Melinda Clarke on The O.C., Divorce, and the Dalai Lama
Broad Ideas with Rachel Bilson & Olivia Allen
Headgum
4.7 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 108 minutes
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Summary
Melinda Clarke [Days of Our Lives, The O.C., CSI: Crime Scene Investigation] talks with Olivia and Rachel about The O.C. and Welcome to the OC, bitches!, her divorce, and self-growth. The three also discuss parenting, overcoming trauma, and eye-contact during sex.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | Hey guys. |
| 0:07.4 | Hi, Rachel. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm so happy to hear both of your voices. |
| 0:12.3 | Also, so happy, my beloved, Mindy Clark, Melinda Clark, aka Julie Cooper. |
| 0:18.9 | Really, really looking forward to talking to her just in a conversation and not about only the OC |
| 0:26.0 | specifically. |
| 0:26.7 | She was also on Nikita, amongst many other projects. |
| 0:30.7 | She is just one of my favorite people and really my family. |
| 0:37.0 | So, what's welcome Mindy. |
| 0:39.4 | Sometimes when the world feels insane, you can take a little peek inside of Rachel's little |
| 0:50.2 | brain. All these thoughts are swirling, round and round inside to join us on this journey as we take a little ride. |
| 1:03.0 | We'll talk about dogs and kids and things. We'll talk about chicks and tampon strings. We'll talk about boys that make you cry. |
| 1:12.8 | We'll talk about death because people die. |
| 1:17.0 | This is like out-of-body experience because this is like Rachel's world. |
| 1:24.0 | Oh, no, just because I'm used to as I'm here, and I was like, wow, this is just a new |
| 1:31.5 | experience for me because I'm usually like, especially the last few months, Rachel, we've been, like, |
| 1:37.3 | doing three and four podcasts a day or a week. Oh, yeah. And we were trying to. So there's a lot of, a lot of like focus and like I don't have a child running around so I don't know how you do it. But there's a lot of preparation that I felt had to go into the podcast. So this is a debrief, I think. Like how do you think it went, Rach, we're done. I know. I know. So that's what I wanted to say. Like, we've, we finished our last episode of Welcome to the Ocey bitches. And it was quite the experience. Yeah. Wouldn't you say? Yeah. I mean, so from the beginning. So, I have to ask you. So from the beginning. And oh, can I just stop for a second? Yeah. Olivia, it's so exciting to see you because, because, I mean, it was one of |
| 2:18.3 | those things like we went through this whole podcast and you were there too. Yeah. During the O.C. And we had Leah on and I was like, as we were coming, I'm like, why didn't Olivia come on too? Yeah. So, okay, this is, okay, we're talking. Okay, I'm taking over. Yeah. This is your podcast. She's a professional podcast. |
| 2:14.4 | I know. |
| 2:15.1 | Well, I'm not used to talking about myself, so I'm turning it back on you. |
| 2:17.8 | I see what you're doing. But no, I'm just super fascinated. Like, I had those questions, too. I wanted to ask Olivia what it was like for her. And then I wanted to ask my partner, like, how this experience was for her. |
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