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January 13, 2025 49 mins

Joy and Rob dive into the aftermath of Haley finding that Clay and Quinn have been shot. Joy discusses how her real life pregnancy affected her character’s storyline and how one crew member stole the show with his special cameo.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh hi, o, Hi, you have us. You have made
rob friends. Uh oh wow. We're finding our way through.
We're feeling very kind of introverted in cozy today, I
would say, in our in our hoodies and just snuggle
at the very end of the holidays, trying to save

(00:45):
every last moment that we can. How are you it's
all the all the sickness passed through the house. I
know so many people that got sick over the holidays.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
We got destroyed so well. We had dodged COVID since
the whole time, and at the start of December we
all got COVID, everyone in the family. And then right
as we were getting over it, we had family fly
in from New Zealand and one of them caught something
on the plane. No, and then I got so then
we got sick again. And then right as I was

(01:16):
getting over that, like three days ago, I got sick again. Sorry.
I don't know what I did to rack up so
much bad karma, but I gotta, I gotta fix it
because I am so tired of being sick. How about you?
How are your holidays?

Speaker 2 (01:33):
They were great and I haven't been sick. I actually
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(01:55):
I take them every day and I usually will get sick,
like I'll get a cold like three times a year,
and I've I've had a full thirteen fourteen months with
no sickness at all, no cold, no nothing since I've
been taking these. Well done, So I'm hoping I'm like
knock on wood that it doesn't like, it doesn't pop,

(02:17):
it's rear rear, its head. But yeah, I was good,
and I've We're healthy over here and feeling cozy but
I'm ready. I'm ready for a new year. I'm ready
to launch into it. This one is season eight, episode two.
I can't see you, but I know you're there. Air
date September twenty first, twenty ten, Rob, you want to
read the synapsis.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
I'd love to. Clay and Quinn discover they've been shot
and as they fight to live, Nathan and Haley struggle
with the situation. Meanwhile, Julian tries to preoccupy Jamie and
Brooks legal troubles mount Ooh.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, this is a there was There was a lot
in this that was a lot of bouncing back and
forth between incredible tragedy, huge this financial situation with Brooke is.
Haley goes, how bad can it get? And Brooks like
I could lose a company. I'm like, can't you go
to jail? I feel like that's how bad it gets,

(03:12):
not losing the company, but anyway, that's whole thing. And
then Clay and Quinn just trying to come back to life,
and then we're bouncing back and forth between that and
the buddy comedy with Jamie and Julian, which is really
fun too. So anyway, we were kind of all over
the place, but mainly Clay and Quinn. Let's get into it.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Let's so peak behind the curtain. I was about five
minutes into the episode when there was discussions of us
not recording this today, and I thought, oh, okay, cool.
Now I'm just going to watch it for myself. I'm
not going to do like thorough note taking, which is
me stopping the episode every thirty seconds to write something down.
And I just got to watch it as a viewer,

(03:53):
and man, I had the same experience that I did
the last time I watched this. I was like, the
show's good. I didn't remember any of clayin Quinn's of
this part of the story.

Speaker 2 (04:07):
Really.

Speaker 3 (04:07):
I knew we were in a coma. Yeah, I knew
we were in a coma, and I remember the stuff
from eight oh one where we're like, just it's idyllic
and then we realize we've been shot. I didn't realize
there was this whole like dream world segment where we
are yeah, oh yeah, what's going on? But I also
thought it was very effective. I thought Chantell was so good.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
Yeah I agree, but I.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
It made me sad. I was I got it worked
for me.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
It was really well done. This whole bit of you
guys opening doors and it's and it's a green field,
and then you turn a corner and it's a hospital,
or you know, you peek around a tree and suddenly
it's like there's the hospital hallway, or you being in
the room with yourself looking at yourself and having to
react to what that would feel like. You know, you

(04:55):
hear about people who have these out of body experiences,
and I can't even imagine did you rese search any
of that for any reason to be able to feel
what that would feel?

Speaker 3 (05:05):
I don't know, like no, because I think my thinking
was he's never gone through this before, so I think
he should be every bit is sort of confused and
fish out of water, as I would be. Yeah, So
that was just I think that's what I remember playing.
I did laugh at the start of it because I

(05:27):
had the same thing this episode where I went, how
long have they been on the floor bleeding?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Oh my gosh, I know, and will you hear the
medic go yes, twelve plus hours?

Speaker 3 (05:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, how long did he get shot? Twelve hours?
And he's like, I don't know how he's still alive.
But I thought, okay, glad you guys addressed it. But
it sure feels like a lot more than twelve hours.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I feel like it was three days.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
I could not believe you guys be the slowest bleed
of all time and.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
It was right in your chest. They were doing open
heart surgery on you or open cab.

Speaker 3 (06:01):
Yeah, it was. It was quite full on. But yeah,
when the medics said that, I was like, all right,
I appreciate you clearing that up for me, but also storytelling,
why is it sure feels like a lot more than
half a day has passed?

Speaker 2 (06:13):
That for sure was dropped in later that was like
somebody in the edit room went, how long have these
two been laying on the floor And they were like,
throw somebody into adr to say twelve hours. And they
put it in the medics scene.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Because Nathan was working out with Jamie and then he
left to camp. That's when he stopped by Clay in
Quinn's place. Yeah, so I thought he'd at least been
at camp for a day.

Speaker 2 (06:41):
Yeah, I agree, it definitely feels like longer than twelve hours.
I don't remember finding you guys.

Speaker 3 (06:48):
I didn't either, Joy.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
And no idea that I was the one that walked in. No,
no idea.

Speaker 3 (06:58):
I didn't recall that at all.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Your eyes would were closed, like you guys wouldn't. Maybe
they shot that sequence of you laying there and then
you guys went to go get cleaned up, and they
just shot my individual reaction or something. But that was
also that's a lot of cleanup for you guys. Yeah,

(07:21):
I feel like those kinds of episodes are hard to
shoot when you're back and forth between being bloody and
not bloody, and your shirt would be totally crisp and
white at one moment and then totally bloody in another moment,
and then you have to be in the hospital bed
and with so many actors in a scene, trying to
coordinate the schedule of all of that, like who's gonna

(07:43):
wait while you guys go get cleaned up? And what
part of the scene are we gonna shoot while you're
get rebloodied? And yeah, that was I feel like there
were a lot of moving pieces with this episode.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
That's that's also kind of like though with women's hair,
don't you don't you feel like when you're like you're
shooting something and it's like over the course of different
days and it's like, wait, was her hair up or down?
For this, yeah, and there's a lot of it's a
thirty minute transformation, so it's like, Okay, what are we
gonna do for thirty minutes?

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Yeah, yeah, that's right, because we go from day one
to day three, tonight two to one, yeah, day four. Yeah.
I Also, what I do remember is that moment where
I was talking to Sophia, well Haley and Brooker talking
and Chantelle's standing right there and talking to us. I
remember that being really hard to just completely ignore her

(08:30):
and time out the things that we were saying to
each other so that we didn't all talk over each other,
but without looking at her, so I couldn't tell when
her mouth was gonna move. It was hard. It was
harder that I thought it was gonna be.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
I laughed watching that scene just thinking about what that
was like for you guys on the day. Ye. It's
so First of all, it's hilarious that none of you
guys step on each other's lines, because in real life,
why would you and the ghost be synced up and
never interrupting? It's right, but it's also just the reality
of like your friend having to be like, can't you
hear me? I'm right here, and you're like I can't

(09:05):
hear you, pal.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
I wonder if we rehearsed that, we had to have
not traversed it a couple of times.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
How about at the end, or closer to the end,
when Nathan has that sweet, sweet speech to Coma Clay.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Oh my gosh, that was so beautiful.

Speaker 3 (09:27):
Come back and see Clay listening to all of it,
but the speech lovely.

Speaker 2 (09:31):
What a great moment of friendship. It was really nice
to see Nathan be opened up like that. He's been
doing so much more of that lately. It's really nice.

Speaker 3 (09:42):
It was great. I just thought, yeah, like I I know,
the whole Katie storyline is so bonkers, and even like
this is is, it's out there, but I was invested.
I was I was on board, you know, and worried
for Clay and Quinn and and how there was that

(10:03):
moment where when Clay's like, you gotta go, you got
to open your eyes, and there's the last shot of
when he was like, we're good, I promise, and then
she closes her eyes and there's a quick cut back
to Clay and you can see that he's he's not
confident in what he just said. A moment of sadness
and you're like, oh.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, they're really holding it all together. And I was
wondering that too. Watching Clay, I was like you, I
could see you making the choice to be stronger and
stronger and have more energy and be in the dream world,
and seeing chantale be it seemed like more frail and
the dichotomy, I guess, of the two of you, that's

(10:46):
not the right word, the contrast of the two of
you in different places and her coming back that scene
broke my heart. And she's digging in the sand and
like you're she doesn't want to leave you. God, it's
really so sad. It makes me wonder because you know,
there are so many people who have those experiences where

(11:07):
they it's like an out of body experience and they
are looking down at the doctors working on their own body,
and then they live to talk about it. It's so interesting.
I wonder how much of that we captured. I wonder
if our director or anybody, anither writers or anybody didn't
research on that too. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
That was also great that the two of them got
to be in that in between world together.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
Yes, that's what I love.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
How fun I mean, obviously it's terrible that you're there,
considering you're on the verge of death, but like, you
get to be there with your buddy. At least, that's
why I know.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
That would be really fun. Yeah, at least you're there together. Yeah,
waiting in the wings.

Speaker 3 (11:48):
Cuddling on a beach top list Like we were just
having a good old time for the most part until
the whole death thing came back in.

Speaker 2 (11:56):
Oh my god, you guys, the realization of think about
what happened in the quick cuts and oh, it was
all really very effective. So I'm grateful that you're alive
so far. Still, obviously Clay comes back and Quinn's back sooner.
But this is a good one, And I wonder if
does Katie come back more or is that it? Yes,

(12:19):
we have to deal with her still.

Speaker 3 (12:22):
Yes, I don't recall. The only thing I know is,
if you haven't watched the show listener, maybe just like
fast forward ten seconds, is that because Sean Tell and
her excuse me, Quinn and her have that knockdown, drag
out fight at Clay's house.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
Oh that's rare.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
We spoke with her, So that's that's the only thing
I know. I don't know how that comes about. I
don't know if it's Quinn hunting down Katie or if
Katie tries to come back, but I do I think
it actually happens while Clay's still in a coma, maybe
because I'm not there for it. Why else wouldn't I
be at my house?

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Oh you weren't.

Speaker 3 (12:58):
No, that was entirely and Amanda Chantelle night interesting watch
me end up actually being there, and I forgot about that.
I'm pretty certain it was just the two of them.
So no, we're not quite out of the woods with
Katie yet. But yeah, also, I will say I did.
I didn't realize it because this whole time I've been saying, like,

(13:20):
how is she suddenly a cat burglar? And scaling to
the second story to get to Play's balcony. And I realized,
as I'm sure several annoyed listeners have already known, Clay's
sliding door to his bedroom isn't on the second store
the second story. It's on the main level. Because you, Hayley,
that is you walk up onto the deck in the back,

(13:43):
just up the pool stairs.

Speaker 2 (13:45):
Oh yeah, and go.

Speaker 3 (13:46):
Walk around and go right into the room. So now
it suddenly makes sense why she was why Katie has
just been going in and out through there.

Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yeah. Also weird though that when Nathan went over to
the house to knock on the door and you didn't answer, Like,
it's just so easy to just take a few steps
to the back and poke around the corner. It's like
his best friend's house. I don't know, wouldn't you just
go check, like to make sure that he's hearing you
knock on the door.

Speaker 3 (14:14):
The pushback I would give on that is maybe he
didn't want to walk around the back and see like
Clay and Quinn fooling couch or something.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Okay, right right, yeah, fair enough, fair enough, that's.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
The out I'll give him. He was, he was just
being respectful. Sidebar, Is your hoodie a troop Beverly Hills?

Speaker 2 (14:35):
I think I think it is. I just found this
in Kentucky. I drove up to Louisville this a couple
of weekends ago to visit family and found this in
some random little store in Louisville and just but it
feels like it's a true Beverly Hills.

Speaker 3 (14:49):
It does. Shelley Long, I loved that movie so good. Okay,
One Tree Hill.

Speaker 2 (14:56):
Okay, speaking of fooling around, who here's who is fooling around?
Is Alex and Chase right in front of me. I
don't I do not understand Alex's deal, Like can she
not just leave well enough alone and she's got him,
just enjoy it. Why does she have to just keep
rubbing everything in MIA's face? What is going on?

Speaker 3 (15:19):
I don't know, man. There was a there's the moment
when Mia towards the end, when Mia comes back to
Alex and she's like, hey, you're right. I pushed him away.
I blew it. You're still a but you're right. It
was my fault. There was a moment where I thought, oh,
because there's this like a like a a sincere smile

(15:41):
comes across Alex's face, and I thought, oh, is she
about to have a moment of going good, I'm out
my work, here's done, you know, like she was there
just to sort of like teach a lesson, right, but
that yeah, no, of course not. And it's like, ah, okay, okay,
I don't know, you know, and I forget. There was

(16:02):
also one shot in this episode that was a very
like gratuitous close up. It was you're like an inso
or outro of a scene where it was like close
up on like a girl's butt. It was something. There
was one of those moments from like uh, but then
like Alex having the shots between in her cleavage.

Speaker 2 (16:20):
It's just so dumb.

Speaker 3 (16:22):
It's just I don't it's just odd, you know it is.

Speaker 2 (16:29):
It's odd. I don't know what her problem is. I
did like MIA's move of being like, oh, look you
have to drive me now I've been drinking and I'm
gonna go get this kid just taking them out of
the way. I was like, that's that's pretty good. It's
pretty smart.

Speaker 3 (16:41):
That was very smart. I just with Alex, it's just odd, right,
because she's an internationally known movie star. Yes, there is
already dudes lining up at the door. The guy in
the front of that line, by the way, was our
very own beloved crew member. Saber was the one who
was Scotty Safer. No was Alex du prei bart Is

(17:02):
this the bar Alex du praise bartending? Yet that was
our own uh, Scottie Saber.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Saber was, by the way, guys, he was a professional
wrestler and we used to go watch him wrestle in Wilmington.
He had a whole costume and a persona and it was.
It was the whole deal, real deal. Hillary could probably
tell you a lot more. And I think maybe she's
talked about him before on this podcast a couple of
years ago. Yeah, but he was just one of our

(17:30):
dearly dearly beloved. So it's really fun to I love
what our crew members do cameos and they pop up
so fun, you know.

Speaker 3 (17:39):
When Okay, So for the listeners, the story Hillary told
about Austin joining the show and them going getting going
to a wrestling match and painting their faces together, I think,
oh yes, And because she was like, is this is
this a thing? Here is this guy flirting with me?
And then they got there and like he clearly like
only had eyes for Sophia or something happened, you know,

(18:01):
but that they were going to watch Scotty Saber wrestle.
So he has been discussed before. It was on the
paint of their faces, that's it.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
So they threw him in the front said hey, here's
a line, say it. And so he was the perfect
one to look for. Alex Duprey. But yeah, she's she's
an international star, superstar tending bar.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
And guys are already lining up at the door pounding
on it. I don't think you need to put a
shot in your cleavage.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
Like, yeah, they're in. They're lucky enough just to sit there.

Speaker 3 (18:32):
Yeah, you could wear a turtleneck and just read a
book and they would still out and be all for
itting and get drunk. But you know, Alex doing the
most Oh Alex at the start of the episode, when
you're writing the letter, which I thought it's always an
effective tool for like reminding the audience like what's been

(18:52):
going on? But you, uh, you're like, hey, Luke, And
I had about maybe this is just my brain fog
from being sick three times in last month, but I
spent about ten seconds going who's Luke? No, holy cow,
who's Luke? And I was like, oh, freaking Bracket's Lucas.

(19:13):
It's Lucas. That's funny because I've never heard him called
Luke ever. It's always yes.

Speaker 2 (19:18):
But also, he is so not a part of the
storyline anymore almost anybody's storyline. It's certainly not yours. He's
just not somebody that's talked about a lot. So that
makes And it wasn't there when you were there filming.
It's not like he was. His character was in your
line of vision on a daily basis. That makes total sense.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Did Haley call him Luke?

Speaker 2 (19:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (19:40):
Okay, Se, That's why I figured, because you guys were
close to every but I just like, what, who's Luke?

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I'm sure we did a lot Luke, Lucas, Lucas.
I think she did both. It was sort of like
when your mother calls you by your full name and
you you get that. She would do the Lucas and
then otherwise it was just Luke. That's really funny. Now,

(20:07):
I did like the letter. I'm glad that that. I'm
glad that that worked out. It's really sweet seeing Haley pregnant.
And you know what's crazy is I got pregnant. I
think like three episodes after this. I actually got pregnant
in real life, and so they didn't have to write
in the pregnancy, but they did have to extend it
because I think I was supposed to give birth like

(20:29):
three months in the shooting schedule, like three month, three
or four months earlier than Joy in real life was
going to have Maria. So we probably really screwed up
their board in the writer's room.

Speaker 3 (20:43):
Hey, but listen, I mean, at least your character was
going to get pregnant because more often than not, like
ninety nine percent of the time, it's having to hide
a pregnancy with pillows lever blocking. In your case, they
just had to stretch the storyline.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
A bit exactly. They were like, Oh, she's already pregnant. Perfect,
that's great.

Speaker 3 (21:13):
I thought the bit with Hailey like telling Quinn that
she was going to she is going to ask her
to be the godmother, that was really sweet.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Okay, I have a question about this. Yeah, godparents who
are already close family members.

Speaker 3 (21:29):
This is a thing that's interesting.

Speaker 2 (21:32):
She's already auntie aunt Quinn. So I thought a godparent
was somebody who's not a family member and they sort
of get inducted into your family through the godparenting.

Speaker 3 (21:42):
Yeah, I've never heard of it before, but I don't
know of any rules that would prevent it.

Speaker 2 (21:51):
We need where's the godparent playbook? We need we need the.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Rules because you're right, it's it's typically not of the
biological family. It's usually like the best friend.

Speaker 2 (22:02):
Right, That's what I thought. It's the best friend. Then
you're you're now the godfather, so you're like kind of
part of the family.

Speaker 3 (22:09):
Maybe Haley was just desperate and grasping its straws, and
she was like, I need you to come back. You
were going to be the godmother.

Speaker 2 (22:17):
Yeah, now she's really roped into it, she's really stuck. Well,
she's also already passed out godparent, right, Like I think
Brooke was godmother for Jamie. I think, Oh, fans, I'm
sorry if I'm getting this wrong. Our producer says, yes, okay,

(22:37):
so Brooke is Jamie's godmother. Lydia is coming. Okay, So
Quinn's going to be Lydia's godmother, which is just going
to be strange because it's already aunt Quinn. But does
a godmother what does a godparent do? Do you guys
have godparents for your kids?

Speaker 3 (22:52):
No, but typically because we are the godparents to a child.
And at least in our case, what that meant was
they said, if God forbid something ever happened to both
of us, we would like you to take her. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
But I think that there's a lot of people who
just do it more casually where it's just like we
want you to be I mean, in religious families, it's
we would like you to be the one to sort
of like the spiritual elder to like, you know, help
this person grow.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Spiritually, like a mentor.

Speaker 3 (23:19):
Yeah, yeah, like a mentor. But I think it's also
just sort of like casually like love our kid, be
close with our kid.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Yeah. It's really beautiful, but also kind of defeats the
purpose because an aunt or uncle, I imagine, would already
be invested. So all right, let us know friends, let
us know if you if anybody out there has a
godparent who is also already a close member of the family,
how does that work or change? Does it change anything?

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Hmm?

Speaker 2 (23:51):
Anyway, that's that's my two cents.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Is I feel like Skills has to be at least honorary?

Speaker 2 (23:59):
Oh, yes, yes, he has to be. Is there a
godfather for Jamie or is it just Brooke is the godmother?
Lucas I would imagine would be the god Yeah, okay,
so Luke is the godfather and Brooke is the godmother.
But Luke is certainly not holding up his end of
the bargain. He bailed the godfather.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
My send the card once every couple of years, the
five dollars bill in it. Meanwhile, Skills, that's right, taking
him to lunch.

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Well, it's Julian in this episode. Because this was so fun.
I loved this. This we do buddy comedy really well
on this show. I loved watching the two of them together,
Chas and Mia showing up at the park, and Jackson's
whole comedy bit with them, his ability to oh, oh
yeah sure, and then the face drop of like I

(24:53):
don't know these friggin people, his comic timing with Austin.
I was on board. I wanted more and more and more, like,
way more of this in the episode.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
They were great. And I love that line Jamie had
where I think he said something the effective Yeah, given
my history or given my track record, I think I'm gonna.

Speaker 2 (25:16):
Pass kidnapping record. Yeah, like my track record of being kidnapped,
I'm going to pass. You want me to go to
your car and get candy from a stranger?

Speaker 3 (25:27):
Pass?

Speaker 2 (25:27):
And then Julian shows up. He just walks in and
he's like, hey, your mom called me to pick you up.
He's like all right, bye.

Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yes. It was so good and I like how he
didn't remember Chase, Poor Chase. Who are you? Victoria Davis?
I like that we had that, we had Steven back.
It's always fun to have Stephen in an episode.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
Yeah, I agree.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
I like that. There was some clarification with the breakup
that we actually got to hear me and chasing.

Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh yeah, have they not had a conversation yet?

Speaker 3 (26:04):
It had like one outside trick. Remember, Yeah, they went
rested on like a like a walkway outside. Oh.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
But she really goes into it in this episode where
she and the road and the night all made a
decision together that she was a bad girlfriend. Yes, and
he deserves better and better to her is clearly not
Alex Duprey, but we shall see what happens. But anyway,
I love Okay, So Julian taking Jamie to the batting

(26:36):
cages so fun. More of their dialogue so great comic relief.
And I love this part when they're sitting in the
in this arcade and Julian's making up a storyline about
random strangers and they're just sitting there watching, Oh my god,

(26:56):
the line about He says, oh, yeah, this guy's an
alcohol and Jamie goes, Chuck's mom's an alcoholic. It's like
I know somebody who went to college there, just throwing
it out there, so offensive, and Jamie calling him on
it and just saying, hey, man, uh yeah, this lady's

(27:17):
hanging out with the kid that's not her own because
something is going on that she doesn't have the guts
to tell him what's actually happening.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
Smart, Smart, I it was great to see Lee. Yes,
I love me some Lee Norris. When he walked into
Close Over Bros. At the start of it, and it
was just Julian in an empty store, and he went on,
I guess I picked a bad day to come asking
for a job.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
That's right, But also does he in need of a job?

Speaker 3 (27:46):
I forgot guts. That was where I was confused. Right
at first, I thought that's a funny line and because
given a situation. But then when he goes to trick
and he's like, I asked you for a job, and I'm like, oh, oh,
so this is a new this is like gonna be
a story. Okay. Wait.

Speaker 2 (28:02):
Also, why was Julian so chill when he walked into
the store. Did you notice that he just like walked
in and looked around at everything, like all the merchandise
emptied out, the entire store is cleared, and he just
looks around with no there's like almost no expression, like
he wasn't surprised. He was just kind of and I

(28:25):
thought maybe I missed something. Does he already know what's
going on? I don't remember them having a conversation. I
guess I just was expecting a bigger reaction. As somebody
walks into a shop that's completely cleared out, you'd be like, uh,
what the what? What's going on?

Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah? You know, he's just a cool cucumber, that guy.

Speaker 2 (28:45):
I guess, so, yeah, he just likes to keep it
all real close to the vest.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
I didn't notice that. But then yeah, so then Lee,
excuse me, mouth goes to trick and you know, he's like, hey,
I asked you for a job. And then as soon
as and Chase is like the Alex goes. You know,
I tied a cherry stem into a knot with and
as soon as I saw Lee reach for a cherry

(29:12):
halfway into that scene, I was like, all right, oh yeah,
is this gonna be the button? And sure it was.
He pulls out the knotted cherry stem and goes I'm
just saying.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
Looks, how often in middle school did you try and
do that? Or high school? Can you do that?

Speaker 3 (29:29):
I have pulled it off before, but it.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
Takes like an hour and your tongue is all worn out.
Oh yeah, it's so hard to do.

Speaker 3 (29:38):
It's also it's just it's so funny that that became
something that was the benchmark. Yeah, the benchmark for like
sexual prowess was like tongue agility.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
To turn it into to take a cherry stem and
twist it into a knot yeah who I don't understand,
but I remember hearing that in high school and being like,
oh oh no, I got to figure out how to
do this sit around cherry stemps. Like I wasn't even
having sex in high school. I just thought, I guess
I better know how to do this. That's that seems

(30:13):
like probably what I should do.

Speaker 3 (30:16):
Same I was, you know, virgin high school, are probably
going maybe this will be what changes the tide. I
should learn how to tie a cherry stemino not. Yeah,
well I got news for you, folks. I learned and
it changed nothing. I went college a virgin. In case
there is any listeners out there going like, maybe this

(30:38):
will be what changes things for me, maybe I should
do No, it won't don't change nothing.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Nothing nothing. It's a fun party trick. But yeah, is it?

Speaker 3 (30:48):
If we were at a party joy and I did that,
would you just would you? Would you be impressed or
would you just look around to see how everyone else
was reacting.

Speaker 2 (30:57):
It depends on how bored we were.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
I mean, I guess maybe my reaction it would be
maybe what's important is like the the delivery on the
face of the person who ties it. Yes, yes, Like
if I pulled it out very self satisfied or like
look what I did, then maybe it's like h. But
if it was just like, h what do you think
of that? You know?

Speaker 2 (31:21):
Yeah, you know. If I'm like, hey, do you have
any trash? I'm gonna go throw out this drink and napkins,
and you just like pull the cherry stem out of
your mouth that was in a knot and just set
it on my cocktail. I'm kidding, then I might laugh.
That'd be entertaining.

Speaker 3 (31:34):
It would be the funniest, weirdest moment of the night.
Would be You're like, oh, is that was this a flirt?
What's happening? There's on it? I don't know whether it'd
be grossed out or intrigued.

Speaker 2 (31:46):
He's just bored this like it would be like this
is what Rob does when he's bored and doesn't want
to talk to anybody at a party. He's just he's
just twisting cherry stems in his mouth, and I just
got a little glimpse into that because now I'm throwing
it away and it would just make me love you
all the more.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
Cut to a year from now, I'm me at one
of your dinner parties and I'm just like off, being
weird and isolated, and you come over and You're like, hey, man,
are you do You're not liking the vibe? Is this
not fun? And I'm like, not now, joy, I am
just fantically trying to tie this cherry stem with my tongue. Okay,
give me some space. I love the people here, I

(32:22):
love the vibe, the food's great, but I'm really focused
on the cherry stemnot okay.

Speaker 2 (32:26):
Yeah, what other things did we do in high school
that we thought were super super important and then never
used again other than half of the education we received?

Speaker 3 (32:38):
Oh, geometry? Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
I don't know either. I'm trying to think of like
movies or pop culture things that we just thought, Man,
this is really gonna I mean, driving a stick it's
fun to know how to do, but are you ever
going to use it?

Speaker 3 (32:54):
I haven't since I learned I had this Cringey recall
the other day that in high school we used to
call like when you made out with someone scamming scamming?
Did you hear like, you know, like Alex and Chase
totally scammed last night? Ye whoa she wants to sam
with you? And now I don't. I hear that and

(33:15):
I go, what, that's the dumbest thing? What does that
even all.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Of our lingo? My little my little six year old
niece was hanging out of the holidays and her brother
said something and she goes, that's so cap I and
my six year old niece had to explain it to
me because I had no idea where that even came from.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Listen, I feel cool right now because I do know
what that means. But I hear you that. When I
hear the lingo, I'm like, oh, I already feel like
the seventy year old man who's like shaking his fist
going get off my lawn because I hear like, what's
the skibbity? And you know, yeah, I'm just like you
guys sound like freaking titons. Stop the normal words.

Speaker 2 (33:58):
Will it ever come back?

Speaker 3 (33:59):
We?

Speaker 2 (33:59):
Will it ever come full circle? Like we're not using
swell or we still use cool, but I guess cool
is out. No, I think I think once the lingo
is in, it's in, and then once it goes out,
it's out. I don't think it ever it makes a
circle back.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Okay, So there's a great scene with Brooke and Victoria
at the end.

Speaker 2 (34:32):
Oh, Victoria, we have to talk about this, Okay.

Speaker 3 (34:35):
Brooke is red hot at Victoria and Millie rightfully so,
and then she comes out and she's like, like, were
you never proud of me? Do you believe in me?
And Brook and Victoria has that wonderful retort where she's like,
you pay me to gamble, and I've been gambling on
you succeeding because of how much I believe in you. Yes,

(34:57):
And the thing you don't pay me for is being
proud of you. You, and I've always been proud of you.
It's really sweet. And you know, Daphne just killed it.
Her delivery was just awesome.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
And so since here, this one is hard because she's saying,
you pay me to take risks and to do what
I think is best for the company. But I love
you and I have your best interest at heart, and
I'm proud of you. But she's also cheating and not
doing what's supposed to be done. So it's like, you know,

(35:34):
to have someone tell you they love you, they have
your best interest at heart, they're proud of you, but
also what their actions are very opposite. I mean, I
guess in Victoria's mind it's not opposite. But I really
struggled with that because I see her sincerity.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
But come on, but I agree with you because it's
it's she's sort of she's not telling the whole story, right, Yeause,
if you love someone and you believe in someone, mostly,
if you just care about someone and you are making
a decision that is going to expose them to risk,

(36:13):
if you care about them then and you respect them,
then you should you should tell that to them before
you make that decision. Yes, and you should give them
an opportunity.

Speaker 2 (36:23):
She signed things that she didn't know that she had
what she was signing. That's so it's beyond deceptive. It
is deceptive, but it's so manipulative. It's so disrespectful, unloving, uncaring, coercive.
It's not that's not loving.

Speaker 3 (36:42):
Yeah, no, it's it's not. And it's a little I
don't want to say, like gas light you but like
I said, she's not telling the whole story. Just keep
going like it's because I believe in you and I
love you. It's like, eh, yes, but but you now
look with the consequences are like, if you loved me,
I feel like you would try to prevent me from

(37:03):
being in this spot, or at least to me and
be like, hey, we're in a pickle. Here's what I'm
thinking about doing, but it exposes us to some risk.
How do you feel about it? But when you just
make a unilateral decision that's going to have such huge
implications if it doesn't work out, that just seems irresponsible

(37:25):
in brash.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
I think, So I I want to leave room for
grace and growing, Like Victoria is rapidly changing as a person.
We've seen all of her emotional growth and maturity and
it's exciting. And so I struggle with this because it's

(37:46):
I wonder where the line is between acknowledging that someone
has done something that is unacceptable and also acknowledging that
in their mind it was from a good place. Because
their level of emotional intelligence or behavioral intelligence has not

(38:14):
has not advanced past what they grew up as and
how they function and the best that they know how
to how to do in life. You know, it's like,
how do you how do you hold someone to a
quality standard? But also understand that Victoria is not just

(38:35):
going to change overnight to know what I'm saying. Does
that make sense?

Speaker 3 (38:39):
Yes? It does, right, because it's she made a big mistake.
It's not a relationship ender.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
I mean, it might be for some people, but in
this case, between the two of them, they're sorting through it.
I didn't mean to cut you off. I'm sorry, Rob, go.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
Ahead, No, No, it's okay. I'm just thinking like it
it's easy for it not to be, you know. I like,
it's because she may have been doing these kind of
things for like the last ten years. Yeah, you know,
so it again, she didn't make the right decision, but
there may be a pretty compelling story behind why she

(39:14):
did it. That's not just she was flying fast and
loose and like, yeah, like letting her ego run the show.
Like there may have been, like I said, a decade
of experience that told her we're okay, we do this
a lot. She comes through, We're all right. You know,
I've done this ten times before and it's never bid

(39:35):
us once. It's a calculated risk. It. Like I said,
it's unfortunate that it's gonna it could have huge, huge
fallout because you're right, by the way, the worst case
scenario isn't she loses close over bros. That's close to
the best case scenario. Yeah, the worst case scenario is
you're going to white collar prison for a while. Yeah,

(39:57):
it's bad.

Speaker 2 (39:58):
That's really I'm surprised that didn't come up in the
writer's room, or maybe it did and it was just
I guess decided that wasn't an option. But yeah, that's
all I was thinking of watching this storyline, going oh
my god, these people could go to prison, all three
of these characters. This is not just losing the company.

(40:19):
Losing the company is bad, but but then never being
able to open another company or find new investors and
then yes, going to prison. Oh I don't know what's
going to happen. I have no idea. I completely forgot
that this storyline existed.

Speaker 3 (40:35):
Yeah, just about everything that happened in this episode I
was basically watching for the first time, which is fun though,
because I don't know what's coming. Like I told you,
I was shocked when you said you were when Haley
says she's pregnant.

Speaker 2 (40:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:49):
I was like, whoa. And the only thing that I
that made sense to me was I remembered the scene
being in a hospital with so excuse me, Brooke, Jamie,
Clay and Quinn and we're doing the saltine challenge and
I remember so. Then once I was seeing with that today,
I said, oh, maybe that's when Hayley's in labor, were

(41:12):
all at the hospital. Maybe that's when we did the
saltine changing.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
Oh yes, I remember this.

Speaker 3 (41:19):
Yeah, Because like I said, I I had zero recollection
of that, but I just I put that together tas
I was watching the episode, and I was like, oh,
maybe that's why we were all in the hospital together.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
Yeah, that we had. That was one thing thought I
had watching this episode was we spent a lot of
time in the hospital as a cast. At least once
a season there was some lengthy storyline that included a hospital.
We eventually just bought out a fact or maybe we
rented out a factory and old factory in Wilmington and

(41:52):
gutted the whole bottom floor and turned it into a
fake hospital wing because the hallways load in a way
that made sense for our shots. And for cameras. So
instead of using our stages that we actually had to
go film that, we just started to build at a

(42:14):
completely different location, this old factory it was. Did you
ever go wander around there when you like kind of
went off of what sets we built and found yourself
in just random old abandoned factory machines and.

Speaker 3 (42:28):
No recollection of it that it was in an old factory.
That's crazy.

Speaker 2 (42:31):
Oh no, really, yeah, I wish I remember what it made.
I don't know if it was like telephones or if
it was baked goods, but I definitely remember wandering off
and wandering into rooms that were full conveyor belts.

Speaker 3 (42:46):
It is like, did you just say it's a factory
that either made telephones or baked goods. Could you explain
to me what machinery you saw that made you think
that specifically either makes a telephone or croissant.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
I don't remember. I just remember feeling like when we
were there. The memory I have in my brain is
somebody told me they make either telephones or something yummy.

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Incredible. We have a fan question, Yes, would you like
to read it? Sure?

Speaker 2 (43:32):
It's from Brinicole and she's asking She says, if somebody
asked you what the show was about. How would you
describe it from season one to season nine and what
are some key points you would talk about to get
someone interested.

Speaker 3 (43:47):
I feel like this is a question for you.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
It's teenagers in a small southern town going through average
everyday life before the age of cell phones and feeling
their feelings. They grow up together, they have lots of
drama together, and uh, there's this constant through line of

(44:14):
hope and redemption and uh there's a constant arc of
struggle and how you how you use lean on each
other to uh to overcome it. I would say that's
sort of the long through line. But key points to
tell people about to get them interested.

Speaker 3 (44:38):
Tape sings, car crashes, dogs eating hard, dog sitting cards,
doppelganger psychopaths.

Speaker 2 (44:47):
Yeah, motivational speak here a hero villain, villain becomes a
motivational speaker. Russian mafia, which we get to eventually.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Oh my gosh, you've forgotten about that.

Speaker 2 (45:03):
Yeah, yeah, all that, all that plus just regular old emotions.

Speaker 3 (45:13):
You have an honorable mention from this episode.

Speaker 2 (45:16):
I thought Austin was great in the episode. It was
he was really fun to watch interact with Jamie, his
comic timing, his flat dry sense of humor that really
comes out and plays very well off of Jackson, was
just super fun to watch. What about you?

Speaker 3 (45:34):
The honorable mention I want to say, is you saying
that we shot at a factory that either made telephones
or baked goods. But to give proper credit where it's due,
my honorable mention I will give to Jackson because I
thought he was so funny in this episode. Yeah, he
didn't push it, he wasn't reaching for like there was

(45:57):
a there was a very good, subtle tea and kind
of confidence to it where he was, like I said,
he wasn't putting anything on it, which is crazy for
a young person to have sort of that comfort and
confidence and like this is just gonna be funny, like
typically can like punch. It isn't that funny, you know,
And he was just like you gotta let that go man,

(46:21):
the Ben Brian Fernandez thing or you know. He was
just great. So yeah, Jackson, he's my honorable mention.

Speaker 2 (46:26):
I'm on board. Hey, let's spin a wheel. Thanks for
hanging out with us today, friends, Okay, go ahead. I
did the question.

Speaker 3 (46:37):
Most likely to order dessert before dinner.

Speaker 2 (46:41):
I kind of feel like Sophia, but I don't know
why do you think that's true?

Speaker 3 (46:45):
Interesting? I feel like they could also be Hillary.

Speaker 2 (46:50):
Yeah, yeah, both of them, I think for I think
for different reasons. I think Hillary's always been very nonchalant.
But I don't think she's a foodie. She wasn't raised
with this sort of like passion around food, so I
think she'd just be like, yeah, whatever, just put in
front of me, ill eat it. Sophie, I could see

(47:11):
ordering dessert before dinner out of a sense of adventure
and like, especially if she was hanging out with one
of her god children or something, and maybe being like, yeah,
let's do it. Why not let's just have a whole
bunch of pie or ice cream or whatever.

Speaker 3 (47:25):
Would you bump on that someone was like, hey, let's
eat dessert before our entree.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
That depends on the day and how much if you.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
Run a date a first date, oh first date, and
the guy was like, hey, do you want to get crazy?
And you're like, oh my god, yeah, and he's like,
I want to order us dessert before we have our entrees.
What are you feeling?

Speaker 2 (47:48):
Be like, yes, sign me up, let's do it. Let's
see what happens. It might be a whole digestive adventure.
I never knew possible. Yep, are you a dessert before
dinner kind of a person?

Speaker 3 (48:05):
Not true, like not historically, but I am not opposed
to it. Like if we if we order in like
we did this few times with the holidays, like ordered
Mexican and the place serves churos, I'm absolutely orderings. Oh
yes I will. I will take a chiro out of
the bag and snack on that first.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Yes, okay, all right, we're on the same page.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Yeah, all right, next episode, Season eight, episode three, the
space in between.

Speaker 2 (48:32):
Well, see you guys. Then, thanks for hanging out, Hey,
thanks for listening. Don't forget to leave us a review.
You can also follow us on Instagram at Drama Queen's
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dot com. See you next time.

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