Btw when I say I'm in the fandom's fandom I meant it?? Like I know I'm giving my own takes of the season etc but like I haven't watched a single ep?? Cus like I just wait for the episode to air then like scroll Tumblr and other places to see y'all's reactions and that's how I know what's up. And the amazing gifs and stuff tooo. Like y'all are real ones.
I literally kid u not have not seen a single ep anytime as it airs at all. I also don't want to? Like I'm invested enough that I like the fandom stuff and fics but yea
Matt Cohen: I’ll stop talking now, ‘cause I know you guys are excited for our next two guests. Are we? Are we not excited? [Audience cheers] Are the people in the back excited? [Audience cheers] Are the people in the front excited? [Audience cheers] Fine. And with no further ado, I bring to you Oliver Stark and Ryan Guzman! [Audience cheers]
Ryan Guzman: Had to do it [entering with a fake mustache]. Someone gave this to me, and so many people have been talking about my mustache lately and made me miss it so, yeah.
Oliver Stark: You have it.
RG: I know, but it’s not there really. I gotta shave all the other stuff.
OS: On stage, now, live.
RG: Bring a razor, let’s go [Audience cheers].
MC: Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to stay up here and take over this panel as much as possible, ‘cause I really like these fellas and I got to hang out with them a couple times over the last month or so. But you guys look like you have plenty of questions, so I will turn the stage over to you guys. Gentlemen, you know how it goes. If there’s a problem, just call me and I’ll throw my boot at somebody and we’ll handle that business.
OS: We sure will.
MC: Have fun, fellas.
OS: Thank you [Audience claps]. Hi, everybody. Wow, this is a big room.
RG: Woah, yeah. It keeps on going.
OS: Wave at the back. Let me see if I can see your hands.
RG: Hey, there we go!
OS: Alright, now wave in the middle.
RG: Are we doing a wave?
OS: That’s enthusiastic.
RG: They should have done the wave.
OS: Alright, yeah. Let’s do like a little wave-y thing. Alright, further back. Count them in. You got more rhythm.
RG: Three, two, one, go! Here we go. Oh, that’s nice! Right side is going a little stronger. Beautiful. Thank you, guys, for doing that.
OS: And one more… No, I’m joking.
Audience: You just gotta end it [Ryan and Oliver do the wave].
OS: Okay, should we answer some questions?
RG: Let’s do it.
Fan: Hello, how are you?
OS: Cool helmet.
RG: Second place winner.
F: Yes, I am! And I was being you, so rock. If Eddie Diaz and Buck, obviously, if they were participating in a drag show, what would their drag queen names be? [Audience cheers]
OS: [Smiles] Busty Buckley [Audience cheers].
RG: I feel like Di-Ass is pretty good, yeah [Audience cheers].
OS: Di-Ass! Yo, Busty Buckley and Di-Ass? Kill it [Ryan and Oliver high-five]. We get Season 11 immediately [Ryan laughs].
F: Alright, thank you.
OS, RG: Thank you.
Fan: Hi.
OS: Hi.
F: What is your favorite opening emergency and your least favorite and why?
RG: Favorite emergency or what?
OS: Opening emergency. Favorite opening emergency and least favorite opening emergency.
RG: To be honest, I liked the last episode. You fell right in the middle of the emergency and it was Aisha-
OS: Opening emergency [Audience laughs].
RG: Oh-Oh, like, opening to the season?
A: Opening scene.
RG: Opening scene?
OS: No, no, no, no. The big, the big disasters at the beginning of the season, right?
F: Yeah.
RG: Oh, big disasters, okay.
OS: I got you [Fan].
RG: She [Audience] was confused just like me. I wasn’t the only one. I would say I had fun the first time I was on-on the 9-1-1… So, the whole earthquake thing was-was really fun. Tsunami probably comes in close second. Least favorite…?
OS: That blimp shit that we did [Audience laughs].
RG: That’s the least favorite. Thank you for reminding me, yeah. What was that?
OS: Like, that was weird. Like, it didn’t work, did it? We can say that now. And it was kinda weird, awkward to film. Like, we had to go up that ladder and-
RG: Lasts for two seconds.
OS: Yeah.
RG: Yeah.
OS: Blimp, eh [thumbs down]. Yeah, yeah, tsunami, earthquake. I love the, of this season, the stuff we did in the subway. So, it wasn’t, like, the main one, but it was like a-a subsection of it, right? Like, any time we do water stuff, that was cool. Us in that thing just being pelted with water. You looked, like, smoldering. Like, what’s-what’s the word you had to keep on shouting? Bolus, was it that?
RG: That was Kenny.
OS: Bolus!
RG: Bolus!
OS: I don’t know even what that means.
RG: We need to look it up one day.
OS: We cut our leg [laughs]. We should probably have done that before. Thank you.
Fan: Hi. So, the, I know the storyline for 9-1-1 gets kinda, like, crazy sometimes, and all, like, the scripts. So, what do you think when you get the script? Like, the tsunami one had a lot of crazy stuff that, like…
RG: I think the craziest one for me was the bees [Audience laughs]. We’re doing a tornado full of what? But accompanied with the mustache, we made it work.
OS: Where’s the link between the mustache and the bees?
RG: I’m sure someone’s written, like, a five-page, like, thing on it. I know it, I know it. But that was the craziest part. I think the rest of them have been like “Okay, this makes sense. An earthquake in LA, yeah. Tsunami…? Yeah, I mean…”.
OS: It could happen.
RG: It could happen, yeah.
OS: I think once we, like, the tsunami was the first time where we did something where, well, “How will we do that? That’s too big.”. But then having pulled it off, now whenever I see them, I’m just excited for like “Wow, how are we gonna bring this to life?”. Because it’s fun for us, right? Like, we get to kinda really do the stuff. Like, we’re really in the water, we’re really in these buildings that are tipped over. And-And so, yeah, the-the-the bigger and the more ridiculous and bizarre it gets, the more fun we get to have in it.
F: Thank you.
Fan: Hi. So, my name is Jess. What defining scene, sorry, what scene would you say is, like, defining moment for your character?
OS: Well, that’s deep, I like that. Ryan first.
RG: [Laughs] I need some time.
OS: I guess, now, the death of Bobby Nash. Right? Like, I think if you were to, like, make a graph of Buck’s trajectory, like, that is such a huge event and that, like, altered who he becomes and, like, steps into different roles now and, you know, it feels like more of a mentor since. So, I think in terms of turning him into this new version of himself, that was such a catalyst. So, yeah, R.I.P. Bobby Nash.
RG: I’m not gonna mention the mustache again [Audience laughs].
OS: No, go on, talk about it.
RG: No, I think a defining moment was actually a moment between our characters when Eddie has kinda lost his-his whole unit, and he’s just in the worst place he’s ever been. And his best friend comes and has that conversation with him, allows him to work through these emotions. And I think it’s the first point where Eddie is actually able to, like, acknowledge his emotions and-and understand that he can’t be bottling this stuff in anymore. So, it was, it was a-a pivot point.
OS: Were you gonna say when you shaved the mustache?
RG: I was [Audience laughs]. Tried every bit of me to avoid that.
OS: I think that’s a good answer. I would have accepted it.
RG: Yeah?
OS: Yeah. Would you like to talk about it?
RG: Shave the mustache, yeah.
F: Thank you.
Fan: Hi, I’m Amanda. If your characters were Pop-Tarts, what flavor would they be?
OS: Wow, that’s deep [Audience laughs].
F: I ask hard-hitting questions.
OS: Raspberry.
RG: Raspberry… I’m gonna go strawberry.
OS: There’s no wrong answers. I mean, what is that?
RG: You found the only wrong answer.
OS: Yeah. No…? Well, I don’t even know other flavors they do.
A: Brown sugar. The wild berry one that tied in with the Spider-Man movie.
RG: Brown sugar, actually, yeah.
OS: [Raises hand] No, brown-brown sugar!
RG: It’s got cinnamon in it, doesn’t it?
A: Yeah.
F: Buck wouldn’t be the wild berry that tied in with the 2002 Spider-Man movie?
OS: Yes, he would. You’re right. And I was testing you to see if you knew what Pop-Tart we would be, and it’s that one. You’re right. Well done, Amanda. You’ve watched the show [Audience laughs].
Fan: Hi, I’m Amy. First things really quick, do you know that they’re calling your sperm donor baby a buckling? I don’t know, I thought it was adorable.
OS: I like it.
F: And then for the question, how do you think the dynamic of the households are gonna change now that you have Theo in the situation? ‘Cause you used to help out with Chris, like, your character. So, you think we’re gonna see that collaboration again?
OS: Yeah, I don’t think the dynamic will change all that much, you know? I think there are characters that have shown up for each other time and time again and I think they will continue to do that. And, genuinely, like, I’m really excited to see what those, what showing up for each other will look like going forward, you know, and who it will involve. And, you know, characters like, somebody brought this up to me, I think, at a previous conventions, and I spoke about it in some Meet & Greets today, like, that first meeting between Chris and Theo and what that will look like and how heartwarming that might be. And so, yeah, I’m really excited for those. I don’t, I don’t think it will change too many dynamics, but I’m looking forward to whatever they turn out to be and how they play out.
F: Thank you.
Fan: Hi, I’m Madison, I’m from Tennessee.
OS: Yeah.
F: So, since we’re in Nashville, which one of you is the better bull rider?
RG: [Raises his hand] [Audience laughs]
OS: Before… So, we did some bull riding in Nashville for the show. I don’t wanna make a fool of myself, I looked up some YouTube videos the night before I did.
RG: That’s right.
OS: And here’s what I’ve decided about bull riding. Do we have kids here? That’s just some bullshit, right? Because you come off when the guy decides that you come off. ‘Cause he, like, there was a time I was like “Yeah, I’m nailing this. I, oh, no, he’s throwing me off”. Like, you just, you’re on it until he does a quick change of direction. So, the question doesn’t exist. Nobody can be better or worse.
RG: Sounds like a loser to me [Audience laughs]. I am.
OS: Bring out the bull [Audience laughs]. We did, oh, sorry, don’t go anywhere [Fan]. Do you [Ryan] remember there was the stunt girl, I think she was Jessica’s, and she was, like, this was her thing.
RG: Yeah, yeah.
OS: And I asked her advice and she said the same stuff the YouTube videos said. Hold on with your thighs and the guy will throw you off when he throws you off.
RG: Did she say that?
OS: Thank you [Audience laughs].
Fan: Hi, my name’s Heather. Y’all probably my Top 3 friendship show, on the show, anyways. Well, on any show I watch.
RG: Who’s the other two?
OS: [Indistinguishable]
Fan: No, I mean on all shows I watch, I got a little nervous there. Anyways, what is the most emotional scene that you have filmed for each of you?
RG: Go ahead. I think yours is more recent, no?
OS: What is it? [Audience laughs]
RG: The whole drug thing that you just had.
OS: Oh, yeah. That. No, yeah, that was emotional. [Sighs] I don’t know, is that, is that the most emotional one…?
A: Derek!
OS: What did you call me?
RG: She said “Derek!”.
OS: Who the fuck is Derek? [Audience laughs]
RG: Who the fuck is Derek?
OS: I know who Derek is. [To Ryan] Derek was the-the son in Mother’s Boy that I was replacing.
RG: Oh, yeah.
OS: Watch the show.
RG, OS: [Indistinguishable]
RG: I didn’t read that part.
OS: Here’s a story, and I’m gonna do the, use the Bobby Nash card again.
A: Oh.
OS: Someone said “Oh”. And I hope it was like “Oh, he died”, not “Oh, is he talking about that again?” [Audience laughs]. So-So, the breakdown, right? He dies or dying and I leave and I take off my mask and have a little cry in the hallway. I was super nervous about that scene. Like, super, super nervous. You see, in general, like, I’m not a big emotional person like that, like, I’m not a crier… Eh. On-On screen. And it’s such a, like, big pivotal moment. I was like “What if I can’t do this? Like, what if I can’t nail it? What if it just looks dumb?”. So, I had so much pressure on that moment. And it was really, like, cathartic and liberating to then shoot it and be like “I’m feeling the stuff”. So, that was a really nice, like, in touch with the character of, like, real stuff coming to the surface. So-So that one probably sticks out as one of the most emotional.
RG: For me, it was something that touched a little too close to home. I-I had just lost my grandmother, and I hadn’t really cried other than at her funeral. And I think right after her funeral, maybe like a couple weeks later, I-I shot the scene where Abuela dies in front of me. And it was the first time I actually, like, really let go, and it was hard to kinda, like, bring it back in. So, that-that one was difficult, because it was just tears flowing, but you’re not feeling, like, you’re not, you don’t have a sad face. It’s just, it just kinda comes. So, that was the hardest one.
F: I’m sorry about your grandmother, and thank you, guys.
RG: Thank you. She’s in a better place.
OS: Thank you.
Fan: Hi, my name is Abdu. So, I asked this question to Kenny and Aisha earlier but, if your character died, knock on wood, we don’t want that to happen, but if your character died next season, what song would you want playing? Like, how they have Work Song for Bobby Nash’s death.
OS: That’s good. Oh, I have an answer! Wait, I don’t know what it’s called. You go first, let me look on my phone, hold on [Audience laughs].
RG: That was really quick.
F: Also, Oliver, I just wanna say I’m sorry about Arsenal losing.
RG: You wanna see him cry again? [Audience laughs]
F: No, I meant in a place of love.
OS: We’re having a nice time, what are you doing?
F: I meant it in a place of love. PSG gotta go.
RG: Yeah.
OS: I appreciate that. I’ll be right with you. I gotta look into my other phone.
A: Two phones?
RG: Did you bring out two phones?
OS: Answer the question…
RG: Maybe, like, Whatta Man, but sung like in a slow version [Audience laughs].
OS, RG: Whatta man, whatta man…
RG: You should sing it.
OS: I should. I will, one day. Oh, I didn’t know it’s called this. Ironic. [The song] It’s called Keeping Me Alive [Audience laughs], by a guy called Jonathan Roy. I like the acoustic version [Ryan signals Oliver to play the song].
A: Can you play it?
OS: I’m doing it [Audience laughs]. [Song starts playing] It ain’t that part that we’re playing, the song. Alright. So, I know this song because when I was shooting Buck Begins, there’s a line in it and it’s like something, it literally says, there’s a line like “This fire is the only thing keeping me alive”. And I wanted it to play in, like, the Buck Begins when I’m like “Ah!” [mimics struggling]. And… Don’t take a photo of that [Audience laughs]. And it’s been in my head as, like, a Buck song ever since. So, if you strike me down, maybe you’re here keeping me alive.
RG: [Pretends to hit Oliver with the microphone] [Audience laughs]
F: Alright. Thank you, guys.
OS: Thank you. What did Kenny and Aisha say?
F: Oh, okay. Aisha said something Madonna, I can’t, or from Beyoncé, I can’t remember. Kenny said Vogue by Madonna [Audience laughs].
OS: I would watch that.
F: Me too.
Fan: Hi, I’m Amanda and my question is, if you could take the entire 9-1-1 cast and put them into a show from the 80’s or 90’s, any show, what show would it be and why? And do not say Friends.
OS: Hey, there, what would you say? That’s a good question for you.
RG: Oh, man, I gotta think of 80’s shows.
OS: Or 90’s.
RG: Or 90’s?
OS: Yeah.
RG: Buffy The Vampire Slayer [laughs] [Audience cheers]. It could work.
OS: Yeah, that’s nice. that’s crazy, I was gonna say the same thing, so my answer [Ryan laughs]. We-We both think-
RG: You would be Buffy.
OS: Yeah.
F: Thank you.
Fan: Hello, my name is Katie, I’m the one that drove twelve hours to be here.
RG: From Ontario, right?
F: Yeah.
RG: That’s right.
F: My question is for both of you. What is one interesting fact about you that anyone might not know?
RG: Should we tell them?
OS: You know the things they’re gonna do with that.
RG: [Laughs] Oh, true. I didn’t think about that. Oh, man. Something interesting… I feel like we’re open books, I don’t know.
OS: No, we gotta give her something, she drove from Canada.
RG: Well, think of something.
OS: Buffy The Vampire Slayer [Audience laughs]. An interesting fact…
RG: Interesting fact…
OS: My, this is not an interesting fact, it’s just a-a fact.
F: That’s okay.
OS: I’ve had two cats in my life, but- [Audience laughs].
RG: Starting off strong.
OS: Both of them have been unfortunately mauled by wild animals [Audience gasps]. Yeah, it’s not funny anymore, is it? [Audience laughs] The first one living in London, outside cat is, in England is like the, nobody has indoor cats, and it was later in life and a fox got it. And then my cat Norman here, unfortunately, he used to be an indoor cat and then when I moved to a, like, gated property, I let him be an outdoor car and we had a very… This is not the answer you wanted [Audience laughs]. [Inaudible] happy for years and then eventually was unfortunately killed by coyotes. So, yeah, maybe, I don’t know. Keep your cats indoors.
RG: Wow, how do I follow that? I’m gonna stay on the animals. At one point in time, I did have a small farm in my backyard in LA and don’t do that [Audience laughs]. Yeah, I had goats, I had chickens, I had bunnies, I had all the things and my neighbors hated me. So, it didn’t, it only lasted for maybe, like, three, four months, but, yeah.
OS: I forgot you had those.
RG: Yeah, they climb, goats, I don’t know, they can climb on things. So, I would show up and they’d be on my car [Audience laughs].
F: Yeah, I got six cats and two geckos, so…
RG: But no goats.
OS: Keep them inside.
F: Thank you.
Fan: Hi. First, can you say hi to my friend Carolina? She couldn’t make it today.
RG: What was her name?
F: Carolina.
RG, OS: [Wave] Hi, Carolina.
F: Thank you so much. And if any celebrity could play your character on 9-1-1, who would you want it to be?
RG: Brad Pitt [Audience laughs]. Benicio del Toro.
OS: Ah.
RG: Yeah. You could be Brad Pitt.
OS: I could be Brad Pitt [laughs]. Chris Evans, maybe? I think he’d be a good Buck.
RG: Chris Evans would be a good Buck, yeah.
OS: Oh, my God, what if they recast us for Season 10?
RG: Don’t tell Brad Pitt.
OS: With Benicio del Toro and Chris Evans. I think we’re alright.
RG: No one will watch that.
F: Thank you.
RG, OS: Thank you.
Fan: My question is, if your character was to be in a cartoon, what cartoon would you want it to be in?
OS: Powerpuff Girls [Audience cheers].
RG: That’s so crazy, ‘cause I wanna say Dexter’s Laboratory [Audience cheers]. They were on right after another, like, yeah. Did you actually watch Powerpuff Girls?
OS: Fuck yeah!
RG: Who’s your favorite one?
OS: Bubbles [Audience cheers]. It’s just the first one that came to mind. I can’t think of the other- Bubbles… What are the other ones? Butterfly? No.
A: Blossom, Buttercup!
OS: Blossom. And Buttercup. Oh, yeah, I knew there was a Butter in there somewhere.
RG: He loved that show.
OS: It’s been, it’s been a while.
F: Thank you.
RG, OS: Thank you.
Fan: Hi, guys, my name’s Riley. What is your favorite, like, core memory from set?
RG: So many, actually. We have a lot of fun on set and in between shooting [The Good, The Bad and The Ugly theme song starts playing] [Audience laughs]. That was great.
OS: Mine is actually, the one that comes to mind is from Season 1. The dark days, as they’re known [Ryan sighs].
RG: Go ahead.
OS: No. Are-Are you sure?
RG: Yeah, no. Act like I’m not here.
OS: No, I don’t need to be. Alright. So, we were shooting in a trash truck. A garbage truck, right? And they got this garbage truck, it’s, like, sanitized. They say it was sanitized, who knows? We’re literally crawling around in the back of it. And they take all the tracking, trash out, or maybe there was some bags that we were laying on. It was me, Kenny and Pete. I think Aisha was sensible and didn’t spend more time than necessary in there. And, like, we found these magnets, and obviously we’re in a metal truck. And I don’t know why, we just were in hysterics, like, laughing, just throwing these magnets so casually against the wall, just like a TIK. And we were still, you know, Season 1, early days, and it was so dumb. Like, what’s funny about that? Nothing. But we had the time of our lives for some reason. And, like, look, I’m twenty-six at the time. Like, they’re in their 40’s and 50’s, they gotta grow up. Like, I’m allowed to find that funny. But we just bonded over, like, we just couldn’t stop laughing for some reason. And that’s always one that sticks out in my mind.
RG: We, for a while now, we’re playing this game called Botticelli. I don’t know if anybody has hear that, but it’s a silly little, like, name game. And for whatever reason, we played it for almost like a full season, didn’t we? [Oliver nods] Maybe even longer. But we got so caught up in it that, like, we were looking forward to it every single time they called cut, and we’d be thinking of things, and then the crew would get involved. So, it was like, one of these, like, expanding games and-
OS: It was like the, remember it was, like, Miley Cyrus, Hannah Montana…? And then we go into that big-
RG: Oh, you talking about Aisha doing the Little Mermaid too? That kinda stuff?
OS: Yeah, that was Aisha.
Aisha Hinds: [Yelling from backstage] Hey, hey, hey! [Audience laughs]
OS: Okay, what are you doing?
RG: It was horrible.
OS: Go take some photos!.
RG: Don’t play with Aisha Hinds.
OS: Look, alright, so, we’re playing this card. So, the game is, you say the first letter. I hope you’re [Aisha] still back there.
RG: Listen to this.
OS: You say the first letter of a name, right? So, if-if I’ve chosen Ryan, I would say R, and then it’s just Yes or No questions to get to who they are. We’ve played months and months and it’s always real people. And our friend back there does T, and we just cannot get it, and she’s done The Little Mermaid. Like, that’s-that’s cheating, right?
RG: That’s what it is, yeah, yeah.
OS: Thank you. And then we got into about somebody like Hannah or Miley Cyrus, and then it became this big thing about, like, is she better known as Miley Cyrus, the pop star-
RG: Or Hannah Montana.
OS: No, I’m not gonna do a vocal. She’s better known as an actress, right? Like, from her Hannah Montana day.
A: Yeah.
OS: Alright, thank you. I hope you’re still back there.
RG: So, yeah, that.
AH: [Indistinguishable] for anybody who say that [Everyone laughs].
F: Thank you so much.
RG: Thank you.
OS: Thank you. Sorry.
RG: You brought back repressed trauma [Audience laughs].
Fan: Hi, my name is James.
OS: Hi, James.
F: And have you ever dis-disagreed with how your character handled a situation? And what would you have done differently?
RG: Yeah, I agreed with the-the death of Bobby Nash [Audience laughs]. Yeah, the way Eddie handled it, I-I would have expanded a little bit more, at least, like, I don’t know, done something different for that. But that was the one thing that just didn’t feel right, to be honest, yeah. [Oliver points at Ryan] What?
OS: That’s interesting.
RG: What do you mean?
OS: Like, what do you mean?
RG: Just the fact that, like, he was in Texas and living his own life, and-and when he found out, it was through the phone and it was, like, two seconds of, like, remorse, and I feel like that should have just been bled out a little bit more for-for Eddie. And knowing his past, being an angry individual, like, some kind of, like, reoccurrence of, like, what he’s been going through throughout the past couple seasons. So, I mean, it’s a huge character, so it just didn’t seem right for the character to not wanna just, like, explode or do something much more grander.
F: Thank you.
OS: I don’t know if there are, like, things I disagree with like that, in a sense of like, I don’t know. It’s, like, they write the character, they can, but there are things that maybe I think I wish he hadn’t have been that way, I don’t think it’s wrong for the character but, like, for example, like, when Eddie was moving to Texas and Buck was kinda bratty about it. It’s like, he’s doing a thing that works for him and his, and his kid. But I don’t think that’s wrong for the character. I do think that’s who Buck is. For me, as a somewhat sane person, I’m like- [Audience laughs]. Why is that? I’m like “Yeah, that is not how you should handle your friend doing something that is right for his life”.
RG: Oh, yeah. And when they replaced you too. I don’t think Eddie should have been so jovial about this new guy.
OS: Oh, is Sam-
RG: Yeah.
OS: Lead of Obsession.
RG: Obsession. Yeah, crazy. Have you not seen it?
OS: A hundred million dollars.
RG: Yeah, it’s crazy.
OS: That’s amazing.
RG: Yeah, maybe they should’ve replaced you [Audience laughs].
OS: I laughed and then I realized what you said [Audience laughs]. And then I cried.
Fan: Hi, guys. My question is, how would you describe yourselves as an ice cream flavor? And it can be plant-based, for Oliver.
OS: Brown butter. Brown-Brown sugar! Yeah, brown sugar. As an ice cream flavor… I don’t wanna say raspberry.
RG: Rocky Road or something. Yeah, I mean, that describes Eddie.
OS: How so [laughs]?
RG: The title.
OS: [Laughs] Seriously, I think that describes Eddie. Rocky Road.
RG: It’s got chunks of stuff [Audience laughs].
OS: You do got chunks of stuff [laughs].
RG: I don’t know. It’s-It’s all over the place, yeah. I think, I think I was just thinking about the title, the Rocky Road. It’s just been a rocky road for Eddie.
OS: Oh, yeah, okay.
RG: Yeah.
OS: I wanna say Neapolitan. Like, there’s a little bit of something for everybody, you know? Sometimes it’s a little bit strawberry, sometimes a little bit vanilla, sometimes a little bit chocolate [Audience laughs].
F: Sometimes you swirl them together.
OS: Yeah, he does.
F: Thanks, guys.
Fan: Hi, my name is Rebecca. I was wondering, if you ever did a crossover with The Rookie or High Potential, which-which one would you choose and why?
RG: Rookie [Audience cheers].
OS: Yeah. Yeah, in the last few weeks, I’ve met a ton of actors and actresses from The Rookie. And like, they’re super cool, I think we’d have a blast over there. I’ve had somebody, somebody recently said to me that I would be buried in a barrel with Lucy [Audience laughs]. And I was like “Alright, sure, yeah”. And they were like “But she’s with Tim”, and I was like “We’re buried in a barrel, we’re not falling in love. She can be with Tim”. But, yeah, I think we’d have a good time. Melissa, we met her at [Disney] Upfronts.
F: Thank you.
A: [Indistinguishable]
OS: What?
A: You remembered it from Dream It [Convention]?
OS: It was a week ago [Audience laughs].
A: Remember yesterday?
OS: Oh, yeah, I remember. Hi.
Fan: Hi, guys, I’m Leah. First of all, I just wanna say, could you say hi to Cora and Haley? They could not make it.
RG, OS: Cora [Wave].
F: And Haley.
RG: Hi, Haley.
OS: Where are you?
F: Well, one is in Texas and the other one’s in Indiana. So, they both had work.
OS: That ain’t very far. She [points at the audience] came from Canada.
F: I know, right?
OS: There’s a girl here who flew in from Paris. Sorry, we’re just [indistinguishable].
F: No, yeah, you’re so right. They should have come with me, it’s-it’s on them. This is for both of you. For your characters and yourself, if you body swapped with each other, what’s the first thing you would do? [Everyone laughs]
OS: I’d probably dance in my underwear [Audience laughs]. Yeah, no, genuinely. That’s what I would do, I would dance around. Wow, it’s all so smooth [laughs, gets up, trips over a bottle and sits back down] [Ryan laughs]. See, that’s why I’m doing that. Alright, bye.
RG: I don’t know what I would do in your body. That’s crazy-
OS: You should be so lucky. [Indistinguishable] [Laughs].
RG: [Laughs] That’s crazy. Oh, man. Talk about clips. I don’t know. ‘Cause the first thing that I think of was, like, your first, like, season, and you were just slutting around [Audience laughs]. So, I don’t know. Maybe be a slut.
F: Thank you, guys.
OS: Thanks.
Fan: From any TV show or movie, what would your dream-
OS: Wait, wait. Sorry, what?
F: What?
OS: No, I, sorry. I was still somewhere else.
F: From any TV show or movie, what would your dream blunt rotation be? Like, any characters. Or your, and your nightmare blunt rotation?
RG: Dream blunt rotation from any movie?
F: Yeah.
RG: Okay. [Oliver whispers] Make up, make believe. Yeah. My immediate thought would be Cheech and Chong. But I also like the Seth Rogan, just-
OS: I was thinking, like, Pineapple Express or… What’s the other one? With the baby. Knocked Up.
OS: Yeah, playing ping-pong. Yeah, playing ping-pongs.
RG: Yeah. Oh, that actually could be pretty good too. Stephen Se-, what’s his name? Seagull somebody…
A: Jason Seagull.
RG: Jason Seagull! There it is.
OS: Steven Seagal.
RG: Steven Seagal!
RG, OS: [Indistinguishable]
OS: Oh, nightmare blunt rotation [laughs].
RG: Yeah.
OS: Fate.
RG: Yeah. I think [thumbs up]. I don’t know.
OS: Or you tell us.
F: Did you answer both?
OS: Yeah, we said-
F: Okay.
RG: Yeah, I would do it with Chimney.
OS: Yeah, we said Steven Seagal would be our nightmare one. Maybe, like, Conor McGregor. Like, he strikes me as the type where, like, you’re having a good time, and then it’s like “Oh, wait, are we serious now? Are you trying to fight me?”.
RG: I don’t know if he’s doing weed though.
OS: Yeah, that’s what I mean. Is it a nightmare?
RG: Yeah. [Ryan and Oliver turn around] Everybody! [Audience cheers] [Inaudible] The man, the myth, the legend!
OS: Gavin, Gavin McHugh!
Gavin enters the stage
RG: Hang on, buddy. Get him right in between us. Yeah!
OS: [Is handed a microphone] Two microphones.
RG: Show stealer. [Gavin sits down] Dad took us in there.
OS: Do our best. Here, this is your microphone, so you can speak to the people.
RG: Don’t say the rude things we told you [Audience laughs].
Gavin McHugh: Okay.
OS: [Tries to hand a microphone to Gavin] Okay, I’ll hold it.
GM: Okay.
OS: Hello?
RG: Next question.
Fan: What’s your favorite part about Buck’s kidnapping in Season 9?
GM: Okay, they wanna get into the serious. So what, so what does, what do, what does she mean?
OS: She said, what-what’s this favorite part about the kidnapping episode? You have one?
GM: Oh, I remember when Eddie walked into the house and he’s, like, I think “What are you doing here?”. [Ryan whispers] Oh, he’s-
RG: The one where he [Oliver] gets, he gets stolen by some crazy old lady.
OS: Did you not watch my episode?
GM: No!
RG: [Inaudible] super cool in it, just letting you know.
OS: Yeah, you’ll like it.
GM: Wait, which episode are you talking about?
OS: You know, when we were on a road trip and we had a crash.
GM: Thirteen.
RG: Yeah. Yeah!
OS: Yes, thirteen. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
A: Yeah!
GM: Oh, what’s my favorite part?
RG, OS: Yeah.
OS: You know, mine was, mine was when I’m like “I’m Derek, I’m Derek, I’m Derek”, when she’s prodding me with the cattle prod. That was my favorite part, ‘cause it was really dark, and I wasn’t sure if it would be too dark for network TV. That was my favorite part.
GM: I really don’t pay close attention [Audience and Ryan laugh].
RG: I love you, dude.
OS: Welcome to our life [Laughs].
RG: I think my favorite part was the driving sequence, like, just singing and having fun, throwing cheese balls at each other.
OS: Do you remember how good we were at throwing cheese balls? [Ryan nods] So, they had to ask us to miss.
RG: Yeah.
OS: ‘Cause we might wanna use a miss. And we just couldn’t miss.
F: Thank you.
RG, OS: Thank you.
GM: Of course.
Fan: Hello. I was gonna ask, I’m giving Oliver’s question to Gavin, but Gavin, what’s your favorite memory from set?
GM: Oh… A lot of people, technically, have asked me this question a lot of times.
OS: Be original [Audience laughs].
F: I didn’t know you were coming out!
GM: And I think my favorite memory was when I first worked on set with Ryan. He would always read me books [Audience coos]. Yeah, he would always read me books. My-My mom’s like “Do you remember that memory?”, and I’m like “No” [Everyone laughs].
RG, OS: She said “Your favorite memory”.
RG: (Laughs] I love that.
GM: Yeah [Ryan laughs].
RG: It’s my favorite memory that he forgot.
F: And I was just gonna ask Ryan if he can say who he thinks called when he found out about Bobby.
RG: Who I think called?
F: Or if you know.
RG: I do know, yes. It was this guy’s [Oliver] sister. Yeah, it was Maddie. Was, you know, any Maddie scene they [mimics scissors cutting] [Audience laughs].
OS: Oh, wait, you actually shot that?
RG: No, but I guess it was technically supposed to be Maddie’s voice on the other end. And, yeah. That scene actually lasted a lot longer than what was shown, so… Yeah, it was Maddie.
F: They need to release it.
GM: Well, again, again I didn’t pay close attention [Audience laughs].
F: Thank you.
RG: Thank you.
OS: What do you got?
Fan: Hi, my name’s Valentina and my question is, if you could be any character from the 118 for one episode, who would you be and why?
GM: What? Oh, I did not know this question was coming to me, just so you know.
OS: I thought I passed this guy, ‘cause we are in the 118. So, I figured…
GM: I would be Ryan, typically [Ryan celebrates].
RG: [Indistinguishable]
OS: And why?
GM: Because he’s always so funny, he cra-, he cracks up jokes and I’m like-
RG: God, I gotta bring you around more often [hugs Gavin]. I love you so much.
GM: Cracks up jokes, and-and I just think they’re so funny. Yeah, yeah.
OS: I would not be Hen, ‘cause she got that medical dialogue.
GM: Oh! You know she can hear you [Audience and Ryan laugh].
OS: No! No, it’s [indistinguishable] a compliment, and she nails it. I’m saying “I don’t wanna have to deal with it”. I would struggle. Don’t get me in trouble. Don’t come out here and get me in trouble. It would be difficult. Like, I-I really have sympathy for them having to do all the medical jargon. So, maybe I’ll be, like, Ravi. I’d look pretty. Take a blood pressure.
A: You are pretty!
OS: Thank you.
F: What about you, Ryan?
RG: Chimney. I think I’d be Chimney. I don’t know why, I think I just wanna be different right now. But… What did you say?
A: You’d finally get scenes with Maddie.
RG: Oh, good call. Yes. Chimney, so I can actually work with Maddie.
F: Thank you.
RG: Thank you.
Fan: Hi, my name is Jackson and my question was, how did you guys film the tsunami scene?
OS: Gavin, you remember when we shot that?
GM: Oh, yeah.
OS: Remember-Remember shooting that?
GM: That was way back in Season 3, and actually I do remember. I was hanging over Buck’s shoulders and I did not stop laughing [Audience laughs].
OS: It was fun, right?
GM: It was fun.
OS: So-
GM: And we got to ride the truck ride. The funny thing is, Buck was too tall to ride under the rides so, but he, but it’s so funny, because he rode, he rode the shark ride with me even though he’s too tall.
OS: The rule breaker.
RG: You remember where you shot that, buddy?
GM: Oh, yeah. I remember that was in Mexico.
OS: Yeah, we went to Mexico. And you remember the big…? So, they had these big water tanks, remember?
GM: Wotah, yeah [Audience and Ryan laugh].
OS: What?
GM: Wotah. Wotah. They had these big wotah.
RG: This might be my new favorite show right here [Audience laughs].
GM: No!
OS: I see how it is, I see. And these big wotah tanks, they meet the ocean-
GM: Oliver, Oliver.
OS: Yeah?
GM: You don’t wanna be messing around with me, ‘cause, you know- [Audience laughs].
RG: Woah, woah, woah, woah [Lowers Gavin’s microphone] [Oliver laughs]. Keep it PG. He already knows. He already knows not to mess with you, yeah.
OS: Did you want to tell him how we, how we, you want to answer Jack’s question? So, we didn’t, we’re in the water tanks, weren’t we? And they met the ocean.
GM: Oh, yeah.
OS: So, when you’re in the water tanks, it looks like you’re just in the ocean, because the edge of them joins up with the ocean. So, they rebuilt the pier, the Santa Monica pier and the thing, and then they threw us down there-
GM: And then Buck saved my life.
OS: And you couldn’t stop laughing.
RG: Fun fact, that’s the same place they shot the Titanic, the movie Titanic, so…
OS: So, they built those water tanks, yeah, for Titanic.
F: Thank you. Have a great weekend.
RG: You too.
OS: Thank you, you too, buddy.
Fan: Hello again, my name is Quinn. So, we know a lot of the fandom ships Buck and Eddie, and my question is, if you guys were the writers and you had to make Buddie go canon, how would you do it?
OS: She said “If you had to make Buddie go canon-
RG: How would you do it, Gav?
GM: Sorry, I didn’t quite catch the question.
RG: Explain it [Oliver].
OS: Tell him, tell him the question, Ryan.
RG: So, if you had to make Oliver’s character, Buck, and my character, your dad- [Audience laughs]
GM: Yeah.
RG: Be boyfriends-
GM: Oh, yeah. Okay, okay.
RG: How would you do it?
OS: Keep going, keep going.
RG: How would you do it? What’s the story you’d bring us into?
GM: Oh, you know, this is kind of a tough question here, ‘cause… How would I do it?
OS: I think that’s part of the difficulty, right? There’s, there would be a lot of anticipation for it, right? I think some people are interested in that story, and so there would be a lot of questions on how to make that come around.
GM: Yeah.
OS: Ryan, what do you got?
RG: Don’t you do that. I see what you’re doing. If I had to do it, I don’t know, maybe like a… We’ve always played around with the idea of doing like a telenovela-type episode. So, something like that. It integrates, like, Eddie Diaz loves watching telenovelas, we’ve already established that and everything. So, maybe some-something in that nature.
A: What does that mean?
RG: What does that mean?
OS: I would have-
RG: Super, super dramatic.
OS: It’s raining.
RG: Yeah, yeah. What?
OS: It’s raining.
RG: “Buck, no, aquí no” [Audience laughs].
OS: “Why didn’t you write me? I wrote you every day”.
RG: Yeah, you’ll be speaking Spanish in this one. Sorry, buddy.
OS: Well, sí.
RG: [Laughs] Sí.
OS: I think, you know, I would do as well, I would do… I’d probably have you realize and then I’d have you run away from it. And I’d be like “Why are you being weird? Why don’t you talk to me? I wrote you every day” [Audience laughs]. I think that’s what I got, maybe.
F: Thank you.
GM: Oh, my God.
OS: Yeah, wow. That was, like-
RG: This guy [Gavin] is still buffering, so we’ll get back to you [Audience laughs].
Fan: Hello, my name is Matthew.
RG, GM: Hello.
F: I was wondering if you could say hi to Cara and Gracie for me.
RG: What up, Cara? What up, Gracie?
OS: Where are you?
GM: Oh, is that your new favorite question right now? Where are you? [Audience laughs]
RG: They love each other, they do.
GM: Thank you, thank you.
F: Anyway, my question is, what do you think your character’s, like, guilty pleasure/binging show to watch after they get home from shift?
GM: You’re gonna have to take this one, Ryan [Everyone laughs]. ‘Cause I, typically, again, don’t really pay much attention [Oliver laughs].
RG: Yeah. We’re starting to get the theme, buddy [Oliver laughs].
GM: Are you good? Are you good?
F: Or, like, for Christopher, what is, like, what is his favorite video game to play?
OS: I-I think, I think for Buck, I’m just throwing on some sports. Like, I think it’s kind of how I feel when I get back from a, like, heavy day of work. I’m like “I don’t wanna, like, dive into something heavy. Just put something on, it becomes background noise”. So, this is not my option of choice, but I feel like Buck’s, like, watching a baseball or something.
RG: Yeah.
OS: Which-
RG: I-I feel like Eddie is, again, going on with the telenovela thing. Maybe, like, popping in and being, like, The Real Housewives of Atlanta or something [Audience laughs]. I don’t know.
GM: The Real Housewives? Why would you…?
RG: It’s Eddie, not me, buddy.
OS: [Inaudible], Ryan.
GM: Oh, okay, okay.
RG: Yeah. What would you be watching or what-what would you be playing?
OS: Yeah, when Chris gets back from school, what’s he gonna do?
RG: Sesame Street [Audience laughs].
GM: Well, you know, you know, Chris always has, Christopher always has homework assignments from his teacher, so his dad makes him do it, because, even though he doesn’t wanna do it. But he… What’s the favorite video?
RG: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
GM: Oh.
RG: Skinner Max.
GM: To be honest- [Oliver laughs]. No, I actually have an answer for this question. So, to be honest-
RG: Don’t lie to us.
GM: I think, I think Christopher’s favorite video game is the one, the one where-where Buck is talking to, where Buck is talking to Christopher and Eddie and they’re playing-
RG: Oh, the fighting game?
OS: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
GM: Yeah, yeah. And I said “No mercy”.
RG: It’s like [inaudible].
OS: It’s fighting games.
RG: Yeah. Okay.
OS: Thank you, Matthew.
F: Thank you.
RG, GM: Thank you.
GM: And then you lost and I won [Audience laughs].
RG: Eh, I’ll run it back. I think I won.
GM: Okay. Okay.
RG: I think you won the first one. Anyway, next question.
GM: Okay.
Fan: I’ve been watching your show with my daughter since she was probably way too young to be watching.
GM: No way.
F: But I think the tsunami arc was the most, like, tense and stressful for us, because we didn’t really know what was happening. What was the most stressful on set to film, to go through? Most dramatic.
OS: You know, one of the most physically demanding ones was actually the earthquake. Do you remember, like, doing all that stuff? Because, so-so, they built these huge sets, right, that could tip over. And it was really hard, like, traveling across these hallways and stuff and, like, trying to keep your balance and, like, carry stuff. And I had the-the Ali character, you know, trying to support her. Like, and it was the first time, I think, we- Oh, no! I change my answer [Audience laughs]. The plane in Season 1.
GM: Oh.
OS: Yeah, they built this lake and flew in this plane. Obviously, that’s how you get planes places [Audience laughs]. And put it in the middle of this lake. And we shot that across nights, and it was the coldest week of the year. And they would ferry us out to the plane, and as it’s in the middle of this lake that they had dug, and then they take the ferry away. So, we were just stuck out there. It was so cold, and it was, like, the first… Me, Pete and Aisha are the ones on the thing, and we had this one scarf that we found and we would, like, stow up in the thing, and we just stand in a three little, like, triangle, like, right here [gets up and exemplifies], and we’d wrap it around all three of our heads and just be like “Alright, we’re ready for the next take. Action”. You know? So, yeah, that was probably one of the most, like, physically traumatic ones and, like, set the tone for “Oh, this show could be, like, tough on you”. But it was cool and, to be honest, it was totally worth it in the end.
F: Got it. Thank you.
GM: And-And can it be from any season?
RG: Any season.
GM: My stressful part of the show is-is Season 9. I always, I always, Season 9, episode 11, I mean, I hate to see Eddie going through stuff with Abigail and… Oh, yeah.
RG: Okay.
GM: And-
RG: Stressed you out?
GM: Yeah, that stresses me out. Imagine if I had to, just imagine if I had to talk, just imagine if I were the one going into the kitchen and talking with her. Well, thank goodness, I wasn’t, so [Audience laughs].
OS: Thank you.
Fan: Hi, I’m Carrie and I was just wondering if there’s ever been scenes that you watched cast members film that you’re ma-, that you’re like “Man, I wish I got to do that instead of them”?
OS: You know that scene where you [Ryan] got to smash up your bedroom? I’d love to do a scene like that.
RG: Oh, yeah, that was fun.
OS: Like, that would be really fun to me. Like, one of those, I always think that when I see those-those scenes in movies of people, like, destroying TVs and smashing everything. It’s, like, a rage room. Yeah, something like that would be cool. I don’t know why Buck would ever be doing that, but, you know.
GM: Yeah, just don’t smash anyone into the...
RG: I think [laughs], your-your storyline where you [Oliver] almost died and you, like, came out of your body and, like, were talking to yourself.
OS: I did die.
RG: Well, you did die. That-That kind of thing, that-that scene, super, super cool, yeah. I would love to do that.
OS: That-That was interesting, doing that. Actually, being the one side and then going over, being the other side.
RG: Yeah. Did you do it, like, tennis ball kind of thing or what?
OS: No, I had Skyler, who’s my stand up on the show. He would dress up as me, and so I do the scenes with him. And then I, then we’d swap clothes and go to do the scene again.
RG: Yeah, that seemed fun.
OS: That was cool. Any scene that you [Gavin] would wanna do, that somebody else has had on the show that you can think of?
GM: Oh, any scene, okay. And it can be from any of the-
RG: Any.
OS: Any, any of the other characters, right.
GM: [Sighs] Let’s try to think about this. I-I mean, just thinking about what Bobby went through with Athena. Like-
RG: You’d wanna do that? You’d wanna tap into Bobby and Athena?
GM: Yeah. If Bobby was still alive [Audience coos].
RG: They-They always do that [Audience laughs].
OS: [Inaudible] anytime. It happens every time. Watch. If Bobby was still alive [Audience coos].
RG: Bobby. Here we go. Wanna try it?
GM: What?
RG: [Indistinguishable]
GM: No, no.
RG: Okay. So, you’d wanna be Bobby at some point in time with Athena. Who wouldn’t? [Audience laughs]
RG, OS: Thank you.
Fan: Hi. I wanted to ask what your guys’ favorite colors are.
OS: Brown sugar [Audience laughs].
GM: What?
RG: Your favorite color. What’s your favorite color?
GM: Me, personally, I like the color… I mean, they always change from point of view to point of view, but I’d say my favorite color is…
RG: The suspense is killing us [Audience laughs].
OS: Don’t worry, there’s no wrong answer.
RG: Yeah.
GM: My favorite two colors are green and blue.
RG, OS: Alright.
OS: You know, at a convention, somebody at once asked me to guess your favorite color. And you know what I guessed? I guessed red.
GM: Oliver, have you ever played a game where it’s, like, you’re in water and-and-and-and if you guessed the wrong color, you get dunked in the water?
OS: So I would have just been dumped, yeah. I like a nice-
GM: Wet.
OS: Anyway, he’s already answered [laughs]. You also-
RG: Mine’s really easy. I’ve always said brown.
OS: Brown.
RG: Yeah.
OS: You’re always wearing a brown, yeah.
GM: Well-Well, I’m assuming your [Ryan] favorite color is red, because-
OS: No, it’s brown [laughs].
RG: No, it’s brow.
GM: Oh, no.
Matt tries to enter the stage and is collectively booed
OS: We gotta go into speed mode, we gotta go into speed mode. I like a nice dark green. Great. Thank you. What do you got? Go, go, go.
Fan: Okay. What do you guys do to kind of get out of the mindset of your character, since you guys play him for so long? During hiatuses or even at the end of the day?
RG: Sleep.
OS: Yeah, like, it’s fun while we’re there and then go home and, like, real life takes over. Like, I-I know that’s not, but there’s not much of an answer, I don’t think. It’s just like, that was work, this is… Now I gotta scoop up dog poop.
RG: It used to be smoke with Kenny, but not anymore [Audience laughs].
GM: No…!
RG: [Indistinguishable] [covers Gavin’s ears].
OS: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes?
Fan: Hi.
OS: Hi.
F: If you guys could bring in a supernatural element, like, werewolves-
OS: Could you put your mic a little bit closer to you? I’m sorry.
F: Hi. If you could bring in a supernatural element, what would it be? Like, vampires, werewolves…?
OS: Oh… We would be able to fly to emergencies. Like “Oh, no, this has happened”, “Alright, 118, SHH”. That’s a flying voice.
RG: Yeah, each person could have a superpower.
OS: Does that count as a supernatural element? Not really, no?
F: Yeah. I mean, yeah.
OS: Thanks.
RG: I feel like if each person had their own, like, thing about elements, it’d be cool too. Like, one could, one could do fire, one could do lightning, one could do, like, all these-
OS: Fire?
GM: Fi-ah!
OS: But we’re firefighters.
RG: Fair. I don’t know.
OS: That was a cool question. Thank you.
RG: And they’re leaving us.
OS: Oh…
A: We are forced to!
Fan: Last question, I guess.
OS: I guess make it a good one.
F: Well, I was gonna ask y’all what, out of the three of y’all scenes together, what are y’all’s favorite scenes you’ve filmed together?
RG: That’s a good one.
OS: That is a nice one, yeah.
GM: Oh, I’m gonna let Oliver go first.
OS: Oh, thanks so much.
GM: You’re welcome, buddy [pats Oliver’s shoulder] [Audience and Oliver laugh]. You’re welcome.
OS: May-Maybe the skateboard scene way back in the day, where we brought a skateboard and we were… Do you remember that? When we were all riding through the park? We were, like, guiding that big frame and you were on the skateboard.
GM: No [Audience laughs].
OS: Okay, great. Meaningful to me, but [shrugs].
GM: I actually take that back, I do remember that. That was Season 3, episode 11. And then there was an extra scene where-
OS: A minute ago you didn’t remember it.
GM: 11 or 12, I can’t remember. But there was a scene where Eddie, Christopher and Carla are sitting on-
OS: The question was about Buck [Audience laughs]. The three of us. You cut me out. No, you can say the one with Carla. It’s all good.
GM: So, the one with Carla [Audience laughs]. Eddie, Christopher and Carla were sitting at the dining table and-and Eddie, I-I-I guess, I-I guess it was my, I-I guess it was my idea to get on the skateboard, which I should never have done, but-
RG: You had a good time.
GM: Yeah. Well-Well, it-it’s different when an-another kid, older, pushes a-a-
RG: Yeah. How rude.
GM: A-A kid with CP on a skateboard, when-when-when everybody knows that he-he’s gonna fall off. Like-Like…
RG: My favorite scenes of us together though, bud, are the ones where we put popcorn or licorice in front of this guy [Gavin], ‘cause he turns into, like, a garbage disposal-
OS: Woah, he eats…!
RG: Shoveling it into his mouth.
OS: Remember when we had the macaroons on the table? Was it macaroons, macarons?
RG: Yeah.
OS: Remember that one recently?
RG: Oh, yeah. I’m smacking on your hand, but you kept on eating them. Yeah.
OS: Oh, yeah.
RG: He loves his sweets. So, I love him, watching him just devour things.
GM: So does my sister [Audience laughs].
RG: [Looks back] [Inaudible]
RG, OS: Thank you.
F: Thank you.
RG: There he [Matt] is [Audience boos].
OS: Oh, don’t boo him. We love him.
RG: Give it up for Matt [Audience cheers].
MC: Guys, make some damn noise for Gavin McHugh, Oliver Stark and Ryan Guzman! [Audience cheers]
Ryan, Oliver and Gavin start to leave the stage
A song starts playing
RG: So sad.
OS: This is the song that I died! This is my death song. My death song. I don’t know why I got so excited. You can imagine it right now [pretends to die]. [Ryan pretends to strangle Oliver] Wait-Wait for the drop and you’ll be like “Oh, yeah, Buck could die to this”. Eddie’s crying [Ryan pretends to cry]. Maybe Pete comes back and it’s, like, we reunite in the afterlife.
RG: I can see it now. Yeah, yeah, I can see.
OS: And the, like… I got nothing.
RG: Mic drop [leaves his microphone on the chair].
OS: Buck is dead. Wait, you gotta take this [microphone] with you. Buck could die to this song, right?
Y'know what we were robbed of? retired bobby being at home and everyone turning up at his door like clockwork because they still need him to help them out.
Like the episode when Bobby was first suspended and it was just everyone going to Bobby for advice and venting while Interim Captain Han was being too much.
We were robbed of Retired Bobby Nash bring a stay at home dad, helping his kids and his firefam w advice and then also helping solve his detective wife's cases while hanging out w his best buds Micheal and David
Rewatching 2x01 Under Pressure and then immediately watching 9x13 Mother's Boy immediately after is an EXPERIENCE like
man these two boys kinda beefing w each other on the first day don't know how much they'll do and how far they'll drag their beaten and broken bodies just to kill/die for the other and their shared child in the future like
do love that we've established eddie as not only a hangry man but also a picky eater. grumbling about hospital food. this is the same guy that puts protein powder in cola. eddie diaz is very particular about food unless it gets him gains or is made by one evan buckley.
The thing is, Eddie being held separate from the rest of the 118 could be a really strong, intentional piece of storytelling about the isolation of not being your authentic self, how keeping things hidden or repressed means not only that you’re preventing pieces of yourself from being part of the whole you but that you’re always holding back from true connection with the people around you, consciously or unconsciously, to prevent them from surfacing or uncovering those hidden parts that you don’t want seen.
It could be quite powerful, beautiful even, to see those connections flourish once Eddie is allowed to discover and express his truth.
I’m just not convinced the writers are doing it on purpose, or that they’ll ever even acknowledge it never mind use it narratively in this sort of way.
As a parentified elder daughter with a younger brother who pretty much has ADHD and is very loud in terms of personality and just always getting into trouble and as someone who's been his parent since I was like 3 years old...
I always have complicated feelings about elder sisters with younger brothers in media. It is so easy for me to hate them because I project and from one older sister of a younger brother to another older sister I get so mad at them so easily. And it's so easy for me to hate them but at the same time I do love them.
All this is to say... I love and hate Maddie. And it's a very easy for me to hate Maddie. Because I would hate myself to that extent if I had left my younger brother for whatever reason. And sometimes it's just so easy to hate characters that you relate to because at least you're not self-destructing in real life. Projecting onto characters and then hating them instead
bobby nash is evan "buck" buckley's parent /canon adjacent-ish au where one day after leaving home while out on a jobsite or getting lunch at the ranch in montana (no matter where, but just a place where they give their workers some sort of provided lunch no matter how (in)substantial), buck glances up at a carton of milk one of the guys puts down at his spot across from him.
it's one of those little ones that he'd see in the cafeteria at school, the guy (buck thinks maybe his name is Andrews?) peels it open to pour it over a to-go cup of frosted flakes and sets the carton back down and buck looks up from his stale-but-also-soggy ham sandwich as it spins a little atop the laminate table, turning just so so buck can see an image printed on the side.
it's blurry, of course, the picture made of the same tiny dots as the rest of the graphics on the packaging, but from this distance, the pointillism of the portrait doesn't matter.
because buck recognizes the face printed under ''HAVE YOU SEEN ME?"
because buck sees that face every day of his life.
that face looking back at him from across the table is the same he sees in the mirror each morning.
he grabs the carton without thinking about it, only barely managing to register the oddness of grabbing a more-stranger-than-coworker's trash at the cafeteria table but he manages to brush it off saying he was getting up anyway and thought he'd just toss the carton away for him.
andrews shrugs it off and buck takes the empty carton, tucking it away in one of the large pockets of his work jacket as he throws away the rest of his meager lunch.
he's supposed to be starting his shift here in less than 20 minutes, but he takes the time to duck into the nearest bathroom and carefully peel apart the flimsy cardboard and rinse out any leftover milk residue, folding it on itself so only the face (his face! buck's face!!) smiles up at him.
it's an older image of course, looking as staged as his other school portraits he remembers taking home to his parents but never seeing again up on any of their walls (which is normal, not all maddie's pictures are up on the wall either).
he looks young, maybe no more than what, six? seven? with a darker spot than normal above the dark of his eyebrow in the black and white printing.
and even if he didn't know to look for the birthmark there on his brow, even if it wasn't there, he knows what his face looks like by now (he's had it for 23 years now after all), there's a tiny blurb underneath the his portrait:
Name: Ethan Nash
Missing since: 6/27/1997
From: St. Paul, MN
DOB: 6/27/1991
Hair: Blonde, Curly
Eyes: Blue
Distinguishing features: Reddish-pink birthmark above/below left eyebrow.
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THIS CHILD, PLEASE CONTACT THE ST. PAUL POLICE DEPARTMENT OR THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR MISSING AND EXPLOITED CHILDREN
buck reads and re-reads the information.
so little, so factual, so....
he keeps getting stuck on the dates.
he went missing on his 6th birthday? that can't be right, he remembers his 6th birthday, his mom threw a huge party at their local chuck e. cheese right before school started! his birthday's in october, not june!
so that settles it.
this child, Ethan, is NOT buck and buck was NOT somehow someway for some reason kidnapped as a kid and taken from his real home in Minnesota because he's Evan from Pensylvania who's birthday is in october NOT june.
buck lets out a breath.
but you've always hated the name evan, why is that??there could have been plenty of time after they took you for you to forget minnesota.
they could have taken you and you were so little you would have believed them when they said 'no sweetie, you're birthday is in octob---'
someone knocks on the bathroom door and buck snaps out of it, shoving the carton and it's obviously blatant lies into the trash his pocket as he heads out to his shift.
he does NOT carefully tuck the carton with his face on it into a side compartment of his duffle bag.
he does NOT start researching the Nashes and their missing son once he's back off the jobsite and can go longer than 10 minutes with a solid internet connection only to shut his phone completely off when he gets close enough to know his dad once worked (still does?) at a fire station in st. paul and how that may or may not hit a bit too close to home, what with a long-forgotten fascination with firetrucks and firemen clawing it's way up the back of his skull.
he just doesn't.
he continues on like normal, ignoring the already expected lack of calls from his parents Margaret and Philip Buckley his parents.
normal.
he ignores the lack of responses from his sis his sister Maddie Buckley Kendall.
normal.
he just happens to find out that his parents the parents of that kid on the milk carton are named Robert and Marcy Nash and he has two siblings they have two other kids named Robert Jr. and Brooke from some well-timed keyboard smashes and google just doing it's thing.
normal.
he books a flight to peru and stays a good little while as a bartender just because he can and because he is a well adjusted person and not because finding out that he was maybe possibly kidnapped and that his parents had more kids after he was gone hurt a lot more than it should have.
normal.
he leaves peru with conner because he wanted to and not because through some more well-timed and also totally random searches buck finding out that the same Nashes that lost their son Ethan in 1997 died in an apartment building fire just a year ago makes his skin crawl to stay.
normal.
he's a totally normal and well adjusted young man who was NOT kidnapped when he signs up for the LAFD academy because he thought he'd like it and NOT because there was something buried deep in his chest that told him it was the least he could do to honor his not-actually-his-dad who died in a fire while being a firefighter himself.
he's also totally normal and well adjusted when he feels something about this job settle into his bones.
he continues to be totally normal and well adjusted when his house assignment comes back and his captain's last name is Nash because that's a perfectly common last name and he's not going to ruffle feathers trying to get a different house at his first selection after academy training is over.
he also continues to be completely normal and also not spill the proverbial beans when he walks into the station on his first day and Robert Nash of Milk Carton Ethan™ fame and who should also be dead (all the Nashes died in that fire ....didn't they?) greets him with a "Have a seat, Buck." and double take at the spot above his left eye when buck takes off his hat.
bobby seeing this kid (okay, young man) walk into his firehouse all nervous and deciding after their little jokes to ease him in and take him under his wing almost immediately has nothing at all to do with the fact that he's almost the exact same age as his lost Ethan (he saw his paperwork, he saw that Evan's birthday is only a few months later than his son's)
UNTIL
buck takes off his academy ballcap and bobby feels like his chest is collapsing in on itself because there is NO forgetting that splash of color
but no, NO!
he CANNOT do this to himself. This is Evan Buckley. Not Ethan Nash. he is NOT his lost son. he would NOT be blessed so wholly and wonderfully after all this time.
not with what all he's done.
Bobby Nash is all but a family annihilator. He lost his son because he was busy looking over the aged labels of a shelf of bourbon just a bit too long and he was taken from him. almost quite literally walked by the hand away from him and out the store without knowing.
he punished himself with the same temptress that stole his attention away from his son to the extreme, drinking so much that he got hurt on a call, spiraled further even after having his beloved Brooke and Robbie, alcohol becoming a necessary crutch to the painkillers numbing his body.
and now they were all gone.
all because of him.
his oldest no doubt dead by now, his wife and two youngest children in a plot back in st. paul, there is no way on earth or in heaven would he be this blessed to find his son again.
but that doesn't mean he can't still take him under his wing and try his damndest to guide this man who is not his son but damn does he look it to being a better man
he thinks the scales are balancing back to how they should be when buck grows cocky literally and figuratively, thinks it's fitting that he have to be the one to look him in the eye and see that damn birthmark in his periphery as he fires the kid.
he can't believe he'd be given another chance with the son who is not his son when fate deems buck the only one to help with that home invasion
buck is hired back, and bobby is in a constant war with himself from then on.
he knows he has to be the one to die trying to save the mother from the plane crash because his life is worth less, but who's there at his side saying "Yeah, I know, I'm a terrible listener."?
bobby has a fleeting thought something along the lines of 'yeah you are, you were supposed to stay by the cart all those years ago and you didn't listen then, either!' before buck is swept away by the water around them.
another fleeting thought passes through his head, a thank you to a god he's recently only been asking 'why?' for saving his son again, before the metal pinning the mother's leg breaks free and they are both saved.
once again bobby asks why
over and over again, why why why why
why take him if only to give him back now?
why take him and give me more children to love only to take them away at my hand?
why can i accept he is my son but keep fully denying he is at the same time?
he can't look at buck, he constantly has an eye on him
he tells himself his well being is only a concern of his while they're on the clock, he finds himself with a gut feeling over a 48 off that something is wrong, only to come back on shift to find out buck had a stomach bug almost the whole time and subsisted on nothing but gatorade and granola bars the whole time
quietly files away the fact that both buck and Ethan are allergic to naproxen even though he knows that's a more that normal allergy to have and means nothing after buck is hospitalized post valentine's day date
over and over again he wars with himself, even after chimney convinces him to throw away his little black book, convinces him that there is no scale- he knows damn well there's a scale.
so he says he needs a partner for the new kid, someone to keep him grounded, help bobby keep the scales even when he can't, wonders why he feels so deeply that Edmundo Diaz is the right one for buck.
when the two dipshits decide that the two of them, the two firefighters over trained military professionals (quiets the thought that eddie is also a trained military professional), are going to disarm and de-leg the ordinance in the back of their ambulance, he fights the urge to order buck to stay out here, stay at his side.
he quietly keeps his mouth shut about buck's sister, adding that to the short list of 'he's not your son' signs right under 'he was born in october'
later, bobby's brain-to-mouth filter says "I'm not going to order any of you to go in there." when they get to the half-collapsed skyrise instead of "everyone else go, buck stay here where it's safe.", any additional warnings or world up-ending revelations dying behind tight-pressed lips as he watches buck and eddie stride away into the building
buck's "I feel like if I ever did that, you'd yell at me." when eddie scales a burning building to solo rope-drop in for a stranded kid at a different call is very accurate.
bobby feels his heart hammering in his throat when his past once again almost gets another of his children killed, the truth almost barreling out of him when buck is finally un-pinned from the truck.
for a little while, he thinks it's a good thing, thinks things are going back to normal and he's being punished further when his past is drug up to the rest of the team as a whole, watches as buck carefully avoids his gaze, thinks in relief that it's good that buck doesn't trust him.
unknowingly almost losing buck in the tsunami followed by telling himself that he's doing things for the right reasons when he tells buck the brass are keeping him off duty after the clot nearly kills him in bobby's back yard, the the lawsuit following finds him breathing a sigh of relief to find he's levered far enough on this side of the scale and push his son NOT HIS SON buck away
finally he feels like he's done enough wrong in the buck side of his world that there's no way he'd ever be so blessed to have found his son now
but when 'savior sibling' gets filed under bobby's 'not your son' list a few hectic years later followed almost immediately by buck telling him he thinks bobby is his dad, the scales in his chest implode.
bobby stares at him for a long time after he says it. blurts it out more like, nervously following up with, "I--nevermind Cap, I'll--"
but bobby steps to the side and buck hesitates only a second more before crossing the threshold
"I talked to Maddie." he says, in lieu of any other greeting, heading down the steps into the living room and immediately starting to pace. "My parents brought her baby box because she's pregnant y'know? There was a picture there--turns out I had a brother too."
he glances up briefly to shake a finger at bobby briefly to make his point, "Had being the keyword there, he died because I was a match for cells but it still ended up killing him and--"
he stops then, turns to look at bobby, who's still planted on the final step down into the living room.
"Did you know I used to love firetrucks?"
bobby's mouth twitches but he doesn't say anything.
"I used to have this big die-cast metal one, had the sirens and ladders and little hoses and everything, but I lost it somehow, or I thought I did, but then my mom told me she threw it out because it was too loud of a toy. Said that firetrucks weren't a good toy to have and she 'wouldn't tolerate any more of them in her home.'.
"I don't think that truck was ever at that house, Bobby."
Bobby's throat clicks as he swallows, his head tipping down almost imperceptibily.
"That was the first thing I asked Maddie tonight when I talked to her. She said she never remembered me having one at all.
"The next thing I asked her was..." Buck pauses to swallow down the rapidly re-forming lump in his throat. "Was where she thought I came from."
Bobby lets out a breath, and Buck continues. "I could tell she wanted to say it, say 'what are you talking about? you were born at Hershey General! I was there when they brought you home!' but she didn't.
"She said that they," he laces as much venom into his voice with the word as he can manage with how tight his voice feels, "Brought me home one day after mom was gone over a week, told her they'd been quietly going through an adoption process, keeping it quiet 'in case they weren't approved for one reason or another.'."
Buck huffs a teary laugh, "She didn't know, Bobby. She had no idea.
"She started to apologize for not telling me about Daniel, about not telling me i was adopted."
He laughs again, tears spilling out now, "She said 'Mom had been gone that week for a conference in St. Paul, did some shadowing with some nurses at the hospital there.'.
"I had to tell her." he sniffs, "I had to tell her I was taken."
Another half-sob-half-laugh, "I had to tell my sister she wasn't my sister, and now I'm telling my dad that he is my dad."
"How.." is all Bobby can manage.
Buck sniffles, laughs again, as he reaches into his back pocket and produces a many-times folded, long-wrinkled, scrap of cardboard, holding it out for Bobby to take.
He does. He reaches forward and steps off the last step onto the floor and takes the faded, but no less obvious in what it is, flattened milk carton from Buck's hand.
For the first time in years, Bobby looks down at his oldest son's picture.
"I saw it the first time on a jobsite in 2014."
Bobby cracks, shoulders heaving in a short cry.
"We wante--" a sob, "We wanted to try one last time, put something out again for anything anyone could give us.. and then--"
Bobby presses the heels of his hands into his eyes, Buck's cardboard portrait smushed awkwardly to his brow with the motion.
Buck reaches forward and pulls him into a hug, feeling something loosen in his chest when Bobby hugs him back, squeezing him tightly to him.
After a long moment, buck says "And then you got me."
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so i know that most people aren't fans of reheated nachos bc they'll always be soggier than the original nachos but - and walk with me here - if the nachos we speak of are the 'man fights tooth and nail to protect his best friend's child whom he was tasked to take care of during a natural disaster' variety....... well. nachos are still nachos at the end of the day and I'm quite partial to Mexican food :)
I have a fic that will make you cry cus I'm crying just thinking about it and I haven't even started writing yet cus I'm just doing the research and plotting. And like it will make you hate the Buckley's even more and love Evan so much and give Buck a new reason to reclaim the name Evan and I'm dying and happy and I NEED TO WRITE IT ?????? help why can't I just imagine it and I'll appear
I created an oc for a tragic backstory purposes for my crossover 911 fanfic and now I'm tearing up while imagining the scenes because I love her so much and she's so awesome and God I made her to be killed and I am SAD
someone post fic here pls I'll take any buddie or bobby& buck or buck whump or Eddie Diaz BAMF FICS pleaseee I beg. I need smth to tide me over until AO3 comes back
Screw Canon give me alive Bobby and Chris being a Buckling and ok I admit Theo is cute. Give me Alive Bobby and Chris running to Bobby when he feels like Buck is replacing him w Theo.
