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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 4 (00:24):
Hey, everybody, we are here for a Q and A.
Can't wait to dive into this with you. I always
love these episodes. It's so fun to just kind of
take a little divergence from the regularly scheduled programming, from.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
Picking on ourselves. I feel like at this point in
season five, we're just like what nerds, we would never
behave this way.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
You know, we wish we had Sophia with us. She
is in London right now, as a lot of you
guys know, working on her new show, and so we're
just kind of patchworking everybody being in different time zones
and all that. But you know, if we have any
any questions with that are burning for Sophia, we will
we will call her, bring her in, We'll we'll get
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her to drop in an answer.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Extra real quick.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
Yeah you know, yo, girl, Okay, should we start. Let's
start from Diana. Diana says, do you remember which episodes
aired during sweeps weeks? Because I remember those always being
the episodes the show would do crazy things for ratings
to go up? Smart girl, did you know something crazy
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would happen because sweeps was at a certain time in
the season.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
What a great question.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
How interesting, dude, I totally forgot about sweeps.
Speaker 5 (01:35):
Yeah, me too, Like, hold.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
On a second, let me do my mom, don't googling.
That's really funny. So explain what sweep sweep was to
like kids who were born not in the nineties, eighties
or nineties.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
So this is before streaming when you could just sort
of have anything on demand, and the network set up
their schedules so that it was it was geared toward
times when people might be the most, might be watching
the most, and they would put their most dramatic storylines.
And all shows did this, All network TV shows did this.
It would put their most dramatic or exciting episodes into
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this one week. And it wasn't just one week a year.
There were several sweeps weeks during a year, and it
was geared toward bringing in a ton of viewership just
to really boost the ratings and get a bunch of
advertising money. Am I missing anything?
Speaker 1 (02:29):
No? I mean it. It was water cooler TV where
you wanted to do something so crazy that the next
day at work everyone would be talking about it at
the water cooler. Yes, and I don't think that really
exists anymore.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
It was Ross and Rachel getting together. It was like
all the crazy things that happened on Er When when
George Clooney and Julianna Margullys finally got together. It was
I mean, I'm trying to remember if things that every
time there was a major moment on one of your
favorite shows back then, it was from sweeps week.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I feel like The Office, Like, remember we liked The
Office a lot when we were filming the show, and
I feel like they had, like Jim and Pam stuff
go down during sweeps week.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
You couldn't, Emily. Yeah, So I'm sure they did that
with us. I don't think that we we I didn't
calculate storylines by I just remember getting scripts and being like, damn,
this shit is getting wild.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
I never thought about sweeps week.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
This stuff is going to be expensive, is what I
thought like, right, we're going to bring in every character.
You're all going to be in hair and makeup at
the exact same time, we're going to throw you in
the river, and then you know a dog is going
to eat a heart.
Speaker 5 (03:42):
Just uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:46):
It's so crazy how streaming has affected our business, because
I don't think people who are making TV now have
to worry about that. It's subscription based. It's not based
on going out and getting advertisers at your upfronts or
your TCAs and things like that. Like you wanted to
be able to cut together a reel of your show
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that advertisers could look at and be like, oh damn,
and they got those numbers?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Ooh right, I don't even know what numbers look like anymore.
How do they calculate? It's the same in music, like
how are artists even getting paid? It's a totally different conversation.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Well, streamers don't have to share the numbers, right, keep
them a secret.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Yeah, that's so weird. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
It's not a business I want to work in. It's
not that part of it. I mean, I don't know
how to do any of that stuff.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Numbers. Yeah, But but to that point, I think there
was a state championship feeling to those big episodes because
we all knew, like, these are the episodes Eyeballs are
going to be on. We got to show up and
we're all, it's a team sport and we're gonna win,
damn it.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Yeah, they're definitely worse some And I remember them doing
big press.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
That's what like Entertainment Tonight would come to see exactly.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
They would come down to set. It was a whole
big thing. They would organize photo shoots and video shoots
and all kinds of stuff, and that was I would
say once a year that happened, right, Yeah, I mean
multiple times.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Now I want to say there was that. There were
like two. It was weird. It was split up in
like semesters because we would film the same schedule as school.
It was like end of August to Christmas, and there'd
be a sweet episode in there somewhere like November it
would air, yeah, and then you would have second semester
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was after Christmas break to like end of April, beginning
of May, and then we'd have our summers off. And
maybe that's why we all are still stunted adults because
we stayed in an adolescent schedule, well into adulthood.
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Could be.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Yeah, It's like there was our next question. All right,
Lindsay wants to know. Do you guys do random photo
shoots for your pictures that get hung up in the
houses and or offices or are they just random pictures
taken on set?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
I always hated these, just so annoying. It was like
I could just you know, you're in a groove, whether
you're on set or you're they just come pull you out.
Speaker 5 (06:16):
We got we gotta do a prop photo shoot.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Well, it's better than better than the Frankenstein photo shoots.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
When photoshopping was so terrible.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
But even like still, So I did a Christmas movie
where I just hired the whole One Tree Hill cast.
I was like, Oh, I get to produce cool. I'm
gonna hire my friends. Yeah, And so I hired Daniel
and Antoine to play a married couple, to play my
best friend and her husband, and they Frankenstein a wedding
photo of Daniel and Antoine. That is the funniest thing
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I've ever seen in my life.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
I want to see it.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Where is it? You know, I'm anna put it on
a tote bag or some shit. I need to sell this.
It was horrendous. Track that one down and I'm gonna
text it to everybody. So I I giggle at those
things because they do ask you at the beginning of
any job if you'll provide childhood photos, like they use
the out of the Scott brother's childhood photos on our show,
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and then they ask like, oh, do you have photos
of you with your real baby giving birth so we
can use that, And like the picture that Ellie had
holding a baby that was supposed to be Peyton was
actually Cheryl holding her son. And so they ask for
that stuff and if you turn it over cool, and
if you don't, they'll just frankenstein something horrible together. So
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it's better just to give them what they want.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Give it to my gosh. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, So that's where those come from. They can be
something that they just pull you aside, and sometimes you
can watch it. You can notice it when you're watching
a show. You'll see a character refer to a photo,
but they're wearing the same shirt in the photo that
they are wearing in the scene, or that they were
wearing in the previous scene. They just took that photo
on set.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
It's kind of funny now, I'm on a quest to
find this picture.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I can't wait to see this photo. Okay, Robin wants
to know that there's no pets during the series. What
kind of pets do you see certain characters having.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
I love that.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
I always wish there was pets around there were I mean,
why wouldn't somebody have a dog?
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Yeah, the boys who all live in that like frat house,
they definitely have like a nasty, druly little bulldog that's
just humping people's leg when they come over, like that's
absolutely happening. One.
Speaker 4 (08:41):
Yeah, Karen and Lucas, I feel like would have had
a dog.
Speaker 5 (08:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (08:44):
I do miss the presence of pets in this world.
I guess Nathan and Haley, I feel like there's definitely well,
actually Jamie gets Chester the rabbit.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
Oh yeah, yeah he does.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
He does get a rabbit.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
I just sent you the wedding picture by the bye,
look at your phone. You're gonna be happy about this.
Speaker 4 (09:05):
Oh my god, we stopped stomped real real, I mean
it's literally not real. But also who decided that's okay?
Speaker 1 (09:16):
I don't know, but I'm sorry for you guys that
want to hear us talk about pets. But I'm going
to fixate on this picture for the next half hour.
It is real bad, and maybe if daniel gives us permission,
we'll put it on the internet. But ant One has
no neck, No, and he's a foot taller than her.
Speaker 4 (09:35):
Yeah, and he's got six different hair colors. She has
six different hair colors. I feel like even the bouquet
is photoshopped, which is just so bizarre. Yeah, that's not
Danielle's body. Oh wow, the tiara is really the kicker
for me. Oh yeah, all of it's.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Writing I'm dying. I'm dying.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Yeah, So anyway, thanks for reminding us to look that up. Pets.
Would Peyton have a pet? No, because Peyton is already
anticipating everything's death. Like, there's no way that Peyton's gonna
have a pet because she's like the people always leave
and dogs always die and I can't do it. No,
she would have to get one of those pets that
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lives forever, like a tortoise.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Lizard or a tortoise.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
Yeah, yeah, who would have I don't know that I
see Brooke having it. I mean, obviously we know Sophia
is like buried in dogs, But does Brook have a pet?
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I don't know. She didn't want that cat when she
got the apartment.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, that's very Holly, go lightly of her.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
You can keep Cat.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
I'm missing the dream sequence of Sophia as Audrey Hepburn
in an alleyway singing Moon River to a cat. I
feel like I need that in my life now.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Yeah, okay. Listen from Claire. She says, it's high school
reunion time. Do you think your character would attend? Are
there any characters you think wouldn't attend? Did you go
to your own high school reunions?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Girl?
Speaker 1 (11:05):
This is a dangerous question.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
I know I didn't go. I wish I would have.
Of course Halee would attend because she's teaching at the
high school. Oh, the characters that wouldn't attend, I don't know.
I I've mean, all of our crew seemed pretty tight.
I feel like everybody would show up. Everybody could have
a reason to show up. Maybe maybe Glinda probably wouldn't come.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
No, she'd totally come because she's had her come upance,
like I feel like in adulthood she's thriving. The person
who's not gonna come is like.
Speaker 4 (11:39):
What's Cat Bayliss's character's name?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:41):
Cat baylifs like, I don't know if Shelley would come,
not because just because she's like over it. I just
don't know that Shelley would care to come. I can't
remember what is wrong with me. Cat Bayless's character's name
Erica Marsh.
Speaker 5 (11:55):
Erica Marsh. Yeah, I don't know if she would come.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, you know what it is. It's when you're really
when you're really firm in high school and then you
loosen up as a grown up, and it's embarrassing to
remember how like tight you used to be, you know,
just like how narrow minded you used to be. You
need anybody to remind you.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
Yeah, so this whole podcast is like that for us.
I feel like we doing this whole thing like.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
Oh god, we're gonna go look at it.
Speaker 1 (12:24):
One long admission of like I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (12:26):
I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
I was wrong. I was wrong. No, they just had
they had a reunion for my graduating class, just like
a month ago, and I was working so I couldn't go.
But it looked nice, like everyone seemed to be having
a really good time. It was you know, what was
interesting is that it was a really random group of
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people that didn't necessarily hang out when we were in
high school, like there were some like really popular kids
that were jocks, and then some like really academic kids
and drama kids and people that didn't necessarily overlap in
high school. But as adults are all really cool with
each other, and so that's nice to see. It's nice
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to see them all kind of budding up to take
photos and support each other. And ah, yeah, man, that's great.
That's public school. We love it. We love to see it.
I'm going to go home in October. Oh, you are good.
I'm going to go do a book tour. Stop there.
That'll be my union.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
I'm so excited for this for you. That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
We're going to go drinking.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Yeah, okay, so let's end. We got to wrap this
one up soon. So let's end with Emily's question, how
did you maintain personal relationships with friends and families outside
of the One Tree Hill family while you were making
the show, Because working away for most of the year
with long filming days, seems like your circle outside the
show might get smaller. It's interesting. Yeah, I think it does.
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I think like when you only have a limited amount
of time, you're the people that you are prioritizing, who
aren't in your face every single day because of work,
it does have to kind of by default get a
little bit smaller.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
I don't know that I would blame it on work.
I blame it on boys. Like I was in a
relationship for the first five seasons, and so I didn't
like on weekends, I was just hanging out, you know,
in Wilmington. The second I was a swinging, single lady girl.
I would get in that car on a Friday and
drive to Raleigh, drive to Northern Virginia, drive to Charleston. Like,
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I saw more people in that last season than I
did the first five years. I love that. I love
that you're adventurous like that, but you were also driving around.
I did a little bit of it.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
But I have to say that's one thing I will
say in my twenties, that's one thing I really wish
I had done more of, because you just take it
for granted. I lived in New York City and I
never went to the cloisters. I never were like I
don't think I even went out to Long Island. I
never I just never left the city. I never left
the actual pad of the island of Manhattan. And it's
so dumb because there's so many amazing things to see
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in that area and hiking and all this great stuff.
But you just kind of get caught up in the
zone you're in. The same thing happened to me in Wilmington.
I just got I was just there. I didn't really
travel a lot, but I was also traveling across the
country because I was also in a relationship. And then
you know, it was like I was tired. It was
back and forth across the country every weekend. Just boys
made it dumb tired boys.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Boys. Yeah, so it wasn't the show that was the
the obstacle.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
Boys, I think that's a universal thing for anyone who
has a job. It's like, look, the job's a job,
but the boy is the problem.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Exactly, which will tie in Chay's question here about would
you rather have an all ladies' night at Trick or
watch a good game of basketball on the river court.
I'm saying ladies' night at Trick all the way. Tie
it up with your girls.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Yeah, Trick ruled like like you guys, hear us talk
about that set, and it were not exaggerating. It really
was the best set of all the sets. It was
so fun there were so many like corners. You could
go hide in and just like talk, get into trouble.
Then totally they'd call for first team. We'd hit our marks,
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we do our take, and then we go back to trouble.
It's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Yeah, so friends, go find your own version of trick
and grab your girlfriends and come back and see us
next week.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
Yeah, thanks for the questions, guys.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
Hey, thanks for listening.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
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