Speaker 1: And That's what You Really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's what You Really miss podcasts. This
Speaker 1: is a very special fan audition Kevin.
Speaker 3: Jenna.
Speaker 2: Since we started this podcast, we've wanted to talk to
Speaker 2: as many fans as possible, yes and get them on
Speaker 2: here and talk to them. They have a lot to
Speaker 2: say yes and so we're getting to have another great
Speaker 2: round of interviews coming up. We're starting with the one
Speaker 2: and only Alexa, one of my BFFs on Twitter.
Speaker 3: Unofficial AKP on Twitter. We have both coming.
Speaker 1: We've inter intertwined ourselves with Alexa through the years. She
Speaker 1: gets it, she gets the sad tire, she gets the show.
Speaker 1: She knows, she knows all and if you haven't seen
Speaker 1: her without context on on Twitter for our every episode
Speaker 1: that we post, which is amazing, go check them out.
Speaker 3: They're brilliant. Enjoy Hello, Hello, how are you? Whatow?
Speaker 4: You guys are sweating?
Speaker 3: Oh my god, don't be sweating. You're fine.
Speaker 4: I did show off my air conditioner for this.
Speaker 2: Nothing is worth that. Thank you for being here. We've
Speaker 2: been very excited about doing this episode.
Speaker 4: Are you literally thank you for calling me up. It's
Speaker 4: my it's my big leak debut. You guys, thank you
Speaker 4: for calling me out.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to face your wrath in my Twitter DMS.
Speaker 2: If we did an episode any.
Speaker 4: Listen, you would have.
Speaker 3: The mount.
Speaker 2: I just want to like to say, Alexa has a
Speaker 2: lot of secrets that I have told her.
Speaker 4: I do virtual NBA.
Speaker 2: She's offered up ever NBA, and I was just like, listen,
Speaker 2: I will. I just i' vent to her sometimes and
Speaker 2: you can keep doing that because I sold every time.
Speaker 2: I don't know if Jenna would approve of this, but
Speaker 2: here I go.
Speaker 3: It's okay.
Speaker 4: Jenna doesn't walk onto Twitter anymore.
Speaker 3: I know, correct, she's smart. Correct.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well Twitter's more wild now than it was back
Speaker 4: in the day.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure it's crazy. I just I can't save yourself. Well,
Speaker 1: welcome to the show. We're very excited to have you.
Speaker 4: For having me, I'm very excited to be.
Speaker 3: You and Glee go way back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to say the least, I feel like you're not
Speaker 2: old enough. I feel like, correct, that's not even like possible,
Speaker 2: But I think it sort of is.
Speaker 4: Well, I was I was of because I mean, you know,
Speaker 4: Glee really did span that huge target audience where it
Speaker 4: was like who is the target audience? Everybody? Yeah, So
Speaker 4: I was on the younger end the spectrum. I was
Speaker 4: nine when Glee came out.
Speaker 3: Did you start watching it immediately?
Speaker 4: So? Yes and no. So I was allowed to watch
Speaker 4: it because all my friends were watching it, and so
Speaker 4: I was like, mom, like this this new show Glee
Speaker 4: music and almost like cool, like let's watch together. We
Speaker 4: watched the first couple of episodes and we were like, yeah,
Speaker 4: this is great. Then then Quinn got pregnant, so.
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, interesting, done and I was like no,
Speaker 1: like let me, but all my friends continued to watch it, so.
Speaker 4: At their houses I would watch it. I remember, like
Speaker 4: I have a core memory of being I think I
Speaker 4: was in fourth grade the season one finale aired, and
Speaker 4: I was at my best friend's house the next day
Speaker 4: and she was giving me a play by play about
Speaker 4: what happened, and she was like she was like, Quinn
Speaker 4: had her baby, she gave it to Rachel's mom, like
Speaker 4: Rachel's mom adopted the baby. And I was like Rachel's
Speaker 4: mom dads, like what. I didn't have any of the context.
Speaker 4: I just had like the story and like I would
Speaker 4: listen to the music I had the merch. I had
Speaker 4: this like actually horrendous, like it was like Glee merch,
Speaker 4: but it wasn't authorized.
Speaker 3: Let's say like merch.
Speaker 4: I'm like, actually it was like actually crazy because I
Speaker 4: also remember like wearing this to like gym class in
Speaker 4: middle school and it was like the you guys are
Speaker 4: gonna die. Actually it was. It was from the store
Speaker 4: on the mall. I don't know how familiar you guys
Speaker 4: are with Delia's before she went down. It was horrifying.
Speaker 4: It was a it was a shirt and it had
Speaker 4: the Peanuts characters on it. It was also lime green.
Speaker 4: It was shar truths like literally horrendous, had the Peanuts
Speaker 4: characters on it, and in the Glee font it said
Speaker 4: original Glee Club Delia's it And I have I looked
Speaker 4: it up, like not that long ago, because I was like,
Speaker 4: surely that church didn't exist, like I fever dreamed that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and like it and someone was selling it on like
Speaker 4: Mark or something. So I do have a picture of it,
Speaker 4: and oh, yes, horrifying.
Speaker 2: So I can't believe there was like bootleg Glee merch.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, so much. I mean the people are
Speaker 4: still making bootleg Glee merch.
Speaker 3: That's just me. I do that out of my garage.
Speaker 4: Like red bubble, like it's like Glee merch.
Speaker 3: Wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 4: But I did have the official stuff from like Claire's Yeah,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, my first laptop had like Glea stickers all
Speaker 4: over it.
Speaker 3: So now, what at what point did you watch the
Speaker 3: full show?
Speaker 1: Like did you go back and watch like season one
Speaker 1: and learn about Rachel's mom.
Speaker 4: Yes, I started from the very beginning, like years ago,
Speaker 4: but okay, once since my mother had deemed me age
Speaker 4: appropriate to you know, watch the show. And then I
Speaker 4: watched it and I was like, this is like so
Speaker 4: not like the demon show that you were expecting it
Speaker 4: to be when yeah, you know, but also like I
Speaker 4: had all the stuff, so I she got me one
Speaker 4: year for Easter the Glee Encore DVD that was just
Speaker 4: the music videos, no context.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 4: So my siblings, who are not Gleeks, they loved Run
Speaker 4: Joey Run because they didn't know anything about it. They
Speaker 4: just saw the video. They didn't know who those guys were,
Speaker 4: they didn't know who those girls and the angel Wings were.
Speaker 4: They were just like vibin to the beat.
Speaker 3: They were like because of all songs.
Speaker 2: They're not They're masterpiece. It is comedic gold.
Speaker 3: It's not.
Speaker 4: I don't ride for rend Joey Run like some people do,
Speaker 4: but I can respect it. I can respect what it
Speaker 4: did for society twenty ten.
Speaker 2: It's crazy because I just like, I just Jenna, if
Speaker 2: you can put yourself on the couch in front of
Speaker 2: the TV and that video comes on, Like, can you imagine,
Speaker 2: like if you can just take yourself out of it
Speaker 2: and objectively see Run Joey Run, I would die, Like
Speaker 2: that is the craziest thing.
Speaker 3: I don't know that I would. I don't know it was.
Speaker 4: It was it's better without contacts, honestly.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I get that.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, what doesn't show you don't really need the context.
Speaker 4: I also like had no idea, like because she had,
Speaker 4: like Sandy Ryerson in the video, had no idea who
Speaker 4: that was until like I watched Glee and I was
Speaker 4: like that first time he came on the screen, I
Speaker 4: was like, that's the guy, and Rojoe Run got it.
Speaker 2: I also love that you were getting like your version
Speaker 2: of Glee was like a game of telephone, like you're
Speaker 2: being told what was happening.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I wasn't like sneaking around like at my
Speaker 4: friend but like I was watching there and like not
Speaker 4: telling my mother when I got home, So like maybe
Speaker 4: I was sneaking around.
Speaker 2: I think it gets a Ryan Murphy. You and Chris
Speaker 2: Colfer have that in common, because he would sneak around
Speaker 2: and watching him Tuck pre Glee there you go and
Speaker 2: not tell his parents, and so it's a Ryan Murphy
Speaker 2: rite a passage.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The shows are always just a little in appropriate for.
Speaker 4: Kids, a little edgy, a little out there. Yeah. And
Speaker 4: then when I did like fully re watch it, I
Speaker 4: became like insanely obsessed with it, and I was like,
Speaker 4: you're literally to blame, like to my mom, like, yes,
Speaker 4: if you would let me watch this during my formative
Speaker 4: years as everyone else did, I would have been over
Speaker 4: it by now.
Speaker 2: Let's see a lesson to parents. It's like when you
Speaker 2: tell your kids don't party and be crazy, those are
Speaker 2: always the craziest kids in high school.
Speaker 4: Oh true, exactly. It can be careful and like the
Speaker 4: my sister has like never seen the show all the
Speaker 4: way through. She's seen episodes if I'm like forcing her
Speaker 4: to watch whatever. She's five years younger than me. But
Speaker 4: we were in there not that long ago and listening
Speaker 4: to the radio, like not even on the Ox quart
Speaker 4: or anything, and the actual dog days were over. Florence
Speaker 4: Machine came on the radio and she was like, this
Speaker 4: sounds so weird. What like who's singing this? And I
Speaker 4: was like and I was like, oh my god, she's
Speaker 4: only ever heard Jenna and Amber.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic, And yeah, job, great, you did a good job.
Speaker 3: That's really funny.
Speaker 4: That's air for you.
Speaker 2: But okay, so you watched the full show pre pandemic.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So how do you feel any
Speaker 2: sort of because the pandemic brought like this whole new
Speaker 2: wave of fans. Do you feel some sort of like
Speaker 2: protectiveness or like ownership of it or you're like, yes, welcome,
Speaker 2: welcome in.
Speaker 4: I'm a gatekeeper before I'm anything there. You go, yeah,
Speaker 4: I well, I'm like, I'm glad you guys are here
Speaker 4: so that the show like remains relevant and we can
Speaker 4: like continue to have the fun. But like you guys
Speaker 4: were coming on with your opinion like on these tiktoks,
Speaker 4: I'm like, you guys don't allowed to have these opinions
Speaker 4: if you weren't there. Like I've seen like tweets lately
Speaker 4: where people are like, like, what we're not going to
Speaker 4: do is called Glee, like a cultural like shift. I'm like, well,
Speaker 4: where were you in twenty ten?
Speaker 3: Right where?
Speaker 4: What did your Macy's windows look like? At your mom
Speaker 4: because I remember.
Speaker 3: I looked like, wait, those are every Macy?
Speaker 4: Yeah they had the collection.
Speaker 2: Didn't we go see it? We did, but I thought
Speaker 2: like we were in La. I thought it was like
Speaker 2: they did it at the Beverly Center in LA. We
Speaker 2: went for this like launch of this Dailey. They had questionable.
Speaker 4: Little clusters of mannequins in there.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: I don't think I realized this was like also with Claire's.
Speaker 3: I like went to high school.
Speaker 2: Like thirty minutes outside of LA and Santa Clarita, and
Speaker 2: I remember going to like back to my local mall
Speaker 2: like a year after Lee came out and walking into Claire.
Speaker 3: And like, what what has happened?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Why? Why?
Speaker 2: Why are our faces here here? And think I realized
Speaker 2: it was everywhere I was in New Hampshire.
Speaker 4: So my Claires that I went to in my movie
Speaker 4: theater that I saw the concert movie in New Hampshire,
Speaker 4: So that's like the Woods to me. I don't know
Speaker 4: about you guys.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's definitely. I can't believe that everywhere.
Speaker 1: What was it about the show? Do you remember when
Speaker 1: you watched like that hooked you? Was it like the
Speaker 1: music or was it a character or was it both?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: What was it both?
Speaker 4: I think like and I also do really think that
Speaker 4: Glee was like this completely other, like in its own
Speaker 4: in a league of its own kind of teen show
Speaker 4: where it was like, it's not like a Gossip Girl
Speaker 4: or Wantrey Hill, Like it's completely different from like those
Speaker 4: high school experiences that we're seeing and like that, you
Speaker 4: know we had grown up watching or whatever. I think
Speaker 4: it was like the that and I'm a huge fan
Speaker 4: of satire, Like I love it. I got it from
Speaker 4: the start, like with never taking the show to be years,
Speaker 4: which is another reason with like the TikTok Era pandemic leaks.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you guys, yeah, yeah, they don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm like astonished, you got you guys, don't cat rigel
Speaker 4: Berry like live, Oh my god. But yeah, I think
Speaker 4: it's like it was just completely different. I do love
Speaker 4: the music. I'm not proud but not ashamed to say
Speaker 4: that my Spotify rapped what my Spotify rap looks like
Speaker 4: every year.
Speaker 1: It's astonishing crazy, Oh my god, although this year my
Speaker 1: top song was not so it was new all though.
Speaker 4: So I did see Shuck ten times. So that's my
Speaker 4: question in itself.
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's talk about that, because you just posted about
Speaker 2: handing Grant a Dodgers hat on the street. You've seen Grant.
Speaker 4: Several times as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you support all the Glee peeps in all the ways. Yes,
Speaker 2: you practice what you preach.
Speaker 4: Come to New York and do something. Get on that
Speaker 4: stage game mc gail.
Speaker 3: Yes, we want to get him there.
Speaker 4: Yes, ye, yeah, yeah, there will be a marketing campaign.
Speaker 3: Okay, there will be ephants.
Speaker 4: You guys have to see it, like you come see it.
Speaker 4: He's phenomenal. I just saw it for an undisclosed number
Speaker 4: of times since it opened this past weekend with my
Speaker 4: best friend. She came and visited for the weekend and
Speaker 4: she wanted to go see Grant obviously, and I was like,
Speaker 4: he must know that, Like there are like probably a
Speaker 4: good amount of Tony voters in the audience tonight because
Speaker 4: this was the best he had sound like wow, And
Speaker 4: maybe it's just because we're like, you know, a month
Speaker 4: into the run and like the nerves have probably died
Speaker 4: down a little. But he sounds fantastic, so good, and
Speaker 4: the show is like so good. And I was a
Speaker 4: huge fan of the book, didn't love the movie, but
Speaker 4: the musical great.
Speaker 2: I want to see it so badly, Jenna, we need
Speaker 2: to go to New York.
Speaker 3: I know, we really do. It's fun a reason to go.
Speaker 1: Well, let's talk about your year without context stuff on
Speaker 1: X or on Twitter or whatever it is. Now, how
Speaker 1: did you come up with this? Because they're really brilliant
Speaker 1: and how long does it take you to do them?
Speaker 4: Well, I do listen to the podcast the second they
Speaker 4: drop to give me time to think of this because
Speaker 4: stuff before I treat them. I don't sleep specifically, Yeah,
Speaker 4: Wednesday nights and Sunday nights don't sleep. Tonight won't be sleeping.
Speaker 4: But I listen to it and kind of as I'm
Speaker 4: like whatever listening, if something comes up, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 4: there it is. I'll like either like write it down
Speaker 4: in a notesapp or like spread it into like a
Speaker 4: Google search bar and then like close the app so
Speaker 4: that I can like come back to it. But I'm like, very,
Speaker 4: I don't know if this comes to surprise, very like
Speaker 4: business brained, like for someone who has a degree in science,
Speaker 4: Like I have no business training, but I do operate.
Speaker 2: I'm like that Brandon runs through her veins.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, that like that like screencap from Sex and
Speaker 4: the City, like the very first episode or something where
Speaker 4: it's like Samantha was a New York inspiration. It's like
Speaker 4: public relations executive, unmarried woman, like that's me. So yeah.
Speaker 4: I was like, but also I watch a little bit
Speaker 4: of reality TV, and so the Bachelor posts people would
Speaker 4: do them all the time, like oh, like this week's
Speaker 4: episode without context or whatever. And when the first episode
Speaker 4: of this dropped, I was like, that could be fun.
Speaker 4: And then the tweet like kind of took off a
Speaker 4: little bit and I was like, well, are we doing
Speaker 4: it again? And now it's been like over one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty episodes.
Speaker 2: Every single time, and they are so good.
Speaker 4: So much are really good.
Speaker 2: Those graphic design skills are lacking phenomenon.
Speaker 4: Andrews are so good mine.
Speaker 2: They're different, they have their own lane. Yeah, they both exist.
Speaker 4: They're like good in like a satirical way, like they're
Speaker 4: supposed to be bad.
Speaker 2: You're doing Glee way exactly. No, for sure, and we
Speaker 2: appreciate you doing that because them, thank you. I'm we
Speaker 2: see them, we talk about them every single week. They're phenomenal.
Speaker 4: Some of them are better than others.
Speaker 3: I will say, well, go for our episodes, so.
Speaker 4: Right, clicking post and like not my best.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sometimes we get out of the zoom, like how did
Speaker 3: that go? How did that go?
Speaker 4: I'll like, talk Habby who you're having on I'm texting
Speaker 4: her in the middle, like she listens at the same
Speaker 4: time as me.
Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, yeah, you're like, this is
Speaker 3: not their best work either.
Speaker 4: That's never the thought.
Speaker 3: Okay, what I want to talk about like actual Glee
Speaker 3: for a minute here. Let's start with, like your favorite
Speaker 3: unhinged storyline. Do you have one of those?
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, of course I love everything Ross Washington,
Speaker 4: but I feel like that's basic at this point to say,
Speaker 4: now that you finished.
Speaker 3: There's never established truth.
Speaker 4: So Washington is great. I love I love like I don't.
Speaker 4: I'm not a season six fan, but I like who is?
Speaker 4: I like the insanity of it.
Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, like there.
Speaker 4: You guys probably don't even know this happened. There's like
Speaker 4: a there's an episode where the Glee club is trying
Speaker 4: to find like perfect whatever songs to sing that will
Speaker 4: like I think Sue is like judging the competition or something.
Speaker 4: I don't know. They're trying to find songs that are
Speaker 4: going to like basically mess with their head. And so
Speaker 4: Kitty hays Becky in like twinkies and stuff to give
Speaker 4: her the passwords to Sue's computer, and she goes in
Speaker 4: her hard drive and like finds all of her like
Speaker 4: emotional songs and as, and that's their set list. And
Speaker 4: as they're singing it, you have a montage of Sue
Speaker 4: watching the last like whatever three presidential elections where like
Speaker 4: Republicans lose and it's her crying in front of her
Speaker 4: TV as like the screen is like yeah, like I'm yes,
Speaker 4: it's horrifying. What it's crazy? Yeah, And it's like her
Speaker 4: in her living room and she has like it's like
Speaker 4: very if Sue is here today, like Sue, you can
Speaker 4: imagine what Sue's living room would look like. It has
Speaker 4: like flags, posters, she has like dolls, hats, merch whatever, yeah,
Speaker 4: surrounding her. She's like sitting in a recliner watching on
Speaker 4: the TV. And it's like you could see the decades
Speaker 4: difference in it where it's like goes throughout like all
Speaker 4: the Republican losses and she's like crying and like kicking
Speaker 4: things or whatever. Crazy love it.
Speaker 3: Sue is cue. She is que of Q and on fame. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 4: Who wait and you won't get here for a while
Speaker 4: or did you get here? You're gonna be like, wait,
Speaker 4: oh I heard about this one.
Speaker 2: I'm amazing, so excited to watch these coming seasons because
Speaker 2: I haven't no especially season six. Season six, I mean
Speaker 2: there's not a single there's a mem wait, what season
Speaker 2: was it when Cord was on the side of a bus?
Speaker 3: Five of sick?
Speaker 4: Really, I will die on this hill? Also, so okay,
Speaker 4: hear that, everybody. I love season five. I also don't
Speaker 4: hate season four, so the season my favorite season's change.
Speaker 4: I do like two and three are like two is
Speaker 4: quintessential Glee to me, and I think it probably is
Speaker 4: too too. Like I always said, like if I could
Speaker 4: show someoney one episode of Glee, it would be duets, like, yes,
Speaker 4: that is Glee, and like when they had it on
Speaker 4: the office and they're like, let's watch Duets, Like that
Speaker 4: is Glee. So I feel like that's just like the
Speaker 4: perfect you know, aside from the pilot, like easing people
Speaker 4: into that kind of thing. Love season two, Love season three,
Speaker 4: then probably season five, and that's gonna I'm gonna get
Speaker 4: some haters. I also like, don't have an issue with
Speaker 4: the like split whatever point of view is between like
Speaker 4: New York and lima yea. But I also like, maybe
Speaker 4: the reason why I don't really care that much about
Speaker 4: like whatever where people have like the fanfare about hating
Speaker 4: these seasons is because, like my favorite characters were still
Speaker 4: at McKinley song like, whoa, we're getting free time. So
Speaker 4: I was thriving, right okay, And I love a season
Speaker 4: four or five Tina unpopular as well. I love her.
Speaker 4: That's my spirit all season four and five Tina. When
Speaker 4: she gets that like little annoying piva moment.
Speaker 3: It's my favorite. I love that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, like secretly encourage her to just be like, yes,
Speaker 2: the crazy yea, be the crazier.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I was gonna say, like the the like most
Speaker 4: more like random her lines or her like random outfurst.
Speaker 4: So like when she gets a little whiny, I'm like, yes,
Speaker 4: like I identify with Tina co and Schang today.
Speaker 1: Yes, I finally felt like I was she was thriving
Speaker 1: in that in those moments even if it.
Speaker 4: Like I liked it, she got a little personality, and yeah, exactly,
Speaker 4: I was here for it.
Speaker 3: If you were your favorite characters.
Speaker 4: Are You're gonna ask me that, Kevin McHale, I just
Speaker 4: need to hear it, Artie, Sam, Tina larn Santana, Like.
Speaker 2: Did you have issues with Artie's questionable things?
Speaker 3: He'd say, I'm.
Speaker 4: Gonna get on my soapbox again because I said this
Speaker 4: on Andrew's podcast, So when that comes out, we're gonna
Speaker 4: hear it twice. Okay, everything every time people are like, okay,
Speaker 4: ALARTI had like a couple you know, lines here and there,
Speaker 4: but like what character didn't first of all, especially the
Speaker 4: boys first of all, and I think had more than
Speaker 4: all of them combined. But he was given the screen
Speaker 4: time to correct his actions.
Speaker 3: Correct.
Speaker 4: That's what I said about that. But also like a
Speaker 4: lot of people like to like come back to oh,
Speaker 4: already in Power Madonna, how he like was calling Tina
Speaker 4: woman or whatever. You guys all conveniently forgetting that there's
Speaker 4: an apology scene in Powered Madonna because I remember it
Speaker 4: like I watched it.
Speaker 3: And it was favor It was my favorite scene to shoot.
Speaker 4: I'm sure, well you little did you know that nine
Speaker 4: year old me was going to go grow up and
Speaker 4: remember that scene?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 4: And there's like there's like a bad one coming up
Speaker 4: that you guys are going to watch. But listen, if
Speaker 4: we're gonna bring Laradie down for that because there's no
Speaker 4: apology scene shown, Okay, we're gonna bring already down for that.
Speaker 4: We're also bringing Sam down for that. But that's okay,
Speaker 4: my business.
Speaker 2: Okay, No, I think this is your business is my business, and.
Speaker 3: You've made it.
Speaker 4: You get on there. I make a lot of things
Speaker 4: my business. It's kind of actually a running thread. I'm
Speaker 4: here and you're like a lot of things my business
Speaker 4: that are my business.
Speaker 1: But I appreciate that someone's got to. I was just
Speaker 1: gonna ask who your favorite guest star was.
Speaker 4: I do. I love everything Gwyneth Paltrow, I love Holly,
Speaker 4: love Kristin Chinaman. Obviously, I know. I just know that
Speaker 4: when I get off this, I'm there's gonna be like
Speaker 4: a guest star that comes off Shyne Jackson, Hello, Hello, Bohmer,
Speaker 4: Hello so good. I also loved like getting to see
Speaker 4: I like it getting to see like the characters like
Speaker 4: Home Lives, Parents, Katie Sagal Hello, and I'm like have
Speaker 4: you then? I guess that's kind of like a question
Speaker 4: that I have too, where it's like when you guys
Speaker 4: had grant On right, You're he has like imagined this
Speaker 4: kind of like backstory for Sebastian that he came up with.
Speaker 4: Did you guys ever do that, Like did you guys
Speaker 4: have Like you're like, oh, well, like when Tina goes home,
Speaker 4: like hmm, like what does he have siblings? To already
Speaker 4: have siblings? Like that's the kind of stuff that like
Speaker 4: we're as fans thinking.
Speaker 3: Of, yeah, but like, yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Think where's the separation there?
Speaker 2: Like I had sort of built I think, oh my god,
Speaker 2: purely based off of like talking to Brad and Ryan
Speaker 2: and Ian, like I think in those early days, like
Speaker 2: the first season, like we would ask them questions about
Speaker 2: that sort of thing, or like Ian a lot of
Speaker 2: times would sort of but yeah, and I'm thinking this
Speaker 2: and would just like spout out ideas and so like
Speaker 2: for me at least, I would just like grab onto
Speaker 2: those be like okay, yeah, So if he thinks maybe
Speaker 2: already has a brother or a sister, then like that's
Speaker 2: just new information I'm just adding into.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I think the only children. Yeah, it's she
Speaker 3: on TV to be only children. That's really it's like
Speaker 3: a whole.
Speaker 4: Class of only children. I know, it's horrible children.
Speaker 3: That's right, very true.
Speaker 1: Yeah, some things would be like made up on the spot,
Speaker 1: like Tina co and Chang's last name was because Ian
Speaker 1: liked Ushkowitz and like it like that it had it
Speaker 1: was a very confusing thing when you look at me.
Speaker 1: So he made Cohen Chang. When I was signing up
Speaker 1: for my audition at for a glee club. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we created like a little bit of backstory.
Speaker 1: I did it in my audition as well. I also
Speaker 1: created some backstory because Ryan was like, we don't really
Speaker 1: know who Tina is, can you tell me? So I
Speaker 1: like made it up on the spot in the room.
Speaker 2: Isn't that crazy? I remember you coming. I went telling
Speaker 2: me that. I was like, thank god he did not
Speaker 2: ask me that because I did not have an answer.
Speaker 1: Well, I did the work though. On the plane on
Speaker 1: the way to my audition to l A. I wrote
Speaker 1: it down and I had it in my mind, and
Speaker 1: so he asked, and I was like, I am thank god,
Speaker 1: thank God.
Speaker 4: So who would have been Tina's parents if she like
Speaker 4: they had.
Speaker 3: My campaigned for Sandra from my mom.
Speaker 1: That was the one that I had campaigned for because
Speaker 1: Grays was so big at the time, and right, you know,
Speaker 1: like obviously Sandra, so that was that's who I wanted
Speaker 1: for her mom Insane died. I figured we weren't going
Speaker 1: to meet Teena's parents, like we barely know Tina, but like.
Speaker 4: Some people wanted to meet Tina's parents. Yeah, yeah, and Kevin,
Speaker 4: would Harry Connick Junior have been your dad?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah.
Speaker 4: That's actually been weighing on me for a couple of
Speaker 4: years now, and I needed to know the answer. So
Speaker 4: I'm glad we well.
Speaker 2: The Harry Connic things started to happen to members. I
Speaker 2: was at Disneyland with Danny Kane once, Oh my god,
Speaker 2: this is a different lifetime.
Speaker 4: Okay, I will question it.
Speaker 3: This is the boy band.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you look like Harry Connick Junior. And I
Speaker 2: was so offended. I was like, he's old. I was
Speaker 2: like sixteen. I didn't know what he's like.
Speaker 3: He's great, but I did.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't realize I'm fully on board now. And
Speaker 2: then when christ and Channaman came on Glee. She said
Speaker 2: the same thing, like, what is it? What singers they
Speaker 2: keep telling me? I look like Carry Connick Junior.
Speaker 4: And then when you listen to Harry Conic Junior, You're like,
Speaker 4: got it?
Speaker 3: I got it. I was like cool.
Speaker 2: And when I ran into Katie Sigal and I met
Speaker 2: her for the first time, she immediately wanted a campaigning
Speaker 2: to be on the show. I was like, oh, I
Speaker 2: mean it was up to me, yes, like please, and
Speaker 2: so then very quickly it's like, Okay, Ryan, Katie Sigal,
Speaker 2: Harry Connick, what can we do about this?
Speaker 4: My best friend Zoe is going to be obsessed with
Speaker 4: this because one time we were in the car and
Speaker 4: I said that and she was like, what are you
Speaker 4: talking about? No, And I was like yeah, like literally, yes, yes,
Speaker 4: one question.
Speaker 3: She said that.
Speaker 2: I was like, I need to take what she's saying seriously,
Speaker 2: because yes, everything she says serious. I was gonna say,
Speaker 2: it's the word of the Lord exactly, like I remember
Speaker 2: exactly where I was standing where she was. I was
Speaker 2: just like gob smacked, like it's happening again, but it's Kristen,
Speaker 2: So I really not that the girls and Danny Kane,
Speaker 2: aren't you know, also great, but yeah it was a
Speaker 2: different thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so yes, okay for sure. So you said this
Speaker 3: season four you don't.
Speaker 4: Hate I don't hate it. I don't hate it.
Speaker 1: Are there any highlights from season four that you feel
Speaker 1: like we can look forward to because we really we
Speaker 1: were warned, as we've said before, and I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't know what to expect. I have good memories
Speaker 1: from season four, but I.
Speaker 4: Think that the only people who wrote in and were
Speaker 4: like season four is bad or like it's all downhill
Speaker 4: or whatever. Are people who like hare strongly about maybe
Speaker 4: the characters who we don't see as much in season four,
Speaker 4: or like just really love those first three. And I
Speaker 4: also love those first three. But I'm like, I don't.
Speaker 4: I think that we still have so much left to come.
Speaker 4: That's like fantastically comes to mind for myself.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 4: Wait back to a different question, when I was like,
Speaker 4: who's gonna be my favorite guest star? Ali Stroker?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, we didn't get enough Ali Stroker, and.
Speaker 4: I look forward to the day that she is on
Speaker 4: the podcast. Yeah, I met her this past year.
Speaker 3: She's very nice.
Speaker 4: Okay, So yeah, back to that Ali Stroker, But I'm
Speaker 4: looking forward to that episode the like wedding that isn't
Speaker 4: wedding love it Girls and Boys on film the following
Speaker 4: I will die on that hill for sure.
Speaker 3: Oh my god. Right uh.
Speaker 4: Old time rock real danger Zone. Some of this is
Speaker 4: what I'm talking about. There's some good stuff coming. That's
Speaker 4: what I thought. That's like a top that's probably my
Speaker 4: favorite mash up like that. Yeah, I'll say it. I'll
Speaker 4: go on the record zone.
Speaker 3: I love this.
Speaker 2: You know what I need to start doing is holding
Speaker 2: glead debates.
Speaker 3: Oh it's good.
Speaker 4: Oh you mean every day of my life?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we'll moderate. We'll have yeah, exactly, yeah exactly.
Speaker 4: That's three appers right there.
Speaker 2: We can do a three hour long episode too.
Speaker 3: I mean we could.
Speaker 4: And I'm going to hold you to that. I'ld you
Speaker 4: to lots of things is being recorded.
Speaker 2: I just decided before we get I do want to
Speaker 2: thank you for all the baseball content.
Speaker 4: Literally welcome. I lived to serve.
Speaker 3: Us.
Speaker 4: But are us come to Dodger Stadium, K and I
Speaker 4: because I'll be there because I'm fine over.
Speaker 2: So I literally woke up this morning. That was the
Speaker 2: first thing in my brain.
Speaker 4: Because you said home run.
Speaker 2: You were like, exactly, Yeah, incepted me in my sleep.
Speaker 3: It's like, I gotta get dreams.
Speaker 4: Me and I don't know if you remember Morgan from
Speaker 4: a couple of years ago club house Morgan and I
Speaker 4: are going to kill there, requested that p t O.
Speaker 5: I was like, moment, all of your interests so varied,
Speaker 5: you know, so I'm very multi.
Speaker 2: Yeah, scientist and a branding expert, into sports, into Glee.
Speaker 4: I'm literally a catch you guys. This is a dating app.
Speaker 3: Literally, this is a dating podcast. Get her, guys.
Speaker 4: So many interests, you guys, so many.
Speaker 3: I'm so versatile. Have you thought about a Glee reboot
Speaker 3: and what that would look like in your mind?
Speaker 4: It's not happening. I'm that's sorry, not happening in my opinion.
Speaker 4: And I every time you guys get outd that question
Speaker 4: by somebody or whatever, I'm like, it's not happening. So
Speaker 4: what do we do? And I also don't and maybe
Speaker 4: I'm in the minority of this. I don't want a
Speaker 4: Broadway musical. They're making Smash into a Broadway musical right now.
Speaker 4: That's I'm sure it's gonna be great.
Speaker 3: That makes sense. That makes sense that makes a lot
Speaker 3: more sense.
Speaker 4: It's because I'm like, what are you going to do?
Speaker 4: Are you going to focus on like one episode? But
Speaker 4: then are you going to like bring like have oh
Speaker 4: a girl's versus boys number? But are you going to
Speaker 4: do like Halo walking on Sunshine with a boy's number
Speaker 4: that wasn't from that season? Like that's gonna mess with
Speaker 4: me and I don't want it. So but if we
Speaker 4: are having it, then Jane Lynch Haster can be sue
Speaker 4: mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, I mean would you be angry if there
Speaker 3: was a reboot?
Speaker 4: No? It? Okay? Who are we casting?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: I see what you're saying. I see what you're saying.
Speaker 4: Are we casting?
Speaker 3: It have to be new It.
Speaker 4: Would have to be new kids, but they would have
Speaker 4: to like and it would have to be a twenty
Speaker 4: two episode season. I'm not falling for this ten episode.
Speaker 3: Streaming good luck. It would have to be you're not
Speaker 3: getting to make twenty two episodes? Got to be Nobody
Speaker 3: would pay people for.
Speaker 4: Network abbot elementary. We were ushering in a new era
Speaker 4: of television in the post streaming world.
Speaker 3: Well, Glee wouldok very different because budget would be a
Speaker 3: lot smaller. True, that's why it would have to be
Speaker 3: an HBO, so.
Speaker 4: It's not happening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay, it goes.
Speaker 4: On HBO, they'd be it'd be like euphour your musical.
Speaker 3: That would actually, we can't, we can't.
Speaker 4: That's kind of a question that I have actually like
Speaker 4: musical episodes of shows, right, oh, yeah, Grey's Anatomy, I
Speaker 4: think the Flash and Super Golden. Do you guys, are
Speaker 4: you guys like like looking down on those like like
Speaker 4: this isn't as good as like whatever Glee when they're like,
Speaker 4: oh it's so hard to do whatever and you guys
Speaker 4: like we did that every week for seven years, or
Speaker 4: are you guys like that's really difficult and like kudos
Speaker 4: to those doctors for like really singing that Brandy Carlisle.
Speaker 2: I think my initial thought is always, especially in those shows,
Speaker 2: because it usually happened when they have a big like
Speaker 2: musical cast, like a lot of people have done theater
Speaker 2: and things. I guess you're right.
Speaker 1: Matt Ray's Anatomy, But I see what you're saying.
Speaker 2: I feel like, usually I hope that's like fun for them.
Speaker 2: I hope they have a good time because they're gonna
Speaker 2: get to do it. Once, even if it's hard, it's
Speaker 2: it's always weird. I think it's but people are making
Speaker 2: long seasons. You got to come up with some so like,
Speaker 2: I get it, right, I definitely like yeah in that way. Contextually,
Speaker 2: I think it's strange, but I think why not have fun?
Speaker 2: They try something different. I think it's probably having been
Speaker 2: on a show that did twenty two episodes a season,
Speaker 2: being able to do something as a one off that
Speaker 2: is so different is very liberating. Yeah, I feel like
Speaker 2: it's probably just fun for them to do.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's very hard to be successful at it when
Speaker 3: you only get one shot at it. That's what I think.
Speaker 3: But I do think that the creators of all of
Speaker 3: these shows who have done them, like Josh did it,
Speaker 3: Seana did it obviously, and then like you had like.
Speaker 1: Greg and you know whoever is show running those shows,
Speaker 1: they're all musical fans, so at least there's like the
Speaker 1: element of people they Yeah, exactly, They're like Ron, I'll
Speaker 1: want to do a whole series of Glee, but.
Speaker 3: I'll do one episode may as well.
Speaker 1: I don't particularly like to watch them as much, right,
Speaker 1: but I'll watch them.
Speaker 3: But they're tough to do. I think. I have a
Speaker 3: little bit of empathy for them. I'm like, right now, that's.
Speaker 4: What I was kind of expecting. Yeah, But I also
Speaker 4: think that, like, as I loved the Gray's Anatomy one,
Speaker 4: I also think that that probably factored into like me
Speaker 4: liking Glee so much. Mm my, Like, yeah, when I
Speaker 4: finally got along to like watching the later years of
Speaker 4: Glee as opposed to like the first couple of seasons
Speaker 4: where I feel like it was pretty public domain and
Speaker 4: everyone kind of knew what was going on. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: I probably was like, well, love that Gray's Anatomy musical episode.
Speaker 4: Let's see, let's see what they're doing in over here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I get you, I get you. Okay, before we
Speaker 1: let you go, What is the feeling that Glee leaves
Speaker 1: you with?
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm very obviously happy, hopeful. I think it was
Speaker 4: like very I saw a tweet not that long ago
Speaker 4: that was like it was the true like personification of
Speaker 4: like the Obama era. It was very like felt very
Speaker 4: like we were moving in a different direction than we
Speaker 4: had been. We're really focusing on inclusion, really focusing on
Speaker 4: like giving you know, power and voices to those that
Speaker 4: weren't that much heard that much in the media. Yeah,
Speaker 4: and I think that it was like a very like
Speaker 4: telling of like the times those early twenty tens, you know,
Speaker 4: very a very hopeful time. I obviously like when I'm
Speaker 4: thinking of that, I'm thinking of the like friendships that
Speaker 4: I've made because of this. All my college best friends
Speaker 4: were like we randomly bonded over Glee because two of
Speaker 4: them her overheard like were eavesdropping on me and another
Speaker 4: one that we ended up living together for three years.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Yeah, So I'm like, crazy we hadn't had Glee,
Speaker 1: Like what I have lived with those girls?
Speaker 4: What I even knew that there were a year older
Speaker 4: than me? Like what I like, what would I what
Speaker 4: would my college experience have looked like?
Speaker 3: Right, I wouldn't have Jenna's right exactly.
Speaker 4: Hello. But also like I'm like a huge kind of
Speaker 4: follower of that like butter fly effect where I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 4: if I hadn't watched, like, would I be here right? Like,
Speaker 4: would I be studying that? Would I be have made
Speaker 4: these friends? Would I have wanted to move here? Like
Speaker 4: blah blah blah. So I mean, very positive for me.
Speaker 4: I think back on it very fondly. In fact, I
Speaker 4: don't think that far back on it, because I'm sure
Speaker 4: I'll watch an episode tonight.
Speaker 3: No question is which one?
Speaker 4: Which one?
Speaker 3: I don't, I don't know I.
Speaker 4: Should probably Yeah, I think the last time I watched
Speaker 4: like several episodes in Christmas because I just my annual watch.
Speaker 1: I got it.
Speaker 4: I can force my dog and my mother to watch
Speaker 4: with me.
Speaker 1: Well, we're so grateful that you came on the show,
Speaker 1: that you've been intertwined, twined and connected with us all
Speaker 1: of the all of these years. We really appreciate you,
Speaker 1: and you're very funny, and we really enjoy your presence.
Speaker 3: So thank you so much for.
Speaker 4: You.
Speaker 2: And you haven't seen her out of context Glee recaps
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Speaker 2: Tell everyone your handle, what are your what's your handle?
Speaker 4: Okay, my Twitter is we recently did a rebrand unofficial
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Speaker 3: You please follow me. Everybody follow follow Thank you, thank you,
Speaker 3: thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: Thanks for taking all this time today to really appreciate that.
Speaker 3: It's good to see you.
Speaker 4: Good to see you, guys.
Speaker 3: I see you at Dodger Stadium. I'm holding you to.
Speaker 4: And I have a good chap. Thank you, Bye, guys.
Speaker 3: Bank Bye bye. She knows all, she knows everything.
Speaker 2: She speaks the truth, and I have to buy bought
Speaker 2: Dodger tickets or I feel like.
Speaker 3: She's got to go. Good night mad Well you guys.
Speaker 3: I hope you enjoyed that.
Speaker 1: We are so grateful to Alexa per coming on and
Speaker 1: talking to us about her experience with Glee and how
Speaker 1: que came to her life and affected her and she's
Speaker 1: just so funny.
Speaker 3: So we love Alexa, Thank you so much. We started
Speaker 3: season four next week, So Gay, tighten those belt buckles.
Speaker 3: I don't know what I'm saying, but you need to
Speaker 3: loosen those belt buckles. Loosen the belt buckles, tighten them up,
Speaker 3: and then get ready to loose them. Maybe just it
Speaker 3: pops off. So season four is about to pop off.
Speaker 3: See you next week. And that's what you really.
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