Drama Queens - Unbreak My Heart • EP301
Episode Date: May 30, 2022The Drama Queens are all together for the premiere episode of Season 3 and loving Brooke's apartment... and her bangs!! They are breaking down all the Dan drama. Is Dan the iceberg?! Is Pau...l too good at being evil? Also… The kiss that made us cry.... Nathan and Haley!!!!!!! Joy lets us all in on the story behind it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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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.
Cheering for the right team.
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Everybody, I missed you guys so much.
Thank you for taking care of me last week and filling in.
We're back with a fury this week.
Yes, we are.
It is the season three premiere.
So much happened in this episode, including a ton of ADR,
which will explain what that is later.
But, first things first, Haley came home,
the night of the fire, which Dan somehow saw.
survived.
He's like a cockroach.
Honestly, like Dan is so devious.
Three months have passed.
Nathan ended up going to High Flyers.
He still doesn't know if he can trust Haley again.
Baruch moves into Nathan and Haley's old apartment, which is my favorite set.
Like, I love hanging out in that set.
And I love that they never made us give it up.
We just rotated it.
Peyton is still emotionally struggling over what now?
Like what now?
Her birth mother and then Brooke and Lucas start casually dating.
Were they dating, though?
Like, I don't know.
That's a lot.
Yeah, the whole like Friends with Benefit thing in the early 2000s was weird
because it was like kind of this like girl power movement of we're not going to be your girlfriend.
We're just going to kiss anybody because we can be like boys.
I feel like we got kind of hudwinked on that.
Yeah, we did.
I think we got duped.
Yeah.
Like that guy made this up and said it was our idea.
You know what it is?
The same guy, you know how Victoria's Secret
when they started doing like all the angel
fashion shows? We were told
like, oh, this is girl power. Love your body.
And then we find out all these years later
it was like super misogynistic
and just dudes. I feel like
that's the movement. They're like tits up, girls.
Tits up. Oh my God.
Just kissing. Yeah. It's interesting.
I will say as much as I'm like
meh on the idea,
what I did like
is that the director of this episode,
Greg Prange, who was our on-site producer
who knew us all really well,
he did like to lean into
what more was going on with the characters
than was on the page.
Because he was present for every single episode.
Yeah.
And so I liked...
He cared about these characters.
I know he did.
He really did.
And I liked that he offered me space
as an actor to say the lines,
We're going to be casual and whatever.
But then to show that it was a defense mechanism.
Of course.
Brooke was testing Lucas to see if he would play by her rules and keep showing up and sort of earn her trust.
And I'm glad we had someone familiar to do that with because otherwise I think it would have just felt icky.
Well, they would have wanted you to make it like sexy and it's not.
You're totally right when you say it's a defense mechanism.
It's how far can I push you and you'll keep your promise to support me and be your, you know, be my guy.
Which Brooke needs after what she's been through with the last few guys.
And with Lucas also, like she needs to be able to push a little bit and know that he's not just going to blow away with the wind.
Yeah.
Brooke also came back like Sabrina from Paris with these bangs.
That I loved so much.
I love these bangs.
When was the last time you had bangs?
Wait.
Have you done this again, Sophia?
Yeah, I cut bangs.
Since then?
God, I can't remember if it was like just after my 30th birthday.
I can't believe you didn't cut pandemic bangs.
Everybody on the planet cut pandemic bangs.
And you're so good with them.
I really do enjoy them.
Y'all, I have a cowlick.
And so unless I blow dry them out, like they go in two directions.
So I've learned that bangs are a bit high maintenance for me,
but man, did I like these bangs?
And I feel vindicated that all the ladies are in support
because I got yelled at when I cut these bangs by our boss.
It was a real dick.
Oh, yeah.
And all these years later, I think they stand the test of time,
so he can right off.
My bangs were great.
You can just write the fuck off.
He can just right off.
Sorry, everyone at home.
We're spicy tonight.
It's so late.
We're spicy.
I have my spicy tequila tonight.
night. Yeah, we're doing an evening podcast. We're all happily charged. Wait, I wonder if fans can tell
the difference when we do early morning podcast versus like late night podcast. Like, we should let them
guess from now on, like morning or night? Yeah. We should take a poll. Every week, we should actually
do a poll. That would be so fun. On stories? Yeah. Yeah. It was a good idea. Was it morning or night?
I love it. You know who else had a great hair cut? This episode is a drunk history edition.
Are we going to do a drunk O-T-H history where we have to tell the story of what happened all season long, but like...
Oh my God.
Like when you and I did lay-miz in four minutes or something?
Yes.
Yes.
We're going to do a sloppy recap of season two.
No, guys, I really, really like season three.
I have, you know, anytime the fans ask us what seasons are favorite historically for me, it's three.
because I, you know, I love Cheryl Lee.
I love Kevin Kilner, who shows up in this episode.
Like, I don't love crying all the time, but, geez, I got to work with, like, you know, people I loved.
And we all looked so fucking cute this season.
Like, Joy, you and your long hair.
Everybody's hair was so good.
Everybody's got a great bra on and tank tops.
What was that bra?
Because it was the same one.
Guys, it had such a specific front cut.
But, like, I know it was, and Joy, you're the one who spotted it.
You were like, we're wearing the same bra.
That's a perky bra.
I don't know what it is.
But, yeah, I want it.
It probably comes from the terrible era of Victoria's Secret.
Yeah, it's the Friends with Benefit Bra.
That's what it is.
Well, where else was there to shop for bra?
There were really no alternatives at that time anyway.
Wilmington, like, we had the one Victoria's Secret at the mall.
That was it.
That was it.
know but everybody did look really good we looked cute we were we were covering the uh the the
bases of um oh my god like you had the sophia you had like the sandra bullock thing going on oh my god
yeah and i'm going to climb into julia roberts territory because you never know when my hair's
going to go curly and uh i think i think we have this sort of like rom-com queen trifecta happening
in the in the uh in the season three i'm excited about seeing the rest of it i'm really excited
You know what, too?
This is when the like hocus pocus, not hocus pocus, what am I thinking of?
Pregistical magic, Hill?
Oh, baby.
This is when the practical magic thing started for us.
When people were like, you guys should do Bullock and Kidman.
Oh, my God.
I think, Joy, you just nailed it.
I think it's the haircuts this season.
I, oh.
Who was our costumer this year?
I can't even remember.
I don't know.
But we had somebody different come in.
Was it a guy?
Oh, no.
The guy was the first season.
And four?
Oh.
I just feel like there were some
changings of the guard
between two and three
and you can see all of us
feel like more comfortable.
Yeah.
Like I can tell.
I am uncomfortable in those orange pants
for myself now.
You looked cute in those orange pants.
But listen, I'm telling you, this episode
was all tank tops all the time.
Like, except for Nathan,
who's not wearing a shirt at all,
the whole episode.
That's a good wardrobe choice for him, though.
We should tell James, be like, hey, we've made an executive decision for you.
Just don't wear shirts.
As your co-workers.
It's a good choice.
As your friends, we'd like to tell you.
We have an opinion.
I just love, okay, so do you guys remember when we were filming this whole, like,
Who Killed Dan thing?
How obsessed our bosses were about creating the same kind of energy around our show that
that show Dallas had about, like, who shot J.R.
Who shot J.R.
Oh, my gosh, Hillary, I forgot about that.
They were obsessed with it.
They would never stop talking about it.
And by the way, I, you know.
It worked.
It sort of, yeah.
I mean, it literally could have been anyone except you or me.
Because in the end montage of the show,
they show every single character on our show angry at Dan,
except for Brooke and Peyton.
Yeah.
We're crying about other shit.
You guys are all trying to kill Dan.
It did feel like an episode of Clue.
It was like, you know, it was Haley in the library with a candlestick, you know.
That's what the 40s episode should have been.
Clue.
Oh, my God.
It should have been Clue.
It's not too late, Joy.
It's not too late.
What if we did One Tree Hill Clue the movie?
Yes.
But we, so we choose your own adventure?
Yeah, 100%.
By the end of the end of.
the series, Dan is dead. So who would be like the next victim on the show? If we're going to do
One Tree Hill Clue, who dies next? Okay, who's the next victim after Dan? I mean, Rachel,
but she's not around yet. Who else? Who's, who's the bad guy? There's no other villain. He's
the only villain. I mean, I guess Deb maybe would go next. Oh, I would be such a shame.
It would be. But I don't know. Like, she's the only one that seems to have that, like, she could,
could go bad if she wanted to.
But why does it have to be a main character?
What if somebody dies in Tree Hill and then the rest of us have to investigate and prove our innocence?
That's more fun.
I didn't do it, guys.
I didn't do it.
I didn't do it.
I like that.
I've been on a webcam this whole time.
It's being watched by Watch Me, Watch You, which we didn't revisit in this episode.
And I kind of wish they had just to recap and remind us that there was something creepy going on.
Because that was a weird mislead in the end of last season.
It was very strange.
And also, they made such a big deal out of it.
Even in the beginning of the episode where Payton and Lucas are having this moment where they're becoming, like, real friends again.
And she's like, I've been getting these creepy emails.
And I'm like, first of all, they're on AIM.
And second of all, we're never going to talk about them again.
So, like, you confide in him about it.
And then they disappear, which feels strange.
It feels not like a 16-year-old girl.
Because what I can tell you, having been a 16-year-old girl, is that when we're weirded out about something, we talk about it all the fucking time.
Like, we don't just, like, drop it and then walk away.
No, it's so high school.
Yeah, you fixate on it.
Yeah.
What I will say, though, is that Peyton lives in this world of Watch Me Watch You for a while,
like, for a couple seasons.
Yeah.
And I'm so paranoid anytime I stay in a hotel room or, like, an Airbnb or something,
that there are cameras everywhere.
Like, the seed was planted.
Oh, I always checking the vents.
Like, there's a whole.
in the warm. Like the air conditioning. I check every vent. Do you know there's an app on your phone
that can scan for hidden cameras? What? Because I do because Peyton Sawyer traumatized me. So now I'm just
out there scanning every room I go into. Watch me, why you. I need this. I'm really, I'm into it.
I think it's smart. I think everybody should do it. That should be the name of the app. Watch me, watch
you. Watch me. Watch you. I see you. I see you. Stop me. Stop me.
From watching you.
You're sick.
You know, what else was creepy in this episode was that face in Peyton's bedroom that they kept shining a light on.
Yeah.
Why did that face get a feature light?
It's not right.
It was a sculpture?
What was it?
We're in season three and Joy is like, what is that thing on your desk?
And I'm just like, baby, that's been there since the pilot.
But it was like a dummy head.
It was literally like a mannequin head.
but the hair part had been removed and so there was like pencils in it like it was like a pencil holder
on the desk and of course that's the thing they spotlight and it's so but like Lucas is having
this really sincere he's really trying to talk to you and all I can see behind him is this strange
like a bogeyman head also I must say there you can tell when something gets highlighted and when it
doesn't. And in this episode, that head and that, like, D23, whatever that poster was.
Yeah, D12. It's like a D12 thing. Yeah. They were like characters in the show. Why were they so
central? Here's what I think. Here's what I think. If you notice, everyone's wearing a white tank top in
this episode, people's hair rarely changes. And we are constantly in front of the same backgrounds.
I think we block shot the shit out of this episode
Because they spent so much time on the fire
Like there were certain things we had to spend a ton of time on
And so the other stuff like the scene work
I think we block shot it
I don't know if we've explained block shooting to people at home
But somebody explain it
Tell them what it is tell them what it is Hillary
No guys you're the directors
I'm just the bitchy actress
Block shooting is when you take everything that's in one location in the whole episode and you film it all at one time.
Or if there's...
In directions.
Yeah, in the directions so that you're facing...
I actually feel like we've explained this on the show before, but I can't remember.
So you just face the same direction and everybody who's in that scene or in scenes in that episode in that location will file in and do their scene in that direction.
So everybody's there all day.
long just waiting for their direction to be up. So you face the window, then you turn around and face
the other side. And then sometimes it's four ways and then a wide shot. So it can be quite
complicated. And sometimes in order to avoid the cameras having to move all day long, all the way
around the room, around the room, around the room, around the room, they just stay in one place
for four hours and then move again and stay in that place for another four or five hours.
And then it's not the best way to do. I mean, it's not. It's not. It's not. It's. It's
a super big time saver, you know, but you can also tell, too, like, you're not moving.
The other thing I noticed, I lose their minds a little bit. All my scenes, Peyton doesn't look
at anybody. It's like Chad over my shoulder or Kevin Kilner over my shoulder. Because when you
have... Saying things away. It's two actors looking in the same direction, so you only need to set up
the camera once. Yeah. Yeah. So we were saving tons of times so that that fire would be the
most epic fire that ever fired in a history.
There were a lot of concert shots in that fire.
I remember driving out there that night hill.
We were so pumped.
The buildup of this fire.
It was like, guys, you're never going to see anything like it ever again in the history
of your careers.
There's going to be an explosion.
And we were like, okay.
I also just remember being amped to stand in that parking lot because we were like,
there's something to do.
Oh, my God.
God, there was just something to do other than go to Deluxe or go to the movie theater.
And we were thrilled.
Blowing stuff up.
We were in the parking lot of the Independence Mall.
What is that?
What road is that on Eastwood?
I can't remember anymore.
But, you know, it's like.
South Road, the big one.
It's the road with the freaking Victoria's Secret Mall.
Yeah.
Hot Topic, Victoria's Secret.
What other stores?
Paxon.
There was a wet seal in that mall.
We had everything.
We were living the dream.
blowing stuff up in the parking lot.
I remember us sitting in our cars being like,
oh, this is going to be the coolest thing ever.
And everyone made it sound like it was going to be so dangerous.
And looking back at it now, I'm like, it's a fire.
It's a building on fire.
It's a building on fire.
Were we super controlled so it still felt safe, I guess.
Were we worried about Dan?
Like, did anyone really think Dan was going to die besides Deb?
No.
I mean, it's awfully hard to be.
worried about Dan since we know what happens. It's kind of like, you know what happens with the
Titanic. But like no one's surprised at the end of the movie, but your heartbroken. Dan is our
iceberg, guys. That feels right. He really is. Iceberg's not going anywhere. He had icebergs not
moving for you. But I will say, I do think at the time when the show was airing, people really did
wonder if he was going to die. Yeah. Yeah. I think so too. It was a big deal. It was a big
who done it, like, what's going to happen?
I think they did splashes on,
entertainment weekly on it.
I think it was kind of all over all the little pop culture spots.
Like, what's going to happen to Dan?
And you can tell even in the way that it was written,
you know, where the firefighter says something to Barbara, you know, to Deb.
And she says, my husband was inside and he goes,
they didn't tell you.
Hold on.
Captain.
And you think, oh, somebody's coming to do a death notification.
And then he comes around the side of that ambulance,
sucking on an oxygen mask, and he realizes nobody's happy to see him.
What did you say he was like Hillary?
Well, he looks like Hannibal Lecter with like the mask on because he'd be so creepy.
But he also looks like another Wilmington icon, Dennis Hopper in blue velvet,
sucking on that oxygen mask.
Yeah.
Just creepsville.
I was really fascinated by the scene with Dan in the confessional.
Because it's the first time we've ever seen him behaving genuinely sincere, well, I guess he's sincerely awful, but being sincere about his place in the existential climate, the existential world, where does he belong?
the first time he's really, you know, being, genuinely being vulnerable without anyone present
who he might get something from unless he's like literally trying, I guess because he does ask,
can I can I get forgiveness for something I haven't done already? So is he trying to,
is he trying to gaslight God? Is this dance final?
No, why? We just, because he doesn't really want forgiveness, I don't think.
Like, right. But why is he bother?
to go to the confessional.
That's a really interesting choice to make for a person,
to go to a confessional,
seeking genuine forgiveness,
feeling some kind of genuine repentance,
and yet also wanting to get away with something,
like seeing if God's going to let you get away with something.
Yeah.
I think that's so interesting.
I mean, there's a part of me that thinks Dan gets his kicks,
seeing what he can get away with.
And so going in and basically admitting that you're going to do something bad and now you've got this pastor, you know, privilege of, are you going to tell on me?
What are you going to do about it?
You know, like if he can pull one over on an institution that is supposed to be, I don't know, like, utmost respect, it shows you just how very.
Hello. He is. But like in all seriousness, does someone just sit there all day and like you can walk in at any time? I don't know what the rules are. Do they not have hours? How does that work?
Yeah. Do you have to make an appointment? My mom grew up Catholic. I should ask her. Mom, text your mom. I think they do have hours. Is it only Catholic churches that have confessional or is it other ones? Yes. It's only Catholic. Yeah. And it's private. It was a beautifully shot scene. I thought that was really pretty.
I liked how it was edited because we're coming back after, you know, a couple months,
and it reminds the audience of every single person that Dan has hurt.
And I'd forgotten that he pissed off Whitey.
And, you know, like, you forget, like, oh, wow.
But he assaulted Karen.
Karen threw a chair through a window.
She was so mad.
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but paul is so good at going back and forth between the sincere and the evil i mean when
deb comes up to him and he's got amnesia so you know so called amnesia and he can't remember
and he's being so genuine with her and i i really thought for a moment like oh my gosh maybe
this amnesia really really changed him how does he do it every time he gets us yeah he really does
Well, because the audience, you know, they're like, surely at some point, is this it?
No, no, this isn't it.
Is this it?
No, no, no.
How long can it go on before the audience is like, it's never happening?
Never.
But it's really playing on our emotions.
Think about real life.
Think about the people in your life that you know who are like that and you still keep thinking,
maybe this is the moment.
Maybe this is the moment.
Maybe this is going to change.
we do it all the time.
Joy, this is why there's
8 million memes out there
about like,
set your boundaries,
walk away.
Exactly.
I see these Instagram posts.
I like them.
Dan's crazy,
but Deb also is,
you know,
like making her gin comments.
Yeah.
Did she finish up pill rehab?
And now she's drinking?
Is that what's happening?
She did,
but you're not supposed to do that.
I'm not supposed to like drink
after you.
go get, go to rehab for pills.
Yeah, that feels a little.
Again, I don't know what the rules are.
I don't either.
What are the rules?
I think sober is sober.
I think you're supposed to not do that.
So, yeah, she's making these comments.
She's hip and she turned Karen's into a cyber.
Yeah.
Yeah, I wonder if maybe she's making,
because she goes to get coffee,
but she's making jokes about gin.
Is she making fun of herself,
but it's just not very good writing?
Yeah, maybe.
I don't, I don't think I understand it.
I just, we still don't know.
who actually lit the fire, and I think it was her.
I think it was her. Even though they're alluding to that it was Lucas, I think you're right.
Somebody who, which one of you said Lucas? Oh, Hillary, he said Lucas saves Dan, pulls him out
of fire. I think that was it. And the giveaway that Lucas saves Dan is that he has the burnt
card. So Lucas was in that dealership when it was already on fire. Right. Yes. But why would he,
why would you save someone's life and take the card that ties you to the crime scene?
Because I think he's trying to protect whoever did it.
Because to Lucas, he doesn't know if it was Keith.
He doesn't know if it was Nathan.
He doesn't know if it was his mother or Andy.
Lucas is trying to protect whoever actually did it
because he knows that those repercussions are bad.
Yeah.
And it's smart too because the way they set up the Deb and Nathan of it all,
Nathan comes in and she says, I've been here alone all night,
which sounds ridiculous.
And like she's trying to establish an alibi.
But where was Nathan?
Because it could have been...
So they start playing tricks on you
where you're like, well, it could have been her
or if she was home, it could have been him.
And she says, we're getting out.
And he says, I know we are.
Is it because he's making sure they are?
Like, they did a good job establishing the question.
Did your husband just walk by with his shirt on done?
He just brought me a glass of life.
So, dude.
He has a shirt on under that shirt.
Oh, all right.
Well, the top shirt is unbuttoned.
Sophia's fiance Grant is so I have to say
he's like become the wine connoisseur I think over the pandemic right
he became a wine connoisseur he was really into wine even before but
yeah he's now made it like his actual work which is so nice for me yeah yes but it's
all like organic biodivoridynamic yeah biodynamic can I just tell you I went over to
Sof's house and we sat and had dinner and I drank way more wine than I
usually do. I usually stop at a glass and a half because I have to drive home or I just,
I also just don't like the way I feel in the morning after drinking wine. I have a headache. I feel
awful. So it's not worth it to me anymore. So a glass and a half is usually my limit. I definitely
went over that. And I tell you, I woke up the next morning and felt fine. Yeah. Fine. There's no,
nothing. Magic. And I said, what is this magic? And it's because they're all organic wines. Yeah.
Because it's not wine that makes you feel bad.
It's the creepy additives that they're allowed to put in it.
Grant explained it to me this way, which I thought was such a good way to understand it,
is that they've basically made wine into Coca-Cola.
Like they want it to taste, they want every bottle to taste the same every time.
And wine is alive.
That's not how it works.
Interesting.
And so when you drink completely organic, natural wine, biodynamic wine
that doesn't have 81 legally allowed additives in it,
like most of the wine that comes off a shelf.
Yeah, you're like, he'll run wine tastings for people over here.
Okay.
We'll start with a white and then go to an orange and then we'll do a light red and then we'll do a red.
And everyone's like, what's happening?
And everybody the next day is like, I don't have a headache.
I feel great.
That sounds so nice.
Like, yeah, because you didn't get poisoned.
You just had a nice dinner.
Yeah, we got to sign up for good, good, good, what is it?
Good wine.
Drink good wine club.
Okay, I signed up.
I'm shamelessly plugging your fiancé grants.
It's very fun business.
We need the wine suitcase with drama queens right on the front.
Yeah.
We need a wine suitcase and we'll just cart it around with us when we take this show on the road, folks.
That's right.
Well, you know who really needed a glass of wine in this episode was Haley?
Oh, my God.
I enjoyed the work you had to do in this episode.
Honey.
But that beautiful scene between you guys when you come in,
And you ask him if he's awake.
Oh, you guys, God, that scene was so good.
The kissing? I cried.
Oh, it hurt.
It, like, yeah, it made me teary. It hurt.
I remember filming that.
And it's one of those things where the muscle memory, the visceral muscle memory of filming it came rushing back to me.
Wow.
And because we spent a long time in that room that day.
Yeah.
Maybe we had a lot of scenes in there.
Yeah.
But we spent a lot of time in that room.
And James and I had not done any scenes like that before.
We had the one at the concert backstage, which was really just me giving a speech.
And then he leaves.
So the back and forth, the combative, like being a married couple struggling,
James and I had not done anything like that.
Also, James.
was very aloof.
And he still is.
He's a very aloof guy.
Yeah.
It's one of the great things he has going for him, too, you know.
But he's a good poker face.
Totally.
Yeah.
And so I never quite, I'm, you know, very, I'm a musical theater kid.
I'm like, nah, banana.
Like, you know, I'll, these are my feelings.
What do I have to do to make you like me?
You want all my feelings on a platter right here?
I'll give him to you.
Yeah.
And James was always so.
poker-faced and so I never knew whether he liked me or not and I really wanted him to like me
just like as a friend like beat I just wanted to know that he like liked me as a person approval
and then I wasn't hopelessly annoying to him and so that was always that was always going on
in the back of my mind so I remember when we filmed these scenes it was actually particularly
painful for me to have him rejecting me oh joy
Yeah, because it tapped, because it tapped into a very real fear.
You were like, he doesn't like me.
And in this scene, you're behaving like he doesn't like me.
Oh, no, it's so painful.
Wow.
I totally get it because we do work in this world where, like, I would say most of the people that we work with are incredibly like, hey, let's be best friends.
It's like puppies, right?
It's like, let's just like, you know, get in a pile and cuddle and tell each other all our deep, dark secrets.
And because James is not like that, like James is very sure of who he is and he doesn't need
to project and he's like, he's just different.
There's a calmness to him where he didn't need the same validation that we did.
And yeah, I felt the same thing, Joy, because I was always like, well, why don't you want
to share, like, secrets?
Like, why don't, why are we?
Yeah.
Totally.
Tell me your feelings.
Just chill.
We got into an elevator.
In Paris, I got an elevator with him and my au pair who had come out to watch Maria.
And we all got an elevator together.
He gets off the elevator and my au pair who's German and, you know, they're very stoic.
He gets off the elevator and she's like, he's calm.
Yes.
We're frantic people.
We are.
We're frantic.
But I think that was also why he had such a good grounding energy for all of us because you're right.
that desire to puppy pile that you talk about it's like it's summer camp it's camp friends it's like
yeah we're in this cabin and we're going to be friends forever forever blood oaths you're going to know
everything about me and james was always he he would look at us you know what he reminds me of
it's like the rancher who watches all the baby horses run around like james was our wrangler stone
james was in yellowstone we were on one tree ho by the way he should absolutely be on yellowstone
he should be on that show.
But he was just very much like, all right, you psychos.
Run around till you're tired.
And then I'll feed you.
And we were like, okay.
Like, that's who he is.
And he still is.
It's like a, that's, yeah, we got to, you know what?
The moral of the stories we need to buy James a Cowboy hat.
Yeah, I'm down for that.
We'll just send it to him with no note.
No, he made smart choices too because he was like, I have my real friends.
They're my friends from home.
I have my little brother.
And that was something that it took.
took me a very long time to learn in our business is like a boundary is important. And
keeping your home and your work life separate is a very important tool. And James somehow
figured that out as a child. So kudos to him, man. I appreciate it. I wish I'd known that
sooner. Really nailed it. But God, isn't that funny? I've had that joy, that thing you talk about.
Like, Hillary, I even remember having it with you. Yeah, I'm a psycho, Sophia. I was totally
standoffish and weird on our show.
Well, but you went in phases because, and then it was weird for me, like, even in inside of our
friendship, like, we'd be doing these scenes where, you know, we get to the point where
Brooke and Peyton are fighting.
And I'm like, it feels personal, though.
It's not real.
It's on the script, but I feel uncomfortable in the scene and it's really, it's breaking my real
heart, not my Brooke heart, help me.
Do you guys do that?
It happens to me.
always of course of course yeah dude even like there's there's there's I have to remind myself to
not yeah it personally it's okay it's okay well because it feels real our job is to make the feelings
on the page real and I think when you finally learn that that can emotionally make you feel crazy
you learn coping skills but like god there were days when we were shooting up in toronto we're like
jason and i would be battling in these scenes and then we'd we'd finish the scenes and then we'd finish the
and I'd be like, Jason Isaacs, it's me, Sophia, hug me.
I need you to hug me.
You know, and then, you know, he'd be in his sweet little British accent.
Like, oh, darling.
And I was like, I just need to remember in my body that it's not real.
Oh, I love that.
I love asking for that.
Remember in my body.
But we didn't know to do that when we were doing our show.
Like, you would have never said to James, this has made me very uncomfortable.
Could you hug me because you're my friend?
Like, you would have never.
Would you please let me know that you don't hate me?
hold me hold me james he would have been like uh sure i don't hate you oh my 100%
i don't hate you and he would have rolled his eyes when he said it and you'd be like but you
look like you do but you look like you hate me oh god it's like why i mean maybe that's an artist
thing i've since i was young i remember always being so paranoid terrified every room i walked into
that nobody liked me for no reason does that ever go away i don't know i guys i still feel that way
constantly like me too i go to the grocery store and talk to a checkout woman for too long and like
you know ask her about where she got her nails done and also i like your hair and leave feeling like
oh no oh no i messed up like she's going to think i'm a psycho and then i'm like going to wait for her
outside in the parking lot, you know, like. On the way out, you're like, by the way, not,
not single white female, just think you're awesome. I'm sorry. Why did I say that?
Yeah. Cool. Can I have your number? You know.
It's the weird vacillating between really being sincere and just like, I like you. I think
you're cool. And then also the thing of perpetuating this, do you like me? Do you like me?
And then people who are good at detecting bullshit, I've definitely encountered some of those people
when I'm in a spin and I'm feeling like, I need people to like me, and they just are not having it, not because they don't like me, but because they're not interested in my need for them to like me. Does that make sense? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. They can tell that everything that I'm doing is only, is not really because I'm interested in them. It's because I am trying to get some kind of reaction out of them to feed myself. Okay, that is some major therapy growth right there. Can we just, I like, I'm truly like, I have a desire to like snap for that. Like, that's a big fucking.
deal when you're like oh this is triggering my need for validation understood that that's some
serious grown-up lady growth yeah yeah do we have to acknowledge when that happens yeah like am i
doing this really for you or is this really just all about me and i need to just like allow you to
have whatever feelings you're having whether you like me or not and just i can share my feelings for you
genuinely and then walk away but I don't need to perpetuate this like song and dance to make sure
that you like me and then I can walk away being like who okay another another person likes me good check
check that off the list what is the worst tough what is the worst like fake fight you've had on a job
where you have been like scared it's real like because our show we were babies and so we didn't
know how to separate fact and fiction very well but yeah like I played a mistress
on a TV show
that Tony Collette was the lead in
and her husband was Tate Donovan
and so I was supposed to be having this affair
with Tate Donovan
and I was so excited to work with Tony Collette
and she was just like
I'm going to need you to stay away from me
and she was so lovely
but like very professional
but also like we can't be girlfriends
and I just remember being like
oh no
oh no I've come off so high
hyper. I've come off like the mistress, you know, because like my character had to apologize
to her and be like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. You're such an awesome woman and I didn't know.
And like, I'm like, oh, no, I'm perpetuating this in real life because I'm like, I think you're
so cool. And I like your hair. And also, your shoes are really pretty today. You know,
like, that was the weirdest I've ever felt professionally. Because I was like, no, no, I swear
I'm a normal person. I swear. I'm just playing a whore. I'm just playing the whore. I'm just playing
Oh my God
I don't know
I'm really trying to think of
Oh I don't know
I mean maybe I'm just thinking about it
Because I literally was just talking about it
But when we had that fight on the front lawn
Ofit's house
Oof, that one hurt
That that made me up for a bit
Me too
Like I didn't feel okay
No
And I think we both were like
Wounded
And then didn't
want to say it but could see it on each other's faces so we just kind of like you were literally
wounded i cracked your skull like you had to go to the hospital we had a moment i was like something
is wrong yeah um but yeah i don't know it felt oh it just felt so awful we tapped into something like
dark yeah to like girl wounds yeah to like the betrayal of the you know the first best friend
betrayal you ever go through or whatever and it just felt big and painful and and
it was 2005 and no one was in therapy yet. So it was really hard to deal with.
That was a rough one. That's right. We didn't have better help back then. No. We had no like
mental health leaders on Instagram sharing inspiring infographics in your morning feed.
It would have been amazing. Can you imagine if they had actually just made like Beth Crookom maybe like
or somebody kind of like her who is just 10 years older than us. So still young and cool.
But like clearly had her together. It just made someone like that are like a guidance counselor on set.
Check-in?
Why didn't we have a guidance counselor?
Especially because there were so many big things we were going through and people treated
us like grown-ups, but we were kids.
And then we were like, well, we can't admit that we feel like kids because we're
supposed to be the, we're, you know, employees, like, we're supposed to have it all
together.
So we just, like, fumbled around for years.
Dumb.
Do you think that in other professions, which we can, I mean, none of us can really,
know because we don't do anything else. But I wonder if this is, you know, we think this is an
extraordinary problem just for actors. But maybe in other professions, other people feel,
especially young people coming out of college or going, you know, going into new jobs or
internships. I mean, I wonder if kind of the pressure's the same everywhere, except for the public
notoriety. Like, that's something else. Well, here's what I'm going to say. I think the pressure
is very similar. I think the pressure of public notoriety is hard.
And I also think the utter lack of boundaries in film and television, like, when you go to work at an office, you're doing spreadsheets.
You're not doing, like, emotional scenes where you're fighting your best friend whose parent has died.
Like, that's not in the wheelhouse.
Take your clothes off. You look good in that bathing suit.
Yeah, like, that's not in the wheelhouse of a typical nine to five.
Not to say people don't get pushed around and harassed and all the things.
But you're not emotionally manipulating yourself in a group for your job with no guidance or help.
So I do feel like there are – I'll say I've got a lot of friends that work in health care and they do emotionally manipulate themselves because they have to compartmentalize in a way that we had to where it's like feelings, I can control these things.
Well, yeah.
How do you witness suffering?
Every day and do your job, if you're a doctor, if you're a nurse, if you work in a hospital.
Yeah, you get real good at disassociating, which is not healthy for any of us.
The suffering person has to look at you and see a stable person.
They can't see you breaking down.
Well, to that extent, you can say hairdressers have to do the same thing.
So it's like you can find glimmers of that same thread.
Yeah, like shadows of it.
When you are taking care of other people, you are not allowed to authentically.
feel your feelings.
And so, especially when you're a young person,
it gets, you know, sloppy.
Yeah.
It gets sloppy.
And so I think the nicest thing we can do
is say, hey, your 20s are real sloppy.
I sure love you anyway.
30s and 40s get way better, kids.
They get so fun.
Want to learn some of the stuff we learn?
We'll pass it on to you.
And we'll also give you a discount for therapy.
You're welcome.
That's right. That's right.
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But it actually is really interesting because thinking about the sort of tessellations of that
expectation to serve the group, you see our characters grappling.
with it. You know, Haley made a choice for herself and is punished for it. And granted,
it was messy, but she's a teenager. What was she supposed to know? Peyton is having a real
hard time, you know, not taking this family stuff personally and is struggling to express how
she feels and has this conflict with her father because she feels betrayed. And Brooke doesn't
want to get hurt. So she's putting up all these walls and boundaries and saying, like, I'm in
control of this, but really she doesn't feel good about it. And all these kids are just trying to
figure out how to get back to normal before they were heartbroken. But you can't unbreak
heart. And so you're just not the same after a heartbreak as you were when you were like an innocent
little freshly hatched chickling. I'm going to write a country song. I'm going to write a country
song called Can't Unbreak a Heart. Thank you.
Joy, please write us that song.
So I just think...
No matter what you do, you can't unbreak a heart.
See, look at you.
There it is.
Win a Grammy.
But I just think there's something really interesting about that,
not only in the landscape of our show,
but in this larger landscape of talking about how even as grown women in rooms,
sometimes we don't feel like we know what to do with our feelings.
Yeah.
I read a book. It's a novel. It's called Elegance by Kathleen Tessero. I read it last year.
What a name. And it's about a woman who's getting out of a marriage and she's always been sort of rather frumpy and just not really given any much thought to her, what she puts forth into the world. She just shows up at work and does her thing and goes back home.
and she gets a hold of this vintage book on elegance and she starts going through the chapters
for what each chapter is for and you know some of it seems quite silly how to match your handbag
to your outfit and things like that and then some of the things are are deeper and I tell you
I haven't been affected by a novel like this in a really long time because while I was reading
this novel, I found myself so, I related to this character so much and I so wanted to slow down
the way that she was slowing down as she was learning how to not walk into a room and apologize
for herself immediately. How she was learning to slow down. And I found myself doing it too.
Like I'm a, I'm like a ping pong ball around my house. If I leave something upstairs, I don't walk
upstairs to get it. I run upstairs and get it, and then I run back downstairs to just sit back down
on the couch where I was. Like, I can't just walk. And I've been training my... That's why you have a
great butt, though. Yeah, that's why the butt's supreme. Sorry, I just had to say it. Hey, thanks.
But I've really found that it helped. I've been wanting to go back and reread it because I've
gotten out of the habit that I was in, but during the month, it took me a while to read it
because I was doing other things. But during the month that I was reading this book,
I really slowed down and I really was taking in my, the appreciation for myself, for my
environment, and it wasn't a vanity thing like I want to be elegant. It was, I deserve to
carry myself in the world in a way that, that reflects my value. Wow. And it's really beautiful.
Anyway, I recommend it to you girls, but this just makes me think of that because we do bounce. We
bounce all over the place. Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing.
Yeah.
From point A to point Z.
And sometimes we just need to slow down.
And that can be hard to do.
And we're constantly worried if people like us or not.
Do you like me?
I really like you guys.
Yeah, I like you guys.
I like you guys.
I like you, too.
I like you too.
Damn it.
Can I say one thing about Haley?
Yes.
This is the first time this episode.
I don't know why.
I think it was something Peyton said.
I can't remember.
It was one of you two.
one of you twos said something about hey oh like the choice that she the choice that i made and
i think for the first time i'm realizing that haley has always been a oh it's Peyton
Peyton was mad at Hayley oh yeah she's telling Brooke why she was so mad at her in her apartment
but she's mad at haley she's mad at her mom yes yes but what she said wasn't totally untrue and what
i realized is that haley actually has been a part of a unit her entire life a family unit all those kids
and then got married immediately, left her parents' house and got married.
So no wonder, she just was like, ah, I got to be on my own.
I have to figure out how to be on my own.
Yeah.
Yeah, it kind of, it was the first time I realized that with her.
Anyway, I wanted to say that.
Everyone needs that space, that time.
Yeah.
I agree with you.
And I think that the way Haley came back, not bouncing all over the place.
You were very still and you were very like,
quiet but firm, it was a strong move because another actress could have been like,
please, Nathan, take me back, Nathan, it's too much. I can't bear it. And you, you were slow and
methodical about it and you had to repeat yourself over and over again. And it never felt stagnant
or stale. It was just firm and loving. And I think that's what anybody who, like, putting myself and
Nathan's shoes, if the trust is gone, firm and slow and steady is exactly what you're looking
for.
It's like, calm it down, let's remove the melodrama, make me believe you.
And it shows that she learned something and is sure.
And so this idea that she was always in a unit and never got to do something for herself,
she went out, she went and had her hero's journey, she went out on her own.
And she's sure.
And that's very nice.
And it's weird.
As you're saying all this, Hillary, where you're like the slow and the steady, I'm like,
oh, that's what Brooke is trying to get Lucas to teach her.
He is.
Yes.
She wants him to prove that he is sure by being slow and steady.
It's crazy.
I didn't see it until just now.
But she's like, you're sure?
Prove it.
Slow and steady.
I'm going to.
test you. I'm going to push you. Let me see it. Yeah. I wonder if Brooke and Nathan are about to kind of
be in the same place. Like, is Nathan going to test Haley? Mm-hmm. I don't know. I don't remember.
I don't remember either, but I'm deeply curious. Maybe that's what this episode is all about. Testing
Love. Like, mm-hmm. Because Peyton and Peyton, Peyton, her dad. Guys, I had no recollection of how firm Kevin Kilner was with me in those
scenes where he's like, you can be mad, but don't you dare bring your mother into this?
And he doesn't hug her and he never tries to like smother her with affection or anything
like that.
He sets a boundary.
Well, in my mind, because Kelvin Kilner was someone who I really, really liked a lot,
and we ended up working together later on white collar, I'm cool.
Kevin Kilner is the best and has such good dad energy.
And I guess in my mind, I thought we were all like warm and fuzzy.
And Larry is not warm and fuzzy with Peyton here.
And she's testing his love.
And instead of doing the whole, like, I'm going to tell you, I love you over and over again, he's like, knock it off.
Yeah.
You're being a brat.
Stop it.
It's good.
It's so strong.
Yeah.
It was hard.
Parenting.
But he's, I love.
He's, I, I love Thomas, who played my dad before, but Kevin felt like dad.
Like, I wish he would have come back for weddings and things because he was so good.
I know.
And you pointed out something so interesting when he first came on screen where we were like,
oh my God, Kevin Kilmer looks so much like Brian Greenberg.
Daddy issues, honey.
So much Greenberg energy.
They always say, like, you know, you fall in love with a virgin or your dad.
And it's like, holy shit, Jake Jigowski.
and Larry Sawyer are twins twins.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Payton's got dad issues, mom issues, best friend issues back in.
She has issues.
She's just a regular high school girl, man.
Peyton on her walls.
I love that.
You know what?
This is the first episode.
I know Peyton's been very artistic, obviously, the last few seasons,
but this is the first episode.
I really remember seeing the art, the artistry coming out literally onto her wall.
It's just pouring out of her everywhere she goes.
I love that.
The breaking the mold, breaking the boundaries, just like, yes, paint on my walls.
I can throw whatever.
Yeah.
That mural with those faces and the one like hypnotist wheel and the $6 billion, that is a
sense memory for me.
Yeah.
Like the hours we used to spend in that room.
And we would like find a random face and like make up stories about that face in the
crowd from the 19th 30s.
Yeah.
Oh my God, I remember.
That's so funny.
And we would like, we would like assign crew members we worked with to some of those
faces and be like, that's you, Brian, or that's you, you know, like.
Yeah, we just stared at it for so, so long.
And I don't know where that picture's from.
Like, I don't either.
I'd love that backstory.
At some point, we have to have some art department members on the show because they can walk us
through like the lamps of it all.
We need it.
That weird head on the desk.
We've got to do that.
I want to know where all that stuff came from.
That was a really big deal.
Wasn't it that moment when you painted that number on the wall and that quote?
It's one of the most famous quotes of the show.
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah. I mean, that stands alone in the zeitgeist.
We've had a lot of people get engaged using that quote.
And people use it in their wedding videos and stuff because that all you need is one quote is like.
I swear that's Lady God.
That's where she got it.
That's where she got it.
It has to be.
I like the ownership.
Yeah.
The repeat of her.
She used that same quote over and over and over and over in all these different interviews.
You have to Google Lady Gaga.
All you need is one.
Honestly, I'm down for Gaga to be a Wonder Hill fan.
Let's do it.
I wish.
Ooh, that sounds fun.
Does she want to come record with Red Bedroom Records?
She should.
I used to get to hang out with her in Chicago.
She's a babe.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, yeah.
She's great.
I love her. That's awesome.
I remember texting Jenny being like, it's happened.
Because, you know, my girlfriend, Jenny, who's one of my best friends from Wilmington,
you know, we used to like take a party bus down to Raleigh to go to Gaga shows when she was touring.
So like, oh my God, I was like, it's happening.
I've met her.
We did.
That's so great.
We've achieved the next.
the next level in Super Mario
Brothers or whatever the fuck, you know?
Like it felt, I was like, this is insane.
I'm in the Matrix.
Yeah.
I'm having dinner with her.
Weird in life.
Those level of moments where I'm just like, did I, I hit the right mushroom and now
I'm up here?
What's, wait, what's going to?
Like, what happened?
You guys, literally my son just got a game boy from the 90s for, we went to like a vintage.
Did he get Tetris?
He got Tetris, but he got Super Mario Brothers too.
And so he's like, it's like,
It's like we're back because I hear that sound just like,
Ne-da-da-da-da-da-da or whatever.
It's like, Gus, what are you doing?
He's hitting all the mushrooms.
Go for it, Gus.
You get those mushrooms.
Guys, we have listener questions.
We do.
Do you want to, should we read some of them?
Yeah.
Well, this one's like perfect.
Beth wants to know who your favorite musical guest over your time on the show was.
Yeah.
I wish we'd had Gaga on the show.
God, that's been.
damn that would have been so nice right at like the beginning of her like trajectory oh my god it's so cool
yeah damn i would have loved did we ever end up getting like p i know you loved peaches early on
did she ever come on her show oh my god i loved peaches peaches oh i know guys we loved that fucking
we would play that in the trailer and make people so uncomfortable over and over again i loved it
so much oh god that was i forgot about it
bad joy i'm so glad you're right man okay so she wasn't on the show but anyway i remember that
no i loved grace potter man i still love grace potter i love her yeah she's so talented yeah one of
for me also one of the best like there were so many moments that were cool but god she was just
she's like a she's like a mirage like she feels like she came from another world she's awesome
Angels and Airwaves, I remember, too.
Yeah.
And that felt so cool, too, because that, that, when they came on the show, we got to do that big U.S.O. show.
And it felt so special to be able to kind of use the platform of our television show to go and throw a massive event, like for the troops and their families.
That, that was special.
That's when I think a lot of us were like, oh, we could do stuff with this.
Yeah.
Right.
We could actually do good in the world or, like, at least, you know, interact with people on a more authentic basis.
Like, it's one thing to go and, like, sign autographs and shake hands, but it's another thing to put on a show and go spend time with the families and get to know people.
And that was a really special experience.
Jack's Manikin was another really great get, you know?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, my God.
That was a fun one.
Yeah, we were lucky.
Yeah.
Anybody right now that you guys would want on?
Like who right now would be?
I know who you want.
Pomp, squad.
I know, but I wasn't even going to say that because I, yeah, everyone already knows that.
No, I'm trying to think, like, who do I want now?
That little chick is so cute.
You know who I would love?
If we were making the show right now, I would 100% make my friend Jack Garrett come and play.
Yeah?
Because he's just, God, he's just.
the best. And like, I love nothing more than taking people who haven't seen him perform
live to a Jack Garrett show because I'm like, your brain's going to explode. And I can't wait
to watch it happen. I love when my brain explodes. Yeah. It's my favorite. What about
Leon Bridges? That would be some, that feels real on brand. That'd be special. Yeah. Yeah.
I'm hot for it. All right, what's her other question? Well, Katie says,
I want to know how much of how a line is said is down to the actor and how much is down to the director.
Depends on the director.
Truly.
I will say, and we talked about this while we were watching the episode, and as we're all in our late night spice,
Brooks one-liners are getting so good.
I love them.
So good.
Oh, you've got the best dialogue right now.
In the airport when Haley comes to the apartment.
And I remember being so thrilled.
Like the sense of memory I had watching that scene when you walked in, Joy, and I went, I got room for you, but not a lot of pity.
I love it.
And I remember when we were shooting it and whatever that is, like, I caught the rhythm.
And I was like, that's it.
That's the comedy.
And I forgot the feeling because it was 20 years ago.
And we watched the scene and I was like, oh, my God.
And you guys, we've just been laughing.
Oh, the airport was great.
Lucas at the airport at the beginning was great too.
Yeah.
It was so funny.
And these aren't for me.
Okay, great.
Like, there's my cap.
I just, God, it was so fun.
What does you say?
Quick, tell me you love me.
Yeah, tell me love me.
Tell me you love me.
Loved it.
Oh my God.
So I will say, I think, like, yeah, sometimes a director will come and say, you know,
put more of this under it or whatever.
They don't tell you how to say.
say something. It's like very, there's a big foe pa in our industry with what's called a line
reading. If someone comes and like reads your line for you, they're, they're emotionally fired.
But man. I have to be, I actually don't mind a line reading. Really? If I trust the director.
And I trust the director. Yes. If it's not working, that's the thing. You have to let me try it.
If I, if I'm trying it and I'm not understanding what you're saying, just tell me what you, just tell me.
It's fine. Because if I can hear.
hear you say it the way that you think it should be said, then I can actually understand
whether or not that's going to make sense for me or not. But if I don't really get what you're
saying, if you can't communicate in a way that, like if we're just, we're missing, like you're
saying it and I'm not hearing it for whatever, for whatever reason. Yeah. Then I don't mind. I don't mind
a line reading. I remember, I remember working on white collar and, you know, I'd just come from
North Carolina for six, seven years. And I had to say some, like, business word. And I kept saying
it with, like, a Jojo accent. And the director would just yell from behind the monitor.
God, what was that word? It was, oh, it was something so stupid about, like, business contracts or
some legal shit. And they were just like, where did you come from? In that situation, yes,
give me that line reading. Say it over and over again. Spell it out.
put it on a cue card, sign you up.
Oh, I love it.
But yeah, I think that's the interesting thing.
You know, directors rotate on TV and we're there all the time.
So there's just something that happens in this season where you can really see everybody kind of clicking into the next level.
And something happened particularly, because I'm reliving it now, like something happened with the way that the right.
writer's room and I like clicked into Brooks comedy in like a deeper way and I would just read the scripts
and giggle. I was so excited to say that stuff. I think they realized everybody else was
everybody else was weeping in the episode.
God, I just got so excited. I'd read these lines and be like, oh, I can't wait to say that.
I'm going to fuck them up with this one. This one's going to be really, man.
Well, you did it brilliantly. You're so good. I love Brooke. I love Brooke. I love Brooke. I love Brooke.
more and more every day.
Me too.
God, I loved her.
I get it.
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It was a huge honor to become a television writer because it does feel oddly, like, very
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Well, should we spin a wheel?
I want to spin the wheel.
It's amazing that we can talk for so long.
I know.
Oh.
Oh.
Oh.
This is joy.
This is joy.
100%.
This is joy.
Guys, this is Benz is killing you at home we know.
This week's most likely to is who is most likely to leave their name.
It's not even a question.
And it's joy.
It's not a question of who.
It's a question of when's the last time she did it.
Yeah.
Who has?
In Charleston, in November.
A bartender.
Oh my God.
That cute guy in Charleston.
We got a picture.
He was spicy.
I love it so much.
She'll text us and be like, guess what I did?
And we're like, we know what you did.
We know.
It's why we love you.
We know.
Every little detail.
So if you're married ladies to have Joy Land saunter into your establishment, you better treat Mama well.
You might get a phone number on a receipt.
Oh, yes.
Never know.
Okay, who are the characters?
I think Brooke.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, 100%.
Brooke Davis, yeah.
Brooke Davis would leave her phone number on a receipt and then walk up to the waiter and fold it up in puppies.
Yes.
They would not.
Yes.
They wouldn't be subtle.
I agree.
But, you know, I love it, too.
I like that about her.
Love it.
Well, guys, our next episode is season three, episode two, from the edge of the deep green sea.
Wow.
So dramatic.
Ooh. Well, this is just a minute. I love you guys so much. I missed you too.
We missed you. Next time it's reported like 4 o'clock in the morning. You know, like we'll let the fans figure out what we're up to. Our late night antics. Thanks for bearing with us, guys.
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