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August 25, 2025 34 mins

From ‘Chris Keller’ to playing ‘The King,’ One Tree Hill’s Tyler Hilton takes on this DQ Q&A like a pro. Hear how he’s nothing like his cruel character, the real reason he left the show, and the roof-top scene we’ll never see that gets him emotional all over again. 

 

Plus, Tyler takes us back to performing with Taylor Swift before appearing in her music video and why playing Elvis in “Walk the Line” almost didn’t happen until a certain Oscar winner convinced him to take the role of ‘The King of Rock & Roll.”

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

Speaker 2 (00:02):
All about that high school drama girl Drama girl, all
about them.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
High school queens.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
We'll take you for a ride and our comic girl
sharing for the right teams Drama Queens. J's my girl
of girl fashion, but your tough girl, you could sit
with us Girl Drama Queens, Drama Queens, Drama Queens, Drama Drama, Queens,
Drama Queens.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Sure are you.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Ready for this?

Speaker 5 (00:27):
I'm ready? Are you ready for this?

Speaker 4 (00:31):
Barely? I mean I couldn't anyone.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
No.

Speaker 4 (00:34):
I rarely do I get myself all dolled up for
a guest, but I was so excited for this one.

Speaker 5 (00:42):
Yeah, you look great. Awaken a live.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
My mystic Tan appointment fell through, so I don't have
the glow that I was hoping for, But you know,
I got my hair dolled up and I couldn't sleep
last night because this. I have been waiting for this
guest since I joined Drama Queens, and I was devastated
to learn that this guest was not in season seven
or eight, so I have had to wait.

Speaker 6 (01:06):
Waiting has paid off because he's finally here. Ladies and gentlemen,
please put your hands together for the inimitable Tyler Hilton.

Speaker 4 (01:18):
Whoah oh look at you.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Goodness you God.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
For those of you not watching on YouTube, apparently Tyler
has Benjamin Button's disease because he looks younger than he
ever has and twice is handsome. The glow up is real.

Speaker 3 (01:36):
Coming from the go. You agree?

Speaker 5 (01:39):
Where are you, Tyler name.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
I'm a little studio in Canada.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
Okay, fine today, speaking of Canada, I wasn't gonna say anything,
but earlier today I had my Canadian citizenship ceremony, so
I'm now officially.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
A dual citizen.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
So I had today, had it all set up and
I'd like to sing the national them with all these
other immigrants in French. And it was like it was
for like the first apt that I was like, okay,
this is a little much, and then by the end
I was like teary eyed and I was like, whoa,
I'm really like really feeling this, you know.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
It was like real cute.

Speaker 5 (02:13):
Yeah, that's so beautiful. It's like Meg Ryan and French kiss.

Speaker 6 (02:16):
You know, when she goes to the immigration office, She's like,
I want to be just like you. She starts singing
the anthem please Meg Ryan and French kiss with that
movie with Kevin Klein, and she desperately wants to be
a Canadian citizen, but they won't let her because.

Speaker 5 (02:29):
She lied on location. Oh it's a great movie anyway.

Speaker 4 (02:32):
Yeah, it would have been great if you had asked
the other citizens to be to shush if you guys,
I've dropped a lot of albums. Maybe you let me
take this one if I may. Yeah, welcome to the
pod Bud.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh my god, it's the Tyler Hilton super Fan. Oh
my god, guys, go outside.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
The Tyler is referring to dear listeners. Is that Joy
and I changed our zoom names. Joy changed hers to
Chris Keller's side piece and I changed mine to Tyler
Hilton super Fan.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Oh my god.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
Oh listen for anybody out there who doesn't already know,
I mean, obviously you've watched the show with us, you
know who Tyler is. You know Chris Keller. But we
also need to tell you this is great bio that
our producers put together that I would be remiss not
to read at least some of this.

Speaker 5 (03:28):
It's just so good. Friends.

Speaker 6 (03:30):
Tyler Hilton is both an actor and accomplished singer songwriter,
and began his professional music career in two thousand. Then
in two thousand and four released his first major label album,
The Tracks of Tyler Hilton. So then he first he
goes off and plays Elvis Presley in the Golden Globe
Award winning Best Motion Picture Walk the Line. And then

(03:51):
we got him on One Tree Hill as Chris Keller.
He went on, he did guest appearances on Castle, he
was on CBS's Extant. He's done a bunch of a
string of amazing movie Christmas movies and Lifetime. He was
excuse me, one of People Magazine's fifty most Beautiful People.
And aside from that and then being in the MGM

(04:13):
feature Charlie Bartlett opposite Robert Downey Junior, he also appeared
in Taylor swifts hit video Tear Drops on My Guitar.
So we're really happy to have you and all of
your wow amazing resume joining us once again.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
I didn't mention I can also do fifteen unbroken pushups and.

Speaker 6 (04:34):
The Canadian national anthem Ladies and Gentlemen Tyler Hilton in French.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
If I'm led.

Speaker 4 (04:43):
That's wow.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
You know.

Speaker 4 (04:45):
One of the things I like about doing the show
is that I learned things new things about people I
already know pretty well, like a lot with like soph
and Joy and right now, I didn't know about a
third of those things. And I mean, I already knew
how accomplished you were and how talented you are. But dang,
my friend.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Dude, fifty most Beautiful People have.

Speaker 4 (05:06):
Can I tell you something? If I was making the list,
you would be in the top five. I would have
you'd have made top five people.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (05:15):
I demand a recount. What year was that?

Speaker 1 (05:17):
It was a long time ago, like probably like five
or something.

Speaker 4 (05:21):
I bet if they did it now, you'd crack top ten.
You should resubmit yourself for that. That's that's how that.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Works, right.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Category Maybe Yeah.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
They take submissions. Can you imagine?

Speaker 4 (05:34):
Can you imagine how hilarious and equally sad and cringe
it would be if if we actually launched our own
press campaign to be featured in the next US weekly
is Most Beautiful People Magazine?

Speaker 1 (05:45):
Is it?

Speaker 4 (05:45):
People People Magazine magazine? Yeah, we each go like one
hundred and fifty grand in the hole just putting up
ads of ourselves being like for your consideration, And it's
just like us eating a popsicle on a hot day
shirt lists.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to see that.
I want to see that calendar, the two of you
just trading off month to month. Just yeah, that's what
I want to see.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
Me the first duo that would submit together for about
to fifty vote.

Speaker 3 (06:13):
Maybe not individually, but together combined.

Speaker 4 (06:16):
Do we this?

Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (06:18):
For sure? The most beautiful person combined.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
Yes, with our combined hotness, we could definitely crack the
top twenty.

Speaker 3 (06:25):
Yeah, our combined qualities, taking the best of both. Yeah,
do we now? Are we now competitive?

Speaker 5 (06:31):
I like, you've got my vote.

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Thank you for pumping me up.

Speaker 6 (06:35):
Right now, We're going to do a Q and A.
So I think we should just launch into some of
these questions. Yeah, okay, So our first one is from Sydney.
She's asking you who your dream person is to write,
perform and produce with living or dead?

Speaker 3 (06:49):
Oh my god, great, we should say Elvis.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
To be honest, I was actually sometimes I go through
these like little phases where I just get really into
Elvis again, and like recently I've been getting into it again,
and I like, every time I circle back, I'm like,
why do.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
I like Elvis so much? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
I don't know, but there's something about him and his
vibe and his music that like speaks to me, and
if I could, I would love to be in the
studio with him. Also on that note, I realized I'm
living what would have been his last year of his life.
So as like a young Elvis fan, this is a
crazy year for me because I've always thought about that
as I was growing up. What's it going to be

(07:26):
like one day to God, willing be older than Elvis
one day, you know, because he's always been much older
and this year is, like, you know, would be the
last year of his life. So funny you asked that,
But I'm going through like an Elvis resurgence personally where
I'm like, WHOA feeling some like weird jusu and like
just connected again or something.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
I don't know, it's weird. It's weird.

Speaker 4 (07:50):
Did you feel that way about him before you landed
the role of playing el.

Speaker 1 (07:55):
Yeah, yeah, Like I was sitting for Halloween like almost
every year as a kid, Like I was obsest with him,
and I went into for walk the Line. I don't
know if you I told you, but like to be
an extra to literally be like in Johnny Cash's background,
bad and they were like, hey, do you know any
Elvis songs? And I was like, yeah, I know all
of them, Like that's my vibe is Elvia. So I
played him a bunch of Elva songs and they're like, oh, well,

(08:16):
you come back and read some lines and I was like.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
As what and they're like, like at Elvis and I
was like, in this movie, like I heard the story.
It was so weird.

Speaker 1 (08:26):
And I was like, and then they get they I
got the part. And when I told you this, I
got the part.

Speaker 3 (08:31):
And I said no because I was like, oh, I'm
not playing Elvis. No, no, no.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I came in to be an extra like a musician.
I can't play my favorite person in the whole world.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
There's no way.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
And I've never acted before professionally. I'm not playing Elvis.
And they were like are you sure, and I was
like one dred percent without a doubt, there's no way
I'm doing this, Like, no way, And then I ran.

Speaker 3 (08:52):
Into walking Phoenix in a bar.

Speaker 4 (08:54):
I can't still tell.

Speaker 5 (08:55):
You to stop it right now?

Speaker 3 (08:57):
No, no, this is I can't. I thought I was.

Speaker 1 (08:59):
I thought you're gonna sa guys. Time I've heard the
story of Millia done.

Speaker 5 (09:01):
I've never heard this before.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
So I ran him in.

Speaker 1 (09:04):
A bar and I was I was underage, and so
I was buzzed. I probably had like a beer or something,
and I told my friend.

Speaker 3 (09:11):
I was like, Oh, that's Joaquin Phoenix. I just tried
out for this movie he's doing.

Speaker 1 (09:16):
I was like, I'm gonna go say hi, and and
so I went up to him and I was like, hey, man,
I read your script. It's so good, and like good
luck with it. And he goes, you're Tyler Hilton. I've
never done anything. I've never even released.

Speaker 3 (09:29):
An album this and I was like yeah. And he's like,
I saw your auditions take you have to do the movie.
And I was like.

Speaker 1 (09:37):
Wait.

Speaker 3 (09:38):
I was like no, no. I was like, oh, here's
the mistake.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
I came in to be in Johnny Cash's background band
and they asked me to read lines and then I'm
not even I'm not an actor. And he was like,
he was like, I don't even care. He's like, they're
trying to cast musicians for these other roles.

Speaker 3 (09:53):
Now, looking back, I think what.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
They were doing is asking musicians to come in and
then polling guys that they thought like the other characters
and they wanted real musicians to play the other guys,
so it ended up being played by all these signed
artists and stuff like Jerry Lee and all this. And
he was like, dude, I'll stand on an apple box
because that was the first time I remember hearing the
word apple box.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
They never heard that before. He's like, I'll do whatever.

Speaker 1 (10:15):
You gotta do this he's and he told me he's
like Resent, I had been taking guitar lessons vocal.

Speaker 3 (10:20):
Lessons for like two years.

Speaker 1 (10:22):
We are so out of our element, I promise, no
matter how nervous you are, we are like more nervous.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
And that was the last time he was ever that
normal and nice again.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
After that he went into method act and I never
met that guy. Maybe no, I don't think I ever
met that guy again, because even when we were doing promo,
he was onto some weird other thing and he was
just always in some weird character.

Speaker 3 (10:45):
He was so clear and so nice and charming.

Speaker 1 (10:50):
And so I called my agent from that bar and
I was like, you won't believe this, Like is that
role still available?

Speaker 3 (10:57):
And she's like I don't know, Like we turned it
down so hard.

Speaker 1 (11:00):
So she calling back and she's like, yeah, they say
you could do it, isn't that crazy?

Speaker 5 (11:04):
I cannot get my jaw off the floor.

Speaker 3 (11:06):
I was like I was too into Elvis to do it.
I was like, no, I can't do it.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
Oh my god, that's unreal, unreal.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
Truly, and like, how I'm so And it's such a
good like example of how stupid I am at making
career decisions, Like I am horrible.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
I'm always been bad.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
Like I'll be like I don't know if I should
do that, and then it would have been something should
have done and be like you know what I want
to do and it's like the worst idea ever, Like
I should just go with the flow more. You know,
this is like my big lesson in life. But yeah,
I was so adamant, like no, I'm not doing it.

Speaker 4 (11:41):
This reminds me of the time you turned down the
lead of Guardians of the Galaxy because you thought it
might turn out corny.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
And doing all right, that's the best Hollywood story.

Speaker 6 (11:55):
That's like Marilyn Monroe getting discovered at the Soda Fountain,
which who knows if that actually happened.

Speaker 3 (11:59):
Right, that's unreal, Hold you guys, that that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (12:03):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (12:03):
Wow.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
And it was great because the whole vibe of the
movie was everyone was so out of their element, like
everyone was just nervous and it was beautiful, you know,
Like so it didn't feel like oh Reese Witherspoon.

Speaker 3 (12:15):
It felt like they were nervous to be around us.

Speaker 1 (12:18):
We were all nervous to be around them, and it
was like it was a vibe crazy awesome anyway, So yeah,
I love Elvis and good question, thank you.

Speaker 4 (12:40):
Samantha asks storylines aside, which main character would you want
Chris to be endgame with?

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh man, I mean, I don't want to get my
ass kicked, but I think like Hayley would be a
nice little ending there.

Speaker 6 (12:55):
You'd have some serious redeeming to do. I mean, Chris
Kelly would have to work hard to redeem.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
I was watching that episode and I was like, it's
like relentless Chris Keller all the time.

Speaker 3 (13:07):
He never stops is one mode. But he never stopped
being into Haley, which is so funny.

Speaker 1 (13:12):
Like even if yeah, he's just like he never I mean,
he had the girlfriends, he had whatever, but like, I
think that's one of the charming things.

Speaker 3 (13:18):
He genuinely was into this check, do you.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
Know what I mean, which is so funny for like
more than nine years, because you guys jumped ahead for
like what fifteen years.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
He's been into the same check. It's crazy.

Speaker 4 (13:32):
It's a testament to you, though, that Chris Keller is
even well, the fact that he's adored, let alone even
liked on the show, because if you just look at
the lines on the page, dude, it is a one
note Lethario dialed up to a twelve. Yeah, the fact
that you thread the needle so well between being charming

(13:52):
with glimpses of vulnerability on top of that boy, just
in the hands of a lesser actor, that role would
have been a disaster.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (14:01):
We talk about that all the time on this podcast.
Whenever you're in scenes, we're just like, I don't know
how he does it. It's kind of a magical thing.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
I don't know what happened.

Speaker 1 (14:10):
But I can't believe either I or the character have
not got canceled yet.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
But like they Yeah, it's like a weird thing.

Speaker 1 (14:17):
I don't There must be something in it that, like
something about me as a person or an actor is like,
no way, this guy is good for it. He's writing
checks that he can't cash, so we can throw whatever
wines that we want at him and there's no way
he's gonna.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
I don't know something about it, but.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Yeah, yeah, there is something to be said for there
is an implicit likability to you, Like if you just
watched the show on mute, you'd be like, oh, this
is one of the good guys, and so.

Speaker 5 (14:44):
I think, great, Yeah, I think.

Speaker 4 (14:45):
It buys you a lot of leeway, Whereas I think
if we just had some smoldering sex pylon playing the role.
Not to say that you can't do that, but you
know what I'm saying, Like if it was Joe Mangonello
doing it, I don't know if it have worked.

Speaker 5 (15:01):
Yeah, no, I don't think it would have.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
There is something like I think generally like harmless about
about Chris Keller, something about it that allows you to
get away with it or something I don't know or me,
I don't know.

Speaker 6 (15:13):
Well, there's certainly an internal joy in you. I mean
that I've known since I've known you. There's this this
bassline of joy in your in your person, within you
that no matter like, no matter what, and again not
to I mean to Rob's point, like not that you
couldn't as an actor play something that's heavier and darker

(15:34):
because you have those depths within you. That's one of
the things that makes you such a good songwriter. But
there's still this like baseline of joy. I think that
really comes out, especially in Chris that if you watch
it on mute, you're just like, that's a happy, goofy guy.

Speaker 5 (15:49):
Like, yeah, whatever he's saying.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
That is funny. It is funny too.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Like the longer that we're actors, I'm sure you like
are getting a sense of this. There's like in essence
we have that we constantly get cast for or whatever
that is, you know, And with all the competition out
there and all the people from around the world zooming
in or doing whatever for a role, the thing that
you can't that makes.

Speaker 3 (16:09):
You competitive is that essence, whatever that is.

Speaker 1 (16:12):
It's so weird and I and anyway, that's interesting. Yeah,
like that, they're yeah, but I don't know what that is.
That's really interesting though. It's funny.

Speaker 6 (16:22):
Okay, Well, Skyler's asking how of the friendships that you've
made from Montree Hill impacted your life?

Speaker 1 (16:27):
Oh my god, I was thinking about that actually the
episode and we'll, I know, we'll talk more about it later.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
But I remember when we were doing this.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Actually, the misrip ties to the question the police scene.
For whatever reason, I remember that day because it was
one of the first times you and I had got
a chance to really hang out in years, because when
I came back to the show there, we weren't doing
conventions or anything then, and so it had been four
or five years since i'd done the show, and I

(16:59):
remember I saw you at the table with your new baby,
and you know, like it had been that long. And
then we didn't really hang even in the first few
episodes too, it was quick scenes. It was this and that,
we're filming you or a new mom.

Speaker 3 (17:11):
But that day we happened to.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
Be at that police station for an extended period of
time and there were no other cast numbers, and I remember,
I don't know what we but I remember thinking, oh,
it's so cool to see Joy again and actually like
catch up.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
And I forgot about that till I watched the episode.

Speaker 1 (17:25):
But that's just to say that these conventions have given
us such an opportunity to continue to hang multiple times
a year, and so I go through these phases where
I get close with different cast numbers at different times,
and recently Rob and I connected at the drama Queen's
Boston thing that you guys had us at, and we
literally made a conscious effort.

Speaker 3 (17:42):
We're like, why aren't we best friends? I don't know,
I can't figure it out, and we're like, let's do it.

Speaker 1 (17:47):
You just have stayed in touch, like on almost a
daily basis.

Speaker 6 (17:51):
I was gonna say, how often do you guys talk
just about every day?

Speaker 3 (17:54):
No jokes?

Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, like at least the check in, But like, it's
just we're he I've always thought he's, you know, so cool,
so smart, you know, I look up to him in
so many ways, and we're going through so many similar
things being dads, small towns that we are new to us.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
And it was just like, why why don't we do this? Like,
let's just do.

Speaker 4 (18:14):
This, you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (18:16):
Yeah, So we just like we just became friends, you know,
And it's so funny and like and I go through
different phases like that. Lee and I were so close
in the first few seasons. Chad and I were really
close in we were roommates.

Speaker 3 (18:26):
But it's great.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
There's so many cast members and so many years that
it really gives you time to like get to know
everybody over time. You know, you and I were so
close and we were touring and on the road together,
you know, so it's just cool, really cool.

Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (18:43):
All right, well Alicia wants to know what was your
favorite storyline for Chris Keller.

Speaker 1 (18:49):
I mean, all the season nine stuff was like great, Like,
I mean you're not watching the podcast, I'm sure, well,
I don't want to give way anything just in case,
but like asked me to come back and do the
last seas in and I was like, uh, oh, you know,
I'll see.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
If I can or something.

Speaker 1 (19:04):
He's like, read the first page of the first episode
and then decide, and I was like why. And the
first page of the first episode is Chris Keller and
Dan Scott in a car Chris Cox's shotgun and says
Chris Keller doesn't like this, and they exit.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
The car and I was like, what, you're giving christ
a gun? You know in this season and.

Speaker 5 (19:25):
He's hanging out with Dan?

Speaker 4 (19:27):
What was it? A loaded gun? Super funny?

Speaker 3 (19:33):
Yeah, I'm so in.

Speaker 1 (19:34):
He's like, I just ended up feeling if you read
the first page that you would be in and I
was just like so yeah. I mean it's I'm tempted
to say, like the riverboat stuff where you know, I
get a bunch of bunch of crazy people and jump
off was fun, but nothing like saving the day with
a gun, and you know, going up against the Russian
mob that was fun.

Speaker 5 (19:55):
That's so good.

Speaker 6 (19:57):
Hey, how about the well well, well, Katie wants to
know with Chris Keller's well, well, well scripted or something
that you just added in totally scripted.

Speaker 1 (20:04):
It's funny you say that, because like the first few episodes,
I was like, who says this? How? There were so
many things like that that I was just like at first,
and then even like talking about myself in the third person,
I was just like, it took me a couple episodes
to be like who is this?

Speaker 6 (20:24):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (20:24):
And then it was so fun and then all of
a sudden you switched over and was like, oh my god,
this is so fun.

Speaker 5 (20:30):
What's so funny about that?

Speaker 1 (20:31):
Is that?

Speaker 5 (20:32):
To me?

Speaker 6 (20:32):
Anyways, that our creator used to say that in real
life all the time, well, well, well, and the fact
that he wrote that in for Chris Keller as like,
I don't know if what it was supposed to be,
but I don't think it was supposed to come across
as like slimy as it does. But that's all it
can come across as because that's what it is.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
I started realizing that it was a lot of like
cyr no diversion acting or whatever, Like, there was a
lot of like kill writing.

Speaker 3 (20:59):
Stuff that I think, oh, yeah, you know, it's very
like there's.

Speaker 1 (21:03):
A lot of in there, you know, like and a
lot of his humor, I think, and that, well, well.

Speaker 3 (21:07):
It's definitely I was like that.

Speaker 6 (21:08):
I don't know if I'd elevate that to Sirra now,
but I can certainly see that.

Speaker 4 (21:13):
I definitely think Chris Keller was a proxy for him. Yeah, yeah,
And so it makes sense that he was writing in
some of his own stuff. But again, it's a testament
to you though that that line actually became so endearing
and sort of a trademark likable thing, you know, because
like the reality of how that line and who was

(21:35):
saying that line was was absolutely not charming. But the
fact that like I like it now when I hear
the well, well, well it's sort of like the Pavlovs bell,
I'm like, oh, here comes some good stuff. Absolutely, I imagine.
Also because we have Jessa had asked, did you like
that Chris Keller spoken the third person? There's a lot

(21:56):
of questions about that. But I'm wondering because on the
page especially, he was such just like a womanizing jerk. Right,
did it help you that you got to speak in
the third person, because in a way, it's sort of
like you are getting to distance yourself, like it's an
extra layer of distance between you and that character. Did

(22:18):
that help at all?

Speaker 3 (22:20):
You know what? I hate to say it, but it was.

Speaker 1 (22:22):
It became so easy for me to be to be
that guy, that cocky.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
I like it. I don't even think I wanted to
be distanced from it.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
Like I there is a part of me that is
that is that, or at least thinks that's funny, that
doesn't get to do that, And I think there's something
about that.

Speaker 3 (22:38):
That is like I feel I have so much fun
doing that, I don't even want to be distance from it.

Speaker 1 (22:44):
There was a few times I would be in scenes
with Sofia where after we would cut, she'd be like,
I hate you so much right now.

Speaker 3 (22:49):
And I got such pleasure.

Speaker 4 (22:51):
Out of that.

Speaker 1 (22:52):
I couldn't was not something I would be like in
real life, you know, And I just it was just
so fun to get to be that annoying with no repercussions.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
I don't know what.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
I'll figure that out on therapy later, but it was
like that was just it's just delicious, you know, And
just being the third person was just another example of
that where it's like.

Speaker 3 (23:16):
It's so fun.

Speaker 4 (23:17):
Isn't that just sort of a thing I feel like
with all actors where we enjoy playing opposites. So if
you are someone who's like you're a very kind you know,
maybe a people please or whatever it is, if you're
a nice person, to get to really sort of exercise
that mean muscle that you have let atrophy for so
long feels really good. It's very fun.

Speaker 3 (23:38):
I love it. I loved it.

Speaker 1 (23:39):
And I've done more like bad guys assholes than I've
done like good guys.

Speaker 3 (23:44):
And I have.

Speaker 1 (23:44):
Way more fun doing that than like being like, wow,
you're like a really good guy in that movie.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Like it's like fun, you know, it's like fun.

Speaker 1 (23:52):
But I also tend to find too that a lot
of times, except I mean not always, but a lot
of the.

Speaker 3 (23:58):
Guys who are really.

Speaker 1 (24:01):
Big actors for being really charming good guys aren't always
you know what I mean. And I see that get
worked out that way too. You know that it helps
to have for them to have a script and a character.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
Yeah, name names Tyler. Let's jump to Chelsea's obviously we
all want to know what it was like working with

(24:34):
t Swift. That's Taylor Swift for those of you who
didn't know that. In my guitar. Yeah, she's she does
the pop music. Yeah, quite popular to.

Speaker 3 (24:44):
Be a country singer. Now she's doing some pop music.

Speaker 4 (24:47):
And yeah, used to be a kid. Now she's a lady.

Speaker 3 (24:50):
M Yeah, she was just she's like a huge one
Tree Hill fan. So that's how it happened.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
She I like I mentioned to her, like I mentioned
in some magazine that I liked this new.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
Song she had, uh called Tim McGraw.

Speaker 1 (25:02):
It was her first song, and she happened to see
it and was like a big fan of mine, like
had watched all these dumb tour videos I'd ever done,
Like was a huge like fan, like knew all these
deep inside Tyler fans.

Speaker 5 (25:19):
Like a girl with a crush. That is what that
sounds like.

Speaker 3 (25:22):
No, she was full on.

Speaker 1 (25:23):
And she was fifteen and I was like twenty one,
so I was so much older, and you know, she
was just like and she hit up the magazine her management.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
DA was like, oh my god, she's such a big fan.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
She's playing at this biker bar in sam Bernardino in
southern California.

Speaker 3 (25:39):
She loved to invite him to come if he wants
to come.

Speaker 1 (25:42):
And I was like, oh okay, like yeah, that's funny,
like you know, like.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
She's a fan. Uh okay, cool, that's as fun y'all go,
like you know, flattery was like, I was like down.

Speaker 1 (25:54):
So I went to go see here and she's literally
playing in this biker bar and she was awesome.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
And she was like.

Speaker 1 (26:01):
I'm gonna play your version of Missing You from One
Tree Hill. Would you get up on stage and singing
with me? And I was like oh okay, yeah, you know,
she's like very forward like that, and I was like, okay, yeah,
I guess I could do that.

Speaker 3 (26:12):
And then while I was on stage with.

Speaker 1 (26:14):
Her, she goes, I wanted to ask you on stage
because I didn't want you to say no, but will
you be my.

Speaker 4 (26:19):
Music video is a fifteen year old yeah?

Speaker 3 (26:22):
And I was like, oh my god, this girl.

Speaker 1 (26:25):
And I was thinking, like I always say no later,
but of course on tape, I'm like, yeah, sure, it
sounds fun. But I was just like, dang, this girl
doesn't quit, you know, And then back, I didn't mean
to embarrass you, but obviously, like, I'm doing the video
for my second single if there's any way you'd be
into doing it.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
And I called my label. I was like, can I
even do this?

Speaker 1 (26:43):
Like I don't you know, and they were like, yeah,
if you want, it's probably like fine, Like it couldn't.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Hurt to do this girl's music video. You're just some
random seenage country singer, you know. Yeah, And so then
I went out there. We became really good friends, and.

Speaker 1 (26:59):
Her family were and when I ended up moving out
to Nashville a couple years later, they let me like
live on their houseboat and I like stayed with them
while I was getting my like settled in and yeah,
I got to hear. Yeah, it's just like stayed in
touch with them and they were awesome. It ended up
being such a cool And now I'm watching her become
the biggest star in.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
The entire world. You know, that was so weird, not
just famous, you know, we.

Speaker 1 (27:22):
See it's so exciting to see you guys do your
thing and watch people. But she became one of the
biggest musical acts of all time.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
That was Weirdly, it's really weird.

Speaker 5 (27:31):
It's incredible.

Speaker 3 (27:32):
But I saw her.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
Play, you know, like the Dallas Cowboys Stadium. We were
both playing the show in Texas. I was playing this
tiny bar. She was playing the Cowboy Stadium in twenty
nineteen for her Netflix thing, and I got ended up
in the VIP.

Speaker 3 (27:46):
Section with her parents and they're literally like this, like Tyler,
isn't she doing such a good job. I'm like, yeah,
she's like the biggest star in the world.

Speaker 1 (27:54):
But they're still just like so excited like filming her
and just like singing along.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
They It's really cute.

Speaker 1 (28:01):
There's such a charming family and all that like dorky
stuff is like real, Like.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
She really is. That's real.

Speaker 5 (28:08):
That's so cool.

Speaker 4 (28:09):
Johann h this is a question. I did not submit
this under a fake name, even though Johann sounds like
a fake name. I would use what is the best
worst thing about Rob? Like the worst thing about him?
You like the most?

Speaker 3 (28:23):
Oh?

Speaker 4 (28:24):
I swear to god, I didn't.

Speaker 3 (28:25):
Write this is a good one.

Speaker 4 (28:27):
It is hurt my feelings.

Speaker 5 (28:29):
Oh my goodness, I can't wait for this. What a
good roast?

Speaker 3 (28:32):
The best worst thing about Rob?

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Do you want to take a minute noodle on it.

Speaker 1 (28:37):
I mean, there's all there's just things that like I
just are so annoying because you're so good at so
many things that that's that's annoying. But I will say
my favorite thing about Rob I'll tell you that I
always forget and I need to remind myself because it
just really rounds out the whole thing, is that he's
really good at magic.

Speaker 4 (28:56):
I just love that about you.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
I love that you're a tough, buff dude who's good looking,
a great actor, a great dad, and also can do magic.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
I just love that.

Speaker 4 (29:10):
Thanks, Thanks Johan, and I'm less spend the rest.

Speaker 1 (29:12):
Of the episode trying to think of something I really
don't like about you.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
That's my favorite thing at all?

Speaker 4 (29:16):
Can I pitch you something I think could be tender?
For this is when I am with friends, I have
a very well known tendency to order far too much,
and I get as close to pure pressuring as a
forty four year old should when it comes to like

(29:36):
eat more with me, eat more with me, Hey, you
should try this. Have you tried that one? I would
say it can be a little so I would that
would I would say I can sort of push people
to nearly giving themselves a hernia.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
You know why I love that though about you, because
with other friends, I'm the guy that's like, can I
have one more bite?

Speaker 3 (29:54):
Is that messed up?

Speaker 1 (29:54):
And with you it's not that way. It's like you
hit that, get hit that one more time.

Speaker 4 (30:00):
The last convention that you and I did in Chicago
are due started with or that. The night before was
you and I ordering like sixty dollars worth of waffles
and crepes and cakes just just for the two of
us to my hotel room. And then the next morning
chocolate and cookies covered in chocolate carapes.

Speaker 5 (30:18):
Oh my god, this was the Chicago convention. Yeah, nobody
called me.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
Oh, I absolutely would have eaten that with you guys,
I mean, you were doing your thing.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
You haven't seen each other in a while. It's fine, Well,
we're just looking for people. Can count me in for
a chocolate and to tell it crepe?

Speaker 4 (30:33):
Oh my gosh, yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Strawberry, to tell it crape.

Speaker 4 (30:36):
I meant, okay, all right, the snack crew just grew
by one.

Speaker 3 (30:40):
Dude. Next convention, we're gonna get dirty?

Speaker 4 (30:45):
Are we are all going to see each other in Paris?

Speaker 6 (30:48):
I'm not going to Paris on this Ah, I know
when is it? Is it like now September.

Speaker 4 (30:53):
Ish October early October?

Speaker 6 (30:55):
I think I think there's one next spring maybe that
I might be doing.

Speaker 3 (30:59):
But I'm not about Halloween. Are you guys doing the
Halloween one?

Speaker 4 (31:02):
We all that hollow trick miss or whatever?

Speaker 6 (31:05):
Yeah, yes we are, And in fact that's our finale.
We're doing a live drama Queen's Finale, and then we're
also live streaming it for people who want to get text.

Speaker 5 (31:13):
So we're gonna We're going.

Speaker 4 (31:14):
To be there. This is such good news. I've already do.
This is so sad and funny. I've already told Tyler
all about this. But Joy, I have Do you like
corn bread?

Speaker 5 (31:23):
I love good corn bread if it's not dry.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
I got a spot. I discovered it the last time
I was in Wilmington. And we'll talk about it off air. Okay,
we're gonna have.

Speaker 5 (31:32):
A barbaria place. Oh, I'm so excited.

Speaker 4 (31:35):
Was it's a place you would not expect Arby's No?

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (31:42):
Oh man?

Speaker 6 (31:42):
All right, what's your favorite? One's your heill memory? On
our off screen? That's from Chelse another Chilse.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
Oh standing some of us went up on the roof
with some drinks and our red Solo cups. At the
end of a season nine when we were in the
Trick Trick E we were doing the last stepsode We're
all in trick and we kept leaving to go up
on the roof with our drinks and it was so beautiful.

Speaker 3 (32:07):
It felt so great. We were up there. It was
like sunset, and you know, it started to sink.

Speaker 1 (32:13):
In that it was ending and we were getting senior itis,
and it was just like beautiful. I just remember thinking,
like I really like the end of it really hit
hard for me like that.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
I didn't expect it to. I was like, ah, you know,
like on to the next thing, you know, That's.

Speaker 1 (32:27):
How it was most of the show, and then right
at the end it really hit me, like, whoa, this
has been such a moment for me. I started when
I was nineteen, did my twenty first birthday there. You know,
knew you guys the whole time, you know, as we
grew up, you know, I mean, it's crazy.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
It really ended up really hit me. So that was
that was beautiful. I was so.

Speaker 1 (32:51):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (32:52):
I didn't want realize you were nineteen when you started
the show.

Speaker 1 (32:56):
Wow, Yeah, because I was I must have just turned
out to turn twenty and then by the next years.

Speaker 3 (33:05):
Yeah, I think we yeah, something like that. Yeah, craziness.

Speaker 4 (33:09):
Well, Tyler, not only are you one of the most
beautiful people, as People Magazine noted accurately, you're one of
the most interesting and likable And this has been a
delight and thankfully we get to keep you around for
the episode nine oh five recap, but for this Q
and A, which I'm just going to say is going
to go down as one of the greats. Thank you

(33:31):
for joining us and tune in next week, gang, as
we have the Man, the Myth, the Legend, Tyler Hilton
himself to recap nine oh five.

Speaker 5 (33:39):
Hey, thanks for listening. Don't forget to leave us a review.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
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Speaker 1 (33:46):
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Speaker 5 (33:50):
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