York, and I had a
little bit of a chip on my shoulder about certain
things in my small town. And I won the Senior
superlative most Dramatic, and my quote in like this little
senior like book it that comes out was if you
thought I liked you in high school, I was only acting.
(45:04):
And I cringed about that right now because it's so
bitchy and like so unwarranted, because I really hometown and
I really love all the kids I graduated with, and
I'm like, why, So, what would your quote me, now
then if if this was your senior year, I'm sorry, sorry,
(45:25):
it's Simon Birch. I'm sorry. Yeah. Good. Of all the
houses on the show, such as Brooks, Felix Stands, all
the houses are big. Are those actual houses in Welmington's
and are they actually all that big? Well, Joy and
I lived on the opposite side of the tracks. Haley
(45:46):
and Brooke or Haley and Payton's house are actually right
next door to each other. Um, They're just across there,
like catty corner from each other. And we are actually
over by New Hanover High School, which is another I
want to say, it's another title one school. And so
I liked that chapter one? Why am I thinking chapter one? Probably? Um?
(46:08):
But yeah, so your house was for sure real? Yeah, yeah,
Brooke and Felix's house were next door to each other,
and they were definitely in like a fancy part of town.
They were big homes. And then where Dan's house was
was like the fancy, fancy, fancy fancy that was like
houses and guest houses and like big. I was not
(46:31):
accustomed to anything and seeing anything like that. So yeah,
this kind of small though, I mean, it wasn't like
they were like we had little pockets of every kind
of sort of socioeconomic experience. The one thing I don't
think we really ever showed though, I don't think we
(46:52):
ever had a family in an apartment, which feels weird
because so many families live in apartments. But I guess
maybe because Wilmington is such a house town, Like the
apartment started getting built there in the later years that
we were filming there weren't really even many apartment buildings
and college kids living there college it was college. Yeah,
I really like this next question, smart, This is a
(47:15):
good one. Well, when you guys had scenes on the phone,
were you actually dogging to someone mike Leone, mike leone
every time, Supervisor. I remember one call when I actually
I think we actually had James on the phone, or
(47:37):
it might have been. And there was another one when
we had Paul, I had Paul reading. We called Paul
and he read someone else's lines for me because it
was like an acting moment and I just needed some
real feedback. Yeah. I definitely feel most of the time
they'll just have yeah the script supervisor read for you,
which is super weird, especially because those people are usually
(47:59):
your friends, but not people on the show, and then
we started to do things like if we were at
work at the same time, if you you know, if
if Hailey had to call Brooke and I was like
in the parent makeup t I'd run in and do
the off camera. We we really started to do that
free truck. It's hard to act with like essentially like
(48:19):
your friend's dad pretending to be Peyton. Like it's weird.
So we we tried. But yeah, sometimes you've got somebody
being like, well, g Brooke and you're like stop it,
I can't you're doing this. Yeah, it's in What ways
(48:39):
do you think Sam is similar different than Brooke Davis?
Do you think they have any similar personality traits? Sam?
That's so sweet? Um, you know, I think they're both
really motivated women who aren't going to let anything in
the world hold them back from achieving in a really um,
(48:59):
you know, competitive landscape and also in like a major way.
I think I think Sam is a little calmer, perhaps
a little more professional than Brooke Davis, but there's she's
feisty in there, like you don't wanna you don't want
to push her, So yeah, I don't know, maybe they
are somewhere. What did you guys, see when you came
to the set, well, listen, Brook Davis was always the boss, always, always,
(49:24):
always the boss, And we didn't really get to see
her go into her thirties, you know, and get like
closer to authority. We saw her in those years where
we all are kind of just testing the waters, and
so a self assured Brooke Davis is every bit as
calm and powerful as Sam. I think that's right. Brook was.
(49:47):
She was always the boss, but not everyone always saw it,
and she was trying. She was young and just kind
of scrappy in a way of like trying to constantly
prove it, and there was there's an elegance and a
settledness to Sam. I have sat here today. This is
what I want you guys. It's our fourth Surama Queen.
(50:14):
Oh my gosh, so beautiful. Dr Lex truly has a
new look. It's actually well her part in the middle today.
But usually we have the exact same time, like you
too can beat the Sophia Rush and Strawberry Um. You guys,
we were really lucky when we came up to to
(50:36):
film Good Sam, because your cast was so so so
welcoming and oh my god, my cheerleading photo. Look at
our cheerleading knees, like all of us got right into formation.
I love the photo. It was like perfect thing. Wells
about your high school experience? Who were you in high school? Sky?
(50:59):
Oh my god, that's so funny that you asked, because
I was literally just downstairs talking to Jason Isaac's about
my high school experience. And I went to high school
in to Lincoln Park High School in Chicago, and anyone
who knows Chicago knows that UM at that time in
Lincoln Park where Lincoln Part High School is. It was
(51:19):
right in the district of the kids of Lincoln Park,
very wealthy, very smart kid majority white, and Cabrini Green,
the roughest projects in Chicago. So that's where I really
learned how to like code switch because my sister was
very much attached to the Cabrini Green crowd, and I
(51:40):
was very much attached to the very smart like I
believe we're gonna go, We're gonna shoot to the sky,
like very ambitious and outgoing, and they were just more
into the things that I was into. But I had
to keep like kind of playing both sides, which is
quite interesting because that was something important to me that
I wanted to do with Dr Lex truly. Yeah, you know,
because wow, I may be able to like be myself
(52:03):
with my friends, I still know like in America, it's
best to just switch over to mainstream and talk a
certain type of way so that the patient can trust
you with their life in your hands. So many people
are preconditioned to like only trust what they know and
like what they're comfortable with, and so if you come
with any kind of energy that's not familiar to them,
(52:26):
it's like, oh, this is bad, this is wrong, this
is you know, uncomfortable. And so I love that your
character is shaking things up. I love that you have
this military background where you're like a beautiful homecoming queen cheerleader.
That's also like I'm really good with funds. Like yeah,
Uncle Sam was my sugar daddy. He bought me all
(52:48):
my books in school. Sure I was into the military,
you know, Honestly, um my dad was a doc he
and my mom was a teacher, and I would hear
them talk about student debt all the time. And like
I share the story with Sophia, Like I thought Sally
(53:08):
May was a real like woman with like a very
beautiful silver silver locks and she made am She made
America Pies every weekend, just the sweet sweet Sally May
like the sweetest woman, and she just want to make
sure you got that education. So she gonna get but
she's gonna have to get that. Sally and I had
this this that was a very I had a very
(53:28):
vivid imagination as a kid. So I thought Sami. I
was like, honey, Sally May, I don't want any relationship
with saving. And she's sound sweet, but I don't want
her money. And and I just kind of grew up
not wanting to have that that umbrella of debt that
just forces these young kids to go straight into the
corporate world to pay off this this dad, when like,
(53:49):
how do we know who we want to be at
seventeen eighteen years old? I didn't decide to act until
I was twenty nine, really, girl, and I did not
have a resident a uh formal training. I had life experience,
and that's what I took in the room. How would
you make preparate myself? You know, I was sitting in
(54:11):
a cubicle for two years in New York, a cubicle
that I worked so hard to get to. You know,
I thought I was gonna have my Cary brash all
life and just like make this money and wear cool
shoes and hang out with Wall Street models and like
that was just gonna be the life. And it wasn't
the life, but it was like totally opposite ends of
the spectrum. It was like I was partying hard and
(54:31):
then back in this just very sterile, neutral cubicle world
that was just sucking the life out of me. But
what I noticed is they would always send me in
two boardrooms to close the deals because I would go
in there because it was a pharmaceutical market, this woman
doing any kind of I would go in there. I'd
be like, so we drugs and wood and these are
(54:51):
like a bunch of like birds and you know, so
like I was just going there and make it fun
and like yeah, So they would always in the end,
but I was like I'm performing, like I'm getting yes
and yeah. And and then after that, everyone just kept
saying to me like are you you never thought about acting?
Like you've never you never, And I'm like, I mean,
(55:13):
of course I've thought about it. I was in dance place,
you know, like, yeah, I was always in dance theater
since I was a kid, and recitals like I was
never afraid of the stage and another version of me
would show up. Um, I knew the who am I?
Based off of where I am and who I'm talking to?
Like the who am I with you ladies isn't the
(55:33):
who am I with my mom? Or the who am
I a cop pulls me over? Or the who am
I in the courtroom or at the club? Right? So
I learned that very early on on. How can it
serve for me? Because at the age of seventeen, I've
had to figure everything out in my life because while
I may have said my dad as a doctor, my
mom's teacher, she hit the fan when I was twelve,
So like, I had to really learn how to figure out, Okay,
(55:54):
how can I how can I not fall into the
whole in the wrap of being somebody's baby mama and
doing nails in Chicago, which was like what I was
surrounded by. So when I went to the military, that's
where it really helped because it taught me how to
process and utilize fear. And then the corporate world taught
me how to market, so I was able to market myself.
(56:16):
I didn't have an agent when I got go Sam.
I haven't had an agent and said, since you, she
goes do yeah, I message, I miss. It's just amazing.
We're getting ready to wrap, so we can send people
to watch whatever. You know. But I want to know
(56:39):
when you were growing up, who were the drama queens
that you looked up to? Who were your drama queen? Here,
Rapid Fire, let's go, Lisa Turtle and Shannon Aerty On Nanatino.
That was that was my dam I was a to
those and I record every episode and because in tapes,
(56:59):
and then my ends and neighborhood would come over and
they would rent episodes and I hadn't had a numbered
from season and season and I were rented out like
Black Buster. I had a library and it was business
and I was making money off and I was amazing.
You guys can go. Everybody out there, you guys can come.
Let's come watch these amazing women as these incredible doctors
(57:21):
come on. And it was so special. I loved working
with you Sky and uh, we're gonna party in New York. Yeah,
oh yeah, were you coming to be with the two
of us? Was so cool? And I remember when you left,
she was like, that's what we're doing, like building these
(57:42):
families and I'm so excited for everyone. Two minutes guys too,
Good Sam episode eight of season one with these two
gorgeous ladies and us and my cast that's downstairs right here. Yeah, okay, listen.
The cast was so so cool. Sophia knew what a
huge crush I had on j and Isaac's geeked out
so quick already knows Sky I get you out so hard.
(58:07):
They took a picture and guy, um no, honestly, please
give all of them great, big, huge hugs for us
because it was so nice to be welcomed into your family.
And we're so excited to, you know, send all our
drama queens fans over to hang out on the on
the medical set of Good Sam. You guys are change
in the world. I can't wait for you all to
(58:28):
see the episode. I think we have. Who did this
little treat come from? Which one of you took this?
We filmed it? I don't remember you filmed. This is
our favorite moment from being on set and I love you.
Thank you for having us you, thank you, thanks for
joining us, everybody, Thanks for joining us. Everybody. We have
(58:49):
a little sign off for you, and we'll see you
at CBS in one minute. Hey, thanks for listening. Don't
forget to leave us a review. You can also follow
us on Instagram at Drama Queens O t H or
email us at Drama Queens at I heart radio dot com.
See you next time. We are all about that high
(59:10):
school drama. Girl Drama Girl, all about them high school queens.
We'll take you for a ride at our comic girl
cheering for the right Drama Queens go up, girl fashion,
but you'll tough go. You could sit with us Girl
Drama Queens, Drama, Queen's Drama, Queen's Drama, John mc Queen's
Drama Queens listenbau. Um. I know I normally jumped in
(59:38):
every so often to make a pep talks in the
morning to thank you guys for being the most stellar crew,
and like most tremendous background players that you know, I
get to go rag about outside of here. Um. I
know I've never cried what I've done one of these before.
But the reason I'm so emotional isn't it. My two
best friends came employed with us. This we and these
girls and I grew up together. We started on our
(01:00:01):
first show over twenty one We literally have been to
hound and back. They are my family, your family, and
you welcome them with open arms. And it's been yeah,
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