S1: EP19 The Husbands Have Their Say Part 1

We have reached our Season One two-part finale and what other way to bring in the celebrations than with…husband reveals! 

Join us this week for part one of us letting our husbands have their say on their most memorable episodes, their thoughts on drama school, and how it feels being “podcast husbands”! Get to listen in on our special friendships and ridiculous  dynamics.

So take a beat, get to know the boys and let us begin to close out this magical journey with you all, besties!

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Transcript

SPEAKER_03 0:10

Ready? It's their show, Danny.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

Transatlantic tanks! Hello. Good morning.

unknown 0:22

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 0:22

We have a studio audience today. Exhaustive. We have our husbands in the studio with us. We do. There's a few jokes going around that they were like, this is gonna suck. Like we mean Chloe were going, this is gonna suck.

SPEAKER_01 0:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 0:37

I don't think either me or Danny said that this was going to suck at sunglasses on. I was trying to do Harold Stern.

SPEAKER_01 0:48

See what I mean? I'm done. I have to leave.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

Um so let's quickly introduce everybody. Uh we'll go with alphabetical order.

SPEAKER_04 0:57

Hey, how are you?

SPEAKER_01 1:00

What's your name?

SPEAKER_04 1:01

Uh the name is Danny. Yes. We from I'm from the Massachusetts area.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

Right. And does it bother you, Danny, that every single person on this podcast knows exactly where you're from? Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's no need. A lot more about you than you would like to let on.

SPEAKER_04 1:17

What?

SPEAKER_00 1:20

And then across the table.

SPEAKER_03 1:22

Hi.

SPEAKER_00 1:24

Name?

SPEAKER_03 1:25

My name is John.

SPEAKER_00 1:27

I'm actually at my fucking wit now. Improperly. Speaking to the mic, John. I can hear your mother.

SPEAKER_03 1:32

Okay, alright, alright, okay. I'm scared of Irene. I'm John. I'm uh Maeve's husband, not wife. I was about to say wife. Um Yeah. What else?

SPEAKER_00 1:44

And you produce this.

SPEAKER_03 1:45

I do produce this. Sometimes people hear me like shout things from not having a microphone.

SPEAKER_00 1:51

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 1:52

Uh-huh. And I do that quite frequently, unfortunately.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

And can you answer Chloe's question? Where are you from? Where are you from?

SPEAKER_03 1:57

Where am I from? I'm from New Jersey.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

Hey! So we got New Jersey and we got Would you say Mass or would you go straight to Bassachus? Would you go Bosta Chus? Well, that's the thing.

SPEAKER_04 2:06

When you're from Massachusetts and you talk to someone like from out of town, you go, Oh, I'm from Boston. And then they're from Massachusetts and they're like, Oh, are you really though? And you're like, well, no, I'm a couple, a couple, a couple town sounds. Technically, I'm not lying.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

You wouldn't say you're from Boston.

SPEAKER_04 2:21

I would to like someone in the UK. But if someone said, Oh, I'm from Massa. I mean, yeah, that's kind of how it goes. Yeah. Yeah. Facts. I do the same.

SPEAKER_03 2:28

I do the same when when uh someone from here asks me, is like, oh, where are you from? And I go, Oh, I'm from the States. And they're like, oh, what part? And I say, Oh, I'm around like the New York area.

SPEAKER_00 2:38

You won't say New Jersey?

SPEAKER_03 2:39

Oh, well, if they're extremely if they're really thick and they don't know New Jersey, like I you can tell. And I go, Oh, New York. And they go, Oh yeah, I know where that is. But then they're just like, Oh, what state are you from? Then I go, oh, New Jersey, because they know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:57

There's a gorgeous thing that we have here. I don't know if you have it as well, but with the br it's really weird seeing you. I know, isn't it? Um with uh people from that I meet in work and they're like, Oh, so you're like, Where's your husband from? Or like they maybe like, oh my god, where's your husband from? I'm like, oh, he's from New Jersey, and they literally do this thing where they go, and I'm like, if he was next to me, he would say the nice part, and they go, Oh my god, and he's not from the shore, and I'm like, No. Because they all assume, no, babe, that's not a dig. They all just assume they hear uh Jersey Shore.

SPEAKER_03 3:29

It's the same way it's just that by the way, that entire cast, bar one person, is from fucking New York. Yeah, like New York City. I didn't know. There's only one person, and she's the normal one. Which one? Uh fucking, I can't remember, but like Awesome. Snokey, Snoky. Hometown Staten Island. Uh freaking the situation is from Brooklyn or something like that. I know the names are. We got a situation.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

They're a disgrace.

SPEAKER_03 3:57

Oh yeah, they were like our Beatles.

SPEAKER_00 4:03

Do you think there's if there's like one in um like Massachusetts, where would they position it? Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 4:08

Well, there is a Quincy! I love Quincy. Chloe just likes the name Quincy. And I think it's such a nice place. Chloe tells people she's from Quincy. I'm Quincy Travis. If she's putting on her Boston accent.

SPEAKER_01 4:23

That's my alter ego. But that is the thing.

SPEAKER_04 4:25

When you're in the UK and people say, Where are you from? You do that like quick moment of like, do I say the states? Yeah. Because then they're like, oh, I'm from America. And they're like, oh, never heard of her. And then now I've had it with other Americans where they go, Oh, I'm from America. And I'm like, no, I know. Yeah, no shit.

SPEAKER_01 4:43

I got that part. I got it.

unknown 4:45

I got it.

SPEAKER_03 4:46

Trust me, everyone around us knows.

SPEAKER_00 4:48

Yeah, John has that weird thing.

SPEAKER_03 4:50

Oh, I hate it. I hate finding out that there are other Americans here besides myself.

SPEAKER_00 4:55

Just like, it's mine. Yeah, it's like, I'm the American.

SPEAKER_03 4:59

I am the immigrant. I am the expat. You guys cannot take this from me.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

But you do you think you've you've acclimatized? Is that the word? Yeah. Yeah. Um, like on trains, for example, when John first came here, it was like, Mother of God, are we getting on the Piccadilly? Like, and then he might be like, You need to keep your voice down. There's people around. And he's like, okay, and now you've mellowed out for however long you've been here. Yeah. And he then he'll hear someone go, Oh my god, I love it here. And then he's like, Shut the fuck up.

SPEAKER_01 5:28

Do you have to- Don't embarrass us. I go up and down. Yeah. Yeah. Do not make us worse. Shh.

SPEAKER_04 5:34

God. I go up and down because sometimes I do really miss how sweet Americans can be. Yeah. Uh, like the people of America. And just but then sometimes it's so obnoxious because they're just so pumped, and then you think, like, are they making fun of me? But I we had it when we went to Wales last week. I was kind of just like, oh yeah, like, because Welsh people are very similar to Americans. Or I'm assuming probably all small town UK areas are more like American than Londoners because they're just like, oh, hi, yeah. And they like actually chat and they're excited about like being alive.

SPEAKER_00 6:08

It's the capital thing, isn't it? New York and London, very similar.

SPEAKER_04 6:11

But no, no, New Yorkers are still very much like, what's up, dude?

SPEAKER_00 6:16

You think? I don't know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:18

I mean, even more so. And the outer boroughs, definitely. So like Queens.

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Not in not in Manhattan.

SPEAKER_03 6:23

In Manhattan.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 6:26

It depends on where you are in Manhattan, you know? It's like if you go like up past the park, like those guys are like, oh hey, what's going on? And half of them are on the drive. Well, some are, and then you got those guys, hey, what the fuck's going on?

SPEAKER_00 6:38

Be careful you're not spiking the mic. I'm gonna have a horrible time. Maybe.

SPEAKER_04 6:43

Oh yeah, John and I are both wearing the headphones because it's very fun to try out, but maybe Chloe are such a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 6:49

That is funny, maybe that's why you're so loud. Maybe it's not the American thing. Maybe it's like going back to the topic end.

SPEAKER_03 6:58

Um, you go down to like Midtown, like around where like you know, Madison Square Gardens is, and everyone's just like, oh, don't don't look at me. Don't look at me, don't touch me, don't look at my money.

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Don't look at my money outside the Wagamamas. Yeah, exactly. Did you go to that Wagamama?

SPEAKER_01 7:14

Yes, I love that Wagamamas. Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:16

Did you go to the the one in New York?

SPEAKER_04 7:19

Madison Square Park, yeah, we went a couple times.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

Yeah, we did. When that came, I was like, Chloe, you've been at home. But it's great.

SPEAKER_01 7:25

I had exactly the same thing, and I didn't realize like how much I missed it. And then when if it when I I remember it opening and being like, oh my god, I get to go to Waggas. Fascinating.

SPEAKER_04 7:34

That was where I learned like you're allowed to eat right when the food comes out. Yeah, yeah. No, you have to, it's warm, blah, blah, blah. But I'm so against not against it, but I it was when we first started for everyone, so I was like, oh, we're gonna wait. Yeah. And then the lady was like, Why haven't you eaten your food? Is it bad? You have to.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

It is hard to wait at Wags though, because they come out, they're like, this is gonna come out quickly. So um didn't yeah, I get the pressure. Yeah, it's going to come out quickly.

SPEAKER_04 8:02

They're like your publicist, look, what it's customary, you just eat it and then you go. Do not look at them in the eye. If you're on a date, tell them to get a cab. You have to leave. Yeah, literally.

SPEAKER_03 8:12

And if they smell your fear, you are due.

SPEAKER_01 8:16

My god, I miss Magamama. So again, yeah, let's go.

SPEAKER_00 8:19

After this. Um, so Clo, I feel like it's only right that we kind of make them make the husbands talk about their experience of listening to all of our. Absolutely. I want to know. Yeah, and if there's things that you guys are like, I categorically do not agree with what they just said there. Or if you like want to ask us questions, then we can ask you questions about it. But you've listened to every single one, have you? And John has, as he takes a big fat sip and go, daddy! I've listened to every single one. Did you listen to episode seven where we ripped you?

SPEAKER_01 8:53

Listen to most of them. Haven't listened to the visa one.

unknown 8:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:56

Because the visa one is touchy. Because it was like we still hadn't got the results yet. So he was like, No.

SPEAKER_00 9:03

Because no, we hadn't. No, no, no. You sent it off.

SPEAKER_01 9:06

But I hadn't sent it off yet. That was where it was. But you still haven't listened to that one. But I mean, you can now. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 9:11

But you might be thrown back, like, I don't want to remember that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 9:15

That time. I'm moving on.

SPEAKER_00 9:17

I got it now, bitches. Yeah, exactly. Um, but congratulations to both of you for having your visas. We're really happy that's a good idea. This is all amazing, and I'm I'm thrilled for all of us. So we're gonna go get smashed some occasion. By who? Uh so yeah, boys, feel free to take their ends if you have any questions for us. Or if you'd like there's any episodes that stood out for you.

SPEAKER_01 9:39

Or if we want to elaborate on something that maybe we got like slightly wrong. Oh, there was one uh didn't even take our items.

SPEAKER_04 9:46

There was one um No, you we were talking about the song Year 3000 and how of course it's a busted song, and you were saying, Oh, once at Adda, we were saying how um you weren't sure if I was genuine saying if I thought it was a Jonas Brothers song first or if it was a cutter, or if I was messing you. I was obviously messing with you. No, you're lying. No, anyone that knows me back in the day knows I was a big JB3 fan. I know every fact about them when they were with Columbia. When they were with Columbia, so they started out like as a Christian group, right? It was basically it was mostly From Wyckoff, New Jersey.

SPEAKER_00 10:24

Whycauff when you can sneeze.

SPEAKER_04 10:27

That's not my shout out Irene.

SPEAKER_00 10:29

Irene fake. Sorry, sorry, Don, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 10:31

But so Nick got the deal, right? And then Nick gets the deal. And then the parents are like, well, they're a family band, and then Columbia Records is like, okay, we'll sign them. But then they're like, they're kind of leaning towards being a Christian rock group. But they're like, no, they can kind of venture into like more like teeny bop stuff. But then what happens is that they're like, well, we're taking a big risk by signing these like under 15-year-olds, so we're gonna have purity risk. What's that? Wear your purity rates. That's not even that's when they get to Disney. When they're with Columbia, they're like, um, they're mostly Christian, and then they're saying, we're taking a risk on signing these young guys, and we're gonna make them sing. And Nick is like, no, I'm a prodigy with songwriting, and Kevin's here too. And so let us write our own songs, and they're like, okay, we'll let you write some songs, but we're gonna have you cover some like songs from the UK that never landed in America. And that's how they were introduced to Busted, and I think they were trying to mess around with some McFly songs, but they never got recorded. But so when I was like 12 years old, that's how I got into Busted and McFly because I was like, oh, these are the real deal. And so I was the guy at parties in America that was saying, Oh, I know we all love this Jonas Brothers song, but you know there's actually this band in the UK and they have like a McFly busted, they do McBusted concerts. Then when I went to college, I met British people, and I was like, oh, I can flip it now because the humor is the other way, and I can say, Do you know that actually this is a Jonas Brothers song? And then I can watch the British kids go, no, and it's like ha. It's like when an old person is like making fun with a little child and they're like, uh, uh, I don't know. But it's when they're messing, because they actually know what's going on. Wow. I knew full-on going on, but I'm humiliated. Humiliated that you thought that I thought it was just originally a Jonas Brothers song.

SPEAKER_00 12:19

What a fucking monologue! Well done.

SPEAKER_04 12:22

I blacked out there for a second.

SPEAKER_00 12:24

Oh, that Elizabeth Love.

SPEAKER_02 12:25

No, do you know what it was? My first concert. My first concert.

SPEAKER_01 12:29

Do you know what it was? Well, Nick got the deal. Yeah. I didn't know you.

SPEAKER_04 12:34

And you can kind of see it in Nick's face, like for the rest of their career, that he's kind of like, I wonder what it would have been like, just me. And I think he actually pursued that.

SPEAKER_00 12:43

He did.

SPEAKER_04 12:43

And then there's nothing like being with your brother, so now they're back, baby. They are.

SPEAKER_00 12:48

If you're a big Jonas Brothers fan, did you watch their documentary?

SPEAKER_04 12:50

I'm not a big Jonas Brothers fan. No, of course. Yeah, I watched their documentary. And that song Joe vaped in it. It was really uncomfortable. Or no, Kevin was vaping.

SPEAKER_00 12:59

Oh. We weren't men.

SPEAKER_04 13:01

But they're people.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

Oh that was a good song. Do you know it, Danny?

SPEAKER_04 13:05

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like I'm like, I got three tattoos about it.

SPEAKER_00 13:09

No, I do want to, I do want to draw how that was just it's just a prime memory for me because I remember we'd all had a little bit to drink.

SPEAKER_04 13:15

Not me.

SPEAKER_00 13:16

We'd all had a little bit to drink. Um, and he was like, yo, we were so pumped, and it was me and Tim and everybody were like, and all the Brits were like bouncing, and John was pretending that he knew what song it was. And we were all like bouncing and having a good time. John's like, yo, is this fucking Jonas Brothers? And we're like, sorry? Yeah. But that that is like my favorite. That's like peak Danny Beaton in my head because that was that I mean that traveled into my wedding. So thank you. It traveled into my window.

SPEAKER_04 13:42

It was nice to call her back.

SPEAKER_00 13:43

Yeah, it was.

SPEAKER_04 13:43

Yeah, it's all laugh. I feel weird.

SPEAKER_00 13:45

Anyway, that's an interesting one.

SPEAKER_04 13:49

That's an interesting one.

SPEAKER_01 13:50

Yeah, I don't know a memory. I'm not gonna say sorry.

SPEAKER_04 13:53

No, no, no, no. No, I was just I was so committed to it that you fell for it. So now I'm insecure that every other British person that I've done this bit to. I did it to all Chloe's friends when we went to that concert, went to the stereophonics, my first night in Wales. Oh, yeah, you did. Then we were in the parking lot getting McDonald's with every other person from Wales, and the someone in their car was playing it, and I was screaming Kelly Clarkson instead of Michael Jackson, and they were like, oh my god, no way he thinks it's the other way. No, I don't know. John, do you have any um things you don't like about the show?

SPEAKER_01 14:22

Wow, you like hard launched the like Welsh accent. It's not good. Yeah, no, it's very good. Considering where you started, like this is very good. It's a hard accent.

SPEAKER_04 14:34

I've recently like realized, oh, whenever I have to learn an accent, I have to do it as a joke for years. Yeah. And then I could genuinely do it.

SPEAKER_00 14:42

I think Jack, Jack's the same.

SPEAKER_04 14:44

I think I could then go to an audition and then be like, oh, I do a Welsh accent, but it's because I jokingly did it. But remember, I used to always do it and it'd be like New York.

SPEAKER_01 14:51

Yeah. I don't know how he found his way back to it.

SPEAKER_00 14:55

Give us your Welsh accent, go on.

SPEAKER_04 14:56

No.

SPEAKER_00 14:57

Please.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

Just for the room.

SPEAKER_00 15:00

Your British is very good. Your standard's very good. I'm very pressed. No, your standards back yourself.

SPEAKER_03 15:05

Your standard I don't back myself. Um out of out of the three people here, I am no longer a thespian, so I will not claim that.

SPEAKER_00 15:13

You always will be.

SPEAKER_01 15:14

Always will be. Always it lives in you.

SPEAKER_03 15:16

Because I've been jokingly doing a scouse accent for a very long time because I listen to a lot of like the scouse podcasts around Liverpool. Like I think that's the only accent that I can do. And I can do both the like the new Scouse, the Scouse that we hear, you know, now, and then the old Scouse with like, you know, Paul McCartney and John Burns.

SPEAKER_00 15:35

Oh no, it's more mundane, that one, isn't it?

SPEAKER_03 15:37

Yeah, it's bit more like down here.

SPEAKER_00 15:38

And it was coming. I want to hear it. Is there anything you wanna that you wanna debunk? Is there anything that you were unhappy with? Apart from you being like, can you drill home that I liked sinners? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:51

I could talk about sinners the rest of the hour. Yeah. We watched it last week again. It was even better the second time.

SPEAKER_03 15:58

And you know what? Like, it was just it was just the changing of the format, but that's just because that's a meat thing. It's a producer head, it'd be like, I was like, what the hell is going on here? But okay. Anyway. Um Yeah, I think like after the filming yesterday, I was kind of taken back to the uh high school episode and the differences between UK high school and uh high school in the States.

SPEAKER_00 16:22

So let me talk about that for a quick second. Um we filmed one of my films yesterday. Yes, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:28

Take a second and take a repeat.

SPEAKER_00 16:32

Um we filmed a little short film which I'd written like last year. Very like small. Um, was it like seven, ten pages? Yeah. And it was uh it's called Meet Me in the Girls' Bathroom, and it's kind of about this like group of friends who like all meet together in the bathroom. Obviously. Um, for one of the girls, Lily, who's Chloe played. Uh, first time with a boy. I'm not gonna say anymore. Um and it's kind of this like whole beautiful moment about girls empowering one another and always being there for each other. You okay, hun?

SPEAKER_03 17:02

Yeah, I'm just fixing it.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

And uh we had the privilege of using my mum's school. I'm not gonna name it. We had we got to use uh like their uniforms, like cover the the what do I mean? The like the badge of the school. And uh so everyone just like gave us these spaces, which was amazing. I got to do it in this like bathroom, and like it was it was gross. Yeah, you showered a lot of it.

SPEAKER_01 17:24

But you made it, you made it great. But I you detolled it down. I was like, John, that wall, that wall, that door.

SPEAKER_00 17:31

I was like, Chloe's gonna put her head there, fucking dunnel that.

SPEAKER_04 17:34

My big question for Chloe when she came back was so you filmed in the bathroom, but you were there for like all day. Was the bathroom were you like mid-seen, but then someone's like, oh really?

SPEAKER_01 17:45

No, you could go down the corridor. No, yeah, we had like uh the set bathroom and a bathroom. Okay, the other bathroom. And they're cool. Yeah, they were so open plan.

SPEAKER_00 17:55

The open plan, and I will say the bathroom we had to use were awful. Yeah, no, no, they just smelled of they smelled, they smelled like bad. And the other ones we were in did not because they were the girls' ones. Isn't that? Yeah, it's not so obvious.

SPEAKER_04 18:07

The high school boys' bathroom smells bad. It always does.

SPEAKER_03 18:10

But this is the thing that really stuck out to me, and it I don't think it's like a massive thing here, is the open plan bathroom. But I'm like, I'm sat there. It was open plan, it was open to the fucking corridor. I mean, sorry, not gonna swear.

SPEAKER_00 18:22

Well, you've sworn the swell the whole time. There's not been a single sentence.

SPEAKER_03 18:27

It's basically like you walk down the corridor, and you know how like there's usually a door that goes into the bathroom.

SPEAKER_00 18:32

So girls' bathroom, you open the door and it says girls to go into it, like a ladies. Yep. And you open the door and then you're in the girls' bathroom. This doesn't have a separate door.

SPEAKER_03 18:40

It goes straight into the corridor.

SPEAKER_00 18:41

Yeah, unisex. So they've made them so everyone can use them. So the stalls are completely stalled. You can't see over, you can't see under. So anyone can use them. You start turning to Danny.

SPEAKER_03 18:50

The thing that separates you from the rest of the corridor is just the bathroom to the or the the just the door to the stall. That's it.

SPEAKER_01 18:56

So it's just like three stalls.

SPEAKER_00 18:58

You're like in a hallway. Yeah, yeah. There's a hallway. You do not do it there. Right.

SPEAKER_03 19:05

But that's the thing that got me. Is that like if I had to go and do the number two, and those were those were those were the only bathrooms I like that's stinking out the entire hallway. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:18

Yeah, but it's not so this is this is the thing with them. That's only on the science block. I don't really know why I really should have asked Mum beforehand. Yeah, it's not a good thing. But they're great in um like break time because they're the ones that everyone just has quick access to. So it's just it's um great for filming. It's the best for filming. And I remember when I s I saw them for the first time, I was like, I remember going, what probably everyone else thought was like, Mum, these are not okay. She goes, Ashley, they've saved a lot of like rubbish, like crap happening in the bathrooms, which is the gag is the gag. Like people didn't. Like there is no, I used to throw wet paper tissues up on the ceiling and be honest.

SPEAKER_04 19:53

Why did you do that? Sorry, head boy!

SPEAKER_01 19:56

I was gonna say, God.

SPEAKER_04 19:57

Someone had to clean that up.

SPEAKER_01 20:00

I did that too.

SPEAKER_04 20:02

Your friends would walk away and then you'd go back in the bathroom, like, I'm sorry. Oh, you would do it alone.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

On my own.

SPEAKER_00 20:09

Did you do it too? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:11

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 20:12

Head boying on some of the things.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

What do you mean? Why? I'm having a great time.

SPEAKER_04 20:17

Throw them at people.

SPEAKER_01 20:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 20:19

Wet paper towels?

SPEAKER_01 20:20

Yeah. Have you ever done it?

SPEAKER_04 20:22

No.

SPEAKER_01 20:26

No. It's so much fun. It's like a macheting the wall. Your house is gonna be covered when you're gonna. Yeah. We've got really high ceilings too. Like really throw it up there. And the ways are making money. So it's like that's crazy. You would have loved it actually. I do love throwing it. You love a throw. You love throwing a ball at a wall.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

Can you try it at home?

SPEAKER_01 20:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 20:48

I'll let you know how it goes. Alright. Anyway, so like, yeah, these bathrooms are great. We felt we had a great time filming, and it was amazing to get back into uniforms. Yes. Especially because like we felt like schoolgirls.

SPEAKER_01 21:00

Like we were in the science class for like the green room. And like we were like stood there, like, oh my god. Like, am I back? Like what little space?

SPEAKER_00 21:06

And everyone, like, I gave Kyle a little purple tie. Some head girl. She's head girl, of course. Of course. And so, John, I that was like what a school was like. Now, most schools in the UK I know don't have open plan like that. I keep saying open plan, it's not, it's just like the wall's not there. Yeah. It's secluded. But like I know that was probably really weird for you going back to school because we loved the high school episode, didn't we? Oh, yeah. I don't know if that what like what that was like being in a that was an English school. That was a secondary school.

SPEAKER_03 21:30

That was the first time, yeah. And I think that's like because when we first started dating and we went back to my school where Tim and Chris played football, like the first time that you went there was like the homecoming parade.

SPEAKER_00 21:43

It was the best thing I've ever seen.

SPEAKER_01 21:44

Oh my god, that must have been intense when we used to see their sports holes. It's like a different gravity.

SPEAKER_03 21:49

And um yeah, like we went and parked the car. And I think Chris, yeah, Chris was already getting ready to play. I think it was Chris's football game. Um and then, you know, we're walking, we're walking like we're To walk towards the high school, and lo and behold, there's a parade going on, and I was just like, Oh, okay. And my mom texted me because my mom was a teacher at the high school that I went to, um, and she's like, Hi, I'm in the parade. And I was like, What? So, like, we're walking, we're walking towards like the high school, and we start seeing like the the like we saw the cheerleaders in this convertible car.

SPEAKER_00 22:27

Like, honestly. And it was yeah, like a dream.

SPEAKER_03 22:30

There is there is two driving, there was three in the back seat, and then there's three set on like the the box. Oh, yeah. It's like the Rebecca Black music video.

SPEAKER_01 22:38

It is.

SPEAKER_02 22:39

It is reverbated that.

SPEAKER_03 22:41

Um, and then all of a sudden I see Irene just out of like the sunroof of someone's car.

SPEAKER_00 22:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:48

Like waving at people with another teacher.

SPEAKER_00 22:51

And I remember going, is this every like week? Yeah. Yeah, this is every week. Is this how you come into school every day? But their schools are so different. Like, for example, your sports halls, Chloe, our sports halls are big and they're very kind of like basic. Theirs have like wood paneled floors with their logo on them. Like your one is in the city. Yeah. And it's all like the same colour of their school. Now, my school and your school, yes, we had uniforms, but that was not like our schools need to be painted this colour. You know what I mean? They have that in these gyms. It's crazy. Like your schools branding, really.

SPEAKER_01 23:22

And like marketing, marketing for the schools.

SPEAKER_00 23:24

One thing we have to do. Come on, have your pride on Friday. We're the school. Yeah, yeah. I love that things about like America. Like, we definitely have our own things. Oh, yeah. Which I'd love to get your opinions on, considering you have like this is part one, guys. This is part one. We didn't mention.

SPEAKER_01 23:40

Yeah. Did we mention this? No. Oh, okay. So we hadn't mentioned yet, but we are doing a part one, part two of this episode because we have we want to hear their voice, the husband's voices. We want to hear what they have to say. We want to like ask those questions.

SPEAKER_04 23:54

I mean, we'll see how it goes.

SPEAKER_01 23:56

Pard one, part two. Um, and we've just yeah, we want to stretch it out. Um, and we want to celebrate our like finale as well, because this is we're getting to episode 19 and 20. So it's really exciting. I'm finishing season one, and so this is how we felt was best to do it.

SPEAKER_00 24:12

Yeah! But uh yeah, that was uh yeah. So thank you for the first time.

SPEAKER_04 24:17

I have a big I have a big finale level uh announcement. Oh god. This is big. It is big for you two specifically.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 24:27

Um You're moving to North I'm going back to the UN No, I after almost three years, almost three years of being here, uh I've chosen a football team to root for.

SPEAKER_00 24:41

It's not the one you're wearing. I'm already, I'm already, I'm already.

SPEAKER_03 24:44

You don't know how to do that. I do, I I think I do know.

SPEAKER_04 24:46

It might be a bit anticlimactic.

SPEAKER_03 24:49

What's yours? Complete Greg interpretation. I like Liverpool. My girl. Yeah. I know. I feel I just feel like can I just say this is a shout out to Greg Lipka? Um I will never forgive you for this. You've done this. Greg has nothing to do with this. Oh, it's not. Okay, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_04 25:04

Alright, so here's the text I sent to Greg earlier. No, I texted him. I texted him to say, hey, boss man, I made a big decision decision recently. After living here, uh, I've chosen a team. Um and he said, Okay, this is very important. Okay, I've mentally prepared myself. Does it begin with S?

SPEAKER_00 25:27

If you did, that would be the biggest cop-out I've ever heard in my life.

SPEAKER_04 25:30

I don't even know what S teams are. Or do I?

SPEAKER_00 25:33

Chloe.

SPEAKER_04 25:33

I said I've always lent Liverpool. Lint? Lint? Lent. Lent. I've always lent Oh, that's gonna make me sound dumb. I've always lent Liverpool, as they are owned by the same owners of the Red Sox. That's right. And Chloe's cousins are Liverpool fans.

SPEAKER_02 25:46

And Chloe is too. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 25:48

Dude, like a week ago at the Red Sox game, though, they had a chance saying, sell the team. So I guess that's not a good reason to like them. Um because they're not big fans of John Henry. Uh and then I said, but then I learned about many more teams. But then it's like, I've been embraced by the Welsh. They've let me into their land and they've treated me like their own. But then I've learned about some other great teams. Like, I like West London.

SPEAKER_03 26:16

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 26:17

Chelsea. And he said, You better not be a Chelsea fan.

unknown 26:21

Please.

SPEAKER_04 26:22

And I said, but there's all is someone just knocking the door? No.

SPEAKER_00 26:25

No. It's all paying Greg. Oh, I can agree with Angia.

SPEAKER_04 26:30

And then I've decided I've been researching and I've chosen Brentford. I knew he was gonna say that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 26:36

It's the first game that he's been to. It's the first game that he's been to. I I I know that that's a Greg influence decision. Um if he ever goes to Anfield, then that's gonna be a completely different story.

SPEAKER_00 26:46

He might be like It's just mind-blowing to me, but fine.

SPEAKER_03 26:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:49

Well, I was like, the way this room is changing.

SPEAKER_04 26:54

I joined the conversation with the Premier League. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:57

I had this announcement to me yesterday last night. And you allowed this out. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 27:01

And she was like, Don, I really need to talk. And I'm like, but first.

SPEAKER_03 27:05

You know, I out of all of what was being said there, I mean, obviously, there's one team that was definitely more favored than the others for sure, but I'm so happy you didn't choose Chelsea. I really am. But he's not an idiot. Okay. It's not that he it's not, it's listen. I've considered them. No, I'm kidding. I don't know. I don't know what's wrong with them, but I just I love them.

SPEAKER_01 27:26

You do when you Google them, honey. When you go look into it.

SPEAKER_03 27:29

You have the honor and privilege of going to Stanford Bridge and watching a game. Um you then realize quite quickly that these are people you don't want to be associated with. And I'm shouting out all Chelsea fans.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

Even I knew that. Even you knew that. Big statement, honey bear. Big statement. We are not. I mean, that's a take. That's like new heights. New heights. Do you guys watch? Do you listen to new heights?

SPEAKER_04 27:51

We watched one episode. Can you guess which one it was?

SPEAKER_01 27:56

I can attest to it. I have I have. I was like, I don't know, I don't know.

SPEAKER_03 28:02

This is spitballing. New heights, like the like the you know, the health supplement. And I was like, oh no, the Kelsey brothers, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:08

Hey, sidebar, not a big deal. Apparently, I told you S yesterday, apparently they're getting married in New York. Yeah. Thoughts.

SPEAKER_01 28:14

Crazy. I think that's mad.

SPEAKER_00 28:15

State, no way in town.

SPEAKER_04 28:16

Welcome.

SPEAKER_01 28:17

Imagine if it was like Times Square.

SPEAKER_00 28:19

No, please.

SPEAKER_01 28:20

Crazy. Like, woo! 3 a.m.

SPEAKER_00 28:24

Hi, I do.

SPEAKER_01 28:25

I do. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:26

I think everybody's about 500 people. Anyway.

SPEAKER_01 28:29

I know. And like over that weekend, right? Fourth of July. Fourth of July.

SPEAKER_00 28:33

This 4th of July?

SPEAKER_01 28:34

Yeah. We'll come back.

SPEAKER_04 28:35

We haven't even got our we haven't got invited yet.

SPEAKER_01 28:40

We've got to book it off work. Like, it's gonna be crazy. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_00 28:43

Um, is there any other episodes you both really enjoyed listening to?

SPEAKER_03 28:47

Of course. Um the high school one was probably the one that stood out to me the most. And then I think also like when we when you guys were mentioning like driving here versus like driving in the US, is like Yeah, that's a move because today, talk about what happened on the way to work.

SPEAKER_00 29:09

So the what to work on.

SPEAKER_03 29:10

I will pre- I will preface preface preface. I will say before this that New Jersey doesn't have the best track record when it comes to driving, I will say. Um we are known for a specific maneuver called the Jersey Slide, which is where you're so dangerous. Which is where you're coming onto the highway. This is like we I think you actually spoke about it. We did.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

Chloe was like, What? Yeah, I know. Uh I'm so proud.

SPEAKER_03 29:37

We experienced something of a similar danger this morning in our commute down to the studio where a golf driver decided to overtake traffic in a single lane and almost hit another car head on. Like Chloe. Like going on to the opposite side of the road.

SPEAKER_00 29:54

You're like, this is like a 30 mile per hour little um street. Yeah. Or like there's houses either side, and he's blitzed it and he's gone past uh like a middle, what do you call those things?

SPEAKER_03 30:03

A little bit of like a median, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:04

Yeah, a medium. You know when you're both both of you go mouth open, complete shock. Yeah. I said to John, that doesn't happen in New Jersey, or when I go in America, that is a special niche shit thing here because I think, yes, we don't have great drivers on the highway or motorway. New Jersey is the worst on the highway, but I don't think you drive erratically like that on roads. I mean, like that's insane. Like, yeah, that's a not that's a handful of people. Yeah. But the fact that they do it at 9 a.m. on a Sunday, like, what are we doing?

SPEAKER_01 30:38

Yeah, it's crazy. I mean, even when we drove in today, like there was like a car that like was fully just gonna come into the side of me. Like on the reggae was just going, and I had to go like beep, beep, beep, beep, get out of my way. Like, beep, beep, beep, beep. What a crazy story.

SPEAKER_04 30:52

But like I And then you had to beep, beep, beep.

SPEAKER_01 30:53

I know beep, beep, beep, wild. And then I beep, beep, beep.

SPEAKER_03 30:58

But so this is this is now a question for for Danny. And I was actually, this is something that I prepared and I asked you this. I was just like, okay, so with the New Jersey driving experience, I was like, who's actually worse in the United States at driving? Or not worse. Who's more aggressive? Is it New Jersey or is it Massachusetts?

SPEAKER_04 31:19

Because Connecticut.

SPEAKER_03 31:20

I think I'm more.

SPEAKER_04 31:23

No, I don't even know why. I just know that people growing up have always been like, oh, Connecticut drivers.

SPEAKER_03 31:27

John hates Connecticut drivers. I hate Connecticut drivers. But I think there's when we were.

SPEAKER_01 31:35

Always mass holes. But that's like that's like sports. Yeah, is it? Absolutely. No. Driving?

SPEAKER_03 31:43

So so the one thing, the one thing I do give credit to Massachusetts drivers from my my own personal experience is that you guys are just like, you've got one thing on your mind, and that's getting to point B. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Doesn't matter what's there, doesn't matter what's in front of you, it's get to point B. That's it. There is some driving, there is some driving that I experienced in Boston where I was just like, this cat, this guy doesn't care if he lives or dies.

SPEAKER_04 32:06

I gotta get there. Either I'm getting there or going in.

SPEAKER_00 32:09

I'm getting there when my dunks are not. Have you driven in New Jersey?

SPEAKER_04 32:14

No.

SPEAKER_01 32:14

Oh, Mad. Okay. Yeah. Where have you? Yeah, you've done Connecticut on the way to New York.

SPEAKER_04 32:19

Oh, oh yeah. So maybe I've driven through New York. Uh New Jersey. I've driven in New York. I drove a U-Haul in Manhattan. That was scary.

SPEAKER_01 32:26

Yeah, beep beep.

SPEAKER_03 32:27

Yeah. You've done New York. I've done New York. New York is like you have to be, you have to be on the front foot. You have to be aggressive. You have to be aggressive.

SPEAKER_00 32:33

Yeah, you get killed otherwise, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 32:34

But the beeping in New York is just like communicative. Yeah, it's just a word. Yeah. So it's just like it's not even like screw you. It's just like, hey, like I'm nearby. And you seem very occupied right now with this deal you're closing while on the Bluetooth. So I need to let you know I'm nearby.

SPEAKER_01 32:52

It's like, it's like a bat saying, Hey, I'm here. I feel like we don't use our horn enough in the UK. Sorry. We'll shout and scream in the car, but we're not like straight to the horn. I'd agree.

SPEAKER_03 33:07

But one thing I want to give, one thing I want to give British drivers credit for is using the hazards as a thank you.

SPEAKER_01 33:14

Yeah. That is I love doing that. That is it all the time.

SPEAKER_04 33:19

I've never noticed that.

SPEAKER_01 33:20

Oh I love doing it. I like going pee. Okay, thank you so much for your time. And then the best.

SPEAKER_03 33:34

They did they did the ha they did the uh the hazards and then did they like did a little flick.

SPEAKER_01 33:38

Like I got you. The little flashy. I love flashing, like to be like, no problem, but I love to flash them. Yeah. Oh, with your yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But what I also love to do is No, they do that in boxing. Excuse me. I'm just talking. I'm speaking, I'm speaking. Thank you. I have something to say finally. Thank you. No, I like to do that to um warn people if there's like speed cameras. Have you ever done that?

SPEAKER_04 34:03

Brothers. Yes, I love doing that. Why would you do that?

SPEAKER_01 34:07

What do you mean? Like if you've got like a little parked like speed camera car, especially in Wales, I love doing that. But you can get into trouble for doing it.

SPEAKER_00 34:15

It's a big thing in Ireland and Wales. In Ireland, my mum says now they've got my mum says it all the time. Because in Ireland, I think in Ireland and Wales, it's quite similar. London, you've got the speed cameras, they'll kill you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's so many of them anyway. You now can get fined if they catch you flicking the lights, warning people to slow down.

SPEAKER_01 34:31

Oh, yeah, no, I know. I got so sad when that happened because that's my favorite part. Like when I first passed my test, I was like, gotcha! By the way, look down there. Slow down. Like winking at them as you go past. Wow down. Like in friends, like wire down. But no, it was my favorite part. And like, yeah, you can't get down for an hour, so I'm a bit more cautious. That's ridiculous. What do you mean? That's ridiculous. Like, like looking down for your fellow man. Right. That's what I'm saying back home. Oh, you're saying it's a good thing. It's a great thing.

SPEAKER_03 35:04

And the government's gonna punish you for that. Mm-hmm. I have to say fuck out of it.

SPEAKER_01 35:08

We don't want to try to punish you with the cars, the speeding cars.

SPEAKER_03 35:11

Driving in New York City is a completely different kettle of fish than anywhere else in the world.

SPEAKER_00 35:17

I agree. We weren't in New York City though. We weren't. We were in New Jersey.

SPEAKER_03 35:23

Again, my point is still proven about the New Jersey drivers.

SPEAKER_00 35:27

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:28

But like, you know, it's that level of anger. It's that like, I have to get to point B.

SPEAKER_01 35:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:35

That was really cool, actually. That's not like one of my audiobooks. It's like I have to get to point.

SPEAKER_01 35:43

The dramatized version.

SPEAKER_03 35:46

No.

SPEAKER_04 35:49

I have a favorite episode.

SPEAKER_01 35:52

I knew something was breaking out of his mouth. He was like looking at me to be like, can I speak now? You can speak, Daniel.

SPEAKER_04 36:01

Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_01 36:03

I love the name top of the big name. Oh yeah, big name. Seriously.

SPEAKER_04 36:06

Government name. Go on. Um, you know, you know what I enjoyed so much? Uh it's the classic, like when you listen to someone tell a story and they do it with so much like imagery that then you see the images of what the story happened in your what am I saying? No, when someone tells a story and then the movie in your head plays of your experience. So when you guys talked about auditioning for drama schools, oh that was like I walk I listened to that on like a walk to work and I was just like I went into work so happy because I was like reliving like that those weekends I did where I would go to different schools and audition. Um and I'm sure like it's not even an acting thing. Like I think that's a really interesting time in life is when you're exploring university options. If that's what you want to do. Sure, sure. And you're excited about it, then it's like a a thrilling part of your life.

SPEAKER_01 36:54

Yeah. I love that episode too. Because it was like it was like that kind of nostalgia that's like so specific to us and like our experiences, and it's the reason why we all met. So I think that's also like why it was so fun. Like to like see all of our like specific journeys to like get to where we all ended up in the same spot in New York is so special. I actually want to hear you you are both like you're gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_00 37:17

Also, after that, I really want to go into like first um because you you got us two, us two were in um same sections together. Yes. I want to hear your opinions of the other person when you first met them. Yeah, yeah. I want to hear like Danny DeMave, John Define. I want to hear what that was like. So, yeah, tell us your um audition story. Yeah. Who auditioned you quickly? Was it Susan or Dino?

SPEAKER_03 37:43

It was Zenon. Lucky.

SPEAKER_02 37:50

I love you so much.

SPEAKER_03 37:52

So, so just to give a bit of context, like I went to St. John's University first. And part of the program that I was in, it was I did two years at St. John's, two years at the Academy. And it was like here you have a well-round well-crafted artisan that comes out with a with a college degree as well as an associate's. Um, and you get to practice acting, you get to practice like all the different types of like um film and television stuff. Um, so basically, I was in St. John's.

SPEAKER_04 38:23

Wait, what did you study at St. John's?

SPEAKER_03 38:25

Uh my my degree is a bachelor's of science in film and television. Sick. Dramatic arts film and television. So cool. Um so, but you know, part of it was I had to get into acting school. So it's like, you know, I've got the head of my program being like, okay, this is when your audition is. Go in there. Um because I I viewed the school and I was just like, wow, it's like it's like Hogwarts, but like in the city of Manhattan. This is so cool.

SPEAKER_00 38:49

It feels like it should be bigger, but it really is on the corner, isn't it? It's crazy.

SPEAKER_03 38:52

It's like a small building, but then you walk into it and it's just like all these different nooks and crannies, all these big spaces, and you're just like, how'd they fit this? How'd they fit this into a building? Anyway, shout out to the Academy. Anyway. Um Yeah, so I walked up, had my auditions that I've done for every other school that I was like applying for, and I walk in and it's Xenon.

SPEAKER_00 39:14

He's a teacher at our school, by the way.

SPEAKER_03 39:16

A very tough teacher, very hard, but he's very blunt to the point, which is kind of like a good thing. Anyway, um, I did my classic, I did my Shakespearean monologue. Which was um, I think that was once more into the breach, dear friends. Okay, um, and then I also did I also did Iago's opening in Othello. So I had to. So you did two. We did two. And did a contemporary and then I did a contemporary.

SPEAKER_02 39:40

Well, we didn't get that color.

SPEAKER_03 39:42

But but I was told through the grapevine that it was classical monologues. Right. Wow. So it wasn't there wasn't a contemporary monologue. I had it, but I I was told classically monologues.

SPEAKER_02 39:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 39:53

So um I finished and he goes, That was the worst to what was it? Is that was the worst to fuck, I'm doing the accent now and I can't remember. He basically said, those were the two worst monologues he's ever seen. Essentially. And I was like, shit. Do you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 40:12

Chloe. Chloe. Imagine that in your like, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 40:16

And then he was like, he was like, Do you have anything else? And I was like, I mean, I just finished a musical at high school that I could I could perform for you. So I did the song, I did the dance, it did like like six. Uh it was one uh a funny thing happened on the way to the forum.

SPEAKER_02 40:30

Oh my god, that's so cool.

SPEAKER_03 40:33

And then he was like, and then he was just like, Okay, do you have a contemporary monologue? And I was like, that was like the I was on strike two here. That's really not okay.

SPEAKER_00 40:41

I'm sorry. Whoa, this is an extensive audition.

SPEAKER_03 40:44

Yeah, so then I did I did the contemporary monologue, and he was like, I can work with that. Did part of you I can work with that.

SPEAKER_04 40:51

Did part of you start to feel like, all right, well then whatever, I'm just gonna do this thing. And that's what brought you it brought it out in it.

SPEAKER_03 40:57

Yeah, well, but like, you know, I crumbled a little bit. No, I didn't I was about to crumble, but then I was just like, you know what? I'm just gonna fucking do it because this is what the guy's asking for. So I did it, and he was just like, that was really good. I really like that. And he was like, okay, fucking finally. And then he was asking, he was like, So why'd you come in with two classical, like two classical auditions? Why'd you come in with two Shakespearean monologues? And I was like, Oh, that's what I was told to come in with. And he shot up out of his chair and he was like, Who told you this? And I was like, uh, I it was just an email that I received. I showed him the email, he storms out, and then like one of the peep, one of the students Oh my god, who was managing all of these like kids trying to get into drum school starts chastising them. Oh my god. My dad sat over where everyone eats lunch.

SPEAKER_00 41:41

Oh my god, oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 41:43

And yeah, that was that was my audition story.

SPEAKER_00 41:45

Where did you have your audition?

SPEAKER_03 41:46

At Ada. Yeah, it was at Ada.

SPEAKER_00 41:48

Wow, what room were you in?

SPEAKER_03 41:50

It was the movement room.

SPEAKER_00 41:53

54?

SPEAKER_03 41:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 41:54

Wait, oh my god, you had it in the school. Did you?

SPEAKER_04 41:59

What? No, I had it in Boston.

SPEAKER_00 42:00

Wow, that's quite a little privilege there, John.

SPEAKER_04 42:02

Well he's nearby.

SPEAKER_00 42:04

Right, but a little privilege, but did you hear his story?

SPEAKER_01 42:10

What was your dad then just seeing like Zen on like run out of the room?

SPEAKER_03 42:14

My boy should go here. Well, he was like, he was like, he saw me come out and like, you know, like I had been sweating from dancing and singing, and he was just like, Are you okay? And I was like, Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was just auditioning. He was just like, Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 42:30

I always figure you had Zen on. I always remember you telling me that he did say like your first that like that was bad.

SPEAKER_03 42:35

Oh yeah. He said to me afterwards, he was just like, No one told you that it was one classical, one contemporary or you could do two contemporaries. Um and he felt like really bad about that.

SPEAKER_00 42:48

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 42:48

But you know, and then I ended up having him my first, it was the second semester of the first. You and Chloe, right? Yeah, yeah. That was like boomed if there was if there was a litness test for how that experience was gonna go, that was it.

SPEAKER_01 43:04

Yeah, okay. For sure. I wish I'd had that. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_03 43:08

Yeah, so I think I felt like you know, I had I had the the tough skin already.

SPEAKER_01 43:13

You've taken the wrath of him.

SPEAKER_00 43:14

You knew what you ain't gonna get, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:16

You knew how bad it could get, but also so good, Daniel.

SPEAKER_04 43:19

Yeah, that's my guy right there.

SPEAKER_01 43:22

Um you could tell the Xenon also had favorites.

SPEAKER_03 43:28

So I do want to say, like, the reason I think I have such a tough skin now when it comes to the work that we all create is because of my experience auditioning and of my experience in Xenon's class. Like I am not the artist that like if you asked me as like an 18-year-old kid, yeah, I that was tough.

SPEAKER_00 43:47

Did you audition at 18? 19?

SPEAKER_03 43:50

Yeah, 18.

SPEAKER_00 43:52

18, then you deferred.

SPEAKER_03 43:54

So I had to get into this program before I could get into St. John's.

SPEAKER_01 43:59

Whoa! Oh, what?

SPEAKER_03 44:01

Yeah, so I got into Ada and then in like twenty fourteen. Yeah. Whoa. And then and then uh I went to St. John's for two years.

SPEAKER_00 44:11

And then went to Arden. And then went to Ada. But you'd already auditioned, so they were holding your spot for when you read that. That's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 44:17

But they were holding it for two other girls as well. Um, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:21

Yeah. That's bizarre. Because like you weren't, I mean, did you also like invisible string theory? Because like you were holding off until we got there.

SPEAKER_00 44:31

Oh, I love when you do stuff like that, Chloe. No, thank you, thank you. Thank you. Oh yes, you also didn't. We talked about the whole time. Like, I would have been with Tom Chandler. We would have killed each other.

SPEAKER_01 44:43

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 44:44

And then Chloe, you almost went to the LA campus.

SPEAKER_01 44:47

I did almost go to the LA campus. Your mother would never. Your mother would never. Toby's arrest and your mother would never. You're not going 14 hours away from me. No, I like ticked the LA box. Like when we went to the because in an hour audition we had to put preference, didn't we? So I put LA. And then they said, no, absolutely not. You're going to New York. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 45:06

Danny, tell us yours, and then we'll stop at 60, but tell us yours.

SPEAKER_04 45:09

Oh well, well, ironically, my Ada story, like, isn't my favorite.

SPEAKER_00 45:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 45:13

It's it was just a really like fun one. But I like because I went to public school where we did like this amazing, we had this amazing theater company that uh like other schools come and see and they're like, what? But it was still just like you're putting on a musical and then you put on a play. So I didn't know like what a movement class was. I didn't know what a voice and speech speech, I obviously need one. I didn't know what a voice and speech workshop is, or like even Shakespeare. I'd only like seen scenes out of. And then so in that process of doing drama school auditions was like going to drama school for a couple weeks because all the different places I auditioned would like do full-on workshops or they'd do auditions, but I just remember feeling so at peace. I got really into meditating. I like worked with my high school drama director, we'd rehearse before your audition, yeah. Rehearse the play we were doing, and then he would spend like a half hour with me afterwards where I would like just do the monologue and would give me like ideas to play with. Um my high school uh English teacher who I talk into the mic. My high school English teacher who I wasn't like uh like super close with. I kind of just mentioned to him, oh, I'm gonna be auditioning for drama school and I need some Shakespeare. And he was like, Here's my copy of Hamlet. And so like it was just so many, like there's little, little details that I remember that I'm just like, wow, that was really special. I got into one drama school, uh, it was like a full workshop, got in, and they the like the woman that auditioned me, she was like the head of the program, and she called me and she was like, Hey Danny, I call like two or three kids per year just to let them know, like I personally let them know that they got in and that we really enjoyed your audition. We think you'd be a great fit, and like I pr I'm gonna be your mentor for the first year. Like, we do this thing where everybody kind of chooses a student and I'll be yours, and we're really excited to have you, and it's gonna be probably a really great um scholarship when the chance comes. And I was like, This is my life coming true. And then a week later, she had to call me and be like, This has never happened. I'm so sorry for jumping the gun, but we got your grades back from high school, and I was really bad in school, and they were like, Unfortunately, we can't accept you. But like the thing that even though and then she just and I remember just being like, No, that happens. Because I was gutted. I was gutted, but I did want to go to Ada.

SPEAKER_00 47:40

Do you mind me asking? Would you feel free to t share which school you got into if you don't have to, if you don't want to?

SPEAKER_04 47:45

The Boston Conservatory.

SPEAKER_00 47:46

Oh, cool. I don't know. Do you? Yeah. Oh, you do?

SPEAKER_04 47:49

It's attached to Berkeley now, I think. Yes, big deal.

SPEAKER_01 47:51

But not as big as Ada, but you know. Of course.

SPEAKER_04 47:54

Um but it was like it was cool. And it was just, I just felt so like, oh, well, this is obviously they want me so bad. Yeah. And then I think like a day or two later, I auditioned for Ada, and I was like, oh, all these auditions I've done have like prepared me for this one specific audition. And I just like went in, I did my thing, I was in the pocket, and I was like, oh, I really want to go here. Because a big part of me was like auditioning for drama schools just to be like, oh, cool, I've done it, and then I was just gonna move to New York anyway. Like, even if I didn't go to school. So I'm like, if I just go to New York, that'd be worth it.

SPEAKER_00 48:26

Something we'll like, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 48:27

So then when a school from New York was like, yeah, come on down, I was like, eh, that's where I'm going.

SPEAKER_03 48:31

But you know what's kind of crazy to me is that like, you know, we do all this prep to go to college, right? For like we do the ACTs, we do the standardized testing, we do our final grades and all that sort of stuff. Remember this episode? But then but then, like, you know, you go in audition to be an actor, an artist, and they're looking at your grades from like history and science.

SPEAKER_00 48:52

Yeah. Not okay.

SPEAKER_03 48:54

That to me, that to me is like kind of defeats the whole purpose of like going into that like field, is because like these this is who you are. This is like you are an artist, you are not a science guy.

SPEAKER_00 49:07

And may I say this as well? I don't think Chloe and I had that. Ours was purely performance. Yeah, you send your grades in, but they didn't care. It was said, it was state.

SPEAKER_04 49:14

I think it depended on the school.

SPEAKER_00 49:15

And I don't I don't remember you guys I felt was harder for ex in internationals. No, for you guys, it was like, what's your GPO right now?

SPEAKER_01 49:22

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And like it really matters, which is like crazy.

SPEAKER_04 49:25

Yeah. Well, because I had the same exact thing happen at another school in Connecticut. And it was I got into the drama program, but I didn't get into like the normal college program.

SPEAKER_02 49:35

Right.

SPEAKER_04 49:36

A lot of shame going on.

SPEAKER_01 49:39

No shame.

SPEAKER_04 49:40

We can cut this.

SPEAKER_01 49:42

No, school is just not built. Right. I'm sorry. School is really difficult.

SPEAKER_04 49:46

If I did it now, I would rush it. But at the time I was not ready for school.

SPEAKER_01 49:51

School is not adaptable to each student. But you're also 18 years old. You're 18 years old. You're a baby, and you're meant to choose all these things and like have great grades, and then like how do you know? Like, it's not right. I don't think schooling is right. And I think the structure needs to be looked at. Government. Yes, get it on. Listen.

SPEAKER_00 50:10

So um we have loads more to share, but we're coming up to the hour. Yes. Um, so that's it for part one, fella. Part one! You did it. You survived it. Congrats. Join us. Well, thank you so much for having me. Such an honor to be here. About the uh boys and what they thought about us when they first met us in the yeah. Yeah, yeah. And there's plenty, plenty more. We will do, and we're also gonna crack open beers.

SPEAKER_01 50:37

It is a drink. Yes, a drink it is. Just a couple small beers. Just a couple small beers.

SPEAKER_03 50:43

Before we go, Danny, what does a couple small beers mean to you? Uh that's from um uh one battle after another.

SPEAKER_01 50:49

Yeah, but what does it mean to you?

SPEAKER_03 50:51

Twelve.

SPEAKER_01 50:55

I love you right now.

SPEAKER_03 50:56

A couple a couple small beers is eighteen to twelve.

SPEAKER_00 50:58

That's a good thing. Boys, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_01 51:01

Yes. Thank you. I've enjoyed it. I think it's gone well.

SPEAKER_00 51:04

Takes. No, takes is for the next one.

SPEAKER_04 51:06

Sorry.

SPEAKER_00 51:08

I feel like if you know, you can continue our training. Love you. Bye.

SPEAKER_02 51:17

Bye.

unknown 51:20

Okay, John.