Speaker 1: A laught meeting.
Speaker 2: You know it's a laught meeting.
Speaker 1: I feel like I can stop saying it now that
Speaker 1: these are my favorite things ever to record, because I
Speaker 1: get to hear from.
Speaker 2: You, guys.
Speaker 1: I get to hear from you guys about what you're thinking,
Speaker 1: how the show has affected you or impacted you, or
Speaker 1: got you through breakups or makeups or pregnancies and births
Speaker 1: and helped with grieving and just needing to laugh and
Speaker 1: bonding with new roomies and all the things, all the
Speaker 1: things that.
Speaker 2: I love to hear about.
Speaker 1: I also get all of your you know, conspiratorial thoughts
Speaker 1: on the show, which I love, love a conspiracy theory.
Speaker 2: All right, here we go.
Speaker 1: We are going to dive right in it, says hey,
Speaker 1: Hannah and lamourne if you're here a.
Speaker 2: Little shady but both so.
Speaker 1: Hannah, Yeah, well look, it's me so perfect. I could
Speaker 1: not stop thinking about you while watching x'es, knowing your
Speaker 1: take on X's and the fact that Ceci's not in
Speaker 1: this episode too much. I learned to know how you
Speaker 1: feel about Jess leading on Big Air.
Speaker 2: Quotes her ex.
Speaker 1: Do you think it's possible anyone could be friends with
Speaker 1: their ex? Asking for a friend who insists her exes
Speaker 1: over her and it's normal to hang out weekly. Help
Speaker 1: me convince her to move on, Hannah. Thanks Teona. I
Speaker 1: feel like lamurn and I have discussed this many a
Speaker 1: time on this podcast. But what's funny is that I
Speaker 1: had forgotten about this episode, and so when we did
Speaker 1: the rewatch and the recap, like so much to say
Speaker 1: because Lamurna and I both have different points of view.
Speaker 1: I think you guys all know by now, but I'll
Speaker 1: say it again for any first time listeners that I
Speaker 1: do not.
Speaker 2: Stay friends with my exes. Now.
Speaker 1: That does not mean I leave on bad terms. It
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that I dislike them. It doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: I have any like bad thoughts about them or what.
Speaker 2: Nothing.
Speaker 1: I just what does he say in the episode? I
Speaker 1: feel like Nick says it in the episode, like, oh,
Speaker 1: you two have like seen each other naked and now
Speaker 1: you guys are like friends, Like this is how it
Speaker 1: is right in the beginning of the episode, like that
Speaker 1: was my thing. I just couldn't wrap my head around it.
Speaker 1: And I also don't love a double standard, right, So yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe I could be friends with my ex but I
Speaker 1: don't really know if when I'm dating somebody I want
Speaker 1: to hang out with their ex girlfriend, right, And then
Speaker 1: I can't be a hypocrite, can't be like, I'm friends
Speaker 1: with all of my exes. But you know that girl
Speaker 1: that you saw like naked a bunch and did a
Speaker 1: bunch of fun stuff with, let's go to dinner with her.
Speaker 2: So not for me, not for me.
Speaker 1: And so I had to be honest and make sure
Speaker 1: that I was also doing the same thing and keep
Speaker 1: in my you know, my ex history clean. All that
Speaker 1: to say, I know a lot of people who are
Speaker 1: friends with their exes. They do figure it out, they
Speaker 1: do make it work.
Speaker 2: So I think it's just like.
Speaker 1: What you're personally comfortable with and then what you want
Speaker 1: in a partner, and and and they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: friendship circle and who you're gonna bring into your life.
Speaker 1: And I think, as long as you're honest, being truthfully honest, then.
Speaker 2: Uh, then it's fine whatever works for you.
Speaker 1: So I can't convince your friend who insists that her
Speaker 1: ex is over her and they hang out.
Speaker 2: Together not to do it, because if it works for.
Speaker 1: Them and they feel comfortable doing it, then go on
Speaker 1: with your bad self, you know what I'm saying. But
Speaker 1: like for me, that would be a nightmare, would not
Speaker 1: work for me. So Tiana, I agree with you.
Speaker 2: But I can't tell someone else how to live. Can't
Speaker 2: do it, won't do it?
Speaker 1: All Right on to the next Here we go, Hi,
Speaker 1: Hannah and Lamarne insanely huge fan but there's a small
Speaker 1: plot hole that bothers me a lot cap socks. In
Speaker 1: season three episode three, Double Date, at the end of
Speaker 1: the episode, Jess confesses to Nick that she's weirdly good
Speaker 1: at volleyball. But then, in season three episode nineteen, Fired Up,
Speaker 1: coach makes jes spike a volleyball before she asks to
Speaker 1: be vice principal, and she's really bad at it and
Speaker 1: even admits it.
Speaker 2: I think, oh, we haven't recapped that episode yet.
Speaker 1: I've rewatched a New Girl more times than I can count,
Speaker 1: and every time this bothers me. We'd love to see
Speaker 1: if you can spin this, so mix and Lol. Well,
Speaker 1: we haven't recapped Fired Up yet, though we're about to
Speaker 1: in a week or two, so I'll watch for that.
Speaker 1: So thanks for flagging it, Ema, C. I'll say this though,
Speaker 1: haven't you ever like said you're like grade at something
Speaker 1: and in your head you think you're great at something
Speaker 1: and then you do it and you're like kind of
Speaker 1: good at most of it, but like maybe not like
Speaker 1: great at all of it, you know. So maybe she
Speaker 1: played volleyball and she was really great at it in
Speaker 1: middle school, so she's like lived with that kind of
Speaker 1: like lore in her head of like I'm great at volleyball,
Speaker 1: and then yeah, get's put to the test and like
Speaker 1: maybe she was really good at setting or serving, you know,
Speaker 1: but the spike that wasn't her strong point.
Speaker 2: You know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm sniffing so much. There's allergies are
Speaker 1: going crazy right now. My allergies are going crazy.
Speaker 2: That would be my theory. That would be my theory.
Speaker 1: I feel like Jess, probably I was a great middle
Speaker 1: school volleyball player, and maybe she was just really good
Speaker 1: at serving, you know, methodical serving, but then put on
Speaker 1: the spot as an adult to spike a volleyball, who
Speaker 1: wouldn't flounder?
Speaker 2: Who wouldn't flounder?
Speaker 1: So I stand by just saying she's great at volleyball,
Speaker 1: maybe not realizing that this is you know, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like a bicycle. Yeah you don't forget how to
Speaker 1: ride a bike, but are you riding with the confidence
Speaker 1: of a five year old down your street. If you
Speaker 1: pick up the bicycle for the first time in thirty
Speaker 1: years and you get on, it can be a little wobbly,
Speaker 1: doesn't mean you don't know how to ride a bike.
Speaker 2: I feel like that was a bit of a stretch.
Speaker 1: Of like a of a metaphor, butite, and you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, all right, moving on. I'm a huge
Speaker 1: fan of New Girl and have honestly lost track of
Speaker 1: how many times I've rewatched all the seasons. In the
Speaker 1: season two Thanksgiving episode where everyone's fighting at the dinner table,
Speaker 1: I still lose it every time Winston says, when do
Speaker 1: we start eating Rinson?
Speaker 2: Who was so real for that?
Speaker 1: And it's honestly how any reasonable person would react to
Speaker 1: that situation. I'm also loving Cap Socks, Love Cap Socks,
Speaker 1: the podcast, The Dynamic, the don I don't know why
Speaker 1: I'm laughing. I'm laughing because my mom said this to
Speaker 1: me all the time.
Speaker 2: She loves the podcast. My mom listens to it every.
Speaker 1: Single week and then she's always like, just the dynamic,
Speaker 1: my Mom's British between the two of you is brilliant.
Speaker 1: So I was like, did my mom write this letter anyway.
Speaker 1: The dynamic between the two of you is golden, which
Speaker 1: really brightens my day. My sister just recently moved out
Speaker 1: of state and has been tough for me since she
Speaker 1: truly is my best friend. Our relationship reminds me a
Speaker 1: lot of the relationship between Jess and Cecy. So this
Speaker 1: show has been very comforting during this time. I have
Speaker 1: a couple of questions. Would love to hear your perspectives.
Speaker 1: If you could choose any modern day song to be
Speaker 1: the theme song for New Girl, what would you choose,
Speaker 1: or specifically, what theme song would you choose for the
Speaker 1: character you play?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I also don't recall if you've addressed this on your podcast,
Speaker 1: My apologies, but if you have, but what does a
Speaker 1: typical day slash week of filming New Girl look like?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: It's funny.
Speaker 1: I think we've talked a lot about like the work,
Speaker 1: like like load, I guess on the show many times,
Speaker 1: but I don't think we've actually broken down what a
Speaker 1: typical week look like.
Speaker 2: So I'll get to that.
Speaker 1: Is each episode usually filmed in one week. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for taking time to share your experiences with
Speaker 1: those fans. For answering our questions. I'm wishing you both
Speaker 1: the best. Keep doing what you're doing. Veronica. All right, Veronica. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you said what modern day song would be the
Speaker 1: theme song.
Speaker 2: For New Girl.
Speaker 1: That's so hard because, of course, specifically for this show,
Speaker 1: we had Zoey da Chanel sing our theme song. I
Speaker 1: don't know how you top that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'd get Zoe to do another one. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you top Zoe singing the theme song.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. Or you said what would it be
Speaker 2: for you, like your character that.
Speaker 1: I wish I had a great answer for, Like what
Speaker 1: CC's theme song would be?
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's so sad, so sad?
Speaker 1: Is the song that just bomped into my head? Oh no?
Speaker 2: Why is this the song that popped into my head?
Speaker 2: This would not be CC's theme song.
Speaker 1: Okay, I just want to say, I will share my
Speaker 1: embarrassing thought, but it's not her theme song.
Speaker 2: Ridiculous. I don't know why it's that song. Is this
Speaker 2: the toy story song? You know that you've got a
Speaker 2: friend in me?
Speaker 1: That's what just popped into my head, you guys, because
Speaker 1: I'm like, man, CC's just like a solid good friend.
Speaker 1: She is a truly great friend and sister like you're
Speaker 1: expressing to Jess, And I was like, ooh, like you
Speaker 1: know or the Bruno Mars like count on Me song
Speaker 1: you can count on Me like, but that would not
Speaker 1: be your theme song either. Somebody, can somebody recommend like
Speaker 1: a good song about like being an awesome friend.
Speaker 2: That's not like for kids? Can someone help me with
Speaker 2: this please?
Speaker 1: Okay, So what does a typical day week of.
Speaker 2: Filming New Girl look like?
Speaker 1: All right, I'll break it down for you. Let's see
Speaker 1: what I can remember. It was a while ago, right,
Speaker 1: so let me think so. Yes, one episode was five days,
Speaker 1: so we'd shoot an episode Monday to Friday. If it
Speaker 1: was a crazy episode. Sometimes our Fridays that we would
Speaker 1: call them Friturdays because we'd shoot through the night until
Speaker 1: Saturday morning. But yes, typically it would start around six
Speaker 1: am on a Monday. We'd all get in there, go
Speaker 1: into hair makeup. We'd start shooting on Tuesday. Afternoons during lunch,
Speaker 1: we would usually go and read the next week's episode,
Speaker 1: and it was really cool. We'd all get together read
Speaker 1: it live for the studio and the network. We would
Speaker 1: read it live and then and for the writers so
Speaker 1: they could hear it out loud and they would see
Speaker 1: what works, what doesn't work, what needed to be shifted,
Speaker 1: whether that was individual lines or jokes or story. So
Speaker 1: it would be really interesting because they would then go
Speaker 1: away and work on that writing all week.
Speaker 2: Then the.
Speaker 1: Director of that next week episode would do like location
Speaker 1: scouting and casting for all the additional supporting roles and
Speaker 1: all of that stuff, set builds. All of that would
Speaker 1: happen from Tuesday all the way through till Monday when
Speaker 1: we would show up to work to shoot the episode,
Speaker 1: and so we were kind of on that cycle. And
Speaker 1: what we would read on the table draft like the
Speaker 1: first version of that draft on the Tuesday, what would
Speaker 1: actually land in our hands the production draft on Usually
Speaker 1: we would get this script, I would say Sunday before
Speaker 1: we would show up to work on Monday, and then changes.
Speaker 1: It would still even come through the week as you're shooting.
Speaker 1: You might get new pages the day before the morning
Speaker 1: of as you're shooting, something could fly in. So I
Speaker 1: do think that show made as actors really like adaptable
Speaker 1: and versatile and we could you know, be handed things
Speaker 1: right as we're like in the middle of something and
Speaker 1: I would change something on us and we'd be like,
Speaker 1: no problem, and we would be able to just work
Speaker 1: it in. And so so many people worked on that show,
Speaker 1: and I think.
Speaker 2: It was kind of wonderful that way for me. I mean,
Speaker 2: it's all I knew.
Speaker 1: Was the first big show I've ever done, and not
Speaker 1: all shows work like that, but I thought it was great,
Speaker 1: Like it really made sure that you were being the
Speaker 1: best actor you could be, because you had to really
Speaker 1: be in your character, really be in your story, and
Speaker 1: be able to move if the words changed, be able
Speaker 1: to memorize things very quickly within seconds sometimes, and then
Speaker 1: be able to perform it.
Speaker 2: And so I loved it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was just the best acting you know
Speaker 1: school where you got then to practice and be able
Speaker 1: to to you know, you get multiple takes on things,
Speaker 1: so you can try different things in different levels. New
Speaker 1: Girl was wonderful that way, And of course you're surrounded
Speaker 1: by the best actors, so it was so fun because
Speaker 1: you would try different things and then that would of
Speaker 1: course impact their reaction of how it's coming back to
Speaker 1: you or your reaction of how it goes back to them,
Speaker 1: and we just kept it really fun.
Speaker 2: You know. It was just like.
Speaker 1: It was a lot of work, but wonderful work, like
Speaker 1: the work anybody that wants to be an actor could
Speaker 1: you know, could dream of. So uh yeah, the weeks
Speaker 1: were always busy, really full life waiting around, right because
Speaker 1: you might have a you know, one scene on Wednesday
Speaker 1: or two scenes that say on a Wednesday, but what
Speaker 1: if it's one in the morning and one in the evening,
Speaker 1: so you're just like hanging out. You just hang out
Speaker 1: on the studio lot, and you know, you'd get your
Speaker 1: friends a drive on and they would come and hang
Speaker 1: out with you, and it was really nice, like you
Speaker 1: kind of just like live there. We lived on the
Speaker 1: Fox lot. It was a really really nice time.
Speaker 2: Loved it.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you guys all like it so much too.
Speaker 1: That's why we're doing this all right. Next question. The
Speaker 1: Prince episode was Stratosphere stratisforic when Nick did his high
Speaker 1: pitched scream a million exclamation points, I've died a thousand
Speaker 1: deaths laughing at that scene. I also want to say
Speaker 1: that in these dark times, I keep New Girl on
Speaker 1: my TV when I fall asleep, so I think the
Speaker 1: world is a better place. It has helped me so much.
Speaker 1: Amy see all. Thanks Amy, thank you for saying that.
Speaker 1: You know it's I remember once going over to like
Speaker 1: my cousin's house and they had like a little TV
Speaker 1: in their room and it was the same thing. They
Speaker 1: put a show on every night to fall asleep too,
Speaker 1: which that's not how my body's wired to go to sleep,
Speaker 1: but it was the first time I ever saw that
Speaker 1: where he was like, oh, no, it just helps me.
Speaker 2: I just doze off to my favorite show and it plays.
Speaker 1: In the background like it doesn't like you up, and
Speaker 1: he's like, no, that's I fall asleep. And the amount
Speaker 1: of people like you, Amy that have said that that
Speaker 1: they put New Girl on and they kind of just
Speaker 1: like it kind of hums in the background and it
Speaker 1: makes them feel comforted when they're sleeping.
Speaker 2: It's wonderful. I think that's really really.
Speaker 1: Like sweet to know that our show has that impact
Speaker 1: on people and they can rewatch scenes and it just
Speaker 1: gets funnier for them. That's the dream, right, So thank
Speaker 1: you guys. Wow, great questions. The theme song thing is
Speaker 1: gonna make me crazy all week to see what you
Speaker 1: guys dm me help me out with that answer. I
Speaker 1: need a better answer. I feel like you guys would
Speaker 1: crush that the fans would crush that giving theme songs
Speaker 1: for every character and for the show like a modern
Speaker 1: ey theme song.
Speaker 2: You guys would rush it.
Speaker 1: So help me because I did not crush that answer,
Speaker 1: and I want to all right, you guys, that's the show.
Speaker 1: See you next week for another Loft meeting. Remember you
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Speaker 2: All right, thanks for hanging out with me. Bye.
Speaker 1: That was the mess Around in iHeartMedia Production.
Speaker 2: Our executive producer is Joel Monique. Our senior producer is
Speaker 2: Abu Zafar. Bei Wang provided engineering and editing services.
Speaker 1: Additional production from Daniel Goodman, Wendy Heisler and Kyle Shevron.
Speaker 1: Our theme song was written and composed by Ronald juke
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Speaker 2: Bye,