On today's episode of That Was Us, we're diving in Season 4 episode 11, a hell of a week, Part 1.

The first of three episodes centered on the Big Three's beginnings with Randall after an intruder in his home triggers a wave of anxiety and

Longbury fears through flashbacks to childhood and college. We see how Randall's need to stay

strong for everyone else has finally reached his breaking point. Wow. Hello, friends. Ladies and

gentlemen, home, that's the first. Yeah, I'm not sure if you recognize that voice. That wasn't SKB. That was young Randall in the house. Our man, your man, Mr. Niles Fitch. How you doing, right? Thank you for joining us today. Thank you for having me. Thank you for being here. You look good, right? You look healthy.'re trying to keep it with you. Come on. So, you're not watching us on Spotify. Now you have good reason. Come see this handsome young man. They're very handsome young man. Niles, you were just a baby when you were on the show. 15. Yeah. Now you're so grown up. So grown up. Time flies out there. Renting cars. Renting cars. No, I got to wait to him. You got one more year. That's right. That's right. Well, things to look forward to. Things to look forward to. It becomes a little bit easier. Okay, so we're about to dip into 411. So we got another trio of episodes focused on the big three. We invited Niles here because this one focuses on Randall. You watched the episode fairly recently. Any macro thoughts that you want to share and memories before we dive into the granular. I love the episode. Love seeing us having to tackle anxiety.

Yeah.

And anytime I get to work with Rachel, it's amazing.

Who plays Beth?

Right?

Yeah.

I always enjoy those experiences.

Anything come back to you in a flash?

We're now in the part of the show, like the first couple of seasons for us are vivid.

And the last few are more recent, we remember, but like these episodes in season four, there's a bunch of plot lines. Like the home invasion plot line kind of caught me and Mandy. Oh, right. Oh, yeah. Totally forgot about it. Did anything? I mean, I don't know if you've seen this episode. I know you saw it recently, but I don't know if you'd watched it in recent history since,

but did anything come back to you that was maybe a forgotten moment in time?

Yeah, I'd say that dream sequence.

Oh, yeah, I forgot about that too.

Totally.

Yeah, I remember seeing that in the script and being intimidated by what does that truly entail uh so i remember being on set and

kevin really helping helping me get there yeah that all of these all of these dream sequences in

this episode are kind of a a slight um lateral move for us they seem they stylistically yes something new, something different. Kevin Hooks directed this. Yes? Did he direct all? No, I don't think so. I don't think he could. Could he? I mean, Ken did the one, two, and three. Remember, it almost killed him. Yeah, that's hard because to be able to do post and, yeah. I don't know. I don't think so. I don't think he did all three. That sounds like a lot. Maybe not, but like there was, I feel like there was a series of like where he did a few or something. Maybe it was this. Maybe it was like in a future. Because I feel like there were moments of block shooting. I feel like parts of these two episodes. He's a great guy, too. He's the great guy. I love him so much. And like, what was the show that he was on back in the day? Was it White Shadow? Hooked in Lighten. Hux is on the White Shadow. It was the show like in the 70s about like a high school basketball team, right? And he looks like he's the same age. Yeah, he has not aged at all. You talk about not cracking. Yeah. That black does not crack. That looks look good, baby. He looks good. Where does this episode start? Who wants to start it off? Maybe you should start because it kind of like picks up exactly where we left off in the last episode, right? With Rand, oh, I'm sorry. No, it doesn't. Go for it. It actually starts with the four-year-old triplets, them sort of being wound up, which I don't know if you guys have this experience or if you are the perpetrators of this behavior, but my husband

loves to get our children riled up before bed.

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