Crossroads | "Don’t Take My Sunshine Away" (316) with special guest Rob Morgan

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This week on the podcast, we chat about Season 3, Episode 16: Don’t Take My Sunshine Away. If there’s one thing that’s clear, it’s that the Pearsons are struggling on all fronts right now. Kate and Toby try to grasp how it feels to have baby Jack in the NICU, Beth and Randall face one of the biggest confrontations to date, and Zoe and Kevin make a discovery about their relationship that could change their future. Sterling, Chris, and Mandy talk about gestures from exes (ala Kevin and Sophie), first kisses, what it’s like to have tough life conversations with your partner, and so much more. Plus, the one and only Rob Morgan, AKA Councilman Solomon Brown, joins the pod to talk about his time on the show! That Was Us is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Music by Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith. ------------------------- Support Our Sponsors: - Brought to you by Bombas, One Clothing Item Purchased = One Clothing Item Donated Head over to https://bombas.com/ and use code TWU for 20% off your first purchase. - BAU, Artist at War opens only in theaters, for a limited run beginning September 26th. Go to https://www.baumovie.com/ to watch the trailer, read about Josef’s real-life journey, and find showtimes near you. You can also sign your organization up for group screenings. - Try Zip Recruiter for free at https://www.ziprecruiter.com/TWU. ZipRecruiter. The smartest way to hire. - For a limited time only, get 60% off your first order, plus free shipping when you head to Smalls.com/TWU. ------------------------- 🍋 About the Show: The stars of This Is Us, Mandy Moore, Sterling K. Brown, and Chris Sullivan, dive back into the world of the Pearsons, reliving each episode and all the life lessons that came with it. Together, they dig in and dig deep, have the tough conversations, bring in very special and familiar guests, share never-before-heard behind-the-scenes moments, and feature listeners in highly anticipated fan segments. Join your favorite family back in the living room to examine our past, cherish our present, and look to the future with new episodes of That Was Us every Tuesday. ------------------------- 00:00:00 Intro 00:00:32 Discussion 00:59:33 Fan Segment 01:09:28 Outro 01:11:12 Credits Executive Producers: Natalie Holysz, Rob Holysz & Jeph Porter Creative Producer: Sam Skelton Video Editor: Todd Hughlett Mix & Master: Jason Richards #thisisus #thatwasus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	On today's episode of That Was Us, we are diving into season three, episode 16. Don't take my sunshine away.
0:20.0	Kate and Toby stay by baby Jackside in the NICU.
0:23.4	Beth and Randall struggle to get on the same page amidst opposite schedules. Zoe and Kevin make a
0:29.0	discovery about their relationship. Hello, hello, hello. What's going on on, Annie Moore? How
0:35.3	you doing, Chris Sullivan? Doing very, very well. Sterling K. Brown.
0:38.1	Glad to hear it. Glad to be here with you beautiful people talking about episode 316. Two more episodes left in the season and we'll be at the halfway point. It's ticking down. It's like an episode 24. Bink. Dink. Closer and closer to the end. So things heated up in 315.
0:55.0	Yep.
0:55.7	Right.
0:56.2	We see that Zoe has concerns with regards to Kevin's honesty, right, and whether or not that's going to be a continuing part of their path. Is she going to stay? Is she going to leave? Beth and Randall for the first time seemed like, people keep telling them, you guys are going to make it through this.
1:11.7	You're going to be all right.
1:28.0	And like, everybody's sort of like, are they? Are they going to be all right? This is when my wife said to me, if Cookie and Lucius can make it together, y'all better get your stuff together. That's right. She said that to the writer's room, too, made a special trip. She may have been the same thing. This episode was written by one of my favorite writers,
1:34.9	Vera Herbert, and I call her Black Vera. I call her Black Vera. She black guys? No, she is not. But she did win an NAACP Image Award for the episode that she wrote in season one, and since then,
1:41.5	she's been Black Vera. How many non-black winners of an NDACP award? Do you think there are? There's a few. There'll be a few. Okay. I would say percentage wise, it's probably around 10% of you. 10%? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. Because I try to highlight like things that are about the community and or other marginalized groups.
2:02.2	Yeah, that's what I was saying.
2:16.3	So, but I also think because her name is Vera, they thought like, oh, the sister's brother. Yeah. Yeah. They didn't know. They didn't know. They didn't know. They didn't even include her in the percentage. You know what I mean? You know what I mean? Okay. Yeah, they didn't know.
2:19.1	They should have known by K's last name.
2:19.5	Yeah, yeah.
2:19.8	Come on.
2:20.9	Kay is Nigerian.
2:35.4	Strong, strong, strong. So now, so we're at 316. Yep. We are in the NICU. We're in the NICU and this is something that I was highlighting. It was my first time seeing the doll that you guys were used for the baby.
2:38.0	And like even it's just a doll.
2:39.7	I want to say this too, because we'll have dolls from time to time for newborns,
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