Drama Queens - One Tree Thrill (part 25)

Episode Date: March 1, 2024

The thrills come fast and furious as the listener questions continue to roll in! In this episode the girls reveal their favorite song to dance to, their dream girl's trip and what age brought them the best times in life so far.  Plus, there’s behind-the-scenes tricks of the show, private birthday celebrations and find out what forced Sophia to pass on a big opportunity.”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Oh, hi, everyone. We have a Q&A today. Hey, gal. These are actually good questions. Hold on. Okay, we're going to get right into Danny's question. This is good. Danny wants to know which current show would you want to guest star on?

Oh. I wish I watched a lot of current TV. I'm such a creature of habit and go back and watch all my old favorites. What's on right now that's, like, exciting. Yellowstone, put me on a horse. Put me on a horse. Write that country song, Joy. Yellowstone would be so fun.

I will say, I'm watching a lot of weird shows on the history channel right now. And I know we've talked about this, but now the thing I can't stop thinking about when I'm many seasons into alone. watching people survive in the Labore Wilderness of North America is I'm like, wouldn't it be neat to see if you could send alone fans out into the wilds with alone experts? You know, like, I just... You want to shadow someone? Yeah, I'm like, I could be so good at helping to build a shelter. I don't know how long I'd want to stay, but I'd like,

to go. So my old roommate produces that show. I lived with Dave George when I, like, first moved to New York. This is going to happen. And Sophia, I can make this phone call and make this happen. I'm really going to need to ask him so many questions. Well, my favorite thing is that they thought it was going to be a show where all these like brawny dudes one. You know, it was all like, who's the survivalist? The last few seasons, it's all witches. It's all women who know how to use her. and like plants and they go out there and they just meditate and they're totally fine. Witches. We love to see it.

I love this. I love that this is going to happen. Oh my God. I'm sweating. Do it. I'm so excited. With all your free time. I want to be on a show called, you guys don't know Big City Greens, but it's a cartoon.

It's on Disney. I was trying to think, I was like, what's it on? it is about a family that lives in their little country house that an entire sprawling city has shot up around and only a true like redneck could have written this show because I watch this with my kids every single morning and I'm like oh I feel attacked by big city greens and so anybody out there has a connection to big city greens I'll get Sophia on alone if I can be a boy on a cartoon that's what I want What song gets you guys out on the dance floor? Oh, Michaela, that's a good question. I don't think I could ever sit it out if I heard I want to dance with somebody. Like that's just the ultimate pop song. How do you not get up?

By the way, I was about to be like, do I, which of me and Lee Norris's songs do I talk about? Is it I want to dance with somebody or 369 by the Yankeptuance? You two in the Anguins. Do it. Wait, did you guys see? The video I shared the other day, he sent me, there's a meteorologist, I think, in, like, Colorado, who people submit songs that they want him to put into the weather report. And he did it. He did the Yan Yang Twins last week. And Lee sent it to me. And we were screaming. No way. This guy's Instagram was amazing. I'll send it to you. It's great. We'll make sure to put it in the story for you guys listening at home, too. So you're not like, what are you talking about? When we lived in Wilmington, we would go to level five. And it's, If I was just in the middle of a conversation that our DJ, Craig, could tell I didn't want to be in, he would put on Genuine, hell yeah.

And I'm a big Genuine fan. And that song, everyone, like, thinks of his other songs. Hell yeah is the one. But he would play it sometimes like three times a night just to be like, Hillary, do you need an out? Okay. Do you want to get away from that person? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Genuine. That's the kind of friend you want to be, kids. Craig rules. All right. Emily asks, where do you think Haley, Brooke, and Peyton would go on a girl's trip? The Sparkle Classic. Yeah, besides the Sparkle Classic.

Remember, we did the Sparkle Classic and Gossip Girl got to go to Paris? And we were like, okay. All right. Enough. And I do feel like... Wait, did they actually go? Yes. I feel like we should go to Paris is really all I'm saying.

I think the three of us deserve it. Yep. Or at least like Quebec City. They really went to Paris and we went to Myrtle Beach. That's epic. That is really just a picture of our network at the time. They hated us so much. That's incredible.

That's incredible. Yeah, co-sign on Paris. 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. Hey, Tessa is asking, what has been your favorite age to live through so far? I mean, right now.

Yeah, right now. And if your answer's not right now, I'm sorry, it will get better. Well, we've also just like never been cooler or more fun. We are right now. Yeah. Or given less. That's like the real fun part. Yeah.

Exactly. You hear older women say it. You hear them say it all the time. Just like, oh, when you get older, you don't get a shit. And I was always like, okay. And yeah, to hit it and hit it hard feels so fun. It makes even go into the grocery. Like, oh, I've been embarrassing to shit out of my kids in the grocery store.

Just sing into that music that they play, dance, trying to make Gus dance with me. We ran into his crew coach. At the supermarket, fortifying, we don't care. We love it. Yeah. No. Forties are wild. They say, though, I've been seeing a lot of women in their mid-50s post about how there's

this expectation for women who are their mid-50s to become invisible and how they're rebelling against that by dyeing their hair like neon colors and like starting to dress real crazy and like do crazy old lady shit, you know, like really lean into the visibility of being eccentric and audacious. And so while I'm really enjoying this phase, I kind of can't wait for that. Yeah. There's a great poem about that. I wish I knew who it was from.

But when I find it, I'll send it to you. Yeah. The hag years is what they call them. When you go full hag and you're like, I am here to swamp witch, my brain's out. right children Terrify men Done I also think it's really

Interesting The way that Expectations or Or to your point That sort of Being erased By society Have really changed

Like And no shade It was my favorite TV show ever But like When you look at The way that the Golden Girls had their hair

done and dressed And they were all in their mid-50s And then you see like Julia-Royd Roberts is 50-something, and she's, like, out here rocking around in cute loafers and little mini-shorts. And she's so hot.

And I'm like, bring it on. Like, if that's what we get to age into, I'm so into it. And it seems like this sort of expectation of us having to become something other than just who we are is really changing. And I like it. Okay. Elise wants to know. This is actually wild.

She said, you've talked about props before and how you made Nanny Carey bleed from getting shot on the show when Carrie talked about, or when Tori talked about being in Squibs is what the term for that is. But she asks, but I was wondering how they make you spit up blood or have blood coming from your mouth in scenes. Oh, Elise, it's a gross doozy. Yeah, you just hold it in your mouth. You just hold it there. Yeah, basically what they'll do. Let's say, you know, you're doing a scene and somebody like a nanny carry gets shot and then has dialogue. And then after, I don't know, let's say four lines of dialogue, blood starts coming out of her mouth.

What they do is you do the dialogue up until when it happens and then they'll call hold. And a props person will literally come over with a paper cup full of this fake blood that is so gross. And they will fill your mouth up with it. Yeah. And then they'll call reset and then they'll keep shooting the scene. And you'll start, you will have to start pushing blood out of your mouth with your tongue and then keep talking. And miraculously, you're not supposed to choke. Remember when Joy had to barf on your show and it made me gag so bad?

Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's right. Yeah. What was that? Was that oatmeal? Yeah, it's like an oatmeal applesauce kind of a mixture. Whole meal, applesauce, food, that cornstarch, food dye. Oh, so gross.

I have a really bad gag reflex. I can't do that. I don't like water work. I don't like barf work. I don't like blood work. I just want to kiss and cry, you guys. The blood doesn't bother me. I don't love the barfing ever since our show.

I can't. The water, I don't mess around with it. I got asked to, like, go do a pretty big deal show that involved water this year. And I was like, absolutely not. Yeah, no. I know myself. well enough. I'm not doing it. I'm not signing up for it. Love you all. I will say thank you and hope that the energy of this brings in something sans water that is equally good. I'll see you

on the flip side. Know thyself, sister. No for me, dog. Don't be miserable. All right. Lane wants to know, how do you each like to spend your birthdays? Oh, birthdays. I don't do those anymore. Jeffrey does this real irritating where he pretends my birthday is July 2nd. And so for the whole week waited up to my birthday for 15

years now. This man's like, can't wait to take you out on July 2nd. And I'm like, funny. I'm real funny. And every year, he really convinces me that he has never figured out what day

my birthday is. And then he always does stuff on the actual birthday, but he's such a good actor that I'm just, I spend my birthday irritated. That's how I spend my birthday. I'm no way. Oh, my goodness. I mean, I don't know, Hillary, maybe you feel this?

Like, having our birthdays that first week in July was always just a birthday ruiner as a kid because everybody's doing something for the fourth. You thought it was a ruiner? Well, it's like nobody was ever around on my birthday. People were always, like, out of town for the weekend or whatever. So I think as a kid, I was just so excited on, you know, the two, two times every seven years. I get a birthday on a Friday or a Saturday. And otherwise, it was like, because I'm so close to the fourth, people were usually away on doing whatever they were doing.

You know, going to the beach or camping with their families or whatever. And so I don't know. I'm not that attached to my actual birthday. Because the whole time we were doing our show, I'd usually have to travel, like, on my birthday to be. back for filming or the day before. But I think like any time a group of people is actually all in the same place for my birthday, I sort of feel like I've won the lottery. Aw.

Mm-hmm. Sweet. I had a girlfriend, Ashley, who had been still friends with her since like sixth grade. And she had the pool. She had a pool at her house. And so her mom would throw a collective summer birthday party for all of us. So it was like six of us kids. celebrating our birthday together in high school, just having these like ragers. And they like had a

trampoline. So for me, my birthday is not worth celebrating unless I'm celebrating it with like other July babies. And we have so many July baby friends. And I think that's just like a innate thing in my DNA where I'm like, you're a cancer. Join us. Join us. Join our party. Come together and hold my little Yeah, we need to throw a rager is what needs to happen. Joy, your birthday is right after April Fool's Day. Do you ever get, like, do you get annoyed on your birthday, too? No, I just try and let it go by. I don't know.

I've always been a bit uncomfortable with, usually what happens is I don't plan anything. And then the day before my birthday, I'm like, well, I guess I should do something. And then I call, like, six people and we go have dinner. Yeah. That's usually what happens, an escape room and dinner or something kind of corny like that. Escape rooms are corny? Those are cool. You're so fun.

I love them. I mean, I know they're corny, but I love them. Yeah, that's about it. I don't usually tend to do big, I don't know why. Like, hey, yay me. I don't know. Well, because our job is attention and nobody wants to take work home. Yeah.

Yeah. I think that's the real misnomer about performers is that, like, we love attention. The minute we leave work, we want to disappear. Oh, my God. No. Well, why, like a lot of actors I know can't date men that adore them. Like, if you've got a guy who's like a puppy that just adores you, it's like you have to go away. You've got to go. Oh, that's funny. Why would I want somebody who's constantly adoring me when you show up to work and everybody just, it's like, it's hard to get anybody to to be real with you and give you the real anything because as an actor, you're, you know, being told whatever you want to hear most of the time.

Jeffrey, if you're listening to this, that's why I write books now. I'm like, writers love adoration. Writers are like, tell me more. Which part resonated with you the most. What was your favorite? That's funny. What's the next one? We got one more.

This feels like it's for me and you this year. Hill, since Brooke and Payton have been living together. Oh, yeah. Kendall is asking, was Brooke's house a set or a real house and wanted to know what was the point of the stairs as both bedrooms were downstairs? What is up there? I love this question. I asked this question many a time, Kendall.

Thank you for making me feel seen. The outside of Brooke's house where Brooke and Peyton would sit and, you know, drink wine and Victoria would come scare them was a real house. And I think because that real house was so tall and narrow, they felt when they built the set that they had to mimic a tall, narrow house. So they put stairs to nowhere on the set. And instead of building two sets side by side with the living room, you know, on one half and then the bedrooms quote upstairs next to it on the set floor, they just had this staircase to nowhere. um that went upstairs and one time i think they referenced that the laundry room was up there i could swear i came down from a scene from up there well you came from nowhere it was the sewing room

the sewing room when brook sows her all that five minutes like she's in her sewing room yeah because even the balcony was off of your kitchen yep there was just nothing anywhere but it is so weird. You know, it's like this idea that, you know, Brooke came home and bought a beach house because she's Brooke Davis and she's so rich from her big fashion company. And then she's in this house that like the two bedrooms are smushed right off the kitchen. And then there's a staircase to nowhere. It just made me giggle so much that I was like, oh, we're supposed to be in this big, bougie beach house. And they just stuck us in the corner of the one soundstage we had left. And they were like, well, whatever, we'll fit her house in there. Yeah. Yeah. Make her

purple. No one will pay attention to it. I can't see anything but the purple. Hey, you guys, thank you so much for these questions. They're so fun. We're going to start planning our birthday right now. Honestly, my main takeaway from today is that we need to do a group escape room. Yes. I'm down. I'm ready. Thanks, y'all. Bye. Hey, thanks for listening. Don't forget to leave us a review. You can also follow us on Instagram

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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. 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. Thank you.