The Lonely Hearts Club with Writer Cory Martin

Beyond the OC (Welcome to the OC)

Melinda Clarke

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2023

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Rachel Bilson and Melinda Clarke are joined by Cory Martin, the writer who began as Stephanie Savage’s assistant, moved her way up, and penned the novelizations of The OC! They are discussing S2 Ep12, “The Lonely Hearts Clubs.” Happy Valentine’s Day… Before diving into the episode that had the hosts yelling at their screens, they hear all about Cory’s OC experience – from pulling an all-nighter preparing the pilot presentation to writing the episode that Tate Donovan directed. Did you know there was a potential spin-off about The OC that Cory was going to write on? Listen to find out which OC character it was about! Cory discusses her new book: The Yoga Prescription: A Chronic Illness Survival Guide, in which she discusses using philosophies of yoga to cope with her MS. Then, they dive into the episode! They’re talking nose-humping, the sad-looking bus Seth travels home on, and Peter Gallagher’s performance making or breaking the viewers’ love of Sandy! Cory shares which storyline wasn’t in the original episode outline and they all discuss how the network dictated the outcome of the famous Alex and Marissa kiss. Stay until the end for story time when Melinda and Rachel read an excerpt from one of Cory’s OC novelizations, “The Summer Bummer.” The Lonely Hearts Club Synopsis: It’s Valentine’s Day in the OC but is anyone excited? Sandy attempts to make it up to Kirsten for lying about Rebecca. But, Sandy makes a choice to see Rebecca on Valentine’s Day, putting his marriage in jeopardy. Zach, Seth, and Summer head to San Diego to pitch their comic-book idea, but Seth can’t handle Summer and Zach being together. Ryan tries to make peace with Caleb for the sake of Lindsay. Marissa and Alex take their relationship to the next step as “the tide turns.”

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0:00.0	Welcome to the OC bitches. Sorry, Rachel. Rachel is, she's remote today. She couldn't join
0:22.9	us in the studio, but I love your your head. Anyway, that I get to see. I give good head.
0:28.9	Can I say season two episode 12, the Lonely Hearts Club. Yes, the Lonely Hearts Club. This is kind
0:37.7	of an emotional yell at your screen kind of episode, I feel like. But we yeah, we have a really
0:43.9	cool guest for this app. So Corey Martin, she started as Stephanie Savage's assistant right
0:50.6	out of college. And she became a writer on the OC pending two episodes and then wrote
0:55.9	and oversaw a number of novelizations for the OC. She's also a successful ghost writer and
1:00.9	author books, TV film and essays. She's a passionate yogi, yog, yogi, yogi. Yes, no, I was
1:07.9	like an advocate for people living with MS. Her new book came out on January 11th, the yoga
1:14.6	prescription, a chronic illness, survival guide. She has some very cool memories behind the
1:21.8	scene memories to share with us today. Please welcome Corey Martin. Hi, hi, thanks
1:26.8	for having me. Hi, this is so exciting. So exciting to have you. Yeah, it's so cool to have
1:31.9	you here. And we love getting people that were really behind the scenes because we weren't
1:36.8	there. So we love hearing your experiences. And the fact that you were working with Stephanie
1:43.0	when you first started, you must have seen it all. Yes, I mean, I remember the day Josh first
1:48.4	came into the office to pitch the show to Stephanie and Micky. So you okay, go back then.
1:54.2	So yeah, I don't know this. How did you meet Stephanie? Um, so I was about to graduate
1:59.7	from USC from college. And there used to be this thing called the UTA job list, which
2:05.6	is sort of the secret list of jobs that got emailed out and I got it through a friend
2:10.9	of a friend. It's still today, I think. Is it really? I think so. That's kind of cool.
2:15.4	I'm sure it's like online and not just like a secret email. Um, and I saw this ad that
2:22.0	they were actually looking for interns at Wonderland, where Stephanie and McGee's production
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