Spoofed and Spoiled • EP 817

Joy shocks Rob and Sophia by revealing how little time she had off after giving birth. Rob recalls the infamous “phantom tea scene” and toaster pastry jingle that landed their show on Talk Soup, while Sophia — from her time playing a police officer — can’t get over Nathan contaminating a crime scene.

Plus, Rob accidentally spoils a major plot twist for himself—and is left devastated.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
First of all, you don't know me.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
We all about that high school drama, girl drama, girl,
all about them high school queens. We'll take you for
a ride, and our comic girl shared for the right
drama queens girl girl fashion, but your tough girl, you
could sit with us. Girl drama, Queen drama, Queens drama,
Queens drama, drama, Queens drama, Queens.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Oh, guys, happy week. I was about to say the day,
and then I remember that these don't always drop me
the days we're recording.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
There you go, happy late late Sunday night, everyone, that's
the one. We're so glad you couldn't sleep and you
could be here to join us exactly. Hey, soph Hey joy, Hi.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Hi guys, how goes it?

Speaker 3 (00:46):
The episode? Can wait? I want to know how my
friends are doing.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
I'm good.

Speaker 3 (00:52):
How are you on that fun combination of overly tired
and overly caffeinated?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Mm hmm. I was telling Rob that as absolutely in
love with the planet as I am, and so happy
it's spring and everything is like gorgeous and green, I'm
also allergic to everything.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Oh no, so I am just.

Speaker 1 (01:13):
Like likewise caffeinating to get through how terrible I feel.

Speaker 4 (01:20):
My daughter is allergic to every flower except I think roses,
and that might be the only one. Maybe daisies, I'm
not sure, but it's so sad. I'm like bringing wild
flowers home and she immediately just I'm you gotta get
that out of the house. I can't preape, Like, oh no,
it's so sad.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
That's an expensive allergy that the only one that doesn't
make her sick is arguably one of the most expensive.
It's like, I'm only not allergic to orchids and roses.

Speaker 4 (01:50):
Know, it's so such a highbrow allergy. Yeah, do you
guys take bee pollen or purplis or anything, because I do,
and I don't have any allergies. You don't take this
on a regular basis.

Speaker 1 (02:03):
So if you've got bees, I was gonna say I
do all of it because I've been beekeeping forever. But
of course, you know, I know, what a crazy thing, right,
But it is actually sort of interesting because for years
I was like, yeah, local honey totally helps with allergies,
and da da da da. Yeah, And a doctor friend
of mine was like, you know, that's a really charming

(02:23):
but not true, and I was like, oh, well, I
really like the old wives tale of it all, and
I'm just going to keep it up.

Speaker 3 (02:31):
You're like, oh, are you a doctor of honey?

Speaker 1 (02:34):
No, Like, well, what you're not is a bee, so
who knows.

Speaker 4 (02:40):
But you know, we can't not be true. That makes
total sense though.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Well sure, but they were like, essentially what I thought was,
you know, you're getting trace amounts of the flora and
fauna around you in the honey. And they were like, no,
it's it's a completely processed thing that comes out on
the other side of a bee.

Speaker 4 (03:02):
Oh yeah, the honey doesn't the pollen will well.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Right, But the pollen is what most people are allergic to,
which is why when they give you an allergy shot,
like at the doctor, when you get that little tiny
dot dose kind of like a TB test. They give
it to you once a week for I don't know,
a whole summer, and then you build up build assistance
because it gives your body like a small shock of
the thing it doesn't like, rather than just fistfuls of pollen,

(03:28):
which seemed to be on every car. Yeah, the Tristate
area right now.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
I think it's if you ingest the pollen, like I
get local pollen in a jar and I take a
little tiny teaspoon of it and I just take it
every day in Propolis too, Yeah, little droplets. I take
like thirty drops of propylis a day and all my
allergies this season in Tennessee, because usually I don't have
many allergies, but here it gets really bad. I've been
taking this for a year and this year I've gotten zero.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
Oh that's crazy. Well, Propolis is actually really cool. We're
just really getting nerdy on the bee stuff.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Hey, if you're just tuning in, welcome back to the Buzz,
our weekly be only podcast.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
It's the for our friends at home. It's actually the
substance that bees make and essentially glue their hives shut with.
But it's actually it has antibiotic properties massive and so
it's really like you can make tea and stuff if
you're coming down with something, and it's pretty great. Yeah, antibacterial.
I guess I should have said not antibiotic.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Speaking of antibiotic properties, today, we're discussing season eight, episode seventeen,
The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get It, aired
March first, twenty eleven. Synopsis reads, As Hayley's do date approaches,
she takes steps to ensure that all her friends and
family will be ready when the time comes. Oh boy

(04:48):
does she. Brooke and Julian also prepare to be in
a family, while Chuck turns to Chase for help with
a problem. Directed by Les Butler, and it was written.

Speaker 4 (04:59):
I love love this episode so much.

Speaker 1 (05:01):
Yeah, it's so much fun. I remember it being really
fun to film too. Yeah, and just to keep the
levity going feels so nice. I will say, you know,
the way, we ended last week's episode not understanding the
title of this one, and it was typed in in
incorrect order, and then we got the right order, and

(05:22):
it still makes no sense. The smoker you drink, the
player you get? Did anybody I'm really asking because I
realized I definitely didn't. Did anybody remember to google what
the meaning of this song title is?

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Noop?

Speaker 1 (05:35):
Okay? Great?

Speaker 3 (05:35):
Cool?

Speaker 4 (05:36):
Still don't understand its relation to the episode.

Speaker 1 (05:40):
I don't either, because, by the way, the only drinking
happens at the frat party. I don't know. Anyway, I
don't get it. But here we are, guys, we've got bees.
Apparently someone is smoking somewhere, and you know, as Rob
said twenty eleven, what a blast from the past.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
Seriously, I feel we talked to this last episode, but
I feel as though we've just hit this really fun stride.
And I wonder if it was just because the writer's
room didn't know if this was going to be our
last so they were just like, let's just blow it out,
giving everyone happy endings. And because the last handful of

(06:18):
episodes have all been way lighter, way more fun and playful. Yeah,
and this one was no exception.

Speaker 4 (06:26):
I think they knew they weren't getting any new viewers.
It's not like people were suddenly tuning in season eight
and being like, let me start this show. I don't
think there was a lot of that happening, So I
think they felt like there was a lot of space
to just play.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
I don't know. I mean, if I've learned anything about
our show, it's that every year it finds a new audience.
But I do think, you know, I remember having like
a particularly special dinner with a couple of folks from
the writer's room coming into the end of season eight,
and it's like, you know, when you have that sort

(07:04):
of sense memory, I remember four of us sitting at
the bar at a restaurant and like how fun it
was because you had to huddle together and kind of
look like this down each side of the bar to
have a conversation. And it was a cool thing because
people were sharing stories and observations and things that even
though we'd all been together for eight years, they'd never

(07:25):
really done before. You know, when something's going to end,
you're like, God, I better make sure to say the
last thing or share the last thought. And I don't know,
I really do recall everyone being like, well, crazy that
we got this season seven and eight together, and crazy
that we're going to be done, and like everyone really
thought that the end of this season was going to

(07:47):
be it. Yeah, And so it does have this kind
of nostalgia. You know, it's like it's before the senioritis
clicks in and you have no desire to be there anymore,
but you know it's coming to an end and you
really want to go to every every gathering and every
school event before you leave.

Speaker 4 (08:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (08:07):
It has that sort of energy even in the in
the episodes.

Speaker 4 (08:10):
Yeah, to in the episode, for sure, I feel it.

Speaker 3 (08:12):
It also feels like it's the writers taking care of
the fans, because you know, sometimes when shows are wrapping up,
they'll they will do the like we're going to reach
for a cliffhanger to sort of force the network's hand
and give us another season, and it's that's that's all
fine and well, but that's them looking out for a
job for next year, Whereas on this one, it just
felt like they're like the writer's room going like, let's

(08:35):
just blow it out. Let's just have all the care.
Like in this episode, it's all of a sudden, we
have Clay, Julie and Nathan and chasing a scene, we
have Haley, like everyone was sort of crossing paths and
getting to play together, which is so much fun. So
really kind of in a way, I felt like all
they're they're taking care of the audience.

Speaker 4 (08:53):
Yeah, I agree, that's a great way to put it. Yeah,
I loved.

Speaker 1 (08:58):
That that sort of central perk scene for you guys,
it felt so reminiscent of friends to me. Starting with
you and Nathan. It's in the dicktris a diner. Oh yeah,
oh that was great, right, Like Nathan and Clay are
shooting the shit and they're joking about your taste and
food and you know, you're just having this moment and
then Chase comes in and then Julian comes in and

(09:20):
I don't know, it was so nice and I wish
we'd gotten to see more of that with you all.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
Do you remember that that is the infamous tea scene
that we got roasted for on Talk Soup.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
The tea scene because you were both having iced tea.

Speaker 3 (09:36):
No, there are Okay. First of all, there's two very
notable aspects of the scene. One, I remember this as
a product integration thing because there is we go way
out of our way to say AT and T's it's
sneaky though, right, So if you watch it again, because
it's we have this whole weird build up of about

(09:59):
like sixty seconds of content of just Nathan and Clay
talking about cell phone service and how it always drops
and why you got a text. And then if you watch,
the server comes up and Nathan goes, hey, Tea and T.
So again, my memory told me, oh, we were doing
a product integration, and then I watched it last night

(10:20):
I realized, No, that's a shot at AT and T,
and it's a reach a weird easter egg of a
shot at AT and T. The other aspect is so Talk
Soup took that clip because if you watch it, she
pours some iced tea in James's cup and then when
she goes to mine, here's the problem. When she goes
to mine, no tea makes it into the cup. However,

(10:43):
when they cut to the next shot, you do see
tea going into the cup. I think Talk Soup cut
it after just the first part because you can see
her clearly not pouring, and she's in the shot not pouring.
But then in the next angle you do see tea
going into the cup. So the eric kind of cherry
picking to make a meal of that.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Interesting, You're not You're definitely not bothered about it. In
the year twenty twenty five, Rob no.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Because again, like it's not like you had to wait,
It's like he cuts a different angle teas going in Wait.

Speaker 4 (11:14):
Talk Soup roasted you guys about about continuity.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
It was one of the like highlight clips of the year.
Was this iced tea see the phantom tea scene. Yeah,
it's so odd, but for god, the AT and T
thing there was. There's two moments in this episode where
I was like, did our boss have a bone to
pick with at and T? And the other one is
this weird moment where it's believe it's Haley and Quinn

(11:43):
and you're sitting at the table and oh, Psych, and
you go, uh, what should we do? Do you want
to watch Psych? And Quinn goes, is it good? And
you go eh, and then there's like a two seconds
of just dead air and then you move on like
it's a very weird shot at Psych? Did he have

(12:03):
a beef?

Speaker 4 (12:04):
Psych was a great show, by the way, which I
watched like every episode of and loved, and they had
they thought it was funny to make fun of Chad,
so they made fun of him on their show. James.
Is it James? I can't remember his name. I'm sorry.
I think it's James, the lead actor the other there's
two lead actors. He's one of them, the one who's

(12:26):
not Delay Hill, and he he would do this like
the brow furrow and like blah blah blah unless I'm
Chad Michael Murray and then he would do that, you know,
he would just like make fun of Chad and it
was kind of all in good fun, and it was.
It ended up on the soup as well. They did
a whole thing about Psych making fun of one Tree Hill.
So I guess our boss just wanted to try and

(12:46):
get back at them, but like, I don't know why
they chose me, because I loved that show and I
remember getting the material and being like, okay, like I
don't I'm really not sure how to make this work
in the context of the scene because it doesn't make
any sense and the line is meh. So it's not
like I can be like, yeah, yeah, that's good and

(13:06):
then we don't watch it, so yeah, it was not fun.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
So it's weird to suddenly want to stick up for
the person that you've gone out of your way to shine.
Like as soon as Chad left, like five episodes later,
there's a blatant dig at him that Paul's character delivered
to Daniil. So it's just odd to suddenly be like, well,
now I'm going to stick up for the person on
our show that I openly talked about. It's like Will

(13:34):
Ferrell talks about you and step brothers don't see you
taking any shots at Big Willie.

Speaker 4 (13:40):
I think they had done some episode where they overtly
said one tree Hill and it was no longer just
about oh the beef between the joking beef between these
two actors, which never even existed. I don't even know
if they've ever met. I know nothing about this other
than which show up on my television screen, but I

(14:03):
do think there was something in the in this a
recent Psych episode where they said one tree Hill and
it probably made our boss. It's just so dumb, It's
so childish. It's like middle school, like, can we just
mind our own business and make our own show? Do
we need to be doing this weird cross network?

Speaker 1 (14:22):
But what it screams of is just like, are you
guys are the people in charge of television shows high
school student?

Speaker 4 (14:29):
Yes?

Speaker 1 (14:29):
Like I am always shocked when adults play into high
school drama. I'm I don't know. Don't you look around
and go, aren't we too old for this? And the
irony is that, as cast members who were much younger
than our boss, and plenty of people on the writing staff,

(14:51):
we all were like, are we doing this?

Speaker 4 (14:54):
It's going weird?

Speaker 3 (14:55):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (14:56):
But I like that you guys figured out a way
to let it hang there and then move on because
you made it as irrelevant to the plot as it was,
And I guess works.

Speaker 4 (15:07):
Yes, I like to do exactly what's on the page
so you can see how stupid this is.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
Well, and it also sort of works because Haley's clearly bored,
and you know when you have that thing you're bored
or your house bound because you're sick or something, and
you're like, ugh, I want to do anything but this,
And I also don't want to do anything. Yeah, Like
do I want a snack? No, I'm kind of hungry though.

(15:30):
Do I want to watch a movie?

Speaker 3 (15:32):
No?

Speaker 1 (15:32):
I don't really want to scroll either. Like it plays
that way, and so I think in the context of
of you know, the Dirty Trick runner through the whole episode,
it works because Haley's bored and she's trying to have
a good time.

Speaker 4 (15:48):
Haley's bored and she's trying to figure out what to do,
and she sure does.

Speaker 3 (15:53):
Yeah, that was a great runner.

Speaker 1 (15:55):
It's so cute and I love you know. It harkens
back to what I think the Ladies did so well
in the last episode. The buttons would come back around,
you know, twenty a quarter of the way through the episode,
halfway through the episode later, and to have every single
person who came in the house have the same reaction
and use the same term made the runner of the

(16:17):
joke have a nice little button on it. I liked it.

Speaker 4 (16:20):
Yeah, did you notice high heels again, Haley in her
high heels.

Speaker 1 (16:25):
We are all in like, and they're not just heels,
they're like platforms.

Speaker 4 (16:30):
Yeah, they were like little peeptoe like pumps as far
as I saw anyway, But I don't like.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
The platform under your toes. And you are nine.

Speaker 4 (16:40):
Months pregnant, right, yeah, in these little these little peeptoe
pin and the jeans are like what is it called?
You know, in the skirt is like it's a pin.
What's it called?

Speaker 1 (16:52):
Tapered? They're skinny jeans, aren't they skuinea jeans?

Speaker 4 (16:56):
Yeah? Tapered. Yeah, there's a word with pin that I
can't think of it. But anyway, Yeah, it's just so silly.
And she's coming in the room like send me to
the send me to the hospital in my high heels,
and then Quin's trying to stuffer in the trunk of
the corn. I mean it was very funny. I liked
the I like the whole setup. But the heels have
got to go.

Speaker 3 (17:26):
The infamous Toaster Strudel song. Oh yes, we got to
talk about it because I how.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Much money did Toaster Strudell pay our show? That clearly,
you know, Chantal got none of but had zero. The
on camera commercial.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
Well, I don't know if that was the actual toaster
strudel jingle. No, she made that up, but toaster Strudels
was it. That's a legit product obviously, yes.

Speaker 1 (17:50):
But she also if you, if you clapped it in
the episode, couldn't say toaster strudel. Her song was toaster pastry,
and every single person says toaster pastry until shoot. Now
I can't remember who it was, if it was Levin
or if it was Austin. In the Brook Julian and
Chloe scene when Chloe's making one at our house, someone

(18:14):
says toaster strudel.

Speaker 4 (18:15):
And I went, yes, oh, and it must not.

Speaker 1 (18:18):
We must have missed it on the day and nobody
caught it.

Speaker 3 (18:23):
I think, yeah.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
I think even Levin says toaster pastry, and Austin must
have ad libbed something about a toaster strudle being delicious. Yeah,
and it made it in because they didn't they didn't
have a toaster pastry for him.

Speaker 3 (18:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (18:36):
The whole thing felt really bizarre.

Speaker 3 (18:39):
Well, you're right though, because I in my notes I wrote, oh,
the infamous toaster Strudel song, but then I went back
and I was like, no, everyone's saying pastry. Did I
misremember this? And it wasn't until the end of the episode.
You're right that scene where someone said toaster Strudel and
I was like, no, it's freaking toaster Strudels. I can
say behind the scenes that song was the bane of

(19:00):
Seantell's existence. Well becaurse she had to do it for
an entire episode. Then of course it was like people
like a conventions would be like sing the toasters pastry song.

Speaker 4 (19:10):
You know, she had to just make that up. She's like,
I don't know how to write music. I don't know
what this is supposed to sound, Like, what do I do?

Speaker 3 (19:18):
Wait? She had to make that up?

Speaker 1 (19:20):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (19:20):
No, yeah, really that wasn't scripted.

Speaker 4 (19:24):
My memory of it is her talking to me about
having to make that up and trying to figure out
what the hell to sing.

Speaker 3 (19:29):
If she ad lib that, she did an incredible job.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
They would have had to write the words for her though,
and be like do something like this, So she had
to like make up a melody.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
Correct, that's what I mean. I would say, sorry, I
mean to imply the words. Yeah, the melody. She had
to just figure out how to like there were words
on a page. She was like, what the hell am
I supposed to do with this?

Speaker 3 (19:48):
But are we? Are we sure? Every time she sang
the jingle, she didn't say strudle because one of the
rhymes is a tasty doodle.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
Doodle put toast or pastry. You taste so good and
yummy toaster or pastry, get inside my tummy.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
That's It's something about the stroudel, the frosting doodle.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
Yeah, and then that circles back with strudel.

Speaker 1 (20:12):
I wonder if this is going to be the episode
where everyone at home is like, Okay, it's official, send
these three.

Speaker 3 (20:18):
To take a nap.

Speaker 1 (20:20):
They're done, they're cooked, goodbye.

Speaker 3 (20:22):
I listened for thirty minutes and all they talked about
was bees and strudels. What happened to this podcast?

Speaker 4 (20:29):
Not for nothing? A honey strudle I would not say
no to.

Speaker 3 (20:31):
I'd party with that.

Speaker 1 (20:33):
Well, here's what I will say. I I thought that
a lot of this, you know, referring to what we
were talking about earlier, there's a sweetness and a nostalgia
even some of what's very stupid, which clearly got us landed.
I'm surprised this whole episode wasn't just an entire episode
of Talk Soup. But I love Hayley's Runner, and I

(20:55):
do really love the paint story line for Brooke and Julian.
As soon as we were in the paint store, I
literally went, oh, soft, duckling is coming. Like I remembered
how sweet that felt, and I remembered, you know, thinking
about exactly that moment for you know, for friends of ours.

(21:18):
I mean, I think at this point, you know, Hillary
was one of our only friends who'd had a kid,
You were about to have a kid, And I think
about now what it's been like to help so many
people put kids rooms together, and there's something so universally
precious about it, and I like that it offered this
sort of this sort of nesting energy for Brooke and Julian,

(21:42):
but Brook in particular. And then Chloe's in the bed
that used to be Peyton's bed and then it was
Sam's bed, and now this girl who is theoretically going
to give this couple this baby is in this space
and you kind of get to track this evolution, and
even Brooke bringing up, yeah, I have I have this
friend Peyton who used to have a black bedroom. And

(22:04):
then that goes up on the wall and it's like,
I don't know. I thought it was a great way
to sort of represent if we are really ending the show,
if season eight is going to be it like, look
at this life we've lived with all these people, and
it was cool to see it in those sort of quiet,
reflective moments. I liked that.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
Can I ask you a question? I want to jump
around a little bit here? Time was but do I
recall correctly? And if by some chance there's a listener
who hasn't watched any future episodes, like just turn it
down for like thirty seconds. You guys, it's twins.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
Right, we don't get the baby.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Holy I just spoiled it for myself. Okay, sorry, let's
go back to the conversation.

Speaker 4 (22:48):
Well if.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Wow, I damn it. I shouldn't have asked a question.
This is what I get. Okay, welcome, shake it off. Yeah,
I'm so disappointed now. And you know what it kind.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
Of is when you think about it, it's this really
nice build up that's been happening, and we have that you,
me and Chantelle have so much fun with Jackson. In
the next episode, we have our Saltine challenge, like waiting
for all these women to have all these babies. It's
so good, and then you get the highlight and the
and the crash, and so it's weird because in a way,

(23:29):
obviously I know what's coming. It was a big storyline
for us, but it's weird to watch it and be like,
oh man, we really did have this sort of pure excitement,
And I like that it wasn't overdone, and I like
that we were really even though some of it feels
a little like whitewash prescriptive in terms of the adoption storyline.

(23:54):
To me, I like that most of it feels a
little complicated, bittersweet, and you don't always say the right thing,
and it's nerve wracking. And you know, what does a
young girl do if she finds herself pregnant in this situation?
What does someone struggling with infertility do? Like, I think

(24:14):
it's so I think most of it is so good.
And then yeah, I remember getting the script for the
next episode and just being love, course, we're gonna just
pull the rug out from under people.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
And I'm not even just devastated. I'm now pre devastated.
This is sorry. This is a hard way to start
a Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
You should just watch it tonight and get it over with,
write your notes and then be done.

Speaker 3 (24:54):
Did anyone notice when he's handing back the tests there's
a close up insert shot of the first tests going
down on a desk, and the student's name is less Butler.
No director of this episode. He threw a little easter
egg in there for himself.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
That's cute.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
The next batch of tests go down and it's too
I forget. What's Quentin's character's name?

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Hmmm, Oh no, I've forgotten because Quenton is such a
memorable guy.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
Yeah, well to his character, and the note is his
letter grade is d D. And then he finishes spicablepable Tommy, Tommy, yes,
tell her man, listen. That guy is a real turns
in the punch bowl.

Speaker 1 (25:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Yeah, I'm not a fan, but I did like this storyline.
I like that they're drawing it out a little, keeping
it interesting. I feel like, is this the storyline that
leads Nathan to be kidnapped by the Serbian mafia? No,
it's not, okay, isn't that in season nine? Yeah? Yeah, okay,
I think yeah.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
This is I believe this is the story that gets
us to the scene on the bridge where Clay goes
all John Cena and top rocks Kellerman into the river.

Speaker 4 (26:11):
Geez, wow, there's so much coming up that I did
not I was pregnant, y'all. I was so checked out.
I did not know what was happening on the show
at this point.

Speaker 1 (26:20):
It's okay, that feels fair.

Speaker 4 (26:22):
I was about to pop.

Speaker 1 (26:23):
I knew there were a few sort of indicators about
what was coming. I had forgotten where Ian Kellerman's storyline
was going to go. And uh, when when you when
when Hayley and Quinn are sitting talking, you know about
all this nostalgia, and then it's like, and can you

(26:44):
believe they haven't found the car? I was like, this
is a weird left. Oh. I was like, right, it's
it's the exposition she has to give, which obviously this
is the place for it to go, because they're reflecting
on parenthood and what's coming. But it felt like a
real It just felt like a device, not like a

(27:07):
real shift in the conversation between these two sisters. And
then I was like, right, right, right, the wagoneer. We
had to repeat the Wagoneer because Nathan's going to go
in the garage. Got it?

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yeah, yeah, because in real life, you just say, can
you believe they haven't found the person who did that?
But she had to go? Can you believe they haven't
found the nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety wagon year with
the damage.

Speaker 1 (27:29):
Actually at the time listed as ox blood red.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
I wouldn't be surprised if there was an empty bottle
of liquor in that car.

Speaker 1 (27:36):
Yeah, it was a bourbon because a hit and run
driver really seems like a bourbon drinker, don't they Like
it's so silly.

Speaker 4 (27:43):
I was wondering why that was in the flash but
like in the last, last week or last time previously
on one trail and they were showing that. I was like,
this is such a random thing for them to show.
Why are they showing this clip because there's nothing in
the episode about you saving anybody's life or anything else.
And it was yeah, for that, it was that.

Speaker 3 (28:00):
It was also a bit of a hat on a
hat for Nathan to find the empty liquor bottle in
the car, because it's like he already hit and run
and almost killed people. Like it's it's bad enough. I mean,
and we obviously see as an alcohol problem. I mean,
the real takeaway is that this guy does not he's
a very messy person. Yes, he hasn't cleaned his car

(28:22):
in weeks, guys.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
I didn't need anything more than just the shot in
the window. You could see the liquor bottle like peeking
out from the seat. It's fine, like that already is
more than enough. But the fact that he is to
open the door and pull out and hold the water bottle,
the liquor bottle in for the camera, it's just so.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
For a neat tidy insert. And by the way, and
perhaps this comes from then having gone to do half
a decade of a police show. I'm like, don't touch
the evidence. Don't you just put your fingerprints all over
the car, prints all over.

Speaker 4 (28:50):
The bottle bottle? So stupid, you are.

Speaker 1 (28:53):
Literally contaminating on crime scenes, sir. And furthermore, what ding
dong who's hit and run? I mean, I get that
you're putting the car in the garage to hide it
from view, but you're not going to like put a
car cover over it in the garage for plausible deniability,
for I don't know anyone who might walk through your house.
You live with your parents, Like you don't think your

(29:14):
parents are going to notice the mangled vintage suv next
to the rear door of your home. The whole thing
was just silly to me.

Speaker 3 (29:22):
Also, where's the bright green Porsche exactly?

Speaker 4 (29:26):
That's that would be in the garage? Yeah, silly silliness. Well,
there's plenty of other grit that. You know. What else
was silly was Milli in that chicken costume.

Speaker 1 (29:36):
But let me tell you good.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
She pulled it off.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
That was incredible.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Yes, I mean that takes a lot of gumption to
be able to stand there in a chicken outfit and
say that and just you know what, I'm just going
to say the things that I'm going to say, regardless
of what I look like right now, and people will
take me seriously because of what I'm saying. Yeah, that's
a lot of that's a big gamble. I loved her
for it.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Yeah, it was so great and it was very cool too.
I loved Lisa's choice because you've seen the Mouth and
Milly sort of back and forth about the issue at
the apartment, and she's made the decision that she's not
going to do this, She's not going to try to
push any buttons, and then it's you watch her as
she's reading you know, her little fact sheet, and she

(30:24):
has that moment where she goes, I don't know, I
couldn't read it because it was all in caps, and
it just like there's something about seeing it right in
front of her face. She chooses for that to be
the absurdity that hits her, and when she looks up,
I was like, there she goes. But I knew the
rant was coming and I was so excited about it,
and it was such it was such a great way

(30:46):
to differentiate the conversation at home and then the inspiration
for that gumption to come out of her under that
street sign. She's just so fun to watch.

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Yeah, I agree. My note was Lisa should be in
a chicken costume every week.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Lisa just needs a show she does. I just want
to I want to watch her do everything. And I
loved too. It's so much fun the misdirect, especially because
Alex has been in our world now for two seasons.
When the guy comes up to the girls at the
bar and she's like, oh, yeah, it's me, Like I'm
used to this and he's like, you're the angry chicken lady.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (31:28):
It's just so the whole thing is so good, so good.

Speaker 4 (31:33):
Speaking of Jana at the bar. Do we know that
Jana knows Ian Kellerman or not Jana whatever, Alex.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
I mean no, up until this very moment.

Speaker 4 (31:44):
Okay, there was no other clue that I missed. That
was the first time. That was another that felt a
little too far fetched for me, Like we really really
everyone in town knows everyone else to this degree.

Speaker 1 (31:57):
Come on, And it was good at least to have
her say to Chase, just a guy I met. Yeah,
but I'm like, Alex Dupray is gonna hook up with a.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
College student exactly, Like, let's let's not forget for a moment.
He hasn't signed any big deals. Yeah, he's like a
twenty year old kid. Yeah, that's it. So it's weird
that like some movie star would be like, oh my gosh,
he has a great fast ball and.

Speaker 4 (32:26):
The implications they've already hung out together before, like she's
already slept with him because that's what he's testing her.

Speaker 1 (32:31):
He's basically like, come over for round two, and here's
what's crazy. And Rob, you know, we obviously haven't done
as much of it since you joined us on the show,
but there were many a story in the first seasons
of drama queens for Joy and Hilary and myself to
talk about many a dumb decision we made in our
early twenties, partially because we were trapped in a town

(32:55):
as young girls on TV and the only people there
were either college students or like retired dads in their
sixties looking for their third wife. And we've joked about,
you know, how small our dating pool was, and so literally,
I'm like, this is the fantasy of an older guy

(33:16):
to be like, yeah, the movie star is totally gonna
want to hook up with the young baseball stude. I'm like,
the last thing a girl in her mid twenties who
is famous wants to do is hook up with the
guy from UNCW. I'm sorry, I don't care how good
looking you are. I don't care. Like we're just never
gonna do it. Yeah, And it was so funny to
me to be like, wow, they just they don't get it.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (33:40):
And it's also it would be odd if it was
I mean, any other character. It would make more sense
because to a normal person there's a shot of big
things to come for this guy. So it's like I
could be I could be a part of a journey
of maybe being famous and rich. Yeah, you can't pick
the one person in town who's famous and rich. You

(34:00):
got to be like, what if he makes it, It's
like you've already made it. What are you're talking?

Speaker 4 (34:06):
What is the appeal?

Speaker 3 (34:08):
Yeah? I will say I loved seeing a softer, saner
side of Alex. Yeah, when she gets to sort of
just stay sort of a at a lower gear and
just be sincere. Like that whole thing with Chase with
the glasses. That was funny. Yeh, it's I know it's

(34:29):
the times and it's our past, but like, I don't
love how fast and loose everyone is with throwing the
sex tape in her face. Like Chase has that line
of like, yeah everyone can see her, but JJ on
a sex tape, but you're worried about glasses. It's like, bro,
come on man, but whatever that aside.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yeah, he could have just said you made a sex
tape and you're worried about about glasses or whatever, like.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
Yeah, yeah, this is like the third time he's just casually.

Speaker 4 (34:55):
Specifically talk about her vagina. Can we can we be?

Speaker 1 (34:57):
Yeah? Like maybe let's not.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Yes, it was very heavy handed, but seeing her like this,
this version of herself with Chase. It makes it really
easy to root for her.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
Yeah, And you know, one of the things I really
liked as well is rather than do what we've seen
so many of you guys do who are musical on
the show and shock us all with a beautiful song,
I actually love that they wrote it for her to
be sitting and listening and questioning is it good enough,

(35:29):
especially because her voice is so beautiful and it's nice
to your point, Rob, you're making me realize, like, oh,
that's exactly what a lot of this episode is. It's
a quiet kind of reflection for Alex and that's really
refreshing to see because yes, Jenna can make anything work,
and yes she's so talented, particularly with the over the

(35:52):
top comedy stuff, but it's really nice to see this
quiet because then at the end it's just something that
kind of carries through and she doesn't announce anything to anyone.
You watch her just think about it quietly and try
to make different choices. And that's really cool.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
Speaking of quiet moments, did anyone else notice at the
end of the diner scene, Nathan and Chase have taken off,
and as we say goodbye, there's just a two shot
of Julian and Clay sitting next to each other. I
didn't remember this until watching it back, So go ahead

(36:34):
and watch that back because there's a very charged moment
of silence where everyone leaves the table and we both
look at each other and then we have some sort
of thinking that goes on and then we quickly look away.
And it made me laugh so hard because I had
forgotten we did this. But we one hundred percent were like,

(36:55):
let's just add a weird layer of like there is
something between us and just not address it. Unless liked
it and kept it in. But I immediately laughed. I
was like, damn it. When we had Austin on the show,
I was joking about the fan fiction people should write
yeah about Clay and Julian. I was like, Holy, this
is it. This is the seed.

Speaker 4 (37:14):
I missed it. I have to go back and watch.

Speaker 1 (37:17):
You guys are so funny in that moment. But what
really set it up for me to make that smash
is that as the you know, it's you two and
then Chase and then Julian comes in and the four
boys are mashed into this very small little booth. They leave,
but before they have, as everyone's talking about what they
want to order. You say something about mashed potato. Know,

(37:39):
Nathan says something about mashed potatoes, and Julian's like, well, yeah,
I want mashed potatoes, and you guys look at each
other like yes because you just said that. Yeah, And
now it's this of like the awkwardness I read was
a little bit of like while we're sitting really close
to each other and also like we both do want
mashed potatoes. Yeah, and it's just great. It's like, is

(38:01):
it is it feeling.

Speaker 3 (38:08):
I'm watching this scene? I felt like this. It was
very apparent to me that the writer's room had really
come to see who I was, like Rob, not Clay,
and just start leaning into that for the character. Yeah,
because it's like it's it starts to get weird and silly,
and Clay is like really leaning into it, like that

(38:29):
whole thing about Uh, it's hard to say no when
someone calls you and ask you to smuggle like five
kilos and then and then I go on and on
and everyone's like okay, okay, and then I lean and
I'm like in your but.

Speaker 4 (38:42):
Like just the one last thing, even James kind of
broke a little on that. It was so good.

Speaker 3 (38:48):
We had so much fun doing that. But to me,
I was like, oh, okay, yeah, they're just they're kind.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
Of because remember how long it was, like, Oh my god,
is this guy ever going to be able to like
they bring in a comic genius and you're just gonna
load him up with all of this drama non stop,
like crazy ghosts and depression and psycho stalkers and like,

(39:13):
good grief, let this man laugh.

Speaker 1 (39:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:16):
So wow, Seriously go back and watch the end of
the scene. And I'm telling you because it's not it was.
I remember us deliberately doing it, thinking it was funny
and also one of those things where it was like, dude,
there's no way in hell this is going to make it,
but let's just do one like this, and it made it.
So go back and watch and you will now that
you're looking for it, it is clear as day that

(39:39):
there's an untold story happening.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
This is the This is the stuff I love about acting.
This is the play that you know, we show up,
we get paid to show up and say our lines,
But it's the play in all the in between that
really is what makes it so fun. All the layers
you get to create that sometimes people catch and and
they like or don't like, and then sometimes they don't
catch it and it just floats right on in.

Speaker 1 (40:03):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (40:04):
How about Chloe? Did anyone else get confused that she was? Like,
she's a boundaryless cat Burglar, Yeah, a little bit. Brook
and Julian come home and she's just sitting on the
counter hanging out. And to Brook and Julian's credit, because
obviously they're in a position where they need to not
rock the boat with her, they're cool about it.

Speaker 4 (40:27):
She's on Brook's bed hanging out, eating yogurt or whatever.

Speaker 3 (40:30):
So she showed up, she knocked, and she just thought,
you know what, I'm gonna go ahead and look for
a high to key. It was just it was wild
to me.

Speaker 4 (40:38):
It's very sam energy to me, like maybe they were
trying to recreate that vibe of Samantha. It just it did.
It did feel a bit out of place, like it
hadn't been earned yet.

Speaker 1 (40:50):
And you know what would have been such an easy
fix is if we'd come in and she's making a
snack and then it's like, but why are you here?
And she said, oh right, I came to tell you
guys something, and I have to pee every five minutes. Look, you,
I found your hide a key. You know you would
have been like, oh, okay, yeah, pregnant women do have

(41:11):
to pee all the time. Yeah, Like if there'd been
some version of or.

Speaker 4 (41:19):
If she'd been coming out of the bathroom instead of
making a sandwich even a little bit like good, kay,
it's understandable, Yes, that's fine, but going in my fridge,
like I know you're going to give me your baby,
but we haven't established these bit But she's nineteen, so
I don't know. Maybe maybe kids assume things.

Speaker 1 (41:36):
Yeah, I would have appreciated them grounding it for her
a little more than just being like, we've made Seantelle
eat eight toaster pastries today, and we'd also like someone
else to want one, like for.

Speaker 3 (41:48):
What well, And it was odd when we cut to
later in the day and she's laying on the bed
in the guest room. Yeah, oh oh, are we going
to find out she's living out of her car?

Speaker 5 (42:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (42:00):
Like is she homeless?

Speaker 3 (42:01):
Like sand And then that sort of makes more sense
that she's just showing up and lingering. But that doesn't
seem like that's where it's going. I did like the
way that you played the scene so of going like
as she's just eating a plate of oreos. In fact,
she's not even eating the cookie, She's just eating the awasting,
fake ingredient cor frosting that you were like, say, would

(42:22):
you like some fruit with that frosting? Maybe maybe a
vegetable or too. She's trying so hard to be like,
how about one nutrient? Can we get one nutrient in there?

Speaker 1 (42:32):
Just some sort of antioxidant for you and the baby?

Speaker 5 (42:36):
So sweet, It's really it's it's cool, and I like,
I like though that they let us, or at least
they gave us space, and I thought lested really well
with it.

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Have discomfort and awkwardness because we don't know each other,
and then have these moments of ease and humor and
figuring each other out, and then you know, even the
screw ups of it would really help if we knew.
And then of course she doesn't want to know. Of course,

(43:12):
Brook's not thinking about this because she's so excited about
this other part, and you know, Chloe hasn't communicated that
and then has to and the sort of fits and
starts of it I thought were really they were just
nice to play. I'm glad we didn't do some totally
Pollyannish version of it. And I think Levin is so

(43:37):
she's so grounded in, you know, the moments and the emotion.
She doesn't have to do a lot to communicate a lot.
And I liked that we were communicating, albeit awkwardly, not
with what we were saying, but with what we were
trying to say. I always think that's the mark of good,
good writing for sure.

Speaker 3 (44:11):
Let's talk about Chuck and Chase real quick. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (44:14):
I wanted to pivot there too, because that was my
favorite besides Mouth and Millie.

Speaker 3 (44:17):
But also Millie saying how clucked up is that? I
don't know how that didn't catch on because that was great.
But Chuck and Chase, it was all. It was also sweet.
There's also some funny elements to it. One I thought, like,
my Chase is having him standing with Chuck, has his
back to the wall, meaning if he hits the ball,

(44:39):
he's hitting it at a room full of customers and
glass and glass. But then I thought, oh, but how
funny if he did that because he knows that this
kid cannot hit a ball to save his life. And
then later so for and also like total jerk move,
laughing like when a kid gets vulnerable. You got a
button that shit up, you know, But I don't know

(44:59):
if you is this. So Chase later goes to Chuck's
house to apologize. He goes to the window and he knocks.
It gets weirder. I have a different layer for you.
So it is weird that he knocks and you hear Chuck,
go go away, mister mee Hall. I told you to
leave me alone. So Chuck is clearly dealing with some

(45:20):
sort of pervert predator. But here's where it got even weirder.
I rewound it, and you know how, I don't know
if you like I watch this on my computer. If
you rewind it on Apple TV, it'll do ten seconds
of subtitles for you. So when I rewound it, when
he says, he clearly says go away, mister mee Hall.
The subtitle is go away mister Kowalski. What as in

(45:43):
like Pete? Well, like the only Kowalski we know on
the show is obviously are.

Speaker 4 (45:47):
All love Everybody loves Today, which.

Speaker 3 (45:49):
Made me wonder if, like in the original script it
was Kowalski and then Pete or someone was like hey, no, no,
and they changed it. But the subtitles are off of
the script or something.

Speaker 4 (46:00):
But if you go back and do that, that's horrendous.

Speaker 3 (46:02):
It's not even like they were listening and like, oh
it sounds like this, No, it's me Hall, but the
subtius says, go away, mister Kowalski.

Speaker 4 (46:09):
Oh my gods, that's such a frat boy thing that
the you know, the crew would do that a lot
in it. I mean, it's it was always fun, like
putting less Butler's name on the homework sheet. You know,
they would use crew members' names all the time as
parts of you know, posters that were going up or whatever,
a character's name just to just be fun because it's

(46:29):
a fun, friendly community in sweet ways. And that totally
sounds like something somebody wrote as a joke and then
didn't end up correcting it later.

Speaker 1 (46:40):
I absolutely hate that.

Speaker 4 (46:42):
That sucks.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Yeah, that was so that was just.

Speaker 4 (46:45):
Also just gross, Like why why is that in the show.

Speaker 3 (46:50):
It's as if the kid doesn't have it bad enough.

Speaker 1 (46:53):
My note for that is I was like, first of all,
we have a grown man trapesing down the side of
a house in the dark to kind of child's window,
which yes, it's Chase, but it's weird enough, yeah, and
then the kid's response is to assume it's a different
creepy girl man, And I'm like, why are we making
a joke out of? Like what is that?

Speaker 3 (47:16):
Also, it's extra folk, It's like it's extra shoe leather
we didn't need. Because Chase then immediately goes to the
front door to meat Chuck. So it's like, why would
you go to his window in the first place. That
all you do. The only reason you go to someone's
windows if you don't want their parents to know.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
Correct.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
So so that was all kinds of weird. Their story
got better though, when they went to the park. He
puts on the glasses. He drills that ball so.

Speaker 4 (47:45):
Great line drive right into Chase's stomach.

Speaker 3 (47:49):
He hits a line drive into Chase's sternam and by
the way, Steven, who's great with physical comedy, did that
perfect getting hit jump and then I love as he's
getting up kind of wheezing, He's like, yeah, you need glasses,
But was that cgi because there's no way.

Speaker 4 (48:04):
I don't know. I'm sure it had to be.

Speaker 3 (48:07):
It had to be. It was too perfect.

Speaker 1 (48:09):
Well that or that was a stunt setup because that
was clearly when you see Chase fall, it's from so
far back it's over Chuck's shoulder. Like that had to
be a stunt person who literally threw their body to
the ground. So I wonder if they I wonder if
they hid like a ball launcher, you know, yeah, oh

(48:33):
yeah in front of like they got Chuck's shoulder in
but they actually had a like a ball launcher, so
they knew in the right.

Speaker 4 (48:40):
And maybe Stephen was wearing a pad.

Speaker 3 (48:42):
See that makes sense because if you also watch it
back because again as one of the ones I went
back to like four times, they they do three different
shots they do they go like fifty to fifty and
then they go like at Chase, and then they cut
to a third one. It's so actually you're probably right.
They probably told cheated it. But that's what those first
two in to be, like it's these two, it's these two,

(49:03):
and then it's not the kid.

Speaker 1 (49:04):
It looked great good.

Speaker 4 (49:07):
So for those of you who don't know, Less Butler
was our editor for one of our editors for a
very long time, and so he really is skilled at
this would have been This was a great example of
a way that a great editor can make a shot work.
You just line up a few different shots, but the
timing down to the millisecond of making it all move
smoothly enough that unless you're looking for it, it just

(49:30):
looks perfectly seamless. Yeah, it's a great example of that
what a good editor can do. But I love this storyline.
I'm so glad that we're continuing with Chase showing up
for Chuck. I'm really invested in Chuck's well being. Yeah,
I really want to see him win. I just care.
I love this kid now.

Speaker 1 (49:51):
Yeah, And it's really, you know, there's something to it.
We're not saying it, but even the idea that this
little boy has gone this long clearly with a site
problem and no one's identified it. It's it's just continuing
to reinforce the truth that if you invest in kids,

(50:13):
they really get to flourish. And it's nice to have
that be in the mix of the often sort of
you know, dramatic car crash sexy love story world of
a TV show. It's nice to have this other thing
and it works too.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
It still works with the storyline of investing in people
that are younger than you, which we've done on our
show consistently throughout, you know, you with Sam and Hayley,
with Quentin, I feel like there's always these younger mentor moments.
So I love seeing that Chase is doing that now
and oh them laughing at him when he put his

(50:52):
glasses on. I agree with you, Rob, but I don't
know if you noticed this. When Chuck put the glasses on,
he turned around and then he made this, He made
a face, he smiled really goofy, And that's to me
what I was like, Oh, I thought they were laughing
because he was making fun of himself, like making a
goofy face and sort of giving them permission to laugh.

(51:13):
So anyway, that worked well for me, that to make
them not just look like dicks that were just laughing
at a kid they had only moments ago told they
weren't going to laugh at.

Speaker 1 (51:23):
It was a really good choice either by Less or
the prop department or them together to put Chuck in
a very exaggerated, like almost nineteen fifties cat eye adjacent
pair of glasses. It added to the humor in a way.
You know, if they'd given him like a cool Clark
Kent pair of frames, it wouldn't have worked the same.

(51:46):
And so you know, Michael May being such a good sport,
playing Chuck and leaning into his own physical comedy and
making the face and the glasses being so like nineteen fifties,
you know, Lady and the Boys. It made it just
made for a lot.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
Of fun, very cute, and it also helps land the
joke about why Alex would be insecure about people seeing
her in them, But then it begs the question, like,
you're an adult, why wouldn't you just go buy a
pair that you look good in? But regardless, it's so.
It was very funny on Michael May honorable mentions. What
do we got?

Speaker 1 (52:24):
Yeah, chicken suit, Yeah, chicken suit all day.

Speaker 3 (52:30):
I'm going to go the runner of Haley auditioning everyone
she knows for her labor driver.

Speaker 4 (52:37):
Yeah that was fun. That was fun.

Speaker 3 (52:40):
That was great.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
Yeah. I liked the reaction when she tries to pull
it over on Clay and Nathan and y'all are already
yeah already, Wise, go ahead.

Speaker 3 (52:50):
And force those knees together, Hails. Yeah, it's a Clay
says something that effect.

Speaker 4 (52:55):
Oh yeah, I remember. That was fun to shoot and
you losing the keys down the down, Acy bent.

Speaker 1 (53:02):
It was a really fun day.

Speaker 4 (53:03):
Yeah, I did enjoy that. What's our listener question?

Speaker 1 (53:07):
Brenda asks, This question is for joy. Did you film
all the way up to having your daughter? Whose idea
was it to put you in the heels while filming
in your third trimester, especially when Haley is home in
her own house. Grenda, we have been talking about this
for two weeks.

Speaker 4 (53:24):
A girl after my own heart. Let me tell you,
I know, can you imagine what woman in her right
mind walks around in heels in her home in her
third trimester? I would like to meet that woman. So yes,
I filmed all the way up to having my daughter.
I did. And it's one of the reasons why my
storyline became very sporadic and unrelated to many other storylines,

(53:48):
because they weren't sure at what moment I might have
to disappear and go have a baby and be gone
for two weeks. So yeah, just episode by episode kept filming,
and Maria was two weeks late. Actually, so kind of

(54:08):
through everything.

Speaker 3 (54:09):
Buddy, did you only take two weeks off?

Speaker 1 (54:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (54:13):
Holy cow, that's bonkers, man.

Speaker 4 (54:17):
Yeah, it was wild.

Speaker 3 (54:19):
Wow, you are a soldier. I did not realize that
was all the time you took after creating and delivering
a human to the America. Yeah, right, she'll walk it off,
she'll be fun.

Speaker 1 (54:32):
Bill paid leave and two weeks is you're told, is
a luxury? Like absolutely insane.

Speaker 4 (54:39):
I remember us filming a scene at the hospital later
after I'd had my daughter, and it was I think
but kind of right after I came back and I
was still in pain, and I remember asking I started
to walk and it was when we filmed at the hospital,
we had this area, so we parked our trailers and

(55:01):
then there was this massive area that felt like an
acre maybe of just rocks, and they were all these
little it wasn't tiny gravel rocks. They were like no,
they're like big river rock, plunky rocks. Yeah. That you
had to walk across all the way up to get
to the hospital doors where then all the filming would be.
And I started to walk and I was just like

(55:23):
my body just hurt. I mean, I had a baby.
So I had asked them, I was like, we're at
a hospital. Is there like a wheelchair in there? Could
I just like get a lift please? Just like a
little lift over to set. And I remember they brought
one out and I got The producers came to me
and they were like we heard you like had needed
a wheelchair to set like that seems really dramatic.

Speaker 3 (55:45):
Are you okay the all male producing team the way, Yeah.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
Just like yep, just fine, just you know, just had
a little baby, that's all.

Speaker 1 (55:54):
Just needed a little extra You're like, I just actually
have a football size open wound inside my abdomen. But
thank you so much for asking.

Speaker 4 (56:02):
Yeah, yeah, no, no problem. Sorry to be over dramatic.
I'm so sorry to like.

Speaker 3 (56:07):
We heard you're being hysterical. Would you like to tilan all.

Speaker 4 (56:13):
It just took you so long with the wheelchair over
the rocks, you know, yeah, you need to go slow
because of all the you know rocks. But we made it.
We're here, oh lord yea America. So anyway, Brenda, thanks
for your question. We'll have lots more of those pregnancy stories,
I'm sure, as as the baby baby gets closer.

Speaker 1 (56:37):
Also, for anyone else who liked the Three of Us
thinks a two week maximum is insane, you should probably
follow Paid Leave for All. They're a great nonpartisan organization
trying to advocate for you know, actual parental leave.

Speaker 3 (56:53):
I love that. Yeah, pretty great, good plug.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
You know you can come for the drama and you
can stay for the for the wonderful community organizing. Yes, now,
who's getting the wheel?

Speaker 3 (57:15):
Most likely to cry during a rom comid?

Speaker 4 (57:22):
Julian, Oh yeah, yeah, Julian and skills.

Speaker 3 (57:26):
Oh my god, how about in real life?

Speaker 4 (57:33):
I mean, so if you do, if it's a good one,
I'll cry. But yeah, I don't know. Rom com seem
to be kind of a diamond dozen now. I mean,
I'm in a lot of them. I shouldn't say that.

Speaker 3 (57:44):
Name names Joy name names.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
Yeah, but but if it's a real like I love
those old nineties ones like Lawrence kan and like the
you know, Tom Hanks, make Ryan Sandra Bullock, love those
old ones. Those ones always get me.

Speaker 1 (57:56):
Yeah, those get me And I'm definitely a crier.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
I love it all right, ging come back out join
us next week. We got season eight, episode eighteen with
a much better title, Quiet Little Voices.

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