Drama Queens - One Tree Thrill (part 43)

Episode Date: March 14, 2025

If the pressure were on and you had to pick a friend to phone on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, could you decide in a pinch? Our hosts share who would get the call if they were in the hot seat and reveal how you would know if they ever won the lottery. Plus, find out what they've really been getting into on the internet.  Follow Drama Queens on Instagram and TikTok at @dramaqueensoth  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, 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 queens, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens, drama queens. That's a good way to start this. Hey, everybody. This are crib sheets.

Sometimes we look at these answers, these questions ahead of time, and sometimes we just fly by the seat of our pants, which it looks like is what we're going to do today. I like to be surprised with you guys. Yeah. It keeps your improv chops sharp, you know? Yeah, I think that's the thing.

I'm not, I've never been really strong at improv. I'd like to get better. Rob, you're so good at it. Did you take classes? or is this just you being funny? No, that's just high functioning anxiety. Wait a second. I got to circle back to what I said.

Do you keep your chops sharp? That doesn't, I did not say that correctly. What is it? Yeah. Well, I get what you were saying. You were a little mixed metaphory, but it's all right. Yeah. Okay.

Hopefully everyone's still with us. We, gosh, we are off to such a good start. Hi, everyone. We have a Q&A for you today. Anybody want to get started? Who wants to kick us off? Sure. Michael, you're up first, Michael, big pressure. Michael asks, who would be the winner, the sole survivor, on a survivor season of all OTH characters?

Listen, we've done one like this, but I will allow it because I love Survivor, and he has good follow-up questions. And the same question, but for actors or actresses in the cast, and would you go on the show if there was a celebrity survivor season? Whoa, this is so many. There's so much packed into this. A lot of questions. Yeah. Okay, wait. So does this mean that the first question, who would be the winner, Soul Survivor, on a season of all, oh, yes, all the OTH characters? So characters, actors, and then you personally, by the way, there has been a celebrity survivor season.

They just truncate it because I think we're softer than regular people. That's funny. That, I don't know, that surprises me, though, because artists, I mean, actors are like, we, We do a lot for our job. When we really take it seriously, I mean, there's a lot of training. There's a lot of hard work. There's a lot of long hours. We put our bodies through a lot of things that most normal people don't take the time to do.

Like training to learn trades and skills for months and months that just to be able to tell a good story on camera. Like I would bet on actors in Survivor. Method actors, perhaps. Like Daniel DeLewis might be particularly good. Yeah. I think we also are accustomed to, let's be honest, like, our needs are met quickly and whenever they arise. Yeah, when I'm cold, somebody's going to bring me a tea, apples and peanut butter.

Yes. And on the island where your only food source is coconuts that you have to open yourself and well water, you know, it might wear you down quick. So I think when we did this before, I think we did this in a Q&A, me with one of you, my answers were who would win a season? It's either Dan or Victoria. Yeah. Of the actual actors, I don't have an answer out the top of my head. And if there was a celebrity survivor season I got invited to, I would absolutely do it. I'd be terrified too because

I would be afraid of just, I would do really poorly 100%. Yeah. I think I would do it too. I think if I was in the right, like if the timing worked out when I could actually be away for that long, I would love to challenge myself that way. Because I feel like I'm constantly surprised with what I'm capable of when I'm but I have to be put into hot situations see I feel like I've done it enough I'm like yeah I've been tested I've survived plenty I'm set she's a life survivor yeah I'm no thank you also I love this woman she has two perfect little children I don't want to leave I'm like hanging out like I like my life I don't want to go anywhere I'm set I would root for the two of you, but I'm staying home.

There was a time in your life you would have gone. Oh, absolutely. I would have been the first one, gung-ho, let's do it. We're going to be great. I'm settled. I'm good. Yeah, I can relate to that. I don't know which character, I feel like.

I think Dan would make it to the end, but like, I don't think he would actually win. I feel like he'd be so duplicitous. Yeah. They vote you off eventually, right? That's how Survivor works. Every, yeah, every episode, a new person is voted off. And at the end, it's down to a final three. And you are voted, the winner is voted by a jury of your peers that you have voted out.

So it's like, there's like seven people in the jury, I believe. The previous seven people voted out before they whittled it down to the last three. So if you do screw over everybody, this is sort of the thing. It's like, you can backstab if you want to get there. The problem is it gives you a real tall order to then convince those same people why you deserve the money. Right. I've never seen a whole season of Survivor,

so I don't really know how it works. It's great. Can I tell you something? Jeff Probst is arguably the best host I've ever seen do it. Wow. How fun. Because it's not scripted, and he just rolls with stuff.

He's incredible. Listen, I would do it just alone so I could give Jeff Proppst a hug. I would take a couple days of starvation to give sweet, sweet, sweet Papa Probst a hug. I feel like there's got to be a sleep, hyper-hit character that's going to just... Nanny Carey.

Nanny Carey. No, somebody that is, you know, cool and encouraging and is, like, going to... I mean, this is like Hunger Games. Like, who's the person that's the underdog that nobody's really going to notice, but they, like, slowly climb their way up through the ranks and then make it to the top? It's like somebody like Bevin. I was going to say Miss Lauren. Oh, my gosh.

Yeah, I could see Miss Lauren making her way. Guys, I don't know. I'm, like, trying to run through the rolodex of characters in my mind. Katie. I got to say Katie would be a contender because she's obviously got a lot going on upstairs and has no moral compass. Yeah, Quinn would probably get pretty far. She's athletic. Dude, she's a tough cookie. Yeah, Quinn's in that running. Could you imagine if Quinn and Katie were in it together? That's a nice episode of Survivor. Yeah. 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 hundreds of years. You carry with you a sense of purpose and confidence. That's Sierra Teller 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.

Mark wants to know if you were to win the lottery. Guys, I actually did win the lottery. This ticket, I just had to pull out of my phone because it was blocking the camera so our producer couldn't see my recorder while he was fixing it. I won $5. Yes. At the Tennessee peppermint red lottery. It's very exciting.

What are you going to buy with it, a latte? I'm going to go redeem it and buy five more tickets. Like a true gamble. You're a let it ride type of gal. What would be the signs is really the question. If you were to win the lottery, what would be... Oh, so I guess this is assuming you won the lottery, but you keep it secret. But like, how would people around you know?

There would definitely be signs. I spoke about this recently, and I'm trying to think of who it was with. You know, when you go to some beautiful place around the holidays, and all the trees are wrapped in lights, like the trunks of every... Every tree. Everything's just in white twinkie lights. It's so beautiful. Next Christmas, that would be my house.

That would be a sign. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. You know? And I suppose it could be a thing that I could do. I could really just commit to spending a few weeks of doing the labor to get that done. And maybe it's not as expensive as I think it is, but I think it's really expensive to do that. That's a lot of work.

But let me ask you a question. Is it, though, limited to only the Christmas season? See, I would leave them up. You're around. Yes, see? I'm with you. You just live in a garden of lights. I think you do the whole neighborhood, whether they like it or not, H-O-A-B-dammed.

I would love that. That's awesome. I would really love that. Guys, I don't think you'd know. I would not, like, I keep shit on lockdown. I just don't think. I would be pretty stout, I think. I don't know.

I don't know what the signs would be. The sign would be that you just get, like, even quieter. Probably. It can become a recluse. Travel more. I think also because it would scare me a bit. Like that much money, there's a huge responsibility with that. And I would be much more inclined.

I might, you might see me on a few more private planes, like taking some, like, I'd probably get a subscription to one of those private plane companies just because I hate going to the airport. I love that in the same thought, in the same breath, you went, there's a lot of responsibility with that much money. I think you'd probably see me taking more private jets. You acknowledge responsibility and then completely shirted it. You know, see, this is like, this is the human dilemma. I want the things that I should not want and I do the things that I should not do and we all do it and then try and find our way out of it.

I think for me the sign would be the neighborhood would suddenly notice that the house next to me got bought, leveled, and then a whole entire food cart pod moved in, but it was only for me. They'd be like, did you guys notice the 12 food carts that moved in that pod? Yeah, it's just for Buckley. What is that about? It would be, that would be my sign. I was going to ask if you'd buy a corn dog machine, so I have my answer. 1,000%.

Corn dog place, a chiro place. Cotton candy machine? No, never been a cotton candy guy. Me neither. Really? Don't care. Kind of crouched me out. I'm a crunchy, salty kind of guy at heart. So the cotton candy never did it for him.

me. But listen, Joy, if that's a big thing for you, maybe I get a cotton candy truck, you know, when you come by, you get your cotton candy, everyone wins. Yes, I'll just let you know when I'm coming over. It's like the candy bowl in Wilmington all over again. Except it's trucks. Except it's trucks. Food trucks. Food trucks. Just there 24-7. First Fridays in Venice every day for Rob. Okay, wait, we have a question that really relates to this. Jenny Baby Bear Jones. Look, the nicknames keep coming asks if you went on who wants to be a millionaire who would be your phone a friend

when you were trying to win the money oh such a good question also incredible nickname way to go baby bear baby bear yeah who would you call so here's the thing they don't know whether your friend is sitting in front of google correct right it goes too fast i mean doesn't i gotta say have you seen people with AI now in job interviews where they're being asked a question in real time and the AI prompt is running and he is hearing the question and then takes like a two second pause and formulates a thoughtful answer. I haven't seen me. People are now doing this in job interviews.

How? They have their phone running and like an ear pod in or something? They have the AI program prompt running while they're on like a Zoom call. Oh, goodness. So it is listening. Oh. This stresses me out. I think we're making ourselves so stupid.

Sorry, you go. No, I'm just saying, like, I don't know if it needs to be, like, your smartest friend anymore, as much as it just needs to be your fastest typing friend. Yeah, that's realistic. Okay, let's say there's no Google. Let's say, like, the person has been vetted and they have to be, like, in a booth.

Yeah. I mean, so, if you know a lot of random information, I might call you. Yeah. Thank you. She was on my short list, too. Well, the funny thing about this question is, I actually did play who wants to be a millionaire for charity last year. And I teamed up.

It was really fun because they let us go and do it with a friend. And so is Alex Edelman and I, because he's one of the funniest people I know and one of the smartest people I know. I thought, genius, pair. And he decided he wanted our phone a friend to be one of his best friends, a great writer, guy by the name of Benj Passick.

And we called Benj and Benj had no. idea what we were talking about and then the call went dead so fast and I was thinking to myself well you just really never know the questions are so random yeah yeah it's so true like there are so much random information I know but there are definitely things that people could call me about and I'd be like that is that's not that's not in my bracket of completely random information I can pull many rabbits out of many hats, but there are plenty of things that I can't as well. So, yeah, you never know.

Rob, do you have like a particular person that you really feel like you'd call? I don't. Truthfully, one of my first thoughts was like, Sof actually has a pretty good grasp on a lot of different things. I mean, if I knew ahead of time, like what the subject area is, you don't. Exactly.

You don't. You have to decide who you're going to call before the episode starts. Oh, for sure. Because you can't be like, I know who would know this information. Exactly.

Yeah. Because my first thought was, if it was history, Conan O'Brien, only issue is we're not friends yet. But then like, but what if it's, you know, a math question or something else?

And it's like, then he's useless. That would be kind of fun if you could choose someone who you actually don't know, but you just think that they know a lot of stuff and that if they got their number and you were just like, hi, Conan, I'm sorry we've never met before,

but I feel like you're going to know the answer to. this question. Huge fan. Would love to be on your show. Do you have any available internships? I love you bye. And they clicked. They cut off the call. You're like, you did not ask a question that was a waste of everyone's time. 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 hundreds 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 showing. 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.

Well, speaking of searching Google, Adam wants to know what's your most recent Google search. Oh. I don't know. Let me pull up my phone. I have no idea. Yeah, let's take a peek. This is so on-brand and unsurprising. Mine was for a restaurant in Portland.

Mine is also quite on-brand and unsurprising. I was searching an article about a house I wanted to look at on architectural digest. Mine just says, page not found. How do I go? So perfect. I'm trying to go back. That's so perfect. That's true.

Oh, okay. Shakespeare, Nashville Shakespeare Company. That was my last search. All of those feel on brand. They really do. Yeah. There you go. Okay, well.

Proud of us. Let's see. Oh, good one. Comfy in Kansas. Love the nickname. Also, I love these kind of hard-hitting questions. When you get home from work, are you changing into PJs? or sweats slash leggings.

Sweets for me. Aren't they the same? Great follow-up question. For me, it's sweats because I don't really have traditional pajamas. When I think about, yeah, when I think about traditional pajamas, you know, a matching set, if you will, with the buttons. That feels like something I put on specifically after a shower. Yeah. I'll throw sweats on when I get home.

but not stop to, you know, necessarily take a shower. I wouldn't put my pajamas on coming in from the outside, I don't think. Yeah, I wouldn't either. I like them to feel clean if I'm going to step into a pajama set. I agree with that. I just, the first thing I do when I get home is take off my bra. That's like without question. It's just, it's such a pain in the ass to wear these things.

It would just be funny if every time I came. home from being out in the outside world, I just put on one of those super long, like sleeping shirts that like, uh, from like a Christmas carol. Like a nightgown. Yeah, like a nightgown. Preferably in a plaid. Next episode we do for the YouTube. I'm going to, I'm going to find one of those.

That's great. Oh, this is a great question. Uh, so if read Chris's. Chris. Oh, who's the co-star you can go months without talking to? but when you see each other, it's like no time has passed. I feel that way about all of us. Yeah.

Like it doesn't matter if we see each other once a week or twice a year. We're just in it. Yeah, because, I mean, that's what happens when you spend that much time with 10 years together. You just become family. There's no way around it. So it's actually really nice. And every convention feels like a big family reunion. So we do tend to just pick up where we left off.

I don't know if there's one particular person. I do feel that way about everyone. It sounds like a safe cop-out answer, but it's really the truth. Yeah. Yeah, it's such a common experience. And I feel that way about people that I've done other shows with as well. Like, I'm at a point, you know, however many years it's been, where I typically get to see my friend Marina, who I

worked in Chicago with. We see each other in person kind of minimally once a year, but it's always like we're right back at it. And I just think there's something to your point, Joy, about when you spend so many years day in and day out with people, you create a bond and you have this experience together and it never goes away, even though part of the nature of our jobs is that you go from one set to another and you kind of start all over again. you still have the thing you made with each other. Agreed. I would say, yeah, it's everyone that I can go months without talking to when I see

sure it's like no time has passed, except for James Lafferty, because when we go months without talking and we see each other, I just find myself wishing more months had gone by because he just gets more awful with age. I love you, James. Okay. Action Jackson. is asking, did you have consistent stunt doubles for some of the more physical scenes or was it different depending on who was a series regular and who wasn't? No, we pretty much had the same pool of people.

They would just jump into different character roles. But over 10 years, you know, you get new people that come into town and some people move off to other projects. And so there was a little rotation, but we did have some staples that were with us for the majority of the time. Is it? Is it? That's a true. Truth. Best truth. How about Miss Angelica?

But instead of dinner, we make it any food scene. Yeah. All right. Angelica wants to know what was your favorite, and now Angelica had asked dinner scene, but I'm just going to say, what was your favorite food scene in OTH? I'm going to say mine actually involved Yusuf, which is interesting because we didn't have a ton of stuff together. It was you, myself, Chantel, and Jackson trying the Salteen Challenge in the hospital. Yeah.

So fun. So fun. Because what you actually see in the show is it's we're not acting. It's just, it's like me going for it, you laughing, and then me laughing and coughing. And Chantel, 100% going for it. Like, I don't know. I don't think any of us were in character. I think it was just us as humans trying this and then laughing at ourselves.

Yeah, it was absolutely preposterous. So I loved that. Yeah. I was going to say probably because it's the last one that we've watched together, but our big Thanksgiving episode was so much fun. Although, now that I think about how much I enjoyed filming all of that, we didn't do much eating. Brooke was really just chugging, you know, fake wine out of a bottle,

which I also thought was very funny. but yeah, I think I like meals because usually they mean we get to gather. And to your point, Rob, even though Brooke and Clay didn't have that much overlap, we managed to have it with food. Which, again, feels on brand. I love it. Very meta. Yeah, tracks. I did also love this in terms of just food scene, you in the kitchen.

So like with the glasses and the bird burning in the oven and moving around and all the props and everything was great. and also when we were eating the pot brownies and I wear the spaghetti and like just getting totally high and terrified it was really fun that was so fun guys you're you're showing up to the table with nicknames we love it thank you come back with more a question for the two of you have we since since I joined the show have we done a Q&A where food hasn't been brought up at least once. I don't think so. Man.

The people know. You're in good company. We love food. We're here for it. I think that's our next show anyway. Something. We need to do something revolving food. Clearly?

Revolving around food. Where we eat it and then we talk about it and we get paid for it. Instead of watching One Tree Hill episodes, we just have meals. And we just recap it's a meal recap. I love it. I love it. All right. Add it to the list. Okay, guys. Thanks for hanging out. See you soon.

Thanks, y'all. Hey, thanks for listening. Don't forget to leave us a review. You can also follow us on Instagram at Drama Queens, O-T-H. Or email us at Drama Queens at iHeartRadio.com. See you next time. 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.

Chearing 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 queens, drama queens, drama queens. Drama, 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.