On today's episode of That Was Us, we'll be discussing season 1, episode 16, Memphis.

William recalls his life's pivotal moments and dashed dreams as he and Randall take a road trip to his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. How'd everybody fair watching this one? Because I was a mess. I was a mess.

Yeah. Not good. I remember the first time I watched it.

I was in Vancouver shooting a film, The Predator, like just silly sort of what have you.

And the episode aired and I messed up my whole world man

so we were done shooting we were done shooting by the time this aired correct

got it let's see what can I say about this this thing?

First of all John and Glenn came back to directed who directed our pilot and they

directed three and four I believe? Yeah three and four I believe yeah four was just their last one this

was their last one until the Super Bowl episode right season two okay so they

had ideas like they wanted to make it like a film and everything.

And I was like, oh, it sounds really fun. Fun film was, okay, like in terms of the things that they wanted to do.

But this was, I can remember leading up to this every once in a while Dan would come and he'd say like a lot of people love William like they don't want him to go and he's like I could I could change it but

then it wouldn't be the show that I conceived of and he's like I kind of got a

follow through on this thing.

Yeah, right?

And I was like, I get it.

And he talked to Ron about it too, and Ron understood as well.

It opens up with this sort of Williams, mom, and dad, while he's like in her belly, singing,

You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, and it sort of becomes a recurring thing that we hear throughout William singing it later on in life as well.

Dad was in the military, he goes off, says he'll be back.

You get that familiar sort of thing that we see in TV and film because it happens in life with the two soldiers that come to the door to let you know that your loved one is not going to be making it.

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