Drama Queens - Striking a Balance

Episode Date: July 17, 2023

In solidarity with the SAG strike, the Drama Queens are taking a temporary break from episode recaps and diving into more fan questions! Hear how they got their big breaks, what songs can change their mood, favorite pizza toppings and the details of their ultimate girl’s trips! You’ve asked all the right questions and now you're getting the answers!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 iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Hey everybody. We are back. We're back. We're still here. And we are here to talk all things, except one tree hill. We're going to talk all things Sag Strike with you because it's really important to us and our community. And so are you. And you as an audience showing up for us every week. We love you guys. And we want you to know what's going on. We want your support. And so here we are. Let's talk about lots of things. yeah dude we had a text chain yesterday so we record our episodes a couple days in advance and so for you guys at home you're hearing this on Monday but we're dealing with this over the course of you know a Thursday a Friday a Saturday and our union went on strike which I think we all support and we're all fully backing that but what that means is that there is a lot of gray area about whether or not you can promote a show that was a SAG after a contract. And one tree who was for us? I mean, this was the show that got all of us, I mean, not all of us, but it got me into the union, you know? Were you in the union already? I was, yeah, because I had done a commercial early in high school. And so I got into SAG. Yeah, that was how I got into SAG. And it was like such a cool thing. I remember my dad being like, you're going to have health care when you're 18. Like, oh, so cool.

What was the commercial? What was the commercial, so? I was in a Kit Kat commercial. Yes, you were. Yes. Where is that on the internet? Oh, my God, you guys, it was chic. It was like a full copy paste of clueless. Me and my friend Keanu from school were in it with this girl. I can't remember the other girls.

We met her on set that day. I still can't eat kick-up bars because I ate so many of them that weekend. But we were so cute. And yeah, that was how I got into the union. I love it. I got mine from a commercial, too. But I was 12, and the hospital where my dad worked was doing a commercial. And they, so I went and I had to walk a dog in a circle.

Oh, that's all I did. Did that dog eat a heart? That was the dog later. No, but that was it. It was very exciting, though, because the whole thing with the sag card is you can't really get sag work until you have a SAG card and you can't get the, you can't have a SAG card without getting the work. So it's really exciting when you get that one job that's going to get you in the door. Yeah.

When people talk about your big break, you know, it really is the moment that you are able to join SAG. It's like, oh, I have a line. I have a job that is part of a union. And it's such a big deal to an actor. Yeah, it is a really big deal. And I think it's an important thing to touch on, you know, when we talk about being part of a union, When we talk about the fact that the union is how we have protections on set, it's how we have health care, it's how we have all these things.

There's a lot of misnomer's in the world about what we do, about what performers do, about what our lives look like. You know, you hear the top line for like the five most famous people on earth and how much money they make and you think everybody makes money like them. And it's just not true, unfortunately. And I think it's a really important, a really important way to frame it is to let you know our friends at home that if you are in SAG-AFTRA, in order to qualify for health care, you have to make as a performer $26,000 a year. And 87% of the SAGAFTA membership does not qualify for health care. 87%. And not one cent less.

Not one cent less. 87% of working actors do not make $26,000 a year from acting or performing. So they don't even have access to the health benefits that our union helps us afford. And so this idea that it's like, oh, it's a bunch of whiny, rich people who just want more money. No, the CEOs of the studios that make $200 million a year and our currently vacationing together on a super yacht while they're telling all of us that our protections that we're asking for are, quote, unrealistic. Those are the rich people who we should all be sort of pissed out. But I think it's really important that we start to unpack some of the

reality of this. Because look, like, you guys see us either on TV and shows that are edited and sound mixed and color timed beautifully, or you see people at award shows. But to be clear, award shows aren't actually parties, their work events, and everyone's wearing barred shit that they can't afford. Oh my God. I could never afford anything I've ever worn anywhere. Never. It's important to us that like we have full transparency with you guys because we have reached out to our union rep because what we've been told as actors is you're not allowed to promote anything that was a sag after job. And because our show currently is still streaming, even though we filmed it 20 years ago, is doing a

rewatch podcast considered promotion for a sag after job. So we've called our leadership and they're inundated with other people with similar questions. And so while we wait for a clear answer from them, this actually like works in our fans benefit because we're just going to answer like all the questions that you guys have been sending in because it is important to us that we honor you you've been along with us for this ride for two decades now you know we're coming up on our 20th anniversary and it's also important that our show specifically which was an ensemble show is standing by and fighting the good fight not just for like the core five kids on the show but every single one of the actors that came and did guest spots on our show these are the people that were

fighting for. These are the people that really deserve all of our support. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And just so you guys know when we talk about what questions we have for our union reps, you know, you probably have seen that there's been guidelines published. There's some stuff that, to Hillary's point, is just a gray area. Like, they've said you can't promote past or present projects, but does that mean projects that have come out and are not? no longer airing new episodes, or does a past project mean, you know, the Netflix show that you shot two and a half years ago that's premiering this November? So technically it's a past project, but it's still going to be new to streaming. Like, nobody really knows what it means yet.

And we just don't want to air anything that could potentially go against our own union and our own support of them. So we won't have a new episode this week. But like we said, we're going to answer all your questions. We're going to have plenty of drama. What's you're saying, Sophia, is so true, because a lot of the issue is with streaming and the fact that, you know, we, as actors, you used to be able to get syndication fees. So when your show was on and then it would re-air like we were on SoapNet. Oh my God. SoapNet was a great paycheck, man. Wasn't it great? Yes. And that was for years and years even commercial actors used to get residuals that's the people would put their kids through college just doing one commercial um and so now what's different is the studios are just selling these

properties off to the streaming networks and the storytellers who poured their heart and souls into these shows who showed up every day for work they don't get anything from that it's like a one and done and you invest years and years and years of your life and something like that um and so that's been that's one of the things that's important that we um are able to hold line on with our union, and we just want to be respectful of that. That's one thing among many others. 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 Teller Ornelis, 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. We've got a question from someone named Maria that ties into that joy really well. Because she asks, she says, how are actors compensated for work done in the early 2000s prior to streaming? Do you get any benefits from your episodes on streaming? And I just want to point out that when our contracts were negotiated in 2003, streaming wasn't even a feasibility.

It was alien. You can't negotiate for something that doesn't exist. This is when Netflix was still mailing you DVDs in your actual post mailbox. And you would pull the DVD out and watch it. That's all Netflix was. Yep. It's so crazy to think about. And it is interesting, you know, to the point of what Joy is saying, it's a weird.

feeling, guys, to have made something, to have dedicated your life to making something. Also, frankly, all of our first big jobs. So it's not like any of us had good quotes. We weren't making a bunch of money. No. By any means. We were all like trying to figure out how to pay our rent. And your show goes on to become this hit, this cult classic, and it keeps getting sold. Oh, they make so much money off this show. They make so much money off the show. They make so much money off the show, you guys, and we haven't seen a penny of it ever. And it's our faces and our stories and our bodies and our work that they're selling. And it feels, it feels really bad. And I think part of the reason it feels bad is because people who were in better quote unquote power positions did get

protections for eventual changes to things. Like Tom Cruise is making money every time his movies play on any network, you know, TV, streamer, whatever, but like, we don't. And that's, that's a hard pill to swallow to know that there is just not a fair standard. And that's, that's why we're on strike. I mean, the AI thing is what brings me out. Because we couldn't have negotiated for that. Like, and do you guys remember, we just had one, one taste of what that was like. It was any second or third season and they used our likeness. Yes. I'm so mad about it still.

Remember that? Yeah. Okay, tell everybody at home what happened. I'm taking my home. I'm taking her sweater off. I am so mad about it still. So, you guys, one of the ways that if you are on a show locked into a six-year deal for very little money as we all were, that you stand to maybe make some money

if your show becomes a hit is you might get an endorsement deal. So you might become the face of a brand. But every girl on every other show had like Nutrachina ads. Misha Bart was doing kids. Remember Kristen Bell when she was doing cutie Veronica Mars and she was doing Nutri Gina with her perfect little chin? Like people had opportunities to do these things. I was begging for it.

Yeah, man. We were like, cool. We were ready. Let's go do something neat. And the WB sold the three of us, photos of us, to caress. Our likeness. Yeah. And they said, are you a Brooke, a Peyton, or a Haley?

And they said, no, no, we sold Brooke, Peyton, and Haley. They got the endorsement money, y'all. The network made the money. And we didn't make a penny. So we were on billboards and in magazines as the faces of this. you know, skin care brands, and we made nothing. And it knocked us out of the running for anything else. Yeah.

That's right. Yep. Because it ruins your exclusivity. So then we could never do another beauty deal. Y'all remember driving by those billboards just matter than hell? Just seething. I had steam coming out of my ears. And it's like a, it's a really crazy thing, especially as a young woman, when someone sells your face and body.

Oof. And doesn't have to ask you about it. And this is the new argument. that we're having with AI. You know, if you're paying attention watching any of the videos we've all been sharing, our SAG president and some of our reps

got up to talk about, you know, this quote-unquote groundbreaking AI proposition from the studios. And the studios literally said, well, when background actors come in, we'll scan them and then we'll own their likeness

to be reproduced in any manner we choose forever. Forever. Imagine? Like, they could put you in porn They could put you in a movie about Nazis. They could do anything that goes against your moral compass. They could recreate you 10,000 times.

And you would have made $80 for one day working background and gotten a free lunch. Get the f*** out of here. Did people not watch Terminator? I watched Terminator like every day growing up. Get out. I know how bad this is going to go. We got to get out.

Yeah. So they're taking advantage of. old contracts. Well, they're taking advantage of old contracts. They're also taking advantage of the most powerless people in our union, but they're taking advantage of people all the way up the line. So much greed. It's so much greed.

And I think, you know, people will say when they think about some of their favorite actors who, you know, make the big ticket money that they read about in the trades, and they'll be like, well, you know, why are we supposed to listen to these people? They're not hurting for anything. I think it's really worth letting you guys know that, Part of the reason we fight for equity as actors is because that's how our livelihoods are made. When we eat a whole team full of people eats. If we make money, if we get a job for $100, our agent gets $10, our manager gets $10, our lawyers get $5, our publicists, depending on what their annual salary is, make from like $3 to $5 of that $100, you're paying $40 in taxes.

you're paying another $10 to an accountant. Then you have rent and groceries and your family. But what I'm saying is out of the $100 that you hear somebody's making, we probably keep 25. Yeah. And the rest of the money goes to the government

and goes to our team. Like, I don't make much more I don't make much more money than my agent makes at the end of the day because of how many people I pay. And I'm proud of that. I'm proud that when I book a job, an entire team of people and their families also book jobs.

But this idea that people in our industry are like, you know, greedy or whatever is simply not true. And it's really frustrating when, again, executives at studios that are making $100 million, $200 million a year and bonuses and are flying around on their private jets are saying that us asking to not be owned by AI machines is unrealistic. It's like, come on. What are we doing? Yeah.

When you guys watch a show that has a big star in it, for example, that person is getting a huge paycheck. Maybe. Eventually. Like, eventually, yes. But, I mean, in comparison, excuse me, to what I'm trying to say here is that basically every other person on the show, what the studios have started to try and do is find all these loopholes, like taking a seasoned actor who should be getting a series. regular contract and saying, we're going to bring you in as a guest star for $5,000 an episode, but we want you for 10 episodes, we want you for eight days an episode, and we want you for 12 hours a day. And that's what for $5,000 for a guest star fee. You can't get a nanny

to cover you for that much. Yeah. What? And these are, these are actors who are, I mean, it doesn't matter. Anybody shouldn't be put in that position, but yeah, it's just not right. It's not Right. Well, and again, when you think about the percentages that come out of that money, you might be like, I'd love a $5,000 paycheck for a week. And it's like, well, yeah, but when you're giving 68% of that money to other people, yeah. Like, what are you, what are you living on? How are you paying for your gas? How are you paying your mortgage if you're lucky enough to have one in the first place? Like, it's a, it's, it's really kind of wild. And it's, it's frustrating. None of us is stupid. It's frustrating when studios are getting on their earnings

calls with their shareholders boasting about record-breaking quarterly profits. And then they're telling us, you're out of here. If there was ever a show to prep a fan base for like a good fight, I feel like between Brooke Davis's fight with the crab shack where the hell you're working, the lobster. I unionized those crabs. Yeah. Payton Sorby's like, I'm sick of this record label bullshit. You know, like I think that our fan base is.

been primed for a fight for like a long time now. So, so this question from Simone, what is one song that can immediately change your mood? I think we need to amend it. Like, what's our fight song? I was just going to say, we need a fight song. Yeah. What is our fight song? Honestly, we're striking in this moment. I feel like the mood is very, these boots were made for walking. You know, Nancy Sinatra. Like, I'm walking right out of work. Call y'all. Goodbye. Bye, bye. I mean, you know that I just go to Les Mizz for everything.

You know? It's like the studio executives are like, you at the barricade, listen to this. No one is coming to help you to fight. And here comes SAG and we're like, we're here, bitches, let's ride. Love it. It was a TV show called The Unit on ages ago. And their theme song was like, it was,

it was the Marines, but it was put to, it was like a marine cadence, but it was put to some real cool beats. I'm feeling it. I'll find it. Yeah, we need to find that. We can drop it in a story. I'm into it. We'll just play newsies, man. Well, I like Chrissy's question because now that school is out for summer. Yeah. What are we doing? She's like, what are your favorite summer activities to do with your family and friends? And I'm like, well, I didn't think I was going to be home, but here we are, so... Yeah. So here we are.

I mean, Jeff can't go to Comic-Con, and I can't film my show anymore. And so he and I are looking at each other this morning, just like, oh, my God. Oh. Like, we get to just be home with the kids, you know? Like, obviously... What are you guys going to do on the farm?

Who knows? Like, at this point, George is so all-consuming, and it's just like, pay attention to me. I think they were doing fishing last night. I was traveling to come home, and they were all, like, fishing successfully. So I feel like that's going to be the rest of my summer is baiting hooks, which that's fun.

I've never really been fishing. I would love to go. I mean, I think I've done it once or twice, but not, like, out for the whole morning, get up early. That'd be fun. Honestly, years ago, I set a goal for myself to learn to fly fish. Really? And, yeah. Remember her Instagram?

We were all like, where is she? What are you doing? I was like, I'm just in Alaska. You guys, I love it. Like, I want to be the old lady and waiters who's just like on a river with no cell service fishing. That's the glamour. That is my future goal for myself. I'm ready to go. Sounds great. Yeah. I just love running around, especially with all these fireflies and the summer heat, just watching the kid. We got a little creek by our house, watching the kids run around. It's so nice to just relax and enjoy the simple, simple things in life. I feel that more in the summer, I think, than the winter. I clocked the summers. Like, it dawned on me at the end of the school year that I was only going to have X amount of summers left with my son before he graduates and leaves. And it's not a big number. And I was just like, oh, I panicked. I totally panicked. And so now I'm

overwhelming the shit out of Gus. And I'm just like, do you want to watch a movie? Do you want to watch a movie? Do you want to hang out with me? Do you want to cook together? Do you want to go on a walk? What do you want to do? So pestering my teenager.

Oh, I love it. Yeah. There's only so many summers left. 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 hundreds of years.

You carry with you a sense of purpose and confidence. That's Sierra Taylor Ornelis, 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, Sarah wants to know what kind of toppings you put on your pizza, which might feel like a weird transition, but I actually think one of the things that I like to do in the summer is do like pizza nights with friends. You know, get all the dough and get all the things. Oh, girl, you do work?

Oh, I love it. I love it. And I'm like, that's a thing you could do with Gus. You could be like, hey, kid, let's learn to make pizza dough. And then we can make our own pizzas. Get one of those little uni pizza ovens? Right? Yes.

I have one of those little single ones and we just throw them in there for three minutes and turn them over. They're so cool. Are they just like gas powered? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I'll send you a link. So I feel like we can answer Sarah's question, but we can also plot like ways for you guys to make your teenagers hang out with you.

Guys, I feel like this question like opens us. It opens me up because, okay, fuck it. I'm a pineapple pizza person and I'm not even embarrassed about it. Like I just love it and I don't want to hear anything about it. And I've loved it since I was a little kid getting those little see. seizures packages. We have to tear the paper open. I love pineapple on pizza. What's wrong with that? Because people pick on you. People really do. That is true. I don't like the ham either. I don't want the ham. I just want the pineapple. Maybe a little mushroom, maybe a little pineapple mushroom green

pepper. That gives me like college flashbacks to like the little pizza place off of Hoover Avenue in downtown at USC. Oh my God. I've turned into one of those people. who likes, I like like a weird fancy Italian pizza. I ordered a pizza last night with like fennel sausage and fresh mozzarella and like caramelized onions. It was so good. Oh, I mean, if we're going legit pizza, like let's talk about a little mortadella. Let's talk about like Calibrian chili with honey and that like, oh, ricotta and honey on a pizza. Give it to me. Don't even. Yes. Yeah. So, but that's the thing. This is what I like about us

Is we can go like There's two classes of pizza here Yeah It's like It's my fantasy trip to Tuscany Or it's like We're on the road in the RV And we got to pull over at the gas station

What kind of pizza are we getting at the gas station? And we're down We're down for the whole gamut Remember slice of life in Wilmington And what a scene that was at the end of the night Like there's no food at the end of the night So you would roll out of bars at like 132 o'clock in the morning and slice of life pizza is where look if you couldn't pick someone up

there you were going home empty handed like that was the last call for food and people to kiss they still they stop they just stop at the end of the night there did they stop cooking like 20 minutes before they even close because everything's just they they're they're sold out they everybody yeah yeah flooding their spot uh i loved that place such a good memory of all the nights there. When I was still in California, there was a 7-Eleven all the way at the end of my, all the end of the end of my road. And I would go in there, and there was a woman in there once who was picking up a pizza. And I was like, 7-Eleven makes pizzas. So gross. Like, no, thanks. And she saw the look on my face and she goes, oh, no, no, you don't know. I'm like,

I feel like I know. She goes, you don't know. So she's like, would you like to try a slice? and I'm thinking, no, but okay, I mean, I'll be nice. Guys, this was a really good pizza. Oh, you found the jewel box. 7-Eleven making good pizzas. I like a sneak attack. Yeah. Because you don't know who like the owner's owner of the franchise's mom is.

You know what I mean? It's all like franchise. She could have had a knack for that. Hey, man. Find the dime in the rough. You got to find it. I love pizza parlor loyalty. When you can just like find your.

spot in a town no matter how run down or, you know, back alley it is. You just got to stand by it. Amanda. Well, this kind of goes well. This is a question from Quinn. What's your favorite rom-com? Which made me think of Mystic Pizza since we're talking about pizza. But I actually haven't seen that in a really long time. We might need to watch that. Let's do a 90s rom-com re-watch. Oh, man. I would love that. If you guys have your DVDs, go find Yeah. Don't stream nothing. Don't stream it. I just finally watched before sunset. Interesting. You guys, that movie undid me. Really? Like, yeah, undid me in like such a beautiful way. And I just went, what are we doing? I just want to, I just want to make things like this. I just want to make projects like this. It's so beautiful and simple.

So beautiful. I mean, I find boys like that totally irritating, but I think the fact that you can make a movie about two people connecting with each other is a lost art. Like, we're not, we're supposed to do big huge superhero movies now, you know? It was just two people having a conversation. That's it. And this idea about you had this incredible encounter with someone you were meant to see again and then life got in the way. and what happens if you never really got over it? Like, oh, my God.

It just, I just thought it was so beautiful. And Julie Delpy is so incredible in it because she's so funny one minute and then she's totally freaking out the next. And then she's like, I don't know why I'm telling you any of this. It's just so present and fun. And yeah, I mean, you know, Ethan Hawke's character's like a little annoying. A little puppy dog is.

But at the time, in the 90s, it was like that was the ideal. Bull. Oh, yeah. Feelings. He had all his feelings and he was a writer. Oh my God. He was Lucas Scott. He was.

He was Lucas Scott. That's so good. I loved the movie. I just loved it. So, yeah. Take me back to a good rom-com any day. We were really lucky that we came up in an era where like the rom-com was the thing. Like now I feel like scary movies are the things that people go see on dates.

And like high school kids go. see? Can we say the thing? Like, are we lucky that we grew up in the rom-com era? Because isn't that why we dated so many ding-dongs for so long? Girl, I think I was destined to date ding-dongs no matter what. Like, I could have been watching, I could have been, Joy and I were watching black and white movies. We still dated ding-dongs. I was like, Doris Day, all of that. Like, that's what my rom-com problem was. Was not Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts at prom. Yeah, no, I was in love with Rock Hudson. You know, that was never going to work out.

Oh, boy. No, Sandra Bullock was from my home. town. She's from like the next county over. And so knowing that as a middle school girl and a high school girl and just being so fixated on this person's ability to get out and create a life for herself. Like I was just so into it. And hope floats still to this day. I don't, I don't watch things over and over again. I'm not that kind of personality. I like new things. And I think that's why I like documentary because I feel like I'm learning something constantly. Hope floats is, the only thing that I watch over and over and over again.

I'm obsessed with it. That's so sweet. I love that. That makes me want to go back and watch it. It's wonderful. Harry Connick Jr. What a babe. And Forrest Whitaker directed it.

Oh, yeah. Like that's the thing that people forget. Yes. I didn't know that. Yes. It's fantastic. Wow. It is time to go to the library and rent a DVD.

We all need to go buy a new DVD player, new slash old. I French man French kiss I think is just always on the top of the list for me like I love the proposal I love Pretty Woman you know those are all great but I don't know this it's just hits my personality right french kiss I love that one Kevin Klein is so hot in that movie he really is gorgeous that's the one with him and meg Ryan and they have to like go and try to make her ex-boyfriend mad because he's proposing to someone else right yeah exactly but then he's stolen something and so then she's like in on this weird caper that she doesn't want to be a part of and then they of course

fall in love. It's wonderful. That's when her haircut was at its like most perfect. Oh, so good. A spiky short little haircut. It was so good. I wish I had a head for pixie cuts. What are you talking about? You do. No, I don't. My head's too small for a pixie cut, but also I have one of those dents. You know, when your doctor pulls you out and there's a

thumb dent in the back of your head. I have a big one. What are you guys? Talking about. Wait, hold on. There's a thumb debt. Oh, I have a huge done. Right up here. I have a big one. I definitely couldn't do that. Like, when Natalie Borman shaved her head for V for Vendetta, I was like, but I was just going to say it. I was like, could have never done V for Vendetta? No, absolutely not. My skull comes to a weird point in the back. Oh, man. You guys know we're all insecure. Gulls. What about this one? Where would you want a dream girls trip? You got a girls trip? You got what? You're going to have five, six, seven, ten, ten. days. 10 days is a lot. Maybe like 10 days is a long time. I have Greece on my bucket list. I've never been. Me neither. Me either. I really want to go. Yeah. I do too. It's great. I like history. It's great. It's fantastic. Oh, that's right. You took Maria there? Yeah, I did a couple summers ago. I took her over there. We went to Paros, which is beautiful. It's just a tiny little island that not a lot of

people know about, but it's stunning. I have a whole, I got a whole travel right up on it. I'll give it to you. Peros. It's beautiful. Yeah. I remember thinking like we were going to live there for a second because we're friends with a guy that runs the film commission in Greece.

And Jeff and I are like, what if we just go there? Like what does that look like? You look good with a tan, Hillary. Man. We could go make some shows there. Why not? Yeah, if it worked for Meryl Streep and Mamma Mia, like, we can do this. Cute little expat rom-coms, that's kind of what I fantasize about, honestly, is like, oh, I, if I was going to say, let's go on a trip, I just want to go to Italy and go take pasta classes with old nonas and like travel through olive groves.

Wait, is that why my algorithm? Every day I wake up with cheap Italian villas.com emailing me all these houses that are like super cheap. That's probably for me sending you that house I was looking at in deep 2020 when I was losing my mind and thinking we needed to evacuate. Right, right. Where are we going to go? What if we just went here? Yeah. Yeah. But I think that we're drawn to like romantic cultures. Joy, where do you want to go? I'm taking a girl's trip. I'm going in a few weeks to London just for fun. But I've been in a bunch. Like I want to go. I haven't I been to Prague but I don't know Prague's amazing yeah I mean everybody says it's amazing

I mean Dubrovnik I hear is also amazing I'm sorry I'm bouncing around the map but I don't know I probably Italy too I think I'm on the same page I probably would want to go to the Amalfi Coast and like get a boat Does that make us basic girls sail? I don't care I don't care you don't make fun of our pizza. You can make fun of our basic girl trip. Yeah. I could also see, like, doing some

Highlanders shit. Yeah. Yeah. I've never been. Guys, honestly, I haven't been anywhere because we started where I started working when I was right out of high school and then there was just never a break. And then I had kids and they're in school and shit. And so, yeah, girls trip. Here we come. Scotland. Scotland's on my list. Maybe we should all go there. I'm down. Yeah. Yeah. We'll take some waistcoats. Yeah. We're going to buy some waistcoats there. That's what we're going to do.

I'm ready. Joy will be our translator. Fantastic. All right, summer cocktail of choice. Jack is asking, while we plot all these things, what is our summer cocktail of choice? I mean, it's hard to beat a nice negroni, like a nice refreshing negroni on an afternoon,

the little pizza. You guys, I am sorry. such a lover of an apparel spritz, but have you had a hugo spritz? What's a hugo spritz? It's basically like an apparel spritz, but instead of apparel, you use elder flower lique. With prosceco, seltzer, lime, mint, it is so good. And you know all I want to do all winter, like the minute it gets cold out, I just want

a whiskey. Yeah. But in the summer. Yeah. Like sparkling citrus and Prosecco, get out of here all day. It's not too sweet with the Saint-Germaine? No, there is no San Jermaine. It's just elder flower liqueur.

That's elder flower liqueur, St. Germain. Is it? Yeah. It's a brand of it, yeah. Oh, I guess, yeah, there's other brands, of course. Yeah. When we do promotional stuff for MF libations, we did a, we did a martini, but we traded out one of our ingredients for an elder flower liqueur and we used our blackberry gin and it was like it's one of those things where you're

like how's that going to work work great work great flowers fruit and liquor that's my combo that's what i want in any drink botanical cocktails man like an aviation with a little crumb violet and some lemon there's so many good things to drink i'm so lazy i just like finding those sodas that have like very low sugar like there's a brand called gus soda that i've always been partial to, obviously, because of the name. Yeah. And so finding, like, fancy Italian sodas and putting gin in them is all I can handle right now. I'm just like, everybody get out of my way.

I'm making my gin drink. Yeah, a two-step cocktail that sounds like a fancy, that tastes like it was done by a fancy mixologist is real nice. Mm-hmm. That's what I want. That's what I want. Cheers. Cheers. Well, are we, are we going to do another Q&A later?

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