Speaker 1: And That's what you Really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's what You Really Missed podcasts.
Speaker 2: We are broadcasting live from the Blue Wire Studios at
Speaker 2: the Wind Las Vegas, and we're with.
Speaker 1: The very special essel Ngis. Hello. Hello, it's nice to
Speaker 1: be here. Wow, Wow, Trio.
Speaker 2: I feel honored to be a part of this, these
Speaker 2: two that feel.
Speaker 1: So much love, and we're about to do the love episode.
Speaker 1: Oh that's right. Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Wait have you have you ever seen of this hotel before?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: Oh my, oh myke you're saying you're hungry.
Speaker 1: I got to go to your room and I was
Speaker 1: just blown away the window.
Speaker 2: After this, we have to go eat because the food
Speaker 2: here is very, very very good.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's do it.
Speaker 2: Wingley is the mission started? These restaurants?
Speaker 1: Oh god, I'm sorry. I'm starving, Kevin.
Speaker 2: Sorry, so dumb. It is so good.
Speaker 1: I'm so hungry. What you had? I want to know
Speaker 1: just to describe one, just describe a highlight for me
Speaker 1: of a dish. I just want to just take me there.
Speaker 1: They like, well make gross some people out, but they
Speaker 1: carve a whole duck. I was just going to say it.
Speaker 1: I have duck. Yes they do. It's important. Do they
Speaker 1: have the skin with the sugar?
Speaker 2: I don't think they have the sugar. That is the
Speaker 2: best thing in the entire world. It is I don't know,
Speaker 2: maybe top three best meals I've ever had in my life.
Speaker 1: What Wow.
Speaker 2: I'm not even someone who loves the steakhouse, but the
Speaker 2: steakhouse here as well might stay. I love a steakhouse.
Speaker 2: I look. I know that sounds like so fake and
Speaker 2: not real.
Speaker 1: I believe you all feels very genuine, especially because you
Speaker 1: told me all of this offline, so you wouldn't. That
Speaker 1: would be weird if you. Oh, my stomach is growy.
Speaker 1: He just lied to us.
Speaker 2: I've said here a lot of times. I went to
Speaker 2: a place last night I've never been before. They have
Speaker 2: like it was like a restaurant that's near the casino.
Speaker 2: So I just because i've been to like the fancier
Speaker 2: ones happen. It was dim Sum Oh.
Speaker 1: My life. Yeah, you're killing me my favorite. Yeah. Don't
Speaker 1: you feel like everywhere you go people say I have
Speaker 1: the best dim some place. That's something I hear on
Speaker 1: the regular listing. Yeah, I loved him, So they're always wrong.
Speaker 1: You gotta go to dim sum with your mom? Chicken feed?
Speaker 1: Why don't we always have to have chicken feed? Oh
Speaker 1: and Chang? Yeah, you're welcome. Wow.
Speaker 3: This is season three, episode thirteen, Heart and its air
Speaker 3: date was February fourteenth, twenty twelve, of Valentine's Day, the
Speaker 3: home Mark holiday. In the News, number one song was
Speaker 3: Stronger by Kelly Clarkson.
Speaker 1: How very exciting Kelly Clarkson was on American Dreams. Oh shit,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, Linda Rons, okay, can you google that?
Speaker 1: Can I google it? I'll do it, Okay, Kelly Clarkson
Speaker 1: American Dreams.
Speaker 2: That sounds right. I remember that.
Speaker 1: Actually, Yeah, she was amazing. You have some people in
Speaker 1: making dreams frendly frendaly see new items, really don't have it.
Speaker 2: That was the number one movie. Rachel McAdams and Chain
Speaker 2: Kadam didn't see that.
Speaker 1: I'm such a big fan of Channing really and Rachel
Speaker 1: mccadams right.
Speaker 2: On February nineteenth and Glee News a STEADI caam operator
Speaker 2: Andrew Mitchell one camera Operator.
Speaker 1: Of the Year, well deserved snapping.
Speaker 2: And we were also, I remember we were pissed that
Speaker 2: it took so long.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, but he deserves it so well deserved. You've
Speaker 1: obviously talked about him to nauseam about how magical he was,
Speaker 1: oh great, and like how I've never seen anybody dance
Speaker 1: while having a steadycam operating system on their person. And
Speaker 1: the fact that his whole team would like surround him
Speaker 1: like a little amieba and make sure he didn't trip
Speaker 1: or fall over a chord. It was just brilliant. Really,
Speaker 1: it was surreal.
Speaker 2: And we always said, like Glee wouldn't he was the
Speaker 2: unofficial like thirteenth member of the Glee Club, and the
Speaker 2: Glee would not look how it looked without him.
Speaker 4: No, absolutely, Okay, great, I'm glad you guys. Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: that's great, but we can't enough of him. This episode
Speaker 4: was directed by Brad Foulchuk, and it was officially unofficially
Speaker 4: written by Ali Adler and our team of Glee writers.
Speaker 4: And we have two very very very special guest stars,
Speaker 4: Jeff Goldbloom and Brian Sokes Mitchell.
Speaker 2: I mean, I got, I.
Speaker 1: Got, I got a selfie with Jeff goldbla It just
Speaker 1: growing up in the eighties and the nineties, y icon
Speaker 1: icon icon, you probably something super strange. We got to
Speaker 1: ride on a golf cart together. I snapped the selfie
Speaker 1: that became kind of my best picture of myself for
Speaker 1: a long time, just because something to write home about.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's he just yeah, there's no there's nobody
Speaker 1: like him, absolutely truly.
Speaker 3: Nobody like him, singular singular person. I will say also
Speaker 3: court over Street. Yes, well, the best intention I've seen it, Jeff.
Speaker 2: I've seen him for an impression and he has he said,
Speaker 2: oh god, let me see if I can work on it.
Speaker 1: He sent it to you, He sent it.
Speaker 3: Wow, he sent it, which brings us to uh, I
Speaker 3: mean more, which brings you to kutcher.
Speaker 1: I'm upset. It's so good.
Speaker 2: What he would do, especially with Cord, took.
Speaker 1: That took my breath away.
Speaker 2: He would play this game, whereas like association, where you
Speaker 2: do that, you would be like, well it was Jeff's idea.
Speaker 3: Jeff's like, let's play a game, and everybody's like, okay,
Speaker 3: like silent, We're all like silent.
Speaker 1: But he Jeff wanted to be.
Speaker 3: Very engaged with everybody all the time, even Offset, and
Speaker 3: so Cord. He played a lot of games. But Cord
Speaker 3: is you know, he soaks people up and spits them out,
Speaker 3: so it brings us.
Speaker 2: I didn't get to work a lot with Jeff. You
Speaker 2: know Jeff, we call him Jeff. And I walked out
Speaker 2: of my trailer I think it was the episode after
Speaker 2: this actually, and he's like, oh my.
Speaker 1: God, it's you. I'm like, hi, nice to me. She's like,
Speaker 1: it's you. You sing like a bird what Jeff Goldman
Speaker 1: said about I'm like.
Speaker 2: Well, you raised me.
Speaker 1: Oh my god.
Speaker 3: Somebody said that to me recently at the coffee shop
Speaker 3: that I frequent almost daily.
Speaker 1: She was like, oh, Queen, you raised me. And I
Speaker 1: was like.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I've never heard say before, Like, I've never
Speaker 3: heard somebody say that to me before.
Speaker 1: And I was like, wow, wow, wow, that is profound.
Speaker 2: Posted a very very apropos thing recently. It's a picture
Speaker 2: of him and he's like, if you were old enough
Speaker 2: to enjoy in my books and come up to me
Speaker 2: and saying I grew up reading your books, don't come
Speaker 2: and say.
Speaker 1: That you posted a grandma, right, Okay, Yeah. So the
Speaker 1: songs in.
Speaker 3: This episode are Love by Knacking colds Harr's audition song
Speaker 3: Oh very Good, Let Me Love You by Mario Stereo
Speaker 3: Hearts by Jim class DROs Home Michael Boublay, I will
Speaker 3: always love you, Highlight Whitney Houston. You're at the top
Speaker 3: of You're the top by the cast or anything goes
Speaker 3: Cherish Cherish by macdonnaugh and the Yes and the Association
Speaker 3: and love Shack by the Bee fifty two's there's some
Speaker 3: fun facts.
Speaker 2: The titles episode is actually just the heart symbol, which
Speaker 2: is wild, which is crazy. And I liked the little
Speaker 2: Glee turned pink. You see that was cute.
Speaker 1: It's very cute.
Speaker 2: In the pilot episode, Rachel introduces her dads by showing
Speaker 2: a picture of the two of them. Her dads are
Speaker 2: not those dads and dads now, yeah, now we get
Speaker 2: that stunt casting. This is actually not the first time
Speaker 2: Leah and Brian Stokes Mitchell co starred. They were both
Speaker 2: in rag Time on Broadway in nineteen ninety eight.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: Brian played Cole house Walker Junior, and Leah played the
Speaker 2: little girl Whitney Houston.
Speaker 1: I unexpectedly and sadly on February eleventh, three days before
Speaker 1: the episode of scheduled to air. In the day after
Speaker 1: the episode, episode finished and was delivered to network. The
Speaker 1: episode was then dedicated to me.
Speaker 2: I remember when that aired and people thought like we
Speaker 2: had done it and turned it around that quickly.
Speaker 1: It is just by sheer coincidence totally.
Speaker 2: We did the Whitney episode later on after that intentionally
Speaker 2: but not.
Speaker 1: That was dance. Yeah. Samuel Larson makes his debut Showheart
Speaker 1: on gleat.
Speaker 2: The God Squad. The britanniciss was cut from the four
Speaker 2: PM episode, which is who knew that they aired episodes
Speaker 2: that early in the Philippines, but was shown in the
Speaker 2: primetime telecast at night BM Okay, interesting, okay, I do
Speaker 2: like this one of the songs in Britte's playlist for
Speaker 2: Santana Our Purple People, Eater, Disco, duct Monster, Mash on
Speaker 2: top of Spaghetti pack Man, Fever, Osama Yo Mama, and
Speaker 2: the different shows.
Speaker 1: I can almost guarantee that this playlist is available on Spotify.
Speaker 1: That's somebody has done for the singular and also that
Speaker 1: she says that these are all the songs that play
Speaker 1: through her head when she thinks of her Yeah.
Speaker 3: Just a great just agreeeah, so great one.
Speaker 1: We'll suggest serenading people from classroom to classroom tena syth
Speaker 1: the Glee Club when caroling two years before this episode,
Speaker 1: but it was actually technically only one year before.
Speaker 2: Tina's bad with math whatever, like Jenna's bat with direction,
Speaker 2: Tina's bad a man.
Speaker 1: That's fair. That is very fair, and Sugar says the
Speaker 1: only people with dates are allowed. Only people with dates
Speaker 1: are allowed to come to her party, but already attends
Speaker 1: the party without a date, as well as the God
Speaker 1: Squad members and Kurt prior to blaine surprise return. It
Speaker 1: seems like mostly a bouncer problem. Yeah, she just didn't.
Speaker 1: She probably fired hired somebody at the end of this night.
Speaker 1: Give me the summary of this episode. In honor of
Speaker 1: Valentine's Day, Will challenges the Glee Club to find the
Speaker 1: and perform the world's greatest love songs.
Speaker 3: So we found that there's a pattern here, Vanessa that
Speaker 3: Will doesn't come up lesson plans in preparation.
Speaker 1: He figures them out on the fly all the time.
Speaker 3: And I have to say, I just think about this
Speaker 3: a lot, Like I think that if this wasn't ian thing,
Speaker 3: like he thought it was a joke, that how bad
Speaker 3: of a teacher Will is, Like he purposefully did this
Speaker 3: because there's no other way around it. He as a teacher,
Speaker 3: bad teacher, Okay, so, Vanessa, this is a big episode
Speaker 3: for you. Yeah, I got to speak. So this is
Speaker 3: a very exciting opportunity. I can't like to hear about
Speaker 3: your first real big episode. Yeah, and it's I mean
Speaker 3: still to be fair, it was also like you stole it.
Speaker 3: It wasn't even like all your episode, but you stole it.
Speaker 1: It's yours. Coming from thinking I was coming in for
Speaker 1: one performance of a bad song to having the whole episode.
Speaker 1: You'd be like a sugar shack Valentine's Heart theme. I felt,
Speaker 1: I felt honored and and I was I was excited.
Speaker 1: It was like, oh, yeah, give me something to do.
Speaker 1: Go I ate it, ate it. This is very exciting.
Speaker 1: It was. It was a It was a lot of
Speaker 1: the outfits turned turned to from they went from an
Speaker 1: eleven to exactly there's just one moment where I'm wearing
Speaker 1: that hat. What's that about that?
Speaker 5: That?
Speaker 1: I was like, I loved it, though you loved it?
Speaker 2: Absolutely made sense.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's fantastic. Yeah, let's see, you had so
Speaker 1: much fun. I had so much fun. So it kind
Speaker 1: of goes back to that, you know, getting that opportunity
Speaker 1: and wanting to have the best time with it, and
Speaker 1: and then I have to admit, and this is not
Speaker 1: going to be a shocked anyone, but being able to
Speaker 1: have scenes with you, Kevin and I was so cute
Speaker 1: and and show off a little bit of how in
Speaker 1: love with you I am on camera, it was a
Speaker 1: It was a dream come true. Likewise, it was such
Speaker 1: a joy, just a devastation that it ended how it ended.
Speaker 1: But I know, well Ory really stepped in there.
Speaker 2: Rory first of all singing home saying I'm going to
Speaker 2: be like deported.
Speaker 1: He really used it, used, he used his armor, his Yeah,
Speaker 1: he used it all. I was like, that was nice
Speaker 1: for him as an actor because he's just so nice,
Speaker 1: Like I love nice people, but sometimes you're like, but
Speaker 1: is there anything else mere? And uh and and I
Speaker 1: never knew that. But when he got to kind of
Speaker 1: play this manipulation, you know, it was yeah, I'll do
Speaker 1: anything to get the not even to get the girl
Speaker 1: I was insignificant, but to win over you, like power game.
Speaker 1: I thought, Wow, that's really nice. I like he brought it.
Speaker 2: I thought the whole bit was really fun. I was
Speaker 2: trying to one up each other the whole time. That
Speaker 2: little montage was great. I really I really enjoyed.
Speaker 1: That I was doing love. Yes that even they were back.
Speaker 3: I was back baby, but also ironically I was back
Speaker 3: half because my boyfriend and I at the time had
Speaker 3: gotten into the biggest fight of our relationship, hands down
Speaker 3: to this day.
Speaker 1: There was crying involved, there was fighting, and I had
Speaker 1: to come and shoot love that night outrageous and it was.
Speaker 2: You were going through it awful.
Speaker 3: You tell people little mule my makeup artists. I said, like,
Speaker 3: please fix me. My face was so puffy. I don't
Speaker 3: know if you can see it. Oh yeah, different. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I watched it yesterday. I saw it was what is
Speaker 3: going on?
Speaker 2: I was like, wow, it didn't look so different. I
Speaker 2: didn't know exactly why, but that makes sense.
Speaker 3: That number specifically, I was like, I have to go
Speaker 3: shoot tonight and I had to go shoot.
Speaker 1: A song about love awful. It was did Harry know? No,
Speaker 1: you just kept it?
Speaker 2: Does it help?
Speaker 1: Though?
Speaker 2: Having someone who Melissa like Harry Melissa Melissa, it's a
Speaker 2: very loving like team you have there. And then Harry,
Speaker 2: who was like super loving and generous, Yes, like stable,
Speaker 2: was a really.
Speaker 1: Solid, very protected, very protected.
Speaker 3: It was also good because it was only the two
Speaker 3: of us, like being an imagine being in a choir
Speaker 3: room scene where you have to do it in front
Speaker 3: of everybody and everybody's wondering what's going on.
Speaker 1: Like this was a six pm shoot. It was like just.
Speaker 3: Brad, you know what I mean, Like just Harry, thank God, right,
Speaker 3: but it's just so funny to like see on the outside.
Speaker 3: It just said such a good reminder for people in general,
Speaker 3: like you just don't never know what people are going through,
Speaker 3: and like how awful that was experience and that shoot
Speaker 3: was for me and it's like, finally.
Speaker 1: I got a song, finally I had something to do.
Speaker 1: And then you're like just fucking smile.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I want you to know that it read that
Speaker 6: you had a lot of emotion, so like it read
Speaker 6: that it was passion, you know, and so it wasn't.
Speaker 1: It didn't. I mean it gave it a lot of
Speaker 1: juice and to know what was really going on the
Speaker 1: second you told me earlier today, I I it rearranged
Speaker 1: in my mind and I understood the deeper, the deeper
Speaker 1: thing and the thing that I was feeling and it
Speaker 1: hadn't connected it. And then like I don't know if
Speaker 1: people understand that actors. I mean maybe maybe now it's different,
Speaker 1: but when I was raised in this industry. You can't
Speaker 1: be sick, you can't be sad, you can't be heartbroken,
Speaker 1: you can't you don't get days off, you don't you
Speaker 1: don't get there's nothing. I leave it at the door.
Speaker 1: What was that Paradise song that we did dashboard Light?
Speaker 3: I was so sick that day, hard sick.
Speaker 1: And and and then they had a dress on with
Speaker 1: the plastic. It was a strapless stress so I had
Speaker 1: plastic rubber in it to keep it from moving, and
Speaker 1: I took it off the end of the day. I
Speaker 1: was so sick all day and I had blisters from
Speaker 1: the last I was like, people don't understand that. You
Speaker 1: don't get to be heartbroken. You don't get to have
Speaker 1: a fight with your partner, which everybody has, and you
Speaker 1: just have to be on camera for that. It's really
Speaker 1: a wild part of our 're like, oh, I'm turning
Speaker 1: blisters in my dress. I don't want to complain. Definitely
Speaker 1: not I be that person. And it's like, of course
Speaker 1: our wardrobe people would probably be like because they're so loving,
Speaker 1: like oh yeah, oh me no, But also you just
Speaker 1: don't want to be that person. You're just and you're
Speaker 1: just trained not to like, it's the show must go on,
Speaker 1: it's what's best for the it's what's best for the group,
Speaker 1: the what's best for the final product, and you just
Speaker 1: really you know, yeah, there, so I think again, I
Speaker 1: compliment you both for having this podcast because it's really
Speaker 1: a nice time to process. And I loved learning that
Speaker 1: that was happening for you so I could give some
Speaker 1: context to what I was feeling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't believe that's what That's what that was. Yes,
Speaker 2: and we both clocked it.
Speaker 1: Kevin said the sweet thing. She was like, you've gotten
Speaker 1: so much.
Speaker 2: You look like you.
Speaker 1: Kevin.
Speaker 3: Actually, the other night he I posted a photo on Instagram.
Speaker 3: I don't remember what it was, and he goes, you're
Speaker 3: literally Benjamin Button. I loved that loud because Kevin's the
Speaker 3: most complimentary person and my number one fan.
Speaker 1: I mean it, but yes, if you mean it so,
Speaker 1: but he's a benchment Button.
Speaker 2: Episode, I was like, I didn't know you had sobbing
Speaker 2: and like fighting all days. Your face was like, yes,
Speaker 2: distraught with feelings, so that makes.
Speaker 3: You're so tired anyway, But you know, lots of shout
Speaker 3: outs to like sweet Melissa Bule who like they just
Speaker 3: take care of you, They really do.
Speaker 1: I was also in a horrible relationship with Yes, that's right.
Speaker 1: No one knew. And I think I think that all jobs,
Speaker 1: you're not you know, necessarily welcome to come in distraught
Speaker 1: or heartbroken. But there's there's something too. If you don't
Speaker 1: show up and and perform in the in the in
Speaker 1: the with the visual that we need to capture, you
Speaker 1: are wasting than thousands and thousands of dollars. Yes, this
Speaker 1: time and and yeah, it's just like it's just a lot,
Speaker 1: and especially then and it's Glee and it's work, you know,
Speaker 1: the fame and the popularity, so just that the pressure
Speaker 1: is added, it's just like a really intense human experience.
Speaker 1: I remember when Corey uh took a sick day and
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, what, he's not coming to work.
Speaker 1: I don't know what. I don't know what the behind
Speaker 1: the scenes of that was. Do you remember there was
Speaker 1: one day and he just didn't show.
Speaker 2: Up and he's not someone who wouldn't.
Speaker 1: And I remember thinking, I've never seen that happen in
Speaker 1: however long my decades, I've never seen somebody not show
Speaker 1: up for no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2: I remember because we I mean, we've said this so
Speaker 2: many times about us being sick and like still showing
Speaker 2: up because I remember.
Speaker 1: Now they would never do that with what we know
Speaker 1: about COVID and or viruses, and they'd be like, no,
Speaker 1: you can't be around. But that was not the case.
Speaker 2: Well, because the whole thing is we all got a
Speaker 2: big lesson in insurance days.
Speaker 1: You don't take insurance days.
Speaker 2: No, And then I had a producer, I don't know
Speaker 2: if the producer was anyway, I found out that each
Speaker 2: insurance they ended up costing like one hundred thousand dollars. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's a big day, So like it costs a lot
Speaker 2: of money if you had to rearrange it or shut
Speaker 2: down the day completely, Yeah, then it's that much Money's
Speaker 2: almost a.
Speaker 3: Flaw to know it, because then you're the guilt is
Speaker 3: on you for sure, for sure knowing being like they
Speaker 3: need to really sick today. Yeah, they need to have
Speaker 3: a better system, and I'm sure they. I'm sure they're
Speaker 3: working on it.
Speaker 1: In you because people should be allowed to take sick days.
Speaker 2: Especially in an ensemble cast like ours as well, where
Speaker 2: there were so many times where a lot of us
Speaker 2: were just like sitting in the choir and not doing anything.
Speaker 2: Where like you could have just shuffled us around, like
Speaker 2: because sometimes you're not seeing everybody.
Speaker 1: I think when you're filming three episodes at a time
Speaker 1: and juggling all of that, it's just like, no, there's
Speaker 1: just it's just not in your right mind. The show
Speaker 1: must go on. But anyways, we have to talk about sugarshock.
Speaker 1: You have to talk about sugarshack. Yes, let's talk about
Speaker 1: the sugarshack. So Vanessa's dancing.
Speaker 2: So this whole episode starts like we have to raise
Speaker 2: money for two fifty dollars for costumes and hairspray.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Maybe the however expensive that light up wall that Sam
Speaker 2: used for Mercedes and the Michael episode could have paid
Speaker 2: for that, But for.
Speaker 1: The ten dollars ten dollars gram performance that the Godswad did,
Speaker 1: Like what that costs ten dollars? They rented a choir, Yeah,
Speaker 1: none of them.
Speaker 2: It's like monopoly money. None of it makes any sense.
Speaker 2: But then group pulls out the water cash and it's like, anyway,
Speaker 2: here I'm throwing a party.
Speaker 1: Also hilarious, Yeah, that whole like Daddy's throwing your party?
Speaker 2: Yes, And is my memory correct? Did they build the
Speaker 2: sugar Shack because normally we filmed sticks. You have normally
Speaker 2: filmed Breadsticks in a real location.
Speaker 1: No, what do you mean. Oh that's a good question.
Speaker 2: What do you mean Redsticks was normally filmed at the Commissary. Yeah,
Speaker 2: there was one time where they built No, that's true,
Speaker 2: it was on a stage. Sugar Shack was on a stage,
Speaker 2: So I really do.
Speaker 1: Because I remember being I remember there being a fake setwall.
Speaker 2: Yes, in those because they built the stage at the
Speaker 2: end of it. That's not normally there.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's why they needed the stage and they couldn't
Speaker 3: build it at the Commissary.
Speaker 2: And I think we died longer in it because the
Speaker 2: scene was so long.
Speaker 1: Okay, good. They had also film They had to film
Speaker 1: other scenes because it was featured a lot in the episode. Okay,
Speaker 1: that makes sense.
Speaker 2: I didn't make that up because I remember, like where
Speaker 2: I was sitting and like walking in there. I can't
Speaker 2: believe they just built that was my ego.
Speaker 1: They built the.
Speaker 2: Sugar There's a couple of times also in this episode
Speaker 2: where Rachel and Finn walking in the opposite side of
Speaker 2: the back of the auditorium. And I had my friends
Speaker 2: like watching this episode with me, it was.
Speaker 1: Like we built that.
Speaker 2: I didn't personally build that, but like the budget for
Speaker 2: the show was so insane at that point that that
Speaker 2: auditorium is a foot by foot replica of.
Speaker 3: A realm on a stage, which is so odd anyway,
Speaker 3: And now it's gone a lot of things kind of
Speaker 3: culminate to this Sugar shack.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: So there's the the God Squad members for Mercedes, sam
Speaker 3: and Quinn and Joe Hart, Samuel Larson who joins the cast,
Speaker 3: who was on the Glee project, And when I went
Speaker 3: to go do the like judging mentoring thing.
Speaker 1: Was like, God, that kid's a star, Like he just
Speaker 1: so much soul to him. Yeah, so funny.
Speaker 3: So his teen Jesus and they were they're doing these
Speaker 3: gorilla grams and Santana. There's like a big conflict about
Speaker 3: Santana singing a song to Brittany or hiring them to
Speaker 3: sing a song because it is the God Squad.
Speaker 2: I'm shaking your head. Seems furious about this.
Speaker 1: Yes, well it doesn't know It was it was that
Speaker 1: the principle said they can't do p DA. That was
Speaker 1: the It wasn't the God Squad that said no, It
Speaker 1: was the.
Speaker 3: Yes, Yes, Sophigin says that Santana and Brittany can't kiss
Speaker 3: in public, which is crazy, and then it led to
Speaker 3: Santana going to the God Squad and kind of testing
Speaker 3: the limits of which her saying like, there's this double standard, right,
Speaker 3: and this is this is.
Speaker 1: We're living in the amazing positive impact that has had
Speaker 1: in the world. Like I think people watched and said, wait,
Speaker 1: that is fucked up, you know, like where do I
Speaker 1: see this double standard everywhere? And young people, you know,
Speaker 1: young people who hadn't yet been just completely conditioned to
Speaker 1: think that that's okay, right, got to say, wait, no,
Speaker 1: I don't think that's cool.
Speaker 2: I think that's right. Because a couple episodes ago when
Speaker 2: Santana was forced out of the closet, there's a lot
Speaker 2: of blowback from that episode, negative pushback because of all
Speaker 2: the things that you just said, where they sort of
Speaker 2: like fumbled that storyline and then also talked about how
Speaker 2: Rachel and Finn are kissing all the time, but they're
Speaker 2: not really ever featuring Santana and Brittany. And at the
Speaker 2: same time, there are all this pushback from like these
Speaker 2: religious groups on like social media and things. So this
Speaker 2: episode or the storyline felt like it was in direct
Speaker 2: response to all of that, being like, we hear you,
Speaker 2: we know what you're saying. Ultimately, we're still going to
Speaker 2: do what we want to do, but like we're going
Speaker 2: to like sort of a piece this religious section and
Speaker 2: also to the fans, like to an extent, like we'll
Speaker 2: have the conversation in a way that's like, Okay, sure
Speaker 2: this represents like a part of the country. And then
Speaker 2: you have the fans who were upset about which I
Speaker 2: like that Santana kept calling out Rachel and Finn the
Speaker 2: entire time likeugh, like come on, like we're seeing this
Speaker 2: all the time, and it was like, oh, hey, yeah,
Speaker 2: these are the things that we sort of needed needed
Speaker 2: to hear and didn't address yes before, like we're doing
Speaker 2: a little backpedaling here, like maybe up for the things
Speaker 2: that we might have Totally totally I.
Speaker 1: Love that about Glee. I love that how you know,
Speaker 1: real time conversation and such a big macro level had
Speaker 1: to you had to and it was live like you
Speaker 1: were working working these taboos out live right well, because
Speaker 1: it was It's kind of trippy.
Speaker 2: It was the first time that you also had the
Speaker 2: opportunity to have in society, the real time response to
Speaker 2: normal and average people around the world because normally.
Speaker 1: Everybody's voices were there and they're all social media because
Speaker 1: before like if you're getting a review, it's in a
Speaker 1: newspaper from one person. No, you're like, this is the collective,
Speaker 1: this is how we feel, this is how this group feels.
Speaker 1: Is how this group feels, and you're you know, you're
Speaker 1: in relationship in conversation without using the show. It's it's
Speaker 1: quite brilliant, and I.
Speaker 2: Think it was something like Ryan also had to learn
Speaker 2: to listen to or not listen to because you're learning
Speaker 2: in real time. Do I need to personally address these
Speaker 2: things or not? So I think sometimes it was a
Speaker 2: good thing, and I think a lot of times maybe
Speaker 2: it wasn't. But I think and this one it was
Speaker 2: like good and maybe not at the same time. I
Speaker 2: wanted to talk about you at Sugar Shack.
Speaker 1: Yes, just.
Speaker 3: Living keeps you on the stage. Was that your idea?
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, I have no idea. Probably not, I mean,
Speaker 3: I know I will. I'm always a yes to standing
Speaker 3: on a table if you want to.
Speaker 1: It was your idea or Zach saying like get on
Speaker 1: the table, Yeah, just just do it already in sugared
Speaker 1: that you're not. Yeah, I loved it. It was the
Speaker 1: sparkly microphone, the furry jackets.
Speaker 2: Do you remember after the God Squad performs, you get
Speaker 2: up there and you're like, Jesus.
Speaker 1: That doesn't that feels like improvisations. Definitely.
Speaker 2: It's the brilliance of like you as Sugar is, like
Speaker 2: all these lines feel like they could be improvised, Like
Speaker 2: that's how natural it felt.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure how much was improvised and how
Speaker 1: much wasn't, But I'm sure.
Speaker 2: Because Brad was directing like you can sort of get
Speaker 2: away from a little bit.
Speaker 1: He's well, that's I think he did. Yeah, he did.
Speaker 1: And I also, you know, I was going to shoot
Speaker 1: my shot, and what I knew about Lee is that
Speaker 1: they will cut out whatever they don't like the time.
Speaker 1: So I went for it. And it was so fun.
Speaker 1: I was watching it and thinking, we all had an
Speaker 1: amazing time. We did. We was like it was fun
Speaker 1: and speaking about kind of your re entry, like it
Speaker 1: was like a bonding time for you and me, and
Speaker 1: it was really everyone was having fun and I think
Speaker 1: new the new kids. Yes, it's just a nice It
Speaker 1: was nice. It was nice. Darren was back. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was like the gang was finally back to it felt
Speaker 1: it felt vibe check. Yeah, it felt really totally like
Speaker 1: truly fun.
Speaker 2: I was also happy you had a position of sort
Speaker 2: of leadership, leadership I.
Speaker 1: Was hosting the party. It's weird the character of real life,
Speaker 1: all the interpersonal relationships.
Speaker 2: Because I think there's no way to not for some
Speaker 2: people to like judge their position in the hierarchy, not
Speaker 2: based off of their personal relationships, but based off of
Speaker 2: like how much you're getting in the story. But like
Speaker 2: we sometimes you could feel like your worst feels dependent
Speaker 2: upon that. Yeah, but our relationships are so good with
Speaker 2: one another that we at least had that yes, no
Speaker 2: matter what. Yes, But like every now and then it
Speaker 2: would get to you or you get to us that like, well,
Speaker 2: am I being valued in.
Speaker 3: My And really that's what it was at the base level,
Speaker 3: Like am I feeling rued? Am I feeling worthy? Am
Speaker 3: I feeling like I'm being utilized or for the thing
Speaker 3: that I want to that I was hired to do? Right?
Speaker 1: And it's hard and it's hard to you go and
Speaker 1: it's hard on you know.
Speaker 3: It's just there's a lot of things and when you're
Speaker 3: dealing with stuff in your personal life as well. It's like,
Speaker 3: how do you get out of the mindset of this
Speaker 3: when you're all here all the time, Like it's such
Speaker 3: a mind fuck and a balance especially, it was a
Speaker 3: really nice re entry and also for you for you know,
Speaker 3: like a real introduction to Sugar again, like she was
Speaker 3: like streaming, can't we all just get a lot?
Speaker 1: That was like under that was the base side message.
Speaker 1: And also I think that was the time where there
Speaker 1: was fan fiction about Sugar Mada being Brittany and Santana's
Speaker 1: daughter from the future coming back to I was just
Speaker 1: I was so obsessed. I thought I was like fan fiction.
Speaker 1: I didn't know about fan fiction until then, and I
Speaker 1: thought this is so fun.
Speaker 3: Well, a fan wrote in and asked you how you
Speaker 3: felt about that, So I'm really glad.
Speaker 1: I just wow, Okay, what did they want to know?
Speaker 1: I doesn't know how you feel about it. Oh that's crazy.
Speaker 1: I should really read these notes. I don't have those notes.
Speaker 1: That's why I like things being kept for me. I
Speaker 1: love surprises. It was awesome because it was like one
Speaker 1: episode where I was wearing a shirt and it said
Speaker 1: the future and that happened before I knew the fan fiction,
Speaker 1: so then they had this, you know, evidence of that
Speaker 1: it was happening. And then I was just kind of
Speaker 1: learning how to use social media, and so it was
Speaker 1: fun for me to take behind the scenes pictures and
Speaker 1: I think one time I swaddled myself in a blanket
Speaker 1: and had them had Naya and Heather hold my kind
Speaker 1: of like put that out and that was really fun.
Speaker 1: So it kind of like we were talking about earlier,
Speaker 1: how Glee was a conversation between the fans and the
Speaker 1: and and the show real time. I got to kind
Speaker 1: of taste that with this Britanna. It was really funny. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was really fun. And then yeah, and then it
Speaker 1: also gave me, like we were talking earlier, how I
Speaker 1: just love to build out the world. It gave me.
Speaker 1: I just adopted it. I was like, I am actually
Speaker 1: here from the future too, and I have a mission
Speaker 1: to keep you know, keep my moms together. And the
Speaker 1: wedding episode made so much more sense came back because
Speaker 1: I was like, I swear to God in my soul,
Speaker 1: I'll swear to something else. Yeah, I swear to both
Speaker 1: of you. Look at these gods. I swear that. That
Speaker 1: was for sure something I pulled in and I loved
Speaker 1: and I loved doing that. It felt like a a
Speaker 1: wink to people, and it gave me, It gave me
Speaker 1: something to chew on and create. And so the wedding
Speaker 1: episode really I had that that satisfaction sensation they did it.
Speaker 2: How did it did it feel any? There was there
Speaker 2: any sort of weirdness you coming back after having an
Speaker 2: episode off.
Speaker 1: To be honest, No, that's good.
Speaker 3: I feel like it had settled after Michael, like all
Speaker 3: the hubbub and all the shit I was hearing and like,
Speaker 3: and then I feel like the time away was actually
Speaker 3: just time away. It was actually great for me space,
Speaker 3: Like I wish everybody got an episode away, to be honest.
Speaker 3: And then when I came back, it was like I
Speaker 3: was going through a lot mentally on my own and personally,
Speaker 3: so it felt like I had other things to deal with.
Speaker 3: So I was like, you know, let me just come
Speaker 3: back and do my job and like shut my mouth
Speaker 3: and like do my thing.
Speaker 1: And I had a song and I had like you know,
Speaker 1: and it was like Vanessa's episode. We had fun.
Speaker 3: I was just trying to like have fun, I remember,
Speaker 3: but it wasn't Yeah, No, it wasn't crazy.
Speaker 1: That's good, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Speaking of there's a lot of songs in this episode,
Speaker 3: why was your favorite let Me Love You?
Speaker 1: Yes, because of because your bird, your bird song, your
Speaker 1: birds birds, because had we gone to Mexico together at
Speaker 1: this point, I don't think so, that's impossible, right, because
Speaker 1: we were building the relationship, building the relationship. I'm kidding.
Speaker 2: That doesn't have to be your favorite song.
Speaker 1: It is. Well, I don't know, Amber, Amber sing, yeah,
Speaker 1: I always love you. There's just no that does an
Speaker 1: A plus plus. I'm just now I always love you
Speaker 1: was hands down? What what? Having you serenade me felt real,
Speaker 1: That's what I'll say.
Speaker 2: I felt like it was you were serenading, reacting in
Speaker 2: the room like I was personally.
Speaker 6: It was.
Speaker 1: She was She's like, oh my, I know. I was like,
Speaker 1: she is giving it.
Speaker 2: I didn't believe if she was doing it as sugar.
Speaker 2: It was this Vanessa.
Speaker 1: It was Vanessa. That's what I was telling you earlier.
Speaker 1: You were telling me I was always so professional and
Speaker 1: always in character, and I never dropped. That was definitely
Speaker 1: a point where I dropped. It was so romantic, but
Speaker 1: you were sexy.
Speaker 2: I just say I wanted that song on the show
Speaker 2: for so long?
Speaker 1: Did you campaign for that song? Yes?
Speaker 2: And I stopped campaigning for songs after this.
Speaker 1: That was it. You're done, well, done enough. I didn't
Speaker 1: like the version, Oh You're so hard on that was great?
Speaker 2: Are They made it like a little faster because they
Speaker 2: wanted it to be dead and I was like, that's
Speaker 2: not the type of the song.
Speaker 1: Had to fit into the opposites too. They made everything faster.
Speaker 2: I know, it took out all the soul. To me,
Speaker 2: I was like, this song, you've now taken out the
Speaker 2: r Well.
Speaker 1: You definitely brought because I felt it, but I wouldn't
Speaker 1: have felt it if you didn't bring her. But I
Speaker 1: also had lost my voice. Do you remember this? I
Speaker 1: lost my voice too a cold the week before, and
Speaker 1: so I was in the I was like, maybe that's
Speaker 1: just so good.
Speaker 2: Was coming out.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 2: I was just go to New York to do like
Speaker 2: an event and also see this boy I was looking
Speaker 2: up with. And the producer was like, you can't go
Speaker 2: to New York unless you finished this song tonight. Oh
Speaker 2: producer of the show, not music producer, And he knew
Speaker 2: why I wanted to go to New York. And I
Speaker 2: was like, okay, just give me a couple Can I
Speaker 2: get some more tea? And they were patient.
Speaker 1: I am seeing this boy.
Speaker 2: They took me a couple of hours and like, I
Speaker 2: have a romantic hot getaway to New York for the weekend,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 1: Got to go. And so I never would have known that,
Speaker 1: like I had lost my voice in love too. You
Speaker 1: can hear a little bit of rasp and I didn't.
Speaker 1: I would never.
Speaker 2: Would have known with you because they fixed me.
Speaker 1: Baby.
Speaker 2: Okay, well I give that one an a wow, Okay,
Speaker 2: I'll take it.
Speaker 1: Can you can? We can we ate. We're rating. I
Speaker 1: will always love you as well, because that's gets an last.
Speaker 1: So Jens and I watched the episode together and I'm
Speaker 1: saying this, and I don't think he'll mind or be embarrassed,
Speaker 1: full sobs, like crying the whole face. His face was pink.
Speaker 1: He was so moved. Wow.
Speaker 2: There are certain people who when they sing, no matter
Speaker 2: what you feel. Yeah, but this was used for like
Speaker 2: a storyline between Mercedes and Sam. But it's like when
Speaker 2: Amber opens her mouth to sing something, it connects on
Speaker 2: so many different layers of like the human condition. They're
Speaker 2: like obviously works so between their amazing relationship but also
Speaker 2: how do I not contemplate life? Yeah, when like you
Speaker 2: listen to her sing something, it just has so much
Speaker 2: more power.
Speaker 1: And the way they edit it in those three sections,
Speaker 1: she looked like alphabet and defying gravity. It felt like
Speaker 1: it felt like, uh, like layers being revealed to us.
Speaker 1: And that last one, you're you're you're glimpsing into the power,
Speaker 1: talent and presence of this woman who now has gone
Speaker 1: beyond that. But even at that moment, you were like,
Speaker 1: this is the biggest, most powerful, most radiant being and
Speaker 1: it just felt like it was revealed as they kept
Speaker 1: cutting and then Corny and I was saying that whole
Speaker 1: episode corn bringing it.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's so weird and odd to stand on
Speaker 2: the other side of someone performing and giving it to
Speaker 2: you like that and you just have to react, right,
Speaker 2: And there's something special between those two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know we're going to cover this.
Speaker 2: Yeah, can we just talk about how Jeff Globum and
Speaker 2: Brian like.
Speaker 1: We'll get more of them, which is also great, but just.
Speaker 2: Their whole conniving stuff with the kids up in the
Speaker 2: room cheers and like clinking their glasses.
Speaker 3: I'm like, why where is all this money coming from?
Speaker 3: They look so wealthy, and I was like, this is
Speaker 3: crazy the limo.
Speaker 2: Jeff has the whole thing about Na and Brian is like,
Speaker 2: that's not true, None of this is true.
Speaker 1: Yes, it still looked good in there, though, I will say.
Speaker 2: Quick Carol's reaction to being like standpointed out, like why
Speaker 2: don't we do this more often?
Speaker 1: Or something good? Right? Is that what it was?
Speaker 2: But the wine, I don't know. Seeing all the parents together,
Speaker 2: it's like they like Carrol out of the basement for
Speaker 2: a little bit.
Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, they like Carol out of the basement.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I don't know, We're going to get a
Speaker 3: lot more of them and the whole storyline of this
Speaker 3: whole Rachel Finn engagement and announcing to their parents and
Speaker 3: their parents like being on board, but then I guess
Speaker 3: like they're kind of not and they're trying to get
Speaker 3: them to delay.
Speaker 1: It is like I don't know, I don't know. Again,
Speaker 1: another like it feels like Beth, the Beth Shelby storyline
Speaker 1: a little.
Speaker 2: Bit at a little more enjoyable.
Speaker 3: Get there, Yes, and then also next episode will also
Speaker 3: unpack this whole Kurt and Karowski, which Korowski ends up
Speaker 3: being the secret admirer that Kurt thought was Blaine sending
Speaker 3: the gorilla grand and all of these things, but that
Speaker 3: becomes a much bigger thing. And hopefully we can reach
Speaker 3: out to Max to see if we can talk to
Speaker 3: him a little bit, or if you can voice notice
Speaker 3: about the experience of that next episode because it's so
Speaker 3: excellent and heartbreaking and tragic.
Speaker 1: And shout out to Darren's iPad. Well hold that for
Speaker 1: chartis takes. Okay, so let's let's rate these real quick. Love,
Speaker 1: I give a B minus. No, I give that a okay, fine,
Speaker 1: I give that an a plus plus to just to
Speaker 1: know where you are and honestly what you transmitted, Uh
Speaker 1: you like it was really sweet? Used used what was there?
Speaker 1: And it was it was, it was emotional and I
Speaker 1: really enjoyed it, agreed, stereo heart. We haven't rated B minus. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's fine.
Speaker 3: Uncomfortable, it was a little bit too much of the
Speaker 3: God Squad if you ask me, one too many scenes.
Speaker 1: That's the one where the choir comes out of ten
Speaker 1: dollars we're talking about how much?
Speaker 2: How much does this court wrapping made me a little uncomfortable?
Speaker 3: Yeah, home, great, Yeah, we're good, so sweet cherish, Yeah, see.
Speaker 1: Yeah See Love Shack Alas and everybody sang together. You know,
Speaker 1: it was like everybody got their voices in that one,
Speaker 1: and it was real, the team is together and everyone's
Speaker 1: having fun. You thank God for you.
Speaker 2: You made that whole scene, like the whole section work,
Speaker 2: Like your energy, just your lights off screen is the
Speaker 2: same as.
Speaker 1: It is on screen. Host Yeah.
Speaker 3: TARTI takes okay cringe moments, the whole God Squad thing
Speaker 3: about debating whether it's say it's okay.
Speaker 1: It's like a little weird. Yeah, I mean more than
Speaker 1: a little weird. Ouch.
Speaker 3: Best dance move Sugar in the Love Shack, Yeah, Sugar
Speaker 3: all the time. Best song I Will always, I Will
Speaker 3: Yeah Horns by Prop I will say Blaine's eye patch,
Speaker 3: yes exactly.
Speaker 2: It was just brief, but it was there.
Speaker 1: What did you love about it that it was insane? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was so weird. Clicks it up as if he
Speaker 1: doesn't need it, like miraculous recovery. I also love the
Speaker 1: rain of sequence. That was so much fun. The Heart
Speaker 1: the Heart Shower. I was so cute at the comfetti.
Speaker 2: That I found hearts in my wheelchair. To the end
Speaker 2: of the series, like once or twice a season.
Speaker 1: I'm like, what is this heart? They were everywhere. It
Speaker 1: was so fun though it was so cute. I feel
Speaker 1: like people were having to throw them from the side. Yes,
Speaker 1: it was a very all hands on jack that was
Speaker 1: it looked really was great.
Speaker 3: Best line, Oh Sugar's got so many maybe my dad
Speaker 3: can buy Ireland?
Speaker 1: So good? That was funny.
Speaker 2: Jesus, they said they set that one out of every
Speaker 2: ten people. They say that one people out of every
Speaker 2: ten are gay. Isn't it like one every six now?
Speaker 2: And if that's true, that means one of the tough
Speaker 2: apostles might have been gay. And my guess is Simon
Speaker 2: because that names the gayest And then they bring that
Speaker 2: back a couple of lines later, record.
Speaker 1: Said something about Simon later it was funny performance.
Speaker 6: M v P.
Speaker 1: Vanessa obviously, thank you, thank you so much.
Speaker 2: I accept okay should we found on TikTok, Max Lockett
Speaker 2: sent in the most embarrassing cast photos of us doing
Speaker 2: press shots, basically calling out how we had to pose
Speaker 2: for these and how we posed and these insane photo shoots.
Speaker 2: There's that racy GQ one with Diana Lee and Corey.
Speaker 2: There's Rolling Stone, There's like some TV Guide it was, oh,
Speaker 2: there's vogue. Some of them were cool, some of them
Speaker 2: were it felt like proms, like let's he's.
Speaker 3: Very that was very Glee of him to like point
Speaker 3: out the thing that we were doing at the time
Speaker 3: that was very Glee related or Glee camp satire.
Speaker 2: Some of those I have not seen in a very
Speaker 2: long time. Well it makes me a.
Speaker 1: Vanessa.
Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us for so many weeks. It's
Speaker 3: been such a joy to have you. Know what we're
Speaker 3: going to do without you, don't be anytime.
Speaker 1: You're the win, I mean thank you.
Speaker 2: There's a full team yere at Blue Wires Studios at
Speaker 2: the Wind So thank you so much for bringing up with.
Speaker 5: Us, for having us win Las Vegas, for having us
Speaker 5: word or whoever makes the decisions. We would love to
Speaker 5: be back. We love it and that's why you really
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Speaker 1: Bye.
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