Drama Queens - One Tree Thrill (Part 17)

Episode Date: July 1, 2023

The Drama Queens are back answering your fan questions! The secrets behind some of the in-show photos revealed. Were storylines tailored for the audience?! There’s a reason we call these epsiodes One Tree Thrills!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. It may look different, but native culture is alive. My name is Nicole Garcia, and on Burn Sage, Burn Bridges, we aim to explore that culture. Somewhere along the way, it turned into this full-fledged award-winning comic shop. That's Dr. Lee Francis IV, who opened the first Native comic bookshop. Explore his story along with many other native stories on the show, Burn Sage, Burn Bridges. Listen to Burn Sage Burn Bridges. Listen to Burn Sage Burn Bridges on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

First of all, you don't know me. We're 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. Drama girl. Cheering for the right team. Drama queens, drama queens. Smart girl, rough girl, fashion but you'll tough girl. You could sit with us, girl.

Drama queen, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens. Hey, everybody. We are here for a Q&A. Can't wait to dive into this with you. I always love these episodes. It's so fun to just kind of take a little divergence from the regularly scheduled programming. From picking on ourselves? I feel like at this point in season five, we're just like, what nerds? We would never behave this way.

I know. We wish we had Sophia with us. She is in London right now, as a lot of you guys know, working on her new show. And so we're just kind of patchworking, everybody being in different. time zones and all that but um you know if if we have any any uh questions with answers that are burning for sophia we will we will call her bring her in we'll um we'll get her to drop in and answer to you guys yeah you know yo girl um okay should we start let's start yeah uh from diana diana says do you remember which episodes aired during sweeps weeks because i remember those

always being the episodes the show would do crazy things for ratings to go up smart girl did you know something crazy would happen because sweeps was at a certain time in the season what a great question how interesting dude i totally forgot about sweeps yeah me too like hold on a second let me do let my mom go gul-in that's really funny so explain what sweep sweet was to like kids who were born not in the 90s you don't remember 80s or 90s so this is before streaming when you could just sort of have anything on demand and the network set up their schedule so that it was it was geared toward times when people might be home the most and might be watching the most and they would put their most dramatic storylines and all shows did this all network TV shows

did this it would put their most dramatic or exciting episodes into this one week and it wasn't just one week a year there were several sweeps weeks during a year and it was it was geared toward bringing in a ton of viewership just to really boost the ratings and get a bunch of advertising money. Am I missing anything? No, I mean, it was water cooler TV where you wanted to do something so crazy that the next day at work, everyone would be talking about it at the water cooler. Yes. And I don't think that really exists anymore. It was Ross and Rachel getting together. It was like all the crazy things that happened on ER when George Clooney. and Juliana Margulies finally got together.

It was, I mean, I'm trying to remember of things that every time there was a major moment on one of your favorite shows back then, it was from Sweeps Week. I feel like the office, like, remember, we liked The Office a lot when we were filming the show. And I feel like they had like Jim and Pam stuff go down during Sweeps Week. You couldn't miss. Yeah, so I'm sure they did that with us. I don't think that we, we, I didn't calculate storylines. I just remember getting scripts and being like, damn, this shit is getting wild. I never thought about sweep, squeak.

This stuff is going to be expensive is what I thought. Right. We're going to bring in every character. You're all going to be in hair and makeup at the exact same time. We're going to throw you in the river. And then, you know, a dog is going to eat a heart. Just, yeah, it's so crazy how streaming has affected our business. because I don't think people who are making TV now have to worry about that.

It's subscription-based. It's not based on going out and getting advertisers at your up-fronts or your TCAs and things like that. Like, you wanted to be able to cut together a reel of your show that advertisers could look at and be like, oh, damn. And they got those numbers? Ooh. Right. I don't even know what numbers look like anymore. How do they calculate?

It's the same in music. like who's how are artists even getting paid it's a totally different conversation well streamers don't have to share the numbers right keep them a secret yeah that's so weird i don't know it's not a business i want to work in i don't that part of it i mean i don't know i don't know how to do any of that stuff numbers yeah but but to that point i think there was a state championship feeling to those big episodes because we all knew like these are the episodes eyeballs are going to be on we got to show up and we're all it's a team sport and we're going to win damn it yeah there definitely were some and i remember them doing big press that's what like entertainment tonight would come to set exactly they would

come down to set it was a whole big thing they would organize photo shoots and uh video shoots and all kinds of stuff and that was i would say once a year that happened right yeah i mean multiple times? No, I want to say there was that there were like two. It was weird. It was split up in like semesters because we would film the same schedule as school. It was like end of August to Christmas and there'd be a sweep episode in there somewhere like November. It would air. And then you would have second semester was after Christmas break to like end of April beginning of May and then we'd have our summers off. And maybe that's why we all are still. stunted adults because we

stayed in an adolescent schedule well into adulthood. Whatever. Yeah, it's like midterms. All right, what's our next question? All right, Lindsay wants to know, do you guys do random photo shoots for your pictures that get hung up

in the houses and or offices or are they just random pictures taken on set? Oh, I always hated these. It was so annoying. It was like, I could just, you know, you're in a groove, whether you're on set or you're, they just come pull you out. We got to do a prop photo shoot. Well, it's better than, better than the Frankenstein

photo shoots. When photoshopping was so terrible. But even like still, so I did a Christmas movie or I just hired the whole One Tree Hill cast. I was like, oh, I get to produce. Cool. I'm going to hire my friends. Yeah. And so I hired DeNeil and Antoine to play a married couple, to play my best friend and her husband. And they Frankensteined a wedding photo of Dineal and Antoine that is the funniest thing I've ever seen in my life. I want to see it. Where is it? You know, I'm all put it on a tote bag or some shit. I need to sell this. It was horrendous. I'm going to track that one down and I'm going to text it to everybody. So I giggle at those things because they do ask you at the beginning of any job if you'll provide childhood photos.

Like they write used the shit out of the Scott brothers' childhood photos on our show. And then they ask like, oh, do you have photos of you with your real baby giving birth? So we can use that. And like the picture that Ellie had holding a baby that was supposed to be Peyton was actually Cheryl holding her son. And so they ask for that stuff. And if you turn it over cool and if you don't, they'll just Frankenstein something horrible together. So it's better just to give them what they want. Give it to them.

Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Yeah, so that's where those come from. They can be something that they just pull you aside. And sometimes you can watch it. You can notice it when you're watching a show. You'll see a character refer to a photo, but they're wearing the same shirt in the photo

that they are wearing in the scene or that they were wearing in the previous scene. They just took that photo on set. It's kind of funny. Now I'm on a quest to find this fucking picture. I can't wait to see this photo. It may look different, but native culture is very alive. My name is Nicole Garcia, and on Burn Sage, Burn Bridges, we aim to explore that culture.

It was a huge honor to become a television writer because it does feel oddly, like, very traditional. It feels like Bob Dylan going electric, that this is something we've been doing for a hundred of years. You carry with you a sense of purpose and confidence. That's Sierra Taylor Ornellis, who with Rutherford Falls became the first native showrunner in television, history. On the podcast, Burn Sage Burn Bridges, we explore her story, along with other Native stories, such as the creation of the first Native Comic-Con or the importance of reservation basketball. Every day, Native people are striving to keep traditions alive while navigating the modern world, influencing and bringing our culture into the mainstream.

Listen to Burn Sage, Burn Bridges on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay. Robin wants to know that there's no pets during the series. What kind of pets do you see certain characters having? I love that. I always wish there was pets around. They were, there were, I mean, why wouldn't somebody have a dog? Yeah. The boys who all live in that, like, frat house, they definitely have like a nasty, drooly little bulldog that's just humping people's leg when they come over. Like, that's absolutely happening. 100%. Yeah. Karen and Lucas, I feel like, would have had a dog. Yeah, I do miss the presence of pets in this world. I guess Nathan and Haley, I feel like there's definitely, well, actually, Jamie gets Chester, the rabbit. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he does get a rabbit.

I just sent you the wedding picture, by the bye. Look at your phone. You're going to be happy about this. Oh, my God. Wait, stop, stop. That's not real. That is not real. I mean, it's literally not real, but also, who decided that's okay?

I don't know, but I'm sorry for you guys that want to hear us talk about pets, but I'm going to fixate on this picture for the next half hour. It is real bad. And maybe if Danielle gives us permission, we'll put it on the internet. But, I mean, okay, Antoine has no neck. No, and he's a foot taller than her. Yeah, and he's got six different hair colors. She has six different hair colors.

I feel like even the bouquet is. photoshopped, which is just so bizarre. That's not Danielle's body. Oh, wow. The tiara is really the kicker for me. Oh, wow. All of it's wrong. The writing, I'm dying.

I'm dying. Yeah. So anyway, art kids. Thanks for reminding us to look that up. Pets, would Peyton have a pet? No, because Peyton is already anticipating everything's death. Like, there's no way that Peyton's going to have a pet because she's like, but the people always leave and dogs always

die and I can't do it. No, she would have to get one of those pets that lives forever, like a tortoise. Lizard or a tortoise, yeah. Yeah, who would have, I don't know that I see Brooke having it. I mean, obviously, we know Sophia is like buried in dogs, but does Brooke have a pet? I don't know. She didn't want that cat when she got the apartment. Yeah, that's very Hollygo lightly of her.

You can keep the cat. I'm missing the dream sequence of Sophia as Audrey Hepburn in an alleyway singing Moon River to a cat. I feel like I need that in my life now. Okay, listen, from Claire, she says it's high school reunion time. Do you think your character would attend? Are there any characters you think wouldn't attend? Did you go to your own high school reunions? Girl, this is a dangerous question.

I know. I didn't go. I wish I would have. Of course Hayley would attend because she's teaching at the high school. Oh, yeah. And characters that wouldn't attend. I don't know.

I mean, all of our crew seemed pretty tight. I feel like everybody would show up. Everybody could have a reason to show up. Maybe Glinda probably wouldn't come. No, she totally come because she's had her comeuppance. Like, I feel like in adulthood, she's thriving. The person who's not going to come is like... What's Kat Bayliss is?

character's name? Yeah, Cat Bayless. Like, I don't know if Shelly would come. Not because, just because she's like over it. I just don't know that Shelly would care to come. I can't remember what is wrong with me. Cat Bayless is character's name. Erica Marsh.

Erica Marsh, yeah. I don't know if she would come. Yeah, you know what it is? It's when you're really, when you're really firm in high school. And then you loosen up as a grown-up, and it's embarrassing to remember how, like, tight you used to be, you know, just like how narrow-minded you used to be. You don't need anybody to remind you. Yeah. So this whole podcast is like that for us. I feel like we doing this whole thing. Like, oh God, we're going to go look at it. One long admission of like,

I was wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong. No, they just had a, they had a reunion for my graduating class just like a month ago. And I was working. So I couldn't go. But it looked nice. Like, everyone seemed to be having a really good time. It was, you know, what was interesting is that it was a really random group of people that didn't necessarily hang out when we were in high school. Like, there were some, like, really popular kids that were jocks, and then some, like, really academic kids and drama kids and people that didn't necessarily overlap in high school. But as adults, are all really cool with each other. And so that's nice to see. It's nice to see them all kind of budding up to take photos

and support each other. Aw. Yeah, man. That's great. That's public school. We love it. We love to see it. I'm going to go home in October. Oh, you are. Good. I'm going to go do a book tour stop there. That'll be my reunion. I'm so excited for this for you. That's awesome. We're going to go drinking. Yeah. Okay. So let's end. We got to wrap this one up soon. So let's end with Emily's question. How did you maintain personal relationships with friends and families outside of the One Tree Hill family while you were making the show because working away for most of the year with long filming days seems like your circle outside the show might get smaller. It's interesting. Yeah, I think it does. I think like when you only have a limited amount of time, you're the people that you are prioritizing who aren't in your face every single day because of work. It does have to kind of by default get a little bit smaller. I don't know that I would blame it on work. I blame it on boy. always like I was in a relationship for the first five seasons and so I didn't like on weekends I was just hanging out you know in Wilmington the second I was a swinging single lady girl I would get in that car on a Friday and drive to Raleigh drive to Northern Virginia drive to Charleston like I saw more people in that last season than I did the first five years I love that I love that you're adventurous like that but you were also driving a round. I did a little bit of it, but I have to say that's one thing, I will say, in my 20s, that's one thing I really wish I had done more of because you just take it for granted. I lived in

New York City and I never went to the cloisters. I never, like, I don't think I even went out to Long Island. I never, I just never left the city. I never left the actual pad of the island of Manhattan. And it's so dumb because there's so many amazing things to see in that area and hiking and all this great stuff. But you just kind of get caught up in the zone. You're in. The same happened me in Wilmington, I just, I got, I was just there. I didn't really travel a lot, but I was also traveling across the country because I was also in a relationship. And then, you know, it was like, I was tired. It was back and forth to, uh, across the country every weekend. Those boys made us tired. Boys. Boys. Yeah. So it wasn't the show that was the obstacle.

It was boys. I think that's a universal thing for anyone who has a job. It's like, the job's the job. But the boy is the. problem. Exactly. Which will tie in Shay's question here about would you rather have an all ladies night at trick or watch a good game of basketball on the river court? I'm saying ladies night a trick all the way. Tie it up with your girls.

Yeah. Trick ruled. Like you guys hear us talk about that set and it were not exaggerating. It really was the best set of all the sets. It was so fun. There were so many like corners you could go hide in and just like talk shit. Get into trouble.

Totally. They'd call for first team. We'd hit our marks. We'd do our take and then we'd go back to trouble. It's fantastic. Yeah. So friends, go find your own version of trick and grab your girlfriends. And come back and see us next week.

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fashion but you'll tough girl you could sit with us girl drama queen drama queens drama queens drama queens drama queens it may look different but native culture is alive my name is Nicole Garcia and on burn sage burn bridges we aim to explore that culture. Somewhere along the way, it turned into this full-fledged award-winning comic shop. That's Dr. Lee Francis IV, who opened the first native comic bookshop.

Explore his story along with many other native stories on the show, Burn Sage Burn Bridges. Listen to Burn Sage Burn Bridges on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.