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Speaker 1: And that's what you really missed with Jenna.

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Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to and that's what you really missed. The tour edition.

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Speaker 2: The drop boxes, the phones are out, the photos. Oh

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Speaker 2: my god, you guys. So this is Glee Live in

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Speaker 2: Concert twenty eleven, the second Glee Live tour. This time

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Speaker 2: it was arenas. We graduated from doing theaters sort of

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Speaker 2: a pilot program tour if you will, after season one,

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Speaker 2: and we did four cities, just a handful of shows.

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Speaker 2: This time we went on tour from May twenty first

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Speaker 2: several reasons. One, this was that part of the contract

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Speaker 2: when we were testing for the pilot when they said

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Speaker 2: sure whatever, and you just sign it.

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Speaker 1: Well, because you're never not signing that contract at twenty

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Speaker 2: So we are at the tour after the second tour,

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Speaker 2: and so contractually Fox had us because we're shooting nine

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Speaker 2: you all this just a preface, so you don't think

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Speaker 2: Right? And how are you going to set that tour

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Speaker 2: Let me do better. You guys stormed him really did well.

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Speaker 2: Fun, if I remember correctly. So we knew that for

441
00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:07,000
Speaker 2: sure what would be in there was Somebody to Love

442
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 2: an Empire state of Mind, right, And then I think

443
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:13,760
Speaker 2: we narrowed it down to maybe five or six other songs,

444
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 2: and then he wanted us to vote, like in secret ballot.

445
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:20,200
Speaker 2: That's right, I remember that, and so then we all voted.

446
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: He wrote down and put it on paper and put

447
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:23,600
Speaker 1: him in a hat.

448
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 2: And look, you've heard Ryan on the show. You can't

449
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 2: make him change his mind. He is the creative force

450
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,200
Speaker 2: behind the show. It's like it's his vision and it's

451
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 2: working because it's his vision, so why would you change anything.

452
00:24:37,320 --> 00:24:39,760
Speaker 2: And I remember he's like, Okay, here's what we're going

453
00:24:39,840 --> 00:24:41,440
Speaker 2: to do. We're going to put it to a vote

454
00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 2: and we'll do whatever you guys vote for. And I

455
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 2: remember being so nervous, and he read out the votes

456
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:52,760
Speaker 2: and it was safety Dance.

457
00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:55,720
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love that we voted.

458
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,960
Speaker 2: And I couldn't. He's like, okay, it's like, let's do it.

459
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 2: Let's see how it looks. And the other numbers that

460
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 2: got in there randomly. I think we were all talking

461
00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,720
Speaker 2: about it and it came up just as an idea was.

462
00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,440
Speaker 1: Friday, Yeah, and then Single Ladies.

463
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:12,439
Speaker 2: And then Single Ladies.

464
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,640
Speaker 1: So that was the big one was though, is that

465
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,680
Speaker 1: we were we voted on safety Dance and we really

466
00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,359
Speaker 1: the girls really rallied because we just knew what that

467
00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,959
Speaker 1: meant to you and like for you to have to

468
00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,359
Speaker 1: to do the whole tour, which you were the most

469
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 1: excited about the tour period, to do the whole tour

470
00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: in a wheelchair when we knew you could dance and

471
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,919
Speaker 1: people have seen this number before, like it was a

472
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: special number, so we just thought it would be and

473
00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:38,120
Speaker 1: it's yeah.

474
00:25:38,119 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 2: The encore was sort of like anything goes. And also

475
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:45,440
Speaker 2: we ended up because we did Single Ladies and Friday.

476
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,879
Speaker 2: Logistically we needed a song too, more songs to allow

477
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:52,480
Speaker 2: people to run to different parts of the arena.

478
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 1: Right because at every arena was different and that s

479
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 1: stage where Amber does Ain't no Way and we do

480
00:25:57,600 --> 00:26:01,560
Speaker 1: Single Ladies and Mark does that bomb Girls like that

481
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,479
Speaker 1: stage is pretty far so in order for us to

482
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: change into our single lady's outfits, run in our heels

483
00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: and then get to that side of the stage, in time.

484
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,359
Speaker 1: You guys basically had to kill time. We're like, be slow,

485
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: take your time, and for each stadium it was different,

486
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,119
Speaker 1: which is warready would have to scope it out and

487
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 1: figure out how we navigate it, so we'd all be like,

488
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:29,280
Speaker 1: you know, a little train following security, so we don't

489
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 1: know where the hell we were.

490
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 2: Ever, if you go and watch the YouTube videos which

491
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 2: I did last night, of Single Ladies and Safety Dance,

492
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 2: a lot of the if not every all of the

493
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 2: Single Ladies people are in Safety Dance, and sometimes you'll

494
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,080
Speaker 2: see sometimes it's two different dancers out in front with

495
00:26:50,119 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 2: me and sometimes Heather we'll join halfway through the dance.

496
00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:58,800
Speaker 2: And that's solely because, yes, sometimes it was not logistically

497
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 2: possible for people to get there in timement. Usually any

498
00:27:03,080 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 2: talking I was doing before Safety Dance and I did,

499
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,480
Speaker 2: and if I'm talking slowly, it's purely just to kill

500
00:27:09,520 --> 00:27:13,080
Speaker 2: time and try to give the ladies time to make

501
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:15,919
Speaker 2: it back to get on stage for Safety Dance and

502
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:27,720
Speaker 2: make their quick change. So still in Vegas, we have

503
00:27:27,760 --> 00:27:30,880
Speaker 2: our Friends and Family Show, which is our dress rehearsal,

504
00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 2: our only dress rehearsal that we get because I think

505
00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 2: at that point we had only performed it in two sections.

506
00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 2: Maybe I had friends there, did not tell them we

507
00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 2: were doing safety dance, And it was nerve wracking because

508
00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 2: we did not know if the show flowed correctly. We

509
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,480
Speaker 2: didn't know if it was fun. We didn't know if

510
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 2: we were giving an audience what they wanted. But there

511
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,680
Speaker 2: we were right sort of like it said, like a

512
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 2: little cocktail thing, so people were on the floor. Yeah,

513
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 2: it was weird of the arena. It was weird because

514
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 2: you're also very intimate. You didn't have like the screaming

515
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,040
Speaker 2: fans that we would come to have the next day.

516
00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 2: And I don't think we had like there's some pyro

517
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 2: maybe they were trying out for the first time. So

518
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:23,159
Speaker 2: we didn't have right everything we did that Do you

519
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 2: remember how that went? And I don't think anything changed.

520
00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:27,719
Speaker 2: I think we just we It was sloppy, is what

521
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 2: it was. And we had to come in early the

522
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 2: next day before our very first show, which is five

523
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 2: days after us having gotten there.

524
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,280
Speaker 1: And walk it. But we did. We got there and

525
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: once you get into the flow of the show, like

526
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 1: Kevin said, it's like then you're kind of you're like

527
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,719
Speaker 1: up and running and it was really fun and you

528
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: get to like do little different things each night and

529
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,719
Speaker 1: play with the audience and play with each other. Actually,

530
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,440
Speaker 1: I don't remember every show like live show ever going badly,

531
00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: Uh do you know what I mean? Like, I don't

532
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: think anybody was like that sloppy fixed now Like I

533
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: think it was just kind of like a free form

534
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: rock out. Once we were up and running.

535
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:09,719
Speaker 2: Once we got it, we got it, and I do remember.

536
00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 2: I think for us it was like the nerves of.

537
00:29:13,640 --> 00:29:14,959
Speaker 1: Having just learned it.

538
00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the first few shows, I think we're pretty

539
00:29:17,600 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 2: like I have pretty bad nerves. And at some point

540
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 2: the nerves completely went away because we knew it so well.

541
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:25,840
Speaker 2: You can go out there and really enjoy it, be present,

542
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 2: have fun. Right. So we did Vegas, we flew to

543
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 2: San Francisco. From San Francisco, we did our shows in

544
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 2: Sacramento and San Jose.

545
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: And then Anaheim and Los Angeles.

546
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, so then we were back in my life for

547
00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 2: a little bit for Anaheim, La and San Diego. We

548
00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:46,960
Speaker 2: I remember San Diego, we performed at the arena where

549
00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 2: Almost Famous was filmed.

550
00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: Uh huh.

551
00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 2: And that was a weird one because it felt like

552
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,680
Speaker 2: that stadium where that arena was like derelict, like, yeah,

553
00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 2: like no one uses it anymore. Yeah, it was pretty old.

554
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 2: It was filled with history, but also weird vibes backstage.

555
00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 1: Totally, but I all we could see was like the

556
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: almost namous like you know, it's just.

557
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 2: Like Also it was a come down of we performed

558
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 2: at Staple Center in La so much fun. The other thing,

559
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,160
Speaker 2: Jenna talked about this for a second, we were doing

560
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,160
Speaker 2: matines That's not a normal thing to be doing on

561
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,800
Speaker 2: a concert tour, but for them to make their money,

562
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:29,680
Speaker 2: we had to do matines. You coming from theater, you're

563
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 2: used to matinees, but this was like a very different Again.

564
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: Matinees are tough no matter what. They're tough on you,

565
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:38,680
Speaker 1: they're tough on the audience. It's a tough it's tough

566
00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:43,200
Speaker 1: crowd to get to. It's early, it's like and you know,

567
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: some matinees really surprised us, but other matinees were like,

568
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: it's eleven o'clock.

569
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 2: Mostly matinees felt like a matinee. Yeah, that's what LA

570
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,880
Speaker 2: crowds are also notoriously bad because everyone's jaded in the

571
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 2: entertainment industry to judge, to judge lots of friends and family.

572
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, but it.

573
00:31:04,040 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 2: Was really cool and very surreal, and just to be backstage,

574
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:11,440
Speaker 2: to walk into that empty arena beforehand.

575
00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:11,880
Speaker 1: In the locker we like hung out in the locker rooms.

576
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: It's so weird. It's just so weird.

577
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 2: It's very, very weird.

578
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: And then we kick up the tour. There's some fun

579
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:23,360
Speaker 1: facts about this tour. Naya was sick during some of this, yeah,

580
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: she was. And there was one show in particular that

581
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,000
Speaker 1: we had to switch some stuff up and Amber had

582
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 1: to do River Deep, Mountain High.

583
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:39,120
Speaker 2: By herself, which I watched last night, and she's really Yeah,

584
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,880
Speaker 2: you can find it online on YouTube. And because she's

585
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:49,920
Speaker 2: singing both parts by herself, and then she gets to

586
00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 2: the end where she's doing the ad libs and stuff,

587
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 2: and you and I are freaking out because like she

588
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:58,400
Speaker 2: got through it, Like holy shit, she did it. Yeah,

589
00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 2: and you and I you fully back to me and

590
00:32:01,160 --> 00:32:02,719
Speaker 2: like are hitting me, like do you see this?

591
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: Yes? I mean it's crazy. I gotta watch it. You

592
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: gotta send me the clip. I can find it. Okay.

593
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 2: That's also when you did True Colors, right, that's right,

594
00:32:11,920 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 2: And it was in London, Dublin. It was London. It

595
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 2: was too I have a picture of you in an

596
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 2: empty O two sound checking. I think it was our

597
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 2: last show in London.

598
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 3: So I did it more than once. I believe we

599
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,440
Speaker 3: swapped it out in Dublin. Once it was in we

600
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,400
Speaker 3: stayed in the restirator. Yeah, that's because I.

601
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 2: Think there were only I think that was the last

602
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 2: show in London and then we had four shows in Dublin.

603
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: Yes, I did. I did True Colors last minute. It

604
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: was really fun because I think I've shared this before.

605
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: The band didn't always play completely live without some you

606
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: know support with some of these tracks that we were

607
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,680
Speaker 1: singing too. This was the band just bare naked on

608
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: its own and it's just me and the band, no

609
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 1: background vocals, you know, underneath us. So it was really fun.

610
00:33:07,760 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: It was a really really fun thing to do. And

611
00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 1: I just never thought True Colors would make it back

612
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: in a tour.

613
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 2: And he sounded phenomenal. I felt so proud.

614
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: Thanks. It was really fun.

615
00:33:25,960 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 2: We also got to have our little fake.

616
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: Names, oh our aliases for our hotel rooms. It's yours.

617
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:36,160
Speaker 2: Mine was Tom Riddle, that's right.

618
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: Mine was Tiger Lily. So when they would call, they'd

619
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 1: say good morning missus Lily.

620
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 2: Yes, sometimes you walk to the hotels and they would

621
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 2: have like the names on the TV's and it's like,

622
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 2: mister riddle.

623
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:51,360
Speaker 1: Well, purposefully they do that so that if somebody's trying

624
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:54,120
Speaker 1: to find you, a fan is calling saying like, oh

625
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:56,720
Speaker 1: it is Jenna ash Quit say at this hotel, They're like, Nope,

626
00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:58,360
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. You're not in the system

627
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:01,840
Speaker 1: at all. So that that's basically why they have aliases.

628
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 2: I would like to sort of go in a little

629
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 2: sequential order here, okay, of some of these shows, just

630
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 2: to talk about some random things I remember from some

631
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 2: of these. After San Diego once, it did feel like

632
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 2: after we left California, the tour was really beginning in

633
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:21,080
Speaker 2: a way, right, like we're leaving home. We got our

634
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 2: sea legs. That's also fun fact when they cut don't

635
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 2: Rano My Parade from the seat list and except she

636
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 2: sang it in the East Rutherford shows for the movie, right,

637
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 2: because also that song was insane. Here's the other thing

638
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 2: we were singing all year filming a TV show, right,

639
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 2: and then you go, we're not tour ready vocally, and

640
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 2: luckily the show was split up like Leah's songs were

641
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 2: all belters. Fireworks was already an insanely hard song to sing.

642
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot to sing, a lot to sing.

643
00:34:55,480 --> 00:35:01,280
Speaker 2: Yes, So we leave California, Indianapolis and Minneapolis for next Minneapolis.

644
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 2: You guys top two best audiences, like absolutely insane. Was

645
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 2: not prepared for that. Loved Minneapolis as a city and

646
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,920
Speaker 2: it was so good, I remember. So we flew in

647
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,399
Speaker 2: and out of Indianapolis on the same day. That felt weird.

648
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 2: I think it was the only time we did that.

649
00:35:21,960 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: Yeah.

650
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,400
Speaker 2: Then we were in Chicago for a hot minute Chicago

651
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,880
Speaker 2: from all these pictures meeting lots of fans of Chicago

652
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 2: that my brother came and he was there like the

653
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 2: whole weekend and was It's hard to sort of stun

654
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,720
Speaker 2: my brother. And he was sort of in shock because

655
00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 2: he hung out with us at the arena and I

656
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 2: think to see us. We did Mattinees, we did four

657
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 2: shows and we went out at night. Yeah, and he

658
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 2: was just sort of to see a family member recognize

659
00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 2: how insane this is what you're actually doing. You're having

660
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 2: sold out shows every single time. And he'd go out

661
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:03,799
Speaker 2: there and be like the biggest hype man for all

662
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 2: of us. He would he loved it. He also liked,

663
00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 2: you know, like the free bar and stuff, and so

664
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 2: he's like, okay, I'm gonna get loose, but it was

665
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 2: also nice, like how was it was?

666
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 1: It?

667
00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 2: Okay? Were we good? And I'd kick him out when

668
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 2: we'd start to warm up things, I'm like, okay, go

669
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 2: out there. We got to get ready and serious. And

670
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 2: there was one time in Chicago too, where and I've

671
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 2: said this, I alluded to this where like one of

672
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 2: the backing vocals during PYT started playing off and it

673
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 2: was weird, and the guy who was running it felt

674
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,839
Speaker 2: really bad. And my brother was there to sort of

675
00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 2: talk to me because I was confused abut what was happening.

676
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,040
Speaker 2: He was like that's weird, and he goes, no, it

677
00:36:47,080 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 2: was totally fine. It sounded fine out there, so it

678
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,520
Speaker 2: was good to have somebody like in the house and.

679
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,839
Speaker 1: He's like tell you the truth. Yeah.

680
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,360
Speaker 2: But and the guy came up to me and like

681
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 2: profusely apologize and I was like, that's fine, Like it happens.

682
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,560
Speaker 2: My brother was like, well, normally, probably under normal circumstances,

683
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 2: somebody someone could be fired, Oh for sure that and well, one,

684
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 2: we don't have that ability, right and like two, no, whatever,

685
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 2: it was. Everything was totally fine. Then we go to Connecticut.

686
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 2: Your family came to Connecticut.

687
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 3: Right, Higgins Son, Right, Yes, totally see your mom backstage,

688
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 3: that's right.

689
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 1: We were in the casino. Yes, oh my gosh, yes

690
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: they did come. They came to that one. They love

691
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:31,359
Speaker 1: a casino.

692
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,480
Speaker 2: Then we did the Garden at Boston, and I remember

693
00:37:36,520 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 2: Corey was upset because his team and Stanley Cup finals

694
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:46,040
Speaker 2: had just lost to Boston. And also my name being

695
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 2: Kevin McHale, the former Boston Celtic, being there and taking

696
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 2: pictures of that arena like for my family was very surreal.

697
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:58,960
Speaker 2: And I remember also meeting such a special fan there.

698
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 2: I have a picture of she and I backstage, and

699
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 2: that's what was really nice. Like a lot of these

700
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:10,760
Speaker 2: places sometimes make a wish kids, and it was really

701
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,879
Speaker 2: fun to get to share those experiences with them. And

702
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 2: I don't know how to like we and I don't

703
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 2: mean I mean this in all honesty, like we were fans,

704
00:38:24,480 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 2: like of the fans and that way where like we

705
00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 2: couldn't believe that people would show up to see us, right,

706
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 2: And it was times like that where people are there

707
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 2: to see us, We're like, we're happy and grateful that

708
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 2: you guys are here to come enjoy this because it's

709
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 2: not our music, right, Like we're all celebrating what this

710
00:38:46,480 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 2: show and this music means to all of us. So

711
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 2: it was a really weird experience in that way because

712
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 2: like we're not the artists. We're sort of like the

713
00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 2: vessel bringing you this thing, right, and whatever the show

714
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 2: is representative to you, We're just like a conduit to that.

715
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.

716
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 2: So it didn't feel like you're here for us, We're

717
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:14,280
Speaker 2: all here for the shared experience, right, that makes sense?

718
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:19,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, No, totally. I think it's important, like for

719
00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 1: a TV show in particular, to be able to go

720
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,759
Speaker 1: out and meet the fan and that many in that

721
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: kind of volume all at once was so unique versus

722
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: you know, you go to a convention and meet fans

723
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:37,799
Speaker 1: and they pay to come see you. But like these

724
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: fans like, yeah, of course they did come and pay

725
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:43,399
Speaker 1: and to see us, but like there's like a full

726
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: experience that they get and they bring other people, like

727
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: they get to bond with other you know, Greeks or

728
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: with their family in some way. And we'll talk about

729
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: more more of that, like when the movie, when we

730
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: do the episode about the movie, but like to be

731
00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: able to go like I remember Telly having the little

732
00:40:02,760 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: like like golf cart esque thing. I think it was

733
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: in Chicago actually, and they'd be like, do you want

734
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,040
Speaker 1: to go out and meet the fans, either like before

735
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,240
Speaker 1: the show or in between shows. And we didn't always

736
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:15,480
Speaker 1: get to do that in every city, but some of

737
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 1: them would be set up where there would be enough

738
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: safety or barricade that like we could go out there

739
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: without being like completely drowned, and like we would go

740
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: out and we would ride the van and like they

741
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: everybody would cheer. We could go through and like try

742
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:35,960
Speaker 1: and sign some programs and things, and so those were

743
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: the moments where you're like, oh my god, like what

744
00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: are we? This is why we're doing it. To like

745
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,560
Speaker 1: actually be able to like intimately like meet the people

746
00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 1: that are are showing up every day, and then like

747
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 1: just the performance itself, like the instant gratification you get.

748
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:56,719
Speaker 1: You don't like writers, performers, We don't know what's going

749
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: to until like the next morning with the Nielsen ratings

750
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:02,960
Speaker 1: and like the the reviews. But to go on this

751
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: tour and to actually just like watch people fully like

752
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,000
Speaker 1: a mash themselves in this moment was like so cool.

753
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 2: It's also a good point. With a show week to week,

754
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:18,879
Speaker 2: you do have some sort of there's a literal ratings system, right,

755
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,400
Speaker 2: and for this we had no idea. We didn't know

756
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,719
Speaker 2: what the tour was making. We didn't and that has

757
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,239
Speaker 2: nothing to do with us, like whether or not the

758
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 2: like we heard the tickets were selling and we knew

759
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 2: it was like probably sold out, but it doesn't really

760
00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 2: change the fact that you still have to go out

761
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 2: there and do the same performance totally. Like all we

762
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:43,440
Speaker 2: could gauge it off of was the immediate response of

763
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 2: the fans, and so that was so special. Also, do

764
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 2: you remember we started at some point I believe it

765
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:54,239
Speaker 2: was Megan and somebody else would go find if we

766
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 2: had extra seats that were open, that were really good seats.

767
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:01,400
Speaker 2: They would go sort of like the nosebleeds and find

768
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 2: people to fill those seats. And they would sometimes it

769
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 2: was two seats, sometimes it was two dozen seats where

770
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:09,000
Speaker 2: they would go get people.

771
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: I always wanted to go with them, but they'd be like, no,

772
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:12,439
Speaker 1: you can't, you can't.

773
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 2: I think I did once. Yeah, yeah, I believe I

774
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:21,840
Speaker 2: did it once. Chicago was also where Nya and Kelly

775
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:26,759
Speaker 2: started playing the Pretty Little Liars not started, but that's

776
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:31,120
Speaker 2: where sort of climax, the a game with the phones

777
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 2: where they would text us, Yes, they would text us,

778
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:37,359
Speaker 2: And that's when I maybe I figured out who who

779
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 2: it was.

780
00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:39,319
Speaker 1: Wait, you weren't part of that.

781
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:43,240
Speaker 3: You didn't know. No, oh, I was with them because

782
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 3: I was getting texted. I was doing it too then, because.

783
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 1: Okay, that's why we were how or where we were

784
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,400
Speaker 1: exactly that. We decided with our Samsung phones, who also

785
00:42:55,960 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 1: who sponsored the tour. So we went on some of

786
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:03,719
Speaker 1: these like you know, mourning like promo tour, meet and

787
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: great things at Samsung stores. We all got these phones

788
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: and we had these different cell phone numbers, and so

789
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,320
Speaker 1: we decided that we were going to start texting people

790
00:43:16,440 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: on the real phones from these number and we were

791
00:43:20,360 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: like divulging like secrets that nobody should know.

792
00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 2: Yes, well, I think that's in Chicago. I started participating. Okay,

793
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 2: and do you remember I don't remember his name. There

794
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 2: was a crew member who was really hot, Spencer's Oh

795
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 2: my god, it was Spencer. It's absolutely it was. And

796
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 2: Nya thought he was hot. Yeah, And so like the

797
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 2: whole tour from part of the tour we're like trying

798
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,879
Speaker 2: to get them together. And then she and Spencer were

799
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:52,719
Speaker 2: like sitting at like the loading dock of Chicago and

800
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:56,360
Speaker 2: I like have this intentionally sort of grainy paparazzi photo

801
00:43:57,080 --> 00:43:59,560
Speaker 2: and sent it to her like through my you know,

802
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 2: with A as the signature. I also remember with him

803
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 2: during one of the shows, were like Naya, Now it's

804
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 2: like Jesse's girls being sung and she's getting hyped up

805
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 2: for Valerie, like you have to go ask him out,

806
00:44:12,960 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 2: You've got to do She's like should I Should I

807
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 2: do it? Like yes, now's the time, you gotta go

808
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:18,799
Speaker 2: do it, and so like he would be backstage with us, yeah,

809
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:19,880
Speaker 2: and she did.

810
00:44:19,880 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: And he gave her a flower and put it in

811
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 1: her little changing station in underneath the stage. So she

812
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 1: changed her mind.

813
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 2: So it was it was like that was fine and fun.

814
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 2: While like on tour, Yeah, Philly, we went to we

815
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 2: got Cheese Steaks with Angie and this was like a

816
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 2: really weird place, full circle moment because a couple of

817
00:44:49,640 --> 00:44:52,000
Speaker 2: years prior, she's like, I gotta take you guys, you're

818
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 2: talking about it her days to this cheese take place. Right,

819
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 2: we get to the Cheese take Place and it's across

820
00:44:56,960 --> 00:45:00,360
Speaker 2: the street from the theater I had performed at just

821
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 2: a few years prior with the boy band I was in.

822
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 2: That's right, Ty and I and I'm like, I can't

823
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 2: believe I'm here to perform in an arena now. And

824
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 2: it's only been like the four years, three years Toronto

825
00:45:13,360 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 2: we had matinees the best. The matinees were not only

826
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 2: the best audiences of the matinees for the entire tour,

827
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 2: those were some of the best audiences period period, for

828
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 2: the entire tour. It was insane. However, the fans were

829
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:30,480
Speaker 2: so nuts that, like we said in the previous episode,

830
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:32,960
Speaker 2: some of us snuck out and got a different hotel

831
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:37,800
Speaker 2: because it was well, they found us. You guys were crazy. Also,

832
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,360
Speaker 2: Diana didn't make it to Canada, right she lost her passport.

833
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: She lost her passport or expired or something, and so

834
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: she couldn't get in and we didn't know if she

835
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:47,319
Speaker 1: was going to make the show. It was really it

836
00:45:47,360 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: was rough.

837
00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:52,240
Speaker 2: Yeah. Detroit, that's where Masterpiece Theater happened on my birthday

838
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:55,400
Speaker 2: and it was great and lovely. Cleveland was on my

839
00:45:55,440 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 2: actual birthday. You guys, let me down. East Rutherford is

840
00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,719
Speaker 2: where we did the movie. We'll talk about that separately.

841
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: And then NASA Coliseum, which is my The coliseum is

842
00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:11,319
Speaker 1: where I saw all the concerts growing up. I saw

843
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 1: Burney Spears, I saw it in sinc I saw Backstreet Boys.

844
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 1: I mean I saw everything there. That's that's our concert,

845
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:22,000
Speaker 1: our venue. It was very strange. I'd like my fourth

846
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:26,280
Speaker 1: grade teacher come when they had just redone it. So

847
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:28,920
Speaker 1: some people came from the city, like our friend Will.

848
00:46:29,719 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: It was really fun. It was really really fun to

849
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:35,400
Speaker 1: do your hometown like that. That was really special.

850
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 2: And then we get to England. We got to England,

851
00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 2: lost our minds. It was our first like two consecutive

852
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,600
Speaker 2: days off. There were fans outside the entire time of

853
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:51,799
Speaker 2: our hotel singing Don't Stop Believing, so nobody could nap

854
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:52,840
Speaker 2: and everybody was jet lagged.

855
00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:53,719
Speaker 1: In Manchester.

856
00:46:53,920 --> 00:46:56,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, the things that I remember about Manchester. We did

857
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 3: that Vogue shoot because I did the September issue.

858
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we had Jake Nava, who is this huge

859
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 2: music video director and I was freaking out, yeah do it. Yeah.

860
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: And then London we did two weeks at the O

861
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: two right it shows, Okay, seven shows in two weeks

862
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: ish a week it was the longest amount of time

863
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: that we like sat down somewhere, which was really fun.

864
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 1: So we got to actually like enjoy and shop and

865
00:47:23,840 --> 00:47:26,440
Speaker 1: like spend go out a little bit and like not

866
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: feel like you're packing up your bag and like moving

867
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: to the next city. And then Dublin was like the end.

868
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:36,399
Speaker 1: So we just had like such a blast. Although the

869
00:47:36,440 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: first time we had an audience in that venue, they

870
00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:42,880
Speaker 1: we didn't know they weren't allowed to stand up, so

871
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: we thought they hated us. And halfway to the show

872
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: somebody told us and like one of the ushers, and

873
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: so we were like, stand up. And I think by

874
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: the second show we were allowed to tell them to

875
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: stand up, and they were allowed to and that was

876
00:47:57,600 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: just the end. So again it's like senior itis the

877
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 1: end of his season where we went out on Temple

878
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: Street and we had like such a great time and

879
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: we found this like little bar, so after the shows

880
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: we would go we called the Schoolhouse and every night

881
00:48:12,560 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 1: Darren would pull out his guitar and like we would

882
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:16,880
Speaker 1: all just like hang out with the cat with the

883
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:20,120
Speaker 1: crew and like the whole like traveling like our our

884
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: whole like Glee family to our family. It was really

885
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:24,959
Speaker 1: really fun and like.

886
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,480
Speaker 2: Again family came to meet us in London and then

887
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 2: they came on.

888
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 1: To the rest of Ireland.

889
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:34,919
Speaker 2: Yes, do you remember in Manchester the lights wouldn't turn off.

890
00:48:35,480 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 2: We had to delay how late shows and we were

891
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 2: like it was really hot for some reason, and we

892
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,439
Speaker 2: were like the five of us started on stage, yep,

893
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 2: six of us and if we were all speaking to

894
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 2: each other, talking to each other in our in years,

895
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 2: like why isn't this happening? And then London we also

896
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 2: had like lots of famous people were touring and lots

897
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 2: of famous people came to our shows, and like Gordon

898
00:48:56,640 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 2: Ramsay was there and then he was at the restaurant

899
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 2: and bon Jovi was also touring and saying at the

900
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 2: same hotel and we drank them one night, Beyonce's mom was.

901
00:49:04,800 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 1: At the hotel, a fancy hotel, so like to be fair,

902
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: you know, yes, But.

903
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 2: Then like Gwyneth never performed for Apple before, so she

904
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:16,319
Speaker 2: came to perform just one night randomly in London. The

905
00:49:16,400 --> 00:49:20,320
Speaker 2: craziest show of all Dublin, Dublin, our last show in Dublin,

906
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 2: because it was the last show. We were going to

907
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:28,960
Speaker 2: do whatever we wanted basically, and so everyone came out

908
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 2: with like weird hair and costumes and for Safety Dance,

909
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:37,439
Speaker 2: everybody came out. You can find it online. It's it's

910
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 2: not cute on my part, I'm like screaming basically, but

911
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 2: it was emotional and it was great. And I remember Cord.

912
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:48,800
Speaker 1: We threw our vessel into the audience, didn't we Yeah,

913
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:50,800
Speaker 1: and like at that time too, like Cord didn't know

914
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:55,280
Speaker 1: if he was coming back. It was a really weird,

915
00:49:55,320 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 1: like emotional time. So that was just like a really

916
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 1: also special show.

917
00:50:03,280 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 2: If you can go find videos online, you should because

918
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 2: it's absolutely nuts.

919
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 1: We were just so excited to be done as well.

920
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 1: We wore like the Dalton ties. I remember wearing a tie.

921
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,480
Speaker 1: Angie came out on stage our tour manager during I

922
00:50:19,480 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 1: Want to Hold your Hand. They all surprised us. So

923
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 1: we had some of our our crew like on stage.

924
00:50:26,880 --> 00:50:29,560
Speaker 2: People had secretly been learning Safety Dance throughout the tour

925
00:50:29,719 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 2: and so by the end everybody was on that.

926
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,279
Speaker 1: Yeah, didn't that come on stage at one point Safe

927
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 1: to Dance.

928
00:50:35,400 --> 00:50:37,440
Speaker 2: I also got to that my dad was there. Our

929
00:50:37,480 --> 00:50:39,879
Speaker 2: whole dream forever was, you know, to get my dad

930
00:50:39,920 --> 00:50:42,799
Speaker 2: to Ireland, and so I sort of broke character and

931
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 2: I had everybody saying I said, my dad was in

932
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 2: the audience, and then I got the entire arena to sing, oh,

933
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 2: Danny boy, Oh that's right, And that was like one

934
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:53,880
Speaker 2: of the most special moments of my entire life. It

935
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:57,960
Speaker 2: was incredible, Sweet Dad. We buzzed through a lot of

936
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 2: those shows, but you know, because once they stay, that's

937
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 2: how to our feels, to be honest, like you're just

938
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 2: sort of going. We've talked about how everyone sort of

939
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:07,640
Speaker 2: lost their minds in London. I don't know if you

940
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:08,400
Speaker 2: need to revisit that.

941
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:10,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, by the end of London, like all of the

942
00:51:10,560 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: girls were ready to go home. I think it had

943
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: been a really long journey and we all kind of

944
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: like locked ourselves in our dressing room and refused to

945
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: come out, and and like hinzein, I think it's just

946
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 1: because there was a lot of moving parts to the

947
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 1: show and like behind the scenes of just because like

948
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,760
Speaker 1: the joy was doing the actual performance for the fans,

949
00:51:37,800 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 1: like that was the highlight, right, and all the other

950
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:44,880
Speaker 1: stuff is like the cherry on top and also kind

951
00:51:44,880 --> 00:51:48,200
Speaker 1: of the stuff that made us crazy. So when we

952
00:51:48,239 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 1: would want to go home to our hotels. After the show,

953
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,840
Speaker 1: they would put us in these sprinter vans, and I

954
00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 1: think there were two or three maybe, and a lot

955
00:51:56,960 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: of the time the venue was like maybe forty five

956
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:04,359
Speaker 1: minutes away from the actual hotel, so we didn't get

957
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:07,680
Speaker 1: separate cars to go home. When you wanted to go home,

958
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 1: you had to wait for everybody to be done, so

959
00:52:10,040 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 1: like if people are taking time in the dressing room

960
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:13,799
Speaker 1: or have fans or like you don't want to see

961
00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:16,960
Speaker 1: fans or have family there and they're taking their time,

962
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 1: we had to wait. And so a lot of the time,

963
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:22,560
Speaker 1: like you'd start to lose your mind a little bit

964
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 1: because you just lose your independence in a way where

965
00:52:25,000 --> 00:52:28,320
Speaker 1: like you don't zero, you're not on your own time,

966
00:52:28,600 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: you know, and you're not in your own like like

967
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:31,839
Speaker 1: I would just be like, I want to go home,

968
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: I want to take a shower, I want to get

969
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: in my hotel bed, and like go to sleep.

970
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 2: Because it also feels like when you're alone, time should start.

971
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 2: I'm off the clock now now I should be able.

972
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:42,279
Speaker 1: To like have free where So there are a lot

973
00:52:42,280 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: of like moments like that where I think that's the

974
00:52:44,520 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: kind of thing that made us tick the wrong way.

975
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 1: Like a lot of the girls did want to go home,

976
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:50,480
Speaker 1: and then like one person, didn't you know we were

977
00:52:50,520 --> 00:52:52,680
Speaker 1: waiting for And then you get angry at them for

978
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: no reason, like you shouldn't have to be angry at them,

979
00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: but because they're holding you up, you're angry. So I

980
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 1: think there was a lot of that that means made

981
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:01,439
Speaker 1: us feel that way.

982
00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:03,960
Speaker 2: I also think, like when we talk to Jason raz,

983
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 2: touring is rough even under like the nicest of situations,

984
00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:13,359
Speaker 2: and we were under a pretty cushy situation. However, none

985
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 2: of us had toured like that. Well I guess I had.

986
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,399
Speaker 2: I had toured not a nice way.

987
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: You Yeah, so you knew, you knew.

988
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, But like that, that is also like a muscle,

989
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:29,680
Speaker 2: and it's also a thing if you're not prepared, it's draining.

990
00:53:29,760 --> 00:53:33,040
Speaker 2: All that travel, regardless of how luxurious it is, is

991
00:53:33,120 --> 00:53:36,680
Speaker 2: draining because again, what did most of our group want

992
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:38,680
Speaker 2: before you go on towards just to like go home,

993
00:53:39,280 --> 00:53:41,239
Speaker 2: to like see your friends and family which you have

994
00:53:41,360 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 2: not seen for nine times. And so then the further

995
00:53:45,080 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 2: it feels, like geographically like the further you get away

996
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 2: from home, the harder all of this feels. And also

997
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 2: the longer you've been away. So I think by the

998
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 2: time we got to Europe, we had just been working

999
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 2: for like eleven months straight, and so everyone was just

1000
00:54:02,960 --> 00:54:07,319
Speaker 2: worn out and worn down. Luckily, I will say that

1001
00:54:07,360 --> 00:54:08,960
Speaker 2: did not affect the show at all.

1002
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 1: I don't think so.

1003
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:13,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody was still went out there and like gave

1004
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:14,720
Speaker 2: their best smashed it. Yeah.

1005
00:54:14,880 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 1: No, it was so much fun once you even if

1006
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:19,279
Speaker 1: you're having a hard day, like as soon as the

1007
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:21,920
Speaker 1: curtain goes up and those fans start yelling, like, it

1008
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:24,839
Speaker 1: all kind of like blurs out, you know, just like

1009
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,400
Speaker 1: you're like you forget about it.

1010
00:54:27,440 --> 00:54:30,280
Speaker 2: Honestly, do you remember when we were at the Savoy

1011
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 2: in London, Like we would even try to find moments

1012
00:54:33,600 --> 00:54:36,080
Speaker 2: of to just like I snuck away to go to

1013
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:39,520
Speaker 2: like a friend's birthday dinner, but we were supposed to

1014
00:54:39,560 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 2: have Is that when we were supposed to have dinner

1015
00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 2: with Adele?

1016
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: That's right, and she can't did she cancel her? She

1017
00:54:44,880 --> 00:54:45,439
Speaker 1: couldn't remember.

1018
00:54:45,600 --> 00:54:47,920
Speaker 2: And Adele had become friends and we were supposed to

1019
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:51,640
Speaker 2: have dinner with her. It was during twenty one and

1020
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 2: then she was living with her mom at the time,

1021
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:54,880
Speaker 2: and then her mom came home with a bunch of

1022
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,719
Speaker 2: her like girlfriends, and so she had to cancel. Like

1023
00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,160
Speaker 2: we were trying to find moments of like just to

1024
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 2: go right and get away, do like normal totally sneak

1025
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 2: out of the hotel totally.

1026
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: Well, that's pretty much the tour. An hour later that

1027
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 1: it's it was a lot, and it was again like

1028
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: I could redo it. I would because I just think

1029
00:55:22,200 --> 00:55:24,959
Speaker 1: I would go in with more appreciation for the tour

1030
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,640
Speaker 1: and like how cool it was and how we did

1031
00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: travel even though Thomas TuS Tenko wasn't the best, Like

1032
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:33,879
Speaker 1: the hotels we stayed in were really nice, Like we

1033
00:55:33,880 --> 00:55:36,839
Speaker 1: were treated really great. We had it really pretty good.

1034
00:55:37,760 --> 00:55:39,799
Speaker 1: And then to be able to like go and do

1035
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:42,640
Speaker 1: these shows and meet all the fans, like it was

1036
00:55:42,760 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: really awesome. Like I watched some of the videos last

1037
00:55:46,320 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: night and just like the roar of the stadiums and

1038
00:55:50,360 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: like the amount of bodies that were there for us

1039
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:53,800
Speaker 1: was so cool.

1040
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:57,360
Speaker 2: We broke the record at the O two for the

1041
00:55:57,440 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 2: amount of people at the the two and because we

1042
00:56:00,560 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 2: did four shows and sixty six thousand people, which I

1043
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 2: thought was insane. I was also remembering how when we

1044
00:56:08,640 --> 00:56:11,080
Speaker 2: would towards the end of the tour. When Angie could

1045
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:15,800
Speaker 2: see us fraying, she would have the flight attendant for

1046
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:19,840
Speaker 2: our plane standing at the bottom of the stairs. That

1047
00:56:20,000 --> 00:56:22,640
Speaker 2: was like all the time with the shots of tequila.

1048
00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that was because of the turbulence. Ama was like,

1049
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: I'm not getting on this plane without a shot.

1050
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:31,120
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it became so much fun. And if you've

1051
00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 2: heard us play sausat Crunch too, that's where that game

1052
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 2: really took flight. Yeah, literally, mm hmm.

1053
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:40,920
Speaker 1: Well that's the tour you guys. Thanks for hanging with us.

1054
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:44,799
Speaker 2: For it was madness. And when you're getting on and

1055
00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:47,319
Speaker 2: off a plane several times a day and like you

1056
00:56:47,360 --> 00:56:51,480
Speaker 2: don't know where you are, who you are, it was

1057
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:55,520
Speaker 2: it was great to be able to like do that together. Jenna.

1058
00:56:55,800 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 2: I'm just like I remember the feeling of like some

1059
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:00,600
Speaker 2: of those mornings you wake up just so drained, and

1060
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:02,440
Speaker 2: then we'd go to some of the Samsung events and

1061
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 2: you're like what am I doing?

1062
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:05,040
Speaker 1: Where am I?

1063
00:57:05,800 --> 00:57:06,320
Speaker 2: Yeah?

1064
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, we know, we we knew if we could get

1065
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 1: through the tour, we could get through anything.

1066
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:18,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, well that's the tour. Thanks for joining us,

1067
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 3: and if you came to the tour, I know, thank

1068
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 3: you for coming. It was great to perform for you.

1069
00:57:24,280 --> 00:57:26,920
Speaker 1: We had so many, so many people who are like

1070
00:57:27,000 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 1: I was at the tour. I just love that.

1071
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:31,880
Speaker 2: And if you have some of that merch, send us

1072
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 2: picks because a lot of it was not great. Yeah,

1073
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 2: and also if they put our face on it, then

1074
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 2: they had to pay us, So there's a lot of

1075
00:57:37,080 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 2: it with not our face on it. Those programs are

1076
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 2: beautiful though. I think the programs are great.

1077
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:41,840
Speaker 1: They were the best.

1078
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:49,080
Speaker 2: They were really good. Jenna, before we go, do you

1079
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 2: have a favorite number from the tour?

1080
00:57:53,960 --> 00:57:57,520
Speaker 1: Somebody Love That was great? Do you have a favorite number?

1081
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 2: I think the entirety of the encore.

1082
00:58:01,280 --> 00:58:01,480
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1083
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:03,920
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1084
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:08,160
Speaker 2: Also before I forget, I used to do this thing

1085
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 2: before each show right where I'd shout out like somebody

1086
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 2: in the cast or crew as we'd walk the stage

1087
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 2: would all be like I'm a chant. Yes, And we'd

1088
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 2: do it every single show, and I would just say

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Speaker 2: that m VP of the tour was Angie Warner.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Of course.

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Speaker 2: She kept us going. She made that tour happen. So

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Speaker 2: thank you, Angie. Whaterevorator you're on right now, we.

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Speaker 1: Literally probably we love you, Angie. Thanks for making the

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Speaker 1: tour so great.

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Speaker 2: Send us tour photos, memories, whatever you have, would love

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Speaker 2: to see them. Next week we talked about Glee the

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Speaker 2: three D concert movie.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious how that's going to go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, let's see Send us send us your concert movies, stories,

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Speaker 2: any memories you might have. Let's talk about it because

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Speaker 2: that's a funny one and that's what you really missed. Hey,

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Speaker 2: thanks for listening, and follow us on Instagram at and

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Speaker 2: that's what you really miss pod and make sure to

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Speaker 2: write us a review and leave us five stars. See

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Speaker 2: you next time.