Welcome to the OC bitches. Welcome to the OC bitches. Season one episode 22, the L.A. L.A.

Oh my gosh, I'm so excited for this episode. There's so many things to unpack and it's such a riddle wrapped in a puzzle and an enigma, but basically this synopsis is Seth and Ryan discovered Julie's affair with Luke and Ryan let's him know it has to end summer and Marissa are invited to a Hollywood party after meeting actor Grady Bridges from summer's favorite TV show The Valley. She invites Seth and Ryan along. When they arrive at the club, they're shocked to find Haley working as a stripper. Meanwhile, Jimmy and Sandy have

no choice but to ask Caleb to invest in the lighthouse and when they have a dinner party sampling meet the menu, their creative visions don't exactly align. It was directed by Dave Barrett written by somebody named Josh Schwartz and we have such a cool guest today and this episode would not be here without him. So yes, today everybody. I'm very excited and so grateful that he took us up on our invitation.

The one and only Mr. Colin Hanks. He is a multi talented actor, producer, director with a varied and storied career. He has been a part of some of the most memorable film and TV shows, including but not limited to Roswell band of brothers, Mad Men, Dexter Fargo, Jumanji, Drunk History, Life and Pieces and even before Grady Bridges of the Valley on the O.C. He was the star of the film Orange County. Yep, that's right folks. He was there first.

Please welcome the one and only Colin Hanks. Hey, how are you guys? Thank you so much for having me. This is a trip. I'm enjoying.

Yeah, we're excited and I'm already enjoying. Well, that's a good sign. Yeah, we're just so happy that you were willing to come on and talk to us and rewatching this episode. You're so good in it and so much fun with this character.

It's hilarious. Did you actually get to see it or have you ever seen it?

I remember. No, I did not get a chance to rewatch it unfortunately, but I do remember I do remember seeing it when it when it air and I remember like actually it's strange.

He's normally, I don't know what you two are like, but normally it's kind of hard to sit there and watch yourself and you sort of often be like, really?

That's the take they went for. I would have chosen a different one or I would have done all of those things differently, but I remember watching it and just like enjoying myself. I just thought it was really like such such fun to be able to come and play and do something just really totally completely ridiculous and also kind of there was this sort of fun component of sort of like lampooning.

You know, essentially, our cells. Yeah, and and and sort of playing with that. So I just remember having an absolute blast and I remember it sort of coming across that way in the finish problem.

Yeah, I remember working with you and I just remember how awesome you were and so cool and so nice and so talented.

It was really fun for me because we watched it obviously three watch podcasts. So we watched it.

But yeah, like you said, like we're making fun of ourselves. There's so many inside jokes and yeah, I mean, but how you pull it off is just like it's just so incredible and just like that kind of like douchey TV actor, like totally just my manager, my real estate agent, my like.

So there's a there's so much there's so much a prime things that you can pull from that you've noticed when you're working in Hollywood. So you just sort of pulled, you know, I pulled from a back a deep bag of things.

Well, and and just to start to go back a little bit. I mean, what was your path to becoming an actor just because it's in the family. You don't always necessarily get the bug, right?

Yeah, yeah, well, it was always something that I enjoyed doing. You know, I've done all high school plays and in college. I've started to sort of being a little bit more serious and doing theater in college.

And ironically, busy Phillips, who was on freaks and geeks. It's great. It's gone on to be in a million other great things. We went to college together and we dated.

And she really, yeah, she really pushed me and I started pushed her to really make the effort to try and, you know, be professional about it. And we both ended up getting jobs at the same time. And we both got

our series at the same time. I got Roswell. She got freaks and geeks and they shot across street from each other.

And so it was really kind of this kind of, you know, the perfect timing being in the right place in the right time with the right attitude and and it helped happen, you know, contemporary someone that I really admired and trusted sort of helped, you know, push, pushing me out the door and and and getting you going. And then at that point, you know, I mean, this is a few years before the O.C.

But, you know, I mean, it was just that there was like the gold rush of, you know, TV shows and movies for young actors like myself. So I just ended up sort of like, you know, falling into that sort of stream and just kept going down river and just trying to get as many jobs and opportunities as I could.

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