The Met | "New York, New York, New York" (416)

That Was Us

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🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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On today’s episode of That Was Us, we’re diving into Season 4, Episode 16: New York, New York, New York. Rebecca and Randall join Kevin in New York for his movie premiere, but the night takes an emotional turn. Through flashbacks of the Pearsons’ family trip to New York and again when the Big Three are in college, we see how The Met became such a meaningful place for Rebecca, and how those memories resurface when she’s faced with what comes next. Plus, Mandy, Chris, and Sterling chat about their behind the scenes memories of filming in New York, what happened one sleepless night, and so much more! That Was Us is produced by Rabbit Grin Productions. Music by Taylor Goldsmith and Griffin Goldsmith. ------------------------- Support Our Sponsors: - Refresh your wardrobe with Quince. Go to https://Quince.com/twu for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. - Go to https://Leesa.com for 25% off PLUS get an extra $50 off with promo code 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 01:08:18 Fan Segment 01:26:23 Outro Executive Producers: Natalie Holysz and Rob Holysz Creative Producer: Sam Skelton Production Coordinator: Andrew Rowley Video Editor: Todd Hughlett Mix & Master: Jason Richards 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're diving into season four, episode 16, New York, New York, New York.
0:14.0	Rebecca and Randall joined Kevin in New York, but the night takes an emotional turn.
0:19.0	Through flashbacks of the Pearson's family trip to New York, we see how the Met became
0:23.8	such a meaningful place for Rebecca and how those memories resurface when she's faced with
0:29.3	what comes next.
0:32.5	Hello.
0:33.6	What's going on, gang?
0:34.6	It's up to you.
0:37.2	New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York. This is our second time going to New York as a show, right? Kevin and I went one time in season one. To roll around. With Seven Myers. Like, it did smell. That's correct. I felt like I did roll through a little bit of urine. For sure you did. It was delightful. It was delightful. It was delightful. Let's just say 100% of New York is covered in Europe. Yeah. Dog urine, human urine. There's something. All the urine. Yeah. But this trip to New York was because we all, three of us got to go. me, Mandy, and Justin. And Milo. And Milo, and Milo. And my man who plays a teacher and like all the young kids were there too. Were all the young kids there too? No. Okay, so that was shot. No, that was shot at the L.A. Arboretum. Fun fact. Interesting. They like set up the carriage ride at the arboretum. And the rest of like L.A., downtown L.A. was like for Queens and stuff. Yeah. But there's, before we even get to the episode, there was an epic night. There are a few memories. Like, because we, I didn't get to travel a lot with a show. I didn't go to
1:45.1	Vietnam. Justin got to go everywhere, didn't he? Pretty much. Yeah. He went everywhere except for
1:50.6	Memphis. Yeah, and I didn't, he didn't go. Yeah. And I didn't go to Vietnam. Yeah. So there,
1:56.5	we didn't travel too much as a show. I didn't go to Vegas with you guys. What-ups. But New York
2:02.4	was fun. And because, like, there wasn't a ton of, like, work, work. Like, I had some scenes
2:09.6	there for sure. But when I was in present-day Rebecca age makeup, and I was with you and Justin,
2:17.4	there wasn't, like, the scene at the Met, sure. Sure. But after we got that done, that was like the first night, right? And then the second night, we kind of let loose a little bit. Dude. You guys. What is? Plaza? We were at the plaza. Uh-huh. Right? And Justin's like, you know, we got time, right?
2:35.4	Let's get a couple drinks.
2:36.5	I was like, I'll get a couple drinks, right?
2:37.7	We got a cocktail.
2:38.3	Oh, good.
2:39.3	Now, Mandy Moore, what you don't know about Mandy Moore, you see that face she's making? She didn't drink a lot, right? Yeah. But I was like, oh, the opportunity to like have a cocktail with my friends here, with my children.
2:49.7	We had so much fun.
2:51.4	Oh, we were laughing.
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