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Hi, friends, we're here for Q and A.

Are you here with us?

I hope that you are.

I hope you're comfortable wherever you're hanging out in your car, in your living room, maybe you're taking a bath.

Maybe.

Oh, how do you listen to drama Queens?

That's what I want to know.

Tell us where you listen?

In my ears?

I have to say.

And with that we'll go to our first question, always Happy asks.

You've obviously worked together for years, but from what we've heard and read, there were always things that tried to keep you apart.

I either creator, plus the show itself taking so much of your time, making it harder to bond.

I was wondering if doing this podcast together made you guys closer and what you guys learned from one another, while doing the podcast.

Oh that's a great question.

Is that's a big que I feel like we could spend the whole half hour on that.

Yeah.

I mean I can say it has definitely brought me closer to the two of you.

Yeah.

Same, yeah, and what I you know what, I have learned a lot of stuff from working with the two of you.

You know, the big takeaway for me is this, Listen, this is a big, big, lofty word, but watching how hard the two of you work is very inspiring.

It has been very encouraging to see just how much you both have accomplished and continue to pack into the stream of life is a really nice fire into my butt to be like, yeah, look at him going and doing it Like I want to be a little more like that.

So that's been very inspiring for me.

Thanks, Rob, I feel the same.

I have really enjoyed this time.

I always feel like there's some some little thing that I take away, some little nugget of wisdom or a great joke, or like the way the outlook that you guys have, the way that you're able to take the moments that we're watching and then convert them into real life lessons or your own memories and how what you've learned.

About that it feels really, it feels really nice.

I just feel like I've always got little these all these little nuggets throughout life that I walk away from our podcast going yeah, that's true, and I like seeing things that way and I want to incorporate that into my perspective as well.

Yeah, I agree with everything you've said.

You know, I think one of the things on the first sort of maybe initial bar, we knew this was going to be a cool experience, right to watch our work to figure out why this show stays evergreen with our fans.

It's been really special to I think heal younger parts of ourselves that were nervous or self conscious or feeling maybe we didn't know what we were doing, or we had these moments where you grow, you learn something, you learn a new skill, and you're like, god, I wish I could go back and retry this or fix that.

And then we've gone back together and been like, wait a second, we did something really specials It settled a part of me, I think, And then in terms of our friendships, the thing that has really had a ripple effect in my whole life is it has shifted, and I don't want to say something I've taken for granted in a bad way, like we all did some thing together that's irreplaceable.

You know, it actually doesn't matter how much time passes between when we're all together or when we've last spoken.

But what I realized is because we're also used to picking up and moving somewhere and being on set, and then that becomes your new life, your new focus, it's your new seventeen.

Hours a day.

Time can go in greater chunks than you realize are passing.

And having this with you guys, having the consistency of the check in is so special to me because I'm like, yeah, it doesn't matter if I talk to you every six days or every six months, but I really like getting to see your faces every six days.

Yeah, I want more of that.

And it's made me better, even you know, in the swirl of moving and toddlers and like the whole universe.

That is the best thing that's ever happened to me that I'm so grateful for.

Our cadence has made me get into even a better cadence With some of my friends back at home, I'm much less willing to let time pass even though it's not passing in a bad way.

And I really cherish that.

I cherish that, you know, particularly joy you know, for me and you it's like we've known each other for twenty two years.

Oh my goodness, I know we're babies.

I don't know, guys, like, look at all of our friendships are double digits old, and.

I don't know.

I just I really really am grateful for the experience.

And yeah, the technical stuff and the jokes and also like the emotional lessons from it have been really special.

Yeah, that's very close to what I remembered my other thought that squirreled away, but that I it really echoes a lot of that sentiment, that the consistency of the check in that there's something about because we have so many things on burners on so many burners, and we're always kind of moving around and traveling, and relationships in this industry can be really hard to maintain any consistency with.

Because we've talked about this before.

You get really close really fast, and then move on to other projects and you get close with those people and you just don't have time for everybody all the time, and to have this consistent place that we know we can sit down and look at each other and see each other and connect and have really meaningful conversations.

It feels like, it feels right.

It feels like this is what life is about, is community and connecting with the people that you love and staying in touch and not just letting the world kind of float by.

And I agree.

It does also extend an.

Inspiration to me and my other relationships that I really want to make sure that I'm intentional about that more and more.

The podcast for me is very similar to the conventions, where it is friendship.

It's an opportunity for friendship dressed up as work.

Yeah.

Yeah, like we are here doing like work, but really it's like, at the end of the day, it's an opportunity for me to like hang out with my buds and catch up and have some fun.

You know you love it?

Okay, Well, Keith, he's asking if you could spend a day doing anything you want besides talking to us, what would it be?

Okay, don't think about like the ideal just today right now.

If a day you could have a complete day off with where you're at right now, what would you want to be doing?

I honestly would just love a beach day, just to read, like on a really nice you know, one of those spots where there's a a hotel room where you're on the ground level and the door just opens up and you walk right out onto the beach.

So I could kind of go in and out if I was like too hot in the sun.

Living in Tennessee, we don't get a lot of beaches, and I haven't traveled much this summer except going to Rwanda, which was awesome.

I mean, I'd love to spend another day there right now, if I could geenie myself there.

But yeah, I could, I could just use it each day.

I gotta be honest, what about you self?

Same?

I got a little glimpse.

A friend of mine is on a trip and I don't even know where, some part of coastal Italy in one of those little like beautiful coves and there's stone walls, and she took this photo of like all these people just laid out reading and there's people in the sea, and you know, there's like a little vendor of some kind, and I was like, I want that.

And if I could take like, you know, four couples and just like no, we could meet up for dinner, but maybe just nap on the beach, whether I talk to anyone for a few hours or not, or I just my book.

I'm really cherishing slowness more than I used to when I can get it, and I would like a little more of that.

What about you, Rob, I was going to say, I would just love to be in a hotel room, in a very comfortable bed, with a room service and TV on demand at my fingertips.

Oh, how nice.

However, then I heard your two answers.

I immediately felt like I was setting the bar way too low.

You know, I love to I love to walk around a big city and just kind of eat and explore my way through it.

But also what Joyce said though about just kind of like you said, so like if you could put me in a sort of a white lotus spot for a day where I can just like eat.

In sun without any of the insane dark characters.

I would like to just have environs.

Please.

Okay, guys, maybe maybe this is the setup for us.

Maybe when we wrap our pot we should.

Go to a beach.

Do we podcast from the beach?

Ooh?

Or are we just going to a beach?

Is this just a beach day.

We listen whatever you want, as long as it's beach and our little cruise and we can go together.

I think, you know, we could do it.

We could do a beach Q and a why not.

I think we have friends who organize trips to the Caribbean.

Oh, yes, we do.

As a matter of fact.

Perhaps they could help us find a little beach outing.

Okay, I like, I'm picking up what you're putting down, sir.

Okay, sort of in the same vein.

But this this pulls back from the dream moment to the ordinary.

Jessica wants to know what's the first thing you do when you wake up.

We've had this question before, because I know your answer is brush your teeth, and I yeah, I mean, I think that's probably all of our first answers.

Isn't that the first thing you do when you got.

I say, I say a little prayer and then I get out of bed.

But before I get out of bed, Yeah, that's awesome.

Yeah, I hate to admit it, I usually snooze.

That's usually the very first thing I do when I wake up, because the first thing my brain says to me before I even know I'm conscious is five more minutes.

Oh yeah.

So normally I snooze and then once I really rouse myself, then it's the tooth brushing.

It's so hard.

I have such a hard time waking up.

Always I do too.

I have to set an alarm far enough away from the time I need to wake up that I can snooze it like six times, because I need such a gradual pulling me out of sleep.

The other thing, and I don't do this to myself unless I have a call time for set because then I literally have to be up.

I'm not setting a goal, it's a requirement.

I will set my alarm and I'll play the phone and in the bathroom so I have to get up and walk in there.

Yeah, and it's so awful.

But if you have like a four am call.

Time, you gotta do it.

You just gotta do it.

You gotta do it.

Yeah, Cortisol is what I is my trick because I uh, I'm I will just mean because I will hear my son waking up in his room.

Oh and panic.

And here's the deal is that if I don't get to him soon enough, he will get loud enough that he will wake up the rest of the house.

So it's kind of a ticking clock, and I don't know whether it's got three seconds left on it or three minutes left on it.

And so that is just sort of like, I gotta I got a boogie quick, right, You're it's it's Clark Kent turning into Superman.

You're just on the run.

Absolutely, Yes, it's an incredible horm one that Cortisol, speaking of ward Wort, asks what keeps you up at night?

Everything?

Yeah, I mean, and it's usually you know, when I was younger, it used to be a lot more worrying about just random things that I had said throughout the day, Like pieces of conversations would come up, and I'm like, all the ways I was certain I'd been misunderstood or something that I said, or somebody that I texted who hadn't texted me back, and I was like, oh God, what did I do the last time we interacted?

Did I say something?

Did I find somebody?

You know, just like the rigamarole running in my brain.

I don't do that as much anymore, but occasionally that'll still pop up.

I don't know, usually just energy.

I guess, probably the same thing as you, Rob Cortisol, just trying to wear it all down by the end of the day.

Can I tell you a hack I recently discovered that has changed my sleep.

Yeah.

I have started taking walks in the evening after both the kiddos go to sleep.

Yeah.

I take a nice, brisk walk, nothing crazy, but you know, like go up some hills, go down some hills.

And it has done wonder from my sights.

Awesome.

Okay, have you gotten into the sleepy time mocktail?

No, it's magnesium, a little sea salt, coconut water, orange juice, lemon.

I'm telling you put that in a little cocktail glass.

Take a walk.

I do.

It's so nice.

You should just you should take it out with you among the trees.

I'll send you the recipe.

My friend makes fun to make ase.

She goes, oh, are you on your hot girl walk?

And so I can't wait.

I send her polos from my walk and I can't wait to have the sleepy time mocktail.

Put it in a wine glass.

Who's hot?

Now?

That's so good, Sophia.

What keeps you up at night?

Gee, I don't know the state of the world.

Also, the cortisol, which I think is partially how I'm wired.

And then the you know, the state.

Of the world.

I'm a I'm a real night owl.

Like you know in the sleep studies, my circadian rhythm is late.

The ideal sleep window for me and apparently eight percent of other living humans is two am to ten am, So you know, the midpoint of my sleep is supposed to be six o'clock in the morning.

But that's not feasible as you were mentioning with the ticking time bombs of little ones around, and so I'm just I'm learning to go to bed earlier.

I'm like, I'm like ready to party at ten pm, So I got to get in bed at nine thirty if I hope to get on the right schedule.

But man, when I'm traveling to your point, I'm in a hotel, blackout shades bye, Like I can stay yeah half the night and sleep half the day.

It's a drink, okay, loves to snack?

Is asking us?

It's the county fair time of year.

Oh, it sure is.

What are you trying?

The pickle, doctor pepper, a cheeseburger sandwiched between two donuts, cotton candy, bacon on a stick.

Let me just start by saying this to anyone listening please please, if you are going to go to a fair and try this stuff, will you please take a picture of it and tag us and the drama.

Oh yeah, so that because if you tag us and John Quinn's like, I'll actually see it and I, for example, I have no idea what a pickle doctor pepper is, but I would love to want to.

Yeah, I want to, And so if you guys could do that, that would be tremendous.

Yeah, so great.

I can say I haven't had I've only had a the burger sandwich between two donuts.

It's like a bacon burger between two maple donuts up in Vancouver, and not all it's cracked up to be gang here's.

My thought on that.

I dessert is dessert for me, I'm not.

I don't want dessert with my burger.

No, I don't want to dip my fries in the frosty.

I'm sorry.

No, it's not for me.

I want mayonnaise and ketchup for my French fries.

I want a funnel cake at a fair.

That's kind of the farthest I'm going to go in terms of you know, the fried dough.

That's a fried dessert.

I can get down with the rest of it.

Not for me, but as Rob knows, and enjoy too hotdog on a stick all day.

Find me a corn dog, yeah, get me a normal hamburger.

Like I'm a little I'm a little simpler with my snacks.

But help me understand your line.

How do you feel about a savory crepe?

H?

Savory in what sense?

Perhaps you find some egg and cheese or some ham in it.

A hammeg and cheese crepe.

I can do in the morning like that to me, says breakfast food.

I'm not going to do it in the evening.

In the evening, I would like a nutell crape with salt in it, like a sea salt.

That's a sort of savory dessert I can get down with, much like a sea salted chocolate chip cookie.

But I can't.

I can crape if it's not too sweet though, like the batter's not too sweet.

You could do a chicken and mustard and like spinach.

Yeah yeah, yeah.

Like as a lunch, it's sort of a French taco, if you will.

But if it was sugary with chicken in it, it would be a no for me.

Yeah, sugary with chicken isn't that.

No.

No, But I'm also not a sweet person.

You're a sweet person.

Swee sweets with an S.

I'm not much of a sweets.

Personate at the County Fair.

I've gotten sick every time I've done it.

I just don't do it anymore.

Oh, I have a pretty iron stomach.

I'm down to trying almost anything, but I don't.

I don't want to dessert burger combo.

It's as personal thing.

I also tried one where they hollowed out a pickle and then they put a hot dog in it, so it was like a pickle dog and again, just the terrible idea.

But I'm with you, Like, give me all the deep fried oreos.

Oh you've found a way to deep fry a twinkie.

Yeah, I'll put that in my stomach as well.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's funny.

Oh my god, I'm so thinking about food.

I saw Trisha's question and I thought it said what will you miss the most?

And I didn't finish the end, and I thought it said recipe from the show, and I was like, recipe from the show.

She's talking about recapping the show.

I'm fine, I'm not hungry at all at the moment.

Yeah, same, same, I haven't stopped thinking about crapes.

But to your point, Trish did ask, what will you miss the most when you finish recapping the show?

I mean you guys, Yes, I'm gonna miss the assistant check in.

Oh yeah, that's gonna be so tough.

We're gonna have to go back to our twenty twenty having a glass of wine on FaceTime, which is what birthed the podcast in the first place.

It is, is that right?

Yeah, that's awesome.

Yeah, see, gang one good thing came out of the pandemic.

It did.

We got this and you know, looking forward.

Jackie Bee's question feels good because I'm actually curious what y'all's answers are to this because in a few weeks we're going to need a new show.

What is your current binge show that you are obsessed with?

RuPaul's Drag Race?

Yeah?

Are you?

Are you into it?

How far?

How many seasons in are you?

I think we're on about ten now.

It's so good and I I'm a yeah, we're obsessed with it.

It's just it's wonderful.

It's so good the performers.

I I am, well, now I'm done with it because I literally binged it.

But The Hunting Wives on Netflix is so good.

And also, you know, Britney Snow is one of my oldest friends from work.

It was gosh, I think it was the Yeah, it was the summer after our second season that we did John Tucker Must Die together, And.

You know, she and I were on Guiding Light together when she's like sixteen or fourteen or something's correct, I know.

And we were we were at dinner together in La last week and she was like, oh my god, you wouldn't believe like the amount of feedback that I get about me and Malin Ackerman on the show where people are like.

You and Sophia Bush and.

John Tucker Must Die were my gay awakening, and.

Now it's happening on TV.

I'm like, we have a legacy.

We're so proud.

And she's so good in the show and Mall and I mean, they're all just so fabulous, and it's like, I don't know, it's this perfect blend of soapy, wild, exciting.

It's great.

I love it.

I'm excited to watch that.

It's been on my list.

I haven't seen it yet.

Is there is John Tucker Must Die too?

Happening?

One of our coworkers us is.

I mean, I can't speak exactly.

I know the last time we spoke was almost done with a script.

It could be done by now, so I'm just waiting to see it.

And I don't know.

It would be so fun.

Okay, I thought i'd heard news about it and I was excited and I have been me to ask you about it forever, So that's super.

H Yeah, we were at a ariel and I were at oh gosh, what was the event called what Doesn't Matter?

We were at one of the conventions together in Chicago about a year ago, and Jesse came and there were some folks from a bunch of the other shows as well, but we were we were the only three from John Tucker and.

She was like, we have to do this.

So I don't know.

She's so brilliant.

So she's going to be at the home of it.

I bet it's going to be fantastic.

Well, this is a little easter egg for all those who stayed till the end of the Q and A that you just got a little John Tucker must die to tea.

Yeah, welcome.

We also we have important news for our friends, yeah that are still here with us.

As much as we're all feeling the sad scaries about this recap coming to a close, we're going to do something pretty special.

We are going to be streaming our live drama Queens finale, which is happening in Wilmington.

As we wrap up this show, friends tell them where to watch.

Well, yes, indeed, you can just go to your handy dandy computer and type in veeps dot com slash drama Queens.

That's ve e E p s dot com slash drama Queens and you're gonna get your ticket.

You can stream the finale.

It's November fifth at five pm Pacific time.

How many days do you have to stream it?

Rob ce E day?

That is seven and French You're.

Only gonna have seven days to stream it, So you got to catch this way you can.

We're really excited to have you join us.

I know we wanted to have as many people in the room as we could, but we've sold out all of our seats available for the for the live show, So pick your seat at home and tune in.

It's gonna be epic.

We're gonna bring snacks, I'm sure, or have snacks delivered midway through.

I mean it's just it's not and it's not all going to be about food.

I'm sure we're going to tell embarrassing stories and secrets.

I have a story I've been holding on to for a long time.

Ooh, involving our sweet sweet Stephen Coletti that I almost told when he was a guest, and then it just didn't come up organically.

But maybe maybe I tell her because it's a pretty classic Yes Shenanigans story featuring one Stephen Coletti and myself and I think James was there too.

Yeah, so maybe maybe he'll tell you that story.

Oh, I please do this.

Yeah.

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