Drama Queens - One Tree Thrill (Part 23)

Episode Date: December 22, 2023

It’s another thrill ride as we find out what it was like for the girls having their families watch the show, what their feelings are regarding their own kids following in their footsteps and more personal holiday secrets revealed!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. What difference at this point does it make? Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeartRadio 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 in our comic girl. Drama girl. Chearing for the right team. Drama queens, drama queens. You could be 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, drama queens, drama queens. queens welcome back friends this is uh our next q and a our winter december q and a we're so excited

to have you joining us from whatever cozy corner you're in in the world are we going to end this episode with with your christmas songs joy i feel like those should play us out sounds great yeah did you record any new ones this year i didn't i've been i've been so slow I really planned to, actually, but I just is not, and it was not in the cards for this, this year. Okay. Yeah, I do love me some Christmas music. I know you do. That's why I'm like, I feel like every year, if you just drop one song every year until we die, that's a hell of a library.

Like, Moriah Carey can just, that'd be a lot of albums. I know. I should. Maybe there's still time. You never know. I am a last minute. Just a little impulsive. You could do it.

Well, actually, in that vein, what are you guys' favorite Christmas albums? Do you have favorite holiday albums that you love listening to? This is an Elvis house. Yes. Yeah. I mean, it's like, it was one thing when it was just Jeff and I, and we were into the Elvis of it all. But then Gus watched that Boslerman Elvis movie every day for three months and went as Elvis for Halloween. And so now, like, that child is all Elvis.

Oh, and then George just became obsessed with Lilo and Stitch. now she's obsessed with Elvis. Amazing. Elvis Christmas. I like all the old school stuff. Like, I want to listen to Louis Armstrong and Sam Cook and all if it's Gerald and like, you know, like I can get on one of any music app and be like, give me a Mariah Carey Holiday Radio for a little bit. Yeah, because like, obviously she launches Christmas every year. But I always want to go old school after a couple of songs.

Yeah. I love all that old stuff too. That's my go-to. The 40s radio station on Sirius X, I'm like, just hit play. Leslie Odom, Jr. did a Christmas album. I don't know if it was last year or the year before. I think it was the year before. It's beautiful.

It's so, the music is so interesting. And his voice is like butter. And, yeah, that one surprised me. I really love that album. All right, ladies. Owen wants to know if there had been an opportunity to do an episode abroad, where would you pick in the later years hill

when you had gone they took us to Puerto Rico for an episode which like isn't technically abroad but felt pretty fun really like it was more abroad than Myrtle Beach where we would just go when I was there exactly but I feel like

abroad means you know truly you have to go to you need a passport right Like, I don't know. Sure. I always have so much fun when we all go to Paris together. Like, wouldn't it have been fun to shoot an episode there and just like sit in cafes and eat macaroons together? Yeah, Paris and London.

That would have been fun. Actually, I would have loved to have gone to Italy for an episode. We really would have had a ball if they had taken us to Rome or Florence or something. That would have been really fun. My favorite place that we've ever gone, Jeff and I, we don't know how to vacation, just like vacation. we only go places for work and then spend a couple extra days like I don't know how to vacation

I've never done it when he had to go shoot a commercial in New Zealand Gus and I tagged along and it's a hump getting there I mean that's a long flight but once you're there that Lord of the Rings energy

those fucking trees and the waterfalls and like the mountains and like all that hobbit shit was so awesome and I haven't even watch Lord of the Rings. It was just such a majestic environment. Literally every day Gus and I went and did the most interesting thing that we've ever done in our lives. You know, we were taking those crazy little speedboats under waterfalls and going to see where sea monsters live. And just, it was so gorgeous and so wild and everyone there that like, that New Zealand sense of humor that like

flight of the concords had. Yes. I just, I was so won over by New Zealand going to shoot our show in the, you know, this magical green country. It's just beautiful. Yeah, I would love to shoot there. Thank you, Owen. So, okay, when the show was airing, would your parents and grandparents watch? This is from Carla. Hi, Carla.

Did your parents and grandparents watch the show? And what did they think of it? What was the feedback? I don't know. My grandparents didn't. I think my grandma might have watched it, but I don't remember hearing much feedback. My parents probably did for a minute, but then I think it was like any other job. They were like, yeah, good job.

I mean, I know what you do. I know what you look like when you talk. You're fine. I know what you look like when you talk. I'm not impressed. I don't need to see this every day. Yeah. That's hilarious.

Yeah, I think the novelty wears off pretty quick. And then they're like, this is weird. Mine were like, we'd rather talk to you than watch you pretend to be someone else and, like, make out with people. We're good. I don't really have, like, family's a weird thing for me, so I don't have relationships with grandparents or anything. But in the last month, when I've been doing this book tour, I've been spending a lot of time with all my old high school teachers, and those were, like, adopted relatives. You know, like, that's, like, the aunt tribe. All those chicks were in charge of raising me. And they have strong opinions about all the boys that I kissed on the show and, like, the mischief I got into and, like, how I dressed and stuff.

Just hearing their commentary has been a delight because they're like, Hillary, seriously, like, kissing your best friend's boyfriend. That's ridiculous. Sorry, ladies. I didn't make that decision. I love it. Yeah, it's funny. You're like, it wasn't my choice. No, and they knew me as this, like, super studious, um, like, I was a school nerd.

I loved school. Yeah. And, like, the fact of Peyton Sawyer didn't go to college. Like, that was also problematic. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's cool. I think it's funny, especially if the people who are watching it have the freedom to make fun of you and call you on your shit. Those are fun phone calls to get.

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Yeah, that's right. Lock her up. Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi, on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Oh, this is a good question from Susan. I feel like we talk about this a little bit, but Joy and Hill, would you let your kids following your footsteps and go into acting? Sure. Yeah, but they just have to take it seriously. Like, I don't, it's not a hobby. Like, I mean, it can be a hobby, but not, like, as a, you can't make a career out of it if you treat it like a hobby.

It has to be something you really take seriously. Otherwise, I think there's just no hope. It's such a miserable existence as an actor. You know what I mean? The sacrifices are so huge. And it's this constant rejection and constant criticism. No, it's terrible. You have to really believe in the work.

and really believe that you're meant to do it. And if you do and you take it seriously and that's who you are, then great, do it. But if not, like, go, please go find something else to do. I mean, Gus just started acting last year, right? He really had it in his head that he wanted to be a director. And so he was making all of these movies at home. And he was writing scripts.

And he would always get like the little storyboard notebooks. And he would just storyboard. movies for hours and hours and hours a day. Really? Oh, yeah. Gus really put so much thought and effort into the production side of things. This is a child that will like take budgets and go through budgets just to see like what those look like. Like he was so, as I was producing more and more, he really immersed himself in that side of it.

And so last year he was like, well, I'm just going to do a play just so I can understand actors. You guys. I mean, so he did a Christmas carol, he played Jacob Marley, and he did a really, really good job, and he had to sing in front of people, which was like totally new. And when you're like a 12-year-old boy, it's so hard. And so then this year, our town does this play every year, he since played Oberon in Midsummer, and he went into the audition process, and he came home, and I was like, how was it? and he was very just like you know I don't want to jinx anything but I did my best

like I know that I showed up and I'm like that's all it is and so he Scrooge this year and carrying that little show it's the first play I ever took him to I think when he was like two or three years old I took him to this town production and it was his first time in a theater

first time in the little fold down seats and so to have him play Scrooge this year is a nice big big full circle moment, except now he's like, but where do I go from here? Like, what's next, Mommy? Good. It's a very serious business. But I don't know that I would let them do like TV. That seems different than community theater. Yeah. Yeah, I would, that, I feel the same way. I think I would probably reserve that for when she was 18. Like, okay, you're on your own. You can go do that. But now, learn in theater. Learn with other kids.

God, they're so cute. Learn where nobody's waiting on you hand and foot. Yeah, man. No, it's a community theater. Such a good space for kids to figure out who they are. And, like, you have adults validating you in that space. So when you go back to regular school and, like, piss aunt kids are making fun of you, you're like, whatever. I'm best friends with, my best friend in sixth grade was Peggy.

She was a banker. She would call me from the bank. Be like, hey. Oh, my God. it does kind of give you a bird's eye view of high school problems though like the kids that really get sucked into feeling like it's the end of the world like everything that you're experiencing because when you're in high school it is your whole world but to be able to have a life outside and like you said have adults that are that you look up to who respect

you and just give you a perspective outside of the world that you're immersed in every day I think that's so valuable. Is that the only space where that happens? Because I'm thinking about middle school and high school sports. Like when you're 14, you don't go play sports with 30-year-olds. Like, you don't go play sports with like 65-year-olds. But if you're a kid doing theater, you're doing your club activity with like a huge age range of people. That was actually a huge reason, probably why high school drama, I'd always sort of had this perspective of it's going to be okay.

Like, as soon as I get out of here, everything's going to be fine. Because I knew I was joining a world that I had already been a part of and exposed to for a long time. But I was fully going to be joining that world as an adult. And so it did make high school hard times feel like this two shall pass. And that's interesting that you're saying that. I had never thought of that before. I think that's really true. Yeah, I was always able to be friends with people much younger and much older.

because that was a part of the theater scene, as opposed to, like, my brothers played baseball. They're not playing softball with a bunch of dads on the weekends the way that we were. So interesting. Hmm. Yes, we want well-rounded children that can hang out with anybody. Okay, so now we're going to pivot, guys. Let's go holiday. Let's go holiday.

Cody wants to know, what is your favorite holiday food? Or what's the weirdest dish on your table for the holidays? Favorite holiday food always is stuffing, and it has to have raisins in it. Don't talk to me. Stuffing has to have raisins in it. Wait, you're saying it has to have raisins in it? Yes. Interesting.

Don't bring me stuffing with no raisins. Huh. Yeah, that's probably my favorite. Stuffing. Maybe pecan pie. Oh, piquinut? Yeah. Weirdest dish.

So my favorite's Virginia ham And this is the barometer For how much I love my husband Because I don't eat turkey I think it's gross I've always thought it was gross But when I met him I had to forego my ham holidays

Because that man loves turkey More than anything on the planet And so up until recently I have pretended For like a decade and a half Like I love this Because he spends like all week working on this thing.

I have to pretend like I love it, when all I want is a tacky little honey-baked ham with that sugar glaze on there, that spiral cut. The Christmas with the cranks, a honey-baked ham that she goes and gets run over by a truck, that big tin of ham. Yeah, ham is delicious. I'm from Virginia. Virginia ham is legendary. It's in my DNA.

And so, Jeffrey, like in our Gift of the Magi situation, recently started buying just like little half-hams and just kind of squirling them away and surprising me with a little half-ham. That is so sweet. Because then the day after, you get to fry it up like it's bacon and it's delicious

and you get to eat it on little Hawaiian roll sandwiches for the next week. I love it. I don't think it's weird. The weird thing is that I used to make a really fancy cranberry sauce like a beautiful Martha Stewart looking gorgeous thing

and that man only eats cranberry sauce out of the can like the jellied cranberry sauce and he doesn't even want me to put it in a dish he's like Hillary just leave it in the can so I'll have all my pretty lit crusay shit out and Jeff's just like

where's my can like a caveman what are you going to do I love it I don't know what's weird, but yeah, you're right, Joy, when you asked earlier, like, what might seem weird culturally, there's a, there's like a big Italian tradition of the Feast of the Seven Fishes, and I, oh, yeah, I started doing, like, really wild, like, you know, brandzino stuffed with, like, herbs and olives and, like, linguine vongale.

And people are like, is this holiday food? I'm like, I don't know, but it's seafood and it's delicious. us, so this is what we're having. Yes. It makes me happy. I've never done Feast of the Seven Fishes. What's the background? Like what's...

Come over. Yeah, I want that. Honestly, I couldn't even tell you. I don't know. I should probably look it up. I don't even know where it came from. There's going to be some Italians that walk us through it. Yeah.

It's just like a thing we've done in my family for so long that I've never even asked why. And then, like I was, I think we talked about. about this in our last one, but when Christmas and Hanukkah week overlap, I always do one of my seven fishes I do, go filter fish from the deli. And people are like, well, you're really going in on this theme. I'm like, yeah, we got to have seven kinds of fish on the table. So everybody gets a little something. It's really, I find it very fun. It's a little stressful to prep seven dishes, but once you figure it out, it's great. Yeah, I did that last year at a friend's house. I didn't prepare it, but I went. And it was really fun.

All the different, you know, they were like cracking open their muscle. They had muscles and clams and like, it's great. Really fun. I just love it. Sounds like a fun contest. All right. I'm a convert. I'll make one of the fishes.

We'll all make a fish. Come over. We'll make fish. All right. You guys, we are going to go finish decorating our houses. We're going to go finish wrapping presents. We're going to go busy ourselves. But we hope that wherever you are, you are having a lovely and.

cozy and safe and frivolous holiday season. Just take care of yourselves. Bye, guys. Happy holidays. I see lights on the rooftop everywhere I go. It's that time of you. I see smiles on the faces of everyone I meet such holiday cheer. I want to play in it all like a seven-year-old. I want to wrap you up and in kids. the mistletoe it's that time again let it shine again snow from my window i'm watching as i'm munching my pumpkin pie and with you it's a thrill escaping the chill here by the fire i want up dancing it all like a sugar plum doll i want to wrap you up in a kiss under the mistletoe it's that time it's that time again let it shine again snow don't kiss me good night yet everything's fine let's wait for the sun that shimmers through the cotton candy clouds over the gumdrop grounds have you ever seen a more

enchanting christmas town don't you fall asleep yet sad oh peep his bright rosy cheeks in soon he's bound to arrive it really is a wonderful life in the S-N. Oh, W. Snow, snow, it's snow. And on the rooftops everywhere I go, it's that time of year. I see smiles on the faces of everyone I meet such holiday cheer. I want to play in it all like a seven-year-old. Honey, wrap me up in a kiss under the mistletoe. It's that time again.

Let it shine again. It's that time again. Let it shine again. Oh, it's that time again. Let it shine again. Thank you. Thank you.

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Drama queens, drama queens. You could be the 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, 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. What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. Nine times out of 10, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why? Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies. From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi. What difference at this point does it make? Listen to Fiasco, Benghazi on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an IHeart podcast.