Rachel Bilson

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Bilson (The OC, Hart of Dixie) and Justin talk about her podcast Broad Ideas, how it’s so weird they had never met until now, and about what it was like to work on the hit show The OC so early in her career.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to Life is Short. Add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:13.1	One of the things I really enjoy about the job, the acting job that I do is that I get to drive to work with some
0:20.0	really fun, often interesting people and a driver named Graham, who's a very funny young man,
0:26.1	has been driving me and Graham is going through a breakup.
0:29.4	And I was a pretty major one. You know, he's a young man. He's 25, but he had been with his girl for many years.
0:35.3	Her name. Yeah, actually, don't know. He hasn't mentioned her by name.
0:39.3	It came up because he had a guitar in the car. I asked him, but he said, oh, I'm learning that now.
0:43.8	And it reminded me of when I went and go through breakups, how, you know, you pick up different things and
0:48.8	and you try to not reinvent yourself totally, but it's a time to discover new things about yourself,
0:54.8	things that maybe you didn't have the time to do when you were in the relationship.
0:58.6	I remember going through a breakup and I had a very brief phase where I tried on a new hat.
1:05.4	Literally, I thought I might become like the page boy hat.
1:09.5	The page boy hat I have now. I'm trying. That's kind of catching catching on. Yeah, with me.
1:14.6	With you. Well, not with other people. I don't know. They feel about it.
1:17.5	It does start conversation sometimes. We're like, when I see another guy with a page boy hat, I'll have like a nod.
1:23.5	Like Leo. I haven't seen him yet, but yeah, but this phase I went through in the wake of a breakup was a Fedora phase.
1:32.0	And it lasted about a month and a half. I remember there was I went to Comic Con to promote that.
1:39.2	That's where I've seen it. Yeah, Alison Lomon. Yeah. Yeah.
1:42.0	We were promoting Dragon and Hell. I forget how it ended.
1:45.8	But I think just one day I looked in the mirror and I thought, if you got yourself a new girlfriend, maybe that was it.
1:50.1	And I thought, I'm just not this guy. I'm not a Fedora guy. You know what I am.
1:53.9	The podcast host. Yeah. I was gonna say a podcast guy. Oh, yeah, that would have tied together better. Well, cares. Well, we'll see if it ties together better.
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