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Hey guys, this is Mel. 
If you're listening to this, you

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Hope you enjoy. 
So in 2019, that's where the 

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story really begins, filming for
the first season of High School 

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Musical The Musical. 
The series begins in February, 

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and Olivia and Joshua play exes 
who are cast as Gabriella and 

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Troy in their school's 
production of High School 

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Musical, and through the season 
they rekindle their relationship

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through the proximity that the 
musical brings them. 

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So they play lovers on the show,
essentially Olivia and Joshua. 

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So production began in February,
like I said. 

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And in March, Joshua posted to 
his Instagram, like a Instagram 

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story, a video of him bowling. 
And you can hear that Olivia is 

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the one holding the camera and 
she's like talking to him and 

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laughing. 
And it doesn't sound or look 

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like anyone else is there other 
than Joshua and Olivia. 

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So it must have just spend the 
two of them bowling together. 

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And how old are they both at 
this point? 

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Yeah, so she's 16 and he's 19, 
OK. 

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I think that's a appropriate I 
and I'm sure there's some people

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who are going to be like the age
different. 

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But. 
I can't even imagine what I have

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in common with a 16 year old I. 
Think it's fine? 

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Well. 
It kind of comes up, but I'll 

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get into it, but. 
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I don't think it's too crazy. 
Yeah, 16. 

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I mean, that's kind of like high
school age. 

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Different that would be like a 
high school freshman dating a 

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no. 
I think that would be like a 

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sophomore. 
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 

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Dating like a senior. 
Oh sorry, I thought I meant of. 

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College. 
No. 

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It would be like an Oh no. 
One turns most. 

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I mean, I guess some people stay
back. 

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Some people, you know, aren't 
the typical age. 

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But yeah, I guess he would be 
maybe like a freshman in 

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college. 
Yeah, but like, what that 

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happens. 
I mean, sometimes like your 

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significant other goes to 
college. 

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Yeah, and you're still in high 
school and. 

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Then you're still there, but 
like you were in school 

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together. 
I don't know. 

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I don't think it's that crazy. 
No, it's not that. 

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Crazy and technically like 
they're both still teenagers and

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it's only like a couple. 
Exactly. 

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He's still 19. 
It's like he's like 25 or 

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something. 
Yeah, that would be crazy. 

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I mean, Miley was, but that. 
Happens. 

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Yeah, Miley was 15 dating a 20 
year old. 

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Like that's way weirder. 
OK, I know that's only one year 

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difference for both ages, but 
that is way weirder, yeah. 

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Well, cuz that's like a freshman
in high school. 

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Yeah, with someone who's like a 
sophomore in college, that is 

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weird. 
I think this was the age 

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difference when it was Taylor 
Swift and Taylor Lautner. 

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Oh, oh, it might have been who? 
Who was who? 

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I don't even know who. 
Taylor. 

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Was older. 
Oh, I think it might have been 

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like something like that, or 
like 20 and 17. 

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Yeah. 
Well anyway, well, filming the 

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first season, Olivia Rodrigo 
wrote a song for the show called

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All I Want and Joshua later said
that he was the second person to

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hear the song after Olivia wrote
it, the first being her mother. 

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And apparently Joshua said that 
Olivia didn't like the song and 

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when she told him this, he said 
what? 

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This is perfect, this is 
incredible. 

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And then he later said about 
hearing the song for the first 

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time, but it was a memory he 
would never forget. 

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And that she was quote UN quote,
special. 

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I didn't know she wrote that. 
And around the same time, Joshua

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took Olivia driving for the 
first time. 

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Olivia had her permit and she 
said that they went around the 

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in and out parking lot with him 
teaching her how to drive. 

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OK, how do we know this? 
Do they talk about it in 

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interviews or? 
Yeah, they talked about it like 

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in interviews during this time 
were people. 

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Like shipping them back then 
like you it it might be hard to 

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know in in retrospect. 
OK. 

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No I do know this because as I 
was doing research I found a 

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bunch of YouTube videos of fan 
videos of people shipping them 

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or being like Olivia and Joshua 
are dating and I could prove it.

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Here are the clips of the show. 
So there were like Joe Livia 

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fans that were locked in. 
Yeah, yeah. 

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Well, on July 1st, Olivia posted
to Instagram celebrating the 

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fact that the filming for the 
first season had wrapped, and 

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she included a picture of her 
with the cast. 

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And in this picture, she and 
Joshua are next to one another, 

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and she's kind of tucked into 
him with an arm around his back.

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And that's actually picture 
number one that I sent to you 

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guys so you can see. 
Oh. 

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OK, yeah, it looks like they're 
the stars of this picture. 

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Yeah, and it's like her arm 
around the other guy. 

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It's just Joshua. 
I don't know. 

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The body language. 
Yeah, I'm a body language 

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experience. 
Yeah. 

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I wouldn't think anything of it 
necessarily though. 

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No, it just seems it's just like
a picture that she posted 

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though, so I just thought to 
bring it up, Yeah. 

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They do look close, yeah. 
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Like she's like, turned into 
him, you know, like she's 

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cheated towards him, not the 
camera, you know, I don't know. 

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I definitely would have also had
a crush on him at that age. 

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Well, on August 23rd, so this is
after the first season rat. 

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While on the carpet for the D23 
Expo, Olivia and Joshua are 

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interviewed together and after 
they talk about how much they 

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have in common, the interview 
asked. 

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The interviewer asked if they 
were dating and this is their 

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response. 
I did. 

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One of the first plays I did was
Annie, and it's actually so 

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funny. 
We did it through the same 

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theater company. 
Oh, yeah. 

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But we didn't know each other 
back then. 

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And now we met and we're like, 
oh, wow. 

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Like we had a lot in common. 
Yeah, yeah, yeah. 

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Are you guys dating? 
No. 

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You know, we have a, we have a 
lot of chemistry for everybody 

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in the show, so it's nice we're 
all this. 

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Yeah, it seems like they were 
both kind of awkward about it, 

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especially Olivia, 'cause she 
even, like, jumbles her words. 

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She says, you know, we have a 
lot of chemistry for everyone on

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this show. 
And it's like, what does that 

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even mean? 
It seems like she was stuck 

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between two phrases. 
We have a lot of chemistry with 

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everyone, or we have a lot of 
love for everyone. 

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I don't know. 
I love how that interview was 

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like Interesting interesting. 
Are you 2 dating like? 

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And at the end, she's like just 
a random question. 

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No, it was not a random 
question. 

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I know she did say like we have 
a lot in common. 

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Yeah. 
Interesting. 

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They I just got to say they are 
so young. 

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They just seem like such babies 
than me. 

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Oh my God, they look like 
they're like 14. 

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I know he's older but they look 
so young. 

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I know. 
But they're. 

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Voices. 
I know, but their statement at 

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that point in time is just their
best pals. 

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And that's pretty much it. 
But when the first season 

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premieres towards the end of 
2019, Olivia and Joshua are 

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paired a lot to do press 
together for the show. 

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All right, I will have to stop 
the episode right there. 

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